The Express. — London, England, 1866-04-12 00:00:00

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Mr. James Anderscsa HIOH•WATLR AT LONDON-BRIDO!. TIM DAT —Morning, 11 it. 41m Afternoon, Oft. Ont. To•YOlßOW—Mornitri, Oh. 1001 Afternoon. OIL 37m. LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 12. May we be permitted, even in these bitter times, to congratulate Mr. DABBT Gairrrru on having at length alighted upon a subject not unworthy of his eloquence and philosophy ? On Monday evening, in Committee of Supply, he raised a &s -cission on the arrangement of seats in the House, which, thanks to the genial encouragement of Mr. Horism.er, expanded into considerations on the decline of parties, and on the physical and moral question of cross-benches for independent members. h is the privilege of the member for Devizes to be the cause of wit in others, and on this occasion he not only stimulated Mr. HORSMAR'S self-con sciousness to a moat ingenuous confession, but drew from Mr. GLADSTONE himself a few sentences of subdued irony on the condition of parties before and since the Reform Bill, and upon men of no party, which was probably more pungent than agreeable to the chiefs of the new Third Party, of which Mr. Lows and Mr. Hoessux divide pretty equally the responsibilities and the honours. Indeed, the member for Stroud complained that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had left the House before his definition of an independent member, as according to BURKE " a member whom " nobody could depend upon," had been demo lished. In Mr. GLADSTONE'S absence, Mr. Hosmus could not dilate sufficiently on the inappropriate ness of BURKE'S definition to present times and men. But let us see what it is that Mr. DARBY Garrrrrit,who has studied these questions long and deeply, requires by way of a new arrangement of seats in the House. Nothing if not cosmopolitan in his tastes and aspirations, Mr. DARBY Gaff srrit remarks that foreign legislative chambers are mostly semicircular in shape, with a " tribune " in the middle, for the orators to speak from. This is the famous " tribune" which it is rumoured the French Government is about to restore, in spite of its parliamentary associations. Mr. DARBY GRIFFITH, however, does not expressly say that he would prefer to speak from a " tribune," so that we are left in doubt whether it is his own case that he is contemplating when he suggests an elevated rostrum for the orator. He notices with approval the semicircular form of building common to parliamentary assemblies abroad, but it is rather the distribution of seats according to the more or leas sinister quality of parties, such as Right, Left, Centre, Right Centre, and Left Centre, that he would fain see adopted at St. Stephen's. He attributes the present arrangement of seats to the old traditions of St. Stephen's Chapel, and complains with some justice of the notoriously de ficient accommodation for members in the body of the House on great occasions. But he espe cially desires a cross-bench or benches on which independent outlying members of either of the great parties may take refuge and counsel together ; from the Right Centre composed of Tory independents to the Left Centre composed of Liberal seceders, the Centre being occupied by sound Conservatives unattached, and probably by a combination of thoughtful and cultivated Liberals, or thoughtful and cultivated Conservatives, we cannot say which—the latitude ranging from Chester to Caine. Devizes would temper with the frequent and easy talk of a full and ready mind the weighty silence of a middle row of learned Theban, an audience tit but few, who, like the sailor's parrot, would be always thinking stu pendously. This seems to be Mr. DARBY GRIFFITH'S ideal of a House, and we believe the member for Devizes is a travelled man, who has seen and studied many cities and their manners. Mr. COWPER made a somewhat startling suggestion, that any member wishing to speak as from a tribune might speak from one of the side galleries. But we trust Mr. DARBY Gatreern'scultivatedimpatience of the dignified darkness of the fourth row will not provoke hint, in a spirit of antiquarian innovation, to make an experiment which would displace so uncomfortably what one may call the centre of gravity in the House, and exercise a sort of moral violence upon the judicious leisure of the reporters. Besides, what is to become of the SPEAKER'S eye if it is liable to this constant change of focus? Mr. DARBY GRIFFITH, it is true, with a fine unselfishness, is content to recommend his new semi-circular arrangement of the House to a future Parliament. Bathe has evidently made both the physical and the moral part of the question his own. The House, he says, would be naturally divided into "Left, Right, Left Centre, Right " Centre, and Centre ;" " Toryism on one side, " Radicalism on the other : Conservatism here, " Whiggery there, and Independence between the " two." This seems to leave the party of " Inde " pendence" neither here nor there. Mr. GLAD STONE'S remark that the lines of party were far leas sharply drawn before the first Reform Bill than at present will probably surprise many who have been accustomed to date the decline of parties from a period so late as twenty years ago. Indeed, we own a certain difficulty in accepting Mr. GLAD STONE'S conclusions on this point, though we are far from presuming to dispute his authority. There were, he tells us, in the old days, besides the Go vernment party and the Opposition, a Court party, and a country party. No doubt there were such " separate modifications ;" but were they not merely incidental, occasional, and personal ; not in any sense parties, but sets or coteries of men more or less subservient or intractable ? And is it impossible to conceive even in our own days the reappearance of somewhat analogous varieties of party species ? Is the intractable country gen tleman, whom we all respect, extinct I We hope and believe he may still be found. Are there no questions—say in the Miscellaneous Estimates—in which something like a Court party might separate itself for a moment at least from the main body of the Government supporters on either side of the House, and force the hand of the Treasury f Not a liii l l II ei !ri , .11 Jo, ~.i,•• i 0, 1 1I 1 ! 