The Express. — London, England, 1862-01-16 00:00:00

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Atainiss. iii. lies. LONDON, TEGTADAY, JAN. IG. Tani is the twenty-fifth day of the WINDHAM Inquiry ; and no doubt everybody is heartily sick of this ndassabia story. Even the most prurient imagination =net be sated with the wearisome de toile of filth and folly. But disagreeable as the subject is, it is impossible to forget the vital im portance of the issue, when on the verdict of the jury depends not only the personal liberty of one of the Queme's subjects, but the establishment of • leading precedent. Rightly or wrongly, the law of England declares that no man who has reached the age of twenty-one shall be deprived of the ma nagement of his property, or shut up in an asylum, unless he be • person of unsound mind. No amount of mere folly or extravagance will satisfy the requirements of English law. There must be distinct insanity in order to justify the jury in bringing in an unfavourable verdict. There are some countries in which the law, recog nising a condition of mind between sanity ad is ▪ provides a sort of adviser to weak-mindod persona ; but in such saw the person who is tech 'ally called pnsisstal is neither deprived of he personal liberty, nor indeed of the management of hie property. But it most be observed that this doctrine is utterly unknown to the Bashi lay. Here there is no medium between amity or Una. oily ; and any man who is declared by s soespetend tribunal to be insane will certainly be deprived of the mansgement of his property, and probably el his personal liberty. It is impossible, therefore, to deny that in this case the result to Kr. WINO. II 11 a must be one of the most serious impedes's, and that the result being so serious, it la the bounden duty of the jury to exercise the ousel impartiality in erasidering a question Ada ebri• ously requires =Dom &Wavy and diemhninellem Iroise eresary oirsumbsoes it would add* have been the duty of the Press to shish' from any eminentc upon the sees until the jury had returned their verdict. No doubt the length of the time occupied by the trial, and the large spew whisk his been incurred, are tempting subjesta to them who pander to that " semetions " mania whke is sourcely Ism rife in Louisa than in New York. If toe teeth warn known, perhaps neither the time nor the wet could have been curtailed; nor should either of these considerations have induced us to approach the subject. Mat within the bet few days • question hoe arisen which is of vital importance to the administration of jumbos, but in discussing which neither Mr. SAMITZL WAILSIN, the residing Master in Lunacy, nor the jury laws displayed that judgment and practical sense which the matter imperatively demands. As the condition of Mr. WINDIUN'II mind is the point at issue, and the point upon which both the Master and the jury are bound to form an opinion, both the Master and the jury are naturally anxious for • personal interview with the alleged lunatic. For nearly • month they have been employed in listening to the history of the life and adventures of this unfortunate youth, and to the opinions which ell sorts of people have formed as to his asnity or insanity. Like men of common sense, however, they want to judge for themselves. They want to see this youth, to con verse with bim, and to hear what he has to my in answer to any questions which they may think fit to put to him. Singularly enough, Mr. WIND/LAII has precisely the lame wish. If be is in his senses, he is no doubt reedy to admit many of the charges made against him of extravagant folly and gross behaviour. But he denies that lie is insane, or deserves to be shut up in • lunatic asylum, or even that he should be deprived of the use of his property. It must be admitted that if there be any test more likely than another to elicit the weak point in his mind it is an examination and • cross-examination in a court of justice. No doubt many men who are almeet insane in action are singularly sane in con versation, but by no possibility can the jury be furnished with ocular or experimental proof of his madness in action. So far, however, as con versation is concerned, it is impossible to propose a more crucial test of sanity than the ordeal of the witness-box ; and to this test Mr. WINDHAM is not only ready, but anxious to submit. Nor is it very easy to understand upon what ground such • demand should be refused. The jury, indeed, seem inclined to insist that Mr. **mousse shall be examined alone; and Mr. Wsaaite, the Water, Ins said that " his " Mods would be paralysed," should any such examination take place in public. Mr. Was s= insists that he cannot permit Mr. WIND-, HAM to make an exhibition of himself either in public or private ; and he assumes that the questions which either the counsel or jury might put would be of such a character as "to outrage " public decency." There is really no danger of the sort. Public decency has been already suffi ciently violated ; and even this result must be braved in order to do right in • court of justice. It is not to be forgotten that the inquiry into Mr. Wimeit•ie. sanity is a public inquiry, conducted in an open public court, and before a jury of his fellow citizens. This mode of investi gation is unquestionably cumbrous ; but if it has any merit it consists in its publicity. The law has prescribed it, and the provisions of the law must be carried into effect. Neither Mr. Wiliam, nor the jury would have ventured to sit with closed doors to hear the evidence of the 150 witnesses who have already appeared in the public box. But even the whole evidence of these 150 wit nesse* is of less importance thew that of Mr. W NI onin himself, and yet it really appears to be a matter of doubt whether this, the most im portant witness, is to be allowed to appear in pubbe •anrwer such felelltiODS SS may be put to him. Mr. Wixom* u does make as exhibition of him in court, as Mr. WARKIX says, it will furnish Magni mastics of his insanity j if he doss not make an exhibition of himself, the result will be • ml port& 10 a yell u cover awake in hi favour. But it must be obvious that it is eminently unjust to assume either of these alternatives ; and, indeed, the anxiety of the Master and the jury to protect