The Express. — London, England, 1867-07-10 00:00:00

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Tee propriety of consolidating tho outlying branches of the Inland Revenue Department has been frequently urged by financial reformers, and has, in theory, been sanctioned by the House. The proceedings before Mr. HORSVALL'S Committee, and the Bill introduced subsequently by Mr. GLADSTONE, tended in the same direction ; and though little practical result has yet been attained, signs are not wanting of a renewed agitation by which the public are likely to profit. It is as new to hear of our civil servants appointing dele gates to proclaim the shortcomings of their own department to Parliament as it is startling to learn that a meeting of legislators and officials has been held in the famous tea-room, at which such charges as malversation of the public funds, corrupt extra vagance, and mismanagement, were declared proven with entire unanimity. The complaint was the old-established one, of too many hands for the same work; bat whereas the stone hitherto thrown has been from the outer world, and by men for whom it was difficult if not impossible to prove their case minutely, the people complaining now are the alleged culprits themselves ; and it is for taxpayers, and for those who impose taxes, to profit by the Queen's evidence proffered them. The officers of Excise declare themselves able and willing to perform more work, and call for a searching inquiry into the arrangements of their department. It would be cruel to ask whether a desire for increased salaries had any share in promoting this discovery. It is sufficient to take the confession as it stands, and to note that the leaders of the movement expressly limit their wishes to the appointment of a Royal Commission. This laudable anxiety for the public interest should be gratified, and we have little doubt that if the questions were as skilful and pertinent, and the witnesses as candid, as has been the case elsewhere, the revelations would be as suggestive, though in a widely different fashion, as those now startling the world. When the three branches of Excise, Stamps, and Taxes were nominally united under the late Mr. JOHN WOOD, it was with the distinct under standing that the fusion then commenced should be consistently carried out. That able public servant enjoyed, if we mistake not, a considerable annuity in addition to the salary of his post, in consideration of the extra labour involved in the amalgamation. Since his death rumours have been abroad, and questions and comments have from time to time come before the public, the tendency of which has been to show, nut merely that the organization of this great department is incomplete, and the officials dissatisfied, but that the public are suffering loss. Matters have now assumed a proportion which may be easily used to the advantage of the tax payer ; and it is but natural to hope that the opportunity will be seized, and authoritative in formation given on the chief points raised. The present system of assessment and collection is said to put some 70,0001. per annum into the pockets of indolent sineemists, who browbeat the Treasury into paying them a further sum of hush-money by the threat of using their political influence nainst the first government refusing to buy them off. The clerks to the local commissioners of taxes throughout the country are, if their official assail ants are to be believed, the long-shore men of their several districts, and to their interested opposition the defeat of Mr. Gtmerroxz's proposals for hand ing over the collection of taxes from parochial functionaries to responsible officials was due. Nor is this the worst. We learn from the chairman of the conference of Excise delegates, recently held at Exeter-ball, that "the poundage paid to these " clerks is calculated upon the amount of their " original assessment, and not upon tho sum " actually awarded and determined by the Court " of Appeal as equitable, so that the clerks have "an absolute pecuniary interest in encouraging "over-charges and causing litigation." At the same conference the published opinions of the pre sent and late Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue were quoted to prove the crying necessity of change. The first describes the system of which he is the responsible chief as " most objection "able," and quotes one item of 17,0001. as annually wasted in needless travelling expenses. The second informs us that " great frauds result " from the present system," and significantly adds, " there is great delay in getting in the " money." So many secretaries, ex-secretaries, surveyors, collectors, and other leading officials are quoted as of the same opinion, that we are driven to Mk why some reasonable scheme of re form has not been insisted on earYer, If half of what we are told now be true, the department divided against itself furnishes another proof of the hollowness of ministerial compliments, and is an additional testimony to the laxity with which the public is served. After making due allowance THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1867. fur tho exigencies of official etiquette, it is diffi cult to comprehend how suosessive governments have permitted the efliciencres4 energy they have repeatedly praised in the House of Commons to he hampered by conditions which are now said to make their possessors unwilling accomplices in a fraud. A public meeting is held of representative re venue officials from various parts of the three kingdoms, who inculpate, with engaging freedom, the system they administer, declaring much of its work to be useless, and that a large proportion of its expenditure is profligate. They call upon the Legislature to test the truth of their area ; and it would be inconsiderate to say them nay. It is hardly to be expected that this out spoken zeal for the common good is purely disin terested ; but so long as its ostensible aim is for ' inquiry only, there can be no valid reason for its being ignored, or why the department should not be tried in the balance, and its accusations and revelations bo used to our advantage. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) painful to think that any English magistrate could be found capable of treating such an act as a trivial excess of duty. To complete the dramatic offset of the boiness, there eight to be found a government 'spade of eompen sating the captain for the fine inflicted en him. rke Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Jinx 9. The Queen, accompanied by the Queen of Prussia and Princess Louis of Hesse, drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon. The Viceroy of Egypt, with the Prince of Wales, arrived at the Castle last evening at 7 o'clock. The Viceroy was accompanied by the Turkish Ambas sador, and attended by their Excellencies Raghib Pasha (President of the Egyptian Assembly), Huber Pasha (Minister of Foreign Affairs), Telaat Pasha (Chief of his Highnees's Council), Hassan Pasha, and Ries Pasha. Major• General Francis Seymour, C. 8., Groom-in-Wait ing to her Majesty (who is specially attached to the Vice roy), was also in attendance, as was Colonel Stanton, C. 8., Royal Engineers, her Majesty's Consul-General for Egypt. Captain Ellis, Equerry to the Prince of Wales, was in attendance upon his royal highness. The Viceroy was conducted to his apartments by the Prince of W ales,and was shortly afterwards received by the Queen in the White Drawing-room, her Majesty being ac companied dither by the Princess Louis of Howe and the Princess Louise. His Highness was introduced by Lord Stanley (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), and presented by the 'Turkish Ambassador. The gentlemen in attendance upon the Viceroy were afterwards presented to her Majesty. The royal dinner party included the Queen of Prussia, the Prince of Wales, Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Louise. the Viceroy of Egypt, the Duchess of Roxburghe (Lady in Waiting to her Majesty), Countess Schulenhourg (Mistress of the Robes to the Queen of Prussia), the Earl of Bradford (Lord Chamberlain), Lord Stanley (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs),and Raghib Pasha and Nubar.Fasha. The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting had the honour of joining the royal circle in the drawing-room ►fter dinner. The Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, Major-General Sir T. M. and the Hon. Lady Biddulph, and Goland I'onaonby, bad the honour of receiving in vitations. The Queen of Prussia, attended by Countess Schulen henry, Count Nesse!rode, and Dr. Brandin, left the Castle at 12 o'clock for London. The Queen, the Print* of Wales, Princess Louis of Hesse, and Princess Louise, attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe, and the Equerries in Waiting on horseback, accompanied her Majesty to the South Western Railway Station. The Prince of Wales, attended by Captain Ellie, accom panied the Queen of Prussia to London. Viscount Tor rington, Lord in Waiting to the Queen, attended her Majesty to Dover. The Viceroy of Egypt, with his suite, drove through Windsor Great Park this morning, attended by Lord Alfred Paget (Equerry in Waiting), and shortly after one o'clock took leave of the Queen. His highness re turned to London by a special train on the Great Western Railway from Slough. On the way to Slough his highness visited Eton Col lege, and was conducted through the hall and library by the Provost, the Fellows, and Masters, who, with the boys, received his highness in front of the college. The Marchioness of Ely, the Earl of Bradford, and Lord Stanley left the Castle this afternoon. The Prince of Wales gave a dinner last evening to the Viceroy of Egypt. The following were invited to meet his highness:—The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Louis of Hesse, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Prince of Teck, the Turkish Ambassador, the French Ambassador, his Excellency Nohow Pacha, his Excellency Raghib Pacha, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of Bucking. ham, the Duke of Sutherland, the Marquis of Abercorn, the Earl of Malmeabury, the Earl of Tankerville, the Earl of Bradford, the Earl of Derby, Earl Granville, the Earl of Dudley, Lord Stanley, Lord Harris, the Lord Mayor, the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Nortbcote, the Right Hoa. Gathorne Hardy, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Henry Corry, Sir Samuel Baker, the Dean of Westminster, Mr. J. W. Lurking, General Seymour, and Colonel Stanton (in attendance on the Viceroy of Egypt), Colonel lion. James Macdonald (in attendance on the Duke of Cam bridge), Captain Von Westerweller (in attendance on Prince Louis of Hesse), General Sir William Knollys, and Captain Ellis. The band of the Grenadier Guards, conducted by Mr. D. Godfrey, was in attendance, and performed a selection of music. Mr. J. W. Benson, of New Bond-street, had the honour of aubmitting, yesterday, for the inspection of the Prince of Wales, the cups manufactured by him for the Clifden and Stamford races. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council•ohoe, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The Lords present were the Lord President and the Right. Hon. H. Waddington. A deputation of cattle salesmen had an interview with the Lord President of the Council, ►t the Privy Council office, yesterday. Mr. Cawkwell (London and North Western Railway). Mr. Allport (Midland Railway), Mr. Grierson (Great Western Railway), and Mr. Seymour Clark (Great Northern Railway), had an interview with the Duke of Richmond, at the office of the Board of Trade, yesterday, on railway business. Deepatehee were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, St, Helena, Sierra Leone, and Lagos, The Queen of Prussia left for the continent yes terday, and we learn from our oorrespondent at Boulogne that she arrived there at 5.45 by the South Eastern Com pany's special steamer Victoria. Her Majesty was met by Count Boltz, the Prussian Ambassador, and left for Paris at 6.55. The Prince of Wales will, it is expected, lay the foundation stone of the East Somerset Hospital about to be built at 3hepton Mallet. His royal highness is lord of the manor of Shepton Mallet. _ _ The Royal yacht Osborne, Commander John D'Arey, which sailed from Portsmouth on Monday, has proceeded to Cherbourg, and is expected to return from that port to Osborne with his Royal Highness Prince Arthur on board. THE ROYAL HORSE GRAMM—The following ofti *ere of the Royal Horse Guards: Colonel llaillie, Williams, Capt. Hm-topp, Capt. Lord Garlic., Capt. Ives, Capt. Whitmore, Capt. 