The Express. — London, England, 1866-12-17 00:00:00

Ig!Mm! JOHN BBOGDFN. 0111GINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUF ACTORY, 16, ILENRISrf A-STREET, COV/2114ARDEN JOHN BROGDEN'S IS-carat GOLD CHAINS. - OLIN BROODS/CS GOW GUARD CHAOS. "011 N BROGDEN'S GOLD ALBERT CHAINS. 'OLIN BROODEN'S GOLD BROOCH CHAINS. - -.L - ------- --- BEESON'S WATCHES. 68 ind 80. Ludgate-MU: 88. Old 1618d4t8•68. - BROWN and POISON'S CORN FLOUR for CHIIDSVCS To obtain extra profit _toy the sale other kinds are acanstinsas offered instead of liltOWN and POLSOYS. John Brown," "John Poison," is signed by the makers OD esoli packet. RTTS'S CHEAP DES for 1867 are pubUshed in over 50 different b rine, and are especially suit 'd to the wants of inecbaniot, shopke,pere, and servants— C:,241 , trues gratis of all bookseller& long time ago we considered ourselves to hold an undisputed supremacy. The apnoea that our ironworkers are everweighted by the results of strikes may be supplemented by the circumstance that the employers are also hampered by the cost of obtaining the necessary capital for maintain big their factories in work. It is perfectly trim that a manufacturer must hesitate in taking an extensive contract by the fear that his workmen will leave him at a moment's notice ; but the converse likewise appears, that supposing this contingency to be out of the question, he may at any moment, by the rise of the rate of discount, with which perhaps he has nothing to do, see his profit disappear altogether. It is clear that during the last few months a French mauufacturer has had a considerable advantage in his favour by being able to borrow upon reasonable terms in stead of paying 10 per cent., if indeed the English master were able to borrow at all. We may also add that when money is exceptionally dear, and credit is consequently diminished, it becomes a question what industrial operations, intrinsically good, can be carried on advantageously. At the present moment a largo number of operatives in the East of London are left without work. Trade is slack, and there is no demand fur new merchant ships. The fact is, that credit has been so severely shaken by the late panic that fresh en terprises are for a time at an end. This is, in all probability, a partial consequence of the Bank rate of discount being for three months at 10 per cent. There is no such stagna tion abroad, or, at all events, whatever there is proceeds from political rather than commercial causes. It is to be hoped that, supposing the peti tion of the Manchester Chamber see of Commer an ce should be granted—and we hardly why it c be refused—a thorough investigation of the effect of our currency laws in checking trade and production should be the main point considered. It is no new thing to point out how the Bank directors are controlled, consciously or un consciously, by the present unfortunate Act. During the present year their mistakes have been many and grievous. Still, there has always been this excuse to be made, although perhaps of little value, that they considered themselves bound by the strict letter of the law, notwith standing they had liberty in the general interest to go beyond it. At present we fear that they are also making a mistake. The reserve and the bullion continue to augment, and the former item has in fact become larger than known for years. The discount business is slack, and there is no prospect of increase, except, perhaps, during the last few days of the year. Putting other circumstances aside, it would seem desirable that the rate of discount should be lowered to 3i per cent. As a general matter of business it seems contrary to good policy to make this reduction, but the Bank has exceptional ad vantages, and in return has exceptional duties to erform. V. 1 '.l •i • ) 1 i 1 i . , 1 \.• 1 1 , '.• 1 . I ' , 1. . i t: i 11! ' 1 I • Ili ~.4 . I ‘, l ii. , 1 , •' l. i, i I .' . ! i f 11l - r! i : 1 1 ,I , ! 1 , 1 .1. '...1 1;1\ 1. 1 1 ..: .11 ' , 1. i I . ~ . \ 11 . 1 ft 1; 1 ' 1 1 .\ 1 la Zhe OraatiSlS. TO COREERPONDENTS. Advertisements Intended for " The Birpreta " London PreninC , moat be at the Mee, 10, Bouveriwetrect, by Two =1 on the day of publication. DRURY LANE. TEI ITIC1111(1. D VALET. Weems. Welter Montgomery , E rbeips. iktrrett, Weed. Hanby, end C. Webb ; lidadeek; Geller.— And K. AIIiNAINE AND PETILUCLUO. Mr. T. Seinbourne , blr. J. Robins, and Albs Isabel Adams. ELAIMAILSZT. Ting EvErtrNo, A (RILE OF SPECULATION. Messrs. C. Mathews, Cht vends*, Rogers Sc.; Mesdames FIMMIsm, DM, de.—ANToli V AM) CLEOPATRA. Mesas C. Mathews, Comp- Sou, ; Mesdames Mathews & HAL 01,7 01 WATIat. rwraestra. Vim Evan BAILNABY BUDGE. Mews. P. CaMum, 7. Villiers, J. O. Shore, fia ; Mn. John Wood, Slimes Amnesia Thomson and Katherine Insigers, Mrs. 11. Vbsins, and 31'n C. Borman. —i•reoeded by THE Or THY MLI& STRAND. THIS Evian*, NEIGHBOesss mews. p a rent, B e n oi t. and )army : Mesdames Sw.asburvigh, Johnstone, and !lushes. KEN I LWORTK. Mean. James. Thorns, di 'don ; Mesdames Swanbo.ousa A Raynbans.-1d YAMS AT TAE SWAN. HOLBORN. Tins Eviormi, at 7,11 Y TURN !MT. Mr. Delmore Ruses Foote and Lemnos.—And FLYING KIM. Mews. Nevin*, Bel more, Make, Vullalre, d u .: diesdames F. luuephs , C. de nuders, Henke liddes, Lennox, Daymuud, Re. BRITANNIA. Tills Erewrso, BEAUTY AND TILE BEAST. Mr. R. Leslie awl Min M. Tooth.—Mr. "Dancing Mad" Bryan , Mr. Uttar nem ; OngW&T, the Indium JuggIer.—LAIIRETTE'S BIZIDAL: Olt, MOlth THAN MELTS TILE EYE—And BITTER COLD. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Tin DAT —Morning, 9it. 13rn Afternoon. OE 441 n. EO.MOLiow—Mornlng, Iob. Aittruouu. UHL WO% LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1r is a characteristic of nearly all debates upon the Currency question that the wisest resolutions are supported by the weakest and most discursive arguments. By some extraordinary fatality mem bers of the House of Commons, merchants, bankers, and political economists are unable to see that in judging this question the only safe ground is that of facts. Almost invariably the latter are summarily set aside, or perhaps only casually alluded to, while each speaker brings forward his pet panacea. It seems incomprehensible that men of business should deal with a question which, iu its practical effect, concerns them more than any other, in a vague and desultory manner, produc tive of no possible good. Perhaps the explana tion is to be found in the fact that the currency is so emphatically a matter of business that, owing to the contradictions of human nature, it cannot be treated in a business-like way. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce afford the last illustration of this singular tendency. They instinctively feel that there must be something wrong in a law that has to be superseded every nine or ten years to mitigate a crisis, not to speak of tho many inter mediate losses resulting from its often hurtful operation. Naturally they desire an inquiry which, as they cannot help feeling, must be fol lowed by a change in the present system. But why could they not say, in support of their views, simply this :—" The Bank Charter Act was passed " in 1844. lu 1847 there was a commercial crisis. " The Act was suspended, and the pressure " ceased. In 1857 there was another and severer " crisis. The Actwas suspended, and the panic again " ceased. In 1866 there was a crisis worse than " either of its two predecessors, and again the Act " was suspended, to the intense relief of the entire co-:Tr:waits% We rely upon These fads, and " upon them we found our request for an in " quiry." There is nothing more to be said. If those facts can be contradicted, let them be so. If not, the inquiry cannot possibly be de nied. Unfortunately the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, from whatever cause, could not take a practical view of the subject. They theorised upon free trade in Bank notes, the fixed price of gold, and so forth, and thus have exposed them selves to replies which skilfully deal with the weak points of their discussion, and leave the real question untouched. The great point that strikes impartial observers is the strange discrepancy which during the late crisis existed between the position of the Banks of England and France. It is so contrary to all pre cedent and inexplicable that for three months the rate of discount should Fe in London 10 per cent., and in Paris only 4, that upon this point at least our commentators are silenced. Every now and then elaborate disquisitions are put forth, showing that either the joint stock banks, or the incautious public, or the speculators for the fall on the Stock Exchange, or the promotersof public companies, are responsible for the collapse, but the contrast between London and Paris is always studiously avoided. It forms ono of those awk ward subjects that militate so strongly against theory, that evidently the best thing to be done is to let it alone. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce might with advantage have dwelt a little more on this subject. A speech on the price of gold, and the expediency of buying on occasion at a dearer rate than the Mint, which really means that a sovereign is to be worth at the same time 20e. and 20s. 6d., might very satisfactorily have been spared in favour of a little snore examination into facts. The standard value of gold may, in an abstract point of view, be a very interesting subject, but it has no more to do miscru.astors TOPICS. with a financial crisis than the price of cloth. In The Times gives some account of what has been done by reality less, for the nation might have over- W sid o e rks of fo t r he th e e v p er nrEfi th ca e ti srork ot is t fi m he 'shed ; Tham "on. spoculated in cloth, while they could hardly ' t o h n e the u o t f h have • the nort h side side it is finished with the exception of the over-:speculated in gold. The question to be con ' portion which is connected with the Thames Embankment, aidered would have bean the reason why the and must necessarily be executed at the same time. These Bank of France was accumulating bullion with great drains carry the sewage of London to points at such unprecedented rapidity with a rate of discount a distance down the river that no return of the chs at 4 per cent., while our Bank was barely able charge need be apprehended. The contents of the Northern Reservoir have been bo u g ht by a company to maintain its stock with a rate of 10 . How for conveyance to a point on the Essex coast, where comes it that the law of supply and demand has t hey will be employed in tho reclamation and thus signally failed ? Has the Bank Charter Act f ert i nsa tion of s large area of sea sand. This bar• had anything to do with it ? And, thirdly, why gain is complete, and a cautionary sum has been de has France experienced no commercial crisis during posited as a pledge for its due execution. The board tells the last twenty years, while we have had three? ns that the Thames has been a ctuall y cleansed to an ex. The subject is of much greater importance & a n tent almost incredible, and that the purification of its at fast sight appears. We daily hear of our own water itettested by fi th o e f best .o o oo f wi da tn h ess ov e e s o , o t w he re nativ o e a s trades being not only in danger, but actually °l:the e l emen t. the Tan ofthe ricer formerly m ost quantities to parts superseded by foreign competition. France, Bel- polluted, while the offensive exhalations of past years are gium, and Germany have become formidable cam- now unknown. It becomes, however, more manifest than petitors in many branches of trade, in which no ever that to purify the Lower Thames at such extraordk OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (Tnis DAY.) SUSUMU JOHNSON'S MESSAGE. The tenacity of purpose which is shown by Pre. sident Johnson in adhering to his former policy is scarcely possible, observes the nets, without that unlimited self confidence, which hastens to a conclusion, and when once a ' conclusion is resolved upon, refuses to listen to arguments against it. It is not so much that he will not con descend to refute opponents, as that he never listens to them. There is not a word in what he says with reference to reconstruction which the most ardent republican mi,,ht. not adopt. The point is whether the immediate admission of members of Congress elected by none but the whites of the South would secure an addi tion of " loyal