The Express. — London, England, 1866-02-12 00:00:00

Eht <kr rprefos. TO 00111tESPONMOITS. Advernammete lateaded foe The Ixpties " Ueda% Itandag must be at the Oak" 1O Boaveti•eanee. by Two • sdoef o tis day of pablicatkaa HAMA*!L= Me Er Me e,pton BROTHER SA%L NeIb Kum Saber; Beek- levy d m ; Mimes , lAMB sa US IN Co Tilt RAY %ABJECT. Mews T oren ED. nifty HEMS Keeley, Reward Weight—FlSH OUT OF WATER. iItINCEWS. TIM Immo, pure LOI;OINOI—After which IT IS BEV= TOO UTZ TO KIND. K..?u. V 0. Melville, S. Mad. D. Murray, b. Caws; P. Willem J. G. G. Ifir , eq. sod Z. Caiburtc Xlabis L. Moore rod X. Radian LYCJWIL .bf EVRINNO, THZ ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER. Mr. H. b.—THZ MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Hamra -11imeAse. lordsn. Vann. Resta, Wlddloomb, Fltspatriall, Evans Oillnimass Tama, Ilawarlbs, Liven; C. Locking. BirrilfßlA. TIM STUMM OLD DA.DDirthieilNOB AND SIR RIOINT 5%—.11. and Madame thertsenbach.— --Johan, Day, ths n, Walker.—Savaral Survivors of the Crew of the Landon, villa the Oozywai4 will appear.—Olanar.—BLlT/2 OOLD. ErciaFATER Ay LONDON-A=OZ. -- me DAYZl6eiiiii. lit; iiit..._._ . mbarascs. Ob. Oft TO.llOillOW -•• Mania& Oh. 290.--Aftorooes. Ob. 64a. LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12. hinusrms have been taken to teak in Parlia ment because they have not seen their way to appoint a day of publics fasting and humiliation on account of the cattle plague. It appears from a statement made by the Archbishop of CANTER BURY in Convocation, that the most rev. prelate has been in communication with Sir Gmaort Gast, . who gave two reasons for declining his request— the first, that it had been customary to appoint • national fasts only for calamities that extended to the whole nation, whereas the cattle plague was as yet but partial—and tile second, that to do so would be injurious to the labouring classes, by causing them to lose a day's work. Cuatom and precedent, as we all know, go a great way in these matters, it being so much easier to follow our fathers than to proceed rationally to adapt our conduct to our circumstances. The Earl of CAB,- 2tARVON has complained in the House of Lords that the cattle plague is not thought sufficiently national to have a day of humiliation appointed on its account. There is something to be said on his side, for many a poor man who seldom sees a green field knows by the look of his table at dinner tirae that the murrain is not a mere agri cultural misfortune. On the other hand, it would not be altogether seemly to insist on having a fast day, in order to vindicate the importance of the agricultural interest to the country. Sir GEoftoz GREY gave one good and sufficient reason for his refusal, and might very well have taken his stand on it. A Government is bound to think twice, or even three times, before issuing an order which indeed costa it nothing, but mulcts millions of working men of a day's wages. There is no reason, except in custom, for making a prayer day an idle day. There is more of austerity and mortification in praying and working than in praying for an hour and spending the rest of the day in vacancy. However, as a matter of fact, these days of so-called humiliation are spent in idle- ness. Employers think it respectable to close their workshops, but the workman is not paid for his less of time. When people are turned from their benches with nothing to do, it is no wonder, as Canon RANDOLPH observed in the Convocation at York, that days of humiliation and prayer are abused and desecrated. The Rev. E. J. G. HORNEY at the same time observed, as the result of his experience, that "a day set apart for this pur " pose was practically not a day for general humi " liation, prayer, and self-denial. In the large " manufacturing towns, generally speaking, the "day, instead of being religiously observed, was " rather spent in revelry and amusement." We should be sorry to say a word that would tend to deprive the working classes of a real holi day, but to drive them from factories and work shops without compensation, and seriously warn them into the bargain that the day is not to be spent in enjoyment, is not to give a holiday. We do not see what the Quszw'a Ministers have to do with the matter. A call to prayer comes most appropriately from men of prayer—from the Bishops and other ministers of religion. We sometimes hear it said that it ought to proceed from the Crown in order that it may be a " national act." This sounds very well ; but what does it mean The Crown takes no step of the kind except on the advice of Ministers. The Primate applies to the Home Secretary, who has been expecting to hear from him, and who by various expedients put' him off as long as he decently can. At length, importunity does its work, and when the time for making the concession has come, a quorum of Ministers is got together, and one or two men of the world, whose names appearing in connexion with such a subject excite a smile, sign a paper, and the thing is done. It is not this way of managing religions affairs that can command respect. We should like to know why the heads of the Church of England should go to Sir Geonac Ow for a day of prayer much as a company of strolling players go to the mayor of a country town to beg the favour of • " bespeak." If the Bishops summon the people of their church to prayer, we shall know that the call is made in earnest. And as for a day, we have one already to hand, fixed by an authority much more august than any that can now be invoked. Next Wed nesday is Ash Wednesday, a day that has been one of humiliation and prayer from the time of GREGO:MY the Great. What can be more proper than that it should be observed this year with an especial reference to the present calamity I We have a service ready to hand, severe, penitential, supplicatory, and only wanting "proper lessons" to make it completely ap- propriate. It is true that the Bishops cannot give the working population time to attend a long ser vice at church in the middle of the day, but neither can the Government do so, except by an sot of confiscation from which it shrinks. The Bishops, however, can advise the clergy to adapt the hours of worship to the time of the labouring classes. In connexion with this subject a brief allusion may be made to the prayer against the cattle plague issued some months ago by au thority of the Privy Council, and still read every Sunday in churches. The use of that prayer JOHN BROOMS. ORIGINAL GOLD CHAI N MANUFACTORY, 111, RINRIETTAATERET 00V1/4T-GAILDIN JOHN BROODKNI3 GOLD CHAINS. IHDT BROGDEN'S GOLD GL ARD CHAINS. 