The Express. — London, England, 1864-12-02 00:00:00

CRYSTAL PALACE. -THE WINTER GARDEN OP THZ WORLD.—TO-MORROW, CONCH= at Three o'clock. Afternoon Prcenenade. Palace brilliantly HAW at half-peat - NOTE. —The Saturday Promenade the most fashionable resort. CRYSTAL PALACE.—TO-MORROW. SATURDAY CONCERT and AFTERNOON PEOMENADL Yocaltats. Male. Liebhart and Mr. Charles Adams ;by permis sion of the Opera Company, IL inal!ed . Solo clarinet Sir. Pape. Conductor, Mr. Manna. The programme includes Symphony in minor ..Haydn) (erg time; ; overture. "WildnY m P he " IW. fitersdale Bennett) ; overture •• Leonora" Beetinneu`. Palace well warmed and nrdliantly lighted up for Promenade daring Mr. Coward's performance on the Great Organ. Adusimion, half-a-crown : or ny Guinea Season Tickets tree. Reserved seats, halLagrown mitre. Note. A more agreeable means of readng a winter after noon can hardly be Imagined than Is now-provided every Satur day at the Crystal Palace." GUINEA SEASON TICKET ADMITS TO- Nwintow to CONCERT and PROMENADE, and up to Ist May, tied. On sale at all the entrances. Yesterday morning, notwithstanding London was enveloped In log, the Palace was bathed In the most brilliant sunshine. SANSFLECTUM CRINOLINES, lta. ed., and ila •• Wear admirably wt 11. - —Court Journal. ONDINA or WAVED JUPONS, 15a Gd. and • Ihe dress falls fu graceful folds: —Morning Post. Let our wives and daughters patronise the taidlna."—Punah. EIDER DOWN PETTICOATS. These beautiful petticoats are peculiarly adapted for the carriage, for invalids, and for ladles who require warmth eon- Bined with lightness. The average weight is from 20 to 26 ounces, they ore 4 lards round, and V. inches long in the train. Petticoats In Black Silk Rich Black 7os. Extra Rich Satin looa. Mr. Piapott I. learned in the literature of Os petticoat"— Le Pullet. Illustrations and C11.110U4 Pamphlet gratis and free. EDWARD PRILPOTT, Jupon Manufacturer to the Court and Royal Faintly, 37, PICCADILLY. WINTER OVERCOAT& Gentlemen are Invited to inspect the NEW GOODS at HASULTON and KIMPTON'S, talon and Overcoat-mak 10S. STRAND kopposite Exeter-hall;. 1%1 K w !i d ILE Tes. 'S T als e u can Lad ORIGINATOR 'S) b.A 73, BRUOK.STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE, wber. "competition Is fairly dbnanced by Mien" ALFRED WEBB MILE+. ESTABLISHED 1841. GOLD CHAINS.-JOHN BROGDEN to call the attention of IL* public to the ?ORM o l fir VOICE which he delivers with Gold Guard Chains purchased at Ws Dian Idactory a a. d. Tow orknianaltip of pattern chain, Si inches long To 1,. carat gold, weighing cr. dwt gre., at 4.3 as. bid. per ounce, Mint price iota) Upon this system, the QUALITY. WEIGHT, and VALUE of the sold are actually defined. and guaranteed to the purchaser . John Tiro den looking for stair ramitneration ou the oorkraandtip only, n loch to charged aceordin,r to the intricacy or simplicity of the pattrrn. —JOHN IGO IGDEN. Goldsmith.—Manufactory. 16, Henrietta-street. Covent-garden. London. Established Lis. 1796. X B. This establishment is closed at 6 In the evening, and on iaturdsys at 1 o'clock. NEGRETTI and ZAMBRA'S One Gaines and Two Gains& FIRM GLASSES en ,I nictiCOPEI an war. ranted as unrivalled for power awl brilliancy. fla and asa In .ace Hatton-garden. a Cornbill. I.=. flown W.. ISt . llsetwireet and Crystal Palace. RENEMBER.! we wait Supper for you after the Covent Garden Opera. at EV.1:13. nil not. ghe erpreos. HA YM ARK T. THT4 ETENza. THE SUN AND THE RIND.—BUNNY VALE FARM. Hours. Bore, Ferree, Clark, Braid, and Coe. Ilaaaames Beatrice, Snowden, and Fitzwilltana.—PßlEND WAGGLES. Mr. Comptou.—mal MY tiI:sBANDA OHuST. PRIICCLS.M . Evisroit DORN To CAW LUCK. Mr. D. Marry. And THE ATRIETS Or LONDON. Mews. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fisher. D. Murray, I. Nelson. U. Forrester. .amt H. Mellon ; lin U. Manion, Ilium Barnett and Gwynn,. LYectli, rat. Etilarma, EiVERD.—And THE KINGS ECT:LRFLY. Ileum Fe.hter, Ryder. Wlddleomb, Charles, licluty re, Raymond. Clnlorn, Collet'; Mimes C. Leclercy. Y. Denman. Laren, and U. tartan. aItITANNIA. MS EMMA UPAIDE DOW N.—St/Wag by 31 , .. Alhort Meek. the Great Vauet, and %Me DoutL—Dauctnic by lidlle C. Steph.ul —Au,' I/1E 11t/THElt'a DYING CHILL/. Atm &tam. HIGH WATCH AT LONDON.BEIDGE. Tim DAT Morning, 3h. 4304....After00py 4L 3e. Zumoriow Mums& 4h. 24m.....Atkrisook 4h. 4414. LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2. PEOPLE who can live where they like, or shift their abode when it does not suit them, often dis close a good deal of character by the choice they make, or the evils they run away from. It is a matter of the first consideration with many people to be free of the neighbourhood —to be subject to no interruption in their own affairs, and to no in terference with their own ways, and, above all, not to be tortured in their sympathies, or made uncomfortable in their selfish feel ings by living in the vicinity of peril or misery. Such people had better divide themselves between London and our dull old cathedral towns—those of them in which no manufacture is carried on. Those stagnant cities may prove safe harbours, for generations, to people who are afraid of their own sensibilitiee ; for, unless a visitation of cholera should come, there seems to be nothing in the way of general calamity which co.ild happen in such a place. In Landon, too, thousands of households live on in their own way all their lives, without knowing so much as the names of the inhabitants of the same street. In London only, perhaps, can grown-up women set to work to re member whether they ever in their lives spoke to a poor person, and tied that if there is any cue on the record, it is only the charwoman or the washerwoman. Such a life se this cer tainly may be, and is, led in London ; and possibly in some of our largest provincial towns. It does not follow that people thus fond of comfort, and afraid of the pains of sensi bility, may not be very charitable in their way. They may be among the most