1 , . , ' 1 ' . HI ,1. • 1 ' 1 1 ' i I i , i,! . .. 1, TitE EXPRESS, THURSDAY Parliament since 1832 can be named in wbieh there have not been a few members of eccentric honesty and unminneable self-respect. Mr. GLADSTONE mentions instances of conspicuous isolation of the better sort ; it would perhaps be as easy to cite examples of the worse. Nor does the advance of liberal opinion seem to promise that the lines of party will be more sharply drawn in the futum, though as long as England shall be England we cannot expect or desire that either of the two great parties—the party of move ment and the party of resistance—will cease to held the balance of the State. It is, therefore, grati fying to hear Mr. Hoassurr acknowledge that the old traditions of parliamentary courtesy have not died out, and that when he comes down to deliver a philippic against Reform from the front Liberal bench below the gangway, Radicals make room for him, as the younger Tories do for Mr. Rozaucx on the other side. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) *hem ; but great ne it is, it Is mai worthy of um occa sion. The Amesissa minister, k speak* in the City the other day of Mr, Peabody's Character, desselhed him as being ahead " species by him self." It is a thing, he said, taknown that a man should entertain so large an ambition, directed so entirely to the disinterested purpose of distributing his property for the benefit of his fellows. It such en opinion be just, let us hope that the species thus initiated by Mr. Pea body may be extended and oontinued by the force of his example. It is not everyone wbo can express his gratitude to Providence and to his country by such extraordinary munificence, nor is it altogether desirable that the example should be always copied to the letter. But everyone might imitate the spirit which Mr. Peabody describes as his animating motive, and if all did so in their due proportion, the wants of humanity would be greatly lessened. )1:18 TOPICS. Everybody's hands being full, the present ooeuion, the Tines remarks, is not one for real results as to the Irish church ; it is a battle of principles and sentiments war ranted to do nobody any harm just now. The Times doubts, however, whether, if the Irish catholic* were to get a strong government, one which meant equal laws, equal taxation, and the speely repression of every system and every spontaneous organisation that lifts up its hand against the common will of the people as ex- .essed in law, Archbishop Cullen would find his place quite as easy as it is now. The Italian States, formerly governed with such weakness, are now adminis tered with a just and equal hand, and, therefore, with an iron rule that falls heavy on some classes. If Ireland ever should be equally governed, she would still have to look back with fond and foolish repinings to the present era of slack discipline and indulgent weakness. The Polt can see no objection whatever to the bill which was read a second time yesterday qualifying the Postmaster-General to sit in the House of Commons. The . Poet-office, as Hr. Gladdens rightly observed, is • fruitful source of revenue, and its proceed' supply the place of that which otherwise must be raised by taxation. As, how ever, the House of Commons claims absolute control in all matters relating to finance, it is right that the minister who represents the postal department should be capable of personally communicating with the house. The Telegnsph considers that the failure or success of the proposition for a Teutonic parliament will have but small influence on the question of peace or war. The solution of that problem depends upon the action or inaction of the neutral Powers, not upon the negotiations between Vienna an 1 Berlin. If we could believe the statement that Italy an IPrussia have concluded an offensive and defensive alli ance, we should indeed regard war as inevitable ; but such an alliance would be almost nu3atory without the consent of France ; and as yet there is no indication that Napoleon 111. has decided on any definite line of proceeding. The Star sees in the late acts of President Johnson the plainest signs of the policy which must make his rupture with the republican party final and irrevocable. Not one of the objections which might, with some show of reason, be urged against the Freedmen's Bureau could possibly apply to the Civil Rights Bill. This measure in some respects fell short of what justice actually demanded. For tunate/3,, to be forewarned is to be forearmed ; and the republican party has thee far developed strength instead of weakness by its contest with the executive. The Con grew, which has done so much for the good name of its country and for the honour of the Anglo-Saxon race, ex hibit. no disposition to surrender to the enemy. Mr. Johnson has revealed himself in his tr ce colours not • moment too soon, but happily not too late. THE DOVER:MIXT AND THEIR WORE BILL. Endorsing Mr. Bright's complaint that reporters were excluded from the meeting on Tuesday where the subject of discussion was so mush a matter of public con cern, the Tines proceeds to describe the ministry as having come bit by bit to understand the false position in which they have placed themselves, though the fatal blot of their policy remains an. touched. Their whine exposes them to this dilemma : If a oomplets inseam now be brought in, the acceptance or rejection of that measure lies primarily with the pre sent House of Commons, and ultimately with the existing constituencies. If the measure be divided, and the first part be adopted, the fate of the second part must depend upon the new constituencies called into being by the first. It is evident, then, that the force of Lord Grosvenor's amendment is as great now as it wee when it was first put upon the notice paper, and, as the ministry have confessed by their acts that the amendment is founded in reason, the Times treats they will go a step further, and adopt the policy it recommends. It is not a