40ENBItOODENSGOLDALBILBT CHAINS. JORNEROODENSGOLDBROOOHOHAINS. _ L ONDON most have a BUPPER and MUSIC ZOOK forGentlemen.—Remember, we wait for yon et "MOM" alter the Comet-garden Pantomime, and the Tasaarea ThADI AlfD ITIANCEL hem not been followed by all quenoes hoped for by ita Mithose, be sorry to see it discontinua however, have made portions of rendered its revision desirable. only against cattle plague, but against cholera, and it continue, to be read unchanged in form after the apprehension of danger from the latter visi tation has pissed away. To we it now is to incur the risk of teaching thoughtless hearers that prayer is not a reasonable, but a mechanical service. There should be a power of adaptation somewhere so as to secure a conformity between public sup- plications and public, wants, otherwise the true idea of prayer will be obscured by the very means that are taken to keep it alive. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIB DA T.) In its natal weekly article upon trade and finance, the Doily New this morning ceafirms the esectrence in the Queen's speech of the satisfactory condition of trade, speaking in a general sense, but adds that our satisfaction is qualified by the high rate of money, and by the distrust which has been caused b► the recent failures among railway contractors. Are the adverse influence' preventible! The advance in the rate of diorama has certainly been a failure se regards the protection of the reserve of bullion sad the movements of the foreign exchanges, bat ft has proved effectual in lowering the internal demand for money, and so la checking trade. An other resell of the pressure on the &Wish money market is that it amiss foreigner" to anticipate the poseibility of a commercial cads, and as a matter of precaution, therefore, they withdraw their balancer. Thee there is region to believe that instead of the high rate of discount bringing money over here, it has actually cootributed to send it abroad. The course of events during the pest six weeks affords another striking eonaneutary upon the in efficient working of our monetary system. As the question at present stands, en increased demand for money, not for speculation, bat for pound sad legitimate purposes, has been met by the usual sort of legalised obetractioo. According to the terms of the charter, the bank is bound down within oar ' lain narrow limits, and is therefore compelled to abstain from granting accommodation as much as possible, even when it is known that the money is sure to be safely em ployed sad punctually returned. The state of the reserve is the only point that the directors ere virtually permitted to consider, without regard to the actual grounds for the limitation or expansion of oommeroe. The opinion that the Bank is bound to check spetaktion or encourage trade is errooerna, for the one reason that the Bank ham no control over its own functions, beyond taking cue that credit is oily given to responsible parties. The machine is made to work in a groove, and, practically, no discretion is left to its governors. The government only Dave the power to interfere, and that not always to the beet effect. There is much to be mid against the 'provisions of Sir 8.. Peel's act on the replacement of the lapsed circulation of issuing beaks, since it provides for the substitution of Bank of England notes to only two-thirds of the amount previously authorised. The present government have gone farther by narrowing the limitation fixed by the existing kw, permission having been recently given to issue only moger. against 739,9651. sciaslly fallen in of the country note circulation. The only reason for this addi time' restriction appears t, be th►t the Bank of England km will thus be brought to the round sum of 15,000,0001. However much foreign economists may be impressed by the soundness of our free-trade views they are little likely to be edified by this extraordinary decision. )yal _ steamer Atrato arrived at Scut. ampton this morning with the Wert India and Pacific mails. She brings 68 paimengwrs. Her dates are :-Bt. Thomas, Jan. 9th ; Jamaica, 25th ; Trinidad, 24th ; Demerara, 23rd ; and Panama, 23rd. _ . —.— The delegates from Canada and British North America, who left Southampton in the Atrato on Jan. 2, arrived in the mail packet Wye at Deme rara on the 22nd ult. They were very courteously received by hie Excellency the Governor and all the merchants of the colony. _ . . . The following movements of her Majesty's ships are reported :—At Jamaica, the Duncan, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir James Hope, G.C.8., and Constance, also the Sphinx at anchor off Kingston ; at Port Royal, the Aboukir, Commo dore Sir F. Leopold McClintock, K.T. ; at Barba does, the Wolverine, on Jan. 26 ; at Trinidad, the Gannet, on Jan. 22; off the inland Etustattus, the Niger, steaming for Barbadoea to relieve the Wolverine, which is ordered to Jamaica; the Buzzard left Barbadoes for Demerara on Jan. 25 to receive on board the delegates from Canada and Nova Scotia. JAMAICA. OPENING OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION• We have to-day received letters and files of papers from Kingston, the latest date being Jan. 25. The following account of the opening of the Royal Commission appears in the Morning Journal of the 24th ult. : It having been announced th►t the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the causes of the late outbreak in the parish of St. Thomas.in-the-East, and into the means employed for its suppression, would be opened yesterday, a large number of persona were attracted to Spanish Town from this city. The ceremony was appointed to take place in the chamber of the Legislative Coascil, and long before the specified time a number of officials and other gentlemen assembled there and wore seated according to previous arrangement. We