The Express. — London, England, 1868-01-30 00:00:00

D - At a CONFERENCE of the mentioned Societies for the • HAW cd Haat Essii Dielawn held at the City TerSIMMS Hotel. Cannon- deed. on MONDAY, ism W. 1888: TVEDALE CORETT, lEsq.,• Her Majestys Poor-law Inspector for the Metropolis, In the chair: was moved by J. D AQUILAS. Untlai., D 4, IL?.: seeended by .1. It Races WILL . F.sq. ; and resolved Are London Mission and t:ellef t onimittee alone lielne lisientient,• .• That the East E nd Central, and the East En t, and Relief Committees, together with the 1811 e-end Old Town and stepoey Relief AllneellitiOn, Inn the Employment and Relief As. and ahem who may be desirous of joining. unite to feria • central Committee for the relief of distress within an area embracing the l'oplar. Stepney, and Hackney I alone. and the ',arbiter of Betlinal.green, and the hamlet of Mile-end Olit Town rind that the Metnipollum Visiting sod Relief Assoebe thin and the Society for the Relief of Nitres& be each requested to place one of their members upon the (totes] Committee. and that welt Committee have power to odd to its numbers, if here after deemed espedient , " The following Couunittees and Relief Societies were repre sented at the Conference : 1. The East-end Central Relief Cornmlttee—lienry Omen, Esq„ Ehickwall. 2. The London Mission and Relief Committee. 3. The East-end Emiiratien and Relief Fund. 4. The Employment and Relief Association—Bethnal - gr een. t. The Iliteeuil Old Town nun St e pney Relief Fund. L The Isle of Does Relief rund. 7. The Metropolitan Tisithig and Relief Association. 8. The Society for Relief of Distress. Arranuenients are in progress for organising, In co-operation with the guardians of the prior, an efficient and uniform system of relief throughout the distresses% district, and communication* may be addressed (for the present) as un .l. der. STANDISH HALT. 8. St. Martin's-Place, Trafalgar-equare, Jannery 111168. REAKFAST.-EPPS'S 0000 A. gite erovelSO. TO 0011.11OPON Ilieleilembewle Weeded tor UproseDENTS. London STaning =earl lee et the °floe, 10„ Amends-street, by TWO ex lb, dad of pablisedoe. HAYMARKET. TI MMHG. THE BROKEN-HEARTED CLUI3—A WIFE WELL WON. Marra Sothern, Suasion°, Hone, Kendal, gm_.•n, Braid. Weathershy, and His YdbTls°n•—After wind AN L"TTEB. PF.R.VERISION OF THE BRIGAND. FRLYCESAS TIOS EVINIX4, THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. and Mn. Dion Row kautt.—After which TMI BrRLEIS OF LONDON. Mr.. Vining, Messrs. Murray, Shnre, Neville. Yorrester, Mellon, Lc. Aliases nlaworthy, E. Barnett, Rachel' anger. end airs. Addle. VHS HYMNING, OLD SALT. Mr. Erna" and Miss Nally Moore. •—. 4 Mar which TLIE CALIPH OF BAGDAD Mecca. Thorne And James Mesdames Ada Swanborough, Johnstone, garland, Bolt, dec.—And COAL AND CON& HOLBORN. Tess Eriteel6, THE PLYING WED. Hewn. Atkins, Pries, Garden. Arthur, Westiatel, and Wilma!; Meedaines Itenrade, Mundell. Lentrex, aod iiartudera—Conelude with VALENTINE AND ORSON. MdUe. Mouton), Little ad. BRITANNIA. TIM ETTame, DON QUIXOTE ; OR, RANCHO PA NZA AND ta IS WIFE TEREZA. Mrs. Lane, & Moe. MIAs Booth: Pan. to.anbulsts Mews. Deane, Louis, Newham, and Tletorelli ; C. ntephan and lilt. Wage Nathan. —And WILO DLL/ IT I NIGH WATILR AT LONDON BRIDGL DI Mil —Moro 5 1 1. tlllea..--Altarnoos, 39m. R3-110S1011-11oralag. 511. Win— —.Afternoon, GA. 10•. LOSDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY O. Ir is time the public were informed of the prac ticul benefits conferred by Mr. HARDY'S Poor-law Amendment Act of last year. The measure was full of promise. The rates were to be properly administered, the paupers kindly treated, the guardians softened and improved. A new era was to set in with the new Bill, and Mr. GATHORNE tnev was the hero of the hour. The dispensaries to be established on the Irish system were to be of substantial service to the sick and suffering ; and the nominated guardians were to leaven the old boards with courtesy, humanity, and good manners. Mr. Ilaitieis proposals met with ready acceptance, even from his political opponents ; an ear .4 generous confidence was given to his bland promi .es and fluent explanations, and the House finally congratelated itself on passing a measure which " went quite as far as was safe." Some few dissatisfied spirits complained of important discrepancies between Mr. HARDY'S Bill and Mr. Jimmy's preliminary speech concerning I it ; and we VA leave to point out in this journal certain prospective (;;tennis' connected with the appointment of guardians by the Crown, and with other of the im provements promised by the Act. But the general verdict was eminently laudatory, and the common anticipation thoroughly sanguine. It is fair to ask now how the Bill has worked, how many guardians klve been nominated by the Poor-law Beard, Al what extent the principle of a common rating for the sick has been carried ; how many new dispen saries have been opened, and where they are situated ; and how many infirmaries and workhouse buildings are in course of erection. The public is hunentably in the dark on all these points. Dumont.. and an occasional newspaper paragraph, tell us of the polite reception at the Poor-law Board of deputations of guardians who decline to ho interfered with, and of boards which have re fused point-blank to carry out the official recom mendations. But this, if true, leaves us pretty lunch where we were before Mr. llsituv's great reform. It is true that five gentlemen have been appointed guardians of the Poplar Union in addi tion to those elected, and that similar nominations are spoken of as in contemplation for a few other parishes. But at this rate it will take nearly forty years before all the metropolitan unions are sup plied with Government guardians, who were after all only a moiety of the improvements to be looked for under the Bill. Let us hope that 1101110 independent member will, early in the session, give the Department an opportunity of vindicating its usefulness by calling for returns which shall show us clearly how muchMr.HAEDY'S boisteil measure has done, in which parishes it has been must beneficially applied, and in what particulars it has failed. Another point, which has a closer connexion with this subject than at first sight appears, is the continued absence of Mr. PAIENALL from the Metropolitan district. Mr. Fasicsim, it will be remembered, rendered good service to the Sick P.,or Association, by tendering them at their formation certain facts and figures which gave great additional value to their labours. He did v.