liberal subscribers to all aorta of charities ; but they prefer leaving it to others to see painful sights and deal with dis tresses which weigh upon the heart. There is enough in this that is natural and com mon to us all that we can admit the great diffe rence there is between living in full view of ter rible distress and frequent disaster on the one hand, and easy and perpetual comfort on the other. At this season of the year residents on our sea-coasts feel what a serious thing it is to dwell within sight of wrecks, and within hearing of the cries of the drowning and the wail of the widows and orphans. The owners and tenants of abodes near a fishing village, or near any harbour in a rocky coast, find it all very charming through the summer, as their friends and visitors tell them. The wide sea-view, with the fleets or the flying yacht shining in the sun, is a great luxury ; and so are the charms of the beach, and the caverns below, and the downs above. It is a constant luxury to see the flags of all nation a, and to have tho imagination carried into all the scenes symbolised by those flags ; but the penalty has to be paid when November comes. The obstinate g•.le, the rain splashing against the wiudows hour after hour, become a great strain on the nerves when the associations of the winter season are once established. A heart-sickness arises which comes more easily, and feels more painful from year to year. It is impossible not to watch the weather and the scene, and yet it is but too certain what the sight will be. Boys, women, and girls run through the rain to some point of view, or to the beach ; and that is a sign that some ship is in danger. Then follows the whole series of phenomena. The vessel behaves like a wilful or a doomed creature, edging or driving towards the fatal sandspit or group of rocks. Then follows another and another. One goes to pieces ; another founders ; another gore slowly over, and is washed onwards with her sails lying flat on the water. Then there is the horror of seeing the steam-tug overwhelmed by a wave, its fires put out, and too probably a man or two carried overboard. Then there is the agony of the life-boat, out for hours with well-known men for her crew. The sus pense is serious suffering, even if no lives are lost; and it is seldom that lives are not lost. Of the cries from the wreck, the doubts and the anguish of the crowd on shore, trying to help amidst the confounding horrors of the storm, we need say nothing. The awful facts of last week, and especially the story of the wreck of the Stan ley steamer at Tynomouth, must have spread the sensation through the whole country. More re mains behind, however, for residents in such places ;—the disgust of seeing the trooping down of men, women, and boys to lay hands on whatever they can carry away—planks, ironwork, sailcloth, coals, or richer prizes, if they can be bad. One such day or night in November weakens the nerves for the whole winter following, or for all winters to come. There are other places where a permanent resi dence is subject to similar conditions—as the neighbourhood of collieries where accidents on a lags scale happen from time to time. Since the catastrophe at Holmfirth, and afterwards at Sheffield, the same description may be given of an abode near an artificial reservoir. Timid and selfish people wonder how the residents can bear such sights, and live under any notion of a repeti tion of them. In • lesser degree the liability attaches to an abode in fens, or the valleys of ill•kept rivers, where floods make beggars in a day or night of a whole population of farmers and villagers, and serve their death-warrant by fever or consumption on • certain proportion of the people. The lie bility exists, in its degree, in mountain districts, where snow-drifts bury all the sheep of a valley, and overtake somebody or other on the hills, and pauperise some small farmers, and make orphans of some children every few years when Christmas comes. There are too many villages where • spread of fever takes place in the autumns, and very fatally in some particular autumn. There are accidents in the fields as in the towns —shocking accidents from agricultural ma chinery (as yet a novelty) as well as in cotton-mills. What it must be to live in a rick burning district, or in country places where a whole row of cottages must go if one catches fire, because there is no way of putting it out, we can all imagine. On the whole, it seems scarcely poi- Bible to live anywhere in any comfortable security against the torture of one's sensibilities. This is true ; and it ought to be true ; and there ought to be no exception even for the most money-giving residents of the most respectable London streets. These cannot but know that there are homeless poor gathered before the gates of the workhouses every winter's night, with no shelter from the cold and the wet ; and the sensi bilities cannot be very acute which are easy under this knowledge as long Si the spectacle is not before the eyes. It is a different sort of sensibi lity which sends the members of the Society for the Relief of Distress into the very haunts of misery—less afraid to witness the sight than to leave fellow men to perish unaided. These volun tary almoners put us in the way of learning how it is that the dreariest spectacles may be en countered, often, and even periodically, without saddening life essentially. The explanation is in the old truth, that active helpfulness is so great a relief to the sensibilities as to reduce the sympathetic pain to something quite endurable. GRACE Dkauxo was certainly far from miserable while rowing with her father that stormy night which the world will never for get ; and the same may be said of the kind house wives who make hot coffee, and send it down to the wrecked as they arrive, and to the lifeboat men. The working the rocket apparatus, a pull on the rope, stirring up the fires and bring ing the benumbed to them, making up beds, and even