noticed among those present his Reverence the Bishop of Kingston, the Rev. Mr. East, Principal of Calabar Institution, the Rev. Mr. Phi Hippo, the Re►. Mr. Milne, and the Rev. Mr. Radcliffe; the Hon. 0. H. Jackson, Speaker of the Assembly; the Hon. E. Jordon, 0.8. ; Governor's Secretary and Island Secretary ; the Hon. A. Healop, Attorney-General ; the Hon. Mr. Westmorland, of the Executive Committee ; Messrs. Lewis, Osborn, Alberga, Lynch, De Cordova, S. C. Burke, and Georges, members of the hon. House of Assembly ; Messrs. Goren, Payne, Phillippo, Williams, and Walcott, members of the bar; the Hon. S. Remain, Castes of St. Thomas in-the-Vale, and Clerk to the Legislative Council ; Robert Russell. Esq.. Registrar in Chancery; W. R. Myrs, Fan, Secretary of the Executive Committee;_ H. Kemble, Esq., clerk to the Assembly. The press of England was represented by Mr. Clifford, of the Times; Mr. Holdeworth, Daily News ; and Mr. Turner, of the Telegraph; the official reporters were Men. Dunning and Barnet. The local press was also represented. Among the other gentlemen present we noticed Dr. Phillippo, T. Hendrick, Esq., and several officers of the royal navy. At 3 o'clock his Excellency the Captain-General Sir H. K. Storks, K. C.B. and 0.0. M.G., and the other Commissioners, R. Gurney, Eq., and J. B. Menlo., Esq., attended by his ex cellency's aide-de-oanip, entered the chamber and took their mate, the whole assemblage rising as they entered. The secretary, 0. S. Roundel], Esq., then read the several com missions, after which his excellency mid : " I declare the commission now open. The royal commis sioners, in obedience to her Majesty's commands, are anxious to obtain the fullest information touching the origin. nature, and circumstances of the late disturbances, and the means adopted in the course heir suppression. With this view they will summon such witnesses as appear to them likely to afford information on these points, sad they will be glad to receive information from others as to any person who will be able to throw light upon these traneac- Moos. In answer to letters which have been ad. dressed to the commissioners as to the course to be pursued it may be well to state that the inquiry will be an open are, and that if any evidence should be given which tends to incriminate any individual that per son will be allowed to test the accuracy of such evidence, and to tender counter-evidence, in reply. The better course for any one to adopt who thinks that he can assist the com mission in the obtaining information, will be to address the secretary, stating in full the name and address of the witness who can give such information. With respect to the applications which have been made by gentlemen con nected with the public press, the commissioners are not able to give them any specific directions. The publica tion or non-publication of details must be left to the discretion of the gentlemen engaged. The commissioners would, however, suggest that supposing evidence to be given affecting ndividnals, it may be that justice may require that the publication of such evidence should be suspended, until the individual has himself bad the opportunity of being heard. As it appears from the commission which has been read that the commissioners are directed to conform to such instructions as may be given by the Secretary of State, it is only necessary to add that the one instruction that they have received is, that the in quiry should be `full, searching, and impartial.'" Mr. Corrie stepped forward and addressed the Royal Commissioners as follows : " May it please your excellency,—l attend, your excel lency and the Royal Commissioners, on behalf of Mrs. George William Gordon and numerous other parties who allege themselves to be sufferers by the measures used for the suppression of the disturintooes. With me Lmy learned brother, Mr. John Hire Payne, of the Inner Temple." Mr. Phillippo—" I attend this royal commission on be half of Dr. Underhill sad other Baptist ministers of Jamaica, who are said, in Governor Eyre's despatch to the Colonial Secretary, to be implicated in the recent dig turbasoen” His Excellency the Presidaai, after consultation with the other commissioners, said if °victims was offered tending to implicate those for whom they appeared, they would have an opportunity of attending to their inWreste. His Excellency Sir Henry Starks declared the commis sion adjourned till Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, and his excellency and the other commissioners then withdrew. The latest editions of the Kingston papers of the 24th contain an address of sympathy presented to Mr. Eyre, signed by three Wesleyan missionaries ; a Presbyterian minister ; two Baptist minis ters ; one of the London Missionary Society's ministers, two methodist ministers, and two of the church of Scotland. They state that they do not know of any evidence of an organised conspiracy, and they fear that " the great loss of life" which has occurred has invol►ed to some extent the innocent with the guilty, but they cordially ex press their conviction that " the general policy pursued by your excellency was absolutely neces sary to meet the exigencies of the case, and was dic tated simply by a sense of duty and of the respon sibility which rested on you at a period of such alarm and extreme danger." Mr. Eyre's reply is as follows : Reverend Gentlemen,—Accept my heartfelt gratitude for the sympathy you extend to me under the difficult and try ing circumstances in which I have been placed, and for the valuable testimony you hear to the necessity for the most prompt end decisive measures being taken to put down • rebellion, which having in three dare sad a half extended from Moraut Bay forty miles 4 one direr. Lion and twenty in another, required but a few days longer to overrun • great portion of the colony, spreading destruction and desolation in its mune. In crushing out so formidable an outbreak it became my painful duty to exercise a 'ty which whilst justly punishing the guilty might terrify the seditious, and evil disposed of other districts and restrain them from making any similar attempts ; and it in the steps taken to effect this object NOM isolated sate of wrong or in- P oi C it IZE EXPRESS, MONDAY EV L"' : , FEBRUARY one- l4. , the happy cote- Painntry telE n towt i tise - • , . INTELLIG i : logo me, bat we ahaag, y q wad potash le, they allP le* • ..