The Express. — London, England, 1868-01-07 00:00:00

;t - REAKFAST.-EPPS'S COCOA. B T HBIATR Leeeee .E d ROYA m I; . , , egitFARYR-LANE. I " TO-NIGHT, end every Evening until further notice, will be Terfortned a new and original Fara, entitled HONEYDOVEI3 TROUBLES. Alter which will be pelfornied the Drnry-lane ANNUAL GRAND CHYLETILIS PANTOMIME, entitled YAW TIE FO FUN, or HARLEQUIN JACK the GIANT KILLER. Eke ervreoo. TO COBSESPONDENTS. advert i semen ts Intended for The lispreea," London Weans , nowt be at the Moe, 10, Nearertretreet. by ll,o fe ra S:k on the day of pablioatioa. HAYMARKET. TBI9 EVENING, FAMILY JAR&—A WIFE WELL WON. Messrs. Sothern, Reckstooe, Howe , Keg dal, Rogers, Bred. Wes thershy, Mc. ; and Mks Robsetaou.— Ater which AN VTTIOL FEE VERSION OF THE BRlGAND.—Commence at 7. PILYCZBZ'S. 1919 Inane°, THE COLLZri HAWN. Yr. and lan. Dion Bandeaull.—After which THZ sTaxgrs Oli LONDON. lie. Vining, Mews. Murray. Shore, Neville. FOlTeliti. Slimes Illsworilly, Z. Barnett, Isobel Sanger. end Hrs. Addle. IFEBAND Tem EnHMG, KIND TO A FAULT.—After which the Orand Oriental Extravaganza, THE CALIPH OF BAGDAD Mews. Thome, James, Turner. Murray, and Fenton ; Mesdames Ada Bvranborough, Johnstone, Holt, lie —And OUlt HOLBORN. Ma Ennis°, THE TWO POUTS. Mom Price sad Wld 'Womb —And VALENTINE AND ORSON OR. HARLEQUIN THE 810 BEAR AND THE LITTLR FAIRY. Mews. Luptno, Green, and RoweUa ; Meadarnes &minden. 00°4'11, Montero, dm sarrAunnA. Vino Evierma, DON QUIXOTE ; OR, SANCHO PANZA AND EIS WIFE VOW& Mrs. Law, &Misses Edwin& Booth : Paw. tomimists Messrs. Daum, Loeb, Newham, Mlle. C. Stephan and MI.. Rose Natbaa.—And WHO DID IT • MOH DAM AT LONDON 311.1D01. TM DA —Microbic 116 ma......Aitorooos. Ob. Os. To-llonoor—MorabsA. Ob. D0..--Aboosoon. OR. tba. LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7. THE Mexican Government has saved that of Great Britain the trouble of solving a thorny question, though perhaps at the cost of adding to its own difficulties. For the last few months we have been debating the question whether and how, to recognise the Government of Mexico. That such an act would be one of great condescension, and that recognition ought at least to be withheld for a while, in order to mark our sense of the use which that Government has made of its victory, seemstohavebeen a common opinion inthis country. While we are still revolving these questions comes the news that President JUAREZ has solved them for us by ordering our diplomatic agents in Mexico to go about their business, and get out of a country where they are not wanted. The Paz- EIDENT appears to have thought that they owed some explanation to Mexico for remaining there in the face of the national Government, after having for three years given the support of their presence to the foreign usurpation which fell at Queretaro. We shall survive this rebuff: but there is no doubt that whenever the time arrives for renewing formal relations with Mexico we shall find we have a position to rectify. We can hardly expect to escape some inconvenience as a consequence of the elec tion we made in 1864, when we resolved to re cognise the Empire which NAPOLEON 111. had set up. By that act we obliged en ally and gratified a Prince connected with our own royal house ; hut wo at the same time ignored the rights of the Mexicans as a people, and treated their country and government as the prize of conquest. In so doing we did not proceed upon the necessity of recognising a de facto government. It is our policy, and it is a practical and liberal policy, to re cognise tie facie governments. We readily acknow ledged that of blurs PHILIPPE in 1 830, and that of the Second Empire in 1832. But these were cases of governments succeeding one another, not of rival governments each maintaining itself on the national territory, and each claiming to be that of the nation. No civil war was raging in France upon either of these occasions ; no armed resistance to the power which claimed to be the go vernment of the country. In Mexico in 1864 there were two Governments—One national, the weaker of the two, but always able to maintain itself in arms, to hold cities, to win victories, and obtain the exchange of prisoners ; the other the represen tative of an invasion. Taking no account of the Mexicans, and believing in the ability of NAPOLEON 111, to support the throne of his protige, we recog nised the government which sprang from and was sustained by the invasion. We are now ready to recognise Mexico, but the PRESIDENT is in no hurry to be acknowledged. These American republics are more susceptible than the older govern ments of Europe. President JULREZ would doubtless admit that we acted within the limits of our rights when we acknowledged MAXIMILIAN'S throne, as Mr. SEWARD cannotdeny that we acted within our rights when we recog nised the Confederates as belligerents ; but at the same time he claims the right to regard such a po licy as hostile, and declines to have our diplomatic agents transferred front the fallen government to him as a mere matter of course. There is, perhaps, too much of temper in this resolution. JUAREZ has lately declared in a public document that he does not seek recognition at the hands of European Powers ; and certainly, if he could do without it at Chihuahua, he can dispense with it now. But diplomatic relations are established fur the sake of common interests, not for complimentary uses. France practically recognised the Republic when the Emperor NA POLEON recommended MAximitiAN to come to an understanding with JeAazz, and Austria more formally in the highly respectful letter lately delivered by Admiral Teorrinorr. We, too, shall do so in good time. In the meanwhile, we hope that the spirited manner in which President JUAREZ maintains the dignity of his government towards foreign Powers will serve to strengthen his hands for the consolidation of peace, order, and security at home. Tits annual Trade Circulars which we have been publishing for the last few days show under bow great disadvantages the principal branches of British manufacturing industry have been car ried on during the past year. Especially is this tone of the spinning and weaving of cotton, a trade in which, owing to the steady decline in the value of the staple, a continuous sacrifice of capital, amounting to an enormous aggregate, has taken place. There has been no steady demand, and if stocks are small it is principally due to the inability of the manufacturers to hold their goods. The losses of 1866, and the dearness of food checked consumption in Europe, and spoiled the continental market. Large