members," or whether it would not bring back into Congress a disloyal party in greater strength than ever. The Times offers no opinion on the point, but adds that for Mr. Johnson to pass: it by without noticing that it is the essence of the dispute is idle. The contradiction of principles which he shows in dealing with the alleged depredations on Ame rican commerce by so willed British vessels during the civil war and with the Fenian raid in Canada is so startling as to be almost unintelligible. But the Tina is not without confidence that should action ever again be required of him he would put aside the sophiams which are advanced in hie message, and show himself as firm a , maintainer of neutrality as before. According to the Post, few persons can doubt that Mr. Johnson is morally right in hia home policy, though some possibly question his wisdom in setting his parliament at defiance. His language about Canada is to some extent ambiguous, but hie government behaved so well that it would be ungenerous to criticise it too closely. The Maar/el-4 says that if similar language had been used by one European power in speaking of another the funds would fall, and a general apprehension of war would prevail, but we have learned to apply a different rule of interpretation to American state papers--an in terpretation by no means flattering to the Americans. To the Star Mr. Johnson's message is a remarkable manifestation of utter incapacity to adapt opinion to circumstances. He feels that he has taken an unpopular position ; but instead of receding from it, he endeavours to cover it by adopting a tone towaribi foreign nations which will, lie imagines, be nattering to the national pride of America. THI: RING Or ITALT'S SPEECH. The Daily N , tea regards the speech with which the par 'lament of Italy has just been opened, under circumstances which could only occur once in a nation's annals, as having among other merits that of being adroit without dissimulation, frank without indiscretion, severe without offence, conciliatory without weakness, resolute without rashness. In the references to Rome the language is so prudent that it would be difficult for the most unreasoning partisans of the temporal power to cavil at it —compro mising no one and committing to nothing beyond the terms of that convention which prescribed respect of the papal territory and the independence of the Pope. For Italy the time is now oome to complete her independence by developing and consolidating her internal re. sauces, and having reached the years of discretion Italians must hold themselves accountable to civilisati Ju and to mankind for the manner in which they show themselves worthy or unworthy of their extraordinary fortune. With much praise of the King of Italy's speech, and congratulations on the completion of Italian independence, the Times unites some earnest counsel to the representa tives to address themselves to the control and regulation of the public expenditure. It would be difficult to forgive the Italians any remissness in their exertions arising from a false notion that a nation has only to attain freedom to comprehend all at once, and to their full extent, its rights and its duties. f.iamAkt: 'RE4S. MONDAY EVYSING, DECEMBER, 17ii.1866. nary cost widip tibe Uppcserhames in left l o be polluted still amounts to absurdity. Mentioning the fact Vat the sublet* al seem in the mercantile marine is now engaging the attintion of the , Board of T r ade, the Daily News observes that if that body wishes to do good service, it must commence by arranging a strict and systematic inspection of ships' stores by competent officials, both when a ship sails and when it comes into port. And as there is no more real occasion for a death from scurvy than there is for one from poison, let the same leg al responsibility attach to the reckless owner of an ill-provided ship as to any designing miscreant who by adulteration. of the linielnice not more certainly brings about his fellow•creature's suffering or death. A committee, consisting of the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of London, Lord J. Hay, M.P., Sir John Lubbock, Sir John Bowring, and a large number of members of par. lisment and other influential gentlemen, have undertaken to set on foot a subscription for the relief of the Candian refugees, 10,000 of whom it is said—women, children, and infirm old men—have been driven by the devastation of civil war from house, and home, and compelled to sack a precarious shelter upon what to them is after all little more than a foreign shore. The Daily News supports the appeal, and erprerses `ha conviction that it will meet with a prompt and generous response. Eta Qaurt. WINDSOR CANTLE, Du. 15. The Queen, with Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Henry of Prussin,left the Castle this morning at five minutes past eleven o'clock for Osborne. The suite consisted of the Marchioness of Ely, Lady Susan Melville, Indy Caroline 800 .ington, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Lieuterant-General the Hon. C. Grey, Major•Ger.eral Sernou . ”, Captain Von Schroetter, in attendance on Prince Henry of Prussi4, Dr. Jvn ner, Mr. Bahl, Mr. Legg, and the Master of the Household. Prince Arthur left the Castle last evening for Greenwich- pack, attended by 3lajor Elphinstene. Sir James Clark has also kft the Castle. OSBOItNE, DEC. 15. The Queen, Prince and Pri•.cees Chria;.ian, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold. Plineees Beatri.e, and Prince Henry of Prussia, arrived at Osborne, at t...n minutes before 3 o'clock. Her Majesty crossed over from Gosport in the royal yacht Alberta, Captain the Prince of LeinMgen. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturday. The lords prevent were—Sir E. V. 'WiLiams, Sir R. T. Kiuderaley, and Sir J. Culvile. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the governors of the West India Islands. Despatches were sent to the governors of Canada, the Lemmas, the West India Islands, British Columbia, Van couver's Island, and British Huthlunts. The Chancel/ n- of the Exchequer and Mrs. Disraeli Ir - ,ve left Grosvenor-gate for Flnghenden Manor. General tLe Hon. Sir Edward Cust bad the honour of an audience of her Majesty at Windsor Castle last week, and presented a co 'y of " Lives of the Warriors of the Civil Wars of France and England," which her Majesty was graciously pleased to accept. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale will entertain a elect party this week at their seat in Worcestershire. The Earl de Grey has gone to Studley Royal, near Ripon, where the noble earl will entertain a shooting party during the week. On Saturday last the marriage of the Ilou. W. C. Evans-Freke, second brother of Lord Carbcry,and the Lady Victoria Cecil, the y oungeat daughter of the Marquis and Marchioness of E::etcr, was solemnised at St. Martin's Church, Stamford, iu the preser ce of a large family party. The Rev. Dr. Moberly, late head master of Winchester College, has been presented with the rectory of Brightstone, in the Isle of Wight, by the Bishop of Winchester. A former rector of Erightstone was the pre sent Bishop of Oxford, to whom the hviag was given by Lord Brougham when Lord Chancellor. It is definitely announced that Mr. Ruskin, M.A., and Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford, is a candidate fer the Professorship of Poetry, which will be vacant next Easter Term. It appears from the annual report of the Ameri -01111 Secretary of the Navy, that the North Atlantic squad. ron, under Rear-Admiral Palmer, has had a pleasant summer's cruising at and around the fishing grounds on the northeastern coast, after having taken a survey of events at the Antilles and other tropical latitude!. The fishery question, which it was feared might give rise to collisions on what has been claimed as British maritime ground, mused Admiral Palmer no anxiety whatever, for the secretary says, " The liberal and conciliatory policy of the British government dissipated all apprehended diffi culties." The Tamar, troop ship, which arrived in Cork Harbour on Thursday with the 71st Highlanders, has grounded outside Hanlbowline. The troops and baggage were landed, when efforts were made on Friday and Satur day with tug steamers to get her off, but ineffectually. No further att,.mpt will be made for some days until apriLg tide. Mr. W. Stanley Jevons points out to the readers of the Times that the present position of the iron trade is partially explained by the great fluctuations which the home demand undergoes according to the amount of capital which is being invested in railways, brikzes, factories, and other large permanent erections, and that the sudden ces sation of railway schemes and iron shipbuilding, and the general absence of all speculative undertahings, snake it probable that the home demand will be reduced too fast for several years to come. With the fall in this demand, we shall be enabled, he believes, to compete on something like our old tennis with continental producers, though he is far from denying, at the same time, that continental iron and steel tuckers are advancing upon us in a manner which should mako us look round very carefully. A seasonable reduction of wages alone can enable us to recover our position in the foreipt trade. Mr. Jevons adds that the secret system of trade is the cause of most of the difficalti , !s with the n.cu, and that if publicity of profits, as in joint-stock concerns, is resorted to, it will then be practicable to combine the interest of masters and men by the edvision of all profits exceeding a certain fixed mount—say 10 per cent. This arrangement, which has worked so well in the case of the Messrs. Briggs's collieries, seems to him the only panacea for the unreasonable con test between capital and labour. The French Chambers will meet in Febriary. The Emperor's speech is es.peoted to be highly pacific, indus trial, and commercial in tone, out of compliment to the great Exhibition of lbf7. A Vicksburg paper publishes a statement of a contract recently made by Joseph E. Davis, brother of Jef ferson Davis, by which he leases to R. T. Montgomery, a negro, and an sae:dation of coloured people, for a term of years, his Hurricane and Brierfield plantations, which have . 4 ,a4 been restored to him by the United States • -`iibtod i s. • .. LATE& goveniu::'nt. The New York Tribune says of President J , son's message :—" We have no hem t to dwell upon this draary, lifeless document. There is nothing that any loyal man can read with any comfort or hope. Andrew Johnson is as n.uch an enemy as when he menaced the nation from his White House steps ten months ago. He does not mean to aid us in the work of reconstruction. The I duty devolving upon Congress becomes more solemn and responsible, and we look to Congress with infinite yearn ing. Let there be kindness and patience, charity toward all, malice toward none, firmness, and devotion ; but above all, a single-hearted determination, come well or ill, despite Presidents or Cabinets, to labour without ceasing, until over this land there shall be peace and rest, liberty and protection. and all sights for aIL" The Vice-Consul at Zanzibar sends to the Geogrr.phical Society the substslice of some statements from four of the sepoys who have returned there from Quiloa, and from whose accounts it appears that when last seen Dr. Livingstone had set out from the village of Mataka (where he had abundance of food, including rice and beef, for the people have large herds), en route foe Lake Nyassa, distant four days' journey. " This is • Propitious time," adds Dr. Kirk, " for African travel. The road to ljnyamweri and Nyasa, is quite open—traders have arrived here, and report that anyone may go alona all the way without molestation. Therefore, if any of I your friends, despairing of novelty in Europe, wish to enjoy a new sensation, send them otit at once to Central Africa." DENCII6 ITALY. THE PROPOSEDARRANGEMENT BETWEEN THE KING OF ITALY AND THE POPE. The following are believed in Italy to be the bases of the arrangement which the Italian govern ment has proposed to the Pope : 1. The Italian government will bring in a bill declaring Florence to be the definitive capital of the kingdom of Italy. 2. The cardinals will be declared princes of the ILli.ll dons, and will get from the It a li a n Treasury double the 3. y they now receive. The The inhabitants of the Pontifical territory, with the exception of Rome, to declare by a plebiscite whether they will remain subjects of the Pope, or unite themselves with the rest of Italy. 