- bowl I a . ci rcums i no - e ; and devotee/attached Wks movineiga ;:in fact, they are and I proulawildla little via at bait* the subjects of Qum Tilte WEST IND '' , 1 'lss•pg it masoingleas, Victoria." ___.„.___ • ..• ..'" ' ti t. 1 aierti It is $ prayer not I —.-- . —.-- a The Royal Mail steamer Atrato arrived at Son PIN% THZ GOVIIIIMINT AND THZ CATTLU MAO= Waiting the legislation on the cattle plague to be proposed to-night in parliament, the Times proceeds to desoribe the motives by which the government has hitherto been actuated, ascribing special importance to the considers. tion which most have presented itself to ministers, that the pressure put upon them in favour of a particular line of actin proceeded from the agricultural class only, and that the con snows, the inhabitants of the great towns, shorn i no desire for edicts the inconvenience of which wan more evident to them than their necessity. But to them also the truth, sooner or later, must certainly come home, and the Time is glad to observe from Lord Spencer's statements that the inconvenience from an inevitable trial is likely to be mitigated by preparations already advanced. " A change" said his lordship, "is taking place in the meat trade. There has been of late an enormous increase in the deed meat of the country, and the result is that if it is iodispeosable to stop the movement of stock in the country, the trade will be able to accom modate itself to the change." This is welcome intelligence, and it is to be wished that the facilities for slaughtering cattle at the ports of landing, about which Sir George Grey naturally inquired, had been as providently matured. If, however, there are plenty of live cattle to be found at Liverpool, we may rely upon it that Manchester will not be long left in straits for meat, even though the cattle may not be moved alive, and it is better that an experiment should be tried which may preserve us all from an other wise inevitable famine than that the calamity should be allowed to take its own course for the mere sake of a brief and uneasy respite. The PM insists that all fairs and markets for black cattle ought to be stopped throughout Great Britain, and that it would be desirable if the locomotion of pip and sheep coed be suspended. Dealers and butchers will soon extemporise mesas for slaughtering animals anywhere, if compelled to do so. Fish cam be conveyed from Ireland and from Scot land to the metropolis, and to other large towns, in a whole some state, even in the hottest weather, and why should net the same thing be practicable with regard to meat, which is by no means so perishable as the other commo. dity ? It is understood that the pre►entive measures now contemplated by the government will be stringent, and this the public will gladly acquiesce in. The Tckmsaph sees the necessity for compensation, pro vided it is strictly confined to those cases in which the state, for the good of the country, curtails the legitimate profits of individuals, by prohibiting the movement of cattle intended for eels, or enjoining the destruction of beasts smitten with disease. The means for the reimburse ment, the TdegrapA proposes, should be provided by • compulsory county rate-io.sid levied in all counties. The ideal measure would he one fixing the general liability by an silt of parliament, but using the power and machinery already existing for the levying and distributing of the county rate, and some such plan, we may confidently hop*, will be proposed by Sir George Grey in the House of Common' to-night. iniasnas AND THICIR ILIFORM BILL, Premising that Lord Rummell has resolved to stake the existence of hie administration on the success of a bill which shall give us 61. for 101. householders, and 151. for 501. county tenants, the Times proceeds to refer to the scheme in various expressions of contempt. Such a bill will be nugatory in the great boroughs, and in smaller ooustitnencies it will be squally futile as far as the introduction of the popular element is concerned ; while it will aggravate other existing evils, iecreasing the corruption which the incidental benefits due to the existence of small boroughs are even now insufficient to excuse. Bat if the scheme of the govern ment is becoming daily clearer, so also is the spirit of the House of Commons. Such • bill as is predicted is crude, violent, and offensive. It expresses so policy, and government without policy is as unsafe as it is inglorious. It expories the administration of a great kingdom to every wind of opinion, but when the rudder is left to swing to sad fro at its pleasure, the helmsman is apt to be tho first to be knocked overboard. The conduct of the ministry on reform seems to show that they are themselves conacious they are settling down. They yaw from side to side, and roll and plunge with every trait gust and every passing wave ; but such things are premonitory of disaster, and we can only hope that if there is to be a shipwreck something valuable may be left by the way of salvage. The Herald sees evidence of the decay of the whip and the oozing away of the government majority in the recent appointment of radicals to vacant offices. Their own families show a paucity of fresh talent, and to satisfy their inveterate craving for office tbey are condescending to one wretched coalition after another. The official return of Mr. Stansfeld, which is • deliberate annoyance to the Emperor of the French, aed a painful disregard of Lord Clarendon's known views, is particularly dwelt upon by the Herald, in support of its arguments. The Tekgraph would seek to drag the lagging govern ment and the reactionary Houses of Parliament forward until they overtake the full measure of popular intelligence and appreciate the just demands of the sorely-tried, patient, and unrepresented classes. It matters very little whether the particular bill which is about to be laid before per. liunent contemplates • large or a anal reduction of quail. fication ; • wide or a narrow extension of the suffrage area. At any rate it contemplates something ; it has some aim ; it is • step in advisees ; and, having lessened the reproach of the injustice, that out of more than 5,000,000 of adult Englishmen only 800,000 have any voice in the government of their country, we shall then see our way more clearly to redressing other injustices and anomalies which stalk be hind. The Advertiser is apprehensive that reform itself will be lost is the mistakes and conflicts of the time. Our contemporary heard a sagioions politician, only yesterday, predicting the probable sod of these things. " The government," be maid, "will bring in their reform bill, and will be beaten upon it. Earl Rumen will then resign, and Earl Derby will be seat for. Earl Derby will confess that be can do nothing with the present parliament. Earl Russell will then be fetched back again, and he will return to office, with moms modific►tion of his cabinet, and without any reform bill. The radicals wi'l complain, and he will answer, 'I did the best I could ; I proposed a measure, but the home would not have it.' And thus all things will return to the position in which they stood, in 1860-65." lIVIDINCr TROY JAMAICA. The Daily News this morning publishes an important letter on Jamaica, sod the events of which it has lately been the scene, from Dr. Fiddes, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, who has resided Era sed-twenty years in Jamaica, end is wet! known to gentle men I. England standing in the very first rank of their profession, sad who is also a magistrate of the Wend. The latter includes a narrative of the arrest of Mr. Gor don, the effect being to show that there was so little about the whole prooedure to promise fair play, that, with a full belief M Mr. Gor don'. ineasenee, Dr. Fiddes nevertheless as fully be lieved that that gentleman's fate was soiled. Mr. Eyre himself preserved neither his temper nor his judgment. His whole adasivistration has base one long sad obstinate mistake. Dr. Fiddes says :—" I have no hesitation in stating, and I believe that sine-Meths of the Jamaica population will agree in my statement, that Mr. Eyre was not fitted to conduct the government of this colony ; indeed, it was long ago predicted that he would sooner or later Meek down under the task which bed been imposed as him." Among ether peculiarities of Mr. Eyre is the fed that he is the fret °overage of Jamaica who bas discovered that the negrres es a body are disloyal. Dr. Fiddee says All my exparisme of the the Court. OSBORNE, FZB. 10. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accom panied by Primus Helena. The Privies and Princess of Wales, with the Countess of Marelerfield and Major Teesdale In waiting, atteoded divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The oonimunion service was read by the Rev. the Sub des!, the Rev. J. V. Povab, and the Rev. Dr. Vaughan. Anthem—" I have set God."—(Goldwin). Snag by Messrs. R. Barnby, J. Foster, M. Smith, and Lewis Thomas. Mr. Goes presided at the organ. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, from Isaiah, chap. xxi., v.v.11 12. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The ministers pre sent ware—Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. The Right Hon. W. Monsen, M.P., Vioe-President of the Board of Trade, has appointed Mr. W. W. Emerson Teeniest to be his private secretary. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturday. Present—Lord Chelmsford, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Lawrence Peel. Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial office to the Governer' of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, Panda, and t►e Bahamas. The return of her Majesty and the royal family to Windsor Castle is expected between the 15th sad the 20th inst., most probably about the latter date. The private apartments to be occupied by the royal family will be awsordingly in readiness by the time referred to. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge had a dinner party on Satturisy, at her royal highness's residence at st. Jantee's Palace. The dinner circle included his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Marquis of Winchester, the Marchioneee of Ely, Lord Henry Percy, Lord and Lady William Osborne, Lady Ansulta Cadogan, Mr. W. Peel, Mr. Caurtesay, and Lady Geraldine Somer set, and Colonel Home Pram, of the Duchess of Cam bridge's household. The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., bad a parliamentary dinner on Saturday, at his residence at Grosvenor-gate. There were present :—The Earl of Tyrone, Viscount Royston, Lord Rustace Cecil, Hon. F. A. Stanley, Hoe. Gerard Noel. Hoe. Thomas de Grey, Colonel Lloyd Lindsay, Mr. Banns Cochrane, Mr. Guinness, Mr. Graves, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Robertson, Mr. Eaton, Mr. Williams, Mr. Campbell, sad Mr. Weigand. The Earl and Countess Russell entertained the Earl of Minto, Viscount and Viscountess Amberley, Lord and Lady Derwin, Lord Eliot, Hon. Henry Cowper, M.P., Mr. George Trevelyan, Miss Peel, Mr. Foublanqcte, kr., at dinner on Saturday, at their residence in Chatham-plane. On Saturday night Lady Stanley of A iderley gave her ant reception this season at the family residence in Dover-street, Piccadilly. Previously to the evening party the noble lord and lady entertained at dinner his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador, the Earl and Countess of Cork, the Earl and Countess de Grey, the Earl and Countess of Airlis, the Earl and Countess of Beasborough, Viscount and Viscountess &Ahoy, Hon. Edward Lyulph Stanley, Hoe. Miss Stanley, Mr. Tomlin, IL P., Mr. Henry Weet, Mrs. Trollop*, &e. At the weekly meeting of the members of the Royal Institution on Friday evening, Mr. Archibald Smith delivered a lecture " On the Deviation of the Compare in Iron Shim" The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the Society for Imprrriag the Dare Mega of the Poor was held on Saturday, ktr. Alderman Water!ow, to whose exertions the society mainly owes its wristeece, in the *hair. From the report whiob was reed it appears that the company is in a flourishing condition, sad it has realised a dividend of 5 per cent. This was regarded by the different speakers u the more gratifying bemuse