The Express. — London, England, 1867-06-07 00:00:00

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Arms the cry of " Wolf " has been treacher ously raised in London for a twelvemonth, the animal has actually appeared, has come without warning, found the shepherds unprepared, and made havoc in the fold. When a political purpose was to be served, or a political prejudice indulged, there were plenty to point out the danger of street marchings, meetings, and assemblages, but nobody warned the public against outrages to be expected as soon as the Militia should make their appearance. Whythe sight of the Quasit's uniform should stimu late robbery more than the ensigns of the friends of manhood suffrage, we cannot explain ; but the outrages which occupied so large • space in our issue of Tuesday took place in the very presence of the troops. Hitherto street robbery has been in London • dangerous occupation, pursued for the must part by individual thieves in lonely places under cover of night. But scores of people were robbed on Monday in broad daylight in such thoroughfares as the City-road, Portland-place, and the Mall in St. James's-park, bygangs of men operat ing in large numbers without fear of consequences. The plunderers took the road as if it were their own, and showed themselves more like banditti than common thieves. The mob of marauders who followed the Finsbury Militia on Monday were two or three hundred in number as the corps passed down the Pentonville-road, and took watches from tradesmen who were standing at their own doors keeping shop. When a policeman interposed, he was of course powerless. MILLS, 128 G, who attempted to apprehend one, had a hundred upon him immediately. On Saturday the City Militia passed along towards the Park to be reviewed : what happened is thus described by a witness at the Marylebono Police-court :—" All the way " along I saw the prisoner with a gang of about " thirty or forty roughs rushing upon gentlemen " and taking their watches right and left, and " breaking umbrellas. Every gentleman the " gang came near they surrounded and hustled, " and took whatever they had got. At Hyde " park they surrounded an elderly lady and gen " tleman, and took the lady's purse. I saw " about fifty or sixty persons who had lost their " watches." A physician who was coming out of the Gower-street railway station was set upon, and his watch, of the value of sixty guineas, taken. This was the work neither of the London mob proper nor of scientific members of the furtive community : it was done by ruffians belonging undoubtedly to the criminal clans, but to that rude and violent section of it whose numbers are practically unlimited. This is the dangerous feature of the movement. Lon don can turn out any day twenty such gangs, and, according to the statistical economy of thief dom, if only ono man in nine were caught and punished such outrages as we have described would be profitable adventures. Evidently the isolated policemen, so difficult to descry, even when found could render little protection against scoun drels acting in mobs, and pursuing their objects with a business-like definiteness of aim, the want of which makes mere mobs comparatively easy to deal with. The most that one brave policeman can do is to fasten upon some robber, and by attracting to himself the immediate friends of the prisoner bent on a rescue divert a few of the fellowship from the work of plunder until the main body has passed on, and so give the peaceable and honestly dis poaed public an opportunity of seizing and identi fying the stragglers. Something must be done at once to show these new disturbers of the peace that they cannot behave in this way with im punity. We do not, however, propose that the marching of Militia and Volunteers through the streets should be prohibited ; that would be too great a concession. Arrangements for rapidly mobilising small but efficient bands of the police would probably meet the case. When a fire breaks out no difficulty is found in at once concen trating members of the fire brigade on the spot, and policemen are as easy to convey as firemen. It would be worth while, also, to consider whether the heads of the police make all the use theymight of the telegraphic lines which now extend above and below ground all over London. Vigorous punishment, however, should by no means be omitted while all due precautions are taken. It is a serious thing that the peace and security of this great city have been invaded as they have not been within the memory of this generation, and as we had fondly believed they could not be since the institution of the New Police. The heaviest penalties of the law must be meted out to those men, or it will be impossible to live and carry on business in London. Already it is dan gerous to carry a watch or purse; a little more and it will be dangerous to leave them at home. Ir the none of CLEOPATRA had been half an inch shorter, says PASCAL, the face of the world would have been changed. The face of CLEOPATRA would certainly have been changed, whatever I might have happened to that of the world. The nose of one of the midshipmen of Her Ms., esrv's frigate Phtebe has lately played almost as distin guished a part in public affairs as that assigned by the great Frenchman to the nose of the Egyptian Queen. It has been the subject of a report to the Board of Admiralty ; of subsequent investigations by two captains of the Royal Navy ; of leading articles in most of the newspapers ; and of Parliamentary interpellations, which have excited as much interest as the fate of a Fenian cons ict or that of the compound householder himself. M. Amour has made the "Nose of a Notary" the subject of one of his most amusing stories. The