The Express. — London, England, 1867-09-25 00:00:00

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OF THE SOUTH SEA 1/4LAND3 —The American Minatreis and Japanese Tommy; Congener and nice : and a variety of other Eutortalumeuta— With THE BOLDIBITS MOTTO. NIGH WAT/Ut AT LONDON BRIDOIL Ttl. DAT —Montag. Ilk 51ga..— —Afternoon. Oh. On. To-llohaow—ltornteg. Ob. tlat.......Alternoon, Oh. 50m. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. AN inquest which Mr. HEMPHREYB held at Tot tenham yesterday morning reminds us of a form of social danger which, under ordinary circum stances, eludes observation. We pride ourselves on surpassing all former generations in our sense of the sacredness of human life, and especially on the protection which we extend to the young and helpless. Nevertheless, from time to time, some thing is happening to make us remember that every generation has its own perils as well as its own virtues. This is an age of rapid and easy intercommunication. Never before was it so easy for perfect strangers to become ac quainted on the ground of common interests. The newspaper offers in its advertising columns a medium through which the most distant can ap proach each other, and it is sometimes permitted to be turned to strange uses. Take the advertise ment of that mated couple, whe from yeas and to par's ond " are anxious to adopt a child. A rr premium required." There are always parties quite as anxious to get rid of a child as these good people can be to have the delight of in fant society. Children are daily born for whom human forethought has provided no place. What relief to the distressed parent or the distressed parent's friends to know that it is possible by the aid of a money payment to make ono final provision for the little one, with the certainty of hearing no more of it. And yet society might reasonably doubt the sufficiency of the guarantees of the child's safety. Who can say what will ha )pen when this couple, having met with the chi 1 for which they are so eager, have expended the premium I Will it still be as dear as on its first arrival Will it continue to receive maternal attentions Is it even certain that it will be supplied with daily food ! These questions would acquire a terrible significance if it should appear that Cie worthy couple had already accepted the charge of numerous children, exacting a premium with each. The traffic in infants has many aspects, one of which was exhibited at the inquest yesterday. A Mrs. JAGGER, residing at Wood-lane-grove, Tot tenham, receives children into her house at a very early age, from their births and even earlier, for occasionally she advertises " apartments fur " niched," and then ladies go to her house to be confined. During the last three years she has taken in a great number of children—she is no:, sure whether as many as sixty—but it may have been forty. No one would g►ther from her ad vertisement, in which "a respectable person wants " one or two children to nurse," that she con ducted her business on so extensive a scale. The figures given in evidence seem at a fast glance to imply that her establishment is a large one ; but she told the Court she had very few children inthe house, " Six, and two little dears that I will " never part with." But infants are very difficult to rear ; and die even in the most com fortable of homes. How many of the forty died at the house in Wood-lane we are not told, but the Coroner remarked yesterday that he had pre viously held inquests on two or three of them, a statement to which Mrs. JAGGER assented. The child whose death was yesterday investi gated was placed with Mrs. JAOGIR sixteen months ago. Da mother appears to belong to a wealthy family at Liverpool, but was unmarried, and her name was carefully withheld from the jury. The clerk of a London solicitor, who bad acted for the family of the mother, stated yesterday that ho placed the infant at Tottenham, having become acquainted with Mrs. JAOOZs by means of an advertisement. The child died in a manner that may be called sudden, and by order of the Coroner a post-mortem examination took place. Mrs. Isimen told the jury that she had nourished the child with brandy, milk, eggs, and port wine ; but the evidence of Mr. F. W. Wiasoic, the surgeon, who performed the post-mortem examination, did not sustain this statement. Mr. WATSON deposed that " the body was " much emaciated : there was no trace of " fat on the body. The stomach was " healthy, but nearly empty, and the child must " have been badly fed." There was also disease of the mesenteric glands. The witness was in medical attendance at the house in Wood-lane the day before the child died, but was not called to see it. The jury found that the child died from mesenteric disease, and that Mrs. JAOOBa was highly censurable for not calling a medical man to see the deceased. It is unnecessary to comment on this cue. We are crlitent to leave to the jury the assignment of the blame due to Mn. J•oazs. But the case points to • state of things which may easily become a source of terrible danger. Between the familiar and salutary arrangement by which • town child is placed in a country cottage within reach of its parents, and subject to their fre quent visits, for the benefit of country air, and this system of farming the children of perfect strangers, there is only the most superficial resemblance. In the latter case, the beat of the guarantees which should always surround infant life are wholly want ing. It can scarcely even be said that the :nterests of the nurse enjoin the rendering of that degree of attention which is necessary to maintain a delicate child in health. If the reception and maintenance of children on the scale practised by Mrs. JAGGER is to become a recognised trade, it may be proper to place it under regulations analogous to those we impose on the keepers of retreats for the in sane. There is no reason why the helplessness of children should not be as carefully protected as that of lunacy. 