The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-10 00:00:00

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MGR WATKII AT LONDON BRIDGE. ?HUI 41A TO-Iloanoir—Morning, 14m Afternoon, Mt. 34m. LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10. ERE the year we hay e entered on is out, if the rulers of the leading States of Europe have their way. everyablebodied man within their borders will be trained to arnis and liable to military service. That such a burden is more than the subject can or will long support is indeed already apparent by many a sign. That also when all is done it will only leave each Power with exactly the same relative strength against its equally armed and disci plined neighbours as if both were wholly unarmed, is obvious to common sense. Yet neither com mon sense nor the resistance of the people will probably avail to prevent at least a large exten sion of the liability to enrolment. For, unhappily, we can find no spot in Europe, save Switzerland only, where there is not a royalty or an aristo cracy that demands an army for its domestic secu rity, and that is not too open to the suspicion of a desire to use the weapon for foreign aggression. So each seeks to augment its military power ; and then the rivalry of neighbours is made a new excuse for increasing a force already far in excess of the legitimate purposes of the conservation of order. And almost the worst consequence of this miserable contest of personal jealousy is, that the huge offensive power so kept on foot, and the un scrupulous character of those who wield it, threaten even States which are essentially pacific, and thus the overgrown armaments of France and Prussia, Austria and Italy, are not only a menace to each other, but impose on their weaker neighbours a necessity of also standing in preparation, lest un awares they should be overrun and absorbed, less from hostility than from a desire to secure fresh rec . g grounds or new positions of strength. By what mews can so destructive a madness be arrested ? In time, doubtless, the intelligent na tions themselves will enforce their rulers to stay their hand, and a people armed by their kings may compel their own kings to return to reason. But what infinite mischief may be wrought, and what rivers of blood may flow, ere thus stability is secured, and a universal disarmament is prepared. And how, meantime, can such nations as desire to be safe without being defiant, and such as, like ourselves, trust to the voluntary spirit of their 1141118 to form their defence, be enabled to cope with those which are restrained by no scruple of friendship, and are able to compel a whole popu lation to stand in line of battle ? This question, pressing so heavily just now upon all the smaller States of Europe, and not less upon us, whose policy concurs rather with theirs than with that of their overshadowing neighbours, is in a great degree solved by a suggestion made (not for the first time) by Mr. E. CnA ' , wick, in a pamphlet which lies before us. His proposal, especially adapted to England, is to meet the com pulsory disciplining of men in foreign States by a compulsory drilling of boys with us. Such a re sponse seems, indeed, when first put forth, almost ludicrously inadequate. But a little reflection shows it to be at once all that can be done with out approaching the principle of a conscription, and to be in itself a very material enhancement of our present resources ; for it means that though no one shall when grown up be bound to enter any of our military services, yet the whole population shall be competent to do so at short notice. The schoolboy drill will never be so far forgotten but that in a few days it may be reco vered. Though, therefore, we may keep neither a large army on foot, nor largo reserves under liability to be called out—though we shall not be able to count like our neighbours our million of men enrolled—yet we shall know that we have live millions who in time of need, and supplied with proper arms and officers, could in a week be fit to meet a foe. It would not be necessary to keep names registered in military books when we should be certain that every man who as a boy had spent a few years at school had been there taught to march and wheel, to shoot and skirmish. Nor certainly can the most rigid advocate of the system of voluntary recruitment object to so much of compulsion as is implied in requiring every school to employ a pensioner for a drill sergeant, and every boy to pass under his hands. No "conscience clause" could be neces sary to make such an arrangement consistent with individual liberty. It is only a demand that the child who is to receive protection from the State shall acquire the elementary knowledge necessary to enable him to bear his share in the defence of the State. The expense would be wholly insignifi cant, since an hour or two a week would be suffi cient, and in every village a pensioner is to be found who would be ready to attend for a very moderate pay. Mr. CHADWICK computes that 50 boys could be thus thoroughly trained at the present cost of drilling one grown-up recruit. The boys themselves would delight in such an exercise, so that no objection could come from them. And though, doubtless, only a small percentage of them would ultimately enter the army or militia, the youthful training would not be thrown away on the rest even in time of peace. The habit of moving simultaneously, of recognising the advantage of com bined effort, the development of the muscles and lungs, makes the boy who has been drilled a far better workman than he would have been without it. The subordination, attention, patience, pre- TRE EXPRESS, I'ituESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1867. ciaion inculcated are an equally alnable train ing for the mind. But the advantages of the scheme are neither limited to those which it proffers in case of war, nor to those it extends to pacific avocations. It could not but be an invaluable aid to our ordi nary recruiting. When a lad has already learned his drill, all the fear of awkwardness, and of being subjected for months to the browbeating of a drill sergeant, will be removed. He will know that on enlisting he will at once step into the place of a soldier, without experiencing the preli minary indignities attached to the position of a recruit. His mind will have been already turned to the subject, and any latent inclination he may have for a soldier's life will be roused and deve loped. Mr. Cu anwicx gives some figures, taken from schools in which the system is already in ope ration, from which the impetus which would be given to voluntary enlistment, if school-drill were made general, is shown to be enormous. But the advantage would not end here. All who thus en tered the army would necessarily be educated, and presumably respectable. They would elevate a ser vice which would l, longer be regarded as the depot for either scum or dregs. And if as a con sequence it became necessary to introduce im ' provements into the superior branches of the ser vice, and when the men were educated and re spectable, to insist that their officers should be accomplished, and gentlemen, we should find in this only one more recommendation. We must not omit to mention that Mr. CHAD WI. K proposes the addition of naval instruction in at least the schools of our seaport towns. As a useful variety of exercise, as affording a better supply of trained seamen, and as enabling sailors to act as soldiers, and soldiers as sailors, in time of emergency, the suggestion is no less deserving of approval. We strongly commend the whole pamphlet to the perusal of those who are in terested—and who is not?