nose of a midshipman would form a theme for a romance of yet more thrilling interest. Readers of Mr. CARLYLE'S " Life of Frederick the " Great," know the important part which JEN RI NS ear played in the diplomacy and war of the 18th century. The nose of the mid shipman of the Phoebe is scarcely less distin guished. Its celebrity illustrates the caprices of fortune. It is but one of many midshipmen's noses which have gone through a similar and even more painful experience. The rumour that the broad anchor had been indelibly tattooed along its whole length, and that the unhappy victim had been lashed to the guns while he was submitted to this operation, proves to have been without foun dation. The nose, on the contrary, was treated with more than usual leniency. A broad arrow of the size of a horsebean was, it is true, cut in the tip of the organ, but not indelibly ; while the cayenne pepper which, in accordance with usage and precedent, ought to have been rubbed into the wound, was mercifully dispensed with. It is interesting to note in this circum stance another proof of the growing mild ness of modern manners. The officers who had conducted the operation, and who had been dismissel the service on suspicion of gunpowder, have been restored to it on proof that they were innocent even of Cayenne pepper. Perhaps it is not surprising that lads who were liable as cadets to the discipline of the birch should have as little respect for the faces of their com rades as has been shown to a less dignified part of their own corporeal frame. A Greek philo sopher has denounced the jocosity which makes sport with a man's name as one of the coarsest insults that can be offered to him. To outrage the person, even though it be in horse play, is surely a grosser •front. Viewing the sort of training which is received by many public schoolboys and cadets, we are not disposed to censure the mildness of the Admiralty in re fusing to inflict a life-long punishment on the young blackguards who fell short of the brutality which precedent might, in their eyes, have war ranted them in inflicting. They are what they have been taught to be. One thing is to be re gretted—that Mr. Corn, by refusing to produce the evidence taken, should have given an apparent sanction to the opinion that there is more in the affair than the authorities like to make known. He ridicules the ides of laying on the table the examination of a number of boys. But if the testimony was worth taking and acting upon, it is worth publishing. It is because the victims are boys that they need to be protected from that " unofficer and ungentleman-like conduct," the re petition of which, Mr. CURRY has informed the service, will meet with severe punishment. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1867. TAN AMU!? UPON THI LIFE OF TEE CZAR. Awaiting further details respecting the attempt on the life of the Czar, the Times suggests that it is possible the excessive precautions taken by the police against such untoward contingencies, have acted as bun. mat suggestion, if not as downright provocation, to the ill-inclined. It is a singular policy, the Times adds, that just in the first smart of a wound inflicted on French self-esteem, the King of Prussia and Count Bis marck, by whom the blow was inflicted, should be pompously promenaded along the line of the Paris Boule vards as the honoured and cherished guests of the French sovereign, and proper objects for the French people's ac clamation. However, no polished people can indulge po litical prepossessions to the extent of treating as an enemy an invited visitor. Not only ought the persons of the Czar, of the Prussian King, and of other illustrious visitors to be inviolable in France, but every honoured Frenchman ought to feel answerable for any unworthy treatment to which political fanaticism might expose them. The Daily News was struck with a disagreeable sur prise on hearing of the reception which was given to the Czar at the French law courts. The auto cracy of the Emperor Alexander represents the na tional will of the gre►t majority of the Russian people, and an insult to him in the present state of the civilisation of Europe is resented as an insult to 70 millions of people. The most eminent of the Polish refugees had left Paris ; but one was left behind, it seems, who staked his life upon the awful venture of slaying the Czar before a multitude of people. But for the accident of overloading his pistol the result of this point blank aim and discharge could not have been doubtful. The consequences of such an event we forbear to dwell upon ; indeed, they are incalculable. The effect of the arassination of the Czar in Paris upon the relations of the two Empires who can estimate? For tunately, such attempts are not easily committed in cold blood ; the hand that holds up the knife trembles, the pistol is made too sure of killing, or fired too soon, and so court preachers and flatterers are permitted to take the name of Providence in vain. A prince seems to be feted, vivaed, says the Herald, clad in purple and fine linen, and bowed down to by the com mon herd of men, on the tacit understanding that he is to be an occasional target for the discontented who are weary cf their lives. Fortunately for him, very fortunately for the world, the Power on high I. stronger than the power below ; a Divinity interposes to shape the ends of the smassin ; his knife glances, his bomb explodes prema turely, his pistol bursts, his shot misses its mark. This seems to h►ppen in about ninety-nine cafes out of a hun dred, and it ought to dash the hopes of those who aspire by such violent and brutal means to influence the desti nies of nations and shape the course of events. " NO IRISH NEED APPLY." The