question of reform or no reform—a question of confidence or no confidence in the ministry, but whether a lengthening series of bills promises completion and finality, or whether they will not rather serve as the battlefields of a long and ruinous contest. The task of ministers this evening, the Daily News observes, will be simplified by the strong and articulate voice of the country, which has been heard in their sup port. Clever members who • month ago were devising means of obstructing the bill, are fest rectifying their po sition, and the earlier opponents of the measure are re sorting to the familiar expedient of discovering, in • supposed change in the conduct and intentions of the government, • ground for taking up a more fa vourable position towards it. The Times, which has had oondderable experience of these tactics, is apparently making ready for another volteface, and being again on the wrong side'of the river ia choosing this way of croaking the stream. Mr. Oliphant, in an ex pression by the way which occurslin the Times' account of the meeting at Earl Russell's, tried on the same device on Tuesday evening as a way of shuffling off the amendment which he had imprudently encumbered himself. But Mr. Gladstone soon took him up and set him right. As its readers are aware, the Daily News has understood and in terpreted the intentions of members from the first, in the sense of Earl Russell's explanations, and has always discussed the question on that assumption. Perhaps the jubllancy of the opponents of the bill will be lessened when they are reminded that Earl Russell's declaration does not bind the government to take the decision of the House of Commons on the second of the two bills in the present session. Ministers would be glad to carry both measures this year, and they are determined to carry at least one. It is no doubt in the power of their usual opponents, by giving facilities to the government, to enable them to carry both bills this session, and it would be highly satisfactory to find them wise enough to do so, but ministers have not yet placed it in the power of those opponents to defeat the work of reform this dation by opposing the redistribution of seats. In another article the Daily Nees gives some ac count of a political paper in the new number of the Quarterly Bovine, a composition which is defined as rather a succession of shrieks and unearthly cries than a discus sion or a statement, and which contains much to remind one of Lord Cranborne's speeche:. It is an odd mixture of Dante and Dr. Cumming. We are conducted to a ledge of rock from which we are bid to look upon a phan tasmagoric spectacle of almost every political woe that the imagination can conceive. This is the medieval, Italian element—this is England's Inferno. And having been duly horrified we are taught to expect the advent of all these evils in the year of grace 1867, or at latest in 1868. On one point the Daily News is glad to agree with the Quarterly namely that if the Reform Bill passes the second rearing it will probably pass the House of Lords, and that the peers will not venture to dispute the decision of the House of Commons. As there is now no doubt not only that the bill will pass the House of Commons, but will do so by a majority which will greatly lessen the responsibility of the House of Lords, we are disposed to make great allowance for the excitement of our tory contemporary, though none at all for his vituperative sprit. . . . . The Post contemplates with apprehension the political situation which is created by Lord Russell's pledge not to advise her Majesty to dissolve the present parliament until it has passed the second part of the reform bill, and contends that ministers have entangled themselves further than ever. The Herald says that none of its liberal contemporaries have attempted to estimate the proportion of those present on Tuesday, who would do all in their power to trip up the measure. A ministry that in its cxtremest hour of need can only rally round its chief some two-thirds or thereabouts of the party which he claims to control, must, indeed, be daring, almost to the verge of infatuation, if they still resolve to sacrifice themselves and their followers in the reckless impetuosity of a forlorn hope. And when a premier finds, even in the dwindling host who surround him, one or two outspoken disaentienta who are not afraid to tell him to his face that they con- demn the course he has chosen, he can scarcely augur well for his enterprise from the sounds that prevail in his own camp. It is understood, the Telegraph says, that Mr. Gladstone will addrem the house to-night in proposing the second reading of the Reform Rill, and that he will not, OA many supposed, confine himself to the mere ceremonial of mov. ing it. The deserters from the liberal ranks may be counted upon the fingers of the two hands : and even added to the compact phalanx of 280 conservatives, who, we are contemptuously told, will enter their own lobby without a lagging foot or a reverted eye, these recreant liberals are too insignificant in number to prevail against their staunch and uncorrupted brethren. LORD GRONVILNOR AND HIE AMENDMENT. The Star believes the rumour is well founded that Lord Grosvenor is not happy in the unfortunate position in which he has placed himself, and that, after the explana tions given by Lord Russell on Tuesday to his supporters in Downing-street, he was anxious to relieve himself from it, and that he went down to the house, intending to make a statement which would have rendered it unnecessary for him to proceed with his amendment. It is said further that Lord Grosve nor was present at Lord Salisbury's house yesterday whilst the meeting of the tory members was being held, though the Star is not informed that he actually appeared at the meeting among the supporters of Lord Derby. It would appear that the tory adherents of Lad Grosvenor would not consent to the withdrawal of his amendnient, and that he feels bound to fulfil his engagement with them, and consequently to move it this evening on the motion for the second reading of the Franchise Bill. The Star has reason to