The Express. — London, England, 1867-10-09 00:00:00

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MGR KATIE AT LONDON BRIDGE. ran DAT —limning. lob. boat— --Aftentoon.llb. Ma. TO - Itoltentr—lfornia, Ob. Ont....—Afternoon, noon. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9. IN t'ie unusual vigour of a gradual and long protracted decline of life, Lord BaoronAm has kept up a wonderfully fresh and vivid interest in the questions of the day. Retiring from public life in his ninetieth year, not because tho spirit is unwilling but because the flesh is weak, he does so with one further warning of an evil which threatens the health and stability of our political system. His last public declaration, as becomes the ripe experience of one of the elders of the people, is a protest against the laxity of Parlia ment and tho lukewarmness of the public in the enforcement of the laws against Electoral Corrup tion. Lord BeoronAm believes that the law as it now stands is sufficient for the suppression of bribery. This is, of course, a question on which he may be thought to speak with considerable authority, though it is certain that the most sincere desire on the part of individuals to set the law in motion has generally resulted in nothing. But even Lord BROUGHAM'S view of the sufficiency of the law rests on the ex-official power of the Government ; that is, as we understand it, the power to issue Commissions to inquire into and expose cases of notorious corruption, or to prosecute the offenders when such cases are exposed. But this power is sure to be one that is behind public sentiment, not in advance of it as a law against corruption should be. It is effectual against very bad cases, but it can do nothing to destroy the evil in its in cipient stages. The national conscience would approve a stringent law giving the ordinary courts power to deal with individual cases of corruption ; but it is not sufficiently aroused, unless the scandal is very notorious, to demand an extraordinary effort to meet it. But this deficiency of public sentiment is exactly a case for the educative in fluence of law. Lord BROUGHAM has himself said that by making the slave trade felony he made it odious, although till that time Society had winked at it. Society winks at bribery, and will continue to do so until the law puts it in the category of other crimes, but when it does this, even though only political penalties are attached to it, Society will open its eyes to the disreputable character of the transaction, and will visit it with the social penalties it so well knows how to inflict. It is indeed not the popular sentiment which is to blame—that sentiment would cordially welcome an borest attempt to suppress bribery. The demo ralisation of opinion among the higher classes as to the giving of bribes is far greater than that among the lower and lower middle classes as to the taking of them, and so long as those who make laws are not ashamed to corrupt others, they will always find those who are only half ashamed to be corrupted. A law which made it more penal to give than to receive a bribe might stimulate the sluggish conscience of Society, and by cutting off the supply eventually stop the demand. Nothing less than such a law will effectually deal with the evil. There are, however, one or two things in our system of elections which account, perhaps, for some of the tolerance Society and Parliament, se reflecting the moral tone of Society, exhibit towards this great national evil. None but those who have had to do with a contested election can understand the temptation which a hard run in the closing hours of the poll presents to the ambition of candidates and the enthusiasm of their supporters. With only a few votes needed to turn the scale, with men waiting to give those votes for a consideration easily sup plied, with reminders from enthusiastic committee men that to refuse these men is to throw them. and with them the election, into the hands of their opponents, the temptation is such as even heroic virtue can scarcely resist. But Govern ments have no right to expect heroic virtue from ordinary men. All institutions which pro ceed on such an expectation necessarily, aid perhaps deservedly, fail. The estimate which Society will form of any vice or crime is decided far more by the power of ordinary men to resist it, than by any abstract considerations of its hurtfulness. If men know that in like circum stances they should fall, they will look very leniently on the fall of others. To diminish the tenii tatiou to bribery is therefore almost a THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1867. necessary step towards elevating the opirkin of Society about it. How this can beat be done is a question for statesmen, but as a matter of practical detail it might be easily settled when the determination to settle it had been come to. Even to forbid the periodical publication of the poll, and to keep the voting secret until the official promulgation of the numbers, would take away half the excitement, and more than half the temp tation, which now exists. But an impression prevails among persons who take an active part in elections, that the abolition of canvassing is the real remedy for bribery. They have seen with much satisfaction that the conveyance of borough voters to the poll is now made illegal, and one opportunity of corruption thus removed ; and they believe, as all men who have had expe rience in the matter perceive, that it is only by removing the temptations to bribery that the evil is to be overcome. When these temptations are lessened to manageable proportions the opinion of Society will fully sanction the enforcement of penal laws against it, and Electoral Corruption may become as much a thing of the pmt as that yet worse corruption which in the evil days of the Restoration defiled the throne, which • hundred years later was still common in Parliament itself, and which has now sunk to the lowest stratum of our political constitution preparatory to its fins , expulsion from our political system. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) the Erfurt. BALMOB.AL, Ocr. 7. The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold, attended Divine sm. vice in the parish church, Crathie. The Rev. M. Taylor, minister of Crathie, officiated. Sir Stafford Northoote and Mr. Mowbray had the honour of dining with the Queen and Royal Family. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council eat yesterday at M nitehell, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were Lord Stenley and Lord Robert Montagu. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governor of the Falkland Islands. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left Knowsley yesterday morning, and the rest of the guests departed during the d►y, exoept Lord Barrington, who is stay '.g a few days longer. Doling the duke's stay at Knowsley there has been some exoellent sport on the pre serves, the shooting party being made up of the Duke of Cambridge, the Earl of Ellesmere, Viscount Bar rington, Lord Colville, Lord Hyde, the Hon. F. A. Stanley, M.P., Lord Delamere, and Colonel Tyrwhitt. The prin cipal sport was on Monday, when the Duke of Cambridge and his party took the Roby beat. At the close of the shooting the duke's bag numbered 104 ; Lord Bari :ngton's, 111 ; Lord Ellesmere's, 87 ; Colonel Tyrwhitt's, 104 ; total, 406. The party in charge of the Hon. Mr. Stenley took the Simondswood beat, and at the close his bag Ger nted 133 ; Lord Colville's, 151; Lord Delamere's, 108 ; Lord Hyde's, 129; total, 521. The last bag included a splendid quail. Considering that she duke's party had the most "populous " part of the preserves, their shooting, in com p►rison with that of Mr. Stanley's, is rather below the average. In the noun* of yesterday the Hon. Mr. Stanley left Knowsley on ► visit to the Duke of Marlborough, at Blenheim. HEALTH or LORD DERBY. —The health of the noble earl is so far restored that his lordship was able on Monday to witness the sport enjoyed by his distingrAed guest the Duke of Cambridge. . - Earl Russell arrived on Monday night at the County Hotel, Carlisle, by the Portpatrick route from Bel fast. His lordship is in excellent health. The Marquis and Marchioness of Headfort passed through London last week from Baden-Baden, on the;v way to Inland, to be present at the nuptials of Lord li(112liS and L►dy Alice Hill, at Hillsborough Castle. The Earl and Countess Amherst and Ladies Amherst have been on a tour of visits in Ireland. Viscountess Clifden and family, after passing several months at Gowran Castle, are on their way to Northamptonshire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Dovrnshire are surrounded by • large party at Hillsborough Castle,oounty Down, assembled for the marriage of Lord Kollin!, eldest i on of the Earl of Bective, M.P., and Lady Alice Hill, the Marquis of Downshire's only daughter, which takes place to-morrow. His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant will return to Dublin Castle from Baronscourt to-morrow, and will be present at the conferring of degrees 4 u the Queen's Uni 'remit; on Friday. A marble statue of the late William Smith O'Brien has just been completed by Mr. Farrell, the scalp. for ; and on Monday the Dublin Corporation was asked to grant a site for its erection. The site selected by the core. mittee appointed by the subscribers to the statue is a vacant space at the south side of Carlisle-bridge. The ap plication was referred to one of the committees. _ The Duke of Argyll opened the Glasgow Young Men's Christian Association on Monday night with an ad dress on " the Nature and Obligation of Religious Tolers tion"— which he declared not to be founded on scepticism or indifference, on the notion that theological error is of no oonsequence, or in the denial of a moral element in belief, but on oar inability to judge how far and how little our knowledge and reception of truth in others has been affected by tendencies of mind and character worthy of censure and reproach, and our ignorance whether or not we perms pure truth. These principles his grace went on to apply to the existence of various religious sects, and to their movements in the churches. The Ritualist paper, the Church News, says in its " Notices to Correspondents :"—" Cranmer was not only an apostate, traitor, perjurer, robber, and persecutor —so far be merely shared with Ridley, Latimer, Jewell, Bale, ko.—but he was a cow►rd and time-server also, and there fore ranks even lower than they." The session of the Congregational Union Con ference opened in Roby Chapel, Manchester, yesterday morning, with an address from the president, Dr. Campbell, of Bradiord. In the evening, the annual general meeting was held in the Free-trade Hall, under the presidency of Mr. Samuel Morley. After a brief speech from the chair man, the Rev. Dr. Vaughan delivered an address on " English Congregationalism in its relation to the Churches of the Put and Future," and the Rev. Dr. Halley also spoke. The annual meeting of the Metropolitan and Pro vincial Law Association was held in Manchester yesterday. At the morning conferenee various legal subjects were e4s missed by the members, who assembled from ail par ta of Eng land. In the evening a banquet was given by the Manches ter Association to their professional brethren. Amongst the guests was Mr. Robinson Fowler, the stipenclimy magis trate of Manchester, who received the thanks of the as semblage for the manner in which he had presided on the bench during the recent examination of the Fenian pri soners. In response, Mr. Fowler said he felt that the charges of partiality and injustice which had been brought against him were untrue ; but as the inquiry was a poli tical one no amount of insult would make him call upon the prisoners' advocates to desist or leave the