Tines thinks it impossible to deny that the recruit ing orders of her Majesty's Foot Guards excluding Irish men and Roman catholica is a substantial wrong an well as a slight to national feeling. The Guards are distinguished by many advantages, and Ireland pays her quota for their maintenance, and natives of Scotland freely enter either of the three regiments. It would be most absurd if any sectional jealousies, or any fear for the trustworthineas of Irish catholics, should cause so unjust an exclusion to be maintained. There is not the smallest reason for sup posing that Roman catholics in the present day are less loyal subjects than protestant' ; and as regards the loyalty of Irishmen in England, it surely may be counted upon when it is found that throughout the whole of Ireland, at a most dangerous crisis, the constabulary, the most com pletely Irish and catholic force which exists in the country, did its duty without a single instance of treachery. The beet thing would undoubtedly be to rescind that part of the recruiting orders which gives offence, for if these may be disregarded at pleasure it can be of little use to maintain them. This exclusion, the Star rays, is full of the spirit which has to be fought against and conquered before Ireland will be fairly treated by the nation which governs her. Irish men are welcome enough—they are sought after moat eagerly for other regiments, but these Guard regiments are crack corps. They take higher rank than other regi. meats ; they have better pay ; they are never sent to an unhealthy climate, and they live in better barracks than any other portion of the army. Therefore, Irishmen arc not admitted to their ranks. This despicable slight must now be promptly atoned for at the dictation of parliament and Wilk opinion ; sad our military authorities will, we hope, profit in more ways than one by the lesson. JAMAICA AFFAIRS.-FURTHER CORRESPON DENCE. This morning another blue-book was issued, con taining further correspondence relative to the Jamaica outbreak. Most of the despatches treat of the proceedings against Mr. Ramsay and various civilians charged with grave offences in the suppression of the disturbances. Some of the depositions forwarded by Governor Grant to the Earl of Carnarvon record outrages of a shocking de scription. The following statement by Captain Beckett, taken before ten justices of the peace at St Thomas's-in-the- East, show the circumstances under which the unfortunate man Marshall was hung : This deponent, James Beckett, upon his oath, saith as follows—" lam captain of the Friendship. I was present at Moraat Bay from the 13th of October to the 31st of Octo ber, 18S5. I was present when a man named Marshall was flogged ; he was a brown man. This was on the 18th of October. He was to get 10 lashes ; he received 47 in my presence, Mr. Marshalleck, a justice of the peace of St. ' Thomas-in-the-East, and Mr. Ford, I mean Mr. Henry Ford. I think, from the anguish of the flogging, he said Oh Lord.' Mr. Ramsay said, ' Sedition, take him down and h'ng him ;' he was taken down front the gun-carriage to the place of execution ; he was tripped up, thrown on the ground, he:was tied on the ground, he was raised up, the rope was thrown round his neck and the end thrown over the rail of the steps of the Court-house, and a man who was standing on the steps of (the (Court-house hauled the rope and drew up the man until he was high enough hoisted off the ground, and the man who was on the steps hauling up the man Marshall said ' High enough,' and some one said ' Make fast.' It was a soldier. Ido not know him. Mr. Ramsay was present. The man who put the rope round Marshall's neck gave bins a stretch by the lege, and that not being satisfactory the same man took a large atone and put it between the arms and back of Mar shall to give him weight. A little while after there was a little rain, and I and Mr. Marshalleck went into the camp. I saw the man Marshall dead ; his body remained there till next morning, when it was cut down and the body buried at the fort, and Mr. Ramsay was present all the time." Some of the cases of women flogging are thus described by the immediate actors : James M'Comock Reid on his oath, with as follows— " I live at Long Bay in this parish. During martial law I flogged Elizabeth Collins with a at on her naked shoul den, at Long Bay. She was tied hands and feet to a cocoa nut tree. 1 gave her more than 20 blows. The cat was made of black fishing lines. I did this by Mr. Chris topher Codrington's orders. He was present and saw me du it. The woman's back bled. Mr. David Mein was on the left hand, with a sword." James M'Comock Reid on his oath, saith as follows— " I live at Long Bay and Elmswood, and am a labourer. On Friday, the 10th of November last year, during mar tial law, I flogged Charlotte Scott with a cat-of-nine-tails made of fishing line, at Long Bay, on her shoulders ; she did not bleed much. She was stripped to the waist by Mr. Christopher Codringron's orders ; she pulled her clothes herself ; she was tied to a cocoa nut tree. I flogged her by Mr. Christopher ('odrington's orders, and she was to get 50 lashes, but I don't know how many I gave her." Margaret ?dinott, on her oath saith as follows—" I live at Rural-hill, on Cog Hall, sad I was a domestic servant of Mr. Hinchelwood's. On the 115th of October last year, during martial law, on that day I was taken by Constable Donaldson Penton before Mr. James Codrington, at Mr. David Main's shop, in this parish. He never asked me a question, but call ed Nathaniel Dick and told him to tie me, to have me flogged. Dick and Ind John B' all tied me to a cart wheel. Mr. James Codrington told them to tear off my clothes and make me naked to my