believe that some members of the liberal side of the house who are more or less pledged to support him are anxious that the amend. ment should not be premed, but at this late hour it is not likely that their wishes can be gratified. NIL TIMBODY'EI LITTIJI TO THE QUUW. The TiPICI lauds the graceful and appropriate terms in which Mr. Peabody has replied to the Queen. He has re ceived the greatest honour which can be given to a private EARL GROSVENOR'S MOTION. Earl Grosvenor rose in his place in the House of Commons yesterday, with the observation that he wished to say a few words on an important subject. The Deputy Speaker called the noble lord to order, the House having important business before it and Lord Grosvenor's interruption being irregular, his few words remained unspoken. The incident excited much curiosity, as it was not doubted that Lord Grosvenor wanted to make some announcement or explanation regarding his motion. Last evening it was very generally rumoured, that Lord Grosve nor, finding that he was not likely to obtain among his more immediate political friends the support on which he had calculated, and being unwilling to play into the hands of Lord Derby, had resolved to withdraw his motion ; and the rumour seems highly probable. MEETING OF CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS. We read in the Herald :—" A meeting of the supporters of the Earl of Derby took place yesterday afternoon, at 1 o'clock, at the Marquis of Salisbury's resi dence. There was a very large attendance of members, and it was a subject of general congratulation that Lord Derby, who still bore the traces of his recent illness, had gathered strength enough to reappear amongst his political friends. His lordship addreasad the meeting in a speech which last2d nearly an hour and • half, and which for eloquence and feeling has rarely been surpassed. The response given was hearty and unanimous." Another account says :—" Yesterday afternoon, at 1 o'clock, 230 members of the Conservative party smembled at the Marquis of Salisbury's residence, in A•dington street, Piccadilly. The Earl of Derby was present, and addressed the meeting. The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, and the leaders of the conservative party in the House of Commons, were also pre ent. The meeting, which was called by circular, separated at about a quarter to 3 o'clock. The subject under consideration was the Government Reform Bill, and the course to be pursued by the conservatives in the forthcoming debate." the Court. OSBORNE, Ara Er. 11. The Queen, with Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, arrived at Osborne yesterday evening at a quarter before seven o'clock from Windsor Castle, having mowed over from Gosport in the royal yacht Alberta. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council met yesterday in the Council Chamber, WhitehalL The Lords present were—Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, and Sir George Grey. The Lord Advocate was also present. Mr. Helps (the clerk of the Council) attended. At this meeting their Lordship. Massed an order in respect to the Cattle Plague as affecting Scotland. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-018m to the Governors of Gibraltar and Malta. MR. PEABODY'S REPLY TO HER MAJESTY. The following letter was transmitted to the Queen through Earl Russell, in reply to her Majesty's gracious letter to Mr. Peabody : "The Palace Hotel, Buckingham•gate, London, April 3. " Madame,—l feel sensibly my inability to express in adequate terms the gratification with which I have read the letter which your Majesty his done me the honour of transmitting by the hands of Earl Russell. "On the occasion which has attracted your Majesty's attention of setting apart a portion of my property to ameliorate the condition and augment the comforts of the poor of London, I have been actuated by a deep sense of gratitude to God, who has blessed me with prosperity, and of attachment to this great country, where, under your Majesty's benign rule, I have received so mach personal kindness, and enjoyed so many years of happiness. "Next to the approval of my own conscience, I shall always prize the assnranoe which your Majesty's letter conveys to me of the ►pprobation of the Queen of England, whose whole life has attested that her exalted station has in no degree diminished her sympathy with the humblest of her subjects. " The portrait which your Majesty is graciously pleased to bestow on me I shall value as the moat precious heir loom that I can leave in the land of my birth, where, together with the letter which your Majesty has addressed to me, it will ever be regarded se an evidence of the kindly feeling of the Queen of the United Kingdom towards a citizen of the United States. " I have the honour to be your Majesty's most obedient servant, " GEORGE PEABODY. " To her Majesty the Queen." &ttfING, APRIL IT IN' THE PRUSSIAN PROPOIMTION FOR FEDERAL REFOEM. The Europe of Frankfort contains the ter of the motion for Federal reform, with the grounds on which it is based, presented by Prussia to the Ger man Diet on the 9th inst. It is a lengthy docu ment, and contains the following paragraph with regard to direct universal suffrage : " Now, universal suffrage can alone be regarded as the only possible mode of election for the object in view, in consequence of the necessity of making the most diverse particular interests bend to one and the same end ; and the Prussian government has the less hesitation in proposing this mode of election, because it regards it as more favourable to the conservative principle than any other mode of election based on artificial considerations." The Inclipenckince Beige chi ment in the following terms : the docn- " The proposition for Federal reform laid before the Frankfort Diet by the representative of Prussia will astonish all who read it by its bold ness. It exceeds in its liberalism anything that the advanced party ever dared to hope from the moat reforming minister." THE AIJS'TRO-PRITE3HIAN CONFLICT. The Mouiteur du Soir oontains the following : A private despatch from Vienna announces that the Austrian