The Express. — London, England, 1866-01-16 00:00:00

Elie ('LP rpregigi. TO 0011.11.111PONDPOTTS. ,dventsements intended fee " The Uprose' London Evening paper, on the day of yeblicallon. must be at the Moe, 10,, Boaveriewtreet, by Two o'c HATIGUILIT. THIS ETTIUNG, BROTHS& SAIL 1/eaa. Sothern, Bock stone, Osaapton Nagy Noon, Snowdon, &o.— 01IP and HISLYS IN TELL HAY WARIEST. Messrs ?amen & D. Tidier Ulna K 11157, Howard & Wright. —KY HITSBA.ND'S GHOST. PRINCEBI/8. THIS Immo, QII/ZT LODOINGS.—Afrar which IT IS 2i/V/JL TOO LATE TO MEND. Maws. Tinto& G. Nairn* T. Mead, D. Murray b. Calhaam, F. Vuimrs. J. G. non, G. Dar. ray, and N. Cathcar t: Minas L. Moors and Y. Rodger,. LYCEUM. Tim Snuffs°. THE ILLUSTBIOUS STRANGER. Mr. 11. Wlddlcomb.—THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Messrs. Pechter. Jordan, Vain. Emery, Vitddlcomb, Fltapatalek. EVIL= , Madames Terns; Elsworthy, Urea% C. Leclerat. BZITANNIA. Tins Emma, OLD DADDY LONGLEGS AND SIR REGENT CIRCUS: OR, THE RACE MR THE GOLDEN APPLES. IL And Wass. Btortsenbach.--81gnor Bevani—Olmor.—Showor of Golden Rita.—And JOUR, THE MORMON'S DAUGHTER. HIGH WArn AT LONDON-3111D6s nes DAY Moran& Ih. Afternoon. 2h. la. TO-1110AAOW Montag. th. 21tet. ..Atiazaaa, 24 498. LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16. THE official inquiry into the circumstances at tending the death of the pauper FELLowEe, which the Poor-law Board with commendable prompti tude inaugurates this morning, may be possibly simplified by the facts we published yesterday. The issue will be certainly narrowed if the Bethnal green authorities are shown to have complied with the forms prescribed by law, and the outside of the parochial cup and platter is proved to be bright and clean. It will, of course, be necessary to test the contradictory statements of the old pauper BRAD LEY, to ascertain the real cause of his refusing to call for assistance when FELLOWES was found, and, above all, to test the mean, of communication between Wards 28 and 29 and the rest of the house It seems as singular that both efficient knockers and abortive bell-pulls should be found in a chamber which a few days ago was publicly announced to be destitute of both, as that in the sleeping wards near it the bells are also out of order, and no other mode of calling attention is to be found there. We confess to an unsatisfied curiosity about the chamber in which FELLowEs died. Save on the stage, a street door-knocker is such an unusual adjunct to the inside of a bed-room door, that we feel constrained to ask how long it has been adopted in Wards 28 and 29, how often it has been used in either, why it was thought necessary to thus supplement the bells, and why the power to knock as well as ring was exceptionally given to these rooms ? These are questions which would suggest themselves under any circumstances, but they become of paramount importance when the charge of improper and cruel isolation has been formally recorded and generally believed in. For tunately there will be no difficulty in obtaining answers to them. Some fifty paupers sleep in the two wards, any of whom will be able to corrobo rate or confute BRADLEY ; and the gentlemen who have acted week after week as a visiting committee will also doubtless recollect the circumstances which led to knockers being proposed, and the reasons for and time of their adoption. The pro priety or impropriety of the strict Bethnal-green reading of the Poor-law order as to lights being ex tinguished and doors locked at a certain hour— the justification for thrusting invalids and conva lescents who are on sick diet out of the infirmary to sleep, instead of increasing the number or en larging the accommodation of the sick wards—the official opinion of the workhouse doctor on this proceeding, and the precise nature of the investi gations conducted by the weekly visiting com mittee, are all points upon which we shall doubt less be enlightened in the coming inquiry, and it would be premature, therefore, to touch upon them now. It will not be inopportune, however, to take the opinion of the public upon the system under which not merely Bethnal-green but every other workhouse is managed and controlled. It is the recorded opinion of the Poor-law Board that " if " the visiting committee strictly and punctually " make the inquiries prescribed by order of the " Board, and record the results of those inquiries, " any matter of complaint as regards the manage " ment of the workhouse would be wholly pre " vented or speedily remedied." Concurring generally in this opinion, we shall yet endeavour to explain the cause of the startling cases of neglect which come to light with such fre quency. In a word, the inquiries, if punctual, are not and cannot be expected to be strict. A workhouse is • small town of more than a thousand inhabitants, whose dwellings, labours, infirmities, conduct, religious duties, discipline, and moral and physical health are all expected to be looked after by amateur Inspectors, who have their own busi ness to attend to, and who already devote • great portion of one day a week to their parochial duties. It is true that it is one of the duties of the Poor-law Inspectors to visit the work houses in their districts, and to report to the Central Board upon their condition; but as there is but one of these officials for the whole metropolitan district, con taining upwards of forty workhouses, it will be readily seen that the chief responsibility must ne cessarily rest upon the Local Visiting Committee. Is it wonderful, therefore, if the improvements they inaugurate are few, or if "the results of their in " quiries " are comprised in • general belief that paupers are fortunate, and parochial arrangements Perfect ? It is idle to inveigh against particular parish boards, or to consider the solitary cases of neglect and cruelty we hear of to denote excep tional ill-treatment. These are but the natural offshoots of a thoroughly inefficient system, and the stunted and unhealthy tree only brings forth LIFEBOAT S ERVICES.—During the storms of .11.4 tits pad year National Lifeboat Institution, by ita life boat and other m ean s, contributed to the saving of 707 persons train different wrecks on our coasts. The institution also ex pmded f 21,874 in the same period on its lifeboat establishments, in addition to granting £4,950 for rewards for saving life and exercising the lifeboats. The committee of the Institution earnestly APPEAL to the public for ASIiSTANCE, to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 153 Lifeboat Stations. Contributions are received by the London an 4 Country Bankers and by the Secretary. Richard Lewis, Esq., at the In stitution, 14, John-street, Adolph', London. JOHN BROGDEN. ORIGINALGOLDCHAINMLNIJFACTORY, 111, KINDIRTLIATNIET. COTINT4AILDIN. JOHN BBOGDEN'S GOLD OHALNS. JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD GUARD CHAINS. JOHN BROGDENI3 CI OLD ALBERT CHAINS. JOHN BROGDENS GOLD BROOCH CHAINS. MESSRS. WATHERSTON and SON, Goldsmiths and Jewellers, BIM Re►dy for Inspection a Great Variety of JEWELLERY, of the Latest Designs suitable for WEDDING PIGMENTS and NEW-YEAR'S GIFT& 11. Pailmtall haat, S.W. LONDON must have s SUPPER and MUSIC ROOM for Gentlemen—Remember, we wait for you at "ES," alter the Covent-garden Pantomime, and the Theatres 'AS. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1866. fruit after its kind. What is clearly wanted is a more stringent and effective mode of supervision' and control. At present it is all but impossible to affix definite responsibility and to award direct punishment, and until this is ensured we have no guarantee against carelessness, indifference, and hardship. If our workhouses were inspected with the strictness and impartiality which the Poor-law Board itself thinks necessary to prevent, or remedy, the evils to which such establishments are prone, some sweeping changes would be forth with inaugurated. Among the most important of these would be the employment of paid servants in all posts of responsibility. It is a melancholy but andoubted fact that no people are so harsh to the pauper and so inconsiderate to his needs as paupers invested with delegated authority. Apart from their general ununiability—which is vouched for by every one who has made the habits and idiosyncrasies of this class his study—we have ample evidence of pauper carelessness and neglect to the sick. It was a pauper nurse at the Holborn Union Workhouse who on her own responsibility plunged the feeble TIMOTHY D&LY into a warm bath on an inclement day in December, and a pauper nurse who im properly applied fuller's earth to his sores. It was a drunken pauper nurse, at the St. Giles's Workhouse, who put the finishing stroke to the maltreatment of poor RICHARD GIBSON, by giving him gin. And now, at Bethnal-green, it is a pauper wardsman who holds cold feet to be con clusive evidence of death, and a sufficient reason for not disturbing official slumbers. The Poor law Commissioners insist that in large work houses a paid porter shall be employed, because they " believe it to be of rare occurrence that a " pauper can be safely trusted to exercise the " powers and perform the duties of porter ;" and the rule holds good for every position which involves the slightest exercise of discrimination or power. The one merit pauper service possesses is its cheapness. It is illegal to pay those rendering it, save by improved rations ; and as the holders of the parochial purse-strings are, at present, mainly responsible to themselves, it is perhaps to be ex pected that an argument addressed to the pocket will have preponderating weight. It matters little which cog in the wheel is declared faulty when the whole machinery is out of gear, and whatever is the result of the inquiry of to-day, we may look for such miserable and shameful cases as this Bethnal-green one until some radical and sweeping change is effected in the system it condemns. Tnz wretched character of the accommodation provided for a large proportion of the male paupers sheltered at Lambeth, opens a question which we submit to the consideration of the autho rities and the public. When the liouseleas Poor Act first came into operation, the right of each parish to claim upon the common fund rested on the certificate of the Metropolitan Inspector, and the certificate of the Inspector testified to the efficiency of the wards. It was, of course, im possible to fix the exact size of these, or to insist upon the precise number of beds they should con tain. That they must be large enough to receive such a number sa, having regard to the circumstances of the locality, would be likely to require "relief," was clearly put forth as one of the conditions of the certi ficate, and as this has certainly not been com plied with at Lambeth, it remains to be seen whether the privileges of the certificate will be forthcoming. The wards approved by Mr. FAR: NALL are excellent in every way, but they only hold beds for a third of the numbers sheltered. If the whole of these are to be paid for out of the common fund—if the beds certified are to bear no reference to the numbers housed—what gua rantee is there that the certified wards are used at all, or that they bear even a fractional propor tion to the size of the workhouse or the needs of the destitute ? A "show " tramp ward and a ward where tramps really sleep might be the next evasion ; and it will assuredly be fatal to the working of the Act if "the bright poker" is examined and approved, while the one really in use is kept out of view. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) to the discouragement of imports from Europe ; and now it attempting to obtain from congress duties actually pro- I Wintery of a peat number of commodities. While the hordes of laxities must be tremendous at beet, this wealthiest elms in the country propose* to lay further taaas ma the whole semmunity—not for the beesat of the retinue, but to its great detriment, and solely for• the anhanostosnt et their own profits. No wonder a contrabandist class is being created, and that on one part of the Canadian frontier the honesty and se- sway of the ancient settlers sre disappearing. There is ground for hope, however, that the mischief will be stopped before long, and that the existing tariff will stand without aggravation, though it will be a misfortune to the republic if that tariff remains what it is. Al soon as the truth is understood that the interest of the people is in freedom of trade, the will of the people will secure it. The question is, how long it will take for the people to understand it? Whenever that happens they will see that, ea the North has compelled the South to put away its darling sin, so the North must pat away its own—a sin far less flagrant and deadly than slavery, but quite as anti-republican. Though the easy capture and condemnation of the Fenian leaders in Ireland and the aspect of the dissensions of the leaders in America have doubt less impressed the European nations with the idea that the bubble is buret and the whole danger is at an end, the Times regrets it cannot conscientiously subscribe to such opinions. In ordinary plots, as in the more highly organised animals, if you strike off the head the whole scheme collapses. Bet a lower organisation hri its advantages as well as its drawbacks, and creatures about which it is doubtful whether they deserve the name of animals at all are capable of sustaining injuries which would be fatal to any of a superior type. Fenian are united by the desire to combine for plunder, and to a body so circumstanced, especially when it in unable to estimate the power of the British government, the loss of a few men a little or a vary little raised above them selves is a trifle. The news from Dublin shows that we have not heard the last of Fenianism. An American armament is foolishly expected, and the Orangemen are supplying another element