-itti the sanction and approval of the then President of the Pour-law Board, whose confidence he enjoyed, and who has borne strong testimony, both in public and private, to his late Metropolitan inspector's usefulness. When a change of Ministry occurred, when Mr. HARDY went to the Poor-law Board, and made his vaunting speech in the House concerning the sufficiency of its legal powers, Mr. FA'NALL was deliberately punished for presuming to be useful beyond the limits of routine. He was declared to be too clearly com mitted to the people advocating change to be a sound adviser, and was promptly relegated to a distant province. Now, as it was generally admitted that but for the labours of the Sick Poor Asso ciation, supported by the press, no Metropolitan Poor Bill would have been thought necessary, or found practicable ; as the good this association wrought was acknowledged by Mr. HARDY, and as the whole country was roused by, and is thankful for its benevolent efforts, it seems a little hard that the one official who gave it help should be punished for his temerity. But, urge the authorities at Whitehall, the representatives of the Board should be clear of all partisanship, and it would have been embarrassing to the PRESIDENT to deal with the complicated questions connected with the relief of the poor and the suppression of pauperism while a metropolitan inspector was in the two genet . successors. Just three months since Dr. MARK HAM, the metropolitan Poor-law i ns pe o tor, held a conference with the Bethnal-green g uardians on the advisability of erecting new dispensaries under Mr. HARDY'S bill, when the following convene- Mon took place : Mr. WARD *eked Dr. blangunst bow the guardians were to erect these buildings and the hospital, at a cost of some thing like 40,0001., with the poor-rate already at Is. fid. in the pound, and the prospect of its being raised at Christ. mas to 11. 9d. or 2a. If these buildings were to be erected he would like to know where the money wee to come from. At the appeal slay on Wednesday last no less than 5,000 persona came up to have their rates reduced, and the magistrate said they were much more fit to be paupers than ratepayers. It was impossible to find the money, and if any pressure was pat on them he should advise the guardians to strike. Mr. Haavis said it was enough to break anybody's heart, and tears often ran down his face when poor widows came up for assistance, and they were obliged to go without it. He thought governme nt had begun at the wrong end that. The poor rates should be equalised and then the erection of these buildings could follow after. wards. After some discussion, Dr. MANIRAY said he was quite aware of the di ffi culty of the ease. The money must be expended, though he did not know where it was to come from. Be thought the best course for the guardians to pursue would be to agitate for an equalisation of the poor rates. Dr. Markham then withdrew. Here is an instance of what is called " partisan " ship " of a far more decided character than Mr. FAANALL's, which was after all confined to humanely wishing that the parochial habits of starving, poisoning, and torturing sick paupers might be rooted out. Yet we have not heard that Dr. MARKHAM has been removed, or that any evil consequences have accrued through his stay in office. ice. The other metropolitan inspector takes, as is well known, a warm interest in many matters re lating to the poor which are outside the radius of his office, and a man has but to write a vigo rous anonymous letter to a contemporary denocing the evils of indiscriminate alms-giving to find in some roundabout way that Mr. Conarrr desires I the pleasure of his acquaintance. We are far from condemning the opinions of one metropolitan inspector or the zeal of the other. But it is only fair to remember that their predecessor was visited with condign punishment for daring to be humane ; and when questions are put in the House con cerning the actual changes effected by the Metro politan Poor Bill, it may be well to ask after the Iman who was sacrificed because Mr. HARDY was afraid of being influenced for good. The Daffy News strongly condemns the conduct of the revolutionary party in the }tali= chamber. Tbaje position is to render any regular administration impoiaMO without haying any plan of their own to propose for rescuing the state from ruin. To embarrass the Room meet at any poet, to wait for the presentation of some urgent measure to inflict • defeat upon the ministry, to accelerate national bankruptcy, and, consequent upon it, the fall of the monarchy, and upon the ruins ap of the monarchy to proclaim the republic—ench peen to be the desperate policy of the Extreme Left. If they could succeed, they would infallibly bring a. French army to Florence on the old conventional pretott of restoring order and liberating the country from *them , sive factions. Happily, however, them is an alternative which General Menthols will not hesitate to accept. He can dissolve the present Chamber and appeal to the corm. try. The country, the Daily Nera believes, is heartily sick of these everlasting and unscrupulous malcontents and intriguers, and will not refuse its support to men of honour, courage, and goodwill, who come forward in de• fence of the true and permanent interests of natientl 2 r liberty, independence, and prosperity, without which • unity is a va in word. the !Court. OSBORNE, JAY. 29. The Queen, acoompanied by Princess Christian and Princess Beatrice, and by Prince Arthur, on horn book, drove out yesterday afternoon. Lord Alfred Paget was in attendance. Viscount and visoountess Sydney arrived at Osborn yesterday on a visit to her Majesty. The Dowager Duchess of Athole has succeeded the Duchess of Roxburghe as Lady in Waiting to her Majesty. THE RETURN OF HER MAJESTY TO WINDSOR.— Her Majesty the Queen, with the junior members of the Royal Family, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the write, is expected to leave Osborne on or about the Iflth of next month, and return to Windsor Cues. Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein are expected to return to Windsor at the same time. The Earl and Countess Grey intend to leave Hayrick Hall, Northumberland, about the middle of the ensuing month for town, for the season. The Earl and Countess of Mount-Charles, accom panied by Viscount Slane, returned yesterday to their residence at Rutland-gate from visiting the Marquis Conyngham at lidless, near Canterbury. The marriage of Lady Mary Stanhope, only daughter of the Earl and Countess Stanhope, with the Earl Beauchamp, is expected to take place in the course of the ensuing month. Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley and Hon. Miss Stanley are expected to arrive about the 13th pros. at their residence in Dover-street, from Alderley Park, Cheshire. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., and Lady Emily Peel and family are expected to leave Drayton Manor for town the week attar next, for the meeting of parliament. ......, FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY. (From Le Fond.) We find that the small in-door votes are very much worn, either with or without sleeves, and generally made with wide revere. Also small corselets, with or without epaulettes, are frequently worn with the cache. mire chemise russe. Gold and silver and fur are still the trimmings most in vogue. Fur figures not only in day, but also in evening dress ; ermine, white fox, grebe, and swan's-down being all used for this purpose. Nor must we on& speaking of lace, which is ever a favourite trim ming, especially on satin. What can be prettier than a lace ttinique gracefully arranged over a skirt of satin To describe all the immense variety of elegant materials now in vogue would be an impossibility ; bat we would just call our subscribers attention to the beautiful fringes for trimming tulle or tarlatane, worked with gold or silver. They are made of marabouts or swan's-down, tipped with gold and silver; also the flounces of Spanish blonde, worked with satin flowers for plain tulle dresses. This blonde, placed over bouillons of tulle, has s charming effect ;it is also formed into tunics. Black blonde of the same make is sometimes worn over black or coloured satin. The bonnets have undergone little or no change in form since last month, but our skilful modistes are continually finding fresh methods of arranging these tiny coiffures, so R. to make them more co mfortable, as well as more be t coming. We give our readers a list of the newest to choose from :—A chapeau diadems of blue velvet, worked with small beads, and trimmed with capnehon mantille of white blonde. A bonnet of Regina velvet, with a small bird cur• mounting a bow of velvet placed at the side. Strings of velvet, and bride' et lace fastened under the chignon. A bandeau creole of dead gold, placed on a bonnet of bright blue velvet worked with white heads. Strings of blue I velvet, lined and edged with white satin, and fastened by a gold ornament. A famhon of black velvet, with a wide mantille of tulle spatted with jet and edged with lace. The strings of cross way black velvet, fastened with a bow of the same under the chin. The front, which forms a rather high diadem, is trimmed with rich ornaments of jet, pear-shaped, falling over it, and at the side, with a bouquet of small flowers in gold. A fanchon eventail of grey velvet, with crossway strings of the same, edged with blonde to match. Diadem of green metallic leaves, and bouquet of mother-of-pearl flowers as the side. A chapeau Marie Antoinette of black lace ; wide barbels of the same tied under the chin. Across the front a band of gold and steel, with white camellia at the side. A blue velvet bonnet, with soft crown of the same coloured tulle, and at the back • rosette of blue satin. Velvet strings, lined with blue satin, and fastened with • rosette of the same. Round the soft crown and across the front a wreath of blue velvet leaves, with daisies of steel and gold at the side. Another blue velvet bonnet, a fanohon Pompadour, bad the strings edge.l with a full ruche of blonde of the same colour Thu ruche is repeated across the front. At the side is placed a gold and steel butterfly ; and the same ornament, in • rosette of blonde, fastens the strings under the chin. For evening coiffure gold and steel are much worn. Ornaments of the same, placed on velvet bands, are also much used ; or strings of garceta, with hanging ornaments of the same. Also beads of crystal or gold, twisted in the hair, form a very pretty and becoming headdress. A long wreath of heath, with metallic leaves, twisted several times round the head, and fastened under a flower or ornament of gold and steel, is a new and elegant e I coiffure. It is again stated that the post vacated by the resignation of Sir John Rah, as one of the Leeds Justices of the Court of Appeal in Chancery, baa been offered to Sir Roundell Palmer. In the Court of Queen's Bonch•at Dublin yester day a motion was male that the fee of fifteen guineas charged by the Attorney-General in the OW of Costello, the Fenian convict, for Sating a writ of error, was illegal. The court held it to be illegal. A large meeting in defence of the Irish esta blished church has been held at BaUineen, county Cork, presided over by Earl Bandon. Resolutions were passed expressing loyalty to the Queen and constitution and de termination to maintain the church. Marcus Adams, who had been allowed to stand out on bail for treason-felony since the Cork special oom• mission, was re-arrested yesterday at his residence, North Main-street. A large mob attempted to rescue him, but the armed police removed him to gaol Other arrests are expected at Cork. The Earl of Derby and the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland have acknowledged the receipt of copies of the resolutions pasted at the public meeting held in the Court hams at Belfast on the '9th tact, relative to the par. chase by government of the Irish railways. The Marquis of Clouricarde, in a similar letter from Footronna Castle, says:—" Nothing else will defeat the disloyal and conci liate the disoonteakdbut loyal portions of the Isiah so effestually as an honest and liberal attention paid the government to the material requirements of 1 and timely aid given to reproductive works for the de velopmeat of her resources." MUTH or SIR EDMUND IiZAD.—W4I . vret to an nounce the death of the Right Hon. Mr Edra Head, which happened suddenly on Tuesday morning, at his re• dames inEatonequare. The deceased, who was berg is 1856, wu educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and Imam a Fellow of Merton in 1830. He was afterwards appointed Pier Law Commbnioner, and was Lientenant-Cf•verner of New Brunswick and Governor-General of Maeda hem 1854 to 1861. In 1862 he was appointed woe of the Olen Service Commbeloners. He was a meet acemapilsbed scholar both in the classical and modern languages, and as case perhaps of our time had greaser mutiny over His loss will be severely felt by a wide circle of Sisal and literary friends.—Timm. of o r Nord for a deputy to the Corps Y 1 . The Seat is keenly contested V 'M. Ger= l the opposition, and b' M. E. des Rotours, the government cendidete. 