Court. A curious point came before the Revising Bar i:ster at Warrington yesterday. An election agent, in sending in en objection, did not sign the notice in the usual way, but stamped a fee-simile of his signature upon the paper. This, it was contended, was not a signature within the meaning of the act, but the Revising Barrister decided that it was sufficient. The matter, it is stated, will be carried before the superior courts. A letter from Lucerne says :—" The summit of Mount Pilate is covered with snow. The price of mules at the foot of the Rigi has fallen 50 per cent. below the ordi nary quotations. The hotel-keepers are growing extra civi l as their last guests depart, not soon to return. The ills. minators and pyrotechnist. at the Giesbach have ceased from their disreputable work, and for a time the picturesque falls will be allowed, by night as by day, to preserve their native beauty, without once being degraded to the level of a painted water-fall in a pantomime, or of a coloured foun. taro at Cremorne. Switzerland is beginning to look na tural, but it is also getting very cold. The season must be really at an end, for I have just seen one of the prin. cipal guides hurrying to the railway station in company with a young lady whom he calls 'so con naisaaner,' and to whom he gallantly proposes to show the wonders of the Paris Exhibition." THE MAYOR OF WOLVERHAMPTON ON RITUALISM. —The Mayor of Wolverhampton (Sir John Morris) pre sided on Monday at a lecture delivered in the Corn Exchange in that town, by the Rev. Samuel Coley, Wes. root " Books, and how to read them." Sir John, in introducing the lecturer, said :—" It appears re merkable that at the close of the great congress I am so soon paced among that section of nonconformists towards who nso much anxiety was shown at that meeting. There appeared a professed yawning for the followers of John Wesley to return to the bosom of my church, which church I love, in which I was born, and in which I hope to die ; but in saying this. I mean her faithful adhesion to the principles of the Reformation. I love her order ; I love her sonptural character ; I love her recognition of seasons in the Christian year ; in a word, I believe the church of England in her evangelical aspect may be the greatest power for good o► any system known. I should, indeed, long to see not only you, but all evangelical nonconforming bodies one with my church. I, however, fear we cannot fully hope to see you rejoin us, while men in this very town—avowed members of the church of England —are buoy trying to establish an order of the holy cross. They speak out in their pamphlet, for they boldly deny the Protestant character of the church of England. They say our forefathers expe diently submitted to protestanterroron account of the wild violence of the protestant faction. I therefore do feel that before we can be united there must be some d'stinet avowal that these gentlemen are not the intepreters of the doctrines and practices of the church of England. The matter really appears to be assuming such propor tions as must make this become a political question, and Ido say I would ten time rather vote for an honest Roman catholic. I have every respect for an honest Roman catholic. We lies in critical times, and we must do our duty, regardless of the praise of men. I would now ask you when is oar time for action in vindicating our principles ? I know you will reply with me, when our principles are attacked. Then is the time we should show our colours. If we do not do so, we are guilty of cowardice in the sight of God." LAW IN TELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Kr. Oommianoner Window.) IN RE PETO, BETTE, AND CHARITON. The bankrupts in this case were the well known firm of Sir Samuel Morton Peto, Bart., ILP., Edward Ladd Betts, and Thomas Russell Crampton, de scribed as of Great George-street, Weattnimster, trading as Pete, Betts, and Crampton, contractors for the construction of public works and builders. The adjudica tion was made on the 3rd of July, on the petition of Messrs. Joseph Warden, of the Railway Iron Works, Birmingham; and the bankrupts at once surrendered and obtained their protection. At the first sitting, on the 24th of July, the following gentlemen were chosen assignees :—Mr. Richard Fothergill, of Aberdare, Glamorganshire ; Mr. Peter Rolt, of St. Michael's-home, Cornhill ; Mr. Thomas Fenn, of 3, Royal Exchange-buildings; and Mr. T. C. P. Cunliffe, banker, Leadenhalletreet. The amount of proofs then admitted was comparatively small—not above half a million—and those principally spinet the estate of Pete and Betts ; but an enormous claim was put in by Mr. linklater on behalf of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, for not lees an amount than 6,661,9411. 19a. Id. This staggering amount was thus com posed: Dr.—To cash from tbe contractors of the company, and payments made by the contractors on account of the com pany, 2,171,3361. 18e. 7d. ; to works per certificate of the company's engineers, 2,993,2641. 14s. 3d. ; to cash received from the public for Metropolitan Extension stock and de bentures taken by the contractors, 4,171,453/. ; to balance due by the contractors, exclusive of ',tenet, 6,661,9411. 19s. Id. ; total, 15,997,9931. lb. Ild. Cr.: By 'nab from company to the contractors, and pay ments made by the company on account of the contractors, 4,403,4421. ; stock and debentures taken or realised by the contractors, 11,594,5511. Ds. I Id.