—either in our military or naval prowess, or in the healthy, physical, and moral training of the rising generation. We are not surprised to observe that its suggestions have already received the approval of very eminent authorities in both services. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) pamphlet abounds, the Daily News quotes as a sample el his political asperity his lordship's statement that as Irish settlers in America have no reason to be hostile to England therefore they are not, end his explanation of the Fenian subscriptions by the sweeping generalisation that in a democracy men are not free agents. In his dis quisition on political economy, Lord Reese's principal object appears to be his desire to asperse Mr. Mill as a preacher of disaffection and revolution. His confutation of Mr. Mill consists in stating as an answer to that writer's doctrine what he had himself stated as a limitation of it. On the Irish question Lord Rosse only re pe eta, in a feebler and more confused way, the more doubtful points of Lord Dufferiu's letters in the 1 . 114(A. Lord Bosse furnishes a notable example of the vanity of concluding from eminence in one department to capacity in another. He is a standing argument against each proposals as Professor Mackie has put forward for the enfranchisement of men of science as such, by conferring parliamentary representatives on the Royal Society. The late Sir William Hamilton, of E linburgh, in a well-known essay, has elabo rately contended that mathematical and physical undies tend to disqualify for philosophy and for affairs. Their professors, accustomed to demonstrative reasoning from fixed principles, are unfit, he says, to balance those moral probabilities upon the discrimination of which the business of life depends. He compares them, when deaL ing with such matters, to owls in daylight. Mr. Mill has vindicated, and in the main, perhaps, successfully, vintli 'tea, these pursuits and those who follow them from Sir William Hamilton's attack. But Hamilton's doctrine could not have been framed if there had been no instances sip parently confirming it ; and rth an instance we find in Lord Rosse. THE TORT JOURNAL% AND MR. CEORGE POTTER. The 11, rah! ana the Standard of Chin morning publish the following In their leading article columns : We have to express our sincere regret that an extract from Blackwisal's Magazine" for the month of January appeared ill our Cllitlllll.l of the inl Inst. severely reflecting upon the character id Mr. George Potter. We are assured that the several allega tions to the extract are without foundation; that although Mr. Potter has been an operative joiner during many years of his life, be has always given satisfaction to hag employers, and never on any occasion been distal •sed ; that the only tine he ever worked under any person of the name of Smith was darling two or three days in iss6, and that then he left solely on aces snit of the lowness of the wages ; that there is no pretence for ea) ing that he WIN ever dismissed by them or by any other person under whom he has worked ' • that he never Ilia lICCOIIIe a waiter at le any eatiuginse or hotel, or at any other plate of the kind ; that he never was in the employ of a railway company, and, therefore, never was In any sense of the word a railway that he never wrote for any other peel... Heal than the " Beehive," 1.1 which he is now the manager that. although in 11:0, during the lock-out, he became secretary to the delegates of the Loudon building trade, he has not filled any similar post since !sal that from the time of his apprenticeship to the time when he accepted the post of secretary he worked at his trade. and receives! the highest rate of wages as a skilled and expe rienced workman. Having every reason to believe these assurance., we regret that we should have been the medium of eirculathig the misstatements referred to. and we beg to tender our apology to Mr. Putter fur the insertion of the paragraph. the Court. OSBORNE, JAN. 9. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by Princess Louise, and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning with her Royal Highness. Prince and Princess Christian drove out yesterday after noon, and the Princess walked in the grounds this morn ing, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole. The other members of the royal family went out also. Prince Christian, attended by Colonel Ponsonby, drove to Parkhurst-barracks to-day, where his Royal Highness wu received by Colonel Jeffreys, C. 8., commanding the depot battalion. His Royal Highness inspected the battalion, cud after wards visited the Female Prison at Parkhurst. The Judge Advocate-General had an audience of the Queen yesterday. The Belgian Minister andMad►me Van do Weyer and Sir Thomas and the Hon. Lady Iliddulph had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family in the evening. Lieut.-General the Hon. Charles Grey has succeeded Major-General F. H. Seymour as Equerry in Waiting. Despatches were sent from the Coloniaboffice yesterday to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and St. Helena. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is laid up with an attack of gout, at Gloucester House, and was unable yesterday to attend at the Horse Guards. The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor and family have arrived at Calverley l'ark, Cheshire, from visiting the Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland at Cliefden, near Maidenhead. The Duko of Rutland is entertaining a select party M Belvoir Castle. _ The Earl and Countess of Derby arrived at their residence in St. James's-square, on Tuesday evening, from Knowsley. His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Ikrnstortf, and the Countess Theresa Bernstorff, left Prussia House, on Carlton-house-terrace, yesterday afternoon, on a visit to Frances Countess Waldegrave and the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., at Strawberry hill, Twickenham. The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle have left town for Scotland. The Earl and Countess De Grey have arrived at their residence in Carlton-gardens from their country *eat • The Countess' Cowper and Lady Amabel Cowper have passed through town from Ponshanger, on their way to visit Viscountess Palmerston, at Broadlands, Hants. Lord and Lady Llanovcr have arrived at their residence in Great Stanhope-street, Park-lane, from their seat in Wales. On Tuesday last the Rev. William Belcher Clerk was licensed to the perpetual curacy of Walbemrick, in Suffolk, on the nomination of Sir John Ralph Blois, Bart. At the meeting of the London and Westminster Bank on Wednesday next a dividend is to be recommended of 16 per cent. for the half-year, making, with the 14 per cent. paid six months ago, a total distribution of 30 per cent. for the year 1866. The reserve is to be increased from 450,0001. to 400,0001., and 45,0399. will remain to be carried forward. During the Christmas holidays the Cardinal Archbishop of Naples called upon Cardinal d'Andrea, who immediately returned the visit. This incident is of importance, as showing the conciliatory spirit by which his Eminence the Cardinal Riario Worsa is animated ; but it has created not a little surprise as well as pleasure, for Cardinal d'Andrea is at present under the displeasure of the Pope. We read in a letter from Naples :—" On the last day of the old year the law for the suppression of monas teries was carried into complete effect, and it was done with so much gentleness that there is not a single painful incident to record. Vety little, indeed, re mained to be done, as most of the monastic est►blishments had been already vacated, and I believe there were not more than seven or eight where the fraternities continued to reside on suf fermice. As far, however, as the monasteries are con cerned, the work is now complete, and there has been a very perceptible increase of the number of friars in the streets on foot, or in carro.r.efia, throughout the week. As regards the lay brethren they will receive their pensions, and be turned into the world to employ those powerful sinews which are proverbial here in healthy and useful labour, while those in priests' orders in some cases congregate together, as in the ease of the fraternity of San Martino, who have taken a house near the Castle of St. Elmo. Wherever a church waa attached to the monastery two or three priests, and as many lay brother*, have been left to continue in the offices of religion, the selection having been made under the direction of the civil authorities." Letters from Vienna state that the performance of Berlioz's illustration of Faust was a success, and that a banquet was given on the eve of his departure, attended by the leading patrons and professors of music, poets, critics, and literati. Mdlle. Marsha, the attractive prima donna of Her Majesty's Theatre, has not renewed her en gagement at the Vienna Opera House. Now that the war in Prussia and Italy is over, there is some probability of the new grand National Opera House being inaugurated the present year ; the scenery for the standard favourite opera is already painted, and every part of the interior de coration of this magnificent theatre is near completion. Gounod's new opera, Romeo and Jvliet, Is anxiously ex pected early in the forthcoming spring. The white flag, bearing the red moon of Japan, floats from the first floor of the Grand Hotel, Paris, the Japanese mission, consisting of two Grandees of the Court of Yeddo, being there domicilcd. THE BOMBAY MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN.IO. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ceylon, with the heavy 'portion of the Bombay mails, has arrived here. She brings 62 passengers, 1,412/. in specie, and a general cargo, in cluding 1,572 bales of raw silk, value 140,0001. sterling. After leaving Gibraltar she experienced a strong south westerly gale and high sea. On the Bth instant she spoke the steamer China. GIBRALTAR, JAN. 5. This port and the coast of Morocco especially are suffering from want of rain. Exchange on London, 49'..% Paris, 5.15 to 5.17. Madrid, E dia. Her Majesty's ships Skylark and Redpole arc in the harbour. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE DEIJTSCHLAND. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 10. The North German Lloyd's steamship Deutsch land, from New York on the 29th ult., has arrived with 77 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen, 193,208 dole. for England, and 3,600 dole, for France. She experienced strong variable winds through out the passage, and at times much snow and rain. (By ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, JAN. 9. The Judiciary Committee of the House of Re presentatives is examining the grounds for the im peachment of President Johnson. THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRE-411)ENT JOHN4ON. The Times continues to describe the events which are passing in America as a revolution, tending to reduce the office of a President, with well defined duties and responsibilities, to that of a constitutional king bound to follow the advice of ministers possessing the confidence of the legislative assembly. Mr. Johnson has been guilty of the crime of forming an opinion for himself, and as that opinion does not conform to the sentiments of the majority of Congress be is to be impeached. The Times does not believe that the necessary two-thirds of the Senate will concur in a condemnation of the President upon the charges brought against him ; but then a consti tutional difficulty is in these days a matter of email concern in the States. If the majority in Con gress cannot legally compass their ends, they will do so by the expression of their own will. Put ting in the mouths of the Congress the sophism that a clause of the constitution is nothing if it bare the way of the representation of the people, the Tinte4 adds that the popularity of such reasoning makes the impeachment of tke President remarkable as evidence of the length to which the revolution has gone, and a hint of what may come after. The fate of Mr. Johnson is a trifle compared with the safeguards of all personal liberty and individual freedom, which are thus subjected to the unchecked caprice of a fluctuating majority. The wisdom and propriety of the impeachment must depend, the Daily Nears says, on the result of the inquiries into some of the greatest scandals in Mr. Johnsou'e adminis tration now going on. The leaders of Congress are not such bunglers in the art of politics as to take such a step as a mere party move. The exasperation which Mr. Johnson's conduct raised may increase their readiness to take so serious a course, but they will not do it unless the beat interests of the country