The Express. — London, England, 1864-11-18 00:00:00

GOLD CLIALNS.—JOHN BROGDEN begs to call the attention of the public to the FORM of IN VOICE which he delivers with Gold GUMS Chains purchased at his manufactory: 4 a. d. To workmanship of paters chain, H lathe. long To :1S) carat gold. weighing or. dat. gra. at 43 3s. fed. per ounce, Hint price Total S wd ♦ALtt Ulyin this System, the QUALITY, WEIGHT, ant. _— of the 4..1d are actually detined. and guaranteed to the purchaser John Krogilen looking for a lair remuneration on the workmanship only, which is charged according to the Intricacy or simplicity of the pattern.—JOH N BROGIDEN, Goldsmith—Manufactory, 16, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, London. Established A.D.1798. N.B. This establishment Is dosed at 6 in the evening, and on Saturdays al 1 o'clock. 1% R iv 0 'l r l i d - LL ni, E ,d S l LS TR ( ( t i tl , o3 Eils O . R . l o G nly l be N h e t T at O R 'S) 73, IsMoIi.sTREET, lIANOVER.SQUARE, where competition is fairly distanced by Mlles" ALFR.I3) WEBB MILES. ESTABLISHED 1841. NEGRETTI and EAMBRA'S One Guinea and Two Gaines t (MD GLASSES and TISLESC , sPES are war ranted al uurtvnlled for power and bnlllaney. Ya. and 425. In camecomplete.-1, Hatton-garden, 11. C. ; fir, Cornlull. IV, ke w et, W. , 153, Fl set-street; and Crystal Palms. REMEMBER! we wait Supper for you after Covont Garden Opera. at gYANS not. .he OVIIrtOli• TO COBRESPONDENTi. rttiements intended for ••The Exprea," London Evening Pai,•r. must be at the Ofitee. 10. Bonverie-street, by Two ou the day of publication. RAYM&RKFT. Tnr. , Ertniso. THE SUN AND THE WIND.-THE UN ti F.R. Messrs. Howe, larren, Chippend .le, Conipt. n, and : Mead: met Beatrice and Keeley.—ON TUE SLY. Mr. Eudiat.iic.—And R MARY ANNE. Mr. ClatiL PRINCES S. Tnr. F.rreesn. BORN TO GOOD trek. Mr. D. Murray. And 111 L. sTREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining:, J. W. Ray, D. Haller. D. Murray. J. Nelson, 11. Forrester, and H. Mellen; lire Li. Manton, Misses Barnett sad Gninne. LYCEUM. To t.f Evrxrfo, C - 111CiliVEED.—And THE KING'S I'UL:4I:FLY. Nleurr. lechter, Ryder. Widdivomb, Charles, Nielutyre. Raymond, Clifford, Collett: lbws C. Leclerc, 31. Ileurale, E. I.,d,cEu, and Laveuu. lIRITANNIA. THIS ElrlatratO, THE IIoTIIERS DYING CHILD. Sr,.l S. Lane. Slnclug by Mr. Albert Steele end )I,llle. DontL—Mrs. 11....ir,1 Cod es .:Arlbalar, r. ith the Itall.t!I L)ne, "Rowe or —.Urd CACTAIN JOHN LUCK —C,alaseu..e at RICE! WATER AT LONDON.I RIDGE. Trtz9 DI v M ruing. 4h. 42m....Aftrrnoon, f,h. 3m. Morning, sh. 25m....Atternoon, sh. 17m. LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18. I t manufacturing industry in Lancashire, during the winter which has already set in, must at the best be uncertain and intermittent, it becomes a matter of the greatest interest to in quire whether there is any fixed resource on which relief committees may safely count in their execu tion of the delicate task of regulating charity by the fluctuations of labour. Such • resource the Public Works Act aimed to provide : what is its practical efficacy ! Mr. RAWLIN•:ON, the inspector resident in Lancashire, has just presented a report to the Poor-law Board which enables us to answer this question. Out of 1,850,000/. set apart for the purpose, 1,796,642'. has been al ready appropriated in loans to various public bodies. Of this sum instalments amounting to 4 2,2601. have been actually paid. The small residue which the commissioners have still to ap propriate is more than covered by applications now under consideration. In the last week of October 6,424 men were employed upon works undertaken in accordance with the provisions of the act, of whom 4,002 are returned as being factory operatives. The highest rate of wages earned by the latter class is given as 16s. 6d., in connexion with which it is instructive to note that it is paid by a contractor, who, we may be sure, will not give more than the market price for the work. From this maximum the wages range downwards to tie. 2d. ; the average, so far as it can be estimated by a glance down a long column of figures, being about 13s. Mr. IZAWLINSON, being !naturally anxious to take all possible credit for the system which he admi nisters, adds to the 6,424 men above enumerated an estimated number of 2,000 "engaged in get " ting stone and other materials;' counts the wives and children dependent upon the labourers, and points to the benefit conferred upon the small ahopkeikers by the weekly expenditure of so large sum as 10,0001. To the information which he girls us we can add something of our own. In places where local boards, or the contractors depen dent upon them, have dealt judiciously with the works provided under the act—where factory ope ratives, having a fair opportunity of employment given to them, have been made to feel that the amount of their wages and the continuance of their work depended simply upon their own in dustry and ability, the men have done well. Their health has Unproved ; their whole physique has become more robust ; and they have competed successfully with regular out-door labourers. Some of them will never enter the factory again unless wider very diiierent conditions of work and wages than now prevail. A moral test, of a genuine and effectual kind, has been provided, by which the relief boards have been able to weed out the class of applicants who want to live without work. At the same time, in some other districts, where the public works nre entrusted to labourers who are not working for wages, but working out their relief, the usual inconveleences and difficulties of pauper labour will certainly be experienced. Whether it is satisfactory or the reverse to have actually paid over three-quarters of a million of money in erase to employ four thousand distressed operatives, depends upon the expectations as to tee result of the Public Works Act entertained by those who fraii.ed and approved it. Wo pointed out long ago that the greater part of the money would have to be spent on materials for paving and sewering ; that another considerable portion would go to skilled labourers ; and that the res:due available fur the succour of the factory workmen with be but small. Our anticipations have been fubilled to the letter, except in one particular. NVII, re ver he leis had • fair chance, the factory hand has :rale:formed himself into • skilled labourer, tar noire rapidly and completely than was expi- ted. in this very Report Mr. 1: %wiles:ex tu~ntions that at Blackburn and elsewhere " num " hers of men who were formerly