—total, 15,997,9931. lls. 11d. The claim was adjudged for cocuddemtion. This was the sitting for examination and discharge ; but since the last meeting, on the 24th of July, no accorets have been Sled, and the only addition appealing on the proceedings is an order which was made some weeks ago, at the instance of the assignees, authorising the purchase of certain Exchequer bi"s to the amount of about 30,000/. Mr. Lawrence appeared for the bankrupts, and stated that no acominte had been filed, and it was impossible that they should have been, looking at the magnitude of the transactions in which the bankrupts had been engaged. At the last sitting it had been perfectly understood that further adjournment would be necessary, and that no dis cussion or examination should now take place. Messrs. Coleman and Co., who were engaged in the preparation of the accounts, had been also engaged under the deed of inspection, and great facility would thus be derived. was proposed to take an adjournment till the first week in January—the transactions being so vest that it would be utterly impossible to present satisfactory accounts much earlier ; and it was proposed that the accounts should be filed a month before the day fixed for the last examination. Another reason for taking this ex tended time was that certain questions were pending elsewhere between the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, and the bankrupts ; and under those proceedings Sir Morton Peto had been ordered to carry back his accounts to December, 1863. Those accounts would show beyond all question th►t Sir Morton was at that time a man of colossal fortune. The commissioner—l imagine the accounts cannot well be filed until the settlement of the questions in dispute 'between the bankrupt and the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. Mr. Lawrence said that when the matter came to be in vestigated there would not be so much difference in figures. The question, if question at all, between the parties would be one of principle or legal liability r►ther than one of amount; and when the bankrupts had given ►ll the information which it was in their power to supply, they hoped that the court would then pass their examination and grant their orders of discharge. It would be a serious injury to them were they compelled to wait the determination of questions which really did net affect their position before this court. His Honour was understood to say that that would be matter for further consideration. Probably the aisignees might require some time to examine the accounts. Mr. Denton, representing the assignees, ounsentad to the proposed adjournment, but said that it would be ne misery for the assignees to h►ve the assistance of an accountant in investigating these enormous accounts. It was suggested that Mr. Bishop, of the firm of Coleman and Co., should be appointed. After some discussion Hs Honour said he did not think the appointment of an accountant for the assignees was necessary, as Messrs. Coleman and Co. had been appointed to prepare the accounts for the bankt opts. Mr. Linklater, Mr. Chidley, Mr. Cunningham, and several other professional gentlemen appeared and tendered proofs. - An adjournment was then ordered till the 17th Jimmy next, for the last examination Only. The whole of the bankitipts were in attendance during the proceedings. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) BOW-STREET. TAMPERING WITH A PRISONER. Joh» rnmsor, a tall, powerful-looking specimen of the London Irish " rough," was charged by Theophilus Red stall, the gaoler of the court, with assaulting him in the execution of his duty, and also with using threatening language ; and Margaret Murray, an ill-favoured woman of the same class, was charged by William Lynch, one of the warrant officers of the court, with attempting to rescue the other prisoner. It appeared from the evidence that the assault occurred through an attempt of the prisoner Connor to pass "• bottle of spirits to a prisoner named Bryant as the latter VIM getting into the prison van. A scuffle ensued in which Redstall was pushed by the mob and further assaulted. The magistrate said that Connor, for the assault, must be imprisoned for one month, and must then find two sureties of 10!. each to keep the peace for three months. He then inquired as to the character of the woman Murray, who, it seemed, had been repeatedly in custody for assaults. The magistrate committed her for 14 days. THE RESOLUTION Of THE PAN-ANOLICAN SYNOD. _ _ The Daily News finds the archbishop's address to be couched, like the pastoral, in words which would rather cover disagreement than rigoalise unity. A docu ment which Bishop Colenso and Archbishop Manning might both accept as at least innocent and inoffensive, if not particularly valuable, is a strange manifesto on the part of a conference which shuts its doors upon both. The thirteen resolutions are in the same way a record not so much of work done as of work avoided or postponed. The bishops show themselves masterly strategists in turning the flank of every critical problem, and putting it off to a more convenient season. All difficult matters are referred to committees which are to report to ► future conference. The Greek Calends are not a Christian date, but they must have been in the minds of the procrastinating bishops, (In one point the resolutions are conclusive. They show that the Bishop of Capetown was labouring under an extraordinary mistake when be stated in a public meeting at the St. James's Hall that the conference had ender, d the recommendation of the province of Canterbury with respect to the choice of a pastor for the shepherdless sheep at Natal. So far as the conference is concerned, the Natal dispute is precisely where it was. That the positive result of the synod should be microscopically small was inevitable. The conference was the timid and hesit►ting attempt of a state church to act as if it were • free church ; of a church governed by parliament to deliberate as if it governed itself ; of the creature of the temp-ral power to assume the attitude of independence. The experiment and the failure are rich in Instruction. The church of England stands undecided at the parting of the ways ; but she must soon choose her path. The Times has an article on the cltr-ch congress end the synod, without any allusion to the resolutions. A con- trait