of difficulty by professing to believe that the British government is unable to protect them in the possession of their lira and properties against the Roman catholics. although Fenianism is is itself not a Roman catholic movement, and that it is necessary for them to hold themselves ever ready to take the field at the shortest aotioe. Of course, any outbreak that may take pl►ce will be utterly futile—reaching to little more than • few hours disorder. The new adoption of the Peace Preservation Act in Ire land is described by the Telegraph as a step dictated by pru dence and not by apprehension. The Fenian prisoners have been without any popular sympathy, ended any real progress towards the fulfilment of the designs of the brotherhood there is no indication whatever. This Act simply takes away from people the means of homicide, and thus imposes no very serious hardship on those who have not homicidal tendencies. So far as arms are legitimately required, a special provision is made for their use. The liberties of the peaceably disposed inhabitant* are not in the lost abridged, or the protection of the law taken from them. The measure* are taken, not against the Irish people, but on their behalf, and, there is good reason to believe, with their entire and deliberate gamut. The continued disaffection of the Fenian' in Ireland is, in the view of the Star, very much the effect°, the absurd hopes aroused by the promisee and preparations of the senators and centres at Chien° and New York. The Star sees a danger, in the meantime, in the excessive terms of penal servitude to which the mere rank and file have been gen- Lucid, and in the disproportion of the protestant and Roman catholic jurors summoned on the Cork com mission. A just and generous policy—not special commis• alone or troop. of dragoons and regiments of infantry— is what is required to make Ireland prosperous and con tented. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (Rrtrrifs Tzuclakma.) ItALY AND PRUSSIA. FLORENCE, JAS. 16. The King of Prods has conferred upon King Victor Emmanuel the insignia of the order of the Black Eagle. THE MILITARY REVOLT IN SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 15, 3 rat. The insurgents under General Prim were offi cially announced to be still retreating precipitately towards Portugal. Order prevails throughout Spain. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Delhi, from Calcutta, December 23, reached Suez on the 15th inst. at II a.m. site Court. OSEORIM, JAIL 15. Tha Queen and royal family drove out this morning. A deputation from the directors of the Poor of St. Pancras, oonsisting of Mr. Lawfatd and Mr. Robson (ohurchwardens), Mr. Rosa, Mr. J. R. Collins, Mr. Jonathan Salter, Mr. North, Mr. Thornton, Mr. Watson, Mr. Turner, and Mr. Plow (clerk), had an interview with the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, at the office of the Poor•law Board, Whitehall, yesterday. Despatches were reosived yesterday at the Colonial•offioe from the governors of the West India Islands, the Mauritius, Natal, and Gibraltar. Queen Victoria has presented Prince William, the eldest son of the Primus Royal, with a silver statuette of the late Prince Consort, three feet in height. The prince is represented u "a hero conquering sin," arrayed in golden coat of mail, and carrying the Christian banner aloft in his right hand. On the pedestal are engraved several legends in Biblical language, said to have been composed by Mrs. Prather°, of Whippiogham, sear Osborne. His Royal Highness Prince Christian, the affianced of Princess Helena, arrived at Dover yesterday. en route for Windsor, upon a visit to the English court. . _ Sleswig-Holstein papers state that Prince Chris tian of Slsswig•Holatein, after his marriage with Princess Helena, will spend a portion of next autumn at the Chateau of Gravenstein, in Snndewitt, opposite the Isle of Alien. The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland is some what better than when she arrived at Stafford House, St. James's, from Soothed. Her Grace is not so unwell se to amnion any alarm to her family. Viscountess Dangan gave birth to a son on Sun day last. Her ladyship and inf►nt are going on very favourably. Yesterday morning the marriage of Lord Charles lanes Ker, eon of the Duke of Roxburghe, and captain in the Fusilier Guards, with Miss Blanche Mary, third daughter of Colonel Peers Williams, was solemnised at Bt. George's, Hanover-square. The bride was attired is a dress of rich white satin trimmed with Brussels lace flounces, in troducing for the first time a train of new shape, trimmed with a waved flounce of fine Brussels lace and niches of the same, and wearing a necklace and ear-rings of magnificent pearls and diamonds, the gift of the bridgegrown ; the wreath was composed of the finest orange blossoms, the gift of the Duchess of Roxburghe. The Hon. Julian Fane has been appointed Secretary of Embassy at Paris, a post which has become vacant by the lamented death of Mr. Grey. Lord Stanley, M.P., took the chair yesterday at • meeting held in the Manchester Town hall to promote the formation of a Discharged Prisoners Aid Society for that district. The Speaker of the House of Assembly of Jamaica writes to the TiY4fl to oontradiet in the strongest terms an assertion made by the 11ev. Jno. Radcliffe, of Kingston, to the effect that threats have been uttered in the House of Assembly, without rebuke, of " driving the whites into the sea," &c. The Speaker, who has been a member of the Assembly for twenty years, rays th►t if even he or his predecessors in the chair had been remiss in their duty, "it is only an act of equal justice to the two black and the several white and co loured gentlemen who were from time to time my associates in the house to say, that without the leant emsideration of his particular caste, one and all of them would have promptly called for the infliction of the severest punishment in the power of the House to impose upon the offending member. lam quite certain he would have been 'expelled." A Methodist church has just been inaugurated at Copenhagen with great solemnity. Mr. Wright, United States Minister at Berlin, and several members of the methodist clergy of America, were present at the ceremony. " The Protestant church of Paris," says a letter in the Salut Public, "is again disturbed by the dissidence between the two antagonistic parties. Some days since the Presbyteral Council superannuated the Rev. Pastor Martin- Paschoud, allowing him a pension of 6,000 fr. a year. This decision is founded on the state of the rev, gentleman's health, which, as alleged, will not allow him to falfil all his pastoral functions. This argument would have had some weight two years ago, but since then, in consequence of the son.re-eleetion of M. Coquerel, jun., his assistant, M. Martin-Paschoud, has duly performed all the services." The Patithion de r Industrie et des Arts announces that the relics of the earliest