the effort of checking lawlessness and folly, and suggesting ideas to the stupid and unpractical, yield a wonderful solace in the most distressing moments. Those who do not know this by experience may see the truth of it in the cues of the many benevolent persons who are as cheerful as anybody, while sub ject to the spectacle of human misery ; and espe cially of those—not very few—who have in all times chosen to live where there was most misery, or the most terrible kind of misery for them to try to relieve. Without expecting to find missionaries of mercy in every house, we may hope that the most saw-loving of Londoners, who dread nothing so much as their own sensibilities, will be unable to escape knowing all about the homeless people outside the workhouse doors, so that the pain of the thought may quickly lead to a state of things in which every human creature in our great city may have where to lay his head. bt Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. L The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, walked and drove is the grounds this mauling, attended by Ledy Augnata Stanley. Prince.' Helena rade is the riding achooL Prince Leopold drove ont, attended by Mr. Bail. Princess Louise, attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart, took a drive in the alterscoa. Mr. and Mn. A. Wigan had the honour of reading a selection of English poetry before her Majesty and the royal family at Windsor Castle last night. The Queen and Princess Louise went out on Tuesday. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing•street The ministers present were— Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Earl of Clarendon, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of Canada, the West India blends, British Columbia, and Bermuda. THIS PRINCE AND PRINCESS. or Waters,-0n Tuesday • private meetiag of the West Norfolk Runt wee arranged to be held for the purpose of accommodating the royal party at Sandringham. The meet wu appointed a► the neighbouring preserves of Anmer. The Prince of Wales wee attended by Major Tamale, and was accompanied by Colossi Bug, Vie:mint Hamiltoo, Colonel Kiogscote, &e. The Princess of Wales drove to ►h. " meet," attended by the Counter of Macclesfield. Foxes were speedily found, and • good run obtained. Oa Wednesday the royal party commenced shooting on the Appleton aide of the estate. Yesterday there was • grand Mhos shooting, and her Royal Highness the Princes. of Wales's birthday was cele brated at Sandringham by • ball. At the neighbouring town of Hing's Lyon the bells were rung, dogs were plenti folly exhibited, and an illumination was being arranged. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales at tained her 30th year yesterday. and the event wan cele brated with much rejoicing at Sandringham and Windex. The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived at Lana dowse Rome, Berkeley-square, yesterday, from Bowood Park, Wile'. The Earl of Derby is gradually regaioing strength. His lordship is still co:trued to his bedroom LATEI3T INTELLIGENCE. THE DUOMES. A telegrams, in the Amos, dated Vienna, yes terday, says :—" The mediation of Austria having been accepted, there is no longer any danger of a collision between the Prussian forces in Hol stein and Lauenburg and the Federal troops in those duchies." (IZIITIWIS TZLIGWIB.) THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. TURIN, D. 1. In today's sitting of the Senate, Signor Durando spoke in favour of the convention, and Signori Tacco and Pareto opposed it, General Della Mar mon made a speech in refutation of the arguments and assertions of Signor Pareto. THE EXFRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1864; SPAIN. MADRID, Dec. 1, The Queen has pardoned the inmates of the Military School of Segovia who had been con demned, for mutiny, to serve as soldiers of the penal class. THE BOMBAY MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 2. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ellora, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 53 passengers and a general cargo, including 1,650 bales of raw silk, value 150,0001. sterling. The English barque Ellergill, of Hull, bound to Barcelona, was abandoned in a sinking state on the 21st ult. in the Bay of Biscay. GIBRALTAR, Nov. 27.—Exchange on London, 50 to 501; Paris, 5.27. Freights unaltered. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. thic. 2. The Messageries Imperialee steamer PeWee, with the above mails, arrived here at 8 a.m. to-day. She brings 99 passengers and 1,800 packages of merchandise. JAPAN. (By tolommeh from Sum) • SHANGHAI, Ocr. 25. Advices from Japan state that trade is flourishing at Yeddo. The Daimios have agreed (telegraphed coga Ila) to reside there. Prince Nangato is said to decline (telegraphed time) payment of the indemnity. A strong feeling prevails against him, and his palace has been levelled to the ground. AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. • MELBOURNE, Ocr. 26. The Argus says :—" The first instalment of con- victs, whose time has expired, have oven reshipped to England." Advices from New Zealand announce that Mr. Fox's Ministry have tendered their resignation, but the Governor has declined to accept it. Two hundred Maori prisoners have escaped, and are now fomenting rebellion. A native rising is threatened in Sauranja (Qy. Tauranga). • The shove telegrams have been indidiactly trans mitted, rendering the reading of several pussies uncertain. EXPRESS FRO3I PARIS. THE APPEAL OF "THE THIRTEEN." (floe OUR OWN CORRISPORDIST.) PARIS. THURSDAY EYLIIHYS. I continue my very condensed report of the Appel des Treize. M. Clamergan, one of the thirteen, defended himself, the court having ungraciously, and con trary to almost invariable usage, refused to allow M. Jules Simon, who is not an advocate, to speak for him. M. Clamergan, who is a young barrister, was fortunate enough to grace his cause greatly by speaking for himself. After arguing