The Express. — London, England, 1867-06-13 00:00:00

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No foreign sovereign, not nearly related to the Royal Fa:elly, comes to England except by accident or mis take. Perhaps no class of persons have more to learn by foreign travel than rulers, but the journeys which they actually make seldom or never load them here. The CZAR and the King of PRUSSIA hare been to Paris, and it may rea sonably be supposed that upon due encouragement they would have been pleased to come hither. They are each now on their way home, it may be, satisfied with the grandeur of their entertainment, but they might possibly have learnt something here which would have been useful to them in their respective countries. While, however, the doors of our palaces are closed, and the Sovereign restricts herself to a domestic life, England will continuo to be avoided by such guests. There are those who tell us that this is not by any means to be regretted. It is urged that it would be deeply to be lamented if the mourning of our Court were to be laid aside for tho first time in order to do spe cial honour to Sovereigns of whose systems of government we cannot approve. The remarks ap ply primarily to the CZAR, who has omitted to come, and the SULTAN, who is expected soon to arrive among us. We cannot agree with this. The conclusion is based upon a number of assump tions which wo are unable to admit. It seems to lug that our disapproval of what has been done in Poland and Crete would just as much require us to vrithdraw our ambassadors from Constantinople and St. Petersburg as to withhold from the CZAR and SULTAN the ordinary civilities of social life. We maintain at Constantinople a Minister who represents not only the Government, but the per son of his Sovereign, and we therefore could not, without flagrant inconsistency, withhold from him the customary recognition on his arrival in this country. Nor is it just to snake these Sovereigns perionally responsible for all the evil that is done in their names. Insurrections would be repressed in Poland with just as much rigour if Russia were a republic instead of a monarchy : powerful states do not permit themselves to be dismembered without a struggle, whatever their form of govern ment. It may be rhetorically permimible to say that the SULTAN is " an absolute despot, whose " word is law, and without whose pleasure not a " single act of violence can be perpetrated ; " but a perusal of the latest consular reports just laid before the two Houses of Parliament by Lord STANLEY will, we believe, confirm the impression that the SULTAN has nothing like the power attri buted to him. He is not the head of a highly centralised government, and is the chief restrainer of violence in his dominions. Oppression gross and heavy there indeed is in Turkey, as there must be when one nation is superimposed upon another. Intelligent opinion has for the last ten years been advancing towards the convic tion that nothing effectual will be done for the relief of the Christian populations of European Turkey until the Ottomans retire into Asia. But it would be absurd to blame the SULTAN because be does not collect his forces and his fellow believers of all classes, and finally cross the Bos phorus. We object further to the assumption that the character or opinion of the nation is in the least degree compromised by the hospitality shown to sovereigns whose systems of government we feel bound to condemn. To say that we will extend our cour tesy only to those who come up to our standard of morality, would be scouted in common and pri ♦ate life as the merest pharisaism. The French people held their own opinions as to Poland after the CZAR had arrived, and would have held them until ho went away, had not an assassin provoked a reaction in his favour. We are not obliged to have recourse to rudeness, whether expressed or implied, in order to vindicate our cha racters and assert our conviction.. The policy which our correspondent has so vigorously advo cated, appears to us a misapplication of generous ideas. It is not by excommunication, but by more inter-communication, that we are to improve those who differ from us. Let us by all means take every fair occasion of making our principles understood, but let us have no fixed antipathies, and as for shouting " Poland" in the ears of the Autocrat of the Russian, or " Candia" in those of the Grand Turk, let us remember that our own princes have visited St. Petersburg, and may visit Constantinople, without hearing the names of India and Jamaica offensively pronounced. After all, the waste of those opportunities of exercising a salutary hospitality is not the most serious consequence of the continued withdrawal of the QUEEN from public social life. The subject is an ungracious one, and the journalist will avoid it if he can ; but now that it has been raised it is right to bear witness that the injury done to the institution of the Throne by the long continuance of the QUEEN'S retirement has not been aggravated in the comments published within the last few days. No one thinks of saying that the QUEEN is indifferent to the duties of her position ; but very many regret the mode in which Her MAJESTY understands them. The QUEEN'S domestic life is praised and her private virtues are admired by the whole English people, but by too many only in the same way as they might be and are in the United States, as those of the most illustrious holy of the Anglo-Saxon rice. The QueiN is teithing the people to think too little of her ce::ese. Considera tions such as these have been presented before without elect, possibly because they were pre sented too soon. Now, however, live years after the hunented cause of the Qut EN's and the nation's sorrow, they may perhaps be worthy of attention. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) CS SPEECH AT THE NEISCHANT TAYLOR'S' HANqt. ET. describing Mr. Disraeli as having, in his attempt to pass oaf a democratic reform fur a bit of good old toryism, surpassed any feat ever tried by the biological prefessors who will make you handle a hot poker and feel it cold, or drink milk and think it brandy, the Tiede proceeds to paraphrase the rilbt hon. gentleman's last speech. restating Lis position rather than expressing any of its own. 31r. Disraeli is repre sented as having avoided the error of the liberal lead,rs of attempting to eitilorice in the constituency only the skilled workmen and artisans, and as intro ducing everybody who can give the usual pledge for his stake and interest in good order and the COlll/1,011 weal. lie coneeives that both in town and country lie has found the social basis in which domestic and social feelings are the strongest, and in which the institutions of the coun try may be said to have their morel foundation. Find the people who are naturally, by lung tradition, and by runny assosdations, loyal, subordinate, respectful, and religious, and hero you have the true platform of Kings, Lords, and Cormucess, and the proper constituency of the lower &mac. Mr. Diarseli proclaims that he has found it, and that the most anxious conservative may feel hurl self safe u such hands. Deliberating convivially lends men, the Dail!, News says, to make up occasionally for a lack in discretion by superabundant candour; but the blundering compliments of the Warden almost compelled, at Tuwalay's banquet, a response which was a transgression of the conventional limits of good taste. The sneer at the American de mocracy in the presence of Mr. Adonis, and the renewal before Mr. Beresford Hope of a pending controversy, must Lave been felt as an invasion of the privilege of the guests. In the body of the speech, Mr. Disraeli openly avows that he relies upon the unskilled and untaught portion of the working classes, the re.,idit um which Mr. Bright views with some distrust, for the safety of the state and for the maintenance of the conservative pasty, endangered by the independence and intelligence of the skilled artisans. It seems as if he desired to enfranchise a rabble of voters whom it m:.y be easy to influence, we will not say, with Mr. Lowe, to corrupt, Last session the tones, with wear'. some reiteration, and with Mr. Disraeli and Lord Stanley at their heal, declared that their desire was that the skilled artisans of the great towns—the "choicest members of the working classes," to use Mr. Disraeli's language— should be enfranchised, but that they shrank from opening the gates to the rush of the multitude. The lan guage Mr. Disraeli now uses as to the safety of our insti tutions came last year from the liberal benches, and was barely listened to, for fear and anger, by the very men who now applaud it to the echo. The right Lon. gentleman's reliance on the most dubious of the new ele ments which he proposes to introduce, betrays& disposition, against which liberals should be on their guard, to mani pulate the least intelligent and least independent portion of the sew constituencies for tory purposes. The ingenu ous confessions emitted over the hospitable board of the Merchant Taylors contain matter in this respect worth pondering. The 'Olt is tempted by the speech to inquire how it happened that is the debates and party struggles of last year Mr. Disraeli and his friends sought to reduce, and not to extend, the scope of the measure submitted by Earl Russell's government. Throughout the speeches made on the opposition benches last session, the Pude cannot call to mind one in which were to be found any of those senti ments to which Mr. Disraeli gave expression at the Mer chant Taylors' dinner the day before yesterday. Surely this is a circumstance not unworthy of explanation, and, on the next occasion on which Mr. Disraeli thinks proper to justify the present action of his party, perhaps he will clear away the difilzulty. By his own admission the policy of the conservatives ought all along to have been liberal; the mistake has at length been corrected, and henceforth the conservative party will be distinguished by the extreme liberality of their policy. The gushing candour of Mr. Disraeli is only to be equalled by the egotism with which he takes credit to himself and his party for a bill the distinctive features of which have been created by his op ponents. The Herold and Standard have been treated with the neglect which appears to be a necessary part of the ex perience of the organs of the conservative party. The Merchant Taylors• Company is purely conservative, and therefore the representatives of the conservative journals were carefully omitted from the ordinary invitations. With a natural feeling of self-respect the two papers in question make no reference to the banquet either as a matter of in telligence or as a subject for comment. Certainly it is a conservative bill, observes the Telegraph, for only see how many things it conserves ! First it con serves the salaries and appointments of ministers and their adherents ; next it conserves the peso* and patience of the realm ; and then it conserves the present parliament a little longer, to the undoubtedly great delight of the house. Mr. Disraeli adds that it will conserve the tory party also; and so it will—in history—even though the remains be like a mummy of Egypt, swathed in cloth which toryism itself spun while alive. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1867. an elected boas, The Engirds people will never allow bresponsibbilig berediteryeenators to arms anythingl more than what is called a moderating or ountrolling in fluence ; and only that on condition of being very cautiously and sparingly used. The .Star does not see that there is much to be done in the matter unless the country is really anxious for a genuine Upper Chamber of Legis lature, and in a position to construct one. A speech of the Bishop of Ripon at the dinner of the Merchant Taylors leads the Tim , * to treat of the opposition to the name and reality of protest. autism which is now to be found in the English church. The temporary success of what are called humanising tendencies is attributed to the study of the senses in the ceremonies, the pretence to a possession of supernatural right which will always prove seductive to young priests, and the effect on feminine minds of the spell of genuine devotion and the example of a holy life. I I The evil is in truth far short of what many people seri ously apprehend. Let anyone who trembles at the pro- gress of Romani= and Romish doctrines in this country look abroad into the Continent of Europe, estimate the nature and relative force of the rival principles now ' struggling for the mastery in the world of politics no less than in the world of speculation, and then ask himself what chance there is of authority triumphing over resume in our own age. The same lesson may be learnt by the observation of facts nearer home, the prevalent tone of literature, the debates on certain questions in parliament, the latitude of opinion in unreserved con% eisation, the impatience of dogmatism among the ablest students at our universities. It is only