The Express. — London, England, 1866-01-26 00:00:00

THE LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—Du • the storms of can it be said that we pay too dm* for such en the put year the National Lifeboat by "'" ---wwement of the habits thus exemplified among , boat and other means, contributed to thew ving of 707 PINSON' " 95 from different wrecks on our manta The institution also ek- phg poorest. The Post-office authorities estimate 'waded £41,374 in the same period on its lifeboat establishments. leaddition to granting 5A,950 for rewards for saving life and that each separate operation of paying in or with "Thoerelzbigoommithea.lifebetbLa tau institution ottomtty APP EAL t o th e drawing money costs exactly what it was estimated r t Zli r c for asr on aar e es, to r o b! t isa gen Ureat ee tt t llas e" Ruud to cast when the data of the scheme were con- Contributions see received by the London and *Country aide red, namely, the sum of sevenpence. In the Bankers; and by the Bw:rotary, Richard Lewis, Reg ,at tits in- older banks it costs very close upon a shilling. atitullon, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. There is thus, small as the amounts dealt with in the Post-office banks are, no greater per centsge of tax on each depositor than there is in the older banks which dispose of larger sums with a more costly staff, but which, nevertheless, are not like their government rivals, exempt from risk of loss of all that has been in vested. On the whole there seems little reason to doubt that the new institution, the value of which as yet has been chiefly recognised only in the metropolis, but which is now making way with most rapid strides in the most backward districts of the country, will ultimately supplant its more ancient competitor. Nor can we affect to regret such a result. The old Savings Banks have done an infi nite deal of service in the past, but it is no matter of regret that they should have to yield to new arrangements, to which our modern facilities of communication give opportunity, and which we may expect will do us still better and more widely dif fused service in the present and the future. GOLD CHAINS.—JOHN BROGDEN to call the attention of the public to the FORM ol 'e St VOICE which he delivers with Gold Guard Chains purchased at his manufactory : a. di. fo workmanship of pattern chain, 64 inches long To (18) carat gold, weighing ok dirk gra, at CS Sa. 51d. per ounce, Mint price Total Upon this system, the QUALITY, WEIGHT, and VALUE at the gold are actually defined. and guaranteed to the purchaser John grogden looking for a Mk remuneration ma the workmanship only, which is charged according to the Intricacy or simplicity of the pattern. —JOHN HEMMEN, Goidanith.—Mannfictory, 16, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, London. Established Att 1796. N.B. Tbis establishment Is closed at 6 In the evening, and on tiaturduys at 1 o'clock. MSRS. WATHERSTON and SON, Goldsmiths and Jewelers, Rave Ready for InepeeDon a Great ety of JEWELLERY, of the Went Designs, suitable for WEDDING PRESENTS and NEW-YEAR'S GIFTS. 12, PalLfnall Fast, fLW . SCIENTIFIC PRESENTS.—P2ement Col- Motions to Illustrate the New Edition of "Lyell's a. of Goology." and facilitate the study of Mineralogy and Geology, can be had from 2, 6. 10, 20, 60, to 500 guineas ; also tingle liliisti men" of minerals, rocks, fossils. and recent shells, geological hammer', all the recent publications, lc., of J. TIN 11111PT, Mineralogist g iv en Majesty, No. 149, Strsod. London. Private instruction isin geology and mineralogy by Yr. Tarrant, PG.S., 149, Strand, W.C. LONDON must have s SUPPER and MUSIC ROOM foritantlemen.—Remember, we wait for you at "iVANS," atter the Careat-garilen Pantomime, tnd the Theatre. We invite the attention of our readers to a nar rative published in another column, the facts of which convict the Lambeth authorities of a degree of negligence or hardihood which is difficult to un derstand. The labour shed of their workhouse bsving been condemned as an unfit sleeping-place for paupers, these gentlemen or their representa tives have quietly relegated half their male appli cants to rooms where the overcrowding is so great that the register has been withdrawn, where not a single provision for the maintenance of order has been made, and where the commonest rules of decency are openly set at nought. When the police commence their inspection of casual wards we presume such evils as are described will be effectually stopped, but meanwhile it has been left to an independent observer to discover a state of things so shameful as to be a scandal upon our com mon humanity. Knowing the form of retribution which is most unpopular with local bodies, it is satis factory to quote the following extract from the Poor-law Board's circular of October, 1864 :--1 "If the accommodation provided by the guar-1 " diens should be inadequate, and the guardians' " should have to provide temporary accommoda " tion for applicants, by making arrangements for " their reception in lodging-houses, the Board " would not recognise any such lodging-house as " within the provis:ons of the Act, unless it were " registered." The house used by the Lambe' `% guardians became unregistered when it was used as a succnrsal to the workhouse. It is clear, therefore, that for the sums expended on casual payers who have not slept in the certified ward Lambeth has no claim on the common fund. (he •rPregitc. HAYKARLIT. TRES IVINDtd, BROTHER 8411. Keen. Sothern, Buck dons, and Compton • Wawa Nay Moore. Snowdon, ac OEPHIUS IN THE HAYMARK BT. Mews farm Illluses Koala', Howard k Wright, •StY HUSBAND'S GHOST. PRINCESS'S. Till vain, QDIET LODGINGS.—After which IT IS INVER TOO LATE TS MiND. Ninon. Vining, G. llelville, T. MOOA D. Murray, b. Consains, F. Villias, P. CF. Shore , GI. Nur. my. sad It Cailmr{ : Misr L. Noon and K. Radian. LYCEUM. TM IMMO, THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER. Mr. H. Widdloomb.—THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. News. Pechter, Jordin, Veen, Emery, Wlddloomb, Fltapataink, Evans; Mandamee Twain, Menorah', Livens, C. Impend. BRITANNIA. 'MN Marais, OLD DADDY LONGLEAS AND SIN REGENT GUICITEI ; OR, THE GOLDIN APPLE!. —IL and Mods= Eteetelenbonh.--hlvior BovonL—Olmar.-8110W0T of Golden Bain. .401GInj Del.