Nal, such as the flint imple ments and rude carvings pertaining to the alluvia. period and the age of stone, are to form a special division at the Great Exhibition Palace of the Champ de M►rs, under the direction of M. Lariat, the distinguished geologist, whose communications to the Academy of Sciences we have often had occasion to mention. M. Frantz, a metallurgist, and M. Henri Faure, editor of the France Medicate, have just announced to the learned world that they have discovered a method for trans muting silver, copper, and mercury into gold, " which," they say, "are only one and the same metal in different dynamic states." Liszt has received an official invitation to com pose a march and man for the approaching coronation of the Emperor Francis-Joseph at Peath, as King of M. Von Born. a banker in Dortmund, lately made excavations, or rather borings in the neighbourhood of Frankenhausea, ia the hops of finding copper, and in doing so has discovered the largest and most beautiful caverns in all Germany. The two largest are 300 nud 600 feet in length respectively, about 130 feet in breadth, and 40 to 10 feet in height. The third cavern is also several hundred feet bog. The three caverns °octal'. in all nine pools of water, so clear that the smallest pebbles can be seen at the bottom, though they are 8 and 9 feet deep. This, of coarse, is only possible when the caverns are lighted up by rospcsiom or Bengal lights, which, however, is very constantly the case, ■s they are visited by many hundred persons every day. A great many beautiful slabs of gypsum hang from the roofs. At a sale the other day in Vienna small busts of Charles the Bold and the Duties', his wife, carved in wood by Holbeio. fetched 30,000 fr. An agent of Baron James Rothschild bid 25,0001 r. for them, but eventually they were knocked down to a Vienna dealer in pictures sod other objects of art. Seven small tablets, carved i• relief, by Holbein, fetched 5,000 fr. ; and a little bead, not more than an inch high, 5001 r.; • wooden figure of Adam, by Albert Darer, fetched 4,0001 r. ; a wooden crucifix, 1,200 fr. ; and three small figures, all by the last• mentioned master, 2,4001 r. " Christ os the Cross," a small but exquisite painting, was bought by an agent of the Dreadee Picture Gallery for 10,000 fr. A list of the apartments to be let in each of the 20 districts into which Paris in divided la now posted up in the ball of the Marie of each district, so that anybody re quiring an unfurnished lodging will no longer be obliged to late valuable time in inquiring at the various bureaux el, location. which alone afforded each information. The lista so posted may be consulted gratuitously. The United States corvette keanarge, which may be remembered for having seat the Alabama to the bottom off Cherbourg, has just arrived at Marseilles from Villafraaea. Dr. F. Neumann, who was a member of the Auglo-Austrian Committee of Inquiry, is now delivering a course of lectures at Vienna by which he hopes to be able to coo wince his bearers, many of whom are protectinniats, that free trade will be a peat boon to Austria. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) •-•-• COURT Or QUEEN'S BENCH. Rittinp In Banco.--(Befote Mhe Lord Chief Jtutioe, and Jostioes Blackbunt, Mellor, and Lash.) WEBB V. =NM AND ANOTHER. 111. Chambers, Q.C. (with whom was Mr. Wool. lett), said this was an action tried before the Lord Chief Jetties at Cutildhell far perusal injuries, when the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 60/. He moved for a rule nisi for • new trial, on the ground that the 'verdict was against evidence. The plaintiff is a labourer. and at the time of the lad' dent was in the employ of the defendants, who are large iron ship.bnildere en the Thames, and as he was engaged in lowering the stage need for the construction of an inn ship, one of the poles snapped close to the ground and inflicted the injuries complained of. The learned counsel contended there wee no evidence to fix the defendants with personal liability. They did not know thattthe pole was rotten. The Lord Chief Justice said there was evidence which showed that after • certain time the poles became rotten. but that no one was employed by them to ascertain if the poles were sound or decayed ; therefore be could not with draw the awe from the jnry. The master was bound to take reasonable oars that the poles were sound. He could not withdraw the case from the jury, though he expected the verdict would have been the other way. Mr. Chambers contended that it was not the master's duty to do more than examine the poles before they were put into the ground, and if they were sound when they were put into the ground, they must assume they were so whilst they continued there, and that if an accident happened a workman could not fix the muter with the liability. The defendants here employed • competent foreman to lower the poles, and the accident was a common risk incident to the employment. The fault, if any, was the foreman's, who was a fellow servant. Mr. Justice Blackburn said it had been bed by Mr. Justice Williams that a foreman was a deputy master. The court ultimately granted a rule alai, on the pound that the verdict was against evidence. IiMINDTT V. DORSIDT AND ANOTHER. Mlir. Chambers, Q.C. (with whom was Mr. Hance), said this was an action tried at Guildhall before the Lord Chief Justice, when the jury returned • verdict for the defendants. He moved for • rule nisi for • new trial on the ground that there was no evidence to submit to the jury upon the plea of fraud, but that if there was the verdict was against the evidence. The action was on • charter party, with option of purchase, within six months, for 12,0001., of the steamship Dantric, then lying in the Victoria Docks. Rule refused. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings in Banco.—(Bab» the Lord Chia( Baron, and Barons Martin. Channell, and Pigott.) _LOBE AND Axarani T. PIC[HLET AND ANOTBIE. This was an action for breach of contract tried at the last Liverpool aasizes before Mr. Baron Pigott, when a verdict was found for the plaintiffs for 150/. The plaintiffs were commission agents at Manchester, and the defendants were agricultural implement makers carrying on business at Lee, near Manchester. In the year 1863 or 1864 there was an international exhibition at Moscow in kneels, and according to the plaintiffs' case, they having an agent in Moscow entered into a contract with the defendants that they should act as their agents in Moscow in exhibiting and selling their agri• cultural implements, for which service the plaintiffs were to be paid by a commission on the sale of the goods. This contract the defendants had broken. _ Mr. Brett, Q.C., now moved for a rule nisi for a new trial on the ground of misdirection, as the learned judge ought to have directed the jury that there was no evidence in support of the contract within the statute of frauds. Rule granted. CASES FROM