'lle Mimedttl of Ville, the organ of the prefect, and of course the sup porter of M. des Rotours, says :—" Everybody knows that a considerable amount of English money, supplied by English manufacturers, has been contributed to defray the expenses of M. Gory Legrand's election." On the publication of this "everybody knows" fact, M. Le Grand addressed the following letter to his opponent : Sir 'and Hon. Competitor,—The Memorial de Zak which supports your casdidateship, has put forth a calumny against me which I shall bring before the wart. It accuses me of being bribed to support in the chamber the interests of England, and affirms that I have received the *meet of this scandalous bargain. I ask you, in the name of what is most sacred to an honourable man, to declare—yes or no—whether you assume the respondbility of this infamous charge, ke. The reply of M. des Rotours is not given, but the electors of the Nord must be credulous indeed if they believe that English manufacturers employ their money in this way. They find the expenses of contests at home heavy enough, without looking out for profitless investments in a French elec tioneering campaign. As a pendant to the foregoing specimen of French credulity it may be added that " the land ing of the English in Naples, and the arrival of 30,000 Austrians to support the Bourbon King," which was given by the Arenir National two days ago, as an historical data, was taken for an actual fact, and reproduced as such in several French provincial journals. Where are the French school masters VICTOR HUGO AND GARIBALDI. Victor Hugo has addressed the following letter to Garibaldi, in reply to the copy of verses which the exile of Caprera Bent to the exile of Guernsey : Haute Ville House, Jan. 90,1888. Dear Garibaldi,—There was a lyre in the tent of Achilles ; a harp in that of Judas Ilaseabseus ; Orlando sent a copy of verses to Charlemagne ; Frederick 11. ad dressed odes to Voltaire. Heroes are poets. You, too, prove it. I read with deep emotion the noble lyrical epistle which you addressed tome, and in which yen speak to the soul of Italy in the language of Francs. The same breath of justice and liberty which inspires you with great deeds, inspires you with great thoughts. Farewell, illustrious friend. VICTOR HUGO. (luovra's Tumults.) AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. VIENNA, Jug. 30. At the sitting of the Hungarian delegation yes terday Herr Ghiczy addressed a series of inter pellations to the representatives of the govern mer ' ant. He asked why the common ministry illegally styled themselves Ministry of the Empire ; why equality of both countries in the formation of the ministry had not been observed ; and why a war minister had been included in the cabinet, although no provision for that post was made by the bill. Herr Kerkspoly, of the Deak party, also put the question with regard to the assumption of the title of Ministry of the Empire, and asked when the latter will enter into parliamentary relations with the Hungarian delegation. Count Ladislaus Tsaky was then elected vice president, and Herren Rainer and Kerkapuly secre taries of the delegation. The president placing the consideration of the Budget for common affairs upon the order of the day, for after to-morrow, Herr Ghiczy stated that he and his friends would not take part in the dis cussion of the budget until his question had been answered. Count Andrasay, the Minister President of the Hungarian Cabinet, declared that this course would be wrong, inasmuch as time must be allowed the common ministry to prepare its replies. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mom ma owe COI PARIS, WIDNEGDAY EVENING. The Army Bill has passed the Senate after but two days debate with only one dissentient voice. The single senator who spoke and voted against it was Cobden's old friend and fellow-labourer Michel Chevalier. Vice-Admiral B o uet-Willaumez, who opened yesterday's debate, made a speech, the burden of which was that the French army ever bad been, is now, and ever ought to be, the first in the world, and the Monitexr tells us that the Senate was " deeply moved," that when he descended from the tribune he was greeted with "several salvos of ap plause," that his colleagues precipitated themselves before him and addressed to him the warmest compli ments; that a " profound emotion" reigned in the assembly ; that for ten minutes the " proceedings wore suspended ;" and that during the whole time of this suspension Admiral Willaumez was the " object of a positive ovation." In the Corps Legislatif a very severe blow was struck at M. Haussmann, in the matter of the desecration of the Montmartre Cemetery for the sake of one of his straight roads. It will be remem bered that when he personally defended himself before the Senate he only got a verdict of 60 against 38. The interpellations on the same sub ject in the Corps Legislatif were rejected by the bare majority of three. A great many of the usual partisans of government, and among them M. Rouher's intimate connection, M. Wells de Lava lette, abstained from voting. M. Auber's house, No. 24, Rue Saint George, has been thronged all day with visitors leaving cards to congratulate him upon his 86th birthday. General Mellinet, the Commandant of the Paris National Guard, came himself at 10 in the morning with two military bands, to give the illustrious composer a serenade. The pieces chosen were the overture to Maseaniello and a march composed by M. Auber when he was only fourteen years of age. The evening papers say that when M. Auber heard the first strains of the overture he ran down stairs with the " legs of a man of twenty," saluted the bands, and squeezed the hand of General Mellinet. " Borrow and prosper" appears to be still the motto at the Bourse. Rents was extremely firm, and closed with a rise of 171 c. for cash and llic. for the account---at 68fr. 42ic. and 68fr. Vic. In other securities there was scarcely any change. The yield of gold and silver in the United States in 1816 is estimated at 80,000,000 dollars in Monica and South Aserisa, at 40,000,000 as ;in Australia, at 61,000,000 dollars; in Brit& AlliteriCS, at 10,000,000 all. Siberia, at 18.500,90 0 ; and elsewhee, at 7,000,000 dollars. During ens week the numbers of foreign letters rec eived at sad aimpalosied frotallowlrorkww. as follows, via :—British Wows , 65,499 ; Genoa idlers, 42,117 ; Nevelt ielitem. 