instituted between the two meetings results all in ' favour of the congress. The bishops, the Tires says, would have done well to have endeavoured to lay the foundations of the English church more deeply among their own countrymen before attempting to imitate the artificial and hollow unity of the Roman catholic church. If, instead of taking counsel with American and colonial bishops, who know nothing of our domestic difficulties, they had invited some leading nonconformists to • friendly and open conference, they would then, at all events, have taken • step in the right direction ; they might have done very much to strengthen the position of the church among all classes of the people. This, as was confessed at Wolverhampton, is the fdirection in which the church must look for invigoration and support. Without it synods are but ecclesiastical stage plays, and unity is but • theatrical name for self isolation and ex clusiveness. To the Telegraph the resolutions, which have certainly not been issued in answer to any public impatience, seem for the most part as unexceptionable as they are colour- less. The only remedies proposed for the mils which are abroad consist of words, not always so much as intelligible; and there is a distressing appearance of what we should have to call " equivocation," if the publication were not the work of bishops. As to the resolutions referring to the see of Natal, it is hard to understand how the Bishop of Capetown could have so far misconstrued them as to tell a public meeting that the synod had pronounced for the appointment of a new bishop. This the synod did not dare to da. The Star thinks it moat be evident to ever; one that, though inaipid and hesitating, there is in the weak meddling of these resolutions with matters hitherto dealt with only by law, something wholly inconsistent with the situation of the church of England. The advantages of a voluntaii association and a church! establishment cannot be enjoyed at the same time. /US TOPICS. The conviction that peace would not be disturbed has never deserted the Times, but it would nevertheless be happy if some unequivocal act of the Emperor Napoleon, on his return to the Tuileries, could bear out its anticipa tions. It is true that irritation has gone further in a twelvemonth between France and Prussia than it wee ever suffered to proceed between France and England davit the lapis of two score years. But it is precisely because animosity is so much more violent that it may be expected to exhaust itself more rapidly. Men cannot be for ever holding their fists to each other's faces. Followed up to rational result►, there is no doubt th►t the principle of nationality furnishes us with the best guarantee for the continuance of European peace. United Germany, like united Italy, can be no danger to her neighbour. The Daily News points out that the visit of Admiral Farragut to this country presents • valuable opportunity for the interchange of those international courtesies which have so material an influence on the policy of nations. As the head of the nal/ of the United States, with a reputation second to that of no naval commander now living, Admiral Farragut has peculiar right to the atten tions be is now receiving. He has found, and will had, nothing but the warmest welcome, the most complete readioess to open our house to his inspection, and the most thorough appreciation of his own fame. In the visit he is ►bout to pay to Liverpool, the quondam bead. quarters of secession sympathies, be will snd that • reac tion has taken place in favour of the cause he so appro pri►tely represents, and has so efficiently served. The era of misunderstandings is over, and that of enlarged friendly intercourse has begun. The Pat hear; it authorit►tively stated in quarters having access to the best means of information that the antagonism between Garibaldians and the regular troops seems, in presence of this Roman question, to have alto gether disappeared, and that the regular grenadiers and riflemen are now just as resolved as the guerilla red shirts to break down the barriers by which the Roman people are separated from the rest of their Italian brethren. The Cosmopolitan Federation, or Peace League, established for the purpose of instructing, directing, and, if possible, replacing " the great governments of Europe," has now its head-quarters at Berr e. Professor Voght has been appointed president, and M. Ducoromun vice-presi dent. The names of the 14 member, of the directing committee are not published. The capital for the organ of the federation, to be called the United States of Europe, is being subscribed in shares. _ _ Mr. Octavins Long, steward to Earl Fitsbardinge, and Mr. Pearce, who were convicted at the late Gloucester mire for au assault on Mr. Bailey, at Berkeley, during the West Gloucester election, and sentenced to three mouths' imprisonment, were liberated on Sunday, a portion of their sentence hating been remitted. They had been in prison exac►ly seven weeks, and their Incarceration seems to have wrought some change in their appearance. Mr. Gladstone has consented to address a public meeting, to be held in the course of the present month, in connexion with the fund for the restoration of Worcester Cathedral. LATEST I NTMLIGENCE. THE INSURRECTION IN THE ROMAN STATES. The late National Junta at Rome has been suc ceeded by a body of citizens, who have taken the title of "the Committee of Public Safety." They have issued an address, in which they speak of the presence of Menotti Garibaldi in the mountains, and state that they are ready to take the general direction of the movement in Rome. " Keep your selves ready, and when the moment shall come we will give you the signal to close by a great feat the era of the temporal power of the Popes." THE POLICY OF FRANCE. According to the Independance Belge the conclu sions which have been arrived at at Biarritz will be shortly expounded in a