TRZ LAW COURTS. The case of the man Fletcher is just such a casus omissus, observes the Times, as is coostently occurring to bring discredit nom) the administration of our law., Mu venous es it may seem, that a man who has committed a robbery in Australia end escaped to England cannot be committed to pris an, even upon his own confession, unless • warrant for his arrest shall have beau received from the colony, it is nevertheless the law, and the same rule applies in the convene cue of offenders escaping to the cola nisi. They are only liable to apprehension on pro duction of a warrant issued here, and endorsed by a judge of the colony. There is, therefore, no apparent way of securing the arrest of any one committing • crime in one part of her Majesty's dominions and escaping to some other part or parts unknown, except by forwarding a separate warrant to each. Some loophole of this kind will always be left, so long as our legislators, in the taus spirit of English law, refuses to provide, on comprehensive principles, for exigencies that have not yet been illustrated by precedents. However apparently inconsistent, the verdict in the case of " Hill o. Finney " yesterday evening, in the opinion of the Post fully meats the justice of the case. Captain Hill's object in instituting the action wee to vindicate his charac ter, and in that he b►s been successful. It is to be regretted, however, that Mr. Finney, a gentleman who, it is conceded, acted throughout from the bast motives, and who from the verdict given must be taken to have been guilty of no appre ciable negligence, should, as the Lord Chief Justice ob. served, have been made the scapegoat in order to enable Mr. Hill to have his case reheard. Regarded from this point of view the recent trial was a seandel on the adminis tration of justice. The Atifertatcr thinks it would be ridiculous to as, that !he personal or professional honour of Mr. Finney have in reality been at all in question in this trial. The only thing to be regretted with regard to him is that his professional relations with Captain Hill's family led to his professional couaexion with the plaintiff. For the captain himself it would have been much better had he allowed Sir Charles Wood quietly to erase his name from the India Army List. He has done himself no good by submitting to the awful ordeal through which he has just passed. Whatever else, says the Telegraph, may be doubtful about this strange case—whatever opinion men may form respecting the frailty of Mrs. Hill, the correctness of Mr. Wood, or the paternity of the child born at Boulogne—the one thing certain beyond dispute is that Captain 11111 cannot continue to bear the proud title of "an officer and a gentleman." However absurd in itself, the verdict amounts to a practical justi fication of Mr. Finney's conduct, and to a condemnation of Captain Hill. Though the jury expressed a benevolent desire that the gentleman in question might have a new start in life, the Te/roraph suspects the public will rather lodine to hope that they have heard the last of Captain Hill's career as an officer in the service of the Queen. .011:RICAN Sketching the past misoooceptioos of the North regard ing the philosophy of free trade. their mere play with the soienceof political economy before the war, and the ex- perience which they h►ve since gained, the Daily News proceeds to comment upon the present struggle about the tariff. The Northern manufacturers are distil:quelling themselves, it says, from the rest of the community by a rapacity which is as truly anti•repnblican as slavery itself. This ass; has for many years been directing its influence JAMLICA. Suspending the delivery of a decided opinion upon the matters under inquiry by • royal commission, the Telegraph feels bound, at the same time, to record the progress of events, and it takes the oc.naion of doing so to-day in order to show the general belief of the colonists that the pro ceedings at Morant Bay were the result of a widely-spread conspiracy, and that they have approved by legislative act the conduct of the governor. A letter signed " Creole" is the chief authority to which the Telegraph refers. This letter repeats the accusations against Gordon, with which the readers of the Jamaica papers are familiar, with the exception that a statement is made of • young girl alleged to have been detained in the woods for three days, and who, when rescued from her "cowardly ravishers, wu a wreck." Her father, it is stated, died of • • broken heart. The Tc'egraph also suggests, though without pro teasing belief in it, that it is possible Gorion's English ac quaintances forged the letter said to have been written when he was at the point of death. The Star invites attention to the emphatic opinion of two eminent members of the bar—Mr. Edward James, Q.C., and Mr. Fitzjames Stephen, that on Mr. Eyre's owu state ment his conduct was unlawful and unjustifiable. There ,is a comforting usurance in their opinion, that society is not dependent solely on Ministers for redress. The wrongdoers " may be indicted in Middlesex under the provisions of 42 Geo. 111., c. 83, they may also be impeached in parliament,' and " any person in this country may prefer • bill of in (Belmont." )U8 TOPTCB. The Time comments upon the loss of credit to the country and the actual loss by the depreciation of cotton goods, through the condition in which those goods are found on their arrival in other countries, an evil which the com mittee of the M►nchester Chamber of Commerce attributes to the adulteration that takes place in the soaps and other materials employed in the proems of dressing the cloth,--sspecially the nee of sour sour instead of starch. The trade has incurred a stigma which must be removed. Is it impossible for the honest men to clear them. selves from this stigma, and to place the individual delinquents under some stronger moral cogency than their own imperfect knowledge or unenlightened consciences? The Post expresses a doubt ss to the termination of the African slave trade. It ►ltogether distrusts the conduct of the Spanish government, and hopes no false economy will induce our Haters to withdraw our maimen for some years to come. The Star be. heard, on authority which it regards as trustworthy, that the Emperor of the French has positively intimated to the cabinet of Washington his willingness to withdraw his troops from Mexico at any moment on condi. tion that the g ivernmeat of the United States recognises the empire of Mexico. The TelegrapA, on the other band, earnestly hopes that republican propagandism will not in terfere with the Franca Emperor's monarchical bantling. Left to himself, Maximilian will be to Mexico what Na poleon 111. has been to France. Every week of the young Emperor's sway is pregnant wi►h improvement and re form. That the clamour of the Washington Congres will be uplifted in menacing thunders is morally certain ; but if American menace be treated in France as it