supplies have been sent to the East, in many cases to be sold for lees than they were worth in this country when they were shipped. In these circumstances it is with some curiosity that we read in Mr. Sanusisos's recent letter to Lord ROBERT MONTAGU on industrial progress at home and abroad a notice of • new class of mills which appear to have well sustained the stress of a difficult period, during which many concerns founded on long recognized principles have suc cumbed. Mr. &mimeos, referring to his tour in Lancashire before visiting France, writes : " What surprised me more than anything " else was the great comparative moms "of the co operative spinning works, erected I I i 1 ~ F ~ 1 1 i ~, " and conducted almost exclusively by wick " men. Nearly all of them—and tliegi eidain several hundred thousand spindlem--itire wefked " without loss, and in many instanelps with a nn?de " rate profit, since the commencement of the civil " war in the United States, a period which has tried " so severely the resources of many of our most " wealthy and experienced cotton spinners." This testimony is all the more striking as being that of a manufacturing capitalist, and it almost en courages the hope that we have found in oo operation conditions of industry which must be satisfactory to the workman, and the prevalence of which will restrain the idleness and demoralization of strikes. While thousands upon thousands of our skilled operatives are working to their own ad vantage and the satisfaction of their employers in our great manufactures, it cannot be contended that the old relations of free labour and capital have become obsolete ; but it is well, both socially and economically, that our industry should rent upon organizations of various type ; and where, as in some trades, an incurable distrust of em ployers seems to have taken possession of the minds of workmen, co-operation in one or other of its modifications is perhaps the only form of asso ciation in which we can be sure that labour of certain kinds will be constantly available to the community. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE ABBY IN ABYSSINIA. We learn from the Daily News that the most ex perienced and beet informed journalists of India are reckoning upon a tolerably long stay of our army in Abys sinia. The friend of India considers that eighteen menthe is the shortest time that can be assigned to the oc =nation, while two years is the more probable term. Another point to which public attention should be called is the cry of the military clams in India that more troops cannot be spared, and that we are pur suing the policy which made the mutiny possible. These imperially minded gentlemen console themselves with the persuasion that the expedition to Abyssinia has not been sent merely to rescue the captives. but the Daily News trusts that our statesmen, supported by the public at home, will show these overgrown servants of the crown that the direction and aims of British policy are still to be determined in England, not at Calcutta. The Berald says that the delivery of the prisoners Into our hands will hardly satisfy us now. If Theodore wishes to get us out of his country as fast as we have entered it he must offer ample compensation and satisfaction for the injury which he has done us, and enter into some gua rantee to pay a part of the expenses of the war. THE IRISH QURATION. The Times interprets the scheme which Sir J. Gray in his late speech at Kilkenny proposes for the acceptance of his countrymen, to be that the proprietors of land in Ire land shall either give a perpetual lease to the actual tenants, and, we presume, at the present rent, or shall be compelled by the state to part with their property at a valuation, the state making the purchase, taking security for the sums advanced by a mortgage on the land. The ocly difference, the Times says, between this plan and that of the head centres is that Sir J. Gray entertains some idea of paying landlords, which it is needless to say is not to be found in the Fenian programme. It is • revolution in property and society. The Standard is not surprised that a demand should be made for martial law. In Ireland we have a population who dislike us and distrust us, and are fast beginning to , look upon the Fenian, as Heaven-sent deliverers. These are people among whom the contagion of sympathy may any day produce some act of madness which will cost in numerable lives. To meet this we must chow unw►vering unanimity in our resolution to hold Ireland and put down treason. Any attempt to turn the existence of that con spiracy to account, with • view of forcing the country into ill-considered measures for the amelioration of Ireland, must be utterly discountenanced. If this tone is adopted —if it is honestly maintained by all parties at this formidable crisis—we shall probably have no need for martial law in Ireland. If any other policy is adopted martial law will be but a small portion of the trouble in store for us. Tho Daily News, noticing the zeal with which men have enrolled themselves as special constables, argues that S sufficient force of this kind judiciously disposed may render successful attacks for the purpose of rescue, pillage, or destruction, upon prisons, deposits of arms, or public building* absolutely impossible. To close one source of danger is to do no slight thing. Every man whose pur suits or infirmities do not put such a step oat of the question ought to feel himself bound to lighten the bur then which hi. fellow-countrymen have assumed in watch ing over the public security by taking a share of the load upon himself. The feeling which has found expression in the conduct of the workmen of a particular firm—that if they enrol themselves they might be used for the purpose of suppressing the legal and constitutional rights of public meeting—is, the Daily Nara believes, quite unreasonable, though in the face of the incentives to lawless violence proceeding from many quarters it is not THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. The Times describes the verdict of the committee of inquiry, as neither " Guilty " nor " Not Guilty," nor even " Not Proven," but rather" Not so bad as we seem." Upon the whole, indeed, the directors have the best of it ; for though there has been very files reckoning—or, rather, reckoning upon very falae principles—there has not been nearly so much of this so was snorted, and for what there is a certain exculpation is forthcoming. To the Hefted the report seems to furnish a new proof that railway companies, like other joint-stock underta kings, have