26.390: sad Belgisat letters, 808. The number of lathers betimes the Wes" Indies. Aspirate, South Pacific, and Chins and New 'York by united 'team ships was 32,308 during the nee Imbed. (Before Sir W. Page Wood.) IA 1.1 TAR CAMBRIAN RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. G. W. Gifford, Q. 0., and Mr. W. W. Macheeon, sweiticl for leave to file a new oche= in the above matter, notwithstanding that the old scheme was still on the file. The three months within which a scheme, wider the Railway Companies Act, 11367, must be assented to, in order to become binding and effectual, would, in this instance, expire to-day. The motion was m►de on the affidavit of the company's solicitor, who sot forth the order made by his Honour on the l7th of Deoember, and the decision of Lord Cairns on the 11th of January last varying the came, and stated that it had become absolutely neoessory to vary the scheme in order to make provision for the immediate satisfaction of the land owner and other creditors where agents were required, and that a new scheme bad been accordingly prepared. Mr. Drums, Q.C., appeared for other parties. The Vice-Chancellor made an order that, notwithstand ing the existence of the original whose, the company might be at liberty to file the new scheme forthwith, the company thereby undertaking to abide by any order the court might make in regard to taking the original scheme off the Me, or in respect of costs, or otherwise, under the original scheme, and directed the order to be dated to torrow, when the time would have ran out. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH• Sittinp in Baneo.— (Before the Lord Chief Audioe and 'fustian She. and Lush.) HUMPHERTS P. LONG. Mr. Gates applied on behalf of the plaintiff for a rule nisi calling upon the defendant to show cause why a writ of attachment should not issue against him for the dis obedience of a writ of injunction. The Attlee was brought upon a bond whereby the defendant had sold his practice at Berkeley, in Glouoestershire, to the plaintiff, ruul cove. mated not to attend any person except members of his own family within a proscribed district. Mr. Justice Lush, at chambers. made an order, ou the 31st October, 1 867 , restraini n g the defendant, or his agents, from visiting as a medical practitioner within the district any person, except members of his own family ; yet the defendant had, on the 11th November and the 11th and 13th December, in violation of that order, attended a patient, who was not a member of his family. Buie nisi granted. GROVE O. THZ JOSTICRS OP SOUTHAMPTON. Mr. Grove, of Leamington , applied in person for a rule ealliog upon *Mau justices of Southampton to show canoe why a certiorari should not issue calliug upon them to bring up a certain order for the payment of a district rate with a view to its being quashed. The applicant com plained that Although he had given notice of his intention to apply for this rule the rate had been levied by distress and his goods sold. The court, however, were unable to assist him as he bad not complied with the act, and applied within six months of the making refused.of th e order. ^nlicstion COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings in Banco.—(Before the Lord Chief Baron and Barons Briienwell, Channel, and Pigott.) PERRYMAN r. LISTER. This 'was an action by the son of a butcher, near rzbridge, against a gentleman of the bar, living in the same neighbourhood for having given him into cu stod y on a charge of stealing a gun, and at the trial, before the L for d Chief Baron, in Middlesex , the jury found • verdict =he plaintiff. S u b seq uently the ease was argued at length in this court upon a rule which had been obtained for • new trial, and the court now gave its judgment, the question being whether the defendant had reasonable and probable cause for the course he adopted. The Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Baron Channell thought the rale should be discharrd. Barons Bramwell and Pigott were of opinion that the ' rule should be made absolute, but 'Lathe defendant desired to appeal, Mr. Baron Pigott, as junior judge, withdrew his judgment, and the role was discharged. ETDIR V. WOMBWELL. This action was brought by tradesmen in Bond-street to recover the price of several articles of jewellery supplied to the defendant, the son of the late Sir George Wombwell, when he was under age. The trial took place before the Lord Chief Baron in London, when the jury found • verdict for the plaintiffs with regard to certain of the goods ; but afterwards • rule was obtained to enter • non. suit, or to reduce the damages by 2V. or by 151. 155., or by both sums, or for • ne w triaL Les t term the CUP was argued, the principal question being whether two articles 1 for which those sums were respectively charged, namely la pair of solitaires, or fastenings for the wristbands of a shirt and a silver gilt drinking cup, were necessaries for a person of the rank and condition of the defendant. Their lordships now gave judgment, and there being a difference of opinion amongst them Mr. Baron Bramwell first delivered his judgment. He thought that as regarded the articles in question the learned judge should have withdrawn the case from the jury, and directed • verdict for the defendant. The silver ' gilt drinking-cup was evidently not a necessary, and 1 it could not be said that the solitaires were necessaries, inasmuch SA studs, which would answer the same Ipur pose, could be purchased for • few pence per pair, or per -1 haps a shilling • gross. There were some things as to which it would be absurd to ask the jury whether they were necessary, as for instance, turtle and venison for the dinner of a clerk having only • salary of • pound a week ; or a coach and four instead of an omnibus, at • 3d. fare, to take him to his place of business in the morning. On the other band there were things which might or might not be necessary under erertain circum stances, about which the opinion of the jury might be taken, es for example, an expensive coat, which it might he shown was necessary for • person of • particular call ing, or for his health, or that would last twice as long as one of half the price. In his opinion the rale should be to enter • verdict for the defendant for • new trial. The Lord Chief Baron read the judgment of Barons I Channel. Pigott, and himself . The defendant wa s the y ou nger son of • baronet, and entitled during his minority to 500/. a year, and, on coming of age, he received 20,000/. He had no fixed residence in London ; but when there he generally boarded and lodged with his mother ; and when in the country, be lived with his brother, the present baronet. The question then was whether these articles were necessary to a person in such a position, who mixed in the highest society, and the jury found that they were neeeesary. In ancient times the judges took upon themselves to deride such questions as matters of I law, and even on demurer ; but in the altered state and condition of society that practice had been departed from. Their lordships thought that the question was properly left to the jury in the present case. With regard to the 1 verdict being against the evidence, the price of the articles was no doubt large, and he should himself have been bettor 'briefed if the verdict had been the other way, but he should panes before interfering with the verdict of the jury. As to the drinking cep, that he remarked was I presented by the defendant to the Marquis of Hastings. 