01111 CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1867. fritt Emma. BALMORAL, Sim. 21. The Queen drove out in the morning, accom panied by Princess Louise, and in the afternoon went ont with Princess Louise, attended by the Hon. Harriet Phipps. Princess Christian, attended by Lady Churchill, went out driving. Prince Christian and Prince Arthur, with Mr. Gathorne Hardy and the Gentlemen•in•Waiting, went out to a drive of deer in the woods. His Excellency M. and Madame Van de Weyer had the honour of dining with the Queen and Royal Family. Lady Frances Melilla and Dr. Norman Macleod left the Castle. The Very Rev. Principal Tulloch, of Bt. Andrew's, arrived at the Castle, on a visit to her Majesty. SEPT. 22. The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian, Princes► Louise, Piinco Arthur, and Prince Leopold, ►ttended Divine Service in the p►rish church of Crathie. The Very Rev. Principal Tulloch, of St. Andrew's, one of her Ma !esty's chaplains, officiated. The Very Rev. Principal Tulloch had the honour of dining with the Queen and Royal Family. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial. office from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and St. Helena. Despatches were sent to the Gwremors of the Cape of Good Hope and NataL The Duchess of Newcastle has arrived in town from Clamber. lee duke is at Newmarket. The Earl of Wilton has sailed in his yacht from Copenhagen to Stockholm. The countess left some days back to join the noble earl in Sweden. The Earl of Derby has quite recovered from his late attack of gout. Lord Stanley, M.P., returned to town on Mon day from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Salis bury at Hatfield House, Herter The Bishop of London, as bishop of the metro polis and chief bishop of the province of Canterbury, has returned to Fulham Palace for this week, to enable his lordship and Mrs. Tait to show hospitality to the Ame 1- can and other bishops now in this country. On Monday evening the Bishop of London entertained at dinner at Fulham Palace—the Bishops of St. Davide, Oxford, Lin coln, Gloucester and Bristol, the Bishop of Chester and Mss. Jacobson, the Bishops of Christ Church, New Zea land, Argyle and the Isles, lowa, Ohio, Louisiana, A-kan sae, Indiana, Montreal, Niagara, Labium, Gibraltar, the Venerable Archdeacon Hale, Rev. Canon Melva!, Rev. R. G. Baker (vicar of Fulham), and Mrs. Baker, Rev. F. Spooner, vicar of Heston ; Rev. Erskine Knollys, incum bent of Holy Trinity, Ts ickenham, and Whitehall preacher ; Rev. E. W. Fisher, Rev. A. IL Sitwell, Mr. Selfe, the Westminster police magistrate, Bw. The dinner was served in the handsome restored hall of the palace ; covers being laid for 36. The Halifax Working Men's Conservative Asso ciation was inaugurated yesterday evening by a banquet in the Riding-echooL Nearly flu hundred persons dined, and more would have been present if the room word have admitted. Captain Bothwell, the president of the sumo. elation, wu in the chair, and was 'appealed by Lord Faversham, Lord Norval, 8:- Henry Edwards, Bart., M.P., Sir G. Armytage, Bart., Sir L. M. S. Pilkington, Bart., Mr. Fertand, Mr. J. Waterhouse, Major Stanfield, Mr. W. S. Stanhope, Mr. C. G. Edwards, Mr. T. Collins, jun., Major Middleton, Mr. aeelhouse, Ao. Yesterday, the boundary commissioners held a sitting at Bradford. One gentleman expressed the opinion that, under the new Reform Act, the number of voters in Bradford would not exceed 14,000, whilst another gentle man put the number as high es 17,000. At a meeting of the committee of the National Reform Union,Brsdford branch, held last evening, it was unanimously agreed that a thoroughly pronnunced ad vanced liberal should be brought forward at the coming election, and that the borough should be contested with such candidate. Three gentlemen were named—Mr. Edward Miall, Mr. Alfred Illingworth, and Mr. J. V. God win—and a ve.y strong leaning wav shown to the candida ture of the first-named gentleman. A requisition is already in course of signature intiting My H. W. Ripley, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, to become a candidate for the vacant seat. Mr. Ripley is a moderate liberal and a dissenter. A meeting of trades' delegates was opened in Preston yesterday. Mr. Austin, the president, referred at some length to subject' which had to be discussed, which include the trades' outrage oommiasion and the part nerships of industry. The revelations made to the examiners at Sheffield and Manchester, he said, were greatly to be deplored, but would, he thought, be the means of separating the wheat from the chaff. What men call free•labour institutions he denounced u a device of the capitalist to divert the attention of the men from their societies, which were the only protection of their. labour, in order more easily to destroy the trade organisa tions. The authenticity of the lately published letters ' ascribed by M. Phil eta Chula to Pascal is so positively denied by the Parisian literary world, that at the last ' meeting of the Academie des Sciences nobody was found bold enough to esporuse the cause of the learned professor • Offenbach's new opera at the Theatre des Varlet6s, Paris, still carries all before it. In the hottest weather this year the house hal been MEM( el every night, often at enormous prices mid to the speculators in tickets. Of the calibre of the jokes the following is • sample. Prince Paul, en inane pretender to the hand of the Grand Duchess, has with him • chamberlain of his father's court, sent by the elector to tar` to accelerate the , marriage, which hangs fire owing to the lady's roving fancy and preference of a handsome grenadier to the puny prince. The chamberlain is tall, stiff, wooden, hush voiced, automatic, end 1s called Baron Grog. He gets an accidental fall, whereupon the prince exclaims, "You have upset my Greg!" This is the strongest joke in the whole play. The claque and the provincial portion of the audience roar with laughter. The most summer , and original jest is of • practical nature. General Boum, commander•in•chief of the army of Gerobriein, is • tremendous