been going a great deal too fast of late years, but it proves also that, after all the errors of the past, there remains some solidity in this kind of property, which may tend to reassure those who, a little while ago, were ready to part with it at panic price. With careful manage ment and honest mamas there is no reason why the Caledonian should not again become a favourite invest ment, though it will, of course, be some time before it regains the position which it held before recent damaging disclosures and disquieting rumours. ' The moral deduced by the Tdrirrapa is, that if instead of invading each other's territory, and eyeing with jealous anger every little gain smeared by a neighbour, the great companies would see their interest in affording mutual aid rather than in constant opposition, the Mariat drain en their means would mem, and their great natural memory would have free play for development. The present state of the Caledonian Company only supplies another proof that the whole system hitherto pursued has been radically bad, and that a policy of amicable interchange rather than of selfish isolation would be sot less wise than generous. THE NEW COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH TEL KING or BURMAIL—We have been favoured with a copy of a private letter from Itengom, dated Nov. 27, In which the writer says:—" The Chief Ceaunksioner has gone to Cal cutta to have the treaty with the King of Burmsh ratified. By this treaty the Burmese government give up all mono. polies except petroleum, timber, and precious donee. Silver is allowed to be exported by the Burmese territory. Oar Resident to have judicial power in all oases between registered British subjects and a joint jurisdiction is came between British and Burmese subjects. The duty levied in Burmese frontier not to exceed five per cent. ad PflOrtl/4 ‘ end British Akers to supervise the pprwopqerrlevying of duties at the frontier station. airisals to be delivered up on both nide' ; them delivered to the Burmese authorities to be leder British pro- tection until tried by the proper tribunals in preemie of the meitiset. 'The King senstioned sad pro- Weed every emilease to a milieu tbansigh the Hessen territory, Ms Ilabiee, into Tanen, end see geliestaset have widened seem be pressed ea the sires, wish is to steel west um* be try to veep= the eld Inds rents between limurek sod Ohba. There are greet Wpm lied this expedilles wYI tea each to isereeite badmen bite by osowbew up• seemmaiestioe with aim, end se outlet he a begs wrathy of ear lux= le bteldee easy @Aides be overt within our sear - i= silk. The Ahem have elm to report sea tassibility of web* a team or railreed beet the his ,rtv to Wife* or gem ether ii%amaesereilal Miss itea Mins , the Inswwisly useigthle a bag way seelb eftlfands• leg, sir Neatly to '47p be lie puma *me so direst teak bee been esatell es betessea the Barmen empire sad erey , Ildtidt prednds, sash m iren. l = ma esemer, gierneweee, he., have fre queen* beenlieported into emitry, esalmrd hum Ow psalm of Wen*" Iliana.--fam , ispfban Pay Gossett 'RESS, TUESDAY EVE: Atet. dime in finds ipanifid by ;nut : ,10) 4 fe 4P 'tA Ibe4men matked and _ yeeterday afternoon, socompanitid by Pm. her Majesty, aocompanied by Prinow Beatrioe, this looming. Princess Lenin end Prince Leopold also went ont. The Primes of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale, arrived at Marlborough-house yesterday from Sandring ham. Prince and PALMS. Christian and Princess Hewlett. of Schleswig Holstein, attended by Lady Susan Melville end Mr. G. D. Engleheand nine, Arthur, attended by Major Elphinetone, u ndo more yesterday, to visit Lewd and Lady Derby, at Knowsley Park. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of British Honduras, the Ba hamas, and the Governor-Gess:a of Canada. \s JANUARY 12tINULL IGENCE meolitvg vim leld ' • LIT. BELGIUM. . large mesti .in Brussels on Go Sth instant, to protest against the project of increasing the military service. The meeting was attended by deputations from the working men's societies of Verviers, Liege, Antwerp, dco. The following protest was adopted amidst vehement applause : We protest with all oar emu against tie plan of ag gravating the terms of military Navies proposed to parlia ment. If this proloot of law, presented without our con sent and opposed to oar inte rest, is voted by the repre sentatives of privileged electors (there are only 100,000 rated voters in Belgium], we hereby declare that we will not recognise this pretended law, and will refuse to submit to this fresh iniquity. THE PRESS IN FRANCE. The Courtier Francais of yesterday has the fol lowing : M. Lepage has this day entered the prima of Sainte- Paseo to endure the imprisonment of one month to width be wu sentenced for a libel on the Princes, of MeMerniolt. We have therefore at this moment two of our writers under prison bus, M. Lepage and M. Ct. Duchene. There are 17 journals under prosecution, but the Libertl and the Courrier Francais are not amongst them. M. Vermorel, the editor of the latter, says that these two papers have been paused by in order that they may be bit more surely and more severely by M. Pinard, the Minister of the In terior, when they are isolated from their fellow journals. (izurn's =swum.) ;FABLING OF TAE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS• - -- - - BERLIN, J. 7. The Prussian Chambers reassembled at 11.30 this morning. THE GREAT FIRE AT HONG KONG. (sr MALTA AND ALNIANDILIA STJAGRAPN.) ALEXANDRIA, JUL 6. The Chins mail brings details of the great fire at Hong Kong. It occurred principally among the Chinese hongs. Several godowns were burnt. The total loss is estimated at 800,000 dole. Trade at 1 Hong Kong was very dull. ~s~~ ., LAW INTIELLIGE.NUE. aids DAY.) COURT 01 BANKRUPTCY. (]Before Mr. CSAlDDissioser Holroyd.) De BM P. A. 0. RICHARDS. The bankrupt ' • clerk in the Admiralty, lionteme6 House, was des cribed as part proprietor of some clay works at Lostwithiel, Cornwall. The debts are 576/. ; moods stated at about 1001. Mr. I. Bead, on behalf of the bankrupt, asked for an adjournment, with • view to the payment of • tion of s..aimind, which several of the roe I had ahead to accept. He hoped to be able to annul the bankruptcy in • month. Mr, Aldridge, for the official assignee, stated that the bankrupt was in receipt of an annuity of 60/., and it would be necessary that he shod give information in his amounts as to the particulars of that income. An adjournment /or three months was ordered. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) (Before the Reoorder.). CHAZOI OF NOBBIIRY WITH VIOLZWCZ. James Muthreek, 18, was charged with having, in oorn pany with other 'moon', violently assaulted and robbed John Banton. Mr. Houston prosecuted, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Streight. The prosecutor in this case bad formerly been in the Gr v enad g iev Guards, but wssod discharged on Boxing-day, haineted his peri o navies. On the of the 27th of compl December hel had been to see some of night his comrades at the Clielma Barrscks, and when he let t he went to • public-house called the Coach and Horses, in the King's-road, Chelsea, end afterwards to • pie shop, close by, where he observed the prisoner and two other men. The prosecutor left the pie shop soon after 12 o'clock, and when he had gone a short distance be was attacked by three men, who knocked him down, kicked him violently in the face and the ribs, in =thereby serious injury upon him, and they then him of 30a. The prosecutor admitted that he had been drinking • little on the evening in question. but be declared that he knew perfectly well what he was about, and be swore positively to the prisoner being one of the men who attacked him , and it appeared that he picked him out from several other persons when he wee firot ap prehended. The defence that was set up was that the prosecutor was too much muddled by the drink he had taken to be able to form a correct conclusion es to the identity of the prisoner, and witnesses were called to prove an alibis The evidence given by these witnesses was, however, not at all of • satisfactory character, aid they contradicted each other in lime material parti culars. The jury, after a very short deliberation, returned a verdict of Guilty, and it appeared that the prisoner had been for eight years known to the police as the associate of convicted thieves, several of whom had been sentenced to penal servitude, and he had himself also been in custody for robbery, but was dimh The prisoner was mentenZ e. to 12 months' hard labour. (Before the Common Serjeant.) ROBISKIIT WITH VIOLLIICII IX THI CITY. Janes Riley was indicted for • robbery with violence on Charles Herby and stealing from him a watch and chain vales 401. The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Lankford, and Mr. Ribton defended the prisoner. The prosecutor, a wine merchant, was walking along Great Tower-street on Christmas-eve, when the prisoner came up and snatched his watch and chain. At the same moment he was knocked down by some one behind and rendered almost insensible. A number of persons were passing at the time of the robbery, and one of these. attracted by the prosecutor's cries, sawsome one crouching behind the wheel of • v He went up to apprehend him, but the man kicked him on the and b e was obliged tolet him go. Shortly afterwards • policeman came up and seized priarner whose identity was positively spoken to by the prosecuto r and a boy in his employment by whom he was thoompanisd. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and it was stated that there had been numerous robberies in the neighbour hood of • similar character. The Common Serjeent sentenced him to 18 months' lin prisonment and to receive twenty strokes with the cat. ➢IIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. H. W. Cox.) THE ADULTERER . AND Till HUSHAND. — A SAD CARL William Nu WO, 43, • respectable-looking man, was in dicted for assaulting Walter Burdett, of 58 Milbank street, Westminster, with • hamer ; to w h he pleaded hic " not guilty." He was not defended by cournieL Walter Burdett said he was a miller, and lived at Mill bank. On Saturday, the 7th of Deceinber, he was sit ting in biz m o m at about 8 o'clock in the even ing, when a knock came at the door, and upon gtting up to open it he found the prisoner there. He saida " I've oome to settle you," and with a hammer he had in his hand, struck witness on the right side of the head, which made him stagger, and as he waa falling he s truck him spin on the forehead. He then fell to the ground senselessand bleeding. When he returned to oonsciousness he was in the hospital. In cross-examination witness said he had had a quarrel with him. That was about prisoner's wife. He had not seduced her. She came and lived with him of her own accord, because prisoner ilhused her. Prisoner's wife was present when prisoner struck him. Prisoner sold he bad no other questions to oak, he bed only to say that prosecutor sedriced his wife. Thomas Southard, lodging with the presecutor said he was in the room on the evening in question. P roeecutor opened the door, when the prisoner struck hi m • dreadful blow, and as he was falling he struck him again. He then turned to his wife and said, " You shallsensleu and t h e have it too." The prosecutor fell to the ground e prisoner left, but not before be had made a blow at his wife, who, avoiding it by bobbing her head, received the blow on her back. The prosecutor fell to the ground in a pool of blood. Prisoner said he would do for him, at the same time shaking the hammer in • threatening manner at him. When called upon for his defence the prisoner said—This man (prosecutor) seduced my wife about 14 weeks ago. I went round to his house to fetch my wife and child away from him, when he called me by • terrible name,. and wanted to fi ght me, but I went away. He told my wife there was a good house for her as long is she liked to stop. On that occasion I went to bed by myself, and the next morning found my wife with this man. I took her away, and be followed her. When I asked him why he followed her be struck me • violent blow. Soon after that this man and his witness got • healer and took away nearly all my furniture and sold it, the prosecutor taking some to his own house. When I found that be had robbed me of my things as well is my wife and childnin, I admit I struck him, I was so excited, but it was not with a hammer. [This statement, delivered as it was with an air of truth, caused • deal of commiseration for the pet% miser.) Mr. E. W. Cox, in summing up, said the jury were to say whether or not he had exceeded the law. The law only justifies violence when the adulterer is caught in the act. The jury, after a sheet consultation, found the prisoner Guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy on account the provocation he bad received. of Mr. W. Cox, in passing sentence, said the jury had very kindly and very properly strongly recommended the prisoner , to mercy, end there could be no doubt he bad been very cruelly used. He might have killed the prosecutor. &steam, nine months. THE ROYAL VISIT TO KNOWSLEY. STRANGE