is treated in England, no bones ars likely to be broken. London City, the Herald says, contains 339 thoroughfares, of which 70 are main streets, so me 3.5 miles of streets at least, for which the City Commissioners of Sewers pay 16,0001. a year for the proper and effectual cleansing. And yet, when we say that the staff employed by the whole four contractors combined, to sweep, and cleanse, and cart away daily before noon time, the refuse from these 55 long miler of streets, and the every court, alley, lane, place, and market connected therewith is under 120 men and 30 carts and horses, we are fearful of exaggera tion. A Brussels correspondent says :—" I was at a little theatre the other night called the Molii7:re, where I saw en amusing pies. called Primrose Farm. It repre sents English farm life—time, Hemp, Prince Regent. His royal highness comae upon the stage and makes love to Miss Mary, with whom he sings and dance, as, by the way, does M. Sir Robert the Victim, whl exhibits a most extraordinary get up. The worthy divine is addicted to wine, churchwarden pipes, and moral sayings ; his royal highness to Mary, dancing, sieging, and boxing, for be he. a turns to with James, the farmer ; and James, the farmer, to bagpipes and jealousy. While all this is going on the Prince of Wales, as we learn from the ringing of a bell, is proclaimed regent ; James marries, in consequence, Mary, to whom the Prince gives a dot ; the "Madre" gets a good living ; and everbody is satisfied that it is an exact reprenentatioe of English mentors and customs, the more so as his royal high.... sings (quite out of tans by the way) " Yankee Doodle," and the band plays " God save the Quell." IN RE WILLIAM AMBROSE. AN ATTORNIY. Mr. Garth moved, on behalf of the Law Society, that William Ambrose, en attorney, who was convicted at Man chester of conspiring with hie clerk, to obtain money from his clients by false pretences, should be suspended from practising in this court for the term of 12 months after the expiration of his imprisonment, in accordance with the de cision of the Court of Queen's Bench. . . . . . Mr. Baron Martin said the Court of Queen's Bench had refused to consider themselves bound by the decision of this court in the case of De Medina, and he did not see why this court should now be bound by the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench. He had always understood until the decision in that case that all the courts considered themselves bound by the judgment of any one court in respect to the conduct of attorneys, Mr. Bunn Channell—That rule only applied to the case of suiting an attorney off the rolls, and not to mere sus pension. Mr. Garth said he would obtain 'some precedents, and would again bring the matter before their lordships, • Motion postponed. BOUILLON V. VALINTIN. Mr. Leverson, the attorney for the defendant, applied in this case for a rule calling upon Messrs. Benton and Hall to answer certain matters, and also to compel them to bring into court certain property of which they bad obtained pueeessioo. He moved on behalf of Madame Valentin, • French lady whew counsel, Mr. Serjeant Simon, was unable to attend in consequence of ill health. The Lord Chief Baron said it would be most desirable that the muter should be postponed until Thursday next, when Mr. Serjeant Simon would probably be enabled to attend. postpoced. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) IN RE PHILIP ANLEI. The bankrupt, a builder, of Whitecross-street, recently failed for a large amount, the aggregate liabilities being 19,3691. The assets ars stated at 1,075!. ; property held as security 13,0391., with an anticipated Delano' from un finished contracts of 2,4754 At a recent sitting • proposal was made on behalf of the bankrupt to take the case out of court on payment of 6s. Bd. in the pound ; but this was refused by vote of the creditors. This wu• sitting for examioation and discharge. Mr. Broom, for the assignees, asked for additional ac. counts, and special accounts with regard to the bankrupt's accommodation transactions. The offer of fis. fid. in the pound having been refused, the assignees hoped that the estate would yield a dividend of Bs. Mr. Perry appeared for the bankrupt. An adjournment for two months was ordered. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MARYLEBONE. SERIOUS OBSTRUCTION ON THE RIGENT . B CANAL, AND LORA OF LI7L, Jost ph Sharpe, described as a captain of a barge, was brought up oo a warrant chaged under the 520 d of Geo. !IL, chap. 495, sec. 32, for "that be did unlawfully by misplacing a certain barge obstruct the navigation of the Regent's t?anaL" Glasse, solicitor to the company, attended in this case to prosecute, and said the prisoner had originally been summoned, but sa he failed to attend awarrant was ob tained for his apprehension. This was the first time that such • prosecution as this had been instituted since the establishment of the company, in 1812. It would appear that the prisoner was in the employ of Mr. Lacey, ship and barge owner, and had the charge of a barge of the value of 4004, laden with sand to take from Limehowe to the Marylebone wharf. He took her safely to within • half mile of this wharf. when be deserted her, through, as he now alleges, her being too heavily laden to proceed any further. It she had been so heavily laden it was his duty to have either turned back or taken steps , to lighten her, The consequent,e of his deserting her for two or three days wee that she was run into by another large, and sunk in such • position as to completely impede the traffic on the canal, both going from and coming to London. He had no business out of his_ barge, as there was a good cabin and plenty of firing. He should have sent for assistance if he had got into any difficulty. He knew be ought to have done this under the company's bye laws, which are posted at every lock. Mr. Lucey felt bound to take up this matter, as it had become a common thing for men to desert their barges now. They take their barges from Limehonie up to • certain part of the canal, instead of taking them on to Marylebone wharf, than return and after being paid retnni for another barge. They then take the two up together. They get paid • barge up to Meryl,- bone. and taking one barge at • time on to its destination, they can earn Ws. a week, making two journeys a week. In this case, Mr. Ware, the traffic manager, with • staff of men, was engaged seven hours in raising the barge from the middle of the canal, sod there were from 18 to 20 boats all waiting to go by. When the barge was got up there was such a general rush by the boatmen to get on again, and such scrambling, that one man was knocked into the canal at the bridge hole of Maids bill tunnel, and was drowned. The prisoner, when he left his barge, did not even so much as put his lights up, and when he was spoken to about it he said be did not care whether it sank or swam. He was not going to stick to it. The learned gentleman concluded by asking the magistrate to inflict the full penalty as • warning to other.. _ _ Ncitneeses were called who full; — supported the above statement, and The migiatrate indicted a fine of 51. and 46. cods, or in default of payment, one month's bard labour. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. KICKING a LAN DOWN A PLIGHT OF NUM. - - -- • FraUer Walters, • butcher. was charged before Mr. Tyr whitt, on remand, with kicking Mr. Daniel Lewis, undertaker, of No. 7, Little Bt. Andrew-street, down • flight of stairs. Mr. Edward Dillon Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared for the defence. On the last occasion the prosecutor, who for some time past has been suffering from bronchitio,was unable to attend. He was in stteadanre today and stated that while going up the stairs of his house the prisoner first struck him and thee kicked him down • flight of stairs. He had no recol• lection of what afterwards occurred, hari•g become Wen- Bible ; when he rozovered his senses he found lying on a soh in great pain.. In answer to Mr. Lawn the prcwenitor bad done nothing to the prison., to him to act in such a wa towards . him. Ths peZr it was a lodger in his house, and was wmtng.down the ** a while he (prosecutor) was going up. .He dad not Ni s th . prisoner by the leg, neither bad he insulted pouts Nth. to the prisoner's wife, who was an artificial firmer rsai r . -1 Mr. Lewis haring addressed the magistrate, called news on the prisoner's behalf. Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the prisoner 205., or 14 days. =Atom ow STABUNG. Ann Walters, of 77, Charlotte•street, Fitzroy was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stabbing ri e 3 Byes in the arm with a knife. The prosecutor refused to attend ; and Mr. 7'n-whin., the prisoner she had bun rather fortunate, and " 4 ! her. THE MUTINY ON BOARD THE SCOTLAZA -..- BOW.SI'REET.—(THIS DAY.) The six seam en , James Liffin Thorns _ Thomas Dionsoe, Charles Ta per Joseph Matthews alias Mains, who stood amandd a ' s th . charge of mutiny and piracy on board the Scot see main brought up for formal examination before Sir Henry. Mr.......P011a6 from the oflios of the solicitor to the wiry, for the prosecution. On • io ' ri;oners beiag brought before the &let meow ; Sir ThoinasMenry. Mr. Pollard, said—Sir Thomas Henry, I have to oakyea again to remand these prisoners for a week, the Soni i i not having yet arrived with the other witnesses. I holsj i , hand a note from Messrs. Montgomeri• and Gnash% the brokers, to the following effect :—" Londe" ink January, 1886. We learn that the Scotland we/towed sm , from Vitality on Friday moraine, end hope an mvsir e made good on her way here." Now, Sir she woald, in probability. mew six or sewn 4 bar j hero, with fair weather. heavily ladek u she is. Thu we oonid)liardly expos' b e arrival until some time on Friday. Bak with the wain which has prevailed I doubt if she will be here so see k Sir Thome. Henry.—And even after she arrives yin so require some time to prepare. Let them be remanded* eight days. Mr. Pollard observed that Wednesday and Saturday s o Crown paper days. Mr. Pollard had been instructed h appear for the Crown. Sir Thorson Henry—l have made other arraosemsnis the Tuesday. Mr. Pollard—Then let it be to-morrow week, sir. Sir Thomsa Henry (to the prisoners)—You have host what has been said on behalf of the public solicitor. n s ship hag not arrived. The weather has been very eteguy we are told by the agents, and she will not be hers fors. days. Mr. Pollard said summons would be required for the attendance of the witnesses, as otherwise there wadi is no further hold os them once they were landed. Sir Thomas Henry—Certainly. You can serve a one mow on each one of the crew as he lauds. Mr. Pollard—That will be done at Gravesend. Sir Themes Henry called the attention of Impede Clarke to this point. Inspector Clarke, of the Thames Police (in the of Superintendent Evans,who was prevented from attnist in consequence, of an accidental injury to his foot), alb would undertake the service of the summonses. Mr. Pollard reminded the magistrate that one of the prisoners had requested that inquiry should be rode it Greenwhich Hospital for a person named Hough, Ihek had been does, but no inch person was known there. Inspector Clarke said—There was no such name is the list of pensioners. The prisoner Dickson—He came over on board the ship, Mr. Pollard—lf so, he is aboard now, and will be hart Dickson—We were told he went ashore. Kr. Pollard—He may have done so for the sake al wadi. eal atteodanee, but he would still be on board now. Dieksoa—There were three psasengers; we wanted tobsre them all. Sir Thomas Henry—lf they can be found they will b forthcoming, you may depend on it. The prisoners were Chen remanded to Wedneedey, the 24th inst. GREAT INUNDATIONS IN THE VALLEY OP THE THAMES.-(THIS DAY.) WINDSOR, Tremor. This morning an inspection of a portion of the line of country traversed by the Thames, and mere especially the districts of Berk& Books, Middleiu, and Surrey, lying upon its banks, has proved the inundation to be one of the most extensive of his years. Daring the night the waters have rim still higher, end driven by the wind have Ir mooched greatly upon the country. Rain has also fella heavily and tended much to swell the flood. The low lyisi lands at Maidenhead, Taplow, Bray, Barony, and Clow are under water, and, as in most instances the towing ream end locks are covered, navigation in these parts is com y L S suspended till the flood subsides. From the r el Clewer, a hamlet on the west of Windsor, the large • lake, caused by the sadden incursion of the ioundstiou, eel which skirts the western suburbs of Windsor and Etas, ha increased in size in the course of the night and this more*. The water is flowing round is portion of the gasworks is Doswell-lane, the newly-erected houses facia; the "Goo. wells," which meadows, as well as the Ewa, Brow, tai the South meadows, are covered to some depth. The ie. undetiou on the western outskirts of the royal horollio Eton and Eton College being very senora. Some of the thoroughfares are impasmble, the waters having rises cox the roads, where punts are obliged to be used for the pm. poses of communication with some of the houses. Os the east of Windsor Castle the flood rolls over large polaroid the royal demesne, nearly the whole of It. Home-park between the South Western Balm and the Date-bet road is submerged, and still for tber in the direction of Frogmore the water can be ran glistening between the avenues of trees. Thus swig large lake has been formed on the east of Windex and Eta., the flood being triumphant in Irving very little of the College grounds and " EOM Fields " above water. The low Incas round Dacha and Old Windsor are suffering from the rapid ea of the water, and between the Datchet station of Ye South-Western line and that at Wraysbury the old came of the Thames is scarcely to be traced, the land berated , having been turned into another extensive lake, the waxi of which have surrounded one or two isolated mamma least a quarter of a mile from the river. On the west of Egham and Staines the waters have axe last night made great encroachment upon the land, sad Iw • great distance across the country there is en extant sheet of water. The Linoleum Works are partly surrounds& and the flood hes inundated the meadows on each side ii the Reading branch of the South Western Railway, .see Staines Junction. At present. owing to the rain and winds, there sew every prcepect of the floods still rising, and should thuds en another foot or two, it must cause great damage toile ricks and other property oat in the fields. MR. GORDON'S LAST LErrea.