—And mai% THE 1101310 NE DAUGHTER. HIGH WATIA AT LONDON-BIUDGI. • T DAY —, Manilas, 91%. Elm—. AllieniaL 101 t. Ora MIWOLLir -. Marsh& UAL 48IL -...Abirsoes. UL 2Elw LONDON, FRIDAY. JANUARY 26. Thu annual Report of the Post-office, which has just been issued, and which we on Tuesday last laid before our readers, is so interesting a record of civi lization and progress that its compilers probably think it can well afford to be somewhat in arrear of the latest information. We are already some weeks entered into 1866, and the document which has been furnished ns contains the annals of the postal services only for the year 1864. One inte resting experiment, commenced in the year 1865, 1 is thus still unchronicled, and we must, we pre sume, wait for another twelvemonth ere we learn aught of the success or failure of the Post office Life Insurance system. But in the Report before us we have an account of the prior experiment of Post•office Savings Banks, on which the Insurance system was in some measure modelled, and this account COMM down to a rather later period than that of the other business of the department., being made up to 31st March, 1865. From this statement we may mean while glean some interesting partioulars, contrasting them with information respecting the older Savings Banks which is furnished in a voluminous Parlia mentary return published towards the close of last year. That the Post-office Savings Basks have filled an unoccupied, or imperfectly occupied, p'.ace in the public requirements is apparent at once from the magnitude and the steady growth of the amount already deposited in them. The total now reaches above six millions, and it increases annually at the nearly uniform rate of a million and a half a year. The number of persons who take advantage of this species of security augments, however, in a ratio still more rapid. It now stands at more than half a million, and increases by 140,000 a year. It results from the detailed figures that the average sum at the credit of each depositor is somewhat under 111. Contrasting these facts with the experience of the old Savings Banks, we find that in them the total amount of deposits was in November, 1864, nearly forty millions, but the number of depositors only a million and a half. Consequently, the average amount of deposit is in this case about 271. There can be little doubt, considering the low rate of interest afforded to the holders of considerable sums which might find better investments else where, that this higher average is not brought out by the occurrence of a few exceptionally large de visite in the older banks, but fairly represents the most usual amount. And it would seem to follow as an unquestionable conclusion that the new banks have tapped a stratum of society to which the old ones, as • rule, did not reach down. l This is illustrated and confirmed in another way. The average amount of each single deposit in the Post-office banks is under 31., and has rather diminished than increased, while in the old banks it is 41. 6s. And the positive fact that these institutions are resorted to by the very classes for whose benefit they were chiefly intended is made more abundantly clear by an analysis contained in the Post-office Report of the position in life occu pied by the depositors. It appears that of the half million of depositors, rather more than • half consist of the class of females, minors, and trustees to whom the absolute security offered is the main benefit ; more than a fourth are of the working classes ; while the remainder are made up of tradesmen, teachers, clerks, and farmers, with an admixture to the extent of only 10 per cent of persons "of no occupation." It cannot be denied that these are satisf►ctory results in an experiment which has as yet endured so short a trial They show beyond a doubt that habits of thrift l and forethought are spreading among the population, and that Mr. Chsrierroxs has had the good fortune and good sense to find and establish facilities for the exercise of these virtues, by which they are encouraged where they are moat needed. When the average at the credit of each of half a million of persons is only eleven pounds, and when the amount tendered at each deposit is only between two and three pounds, it is obvious what a very large number of persons must have taken advantage of the new system to lay up amounts of only two, three, or four pounds, in trawled by additions of no more than a few shillings at • time. Nor, indeed, do we quite fairly estimate all the advantage when we look only at the results at a given moment. Though there were only six millions of money thus invested at the close of the financial year, there had been three millions more invested in the course of it, but withdrawn before its close. As money is after all saved, except by misers, only to be used, this implies that • use bad been found for three millions which had been saved up to meet such contingencies. Nor OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) • I. 1118 H AVFAXM. Although the Fenian trials have proved to the satisfaction of the Times that the middle clans of Ireland are entirely free from disaffection and, in the desire to enjoy the fruits of their industry, are willing to forget the Saxon in the customer—still, owing to the influence of the Irish-Americans, there is reason to think that Fenianism is increasing throughout the country. Its agents, it is said, have succeeded to a considerable extent in making the Brotherhood coextensive with the island, making all their treasonable communications by word of mouth. It is ascertained that on the county of Dublin being pm . claimed several of the malcontents migrated elsewhere shifting their arms from a proclaimed to a non-proolaimeil distriot. The time therefore is come, the Times believes, when it would be prudent for the government to proclaim the whole of Ireland, so as to be able to search for end take arms wherever they may be secreted. It is almost certain that a considerable number of weapons of various sorts are in the possession of ill-disposed persons, and these may be used at any time for the purpose of doing some local mischief. When the government has the power of seizing and confiscating the arms that are found in the country, and also of watching the seaports so that none can enter, it will have done a grant deal to render even a partial disturbance impossible, end will have probably saved itself the necessity of suspending the Habeas Corpus Aot. It seems strange to the Daily News that the suggestions as to the disposal of the Pops so soon as the Emperor's f his perfect security may induce him to lease his Holiness to his fate, have not included his removal to the Irish capital, to which his temporal power has been already transferred. The British government shaping the Irish policy in conformity with mandates from the Vatican, it would be easier to go to him straightway, and possibly the shopkeepers of Dublin would be willing to compound for the abolition of the lord-lieutenancy on the basis of such as arrangement. In illustration of this divided authority the Daily News mentions the announcement made in effect by Lord Wodehouse, that with the Irish Colleges, founded by the Queen and the imperial Parlia ment, the rival institution founded by the Pops and the Synod of Thurlee is to be associated. His