by narrowing unduly our ideal of protestantism that we can be kat to loos faith in its destinies. LAngs? L TELLI GEN CIL (IitrUTER . B TELMOILUIB.) FRANCE. PARIS, ..Trxt 13. The 11/imitettr of to-day says :—" The Emperor of Russia, fully recognising the evidences of svm- Pithy elicited by the late attempt upon his life, has directed the Russian Ambassador in Paris to express his thanks to the signataries of the various addresses presented to him." THE NORTH SCIILESWIO QUESTION. COPENHAGEN, JUNE 13. The Danish government has declined the propo sals made by Prussia that it should guarantee the national rights of the German inhabitants of North Schleswig. The reason given by Denmark is that in ease of the restoration of the province, it could only regard the laws of the country as governing its attitude towards the German population. SPAIN. MADRID, JUNE I'2, EVENINC. The Deputies have adopted the amendment to the buket imposing a tax of 5 per cent. on the monies deposited in the Claw,' des Dept.e from the Ist July. Tho motion of Senor Gilbert, censuring the government for arrest of some deputies last Decem ber, has been rejected by an immense majority in the Congress. SHIPMENTS OF GOLD TO ENGLAND. MELBOI.TRNE, AzAtm 2T. Tho shipments of gold to England since the de parture of the last mail are as follows:-22,500 ounces by the Wellesley, 30,000 ounces by the Omar Pacha, and 33,000 ounces by the Dover Castle. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, JrNE 13. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Atrato arrived oil the Needles at 12.30 p.m. to-day. l\. MISCELLMICOUB TOPICS. The Times thinks the letters of its Florence correspon dent cannot have failed, of late, to produce a painful im pression. The nine Bureaux of the Lower House have re jected Signor Ferrara's Bill for the extraordinary tax on ecolesiaatinal property, and with it also necessarily the con vention with Messrs. Erlanger, Fould, and Oppenbeim for a loan of 439,000,000 fr. It is true that the committee ap pointed by the Bureaux is busy drawing up a counter-pro ject to the ministerial project ; but it is by no means sure that they rosy bit upon • measure acceptable both to the ministers and to the Chambers, and, on the other hand, were even government and parliament driven to the necessity of • compromise, there may be serious doubts as 'to ►ny national or foreign financial company being any longer disposed to listen to their proposals. In the mean while legislation is at a standstill. Not a single item has been voted of the two budgets for the present and the coming puts. No new tax has been discussed ; liabilities are running up daily at • terrific rate. The administration fall. into hopeless confusion, and the old scourges of the country—brigandage and beggary—are recovering their wonted ascendancy. Six years are but a short spell in • nation's life ; but Italy has managed even in that space of time to move at an alarming rate on her downward way. Commenting upon passing events in France, the Daily News remarks that if the late attempted assassination of the Czar has provoked • momentary revulsion of public feeling there in favour of the oppressor of Poland, and drawn the Emperor of the French nearer in sympathy, it has not done more and worse than this. h has not made tyrannicide respectable, or a Russian alliance with France against liberal ideas a possibility. It has given the Czar, who enjoys the reputation of all the generous acts he does not perform, an opportunity of doizg an easy thing, it is true (out of Poland), but a humane thing anywhere—of preaching by example the abolition of the scaffold for political offence& The Standard attributes to Mr. Gladstone, and to Mr. Gladstone alone, the abolition of compounding,—his object being to introduce a radical vice into the Reform Bill. He now proposes that the franchise should be wholly dis sociated from the direct payment of rates, and the logger tion should suffice to disgust and alienate all the sobriety and sense that is still attached to the liberal party, or recognises Mr. Gladstone as its leader. The Post thinks a reaction is setting in in favour of the system of composition for rates. In all the parishes where it has hitherto been carried on, the change in the Reform Bill will bring with it a loss nearly equal to the whole rates that have hitherto been got in from the entire body of compounders. What make, it more annoying, too, is that there was no real necessity for anything of the sort, and that it is only in consequence of the Reform Bill having at the outset contained clauses which were intended to exclude compounders altogether. Discussing the professed reform of the House of Lords, the Star assumes that the one cardinal reason why that house can never be allowed to have the full direction of . auy great branch of our public affairs is that they are not Cite Court. BAIMORAL,YE 11. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, drove out yesterday morning. In the afternoon the Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Cbristian and Princess Louise, drove to Glen Ey. Prince Leopold, attended by Mr. Logg„ drove to Cairn The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse. rode out yesterday forenoon, at tended by Lady Emily Kingscoto and Lieut.-Colonel Xeppel. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council eat yesterday at the Privy Council office, 'Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The Lords present were Lord Bober: Montagu and the It.ght Hon. C. B. Adderley. Despatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial office, from the Governor General of Canada. THE QUEEN'S RETURN ?BOX &OTLAND. —Hor Majesty, with the Prince and Princess Christian of Schles wig-Holstein and infant son, and Princesses Louise and Beatrice and Prince Leopold, will leave Balmoral next Tuesday, the 18th inst., for Windsor. None of the public will, under any circumstances, be admitted to the stations south of the Perth, and the servants of the companies have been instructed " to perform any necessary work on the platforms without noise or cheering." His Excellency Baron Brunnow will return to town on Saturday from Paris. The Earl and Donates:l of Derby, who are posit ing the recess at Roshampton, come to town on Saturday for the moon. Lord Stanley returned to town on Tuesday from Knowsley, and yesterday left to join the Earl and Countess of Derby at Roehampton. Lord Northbrook, W. B. Symonds, Esq., Major Lowth, and J. 11. Yonge, Esq., have been appointed trus tees of the