The Express. — London, England, 1866-01-09 00:00:00

gite civripreoo. TO 0011.11ESPONDEN1li. ,dverthentents Intended for " The Eraser' London Evening r. must be at the Moe, N. Bonverte- street. by Two CC k on the day ot publication. HAYNARILEL Tam ram% BitOflia SAM. Ifessrs. Sothern, Black stone, and Compton Nosily Moore, Snowdon, &e. ORPHEUS IN THE HAYMARKET. Messrs Tanen &D. fisher : Wass Keeley, Howard & Wright.—MY HITSBLID'S GHOST. PRINCIMS'& THIS Rvgniiiii, QUIET LODGINOS.—Mter which IT IS DIV= TOO LATH T 9 MIND. Mews. Vining. 0. Melville, Z. Mewl, D. Money, b. Oldham, F. Villiers, J.O. Shore, G. Mur ray, and R. Catlrmri Mires L. Moore and K. Rodger& LYCEUM. THIS EVENTRO, THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER. Mr. H. Widdicomb.—THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Messrs. Pechter. Jordan, Veriu, Emery Widdicomb, Fitzpatrick, Evans; Mesdames Ternan, E sworthy.Laren, C. Leclercq. BRITANNIA. THIS Emus, OLD DADDY LONGLEGS AND SIR REGENT CIRCUS; OR, THE RACE FOR THE GOLDEN APPLES.— IL and etdme. Stertzenbaelt —Signor BevanL —Masan—Shower Golden Raba.—And JESSIE, TILE MORMON'S DAUGHTER. HIGH !FAT= AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Till Tit= 7b. Os. To-roabow Morning, 80. 1012.—..Altarsoas. lb. Um. LONDON, TUESDAY. JANUARY 9. Tan meeting at St. Martin's-hall, and the resolu tions as to uniformity of diet fof, and the necessity of enforcing a task of work from, able-bodied vagrants, are bearing fruit in various ways. The different boards of guardians have received the re ports of their delegates, and held debates upon the decisions arrived at. For though the parishes were asked to send representatives in order that the matter might be satisfactorily settled, it does not seem that the local authorities consider themselves irrevocably bound by the votes lately given. Opin ions are discussed, and arguments for and against the propriety of the proposed changes advanced, as if it were still optional whether the regimen agreed on at the disorderly meeting of Saturday week should be adopted. It is to be presumed, however, that the Poor-law Board, having consulted the guar dians as to their wishes, and taken their formal decision as to the quantity and quality of food a vagrant shall be entitled to, will take care that uniformity of treatment is observed. The proverbial difficulty of pleasing everybody is never better exemplified than when parish authorities are the people dealt with. Ob jections were made at the conference to the minis terial dictation implied in asking the guardians to quietly discuss and decide upon the vagrant's food ; but since then some guardians have made it a grievance that they were not "dictated" to in reality, and complain that a peremptory order and scale of dietary were not issued from Whitehall. When the circular embodying the resolution has been forwarded to the workhouses, it will doubtless take the shape of an order, and the poor-law certifi cate will, we trust, be withheld, and reimburse ment out of the common fund be impossible in all cases where the regulations are not observed. Whether the prescribed diet is sufficiently liberal, and whether the very moderate comfort implied in a little hot gruel, with the regulation dry bread, should not be given throughout the year, instead of in winter only, are details it is unnecessary to discuss now. At this juncture the great point is uniformity, and if this be in sisted on, the guardians who feel themselves coerced into harshness or illiberality will soon make their voices felt, and, backed by public opinion, will have little difficulty in winning over those who now think differently to themselves, and in having the diet scale improved. It is only fair to say that a disposition to give the act a fair trial seems on the increase, and that many guardians who avow them selves personally opposed to its provisions have urged upon their brethren the plain duty of obeying the law. Before examining into the alleged increase in the numbers of vagrants in London, it will be necessary to have a return from the various re fuges, such as Lord Robert Cecil moved for and obtained last year. If, as we believe, these estab lishments have been more chary of admitting all casuals than when there were fewer casual wards, it will be readily seen that the increase after all is more nominal than real. The effect of opening the refuges upon parish statistics is forcibly shown in the following figures :—At a leading metropolitan workhouse 1,167 casuals were sheltered in the month of October last ; 1,141 in November ; while in December, when the refuges began to open, the numbers fell to 475. If, on the other hand, the refuges are far lees crowded than formerly, it seems plain that the workhouse casual wards are fulfilling their legitimate functions with more success than before. It would be useful to know, for example, whether a large refuge which has been open for about a month has up to this time only found it necessary to shelter 125 a night against 250 in the same period of last year ; and whether another which accommodated 500 a night this time last winter has during the three weeks it has been open only housed 300 a night. A third great refuge opened for the season last night, but with the strict determination not to shelter the profes sional vagrant. Last winter its term for relief commenced in November, when it admitted 120 nightly ; from all of which facts, combined with a sensible decrease in clothes-tearing in some of the parishes where it was most prevalent, it may be inferred that the legal administration of relief to destitute wanderers is gradually and surely increas ing in efficiency. So much attention has been called to the sudden expansion of the export trade to the United States, that there is ground to apprehend that erroneous conclusions will be formed, and unnecessary anxiety excited with regard to the probable results of the business we are transacting, and to the stability of the numerous firms engaged in it. A few facts will serve to explain the true state of the case, and to dispel alarm. It must be borne in mind, in the first place, that this sudden revival of exports to the LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms of .2.4 the past year the National Lifeboat institution, by its life boats and other means, contributed to the saving of 707 persons from different wrecks on our coasts. The institution also ex pended £21,374 in the same period on its Lifeboat establishments. In addition to granting £4,950 for rewards for saving life and exercising the lifeboats. The committee of the Institution earnestly APPXAL to the public for ASSISTANCE, to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the institution's 153 Lifeboat Stations. Contributions are received by the London and Country Bankers and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Es-., at the in stitution, 14, John-street, Adelpiii, London. JOHN BROGDKN'S PARIS FIRST CLASS sad. LONDON PBXZX 11F.DAL9.