factory opera " fives, and lieve now, through a long experience " upon these public works, become skilled " labourers, lire unwilling to declare themselves " I.e. tory operatives, lest the confession should be " held to invslidate their skill as labourers. - AVe must ow n Er when a little further progress has leen made .i.eting on foot enterprises which are fre q uently defaced by many local and formal obstracti sic shall look for nothing more from the Public Werks Act. To those who, forgetting all the iacta of the case, expected that these public works wei c to take the place of the cotton trade, and at once to render the administration of relief this state of things will appear prefooniliy unsatisfactory. But we are convinced that the Aet has already effected nearly all that its authors, acting upon • full knowledge of the circumstances, allowed themselves to hope. Had they tlionelit it possible to compass much mere, they weeld have inserted the employment of fite'ory hand-, net as a statement in the preamble, but as a cienpulsory provision in the body of the bill. THE EXPRESS, PRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18, 1864: For in practically carrying out t h e =as sure, one and the same difficulty has presented itself to all corporations and local boards. In borrowing the money they entered into an honourable, if almost tacit, compact with Government to employ the distressed ope ratives of their district. On the other hand, their duty to the ratepayers, on whom the burden of repayment must ultimately fall, seemed to demand that the money, irrespective of benevolent considerations, should be laid out to the beet advantage. And contractors, of course, do not like to employ spinners when they can get navvies. It would not be difficult to point to cases in which these opposite views of corporate duty have been carried to an extreme. Rumour asserts, rightly or wrongly, that there are municipal bodies which, in their anxiety to employ unskilled labour, have constructed sewers down which the water will not run, and earthworks, which the first storm will do much to lay low. The Corporation of Manchester, on the contrary, has borrowed £lss,ooo—has actually received £112,500, and employed in the last week in Oc tober 98 discontented paupers. By the mouth of its Town Clerk, it pleads in reply its duty to the ratepayers ; and the assent of the Poor Law Board, given after a full communication of facts and intentions. The reply, which is too long even to analyse, is more ingenious than satisfactory ; and though the Central Relief Committee do not seem able to go further than remonstrance, public opinion almost unanimously pronounces that, however specious the arguments by which the cause of the Manchester Corporation may be defended, it would have been far better to hare foregone the advantages of the loan, than to have accepted it with a result which to the operatives themselves will seem bitterly delusive. But there is, in truth, no need to run to either extreme. It is not im possible, with help of care and judgment, to re concile duty to ratepayers with duty to operatives. Give the men only a fair chance of earning suffi cient wages, and they will either render the em ployment of skilled labourers almost unnecessary, or by their idleness and inaptitude justify all that even the Manchester Corporation can say of their incapacity. But we have no fear of the latter result. The eulogies which have been passed upon the intellectual versatility and moral self-de pendence of the Lancashire labourer would be misplaced indeed if—no matter how hard and unaccustomed the work—he was not at once willing to dig and ashamed to beg. A FEW years ago a minor Corn-law Reform was effected. Grain, which had immemorially been sold by measure, came to be sold by weight. The price, when estimated by the quarter, had always been affected by the weight per bushel, for the re lative weight indicated the quality and propor tional value of the bulk. But it struck the mer chants of Liverpool that this was a round-about way of arriving at the result, and they simplified the ancient practice by rejecting measurement alto gether, and dealing only by the weight. The new system commended itself to adoption at other ports, and so rapidly advanced in favour, that last year the CHANcELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave it impe rial sanction by carrying an act for taking the duties by weight instead of measure. The princi ple thus introduced has operated by rebound on the Corporation of London. That ancient body possesses under charter from Jamr.s I. the right of measuring "all coals and grain of whatsoever " kind, and also all kind of salt, and all kiwi of " apples, pears, plums, and other fruit whatsoever, " and also all kinds of roots, eatable, of what kind " soever, andof onionsandof allothermerchandises, " wares, and things whatsoever, measurable, " coming into the port of London." It was ob vious that if grain was to cease to require mea surement there might be difficulty in maintaining that it must be measured because it is measurable. Therefore the City, wise in its generation, proposed to meet the new order of things by a sacrifice of part of its emoluments in order to secure the rest. The metage of grain at present yields it about 16,0001. a year. It brought in a bill, the estimated effect of which was to surrender 10,000/. out of this income, leaving an income of about 6,000/. This would have been the profit on the transaction—the actual receipts for weighing were estimated at 28,000/. But the arrangement, while approved by some of the corn merchants in the City, was ob jected to by others, and by the dock companies. The bill, therefore, was referred to a select committee, by whom after evidence brought on both sides it was rejected. This evidence has just been published, and as the question may probably be re-opened next session, it deserves consideration. The amount in question is certainly not large, but it may be levied in such a way as to be a restraint on trade, and, like some protective duties, cause a loss to the consumer larger than the profit to the collector. The point chiefly at issue is whether the weigh ing of grain, which is a necessary process in its sale as well as in the levying of the duty, is best done by a public body, like the Corporation, or by the dock companies, at whose quays the ships lie. The Corporation did not, indeed, propose directly to oust the companies. But in proposing to set their own weighers to work within the dock pre mises, they would practically