RECEPTION OF PRINCE CHRISTIAN. Yesterday evening the Princess and Prince Christian, Prince Arthur, and the Primes, Henrietta of Schleewig•Hoistein, arrived at Knowsley Hell, the sett of the Fail of Derby. The illustrious party left Eoaslea+qu►re at 11 o'clock yesterday morning, and reached Hnyton station at 65 minutes to 6 o'clock, from which they ware conveyed to Knowsley in three of the Earl of Derby's carriages. On arriving ►t Huyton, the Princess Chris. Sian and her mite were received by the Honourable Captain F. Stanley. The Heyton station was rather meagrely decorated, and • few fog signals were employed to announce the arrival of the Earl of Derby's guests. The train which conveyed the royal party from London was an ordinary express. The reception at Huyton was satemied by an unpleasant incident, several persons present making themselves prominent by blade; the Prime, while they were on the other hand equally loyal in their respects to the Princess and her brother. The Earl end Countess of Bedford and Loyd Coventry will arrive at Knowsley to-day. It is expected that the guests will leave Knowsley on Saturday.--M•athnier Examiner. Covarr GAnDEN Tuwarns.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale, honoured the performance at this theatre with his presence last evening. Prayers are offered up on Sundays in all Prussian protestant churches for the safe confinement of the Crown Princess. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough are ex pected to pass through town early in the week, from Brook. hob'', on their way to visit Sir Edward and Hon. L►dy Fulmer at their seat in Kent. Viscountess Holmeadale has issued invitations for a ball at Linton on Thursday next, to which a host of the neighbouring nobility and gentry are invited. Lord and Lady Rokeby do not return to town from Italy till after Easter. Lord Charles Kerr is recovering from his severe accident. Lord Justice Sir J. Bolt is still seriously ill, having had a slight paralytic seizure on Saturday affecting his left side. There is, however, good reason to hope that he may be restored to health, though he will be forma to abstain from work for the present. SIR JOHN GRAY, M.P., ON THE IRISH LAND QUESTION. The Dublin Evening Mail of yesterday publishes the following letter from Sir John Gray, : "TO THE EDITOR Or THE DUBLIN EVENING NAIL.' "January 6, 1868. " Dear Sir, — In • leading article headed ' Kilkenny Polities,' punished in your influential journal, you were good enough to say, with reference to my suggestions for the equitable and final adjustment of the land question, that no man could put the thing plainer.' It wee my desire to be plain, and I regret that you seem to have so entirely forgotten, before you spate your leader, the suggestions which elicited such courteous recog nition of their plainness. You did not publish one entire sentence of the speech, and as your readers were thus de prived of the means of correcting your no doubt uninten tional errors, I rely on your usual courtesy to give me en opportunity of removing the misconception that might be otherwise produced. I base my repond on the fact that the landlords as • body repudiated the doctrine of • con palmation ' when proposed by the present government as confiscation' of their rightful property, and that they in like manner repudiated the thirty-one years' leasing clause of the late government as equally confis catory. It was in reference to these two proposals, and the opinions expressed of them by . landlords, that I used the word confiscation,' and not in anticipation, as you allege, of its being objectively applied to the substitute proposition I made at Kilkenny. It never occurred to use to impute to the landlords of Ireland or to their advocates in parliament such ignorance of the meaning of words or of the ordinary transactions of life as would be impli•d by seeming that they could apply the term ' confisca tion' to a purchase at the outside value.' If • railway company maps' a field, an orchard, a garden, • castle, stakes'• and purchases' the property so staked or marked, no man cells it confiscation.' The owner gets the full value, ' the outside price,' and though be affects annoyance, he inwardly chuckles at his luck and his friends congratulate him on his good fortune. I propose to deal with all lands tented for?griealtural purposes as the law now dens with lands mapped' in a dep osited plan plan for a railway, and to enable the ten ant, by a ' notice' to bring the holding under the operation of the act, as ' staking' now does under the irailwey (Ireland! Act. If the landlords were unwilling to sell they might serve • counter notice offering to give the plough and spade of the occupying tenant • right of way' foe which notice ever for all agricultural purpose., would relieve the land from the cotepubcof sale, and leave the owner absolute dominion over the royalties and all manorial tights, with powers of summary eviction for non-payment of rent. If the landlord were, however, so minded that he could not brook the idea of being a landlord, deprived of the dominion over the agri cultural capacity of the lend, end over the conscience, the vote, and the person of the occupying tenant, the machinery of the law as it now exists, slightly modified to suit the object in view, would give him against the tenant, as it now gives him against • railway company, the means of securing the price of his land, royalties, and all to the last farthing. Landlords made the law which now enables a London spe culative company in a two-pair back closet in the city' to ' stake' and parttime by compulsion the demeans or the castle of an Irish earl, or the pleasure-grown of his counter, because the smile, if not removed, would impede the public interest by impeding locomotive progress. Is it less Important to the community to preserve the peace of the country, to promote trade, commerce, and manatee tures by establishing security, to maintain the constitution, and convert the three millions of Irish In divi f duals who live by the land into devoted supporters o law and loyal defenders of the throbs? I did sot pro' p i z you say, that the government should pose as you say, that the government should puzclsse th land and ' bestow it ' on the tenant. Inch an operation would defeat the main idea of glebe each of the 600,000 sompants of holdings as amund stake in the maintenance of the posse. Had you rawer bared what I did say when I put the thing plainly " roe would have informed your readers that I contemplated • purchase by the feast, that the deposit of • certain number of yeses' teat