—Ilantdactory, 1.4 Hen. Co eat.anlen, London, W.D. Mb establishment - dor a la. : 4l d at and In Batnnlaye at 1 o'clock. WATHERSTON and SON, ooknannis and Jewellers, Have Ready for Inspection a Great Variety of JEWELLERY, of the Latest Designs, suitable for WEDDING PRESENTS and NEW-YEAR'S GIFTS. It ran- n East. S.W. MESSRS. TURTLE, TURTLE , TURTLE. Clear Sick and Invalid Turtle Soaps always ready at ST. JAWS:in-HALL. RepsetetresA Pi cc adilly.—W. DONALD, proprietor. LONDON must have s SUPPER and MUSIC ROOM for Gentlemen.—Remember, we wait for you at "EVANS," atter the Covent-garden Pantomime, and the Theatre/. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1866. United States dates only from three or four months back. Although it is true that we are now shipping goods thither upon a larger scale than was ever' before known, the Board of Trade Returns stater the exports of all the enumerated articles to that country for eleven months of 1865 at not more thali i 16,300,0001. against 14,500,000/. for the same period of the previous year. Upon our Ame rican export trade of the eleven months there was, therefore, an increase in 1865 of lees than 2,000,0001., and this cannot be deemed excessive, when it is remembered that the Northern American markets had been greatly relieved of many articles, while the markets of the South were utterly bare. The magnitude of the exports during the last three months naturally arises from the great slackness which prevailed in this depart ment of business during the first eight months of 1865. And when we examine into the capability of the United States to send us an equivalent for the large amount of goods which we are now con signing to them, conclusions equally opposed to alarmist theories are presented. In the first place, we have already received from America this year about 4,000.0001. of specie, and this would at once reduce the debt of America to this country on the trade of the eleven months of 1865 from its gross amount of 16,300,0001., as shown above, to 12,300,0001. Next, must be taken into account the large amount of American government and other securities which have been forwarded to this coun try and the continent, and by which the balance against America must of course be proportionately reduced. Next, we have to allow for the general experts of commodities from America ; and, finally, so far from our imports from America being small, as his been asserted, the fact is, as the reports from Liverpool will prove, that they are extraor dinarily large. Conclusive assurance upon this point is afforded in the fact, vouched for in the most recent advices, that the shipments of the long pent up cotton from the American ports have suddenly increased to about 30,000 bales, or say one and a quarter million sterling, per week. It needs little calculation to show that if America can maintain anything like this rate of exporting activity, she will have no difficulty in discharging all her foreign obligations. These particulars are the more important, because, in the straitened con dition to which our money market has been brought under the operation of the Bank Act of 1844, there are quite enough elements of gloom and uncertainty, without our tormenting ourselves with fancied evils. America wants our goods, and our profit con sists in supplying her with them ; America also wants to send her cotton and other commodities to market, and it is our earnest wish to receive them. The only points upon which we require to have satisfac tory testimony are (1) the absence of excess in the general volume of the trade, and (2) the ability of America to pay her debts. Now, inasmuch as the facts and considerations above cited go far to furnish a satisfactory answer upon both these points, the mercantile community may, we think, fairly dissent from the apprehensions which have lately been expressed with regard to the state of mercantile credit, as between this country and America. If that country pays us in specie and in commodities, as she appears to be doing, there is, of course, no question of credit at all. That the revival of our American trade, experienced during the last three or four month; has tended to raise the value of money here, cannot be doubted, the more especially as, apart altogether from the foreign shipping business, the impulse given to our home manufacturing in dustry has caused a pressure upon the Bank of England for internal purposes, and it is a notorious fact that whenever this occurs the Bank has no resource save to check trade by raising the rate of discount. It adopts in this case precisely the same means that would be taken were it a question of trying to arrest a foreign drain of gold. It has been plain throughout that the difficult condition of the money market has arisen leas from any undue commitments, either commercial or financial, than from that feeling of chronic distrust which is perpe tuated bythe stringent operation of the Bank Act. Wholesome caution is one thing, and vague and un reasoning apprehension another. At a moment when the anomaly is witnessed of the beat mercantile bills being charged 71 or 8 per cent. discount, while money is vainly offered in large amounts on loan on government securities at 3 or 4 per cent., it seems desirable that the mercantile public should endeavour to trace the causes of this strange state of things, and ask themselves whether the existing distrust of mercantile credit is warranted by facts. The Star finds all Mr. Gladstone's arguments to be sound, and his counsel well-timed. So judicious a letter from so discriminating a pen ought to do much, from its very tone and method, to still exaggerated fears, and to put out of court extreme and empirical measures. The ravages of the cattle disease have excited discussion and alarm which the more terrible, though less inscrutable maladies constantly proving upon our poor ought long ago to have occasioned ; and it is impossible not to wish that oar greatest and wisest men could deal as sutheritatively and conclusively with the pests that devour humanity as Mr. Gladstone has with the plagne that decimates our herds. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) apply the most powerful opiate possible to his diligence and cidents in the career of Mr. Garrison, showing bow by Industry, and this, Mr. Gladstone might have added, is degrees his doctrine won its way nntil his conscience has at' pesuliarly the case with the cattle plague, which length converted that of his nation. His crowning glory is sin either he propagated or imppreued. just as in recognising the fart that when slavery was at an end, People Art to isolate or not to isolate their abolition societies should come to an end also. When his -herds. The one great hope we have now is that natioe and his time lad come up with him and the right, the graders are so thomaughly frightened that, if be fell into their ranks, and thought no more of any per the government would only summon upooorege to act upon soul distinction that belonged to him. the public wish, the disease might certainly be put an end to bye uniform stoppage of the movement of cattle. It is to be wished Mr. Gladstone had contented himself with the part of this subject that legitimately belongs to his office, and had not gone on to cell for voluntary aseariation, for remission of rent, and for mbscriptions—all of which, ooming from the official guardian of the Exchequer, has too much the appearance of inviting private persons to do a duty which those who represent the gate seem to have an uneasy oonsoionsnesa devolves, after all, most properly on themselves. gbe Court. OSBORNE. JAL S. Her Majesty, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince Arthur attended Divine service at Osborne yesterday, which was performed by the Bev. G. Prather*. Princess Beatrice attended the service at Whippingbam Church. OUR REPORTS TO AMERICA. The Times regards the magnitude of our present trade with America as dangerous, because it is a trade conducted almost wholly on credit. While exporters are pushing their trade to the utmost, the importation of wheat and of bullion and specie from the Union has declined—the balance between the Union and ourselves remaining as • debt, unless it has been indirectly paid by some third coun try, against which there has been a balance of exchange with America. There is every reason to disbelieve this, and the truth is that the Wanee hes been in part pro vided for by the purchase of Federal obligations on this aide—in other words, by • permanent loan, and in part by large extensions of credit on our exporters' books. The exporters have been forced to have recourse to dis count houses in their turn, and as long as they did not, in competition with foreign governments and the projectors of Limited Liability Companies, create a demand in excess of the supply, their profits were large, but the 'harp ad min.* of the rate of discount ought to remind them of the risks they run. In the present state of the American currency merchants trading with the Union have to con tend with more than the ordinary chances of commerce. The capital of their customers is estimated on • medium which is liable to unlooked-for fluctuations of its own, and the trade of the country is abnormal and irregular to a degree which we find it difficult to realise. The effect of the inflated issues of paper money on the mercantile spirit within the Union is, perhaps, a still graver source of danger, since a love of reckless speculation has been gees rated which the easy credit afforded by European exporters can only serve to enemirage. There is no necessity for raising a cry of ahrm, but there is clearly • call for pru dence in making arrangements for the coming year. MR. °WREN IN THE CABINET. The Times offers its congratulations to Mr. Goechen on his admission to the cabinet, having no doubt he will prove, though placed on the soft sinecure cushion of the Duchy of Lancaster, an able and zealous administrator, es he has shown himself a liberal•minded politici►n. Even io his posi. tion of " general utility man " in the cabinet, though it is a difficult one for an unpractised statesman, he may perform eminent services to the country. Mr. Gladstone is a great financier, but he will be the better for a good second in the cabinet. We are not so rich but that thoughtful men may look with anxiety on the immense expenditure of the army and navy ; our administration is not so perfect but that many believe India to require a reform which only a statesman with strong understanding and a will of his own can accomplish. The important questions lonnectixl with the construction and management of railways, the supply of water, the cleansing of our towns, and the whole subject of the public health, require the action of a vigorous and independent intellect of a kind which does not appear to be common in the political world. Mr. Goschen takes a place where there is no work ; but he must, nevertheless, make work for himself, for there is plenty to be done in the pantry, and not too many who are capable of aiding in it. The Star regards the appointment as highly creditable to the sense and spirit of Earl Hassel. His lordship had of late got melit for so complete se adhesion to the tra ditions of party that most people feared the one great diffi culty in the way of his cabinet would be his cold refusal to recognise the possibility of finding administrative Went outside the beaten way of whig family friendship. TSB SANPHIeIE COLLISION. The Time, finds many contradictions In the sentence of the Board of Trade in the cue of the Samphire collision. The occurrence is called an accident, although it is stated that it might have been avoided with greater cue ; and the captain, though acknowledged to be culpable, is practically exculpated, and diemireed from the inquiry with a com pliment. The doctrine that the premium offered by the Tost.office authorities for quick passages creates " • natural desire" on the pert of the captain which may excuse him for imperilling the safety of his passengers—is pronounced by the Times to be disgraceful, monstrous, a scandal to the court which pronounced it, and to the service which accepted it without protest. The Post expects to find iu the customary report which will be forthwith prepared and published, a condemnation of a system which regards punctuality in postal delivery as a paramount consideration to the as f.ety of the travelling public. . . . . . - The Tdegraph agrees with the report, and urges that there would be no gain in rafety from a less rapid rate of speed. As to the light, the crew of an ill-manned American trading vessel were infinitely more likely to omit the pre cautions required by the law of the seas than the officers of a remarkably well organ;icd and well paid packet ser►ice The second imputation brought against the officers and men of the mail packet, that they failed to do their duty after the accident took place, may be safely dismissed as " Not proven." WS TOPICS. The Tire., still sees the pouibiity of embarrassment to England arising from the existence of Fenianism. Even in Ireland, though nobody imagines a Fenian government could be established, it would be alarming enough to those on the spot if it ware true that one hundred thousand of the peasants or artisans have sworn to rise in civil war, while in America the Fenian', who appear to have plenty of money, are now, we are told, intending a raid into Canada. The calculations of the brotherhood are that out of the complication' thus caused war may arise between England and America. We know enough