circular, the work of M. Rouher. This circular will contain the following propositions :—" We could not intervene at Rome, for Prussia, which has engagements with Italy, would doubtless have been compelled to make a hostile demonstration, and we should have been dragged into a war not only with the bands of Garibaldi but with the entire Italian nation risen to protect its dignity. Italy is a great nation to which we cannot dictate orders. If France (the circular will proceed to say) had wished to make conquests she would have taken Bavaria and Belgium after Sadowa, and would have urged Prussia to take all Germany in stead of restraining her. Our ambition counselled it, our disinterestedness kept us from it. We shall not intervene any more in 1808 than we did in 1866 ; any more at Rome than at Berlin ; but at the same time we shall not allow others to intervene either in Denmark, Holland, or the East." (MITER'S TELEOR.IIIB.) PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Ocr. 9. The primary elections for the Prussian Chem_ bars will be held on the 30th inst., and the election of the deputies on the 7th November. THE NORTH GERMAN PARLIAMENT. BERLIN, Ocr. 8, EVENING. In to-day's sitting of the North German parlia ment the preliminary debate took place upon the Zollverein treaties, which were almost unanimously agreed to. The budget then came on for discussion. Herr Demichen moved to add to the budget a bill ren dering the Federal Chancellor legally responsible I for the proper application of the monies voted. Replying to a question from Herr Schultze, respect ing the entry of Mecklenburg into the Zollverein, President Delbruck said that steps had already been taken in Paris with the view of removing the obstacles which prevent that grand duchy from joining the customs union, but what success had attended these steps he could not yet communicate. It was desirable, he added, that Laueaburg, on account of its geographical position, should not be admitted to the union before Mecklenburg. Heir Demichen's motion was rejected, and the whole budget was adopted almost unanimously. NORTH AND SOUTH GERMANY. MUNICH, OcT. 8. The Zollverein and salt treaties were laid before the Lower House to-day, the government urging their adoption. During the debate Prince von Hohenlohe made a speech, in which he said, " The Bavarian government does not desire the entry of the southern states into the North German Con federation, nor yet a constitutional alliance with Austria. On the other hand it does not desire an isolated Southern Confederation, or one co-opera ting with France. The Bavarian government pur sues neither a policy aiming to make Bavaria a great power, nor one which would make her play the part of a mediator between Prussia and Austria. It desires only a national union between all the southern states and the Northern Bund. Negotia tions, with this object in view, are still pending. In the opinion of the Bavarian government the treaty of Prague prevents the entry of a single southern state into the Northern Confederacy. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. VIENNA, Ocr. 8, EII:RING. In to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the Austrian Reicharath, after the report of the Confe rence of the Austrian and Hungarian delegates had been brought in, Baron Von Benet presented to the house the bill relative to the amount to be contri buted by Hungary to the general expenditure, and the interest on the public debt of the empire, and also the treaty of commerce between Austria and Hungary. PESTH, OCT. 8, Er E I NO. In to-day's sitting of the lower house of the Hungarian Diet the railway committee proposed to the Home to sanction tho railway loan. VIENNA, Ocr. 9. Yesterday evening the Municipal Council of Vienna determined to present to the Emperor an address protesting agr'nst the address of the Aus trian catholic bishops, which deprecated any modi fication of the concordat. CROATIA. FIUME, Ocr. 7. The Croatian flag having been hoisted upon the government buildings in this town the President of the Municipality will address an energetic pro test to the Hungarian Diet petitioning for its removal. FIUME. Ocr. 8. The Croatian flag was hoisted yesterda y upon the government buildings in this town by • Croatian official in the absence of the governor. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. MALTA, Om 9. The Ripon, from Southampton September 27, arrived at 8 p.m. on the Gth, and left at 4 a.m. on on the 7th inst. for Alexandria. The Ma cilia, from Marseille, 6th inst., arrived at 8 p.m. on the 7th, and left at 7 a.m. on the Bth for Alexandria. (Er ATLANTIC TILLSCHIAPIL AMERICA. NEW YORK, Ocr. 8,6 P.N. Closing prices : Gold, 144 k ; sterling exchange on London, 1001; 5-20 United States Bonds, 112 k ; Illinois, 1221; Erie, 69. Cotton: Middling Upland, 20. PHILADELPHIA, Om 8. Standard white petroleum, 38. The Emperor, the Empress, and the Prince Im perial made another excursion on Saturday to Saint-Jean de-Luz. On the preceding day his Majesty went to visit the widow of the unfortun►te pilot of the boat which con veyed the imperial party on shore on Thursday. and who was drowned, as already stated. The Emperor has granted ber a pension. Prince Napoleon was among the aeronauts who went zip two days back in the tethered balloon in the Champ-de-Mart The Marchioness of Lanedowne is detained in Paris by the illness of her mother-in-law, the Counties de DISPIRATE AITIXPT TO =KW ♦ PRISONIft FROII THI POLICZ VAN. A tall powerful man, about 30 years of age, who gave the name of Hen►y Turner, described himself as a la bourer, and refused his address, was charged before Mr. Barker with attempting to rescue a prisoner from the custody of Matthew Crawley, a sub-warder of the House of Detention, while conveying her from the Sessions house. Clerkenwell-green, to the prison van. He was further charged with violently assaulting him at the same time and