'Wingfield, Capt. Burnaby, Capt. Ruabout, Lieut. Home, Limit. Wombwell, Lieut. the Mar quis of Illandonl, Lieut. Brooke,Lieut. Steuart-Muirbead, Cornet Hon. C. Carington, Cornet the Marquis of Worces ter, Cornet Hon. 0. Montagu, Cornet Stirling, Cornet Dundee, Cornet Moore, and Cornet Guinnees—gave • magnificent bell at the barracks in Albany-street, Regent's park, last night, to above 400 of the leading members of the aristocracy. The ball was honoured by the presence of the Duke of Cambridge, the Prince de Teak, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Sc. For several days prepara tions had been in progress for the military fete. Several handsome tents communicating with each other had been ereetod on the parade in front of the officers' quarters. The company began to assemble shortly after 11 o'clock, and alighted at the entrance of one of the tents on the south side, at which was stationed a body of picked men of the regiment in full uniform. The visitors were ushered to a tent on the right, which was used as a cloak-room, the tables beiug covered with the scarlet shabracks of the regiment. In the largest of the series of tents the com pany collected before passing into the ball-room, and in that temporary apartment • refreshment-table was laid out. The tents were carpeted with Turkey rugs and crimson drapery ; and those specially adapted to accommodate the visitors were furnished with comfortable sofas, chairs, &0., the whole of the interior being illuminated with wax-lights. The principal hall-room—there were two—was the chief point of attraction. It was the new mess-room, • some- what spacious apartment. Its walls were splendidly deco rated with trophies of a peculiarly military character. In one compartment was a fine trophy of cuirasses a n d helmets ; another presented an artistic group of cavalry carbines, pistols, jack-spurs, and bits ; and another' space was filled by a trophy of the silver trumpets and em broidered banners belonging to the regiment. The most , itoposi of these displays was the groupin g of th e ro y a l stand of the rzwinient,presented by George IV., sur rounded by the four standards of the r eg i men t, relieved with bright battle-airs and old silver trumpets. The silver kettle drums and richly embroidered banners, pre- I sented to the regiment by George 111. in 1805, formed con spicuous ornaments in the ball-room, which was enlivened by a profusion of flowers.—Post. LATMT INTELLIGENCE. • fisonot's meow's.) FRANCE. PARIS, JrLT 10. An imperial order dated the 9th inst., degrades Lopez from the Legion of Honour for his dis graceful conduct in Mexico. The monetary conference held its last sitting yesterday and approved the report of M. Parien, summarising the deliberations and views of the Conference. The members before separating passed a resolution of thanks to the President, Prince Napoleon. The Muniteur contains an account of the affair at the Normal School and says that in consequence of their disorderly conduct, the superior autho rity has ordered the immediate dismissal of the scholars. The school will be reconstituted and will re open on the 15th October. ITALY. FLORENCE, JULY 9, Evz:cnic. In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies to day, Signor Nicutera moved the production of the documents relating to the last negotiations with Rome. Signor Ratazzi promised to present them to the Chamber after having examined them. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF APPEAL. DEATH OF LORD JUSTICE TURNER. At the opening of the court this morning the Lord Chancellor, who was evidently deeply affected, said :—I am sure the bar will hear with deep regret of the lose which the public and the profession have sustained in the death of that moat excellent man and able and upright judge, Lord Justice Turner. The unvarying kindness and courtesy which he showed to every one, his devoted and patient attention to every case brought before him, and the anxious care with which he worked out his judgments, which were always foil and satisfactory, will never be forgotten ; and I am sure that there is hardly any one connected with the Court of Chancery who does not feel that he has almost lost a personal friend in that moat amiable and estimable man and upright and conscientious judge. It is not too much to say that the sentiments thus feelingly expressed by the Lord Chancellor are fully shared by every member of the Chancery bar. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) HITCHCOCK T. HITCHCOCK. Dr. Douse, Q.C., and Dr. Swabey for the tioner ; Dr. Slinks, Q.C., and Mr. Searle for the t. This was the petition of a wife for a judicial separation, on the ground of cruelty and desertion ; the husband denying the charge, and pleading counter-allegations of adultery and desertion. . _ The marriage was in September, 1855, the respondent being a farmer, at Ruislip, near Harrow. In 1859 the petitioner left her husband's house, as she said, in conse quence of a threat that if she stayed he would drown bee. She tiled a petition, which was heard in May, 1861, and occupied the court two days, but the decision was against her. She then went into lodgings for a short time, being ill of pleurisy. In the Sept. following she went home, but was refused admission by the respondent's housekeeper, Swim Reeve. She then broke the kitchen window, and a friend who was with her put his arm through the hole and un bolted the door. She went into the house and fainted away. When she came to herself she found herself thrown out of the chair by the respondeut. He kicked her with such violence that hemorrhage set in and continued till an operation was performed upon her. She had • fibrous tumour of the uterus, resulting, as she believed, from that kick. She afterwards went into the Islington Workhouse, from which she was removed to Hillingdon. Ultimately the respondent agreed to pay her 7a. • week ; but finding that wholly insufficient, she made another attempt to return home, and was again violently repulsed by her husband. In June, 1862, she became • nurse at Charing-cross Hospital, where she was promoted to be the head of the Victoria w►rd, She remained there tilllBB4, when she left to go into Dr. Baker Brown's Surgical Home for her tumour, which