4. Rome to be declared a religious city sui oceeris, in which the Pope is to have absolute controL The muni cipal council, however, will be elected by the citizens and will have the disposal of several administrative offices. Moreover, the lay element will be substituted for the religions element , especially if in the course of the negotiations a small territory should be added to Rome. 5. The pon tifi c al troops to be di sc harged, and the fo reign soldiers to be sent away. The inhabitants to be allowed to enlist in the Italian army. 6. The treaty to be b i ndin g onl y during th e pontificate of Pins IX. 7. Pius IX. to acknowledge V i c t or Emmanuel as King of Italy, and, instead of going into exile, the Pope to come to Florence to crown the King as sovereign of Italy. 8. Italy will con t r ibute its quota, as a catholic power, to the civil list which other catholic states will bestow on the Pope. The Ratio says :—" The Pope intends to pro need shortly to Civita Vecchia, but all idea of a flight has been abandoned." The Opiniene compares the Court of Borne to a child who has been taken away from its nurse. "To listen to its sobs," it says, " one would suppose that it would never eat again, and would die of hunger. But don't be afraid, the child will eat again, and eat well. Its ill-humonr is legiti mate, and deserves to be respected, and generous minds will un d ers tand the necessity for this respect." It is stated in a telegram from Berlin that the Washington government has incited the Pope to America, where he would be more independent than in Europe ; that one American frigate is at Civita Vecchia, and another is expected. The same telegram adds that Maxim il ian is a prisoner. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Dec. 17. The King of Prussia went yesterday to Gross beeren, a station on the line of railway between Berlin and Dresden, where a most cordial meeting took place between his Majesty and the King of Saxony. At the Berlin terminus the King of Saxony was received by the royal princes, Count Bismarck, the principal functionaries, and M. Benedetti. The guard of honour to the King was taken from the Alexander regiment. The military bands played the Saxon Hymn. The President of the Council and the Minister of 'War have sent in their reply to the Hanoverian officers, who have applied to the Prussian govern ment to assure their future position. The ministers state in their reply that the King in his indulgence will consider their position, and inform them that the Governor-General of Hanover will communicate fin:her with them in conformity with the instructions he has already received. THE BRAZILS. (By Telegraph from Lisbon.) RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 25. Exchange on London, 24 to 241 ; on Paris, 382 to 395. Coffee, 6.200 reis. Total shipments since the departure of the last mail, 108,419 bags, of which 10,437 were for the Channel, 16,983 for the north of Europe, 11,597 for the Mediter ranean, and 2,600 for the Baltic. Sales, 96,750 bags. Stock, 85,000 bags. Freights, 408. to 54e. The Messageries Imperiales steam-ship Guienne arrived at Bahia on the Gth December. The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Douro was spoken between Pernambuco and Bahia on the 29th November. MAURITIUS AND REUNION MAILS. mAitsEILLBS, Dsc.. 16. The Messageries lmperiales steamer Moeris ar rived here yesterday morning at 3 o'clock with the Mauritius and Reunion mails. TIM AMERICAN CRIMINAL SURRATT. VALEITA,•Thic. 16, 2.10 r.w. An American sloop-of-war has arrived here, bound to Alexandria, to receive the supposed cul prit Surratt. The reason why that person was not arrested at Malta was the total absence of evi -1 dence.—(Times, Second Edition.) -- - A PB.ENCH OPINION OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S MESaAGE. The Journal des Nimes of to-day says: The message of the President of the United States is not very conspicuous for the qualities of tact and modera tion. It is the production not of a statesman penetrated with the grave responsibilities which his high office should impose upon him, but of a vulgar aspirant who thinks mare of his own position than of the interests of his country ; for Mr. Johnson's aim seems to be to flatter the popular passions, in order to regain that influence which is slipping from him. For example, he speaks of the relations of the United States with England in a manner that is calculated rather to revive old jealousies than to allay them. He does not hesitate, for example, in allusion to the Alabama claims, to say that, " whatever might be the swishes of the two governments, it is manifest that good will and friendship between the two countries cannot be established until a reciprocity in the practice of good faith and neutrality shall be restored between the respective nations." Is this the language which the President of the United I States should use at a moment when the Alabama affair is the subject of negotiations with the English government? Mr. Johnson even goes so far as to express his sympathy , with Fenianism. With regard to internal politics, the pro-Southern tendencies of the President are manifested OA they were in the previous message. We cannot criticise the passages relating to Mexico, because they have not been sent to us by the telegraph, from an idea, no doubt, that they would be of little interest to French readers. A French firm sent a message on Saturday to Mama Firth, Barber, and Co., the lessees of the Barnsley Colliery, saying that they were ready to send over i staff of men equipped with safety dresses and acccutrements, who, however dangerous the mine to ordinary explorers, would venture to its inmost recesses. General Sheridan, in his report to the United States War Department, speaks warmly of the disgraceful state of civil affairs in Texas, where he declares it to be his opinion " that the trial of a white man for the murder of a freedman would be a farce." Ile calls the French invasion of Mexico " a part of the Rebellion ;" and regrets that the United States government