excellency did not conceal the fact that personally he is in favour of t►e system of united education ; and their free recourse to the Queen's colleges show that the Irish people share his opinion. Had they only wanted degree., the London University, with which several Roman catholic colleges both in England and Ireland have for years been affiliated, being them to their gates ; but more than this is in view : the sectarian principle is to be admitted, and the innate of the Queen's University—with which institution the govern. meat intends to affiliate the catholic, and all other acade mies which may apply to be so connected—is to be reconstructed by reference to the religious pro fession of men, and not, as heretofore, by con siderations of intellectual eminence alone. The business of the Senate of the Quelles University is to prescribe the worse of education to be followed in the affiliated insti tutions by selecting the subjects and the text-books of examination, and appointing the persons who are to con ' duct it ; and the object of the Irish hierarchy, in demand ' fag the nomination of catholic' as such, is to set aside as haresiiis what non-catholics treat as open questions of • science, persisting in this course until the catholic element in the senate will absorb the rest, and the Queen's Univer- city will become the catholic University, leaving Trinity College ss a refuge for the banished protestantei. And this great change which u to re►olutionise all education in Ire- land, ie, it seems, to be effected by the mere action of the executive, without the Howe of 00M0101111 being troubled is the matter. Whether parliament will submit to be thus quietly shelved a very few weeks willdetennine. The minis terial speeches of last session pledged the advisers of the Crown to nothing more than to place university &gross within the reach of the handful of Irish catholic students whom scruples of conscience and reasons of convenience keep from the colleges of Belfast, Cork, and Galway ; and parliament may very properly confine concession withia these reasonable limits. Is the speech of Mr. Dillon, N.P., before the National Association. oe Tuesday, the Telegraph finds evidence of the fact: that, Feeianism is an ngly reality. Lot ns not blink the fact that Ireland is disaffected. We question, indeed, whether the discontent is not more intense. more in di sain t, than it was a reseration ago, and whether Mr. Chichester Fortes:me has not a harder task to perform than that which was deputed to Lord SR °trinities. Let this be met by a • fair tow sure of tenant right, sod the Warn if not the abolition of that most iniquitous and initiated institn. ties the Isiah establishment. Nay. if the statesmen of baud, going a step farther, wen to seek by mesas of an eadomosat from the state to give the Romeo catholic eler of Ireland that indepandewee which they asst lack so bag es they are the peamienere of the mob, they would Jan% FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1866. bays the sot imilialutemed and time most influential winds of this ogduisi on their side. I WS WORM XL& The Times compares the thirty or forty boroughs that would be sacrificed in a future disfranchisement bill, to the victims in the human morifioss amongst the Mexicans, who for a twelvemonth before their immolation were fed on the beet and clothed in the finest ; honoured ss princes ; and worshipped as the objects of an early beatification. In a very few years, perhaps in one short twelvemonth, the new electors brought into being by the suffrage bill will be led, duly garlanded and filleted, like the calves of Pagan sacrifice, to the altar of reform. It is quite possible, however, that these constituencies now returning 50 or 60 members will, after being reformed, object to being improved off the face of creation altogether, and may make a common came one with another, and with the very lowest, and hardest, and narrowest, and most malignant conservatism. Parliament may thus find that it has lowered the franchise only to hand over the present destinies of the country to the lowest clam of electors, — not in oar great popular constituencies, but in our small boroughs. In the correspondence columns of the Times a writer signing himself " Cato" urges that the small boroughs which return two members be placed in Schedule B of the new Reform Bill, or that neighbouring boroughs like Caine and Chippenham, Abingdon and Wallingford, Totess and Dartmouth, be united into single constituencies, with one member for each constituency so united. By some such means as these from 25 to 30 seats might be rescued from the grasp of these boroughs, and be distributed among the larger constituencies both in town and country. OF THE BRITISH ETISZOIIt._ While the Times does not agree with Lord Henry Lennox as to the grounds of his proposal—made the other night before the Society of Arts—to plans the British Museum under a responsible minister, it considers the proposal Itself defensible. The Museum has been filled in • great measure by sums voted by parliament, and it is contrary to the principles and practice of government that no one should be officially responsible for the preparation of the Estimate under which 100,0001. • yet is expended. A body of 4g trustees, also, though excellently r iapted for purely deli berative purposes, is too unwieldy for the details of admi. aistration. Economy and efficiency would be promoted by vesting the management of the institution in • de partment of the government, with a permanent secrettiy to conduct the business under the direction of his official superior, and the same observations would apply, though not perhaps with so much force, to the smaller Institation and simpler management of the National Gal lery. The proper corns would seem to be to annex them to the department of some member of the cabinet whose official time is not fully occupied—such, for instance, as the President of the Council, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, or the Lord Privy Seal. The whole matter is of pressing importance. The Telegraph thinks the nation will rest content with nothing less than placing the administration under the care of • responsible and handsomely.ealaried officer, backed by • small and efficient board, and making the whole managing body directly accountable to the House of Commons. The happiest omen, as regards the future of the British Museum, is to be found in the cultivated taste, and the enthusiasm for literature and art, which find so illustrious • represen tative in oar present Chancellor of the Exchequer. THE REPORT OF THE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT COMMISSIONERS. From an account given by the Timcs of the report of the C,mnmissioners on Capital Puoishment, now for the first time regularly published, it appes-s that Mr. Ewart moved a declaration to the effect that "capital punish ment might widely and with advantage to the community be at oeoe abolished." This, however, received the assent of 4 only eat of the 12 commissioners, namely, Dr. Lashing ton, Mr. Bright, Mr. Neste, and Mr. Ewart himself ; but Mr. Justice Ullman appended his opinion in favour of the principle theoretically considered. He thought that "the weight of evidence and reason was in "favour of the abolition of capital punishment," but he doubted whether public opinion wan ripe for such a change, or whether it could be introduced without pre-flail difficul ties. Another division took place on the substitution of private for public executions ; and here all the four nommissionen who had voted for the abolition of capital punishment, altogether voted against this proposal for indicting it privately. In this protest they were joincd by one other commissioner, Mr. hionerieff. Mr. Denmrn repreeenta in his evidence that in his capacity as a bar.'