was crushed and burnt, and taken away, but she still felt the effects of it. She was now night superintendent at the London Hospital. On cross-examination she said she had quarrelled with her husband about N. 6d. a week which he was paying to a servant girl that had sworn a child to him. The imme diate cause of her leaving was a request she had made that he would buy her a pair of boots. Had taken nothing out of the house except her own family relics. Had taken nothing belonging to the respondent's deceased daughter. What had belonged to her had been divided and quarrelled over long before. The respondent was 18 years older than witness. He had never asked her to return since 1859. Had told the magistrates how she had been ill-used, but could not swear whether she had ever told them about the kick. Had used crutches, but had left them off as soon as she could. Never went on them to ask relief, and after getting it tucked them under her arm and walked off. Had been to the Marquis Townshend. This suit had been orignally instituted by the Society for the Pro tectian of Women ; but they had given it up when they ;tad procured alimony for her. Lord Towns bend bad advanced money to her which she promised to repay. Knew Mr. Wicks, an officer of the society. He saw witness without any crutches—for she used them as little as she could—and soon afterwards the relief she had from the society was stopped. Witness suffered from diabetes in the leg. Re-examined—One of my legs is six inches shorter than the other. Sometimes it is worse than others, and when it is bad I use my crutches. [The case was proceeding when our report left.] CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) (Before Baron Bramwell.) THE TAILORS' STRIKE. Thia morning was specially appointed for disposing of the charges against a number of journeymen tailors fur in timidation and molesting other workmen. Serjeant Ballantine, Mr. Sleigh, and Mr. F. H. Lewis were retained for the prosecution. The defendants were represented by Mr. Cole' idge, Q.C., Mr. Fitsjames Stephen, Serjeant Parry, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Ribten, and Mr. Bewley. When the case was called on, an application was made on behalf of the whole of the defendants for the postpone ment of the trial on the ground that the learned counsel who defended them had only been instructed within the last few hours, and were quite unable on that account to defend them. Serjeant Ballantine, on the part of the prosecution, ex pressed his readiness to consent to the postponement if an undertaking was given that the system of picketing was discontinued. The counsel for the defendants declined to give this undertaking, as they contended that there was no illegality in the proceeding. The matter stood over for a short time to see if any arrangement could be come to, and eventually it was announced that the defendants had consented to the terms proposed by the learned counsel for the prosecution, and the cases were consequently postponed to the August session. ALLEGED FORGERS Or ICARIAN BANE Norm. _ Joseph Pimkenatein, 52, a German Jew, described as a window-glass cutter, was charged with h aving feloniously in Ms possession a number of forged Russian 25 rouble notes without any lawful excuse. fierjeant Ballantine and Mr. Sleigh conducted the pro. 'mention. The prisoner was defended by Mr. C. S. Gn ffiths. The facts of this case will he fresh in the recollection of the public. On the 30th of April the prisoner went to Inspector Thomson, a detective officer, at Scot land-yard, and showed him three forged Russians rouble notes representing that he had received them f rom a certain person whom he named. The officer, it appeared, did not believe his statement, and he took the numbers of the notes and cautioned the prisoner not to part with them. The evidence went to show that the prisoner had subse quently sold one of these notes ton person who was ex amined as a witness, and who stated that the prisoner premed him to go to Russia to dispose of the forged notes, and offered to supply him with notes of the nominal value of 1401. for 101. at the same time saying that they were so well executed that he would never be found out, and Olathe would make a great deal of money by circulating them in Ruasix. _ The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sen tenced to bee years' penal servitude. rnEsimmrsr OT THE GRAND J CRT. The grand jury this morning made a presentment in which they called the serious attention of the court to the groat increase in the number of cases of robbery accom panied by violence that were constantly occurring in the metropolis, and which as they said appeared to indicate a growing disposition on the part of the criminal portion of the population to become year by year wore INIVItg, and outrageous in their actions. The grand jury expressed their opinion that the lash wits the most fitting punish ment for such offences, and the moat probable means that could be adopted to deter others from the commission of crimes of this description. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) CLBRICENWELL A FORTI'NP: TELLER IN prrnermiaß. A dirty, low-looking woman, between 35 and 411 years of age, of 5 Cat-and-Mutton-alley. Highgate, giving the name of 11,4e(a Smith, was charged before Mr. Cooke with obtaining a silk jacket by false pretence', from Eliza Gear leash, a domestic servant, residing at 45, Highbury New. park, Islington. The complainant said—On Tuesday, the 2nd inst., the prisoner came to my mistress's house and wanted me to purchase some writing paper. I told her I did not want any, and she said, " Will you have your fortune told' I told her I had no money, but if she would call on the following Tuesday I would see about it. She then went away, and on Friday she again called, and I said, I had not got any money then, but I had some old clothes, if that would do. She said it would, and I went and got my new silk jacket and gave it to her. She then said, " You must wish, and I most wish." (A laugh.) I wished—(a laughl—and she said she could not wish in the house. She then went out, taking with her my jacket, saying she would return in about ten minutes. She did not return, and I then told the police of what had occurred. Yesterday the milk man cane, and told me that the