The Express. — London, England, 1866-05-26 00:00:00

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THIS 'EVENING , RICH AN fl POOR : OR, THE FOUR SEASONS. —The Rung-lir:in Dancer , . from the Oxford and Alhambra—To conclude with TIMP. CORPORAL'S DAUOUTER. Mews. Rey nolds, Cranford, & Itigwomi ; Slims Clar►St. Cane d Mn. S. Lane. HtGTT.\t'.\Tl:lt AT LONDON-BRIDGE. THIS DAT —Mor,ling, ob. Om Afternoon, OK 16m. /o.llongow—.Morning, Oh. 4ont Afternoon, lb. Om. LONDON, SA TURDA Y, MAY 26, THE upholders of that effete and moribund institution the British Prize-ring have had one of their most cherished superstitions severely shat tered. The one redeeming quality which some simple-minded folk have held to condone the wretched surroundings, the brutality, blackguard ism, and ohicenity which are the recognised attri butes of professional pugilism, has been the animal courage it was supposed to foster, and the rude rough sense of honour it was said to instil. Underlying an affected horror at the scenes at the ring-aide have been scarcely hidden congratulations on the courage and endurance displayed by the men fighting ; and astute writers who regard thought as an implement of trade have not been slow to benefit by the national weakness. Ac cordingly, we have had cunningly-drawn pictures, in which sorry, sordid ruffians have been invested with the attributes of heroes ; idylls of the fist, in which the blackening of eyes and the bruising of bodies have been put forth in stately language, and with carefully measured praise ; and solemn warnings from our public in structors that the Prize-ring merits protection as Eft Court. i• the nursery of courage, moderating, anteaduranes, and that its decadence must be altrded again& l the national character pale. Theme things have* paid. That love of " sensation "which is innate in the shallow and thoughtless has been success fully appealed to, and thousands who would yawn at hllinitri.av,.and declare SHAIZSPEARE " slow," have read, and, what is more to the purpose, have bought, the narratives casting a false halo round scenesthe most vicious and repulsive, and "graphic" journalists have reaped reflected honour from pugilistic canonization. But happily a reaction baa set in, and in the disgraceful proeeedings of Thursday may be read the death warrant of prize • 'sxl NONISTINT SITUATION. • The prindirl 'MOM Mac woes Of the present Wee. ' Amato =a ff airs in the City. and He to w hi ch ens Bch can y be , is stated by the Tina to be the introducitau by banks of the unfortunate practice of male interest on deposits which can be withdrawn at pleasure. This pernicious system in the first place has a tend ency to draw into the business of banking more money than would naturally find its way into it, and thus at once te stimulate the competition between bankers, and to ren der the depositors from whom they derive their funds more sensitive. A collapse was more likely to come in a business whose capital was attained by these unnatural means than in one where it was left to find its own level. A banker who had borrowed his money at so high a rate was bound not to let it lie idle ; if safe investments could not be found, it was better to win risks than to be eaten up by.interest paid for money that was doing nothing. The Post says that we are at present not in a condition of paralysis but in a state of catalepsy, from which the trading public will recover naturally. It will awake as the enchanted city did in the Eastern story, and every body will set about their business of buying and selling as they did when this movement was suddenly arrested. The Telegraph does not see that any great advantage' could result from the Bank of England putting forth interest -bearing notes at three or six months, since no Continental drain need be dreaded under the present balance of trade. It will be enough to think of resorting to such a course in the event of war being actually begun in Europe. What we must look to is a firm reso lution on the part of the Bank of England, that no house really solvent and possessing ample securities shall be suffered to fall for want of proper assistance. The Advertiser asks why the directors of banking and finance companies which are sound do not have recourse in such crises as the present to the expedient of purchasing their own shares at the extremely low price to which, through " bearing " operations, they have been driven down. If Overend and Gurney's and the Bank of London had resorted in time to this mode of counteracting the operations of the " bears," there cannot be a question, it thinks, that these two establishments would still have been standing, and ere long have regained their former position. WINDSOR OABTLR. MI 26. To-clay is the anniversary of the birth of tbe Princess Helena. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon in a oarriage and-four, accompanied by the Princess Helena, and at tended by the Dowager-Duchess of Athele. Her Majesty went out in the grounds this morning, with Princess Helena. Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prinoe Arthur walked and drove. Prince Edward of Bose Weimar dined with the Queen and the royal family yesterday. fighting. It has been asserted that policemen were in attendance at the Ludgate-hill station to faci litate the departure of the train bound on ita unholy errand ; that the vast resources of the railway company were placed at the disposal of the traveller s ; and that porters, officials, and station-master vied with each other in assiduity and civil forethought. It is also said that other policemen were murderously attacked an hour or two later, by the very people their brethren had been employed to pro tect. We commend this grave anomaly to the atten tion of the proper authorities. There is high autho rity as to the fate of a house dividedagainst itself, and if one set of constabulary are encouraged in aidlniexpeditions which include attempts on the lives of another set, far-seeing people will look for the gradual extermination of the force. The cir cumstances under which officers of the law were made accomplices in outraging it, will doubtless be made matter for inquiry in the proper quarter; but it is on the non-infliction rather than the infliction of injuries that the lovers of order are chiefly to be congratulated. The last rag of superstition is surely destroyed when two candidates for the championship are openly convicted of either dishonesty or cowardice ; and when a costly prize-fight resolves itself into some innocent grimacing and attitudinising between two half naked men. Thursday's exhibition seems to have been something between male tableaux vivant* and a circus sparring - match ; and in neither phase was either amusing or exciting enough to be remunerative to those who had sat up half the night, to bravo the chances of maltreatment and robbery, besides disbursing largely for the privilege of being present. No punishment was inflicted, no blood shed, and neither skill nor courage was displayed. But it must be remembered that although stakes were withdrawn and bets declared to be void, this ludicrous fiasco has still an emi nently practical side. It is more than probable that several hundreds of pounds were netted by its promoters and their decoy-ducks, who have consequently every reason to be satisfied with the ingenuousness of their dupes. If, as is stated, the railway company shares the sum received for the sale of tickets with the pugilists or their represen tatives, and if two pounds were paid by each of the five hundred spectators, the result would be, apart from incidental extortions which were both numerous and profitable, that some five hundred pounds were divided among the pugilists and their accomplices. The whole moral of the Prize-ring is comprised in this simple fact. It is maintained for gain, and gain only. The people who profit by its displays are dishonest, cowardly, cruel, brutal, and mean, and without one of the redeeming qualities they have been weakly credited with. The dastardly onslaught made last Thursday on the handful of unarmed men who presumed to do their duty, coupled with the pitiful behaviour of those expected to fight, has brought this truth home even to the hood winked dupes whose credulity has been hitherto traded on successfully, and in this ignoble fashion has the finishing stroke been given to an already expiring sham. THE CELEBRATION OF HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY.-(THIS DAY.) THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Examiner hopes little from a congress, and will not be surprised to find the Court of Vienna preferring the chances of war. Austria refuses to cede Venetia save in return for territorial indemnity ; and where is that to come from without a spoliation of the Ottoman, or a re modelling of Germany ? Both or either of these might be the result of a war, but how they can be contemplated in full peace passes our comprehension. Some persons are, however, sanguine. Napoleon the Third pretends that the treaties of 1815 could be set aside still further in full peace, and the aspirations of the nations satisfied without a re course to arms. We cannot see how this is to be. The Economist did not expect the week to prove financially a cheerful one. There was, and to some extent still is, much unwholesome stuff on the market which must be cleared off before there is anything like tran quillity or ease. But though we not only acknowledge but I strongly maintain this rigid truth, we also hold that, in fact, the state of the money market is improving, and i s likely to improve. The Economist does not believe in the Power of " bears" where a firm has managed well, and where its shares are well held. The moral of what has taken place is that banks ought not to do bad business,and that a mass of poor people should not get together and call themselves a bank. Credit ought to be and can only be founded on an opulent and stable proprietary, on people who know they can pay calls, who are not driven into the market by every change in the value of their shares. How the British government can have been deluded into joining such a scheme as the conference the Spectator is at a loss to conceive, unless indeed they are afraid of being taunted in parliament with a refusal to exhaust all possibilities of peace. In the very best case, that of a territorial arrangement, they will be required to give guarantees which the people will cordially dislike, secure Venetia to Italy and something else to Austria, and a third slice of the world perhaps to France, and thus repeat in a new form the grand arrangement of 1815 which is now finally breaking down. It would have been far wiser and more dignified to stand absolutely aloof, maintaining intact the right of ultimate action, but refusing to join amidst