place. Mr. Allen, solicitor to the visiting justices, attended to prosecute, and Mr. Moore, the chief warder of the House of Detention, watched the case. Mr. Allen said that owing to the frequency of these cases he bad to ask that the prisoner might be committed for trial. These proceedings were taken under the 24th and 25th Via., cep. 100, sec. 38, which provides that who- oever shall assault any person with intent to commit felony, or shall assault or wilfully obstruct any police officer in the execution of his duty, or any person acting in aid of such officer, or shall assault any rerson with intent to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detaining of himself, or of soy other person for any offence, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and being convicted thereof shall be liable at the discretion of the court to be im prisoned for any term not excei.ding two years, with or without hard labour." This was the third case of the sort within a very short period. The evidence showed that yesterday evening, on the re moval of a prisoner of the name of Anne Turner from the basement of the Sessions-honso to the van the prisoner rushed from the crowd, assaulted sub-warder Matthew Crawley by hitting him on the side of the head, knocked him against the police-vim, pulled the convicted prisoner off the van and tried to force her into the crowd. He was prevented, and after a desperate struggle the woman was got from the prisoner by police-constable 011ett, Zl6 A Ft., and Monolan, 272, AR. and placed in the van. The present prisoner was taken to the police-station. For some distance a mob followed and attempted to rescue the prisoner, but were prevented from doing so, and the prisoner was locked Mr. Allen said be bed other witnesses to cell whet/mild fully prove the attempt to rescue, and therefore he now bad to ask for a remand, The prisoner hewentsaiti dermas to kiss his wife, and was shoved accidentally by the crowd sig ne t the sub-warders. He had no intention of rescuing th e female prisoner, and it was all moonshine to say that h e did so. What the crowd did he cou'd not help, but it was no fault of his. Mr. Barker said that there was enough at present to grant a remand, and the pa:toner warn remanded for a week. The prisoner, who treated the matter with the utmost coolness, we. then removed, one of the warden stating that the present prisoner had himself been in custody. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. • " /7:NIAR" CHARGED WITH BRUTAL ASSATLTEL John Bain, an Irish tailor, was charged before Mr. Tyr. wbitt with assaulting George Hubbard, a b oy , and also police-constable Marks, 120 C. George Hubbard, a boy residing at No. 12, Great Chapel. street, said :—I was going through :Crown - court yesterday afternoon when the prisoner called me a " Fenian." I took no notice of him and walked on, when he followed me and struck me and knocked me down. Some people came and took him from me, and I want away. He they followed me and knocked me down a ga i n , and kicked me about the aide and shims. I had not said a word to him, and I know nothing of him, A (unstable mule rap and the prisoner was taken into custody. Mr. Tyrerhitt—How many tunes did the prisoner kick you? The boy—Five times altogether. Police-constable Marks, 120 0, said—Yesterday titter noon I was told that a man was ill-using a boy in Crown. court, and on going to the oourt I found the boy (Hub. bard) crying. I asked' the boy what was the matter, and he said that the prisoner had been ill-using him. I took the prisoner into custody, and as soon as I did so I was surrounded by four or five men and women, and was knocked down, and while on the ground the prisoner tried to kick me on the head, but another constable (163 C) coming up prevented him. On the way to the station the p.:eoner said, " lam a Fenian, and if I had what I had in Gray's-inn-lane I would show you what I would do as I would use my revolver and blow your brains out." Mr. Tyrwhitt—Two can play at that. We have not come to it yet to be bullied by • parcel of ruffians and low fellows. - The prisoner —I said nothing about Gray's•inn•lane or revolver. i4rwhitt—l don't acre about your petty swagger about a revolver and all that. Yon will Lave a month with hard labour for kicking the boy. DISGRACEFUL DESERTION BY PARENTS. Charles Coke, an intelligent-looking boy, was charged with being found destitute. Alfred Pcoley, 164 B said that at 1 o'clock this morning he was on duty in Pond-place, Fulham-road, when he was info..ned that there was a poor boy lying in the open air. Witness went to the place pointed out, and found the defendant at the back of the model lodgings, in a coal-bor. Witness asked him what took him there, when he replied that he was glad to get anywhere, as he had got no home, his father and mother having deserted him three months ago. Mr. Arnold—Why Old you not go into the workhouse when your parents deserted you? Bo —I was in work then, when they ran away from me, I but soon got out after that. Mr. Arnold—Where have you been sleeping lately? Boy—ln the coal box at the back of the model lodging. house. I'm doing nothing for a living now. Mr. Arnold—What I. your father ? Boy—Well he's a catholic: now, but he used to be a protestant. Mr. Arnold—What trade is he—how does he get his living! Boy—He's a "nervy." Mr. Arnold—Have you any brothers or sisters ? Boy—Yes, I have • brother. He's in a reformatory, and I have two Litt` s sisters at home—at least they ware when father and mother ran away from me. Mr. Arnold direct .d the boy to be taken to the work- house for the present. WANDSWORTH. THE NEW MASTER AND SERVANT'S ACT. Mr. Ingham had his attention, for the first time drawn to the new Master and Servant's ..