seem to them to de mand it. Mr. Johnson will really have only himself to thank if the counsels of his enemies prevail, and he is brought to trial. His share in the frightful business at New Orleans has never been explained, and his indiscri minate pardons have subjected his very patriotism to sus picion. Nor can he wonder if Congress should attribute the most serious meaning to his foolish words. That he seriously contemplated a coup d'erat is generally believed in both North and South. But the house will not im peach him even for the foolish words he used in his speeches against Congress, and the Senate will assuredly not find him guilty unless some overt acts of violence or niece unconstitutional actions are clearly proved against him. The Star says Mr. Johnson has exercised the veto power in a manner which would entail upon any constitutional sovereign who attempted it the loss of his throne. Although the Civil Rights Bill was passed over his head, be has repealed, with a stroke of his pen, the general orders under which the negro population were relieved from the terror of the whip, and coloured vagrant' were made amenable to the same laws, and those only, under which white vagrants are punished. The result is that in the State of Maryland the old slave masters are flogging their negroes with characteristic cruelty and zeal, and persons of colour who have been convicted of petty offences are openly sold on the auction block as of yore. He boa vetoed the bill conferring the franchise upon the blacks in the district of Columbia, where st►te laws have no force, and where the supreme jurisdiction of Congress is ordained by the constitution itself. In the opinion of the Telegraph, Mr. Johnson's accusers can only accomplish their purpose by revolutionary violence, and to that they may resort, though in what precise form no one would venture to predict. Should Mr. Johnson be ejected from the White House, the Pre. aident of the Senate would succeed to his office until • new election could be held. As the Senate chooses its own president, it would thus be sole muter of the executive power, and the scheme of government devised by the con stitution would then have come to an end in form as well as substance. THE ACCOMMODATION TO THE LONDON POOL Heviewing the proposals urged yesterday upon Lord Derby by Mr. Torrens and a deputation, tending to render it incumbent on local authorities to purchase and pull down any dwellings which might be judicially condemned, the money being in the first instance provided from the Treasury, and any deficit being charged on the metropo litan rates—the Times comes to the conclusion that the great demand which exists for good houseroom for the poor can be met without measures so exceptional. In the opinion of our contemporary, the best service which the members of this deputation could do to the cause they have at heart would be to encourage and assist in the for mation of a large company which should demonstrate practically the remunerative character of an investment in building houses for the poor. The Times believes this can be done, and is therefore confident it will be done ; and deprecates the hasty interference of the legislature, lest it should complicate a problem which ought, unquestionably, to be solved by private enterprise. The only assistance which can be legitimately offered by the government is to lend money to the promoters of such a company on easy terms, and this advantage has been already provided. The Herald thinks that Mr. Torrens and his friends should have gone better prepared with facts and figures, showing that his scheme was capable of commercial suc corer. If the government does anything, it must be on reliable data, clearly demonstrating that such success is possible. The task of getting together the necessary proofs is one peculiarly within the province of such a society as that which has been formed in the interest of evicted tenants, and therefore it should have been done before they asked the countenance of the executive. LORD ROSSE ON THE IRISH LAND QUESTION. The Daily IWe* describes Lord Rose's pamphlet on the relation of landlord and tenant in Ireland as a model of everything which a polemic should not be. After giving a few examples of the discreditable innendoes and flippant misrepresentations, particularly of Mr. Mill, in which the LATEST INTELLIGENCE. SPAIN. The following is a summary of the latest news from Madrid : Twelve members of the Cortes have been assigned a forced domicile, viz., Mews. Emile at Orense, Carballo at Almeria, Mantilla at Corunna, Estrella at Lego, Cams val at Lerida, Ortiz Pinedo at Leon, Dionisis Roberty at Soria, Alarcon at Burgos, Silvela at Toledo, Albareda at Lemuel, Suarez Inelan at Jaen, and Navarro at Ovieda. Seven have been transported, MM. Mauricio Roberty to Alhucema (on the African coast), Menages to Ceuta, Do minguez to Melilla, Itascon to Badajoz, La Hoz and Her rera to the Canary Islands, and Salaverria to the Balearic Isles. M. Rios ROBIN was on board the steamer Pinta, for Porto Rico. The arrest of this last-named gentleman is related to have been made at 1 in the morning. When the valets of Marshal Narvaez came to break into the house of the president of the Cortes, the latter ordered his domestics not to open. The police then repaired to the Captain-General of Madrid, M. Pezzuela, for fresh instructions. He directed them to drive in the gates. Having thus forced an entrance, they found M. Rios ROSPA in bed. He said he was nnwelL Further recourse was then had to the captain-general, who told them to get a litter from the nearest hospital, and place If. Rios Ross. in it. On this, the lattergot suddenly well, rose,dressed himself, and accompanied the alguazila on foot. Marshal Serrano was also arrested in the night time. His place was sur rounded by two companies of infantry, and the inevitable Pezzue's in person, with four men and a corporal, pre sented himself in the bedroom of the President of the Senate, who openly laughed at all his precautionary measures. As to the Queen, she had not forgotten her former friendly relations with the marshal, and the ser vices he had rendered her many a time and oft : she sent a court dignitary to Madame Li Marichale, who was all in tears, with a message, leaving to her the choice of the place where her husband should be sent to. But the high-spirited Spanish lady was so loudly indignant that she scarcely gave the unfortunate emissary an opportunity of explain ing his mission, and be had to retire without any answer. However, the Queen was not to be thus foiled, and an hour later she again sent her envoy to show to the marechal a a copy of a telegram which her Majesty had sent to Marshal Serrano in his wife's name, making what place be would like to be exiled to. But once more the " Consti tutional