fire-eater. B nen Baron Puck, the Duchess's principal adviser, offers him a pinch of muff from his diplomatic box, Boum contemptu• ()Indy rejects it, draws a double-barrelled pistol from his pocket, firm it in the air, end snuffs up the smoke from the mouths of the barrels. " That is my mppee !" he mays This is • decided hit, especially with those who seas it for the first time. " Rome," says a correspondent writing from that city, "isin • state of squalor and melancholy difficult to describe. The streets are deserted se those of Pompeii, while the few people who remain are pallid, and move ►bout almost as if deprived of strength. It appears as if one were entering a vault where respiration is • labour Tne air is full of miasma and of exhalations, heavy and foetid, which the first rains have raised from the Tiber, and which hang like • cloud over the city. Close and hot during the night, the atmosphere seems to be poisoned. On the day of the Ma donna, the Bth of September, the cases of cho lera increased from 40 to 60 and upwards, and now at the present time they are about 40 daily, the great propor lion of whom die. It is most distressing to bear oon tinually the bell of the viaticum in the streets. Yester day (last Saturday) the cholera took the course of the Via dells Tre Cecelia and the Piazza dei Santi Apostoli with such violence that in three hours there were 16 eases in this one street. It is impossible to describe the melan choly which is produced by the continual sound of that bell—the cholera bell. Ido not fear for myself,' but there are moments when a cold perspiration comes over me." The vicious just revived of the close of the great Russian fair of Niehni Novgorod state that the attendance was this year not so large as usual, and that the principal feature has been a heavy fall In Bokhars cotton—namely, from 16 roubles to 7 roubles a pood, and in manufactured cotton goods about 40 per cent. from last year's prima. The iron trade has been steady, with quotations for all sorts, except sheet iron, about the same as on the last oc elision. Sheet iron, however, has erperieneed a decline of 10 to 15 kopecks a pood, in consequence principally of the fact that, owing to the severe reduction in Soldiers cotton, the Persian merchants, who are the principal purchasers, could not take their usual quantity. The tea businessioe been large, but prioss have been in favour of the buyers. THE ARREST OP OARIBALIDI. The TitWS thinks the apprehension of Garibaldi is by no means unlikely to par►lyse the whole movement against Rome. Possibly ices of liberty at this juncture Tray come to him as a happy release, freeing him from a position where he could as little hope to advance with profit as to recede with honour. The Italian government may feel somewhat embarrassed as to how they may deal with their prisoner, though that Caprers which has so often been the Elba of the hero's choice may, without very great harshness, be destined to him as an honourable and not ungenial St. Helena. But Garibaldi's arrest—from how many infinitely worse anxieties does it not relieve the Italian government. There is no doubt but the general's achievements had made him too great for a subject. He will henceforth have to be kept quiet in spite of himself ; and Italy, which might be so justly proud that she had one Garibaldi, will equally have reason to be thankful that she has not another. The Daily News also believes that the course taken by the Italian government is as wise as it is bold, as it was impossible for the Italian government to accept the re sponsibility before Europe of a polity devised and exe crated in independence of its councils and in defiance of its obligations. The Italian people are too sensible not to I see this, though it is highly probable that the oocur rence will give an impulse to public feeling in Italy respecting the affairs of Rome. Italy since the Sep tember Convention has recovered Venice, and is not in a mood to submit to foreign tutelage. Rome is held by a French legion in order that the French Emperor may find it easier to manage the elections in the country districts of France. This state of things cannot last, and it is for the Italian government, while putting down all usurpation of its authority, to find and apply the remedy. Had Garibaldi not been seized, the Tdegraph says, there can be little doubt that, in a few days, a French army would have embarked for the scene of action. In one word, Garibaldi in Rome means Napoleon is Rome. Now that popular passions are excited by the seizure of Gari baldi, it is, of course, impossible to say how soon there may be a revolutionary outburst, or to tell what may happen ; but, in any case, the government has done wisely in keeping its plighted faith to France. The Standard rejoices that the law has been set in motion, and insinuates that Garibaldi is influenced by per sonal motives, and that Rome would be his death if it were set free by anyone else. The Star does not Nee how the Italian government can possibly be blamed for what it has done by anyone who does not think that the pledges of a government may be false aa dicers' oaths. TEM OPINING OP THE PAN-ANGLICAN SYNOD. The Pan-Anglican Synod met at Lambeth yesterday, observes the Times, and the fact that it met is all that can be announced of its proceedings. Seventy-five bishops dim appeared under the gateway of Lambeth Palace, and were there lout to public view. The snob-non of the press completes the per plexity with which this singular 11110•01. Map must be regarded. There is nothing private either in its initiation, in its assemblage, or in the issues ex pected. It has been surrounded with a boastful publicity up to the last moment ; but it is finally shrouded in a prudent privacy. If any attempt were to be made to protest against the promulgation of heretical doctrines, obi iously the only way of holding out the least prospect of success would be by a public explanation o , the i,..ounds upon which faith is to be established. The mere issue of episoopt.l dogmas would have no