generals who assembled on the 7th at the office of the Minister of War, deliberated on the steps to be taken for the concentration of troops on the northern frontier. A second meeting of generals was held next day- The Vienna Presse contains a communication from Prague which contains the following particu lars respecting the arrest of Count Waldersee : The count, who appears to be a lieutenant-colonel in one of the infantry regiments of the Guards, commenced, from the moment of his entry into Austria, such minute inquiries into military matters, that he at once became an object of suspicion to the autho rities. Re went in the direction of Josephstadt and Honiggratz, at which places it was reported troops were sasemblinl. At Josephstadt the Count took sketches of the fortifications, and at Prague people were surprised at his various inquiries as to the marching of troops, the strength of the detachments, and at his fre quent conversations with the soldiers. A waiter at the hotel informed the police that he was making military notes, and being already under surveillance it was decided to arrest him. _ _ 'G MURDER IN CANNON-STREET WEST. About a quarter-past 10 last night a murder was discovered to have taken place in the premises belonging to Marrs. Bevington and Co., leather manufacturers, No. 2, Cannon-street West. The victim is Sarah Willson, housekeeper, who lived on the premises, but the murderer is at present unknown. From the statement of Elisabeth Lewes, cook, who was the only person in the house with the unfortunate woman at the time, it seems that both of them were sitting together, when a little before 9 o'clock the house bell was rung. Million rose and went downstairs, where she remained some time. Her absence, however, was not noticed, as she was in the habit of standing talking fora long time at the street-door. Ten o'clock having struck, Lewes thought it was time for bed, and went to look after the deceased. On reselling the passage she saw Willson lying down at full length, but this at first did not occasion much alarm, as her fellow-servant was subject to fits—the last she had being about a fort night since. Thinking she was in one of them, Lewes opened the street-door to seek sasistanee,and there happened to be a woman sitting on the door-step at the time who went in the house. The murder was then discovered. The spectacle presented by the poor creature was so horrible that both were paralysed for the moment The woman who came in to render assistance left, as was thought, to fetch a polioaeonstahls, but it was remarked as singular that she has neither been seen nor beard of since. The affrighted woman Lewes then rushed into the street and gave an alarm, and almost immediately Ser geant O;borne and Police-constable Stephenson came to her aid. It was discovered that the murdered woman had been severely ant about the face and back part of the heed, and was covered with blood. Dr. May having been called in, he pronounced life to be ex tinct, and Mrs. Johnson, the female searcher from the Bow-lane station, having washed the blood away, it was found that the deceased had been brutally cut, there being seven wounds between the eyes, over the temples, and near the back of the head. A gentleman belonging to the firm was sent for from Hackney, and the body was eventually taken to the dead-house of St. Mary Alder mary, Bow-lane. When the murdered woman was found, her head was to wards the street door, her feet being close to the stairs, covered only with her stockings ; and it is somewhat re markable that the shoes she had been wearing were disco vered lying on a table in the hall. It is conjectured that she must have been first stunned, and that the murder was completed with some sharp instrument She had, it is mid, been nearly ten years in her situation, and was much respectcd. EXECUTION AT SWANSEA.-(THIS DAY.) SWANSEA, rifts's DAT. This morning Robert Coe was hanged in front of Swansea Gaol for the murder of Edward Davis, at Moun tain Ash, Gl•morganshire, on the 2nd September last. The history of this murder is • very remarkable one. The murderer and his victim were both young men, and worked together at one of the numerous iron works of the district up to the day on which the ill-fated Davis fell a victim to the rage and cupidity of his supposed friend. On Saturday, the 2nd September, both the young men left their work together as usual about 4 o'clock in the •!ternoon, and were seen in each other's company for an hour. About 5 o'clock they were observed walking towards a wood called Dyffryn Wood. The deceased was never seen alive afterwards, but four months later, viz., in the beginning of January in the pre-ent year, a fanner who had lost some sheep was searching for them in the Dyffryn Wood, when at a spot which is visible from the line of the Great Western Railway near Aberdare his dog stopped, and on going up, the farmer found the headless trunk of • human being in an advanced stage of decomposition. Looking round he found the head at a I few yards distance, and no tidings having been heard of the missing Davis, his father was brought to the spot and identified the body of the son by the clothing. He also identified the skull by • missing tooth. It then transpired that two months previously Robert Coe, Davis's fellow workman, had been speaking of a murder that he said ho had heard had been committed in the wood, " the head having been chopped from the body.' He had also about the time of the supposed murder if not on the very day, borrowed • hatchet, which be detained for • long time, and when returned there were slight stains of blood upon the handle. Dr. Herepath, the analytical chemist, proved the existence of these blood stains on the trial, but could not say whether the blood was human or that of other animals. On the trial the evidence adduced was entirely circumstantial. There was not a direct fact bringing the crime home to the accused. It was shown that in something more than half an hour after Davis and Coe were seen going together towards the wood on the evening of the 2nd of September, Coe re turned to his lodgin7,s, and that having performed the usual