celebrated St. Cross Hospital. Mr. J. Mitchell, of the Royal Library, Bond street, replies, as to fashionable concerts, that the act referred to applies only to " houses kept open for public amusements." Surely, says Mr. Mitchell, the man sions of the Earl of Dudley, Mrs. Gladstone, and Miss Burdett Coutts cannot come within such category! "' A Warning Voice' need not be apprehensive. He would in fringe no existing law, nor incur any penalty, it be deter mined to give a concert at his own private residence in behalf of some charitable institution." Among local facetia current among young Dul wiebians, illustrating the prevalent belief in unlimited bolyday, one now and then hears • small boy announco to a compeer, " another holyday to-morrow ;" and in reply to the query, "what for ?" the smart, though somewhat stale, response is, " because the Master's cat has got kittens." Prince Humbert, it is said, will stop at Paris for four or five weeks. Prince Napoleon left Venice on the Bth to return to Turin, where the Princess Clothilde had remained, to emort her back to France. During his highness's Abort stay in Venice the municipality and population organised all sorts of fetes in his honour, and especially a serenade, which was most brilliant. A curious detail," says the Gazette de France, "II related in connexion with the marriage of the Duke of Aoete :—The Dowager Princess de la Cisterns, to prevent her daughter's (ratline from being managed after the sys tem which presides over the finances of the Italian realm, has reserved to herself the administration of the very considerable wealth which the bride brings to the son of Victor Emmanuel." A correspondent of the Morning Post writing from New Orleans on the 22nd ult., says :—" The crowd of idle whites that is seen here all day long is but one of • hundred others that the visitor may behold in every other part of the city. The negnirs do work—willingly, industriously, and gleefully—while the whites do not, either because they cannot or will not. I cannot blame them much. It is very hot. The season is as far ad vanced as it is in England in August. The sun beats fiercely down, the stone pavements bake your feet and reflect the heat as does an oven. It is much pleasanter to sit in the shade beneath a magnolia tree, and inhale the delicate odour of its wonderful blossoms, than to go down upon the Levee and ' tote' corn sacks for a shilling an hour. But Bitting idle all day long in • city where the cheapest meal costs half-a-crown, and where the hotels charge a pound a day, is a luxury that can only, or ought only, to be enjoyed by gentlemen of independent fortunes ; and I must confess that these crowds of a/ fresco gentlemen do not appear so me to belong to that class of society." A letter from Constantinople in the Monde ssys:--" The Sultan's suite will be composed in all of from 75 to 80 persons. The presents intended for the Emperor and Empress are of great value. The Empress Eugenie will receive from Abdul Anis, as a memorial of his visit to France, an enormous uncut diamond, which has been in the Treasury of the Sultan for more than three centuries, and which, to its great intrinsic value, adds that of very curious historical circumstances connected with it. It is called Tenokin rasdo (Shepherd's Stone), and possesses a legend which we will soon relate. To the Emperor Napoleon 111. are destined eleven Arab horses of great beauty. Princes Izzeddin, eon, and Mehmet, Moored, and Hamid, nephews of the Sultan, bring pre sents for the Prince Imperial, the value of which consists in their origin and oriental colours." Under the heading "The Mormons and the Universal Exhibition," the Libor" has a long account of two Mormon representatives who have just arrived at Paris, and with whom the writer has visited the building. One of the envoys is the second eon of Brigham Young ; the other is a man named Richards, who, before leaving for Europe was President of the Emigration Committee. Brigham Young, junior, though not yet thirty, has two wives and • large family, while his companion has four wives and twentytwo children. Neither of the repre sentatives can speak a word of French, but our Paris con temporary appears, nevertheless to have extracted from them • good deal of information. The Nouvelliste of Verriers announces that Marshal Benedek, accompanied by his wife, hasjust passed through that town on his way to Paris. The French government has already paid the first instalment of 10,000,000 fr. on the purchase of the American turret ship Dunderberg, and the French frigate Jean Bart is at Ncw York to take charge of her. France has also made a contract for the purchase of a smaller American turret ship, the Onondaga, paying 200,0001. for her. The Confederate ram Stonewall, built in Great Britain, has been sold by the United States to Japan for 500,000 dole. Smoking carriages have been introduced on the Bristol and Exeter milt's,. SOUTII-EASTERN RAILWAY.-(THIS DAY). The adjourned special meeting of shareholders was held at noon, at the London-brulge Terminus ; Mr. E. W.WATAIN, M.P., in the chair.. . • The eHAHtMAN said they had met to consider a matter of bombe-as left over from the let special meeting, namely, the propriety of dividing the onlinary stock of the company into two classes, viz., a preferred and a deferred stock. The ordinary capital o f company was 7,600,008., and they had power under the Capital Bill of last erasion to raise that amount to 8,000.000 i., and the question was this—was it desirable to divide the 8,000,000/. into 4,000,00 W. of preference stock, to receive ?I or G per cent. per annum before the deferred 4,000,0001. took interest in the shape of dividend? He had already explained at the half-yearly meeting anal at the special meeting a month since what were the advantages of so dividing the stock, but his object to-day was rather to have a con versational and friendly diacunion relative to the whole matter, and to hear the opinions of the shareholders, than to pars any resolution. He would prefer dispeaing of the question to-day ; but, considering the armdl number of the shareholders present and the importance of the subject to be discussed, he thought it would be better to adjourn it fur the considera tion of the half-yearly meeting, when they usually had a large attendance of proprietors. It was not a question that pressed, but rather one respect ing the future financial policy of the company. He should, therefore wove, " That the decision on the question of dividing the ordinary stock into pre