have secured a monopoly of the business, for since the grain must be weighed by the City authorities it would be unnecessary to incur the expense of having it weighed over again by the dock officers. In favour of this arrangement two pleas were urged. The first was, that the Corporation and its officers, being a public body, would inspire more confidence in their correctness than the dock companies, which are merely private commercial bodies. The second was, that the charge would be fixed by Act of Parliament, while if left to private parties it might be at any time raised. But in opposition to these pleas it was maintained that the greater accuracy of the Corporation weighers was a delu , aims, and the case of flour was instanced, which is now weighed by the ordinary dock labourers without any complaint of inaccuracy. It was further urged that the dock companies, having no interest as between buyer and seller, would natu rally be as impartial as any public body. Moreover, it wan affirmed that as the Customs officer is now required to weigh, or to certify the weight of grain, there was the amplest security provided against either fraud or inaccuracy. But, above all, it was pressed on theiCommittee that the Corporation scheme ex tended not merely to weighing, but to porterage ; that it took under its wing the interests of the licensed porters, a body whose employment is imperative in the port of London to do the work in unloading which the sailors themselves do at other ports, and that by thus restricting the free dom of competition in weighing and in labour, it prevented the adoption of machinery to effect both with more rapidity and accuracy, and at seasons of heavy arrivals it would, by the tardiness of the process, cause a loss in demurrage which must be ultimately borne by the consumer. These considerations moved the Committee to reject the Bill. And we think they will have not less weight should it again be introduced. Whether the Ciar should or should not have what is rather of the nature of pod dues than of an octroi, shire it is a tax on grain imported for sale rather than for consumption, is, to the extent proposed to be changed, not • very serious matter to the public. But if it ought to have this sum it should obtain it by a direct tax, not by a profit made upon • monopoly, the effect of which is to impede trade and to deprive the public of the advantage to be expected from the operation of fair competition in performing the necessary services. Int Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, N0v.17. Princess Helena, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington and Lord Methuen, went to London thin morning. The Prince of Wales went out hunting with the harriers, attended by Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, Lient.•Colonel Kingecote, and Major Teesdale. Despatches were received yesterday at the Coloniaboffice from the Governor of Canada. His Royal Highness the Duc d'Autuale has arrived at Wytbani Abbey, near Oxford, on a visit to the Earl of Abingdon. His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Apponyi are expected to arrive at Chandos House the week after next from Germany. His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorff and family are expected to leave St. Leonards in a few days for the Prussian Embassy, on Carlton House•terrace. The Earl of St. Germans and Lord Eliot have arrived ►t the family residence is llover-►treet, from Port Eliot, Cornw►ll. life Excellency Count Nesselrode has left Mau rigy's Hotel on a visit to Lord Orford, at Wolterton Park, Norfolk. The Marquis d'Andignd entertained his Excel lency Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne and a select party at dinner yesterday evening. The marriage of the Lady Louisa Keppel, daughter of the Earl and Ccantese of Albemarle, and Com mander the Hon. Frederick William Charter* third son of the Earl of Wemyu, is, we hear, fired to take place on the 30th inst., at the Earl of Albemarle 's seat, Quiddenham Hall, Norfolk. Sir Theophilus John Metcalfe, Bart., C. 8., has arrived at the Cavendish Hotel. Jermyr.itreet. James Frame, Esq., and Mrs. Frame, and Major and Miss Firma have left for Hastings. On Wednesday last the Rev. George Sanford Outrun, clerk, was instituted to the rectory and parish churches of AU Sainte and St. Julian, in the city of Nor. wieh, on the presentation of the Rev. Clement Fisher Scul thorpe, of Begley, in the exinty of Worcester, clerk. Oa the same day, the Rev. Henry Thomas Griffith, clerk, wu licensed to the perpetual curacy of Sustaad, in the county of Norfolk, on the nomination of John Ketton, of Felbrigg Hall, in the county of Norfolk, Esq. It is understood (says the Times) that an agree ment has been made between the South Western :tailway Company and the Luidon, Chatham, and Dover, by which the former will obtain access for their whole system over the Metropolitan Extension lines of the latter to the Lud gate-hill station and thence over their City Junction line to the Metropolitan and Great Northern Railways at Fatringdon-street. The arrangement also embraces the widening of the Metropolitan Extension lines and the pro viding additional accommodation at Farringdon-street fur the South Western Company, if required, at their cost, upon land already acquired by the London, Chatham, and Dover Company, and the whole of this system will be complete in the ensuing summer. TRANSPORTATION TO AUSTRALIA A BAN DONEI). —We have never doubted that the strong aversion from any contact with the convict element manifested through• out the free colonies of Australia deserved acid would receive the gravest consideration from the Secre tary of State for the Colonies. To entertain such a ques tion from the colonial point of view is in effect to decide it in favour of the petitioners, for whatever r;ghts may belong to the mother country, no English statesman would think of enforcing them for the sake of an object to trifling against the public opinion of large communities so nearly concerned. We have now the pleasure of statiug, what is no longer a secret, that no such policy is contemplated by her Majesty's government, and that, sub ject to the approval of parliament, transportation to the Australian continent will cease within a limited period. METROPOLITAN BOARD OP WORKS. (THIS DAY.) The ordinary weekly meeting of the member' of the Metropolitan Board of Works was held this day at their othms, Spring-gardens; Mr. Julia TUWAITLS, the chair mare, presiding. The financial statement showed that the cash balances in the bands of the treasurer were, on current aczounts, 347,2151. 