-iter he made a point of attending every case of murder tried on his circuit for some years, and sou himself not unite quently engaged in these trials. In his opinion the chief effect of capital punishment is to enable a prisoner's counsel to obtain an acquittal from a jury. The opinion of the judges on the question of private executions were much divided. Lord Cranworth is in favour, "on the whole," of private executions. Baron Martin is for public executions. Baron Bramwell would have them neither entirely public nor entirely private, but he added that his opinion on the subject was not decidedly formed. Mr. Justice Willes was equally undecided, but " had not been able to make up his own mind to approve any change." Lord Wensleydale would have executions in privat3. KISCLLLANZOINS TOPIC& The Daily , News condemns the conduct of the Bombay government, who, in exonerating Major-General Green from blame in allowing the unfortunate artillery to start twos the celebrated " fatal march from billow," nevertheless give him the option of resigning his command thera, or being superseded by another officer, on the ground that be has shown a serious want of judgment in giving publicity to his own version of the case. This, the Daily News charac terises as a trumpery accusation. It further asks who, since General Green was faultless as to the march, is the official to whom culpability cao be attributed in this matter? Parliament will meet in a few days, and it is to be hoped some member of the house will move foe all the documents connected with the business. The Herald prefaces a report of the trial of Mr. Gordon with a history of the circumstances of his arrest by the official who executed the Governor's warrant and conveyed Mr. Gordon on board the Wolverine. The Herald comes to the oonclusion that even if we put aside the statement that be talked openly of killing all the whites—though it cannot find any reason to discredit it—there is abundant evidence that he was at the head of a seditious organ isatioo. and that he engaged in a long course of agitation, the plain object of which was to drive the blacks on to a violent outbreak against the authorities of the island and the landowners who employed them. If to plan and counsel • revolt be treasonable, Gordon seems to have been guilty of treason, and to have justly suffered death. The Mar does the mast unscrupulous partisans of Go vernor Eyre the justice to say that nearly all of them have admitted, on the assumption of the correctness of the report of Mr. Gordon's trial, that be was • murdered man. Upon the actual charge spinet him—that of being the leader of an armed rebellion—there is literally no evidence. Not only is there none to prove the charge, bat there is nothing said about the charge—nothing which his any beer beg whatever on it The Post states many difficulties which we shall have to meet in the spring should the present rinderpest continue. It forams the rain of thousands of farmers if the plsgue ooctinnes to increase. When complete returns are before us, possibly some comprehensive system of indemnification against Wass by this great calamity may be devised by our statesmen, bated upon the joint efforts of landlords and tenants, and sanctioned by the legislature. The Star states that France, at the instance, it is be. lien& of the Austrian Cabinet, lately suggested to Remised the convening of a new conference on the Schleswig- Holstein question. Earl Russell expressed himself as no favourable to the proposition for the present—unless, Weed, under certain peculiar conditions : in point of fact, politely declined to have anything just now to do with the schema. So it is, for the present at least, put aside. The Telegraph attributes the serious state of the Eastern Counties Railway, not to the main lines, but to the branches ; the track line from London to Norwich baying nearly es many on every side as there are crossbones stretch ing out from the spine of a lola, and all, with ecareely an exception, going from one insignificant place to another, through poverty-stricken &striate. EDIICATIOR AND Tall FRANCHISZ.—The animal mating of the East tAncashiro Usti= of Monbasice Lod. totes was held at Gawthorps Hall, the maidens of Sir J. P. lay Bbuttlsworth, Bart., on Wednesday syseing. There was a very largo and respectable audience. The prises obtained by the sucosedul menhirs of the various Widtetes ware distributed by the Rev. Dr. Whittaker, visa of Whalley. Bit James Hay Shattieworth, Bart., who oosupied the 'hair. °tweed the proceedings, and after- wards delivered as instructive address on education sod LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (istrria's ruzawis.) FRANCE. PAR'S, JAL 26' The Constitutionuel of to-day publishes an article signed by M. Paulin Limayrsa with reference to the recently published despatches of Mr. Bigelow. In this article K Limayrac shows that M. Dronyn de Lhuys could not give explanations with regard to acts of internal administration in Mexico, for which the Mexican government alone was re sponsible. The writer adds :—" The United States cannot call the assistance offered by a number of plundering adventurers—war —after refusing the title of belligerents to the Confederates of the South." LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURT. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir R. T. Maderaley.) RI torruorouran 111:1810•HALL COMPANY (IM MO. This was a petition for winding wp. The company originally consisted of seven shareWdsre, but the number was now reduced to sir, being less than the minimum re quired by the Joint-Stock Companies Act. The pro moters bought the music-hall and other property sub ject to certain mortmes, and ia the case of cue of the mort gages the companybought the debt, giving the mortgagee a covenant for persist. The payment had never beep made, and the present petitioner had actually been sued for the e money and judgment had been obtained against him under which he wee liable to arrest. There were other debts, which the company was not in a position to pay. There being no opposition, his Honour granted the usual order. Mr. Toiler aid Mr. Lindley represented the petitioner. COURT OF QtTEENB BENCH. Ulm in Baro :7 --(Bef . ore the Lord_ child Justice, and Justiees Blackburn and Mellor.) This was a special paper day ; no mane of public interest came before the court. 8081211188 OF THT OOUET. This court will sit in bum after term on Thursday, Friday, and 13aturday, the Ist, tad, and 3nl of February, and on Friday and Saturday, the 9th and 10th of Feb ruary, and dispose of mese in the new trial, special and Crown papers. It will also sit on the 17th for the purpose of delivering judgments in the eases standing over for that Purim*. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Bill:imp in Banco.—(Before Lord Chief Baron Pollock, and Barons Martin, Chanson, sad Pigott) =rim V. THE VESTRY OP BEHNOIDSZT. This case raised an important question as to the liability of metropolitan vestries for the negligence of their servants. The plaintiff's husband met with hie death in conesquenos of falling over a heap of earth which had been =oe rsted in the amuse of some works which were being carried on in Blue Anchor-road, Bermondsey, is connexion with the construction of a main sewer. The works were under the immediate superintendence of the surveyor of the vestry, by whom and the clerk of the works, another servant of the vestry, the different workmen were before • paid. At the trial which took place in London bt the Lord Chief Baron the jury found negligence on the part of the defendants' servants and returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 87dt. ; which was to be divided between her and her gee children. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., now showed cause against a rule which had been obtained on behalf of the vestry to set aside the verdict and to enter a verdict for the defendants or for a consult. The question was whether dairies* came within the decision in the case of Holliday v. St. Leonard's, Shore- ditch, in which it bad been held that persona entrusted with the performance of a public. duty which they discharged gratuitously, and being personally guilty of no negligence, were not liable for the negligence of the workmen employed under them. The learned counsel endeavoured to show by reference to the minutes of the vestry that there wu personal interference by members of that body in to the work', sou to take the matter out of the reg ard to down in that case. He also signed that the objec tion that the vestry had no funds out of which to pay damages awarded in such an action as this did not apply u they would to buildings in which they met and other pro perty upon which an execution might be levied. Mr. Atkinson was also heard on the some side. Mr. End een% Hayes and Mr. Mundell appeared to sup port the rule, but were not called upon to do so, it being agreed, en the suggestion of the court, that the ease should stand over until the case of " Coe v. Wise," which involved a similar fact and a similar point of law, had been decided by the House of Lords, to which it was now being taken. - COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Jadge Ordinary.) lIINDRICIL V. HINDECK. Mr. B. Rigby appeared for the petitioner, a wife who sought a dissolution of her marriage en the ground of adultery and cruelty. The parties wen marnid in 1830, the respondent being at that time a sbopman at West minster ; but he last his situation on account of hisdrunium habits, and for eighteen months he was out of work. He then obtained a situation in the office of Mr. Cubitt. His conduct was excessively bed, but he was repeatedly far. given. At last, however, the patience of the wife pve way, and she commenced the preseut proceedings. In support of her petition, evidence of repeated violence and adultery wee given, in addition to which numerous canting letters of the respondent containing confessions were put in. Decree nisi with costs. 001.3110 X (IN FORMA VAIIPNIIIS) V. COWMAN. Inderwick appeared for the Petitioner in this ease, which was one of an extraordinary character. In 1868 the petitioner was married to the respondent, who represented to her that he had 1 0001., but she immediately afterwards discovered that the statement was false, and H at he was addicted to drinking and quarrelling. was constantly beating and ill-using her, and at last he deserted her. After a time, however, he came back, and being then almost starving he told her that atm must do as other women did, and go into the streets. She refused, but he drove her to it by threats and blows. Whet she oh tamped she took to him, and be wont and spent Once when she was very ill he drove her oat, aud when he found that she had earned nothing he knocked her down in Euston-road. This way of life was utterly revolting to her, and at last, in 1863, after she had endured it for 28 months, it made her so desperate that she went and told ber brother. She had met a reverend gentleman at one of the midnight meetings, and she wished to go into • penitentiary ; but her husband, when she told him, raged and stormed, and swore that she had lost her senses. She went to her brother's at Hackney, and proposed to recommence dressmaking; but she had not been there for more than two days before her husband cams to her and knocked her down at the door. She became insen sible, and she remembered no more till she found that she was in a railway carriage, and that her husband was taking her home to threnoester-place. She was in bed for several days, but when she got better he tried to make her go on the streets again by every means in his power—by coaxing and by threats. She said that she would not do it, and that he might as well kill her at once. She offered to bring home work and do it for him, but he said that if she did he would put it on the fire. At length, when he found that he could not turn her mind, he threatened to do for her. She then fled to her brother's, and had been there ever sines. George Harrison, a letter sorter and carrier, the peti tioner's brother, said that the respondent used to come in a horse and gig, and used to boast of the respectability of his connexions. He corroborated her account in many particulars. Evidence of adultery on the part of the respondent having been given. Sir J. Wilde thought the amens in which. notwithstand ing the petitioaer's adultery, he might properly exerci es in her favour the discretion which was reposed in him by the act of parliament. It was a well known principle of thelaw that when a husband and a wife were found acting in concert and together, the wife was presumed to have been under the influence of her husband, and, with certain exceptions, she was excused without proof that she had acted under duress.. In the present instance b • (Sir J. Wilds) was satisfied that the petitioner had teen terrified by the threats and actual violence of the respondent into fol lowing a life which was detestable to her. There must therefore be a decree nisi, with costa. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MANSIONZOITBE. CHAIM OP HTZALIYG £l5OO. James Looseraore, a young man, described as a clerk, was brought up in custody of Underwood, a detective officer, charged with stealing a bill of exchange far UMW belonging to his employers. Maws. Inard and On., French merchants, carrying on business at Paris sad at No. 17, Gracechureb-stmet. __ _ The priaoser appeared to be very Ui, and be was showed to be seated during the investigation. Mr. Wontoer appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. G. Lewis attended on behalf of the prisoner. Th. prosecutors were Messrs. Issard end Co., French merchants, carrying on business at No. 17, Once. chnrch.street, and the prisoner was in their service as clerk. snd had been so employed for thirteen years, atd great ex ntidence woe placed in him. A great portion of the batioess of the prosecutors was carried on with the Mauritius, and they consigned large quantities of goods to that plate, and the merchants to whom they were sent were in the habit of to. mitting bills of exchange to England in payment. These bills were drawn upon various beaks and before they arrived at maturity they were paid into the Bank of England, where the prose:stem kept; an account, to be pre•eoted in due course of payment, whet the proceeds would be placed to the credit of the firm. On the 20th GC August a bill for 2,5004, drawn by the Mereboat Bank of Mauritius upon the Merchant Beek of Laadon,aunis into the possession of the prosecutors, and it was handed to the prisoner to pay Into the Beak of England. Nothing more seemed to have occurred until yesterday, whet the prosecutor asked for his pass book, end epos looking at it found an entry of 2,5001. on the 20th of November, end in consequenos of the entry resembling the handwriting of this prisoner, hie woopioion was excited, and he made inquiries at the Bans of England, and discovered that the ' bill had never been paid in. The athletics of the prisoner was called to the entry in the book. sad be mid he would explain it, but the police officer who was present took him into custody. Tbo prisoner was afterwards asked what his had does with the money, and he said that he bad lost it by speculation. Upon this evidence the primmer was nr minded. SPAIN. MADRID, JAL 25. The draft of an address to the Queen was road in to-day's sitting of the Senate. It expresses regret at the breaking out of hostilities between Spain and Chili, but hopes that, after the refusal of the latter to satisfy the Spanish claims, the , Queen's government will cause the honour and dignity of Spain to be respected. The address also expresses the satisfaction of the Senate at the domestic reforms announced by the government. THE LATE IMPERIAL SPEECH. The Independance Belge of yesterday, in com menting on the speech of the Emperor Napoleon in opening the Chambers, says :—" We have received today a singular explanation of the muses which led the Emperor to intimate to France that in his opinion it was not yet rips for a new extension of is political liberties—a declaration which has occasioned in that country as well as beyond it just disappointment. The two ministers who are specially charged with the administration of internal affairs ascribe to the last reforms, and to the hopes of present reforms formed in the public mind last summer, the agitation of thcfchiartier Latin, the discussions in the Liege Congress, the audacities of the journal La Rive Gauche, the growing independence of the attitude of the press, particularly in the provinces, and lastly, the successes pined by the opposition in 11 elections out of 26 in rural districts which had hitherto seemed entirely subservient to government hid a. once. Although it might appear more legitimate to inquire, whether the symptoms thus noticed did not arise from too great a stretch of authority, the Emperor yielded to the observations and fears of his advisers. He now appears further removed than ever from the tendencies which were attributed to him some time ago, and hie speech affords unexceptionable testimony of him resolution to re strain the movement instead of guiding it." it be court. OSBORNE, Lug. 25. Prince Clhtistian of Schleswig-Holstein, and Prince Hermann of Hohenlobe, attended by Lord Alfred Paget, visited the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley yes terday morning. Her Majesty drove out in a carriage and four is the after noon, acoompanied by Princess Helena, Princess Hermann of Hohenlohe, and Prince Christian. Sir George Grey arrived and bad the hluour of dining with the Queen and Royal Family. His Excellency Senor Riestra, envoy extraordi nary and minister plenipotentiary from the Argentine Re. public to the Court of St. James, socompanied by Madame Riestra and family, has left Maoris3r's Hotel for the Isle of Wight. The Earl and Countess of Easex come to town to-morrow from Caealobury Park, near Watford, for the . . . The Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe arrived in town on Wednesday from Cannes, in the south of France, and today will leave for his seat in Devooshire for a few weeks' shooting ere he rejoins the counter at Causes. Lord Stanley, M.P., will come to town for the season early in the ensuing week. Lord de Grey and Ripon has addressed a circular to the lord•lieutenants of counties, suggesting that, in consequent,s of the cattle plague, it would be advisable not to cell out the yeomanry this year for permanent duty ; horses to be exempt from tax whether called out or not. The Rev. Henry Mackenzie, prebend of Lincoln, and rector of Tydd SL Mary, Lincolnshire, and chaplain of the Bishop of Lincoln, has (says the Rolls Journal) been appointed to the Archdesconry of Nottingham, reodered vacant by the death of the late Archdtrooa Wilkins. D.D. Viscount Galway, who was caught by the nook by a wire guard, while riding after the hounds, we rather better at the last accounts. Twelve leeches had been put on his throat to keep off inflammation. The gullet is affected and extremely painful when he tries to swallow food, and he cannot move his head without great pain. A Town Hall for the borough of Hull was opened yesterday with great ceremony. The building has been erected from the plans of Mr. Cuthbert Broderick, the architect of the Leeds TownatalL Earl Ds Grey and Ripon, the Lord High Steward of the borough (which he at one time represented), the