weight whatever. How much would be detracted from the de cisions of parliament if its debates were conducted with eland doors I The synod of bishops =snot claim to be • more authoritative assembly. It would be ridiculous to suppoee, conidering of what the colonial bench is com posed, that their personal authority could have any ma terial weight in decid , ng difficult points of doctrine. The points proposed for consideration are matters upon which the clew and laity have an equal right with the bishops to be heard. Do the latter imagine that their position towards the different branches of the Anglican communion is like that of the conclave of Cardinale, and that they should imitate that august body by meeting in secret conclave! If any such expectations are entertained, they will receive • rude dis appointment. It si 11 be impossible not to ask why, in matters like those, our own church or the churches in the Colonies should be submitted to the judgment of foreign bishops like those of the United States. In • word, as • dogmatic authority, whether on points of faith or disci pline, the synod moat needs be utterly ineffectual. The only chance of its being in any way useful lay Laths appeal which it might have made, by its debates, to the mason of the public. The bishops may think the experiment would be perilous, and they may have decided prudently. But, if so, it would have been more prudent not to have met at all. Tae COVRT AT BALMORAL.—Prince Arthur, since his arrival at Balmoral, has been out in the deer forest several times in company with Prince Christian, and has met with very fair success. A day or two back Pilaw Christian was fortunate in bringing down there line dugs in the forest around Lochnagar. Her Majesty has spent her time in short drives in the neighbourhood of Balmoral, and in climbing the lesser hills in its vicinity. On Sunday the Queen attended Divine worsZ in Crathie Church. She was accompanied in the m pew by Prinos and Princess Christian , Primes* Lon Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold. From Bsimoral Castle there were also Lady Churchill, Sir Thomas Biddulph, General Hood, Colonel Gonlon, Sir James Clark, the Hon. Gathoi .ie Hardy, As. A number of strangers, among whom was Colonel Kinloth, were in church. Principal Tulloch, of St. Andrews, preached from Colossi-ns, chap. i"., v. 17. Her Majesty in the afternoon bad a short drive. - - SECTS IN ENGLAND.—The following is a list of denominations certified to the Registrar-General :—Apos tolics, Armenian New Society, Baptists, Baptised Believers Believers io Christ, Bible Christie:l2,l3ll)le Defence A/soak: tion, Brethren Calvinists, Calvinisticßaptists, Catholic and Apostolic Church, Christians, Christians who object to be otherwise designated. Christian Believers, Christian Breth ren, Christian Elissitee, Christian Israelites. Christian Tee totallers, Christian Temperance Men, Christian Unionists, Church of Scotland, Church of Christ, Connie= of Hunting. don's Connexion. Disciples is Christ, Eastern Orthodox Greek Church, Elmtics, Episcopalian Dimenkrs, Evangelical Unionists, Followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, Free Grace Gospel Christians, Free Gospel Church, Free Christians, Free Church, Free Church (Episcopal), Free Church of England, Free Union Church, General Baptist, General Baptist New Connexion, German Lutheran, German Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, Hallelujah Band, Independents, Independent Religious Reformers Independent Unionists, lughamites, Jews, I Letter pay Saints, Modern Methodists, Mormons, New Connexion of Wesloyans, New Jerusalem Church, New Church, Old Baptists, Original Connexion of Wes leyan', Plymouth Brethren, Peculiar People, Presby terian Church in England, Primitive Methodists, Pro. gremionists. Protestants adhering to the Articles of the Church of England 1 to 18 inclusive, but rejecting order and ritual, Providence, Quakers, Ranters, Reformers, Reformed Presbyterians or Covenantal', Recreative Religionists, Refuge Methodists, Reform Free Church of Wesleyan Methodists, Revivalists, Roman Catholics, Salem Society, Sandananians, Scotch Baptists, Second Advent Brethren, Separatists (Protestant), Seventh Day Baptists, Swedenborgians, Testimony Congregational Church, Trinitarians, Union Baptists, Unitarians, UM. tartan Christian, United Christian Church, United Free Methodist Church, Caked Brethren or Moravian, United Presbyterian, Unitarian Baptista, Welsh Calvinists Meth°. , dicta, Welsh Free Peabytariane, Wesleyan Methodirt As ambition Wesleyan ; Reformers, and Wesleyan Reform Glory Band. LATEST I NTELLIGENCF. (numb mr.casms.) FRANCE. PARIS. Sm. Z. The Conditutionnel of to-day, in an article signed by M. Boniface upon the arrest of Garibaldi, says :—" In acting as it has done, freely and spon taneously, the Italian government has not only given evidence of its good faith but also a proof of its strength, since it has not to fear any revolu tionary passions, and can dominate and overpower Garibaldi. Such an act will naturally greatly re joice the friends of the cause of order and civilisa tion. All will applaud the vigilance and energy of the Italian cabinet, and we shall regard this oc currence as a new guarantee for the maintenance of general tranquillity." Letters from Berlin state that a royal decree is about to fix definitively the amount of revenues to be placed at the disposal of the King of Hanover. ITALY. FLORENCE, Sur. 25. The Opinione of to-day, speaking of the arrest of Garibaldi, says it considers it probable that he will be sent from Alessandria to Caprera if he ex presses a desire to go there and abandon all idea of any expedition which may compromise the state and the authority of the law. ROME. ROME, Sir. 24. The report that the officers of the Antibes Legion had sent in their resignation is declared entirely without foundation. HUNGARY. PESTH, Barr. 25. A general meeting of the evangelical delegates took place to-day, in which a reconciliation was effected between the different religious fractions. Their Majesties are expected here at the begin ning of October. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, liar. 23. Active diplomatic negotiations are being carried on between the Porte and the representatives of the foreign powers relative to the future administration of Crete. THE BOMBAY MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 2.1 The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Delta, with the heavy portion of the above mail, arrived here to-day, with 21 passengers, 2,7621. in specie, and a general cargo. She experienced fine weather during the age, with strong north-westerly winds. On the 18th she spoke the English steamer Hastings; on the 20th the Thema ; and on the 22nd the Ban galore. GIBRALTAR. The Morocco Board of Health has imposed ten days' quarantine on arrivals from Malts. Exchange on London, 90 days, 50*, f ; Paris, 528 ; Madrid, par to f die. OUTWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUS TRALIAN MAILS. GIBRALTAR, Barr. 24. The Bangalore, from Southampton 20th inat, arrived to-day at 10.30 a.m., and leaves at 2 p.m. for Alexandria. All well. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE GARIBALDIAN EXPEDITION. ANGRY OORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE FRENCH AND ITALIAN GOVERNMENTS. MOM OUR OWN 001111SPONDINT.) PARIS, TVESIDAT EVINING. This evening's Moniteur announces at the head of its leading column that, according to a despatch from Florence, Garibaldi has been arrested at Asinalunga just as he was about to enter the pon tifical territory. The Patric publishes a despatch from Florence, dated this morning, stating that Garibaldi, who was at Arezzo on Sunday evening, had ever since been lost sight of, and that the belief was that he had taken a mountain path to the Roman frontier. Ricciotti Garibaldi arrived in Florence on Sept. 20 with 12,0001., which was speedily distributed among volunteers. The expedition was so openly preparing that crowds of people assembled every day on the Piazza Santa Trinita to look at ten or a dozen shoemakers hard at work in a shed making shoes for Garibaldi's soldiers. M. Crispi's mission to dissuade Garibaldi from his project decidedly failed. Garibaldi told him that the die was cast ; that he suffered so horribly from his wounds and his rheumatism that death would be a relief to him, and that he was determined to go on with his work come what might. Be can neither walk far nor ride on horseback. His sons were to take commands under him, and it was thought tha Menott'. would lead the expedit;on against Rome . If it be true as reported to-day that all the French officers of the Antibes Legion have thrown up their commissions much of the difficulty of the enterprise disappears. The note of M. Rattazzi, published by the Florence Gazette, was the consequence of a long and animated negotiation between the governments of France and Italy. In the first instance the French Minister of Foreign Affairs wrote an " energetic " despatch, insisting upon the strict execution of the convention of September 15, and demanding categorical explanation. as to the inaction of the Italian authorities in presence of the notorious preparations and speeches of Garibaldi. M. Rattazzi instructed M. Nigra to urge the great latitude which Italian laws allow to public meetings and private societies ; the delicacy of Garibaldi'. exceptional situation ; and, finally, the inviolability of his person as an Italian deputy. The French Cabinet did not admit the force of these objections ; reminded that of Florence that the least breach of the convention would restore to France her liberty of action, and threatened to send a fleet to Civita Vecchia, and two divisions to Rome. M. Rattazzi at first replied with spirit that if a French army appeared in the Roman states, an Italian army would enter them at the same time. Further and more em phatic threats on the part of Frsnoe induced M. Rattazzi to lower his tone, and to issue the pro clamation against Garibaldi which everybody (mows. The Dugnesclin affair at Dinan, which, for more reasons than one, no Englishman can speak of without blushing, has inspired a local poet with the following untranslateable lines, which seem to me far better than those commonly seen in a jour nalistic " poet's corner :" 81, dans ea pion taciturn., Qualque Auglais, ine de brandy, Etait encore asses Nardi Pour (*lifer d'an rue noetsarm Ina nommen; de no. hens; Ne sersit-11 pas i propos. Pour maitre un Lenin 1 son audace, De 1.1 downer on pen la chasm Area on keit ehawe•pot At the Bourse Csedit Mobilier sustained the further heavy fall of llfr. 26c., and is now quoted . ' at 215 fr. Many of the sellers of to-day bought at 1,800 fr., and have hitherto held on, not being able to resign themselves to a lam In Rente and other securities there was little change. Italian rose 25fr. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) Won Mr. Justice Dag.) THE MURDER AT LIMEHOUSE. John Wiggins, 32, waterman, was charged with the wil ful murder of Agnes Oates. Mr. Poland and Mr. Collins conducted the prosecution on behalf of the Treasury ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Mibton and Mr. Sleigh. The learned counsel for the prosecution, in ring the use for the crown, said that the charge against primmer was one of the gravest character known to the law, and the circumstances under which the charge was preferred would require their most attentive and serious considera tion. He then proceeded to give • brief outline of the evi dence, the material points of which will be fresh in the recol lection of the public. The prisoner, it will be remembered, lived with the deceased, who paned as his wife, at Limehoose, and the murder with which he was was committed some time during the night of thl a g ed tli of July last. The deceased was 22 years of age, and at this time she had been living with the prisoner for about six months, and that they had frequently quarrelled, and only a short time before the period when the murder was committed they had had • quarrel on account of the