to show that even the nary squabbles and ludicrous pretensions of the New York conspirators are not without a certain import snot. The Daily News comment. upon various incidents which have drawn the attention of townspeople of late to the actual state of village hardness and iscurable neg ligence of the holders of cottage property—and the intole rable hardships endured by their tenants. It sees reason to believe, however, now that the Union Chargeability Act is law, and the end of the law of settlement not far off, the worst is over in regard to the labourers' accommodates. The discovery of the deodorisiog properties of earth, the better method of building which provides for a more regular sup ply of water, the institution of village hospital s , the im proved harvest homes of recent years, and the substitu tion of registration for statute fairs—are all subsidiary improvements of great importance. Few districts are quite as bad as they were, and some are improving in fair propor tion to the advancement of the agricultural mind which is ow of the characteristics of oor day. Among the newspapers brought by the last mail is the Liberator, which clone its existence with the year that is gone ; and in it we real, " With our own hands we have pot in type the unspeakably cheering announcement " of the abolition of slavery in the whole territory of the United States. The man who has lived to do this, the Daily News reminds its readers, is the same who with his own hands pat into type, ably. thirty years ago, the first call upon his country and nation to pat away their great sin and avoid the retribution to come. Tire career of William Lloyd Gar rison is one of deep and instruetive interest in itself ; but it is also so implic del with the great events and influences of his time, that some understanding of it is °scenery to any tree appreciation of the greet inns of the civil war. The Day News then proceeds to swats the principal to. THE &FAMISH REVOLT. The insurrection in Spain has been expected, the Daily News remark', by intelligent observers from the day that the Progreseista party determined to withdraw from constitutional action, bat at present we have no know. ledge of the complexion and aims of the movement, or of its means of names. The time has gone by when English ' men held that in every insurrection the presumption was in favour of the insurgents. In this cue the presumption is certainly against the party which obstinately declined to show itself at the polling-booths, preferricg to bring about an insurrection. We can only hope that the outbreak will speedily come to an end without much bloodshed, and that, whichever party may "rip, Spain will be the freer and better governed for its action. The Post Seel much vagueness sad incoherence in the statements of the Spanish government concerning its success in suppressing the revolt, and thinks the ultimate issue of the insurrection is uncertain. Revolutions com menced with one object very often ead with • result totally different. The surroundings of the Queen are the aversion of bee people. The favourites by whom she Is beset may be the immediate objects of attack in • rebel lion, which should it be successful, might not stop short when its original ends are accomplished. While the Advertiser hesitates to express any confident opinion as to the issue of the rising there is one point on which it feels it may speak with the full conviction that the result will verify what it says. The "trunk will not be • pretreated one. The conflict between the insurrectionist s and the government will be both sharp and short If the rising is destined to be put down at all, it will be put down immediately. O'Donnell will bring all his resources to bear on it with • view to its instant suppression. He has not been taken by surprise. He was well warned of its ap proach ; and being thus prepared fer what has occurred, he will at least attempt to deal in ► high-handed manner with the rebels and the rebellion. We expect, therefore, to hear some decisive intelligence before many days have elapsed. The Star is sincerely sorry that General Prim, who had approved himself • man of high honour snd no little capacity, should with a too characteristic nehmen/ have flung himself into a movement which seems to have been so vague and purposeless. and have had no foundation beyond personal discontent—no aim beyond the possible triumph of the more headlong section of • party. There is, however, one consolation for them who hays always felt rather favourably disposed towards General Prim. If he escape the consequences of his present attempt, there is no reason whatever why, with better luck next time, he may not be Prime Minister this day six menthe. WS GLAIMITONZ OM CATTLE INSIIIIANCL Of Mr. Gladstone's five arguments what the support by the government of the insurance of ostile by • guarantee from the Treasury--arguroects of se•y different degrees of eogency—the first appears to the Times almost conclusive. Ones allow the farmer to look to what he considers the bottomless passe of the state for his iadanalty, and you LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE INt3IIRRECTION IN SPAIN. The Avenir National of this day says :—" The eyes of all are turned towards Spain, but a thick cloud intervenes which prevents us from discerning what is taking place in that country. The govern ment declares that tranquillity prevails, and yet General O'Donnell informs the Senate that a vast conspiracy, extending throughout the entire of Spain, has been organised. The government says that the insurgents are flying on all sides, and yet it makes formidable preparations, as if it had to stop the progress of a victorious army. The public mind is disturbed and uncertain, and yet everything is done to prevent that com munication which could enlighten it as to the real state of affairs. The telegraph is closed against the public ; all information is stopped ; all cer tainty is excluded. This is a singular mode of proceeding on the part of a government which is sure of victory. Silence can only give strength to the insurrection, and official mystery can only in crease its proportions. The only certain news which ' the latest despatches give is that Saragossa has been placed in a state of siege." (ezurea's BAYONNE, JAN. 8. General Prim has gained the mountains of Toledo, whither he is being pursued by General Zavala. General Concha has taken up a position at Man zananes in order to bar the passage of General Prim into Andalusia. _ News from Madrid states that General Eschague was about to leave that city at the head of fresh reinforcements. The insurgent garrison of Avila have crossed over into Portugal. The provinces continue quiet. FRANCE. PARIS, JAN. 9. Count Walewski and the Duke de Mouchy have been appointed members of the Commission for the Exhibition of 1867. ROME. NOMINATION