4s. ; on deposit accounts, 154,800/. ; and on go vernment securities, 107,244!. Itla. 2d. PCBLIC . IIIPROVENG4TEL-COMPOLSORY BALE OF PROPERTY. Mr. Pollard. clerk to the board, read the opinion of counsel on the important question as to whether vestries and district boards had the power of taking land and household property by compulsion for the purposes of public improvements. Mr. Robert Lush, Q.C., end Mr. Thomas Jones, the counsel to whose judgment the ques tion had been submitted, gave it u their opinion that both vestries and district boards h►d the power of toting land under compulsory sale under Michael Angelo Taylor's Act, subject to the restrictions contained in that act. 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As nest above, SR'. to N. and back. wales to strong. rain at times. _ . SOUTHERN. North westorly. strong to fresh, generally fine. Lerrsz Vi. To N. and hark. strung, with showers. Cautionary sigmas on Thuredat. Worthern=Scotisod. rreetoru,aretood, Wales, and ad jacentle+ ....them— ttoolith Chnunel and hay of It y, W.tetern wiketwarst Enema,' and North Sea. A great quantity of snow has fallen in the south of France. The Courricr ths A!pis. published at Gap, states that the gendarmerie of Chateau•Qoeyras, having heard that a flock of 3,200 sheep were blocked up by snow in the mountain of the Col-Aguel, 7,500 feet above the level of tho sea, sot out, and asaistel by the villagers of Pierre Grosse and Fontgillarde, had to traverse a die tanee of eight miles covered with snow 29 inches thick. After ten hours of painful and dangerous labour the sheep, which would base shortly perished of hunger, having bad no food for four days, were removed to a place of safety. Four only of the entire flock perished in the snow. FOOT BILL. —OLI) ETON 1.1 Ns v. WEATM I NsTER. Tale match was played at Vincent-square on Wednesdar, leah met., and resulted in favour of the latter. wh o o bt a i ne d two games to their opponents' one. The games for West minster were kicked by 13. Proton sad F. Giles, and that of the ()Id Etonians by H. A. Hills._ 3l et Occ ' tnnEN,•E sr MONntOsr.--THREE MEN Deowsen. Yesterday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, a melan choly and fatal accident occurred in Montrose lissio, whereby three men in the pnme of life lost their lives. The news of the disaster spread the gre:dest consternation in the town, and for a time it could scarcely be credited, the basin, ie full tide at the time, being u smooth as glass, and there being only the slightest of breezes fr. •in the northwest. The men were named Murray, Stephen, and Robert, and were in the employment of Messrs. Joseph Johnston and Sons, fislicurers, who are lessees of the Dan mussel grounds. The unfortunate trio were employed amongst others in working among the mussels, and yes terday bad been engaged in taking and seeding mussel,. At the hour oßmed they hail just moored their cables about the middle of the sands, and were embarking in a small boot to return to the town. It is sup posed that two of the men had got on board the little boat, one of whom had set the mast and sail, and the other had pulled up the anchor. The third man, in coming on board in a hurry, is thought to have taken held of the mast, and by ail, means had canoed the boat to Quit The tide being running strong at the time, the small boat had been drifted away from the cables, so that the men could not get hold of them, and the sudden lurch of the boat bad, it is thought, thrown them some distance from the little boat. At all events a very short time elapsed from the time their cries were heard until they sank. The nearest boat was about half a mile distant, and before it or any of the other half dozen of boats, who were pulled with might and main to assist, arrived, no appearance of the poor men could be seen. The bruit was got bottom np and the caps of the men were seen floating about, but nothing of the bodies could be seen. Murray and Stephen were married men with families—the former having left five and the latter two children—and Robert was a single man. Efforts are being made to recover the bodies.—Bdinbitrset Courant. THE G'ODRINGTuN DIVORCE CASE. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (TEM DAY.) (Beim the Judie Ordinary.) CODRISGTON V. CODREIGTOX AND ANDER-90N. lIPIZIAL JURY. Mr. &mill, Q.C., Mr. Serjeint Ball►ntins, and Dr. Spiob, for the petitioner; the Queen's Advocate, Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Inderwick, for the respondent ; Mr. Price, Q.C., and Dr. &Fahey. for the co-respondent. The petitioner, Vioe-Admiral Henry John Codrington, C. 8., sued for a dimanlotion of his marriage on account of his wife's adultery with divers persons, particularly with the co-respondent, Lieutenant-Colonel David Andanon, of the Mid Foot, and with Lieutenant Herbert St. John Mildmay, of the 3rd Battalion of the Rifle Brigade. The respondeota both denied the charge, and Mrs. Codrington also pleaded that if she had been guilty of alultery, the petitioner had condoned to it by his wilful neglect and misconduct. This morning Sir Robert Phillimore resumed his speech for Mrs. Codrington. The learned gentleman proceeded to dissect the evidence respecting the remaining charges against his client and Colonel Anderson. The first of thus was deposed to by a servant named Emily Miller, who stated that one night, between 11 and 12 o'clock, Mrs. Cod rington asked her to take down a bar from the door in order that Colonel Anderson might come in, observing that she wanted particularly to speak to him, that witness refused, and Mrs. Codrington then said she would do it herself, but whether she did so or not witness could not tell. That evidence did not amount to much, bat Captain Strickland stated that in Acril, 1862, the door was covered with cobwebs, and had apparently bees long disused. Ile therefore need not dwell longer upon that part of the case. Another charge was that a servant had one night in May, 1E42, found Colonel Anderson sitting on the stairs ; but the witness stated that the staircase in question was in constant use by all the ear• mats, workmen, and boatmen. It was ridiculous to infer adultery from a circumstance like that ; especially an there was no more mystery or concealment about the intimacy which existed between Colonel Anderson and Mrs. Cod. rington than there WY about that which liiltolld between Admiral Codrington and Mrs. Watson. The next charge, however, was a mare serious one. John Roe, • dockyard policemen at Malta, deposed that on the 