Archbishop of York, Lord Wenlock, Lord-Lieutenant of the East Riding, and other distinguished visitors were present. Earl de Grey also laid the foundation stone of the Hull and East Riding College, an educational establishment promoted by a limited liability company, and founded upon nonconformist and non-political principles. A letter from one of the physicians in attendance on Mr. Gibson at Rome, dated the 19th, says :—" I am happy to inform you that the state of Mr. Gibson's health is gradually improving, and that during the lint two days sensation has been returning in the paralysed arm. He has been free from pain during the whole of his illness, and his mental faculties have been quite clear. We have now, I think, reasonable hopes of his recovery." Captain Werner, of the Prussian navy, is again in Berlin. His intended expedition to the North Pole this spring has been very favourably taken up by the govern ment, and a committee on the subject site at the Admi ralty, at which Professor Petermann also mist.. A short time ago General von Maateuffel, the Prussian commissioner in Schleswig, received an anocymous present in the form of a colossal loaf. At first it was sup. posed to be a modest expression of goodwill on the part of some unknown admirer. This view of the case, however, was somewhat modified when the loaf was cut open and found to contain a large number of copies of those Holstein newspapers which the general bad prohibited in Sleswig. A letter from Stockholm says :—" There is a strong desire on the part both of Swedes and Norwegians th►t there should be a close intimacy between their wintry and England, which the visits paid by the Priebe and Pubs ' our of Wales to Sweden, and by Prince Alfred to Norway, have greatly tended to strengthen. The bereasing tom ' menial intercourse between the two countries has likewise " bad the effect of fostering this feeling, and the late estab. liahment of branch banks in this city and in Gothenburg with their head office in London will also hoof great service for this purpose, more especially since the new postal arrangements both through Prussia and through Denmark • have afforded facilities for communication, which are of the greatest lmportssos to all who are engaged either in those • financial or mercantile trammetioes between the two coon ' tries which are daily beooming both more valuable and more extensive.• On Tuesday the Bois at Paris presented an animated appearance. From as arty as 2in the afternoon the drive from the Amine& l'lms4mtrice to the Lake was almost impulsed., in consequence of the uninterrupted stream of brilliant eqMpagas which only began to tun homeward towards dna. The Emperor appeared, for the first time this season, in his wageeelle, whit& be drives himself, Pore few moments be stopped to ape* to the Prinoces Hohenzollern, who. preceded by two outriders, drove ia one of the Empress', baronoltes. The prism wee among the riders, who mastered in fall faros. "M. Beroobe," say* the Nord, "overwhelmed with affiiottoe at the loss of his daughter, addressed to the Emperor • heart•reodiag letter, requesting to be relieved from his portfolio. The Emperor immediately replied that be well nuderstood the mbrister's feelings, but begged him to rennin in Aloe ; addle; that he knew by expo:imps that ooeapstia• was the oily alleviation of deep sorrow, and also that both t►e country sad himself bad seed of sash devoted serving." OLEBXENWELL. istreirraur TO RAILWAY CONPANIZB AND Mr. Joseph Gray wee summoned at the it authorities of the North Locke Railway answer the following complaint, "for that 28th of November, having paid your fan to having travelled in a certain carriage of the a certain distance, to wit, from Smitten', el Londe* to Winne, did wakefully, k n owingly, Declare, on arriving at Isling ton, which you had paid your fare, to quit such o tray to the statute," he Ile was further avower the following eomylaint—" for t 28th day of November, having paid your , certain carnage of the said railway for a , that is to say from Broad-street, in the My Islington, did unlawfully, knowingly, and cafe. in nob carriage beyond such distance, that is to Oarndon-road in the said district without previously the additional &teen, and with intent to avoid Pim% of the same, contrary to the statute," hr. Mr. Payne, solicitor to the company, attended to sm.. the complaint, and Mr. Selig wick, solicitor, d e l as c a r" , The =Atm involved in these complaints we e , greatest importance, not only to the railway to the passengers that travel by that line and Fella situated. The price for a return ticket feta a tea Farm to the City and back was the same, whiffet &j: the Ole& Farm station or at any nearer the City t s ""• On the tickets used to be the words, "Arailahl a ki —. "‘ tioo." Some time since the practice was altered, a hi, the price of the return tickets was not altered, but if at 4 was taken at an intermediate station, the p as „,. would have to get out at the statio n at eiel3 return ticket was Weed, or if he west beyond that wa rn he am id h e expected to pay the local fare Neese ih a t o points. This has caused a peat deal of dertitheh a amongst some of the Passengerat although they h a , remonstrated with the direetore, and asked that tha t uft system might bo returned to, no notice has bee hi m of their complaints. On the day mentioned in the asses the defendant went to the Islington railway statioaselaco for a ticket to Broadetreet, and return to Oarehaa u t He was told that such a ticket could not be lamed, sack then took a ticket to Broadetreet and return to klub, Oa the return journey, instead of alighting at Illylagi; the Winkle proper station, he went on to Chad.* and when he got out be tendered the halfthirek atY bad on it the words showing that it was eon Highbury or Islington. He was then asked for food fare which be refused. to pay, saying ts would fight the question on 'pie, as the fare same whether he got oat at lslmgte or °Ulan* 'iris; his card he was allowed to depart, and alt ara 4' the solicitor of the company wrote to him, asking pim a of the 4d. local fare, but the defendant wrote deo* pay and, as be said he bad taken the matter up ce the presses proceedings were taken. Mr. Payne said the principle involved woe one peat importance to the company, that if the denim magistrate was against the company he would ask case for the decision of the superior courts. Mr. Sedgerict said the defendant bad acted bowl j matter, his only intention being to raise the question. After a leogthened discussion, and Mr. Payne undertaklng that the name of the Wake should not be posted sing the line, Mr. D'Eyecourt disunited the second summon,, the first ordered the defendant to pay a fine of in., I coat of the summons, 2s. WORSHIP-STREET. ZOBBEILT ET • TICKET•OF•LIATE NAN. James Day, between 40 