the rumbling of artillery, in dull clatter over a table, about the expediency of sending the cannon back. The Satarda y I. rikis complains that English writers underrate the great questions involved in the present con. flict. Austria has not strained her resources, called nearly a million of men to be ready for battle, obliged herself to court her outlying nationalities, appealed to the fitful enthusiasm of Bohemians and Poles, in order merely that she may retain the supremely uncomfortable posi tion which the Convention of Gastein gave her in Holstein. She is doing all this that she may take an advantageous opportunity of deciding whether her whole existence shall be an existence of sufferance, and whether, among the German populations whom she rules or influences, the manners, the feelings, and the religion that are dear to her shall be stifled and overshadowed by the advancing supremacy of her rival in the North. Austria may be right or wrong, wise or foolish, iu thinking of war now to determine this issue ; but at any rate it is a great issue, an issue worthy of a supreme effort of heroism, and nut a paltry issue like that of the dominion of the Duchies. How can the continentals care for exhortations to peac e that come from peacemakers utterly unable to understand the causes of the war? As to the conference the scheme is proposed by a monarch who has for months carefully abstained from using his influence to prevent the impending war, and whose recent proclama tion to his countrymen was universally understood as a menace to the general peace. There is too much reason to fear that the parties to the conference may become en tangled with engagements which can neither be performed in accordance with prudence and justice, nor repudiated with honour. If Prussia, Austria, and Italy really desire peace, they can lay down their arms without the aid of any congress. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) TIM CONING CONFERENCE. The Times believes that little more than a week will elapse before the envoys or plenipotentiaries will meet, and that in order that the conference may have due weight, and that time may not be lost in referring to the governments at home, the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the respective nations will be present in person. The British government, although resolute against any en tangling interference, is prepared to urge strongly its dis interested counsels, but if each power comes to the dis cussion determined to yield nothing, it is obvious that the conference may as well not be held at all. Diplomatists must be cautious in their utter ances, but a journal can sometimes render service by declaring what ministers hesito to utter. We may say, then, that it is essential for the cause of peace that Austria and Prussia should authorise their representatives to yield, the one on the question of Venetia, the other on the question of the Duchies. The former is the more important matter, and on its settle ment the result of the conference for good or evil will depend. To yield Venetia for an adequate compensation would be no dishonour to Austria, and the Emperor would thereby not only free himself from a disaffected territory, but obtain a credit in Europe which would largely increase his influence at home and in the Confede ration. If this question be settled, the whole influence of the neutral powers would be used to maintain the just rights of Austria and the Confederation, and to induce a satisfactory settlement in the Duchies. We have much to hope from the strong disposition of the greater part of Europe for peace—the people from the losses which would follow from the interruption of commerce and communi cation, and the sovereigns of the continent from the feeling that the war, if once begun, will assume a revo lutionary character, and that if these millions of men meet in conflict thrones will not remain where they are. Referring to the representation by the nalatitutionnel of the Emperor Napoleon as the friend of peace, the Daily Hers observes that his imperial majesty may rest assured that no party or section in this country will grudge him any degree of glory to which he may aspire in the character of a peacemaker, if he will but earnestly co-operate with the other neutral powers to adjust the quarrel which now threatens to deluge Europe with blood. He was never called to act under circumstances more favourable to suc cess. When the conference opens it will be seen whether the Emperor has merely sought the empty honour of pre siding indifferently over the squabbles of one more party of diplomatists in his capital, or is sincerely intent on bringing about a peace based on better foundations than the settlement which he has so often denounced. The difficulties are not insuperable. Prussia could not obsti nately resist proposals to refer all the claims made to the sovereignty of the Elbe Duchies to the decision of their inhabitants ; and in • conference where three out of six of the powers represented are neutral there would be no appearance of menace such as would naturally deter the court of Vienna from ceding • portion of its territory. The Venetian difficulty settled, peace would virtually be secured. This is the chief work which the conference has to perform, but what it does must be done quickly. The Herald continues to assert that war is inevitable though it may be preceded by a congress. Of