1 whose hospitality he had enjoyed. His brithers Channell and Pigott and himself, however, did no h t thi rule nk 1 the verdict alto ge th er satisfactory, and te would upon payment of costs be made absolute for • new trial, unless the defendant agreed to the damages being reduced to fifteen guineas, the mat of the drinking cup. Mr. Baron Bramwell thought it was contrary to the spirit of the Common Lew Procedure Act to make the =neat of the costs of the rule the condition of • new The Lord Chief Baron considered that the court had • discretion as to costs. Rule absolute &accordingly. COURT OF Pon, udge OrdinaROBATE AND ry.) DIVORCE. (Bet the J 3rent raw. e. ataTeumr. AND PEARSON. Mr. Leyoester for the petitioner, • mason's foremen in Westminster. He married the 'respondent in 1849, and cohabited happily with her till 1882 when she took to drink ; and this, it Iris suggested, was Trobehhe cause of that rirever immorality which l y t had led to the present suit. The 00-respondent, • carmen, was a friend of the petitioner, and it appeared that he had taken advantage of Metherell's occamonal alessoess ea business to corrupt his wife. The peti tioner (wbo was called by the court to explain his conduct) stated that having, an his r eturn from the country, found his home in every wretched stata,bedetermined that he wou to h l er d live with his wife no longer •, be therefore sent her mother's, and raid her an allowance of 6s. per week for three weeks. Then, mentioning to • neighbour what an unhappy home he had had, he was told that Pearson had been men at his house. He immediately taxed Pearson with sedusing his wife, and the co-respondent admitted his guilt. He then took the co-respondent to his attorney, and on his information instituted the suit. The f o p 2 n 4 - dent, the petitioner added, was hardly ever sober fr hours together. Dune nisi, with costs. COURT OF ADMIRALTY. (Before Sir R. Phißlatere.) GIIZAT LOTUS erase slim—cures or spoor 300 STAMILI POlt WAGES. The Lilet 300 swam ea beard e Greet Reefers steumokip es et she won sweretelly amiailhoi lip itesaiss to.day. ' One ceserlidseed ends hal bewedieeeted to tried hy Dr. seise appikediele lad bees mede ea the pert of the tem vies esweismetise, bet S diesetedamtewnder7 *O dom tr Rebate lei te be The imosmiefebewb elowwweei et the EMU' et the dead. bet pectolleeed ewe etse hefece the exert. Kr. Beget, Q. 0., Um Yearis-TAINIViIfa, and Mr. Williams were for the muses ; Yr. Xeisee, Q.C., sad Mr. Butt were for the ship. Two questions were mimed by thu mit—claim for wage,, and claim for damage by disanbaaL Money had been paid into court as to waste , and to number of cases had been settled with b 7 payment and releases, it was alleged, ob tained from the men. In March last the seamen were en gaged at Limapool to June nest, m alleged, but were die. mimed on the 12th May last. The Great Eastern bad been arrested, and a number of suits instituted against the company. The MOO when oommenoed, from the voluminous dace• wintery evidence and the law points, will probably occupy a maple of days. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE E. J. A. EMMERT. The banlrrupt was an iron merchant of Philpot-lane awl of Anerley. Debts, 2,1064 meets returned at 100/. Mr. W. 11. Roberta, for the assignees, offered no o pp osi • tion, and the order was granted. IN RE EDWARD SINPsON. T s was was a silk merchant, of nat ion ap This was an adjourned sitting for exam and .I[l. charge' aseignees, stated that the bankrupt Mr. Potter, for the had been required to furnish special accounts of his trail— actions, but he had not done so to the satisfaction of tip: assignees. Mr. Reed, an behalf of the bankrupt, urged that the ac counts asked foe were of a vary unusual character, and would involve a great expense. His Honour sand the bankrupt must do the best he could with the assistance of the official assignee, and directsal an adjournment. DIRE WATERS.—LORD BHAFTTABIAIT'S LATE STEWArto. The bankrupt in this case was Robert Short Waters, described se a land agent, and clerk of works to builder residing in South-street, Kensington. Thv adjudication was made on his own petition on the 22nd November Lat. He thus describes the cause of his failure, " The cause of my inability to meet engagements arises from criminal proceeding. adopted my against me by the Earl of Shaftesbury , tog ether with heavy law oasts in defence thereof and heavy law charges incurred by rue in prosecuting my claim against the earl in the Court of Chancery." The are stated at 3,098/. to unsecured creditors. and 2801. to creditors holding security. The principal creditor is Mr. A. Hensley, solicitor, Albany, whose debt is estimated at 2,000/., as the supposed amount of law costs. The Earl of Shaftesbury is returned creditor for 258/., being the co amount of his st. in an 13peal motion in a snit in Chancery, " Waters v. the Eat Shaftesbury," in which a decree had been made by Vice-Chancellor Stuart in the bankrupt's fave:tr• which was ravened on appeal. The secure.l me. ditors are the London Life Assurance Company, who hold a policy n the bankrut' life (valned at 400/1 as security forooA/ o a loan of 2801. I n s reference to the doubtful debts, returned at 4,998/, and stated to be due from the Earl of Shaftesbury, t he bankrupt gives the foll ow i ng explanation :—" I was land agent and :::;eward to the Earl of Shaftesbury, and I claim, in respect of cer tain drainage contracts perfected by me on the cotes estate, a balance of 3.726/., a portion of which is for mo ney expended, and the residue balance due under the contract ; and 1,280/. balance due to me on the genera accounts between myself and tho earl. These sun.. a:, disputed by the earl, and under a decree in the of Waters v. the Earl of Shaftesbury the accour.ts between the Earl of Shaftesbury and myself are being taken." This was the sitting for examination and discharge. Mr. Bagley said ho appeared on behalf of the Earl of Shaftesbury, and he had to ask that the case should be adjourned until May next. The bankrupt had loat. Lai Sbaftesbary'ssteward for many yearn, and his lordship, h,v. tog reason to believe that he had appropriated large sum. of money, had instituted criminal proceedings against him. S. anticipate those proceedings the bankrupt had COIIIIIICDCE4 a suit in chancery to obtain an