(et by • gentleman residing at Rochampton, who wished to know whether there was any summary jurisdiction between a woman servant and her master. Mr. Ingham—lt is Teri new, if I have it. The applicant referred him to the words " employed" and " employer" which were used in the new act and said they were only generaL However, the second section ap peared to limit them to the schedules which constituted the old statutes. Mr. Ingham—Then of course it is quite clear there is no jurisdiction. (On referring to another part of the set the magistrate said the-, must be an information in writing, and requested the clerk to pay attention to that. He also said that they now had no power to grant a warrant.) The applicant—Except when the party is likely to abscond. Ingham (still reading)—The power of imprisonment is gone. Applicant—ln the first instance. If the act is subject to the old statutes there is very little amendment in it as I oan see. - Mr. Ingham thanked the applicant for calling his atten tion to the act, and wished to know whether he could amidst him. The applicant said he could not if there was not any summary jurisdiction in cases between domestic servants and their employers. On returning home he found the sister of his servant in the house, who had come to fetch her away. His servant went away, leaving the work in the house unfinished. He thought the conduct of his servant so unjustifiable that, if the magistrate bad any rower under the new act, he should have felt disposed to ask him to put it in force. Mr. Ingham said the answer to that would be "you don't get a character." The applicant informed the magistrate that she had got a character and a place. Mr. Ingham—There is no help for it. The applicant then withdrew, and shortly afterwards the sister made a complaint against him for detaining the boxes. . . Mr. Ingham told her that if her sister applied for them they would be delivered up to her, aa her master did not with to keep them. TEE FATAL EXPLOSION AT WOOLWICH ARSENAL. INQIJEST.-(THD3 DAY.) • Mr. C. J. Carttar, Coroner for West Kent, opened an inquiry this day, at noon, at the Royal Oak Tavern, New-road, Woolwich, into the eircums stances attending the deaths of three lads named Walter Pipe, Robert Newby, and Garrod MeGilligett, who lost their lives from the effects of injuries received by an explosion which took place at No. 6 shed in the laboratory department of Woolwich Arsenal, on Saturday last. A highly respectable jury having been sworn, the Rev. Thomas Tuffield was selected as foremen, and the Coroner observed that they were about to enter upon • most important investigation, which excited much interest in the public mind. It was • melancholy case, and would demand the deepest consideration on the part of the jury. Under existing circumstances he felt that it would be quite impossible to arrive at a verdict without an adjournment, or perhaps repeated adjournments of the case, as it might be highly necessary to examine some of the lads who were pa tients in the hospital, and that could not ho done at present with safety. He had held many inquests upon deaths which had resulted from gunpowder explosion, and had always found the utmost difficulty in arriving at the cause of such explosion. In this case it had been rumoured that Newby, who was now dead, could have thrown some light upon the subject. The Coroner then pointed out the most important points which required to be elucidated, and the manner in which he proposed to conduct the investigation. If any evidence could he obtained as to the origin of the catastrophe, it would clearly be of great advantage, and they must also endeavour to ascertain if any person was blameable, or if the% bad been any neglect on the part of those employed at the establish. matt. After all the evidence had been taken, it would then become his duty to point out to the best of his ability the law of the case before they arrived at the verdict. It would be for the jury to decide whether it would be necessary to view the site of the accident—i The foreman " Yea, yea.")—Well he thought it might be of advantage to do so, as it would render the evidence more intelligible. He peoposed on that day simply to have the bodies of the deceased identabe in order that they might be interred. and to visit the site of the accident, when the inquiry would be adjourned. The parents of the deceased lads then gave evidence as to their identification, end the coroner and jury then proceeded to view the site of the accident, the inquiry being ultimately adjourned for a week. SHOCKING CHILD MCRDER.—SHIELPS, TCRSDAY Nurr.—Arespectable, newly-married woman, the wife of a tailor named Jarrons, has been taken into custody to-day, by the Yarmouth police, charged with muniering her in fant. Before she married Jarrons she was a widow,end kept the Stag Inn, in this town. A month ago she left her home here with the intention to go to see her friends at Yar mouth. She only got to Peterborough, when Ow was dls livered of a child. She subsequently took it to Yarmouth, where it was found suffocated in a bundle, in the leek yard of a coffee-house, where she had gone for refresh ments. When she returned to Shields she said nothing of having been delivered of a child, but upon the polio* taking her into custody she admitted having been to Peter borough, but she added she did not know where the child was. She has been taken to Yarmouth in custody. HOSPITAL FOR DI/MARRS OF THE THROAT, 3 2 , GOLDEN-SQUARE, W.—During the week ending sth Octo ber 295 patients were under treatment, of whom 32 were new eases. SINt This In' the Sucre] co. T s " death of R The C' tbe decease d ' lesPect° o f the oom The first ' aid that a p. 3, Pl r ight, at 21 rolin-atzt sa she In trial/re 1 - dorOner Waned@ (obliged to th e money I found M 5 1 , and right with ed for " There it him to ifiT There wad drink out of bed, am - Corner Witness the jug an As he wee Coroner way did In Witness charge of at him it was thro Corone Witnel rad Wei Corone Witeei Sarah : snd she 1 ceased a called on at the oil TO azi n c e this one! 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