all the powers which will accept the proposal of a conference there is not one which will not do so with the intention of accepting its decision—if favourable, and disregarding it if adverse. Confiding in the preservation of quiet during the in terval, the Telefiftsph anticipates the position of • posi tive truce during the sittings of the conference ; eo that, as it cannot well assemble until the second week in June, we shall gain a substantial respite from the outbreak of war, and, during that interval, reason, humanity, and 'statesmanship will have time to be heard. LORD ELCHO AND THE REFORM BILLIL—We believe it is the intention of Lord Elcho to bring forward a resolution in the House of Commons to the effect that, at this late period of the session, it is not expedient to proceed with the reform bills.—Dutlin Evening Mail. Intelligence has been received that Governor Eyre has left Jamaica in an English man-of-war. THE CHINESE Missioic —Hie excellency Pin-Ta- Fin and sui:c, accompanied by Major Brine, ME., Mr. Bowin, secretary, and M. de Champs, interpreter, yester day visited the London Docks, the Custom House, and the Royal Mint. To-day the mission will proceed to Alder shott to witness the review in honour of the Queen's birth day„ THE EAItL OF SHATTESBURY. — The Earl of Shaftesbury has been in more than usual request this May as a chairman of anniver.aries ; and it is impossible not to admire his readiness to help, and his earnestness in every good cause. We are not disposed to underrate the value of the support and patronage of the noble earl, whose life long devotion to philanthropic and Christian effort is beyond praise. But really, if his lordship goes on to talk as wildly as he has done this May, the conductors of the societies who seek his countenance will have to stipulate for his presence only without a speech. This will be an immense relief to his lordship and to the man agers also. Earl Sha,teshury's ideas run in ve^y narrow grooves, and acquire so much intensity by compression that they explode in most alarming figures of speech. He means to speak strongly, but does not see the effect and bearing of his speech at the moment of utterance. His description of " F..oce Homo" has attracted much notice, end a correspondent calls attention to an equally extrava gant speech at the London Missionary Society's meeting. A little wholesome criticism may save his lordship from much mischief.—Patriot. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOE THE ENSUING WEEK.—Monday—Geographiatl, at 1, Anniver sary. Tuesday—Engineers, at 9, President's converea• zione ; Royal Institution, at 3, "Physical Geography and the Fine Arts," Professor Ansttd. Wednesday — Society of Arts, at 8. "Popular Errors concerning Aus tralia," Hon. C. G. Duffy. Thursday—Royal Institution, at 3, " Ethnology," Professor Huxley ; Royal, at 84 ; Antiquaries, at Bi. Friday—Archmological Institute, at 4 ; Royal Institution, at 8, " O pa lescence of the Atmos phere," Professor Rosooe ; Philological, at 8. Saturday— Actuaries, at 3, Annual general meeting ; Royal Institu tion, at 3, " Ethnology," Professor Huxley.—Athentrum. DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN LAKE GUIDE.-011 Saturday Charles Hewer Wright, so well-known in Kes wick for more than 40 years as a guide and geologist, died after a protracted and painful illness. Few were so thoroughly acquainted with every point in the Lake Dis trict, to which he was so devotedly attached, and through which he deemed it a labour of love to guide inquiring tourists. He was a man of great intelligence, and was selected by the most eminent royal personages (atnong them the Prince of Wales just nine years ago) who visited Keswick to act es their cicerow.—Weststoretand Usistte. •Z,„ l -4THe._ -EXPRESS I , SATURDAYVitNiNG, MAY 26, 1866.- The Prince of Wales rode out on horseback yesterday afternoon. His Royal Highness in the afternoon presided at a lee. tore given at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitebait The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor Earl Gran ville, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Cla rendon, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Earl de Grey, the Marquis of Hartington, the Chancel ' for of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. A deputation consisting of Lord Barton, the Hon H. W. Fitzmaurice, the Hon. W. 0. Stanley, the Hon. Colonel Pennant, and Mr. Owen F. Meyriok, had an in terview with the Lord President of the Council, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey and the Right Hon. H A. . Bruce, at the Privy Council-o ffi ce, yesterday, on the subject of the cattle plague. Colonel Harness, R.E., attended the interview. This morning being appointed for the celebration of her Majesty's birthday, a general inspection of the Guards took place on the Parade, St. James's-park. The household infantry were extended in line, and the royal escort was on the right flank. After the troops had marched past, line was formed, and the Guards for the duties of the day were marched to their respective posts. A grand illumination of the clubs in St. James's and the establishments of the royal tradesmen will take place this evening. LA.7 ITALY. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO CLIEFDEN. Her Majesty the Queen, with their Royal Highnesses Prin• ceases Helena, Louise, and Beatrice, attended by the suite, is expected to arrive at Cliefden, the seat of the Dowager-Duchess of Sutherland, after luncheon to-day, The duchess having left her palatial residence at the entire disposal of the Queen during her Majesty's visit. workmen and decorators have been busily engaged in pre paring the various suites of apartments for the reception of her Majesty and such members of the royal family and household as will accompany her from Windsor Castle. The Prince of Wales, K.G., presided yesterday afternoon at a lecture delivered at the Royal United Service Institution by Mr. F. A. Abel, F.H.8., chemist to the War Department, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, on "Gun Cotton, and other New Explosive Agents." The subject is one of great interest to military men, and ac cordingly drew together a numerous audience. Amongst the distinguished visitors present we noticed were the Count de Park the Duke of Sutherland, Sir F. Nichol son, Sir Robert Keane, Admirals Stopford, Codrington, Ommanney, and Buckle, Generals Abbott, Pester, Law rence, and Bloomfield, Sir William Codrington, Dr. Mount, Colonel Clinton, &c. The Marquis of Salisbury has arrived in town from Hatfield House, Herta. The marchioness and family are still in Gennany. Lord Stanley, M.P., has arrived at the Earl of Derby's residence in St. James's-square, from passing the holidays at Knowsley. Last night the Countess Cowper had a dancing party at her mansion in St. James's-square. The invitations were limited in number. Many of the company came after the concert at Buckingham Palace. A general meeting of the National Rifle Associa tion assembled yesterday, under the presidency of the Duke of Cambridge, to discuss the arrangements for the Wimbledon meeting on the 9th of June. The amount of prizes is to be increased from 3,505/. last year to 4,020 f., and the difference is to be given to the Enfields. A prize of 501. to be shot for by Belgians is a graceful acknow ledgment of the hospitable and liberal manner in which the English riflemen were received last year at Brussels. The rules adopted do not differ materially from those of last year, two or three proposed alterations being nega tived. It was stated incidentally by his royal highness the chairman that the proposed review in Hyde Park would not be held, as the space available there would he too confined for the purpose, but that Wormwood Scrubba would be available for the per pose. A meeting of metropolitan parochial guardians was held yesterday, at St. James's Hall, for the purpose of protesting against a scheme for one general hospital, suggested by the Association for the Amelioration of the Infirmaries of the Metropolitan Workhouses. A resolution, to the effect" that the removal of paupers from the con trol of parochial management, and placing them under a central or imperial authority, would be subversive of the principles of local self-government, and that the collecting together of such paupers in large hospitals would not be conducive either to the cure or the well-being of the inmates," was discussed at considerable length. Many of the guardians of the east-end workhouses admitted that there was great room for improvement ; and it was con tended that the association did not contemplate the sub version of local controL The motion, however, was adopted by a large majority. Mr. Esmond, having accepted the office of Lord of the Treasury, has addressed the electors of the county of Waterford, and offers himself for re -1 election. He says the appointment was unsought on his part, but he willingly joins an administrasion that has given proof of a conciliatory, generous, and just policy towards this Ireland. The Gardeners' Chronicle regrets to learn that Mr. Holland, M.P., with Colonel Kingscote and Mr. Randall, the minority who supported him, has retired from the chairmanship of the Education Committee of the English Agricultural Society. Among the many beautiful objects in the In ternational Horticultural Show is a box of Italian rye grass, which when brought on Monday was in luxuriant and forward growth, having been sown last February on some of the Maplin sand, and since watered with the sewage as it runs into the Thames at Barking. In perfect health and growth, equal already to • cut of several tons per acre, and sown only three months ago, it is a sufficient testimony to the capability of sewage as a grass-grower upon sand. The Gardeners' Chronicle states that the experiment on a l►rger scale at the outfall, where an acre of the Maplin sand has been brought up and spread, is in promising progress. The grass sown only a few weeks ago is coming satisfactorily, and, fed at intervals with dressings of the liquid manure, it will no doubt soon ex hibit luxuriance equal to that in the specimen box at the International Show. The Baroness de Pausadea, of Bachen, has just died at Aire (Ardennes) aged 105 years. Advices from Burgundy and the Beaujolais state that in several localities the vines have suffered from the cold northerly winds which lately prevailed, but the vege tation was too far advanced for the consequences to be very serious. A letter from Rome says :—" A considerable number of young men have left Rome and the Pontifical provinces for the war. Italian subjects recalled to serve in the regular army have, of course, no difficulty in getting their passports, so that numbers of families here are losing their couriers, cooks, and