did not long ago compel the imperial troops to evacuate the conutry. It seems from the report of the American Post master-General that the number of letters exchanged with foreign communities during the year was 9,430,540, giving an increase, in the exchanges with Great Britain alone. of 25 per cent. in the business of the twelve months reviewed in the report. The labour of the Dead Letter-office would be alarmingly large—four and a half millions being regis tered and remailed during the year—but for the fact that 77 per cent. find their way back to the senders, while 90 per cent. of those containing sums of money of a dollar and upward are returned to their owners by the care and laborious effort of the officers employed. The progress of the money:order branch of the department, financially and otherwise, is satisfactory. , LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY, Bastrip's Barreora COMPANY. To-day, before Mr. Church, the chief clerk of theldeater of the l olls, several matters oonnec t e d with Barned's Banking Company were discussed preliminary to the great question which stands for to-morrow on an applica tion by the official liquidators for "cars of 40/. on the shareholders." On the pres ent occasion, Mr. Emanuel, w ho represents a large body of shareholders , reneed a n application to pat interrogatodee to the liquids _tors, or as Mr. Handford (Freshfield and Newman) Orssed it, to obtain a "duplicate" examinatioe of them. Mr. Emanuel said the question was important, and the chief clerk proceeded to consider the matter. Mr. Emanuel then applied to remove three shareholders from the list of contributories. The question was 'rending over in numerous other cases. The Chief Clerk adjourned the application for the decision in the other cases. Mr. Handford applied that the liquidators might settle a matter with a - large debtor. The offer made was alarmed beneficial to accept. He produced an affidavit. Mr. Church, having perused the affidavit, did not con sider it sufficient. He must have the the me pjite whether it would be advisable to enter i arrangement. The Chief Clerk disposed of the several matters before him relating to this great case. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings at Nisi Prius at Guildhall—(Before the Lord ' Chief Baron and a Special Jury.) BACH V. TIM ZARL OP oorrEthaa. This was an action to recover 1871., being the amount alleged to be due to the plaintiff on quitting a farm called Teloourt-house and park in Surrey, belonging to the Earl of Cottenham. Mr. Charles Pollock, Q.C., and Mr. Grantham appmra for the plaintiff ; Sir IL Collier for the defendant. The plaintiff, who is a gentleman of fortune, residing at Bucirst e ep Manor, Sussex, took the f arm in January, 1863, chietly fur shooting purposes, and remained in occu pation of it for about two years. lie claimed the aim now sought to be recovered on the ground that according to the custom in that part of the country in wirich the farm was situated, he s h e an a proper valuation, entitled to it for improvements had e ff ected, and for manure, =Pot and other things. After the opening statement of Mr. Pollock, The Lord Chief Baron suggested the advisability of the parties coming to some arrangement. Sir R. Collie: said Lord Cottenham had not yet arrived in court, but on his beha lf he would agree to a reference on the understanding that the evidence of the witnesses in attendance should be taken by a gentleman of the bar at 00011. `This arrangement was ultimately agreed to. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) 1 IN RE mom stemmas. The bankrupt was a merchant , of King William-street, City. This was an adjourned sitting for examination and discharge. The aggregate liabilities are 56,085/., against property held as security, 7,983/. ' • ditto given up to asaig - nees, 252/. ; consignments to Bombay, 545/. ; and doubtful debts, 44,9771. Mr. Jemmett appeared for the assignees, and examined the bankrupt. He stated that he had been carrying on business in London as Moira Maclean and Co. since 1858, and before that as a partner in the firm of Cooper, Fisher, and Maclean. Had been b ankru p t 20 years ago, and had since executed a deed of composition. A debt of 1,0001. to Mr. N. C. 31nclean was for cash lent, for which he gave a promissory note, and had paid uaterest on it up to his brother's death in 1864. He had banked with Agra and Mastertnan's Bank. His brother had guaranteed the account fur 3,000/. This brother left Inns • legacy of 2,0001., but it had never been paid on account of the guarantee. There was a balance due to tho bank, but they held security. He bad settled the legacy of 2,000 L on his wife and family. This was in February, 1865, when he was perfectly solvent. Did not know whether any claim had been made by the bankrupt on the executors of A. C. Maclean, in respect of the guarantee of 3,000/. lie bad an interest in the settlement after the death of his wife. [The ease was proceeding when our report left. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) The December sessions (the second of the present mayoralty) of the Central Criminal Court commenced this morning at Justice Hall, Old Bailey, before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor (Mr. Alderman Gabriel), the Re corder (Russell Gurney, Esq., M.P.), Mr. Alderman W. Lawrence, M.P., Mr. Alderman J. C. Lawrence, Mr. Alder man Lusk, Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Waterloo, Mr. Sheriff Lycett, the under-sheriffs, and the usual civic authorities. The first edition of the calendar contains the names of 80 persons for trial, and of these 25 stand committed from London, 39 from Middlesex, 3 from Essex, 1 under the Sjurisdiction of the Admiralty, 3 from Kent, and 9 from urrey. The subjoined is a summary statement of the offences with which the prisoners stand charged :—Mur der, 1 ; wounding with intent to murder, 3 ; feloniously poisoning with intent to murder, 1 • manslaughter, 2 ; arson, 1 ; burglary, 4 ; forgery, 3 ; honestealing, 2 ; letter stealing, 4 ; larceny, 8 ; larceny from the person, 10 ; larceny by servants, 3 ; uttering counterfeit coin, 11 ; embezzlement, 7 robbery, 6 ; feloniously rociving stole n goods, 4 ; and