OF BISHOPS. Bobo.. Jas. 8. At a consistory held to-day, the Pope nominated a patriarch, three archbishops, and 12 bishops. Monsignor Ledokowaki has been appointed At ch bishop of Posen. The Bishop of Osnabruck has been named Arch bishop of Cologne. His Holiness did not deliver any allocution. VENETIA. VENICE, JAN. 8. The Central Congregation of Venice has elected a committee for the purpose of examining the reforms necessary for the development of the auto nomy of Venetia. Several ordinances of the Governor of Venice have been published, suppressing the district com missaries and creating 22 vice-delegates. The com munes are in future to correspond directly with the Provincial Congregation. Venice is placed directly under the Governor, and the Central Congregation of the provinces is suppressed. DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT HULL. FIVE PERSONS KILLED. - - An accident of an appalling character occurred yesterday morning at Hull. For some time past there has been in counts of erection, upon ground adjoining the Paragon-street Railway Station, • large cioachbuilding manufactory for Mr. Collinson, of Hull. In the rear of this building—which at the time of the accident was in an advanced stage of erection—is Temperance-street. which runs into South-street. The manufactory already towered high above the houses in Temperanocestreet, which are two storeys high ; and during the last week or two, when gales and storms have been so very prevalent, remarks are said to have been made on the apparently dangerous con- dition of the building. Yesterday morning there was • strong gale of wind from the south-west. The wind at times blew in violent gusts, which threatened to test the strength of such buildings as the one we are referring to. About 9 o'clock, or shortlyaf ter, a violent gust made the huge walls of the manufactory shake, and in a momentdown came &great portion of it. A few cries were heard, and then it was seen that two of the houses in Temperanoe.street—those next to .the new building--and several of the houses in a square ' in the same street, were absolutely buried beneath the debris. As soon as possible a number of navvies were set to work to clear away the rubbish, and to • extricate those who were buried in the ruins. A strong staff of polioemen were also sent down to the spot, most of whom were employed in keeping back the crowd who thronged into the street. The wane of desolation which I was presented can hardly be described. Those who had been fortunate enough to effect their escape were seen weeping and wringing their bands, or vigorously assisting to clear away the debris, in search of their missing relatives. Presently the bodies of three children were brought oat. These were recognised as the bodies of John Scott (12 years old) and a younger sister and brother. The body of a man named Robert Brown, porter to Mr. Newbent, corn factor, was nest extricated. Mr. Henry Gibson, surgeon, and chairman of the Hull Infirmary Board, who was early on the spot, found that life was not extinct, and be ordered Brown to be taken to the infirmary, but the man died on the road. Several other persons were recovered :—Sermh Bielby (34), wife of Brian Rigby, labourer, who had received a scalp wound; Mary A. Blake (45), wife of William Blake, cabinet maker, contused ; Sarah Scott (36), wife of John Scott, boiler maker, contused—this person is mother of the children of the same name already mentioned ; John Nary, injured; Sarah Scott (14), daughter of Mrs. Sarah Scott, contused ankle ; John Newmarch (55), tailor, con tused knee ; Mrs. E. Newmarch is missing. The girl Sarah Scott escaped death most marvellously. When the house was crushed in, she put her arms and her feet round a falling beam, and slipped under it. One end of the beam rested against a wall, just leaving room for ber body underneath, and she was only injured from the weight of the th'beis upon her feet. Oa being roomed she cried out, " Where's mother ? don't mind me ; look for mother." In another case, two children, who were sitting by the fireside, were wonderfully protected by two beams falling against each other, and forming • cavity, in which the children remained uninjured until the navvies cams to their assistance. A still more marvellous escape was that of a whole family in one of the two treat houses which have been destroyed. A man and hie wife sad seven children were getting breakfast together is one room, and that room was the only one in the house left standing. Five bodies, extricated from the ruins, wen removed to the Infirmary to await the coroner's inquest, and seven persons, who had beat injured by the accident, were also conveyed there and received proper attrotion. The excessive price demanded for oysters appears to have had the effect of greatly diminishing the 000sump slow of those molluscs in Paris. The drenir National states that no lees than 880 baskets of oysters, filling seven teen vans, sent to Paris by the Western Railway for the fetes of the New Year, remained unsold at the end of last week, owing to the newillingnese of retailers to pay the whole. sale dealers' prime._ . ST. PANCRAS CHURCH. The trustees of St. Pancras Church have secured the services of Henry Smart, the eminent composer, ea organist of their church. This appointment has been made upon the nomination of the Bey. Canon Chompneys, the vicar. Although the formal election has only just taken place Mr. Smart has been play- jog at St. Pancras for some weeks past, and hie ecoompani ment of a congregation of 2,500 singing in simple unison is wonderfully solemn and effective. NARROW ESCAPE OF A PASSENGER TRAIL Daring the whole of Sunday night and yesterday, the South Yorkshire district was visited by a pie of wind accompanied by heavy showers of rein and sleet, exceed ing in violence that of the previous week. At Peoistone, the first plumager train from Manchester lied • very narrow escape of being dragged down the embankment at that place. It appeared that several wawa; which were standing at the siding neer the station, went blow. on to the main line, just as the paseengio train, with slackened speed. was coming up. A collision occurred. The wag gons were thrown down the embankment, and the some wu forced off the line 01 to its side. The driver and fireman jumped off when it was apparent that a collision weld not be averted, and the peeetopre nicaped uninjured, with the exeeption of one or two, who were but slightly leart. On the Lenceshire and Yorlmhire Railway, the first train out from Barnsley was delayed for some time after proceeding about three miles osi its jour ney, is coesequence of • 'lumber of the telegraph ports heneg been blown acme the line. In other pins of the district considerable dump bee been dons, but no maim mooed injury has so t ar bola repotted. DEATH OP THE EARL OP LIMERICK. We have to