prisoner having obtained • sum of a 4l ;art rn • watch belonging to the prisoner and there to be no doubt that the latter was anxious to get ri of the de ceased. On the morning of the day mentioned, about 5 o'clock, an alarm of murder wee raised in the street where the prisoner reeided, and the prisoner was seen par tially dressed with his throat cut. The deceased was found lying dead in her bedroom with • terrific gash in her throat ; and, according to the ease for the prosecu tion. she had at this time be= dead for several hours. It turned out that the injury received by the prisoner was of • very slight character, and he at once said that the deceased had inflicted the injury upon him, and that he went out to procure assistance, and whe n he went back into the bedroom he found that the deceased had cut her own throat. He afterward. made several other statements, and eventually, at his own request, he was examined before the coroner, where he made • formal a4itement to the e ff ect that the deceased woman bad attempted to cut his throat while he was lying on the floor, and that he got away from her, and that shortly afte rwards he found that she had out her own throat, The case on the part of the prosecution was that the deceased could not have inflicted the injury upon her self, and it was said that she must have been dead several hours at the time when she was discovered, whereas the prisoner said that she had inflicted the injury . immediately before he made his appmr anoe m the street. The evidence also tended to show that the body had been placed in the position in which it wss found, and that It it had been • use of suicide as was represented by the prisoner she could not have been in such • position. The wound itself was also of such a fearful character that the knife appeared to have actually gone completely throught the neck end wounded the opine, and the case on the part of the prosecution was that this injury could not have been inflicted by the de ceased herself, and that the story .. of the prisoner was a mere sham. The question, there ore to be disposed o: waswhether the case was one of suici de or of murder. The following evidenoe was then adduced for the pro secution Rose Helen Oak*, a girl about 14 years old, said that &Creed was her airier. They had no relations in London, but c^rne there from the country, and were quite strangers. Her sister had been living with the pi .soner se his wife at Temperance Cottages, Limehoue, for about six months before her death. On the Sunday before she died witness was at their house, and she heard them quarrelling about money, and the dammed said she would go to a situation and would not live with the prisoner any longer. She did not see her sister again until she was in her coffin, dead. Mrs. Mary Anne Windier deposed that formerly she lived next door to the prisoner, at No. 2, Temperance Cot sages, Liaiebouse. She was well acquainted with the deceased and saw her almost every day. On the 20th of July, four days before the murder, she heard a shriek from the deceased, and the prisoner made use of some foul language towards her, and witness went out of her room and saw the prisoner holding the deceased by the hair, end before she could get up to them he kicked her on the back of the head. The deceased was in a standing position at this time. Witness exclaimed, " Oh, John, John, what have you been doing of ,• you will be sorry for what you have done presently.' She be lieved the deceased had been throwing the tea things at the prisoner before he struck her. There had been several other quarrels before this between the prisoner and the deceased, and the latter had expressed her intention tc go to service, and wanted the prisoner to buy her some clothes to enable her to do so. _ _ _ _ _ Cross-examined—The deceased had no doubt been very violent before the prisoner attacked her on this occasion. The deceased was of a happy disposition, but witness was not aware that she was very unhappy at living in the manner she was with the prisoner. The deceased fre quently told her that she could not continue to live such an unhappy life. She never heard the deceased say that she felt OA if she could make away with herself, but she had heard her say that she would go to service, and hoped she should sea happy days yet. Re-examined—Witoem saw the deceased the day before her death, and she then appeared to be quite comfortable sad contented. Tram, the landlady of the Golden Lion public-house, St George's-road East, deposed that the planner was at her house on the 2 3 rd of July, and she Wed him bow be was getting on, and he replied, " Very badly," and be said it was on account of a young woman be bad been living with who had not turned out what he expected. Witness said they had better part if they were not happy, and the prisoner replied that he was determined to a t z, of her. examined —When the prisoner said this all she thought the prisoner meant was, that he would part with the deceased. Witness bad never seen the dwelled. James Barney, assistant to a pawnbroker in the Com mercial-road East, proved that on the 20th May the pri soner pawned a watch in his master's shop, and on the 20th of July a woman brought the ticket and obtained an additional sum of 11. on the watch that bad been pawned by the prisoner. Mrs. Martigny deposed that she resided at No. 3, Rhodeswell-road, Litnehouse, and her house was directly opposite the prisoner's house, on the other side of the canal. On the morning of Wednesday, the 24th of July, witness was awoke about two o'clock by screams of murder proceeding from the direction of the prisoner's pottage. Witness got out of bed and looked through the window across the canal and heard the ay repeated several times. She also heard some one call oat, " Yon old —, you are murdering me." This was said in a strong female voice. After this she heard the same voice say, "They are murdering me." Witness got into bed and soon afterwards the church clock struck two. Her husband was asleep at the time and she did not wake him. She