Mr. Wis mime against himself seems to denote a foregone conclusion utterly at variance with that impartiality which it is their duty to maintain. There are, no doubt, caws in which the sex and health of the alleged lunatic may render it expe -1 dint to dispense with a public examination. But no such circumstances exist in this case. Day after LATEST INTELLIGENO& without reaormcing their object, they would have - - pursued it with mesas not of such a character as to entail financial ruin. ITALY. " A letter from Manisa," says lie bid/pendants of Brussels, "affirms tint the Bourbosist commit tee at Malta has at last decided on making an at tempt in Sicily. Two bands are to be landed in the Wand—one in the environs of Clirgenti, the other near Patti, in the direction of Cefalu. Each band, it is said, will consist of about 200 men. This ex pedition does not cause the least uneasiness in Sicily, as it can only prove fatal to those who join it. When all the efforts made in the Neapolitan provinces have proved fruitless, it is absolute mad ness to make any attempt in Sicily, where the Bourbon government has always been held in ab horrence." The Marquis di Villamarina then requested Baron Risersll to explain the passage in his speech, " It may be that at this very moment our destinies are ripening." Baron Ricaeoli replied, "I expressed myself thus because the Roman question, being a moral question, makes progress every day." He re quested from the house an explicit vote either ap- proving or censuring the ministerial policy. The following resolution was then almost unani mously adopted :—" The Senate, being satisfied with the declaration of the ministry, passes to the order of the day." day Mr. WI sousx has been sitting by his Counsel and his attorniea. It is at his own request that he is to be put into the witness-box and to be examined and cross-examined upon his former life. There are, no doubt, many circumstances as to which both the Muter and the jury would desire to question him, and with respect to which they would in fact question him. Nor is there any conceivable reason why these questions should not be put in public. On the contrary, it is almost essential to the right administration of justice that the questions should be public. It is not, sorely, proposed that the summing up of the Master should be with closed doors. The events which take place during the interview will un• doubtedly form part of the evidence before the mind of the jury, and may require some comment. It is emends!, therefore, that both the counsel and the public should know whether the Master in these comments has fairly represented the facts of the interview, end whether he has good ground for the observations he may think it his duty to make. AKICRIOA. The following is the text of Prince Humbert's speech on the opening of the national rifle-match at Turin : LIVERPOOL, THITESDAT MORNMG. The Canadian mail steamer Nova Bootian, from Portland, Maine, on the 4th instant, arrived in the Mersey about 11.39 last night. By this arrival we have received the following late dispatches from New York to the afternoon of the 4th : CkaVireo—My erisfactioo on assuming the honourable oaks of your Reader, as my first step ia political life, is greet for various rearam, and I am thankful for it to my behaved father, who indulgee me in my rent desire of be girds( to be of some service to the corky. lam ilrmly creaviseed that the institution we are fostering will prodoos la Day these admirable results of which it has bees kvah elserlimaii. We will endeavour to direct it towards the object d immeteleg the strength sad defamer of the coun try, and tearing the youth of Italy to arms, so that all may ria I. the aecorglishment of the national madertsking. The pretest time is propitious for our purpose, boars Italy wants to be merit that on the day of the draggle sad of donor she may lad a soldier in sveryeae et her bold Maras. Already do Italians see the symbol sad proof of 'miasmal meaty in the army, which is proud Deft of its aaeleat sad more reser glary, sad I. the bravery of its generals; the wrederfid eaterprieme of the brave voiunteers, collected from all the rocker of Italy, prove to us what we can expect from our people by diffusing emoeg them the rawhides sad um of arms. By accustoming the motion to this melds umenies we shall maintain alive the sentiments of Beira .sword, sod that civic lithosimat width is dis- played is mature pleas. lam happy is being able to aro. date my efforts with yours, gentlemen, for the raft of this national institution. To save the comatry is my aer ial ambition ; I have acquired it from the history of my family, sad the radios made by my illostrior grandfather. I bare acquired it, gentlemen, from the peat spectacle which Italy has proseetwl during my youth. The Richmond Enquirer of the 30th ult. says : " Mr. M. Browne, an Englishman, formerly editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, has been commissioned as acting secretary of state during the temporary absent* of R. M. T. Hunter." This confirms the report that Hnnter,with Brecken ridge, had sailed from Halifax for Europe. The Richmond papers of the 28th ult. say that It may possibly be that under the public exami nation to which Mr. WINDHAM is ready to submit, the Master or the jury may desire to have a private interview. But even admitting this, it is very difficult if not impossible to understand the ground upon which Mr. WINDHAM is to be pre- vented from answering in public any questions which may be put to him, and thus furnishing the most conclusive evidence which can possibly be furnished on the question of his sanity or insanity. It is to be hoped that the counsel of Mr. WINDHAM will insist upon his claim to be examined publicly, and that neither the Master nor the jury will any longer oppose so obvious and so satisfactory a test of the real condition of Mr. WINDRAM'S MOW faculties. Charleston was fired in several places on Sunday evening, the Meth. Several wooden buildings of small value were destroyed. It is almost certain that the English will occupy Matamoros with a design, it is feared, of opening communication with the rebel states, by way of Brownsville,exporting cotton and importing contra band goods. Five hundred bales of cotton had arrived at Panama