by the tenant was to be the equivalent of • leakiest' the land by • railway compaay ; that till this de posit was made the land, though under the operation of the act, would not change omens, and that, when made, the government was to meld* facilities (too tedious to enu merate item) for the completion of the purchase. Ala containing • dozen classes, with one incorporating the Railway (Ireland) Are sad en interpretation clams, with a few snob yybrates as ' the word company shall in clude the oesepyrni tenant of all lands let bona fids ter egrieulturat purposes in Ireland'—would oomphste the land settlement--give the landlords, who prefer Meadow ing eviction to selling out, permanent peace—to those who prefer to sell, • price in excess of the value, and satin by the strong ties of jostles and personal interest • standing army of one Wawa stout defenders of the laws and the throne, against whom all hostile combinations would break as hamlets as the Atlantic waves on our rock-hound coast-1 am, dear air, your obedient servant, " Joss Gear." AIXTDINT TO THU Holr. GODISIT Mosi M.P.—On &tondo afternoon an accident occur ed to the Hon. GodS Morgan, for Breovnehire, eldest eon of Lord dissr whilst skating on a pond at the back of his lordahip's seat, Tredegar Rooms, near Weaner! New inouthakire. A skating perly had been formed s o d cra. }eyed themselves thoroughly oa the ice, which wee in fair coodities foe similes, when Mr. Marian fell, hie has and forehead eaverely bane alum AIPTIM natil Dr. /shade. Brewer . Newport, the medical at tendant alike badly, arrived, whim it was fated that lee injuries were not et so severe a eldwaster as bad at bet been anticipated. favoura Under Dr. Browses ewe lb. Mown b prodreseing bly. We are requested to state that the midshipmen and navel wigs vie lave out el tie Bri tannia bare hew limited ix =Cre d al theiste ben the dent of *sir pandas. • DST ros Bus Dryings., 66, Omni V4ee.eay 6.llll47ll :jeit i te 11411. 1 :12 at tide% rim Sift tM week engine Jos. 4. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. DEFEAT OF THE GOVERNMENT. (mom ems OWN COIRESPOWDIENT.) PARIS, MONDAY Evvmco. The ballotage., in the departments of the Indre and Loire and Somme have turned out against the government, and two new opposition members will immediately take their seats in the Corps Loginlatif, representing constituen cies which till now have, ever since the coup d'etat, invariably returned the prefects' nominees. The state of the polls, as already approximatively known, is as follows :—ln the Indre and Loire, M. Ho assard (opposition) obtained 10,879 votes against 7,627 given to M. Gonin (go vernment). This result is the more remarkable be cause M. Gouin, mayor of Tours, the chef lieu of the department, was supported by all the in fluence of his father, a banker of great wealth and respectability, whose elevation to the Senate caused the vacancy. In the Sommo M. d'Estournel (opposition) polled 13,005 votes against 12,703 for M. Villemant (government). The seat here rescued was that occupied by Dr. Conneau, the Emperor's private physician, who has also been made a senator. The result of these accidental elections is of the highest importance as an index of the opinion of the country, which will have to be met whenever the general elections come on. They cannot be postponed longer than 1869 ; and as in all probability the opposition feeling will go on increasing the interest of the government seems to be to appeal to the con stituencies as soon as possible and know the worst at once. Since I wrote the above there is news of another vacancy. M. des Rotours, a member for the de partment of the Nord, who only ten days ago spoke on the Army Bill, died suddenly this morning. A sort of euseute occurred last night at the Cha teau d'Ean, opposite the Prince Eugene barracks. A number of people persisted in sliding upon the boulevards, which in that part are very wide. The police not being able to clear the place, the troops were called out. A sergeant's guard was very badly received by the mob, and did not succeed in dispersing it without much difficulty and after arresting a good many people. It was evi dently not a case in which the military ought to have been wanted, and it will probably turn out that its aid was over-hastily called in. The following are the names of English prize holders, extracted from the Moniteur list of the prizes distributed by the Emperor yesterday to ex hibitors in the agricultural and horticultural departments of the Universal Exhibition of 1867 :—Agriculture—Grand Prizes :—Ransome and Sims, Ipswich, agricultural machines ; James and Frederick Howard, Bedford, agricultural machines ; Clement R. Markham, London, intro duction and development of quinine culture in the East Indies, gold medal, with works of art ; Garrett and Son, Leicester, agricultural machines ; Smyth and Son, Poem Hall, sowing machines. Gold medals :—Marshall, Son, and Co. ; Pickaley, Sims, and Co., James Jamieson, James Cooper. Horticulture.--Grand Prize :—J. Veitch and Son, London, ornamental shrubs. The firmness at the Boone to-day was attributed to several causes—M. Limayrac's pacific article in the Counitutionael--the rumour that then is to be no loan—and the formation of an Italian ministry. Rent* rams 3 7 *c. fer formation and Ssa for account, closing at 68fr. 82}c., and 68fr. 774 n ; Italian roes 371 e. ; Credit Fannin, 17fr. 50c. ; Comptoir d'Esoompte, Bfr. 75c. ; and Mobilier, lir. 25c. The Northern Railway rose 6fr. The Moriusento of Genoa says :—" The arrival of the Crown Prime of Prussia at Florets, is announood es shortly to take plans." The Queen of Prussia , considering the distress existing in the metro provinces of the kingdom ' invited, • few days book, waft seventy ladies, chiefly the wives sod daughtewe el emateriol wen, to wan& with hoe respelling the most proper means of oldies the neessoilene I people. Tho holdieg of se inseam Weer is the royal plan was determined en, all lb. ladies sagging to aged. Gelgearii, describing the night fate at the Bois I de Boulogne, says :—"The whole beauty sad fashion of Perla net at this curious ontartalausant. Upwards of 9,000 amigos wire drawn up on the birders of the lake, and at least 4,000 pews= hod bog enoveyed in lbw. An cleeheales, plead to the Woad, played deelsolle 1016. the ladies who skated led Whew sespeda *dr' =Gad the gsatiorea bees agile all Sof, bele, 1 Gould wee eaziess thia timo sot sad eressinge of so sway variegated aglei. gee wonting to this Ms, not wren • lady tilatea 7 a' ghee. eke woo, she dbeingshisellwelf af lib MK Ilia tlafilltatral