Sovereign" par excellence could find no access to the heart of her whom she wished to solace, for the latter went so far as to threaten to summon the Queen before the Tribunals for having used her signature without authority. We now know that Marshal Serrano is at Mahon, in the Balearic Isles. (REUTERS TELEGRAMS.) CIRCULAR OF COUNT VON BISMARCK. BERLIN, JAN. 10. A circular of Count von Bismarck to the repre sentatives of Prussia abroad has been published to-day. It points out the good understanding that exists between Prussia and all other States, parti cularly Denmark and Holland, notwithstanding the pending questions of Northern Schleswig and Lux embourg. Peace is therefore assured everywhere, and Prussia, thus relieved .4 any care in respect of her foreign policy, can wholly devote herself to the new consolidation of Germany. FRANCE. PARIS, JAN. 10. M. de Maupas has been appointed Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. The Mouiteur of this morning publishes intelli gence from Vera Cruz to the 14th of December and says :—" The movement of French troops in the different provinces of the empire has less the character of military operations than of prepara tion for their return to France." ITALY. FLORENCE, JAN. 10. The Naziotte of to-day, in correcting a statement respecting financial operations with a Belgian house, having reference to the ecclesiastical pro perty in Italy, says :—" The Minister of Finance is really engaged upon a general financial scheme which will include a large operation based upon the ecclesiastical property. This scheme will be submitted to the approval of parliament. Signor Scialoja will make his financial statement on Mon day next." BRUSSELS, JAN. 10. The Lulipendanee Beige of to-day publishes a telegram from Florence asserting that M. Scialoja intends restoring the ecclesiastical property to the clergy in consideration of a payment of 600 mil lions lire, provided that the ecclesiastical mortniain property be alienated within ten years. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, J. 9. The Imperial Bank has announced by adver tisement that it is prepared to pay the January Coupon of the General Debt. The Turkish government continues to send rein forcements to the Greek frontier. Five infantry battalions have been despatched to Epirus, and five more are ready to march. It is stated here that the Christian inhabitants of Thessaly refuse to supply provisions to the Greek bands who have entered that province. It is also asserted that Zembrakaki, the leader of the Candian insurrec tion, has embarked for Greece with a portion of the insurgents. TURKEY AND GREECE. VIENNA, JAN. 10. The Press of to-day publishes an analysis of the circular note sent by Aali Pacha on the 26th ult to the protecting powers of Greece, urgently re questing them to direct the serious attention of Greece to the fulfilment of the obligations imposed upon her by existing treaties, and to remonstrate energetically with the Greek cabinet on the subject. Should these steps on the part of the protecting powers have no result, the Porte would be com pelled to take the necessary measures to defend its rights. THE PRINCIPALITIES. BUCHAREST, JAN. 10. In consequence of several unsuccessful efforts to form a new cabinet, Prince John Ghika has at the urgent request of the Hoapodar consented to re main temporarily in office. AUSTRALIA. (Vii Trieste.) ADELAIDE, Nov. 28. A motion has been discussed in the Legislative Assembly in favour of discontinuing emigration at government expense, but was afterwards with drawn. MELBOURNE, Nor. 27. Parliament has been prorogued till the 21st December. It will assemble for the despatch of business in February. The Melbourne Cup was won by Barra. SYDNEY, Nov. 24. The Education and Gold Duties Reduction Bills have passed. The Chief Secretary has stated that the govern ment do not intend subsidising the mail service vitt Torres Straits. The Bank of New South Wales have declared a dividend at the rate of 15 per cent. The wool clip is very large. The Tasmanian cabinet have resigned in conse quence of the elections resulting adversely to them. Advices from New Zealand state that Captain M‘Donnell was recovering. William Thompson was seriously ill. It is reported that a native war has broken out in the Fiji Islands. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Gold, 1341. Exchange on London, 1091 ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 1073 ; Illinois, 120 ; Erie, 65? i. Cotton, middling upland, 35c. THE LATE GALES.-LIFEBOAT SERVICES. MORE LOSS OF LIFE. FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAY, Went: Intelligence was received here yesterday (says Captain Arengo Cross) that a ship was on shore on the Middle Patch, on Carmarthen bar. It was blowing strong at the time from the westward, with occasional heavy squalls. The City of Manchester lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was launched and proceeded towards the wreck. On nearing the spot it was observed that there was a signal of distress flying on the only mast standing, that her hull was under water, and that two men were clinging to the masthead. As there were por tions of wreck washing about in the vicinity of the vessel, the lifeboat experienced some difficulty in getting along side, but after repeated attempts she succeeded in effect ing a communication, and rescued the two poor fellows, who were in a moat exhausted state. They were safely brought on shore and are now doing well. One of them was the mate, who stated that his vessel was the schooner Gem, of Hull, bound from Greenock to Southampton, laden with pig iron and machinery. Owing to the extremely boisterous state of the weather the Gem had lost all her sails but one, and owing to the master mistaking the Caldy Light for St. Anne's, she had gone on the sands about midnight and filled almost immediately. As the night was stormy and the sea running high, the master, his wife, and the four men, who composed the crew, lashed themselves to the cross-trees, but at daylight there were only two of them living, the others being drowned in their lashings and their bodies being fearfully mangled. There were evidently no means on board the wreck to show a night signal for the assistance of the lifeboat. CARDIGAN, WEDNESPAY. At daylight yesterday a sack wu observed in the bay with two anchors down, and labouring heavily (reports L Tenfold, Esq., collector of customs). She had car ried away the main boom RIO bulwarks, and her windlass was disabled. As the seafaring men at St. Dogniers knew that the vessel must be in great danger, owing to her dangerous position, they launched the Blanchester lifeboat—the John Stuart —of the National Life boat Institution, and went to her assistance. The master of the smack, which was the Coronation, of Bideford, gladly accepted the