prisoner was outside. I went to her, and told her that if she did not give me my jacket I should lock her up. She said, " Let me go, and I will bring the jacket back." I then gave the prisoner into enatody. The prisoner did not tell my fortune. Police-constable 217 N 'mid he took the prisoner into custody, and when he told her the charge the did not make any reply. The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said that she went to the house to sell some writing-paper, wh en t h e coo ,. plainant asked her if she could tell fortunes, and she replied in the negative. The complainant went upstairs sad fetched a pack of cards, and said, " I know y ou can tell fortunes.' She said " No, I cannot tell fortunes," and the complainant then gave her the jacket The complainant denied that she pressed the prisoner to tell her fortune. The police asked for *remand, u they thought there would be other OSAPOS preferred against tte prisoner. Mr. Cooke rewarded the prisoner until Tuesday next. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. RORRIRT AT THE INTRANET or HER MAJETrrN THIATAI Henry Joh:ma, a well-dressed young man, who refus e d his addrein,waa charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with itteAng from the person of Mr Stanley Deot, wine -merchant, of No. 34, Great Tower-street, City, a gold watch of tha value of 26/. Mr. Sayer, from the office of Mr. Edward Lewis, o f Great Marlborough-street, ►ppeared for the defendant. Mr. Dent said—Last night shortly after 12 o'clock I:tra standing on the steps of Her Majesty's Theatre, waiting for my carriage, when the prisoner snatched my watch from my waistcoat pocket, and then ran away. I follow e d hi m, calling, " Stop thief," and he went in and out of the carriages, and tried to turn down a street above the Ope ra . house, Mat he was stopped by • constable. He, however, succeeded in making of again, and was stopped by another constable, several persons having given chase, and I succeeding in being in at the death. The prisoner was th in taken to the station. Mr. Tyrwhitt—What is your watch worth? Prosecutor—About 261. Mr. Tyrwhitt—ls the prisoner the man? Prosecutor—He is. I never lost sight of him. Police-constable Lake Jeffery, 49 C—At a quarter mai 12 o'clock last night I was on duty at the corner of ('hark•". street. I heard the cry of " Stop thief," and saw the Ili. soner running in front of the prosecutor and several alma, I Mopped him and asked him what he was running for, and he replied " I de not know." A gentleman is the crowd handed me a watch which he had picked up, and which the prosecutor identified as his property. On search ing the prisoner at the station I found another watch bold, maker's name Perry) and chain, and locket, and acme money. Mr. Tyrwhitt—The prisoner will be remanded for a week. Gordon, 33 C—The prisoner is well known to the police. SOUTHWARK. SZRIOUS INJURY TO ♦ MAN FBON THE BITE OF A RABID Doc. Mr. Bum', a aorkeutter, carrying on business in Black man-street, Borough, warn summoned before Mr. Wookyck by the polies for allowing a dog to be at large in a rabid state. Po hop-constable 66 It said that on the sth instant be was on duty in Lent-street, when he saw a large blank re triever dog rush at a man who was passing and bite him severely ou the face. He then attacked another nun and tore his coat, and afterwards followed a child into a shop. Witness obtained a rope and pursued him, and fortunately before the dog sprang at the child be fastened the rope round its neck and killed it with his truncheon. He be. lieved the dog belonged to Mr. Hussey, and had been seen lately to go in and out his premises. The defendant denied the ownership of the dog, and aid he did not know that it had been in his premises until he received the summons. He understood from his men that such a dog had strayed into his warehouse, and some of the men fed it for • few days, and turned it out on Friday last. He was extremely sorry that the poor man had been bitten by the dog, and ►e had rendered him every mist. ante, but be had no knowledge of the dog. Alfred Pride, &journeyman in his employ, said that atom ten days ago the dog in question strayed into their work shop, and perceiving it to be such a fine animal the met fed it with bones and the odds-and-ends from their din ners. Mr. Hussey knew nothing of it. Mr. Wooirych observed that there was no evidence ths: the dog belonged to him, therefore the summons must be dismissed. The poor man who was so severely bitten mi.' that be had been in the hospital ever since, and was soil in a bad state. He therefore wanted to know how to obtain compensation. Mr. Woolrych was sorry to say be could not advise km on that point, but be handed him some money out of the poor-box. TIIROUti 11 COXMIITZE. The Reform Bill, says the Times, haa virtually passed the Commons. On Friday it will be considered on the report, and there in on the notice book a string of amendments, which will, doubtless, be increased in length before Friday cornea; hut we may be confident that nothing beyond formal amendments will be adopted. The house sees the end of its labours in view, and would be apt to treat with some asperity anyone who interposed without grave reason to justify the delay his motion might occasion. It is understood that Friday is to be given up wholly to the Reform Bill if necessary. Should the sitting in the afternoon prove insufficient, private members will be asked to forego their privileges, so that the clauses of the bill may be finally nettled before the end of the week. On Monday the third reading will be proposed, and the Times trusts that on Tuesday or Wednesday the bill may be carried to the other house of parliament. The country will share the satisfaction, the Daily New • observes, expressed by the loud and general cheering which arose when Mr. Dodson left the chair. The bill in its first form, and the bill in its het form, bear no more resemblance than the grub has to the butterfly; yet Mr. Disraeli would probably have no strong objection to re print the original text of the bill, with the emendations and omissions in the margin, for it would simply exhibit the completeness of his ascendancy over the tory party. Though he did not devise the leading fe►tures of the bill, he has brought the tories to accept them. If