Saturday ablution he went a short distance by train, returning home between 10 and 11 at night. No signs of unusual excitement were visible in his conduct that night, nor was any attempt made on the trial to show that there were marks of blood on his clothing. It was sought on the trial to connect with the murder the feet that Coe had borrowed the hatchet on or about the 2nd September. , There could be no doubt that he did borrow the hatchet about the time, for the purpose, as he said, of cutting some rods out of the wood, and that he did cut the rods. The medical evidence also went to show that the head of the murdered man had been cut off with such an instrument as the borrowed hatchet. When the body was found there was no money found in the clothes, but it did not appear that Coe had been spending about this time more money than he might himself have possessed. Both the young men had been paid their wages on that Saturday evening. The case was altogether a weak one to substantiate so seri ous a charge, but, after a trial which occupied a day and a half, the jury found the prisoner guilty. It is satisfactory to add that after his conviction more convincing proofs of the prisoner's guilt transpired. It seems that while the police were looking everywhere for evidence, there was lying in the work-room where the pri soner had been employed a damning evidence of guilt in the blood-stained coat worn by Coe on the evening of the murder. The cor.t had been lying in the workshop until • few days after the trial, when, on being casually removed, it was examined, and the blood-stains were found upon it. The prisoner, after his condemnation, betrayed the same remarkable apathy and indifference to his position as was exhibited by him when on his trial. In this frame of mind he continued until • few days ago, when the un remitting exertions of the Rev. Mr. Williams, the chap. lain, brought him to a sense of his position. lie acknow ledges' his guilt and expressed his deep penitence for the offence he had committed. That confession has been taken down in full and it wall the express wish of the condemned man that it should not be made public until after his death. The confession published in a local paper a week ago, turns out to be a mere invention. Last evening (Wednesday) the eonvict's two brothers visited him in the condemned cell, and the parting, as may be supposed, was a most affecting one. Calcraft was the executioner, and he arrived from London last night. At the time of his arrival crowds of people had assembled outside the gaol anxious to catch a glimpse of the awful preparations going on within the walls. Coe walked to the scaffold with a firm step, and main tained his self-possession to the last. In his confession he admits committing the crime solely for the victim's money, 33a. He denies returning a second time to despatch his victim. The Nord Deutsche Zcitung says on this subject When a Prussian odor is arrested and expelled without any formality, when travelling as such, and under his own name in Austria, even the most incredulous must feel cer tain that there exist important facia relative to the Aus trian armaments, and that in the eyes of the Cabinet of Vienna it is of more consequence to conceal them than to diminish the danger,pf war by revealing the truth. The Berlin Cabinet, we believe, will see in the occur rence a new warning to be on its guard against what is preparing in Bohemia. The Prussian government will doubtless consider what proceedings will be adopted towards Austrians who are travelling in Prus sia. The Indispendame Bettie intimates that the greatest irritation has been produced, even in the highest circles of Berlin, by the arrest of the count, who is the brother of a former Prussian minister of war. (azurra's 7111120aL118.) ACCOUCHEMENT OF THE PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA. POTSDAISI, APRIL 12. Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia gave birth to a princess at 6 a.m. to-day. The Crown Prince and Princess had arrived here this morning at 1 a.m. by special train from Berlin. THE EXPULSION OF COUNT WALDERSEE FROM AUSTRIA. BERLIN, APRIL 12. An official contradiction has been given to the assertion that the Prussian government will take reprisals on account of the expulsion of Cuunt Waldersee from Austria. FRANCE. PARIS, APRIL 12. The Moniteur of this morning confirms the statement that the amount required for exemp tions from military service will be 2,100 francs during the current year. SPAIN. MADRID, APRIL 12. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day the Minister of Finance, in reply to a question as to whether the concession for the new National Bank was con nected with the future settlement of the certificates of the Passive Debt, said that the government was not compelled to reveal its plans at an inopportune time. ELECTORAL STATISTICS. This morning were published three parliamentary returns bearing upon electoral statistics in boroughs. One is a return obtained by Mr. Hunt of the several cities and boroughs in England and Wales, arranged in order accord ing to the proportion of electors belonging to the working classes on the register ; showing the total number of elec tors ; the total number of persons of the working-clasies on the register ; the proportion by way of percentage of the latter to the whole number of electors ; and the number of male occupiers at 71. and under 10!. gross estimated rental. In 89 cities and boroughs the proportion of elec tors of the working-classes on the register to the total number of electors exceeds 25 per cent. ; the average in the boroughs referred to is 37.2. The number of electors on the register for these boroughs is 228,453, of whom 85,156 come under the description of working classes. The number of male occupiers at 71. and under 101., gross estimated rental, is 100,452. In 27 boroughs the proportion of working-class electors exceeds 20 per cent., and is less than 25 ; the average is 22.8. Here the number of electors on the register is 85,892, of whom 19,570 are working men. The number of male occupiers at 71. and wider 10/. gross estimated rentals 