mi sdemeanour, 7. The Recorder, in charging the grand jury, commenced by alluding to the nee of • female charged with the murder of a newly-born child, and said it was one of those cases which bad latterly been on the increase, and in which there were no convictions , nor, indeed, was it likely there would be so long as the law remained in its present state. In this case the evidence was very slight, for, singular to say, the prisoner had not been examined, and there was no evidence to show that she had recently been delivered of a child. There were two charges of manslaughter, which, according to the depositions, it would be well should be sent for further inquiry in this court. The same remark applied to the case of Samuel ltickwood, charged under peculiar circumstances with cutting his wife's throat. There was a charge against a female for administering poison to her illegitimate child. It appeared that she at tempted to force the child to drink some liquid, that the child refused, and screaming, attracted the notice of some strangers. A glass was found in the prisoner's r esnesaion, but being empty, its contents had not ascertained, but on examining the child's frock there were discovered stains, which being tested, were found to have been caused by oxalic acid. There was a charge of arson against a person of the name of Frederick Bicknell, which rested on circumstantial evidence which would justify the return of a true bill. There was also in the calendar a charge against a Mr. Wilkinson, late managing director of the Joint Stock Banking Company, for applying to his own use two cheques for the payment respectively of 4,0001. and of 8601., the property of the Land Company. In this case there was a masa of documentary evidence which would better explain the facts in the case than he could dofrom the depositions, and it would be for the grand jury to say whether on that evidence they would send the case for inquiry before the court and a petty jury. There was no other case which called for any remark, and he herenppoon remitted the grand jury to the commencement of their THE CASK OF ARSON. On the application of Mr. Sleigh, as counsel for the prisoner, the trial of Frederick Biclmell, for arson, was postponed until the next sessions. THE WHOLESALI DEPOT OF STOLEN GOODS IN THE CITT. The case of Moses Moses, late of Black Hone-yard, Aldgate, and of Gravel-lane, Houndstliteh, charged with the receiving, with • guilty knowledge, an immense quantity of stolen goods, and John Blake c harged with having stolen a portion of the property, which head been adjourned from the last session, came on for trial to day. There were no less than eight indictments against Moles, in two of which Blake was joined, and to all of these the prisoners severally pleaded not guilty. The prisoners were given in charge to the jury on an in dictment charging Blake with stealing two military saddles and equipments and a portmanteau containing books and • large quantity of fancy soaps and soenta ; and Moses with receiving the same, well knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. Metcalfe conducted the prosecution • Mr. Ribton defended Moen ; and Mr. Montagu Williams appeared for the prisoner Blake. The facts of the nee have been so frequently before the public that it will be remembered that in October last the prisoner Moses gave information to the police that his warehouse had been broken into and a quantity of woollen cloths stolen therefrom, and in consequence Detective Sergeant John Moss, aided by Detective/Brown, Obee, and others went to examine the premises, and while so engaged they discovered two military saddles and equipments entirely new, and also a new portmanteau, containing a variety of articles, con cealed under a large quantity of old rags and in conse quence Moses was taken into custody. The re sult of the inquiries made by the officers was that the property in question had been stolen from certain oases entrusted to the prisoner Blake, • car man, to convey to the docks, for shipment to China, by the firm of Smith, Elder, and Co., of CornhilL [The case is sti ll proceeding.] Forty-eight offenders were tried at the Win chester arises a few days ago; 12 of them were from Southampton, S from Portsmouth, 6 from litchfleld, 4 from Alton and neighbourhood, 3 from Alverstoke, 2 each from Aldershot, Andover, Fareham, Isle of Wight, and Odiham, and 1 each from Eling, Ringwood, Ramey, and Winchester. One of the criminals had received a superior education, 3 could read and write well, 3 could read only, 8 could neither read nor write, and 33 could read and write imperfectly. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS: (THIS DAY). (Before Mr. Paw.) isa CAPE OF ISE TWO POLICEMEN oOEVIOWIL, 01 MEM George Davis and Frederick Wootton J'arrii, 0 0ei hni e ;,- of the N division of police, madded last Benno. of n maa lr i t it e xon Henryrampton, were brought up a tfor Mr. Seeley appeared for the prosecution • s a g Palmer for the Meader*. Mr. Supennterident lloj was also in attendance. On the defendants being placed at the bar, Mr. Seeley said in this car he appeared on the pad o f the prosecutor, Mr. Crampton, to pray the judgment of the oourt againt the two men at the bar, who wem mambas of the police force. They bad been friend guilty of a common assault, but he hoped it week be considered as a very uncommon assault, inasmuch as the jury had said that they had been guilty o f ere -- unnecessar y violence, and had broken the prosecut or ' s MA with • truncheon, and m the court had the power e s hoped it read be exercised as it had been done a mouth or two ago in the case of two policemen who had beep convicted of an assault, who were sentenced to a term of imprisonment and also fined 201. to go towards the pee. niary injury the prosecutor sustained. In this case the prosecutor had not only been deeply injured in pence but in pocket, and he hoped as theme two men bad b een cm. victed of a violent assault upon him he would be fe e . bunted some of the amount he was out of pocket in u s employment of a solicitor and counsel for two days in this court during the trial. Mr. Palmer, whceappeared for the defendants, pr een ed the following memorial from the