from Peru en route for England. A much larger amount is going vitt Cape Horn. Efforts were making to raise a very large crop the ensuing year. It is stated to be of superior quality. HESSE CABBED IMPRESS FROM PARIS The territory of Hesse continues in a crisis in consequence of the dissolution of the chamber. The ref oral to pay the taxes was suddenly organised, sad spread rapidly. The seizures effected on the refractory tax-payers had no other effect than to show the want of power of the authorities, and the obstinacy of the public resistance. The Elector, it would moor, proceeded to the coup-d'ltat before beiag sure of his army ; and Prussia, it is said, is decided on not allowing any foreign intervention. ♦ letter from Camel hes the following in reference to the opposition manifested by the population : The peat Minas to the 11111161.11109 of the me ridge's authority is Elsetend Hers he that the odious sad soldiers of the army share the ssattassab of the people, so that the goverment hem geed pounds for dentaieg the fidelity et the heaps in me of $ mash Fears are eaterteined that the seine moms will reser es in IJtO, when may edam who had fain the ess► I. the =Map eon stetialies reaped their oceasiodoes nem UMW perjure thsesslves, sad entered the service el foreign Met... (nom 011 i OWN f be Court. PARIS, WIDNZIDAT EV2IIIIIO. OSBORNE. JAL 15. An extraordinary abuse, which challenges the notice of the Minister of Public Instruction, has just been brought to light by a governess, Mdlle. Daubed, who, after passing the examination which most people would tell you is indispensable before a woman can be a schoolmistress, actually received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Lyons, while the question whether women were eligible for such a distinction was sub fedia in the minister's office. In a pamphlet entitled "Du progres dans l'enseigneuient Mdlle. Daubid explains the meaning of a phrase of which not one Frenchman in ten thousand ever heard before—" A Letter of Obedience." It appears that pursuant to a custom which took its rise under the Bourbons, was abolished by K Csrnot in IBM, but was revived by Louis Napoleon during his flirtation with the church, a "Letter of Obedience," signed by the superior of any convent, is deemed and taken to be equivalent to a oer• tilicate of capacity to fulfil the duties of a school mistress. Mdlle. Daubid asserts that in the pro vinces the "Letter of Obedience" has practically The Kipgg et the Belgians left Osborn. this' men* for 100 visit ma Mario Ansel* from IVIHOOD bis Majooly proossded So Poem. Tb• Kis( Is Nimbi by Osoot sod Dr. Komi. Lord Hart* Laud la Wails sad Oskosi H. Poomoby, ars 111/0 IS SiSIISIIMOS SS hi7llsjeft essisos I& My la Looks. TM Hiatt d the Hakim arrived has Olaremeat at Palace oboe* before (oar o'clock mien* atteraoce. Her Majesty's Hearamlieleame kr tire lateraasined Nald bilks et 1862 Mid a moths at Weir offices, in the Wand yorterday. TN. Comm.-4U Fag, royal screw yacht, SIN rived at Pertemosilt yorboolay„ sl L3O a.m., boat Osbors., wit►► his likiseby Leopold L. Lisp d the Bolpiarie, is board, acoompaoled by Irk loyal Ifiglesem the Priam et Wake sad hie Royal lljgbwoo Prism Laois el Ream Tile Kiai disembarked at the LP* Clenearyird. and pro aided by :pedal bah M Lowirra. Bta Wady Maras to Worse os esaday. Albs the depaatrese d the Zing for Leads. York Royal Hislmomen the Priam et Wales aid Prime Lase of NOM Alibi bar Xrperly's peddle yacht Vittoria mad Albert ad bar lisjoilty's sailing yacht Royal fro rp. At the sessiwdea of tisk immeetion of the royal yeasto their royal blibaseees retersed in the Fairy to Osborne. PRUSSIAN POLITICS. The Debats of to-day has the following : All that we know, ap to the mama moment, of the speech made by the Kin o Prussia on the opening of the chambers. is bat the programme of the difficulties spinal which the cabinet of Banjo is forced to struggle--pm- baps without Mint U we affillts the obionte to mid* Kb* Wilts would fiaIIINIUT to exttnell his NA ti M*, ered the Pemba booder, we shall ant el aB led the Nang qss et Sitleswig•Holstein, whist amens likely to be es het& in diplomatic notes tide year as in any previews one. There is, however, one point gaisedi,&wilria and the Frankfort Diet an agreed with Pi spinet Denaork. But as there is nothing to show that Austria sad Prude have ems any agreement respecting the intend attain of the Goma aplirderstion, the effort' which King William has swiped lowielte—whether "tilting about a reform of the Foaling eweYldia seellowlehly with the interest and the power dile emus wearky," or " to establish uniformity," that le is ry level Omura, a hegemony without the putiel-1 potion of Pt "in the military institutions of the Games slater."—will probably end in 18620 e thy have in 1861, Is woneelwile parleying. Neither is it probalgo 1604 it the rankled Diet is determined to uphold the illeeke l sews, who sticks to the constitution of 1880 in onto dem to his subJetts, who demand the more libiseal esnetilwewe el 1101, which was abolished with the comment ' Ihe arm* ardor ci the Diet, the King of Prisesia as rani Ile people of Sew any other mapper: than that al Mr iced ebbs'. If, indeed, the King were to intervene with an well Issue is HOW spinet, the wishes of the Diet, whilst helves sisalfsg despatches to Oopenhagen on the welded of eiblerreg, Europe, which affords instances at the peoset mere of so many false situations, would not wink an torr 'beard than that of • government which wadi ell spine the Diet in a Orme territory, whilst &cleft Weil reedy to uphold by force the resolutions of the Mond power in a pri.vince outside of the Ger nes Nielsealliew As to the questions which divide Plunk bewoll, we have already indicated how the Ay oblesi la placed between the contradictory sea Weals premiers' of different parties. The least empilleeted eta wtikilte Prussian cabinet has in hand is Ow beep of enewasso with France. We hope it will be coerealel as ewe as possible, because it is the only propitious esoodon which will probably for a long period be mended to the Penedos cabinet of concluding any thing. superseded the certificate, which, in virtue of the print4ple of 'B9, " equality in the eye of the law," every professional instructor of youth ought to be provided with. While