announce the death of the Earl of Limerick,who died on Friday last suddenly, from bronchitis. The late William Tennison Pery, second E►rl of Limerick, Viscount Limerick, and Baron Glentworth in the Irish peerage, and Baron Foxford in that of the United kingdom, was the almond son of Henry Hartetrongs, Lord Glentwortli, eldest eon of Edmund Henry, first Earl of Limerick, and Alice Mary, the only daughter and heir of Henry Ormsby, of Cloghan, county Mayo, by Annabelle Tennison, second daughter of Mr. Tennison Edwards, of Old Court, county Wicklow. The deceased Earl was born 9th October, 1812, and married, first, 16th April, 1838, Susannah, daughter of Mr. Wm. Sheaf, and niece of the late Sir Roger Hall Shea', Bark, which lady died Mat August, 1841. His lordship married, secondly, 6th April, 1842, Margaret Jane, only daughter of Captain Nicholas Hanley. By his first man lege he had surviving issue an only sou, William Hale John Charles Lord Glentwortb, bon 17th Jan., 1840. By his meond marriage, which wee dissolved in 1862, the late earl leaves a family of six eons and one daughter. He succeeded to the family honours on the death of his grandfather in Den, 1844. Lord Giant. worth before mentioned, succeeds his father as third earl. He married in 1862, his cousin Miss Gray, daughter of the Rev. Henry Gray, vicar of Almoudsbnry, Gloucestershire, and Lady Emily Caroline Gray. The present earl was formerly in the Rifle Brigade, but retired from the army in 1862. The Queen has conferred a baronetcy upon Pro fessor Simpson, this being, it is said, the first time a baronetcy has been given to a Scottish professor or to a medical practitioner in Scotland. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived at Gloucester House, Park-lane, on Saturday even ing, from a visit to Lord and Lady Londesborough at Grim. stop Park, Yorkshire. His Excellency the Austrian ambassador has returned to Chandos House from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, at Bowood Park, Wilts. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne have been entertaining a distinguished circle of guests at Bowood Park, Wilts. The Marquis and Marchionees Townahend arrived in Loudon on Saturday from Raynham Hall, Nor folk. . The Earl Russell, accompanied by the countess and family, is expected to remove to town about the 25th inst., from Pembroke Lodge, Richmond-park, for the season. Lord Stanley of Alderley is expected to arrive in town to-day from his seat, Alderley Park, Cheshire. Lord Dunkellin, M.P., who is at present on a tour in Italy, will arrive home early in the ensuing mouth for the meeting of parl;ameet. It is stated that a vacancy will shortly be created in the Admiralty by the retirement of Rear-Admiral the Ron. James Robert Drummond, one of the junior lords. Sir William Hoste, Bart., the second senior cap tain in the fleet, and groom-in-waiting on her Majesty, is dangerously iIL Sir William was born in 1818, and has one son, born in 1860. Captain Robert Hall, R.N., at present private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, will, it is thought, succeed Captain William Loring, C. 8., as Cap tain Saperintendent of the Pembroke Dockyard. Captain Loring, who is now senior captain in the fleet, sod also aide-de-camp to the Queen, will vacate both appointments on promotion. Dr. Johann Jacoby, a distinguished member of the democratic party in the second Chamber of Prussia, is at present in prison. The six months to which he was eon demned do not expire till February 26, or about six weeks after the opening of the Chambers. The right of the Chamber to demand his temporary release will probably be brought before the house at a very early period. A letter from Naples of the let says :—" In the townships under Vesuvius I find an uneasy feeling pre- 1 veiling, and a general expectation of an earthquake. The less educated classes say that as the cholera in 1856 was' followed by an earthquake, so we may look out for another now. Among persons better educated, one said, ' I never go to bed without spprehension, and sleep with my door open; The reasons for snob apprehensions, when they ere adduce 1, are these :—Vesuvius has long been dormant. Of late it has been making some ineffectual efforts to re- Hive itself, but nothing beyond a line of smoke by day and an occasional tongue of fire by night is perceptible. Then, all round Vesuvius, extending even to autotimer., there is a perfect dearth of water, so much so that the arsenal of that plaos, which has always derived its water from mountain springs that have never failed even in summer, is now compelled to send to a considerable dis tance for water. Perhaps the most startling fact is the depression of the sea all round the bay. I have examined it at Tarims places, and find that this depression is at least ten palms beneath the ordinary level. We have certainly had a month's calm weather, but, still, this is scarcely suffi cient to account for the fact now stated." The following curious case has come before the Fontainebleau tribunal Last October a poor woman was taken up by one of the foresters for having carried away quantities of ant"' eggs from a formicary. Ants abound in the Fontainebleau forest, and instead of wishing to get rid of them, the administration of the woods and forest preserve them carefully on account of their value am food for all species of game, but more especially for young par tridges, as well a/ their utility as manure. Many varieties of seeds, &c., have bees tried as a sub stitute, but nothing has proved so nutritious to the 5,000 or 6,000 pheasants preserved in the imperial shooting grounds am the ant. A proof of the value of ante' eggs is the frequent attempts made by all the poor residing in the neighbourhood to carry off supplies of this strange edible, in order to sell them to the proprietors of private pheasanUiew. The forest laws therefore have constituted into a fraud the act of rifling an ant-hill of its store of eggs. The poor woman cited before the tribunal as guilty of this act has been fined 2fr., a penny-halfpenny reetitation, and • further sum of 2fr. costs. The P rogres de Lyon gives the following details as to the Lincoln memorial flag which the Lyons workmen have subscribed to send to the United States, in memory of President Lincoln :—Thirteen bands of gros de Tours silk, of which seven are red and six white, each band a foot in width, and embroidered with 35 silver etas on a rich blue silk ground ; the 33 stars typifying the 35 states of the Union. The inscription is worked in gold thread, and runs than :—" Souscription populaire i la lUpublique des Etats Usti.. °Harte en memoirs d'Abraham Lincoln. Lyon, 1863." A Madrid letter of the sth says :—" We are here in a stnte of siege, and in every probability soon to be blockaded. It is difficult to collect trustworthy intelli gence—next to impossible