the points of law in a masterly manner, he said in conclusion that to interpret the law of 1834 as the court below had done would be to extinguish the moral and in tellectual life of the country ; and at a time when those who sought nothing but wealth and luxury enjoyed perfect liberty to deny, as was the case in Rome, fire anl water to the lovers of liberal ideas founded upon generous convictions. On sitting down M. Clamergan was warmly con gratulated by the eminent members of the bar who were near him. After this and at a very late hour last night the great forensic guns fired off in quick succession. M. Berryer began, and in a very short speech, stating that he should reserve himself, if necessary, for a reply, expressed surprise that after M. Clamergan's eloquent address the court had not stopped the ease. He would, however, still have confidence in the court. After his fifty years' experience at the bar, and when he reflected on all the rights of citizens which it would be necessary to deny before the judgment could be confirmed, he refused to believe that the court would take refuge in all those subtleties without which they never could arrive at a construction unworthy of justice. His particular client—his friend M. Ferry—was, he knew, specially obnox ious, because he had taken part in the composition of the "Electoral Manual" which had exposed those manifold excesses of power which he and other deputies had stigmatised, as they deserved, in the chamber. M. Berryer's concluding sentence re minded the court of the celebrated motto which AM displayed 40 years ago on a great occasion, in the face of President Segnier :—" La tour rend dee arr4ts et non des services." [The court gives judgments and does not do services.] A tremendous burst of applause greeted M. Berryer as he sat down. The President ordered the oflicers to clear the court entirely of the public, and threatened to turn out the young barristers also if the like manifesta tions should be renewed. The officers could not at first believe that the court meant to turn out all the spectators, but on the order being repeated, it was obeyed. Dufaure followed, and like M. Berryer, threw the onus probandi of the cue on the public pro secutor, whom he defied, both in the point of view of law and fact, to sustain the judgment. He was shocked to see honourable young men, wearing advocate's robes, arraigned at the bar of the Cor rectional Police. He taunted the government with not having had the candour, if it meant to interdict electoral meetings, to pus a law for the purpose instead of seeking to strain an old law of a better time to a purpose for which it was never meant. M. Deemareet (the &Rainier) asked whether the government meant to retrograde to a period ante rior to 1789 ; for, before 'B9, the legality of elec toral meetings was never questioned. He was proud to say, coating down to a later date, that electoral meetings were held at his house in 1857. M. Platt the then Prefect of Police, sent for him, and said, "M. Desmareet, you have held electoral meetings with the utmost liberty, for we knew day by day all that took place at your house ; but now the elections are over, and your committee ought to be dissolved." M. Desmarest agreed with the prefect, and the committee was dissolved; but the precedent of the legality of electoral committees remained. Referring to England, he said that the practice of liberty could alone correct its abuses. M. E. Argo cited Montesquieu, to show that the " common people required to be enlightened by " leaders," and used the aphorism as an argument against the modern doctrines on universal suffrage. He blushed for his country, and asked whether the court would allow it to be said that the France of 'B9, 1830, and 1848 was now the last nation in Europe ? The early part of this day's sitting was taken up by the reading of a paper written by M. Marie, who was still too unwell to appear ou behalf of the accused M. Bory. There is news of Dr. Demme and Miss Flora, which now seems to be authentic. They are cer tainly nut at the bottom of the Lake of Geneva. A telegram was received at Berne on Nov. 28, from the Swiss consul in Milan, stating that Dr. Demme and "his wife" had been seen in that city a week ago, and that on Nov. 21 Dr. Demme paid a visit to a mad doctor named RUE, whose acquaintance he had probably made at Constantinople. The suppo 'Rion that the fugitives had embarked at Trieste for Mexico on Nov. 19 must therefore fall to the ground. The Band of the 29th repeats the story of stolen rings having been given by the doctor to Miss Flora. The news that K Mocquard's life was iu danger is contradicted. He has been suffering from severe bronchitis, but it is now said that he is getting better every day. The Europe of Frankfort (conducted by K E. de Girardin's correspondent, M. Ganesco) asserts that the French government pledges itself in the budget for IB6G to have only 400,000 men under arms on the let of January of that year. The effective would thereby be somewhat reduced, but only by means of temporary furloughs, which could be revoked if necessary. The Bourse closes without any notable change. The steady increase of the bullion in the Bank of France, as shown by the returns to-day, produced no great effect upon quotations. A rumour was circulated, notwithstanding a rise of in Consols, that the rate of discount will be augmented in London to-morrow. SINGULAR ACCIDENT AT HARTLEPOOL-SUP• POSED LOSS OF FIVE LIVES. Yesterday morning a melancholy accident took place •t Hartlepool. A little before 6 o'clock one of the boats at the Commissioners' Ferry was laden with pas senger-workmen belonging to the Middleton Foundry and the shipyards, and the ferrymen had just started the boat from the landing, when the brie Zenith, of Sunderland, which was being moved by the Thomas and Mary steam boat, was observed coming stem on towards the boat. The morning was dark and the tide was high. with a strong current running from the " Slake " down the channel into the sea, sod as the Zenith approached the boat, the ferryman endeavoured to back the boat into a siding out of the way of the vessel, but some of the passengers caught hold of she chain against the battery which protects the steps, cud kept the boat in such • position that the vessel was sure to come in contact with it. The danger was inevitable, and fearing that the boat would be crushed to pieces and its living freight killed or drowned. a cry was raised to jump overboard, and no sooner was it uttered than the whole of the people in the boat were struggling in the sea. The scene that presented itself at this period was most heart rending. Upwards of thirty men end boys were strutting with • strong tide to keep themselves from being washed into the channel. Those that mould not swim were clinging to garments of others more fortunate, and parties who were on the steps at the landing succeeded in pulling three or four poor fellows out of the water. Lines were got, sod others were hauled on shore. Some parties who could swim were instrumental in seeing lives of several •ho would otherwise have perished. In about five minutes all who were admit bad landed, and great consternation pre vailed as to who were saved or minsiog. At tint it was con jectured that there were at least nine persons drowned, but about lOciclock it was ascertained that snob was not the ease. However, one men named Loog, living in North Welleetreet, WWI recognised in the boat by one of the pas sengers, and he was missing. A tin can, belonging to • per son named William Bowser, is found, and its owner is not forthcoming, and fairs are entertained that he is also gone. There ere tin cans belonging to other three indivi dual' which have not been claimed, and alma three caps. The vicinity of the terry-landing has been crowded with people ever 'Moe the "zealous. and the wives and children of toe workmen belonging to the factories have been in a state of the greatest excitement. One of the ferrymen I named Ashcroft was Dearly drowned, sod was in such a state of exhaustion that be had to be assisted home. Others I also bad some narrow escapes. Under the superintendence of Mr. Horsley, the pilot master, the channel has been dragged, but as the tide was ebbing, sod there always is a strong current, the bodies would DO doubt be carried to sea. Up to 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon the parties who were grappling had not been successful in discovering any of the bodies. The latest rumour wee that only two persons are missing; but it is impossible at present to arrive at the actual loss of life. .—(THIS DAY.) t • Lam. 11. 5 S.W. 5 W.&W. a S.W. 6 W. 4 S.W. - 1 W. 2 6 METROPOLITAN BOARD OP WORKS. (THIS DAY.) The usual meeting of the Metropolitan Board ad Weeks was bald this morning at the office in Spring. prdeos. biz. J. TawArros in the chair. The financial statement was presented. which showed the following cash balances in the hands of the treasurer : Current accounts, 115,5581. 18e. lOs. ; deposit amounts, 348,000/.: total, 500,3581. IPe. lbd THE THAMES - INHASICHENT, MR. WHIT, LSD THE CHAIRMAN OF - THR BOARD. The followingConiiiiiiiiciitioSawereTCCeived from the pariah of St. Saviour, in refereace to the late contract for the Thames Embankment, which was not given to Mr. Ridley, although his was the lowest tender, and which has already excited so much diacession in the hoard : - "St. Saviour'. District Baird of Works Board.room, E 'maroon-street, Southwark, Ist Dec., 1864. " Gentlemen, —I am directed by the St. Saviour's District Board of Work. to forward to you a copy of a resolution passed by them at their meeting last evening, in reference to the deuce between Mr. Ridley and Mr. Thwaites. —1 bars honour to be,gentlemeo, your obedient servant, " HERBERT STURM% Clerk. "The Metropolitan Board of Works, Spring-gardeos, S.W." opy of Resolntiou.) "Resolved,—That this board are of opinion that Mr. Thweires should not have withheld the information re quired of him by Mr. Ridley and that a copy of this reso lution be forwarded to Mr. L:idley, Mr. Thwaites, and the Metropolitan Board of Works." The CHAIRMAN said that the information waa coaveyed to him in confidence, and was so understood by his col leagues, and therefore his lips were sealed until he should have mulish:xi to make it known, which permission he bad not at present received. lie h oped, however, the time would speedily come when be could make knows all the facia in reference to this matter. VISEBURT-PARK. A report was received from the streets' committee recom• mending th►t the sum of 45,000!. be transferred from the deposit to the current account, for the purpoites of the for. mation of Finsbury-park. The recommendation of the committee was adopted, Mr. H. L. TAYLOR remarking that this was a very large sam to abstract from the ratepayers for the formation of a park for Finsbury. THE VRLTRATION OP TILE SEWAGE. Several communications were received from vestries and district boards in reference to the utilisation of the sewage of the metropolis, some approving, and others disapproving, of the arrangements contemplated by the board with Messrs. Hope and Napier. No motion, however, was founded upon them. IMPIOCER STREET CONSTRUCTIONS. A report was brought up from the Building Act Com mittee, recommending th►t the freeholder and all other parties interested in the premises known u the Old King's Head public-house, Upper•street, Islington, be summoned to show cause why the provisions of the 74th section of the Metropolis Management Amendment Act, 186?, should not be put in force with regard to the setting beck of those premises. The report we received, mad the recoramendatioas were limed to. Fib. board wee lett sitting. ] SUICIDE OP A SOLDIER IN THE CITY. SINGULAR CASE. INQUEBT.