ferred and deferred portions, be taken at the next hall yearly meeting." The lion. Mr. IlvNo seconded the resolution, and it was carried unanimously. In reply to Mr. THOMAS . . The 6WAIRMAN said the directors came to a conclusion with reference to certain heads of agreement, and those were signed by three of his colleagues and by three dime ter, of the Brighton board. Since then a great many meetings had taken place between parties repre senting the Brighton and the South Eastern Com pany with the view of filling in all the details which the heads would require to make a complete and comprehensive agreement. Their next appointment was for this afternoon and he had strong hopes they should be able to complete the whole matter in a work manlike way, awl bring it before the shareholdere in a very few weeks. He was bound to say they had been met very fairly by the gentlemen of the Brighton board, and the discussion bad been of that character that they would come to a satisfactory conclusion, such as would benefit all railway property. In reply to Mr. FILDE-9, M.P., The CHAIRMAN said the proposed amalgamation with the Brighton Company was not an amalgamation of capital and liabilities. The scheme simply involved a division of the net profits of the undertakings on the North Eastern principle. A SHAREHOLDER said he supposed it would strengthen their capital. Mr. itimus hoped the agreement would be different from " the Chatham " agreement. The CHAIRMAN said he hoped it would be an agree ment in every way for the interests of the South Eastern proprietora He did not think it was discreet to enter into a discuesiou such as might result from Mr. Adams's remark, and he reminded the shareholders that it was easy just now "to throw bitterness into the cup." He sincerely hoped and believed that the agreement would be permanently to the advantage of both parties, and be was quite certain that as it would be laid before them, and they were men of business, it would not be adopted unless it wet found to be satisfactory. The proceedings then terminated. The annual meeting of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes was held at Caatleford yesterday. The proceedings commenced with the usual conference of the union, under the presidency of Mr. Baines, M.P., when Mr. James Kitson, jun., read a paper upon the Paris Exhibition and the industrial progress of England, and an interesting discussion upon the subject took place. A public meeting was held in the evening, presided over by Lord Houghton, who spoke at considerable length upon the educational aspect of the Paris Exhibition. Lord Frederick Cavendish, M.P., Mr. Holden, M.P., Mr. Baines, M.P., and other gentlemen, also took part in the proceedings. A deplorable accident has just taken place at Ems. Count de Kielmansegge and his wife were taking a drive in the neighbourhood, when the horses, startled by a cart, became unmanageable, and dashed off at a furious rate. They at last came with great violence against wall. The Count was thrown from his scat, and, inhaling, received so severe a wound on the head that he died on the following night. The countess sustained no injury, but the carriage was broken to pieces and the horses killed. The New York Board of Emigration Commis sioneis report that from the beginning of the year to May 29, 82,g02 immigrants have arrived from Europe at New York, as compared with 82,99:3 during the same period last year. The arrivals now average nearly 10,000 a week. The scarcity of vegetables has been severely felt by poor people. A large quantity of the commonest kinds of vegetables have been exported from France to England, which is an unusual circumstance. A few days ago 1,400 sugar loaf cabbages were landed at Guernsey from France. Some of them weighed 1411 m. They were rapidly sold at 3d. and 4d. each. Tenpenny, two-shilling, and five-shilling postage stamps will shortly be issued by the government—the ten penny ones are of a light brown colour, the two-shilling ones of a light blue colour, and the five-shilling ones of a light pink colour. The five shilling ones will be much larger than any hitherto issued. The postage stamps in circulation will shortly be respectively of the value of Id., 2d., 3d., 4d., GI, 9d., 101, la, 25., and ss. DEATH OP THE OLDEST RAILWAY SOLICITOR Is THE RIHDDOM.—OD Tuesday night, Mr. Francis Mewburn, of Larchfield, Darlington, died at the ripe are of eighty two. The deceased gentleman was well known throughout the north of England as a solicitor of large practice, and more especially as the solicitor till within the last five or six years of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, at which period he retired altogether from practice. He was the oldest railway solicitor in the kingdom, baring applied for and obtained the act for the construction of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. He was early associated with Stephenson, whose genius as an engineer had its develop ment in connection with this line of railway. To Mr. Mewburn's care was also entrusted the parliamentary business in connexion with other acts for extensions or which have subsequently been obtained. Mr. Mewbnrn has also for many years held the office of chief bailiff of Darlington, every ancient one, ant be stood in the place of Mayor in connexion with public objects as the representa tive of the town, the calling of public meeting*, &c. It is expected, however, that a successor to the office will not be appointed in view of the approaching incorporation of the town. Mr. Mewburn's funeral, which takes place on fiaturdag, will probably be a public one. —Leeds Mercury. LAW INTICLLIGKNCE. (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURT. (Before the Master of the Rolla.) DIGWAN r. DRAKIN.--MUSIC AND DISCORD IN A WESLEYAN NETHODIWf FREE CHURCH. This was a motion for au injunction, and the question I was whether music was part of the " spirituel' serwillat The parties are members of the Wealeyan Methodist Free Church at Norwich and Chester. The plaintiff represents the class leaders, and claims the spiritual superin tendence. The defendants and others are the trustees, and removed pert of the organ, and the plaintiff introduced an harmonium, and the discord was very great. The Muter of the Rolls remarked that the question whether music was a part of the spiritual service might open the whole question of ritualism. Mr. Selwyn, Q.C. (Mr. Kerslake with him). naked that the musical service might be continued until the ease was decided. Mr. Beggs/lay (Mr. Harding with him) preferred the matter going on as it was till the case was heard. Master of the Rolls —What, fighting among themselves! After a long discussion, his lordship said his order would be that the music he continued till the rights were decided whether the trustees or the leaders had the management of the musical service. It was arringed that concord should be rmitored as to the music until the court decided the right of the parties. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittings in limoo.—(Before the Lord Chief Justice, and Justices Mellor and Shee.) . RATES r. HEWETT. Tbii wax an action brought by the plaintiff, the pur chaser of the late Confederate cruiser, the Georgia, to re cover from the defendant, who is en underwriter atLloyd's the amount he bad underwritten the policy. The ship was afterwards seised by the United States government. The cow his been twice tried—once at Liverpool, when the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and a second time at Guildhall, when a verdict was returned for the defen dant. The defendant misted payment on the ground that the fact of the vessel having been the Confederate cruiser the Georgia had been kept back from him. A rule had been obtained on both aides for a new trial. These rules came on for argument this term, and after several days were concluded this morning, when The court refused to disturb the verdict for the defen dant. Judgment for the defendant. COURT OF RXCHEQUER. Sittings in Banco.—(Before the Lord Chief Baron, and Barons Martin, Bramwell, and Pigott.) SLADE IN MINT. The judgment of the court in this important case was delivered this morning. As some time has elapsed since it was argued the following short summary of the facts will enable our readers to appreciate the effect of the decision. The plaintiff is General Marcus Slade, formerly governor of Guernsey, and twin brother of the late Sir Frederick Slade, Dart., Q.C., who died suddenly in 1863, and by this action of ejectment he seeks to recover possession of the manor of North Petherton, in the county of Somerset, and certain other lands, entailed in the Slide family. The defendant is Alfred F. A. Slide, the eldest son of Sir Frederick ; and the real contest is, which of the two—uncle or nephew—is entitled to the Slade estates and baronetcy. This involves the legitimacy of the defendant, who claims to be the eldest male issue of a legal marriage between his father and Mies Maria Barbara Mostyn, spinster, at St. George's, Hanover square, on the 23rd December, 1833. Dy the consent of the parties, it was agreed to have the question of fact and law decided by this court without the intervention of a jury. The arguments extended over nearly ten days of List term, the Solicitor-General being heard on the part of the plaintiff; and Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., on behalf of the de fendant. It is the practice of the court to hear only one counsel on each aids in • special awe. The other counsel were—for the plaintiff Mr. Kingdon, Q.C., Mr. Henry Boller, and Mr. Howe ; for the defendant Mr. Mellish, Q.C., Mr. Henry Matthews, Mr. Bare, and Mr. Wallis. General Slade, the plaintiff, disputed the validity of the English marriage of 1833, on the ground that Miss Mostyn was already married to another person, and that her husband was then alive. There was no question that on the 6th October, 1825, at Milan, a ceremony of marriage was gone through between her and Van Koerber, an Aus trian subject and •lieutenant in the Austrian arniy,and that be did not die until some time in 1853. The real question was whether that ceremony was valid, according to the laws then in force in the Austrian dominions of which Milan then formed a part. The following were the circumstances attending the Milanese marriage. Miss Mostyn was the daughter of the late Mr. Charles Brown Mostyn, of Kiddington, and the sister of George Mostyn, now Lord Harrowden of Vaux. In 1821, being about 23 years of age, she went with her mother, who was then a widow, on a continental trip. Ultimately, the tourists reached Milan, where they took up their residence and mixed in the best society of the place. Here it was that during the carnival gaieties of winter she Ifirst met Von Koerber, a young gentleman of good family and a lieutenant in the Imperial Engineers, and with the consent of Mrs. Mostyn, they entered into an engagement to marry. A marriage settlement was regularly drawn up, but the lady being a Roman catholic and the gentleman a protestant a difficulty arose with regard to the parlor- mance of the ceremony. In Lombardy, mixed marriages were prohibited except by the permission of the Pope, which was seldom or never given, and Pietro Zerbi, the parish priest of St. Babyla, in Milan (the parish in which Mies Mostyn resided), and the curator animarum of the bride, refused to perform the ceremony, but he gave • kind of delegation to marry the parties to Feld Superior Nagy, a military priest, who presided over the district of Lombardy, and by virtue of his posi tion did not feel himself bound by the prohibition of mixed marriages, but followed the custom of the German provinces of Austria, where such marriages are allowed. On the day already named in October, 1825, Feld Superior Nagy accordingly celebrated the marriage in the church of St. Fedele, in Milan, in the presence of the friends of both parties, and a welding breakfast followed at the residence of Mrs. Mostyn. The union soon proved to be unhappy, and in less than six months after wards, Miss Mostyn, by application to an Aus trian court, obtained a separ►tion • mensa et thoro—from bed and board—an agreement having been previously entered into, by which Mrs. Mostyn undertook to pay an annuity to Von Koerber on condition that he did not molest her daughter. Miss Mostyn never again met Von Koerber, who eventually became a brigadier general, and who, up to the time of his death, in Int, was in regular receipt of the annuity, • sum of 20,000 florins having been deposited at Milan to provide for it. It seemed that Miss Mostyn's acquaintance with Sir Frede rick, then Mr. Slade, began also at parties in Milan in the winter of 1825-8, and on her return to England it ripened into an intimacy which resulted in the Hanover-square marriage of 1811. On the part of the defendant it was contended that the Milanese marriage was, by Austrian law, invalid, and first, because the banns were nut duly published. As Miss Mostyn bad not resided six weeks in St. B•hylait was said that they ought to have been published not