it took the offer of improved dwellings for the working classes out of the domain of charity. Mr. Xmases picture " The Death of Nelson" (from which his House of Lords true* has been painted) will (says the "Plane.") be exhibited at the Academy this year. The picture, with copyright, has been purchased, for engraving, by the Council of the Art.llnion of Legation, who also pewees the oomnanioa picture, the "Meeting of Weillarton sad Blucher after the Battle of Waterloo." Mr. E. M. Ward (nick "Leicester and Amy Robeart"), Mr. Frith, Sir E. Lederer, Mr. Millais, Mr. Leighton, Mr. Calderas, Mr. Oreswick, sad other most popular artiste, bs well represented this year. The MareMoneta of dastillejoe (Madame Prim) has left Madrid for Lisbon. The most flattering reception hat bete given to Prim I. Portugal. His host in Lisbon Is the Marquis de Nis% This nobleman bas given a grand banquet in honour of his gawk whieli was attended by the Dube de &Maas, Hamel Santa Maris, and other araimat pawpaw«. It is said that Prim has written to the leaders of the PrograMa party, bitterly upbraiding than for their "dastardly desertion el a esme that was lam his than theirs." ie have ocalticd. I sin only say they were tia ra to me and scald net be controlled by the Executive, [ trust too they will be found to be only such es are ....eparstas from a state of warfare and the existence of martial law—bath greet evils in themselves—but forced upon the government by a peril which it not promptly arrested would have endangered the entire colony. I een only assure you, gentlemen, that I have boa actuated by the single desire to do my duty to my Queen and to the people of this islend, and amidst all the misrepresentations and censures which have so snow, ringly and unjustly been heaped upon me by these who, being at a distance from the danger, could neither realise its magnitude nor the smallness of the means available to meet it, I have the innate satisfaction of feeling that I did that duty faithfully, and the proud conviction that in doing it, I averted from Jamaica a general and sanguinary war. For your good feelings towards myself and family petsonally, I tender you my dams thanks, and I do assure you that whatever may be my future career, my best wishes will be always with you for the welfare and prosperity of the oniony, and for the individual and general happiness of all connected with it. I have the honour to be, reverend gentlemen, your moat obedient humble servant, E. Ens. Flamstead, Jan. 22, 1866. TRIAL OF PRISONERS.—MEETING OF THE SPECIAL COMMISSION. (zions'a rums.) The special commission (special court of over sad terminer) assembled on the 24th at the Coert•honse, in Kingston, the judges present being Sir Bryan Edwards, Kut., Chief Justice, associated with the Hon. Alan Ka-, Assistant Judge, and E. Lyons, H. F. Colthirst, sad Win. Barclay, &qrs., Commissioners. Two commissions were read from We Excellency E. G. Eyre, Esq., the last of which is dated Jan. 3,1868, eon. firtidsg the commission nominated in December last. Mr. Philippe, specially retained on behalf of parties held to bail to weer charges before this commission, raised several technical objections, which were overruled. The Chief Justice gave a lengthened charge, after which the grand jury retired, and some time after the Clerk of the Peace furnished the following :—" Regina v. Goldeon."— True bill. He was celled upon his rtoognisanoss, and not appearing, his surety, Charles Clarke, was called upon to produce his body. Mr. Williams, on behalf of the crown, moved for abench warrant for his apprehension. A short time after another true bill was produced against Edwin Palmer, who was called upon his recognisance', aid appeared. Mr. Phillipps observed that up to the present, as he was not informed of the nature of the charge against Mr. Palmer, be would request that a copy of the indictment and deposi tion be supplied him. Time granted till 10 a.m. the following day. Bail extended, sad the court adjourned. SPAIN AND CHILI. STATE OF THE BLOCKADE. Valparaiso letters of Jan. 2, quoted by the Panama Star of Jan. 22, give the following ac count of the state of affairs in Chili : The successor of the late Admiral Pareja has raised the blockade of Coquimbo by concentrating the Spanish squadron at the two ports of Valparaiso and Calder. These two ere now the only two blockaded ports. The Spaniards would seem to be afraid of separating the vessels of the fleet, and *spode; them singly to the attempts of Chili. This new commander of the squadron, Nerners, is still a young man, and Is said to have raised himself to his late command of the Nu manda by his bravery. We hardly think, however, that he will, under present circumetathes, attempt anything decisive in the war till be is fully in conintuication with the cabinet of Madrid, On the 27th of December an attempt was made by the launches of the Spanish vessels Nnmancia and Bareegnela to capture the Chillers steamer Corbalan, at anchor at Calderills ; but, after getting omission of her, they wee driven off by the Chili soldiers firing on them front the shore, several of the Spaniards being shot. Two other attempts were made by the blockaders to regain posies. lion of the Corbalan, by steam launches, under protection of the Bsrenguela, which were equally unsuooessful. On the newt of the death of Admiral Pareja reaching Valparaiso, the Intenieute supposing,the body to exist still on board offered to permit the interment of It on shore, to which an answer was returned that It had ben already own mined to the deep. The trade of the country goes on briskly. Though Vs paraiso itself is blockaded, some twenty-two vessels were loading and unloading at the ports of Blonde, Algarobo and San Anted*, communicating inland with Valparaiso.. At all the unblockaded ports trade I. brisk, and there is not sufficient tonnage to clear off all the products of the coast waiting shipment. The price of copper had gone up very considerably—but this cannot be expected to last long—and as the blockade is restricted so as to canoe little inter ruption to shipment, we mast look for a reaction. Wheat and flour are in great demand for Australia, and for the former, eleven charters Dave been effected. besides ve•sela that have come over from there for I the same article. In the general state of the market there has been little or no material change, although there is no doubt that it is gradually improving. (zstrimes TIZZOILIX. ) THE BOMBAY MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Fn. 12. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Kimble, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 41 passengers, 9561. in specie, pearls value 5,000 rupees, and a general cargo, including 227 bales of silk, value 20,0001. Crossing the bay and near Valiant, she expo_ rienced hard south-westerly wind, with barometer falling, and on the 11th a tremendous gale and a high running sea, which compelled her to heave to. On the Ist instant she spoke the steamer Ripon, and on the 2nd, the Dido ; on the Bth, the Mon golia ; and on the 9th, the Aurora._ There were 13 vessels of war at Malta. Gibraltar, Feb. 6.—The United States sloop of war, Kearserge arrived here on the 30th ultimo, and the Ticonderoga on the Ist inst. They both saluted the garrison, which compliment the latter returned. Exchanges : London, 494 ; Paris, 6.13 ; Madrid, 1 discount. Premium on 5-franc pieces, 1} to 14 discount. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE BLACKERIARS RAILWAY STATION. INQUEST.-(THIS DAT.) This morning, au inquiry was held at Guy's Hospital, by Mr. Wm. Payne, the Southwark Coroner, touching the death of Robert Lisleld, aged 28 years. Inspector Tyrrell. of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, mid that the deceased was a porter or shunter in the employ of the company at Blackfrian Railway station. On last Thunday evening, as two Wrecks were enter ing the goods station in Holland-street, the deceased was caught by the buffer dove as ghe was in the act of putting the break on. He was then " relied round and round " beeves° the truck and the brick wall of the archway. The deceased fell upon the ground in a state of great agony, and war at once removed to the hospital. The de ceased had stepped on tbs wrong side of he break—hence the accident. BUM% hones surgeon, .aid that the &mowed had received frightful ieteraalisjories, his stomach having been dreadfully crushed. He lingered until Satan*. merging, when he expired. The Coroner having rammed up, the jury returned • Ter. diet of " Accidental death. Etzerrois Pertnows.—The following is s correct list of the election petitions presented up to the proem% time:—Bridgwater, Barnstaple, Bridgenorth, Bootee, Oambridgo, Hertford, Horsham, Nottingham, Reigate. Totter, Wexford. The Kingston papers contain the following as Co advertisement:—" Now ready, and for sale, price one shilling. as aceurate report of the trial of the late Mr. Cleo. W. desdoe, together with his lest WU( to his wife. A limited number of the above has been struck off, and parties desirous of basis( • eopy of same must apply at owe.* GMAT Nosseasir HOSPISAL, CALCDOICIAN-ZOAD. —Number a Whigs far the wag sod* FA. 10-1,097, of whiela 180 won sew gag a p oa LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) After eta Tfuerm:::RbuieuiTprilingoFoatf Qthljwienfatewfma.lN_:madaraCediluitbsiowt: Chief Jodi* and Bposial JUrko *nem& e. Loa wadLont. ing. It was as action to recover 600 guineas for* No. 49, Eaton-place, a furnished house, from flee April to the lot of August. The noble defenisst his liability en the ground that the house wet ad eonsequesee of he bailee infested with boo, Mr. Huddloston, Q. 0., mod Mr. Streeten wen eseo..s' for the plaintiff ; dr. &will, Q. 0., aad Q. 0., were 60611•4 for the defendant. The first wig coiled was Betijamin enlock. Keralsy, who deposed that he was Lord W Oa removing from the front one of the in i n ga rra to the bank attic. be found 16 bvi. am* * woes, and afterwards 20 or 30 more ; he & bawd them to Mr. Abbott, sod thee Colonel bona maid said oho Wed ea well owe to l i s be gi tT a t the room had not beam cleaned for upwards of menthe, betimes the girls *moo bogy is the they bad not time to do it. The bugs were is emb ties that they would breed rapidly. Thera q e there to infest the house in hot weather, as feed z huge in an iron bedstead. The iron bedstead he pet spoi l t came from Lord Waldeck's residence, in Yorkshi re , au I dean. plebe* Orese-examined by Mr. linddlestm—He did not la ce if it takes three weeks to hatch the ea of the bug, reef eleven weeks after before it becomes a wh e t i sm. Befrezanained—These were very old lo w . m g ea bay, base w a w a or eighteen months old. (Laeghtin) John Bushell, emistent to the last witness, give eirsdo retire evidence. Ellen Hardens*, housemaid to Lord Veda, glow that she slept in the back attic. 86 *alit* ha s night and got up and drank a light but could a d O ar* thing. The next night she slept in the coon b e * and the was not then disturbed. She was pre e a io the beat bedroom when the bug was set : Abbott's face, and he said, "This is a ha • (Laughter.) She maw the bugs that were fogad by / ma ley, end on the following day, after the room t a d t ‘a trashed, she taw four or five bugs crawling aft to /She saw them come from between the cracks at * g at . Allem, the boy, slept In the same bed oc the night, sod be stowed her bug marks on his face salt in g Mrs. Blakely, cook to his lordship, gave skills: Mims; she picked up 18 buds. M argare t swiegatene, scullery maid, said she foodsiew a doses dead bugs on the floor and in the skirl* stab the day after the room was washed. She picket * sag with a kith-pin. (Laughter.) George Allen, school-room boy, deptf.l, top back attic. He bad been in bed abed la &n-hour when be felt • bite. He got out sad NM ight, but could Sod nothing. He went to bed eph o m was again bitten, and in the morning be had uses as face and arms. He called out to one of his fellowommo that there were bugs in the bed, and he could ad ohm, By a Juryman —] le had been bitten several time be by bags. knew perfectly well what it wan (Lys,) was not bitten before whilst he bad been it Lorfaa lock's service. _ Henry Tiffin, professor of natural philosophy withremei to these besets —I make it my business iodate*, gem. Ike immense rapidly and show themselves in Jens orJole, pending on the weather. They hatch in about a leis* and bite as soon as they come out of the egg. They lay about ninety egp is the season. Washing the Moors with soda very seldom f t effect on them—it would disturb thou a surfaoe and make them lively and walk He had frequently seem them walking in daytime ; he In found 15 walking down a staircase is the daytime. 