there are thirty thousand schoolmasters, with lay brevets, the church has so completely got the direction of female educe" tion that the number of schoolmistresses not acting Tat TNSTIMONIAL TO TIM LATE PUNCH CON son. —This mama' memesint, so Nippily inaugurated by the Hight Hos. the Lend Mayer, appears to be programing favourably. la the memo of retarder the eommittes, which sat at the Illaniewheese, received various saienata towards the fund, bet at present there has sot been time to take as met sament al what has already beim received. It may be mesitimed, however, that Earl Roma eoatribetedl OM, sad tieLcod Mayor also 1001. It is anderstood that no public smourseement of the vatima sums received will take plows until Moeda,. amt. The Marquis of Bresdalbane has returned to town from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Buck'ngham at Stowe Hopes. _ - . by virtue of letters of obedience is only 5,400. In Paris and the large towns ladies of the highest capacity are vainly seeking the most humble situations. while the provinces are inun dated with pretenders, whose gross ignorance is eovered by the certificate of the convent. Mgr. Cbigi, the new papal nuncio, has arrived in Paris to-day. He is only 52 years of age. In 1847 he was one of the Pope's noble guards ; in 1856 he was made Bishop of Mirra and Apostolic Nuncio at Munich. Now be is a first-class nuncio, and in al: probability will have the conduct of negotiations of unexampled importance to the Papacy. The Bourse, in spite of prophecies of reaction, very well maintained the rise of yesterday, which, however, made no further progress. There are many vague rumours of financial projects of M. Fould, such as conversion of the Bente, unification of the debt, and the emission of " cinquantenary" obligations. The Bente left off at yesterday's price, 69fr. 20c. for account, and at 69fr., with • rise of bc., for cash. Mobilier fell 2fr. 50c. The Italian loan rose Sc. The Orleans Railway rose 2fr. 500. In the other lines there was scarcely any change. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon have been eatertaining a select party at the Grove, Watford, daring the poet week. The Earl of Yarborough left town yesterday for Brockheby, Lincolnshire, is order to be present at the Sanwa of his Gothic, which takes place to-day. The Earl of Eglinton is passing the sOILIOD at the Bedford Hotel, Brighton. The Countess of Kinnoull has arrived at her residence at Reiland-gate from a tour of visits Lord and Lady William Osborne have arrived at their residence in Hill-sheet Men Toroay. Letters received at Portemouti from Van coerce assesses the death at Lieut.-Conamander Robeoa, of her Majesty's gunboat Forward. It appears to h►ve berm part of the decoded ofileer's duties to superintead the masagernent of several lighthouses aloe( the coast. While 1 1 proceeding oa honeback to a part of the coast where one of these wan situate✓ the animal he was riding became fright ened in passing a large Bock of sheep, and threw him. He received such severe injuries that he died shortly after ward,. No 3110011111110 T has yet been appoint el to the Rev. Dr. Grigg is the chaplaincy of Trinity Church, Dubin, vacant by lk is peeo.ootiom to the an of Cork. Two abegyiase are spikes of ia connexion with the poet— the Bev. P. H. Thome', of l'arystort Church, Blackrock ; and the Rev. Mr. Clneg, of Belfast, ma of the bishop elect. A gathering of Devonshire Conservatives took place at Torquay cm Tuesday. Lard Charlton presided, and the two mealy is ler the Neatheis Divide& were preseet. Yesterday afternoon the ceremony of inangu- Ming some sew vacate erected for the poor of the district el St. James's. Hampstead-road, St. Psucraa, by the Lord Bebop of London, took place in the newly completed build. log, Willissvenset., in the presence of a large number of the ladies and gentlemen resident Is the locality. Kr, Harvey Learn, M.P., Ned the Rev. Canoe Cbanipneys wee. amongst Uwe who took part is the ceremony. Lest evening Mr. Edward Mial I, of London, de ; livered as address ou parliamentary reform to the Bred Political Calm. I The Fishmongers' Company have made a dolls ' non of fifty guineas in aid of the fund for the adsrgsmeat oldie Orphan Working School. Haverstock-hill. Wei have to record the recent death of Mr. Mat ' thew Oates Wyatt, whose name, if sow parlialy forgot ten. me well knows nearly MU • eatery ago ea one of lbelemsvot sculptors of the day, sad who has just paned way at his modem at at the ripe . al 84 years. ROYAL INSTITUTION OF OSIAT BILITAIX.—At Zorisj=al lossOug of this Montalto°, bell on Monday, address so belt Majesty, is reformire t mica o the elemsen ... 7iraa Royal linkmen the Prises Consort, ginsunid He isatitation„ wee unanimously adopted :—" We, the minnow of the Royal restitution of (IN.'S MUM, re aeons to 'sprees to your Majesty oar Fief be Iles 1 1= 11 = has fallen upon the kingdom, upon eec WIWI. ' Men end. OA exceediog weight, upon veer Majesty per mg a pales.. Gad, who gnats °Desolation fri His era dos thaw le give is 1e year Majesty, eves while your =esze dbmeted tome& Inn Oat gam, and may the .1 MR Mewls ilder whilst in life have be Wiese Memo tee seal ins the may millions who have hand el sod 'Yelled le ble ems." Onowesweit Roam ow Lennon. —The next meetlem misty wit be bag es Bruilagion-houen Jon *B4 The isli .o Vs will be reed "Oe lhe briber di a isephavista is gravel ' ern Itelleri" By Janne ice , 7.0.8. 2. "Oa 11=ealsei at Wools/ nor Wign i ir t y I stills giaa l t&s: . ( l .. b ) Moat t e Weleerneaptee. By the Bee. W. liter, .0.11. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVPINTNG, JANUARY 16, 186 S. DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. The following ♦ccount of the discovery of gold in Western Australia is from the Perth. Gazette of Nov. norli—" A discovery of auriferous quartz at Northam Ins led to the belief that min diggiegs also exist is that (arum's TILLGILLII6) THE ITALIAN P. - - - - LANICL.LII. TURIN, JAN. 16. The following is a more detailed report of yester- - - - - - neighbourhood, a belief confirmed by opialoos smeseed by day's debate in the Senate : emend experienced miners who have worked in Victoria, Baron Ricasoli, in reply to a question addressed New South Wales, and California. A certain degree of to him by Signor Sareto in reference to the general excitement baa consequently arisen, sod a public meeting, policy of the government, said that he had en- both numerously and influentially attended, was bold, deavoured to complete the cabinet by the appoint- at which • committee was appointed to collect sub scriptions and to send out prospecting parties, and, on ap meat of a Minister of the Interior, but that placation to the government, • grant of public the pending reforms created insurmount- money ham been promised equal to the amount subscribed. able obstacle+. He was not disposed to The committee went to work in earnest, and in two or three make a compromise with political parties. days • party comprising Mr. S. Hall and four men were " The ministry," he continued, " did not consider equipped, and started for the scene of operations, under the that it would be dignified on their part to resign hassediate euperintendesee of Mr. Ranter, one of the com mittee, who, aa well as Mr. Hall and two of the men, has without a declaration of want of confidence from bad considerable experience on the various Victorian dig the boom. Should it condemn their policy they gigs. The party got away on Tuesday morning, and on would know their duty." An regards the affairs Ti nr .ky morning was f o ll owe d, to the same locality, by of Naples, be said, " The government had accepted asetber of four men, two of whom also have bad several • heavy responsibility in order to beaten the years' experience (one 13 years), and who bad returned accomplishment of the unification of Italy." Touch- "I, the previous day from an uosecoceeful trial B aron Bi easo ii said :. et UN ClPADDl i d d le b tr e ict, spines , the passibility of which ing the Roman question, decided "At Rome the destinies not only of Italians Whig a sev Pidad private. a parties er r y ab er biy:Piwim. alrea dy or but of humanity in general will be accomplished. shcatly will leave Fremantle and Guildford to try their It is sot possible to determine the time of our belt is gold finding. Letters received this week from triumph. It may be that at this very moment our Toedyay describe that district as extraordinarily affected destinies are ripening." with • gold fever, every men, woman, and child, gentle and The min i sters cordese, m ene b ren, Besteg i , and staple, who can wield • hammer or raise • *haze break. De Santis gave explanations relative to their several' absa *l4 4 ? lb* racks in endinstlill directions, s ' lionmeamind lia as A.' knew in ve ry small gostl departents. * ' prec i ous tie has bees found by them in several places. Roomers of The Commander San Martino said be had had goldfishes als, as a matter of course, toustastl, dYing two interviews with Baron Ricanoli on the subject stout; all believe there is plenty in the esker, but of his entering the cabinet. In the first he gave a I whither it is best to be found by the prehmiensi dam those who look fr it as a result *I asi Mowing decided refusal, and in the second he explained his ' °F other bY tooepstions, remai n , yet to be proved. Is the MM. views in reference to the policy of the government. unmoor. is so doubt the public mind bee boom male. Re did not think the finances oorreeponded with the a b a s ease ed e a ; and if f or so other moos , it bus bum, vigour infused by the ministry into the national po- • expellent that, if possible, tile question be decided whether hey. He should wish to see the questions relating to a paying gold field is to be found in tie missy or not Per. diplomacy, finance, and the army proves harmo- SD" who have been engaged as quarts reds and anshbd slimily to • settlement. As it was mot likely that st t te , thl ' t , the 2 u 2 o . a r 11 "2 . ____, fc4ad it 1.1 " 6118114 ,_ and is ' , the political qnsetions now pending is Italy would w hi c h th e ; l 7; l ,l . . ps ' y ' e for t° ist, e :P ahea. ale. ' il ibililidwel ea pesha -Ibe resolved within a brief period, he should wish wa y , eb r net, at a depth of four or Iva Mit t we arm • the government to declare to the country that, T ay much rune PRINCS CONSORT. THE BANK OF ENGLAND iturpro.—(THlS DAY). A special general Court of Directors of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Englanders" held to day la the Bank parka % ter the purpose of submitting to W resideratioe al the proprietors the expediency of ete ✓nalg he her Majesty aa *deem of condolence on the death of his late Royal 1116 them the Prior Consort. ALIIIED Lassa, BK., the governor, presided, end there were present Mr. Ore, Y.P. Mr. Thomson /lackey, M.P., Mr. B. Dere% end nearly all the directors. The attend ance at ka trait of the table was not very mune =t dthoagh h. they represented an immense amount of The Memos mid the directors ware tether late in soh. miring an address for the coesideration of the proptieter. They were quite aware that the beak had always avoided as mach r potable any unnecessary parade. It would always prefer that *Jaen should show it the way in thee' matters, sad that the beak should not promote than aster the reprices saw good occasion tor drag eo. This bad then • very peculiar rano% stad it became mersary, when they saw that municipal bodies and others were propane' addressee throughout the country, that the bank should not fall into anew in Wishing hem doing the same. Sympathy with the Queen, who was un doubtedly the greatest rarer is this great misfortune, it was ocularly their duty to ask, and it was very natural to them, although the lose which had been retained was really a natioaal one. Her Majesty was not the only raf ters% for the death of the Prince Consort was really a loss to the whole nation. (Hear, hear.) The Prince Comsat had been amongst them but little more than 20 years, but all of them knew how during that time he had iron via ning the affections of the people of England. English people were not remarkable for receiving strangers earegst them, bat he had taught us more W e anybody to respect them, and not to over value ourselves in comparison with strangers. In every way he had animated the hearts and the industry of this country, and so promoted the interests of commerce, of which that Beek might be considered in some measure the centre. The people of England, therefor% owed to thecentre. Prince Croon