coachmen, and numbers of industrial concerns losing their best hands at verysehort notice, for very few shirk the warlike summons ; but Pon tifical subjects, having a martial impulse, prefer the idea of Garibaldi's volunteer battalions ; and as they could hardly hope for passports to enable them to carry out such an intention, they quietly cross the frontier without, • very easy matter at many points, and are received with open arms on the Italian aide. Some desertions have also occurred of Papal soldiers stationed in frontier districts." lENCE. The Diritto of May 23, has the following: We have been assured that Baron Ricasoli has resigned into the hands of his Majesty the trust which was waded to him of forming an administration in the event of war breaking out. This resolution of the Baron seems to have been prompted by the fact that several of his political friends sturdily refused to subordinate all the requirements of party to the actual circumstances of the country. The following is an extract from one of ten let ters which were written by Signor Cesare Ceuta, member of the Chamber of Deputies, to Salvatore Cognetti, editor of the Coneiliatore, and seized by the public authorities :—" Austria is at last pre paring to make an end of it once and for ever. She will succeed if she attacks within a week. She will find no serious resistance from the Po to Bologna" The Italian journals continue to report nume rous enrolments of the Italian youth in the corps of volunteers of which Garibaldi is to have the com mand. (EurrEß's TILZORMES.) THE PARIS CONFERENCE. PARIS, MAT 26: The Monitettr of this morning confirms the de spatch by the English, French, and Russian cabi nets of the notes for the assembling of a conference which will meet in Paris at the earliest possible date. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. VIENNA, MAT 26 The Prussian minister at this court has requested to be informed, on behalf of his government, whether the Austrian despatch of the 26th April, containing proposals for the settlement of the Schleswig-Holstein question, is to be regarded as Austria's ultimatum. The Austrian government replied that it would conscientiously consider any modification proposed by Prussia. ITALY. FLORENCE, MAT 26. Signor Brofferio, member of the Chamber of Deputies, is dead. The Ministry of Commerce intends, it is said, to appoint a commission to examine and report upon the position of the industrial and railway companies of Italy. THE ITALIAN FORTRESSES. FLORENCE, MAT 26. The Minister of War has addressed a report to the King proposing that a certain number of for tresses should be dismantled. He also points out the necessity for executing certain works of fortifi cation destined to complete the principal fortified places upon the frontiers in order to render them secure against the destructive effects of the new artillery. All proceeds accruing to the government from the sale of ground or war material consequent upon the dismantling of some places would be applied for the prosecution of the above-mentioned works. VENETIA. VENICE, MA 2& The Gazette of Venice publishes an official noti fication ordering a second conscription for 1866. The Venetian provinces are to furnish a contingent of 6,417 men. SAXONY. DRESDEN, MAT 26. The Saxon government has prohibited the exportation of corn, hay, and straw until the Ist of October next. SPAIN. MADRID, MAT 26. The Minister of Finance stated yesterday inCon gress that should the Chambers vote the full powers demanded by the bill of Marshal O'Donnell, the government would not issue the proposed amount of bonds under 40. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. MARSEILLES, MAY 25. The Ceylon arrived here at 7 p.m. to-day. All well. The maila leave for London at 10 p.m. (MUTER'S =PRIM.) THE ITALIAN ARMY. FLORENCE, MAT 22. The . Italian army, as at present organised, consists of four army corps, the first commanded by General Durand°, with headquarters at Lodi; the 2nd, under General Cucchiari, at Cremona ; the 3rd, under General Della Rocca, at Piacenza ; and the 4th, commanded by General Cialdini, with headquarters at Bologna. The headquarters of the King are established at Piacenza. VENETIA. VENICE, Max 20. General Toggenburg, Lieutenant-General of Venetia, has issued the following proclamation : Coincident with the formation of armed volunteer corps in the frontier states of Italy, the intrigues of the revolu tionary party to seduce the young men have actively recom menced, and even within this Imperial jurisdiction we witness audacious efforts to enlist persons belonging to the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. The indulgent manner in which those found guilty of desertion into foreign territory have hithertobeen dealt with might now induce afatal slack ness of discipline. Since, therefore, the necessary increased vigilance has been ordered to be observed upon the frontier, I am also bound to state expressly that under present circumstances the cases of desertion with the object of enlistment in armed bodies, as well as any aid or promotion afforded to the same, will be treated as a criminal act under the pro visions of Articles 321 and 327 of the military penal code, conjointly with Article 67 of the general penal code, and will therefore be tried before military tribunals according to the rigour of martial law. I trust that the grave tenour of this warning will