to transmit it. The government papers only write to conceal and disguise the truth. The other journals, even the most moderate and most devoted to the canoe of order, such as the Zpoca—even the parti sans of the O'Donnell ministry, such as the Beim; are seized day by day, come out sadly mutilated, and can only obtain peace by pledging themselves not to publish one line on the only topic of peewit interest, except at the dictation of the men in power. The Puerta del Sol and the top of the Carrera de San Giresun° are crowded at some hours of the day, especially late in the afternoon. This is the usual battle-field of Madrid rioters." The Paris Moniteur publishes the following notice :—" A number of agencies and journals have been founded in view of the Exhibition of 1867, nod the imperial commission is informed that the representatives of some of them affirm or give reason to suppose that they are its offioial organs. The imperial commission informs the public that it is entirely unconnected with any undertakings of that Idea, nod that in its relations with exhibitors it recognises no other intermediary than the committees in. etituted by the general regulations.' L&W INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF ADMIRALTY. THE saw= LID lilltWEE noon. This ease wee roamed at the sitting of th e when the same counsel, thirty.seven in nimbus' peered for the respective &mutants to d are i n the tit money smouotieg to 450,0001., beside interest aI cent. from the year 1858, when the capture wee mak expense of the litigetka must be considerable, understood that each regiment will bear its own sem% CENTRAL CRIMINAL COIJItt (THIS DIY.) (Refer* the Common Sealant.) G eorg e 0 0 1419. • respeetable•looking young my iest h o d pi e nded guilty at the last session to • ithzo oL f • cheque for 1871.10 e., was brought up for j 11 was stated by Yr. Sleigh, who was instructed a me mute, that the primmer had been for several years a i s service of Messrs. Reid and Co., silk brokers. of Old street, but was discharged on the 10th of Ikoedema 14 , ' He obtained • blank cheque book from the beaker, el thus was enabled to commit the offence to which he pleaded guilty. After obtainiog the money it ae se iii that be smosiated himself with • number of Maa s mid was taken into custody at the Easton Hotel, op a l return from Reading Rao's, and • mall parties ( d proceeds of the forged cheque was found is his peemi n " The prisoner wee aectioced to five years' pool Nevi% Thomas Joseph Manning, 30, who wee forme, a p in office letter carrier and who was emanated last mass d receiving f e l on i ous l y a money order for X 10a. ikmltr bees stolen out of a litter, was brought up foe Am e n He was ainteseed to 12 mouths' hard labour. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) GUILDHALL. • SOT STABXIIO A MAN.—THE SPATE OP 81101,-Lia John Springfield, 17, a bookbinder, was chargel ha m Mr. Alderman Challis with stabbing A. Randall h arm with a knife, in Shoe-lane, about ten minutes to Si the night of the sth inst. It appeared from the evidence that the ootn i f muter is the proprietor of a cook-shop in and that on the evening in question the prisms seen in company with four other boys wbe vo u indecently eusaulting a girl in front of Mr. Reeve's en shop. ne complainant was soot out to NOWT le upon which the primmer need abusive language and ousho a box on the ears. The complainant then *et 66 6 shop and the prisoner went to the door, having bah" behind him, and said, " ru wait on you,yon dull again west out to remove him and pushed swi and the prisoner then turned round and stabbed him enti clasp knife, after which he ran away. As he was wallas e he was apprehended whilst at work on the follow** The house surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Eicepihil scribed the nature of the wound, which he said weedglg and ought by this time to be nearly well. Several of the polies and tradesmen described the hug that neighbourhood as a perfect nuisance ; they**, gated in gangs, and put everyone at defiance. Mr. Alderman Challis sentenced the prisoner to 3* imprisonment with hard labour. CLERIERNWELL. =nom CAB ACCIDENT. William Clover, a hackney-carriage driver, 12,317, rendered to his remognismies, charged with bolsi tick whilst in his occupation as a cab driver, furiously dnrigli the Oaledoaian.road, and running over and swingy la *ring ..Tohn Taylor a coal porter, in the Caledonia-Ms the 12th August Iset. The complainant, who still appeared very ill, hung no of his legs in a sling and walking upon two crotchet ni -1 am a coal porter, and reside at 8, Grove.strest, St. Gegen road, Holloway. On the 12th August last I wet si Ile Caledonian-road, on the left hand side of the pews** west side), going up towards the Metropolitan Celb Market, at about 9 or half-past 9 o'clock. fflig walking along and just close to the arch of the Ndi London Railway, I got off the pavement into the mg about a yard or so, when I heard something cm* I turned round and sew a horse and cab coming town& as I slung myself round to get out of the way to get en to es pavement, when the point of the shaft of the ag sties the defendant was driving caught my left arm, Used ■ round, and threw me with great force on to the pug While on the ground one of the wheels of tb la " went slanting right up my left leg, tarsal is the milt, and then up again." It broke a patio of my shin bone, and I had a compound commisand his ture of the leg. I remained in the hospital sixteen NM and I have been an out patient from that Wei SI surgeon at the hospital wanted me to bays my leg °A bell would not. lam quite nimble to use it. I had bid s Gli drop of beer, a glass or so, with my meta ; bat Ipe fectay well knew what I was about. I could uotby uysi of my own have prevented the accident. Two policemen who saw the accident mid the priming driving at the rate of 12 or 14 miles an hour. The magistrate said it was a cue he should send fat* land, having cautioned the defendant, asked him Mail anything to say in answer to the charge. The defendant said he had two respectable witness b attendanon who would prove that he was not drank we blame in the matter. The magistrate said he did not want to bear the winot sad the defendant had better produce them at tbs Having committed the defendant to the Middle's:Bmin for trial, he asked him if he had persons in attesdame• would be bail for hint, The defendant replied in the negative. The niagistrate said be would take bail for the &WY —two sanitise in the sum of 251. each, and the Moil himself in 501. . The defendant was then removed. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CICKI2IO A GELS DOWN A FLIOHT OF STAIII Walter Walters, a butcher, living at No. 7, Little Andrew-street, Seven.dia/s, was charged before M r whitt with vio lently assaulting Mr. Daniel Lewis.lo4,l and colour merchant, of Noe. 23 and 24, Little Eal-stan The injured man was unable to attend, and a Wag to that effect was handed in. Mr. Joseph Lewis, brother of the complaisant, seid about 11 o'clock 'set night, having been informed ig W brother had been kicked downstairs he went meats house and found him lying on a sofa io an exhausted al Hearing that the prisoner bad assaulted his bridge gave him into custody. Mrs. Sarah Lewis, wife of the complainant, @JUT'. on Saturday night there was a disturbance betwessio • prisoner and his wife, who were their lodgers. la night, hearing a noise, she went out to wag the cause, when the prisoner struck her hall who was coming up the stairs, a violist !111 in the side, knocking him against the wall. Her Wsb having been suffering for some time from bronehiiil,_, o fearing the prisoner might do him some further seam she went for a constable, but returned to the boa. ll consequence of hearing cries of " Harder," when atlas her husband lying at the bottom of the stairs, the Oil having after she left the house kicked him down. The prisoner denied the kinking. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he should remand the prima* * complainant was able to attend. MA RYLEBON E. DDIORACII7OI. CONDUCT AT A POLICI coon. Patrick Lynch sod Fanny Cunningham were olor with drunken and disorderly conduct, and also witi• lastly assaulting the police. Mr. Yardley sentenced Lynch to one mouth's labour and Cunningham to 14 days. As Mr. Amsted (the gaoler) was removing then lv 0 lookup, assisted by Lanvin, Anne Lynch, sister is male prisoner, rushed upon her brother and held his ~11 0 the oeck. She was with di ffi culty removed by DP when with most tearful oaths she said she would 6 11 Limning. She then spat in his face, and was at 11 , taken into custody, and brought into court 600 raggistrata. Mr. Stanley (chief usher) confirmed this, sod sad at times the scenes in the vicinity of the court wsW • graceful Respectable people having business hers coil! peas along without beiog it:ignited by the compaoiosid o prisoners as these. Thomas Darkins. 218 D, proved seeing the small ill Laoning by Acne Lynch. Mr. Yardley was aware at times that there woo tuberose outside the door. Saab people se that'll/ here thinking they are beyond the reach of the LAIL, • would try to teach them to know better. The ploP must be sentenced to seven days' imprisonment. WANDSWORTH. EXTRAORDINARY RROOTEUY OF STOLEN FROPEIDY A young man named Edward Morris. who has lees ing for a West.ind builder, was brought before Mr. re man oa &charge of being coaceraed in a &dog Win, Oa the sight of Monday, the 9th of October lest,* sidearm of ldr. Freed. Martin, a gentleman, of Tudon Wimblidos•coannea, was burgkriously entered sad Po'i the valued 604 and upwards, was stolen from the young man named John Shaw, • house-decorator, vw• been paying his addresses to Mr. Martin's bonsskalio...; aprebeedsd by Mecklejohn, an active officer of tbe fin Noe, and on being tried at the last *me lo n s of the Or, Orimind Court, less found guilty, and senteocielivu; years' penal servitude. In coaesquieoe of slitter wk i + * Rutin received from the chaplain, Mecklejela to Margate slaw the °conviction, sad bad interview with Shaw, who gave him certain with referees, to the missing property. The iflsor• — • wards proceeded to Tudor-lodge, and dammed a shrubbery a black bag containing a silver c0a10 , 04 pot, sugar st oles sad part of • erast-etsa...s parties of the doles plate. The cater interview with Shaw, and the information be to the apprehension 'of Morris, who declared the 4 0 quite inseam*, and that he knew nothing burglary, but he admitted that be knew Shaw, a.' worked with him. ... I 0 Polieroosstable King, of the V divisios. wb° g principal wham against Shaw, proved that Orli. 11111 MUTINY BOW h i This being the t:Dation of the et Dickson Ph' en abas the qe?tlend, 17 public b e e s: , 1 1:: adjourn. formal, the meg' than fight day l a nd, on 'board w in Ventry Bay 0 days or a fort t little If any ad • hot that the chi I to ' t i thatmsnd b• Pr"a b h dwu y t woreasoaw th m th e a l °getht v e e h :leh se' r eru o h :: behs i : . • [ ' plod in the court ', re were er room, wh Lion for a large v ow ___, Upon the prison. "'Mr. Hodson, the pSin consequenos vot!, it would be ir Thomas Hear) '' Mr. Hodson said s Ilito safe. She wo. pl longer. Sir Thomas Hen Naoselary to send yo ~ ' The prisoner Liffi • )cuedthe ship, and sce at the next Sir Thome Henry i. Mr. Hodson—Cer t , Lift—There is dOways be hoard of a t 0 , Mr. Hodson—l w . Superiateadent E t r o has charge of paid o ff , and e ce. The bra reen o horn. of G ity to the police tinne to do so. • that the ed that he wo the conveyance of Sir Thema Henry k. LONDON This day th© al riders wig held i the chair. The fi TS' ii: directors, to proprietary, ha sr:trod prosperit made up to le 41,6721. 19s. ;erectors regret h it4d., as ;merlin° *labia balance to t of this amount . 10s. per share, a interim divide • . 1i . t1 ...5. t0 7k per can of 5,019/. CI; Touch pleasure branches has made gad that the present The directors av inform the shareh. kionsry authority 'gusting, they bay She shares in the cantil the receipt of the commence from the respective bas been made. It should be known h the last advices satisfactory and *completion is e Trompt notice of given to the share • gllotment will be m May upon the regis %continued provision Irately on the coin lieu as from the lamalgsmeted bank. r The CHAIRMAN i 'that it spoke for i from the beginning lite were 13 5001. vs,oow., Inc{ this 6 'Su therefore a ono 'year they passed a deduct 17,0001. for Sommitted upon th ' Mr. JOHNSTON to, and a dividend . 'savable on and of The retiring di was appointed a ne Two new audito Planks to the separated. TRANSATLA. A special m eompauy wee held Captain Mayotte way) presided. The Glummer( the purpose of dies airs of the co in August, bein connected with t who were also well America, and by companies It was ducted to a mu of schemes that h swamped the mons amongst parties w busioess which in Iliabeei would bare failure, notwithsta Dadbeen rend *hares were in gompsoy, and to ratify or disap had been made f borrowing a saffici three ships, which The company shoal A resolution in was carried. SALE AT CA This morning Ca• put the late Lo if receiving sta • science, literature, with unbounded furniture dealers, curiosity, which b effects to be sold Minister. The I this, that Cambri in her own right, L Lord of the hi the noble VIIICOUD of Lull, Palmer, through Mr. G • and Military Club the premises, and fore that of Lord Tau METRO itamwar.—The d have recently iovi nu nod hotel f • • to **curing the 6 obtained to re . were submitted by Owen Joe's, H. and F. P. Cockers term, Lockwood Lloyd, of the Gothic design by its wet of about noticed in his on Premiums hare M. 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