a great debt. (Heer, hear.) He (the Go vernor) believed that in nary relation of life there never rubd have been a better rams. Re grad, by the meth be bad left behind him, to have bre a very laborious man. He mast have worked very hard reload, as those might testify who had seen him at social meeting, end presiding at public societies, and saw at the same time the taste sod ter with which he addressed himself to every subject. *short, he did to Ws sertry equal service and lissour. Such men _ were very AM they did appear they were public benefactors, not only by the good which they accomplished, bat far the example which they left for the imitation of t, rheas. (Cheery.) The Governor concluded by proposing the ad?ptir of the following address : to ran gam's nor arum rumen, "The Dutiful and Loyal Address el the Governor and Oonipw of the Ira of England. "Mod Gracious - Sovernpy—We, your Majesty's most dutiful and salrjetes, the GOVitlife and Com pan y of the Sink in geseral court sessesbled, thmbly beg leave to year Majesty with the expression of our deep sorrow for the lose which your Malesty has sustained, and ear earned sympathy in your Majesty's parent aMiaticm. Whim we mead the writ= and discretion displayed by the late Parr Cowart is the high 'position which he carried, ths Messier diameter, his indefatigabie exer tions te whirr the amoral and industrial welfare of your Maples people, end his earths interest in the einemereial prosperity of the country, we t:er that ay, crew have est ered aloes which entitles them in some degree to slime your Majesty's grist " We desire to express the sincere respect which we en tertain for your Majesty, oar constant "encircle for the royal family, and our hops and trust that it may please Almighty God so to preserve and guard your royal perm that your Majesty may long live to reign over • prormeis and contested people.' Aldermaa lILLONOIOI, said that on his (the Teo- Liet s =cle of the table the remarks of the governor and sentained in the address were oereeft re cipenereL Drury seas, without exception, throughout this bed had fell grief sad sorrow at the lose W nation bed sustained by the sudden takin away of the late Prier, who had en himself to the people of England by the interest be had un ceasingly "visaed in their social and industrial welfare. In each eneumehatiose it was their duty to convey to their attired Sovereign such consolation as they could convey. The address was then put for the sanction of the pro pulsion, sad it was unanimously adopted. A resolution was pared authoriaing the Governer and Depety.Governor to make anangementa with the Secretary of The State for the H p ome Departmeot for ite peroration. preeeedin, which occupied less than • quarter elan hour, then terintaated. LONDON JOINT STOCK BANN.-(THIS DAY. This day the half-yearly meeting of the share holders wee held at the bank premises, Princes-street ; Mr. HEW Las in the chair. The following report was read by Mr. Kennedy, t the secretary of the hank :—" It will be seen from the ereser plang dote:neat of the imitate el the hank ea yi the 31st ultimo, that the operations of the pee' ceding half-year bare resulted is a set peal 11 94,312/. 18s. Id., which enables the directors to desks. Iles usual dividend et the rate of 12i per mutant per mom, with a bonus of 12e. 6d. per share, amounting together le 75,0001., and to add 19,3124. 18s. Id. to the r ..... 4. The government and India securities held like having increased in value 17,0001. de bi t of July, that ram also is impried to the credit at the guarantee hind, whisk, with these additions and the sonnies interest, now emenate to 237,7481. Is. 4d. The dividend and bonus, fres kees income tax, will be payable on and after Friday, the Nth Mat. The following directors retire in the order of Wads% ladelfer themselves for re-election, viz. :—Williset Alderman Sir James Duke., Bert, M.P., Denali Faq. 4 John Timothy Oxley, Esq. , and Frederick Boileweld, E lbe following is the statement of liabilities sad mete : " Dr. :To capital paid-rap, viz., 80,000 shares at 101. each, 800,0001. ;to amount doe by the bank, 11,381,7571. 3tl ; to amount of 'The Guarantee Fund,' 30th June, 1851, 198,458 E ss, 9d.; to six mouths' interest on ditto,st3l. percent. PEE MEM, 2.0761. 17s. 6d.-201,4351. 3s. 3d. ; add increase shoe the valuation on 20th June, 1881, in the market value of government arid East Indian securities held by the lank, 17,0001 —together, 218,4351. 3s. 3d. ; to amount carried to profit and loss amount, 141,002/. ss. 2d. total, 12,341,1941. Bs. Bd. Cr.: By Exchequer Bills, India Debentures, and Govern ment Stock, 1,103,4761.145. ; by cash, loans, bills discounted and other securities, 11,140,142/. 14e. Bd. ; by building, furniture, &c., in Princes-street. 30.7001. ; by ditto ditto, in Pall-mall, 6,8751. —together, 37,5751—t0ta1, 12,341,1941. Bs. Bd. " Profit mid lam amount for the half year ending Dec. 31, 1861.—Dr.: To current expo:mei, proportion of build ing expanses. directors' remuneration, And debts, income tex,loa., 25,482/. 9e. 5d.; to amount carried to profit and loss, ainraccount, being rebate of interest on bills discounted not yet due, 21,2061.17 e. 8/1. ; to divideedlioconnt for payment of half a years dividend, at the rate of 123 per mutant per annum, upon 800,0001, amount of paid up capital upon 90,000 shares, 37,5001. ; to ditto, for the payment of a bonus of 12s. fld. per share, 37,5001 ; to amount carried to the guarantee fund, 19,312/. 18e. ld.—total, 141,002/.56.241 Cr.: By balance brought down, 141,0021. 51. 