account which was in coarse of preparation. The trial in the criminal procoediNs was fixed for the May sessions of the Central Criniial Court, and on that ground an adjournment was The bankrupt made a claim on Lord Shaftesbury fir 4,tr.w.; this claim was disputed ; and the earl lnol rt proof on the proceedings for 2561. for costs, and claimed for a probable balance on the settlement of account , of a bove la,rage. If this were correct, the bankrupt we di be in a large deficiency. No proper amounts could he uutil the settlement of the questions between the b rapt and the earl, and an adjoarnuient was therefore necessary. said he was dero Mr. G. 11. Lewis, for the bankrupt, -d I; of giving the fullest information. In 143 t hem i t' ipt ll haul commeno..l a suit in Chancery ; this ou r March, IMki, when the bankrupt was suddenly arrest,d on a charge of a series of felonies ; and the char4o had stood over till this time, pending the qa. i• bons in Chancery. Up to the pro..nt not , h.. eighth of the accounts bad been gone through ; awl the bankrupt having exhausted his means and those of family, he had applied to the Central Criminal Courrt April • day for the trial, which was appointed fo next, ineontime, he having become liable for Lord Shaftesbury's costa, the bankrupt was obliged to come to this court ; and being a bankrupt, he could no longer take any pot in Chancery proceedings. Those proceedings had been going ou fur three years, and might go on for seven years longer. His Honour said he presumed there would be no do". culty in the bankrupt's being allowed to att. urnment ml at taking of the accounts. U ltimatel y an adjo a ordered. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) IN RE ROPER. The bankrupt, James Roper, was a lodging -11,1;e keeper, of York - street , St. James's, and a inermeuger the office of the accountant in bankruptcy. Debts, ; property held as security , being a mor tago of the lea.; and furniture at iii, York-street, 1ee,2.104. that the bauk - rpt Mr. Solomon, for the assign, asked should be required to set aside a portion of his future ea rnings, his salary being 150 f. a y ear, towards the pay:lt ou of his debts. He also o pp osed on the ground of e ‘tni• vagant expenditure. Mr. Reed, who represented the bankrupt , ch ar g ed the assignees with having mismanaged the estate. There Ltd been an offer of 1,20 W. for the b a nkrupt's lease and fur niture ; had this otter been accepted, the roortg. of ' 4 . 0 - ;night have been paid off, and the sarplus would have yielded a respectable dividend for the unsecured creditors. Evidence having been given of the oiler of 1,2 0 0/., nst Hi s Honour said the estate appeared toAV° Fee no t t muddled away. The ch ar g e sgai the bankrupt was established, and the order would be granted without con. dition. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY•) (Before Mr. Justice Willes.) MANSLAUGHTER BY AN ITALIAN. Johann Morelli, N, ma Italian seaman, was char upon au indictment, and also by the coroner's inquisition, with the wilful murder of John Henvelle. The prisoner did not understand F.nglish, and an inter preter was therefore sworn to explain the evidence to hen. He claimed his right as a foreigner to be tried by si jutf compact' of half foreigners. Mr. F. H. Lewis and Mr. Beeley conducted the prnst cation. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Straiih'i through the intervention of the sheriffs. of The facts of the cam will be fresh in the reoollection our raiders ' as the transaction only tiocurral a very . oe short time back, and the particallus were fully reported the night of the 17th of January, about 12 u clock , t he prisoner, tbe deceased (who was a man of colour), ad several other seamen, were at the Pruaaian Eagle puiliv house ? Sbipcliey, Welleicee-square, 'mom dancing going ne upstairs at the time, and all the parties being MUM or lea the worse for the liquor they had taken. The black roc had a knife in his hand, and it appeared that he hut quarrel with a Dutchman, one of the company, who was shipmate of the prisoner, and the deceased struck the pro e oner with his fist. They were then both turned into the street by the landlord, and the moment they were out of the house the deceased appeared to have gone up to the prisoner and knocked him clown. Directly the pri• goner got up he drew a dagger from his racket, sad rushed at the decease d and stabbed him in the bell, thereby inflicting a mortal injury of which he died de ster a Z afterwards. When the prisoner had stabbed the be ran away, and as he was doing so, he was seen to throw away the dagger, which was picked up, oevered with blood. When the' prisoner was under the before the magistrate he made a statement to ffect that he was coming down from the dancing-room, when he saw the black man, who was very drunk and violent and who had a knife inhis hand, quarrelling with his shipmate, and he then attempted to strike him. 'When he g ot ism the street be said th a t the deceased ran at him with knife in his band and he was obliged t o use the dagger to protect h imself. There w , cd, course, the slightest doubt that it was the base of the prisoner that had caused the death of the de ceased, and the only question in the case was whether the act was committed in hot blood and under such Ox cumetances as would reduce the character of the The Mita! from that of wilful murder t i mer.Po' ,down to the ti of the csocur reeoe takin place, appeared to have borne the acme ter of a quiet iooffecouve man. The deceased apran i to have lived about fourteen hours after receivio6 the injury, and before his death he made a statemen t in the present , e of the prisoner to the effect that he me the man who sta bb ed him, and be added that he II! eth er stupefied" by drink, and the " stupid foreigner poked a knife into him out of revenge. At the close of the ace for the prosecution, Mr. TRH mid that he felt that upon the facts he should not h! justified in pressing the charge of wilful murder, lee should leave the case as one of manalaughter only. th Mr. Jce Wines mid he thought thee upon e deuce t hatbatt been gives the jury were not likely W convict the prisoner of the more sienna offence of mg. murder, and that, under any circumstances, the act of the prisoner would not amount to more than manslaughtec„• Mr. Straight then briefly addressed the jail tie del and he endeavoured to show the rimmer h a d merely acted in mild and p upon this ground be called upon t o smo it hi m alto ge th e r. He remi nd ed the that 60 deceased was proved to have been 1 lftitt. et, . r•• •• . ; 1 1! . G l r JANIT - 8 , 4. t but Laillre'r • 'e Nonce. 