he has originated nothing, he has passed everything. The third reading on Monday will be probably a parlia mentary field day. Mr. Lowe will redeliver his celebrated funeral oration on the British constitution ; Lord Cran borne will indulge his gloomy imagination in pictures of the fate that awaits us at the hands of our new masters ; Mr. Bright, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Disraeli will review the progress of the measure from the point of view of their several principles and parties. The bill will ascend in a aloud of rhetoric to the quiet atmosphere of the House of Lords. We trust that the peen will seize the opportunity to show their capacity for the prompt transaction of busi ness and their superiority to foolish distrust of their own. tryinen. The Standard congratulates its readers that the bill is safe now front surprises, and safe, too, from the deadlier danger of delays. There may be considerable discussion on the report ; but with the beat will in the world to do the bill mischief, the opportunities to do so in that stage are trifling compared with those offered by the procedure in committee ; and even should the enemies of the govern ment think it necessary to raise • debate upon the third reading, they cannot waste at the utmost more than a couple of days. The bill will go up to the Lords before the end of the next week, and in • month's time may re. ceive the royal sanction. It is now, remarks the Sear, an accepted article of the liberal creed that the redistribution clauses of the bill are simply things to be got rid of and forgotten, but the en franchisement cl►uses have been male so great and liberal, that the passing of this tory reform bill is in reality the realisation of that great popular dream of this generation which but a month or two ago was deemed perfectly chimerical. The Targre pa treats as idle rumours any talk of serious delays in the Upper Chamber. The present moment, when the Lords are anxiously endeavouring to reform their own proceedings, and to vindicate their sham in our active business, is no occasion for • retarding or reac tionary vote, which would with fatal force check the im petus of the bill. Their lordships will have sufficient time to discuss the measure, and then they will doubtless pose it with as little delay as possible. JR TOPICS. Discussing the advisability of an expedition to Abyssinia on behalf of the captives, the Times observes that anyone judging the matter calmly and with the views of civilised policy, would conclude that Theodore ought to yield, and must yield as soon as he sees that we are in earnest. But this conclusion may ►ttribute to him more good sense and moderation thsn he possesses. Experience has shown that despots of the temperament and education of this Abys sinian do notgenerally subject:their passions to their policy. A king who seizes diplomatic agents and rushes recklessly into collision with the greatest of eastern powers is not likely to be a reflecting monarch, and it may be that Theodore will believe that to frighten us by a general execution would be better policy than to oonciliate us by a surrender. It is no dishonour to look upon this King Theodore as • sort of brigand, with whom it will be fair to deal smoothly —at any rate, as long as he holds hie prisoners. The Daily News contemplates with profoundest pity the tragic destiny of Maximilian, but cannot perceive that his fate bears any sort of analogy to any of those " judicial murders" of groat personages which history records and milder age condemns. The apologists of that savage decree of October, 1865, which the French persuaded Maximilian to sign, are doubtless justified in asserting that the un happy and amiable Prince was overborne by the pressure of military met, who, as all Europe well knows, are never slow to shed blood, and who have not learnt to respect human life inAlgeria orin Paris. la it, then, unreasonable to suppose that President Juarez, whom those whe know him intimately declare to bo "a brave, humane, and honest citizen," was overborne by the military officers who sat on that court-martial at Queretaro, some of whose comrades, friends, and relatives, perhaps, had been shot in cold blood in pursuance of th►t imperial decree? The Standard cannot envy the mental constitution of him who, calling himself an Englishman, pretends to justify such a deed as the execution of Maximilian upon the ground that some of the opposite party had been exe cuted under a decree of Maximilian a year and a half before. Even if Maximilian's complicity in this act could be proved it would not justify Juarez in his useless and wanton murder. Those who were shot by the French were taken in open arms against established authority, after due warning bad been given of the penalty they were in curring by opposing the government. The cane of Maxi milian was essentially distinct from all others, inasmuch as it could not be pretended that he was an insurgent against authority, that he was a freebooter, or an invader without warrant. Nevertheless, we have no choice but to accept Mexico as she is ; and as for our representative in Mexico, it would he only punishing ourselves to withdraw him. The official correspondence relative to the Paris Exhibi tion, which has just been laid upon the table of the House of Commons, leads the Post to remark that this one fact comes out with unfortunate distinctness, viz., that every exhibition which is held costa more than the last. If it is true that they are increasing in popularity and utility, some means must be found, if they Cr, to be continued, of charging the expense upon those to whom they procure pl easur e or profit, instead of coming to the state for such enormous grants of public money. A strange question is put to the gl.:•.bY• correspondent in reference to the case of Captain SimpOu, of her Ma jesty's whip the Meg:ers. He asks whether it can be true that the government intend to pay the costa of Captain Simpson's defence, and even to make good to him the fine of 1001. which was imposed on him. To the Star thewhole ease is unspeakably disgusting. It ia shocking that there should be found English officers who cAld think it their duty to order the flogging of a wretched little boy ; it is SPAIN. MADRID, .KILT 10. The committee appointed to examine the pro posed suppression of the differential duties will meet to-clay. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, JULY 10. The Guion steamer Nebraska arrived here from New York at 2 a.m. to-day wich 45 cabin and 44 steerage passengers. She landd passengers, and proceeded fur Liverpool immediately. (ET ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, JOLT 9, 6 P.M. Closing prices :—Ciold, 138 g. Sterling exchange on London, 1104. 5-20 United States Bonds, Ill! ; Illinois, 1231 ; Erie, 681. Cotton : Midland Up land, 26i. Petroleum, refined, 27. The Scotia has arrived out. [Arrival in London at 4.30 a.m., July 10.] MARRIED MEN V. BACHELORS.-PROPOR TIONATE MORTALITY. The tenth " detailed annual report" of the Re gistrar-General of births, deaths, and marriages in Scot land, issued this morning, directs attention to the striking difference between the death rates of the married and unmarried men at each quinquennial period of life. Taking the mean of the years 1863 and 1844, it seems that at every quinquennial period of life from 20 years of age up to 85 married men died in Scot land at a much lower rate than the unmarried. Thus, from 20 to 25 years of age, in every thousand married men only 6'26 died annually, but in every thousand un married men at the same ages 15'01 died. From 25 to 30 years of age, only 8 - 2 I died annually in every thousand married men, but 14'94 in every thousand unmarried. From 30 to 35 years of age, only 8'65 died in every thou sand married men, but 1594 in every thousand un• married. From 45 to 50 years of age, in every thousand of each class, only 17'04 married, but 21'18 unmarried died annually. In every thousand of each class from 50 to 55 years of age, 19'54 married men died annually, but 26'34 unmarried. In every thousand of each class from 60 to 6.5 years of age, 35'63 married men died annually, but 44'54 unmarried men. In every thousand of each class from 70 to 75 years of age, 81'56 mar.iel men died an nually, but 102'17 unmarried men. Even at the extreme age of 80 to 85 years, in every thousand of each clsss, there died annually only 173'88 married men, but 195'40 un married. Above this age the numbers for both classes were too small to yield trustworthy or steady results ; and so few attain these extreme ages, that no discrepancies in the results, at such ages, could affect the conclusions de duced from the mortality at the other ages. Small, how ever, am are the numbers who attain such extreme ages, the difference on the whole preponderates in favour of the married men. " These carefully ascertained facts," says the registrar, " applicable to the whole male population of Scotland who are above 20 years of age, and for a period of two years, seem to prove that the married state is the condition of life best fitted for mankind, and that, at every successive stage of life, married men die at a much lower rate than unmarried men of the same ages. It seems, im possible, therefore, to avoid drawing the conclusion, that it is to marriage, and the more regular domestic habits which attend that state, that this result is attributable. Were this conclusion based on small numbers, or on the statistics of a particular class, or on the comparison of the mortality of married and unmarried men during the earlier years of life (as below 40 years of age), doubts might rest on the conclusions deduced. But whether the explana tion attempted to be given be satisfactory or the reverse* the fact itself must remain unchallenged, that at every successive stage of life, up even to extreme old ages married men die in a much lower ratio than those who are unmarried. It is a known fact, that at the earlier ages, say from 18 to 40 years, among the unmarried are a consi derable number of men who, from natural infirmity, de licacy of constitution, the existence of chronic disease, bad health, or from being addicted to dissipated and licen tious habits, or by want of succru in life, do not merry. The annual mortality among such men is annually greater than among the strong and vigorous bachelors ; and this greater mortality among such unmarried men to some extent swells the proportional deaths of the unmarried at these early ages, as compared with those of the same age who are married. But almost all such die out, by the course of nature, before they have attained their fortieth year—none survive their fiftieth year. But the tables for the two years proved that at every successive year of life, from 50 to extreme old age, the married men continued to die at a much lower ratio than the unmarried who were of the corresponding ages. Thus, even at the great ate 70 to 75 years, in every thousand married men only 81 died, but in every thousand unmarried men at the same ages 102 died annually. No arguments can explain away this ascer tained fact. And as the sole difference in the two puties at every age above 50 years of age is that the one is married and that the other is unmarried, it aeons impossi ble to resist the conclusion that it in marriage, and the habits connected with marriage, which is the cause of the difference. Strange it is that it is only now, after the lapse of several thousands of years, that statistics have proved the truth of one of the first natural laws revealed to man—' It is not good that the man should live alone.' The above conclusion relative to the much smaller death rate of the married men is strikingly confirmed by calcu. luting the mean age at death of the married and unmarried men ►bove 20 years of age. From the facts published in Table XVIII. of the Ninth Detailed Annual Report, it was ascertained that the mean age at death of the married men was 591 years, whereas the mean age at death of the urnarried men above 20 years of age was only 40 years— giving a difference of 19S years in favour of the married men. Calculating the mean age at death in the same manner for the year 1864, it appears, from the facts stated in Table XXX., that the mean age at death of the married men was 591 years, whereas that of the unmarried men who were shove 20 years of age was 401 years,— showing a difference of 19 years of life in favour of married men." To view the Paris Exhibition it is necessary to devote on an average five minutes to the glass case of each setibitor. These number, it is stated, 45,000; it would, therefore, take 225,000 minutes, making 3,750 hours, or 156 days 6 hours; that is, 5 months, 6 days, and 6 hours, reckoning 24 hours for each day. But as the interior of the palace can only be visited from 10 o'clock in the morning till 6 in the evening, there are only 8 hours at the visitor's disposal instead of 24. One would, therefore, be occupied in the inspection 15 months, 20 days, 2 hours, supposing that he entered the building every day at 10 o'clock and did not leave it until 6. From this calcula tion it will be obvious that it is by no means possible to examine the whole of the Exhibition during the period of its duration. There are now in Chicago 355 lawyers, 333 doctors, 105 hotels, 768 growls., 188 drug stores, 152 dry goods' stores, 203 meat markets, and 1,171 saloons. The caksgo Diredory csoataias nearly 90,000 Twos& THE CARBONIC ACID OAS ACCIDENT AT POPLAR. INQUEST.