be lieved she beard the cry of " Murder " two or three times, but the words "old were repeated oftener than the cry of murder. Witness did not hear what had taken place at the cottage of the prisoner until five o'clock on the following evening. The trial was proceeding when we went to press, and is not likely to be concluded to-day. (Before Mr Justice Smith.) TER TORGRRIDS DT ♦ SURGEON'S ASSISTANT. Henry Hodgson, 22, surgeon's assistant, was indicted for certain acts of forgery, with intent to defraud the Bank of Mr. Poland conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Metcalf appeared for the defence. The prisoner pleaded guilty. It appeared that about • year ago he had been an assistant to Mr. Pedlar, chemist, Fleet-street, and left to become • student at St. Bartholo mew's Hospital. In August last, learn i ng that Mr. Why sall, who had been a fellow assistant with him at Mr. Pod. lees, was possessed of 2251. in the Three per Cent. Consols, be went to Mr. Mortimer, • stockbroker , in Old Broad. street, and representing that he was Mr. Why aall, required him to effect a transfer of the stock standing in his name in the books of the Bank of England. Mr. Mortimer, after making some inquiries, sold the stock the same after noon and gave the prisoner • cheque for the amount, lees ;he commission and expenses, and the prisoner forged the name of Mr. Whysall to the transfer and the stock receipt. In • similar manner he forged • transfer for 1501. New Three per Cent. Stock standing in the name of another acquaintance named William James Bentley. In this instance he called upon Mr. Austin, stockbroker, 2, Capel-court, and re resenting that he was Mr. Bentley, produced • card of Mr. William Taylor, surgeon, 59, John. street-road, with the name of Mr. Bentley written on the back of it, in Mr. Taylor's handwriting. Believing this recommendation, he gave the prisoner a letter to Mr. Taylor, which, as he believed, the prisoner took to Mr. Taylor, and returned with it signed. Mr. Austin then effected the sale of the stock, and handed the produce to the prisoner. Mr. Metcalfe urged that several members of the prisoner's family had been confined, and requested his lordship to delay the case till to-morrow, when he would bring forward the handy doctor. CITILTBATION TN THI WEST. —According to the Western Gazette a young woman at Somerton, in Somerset shire, a few days since said she was bewitched, that the witch wu • certain old woman in the town, and that the letter was then at home frying toads to effect her hellish purposes over people. A number of ignorant wretches went to the old woman's residence and found her an in valid in bed. They, however, searched the house, parti cularly the chimney, end raked the ashes out of the grate to discover signs of her devilish cuisine, but could find nothing. The witch has always borne the character of • harmless old woman. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) Blizabea Salon, t7l;;;Tile;lareii;;:ctridannao, redoi ng at 31, Percival-street, Clerkenwell, was charged before Mr. Barker with attempting to commit suicide. The defendant, who appeared very ill,was yeeterday very depressed, and told a friend that she was unwell. They went for • walk, and on their return some ale was sent for a and • glass was handed to the defendant. She then tow; from her pocket two phials containing laudanum, aw l emptied their contents miss a glass and drank. Her fried Fthat the defendant had taken poison, seat for my . Franldin, surgeon, of Bt. Johnetreet-rosd, who admi nistered restoratives, and now said that she was in • weak state. The following is a copy of a letter the defendant had written to her husband Just previous to her making is attempt on her life. " 31, Pereilval-str-st, Doswell-road, Sept. 24, 1867. " My dear husband,—You have thought proper to leave me, but bed people have eeparated us. I rind I cannot live without you. lam very bad. My poor mind is gone. I have sold all to pay and live. %not could I do ? If you would only return to me there is nothing m a ear th I would not do to make you happy. God bless yes is the sincere prayer of your a ffectionate wife, Falun= iLtrox. P.S. Elisabeth Eaton, broken-hearted." Mr. Barker, the defendant having nothing to say, remanded her to the House of Dentention. WORSHIP-STREET. ROBBFAY BY A 8111VANT.. Elizabdh Sounds, 25, was charged before Mr. Heinen with etc:sling five sovereigns and 27 yards of new silk, Ms money and property of her master Mr. William Hall, a sdrgeon, resie-ig Mar...trest , Hackney, whose wife stet -d—The prisoner was • servant of mine for ten weds and two days. On the Bth inst. I missed from a wardrobe, the key of which wu kept ia • glass drawer, du sovereigns and subse. quently the silk mentioned, together with other articles, She would in amerdaric: with her duties well know when to find them ; she had then left the house. On the fol. losing day I gave full information to the police, and le company with my husband and • constable went to white she waslising. I salmi, " I suppose that you know what,* have come about." She replied that she did not. I then, told her, mid she denied having seen money or raster:A at the same time referring to her box, and pre. during the key ; the box was opened, and the first thing I saw was • handkerchief. I gave her into custody, and she Instantly exclaimed "Oh pr.l forgive me, forgive me, the silk la on the fire. I have put it on the tire." On pre. medial to the kitchen we found it so, the entire quantity of silk, folded as new, was mouldering away, quite spoiled. Pianner—Did you not say, ma'am, that you would not prosecute me! Mrs Hall—l did say that if you gave me up all property, I would forgave you. Mr. Newton—You did say that! Wham—Yes, Mr. William Hall—The prisoner went into another ream and returned with three sovereigns. I said that if bar mistress would forgive her I would not prosecute. Mr. New ton—Did she say the sovereigns were yours? M. Hall—No, As did not. Priaoner—Bu he pat them into his pocket. Constable (examined by Hr. Newton)—Mrs. Hall said ; " Elisabeth, if you deliver up my things, I don't wish I. injure you." Hr. wee not Hr. New Nett :on—Your wife and the policeman ham swots it, and I must say that • man in your position ought to have known better ; you have preferred self to the public. Kr. Hall—l had her from the " Fry Refuge," with a good ammeter. Finally the prisoner sleeted to plead guilty, and was sentenced to an imprisonment of six months, with had labour. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) WIDIONDAT, 817.11110711 25, 8 A.l. I & Palm /10.08 w.a.w. Abordoon W3l 49 W. 14418 Crommaill•—*.46 63 W.3.W. 30.56 54. 31W. Roches Point 10.52 52 N. ecto 44 W.N.W. 12 1 = 10.48 W.N.W. Nemo, ,40.68 43 & Brost .. lOW 62 N.M.& Lorket di N. 15.2. Rochefort.— W.* 66 N.& Plymouth '30.68 416 N. N.W. Weymouth 110.56 63 N. W. Partmamath 3052 41 N. tondos 20.49 13 N. W. Yansamtit 30.43 49 N.W. acaroorolugh 20.45 N.W. stam.t. 40.44 5 N.W. N.N.W. N.N.W. NW. N.N.W. 21. - W. X.W. W.X.W. sNi. I tit* 5 N.N.W. N.N.W. i li 1 I 2 4 ISM AkLB. The stanespheticel mows has . increased at all station =on the amulets amt. st. AlAt Yarmouth It more this nch greater than yesterday. At Plymouth and Pleause It amounts to toad Inches. The extremes of to-day show tad the northwesterly winds freshened ou the can comb, awl amounted to a force of to at Yarmouth. Now, the atmospherical Ke l lu . m is general b high, the winds are light, and the 'NUM The French government journal, the Pays, has • very strong article against Garibaldi, declaring him to be unworthy of any consideration, and " nothing better than • brigand." The Turin Gwette states that the official inspeo• tion of the railway over Mount Canis, which was to hays taken place on the 20th, has been postponed in cones. quence of the late heavy mina. " A rumour was current yesterday," says the Italia of Naples of the 19th, " that St. Januarius would not this year perform hie accustomed miracle, in come quenoe of the heretics and excommunicated persons who are at the present moment forming impious plots against the Holy Father. The saint would not, bow• ever, inflict such an affront on his native city for the few hair-brained men who are now com mitting, Heaven knows, what sacrilege. This morn. ing, indeed, St. Januarius rote earlier than usual, end at half-pest nine the bleated blood was in a state of liqueface Mon in the miraculous phials. A cannon shot announced to the twelve qu►rters of Naples that St. Januarins has performed the miracle promptly, which means that all the paces of the Lord will be poured down on Naples." REPRESENTATION Of MERTIIYR. Mr. B. T. Williams, who recently visited Merthyr with a view to oontessing in the liberal interest the second seat gives to the borough by the new Reform Bill, has now definitely offered himself as a candidate. THE BIRMINGHAM FREE LIBRARIES AND Niwg Roods.—The Free Libraries Committee has resolved to alter the hour of closing the Reference L'br sry and their news rooms from nine to ten o'clock p.m. This will still further extend the useful nen of these institutions, as it is only in the evening that many persons can use then, and the crowded state of the rooms at night shows sufficiently the desire that exists for the information and pleasure they afford. We see, too, from a recent notice, that increased facilities for the bor• rowing of books have been devised. Instead of two gnr ranters being required for all borrowers, one now 'name in the case of non-burgesses—while persons on the burgess list are entitled to have books simply on their own guano tee. With from two to three thousand perms daily using the news rooms, and an isms of more than a thousand volumes per diem from the lending libraries, the corm mittee might feel entitled to rest, but success seems not to satisfy, but to stimulate them to further effort.—Bir. ming/lass Pose. THE PAIC-ANGLICAN SYNOD.—The proceedings of the Synod were formally opened at 11 o'clock yesterday morning with the celebration of the service of the Holy Communion in the chapel of Lambeth Palace. A few minutes after 10 the gates of the palace were thrown open, and for the next hour the bishops who intended to take part in the conference continued to arrive in close succession, some in carnage*, many in Hansom cabs, while the Bishop of Labuan and a few others, as became the more primitive habits of missionary life, walked to the place of meeting. The Bishops of Loudon and Oxford were among the last to reach the palace. The Epistle at the service, which wee prefaced by some introductory observations from the Aryl• bishop of Canterbury, was read by the Archbishop of Dub. lin ; the Gospel by the Archbishop of Armagh. When the service had terminated the whole of the bishops retired into the hall in which the conference is being held. Per. mission to attend at their deliberations was refused to the representatives of the press, and the only persons allowed to be present are two shorthand writers who have been engaged to take notes of the proceedings. The total number of bishops composing the synod is, we believe, 76. The Arch bishop of 1 ark is not one of the number. Some other English prelates are also absent from its meetings. The sittings yesterday lasted five or six hours. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL. —There was a deficit of no lees than 3,5001. in the income of this institu tion last year, which may be easily accounted for by the faet!that 1,560 initatienta reoeived the benefit of medical and surgical treatment, while the out-patients, including those wbo applied for medicine and advice while suffering from diarrhora, numbered over 30,000. The committee have been compelled to undertake the enlargement of the build ing owing to the quantity of applicants for 1111111iNkle into the house who have daily to be rejected for want of mom. The income, ander iscrearied expenditure, must fall stiff mere beneath the expenditure, limbos the subscriptions of the wealthy sad benevolent cone to the eminence of the funds. I Ira to I at Col Of I An ion ins ml hat 0 ;rii . fee B i-_