waist. De fendant teen ordered Alick Cooper to flog me, to give me 20 lashes. Alick Cooper then gave me 20 licks on my bare back with a long guava stick. Defendant stood by and counted the licks. The first stick broke and they took another. My back bled, and defendant threw a mug of pickle over it. It burned me." Nathaniel Dick, on his oath saith as follows—" I am a labourer, and live of Rase-garden. I know Margaret Minott. In October last year during martial law. de fendant sent me and Donaldson Penton to bring Margaret Minott before him at Mein's shop. He did nut tell us what for. We took her before him. He did not try or examine her. but ordered Alick Cooper to tie her to a cart wheel to be flogged. I was ordered by a constable to tie her, and I dui so the cart wheel, and defendant ordered Alick Cooper to flog her, and Alick Cooper did flog her with a guava switch, and she bled, and defendant threw a mug of salt pickle on her hack." Ann Galloway, on her oath saith as follews—" 1 live at Manchioneal, and am a labourer. On Wednesday, the 18th day of October last year, I was taken by Charles Hunter before defendant at Long Bay, in this pariah, and he ordered Daniel Biggerstaff to give me 35 lashes. He did not try me or examine me at all. Defendant made Bigger staff drop my clothes and made me naked to the waist, and he told Biggerstaff to tie me to a wain wheel, and he did so, and defendant told Biggerstaff to flog me, and Big. gerstaff did so on my bare shoulders with a guava stick ; defendant was standing by. My beck bled, and defendiuit washed it with salt pickle ; it burned me. I was in the family way, and I was sick for two months and two weeks after the flogging." Daniel Biggerstaff, on his oath saith as follows—" I live at Long Bay, and am a rural constable. I recollect Wednesday, the 18th of October last year. I saw Ann Calloway that day brought to Long Bay by Charles Hunter, and put before defendant ; defendant ordered her to be tied, and I did so to a chaise wheel ; defendant ordered me to drop her clothes to ber waist, and I did so; he then told me to give her 25 lashes, and I did so, with • guava switch ; her back raised, and defendant ok salt pickle and washed it, that is, he made Robert Fnuiklin do it. I did not hear why he flogged her. She was not tried. Defendant stood by whilst I Bogged her." James Gordon, on his oath seal se follows—" I am a carpenter, and reside at Port Mount. On the lent Monday in October last year I was at Leith Hall as a con stable during martial law. I believe it was on that day that a man named Green, a prisoner, got away, and Fanny Taylor was said to have seen Green escape, and said no thing. Whereupon I ordered the constables to take Fanny Taylor in charge. She was taken, and Mr. Woodrow, the defendant, ordered her to be flogged. I did not see any trial. John Murray and John Lindsay took her to the Bell Post, and tied her hands end feet, and Mr. Woodrow ordered 25 lashes to be given to her with a cat made of twine, a regular naval eat. John Murray gave her the 25 lashes with the at, Mr. Woodrow koking on. Her shoulders were bare, sad blood came. No soldiers nor Maroons were at Leith Hall at the time. We were obliged to obey Mr. Woodrow's orders, for he wanted to cat my self. Cross-examined—lt was you who ordered the woman to be flogged. It was not me. I ordered her to be taken up." John Murray, on his oath smith as follows—" I live at Leith Hall, and am head man there. I was there during martial law, and protected the place. I know Fanny Taylor. I flogged her by Mr. Woodrow's orders during martial law at Leith Hall. It was in October. Mr. Woodrow looked on whilst I flogged her. I flogged with a oat made by soldiers out of twine. The handle was an umbrella stick. It brought blood. I flogged her on her bare shoulders. I and John Lindsay tied her to a post, first by Mr. Woodrow and James Gordon's orders. Crows. examined—You were at Leith Hall, giving orders about flogging, for two or three days." John Lindsay, on his oath saith as follows—" I live at East Prospect in this parish, and am a cooper. I know Fanny Taylor. She was flogged at Leith Hall in October last year during martial law, with • cat, by John Murray. Mr. Woodrow said to flog her. She is the MILD . * sweetheart. She saw him going away and would not tell, and John Murray g :fred her. Mr. Woodrow was present when she was fl The Earl of Cain.; rvon, in a despatch to Governor Grant, dated the 31st of Janusa, last, thus refers to the above and other similar cases : " have read your despatch of the 24th December, and the depositions taken in the cases of the persons named-{Christopher Codrington, William Pitt Kirkland, James Codrington, John Woodrow, David Winton] —with the deepest regret, both at the unwarranted acts of cruelty which, upon the face of the depositions appear to have i been committed by some of the parties accused, and at the evidence which those papers contain of the political prepossessions by which unhappily the grand jurors have allowed their minds to be influenced in the discharge of their judical duties. I feel myself, however, unable to require those measures to be adopted, which, under ordi nary circumstances, I should have unhesitatingly directed with the view to the adequate punishment of persons chargeable with signal inhumanity. You will have learnt from my despatch of the 16th November last, that I re gard the failure of justice in the ease of G. D. Ramsay as a refusal on the part of the grand jury to allow any judi cial inquiry into charges of an unusually grave nature, which in the interests, both of humanity and the public good, required as impartial investigation. There is nothing in your despatch of the 24th December to give me any hope that