'cation with the maim • open communication h"lies to " I. TIISTRESS a the EAST END. for change. Let us see ow ru le .p GENCE " /PSztspIiKKIIIT y.) Ora or the cotemittr!..o! the al e :; the two gentlemen appointed as Mr. FARNALL'S ITALY. ELECTION TACTICS IN FRANCE. - - - - ta m There is at present a vacancy in the department EQUITY COURT. 1 OUB CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAY AFFAIRY. The nacs explains the effect of an important judgment delivered by Lord Cairns in the matter of the Clandsrian Railway Company on Tuesday last. The com pany in question sought to avail themselves of the Rail way Companies Act of 18417. Their leading idea was to provide for all creditor' by giving them deferred rent charges and passive debenture stock, and they applied to the court to restrain all suits and actions against the com pany. The Vice-Chancellor, Sir William Page Wood, beton whom the application first came, arrived at the conclusion that it was intended ordinary creditors should be bound by a scheme even without assent, because of the practical difficulty of obtaining their assent, but he thought that unpaid land owners were not bound by any such scheme at all. An appeal to a higher tribunal was made and hence the judgment of Lord Cairns. When the directors of an un limited company file a scheme of arrangement the Court of Chancery may, upon fit terms, restrain all erred creditors whatever from proceedin4, and this for the purpose of ob taining the consent of the creditors who are modified owners, such as mortgagees, debenture holders, preference ihsreholders, sad rent holders, to such arrangements, cur tailing their own claims or otherwise, as shall provide for the payment of outside creditors. It follows that it is only ' when a scheme has this end in view, and gives promise of realising it, the Court of Chancery will ex ecs:foe its power of temporarily restraining outside creditors from pursuing their accustomed remedies. In the instance before Lord Cairns the Cambrian directors, so far from proposing a scheme to provide for the payment of their unpaid landowner creditors, desired to defer their claims. Lord Cairns refused to suspend the remedies of the landowners, however temporarily, in order that such a plan should be matured. His judgment, adds the Times, has brought order out of confu-ion. The lesson thus re peated cannot be too well understood—that the holder of • debenture or mortgage on a railway undertaking has, pro fount, cast in his lot with the shareholders, and is, in fact, a qualified proprietor of the line in which he is in terested. The pan and disappointment which is caused by the present condition of the Brighton Railway is all to be at tributed, the Daily News points out, to the fact that truth has not been the constant aim of those who have pre pared the accounts, and that a fallacious appearance of prosperity was kept up to facilitate operations by which the shareholders have been excluded from any benefit to be derived from their property it may be for years to come. The shareholders have themselves to blame for their first divergence from the path of that wise policy which for many years gave them large and well-earned profits ; but it was their directors who afterwards stood between them and the corrective which an insight into the fruits of the bad policy would speedily have supplied. The act of last session provides that no dividend shall be declared on any shares until the auditors have certified that it is brand ttHe due thereon ; but the Caledonian au ditors, and those of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin. colnshire Railway, make the statutory declaration " sub- ject to explanations," and in the accounts reported on in each of these cases, the charges to capital grossly violate some of the moat elementary principles of railway admi nistration. The Brighton auditors deal honestly and boldly with the shareholders, and after pointing out that there are no rules established by government defining what shall be charged to capital and what to revenue, plainly state that the adoption of • set of accounts by pro prietors is final and binding, and exonerates the auditors from all responsibility. It can scarcely be doubted that parliament desired last session to establish on behalf of an ditora amore effectual control over the conduct of directors than will be found to result from its set ; but feebleness has become the constitutional defect of our legislature. Moreover it must be said that when it has taken measures to place the means of enlightenment in the hands of a col lective proprietary its functions terminate. It cannot un dertake to direct the joist-stock enterprise of the country, and under all imaginable changes shareholders will still retain the power of self-ruin so dear to every true Briton. CARINNAL cr AND TR! STATE OT IRELART). The fact that Cardinal Cullen now sees nothing in Ire land but ever increasing misery, destitution, nakedness, homelessness, squalor, and desperation, the Timm ex plains by the theory that he sees and hears things not with the aid of hi, senses, but from intuitive conviction, and gives a testimony which is the reflex of inner senti ments and ideas. The agricultural wealth of Ireland has immensely increased, wages are nearly double what they were two years ago, • very much larger proportion of families are well housed, and crime, pauperism, and emi gration have steadily diminished. The Irish are far better clothed than they were within MST ory, and as to another of the Caramel's allusions the Irish keep their health better with bare legs and feet than our own pose do with shone, stockings, and thick coats. The acusdard says if Ireland were in the condition de picted by Cardinal Cullen, and if she had been brought is that condition, as suggested, by the government el Great Britain, then Fenianiem would have the beet ensue which baa ever been al aged on its behalf. Is it extraordinary that poor ignorant men should betake them to the mid i new of Fenianiam, when their spiritual leaden teach them sash Mesons as thews which are contained in Cardinal ...--- ---- i h.. drink, tk ~a ' - 41 that, end Treme eebi r 11'‘ b. 0 that his Owl :7 the wound ull r ye learned V ait( A he oertain i ti - of t the charge attempt that ! i 7 for the pn _ 1 be & very die ' aa ilors <Plane ° tined in itabbiug i n danger of rut 'rho jury', aft er e t 0 , of iusille e f rite learns. iu , g they it was curl iwed' wevons fr. gu lp ' a Oren te -- e resit primona Ws THE DIA lISG 1111. r,..4 Ann Ma Kiiox with al age, of No. 2 h a knife. he prosecute! fide -park wil iutee M COnie loner and ono kale and cam rarda MC. 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