27,711. In 34 boroughs the proportion of electors of the working class exceeds 15 per cent., and is less than 20 ; the average is 17.3. The num ber of electors is 81,783, of whom 14,125 are working men. There are in these boroughs 37,890 male occupiers at 7/. and under 101. gross estimated rental. In 50 boroughs the proportion of working class electors is less than 15 per cent., the average being 10.5. Out of the 92,949 electors9,7s2 are working-men. The number of male occupiers of the de scription above given is 40,347. The total for England and Wales is as follows :—Out of 489,007 electors on the regis ter 128,603 oome within the description of mechanic., arti sans and other persons supporting themselves by daily manual labour, being a proportion of 26.3 to the total 1 number of electors. The number of male occupiers at 71. sad under 10/. gross estimated rental, is 206,400. Through Mr. Banks Stanhope we obtain a return in respect of each parliamentary city or borough of the gross estimated rental of the property for which the male occu piers enumerated in Return Eof Electoral Returns, 16 , 56, are assessed acoordiug to the several classes of assessment mentioned in the gross estimated rental columns of Return N. The totals of England and Wales are as follows :- 488,0371. at 41. and under 51., 724,3521. at 51. end under 6/., 846,4571. at 61. and under 71., 702,753/. at 71. and under 8/. ; 583,810/. at 8/. and under W., 405,953/. at 91. and under 10/, and 25,888,348/. at 10/. and upwards. Mr. Darby Griffith has procured a return of the number of voters in every borough and city in England and Wales in which there was a contest at the bat election, with the number of working-class voters in such boroughs, he. There were only three contests in the Welsh boroughs. The total number of voters for England and Wales in the boroughs referred to is 366,726, of whom 99,068 are of the working class. The number of electors in these boroughs who voted for any candidate at the last election was 167,140. MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A CLERK IN THE RECURD OFFICE. An inquiry was held by Mr. Payne, the City coroner, at St. Bartholomew Hospital, on the death of Mr. Robert Wood McKean. aged 35 years, a clerk in the Government Record - office , in Chancery-lane. Police-constable W. Hughes, 35 G, said that last Saturday morning, at 10 o'clock, he saw the deceased stagger and fall on the pavement at the Holborn end of the Gray's-inn-road. His bead fell with great force against the kerb, and his face was instantly covered with blood. Wit ness removed him to St. Bartholomew's HospitaL Mr. W. McKean, 126, Trafalgar-street, Walworth, said that the deceased was his brother. On the day in ques tion he received information from the police that his brother was in the hospital. While witness was, with the permission of the doctor, removing in a cab the deceased from the hospital for the purpose of taking him hours he was seized with an apoplectic fit. Wireless drove back to the hospital, and the deceased was re-admitted. Witness desired to call the attention of the court to the conduct of Police-constable Hughes. He was moat humane and attentive. He got cabs, water, Sin, and rendered every assistance that he could to the deceased for over two hours. When witness offered him a shilling he declined it, saying that he had merely done his duty. Mr. Orton, surgeon, proved that the canoe of deceased's death was apoplexy. The jury returned a verdict of " Death from spot:ar e and they subscribed 14a. and gave it to Police - co Hughes as a recognition of the kindness of his conduct under the eireametanaes. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) DI 22 LOBD BLOM mum. The bankrupt was described as late of Montrom Petersham, and of Boulogne. This was the ottting I amination and discharge. The adjudicatka took pi the 21st January ; and at the Utili sed e h ai semigloss, a large amount of proofs w ere Ne u The balance sheet has since been w an aggregate liability of 11,3961., with arts Mu 6351., oonaiNting chiefly of furniture. The ditors are—Lord Buthven, 2,2501.: Mr. C. • agent, Pall-mall, 4001. ; the British Mattel leett Icy, 5801 . ; Mr. Dore, upholsterer, ir.. e and the Humber Iron Works Corn — 77 , 0071. of the creditors are principally Mr. Maoism opposed for the aso l o jea , e a a Lord Buthven. At the last sitting seem% he. ordered for two ears, but they had only been far a d one year, though most of the debts had been *rata 186 L There was no doubt that during the Are time his lordship had been living on his witap rowing money wherever he could. Mr. Bagley, for the bankrupt, urged that tie al had been filed some time. His Honour said the ease wits not one to be pup without full inquiry, and if the a wig'w a d investigate the accounts, they could have not appear necessary that further accounts sheik Mr. pg m . go , who appeared for crulitces, lda m i ne d th e aupt, as to a debt due to Meows. IS Ultimately an adjournment for six weeks Iris* (Before Mr. Commissioner Geullsam4 IX RR GLADISTONS AND °LAMM. The bankrupts, John and Thomas Hall Glad's & merchants, of White Lion-court, Cornitill. Meal tion took plsoe about 17 months so, Th e T. H. Gladstone never surrendered ; the ether has been frequently before the court At the les very voluminous amount., prepared by Nam Bros., were laid before the court, and statement had Nuked) been filed, of which, ing are the principal items Dr.: To ehUlo secured, 27,3491. 10a 10d. ; to ditto hold* and consignments, 147,032/. 9s. 3d. ; ties on ditto, 331,9031. 4s. 5d.; less snood to prove on this estate, 157,0071. 17a-1 rat a . ; to creditors to be paid in fu11,2913. lls. 349,5681. 4s. Bd. Cr. By debtors, good, 13,* by doubtful, 517321. 170. 6d., estimated to the pound, 12,933/. 4s. 4d. ; by bad, 171,71 V. property given up., 2,7261. 6s. ; by ditto b orethtors, 114,3821.4 a 9d. ; by debtors, for edveso against consignments, 6,45.5/. 10s. 3d. ; by bane deficiency, 199,689/. 