—The Jamaica Morning Journal, of the 23rd ult., contains the follow* letter :—" To the Editor of the Aforntng Journal. —Sp,— Please make the following corrections to my nacle's lad letter to his wife. The original can be seen by any perm on application to me. For Mr. Event read E. C. 5M* his solicitor in Gordon v. Ketelhodt ; but that gentleman is honourably exonerated from the charge 01 having sent up that letter, as it was a seizure. For I knew nothing of the man, Bogle,' read 'I knew nothing of Bogies" (evidently the apostrophe sad a word such as intentions, deed, or act, in the hurry of writing. was omitted). The original is as follows : I knew nothing of Bogies and never advised him to the act or acts which hare hare brought upon me this end.' In the ads manner he wrote ' the judges took the latter and awed the latter,' evidently meaning the fermi., for the willies' testimony as against the deposition he had previously made Please al.o substitute ' justly' attributable for ' partly' attributable.—Yours truly, JOSEPH U. SMITH. Kingatos, Deo. V, 1865." According to a letter from Brussels, Leopold IL works moat sedulously to make himself thoroughly or quainted with the state of affairs. He is op every mom• ing at 6, and, in addition to the regular council of ministers receives the members separately, in order to become ts quainted with the details of each department• _ The Norwegian parliament have just voted a considerable stun for laying down electric telegraphs in the far north of the kingdom. Eighty thousand Germans emigrated last year rid Hamburg and Bremen. About 13,000 more, it is oeles• latoil, left for the same destination by way of Francs, Eat land, and Belgium. The Hanburg•American Steamship Company are just doubling the number of their ships, expecting a like influx of passengers in the immediate futon. ASSAULT ON • DOMESTIC SERVANT.—At the latter sad of last week Mrs. Bellamy, sister to Hiss There+ Lougworth, appeared at the Absrgavisosy county cow , to distend an action which bad been brought against bee for sasaulthig her servant girl by throwing water over her ; she was further charged with non-payment of wages by the gams complainant. Mrs. Bellamy resides at Abergays BB l Castle, sad it seems that on the Wednesday followisf Christmas Day her girl retired to bed at an unusual bas is oomasquosce of being unwell She was requested to get up again by Mrs. Bellamy, but refused, stating that she was too sawed to do so. Mrs. Bellamy then threw sosM water over her, and this constituted the aysault oomPlaw• of. The committal of the assault was confirmed by tbe evidence of a man servant, and in crowexamination Yrs. Bellamy said, "The complainant is aware that 1 snspecga her of having stoles a shawl, value 171.' The damages for the assault were laid at 11., for which judgment was his Hoeour remarking that tho assault bad been provelL Judgment was also given for the amount of wages due — Post. It when they • vie her duty, hoot the patient ism The fa spoetor e Ir duty whateve Mted oot with b !taro oho obould luso were clear! Imply Uwe' of Witham moth potted to her an rill attend to. itheal-green Iv none m the id always a 1 id whew she I &Gay made nail so full t nary wan never had n lition of the [The inquiry rE ALLEM This afters fler, held as thing the deal teed to have 1 The deceased I thwack, and er (inviter t the polio man named deceased a ving canoed I omnibus tante. !ter the evident the coroner a [The evidence iesv.] The UnilAl a 4 44 rays D ICA 1„, to he pri m , M °he Mt is ornin tt Motth Thu opined g al nal.4yeen than bath of .1 `."4lcl eit. t h a t I ns titution Lee , , investit bard erri. t James Flower ee"(01111 , " 1865, and sr /b aba ••- - h . ... th e . into the m disehilpi h itt . diewasostary th faßr ek akh en sodi ffi l run t aa „ At IMF a the sd dar 01 I wsrd. /Moo ties removed from * Fi t Mum. Such a• ss r eam of witses Hof www. He from ihe house. Wit o the T at , y„ I the Witte= seSidsh, ewe was moo did sot tl to mks. h e did in he le he SesQ abou t 450 I kith to tke body Oresakee t not know that v ti Oil the house, nor to s ew tto sleep ti • ou t dek ir in g a tZ i to them, eta amah mem exist" leas, injurious to ftlest big is summer. the worth, these people. ▪ *0 Nei. MA You 4 inspector ri mandoli n eirtaa boot witness lly to wl Lumley use' attend. m ge t nie ru*li ntr: • iii ho ta er th , "l :4 " te h e e n n lia d d o lo r Bil. On the 7th have hod • in the name Mier. Ta t Many are pu red) st ows entry m ordor en form a • • t the meows the soda Id ke s o ) Witmer' I would wen was I body of the rve a oft. tar 7 t hen ytheag add had so order, 1 moped, oeslcokftt,7l the alms • .11 within th it neoessarib 44644 to the body of s°t)' 814 ted up as a sici of tie acoommodate 005 been also fitt4 be aid" d were fire pi t a b ' s . 11111 Mary Aim FASO a 14 plated the avid Izne 40d then added t 11 the ,hip. std she had 15 pa a ha ere, isesived extra db services. She hi Lite of toodi fur drunkeoness. . Wpm they • 'sty of Boboi ndon to mall mid, had no wly reccrrerin ACCIDENT r incident oocu poleon during tty, while in in the mos hands behinc animal's jaw each side of wed profuse] ildiag, but Be led for a pock c animals fro. w to get his 'ded that the e tamer's head ad out to be :Irelevi e t tutejkspid pe t:an ! r p rrermi Em Pla ti. tt. led el ; • sthireAaf e t k rist i c ee Ptfd ro l b satedisetnht: b d: d i o t le. The bui to plirectiona. every limas. The scen las at. Shop a bine°, mull the top of the are i t called foot of the ' moat misers Madrid. I h was about ng some gr Sneers io ti sedan. Such w date of siege I as lialatif the poptil the Carrera ch a man 01 til liberalities whitin woe setting in which had not a wiiolg length o f 1 del Atonal, when =wee. The ere almeets, forced m wives in awful •""'", Penmen i I Made my b oldaors and win mob, were ice began to alehiot of kola Ina, the Queeu ckaao p rece d e Al the table 1,.... 1. l'ittalf log iu. some tale to had MOO the cat filietha r b e d b e guards with Jana abet of which I Mae twinkling of death Prevailed, lid isto..—Lmi., I / oust, n. Sours lEmr dialog pu t J aa 0 11 Monday TUll 10 a• al. to . 10 1 gaPrieqs do from 10 ita ofddig of II