only there, but also in the parish of Sta. Maria della Passione of Milan, in which she had also resided, and that they had not been published in either parish. Secondly, it was argued that the bridegroom being a protestant, Feld Snperior Nagy was not competent to perform the cere mony, and that it ought to have been performed by the parish priest of St. Babyle. Upon these grounds it was said that Lady Slade, the defendant, could, at any time, iu Austria, have obtained a declaration of the nullity of the marriage. and that it was not necessary that inch a declaration should have been obtained in Austria prior to the English marriage in 1833 in order to save that marriage from being bigamous and void. On the other hand, the argument for the plaintiff we. that the numerous authentic document,' in the case showed that all the legal formalities necess►ry to be gone through in Austria prior to and at the performance of such a mar riage had been complied with ; that the presumption was in favour of the Austrian marriage ; and that even sup posing there had been any irregularity, the marriage was valid until it was declared invalid by proceedings for that purpose before aco npetent Austrian court, at the suit of some person entitled to question its validity. As there was • difference of opinion among their lord ships, Mr. Baron Pigott. being the junior judge, first delivered his judgment. Having observed that the court had cast upon it, in this case, the duty both of judge and jury, he said the question was whether, when Min Mostyn married the late Sir Frederick William Slade, in 1833, she was tho wife of Carl Von Koerber by • valid marriage, according to the Austrian law, on the fith of October, 182.5. In his view that question involved not so much the doctrine of presumption as of the sufficiency of evidence, and he thought it safer to rest his judgment upon the evidence than upon presumption. The marriage of 1825 was said to be invalid, first be- I cause there had been no due publication of banns, and, secondly, that the priest who performed the ceremony was not competent to perform it. He assumed that, according to the Austrian law, the publication of beans was necessary, and that there most be six weeks' residence in the parish before publication. It could eat be doubted that it was the intention of all the p irti e s t. the marriage should be valid, and nut a were sawn. yea Koerber would benefit by it socially sod pecuniarily, and there were very peculiar reasons why h a te Mrs. Nostra and her daughter should trier the marriage to be real and binding. It cauld out be amp posed that the mother wished her daughter t o li ve in ee,;r. tery with Von Koerber, or that the priests Zerhi and Nagy would knowingly have been guilty of any breach of daty. The condition of all the parties cemented was strongly in favour of the due publication of the hams, amp there was no reason to think that they were iguanat of the requirements to be fulfilled in the matter. He also thought that all surrounding circumstances pointed in the direction of a due public -von The only living witness on this point was Lady Slade herself, sad , t was impossible not to see that, without any intention to speak untruly, her evidence was erroneous sonic important particulars. Having examined at ma, length the evidence as to the question of revidenee, the learned baron said Laity Slade was contradicted by the " exhibits," to which he attached peat weight, eqecially the certificate of Zerbi, addressed to Feld Superior Nae, stating that there was no impediment, civil or cantonal, to the marriage, and the copy of the registration ,e e a , marriage signed by Nagy, who performed the ccie mony. He could not conceive that these two p r i t .,, t , who were entire strangere to both of the parties would have incurred liability to punishment or auspension bore office without any conceivable object or from sheer indif ference. Zerbi appeared to have been a moat couecientique priest, but hie certificate would not be true if the banns had not been duly published. Upon these grounds he thought tho irresistible inference from the fads was, tlat the publication of the banns, which was an mete tial element in the validity of the marriage, was not lost sight of, and that they were p e e ; lished in the proper manner. With regard to te e second point, the competency of Feld Superior Nagy to perform the marriage ceremony, there was a direct conflict of evidence amongst the skilled witneetes as to the effect of the Austrian law on the subject, end the court must determine the question fur themselves. His lordship thin referred to the Austrian code, and said that he came to ' the conclusion that Nagy was the " curator anima= of the bridegroom, and was therefore competeut to marry the parties, observing that if he were not so he could not help thinking the marriage would have been questioned yews ago. He had not arrived at this *ohm without anxiety and regret, and should rather have de sired that the acknowledged son of the late Sir Frederice Slade had been held to be his heir, but he was not able t o regard the case in any other light than he would have done hail there been children of the Koerher-Mostyn mar riage, and the question of their legitimacy had arisen. It was, therefore, with much regret that be pronounced his judgment upon both points in favour of the plaintiff. Mr. Baron Bramwell, remarking that the question hail to be decided entirely as a matter of fact, said it was clear both parties wanted to be married, and that there was no impediment to the marriage, and no apposition to it by parent or relative. (In the contrary Mr,. Mostyn approved of and gave her consent to their union. There was Hoak: clandestine, nothing hurried about the affair; everything was open sad straightforward ; the ceremony took place in a public church, in the presence of many persona, and it was preceded by a marriage contract execute.' in a formal manner, nevertheless it was said that through seine blunder or ignorance the parties who clearly iutended to be married were not married. The defendant's came de pended upon the evidence of his mother, Lady Slade, and even if her answers were all straightforward and encomia dieted in every respect he did not think it proved that the banns had not been duly published. But the documents connected with the marriage contradicted her on most material points, and he felt he could not rely upon bee evidence, In short, the conduct of all the parties was in consistent with the case set up by the