services of the lifeboat, and he and his crew of eight men were safely brought ashore in a heavy ground sea. He stated that the crew were so much exhausted that they were unable to heist any signals of distress, but as he had heard much of the Cardigan life boat he felt sure she would come to the assistance of him self and crew. LYME REGIS, DORSET, WEI , NE,4I,AT. This port was visited yesterday morning with a fearful stone, which occasioned the loss of four vessels by their drifting out of the harbour (reports Robert Hillman, Esq.), and three of them becoming perfect wrecks. The few men that were on hoard the vessels wore fortunately rescued by the coastguard galley, manned by Lieutenant Elton, R.N., and five other wen. The pea was so heavy that the service was a very gallant one, and called forth loud plaudits from the lookers on. There were other lives saved also at much risk by different individuals—persons !Living been washed off their legs by the heavy aeu. The tide was much higher than it has been seen here for years past. TEIGNMOUTH, Wzi/NESDAY. This morning (states Mr. O. P. H. Rowell) information was brought here that a large vessel was on shore, near the Parson and Clerk Rocks. It was blowing a heavy gale from the S.W. at the time. The lifeboat China, belong. Mg to the National Lifeboat Institution, was thereupon about to be launched, when fortunately the vessel got clear and was observed to be standing out. Shortly afterwards a bairjue made for the harbour with a signal of distress flying in the rigging. The lifeboat was then launched and proceeded to the vessel, shipping some heavy seas as she crossed the bar, of which, however, she readily relieved herself. On arriving alongside they found she was the Norwegian barque Orden, bound to France with timber. The master had unite lost his reckoning, and as his ship was rapidly drifting to leeward, he was, of course, anxious to get into a port of safety, and a stearu•tug has now gone out to his assistance. CARNSORE, IRELAND, JAN. 8. We have had two very bad wrecks here on the west beach (states Blr..fohn Barrett, the officer of Coast 4 Ward), and I regret to say that all ou board perished from one vessel, and that three others were also lost from the other wreck. No lifeboat would have been of the least service on that beach, as the seas there were awful. " Tho Emperor," says a letter in the Lae pradrener, " has just ordered a thousand Winchester rifles. Several accidents occurred during the last experiments with fire•anus at Vincennes." The annual banquet to the Society of Political Economists of France took place on Satunlay. M. T. Busy, as usual, was in the chair. There wero present M. Michel Chevalier, Count Walewski, MM. de Parien Horn, Ed. Laboulaye, Marquis Pepoli, MM. de Remusson, Pellet, Leome de Lavergne. M. Gamier, secretary to the society, addressed the company, after which a debate took place on the abolition of vexatious custom dues levied at the barriers of Paris and of all French towns. A letter from Paris says :—" We have now got into our musical season thoroughly. At the It&liens M. Bagier, the manager, works Patti pretty severely, and with financial success ; but the general company is under the mark, and orchestra, scenery, and costumes are far inferior to the demands of a PariAian public, who at the other houses meet with so many stage luxuries. Mr. Mapleson has engaged Mdlle. Nilleson, of the Lyrique. Verdi's Don Carlos is now in full rehearsal, but it will not be given at the new Grand Opera House during the Exhibition period, as the building can scarcely be com pleted for another year." Mr. Ella, director of the Musical Union, is in Paris. In a letter addressed by this professor to the Prince Constantine Czartoryski on the subject of music in the Austrian capital is the following paragraph deserving of notice in England :—" The artistic and aesthetic expe riences derived from frequent travels on the Continent compel me to admit that so long as my country is without • national school of music, a public institute and library of music, a national opera, and that governmental support which furnishes an economic basis for cheap and classical performances, such as I have alluded to in Vienna, under the direction of learned and experienced kapellmeisters, music in England will ever remain, as it now is, a mitier. In France it is an art ; in Italy • necessity ; and in Ger many • religion." According to the official lints just received from Spain, it appears that the Customs' returns of sherries exported to this country last year were : From Xeres : Gonzalez and Byes., 5,142 butts ; Manuel Misa, 3,500 ; Patrick Garvey, 3,443 ; P. Dorneoq, 2,951 ; and from Port St. Mary :—Widow Harmony, 2,898 butts; Duff, Cordon, and Co., 2,037 ;F. W. Cosens, 1,9 ; and M. de Mora, 1,757 butts. The Yacht Club of La Rochelle has just awarded a medal of honour to Mr. Bennett, owner of the Henrietta. Several other similar societies in France are about to confer a like distinction. The death of Lieutenant-General Thos. Wright, C. 8., took place on the sth instant, by which event the colonelcy of the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot is vacant. EXECUTION AT 211AIDSTO.VE.-(THI. The last sentence of the law was this mornin g carried into effect upon James Pletcher and Anne Law. ranee, who were convicted at the recent winter assue.for the county of Kent of the crime of wilful murder. The circumstances will be fresh in the recollection of the public. The man Fletcher was cons icted of the murder of one of the warden of the Chatham convict prison, in which establishment he wa.. c , eee d under a sentence of penal servitude for seven year., for robbery accompanied by violence. While engaged' at th e work of breaking stones be suddenly attacked the unior. tunate warder, struck him three fearful blows with a heavy hammer, and literally smashed in the front of hit face, inflicting such fearful injuries that the warder a t e unable to speak a word afterwards, and died in the s isms of a few hours in dreadful agony. With regard to the other prisoner, the circumeanen were somewhat peculiar. She cohabited with a man hat:A Walter Higham, at Tunbridge Wells, both of them bring married, and the child whose life was destroyed was a boy four years old, the son of the woman, and whom she had taken with bar when she left her home. There was very little doubt that she entertained strong feelings of affection towards her paramour, and the fan that he bad been unfaithful to her, and was desirous of breaking off the connection, drove her to the murder. It appeared that about 5 o'clock on the morning of the 14th of April she got up, leaving nightie in bed asleep. She then proceeded downstairs, took a rant from a cupboard and returned to the bedroom, ands the most deliberate manner almost severed the