not fail to command the most serious attention. A feeling of duty should induce fathers of families and other person s responsible for the conduct of youth, as well as the heads of communes and the very reverend curds, in their respective spheres, to firmly counteract, with all those within their influence, the intrigues and instigations preg nant with so many perils to those who are misled by them. The Lieutenant-General of his Imperial and Royal Ma jesty in the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, Venice, May 19, 1866. Toooatiguito AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, MAT 26. The Hamburg American Company's steamer Borusaia, Captain Schwenaon, from New York on the 12th, has arrived. She brings 320 passengers for Southampton, Havre, and Hamburg, and a large cargo, including 122,300 dollars for England, and 500 for Hamburg. . On the 20th mgt. the Borussia rescued the cap tain and crew of the English brig Annie Fisher, which vessel was in a sinking condition, having sprung a leak. The Annie Fisher was bound from Wales to Montreal, loaded with railway iron. The Borussia experienced during the latter part of her voyage strong easterly gales. FOREIGN-07710E, MAY 23.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Johann Smidt se Consul at Calcutta for the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.—Goadtc. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) BAIL COURT. Bitting at Nisi Prins at Weatminster.—(> e f o , Justice Lush and Common Juries.) SUTTON AND ANOTHZII v. 111077 AIM The further hearing of this case was rammed tbi s In° 3lr mul ledgeland deposed that Sutton sold him aph i " • B roa d woo d, which he afterwards discovered woe not oss, and he had to bring an action against go at consequence. Daniel Imolf, one of the defendants, and who _ sad who had ha ft in business as an instrument manufacturer for 20 to aeweed—l first became acquainted with the pia is 183, and the first order I received from him WU it Nay 1864. I never saw Sergeant at my place of balms, sad the order for 4201. cash for the instrumett question was given by letter. The instrument woo t o have the addition of a drum action, and it was ingly made and delivered in the February Mara. Sergeant also afterwards ordered of me c irand o mr_ 1001. On the let of January Sergeant n to so e cash and two bills of exchange for 1 00 0 k Lt which I gave a receipt. Before the bills beanie ale t h y were taken up in (lower-street, and I signed • ma** 2001. , not having the bills with me. I be li eve th e is in Sergeant's handwriting, but so far am I cia collect there was no firm stamp nor any fi rm, then. I have papers with this stamp lyift m f y shop counter which can be obtained by anyone. % um • evening that the bills were taken up and I sae receipt, Sutton called at my shop, and I gave him op th bills. The receipt produced, for 1501., was given by but I did not receive any money. Sutton said h e koo - o g tamed 3,0001. worth of orders for me, and that le mi have 2001. commission out of me, or he should di, pose of the instrument he had hail of me—tlet should run away to America and see las I then gave Sutton a check for 501. He told sr m doctor's business was worth about 6,0001. a year, sod he expected to get it. I gave Sutton 630/. and this receipt (produced) is tic Sutton's mai* I 2001. for all the musical instruments he lea li n chased of me. I ceased to supply s o ki with any more articles in 1865. He then brought sa sol e against Sergeant for 8001., which was referred toilet ' Gordon. I afterwards gave information to Ne m Broadwood, and, pending the inquiry, s emi and Sutton were arrested on the charge of fogey. Mrs. Sutton afterwards called on me sad std her husband was ready and willing t o m u up the instrument. It was on a Sunday i told her that I could not say anything about it thin, bet would see her again on the following day. (The use was proceeding when our 'twilit] COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCI, (Before the Judge Ordinary.) DAVIS r. DAVIS. Dr. Bpinks and Mr. Kelly for the petition. ds was the wife of a person who was assistant to his fishy • jeweller in London and Birmingham. In 1815 married to him without the knowledge of ha Inapt and she lived with him in Birmingham till Beytek 1857, when three weeks after her confinement he tali ! his furniture and deserted her. Evidence of ash* having been given, The Court made a decree nisi with coats. WADHAM V. WADHAM. Mr. Abel for the petitioner. The respondent who was a traveller, portrait Taw and a barber, was deaf and dumb, and had been Omni at the asylum in the Kent-road. In 1836 he moist is respondent at More Critchell, in Doreetshire. Their* for some time together, but the connection was loan happy one. In 1844 the respondent had a child hying, woman and he compelled his wife to adopt d as len g t h wn. Soon afterwards he deserted her isles at became chargeable to the West Derby imei, where she was now servant to the matron. In Wadhaiu contracted a bigamous marriage with Ann ha, by whom he had • family of four children. With tin second wife he was still living, although Is ld once been apprehended for deserting ha. lii fact of the second marriage, however, came and the charge was dismissed. The rams vs then sentenced to three mouths' imprisonment Is deserting his wife. When he was taken to On the gaoler exclaimed, "what Wadham WhetWhsthrl been doing now ?" On being asked by the Aver ado Wadhain had any more wives, the man said, " 24va Least." The court made a decree nisi, with costa. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) IN RE W. R. SIDNEY. The bankrupt, a commission agent, of Pooltossloat, Chelsea, applied for his release from custody. Debtl,ll% Mr. E. Reed opposed for Mr. Henry, of Pope's Bei alley, a creditor for 360/. Mr. Mayhew also opposed for a creditor. The as would be in the recollection of the court fray th fact that under a former bankruptcy, a year so he had obtained his release from custody by s me& ingenious trick. He had been required to bad notice of bail was to be given to the detaining wait and a letter was posted in the ordinary way, bat saki piece of string attached to it, so that it was drawn ott the box again immediately after by some other Pena leaving the person who posted it free to swear &ottani done so. (Laughter.) Mr. Reed stated that the bankrupt had executed s dwi of composition since his first bankruptcy ; the nbhti that deed had been contested, on the ground that see d the creditors were fictitious, and as that question vas a pending, the court ought nut to interfere to graattbelaht rupt's release. that A solicitor, who appeared for the bankrupt, denied any debt was due to the opposing creditor, and said till the bankrupt was prepared to give reasonable seeuntl• His Honour said that it was only a matter of cases justice to keep the bankrupt in prison at present, sad be should not release him until he rendered a cub scant showing all his tianzactions since the date of be Ili balance-sheet. (Before Mr. Registrar Pond IN RE o'HoURKE, iorltY.s%Visit rat.coin, This was a first sitting, under the batikruptey Oslo& O'Rourke, better known as Edmund Falciner, dames as of 47, Acacia-road, St. John's-wood, and of the Rea* Royal, Drury-lane, theatrical manager, *stadia a author, for some time in partne:sliip with F. 8..04 terton, of Drury-lane Theatre, as theatrical 1 01. gera, at present a prisouer for debt in Vt• cross-street prison. The bankrupt is de tsisg ' custody at the suit of three or four credit" .' principal one being Mr. Lewis Solomon , fruited, • Covent-garden-market. He recently made application his release, but the matter was ordered to stand w ol• after the choice of assignees. The bankrupt wcrilet he h• failure to losses sustAn iil in the manag enn sM t Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, and disputes with partner, Mr. Chatterton, which it seems have es in a chancery suit. Tha preliminary statement shone° of between 8,000/. and 10,000/. ; but notice batheor i of an application for leave to amend this 'totems' , • e th m at ti t to h ri e am a o re unt w m il r l . probablyThm B ake r , blarg er. gen Ara tu nog t ia Craven-street, Strand, LOW/. ; Messrs. Chattedos Stride, box-office agents, Covent-garden, ; 1011 Hallett, Ommanney, and Co., bankers, Great street, 500/. ; Mr. L. Solomon, fruiterer, Corestig* market, 634/. ; Messrs. Selim, Dean, and Co, 011. changers, Coventry-street, ltrri. ; and Mr. C. T. s! , Caroline-street, Bedford-square, holding • 7:: rity a bill of sale on the bankrupt's fannies.totb,- debt is disputed by the bankrupt. Appended ; of creditors is a note, stating that th e greater P•I debts are due to creditors of Falconer and Chatloolt o account of the theatre. and that the b a nkrupbb.•iS,s o in prison several months, has been unable investigate the accounts. Mr. G. Lewis and Mr. Lowrance appeareoll•• 666ll; and Mr. Moojen for the bankrupt. Mr. Lowrance stated that there were several a t i , proofs, but as those would not affect the choicei nd l flees, 'Mr. Lewis having a su ffi cient amount of carry it, it was proposed to adjourn the whole puted proofs for discussion on a fut ure day. sal• i Proofs to the amount of about 4,00td. were Amongst those who proved were some of the deiorlY ditors, and it was intimated that there would pv , w, no opposition to bankrupt's re l e ase from costal:lc° next application. Mr. .1011 Wilson, merchant, of Fenchurchils• chosen creditors' assignee. The next sitting was appointed for the 29th of It° THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) CLERKENWELL ASSAII.TING A WIFE. Cherie* Wright, a traveller, of 74, Church. ton, was brought up on a warrant by Taylor, 100 N, charged with assaulting his wife , Wright, otherwise Madame Newman. The wife stated she carried on business et the gel dress as a medical botanist, under the name ibis us ; Newman, that her husband was the fret ill-Wing her, and that during the past .ortni4ft threatened to stab her with a carving-knife aww •She had been married to him for seven years, het7, lived with him for 17 months, and had left his •" than three times through his violence. e The prisoner sal I that he had never ill-needidl t hat that this charge was only brought against him W. wife might go off with a comedian of the nam with whom she had lived for four years. Richard Foasett, of 32, Barnett-street, New • w lh was called and stated there was no truth in the statement. aad twe Mr. D'Eyncourt ordered the prisoner ties in the sum of 301. to keep t he peace twwirdi for six months. lord The prisoner said ho thought it was ci t • wife should go in the name of Madame Newman I Mrs. Wright. Jakob W w ith atm pitting • It VP' woman •• .. 6 :0 :mows. was .a.e d the lot. bis hand . 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