her awing. Cheat di lodetallesto de se. 610 018 . buxom INA anal leg the seesaw' at arrangearnln Sowards sekluighthikaVolf of lire- Wks flood ato Weriehonsal„ ass abseins- Boss were sztiagnished. sad art 'mid with , &ow, ell Thirst revel! " • 7, THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MARLBORO:MR.B I 'MT. BEZMUNG INTO • SKOP. Two rciagb-looking yowng smaradi Scott Wallace, described am • tidier, and William Nvtley, • labourer, were 'barged before Mr. Tyrwittet with felombrumly breaking and entering the shop of Mr. James W greengrenrr, 36, Milo Pultes,,yeet, with intent** steal therein. Mr. Potato, reduce at No. 36, Little Puhmitopetreet. mid that in eonsequenae of being spoken to by • girt mated Lest. be went into the yard at the house, mod mew the shutters dawn, and the w in hewed open ledrnidnif the be Mew of Mr. Wm", • dreeecaser, eseaeliag the shop leer. Nei se abirwiffas OA( into tie fleet gee peliereerassat, le sew Ile Osman there 'monied bided mese team Theme Rome, miaseger le Mr. Ward. said that on rbsethe sisep at a warier to le the previous eight it lea wee esweed, wWsiseissr asiled dews. Oa pies to the shop sale he feud that the shakers were down sad the wisest, bad ben to tad a show desk had been bribes epeee but seeder had been takes le id. answer Is Yr. Trwhitk the whose laid that he losew Wallow, having roplered hies a how weeks mime as Y odd was. SW's& 14 0, amid that sheet half-palllo e• ° it the g a night be wee sidled trr the whams Potato, and Ile &ellen el the leek sleep down. sad gat the Ite&laameersediabdoe rim inks the flint *NU the seen home. Ow sift t`OM did Mem see of them mit We r ..ksles-edisiess eareler mete Oe weserihe fikeds bah es Soak el re l es e tt sala dieshisles Oa IMAM Oe ecankieg the Low he • heed that a desk had bees %reed wrese. sad he Wm. seseMly lined • esevwdetele. whisk seasespeeked , SO sob es the dank whisk had Nile • bend= wished der a reered wilt led every roma b Watley led bus geemilmmig sernatel Mr. ?maim berndidilint pubsemen who had setideg le ref ierwasetweilheeheeso EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OF A MOTHER. INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) This forenoon an i nquiry was held by Mr. John Humphreys, omoner, the Fountain Tavern, Baldwin. street, City-road, respecting the death of Henry Imrrer, aged two years. Charlotte Dauer, Lever street, St. Luke's, said that she was the wife of a goldbester, from whom she was separated, " because he treated her badly." She had three children, the deceased, who lived , with her, another child living in the Islington Workhouse, I and a third kept by the fa th er's parents. The d eceas ed I having been ailing a little, she took him to a doctor on • Saturday week. On Sunday she carried him to her mother's, in Islington, where he died. The next morning (Holiday) she carried the corpse in her arms to her room in Lever-street. She said nothing of the death to the pe ople 'in the house. She told the parish people and rake. them to send a ooffin, which they did the same day. When the coffin arrived the people in the house were quite surprised, as they did not know that the child was dead. She told them, however, that her boy badied in their house during the previous day ; they did not believe is, and there was a disturbance. The reason she did not apply for a coffin for the child in Islington was that the pariah authorities there might have required her to go into the house with her second child. She knew nothing about any . mark of a blow on the deceased's bead. He died from inflammation of the chest. Witness supported herself by artificial flower- making. Thomas Henry Darter, the father of the deceased, mid that the mother never let him know anything about the child's death. He was quite surprised when he heard of it, for the child when last he saw it was in good health. Witness had to separate from his wife because she was given to drink, and she neglected him, The officer of the court said that be had great difficulty in finding the mother to serve her with a summons ; lie bad to track her from beer-shop to beer-shop while her child was deed. Mr. E. G. Pottle, surgeon, said that the child was once or twine brought to him, but nothing was the matter with it except that it was ill-nourished and bad a alight cough. Since the death he had made a post-mortem examination, and found a bruine on the head from a blow or from a fall. The injury had mused convulsions and death. The jury returned a verdict of " Death from injury to the head, but whether the said injury arose from a fall or from a blow there is no evidence to prove, and the jury severely censure the mother for her conduct with respect to the deceased." DESTRUCTIVE TIRES LAST YIGRT. Late last night a serious fire was discovered to have broken out in • warehouse situate in Tower 5e3-al, Watling-street, City, in the occupation of Messrs. A. Levy, and Co., auctioneers, &c., and the upper floors by Messrs. PhiHinson and Co., perfumers. On the alarm being raised the Brigade engines and firemen attached to the chief station in Watling-street, together with the London Salvage Corps, at once turned out in force, and by their timely arrival the surrounding valuable property was saved. The fire was confined to the building in which it commenced, severely damaging the first, second, and third floors, the remainder of the premises being likewise in jured. The occupiers were said to be amply covered by insurances in the Alliance and Sun fire offices. The houses on the opposite side of Tower Royal, No. 1, Mr. G. D. Roll, leather factory, and No. 2. Mr. Benulein, French fancy warehouse, had their fronts scorched and glass broken. About the same hour another fire occurred in School-house-lane, Ratcliffe. the Black Swan public-house, occupied by Mr. J. Humphries, which severely damage(' the front room on the second floor, together with the contents. At ebout half past 2 this morning a fire broke out in Crown street, Soho, at the Ning's Head public-house, tenant,' by Mr. John Dunbar, ktfwhich about two feet of beam and flooring and joie was burned, and stock in bar slightly damaged; mom in the Phomix Fire-office. A fire also took place at the toy warehouse of Mr. A. Penny, No. 78, Holloway-road, gained by a spark frem fire, which burned some wearing apparel and damaged the contents of front room first floor ; insured in the General Fire-office. SHOCKING ACCIDENT. A YOUTH SHOT BY HIS BROTHER. A shocking gun accident occurred at Denton's green, wear St. Helen's, on Sunday afternoon, !whereby a youth lost the sight of one e y e and received most