15s. 10d. Total, 249,we e , Mr. Linklater, for the assignees, 'Asa 1, adjournment in order that the accountants se might meet and try to reconcile some of As Ws crepancies. The bankrupt represented ON lo capital of 191,0001. in 1863, which the sinloos d and they also disputed that the Rants wsuld b e as 25,0001. or 30,000/. ; they believed that the e would be very small. The assignees BM lA% next sitting, to take both the examination .of discharge. Mr. Lowrance, for the bankrupt, consunad is priety of an adjournment. Mr. Buxton, a creditor, complained of the trso journments as wasting the assets, and kind would be the last. Mr. Chidley also appeared for erediten. An adjournment was ordered till the 213" d lb SHERIFFS' COURT, RED-LION-SQL (Before Mr. tinder-Sheriff &rata) MINTER V. REYNOLDS.—RXTRAORDLSART CASE Or OF PROMISE UP MARRIAGE. This was an action to recover corn= fe of prose"' of marriage in which the we 5061. The defendant hrul allowed judgment default, and a court of inquirl o wi e instituted assessment of damages . Mr. Frauds" for the plaintiff, and Mr. Cold for e defends" From the statement of the learned MIMI K . that Mrs. Minter, the moths: of the _plaintiff, 1 Minter, kept the Rose and Crown polio borne I friars. In June, .1864, the defendant, who vas le the works at the Thames Embankment,beouse with her, and afterwards lodged at the house brother. In January, 1865, he proposed max informed Mrs. Minter that his salary was fray I 3!., and that he was entitled to some home pm by his father. The wedding was fixed to tildt the 7th February last. On the night of tbe were all together and retired to bed, the still residing at the public-house. The man to take place in the mourning. All w be happy, there was no garret and Dell to mar this happiness. Strange to say, the sneaked out of the house before 7 &dock is the and bad not been seen since by the plaintiff or le On that very morning he was inures( at St. Paul to a person named Ellen Smith, and the bait wn lady, who had been housekeeper to 'colonel, wed of 2,0001. Miss Minter had no fortune. She 071 called, by an anomaly in the law, and she was op the evidence of her mother and sister. It wail that shortly before the time appointed for them defendant had presented time young lady withal" The plaintiff was 24, and the defendant a few p perhaps 33. Mrs. Minter, and her second daughter Rebeo were called. They supported the statements sit counsel, and were not asked as to the allep of 2,000!. by the marriage with the lady named 5 mother produced a certificate of the merrier ea February, on which day he was to have be" her daughter. Miss Minter said she bought the weldiq keeper at the request of the defendant, sad b them to her sister, saying he should maim bet the wedding. Mr.G. Francis claimed enbstantial damages"' less and cruel conduct to the young 14 1 another on the very day he was to ho m Mr. Codd addressed the jut' , in mitigatica d The defendant admitted the promise, and tl brokeu it. The salary of the defendant bed proved, nor that he had married another lady w He hoped the jury would not by their use defendant to prison. Mr. Undersheriff Barchell told the try Re satisfaction the lady could obtain was m nee thought he would be a bold man who could do it. By an existing anomaly in law neither If could give evidence. It was quite true that is could not pay in purse lie must in person. Pe dainages'woulti prevent the plaintiff getting es; he was bound to tell them that they had no en the 2,000/. Mr. Francis wished to ask a question on thee Mr. Codd objected. Some of the jury mid it I a great difference in their opinion. The jury assessed the damages at 100/. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COI (THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice Lush.) John Wainwright, described an • dentist, with feloniously casting a quantity of certain , ' Sarah Margaret Peacock, with intent to do b bodily harm. Mr. F. H. Lewis and Mr. M. Williams cm prosecution ; and Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Beaky for the prisoner. The circumstances of this cane were of I very character. It appeared that the husband of trix is • jeweller's assistant, residing in Neve and the prisoner was a dentist, carrying on hi' Old Quebec-street, Cavendish-square, and they intimate and indeed friendly terms for sai sequently to the 6th January, the day on obi rence took place that was the subject of We' that time, however, in consequence of som a letters of a. meet offensive character baying the prosecutrix and her husband, which war have been written by the prisoner, be was t• act, but he denied the accusation. Ciratem ever, subsequently transpired which st picion of the husband of the prosecutri re A ti ll was the author of those anonymous communes consequently forbade him to come to his hoc and intimated that he 11•33 desirous of breaking tion with him, and this appeared to be the OC cause for the terrible act that was afterwards It appeared that on the evening of the dayabco the proseentrix wee on her way home, sad within a abort distance of her residence, • u to her, whom she at the time believed t o be although' be was somewhat disguised, and wi • word threw some corrosive liquid from II her face. The immediate effect of this pro to cause her the most excruciating Winn 22 _ 4 , the eminent surgeon of Charing-creme noel.' sequently attended her, found it necessary one of her eyes, and it was said that the d might have the effect of entirely destroying the other. The prisoner appeared to have into custody in the netglibourhoml of the Ow affair occurred, and he then said something water only having been thrown upon the but he subsequently denied that he was who had assailed the prosecittrix in the we and the only question now was with regar d to It seemed that when the prosecutrix was fin by the pollee with regard to the person by wt rage bad been committed, she did not my the prisoner, sod gave a description of • na not at all eperrespond with that of the day after the affair she told her sister tar:: the man who bad assaulted her, and in her evil she swore pot Lively that he was the num. I although he had a asp on at the time, which teat, concealed his whiskers a nd dill! she knew him immediately he cane and was about to address him, when be ibis I ~.~ I . 11 h tl ei t r