a better fe e li ng ex i s t s in the minds of that clams of persons from whom a grand jury would be selected, and I feel myself therefore still precluded from instructing you to take any further steps in the prosecu tion of these accused persons. " Governor Grant had previously informed the Earl of Carnarvon that the Attorney-General was of opinion that no grand jury in the island would find a true bill against Ramsay, and that, consequently, any further proceedings in Jamaica would be useless. Hia lordship replied: " There can be no doubt that the coons elf justice ham been grievously defeated in this case. I have no alternative but to regard at se • refusal on the part of the grand jury I to allow any judicial inquiry into charges of an unosually grave nature, which in the interests both of humanity and the public good imperatively required as impartial lama. station. Bat the further intimation, that such conduct is no other than is to beanticipated from every grand jury that can be formed in Jamaica imparts to the case a serious significance as regards the reforms required in the system under which justice is administered. It is the duty of her Majesty's government to consider very carefully this state of affairs ; and I have to request you to furnish me at the wheat date with a full report of the practical working of the grand jury system in the colony. Meanwhile, under the circumstances which you have stated, and which make it clear that no other result can be anticipated from a further prosecution of Mr. Ramsay at any subsequent assizes, and that the continuance of criminal proceedings would only tend to keep alive those feelings of irritation in the colony which it is my earnest wish to see replaced as soon as possible by healthier and safer objects of interest, I do not consider that it would be for the public advantage to attempt to carry this question further. In a minute on Mr. Ramsay's case, Governor Grant ex presses himself yet more strongly upon the conduct of the grand jury, and says that he cannot guess the ground on which they acted, as they had before them prisoner's written admission of the act charged. "The case," the governor says, "is left to the world upon the judge's charge, which will carry conviction to every unprejudiced mind as an apparent case of murder, which can only change its frightful aspect on the establishment of a plea in justifica tion, excuse, orexplanation, and the finding of *grand jury prevents all examination of the merits of any such plea." "No Englishman," the governor says, " could in a calm retrospective view of the occurrence dare to say that any deportment of the poor creature Marshall in his agony could be such as to merit death." The governor, without hesitation, dismissed Ramsay from kis office of Inspector of Police, and Earl Carnarvon approved of the decision. the Court. BALMORAL, JUNE 5. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, rode out yesterday morning on ponies. In the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Christian and attended by the Hon. Mrs. tiordon, drove to the Lynn of Dee. The Right Hon. S. Walpole left the Castle. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The Lords present were the Lord President, Lord Robert Mon tagu, and Lord Naas. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams attended the committee. A deputation of cattle salesmen and alaughtermen, con sisting of Mr. C. Hicks, Mr. H. Hicks, Mr. T. Burrell, Mr. G. Dickson, Mr. Mark Israel, sad Mr. T. Brown, had an interview with the Lord President of the Council, at the Council-office, Whitehall, yesterday. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams were present at the inter view. A deputation from the Dagenham (Thames) Dock Com pany, consisting of Mr. T. W. L Mackean, Captain George Bayley, and Captain J►mes C. Gitfard, had an interview with the Lord President of the Council, at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, on Wednesday last. A deputation from the General Medical Council, con sisting of the President (Dr. Burrows), Dr. l'aget, Dr. Andrew Wood, Dr. Chriatison, Dr. Apjohn, and Mr. Caesar Hawkins had an interview with the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy at the Home-office yesterday, in reference to the Medical Acts Amendment Bill. A deputation from Chambers of Commerce, introduced by Mr. E. C. Egerton, M.P., had an interview with the Right Hon. Stephen Cave, M.P., Vice-President of the Board of Trade, at the office of the Board of Trsde, yes tirJay, to obtain an amendment of the Carriers Act, •o far as relates to the non-liability of r►ilway com panies for loss or damage to goods consisting wholly or in part of ►ilk. A deputation from the Corporation of the City of Lon don, consisting of Mr. Henry A. Isaacs (Chairman of the Coal and Finance Committee), the Chamberlain of Lon don, and the Remeinbranoer, had an interview with Lord John Manners at the Office of Works, Whitehall-place, on Wednesday last. The Duke of Montrose left hie residence in Bel grave-square yesterday for Buchanan Castle, Stulingshire, to pass several days. The Duchess of Cleveland has issued cards for assemblies to take place on Saturdays, the 15th and 22nd, at her residence in St. Jama's•square. His Excellency Le Comte de Perponahor, envoy extraordinary and miniater plenipotentiary from his Ma jesty the King of Prussia, has arrived at Maurice' Hotel, from Berlin. Lady Herbert (of Lea) received the following company at dinner lest evening at her residence in Che sham-place :—The Marchioness of Londonderry, the Dowager Marchioness of Lothian, the Earl and Countess of Denbigh, the Countess of Newburgh, Viscount St. Aaaph, Lady G. Fullerton, Lady Mary