-(THIS DAY.) • • This forenoon Mr. Richards, the deputy coroner, resumed, at the Spotted Dog Tavern, High-street, Poplar, the inquiry respecting the deaths of Charles Cooper, 'pi 40, and Thomas Hoyrnay, aged 24 years, who were killed on last Tuesday week in • well 50 feet deep, at the W est India Dock, Poplar. The inquest had been adjourned for the attendance of— William Fletcher, who was in • very weak state, had to be seated while giving his evidence. He said that lie was the captain of the gang that had the sinking of the well. Last Monday week it was suspected that there Us foul air in the well, and it was tested with a " naked candle," and the light went out. Some water was then thrown down into the well to remove the foul air, and the men continued to work. None of the men at work complained of the foul air or refused to work. They talked about it on the Tuesday morning when they west to work at the well, and when ho arrived he found Hoymay descending the well shaft. He fell old the ladder and tumbled into the water. Cooper and witness followed because they thought that Hoymay had merely slipped into the water. They never thought of the foul air. Coroner—What wu the sensation that you felt when you entered the well Witness—l felt none. I lost my senses at once, and I remember nothing more. I did not order the deceal;ed mm to go down into the well. While the men were at work s small pump was kept at work, and the drawing off the water created a draught, and that caused the carbonic acid gas to ascend, and the ventilation was by that means kept right The pump was not at work when the accident occurred. . A juror mid that the men ought to have seen that tit pump was at work before they went down, and in futon it would be well if the works were not carried on unless is was first ascertained that the pumps were at work. Mr. Poland, barrister, who appeared for the contractor said that Fletcher was a sub-contractor, and that be es responsible for the way in which the miners did their wort at the welL . . . The Coroner said that a party in court had stated that the deceased men had been murdered, but he thought thii if men ever had committed suicide they had done w They were aware that a poisonous gas was it the well, and yet they entered it. It Aimee looked like dogged obeUnacy. The case mi • very lamentable one, but it only showed the pm Cason of English working men, they will perform their work re matter how dangerous it is. The jury returned • verdict "That the deceased me were accidentally suffocated in • certain well shaft hrA which they had descended for the purpose of f01i0.% their occupations." To-morrow Mr. Samuelson will ask the Secrets! of State for the Home Department, whether it is tie that Mr. Conolly, who watched the proceedings before to Trades' Union Commission on behalf of certain trade , . LA been forbidden by the commissioners to continue le attendance; whether he committed any offence sgoO the commission ; and, if so, what was the offence. 1% 1 whether it is true that permission was offered to C 0 0 ,4 to continue his attendance on condition of signiti document which had no reference to the business of the commission. Sir dolman O'Loghlen intends to call attennon to the state of Ireland and the legislation for that marl proposed this session by her Majesty's government ; sod to move a resolution on the 26th. - - ----- Mr. Lamont, to-morrow, will more an addn•rt for copies of all correspondence between the French Ba British governments previous to and relating to the inn^ sion of the Mexican Republic by the late Arch...ate RA. The Select Committee on the Ecclesiastical Titles and Catholic Relief Acts met yesterday, and examined 3 1 r. Jostles O'Hagan, one of the judges of the Cowmen Ilea in Ireland, and Mr. Hope-S.-a:Kt, (I.e.—both Ilmnan ra• tholics. The learned judge (the OW state.) described the act to be a dead letter, and the sole cline of the a li e n,t ion between the Roman catholic hierarchy in Ireland arid th e executive government of that country. The ex: ,t of Mr. Hope-Scott is to bo resumed on and his evidence will be followed by that of Dr. Ullathonie.lli ,ho P of Birmingham. Mr. J. Vokes Mackey, conservative. was nom' noted yesterday as Lord Mayor of Dublin for 1,4:. The present Lord Mayor Joynt WWI proposed for r eelection. On this amendment the numbers wens—for. ; aCkin't. 26. Dr. Carroll was then proposed as a catholic c4ndidate. To give time for his cancan, and prevent the election ti Mr. Mackey, eight or ten divisions took place oil the WAr tion of adjournment, which was ultimately earned. ILLEGITINIAeIi IN SCOTLAND. The Itegistro General for Scotland mentions in bis tenth detailed av Dual report that in 1864 the illegitimate births in Scotl.eri were 9.9 in every 100 births. In the northeastern lions they were 15.5 per cent. A ten year: averige obeli that 9.1 per cent. of the children were illegitimate Scotland. According to the numbers of births registeo i as illegitimate in England, only 6.4 per cent. were Merl' mate in that country during the same period. It ser , " that illegitimacy is on the increase in Scotland, as doh 1856 and 1857 only 8.5 per cent. of the births was Or gitimate. their of It had b tem was only a (Hear, h examine improve its objet for the n wiry, fa schools. to be en interferii religious polled to parents proposed THE U. This holders w chair. 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