head of the unfortunate child from his body. Afterwards she endeavoured to coat the guilt upon the man Higbee, and continued to persist ,in the statement that Ls was the person by whom the murder was committed, even after the jury had returned a verdict of guilty, and the learned judge who tried her, Baron Channel!, bad palmed sentence of de►th upon her. Very shortly after. wards, however, the hardihood she had exhibited seemed to forsake her, and on the day after her conviction she ail. mitted her guilt and made a confession, the particulars of which ban already appeared. As regards the man who was hanged this morning, it ap. pears that when he was tint brought to Maidstone gaol, be conducted himself so violently that it was found necessary to put him under restraint. Sinew his condemnation, bow. ' ever, he has behaved very well, and he has never, it appears, entertained the slightest expectation that the s entence would not be carried out. He has expressed Lis deep contrition for the crime, and admitted that it use premeditated. He has made ► very extraordinary statement in connexion with it. He says that he fully determined to murder the warder on the day in question, and that he looked up at the clock that was hanging near the place where the convicts were at work, and at each quarter of an hour said to himself, " I shall do it in another quarter den hour." This went on for several successive quarters, and at length, at 4 o'clock, he again said to him self, " I will do it in another quarter of an Lour." He suddenly changed his mind, and thought he would do it at once, and on the instant he rushed upon the man and felled him to the ground with the hammer. The woman seems to have exhibited extraordinary firm. ness ever since she has been under charge, and has fre quently expressed her readiness to meet her sentence. She admitted that she intended to do something that should occasion trouble and mischief to her paramour, but declared that on the morning when the crime was committed, she was driven to do what she did by seeing a new hat on the table belonging to Higham, with the maker's name in it, from Melling. She immethately suspected that he had passed the night that he was ab:eet with the woman of whom she wee jealous at that place. lu the tint paroxysm of her fury she tore the hat to atom', seised the razor in one band and the billhook in the other, and first cut the child's throat, and then made the attack OA ' Iligham. She declares that the medical theory advanced at the trial that the blood had spurted over her at the time was not correct, for she purrosely held back as far as she could. She asserts that all the blood upon her clothes came from the man Higham at the time she attacked hint. No one has been to visit the wretched woman since her conviction but • married sister, who provided the funds for the defence. The child the prisoner had by the man Higham,which is about 12 months old,was with her iu the gaol until a short time back, when it WOO placed in the workhouse. It appears that no woman has ever been ex• ecuted in Maidstone parish, all the executions of women that have taken place having always been carried met at the ancient place of execution on Peuenden-heath, which is in the pariah of Bexley. The prisoner had become aware of this fact, and evidently for some time enter. tuned the idea that no woman would be executed in Maidstone. It was not until she was earnestly pressed to abandon all thought of a reprieve that she appeared to give up the hope that the sentence would not he carried out. The 11ev. Mr. Frazer, the ordinary of the gaol, who his been unremitting in his endeavour to bring the condemned prisoners ton sense of their condition. amt who administered the Holy Communion to both of them twice at their request, was in attendance upon then at on early bon this morniug, and remained with them until the execution, which took place at 12 o'clock. The culprits exhibited great firmness, and when the drops fell appeared to be dead almost immediately. There was an immense concourse of persons present. SMALL PDX IN 1105 TON. Mr. Humphreys, the :Middlesex coroner, re sumed and concluded last evening at the Alma Tavern, Alma-street, New North-road, the inquiry relative to the death of a girl 12 ye►rs old named Elizabeth ltnice, who died from small-pox under circumstances already pub lished. George Bruce, who was recalled, stated that medicine was procured for the deceased at a chemist's. His wife admitted, however, tliit the medicine WAS only a dose of castor-oil. The child had only • quilt ands sheet to cover her. She was given beef tea and whatever could be got fur her. The father excused his conduct in the affair by s tating that he dared not let has landlonl know that the girl was ill, and that ever since the matter became known he Vat " subjected to:rnost gross ill-usage," The Coroner in summing up sahl that the law applying to the ease was this- —that wherever a child was in charge of its parents and was attacked by • disorder dangerous to life, neglect to procure proper treatment would amount to murder where there was a design to shorten life ; but if the neglect was without malice and arose only from gross or wilful disregard of duty the offence was man. slaughter. In this case there was no grounds for imputing to the parents any design or desire to shorten life ; but if the jury held that the neglect to procure necessary aid fur the child arose from wilful dereliction of duty, it would he their duty to return a verdict of manslaughter. If, on the other hand, they regarded the conduct of the parents as attributable to an error of judgment arising front a fear of being turned into the street if they made known the state of the case, they would say so by their verdict. The jury, after some deliberation, returned a verd ict that "The deceased died from confluent small.pos, at! that her death was accelerated by the neglect of her la' rents to procure medical aid for her, suit that the condui: of the parents was highly censurable." The landlord of the Bruce family asked the Coroner what he was to do with them. All his other lodgers leaving his house ; he had given it , ,tice to Bruce to quit, but he would not go. The Coroner raid that be could not interfere in the matter at all. He had no jurisdiction in such affairs. The proceedings then terminated. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL Stn I ETY. —At the eveniii4 meeting, on Monday, the 14th ii.st. tSir Roderick I. Nan. chison, Bart., in the chair), the following papers will be read:-1. A journey to Kano. from the Niger: by (the late) Dr. W. B. Itaikie. *I On the north-east provinceAladagaacar ;by the Bishop of Alain-Rills. .1. Diary of a hill trill in Burnish; by Lieutenant T. 11. Lewin. A /EARFUL iScENE AT A WHEcK.