2d." The Cnitiarax thou declared a dividend in aecordemie with the report, which is at the rate of 25 per cent. per annum, and moved that the report be adopted. Mr. MACLEAN seconded the motion. Mr. Deputy CORNET 'eked whether the securities lei been tested and remained intact The Climaxes replied that they had. In answer to another proprietor, The OUTMAN said the profits of the W1N44111 ban& were satisfactory, although there were the 1.1111181 Si asks more Undue if they could get it. The report was then adopted. The retiring directors were re-elected. Sir J. Doc& M.P., returned thanks on behalf of hiessif and colleagues, and said it was the constant endeavour of the board to make the London Joint Stock Bank second to none in the metropolis. Os the motion of Mr. Wriaor, se-ceded by Mr. Deputy OONNIT, vote of thanks was pawed on the Millman sod the directors ; and a similar compliment, on the motion of Mr. Wootage, we paid to Mr. Hewett, the manager, which terminated the proceedings. Mr. Akroyd, of Bank Field, Halifax (says the Mattel/weer Guardtart), has received the following letter hom Earl Russell :—" Foreign-office, Jan. 7, 1862. Sir, — I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the Ist lost., with • memorial signed by a numerous and influential body of the clergy, magistrate', gentry, sad inhabitant' of Halifax, exprommgtheir cordial approval of the prompt and energetic measures takes by her Majesty's government to pro tect the honour of the British flag. It Is a gnat satisfsefliou to my oollagure sod to myself to naive so flattering an ex pression of approval of the *mow which we have felt It oar duty to take on this occasion, and I beg yon to have the goodness to return our thanks to the aignem of the memo. • and to ee pure this. bow highly her Majesty's govern ment appreciate the generous support which they have tendered to than et the present crisis. —1 am, &c., piped) Ensaimx." • Hams os ma HOP Donis.—Festealay after noon • numerosily attended sad logneetal pubbe seeetiog of landowners, plasters, and other fa terinied la the hop trade was held at the Vestry-bell,flanbreek for the I adoption of memnres to proton • teal ears imenediste repeal of the hop duties. The chair was occupied by Mr. Ostkorne Manly, M.P., of Ilarstsd Park, and Lord lioluteedale, M.P., Mr. J. G. Dodson, ILP., and ILr. L J. Berestord Ham of , atended as • dovetails/a A ssec i a tion. Resolu from the Central Hop Duty tions In favour of the object for w the waft was cgs- TIMM were edepted. SHOOTING WITH INTENT TO MURDER AT BIULD7O3D. Yesterday, at the Bradford Borough Court, before **mayor, Mr. Alderman Brown, and Mr. Alderman Li ti , • man, named Edward Lister, aged ( amid been in good circumstanoss at shelf), was charged with *view, on Monday evening, fired a pito! at Mr. George Frank, linendraper, of Barkerand-road, with the intention to marder him or to do him some grievous bodily barm. Mr. Terry appeared franks promecution. =dwas unded's Comma Frank being called, said raper in 13arkarand-road, Bradford. The prima., Edward Lister, has been residing for some time at lies; w o nky, DOW Leeds, with my wife's sister, but in come. el something that had passed he has lately left bee M I L D day avowing last, about 7 o'clock, the prisoner canna at my shop. I and my errand-boy were in at the time. There wee also • cuelornsr in of the name of Plumbs Hargreaves. On coming late the shop the pri soner said, "Is Martha in 1" insanisyg my wife's e i d er . I said, "No, you know that very era." He then " Well, what am Ito do about my money r I said, " That is something I know nothing about. I bare nothing to do with either you or that matter." I thee said, " If you want to see Martha, I will mead my boy with yes tohar. She is living in Manchester-road." The prisoner *ea said, " Wall, you say that you have nothing to do with it, but I will make you have something to do with it. It will be a serious affair for you to-night:" The prisoner wee quite sober at the time. He bad his right hand at the time la his coat pocket, and when be said that I felt efr.id that he had intended to carry out • threat he bad made at • previous time. I went round the ouster, and west up to him as calmly and quietly se I could. When I was on my way towards the middle of Gas the pilaw said, " Frank, did you Wad the p olioo sear* me* the ADA= the other week r I said, "I did." He then said, "Mat was that allotment about?" I " Well, you know that you came to my shop sad created a diets:beam, and also said you would blow my *sins out. I want protection." It was in con sequence of the prisoner having so threatened to blow my bruins out that I bent police-sergeant Baker. I approached him. I thought be was getting bold of a Mend I seized him. I said, " Yon have got a pistol." " I have sot." He still kept his bend in his podnst, and I said, " You have, and I will havelyou searched at dm leek-up." I held hie arm to prevent his lifting it towards my face, and I at the same time backed him towards the door, intending to put him into the street. Having backed him into the doorway, I bad just room ratchet to put him out and close the door upon him, but at the moment I was doing so, he lifted his right I cooked a pistol, and fired at me. Some cif the pollen Mt ms, some entered the door, some fell on the floor, and some entered the dressof a woman who was in the I than immediately seized the prisoner, and called shoe I saw Inspector Shuttleworth coming up the street, and I gals the prisoner into custody. The prisoner aid" Shutilsworth. is that you? This is not the fine time we have been tegailner." Shuttleworth replied, " Thin is r v i z us /014001 The prisoner replied, " Why, it is a leak is not so serious as I intended it to be ; I in c e= M tis be the death of him." Other witnesses gavecorrespeming evidence, and the depoeltiom werSordsred to be take* and itis prisew was committed for trial at the MIS Min& • Ire meilimisad that Mr. Frank's wife's enter and thilphinter base kepi a draper's shop at New Wortley, and that the *ow tens exasperated because she inhumed to Mr. Frank • he el lends for which he could not obtain Pellutat• TATAL arrzmrr TO CROSS A RIVER. NALTON, WIDNESDAY. A shocking event occurred at School-house Hit., on the Denreat, about Ave miles op the river, yesterday afternoon. A woman's tries weregheard by phases la the neighbourhood, as if from some or. Is the water. The Ant man who got to the river's bank saw a woman struggling f , the widow, sad easily du. No imam were available h. readmiag any emisturce, espenally as the river is extremely full of wirer. It appears a bridge formed of a single plank and a handrail is here throws aereas the river for the ran . manna of a farmer rending na tbe east side, but although seed by the public sometimes, Is scot a public road. It is inferred that the deemed had hem attempting to cram this slender bridge, sad that the hard nil had gives way, omens herto lose her balance. The body was recovered ghostly afterwards, bat up to the time of weftg it is not positively aseertaised who the deceased is. Mbe appears to have bees travelling the =ate, selling articles of female attire. DAY.) TIMMY, !AWAIT 16. II LX. 4f.E. KU M _ Imen IarNIXIS sao — i — saii ...I GALWAY ...... ____ Lll7llOOl .." VAureu ganomrows YALICAIS Immo riCw. s.s. sm. L W. Li LLIL ILL •1 ioI 1 3. 