defendant, and with all the desires and wishes of the contracting parties. He was satisfied that the objection as to the banns failed in fact. The learned judge next dealing with the second question, expressed his opinion that Nagy wee comeeteld to perform the marriage ceremony. For these reason he thought that the objection to the validity of the eat marriage bad not been sustained—that it failed, in fact. and that, conaequently, the second marriage was null eel void, that the plaintiff bad established that the Ide eu Frederick Slade had left no belie male, and that lie ins therefore entitled to the judgment of the court. Mr. Baron Martin went at great length mer the eri derma of Lady Slide with respect to the publication of the banns, and said he thought she had not only spoken the truth, but had been corroborated in a remarkable manner by the documents in the case. His sincere and firm brief was that the banns had not been duly published, end le thought that this fact was known to Nagy' when b.• married the parties. That being so, an essential elemeet, according to the mortmain law, to the validity of the mar riage of 1823, was wanting. With respect to the comph• tency of Nagy to peform the oeremon7, he expressed some doubt, but said he was of opinion that Zerbi, the priest of St. Babyla, had given him no &lc gation to perform it. Mr. Baron Martin, then speaking for himaelf, protested aping a case of this kind being brought before a court of law again, observing that • jury was the legitimate tribunal to decide matters of fact, and that when judges of the supe rior courts had to determine them they often took diffe rent views. He believed that why the decisions of purrs gaul"vennofacretaasanwerafo;leatteidr satisfactory was wal l La heca ugh renaer. tip gave no resaan for their conclusions. iLaiuuhatrr.) lie was of opinion that the defendant was entitled to tie judgment of the court. defendant,TheLo Chief Baron's judgment was is favour of tie The judges being equally divided, the court would pronounce no judgment, but if the plaintiff &tired it for an appeal, Baron l'igott would withdraw his jolt went. It was agreed that the plaintiff should say before tite.od of the term what course he would adopt. COURT OF DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) DICKIXWoIt r. MCI:WM.IN AND lELLnr. Mr. A. Staveley Hill for the petitioner. He was a car• pouter, and in 1852 be married the respondent. In 1 , 7) he went to Australia, and on bit return he found ha cohabiting with one Yellop, a sawyer. Decree Mai, with costs. TRIM O. TRIM. Dr. Spinks for the petitioner. She was the wife of a Wesleyan echoolinaster, at Cardiff. On the .nBll ofJuly 1863, he married her in Devonshire. After living with her a short time he returned to Cardiff to Like a house, leaving her in the meantime with her friends. In the following September ho invited her to join hia and when she reached his house she found that he hid another woman living with him, with whom he hui aim gone through the form of a marriage. He was convict il of bigamy, and was now undergoing a sentence of IN months' imprisonment for the offence. Both women hail each had a child, but the petitioner's was dead. Decree nisi, with costa. PoRTH v. FORTH. The Queen'eAdsocate and Mr. Cooper for the pet itionm The petitioner in this case was Mr. Charles Forth. a Baptist minister and registrar of births and death.; Buford, near Nottingham. He sued for a separation" the ground of his wife's cruelty, and she pleaded a car. allegation to the same effect. [The case was proceeding when our report left.] COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commiasioner Holroyd.) IN RE LADINLAs COUNT SZTAILAY. The bankrupt, an Hungarian count, was deAcribed m . f Church.place, Jerrnyn-street, not following any OCCur atin or profession. The adjudication was made on hi+ own tition about 10 months since, but hitherto no accoo+ have been filed beyond the prelimin Lry statemei,t, wk. h shows debts of about 1,500/. At the last sittilig an 14. journment was ordered to give the bankrupt an °mammary of arranging with his creditors. The proceeding* purely formal, and a further adjournment was now u r.leroi till the 7th of November. IN Itt. C. C. NEIRON. The bankrupt was described as a shipowner and ibis. ping and insurance broker, some time trading under the firm of " The United Steam Towing tolulwaY." of Botolph.lane and Old Keut-road. This war, the tatting for examination and discharge, but no accounts have been tiled beyond the preliminary statement. which chows un• secured debts of 8,0171., and about 4,00. due to credito rs holding security. It appearing that proceedings were going on in Chanel' on the result of which the bankrupt's a ccounts depend, adjaurrinn.nt was ordered.woald (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) IN RR H. H. ei:egirr. The hankrupt, a solicitor in Moorgite-street, applied for his discharge from debts of about 2.0001. Mr. E. Read, for the assignees, offered no otipewition. Mr. Hyde, who appeared for a trust e state, fur which the bankrupt had been trustee for 21 years. stated t f tha a discrepancy between the accounts of the hankrupt ard o those who now represented the estate had lien a djugni , and it had been agreed that the bankrupt should he allowed 100/. for his management of the eat de. Mr. Doyle , who appeared for the bankrupt. said tha t hr was under the impression that he was rntiticd to a noir' larger amount. He did not dispute that as survival( trustee he was liable for about 7:101. due to. the estate. His Honour said, a the oestni que trusts were satisfied and no creditor appeared to °Nee.... there was no r ow. , why Mr. Beckitt should not have his order of discharge. • THE BCOTCHMAN AT THE DENTIST'S. specimen of Dundrearyism is attributed to a Scotch el. , of the last century, who on visiting a dentist, and Is , placed in the patients' chair, was requested by the or. for to allow him to put his finger into his mouth, : which the judge, with a distrustful look, sai d. '' you'll bite me." The confusion here in the speaker'' rs% is obvious. He knew that if one man's fing er is put zit rr another man's mouth a bite may ensue ; but he correctly see which of them might bite, and which of ti be bitten. It was told afterwards of a descendant of worthy person as a proof of heitditary similarity of islet that when canvassing for the re p rese ntation of a Sec' county, he refused to take a glass of wine from a v oter 0 , the ground that it wouldbc trcat iztg.—NurtA /IMO • 4 • Juno number. tila . I