— Dining the recent plea at Penzance, a feat NI scene occurred. The lifeboat named the Richard Lewis. belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, which had rendered such good service on Satunlay and Sunday in sated seventeen shipwrecked men, was again called out on Monday, and bravely hurried to the rescue of the co • of a large West Indianian, the John gray, of 1; laS"w , which hail gone ashore after having been einhayed all .14 in sight off Penzance. Rocket lines were skilfully amen on board the ship, but this proffered :MI was not made use of. When the lifeboat returned from her long and p e rilous trip thousands of watchers were told that though fifteen men had been brought away, four remained behind: soon after, the ship broke up. aml they miser. ably perished. The cause of these four deaths was a common but most sad one. The master and second mate were drunk with rum, and not only would not touch the rocket lines, or go aboard the lifeboat themselves, but, with threats and curses, endeavoured to prevent the men from leaving the ship. The first unite, a teetotaller, attempted to reason with his frenzied ceP' tain, but, being unable to make any impressioa, resolved to share his fate, and did so at the coat of his own life a fourth man drowned was held below decks, be could not move or be moved.— Wi.stero Olin:, Niece. CENTRAL CRINI 11 (THIS D. (Before Mr. Rani THE JoINT NTocii The trial of Janon Fn, lin :1 Wto of the Joint Stuck Discount ILi with fraudulently approptiatir cheques, the property ..f the en the sitting of the court this ~,,, rn en behalf of the prosecution was p Mr. Giffard, 84. C. (specially n.t. with Mr. Poland and Mr. F. 11. I lion% and Mr. Coleridge. Q. ( (both specially retaintell appeared the prisoner. The first witness ra Mr. Hobert Hill, who, in reply that he had been atssist.itit duty was to provide the finances. loans on bills, and in these mattel. Prisoner. In the cheque-hook prom doted the 28th August, ISI iI I st.%l he did not remember what pert,. I referral to. In the onlinary way receive his instructions from the pi Ia the cross-examination by M witness stated that he hail 'leant by the prisoner, and hail intim., The business we very ripen the prisoner wee very r emember whether or not th.• from. the bank from the Ist to the Lie (witness) could n u t sa y whet), ' l 4 been advanced to Mr. Klein was anent. Money might have beet iat istant-manager, to Mr. Kleine,, inane. to the bank, and he reset 'many in return. He did not ret t° 5 essra. Capper, Lawson, and t: LAW R l er COC (Before the C PI'BI This was another bas vrinding.up suits. Belo the Rolls there were up public companies. 'l Chamber of the other c. R 1 There were five summ the chief clerk of the 31 t o postpone the time toc , on the list and one totsk contributors. This caw queetion of the 40/. call the Master of the Rolls. Mr. Lording (Freebie instant was the last application to comple Perhaps the present The Chief Clerk acqui. day mentioned. He a' these matters were to be to be paid" Mr. Lording said he sh deters, ask for costs agai Adjourned to the 20th. 4 ovEKENI , . 1 There was a summons admit a claim, and stood 4 before Vice Chancellor H COURT 0' (Before Mr. IN RE LIEUT. JELLIC.4 The bankrupt, A. C. 5 pirdens and elsewhere, 99th Regiment, applied f debts are only 33b1., of w the representatives of the rapt describes his failure ,reseure of creditors. Mr. Bagley opposed th. should stand over till site Mr. Reed, for the ban been proceeded against i Major Blamire, with who. macy. If he were now re the aid of friends, he wuul ranging_with his creditors. His Honour saw no coulee and directed the ap IN The bankrupt William described as a stock and Bombay, since of Dur, adjudication was on hi. his failure to depre . shares and securities The accounts show the f. unsecured creditors, 14, 91,6011. ; liabilities on 11,501. There are no Bombay • but the bankru the secu red creditors heti but which is now of uoce „..., Th for we e ban x . a bi m kni i . na l t: t o ce n h,ad a f n o d rbee disc thne hi of sepias to hold to bail . dustan • but he bad bee bad been in the habit of p advances on them. Owin predated in value ; and he to assist in realising them The bankrupt examined years in business, and stn He obtained advances on s various banks Rs security. the value of the advances t Financial Bank be obtained purpose of m O li tl:e ti r n fil i k r i: . shares which had deprecia of the failure of the conitai worth about half their ongi His failure was entirely ow' lost all his fortune. His Honour granted an i IN RE CAPTAI The bankrupt, the well.kri • of Gerrard's-cross, Bucks, nation and discharge. T 7,4001., with a considerable a and eroperty held as securit at 9,9 911., and embracing Horseman" and other works, . cross, valued at 6,6g4/. Mr. Cunningham, for the was a very favourable one, a surplus of 4,0001. They the bankrupt should receive his o Mr. Bagley opposed for cr Stevens, of Uxbridge. He surplus ; it was not likely th 0 aWed, would realise more the The bankrupt, examined, of 3119/. due to him at the tin Chapman and Hall were auto Beeton, publisher, owed h entered that, as he doul paid. Mr. Brown, publisher him 100/. for literary services; dation transactions between t he commenced building a mad , which was valued at 7,4 of his debts. It was lea Brazenose College, Oxford, f.. He had other property in th i l a l n d d andleasehold Goh b...b. e p , l- 1) ,1 ,, ,, b • horse for his brougham, t and other horses when he was Mr. Reed appeared for the His Honour was of opinio abownto prevent the bankrm property at Gerrard's-cross w value, and there was no prete rapt with contracting debts payment. The accounts 1,..1 Mr. Hutton, and were certiii, , of discharge would therefore I, IN RE 11./S. The bankrupt was a wine al, by Messrs. Hart Brothers an, and disclose li abilities of 34,23. I 20,93'.0/. The accounts king application of the assignees, an nation sitting was ordered. (Before Mr. Comm . IN RE RII.EI. r The bankrupt, described as professional pedestrian, of 111 . .• who had been in the habit of , applied for his order of diachar His Honour said this was iii ; two betting men. The bank riii atonal pedestrian, bad been in races and betting on them. kept one of those public.holise • pestiferous 31111 dangerous ch• made on commission, and whicl gentlemen's servants and others. - bets on certain races at the inch, ' being compelled to pay, he took the banknipt compassed pidgmei $7 ,:giet I,re 6c wa e j , :lgil,eut ; asl about n, l‘r t r. :, nnitted to York Cantle. lie no discharge, which was opposed 0 defence to the action of the assist no. speculation. It did not a l the defence was vexatious ; and , it might have been successful. '1 (Manly could not be urged by the been the instrument of making t ~, lie now characterised as rash an /irrupt would therefore have his dis Lis di