14 are carried from room to room in servasts' cloth's. By a juryman —There is a marked diffuse°, beessee I Res and a bug bite. Mr. Haddlestoo—Then you have studied that, Ime wh er [The tau had retired to consider their verdict af report left.] COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Waage at Nlai Prins in Middleser.—(Befen Lard MI Justice Erie and a Special Jury.) manna o. HALT.—wAsnm V. BYDIIIILIX. M 1 !LIMON POl POOLS. The plaintiff in this case is a contractor, in beemet Victoria-street, Westminster, mid he is abo YE is Poole. Mr. Hely, the defend ant in the Ant cam, mods a candidate at the last election for the borough, bon peds being liberals. In the ammo of the contest Mr. Bs4 used certain espy:swim is reference is Mr. Warmish: business of contractor, and the statements was de pe into print, Mr. Sydenham, the defendant in theme:edge being the printer. The premet actions were to min damages for slander. Mr. Coleridge Q. 0., Mr. Serjeant O'Brien, sad Na Jams appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Boa, 40, and Mr. Thesiger, for the defendants. In the course of the opening speech a comultstion toot place between the counsel, which resulted is in Amdge , moot. Mr. Coleridge said that a juror would be withdraw, upon Mr. Hely saying, through his counsel, Mel hs rotted the expreesioci which he bad modem* elm • girded Mr. Waring and Mr. Waring's firm to &dr de credit during the election, and apologised for thm, be now th em to be witbod foundation. He (Mr. Coleridge), on his own pert, merely add his hope that nothing connected wish Lion for Poole would hereafter be remembered os elite side. As to Mr. Waring, he had simply brought thee Lion because be thought it his duty to do so, and , apology bud been agreed to be made, the object whkii bad had in view was attained. Mr. 801 l apologised on behalf of hie client in the Mee mentioned by Mr. Ooleridge. In the emend action a stet processas was entered. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Sittings et Niai Fritts at Guildhall, before Lard CIW Baron Pollock sad • Special Jury.) This was the Ant day of these &Adage. The list cooties 93 calms, ooly sir of which ire remaaets. There w e 15 asses mitered for special juries. The Court was occupied dodge the morning with A. trial of en salon on some bills of exchause. WW I 9 00 waked to feature of public interest. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DIY.) MABLBOROUGH-STRPEL DUKIH•11011G • =TOME II TM CUM Frank Howard Rigby Parity, a respectable-looking a: residing at No. 14, Grenville-street, Brinnivrickes, who from his bronzed complexion had evidently bassos years abroad, was charged before Mr. Trivial within charging a revolver to the common danger of pasesegenle the Haymarket. Arthur James Cleary, • Nib driver, said that while on his cab in the Haymarket, last night, he saw the senor, who was talking to a female and appeared tole a very fixated state, take out a revolver sad discherfit it the female's feet, the contents going into the oder. De priemer then walked towards Norris-street, sod be Maui him, and told a constable what he hid seen, sad the con stable took the revolver from his coat pocket, there Mil at the time a charge in one of the chambers. In *newer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the witness said that Mt female got into a cab, and wanted the primmer to lobe her, but he would not. He could not say that the Pdolral intended to shoot at the female. The prisoner—lt is quite true what he ssy• It's 110 enough. Annie Courtney, of Stanley-etreet, Bromptoo, rad fie primmer was a friend of here, and they had bees dry s great great deal of champagne together. Something mediae' Primmer, and he tired on the ground, not at bee feet there would have been a hole in her crinoline. The nb man bed sot told the truth, as the prisoner did sot tr. her. Of coarse the prisoner was "screwed," and she! . "screwed" too. (Laughter.) The prisoner—l have only been home three weeks hull Americo. and its customary there to carry a revolviC was " tight, " you know. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a wild act, but a sn7d sale which in this country the prisoner under the Police Art was liable to be fined. He did not believe the priO rig intended to fire at the female, but he could cot be pr mitted to discharge firearms in the streets, and he diedi therefore film him 4Cs. T T primmer—l had no intention of hurling the femme The Rae woe paid. Fizz AND Loss or Lin—(Talc H• 23---0. few Minutia past 1 o'clock this Jimmies, a fin', by wrath twelezree were assionely injured sad nee lde aa Imo occurred on the premiere of Mr. Wright. bob. dasher and lineedraper, No. 127, Upper Whits.... l St. Lakes. A pollee-oonattble, on seeing mark an alarm, tied in • minute afterwards Mrs. Wlliki jumped out of the first floor window. The sent o)oeleet I noise wee heard in the shop. The constable, at 1611 ' Wright's request, forced the door and found the =fettle& proprietor on the Boor much burned. lie wee OW, out of the flames, but one of his children. wow Ellen Wright, aged four years, whom he Ili carried downstairs, was found burned to death The father and an infant were takes to St. Bartholomew' . Hospital, both being burned over the bead and aboelibm The flames were sot extinguished until the premises reams the content. were destroyed, and the adjoining one re am s sidembly demigod. A Lamas num.—Michael L. Sullivan, of Char paign County, Illinois, ha. the largest farm in the fetid. it "leteki. 70,000 wee, 23,000 acres of which We leg!! fence and in active cultivation. Mach of tbe work is so= by macklomy. He drives his posts by horse pour, vates his corn by machinery, ditches, sows, and planiall inmobinary. so that all hls labourers am ride and their d ac ha. Mr. S. gives employment to 200 f arm P= 200 holm, ma a largo number of oren.--Nod Ter*Pl/86 ONA bee !a resti On Gbh Ft 43 in c liii DOM of 1 oivi i ei to a