1 siti ee Lii.s. Lyzooma ...I Pas/101711 p TIM WOW. PROBABLI 111011 BiTORDAT, moderate to 8. and tie ILL, to te to Woo& rainy. or strong to moderate. Inland—N.N.W. to ft, and to Similar. sonic rain. BE., moderato tarsals, with Central—N.W. to a and LE, Z. to 8. who N.W., moderate variable, moderate. to fresh. IL Coast—N. to I. and 8.8. W., ISM to 8.W., moderate fresh to moderato. fresh. B. Zeeland—N.lC to B.E. and E. to 8. and W., moderate 8.W., moderato, fine. bah. IXPLAIfiTION. IL—Barometer corrected and reamed to 9! deg. at mean Level ; each 10 feet, of vertical riga, emsslog about one-hundredth et an Inch dhnlnettlos ; and mob 19 deg., above St deg., canting marly three-hundredths booms& IL—Exposed thermometer In shade. IL—lteleasmed bulb (for *vaporettos and paint). D.—Direction of wind (tree—two point. WI of t mite). l: Tome (1 to 19--estOnated). C.—Cloud (I Joni. Initials b, bins sky clouds (deisobed) ; top aall • lightning; in, misty (hair) o. overcast (dull) :r, min mor_. thunder. S.—Ser dlaturbanos II to 9). W.—Wet, ralumE er snow, or hall, since last report, In Maass and do-tmals. Cala Tea DITFICITLTY or BIIOINNING.—D , is easiest thing in the world to write a book : but its Di impossible to begin one. That is the reason why every a who can sign his name does not belong to the " (Auld Literature.' His kelioge are as acute, his maims tense and imaginative as your own ; he can fuse them i eloquent deeds, into eloquent speech ; he can charge enemy at the head of hie column, he can ask the woman s loves to give him back his heart, or her own ; but he mat write a book. And why Because he does not know how to begin. The incapacity is no doubt a merciful provisiou for if we all wrote, there would be none to read. authors resemble the late mild-eyed laureate; they read anything—heartily at least—that is written by people. Wadsworth, indeed, professed to study family and admire keenly the Book of Nature ; bin erne-examination it would no doubt have appeared that . did not think nearly so well of it as of his owe account it. Moreover, none would be left to work. There would be no eloquent statesmen, no gallant soldiers, no indefatigable explorers ; the fire-struck words would never again, like hailstones, strike upon the upturned faces of the people the five hundred would never again sweep through the cloudy valley, and dream as they fell of the triumphant team that were wept for them in the Holy Land. The swot we all took to writing, nothing would remain to about ; for the career of a writing man is the moat p of all careers, and bass telling least of any. I wo uld Lear of Columbus, or of Drake, or of Wellinn, or i meanest trooper in his army, than learn bow Walter wrote Mangum, or how &akspeare wrote MarfiriA. those take us with them into the vivid pressure living men, and under the smoky glare of battle, or the twilight of defeat, human nature acquires a powerful bewitching interest. " The Duke's" life is our great tional epic ; and it wan a better epic acted by him tl written by Tennyson. This incapacit y to begin is E however, confined to the writing of books. Most men wouk be estimable, charitable, religious, successful, if they ale knew how to begin. Jones really desires to do something for the working classes ; bat he does not know where rr how to begin ; and so he does nothing. Robinson, r fouodly versed in the principles of jurisprudence, I the bar ; when Brown, who knows only, but knows ex where to fled the page be wants, succeeds. The t i ot t rr o S be at hand ; bat they won't work of themeless. life is a soiesee to which there is no index ; and \ - how to use our weapons—in other wo how to is the most perplexieg of all studies.— for Jemmy. Glastaißrs IS RAILWAY TRAINS.—A few mot since we noticed an Meseta's of Mr. Newell, of Bury, lighting railway trains with gas, which had been applied several of the pawner trains of the Lancashire end ork shire Company, with which Mr. Newell has long been air' oectel. The trains to which these lights have been app include the fast trains between Manchester and Bradford and Manchester and Blackpool. We learn that the Loodoe and North Western Company are about to avail themselves of this invention for lighting some of their fast trains, d among ahem, to the limited express between Loudon Holyhead. Mr. Newell ill now fitting up carriages for last-mimed train at Bury. By means of 00:11pf.800 0, bYdTIIOIII3 power, the quantity of gas required for . on these trains is contained in a box of entail sise gmud's vas. sod the advantage and comfort derived these lights by the premien is spoken of in high Mr. Newell is the investor of a brake used by k Lancashire Company which was tested several years one of the government railway inspectors, and woken one ri the Wit yet applied to that purpose. This al the P • ring s te &MU illiamr Hoag Boer( • NORTI • OKTOI weer SORT] SWIM It we! • I tm • , Went a • e a Dr. deal le coo r, , A le tb•C puni IS illiao • mimeo kl e fire p. a qua • the 1 bh a . 1U Lis P" team i t 'that im 'sled et. . t p t 'tote udial ht Ili h e had h a bee he eugh rorte p e van • tea toe e dim ■• phe to nes mil red *a tha itsdi der Judi tad CO lain VAX The Sir r. co • 11./ relay the bib g 'Thi for oely lank xigh Hai it is 1 this w ; Wag el ya rely r best ar et illi tai t Th Se , T II to 0;1 et as &DAT. .1 . Ire* deride rate to rate to us no Wein =deg eater I dew saw I. t— wo ,mow: de•fllZ L • the Dearly ry as %I'M of aa ra iota ge the met he eamiot ow bow ,eisioa • Most Dever other ly pro • but ea that he mount of rould be atigehla in. like PeoP le ; ugh the uipbont la to• to writ' prefaia d rather r of the or Seed Id, Per ours of • the sod ful ehd Feat DO° ire the. U e",t/ so wo uld hey only =ethic , " rhero er ea, TWO' et ezart l l. i .ra le c r iO 3 to tiara begie- - Ifagadat months tort', for :shod w York- own me- • ap f plied Bradord e Loodot , ieniselret ▪ and adoo sod for the • by or owe is to io the mad hoe' rlt term. the FAilk es go b i ohm of