-(THIS DAY). This afternoon an inquiry was resumed by Mr. W. J. Payne, deputpeortmer for the city of London, re• wetting the death of James East, aged 28 years, • soldier of the 3rd Buffs, who committed suicide by blowing his head off. Sergeant Edward Butler, of the 3rd Buffs, stationed at Weeslon, said that the deceased was • private in the first battalion of that regiment. Witness identified the deemed as the same man by the moustache and eyebrow. On Tuesday week be got leave of absence from Major Gardner, until 7 o'clock the following morning. He did not return, and thereby he became • defaulter. He was not • deserter, for his death took place within five days. He was six years in the regiment, he had fought in the China war, and received the silver medal. He was • good soldier and bad the good conduct hedge. He bad • wife. He wished to get his discharge, and be was troubled in bin mind because he would have to pay IS!. for it. He said to witness, " I don't like to pay so much money for my discharge." Witness told him it is optional with you to pay or remain • soldier." He asked for his leave of absence shortly after that conversation. tiT Sergeant Mitchell, of the Cite pol i ce, ea a f rom in quiries he had made be ascertained that the damaged came up to Loudon on toe day he got his leave of absence. He had received from his wife who lived in the country 181. to buy his discharge. A portion at least of that money ap peared to have been spent by him in London upon ayzj woman, whose portrait be got, hut which be had crushed under his heel immediately heforehashot himself. _ _ Mrs. Ann Mansfield said she was the landlady of the China coffee-house hi Rishopegute-street. The deceased came to her house on the evening of Tuesday last. He was in uniform, but he changed his dress upstairs. He was • quiet, sober man. He lived there until Friday night, when be sat down in the shop, and talked about all the passing event, of the day. He wee quite sober, but in going up stairs he fell. He started up and rushed out of the home. He came bark in half an hour. and went to his room. and locked himself in with a key which he had asked for. In five minute. after she heard a load noise, and she went to the door and said, " Soldier, soldier. open the door .." There being no reply the door was burst in. Upon entering the room she saw a dreadful eight. The deceased's bead was completely shattered, and he still clutched • pistol in his tight head. He had shown her during the evening the portrait of • young woman, and he had been somewhat desponding. Charles Ruff, porter at the Chins Coffee-house said — I was called by the minus, who said she had heard an explosion. I rushed upstai rs and put my nose in the key hole because I had • violent cold. I said to the ninasits, "It must be in here; 'smell powder; it's the soldier." When we broke in the door I saw the portrait of a young woman crushed on the floor. The soldier had never brought • young woman to the omfarbonse. _ - Serge . ant Westwood,' City police, said that be searched the room occupied by the decease d. He found, crumpled up and stained with blood, • soldier's pass, dated for the previous Tuesday. There was • ticket of a perms to New York, ft was m follows : "trey and Co., King Williametreet. Ship Webster, Thomas Ashington, aged 25. Paid 31. 15s. for purge to New York. Bought 23rd Nov., ship to sail on the 28th." Alongside this paper lay three bullets, hail a pound of powder, • good cooduct badge and medal. There was • pistol in deceased's hand. Dr. R. Fowler add that when be was celled to the de ceased he found the head in a moat shattered state. The pistol barrel was still warm. The pistol most hare been duchand in the mouth. The Dormerasked whether the young woman had been traced, and whether any of the deceased's money had been found. Sergeant Mitchell said that no money was found on the deceased. Who the young woman was they had not bees able to ucertain. The Cormier said that the matter would require to be further inveetitated. in order to ascertain whether it was a ewes of felo.de-se. It was possible that after having spot the money given to him for the discharge upon the writer of the portrait he might have Lad • quarrel with her on the night of his death. The court wee then adjourned. THE LETTER OP HULLERS FATHER. In consequence of the publication of the letter addressed by the moving Muller, while under mamma of death in Newest', to his father sod other immediate re latives in Germany, Mr. Sheriff Dakia has felt it to be his duty to band to us, with a view to publication, a letter written in answer to that communication by the father of the convict . It should be explained that the letter of the traria, which was written en the Ist of November, a fort night before his execution, was placed i n th e hand; of Mr. Sheriff Dello on that day to be forwarded to ita destine , tion. The Sheriff forwarded it without delay, and the reply, having bees received at Newgate on the 12th of November, the day but one before the execution, wee im mediately beaded to the condemned men. After the exe cution it passed into the hands of the sheriffs as the proper custodians of such a document, and is now published with their sanction and as their request : ttiglueklicher Sabo,—Deioen Brief tuition wir erhalten den 6ten November. Aber, ach, wie fief blot du gefalles! Du rerlangst Verz,ibung you tun. Wit vergeben dir, nod wens du aehuldug blot so wird Gott dir auch vergeben, and Diet du unecholdig so wird Cott dir deice letzten Stuoden erleichtern. kb will schliessen ; mein' Gedanken vergehen mir. Gott sei mit dir. Amen. .• DELI UNGLOCKLICHEII Yin g, " Lange, Dembeeb, dee 9ten November, 1864." A translation, as nearly literal as possible, is subjoined : Unhappy Son, —Ws received your letter on tb. Gth of November, but, alas! how deeply have you fallen. You ark us to forgive you we do forgive you, and, if you are gu ilt,„ may God forgive yon also. If you are innocent, m a y God lighters your last hours. I mast conclude, for my thoughts fail me. God be with you. Amen. " Yon' enurn FArEaca. " Lemma Dembsch, Nov. 9." The extreme brevity of the letter in oomparivon with the length of that of the son to which it was a reply, and it. general tone, produced an impression on the muds of the Sheriffs end the authorities at Nenegate at the time that the convict had failed to amnion his &Weer of his innocence. Ts Dore OF TEI RSV. Dn. ARORZZ.