Herbert, Hon. Mr. Herbert, Hon. Mr. Wood, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Scott Murray, Mr. Canon, Mr. Dugdale, Mr. Antrobue, /cc. Yesterday morning the marriage of Lady Marian Loftus, only daughter of the Marchioness of Ely, with Mr. Springfield, of the sth Dragoon Guards, took place at All Saints, Knightsbridge. Several deputations from various " constitutional associations " of working men will be received to-morrow by the Earl of Derby, at his official residence in Downing street. It is understood that an opportunity will be afforded to the noble premier of declaring himself upon the present and the future of the ministerial measure of reform. ST., BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL. —There iS this amount of truth in the reports which have been widely circulated respecting her Majesty's intended foundation of a very useful bat very expensive charity. The authori ties of St. Bartholomew's Hospital have long been taking measures to establish a convalescent branch to which patients acquiring country air may be drafted, and there is now reason to believe that the Queen will graciously patronise such an insti tution, probably by lending her name to it or permittin g it to be culled •' Royal." Such a mark of favour would be gracefully accorded to a charitable foundation in connexion with that hospital of which the Prince of Wales is presi dent. For the rest, a benevolent " person," whose name is not mentioned, has promised to give a considerable sum of money, the amount of which is not specified, tow.irds the projected undertaking. It would appear that there are some who anticipate so large a sum as half-a-million. We are not amongst these . —La nett THE PRINCE:SS UT WALEB.—The last week has seen an important step in advance towards the complete restoration of the Princess to her usual health and habits of activity. During the week arrangements have been made which will allow the Princess to move about more freely than hitherto without incurring the risk of any dis turbance or injury to the knee- joint. At the request of the surgeons, Mr. Hea th er Bigg has arranged a light and comfortable support for the purpose ; and the Princess is now released from the most uncomfortable part of her bondage, although not yet restored to complete freedom.— British Medical Journal. Crunrranlx BagUn.STS.—The will of the late Mies Mary Wotton Copp, of Park-house, St. Thomas, Exeter, has just passed the seal of the Probate Court in London. The personalty wen sworn under 40,0001. The executors are the Venerable Philip Freeman and the to.- tatrix's cousin, Harry Smith Styrin, Esq., solicitor, Lin coln's-inn. The will is dated Dec. 18, 1814, with a codicil Feb. 21, 1862, and she died Oct. 31, 1866, at the age of 71. Miss Copp has left charitable bequests amounting to nearly 11,0001., the chief of them are as follow :—To the Infant Orphan Asylum, Wanatead, 1,0001. ' • Muller's Orphan School, Bristol, 6001. ; Asylum for Female Orphans, 500/. To the Charing-cross Hospital, Seamen's Hospital (the Dreadnought) ; Consumption Hos pital, Brompton ; Samaritan Free Hospital, Cancer Hos pital, Devon and Exeter Hospital, Asylum for Idiots. ExeterDispeneary,Blenherm-street Dispensary, Institution for Nursing Sisters, Nightly Shelterforthe Houseless, Ship wrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Institution, Dr. Richards' Charity, Governesses' Benevolent Institution, Industrial Home for Gentlewomen, Indigent Blind Visiting Society, Church Pastoral Aid Society, Ladies' Charity School, London Orphan School, Devon and Exeter Reformatory Orphan Asylum, Plymouth, each a legacy of 3001. To the Asylum for C ripples and the Devon and Exeter Blind School, each 2001. ; and to the Teignmouth • , 1001. The testatrix directs the interest of 1, .to distributed amongst the alnispeople in the " ten cells ;" the interest of 2004 for the inmates of almshouses adjoin ing the churchyard of St. Thomas, Exeter ; the interest of 3001. for the almepeople in Old-street-road, London, occu pied by twelve poor weavers ; and that there be given six great coats and six cloaks to poor men and women, inhabi tants of St. Thomas, of the age of 60 ; and there are many other like thoughtful bequests—all to be free of duty. Mims Copp has made many bequests to her relatives and friends, and small pensions and legacies to her servants. The residue, real and personal, she leaves to her executors for their joint lives, with benefit of survivorship.—Plus tested Londe" News. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE " AMNESTY " TO THE POLES. The following is the text of the ukase of amnesty issued by the Czar respecting Poland, and dated Warsaw, May 31. It is addressed to the Admi nistrative Council of the Kingdom of Poland : 1. All political prosecutions relative to the last insur rection and to the disorder caused by it which are not yet terminated, whether before the tribunals or the commissions of inquiry, shall be annulled, and the incriminated parties be set at liberty, if they have not been guilty of ordinary crimes, such as murder, arson, 3:c. 2. No new proceedings shill be taken against anyone for having participated in the insurrection, and persons sus pected of having joined in it shall not be prosecuted. 3. All persons, natives of the kingdom of Poland, and sent in consequence of recent political disturb ances to different localities in Russia by order of the administration, may return to their country, if their conduct has been judged satisfactory by the local authorities. This measure does not extend to ecclesiastics, whose return will depend on the personal decision of the Emperor's lieutenant in Poland. 