and 45 yearn of sce, white smock frock, and having the general 'pylon labourer, wee charged with stealing a wedding rug. Mr. Alfred Knight, jeweller, of 83, High-street, chapel. said—About half-put 9 o'clock last night, was putting up the shutters of my shop, the dashed in and seized a tray of 'toddle' r laid halfway down the counter. Fortunately I as quick as he was, and preveoted him from tray off, but they were spilled about the col. efforts to do so, and I have since missed one only, Mr. Ellice—How many were than in the tray! Prosecutor—On hundred and twelve. I had o them, but I had counted the vacancies jest am quite as well able to tell by that circus. other. The ring in question has not been fa the property was picked from the shop floor also. Mr. Ellison—What became of the prisoner' Prosecutor—Oh, be rushed out as be rushed ; certain be took the ring with him. My lad' Gully, 97 was in plain clothes at t and cot far from Mr. Knight's shop. "Stop thief." Saw prisoner running and 4 nce A lad came not and accused him of stealing. lis ,_- plied,' I should not have done it but for hug* got no ring though." Mr. Ellison—Oould be have nand it Coostable—He might have done so in such a ph* d A mob collected in an instant. I could not find it costhi any when. Mr. Ellison—Have you anything to say Prisoner—No, sir. Mr. Ellison—Then you are fully committed WO the swims. Inspector Osborne, H division, knows this prisms returned t ic ket-of-leave man not long since out. , MARLBOROUGH-STREET. AN " ANATEGE CASUAL" IN TROUBLE. Mr. David Greenhill, harness-maker, of No. 43. Itepi skeet, was charged before Mr. Knox with 'MOO and obtaining relief at St. James's Workhouse, he be money and other valuable property in his pnweakel not giving a correct account of himself. Charles Dandled superintendent of the eased wit St. James's Workhouse, add—Lest night shoat mind past 9 o'clock the defendant applied for relief, end wit milted to the casual ward. I gave him the innilalleirwe and showed him his berth. I afterwards searched hind found upon him Ga. 94d. and other property. The Medd then said that be was a respectable man, sad sad Mt be allowed to have. I told the defendant dallied& si permit that. The defendant was afterwards time Ind lt custody of a constable (Cod 177 C). Defendant—l had had a little more to drink Wale* to have bad. The superintendent—The defewlant was quite whit IL only excuse was that be wished to see the plaid • Mr. Knox (to ddendant)—What are you! Defendant—l am au army accoutrement makerialtiPti street, and have been there many years. The superintendent—He said he had slept at Greggit Workhouse the previous night. Mr. Knox (to defendant)—What is your name! Defendant—GraenhalL Sergeant Stephendacting.inspecto—That is thwadd His name is in the Directory, and he r) is knows to WON inteodent and one of the inspectors. Defendant—lt was a drunken frolic. Mr. Knox—Did the defendant consume say of the bef end gruel The superintendent—He ate some of the bread ad the grail. He then offered me his card sad admit allowed to go, saying it was only a drunken frolic. Mr. Knox—Then the defendant is really • trawls Ruperketreet Sergeant Stephens—He is. sir. Mr. Knox—lt is • very dangerous frolic. De lea d that you are liable to be sent to prison for a mad hard labour ! Defendant—l am aware it was wily stupid of ad Mr. Knox—lt is the first case of the kiod that big 0 ' brought before me. I consider it a merlons dhow St persons of decent position should go to • 1001 1, and make a mockery of applying for relief. al: it is done by them it will be done be o: I do not wish to do that which may be of dried you, sod therefore I do not choose to seed you as I think that would be too great a punislnect. Is! the publicity the matter is likely to obtain and the ttif you have been put to sufficient punishment. I lan! charge you, amount, cautioning you against ripsdelw act. THANES. - - SWALLOWING • SOVEREIGN. iPßfiNNea Mstehell, described u e potosse, Nina was brought before Mr. Paget charged wdb sovereign: Tbe prosecutor, George M'Callntn, .. dieeh.-- - " a s illh ia! the 29th Regiment of Foot, made the actos is ill i prisoner at • coffeehouse, where they vere.... i staying. On Wednesday, the 17th of the fe w month, the soldier embarked on board the P7r-on Stork, with the intention of going to Edinb er g k et accompanied by the prisoner, who bad no mow deck than he abstracted • sovereign from tbe puree. lt•Oallum "sized the prisoner, oa help. Dosakl Murray, the constable ms S t. I tat wharf, and • servant of the Gemmel 8 0111 . A me 'talon employ, immediately arrested the r — it took him into the saloon cad demanded the escolf__,,' prisoner said be had not got it, and put the • his month. Murray clutched him by the shoulder hand and grumped his throat with the other, it tc; time calling for • spoon. Mr. David Soothusdi t op r i a mate of the ship. gave Murray a 'pow, "%xi prisoner's mouth opal with • koife. Muni , e „,dcti spoon into the prisoner's mouth, but __„. llll " t i p a he saw the sovereign disappear down the yrisoor bo ta The prisoner was nearly choked by the sem* a omen measuresdopted by the mate and ooestaW ewer the sov. ige The Prisoner, la defines, said be did not take lb ° g al reign from the soldier, and that what he swslWai hard pies of tobacco. wh o tb Mr. Paget 'outwitted the prisoner for trial, as YT soldier stated that he bad hew detained be" 7010 and all his sm i tteL a was gOOO, He h a d Do mom whatever Murray saillZreeldier was • man of good chaleo. o hit breast was decorated with medals. 6 8 0 111. tM oneous ir lypsmagivo . Paget temist rogrotted hea onisoidifit heufachadforhhinosi2rftutoodasois at his b L is ai e am sad be would not be able to obtain the rowel ""'" the triaL The ift soldier received a certificate award* bill % s hie loos el Moor in attending the court as • witmlli Patti had m TOW other triumph at Par is on e sight it Don Pasquale. The liebenrollere POI o p the Imperial bee, sad every other eras filled WO tats drew v. 311. A., •• In all a Bheerwood '••(te the hi. univereit Ap INTER! v)c The half ' at noon at t the cher. The repor 6 ' l was taken 1 " The Cleat ex Ones the las culties owir 0. 11 money, but • per cent. Th 40 was carried • ' some of tb •• " did not feel might be in about the b nel. "V th ugopio ` ,r quiries. A 17,000 'her and st< a the Hn o diel Fr pannoty. •"" held As regards believed wi company d "". it ; one of "' owned. A to say th the comp 50.0001. or directors (Cheers.) particular' held. but perfectly I at the sa (Cheers.) A SUM eatiefactor ieformatio Supposing half the invested 2 The 011, falle basis A BHA' much grA4 nun. (Hs A rathei but the et Mr. J oe be left to hear that ;mai wee of the co 31,000/., Pro..portt moos. sewage re wider u experieso meadow I Caine. 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