-.We regret to announce the death of this well-known Lawton preacher He belonged to the United Presbyterian March of Scot land, and thirty-thew) years ago be was elected minister of Ozsadon•street Chapel, sear the Haymarket. During the whole of that long period be secured a congregation composed of the most opulent of his fellow•countrymen residing in London. KTON COLLF.OI.—The school will close on Friday, the 16th inel. for t►e Christmas vacation, which will last about bre weeks. On Wednesday, Jan. 18. the lower boys return to the school, the fifth and with forms retanting on Thursday sad Friday, Jan. 19 and 20, when the whole of the school will have roweseabled. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIE3 DA Y. ) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. After Term Sittinp at lad Prins at Westannter.--i fore Lord Clue' Junin Cockburn and a Special Jur)4 PLAT[ . . The declaration in this came stated that in conersiusoce the plaintiff, Sarah Platt, giving up her house London sod selling her furniture, the defendant. John ll'Andrew, promised to pay her an aunintr of 504 per annum, and that as he had fail,l to do so the plaintiff sought to reo3ver the sum of 7:V_ year and a half's arrears. The defendant pleaded—hr,,, that be did not promise ea aUeged ;. secondly, that 1.1.1 plaintiff was not reedy and willing to give up her resider,.. sod thirdly, that before the brea th the plaintiff had ezote. rated him from his promise. Mr. Hawkins. Q.c. and M. Pearce were counsel for •i.' plaintiff ; Mr. Huddl eston, qc., and Mr. Suellen CLUtit for the defendant. The plaintiff, a single female, resides at 14, CumberLul. street, Pimlico, and the defendant, Sir Jobe brAwirea, bas been for some time Inspector-General of fluepitsk o • the learned counsel, in opening the case. stated the t-r., on which the parties had lived together, the plaits • farther alleging that the defendant had promis e d t, her, and bad introduced her to his children accordi , z . The learned counsel proposed to state what had occurre.. :- the house when the plaintiff went to reside with him housekeeper to enable her to be introduced to the but the learned judge interposed, saying it had no on the ease. Miss Pratt examined by Mr. Pearce, deposed-1n 1.. was mailing with Mrs. Scott in Coventry-street, .1.,1 charge of her daughter. On a Sunday in that year I my way to church in Piccadilly. I met the defendant f.r. : !he brat time. We bad some conversation together, and that we became very friendly and always et... • Mr Sunday together. I left s. Scott's and w. -t; to Maddox-street, and after that to the defend.n.:', residence in Upper Hamilton-terrace, St. John's.vood. .„ reside. I remained there three weeks. At the defend, request I left, and lived in apartments at Haes.phee. I resided there, I think, six or eight months, during the iv of which time Sir John visited me there. He to leave that end take a house, and in conseinen,e that I took No. 14, Cumberland-street, Christmas, 1861, for three years, where I now resole. John was with me when I took it. He visited me tl.ere. From 1859 to 1800 I received a number of letters fro.•. John. After I took the house in Cumberland.stivet John wont to Cheltenham, but before he left in camber, 1862, 1 had a conversation with bin:. I v., very ill in bed at the time. He said h., not afford to keep the house as be had dorm, but 1 leave it, and he would make me an allowance for it. Iu ! I was too ill then to speak to him about it, and he rephvi that he would see me again about it when he returnid fee_ Cheltenham. Whilst he was there I received the folios it; letter from him :—" It is not in my power to render vat ar,y esaistanoe. There is nothing for it but to get rid of vas house, seed for a broker, have your furniture and then you will be able to pay your debt- 'lnd go into the country, where your health will improve, you will be able to board and lodge very comfortably on • Tom, and which is all the assistance I can give you. ;- is not likely I shall be in London for some time. but would advise you to act at once. It is on use writies let. ten. The relations here, poor boys, are likely to go to the workhouse, in consequence of my inability to asset their mother." The other letter merely elated— " I shall be in London on Wednesday." Afie: receiving those letters Mr. Campbell, the defendant's solicitor, a stranger to me, called upon me with a deed, which be wished me to sign. The deed, be olid • en. to secure me 501. • year and to release Sir John. I clined to accept the sum and refused to lige the deed. I said I considered SW. too little as I then owed 2501., and had the hones upon my hands. Mr. Campbell came to my bones twice after on the subject of the deed, but I refused to sign it. I saw Sir John during this time. and had conversations with him about the annuity. He how. ever visited me after he west to Cheltenham. He knew the lot of money I owed, and in the oonversatiolie I Lail with him after his return he agreed to give me 4501. with which to pay my debt', in addition to Wt. he gave me with whim to pay one or two bills that were very pressing. He afterwards agreed to make the annuity 60/., and that Mr. Campbell should pay the rest of the house till the end of the three years' term. i received the 4501. at Mr. Campbell's office, where I signed a document. The deed I refused to sign in 1863 was dated 1860, previous to Sir John's last marriage. Mr. Campbell said it was to free Sir John before his marriage, end would not interfere with me. Sir John said when he toil me Mr. Campbell should jay the rest of the house for the remainder of the term that I might reside in it or let it, which I pleased. I was willing to