2nd of May, lgti3, while on duty at half-put 11, he heard some one outside the gate, and as the party did not come forward witness opened the little gate, and saw Colonel Anderson in the act of adjusting his dream. Mrs. Codrington was about four pees from him, and apparently walking from him. The learned civilian con tetded that this story was about as false a statement as was ever made in &condo( justice. In the first place it was &bright moonlight night, the night of a great religious festival, of a grand illumination, and of • large party given by the admiral himself. It was on such a night that as officer of Colonel Anderson's standing and • lady like Mrs. Codrington went out into the open street and committed an act of adultery with such publicity as the most degraded prostitute would have shrunk from. Fortunately, however, the case would not be left to its own incredibility. A witness of unimpeachable character, Lieutenant Gslwey, would depose that he was with the respondents the whole of theevening, and he would show that the charge could not possibly have had the least foundation. Before quitting this part of the case he could not help remarking that not withstanding the anxie'y which Mrs. Codrington was represented to have shown to make confessions to Mrs. Watson, it was not pretended that she bad ever said a word about Colonel Anderson. That was at least singular. But when the jury reflected on the utter impossibility of anyone that had ever had the nurture of • lady or a gentleman acting in the manner suggested, they would feel satisfied that the whole story was a vile fabrication of the policeman Roe. There were also some charges of misconduct with Lieut. Mildway,wbich rested on the evidence of • servant named George Duck, whom the learned counsel bad severely handled on the previous evidence. It was proved that Duck disliked Mrs. Codrington because she had ordered him to take off his hat when the beet was passing in a religious procession, and on his refusing had de clined to employ him or let him come near her for three months. Moreover this Duck had himself been charged with having assaulted a nsedlewoman named Teresa, god had been threatened by Admiral Oodrington, that if be ever dared to repeat such conduct he would send him on board the Hibernia and have him flogged. It was true that Duck denied the charge, but the admiral stated that he believed Teresa ; and he had a door put up se as to prevent Duck from going into the nursery. The charge against Duck had bees reported to the admiral by the re. spondent ; and was it likely that if he had really known arything against her ho would have held his peace ! One of Duck's charges was that he had one night seen Lieutenant Ilildmay going towards Mrs. Codrington's room ; but it was proved not only that Mrs. Codrington always had • servant sleeping with her, but that there was • door between her apartment and the admiral's, which was always kept un locked. He (Sir P.Jbert l'hillimore) would merely ask the jury if they could believe this man ! Again, Duck charged something like the actual commission of adultery on tho stairs of the dmir►l's house ; but the learned counsel showed that in reality Duck had given three entirely different versions of the transaction. He also poiuted out that the witness hail never mentioned any of those things until he had been applied to by the admiral's attorney. It was indeed remarkable what • stimulus the instituting of a divorce suit applied to the memories of persons like this Duck. Another charge was that while travelling in Switzerland with her father and mother, and while they were staying at the Hospice St. Bernard, she left her room for ten minutes, and it was suggested that she had been to the room of Lieutenant Mddraay, who was also at the Hospice. He should, however, be able to produce tLo very lady in whose room she bad been. There were one or two other charges, which, however, were no charges at all, and on which he need not, therefore, com ment. The learned civilian then returned to the alleged confessions of the respondent. If a lady found her most intimate female friend turned into her bitterest enemy, and that friend now coming forward and imputing to her statements which she bad herself no means of con tradicting or ex plainiog, what could she do but insist on having the whole conduct of such • witness subjected to the minutest scrutiny! In the first place Mfrs. Watson admitted that she did not make the acquaint ance of Admiral Codriegton till July, and that before the end of the year the admiral had told her all the secrets of Lim married life. He (the learned weasel) should like to know the nature of the inflame. which Mr.. Wat son haul exercised over the admiral's mind, so as to obtain from him such a marked degree of his confidence. Admiral Codrington spent every Sunday with her—after church, of course—and saw her very often on the weekday. When the Codriogtons return to England, the Watson suddenly break up their establishment, and follow them ; and Mrs. Watson is almost immediately consulting with the petitioner about his wife. If poor Mrs. Codrington had done anything of the kind they would, no doubt, have been told that no further evidence was needed after such a manifest impropriety. In fourteen days after her return to England Mrs. Watson sent her husband te • common cabman, to employ him to ferret out everything he could against firs.Codritigton. Pretty sharppracticethat, Mrs. Watson ! The jury had witnessed her demeanour is the box. which the learned counsel described as worthy of the heroine in a sensation piece at • minor theatre. He proceeded to mad over her evidence, which he greatly ridiculed. They knew the old saying, that Cato wu a proper person to entrust with • love letter ; bat of all the odd confidants for an intrigue, the oddest, according to her own age, was Mrs. Watson. The jury would remember that on the first night that they met at the bedside of Mrs. Coxoo, Mrs. Watson protested against the very idea of Colonel Gower coming at 1 o'clock in the morning, by Admiral Codriogton's own desire, to m►ke some arrangements respecting their food while they stayed at the invalid's house. Yet it was to such a tarty that Mrs. Codrington, they were told.lbad thought fit to make the startling revelations they had heard detailed to them. Of all the cant which had ever been assumed to mask female enmity—of all the disgusting ex hibitions of hypocrisy ever witnessed in a cour t of justice —it was the statement that, although her friend had told her she had iewakenall ins