severe wounds and injuries to his head by the accidental fi ring off of a gun by his brother. The brothers are sons of Mr. John Hammill, of St. Helen's, agent, and American consul for the town, and who resides at Denton's-green, neer St. Helen's. About half-past 5 o'clock on Sunday evening the two brothers—John, aged 16, and William, aged 14 had been out at the back of the premise', and on return ing together they passed into the kitchen, where the younger brother washed his hands and whilst ho was wiping them on a towel hung on the back door his elder brother took up a gun which was in the kitchen, remarking —" We are prepared with this for the Fenian if they come." The gun was pointed in the direction of his brother, and on his pulling the trigger it went off. The gun was loaded at the time with small bird shot, a quantity of which was lodged in the right eye of William. The eye is completely destroyed. The right side of the face, whiat was towards the gun, was also fearfully mutilated by the shot. The left eye narrowly escaped, as a shot .truck and penetrated the lower lid. The elder brother is dread , fully prostrated through the accident, which is most remarkable, as the gun was not capped, and the accident can only be, accounted for by supposing that there must have been some fulminating powder lodged in the nipple ' by a cap which had been removed, and which exploded , on the hammer dropping. The doctor ' s report late ',ester ' day was very favourable as to saving the life of t he sof ferer.—Lirrrpoo/ Mercury. The convocation of the province of C ante rbury will meet for despatch of bu siness on Tuesday, Feb. Is. A FENIAN IN THE NAVY.—A court-martial, under the presidency of Captain F. B. Seymour, A-D.C., was held at Portsmouth yesterday, on board the Victory, flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir T. S. Feeley, for the trial of William Read, ordinary seaman, serving on board her Majesty's ship Irresistible, stationed in Cowes Roads. The prisoner wax one of the crew of the captain's galley, and on being ordered to join the boat and arm himself with one of the revolvers which had previously been loaded and issued for the use of the crew, and proceed in the boat to row along the shore off Osborne at 10 o'clock at night, hem obey the order, declining to g ive a reason ; oa t h following day, on the quarter deck, The charge was fully proved, and the prisoner, who read an extra ordinary rhapsody, was sentenced to five yen' I enal servi tude, which also involves that at the expiration of that period he will be dismissed her Majesty's sersioe with disgrace. SUICIDE NEAU DUBLIN.-I.lr. James Chaine respectable gentleman, 23 years of age, committed • suicide in Dalkey on Saturda y evening, at the residence of Surgeon Lyons, of whose relati wal ked iss Norris, he WAS • disappointed suitor. He into the room where the young lady and her mother were sitting, and in a few minutes was seen to apply a phial to his lips and mutter something about an easy death. Mrs. Norris dashed the phial from his hands, but be had drained its contents before she could prevent him. He died sho rtl y a fterwards. A. second phial was found in his pocket, together with a pocket-book, on a leaf of which was written :—" Mother, I go to-night. I hope y o u will con. form with the wishes which I have laid down in my letter. Do not think I am mad. I am broken-hearte& Mrs. Lawlor (with whom the deceased lodged in Dublin) will, suppose, when she hears of my death, send you my I ask letter. and, as a dying request, I hope you will do as you., , "TOIL" Dtflitimits AND ace BIOGRAPITZIL—We are unfeigeedly reluctant to check a filial effusion, or to tell disegreeeble truths, but there are owe/done when a sense of public duty imperatively requires them to be told. Why did this exemplary parent die poor ? When did he abandon the allitremests of a patrician circle? Be died poor because be wasted • fine fortune. If he abandoned • patrician circle, it was because be wan tired of it or thought he could make a better thing of democracy. If he conquered his passions, it was. like St. Evremond, by indulging them. "Holiest Tom Duncombe '." We never beard him so designated before except in pleasantry. " As honest as any man living, that is an old man, and not honester than I." We cannot go further th a n Verges; it is a stretch of charity to F . so far when • cell to mind the magnificent reversion and ba re Franck jobs. A ruined spendth rift, although he may temnsi good ezis udities, can never, strictly speaking, be It absurd to say of him that he is nobody's rummy but his own, with family, friends, and trades. people paying the penalty for his self-indulgence. He w ith o satisfied to be called hosourable, to be chare with no trategression of the lew of honour, which Paley defines es a system of rules constructed by people of fashion, and calculated to facilitate their intercourse withtone another, and for no other purrnae." moo wee one quality of honesty, however, which " honest Tom Duncombe ” did possess. He was not a hype. arils. He was not devoid of right feeling. He had pasair 41 good sense, and it would have given biro • siskaing pang on his deatli.bed to think that his frailties u perpeleated by his descendants, that te was to wan to pitted eat as a shining star to guide, instead of • b las roke fire to warn. "No," he wettla have said, if he weld have anticipated this most ill-chosen, however well intended. tribute. ' Spate roe this terrible irony ;do sot gamin tie irrigable I nert. Say of mB,O yeaa° mast lay are I woe last a ipta sum, 'bow& liming ca. Illi tiree Weft aegoesd twain sty fellow-creatnree— I did same pod ha l ay i gsratiss,. 01 4 1118 able sod that willing nealttine, id I bewailing a d waned tine, miner, ifts, social ieus Walk awil apple=sC: 11 7 saw was a failure, swi or Aria sehesse el Ige a soeLuniely sibileks.”—. Tina 4AL le n iel 7 1 r e d lb 0 01ct,li ob t aina s .p d en :sido lo tio n a withp and h t o n ;): 1i th eivotyr ce:, a man of rn, he tok em to get Major Caw A ltognv ked to au nis inl been ,un Mr. CREs y) thou e terms the agree e oomruil ey know honnY t ption of t pommel° e meetio 'nein'e of ey should rtain Om ciehrirgs [ oided. 8 mow, in the • AWN IRRI • A meeting 01 e Terrai n " S. firing the pm - by the r ex d i de the on. Remoter r •• sir 11111 'ion bondholde 'red at the be ve 0001Pani , a mend le • 00 , nog he el . n ; t b a s eel* • o . under* , e i j 01 dim cultic okeup a o y, avo a5 ...4 u court( . "' ee ;,ar o u and ( t dot' , be n r ay. Th ding said . 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