leave it if Sir John would free me from it entirely, and I told him so. I at , plied to Mr. Campbell at the proper time for my an. natty and the rent, but he told me there was no money for me as I had 'ivied a releases. I told him I ex. pealed to receive the annuity which Sir John had promieed me, end that if I had signed a release I was not aware of it, and that I had never seen it, had never reed it, or had it read to me. I wrote to Sir John after this interview with Mr. Campbell, and he met me at the Marble Arch. I told him I had been toMr. Campbell's, but I ahouldtell you that before I received the 4501. he told me I was not to talk to Mr. Campbell, but simply go and take the money and leave everytbiug to him, and he would make all the arrangements about my OW. per annum. I told him 1 had been to Mr. Campbell's, sod after some conversation he said I should have my 601. per annum. That is little more than twelve months ago. He said he could not stay with me long, because be was going to sign his will, and he would make arrangements about my 60/. pet annum. I received a letter the following day, sap. rto have been written by Lady 3PAndrew, t ed I believe it to be Sir John's, and he after wards owned it was. His wife afterwards invited me to the house, and I wet. I wished to deny It great deal of the contents of the letter, and I asked his wife how she could write such • letter to me if she was a lady. Sb replied " How do you know 1 did write it r I said I believe! Sir John had written it, and he was standing by at the time and did net deny it. The bundle of letters pro doted I received from Sir John. I have not been paid any of the annuity, and there is • year and a halts annuity, 754, now due to me. Criii - s-ixa;ciaed by Mr. Huddlaston—l Wars Sir John is 70 yaws of age. I was at Mr. Scott's, fishmonger, Cann try-street, Haymarket, when first I knew the defendant He spoke to me casually in the street Moos. I went to church, and Sir John mat me afterward& walked with him in ths park and Piccadilly. 1 did not get into a cab with him. This was in May and Jsne. Issas cause took plaoe between us some weeks sifter. It was not the following day. It has ceased for two years. 1 swan it took place in 1861. I hare • child 15 years of mu After I received his wife's letter I went to his haat walked about in frost of bin house, and rung the ball. My aster lived with me in Cumberland.arset. She is married, and lira in India. 1 decline to say anything about my sister—whether she lived under the protection of a gentlemen. If I wanted anything I used to send him my card—that was understood between tut On Deossibee 10, ISO, I lent s telegraph to Sir John as follows: " ifir,—Plesec read letter sent this afternoon, or must say all in a telegram." Io the month of December, 1 4 A2. he had paid for my furniture, and bed given me Ironer in moderation. In 1662 I applied to him for meet.. I do not think I bad then threatened to inform Lady M'Aniree of the connexion that bad existed between na. Campbell, when he Snit called, said he bad been sent by Sir John. Before that I had given Sir John a date moot of my debts amounting altogether to Wit. He said Sir John was disposed to make me • present of 1001. sad as annuity of 301. no long risl fired, and not 5.• I ong as Sir John lived, provided I aped' proper document not to interfere with him, or write to him. or have soy communication with him. I asked Mr. Campbell to lens me the deed that I might show it some friend, and that I should like to consider the offer. Daring that time I mote to Sir John. An appointment was made to meet him at Mr. Campbell's office. I kept the appointment. but Sir John was not there. I saw Mr. Campbell. After that I saw Sir John. About the 12th ▪ Febrinuy I saw Mr. Campbell again at Copia:land. area. In the meantime, between those tiro in. Unisys. I received 50/. from Sir John. )o the Is onasio• Mr. Campbell brought with him • deed. Hs did not bring 430/, with him. Ha did not say he bad called with the dm! for the purpose of carrying out the agreement to allow me the balance of 5001. Instead o. the LIM. a year as previously arranged. I did tot agree with RirJohn to take 5001. i naiad of the sum pronmo.J by_ him of 501. • year. I agree d to take 500 ,. . addition to 601. • year that he promised me. Xr• Campbell on the second interview when he came to nIY bones did not read • deed to me. Hs did read one, but not oil that occasion. Hs did not fill the, date into it —1202 of February. He filled in 1860. H. never wrote in my house. I asked Mr. Campbell to leave the agreement, so that I might la a friend sea it. I did not lay I wanted to consult a solicitor. I received letter on the 13th February from Mr. Campbell. " Madams, —After laving you yesterday it occurred to ma that the bast way would be for you to send in.. the name and address of your solicitor, that I may see him on the abject of oar cioarersation." I did 'missed the name of my solicitor. I hare Dena After that I wrote a l e tt er to Sir John. On the 11th of Feb=rsceired this letter from Mr. Campbell : —Our cheat has handed your second letter to to,. H. states that he will bold no communication aid von ; and if after this you continue to annoy and molest hint we shall have no alternative but to apply to a 03613'.' . trate." I also received this note from him Yr. Caer l ' el: will eadsavour to call upon you to-morrow a shoat 11 o'clock." On that occasion he said he called to know if I intended signing the dead. most likely said I woald cot unless the &MOW] . agreed to be given nws sobstitetion to the intuit! ea leagued. The next day, the 20th February. 1 might hare called at Warwickatreet. lir. Campbell me that h, had told Sir John what bad taken Mai:Jest the last !actinic and that Sir John refused to make toe any further giant. After bearing the defendant's evidence, the Plan" " 6 consulted. WEATHER ItZPORT. FRIDAY, DWlOil S. T. W. Nora ,39.11 NI B.&W. 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