Lieutenant Mildmay's arms, and that she did not go away, " her impression was that the seal of infamy was not then set,"which he 'apposed t was a religious phrase for that she bad not committed dol. tery. Then came the interlude of the unconscious promise, from which she had only been absolved by Mrs. Codrington tendering to her a anbpeena to appear in court and take an oath to tell the whole truth. But when wee that sub peens saved! On the sth of July. Why then this long reticence, the theatrical disclosure in the witness-box, the charming phrases which would make three-quarters of a romance ! Indeed, they probably would soon have the pismire of reading them in that form ; for he dared 5.,1 this story would form the basis of the next sensation nova. As it was impossible to contradict Mrs. Watson in words, it was important to sue whether she was not crutradicted by her own actr. Here was Mrs. Codriegton confessing herself guilty of an act of the grossest adultery—kow did Mr,. Watson behave to her? Did she merely show her the Lull conventionalities of society? On the contrary. wh.o I.e. mother died the first person to whom she turned for 5),.. Why and consolation was the respondent. Here was kAr own letter : My dear Helen,—l am sorry you should feel hurt • r ~L. noyed with me on account of my leaving you hurriedly t h, other day. All I meant was what I said, that when v.,1 wished your friend you would seek her. Admitted to room at ail times, your dressing was no reason for - ,t ing me. This, of course, I could not help feeling, as I had made a great effort to get to you. After my 'on, illness and bereavement you weri the first pervm I ! called on. But enough of this ; if I angered you! an: 3 r-• My desire has ever been, and ever will be, to be the anxious friend, and certainly not to cause you any unnece, nary pain. I have given you many proofs of 0.1 i,, 1. I not? You have often told me you could never be 41;4: y with me for anything I might do. This WAS very for I have sometimes tried your patience in fultillica ....L.,: I deemed my duty towards you, but now you have no • Life is too short to spend in vain feud*, and true fr:-• dear Helen, too rare to lose. Let this be but au A shower ; the sun must now shine again. Believe me always affectionately youv, Pieta, May 5. EMILY WA r - toss that such a letter as a lady like Mrs. Wat,,,n write to a woman who had really made such a dis2thtio; confession as that which she had detailed'. There eto ways in which they might regard the alleged confe.,, , ai. Thee might either disbelieve them altogether, rr might believe them in part. They miglot something had been said, the effect of which 14.-1 entirely perverted by a few alterations here and gested by female ingenuity, sharpened by female which on occasion was an extremely wail w1•-•••01... For example, he could not believe that Mrs, had ever made use of such an expression as "the evil has arrived." The jury would recollect the .• which he had put to Mrs. Watson respeet..: t:. state of Mrs. Codrington's mind. Her whole on that point was flatly contradicted by a letter cf .1: al Cadrington to Mr. Smith, enclosing • 'copy of one !.e received from her. [This was read.] If lfrs. Watson wrot., the letter transcribed by the admiral, she was cne. - A the falsest witness that had ever stood in the box; if ,he 111 not write it, then the admiral must have invented :t, which was absurd. In fact Mrs. Watson crust take the choice of being the falsest or tb4 malignant of witnesses that had ever tortured into a aloe ; meaning phrases which if ever uttered at all—and that he very much doubted—had sprung from an excited mind. [The case was proceeding when our report left. I LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings in Banco.—(Before Lord Chief .fustice Erie 211,1 ehlitiC6l Byles and Keating.) TAILOR. ArrriLANT, D. Ii'MPIIRIEM, 1:05.% FIDE T:t t` ELLI:It t4t. L-TI.,N. . , This case having been before the court on two previ occasions was decided this morning. The circui.,.ratc,e were these : The appellant kept a publi,t , else at Moseley, in the parish of King's Norton, Were cestenhire, a place about two miles from Biriningbarr.. .tt 20 minutes past 11 o'clock on the morning of Su:. '..iv. the. 17th April, • police-constable went by the opp..!:.lrt'S house, and found the door closed but nut fastened. He en tered and saw 30 men and women, some in the tap-room and some at the bar. Some had ale before them, some bread and cheese and ale, and some of the men were smoking. The appellant's daughter, who era" servi..ig, said they were all strangers. Tho police asked, ".ere they travellers r and the appellant said ' Yes ," and several of them got upend said they had come from Birmingham. The parties there were unknown to the police, but they appeared to be Birmighem artizans. The appellant was summoned be. fore the local justices for having his house open " otherwise than for the refreshment of travellers," and on that °cert. Mon two of the costocums were examined as witnesses, and they proved that they were inhabitants of Birmingham, that they had walked through fields and lanes, one seven and the other eight miles before reaching the appellant's house, where they had ale and breed and curse, that they did not leave home with the intention of visiting the impel. laot's house, that they were asked whether they were travel lers, and said they were before they were served. They were at that time about two miles Irvin their residences. The few others whose addresses were ascertained appeared to be inhabitanta of that part of Birmingham nearest to Moseley, ar.d were one and a half or two miles from their homes,though of course someof them might have gone greater distances. Before the magistrates the appellant's attorney contended that as the persons in the house lived in another pariah and another county, and as they represented them selves to be travellers the landlord was boo ad to serve them. The magistrates were of opinion that for all that appeared to the cootrary the company at the house had come from Birmingham, many of them a distance 3f less than two miles. They also thought that the fact of being a traveller did not exactly depend upon the ,listvcce be had gone, but they considered that to be • traveller he must be on • journey as • wayfarer. And as to the two witnesses that were called, the minis. trans thought that as they had stopped only two miles from home, they had ceased to be travellers in the same degree as if they hail arrived at Birmingham, and had ;one to a tavern in the same street in welch