4. A similar permission is accorded to all persons natives of the Western States, who have been expelled from their homes by order of the administration, if their conduct has been certified as satis factory by the local authorities, and if they declare ex pressly their intention of establishing themselves in the Polish kingdom. This measure, like the last, is not to apply to ecclesiastic,, who will require a special authorisa tion from the Emperor's lieutenant. I therefore commu nicate to the administrative council of the kingdom the supreme will of the Czar, in order that measures may be taken in conformity with it. CE-NEZAL FIELD-MARSHAL BERG, Lieutenant of the Kingdom. (urunca's Tzuziums.) THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE CZAR. OFFICIAL ACCOUNT. PARIS, Jnirs 7. The following is the official account of the at tempted assassination of the Czar, published in the Moniteur of this morning :—" Yesterday,"while the review was being held in the Bois de Bou logne, amid an immense and indescribably enthu siastic crowd, an individual, who calls himself a Pole, fired a pistol at the carriage in which his Imperial Majesty, with the Emperor of Russia and his two sons, were seated. The ball struck the head of the horse of the groom in waiting, who was riding at the door of the carriage. The weapon burst in the hand of the assassin, who was arrested by the crowd. The interference of the police was necessary to save him from the rage of the populace. No one was hurt. The assassin declared his name to be Beregowaki and that he was a native of Volhynia." Some further details of the attempt upon the life of the Czar at yesterday's review have trans pired. It appears that the front of the Emperor Napo leon's uniform was soiled by the explosion of the assassin's pistol. The Emperor immediately rose, apparently to point out the spot whence the shot had been fired. Cries of " Viva I'Empereur" were heard in all directions. In the course of the evening numbers of persons of all ranks left their names at the Tuileries and the Elysde. The &irk says that the assassin declares he has no accomplices, and did not confide his design to anyone. All organs of the press unanimously condemn the attempt in strong terms. The Gazette des Tribunaus of to-day gives the following account of the attempted assassination of the Czar :—" At the moment when the im perial carriage was passing near the rocks of the cascade in the Bois de Bou logne, an assassin suddenly emerged from the crowd and fired a double-barrelled pistol. The Emperor's groom in waiting, Raimbaud, perceiving the movement, caused his horse to make a sudden bound, with the object of placing it between the assassin and the Sovereigns. The ball pierced the nostril of the groom's horse, and passed between the Emperors and the Grand Dukes, wounding a lady on the opposite side of the carriage. The distance between the groom's horse and the imperial carriage was so short that the blood from the wound in the horse's nostril spurted on to the uniforms of the Czar and Czars witch. The ball did not leave the second barrel of the pistol, which burst in the hands of the assassin. He was with difficulty rescued alive from the crowd, who cried out to put him to death, at the same time shouting energetically 'Vive l'Empereur,' Vive le Czar.' The two Sovereigns, whose calmness and presence of mind was not disturbed for one moment, gave orders for the cortdge to proceed at a walking pace. The assassin was raised from the ground almost insensible, having the thumb of his left hand shattered by the explosion of the pistol. He declared he arrived two days ago from Belgium to kill the Czar." PARIS, JUNK 6. The journal Le Droit publishes the following details relative to the assassin :—" He was in the road, about 15 paces from the Emperors, when he fired, but the pistol being overloaded, burst, and wounded him in the hand. He is a Polish me chanic, and had bought on the previous day a double•barelled pistol. He appeared very excited. The motives of the attempt appear to be political passion and personal hatred to the Czar. It is be lieved that he has no accomplices." HUNGARY. PESTH, inxr. 6. The Emperor has signed the inaugural diploma. On the presentation of the members of the Hun garian Diet to the Emperor he said :—" What the King of Hungary and the Hungarian nation ear nestly wish for must last." Representatives of all countries, with the ex ception of the United States of North America will be present at the coronation. ITALY. FLORENCE, JUNE 6. The second bureau of the Chamber of Deputies has appointed M. Ferraris as commissioner to examine the Ecclesiastical Property Bill of Signor Ferrara, and directed him to propose a modifica tion to the Government Bill. The other bureaux will hold a sitting on this subject to-morrow. ROME. ROME, JUNE 6. A mond oonsistory ham been held by the Pope preparatory to the celebrati , ,n of a au:ew-n act 9f canonisation. The Juit, nal d,• Ronc denies that ah.,lera by appeared in that city. SPAIN. MADRID, Jrse The Minister of State has declared that then ; jg no truth in the statement published in the Engli s h papers, asserting that in consequence of the deci. sion of the Council of State, the Spanish govern. ment had informed the English Cabinet that the legal proceedings relative to the Tornado had be es declared null and void. The same minister is• formed the Congress that the government had re calved a despatch announcing the capture of tht Colombian steamer Cuyler. MADRID, .IcNt The Congress assembled this morning in mg ordinary sitting, and, after speeches from Marsiij Narvaez, Senor Castro, and several deputies, pa s .„ 4 a resolution expressing regret at the attem.,t against the lives of the Czar and the Emperor • the French. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. GRAND REVIEW AT THE BOIS DE BOULOGNE. EXTRAORDINARY SPECTACLE. Mow OUR eini colutzaromair.) PARIS, THURSDAY EvINING. The familiar expression, " Wonders will neve r cease," presses itself with peculiar force and ae'lialite upon dwellers in Paris in this wondres year. After all the dinners, and balls, and recep tions, and theatricals, and races which have b een described in rapid succession and hot haste in superlative terms, my Snit impassion on arriving home, "breathless and faint" from the review to- day is to say, with a certainty that I do not es . aggerate, that it was the most wonderful spectacle of the kind I ever saw in my life. I have seen every grand review in Paris since 1851, but never aug ht like this. It was wonderful, not only on ac.yeint of the presence of three of the most powerful monarchs in the world, a royal prince who is a ' great conqueror—for he won the battle of Salon —and two of the greatest ministers that ever 6 lived, Gortchakoff and de Bismarck, not only on account of the immense number of splendid tn.ips of all arms on the ground, but also and above all, bythe vast and unparalleled crowds of all classes of society that went to see it. The hundreds of thou ' sands that went to the races on Sunday were but as ' a handful compared to the legions that flocked to day around and about the same ground, and many of whom were not able to get near enough to it to see so much as the upper part of a dragnet helmet. When I spoke of a plebeian crowd vading the 20fr. places at the races the other day, I used a relative term. Those plebeians were all a the outward garb of gentlemen. The working classes care little about races, and will not put themselves much out of the way to go there. Bat a military spectacle always awakens the curiosityl Parisians of all ranks. On this occasion, although the distance from the centre of Paris was treble that of the Champs de Mars, a far g,neer number of shopkeepers, artificers, and work men left their occupations than were ever seen there when it was the locale for grand reviews. This fact is the more remarkable because to-day is neither Sunday, Monday, Tues day, nor Saturday, all of which are more or less holidays or half holidays. It is Thursday—one of ' the most working days in the whole week, and a day when the majority of working men have little money to spend. I waylaid the imperial cortige, going to the review at the top of the Avenue de l'lmpemtrice, near the Arc de Triomphe, and got au excellent view of it. The King of Prussia came first. He was in an open carriage, and the Empress, with a conspicuous blue bonnet, was sitting by him on his left hand. He was escorted by a petal.., of lancers going at a good trot. Next came the Emperor Napoleon, also in an open carriage, having the Czar seated on his right hand. The Princes, aides-de-camp, and distinguished mem bers of the Czar, and the King of Prussia's suite, invited to the review, followed in other open car riages. Count de Bismarck, in his white uniform, was very conspicuous. Several people exclaimed, " Bismarck ! Bismarck !" not by way of applause, but to point out to their neighbours this famous personage. The King of Prussia, was, so far as I could observe, silently received, notwithstanding that the Empress was with him; but when the Emperor passed, three or four minutes later, there were emphatic cries of Viva l'Emperenr " from a very considerable part of the closely packed bystanders. When the 00;w had swept by I heard a cry of " Vela on Anglais; un g4ndral Anglais." Looking to the left, I saw advancing on a prancing charger a mag- nificent man, of large stature, with a liallYn.oll white beard carefully trimmed, and a cein tenance full of vigour, and looking younger than the beard. This beard's owner wort a scarlet uniform with enormous epaulette and a cocked hat with a profusion of feather. Scrutinising him closely, anxious to know who great English general this may be, I recognise' the fine features of the O'Gorman Mahon, some time an M.P. lam ignorant of his precise mill' tary rank, although I have some vague imprcesee of his being a colonel in the army in South Asir rice ; but it is certain that he represented military England with very great effect in the immediate rear of the imperial cortige all the way to the reviewing ground. The rendezvous for getting on horseback was at the Bois de Boulogne gate, near St. Cloud. Thereat 1.45 the three Sovereigns mounted and rode to the lines—the Czar in the centre, the Emperor Napoleon on his left, and the King of Prussia on his right. The Czarewitch and the Prince Royal of Prussian riding together, cams next ; then came Prance Wladimir and Prince Louis of Hesse. An immense staff of all nations followed. All the generals in Paris had been invited to attend. In the following were three or four Arab sheiks in their white bournous and one Japanese After gallopin g who rode, l rapidly a yalon ,on the hnes a si o d f e ee -sad vel d. ry le , infantry, and artillery, the monarchs took rip a • • tr p o i it h a n ta n o e n f o o n r t t h h e e e filing g p m a a n t n d o . p p o te The Empresst h o i e:1 1 1 1 4 her royal guests and the ladies of the nape oritalhetefamnielyre were in with fashionable conAlilpanthey. The students of St. Cyr filed past first ; then the infantry, cavalry, and artillery. The nausic of the different bands, some of which was excellent, echoed far and wide in the Bois de Boulogne and on the heights of Suresne. The most striking thing to me in the whole spectacle was to see for the space of a mile on the Bois de Boulogne.he: tweee the re'^odes and Baron Rothschild s house, men up in the trees in numbers sufficient to form a large army. A good stout oak would carry its 30 or 40 men, several of whoa