they resided. The others, who had walked only about two miles, th"y did not consider travellers. Tiiey did put consider the statement of the customers that they were travellers was boot tide ; and as to the house being is 'mother perish and comity, they considered that unimportant. Thee there're convicted the appellant, and fined him 30s. and costs. This decision was sow appealed against. Mr. Serieant Hayes appeared for the appellant ; and Mr. D. Keane, Q C.. for the respondent. • For t he appellant wu contended. principally upon the authority of "Atkinson r. Sellers," 5 C. Il.,new smiles; and "Taylor r. Humphreys," 10 C. It new series, that the appellant's customers were "traveller.," or at all events that the appellant, being informed that tLey were travellers, and not knowing to the contrary, was bound to serve them. oT, the other hand " Tennant v. Cumberland (2:i Justice of the Peace), was quoted to show that the burden lay upon the publican of proving affirmatively that his customers were travellers. It was also cotteuded that they clearly were not ; that a percent out for a walk RA. tots traveller, aad that according to the derivation, and idso to the ordi nary acceptation of the word you could venerate the mean ing of the word traveller from the idea of toil. The Lord Chief Justice said that it Lad been contended for the appellant that the word traveller ought to be consi• dared to include all those who fire abroad, either from a desire to enjoy country sights and sounds, or from any other motive either of todoess or pies sure, except from the desire for excessive dr:nking ; and that any supply of refreshment needed by reason ! of such faring abroad must be considered to be refreshment for • travdier. It was further contended that cc the excep tion of • traveller was contained in the claire which ends,- died the prohibition against seuving on Sukday morning, the ! burden of proving that there had been a In each if the pro' hibition was cast upon the informer : and that it the publi can believed, or had reathu to believe when he supplied the drink that he was supply -Inc a traveller, be ought not to be convicted. In this argument the court thought that the appellant's commit was well founded and that the statute ought to be construed upon the principle which he contended for. The court thought that • person was • traveller within the ex ception in the statute if he went to the house from any of the motives above suggested as le,:itimate and by reason thereof needed refreshment; but that if he went there merely because he desired to obtain drink, he would not be within that exception. The circumdances under which a guest was admitted and auppliol would have weight in deciding whether the publican had re.:sou to believe that he was a traveller, such as whether he was a neighbour or • stranger ; and whether he remained longer and took more than he needed for refreshment. The iiirtance also would be relevant, but no role could he laid dent. A 1 that which was short for the vigorous might he long for the weak. The court bad great reliance on the local ITC;ia atrates in dealing with the luestion wheilo r the appellant believed that his guests were travellers or were making a pretence of that character to obtain drink, and the case would therefore he sent hack to them upon that poiot. Probably it would not b!. wise to g.. further against the appellant on this information, nor unless he again raised a question by his future conduct. If be should do so then the principle whLli the court had explained would probably guide them to a decision in accordance with the view which the court took of the law. Judgment for the appellant. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings in 1.140c0..—(1.1cf..re Lnd Chief Pollock and Barons Bramwr.l. Channel!. mud P,.ott.) WOLVERHAMPTON LOCAL ROAM) .r m ‘'.l/1 1. -.LEER. Mr. Maenamara moves', for a rule to show cause why a prohibition should not issue to restrain the plaintiffs and the county ecurt judge of Wolverhampton from issuing an execution upon %judgment in an action brought is the county court •f Wolverhampton to r -cover a sum of 86. 5d., being a proportion of this expenses for repairing and paving a street nuiler the il9th sec tion of the Public Heslth Act of 1848. Judgment was given for the plaintiffs by consent, in order that the opinion of the court might be taken on the punition whether the local board. having previously snmn.oned the defendant before the justices, who bad dismissed the summons, had • right under the act to bring an action . n the county court on Vie earn. matter. The a^t of pallivrent gave the keel tswnl the option of taking the question before the maps trate@ or the county court. THE SEWAGE IN THE ..-- —.— Mfr. avALGrrrE Inougbt up a report from himself rela tive to the polluted state of the river in consequence of the discharge of the sewage into the river. He said that a report bad gone afloat through the newspapers that an epidemic had arisen in Wooleic h in consequence of the: tr. it via that had arisen from the discharge of th e sewage into the river. He bad made inquiry, sod found that the drainageof the high level sewer was discharged into the ricer at two hours after high-water and was therefore carried away and did not return. The low level discharged itself into the river at low water, and was consequently forced back by the tide. In about two months the pumping station would be completed, and then the whole of it would be discharged into the rive: at the tarn of the tide and carried away. At the same time it was not the sewage that had canoed any disease at Wool vetch, for the epidemic alleged extended to Charlton. Upon inquiry be found that the cause of the three deaths in • family at that place had been scarlet fever, and the father was now ill from the same disease. The report was received, and ordered to be entered on the nunutea. VIOLENT GALE.-(THIS DAY.) A strong gale from the W. S. W., occaaionally shifting to the W.N.W., burst over the metropolis between 11 and 12 o'clock last night, and increased in violence over the flood tide. Between 2 and 3 o'clock this morning the gale was at its height, and raged furiously, causing considerable damage to house pro. perty in the suburbs and in exposed situations. Severol houses in Spital fields, Bethnal-green, and in the north-eastern district generally, were par. tially unroofed, the streets acd roads being strewed witl broken tiles, slates, bricks, and chimney pots. In the parks healthy boughs were snapped off large trees, and several young trees were laid prostrate. The upper reaches of the river were orercrowed with shipping,and vessels dropping down the river were driven athwart hawse of tiers that I.y in the fairwaychannel, damaging collisions ensued, involving • great destruction of property in damaged bulls and boats, spars, rigging, and sails, which bad to be cut away to disengage the vesvels. A lushest foundered *non after day light, and the crew were saved with great difficulty. The river steamboats could scarcely make headway against the g►le and tide, and large steam-vessels brought up in the lower reaches in preference to running the risk of rousing through the upper and lower pools. Mr. Win. Cox, M. P ., will address his constitu ents et the Agricultural Hall, Islington, on Tuesday next, the 22nd inst.. EW COLONIAL BISHOPR IC. •.—lt has been re solved, with the consent of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to erect a new bishopric in Australia, the seat of which shall be at the Scotch settlement at Otago. THE LATE COLONEL DAwalNs.—We hare tt , re cord the death of Colonel Henry Dawkins, late of the Cold stream Guards, who died on Sunday last at his family seat, Over Norton, Oxfordshire. _ _ FATAL ..CCIDENT TO A COCNTT MAGIMLATE.—.. A gloom has been cast over the county of Dorset by the melancholy death of Mr. John Tatchell Bulleo, an active county magistrate. Last Tuesday Mr. Tatchell Bullen was rabbit shooting near Bridport, and when In the act of loading his gun one of the barrels. from some uosscertained cause, exploded, and the contents balging in the unfortunate gen tleman's chin resulted in his almost instantaneous death. Mr. Been wee ►ighly respected. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (utrna's rasourL) FRANCE. PARIS, Nov. 18. The Constitutionnel of to-day contradicts as en tirely without foundation the news given by several journals that M. Drouyn de Lhuys had addressed a fresh despatch to M. de Sartiges, the French ambassador at Rome ; and also that he had sent a circular note to the French diplomatic agents at the catholic courts of Europe, stating that France guarantees the temporal power of the Pope. THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. TURIN, Nov. 17. The discussion on the Franco-Italian Convention was resumed in the parliament to-day. Signor Moeca, in continuing the debate, said that the Emperor had already declared that he did not regard Rome as the mortmain of the catholic world. He interpreted the letter of M. Drouyn de Lhuys of the 31st of May in a sense favourable to the emancipation of the Romans. General Della Rovere, the ea-minister, is dead. THE GREEK NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. 'ATHENS, Nov. 14, 4.5 r.w. The King has addressed a message to the Na tional Assembly, thanking that body for having finished the Constitution, and appointing a day for the members to take the oath of fidelity. The King also requests a revision of the law relative to the catholic bishops, and recon,mends the assem bly to devise some practical means of amending the Constitution in this resi ect. The above message was issued the day before yesterday and published yesterday. It was read to-day to the National Assembly and gave rise to au animated debate. The opposition proposed a vote of censure upon the ministry for publishing the message before it had been read to the house. Upon the question being put, however, the act of the ministry was approved by 177 against 118 votes. • This telegram only reached London this morning. THE INSURRECTION IN ST. DOMINGO. MADRID, Nov. 17. Advices received here from San Domingo to the 25th ult. state that the insurgent commi.sioners —who came to ask the couditions under which peace would be concluded—have not yet returned. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE LOUISIANA. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 18. The steamer Louisiana, from New York on the sth inst., has arrived here. She brings 131 passengers and 350,00 j dollars in specie. Her news has been fully anticipated by the Belgian, viJ Greencastle. THE OVERLAND MAILS. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Pouinsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SUEZ, Nor. 17. The Golconda anchored at 7 a.m. to-day. THE BOMBAY MAIL. MALTA. Nov. 15. The Massilia left at 4 p.m. for Southampton, and the Eutine leaves at 7 p.m. for Marseilles. OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHLNA HAILS. The Delta, from Southampton, on the 4th inst., reached Malta on the 13th at 8 a.m., and left at 5 p.m. for Alexandria. The Elora, from Afarseillea on the 12th inst., arrived at 8 p.m. on the 14th, and left at 1 a.m. on the 15th for ilexandri.t. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) rnIDAY, NO' EMBt4 1% 8 LY. B. T. I. R. 14. Court es . .rohtbaw ale gruiad CO The 13'01[101 Abe. Debts, Mr. Sykes E....4d for ae 91m. bankrep 1,,, e y Cana O le. The 'en eletUtlOD (01 lotionintbe ; int the eredito ip SI3IIWOr to on one side The bankrupt roper ti. o made him rig b f g 1 1111;1'11.11e d t er' b ;tt y P ie al: Honourn gl ad4C a ty i4bhz m eted. some applatu The bankrnp !aided at Batt ortion was on .‘fter a abort ranted. The bankrw efface, Witte' 30, were on 0 Mr. Denny of ea gone down Lirine Hotel, of paying anyl The bankrupt efore he loft. After hear* His Honour innkeeper. ,onths, and k to court wouk The bankrupl Mild. Debts the Patent s Kr. Dubois, ttu His Honour I TORGERY tclir lia fin forgery cad 11r. Huggins I lied at his the order for r. Dunn, nor e was watt& not hevi sc ou on. pi aim, of whir 1001 the dere, upon .. , n, but bey were forge Mop of Mr. TA lIM the ptilkillef r..lled a oonstab keened that h, batted to a co vrered to him • ev must be dii [ li ed o p r a a n u n thc• - b.r.own to him r. Dune, of N erer been in t ere given by II r. Dunn, son., oner could n kes.'a father wit let deal with M The prisoner a and that be was loth of whom w rogue man um lAistant to Mr. rd•r, which he The magistrat. a opportunity titteti him for t DESTROT INC A Vrtti Vt nue ere charged i .house. The evidence are admitted h k -Ise, and thi &•troyed the a ren to them w at , hardly an in litlmerable pie ...e prisomers, mid their clothe did not much mi or, for in the c work. and in fat me.ets _ . '1 r. D'Enteetu r uld not be alb lab,er in the E (Bel ROBBERT B 1 11 ,-, ..; -. .ia . 'Jr; en.ploy of toe S it 0,3 her, chary I HI., the prop , !t-. Stevens, I to prosecutr. . 1 0bo Barden, fur trickluyer's t:.rtr cartuen, aI ►..,riog to delis.' .I,:ch he should wltuPss. 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