inhabitants of R a d on in favour of these men :—" We, the undersigned, inks. Ware of the district beg to present a memorial to ya w lordship in favour of the two constables Davis and J arvis now awaiting your sentence. We beg to snirmitn lordship that the N division stati oned in our neighbourhood have won general approbation both as regards their dee. tiveneu and vigilance. And most of us know and ma speak to the general good conduct and respeotability of tie two men who are now before your lordship and who, w e believe, are quite incapable of exceeding their duty !Ice s under circumstances of great provocation." The was numerously signed. The Rev. T. Davie Lambe, Rector of West Rado m , gave both these men a very excellent character during e period of two years. of Mr. Superintendent Mott, the N said he bad known Davis for two years, and in his opiniou a better °Meer never entered the police force. Jams aloe, was a very good man. He had been in the force for 14 years, and during the whole time there was never any complaint of this kind against him. ant, said— Th is Mr. Payne, in giving judgm case arms out of a cha rge originally made by the defendants ageing the prosecutor for assaulting them in the execution of their duty as poliee-oonstablen The first indictment that ma tried was the indictment against Crampton, and din patient investigrion and the examination of sewed vitiation for the defence, the jury were unable k agree and were discharged. On the next de e b o th cases were tried together. The iadicreut against the police-oonetables contained three counts, one for maliciously cawing grievous bod e we t o Crampton ; the ascend for inflicting actual bo dy h ue ; and the third for au assault. On this occasion all the par. ties were examined, and in the result the jury found Crampton not guilty of the assault in execntien, and the policemen guilty of a common casault in using unman nary violence to Crampton. With the effect of this vex. diet the court has to ded. Police-constables are often placed in very trying positions, sad may always rely on the protection of this court, provided they cried themselves with due temper and ferbearance, lint they will look in vain for that protection, where, u is the present ease, they have recourse to unnecessary violence. Policemen having charge of a prisoner are not justified ia lining their truncheons in order to save the natives trouble, or far the purpose of puniabing a prisoner for making resietance, and are only justified in using then when no other means are left of protecting flea rives from injury, and preventing their prisoner's escape. In the present case I cannot see any noceseity for taking Crampton out of the house after it had been ascertained that he really lived there merely on a charge of assault. The proper °ours:: would have been to obtain a summer, followed by a warrant if required. There is no doubt upon the whole case that improper violence was used by the Police ; but under all the circumstances, oonederiag the die ferance of opinion amongst the first jury, the cautious and and limited verdict of the second jury, the preview good character of the policemen, and the injuries which they also sustained, I think that the justice of the case will fairly rad properly be met by a moderate sentence of in. prisonment, and I have the redaction of being able to ray that the learned Assistant -Judge azeees with view. If the jury had found the prisoners guilty epee either of the more serious counts, I should hats felt it my duty to pass • severe sentence roa them, but they declined to do so, though they were pit separately and plainly before them. I have, therefore, only for the protection of the public to give namable effect to the verdict which they have pranounaid, and therefore the sentence upon you George Davis, and upon you Frederick Wootton Jarvis, is that you be severally au. prisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Cerro Lion for three calendar months. The defendants were then removed. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) CLICRIUMWELL. ROHDE= AT THE AGM:ULU:HAL HALL Thomas Balls, aged 19, • labourer, who refused hie address, was charged with stealing • meerschaum plps, belonging to Mr. C. J. Jones, implement maker, of th e Queens -street iron works, Pe terborough, at the Vial. Loral Hall, Islington. The prisoner was engaged by the prosecutor to siert him in packing up, and when that wa, done the pro scent*: paid the prisoner, and left, Whilst vexed ing to the Great Northern Railway, the prosecutor missed his pipe from his pocket, and returned to the hall to see if he could find it. He saw the prisoner, sad asked him about it, but he said he knew nothing abou From t it. the manner of the prisoner he suspected sad watdiel him, and saw him take something from his own pocket syl as he was endeavouring to place it ins (mat that m181=414 against the wall and belonging to another labourer, heaped polite-sergeant Statham, 31 is, and gave him into custodf- The police knew nothing against the previous character of the prisoner. The poisoner pleaded guilty, and sake& for neer, stating that it was hie first offence, and he would We care that it should be his last. Mr. Cook sentenced the prisoner to four menthe laid labour in the House of Correction. MARLBOROIJGH-STREET. 11013BERY AT A JEWELLLICS. Thos. Jackson, described as a clerk, but who refused hie address, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with steal* ld watch from the shop of Mr. Emmanuel &lwo, jeweller , of No. 34, Hanway.street, Oxford-street. Miss Betsy Burn said—l manage the business of W. Sampson, jeweller of No. 34, Hanway - stree t. On %Aural evening the prisoner came into the shop and asked the price of a gold watoh. I told him, and he took the vista in hie hand, and then coolly walk.yi out of the shop. 1 went to the door and called " Stop thief*" and • riderass went after the prisoner, and with a constable bronia hs hack. The value of the watch is 4/. Police-conetable Foster, 93 C—On Saturday evening the prisoner walked me in Oxford-street , a nd in curse quenco of what agentleman told me I went after Lim, mil told him that I should take him into custody for stealie4 som ething at • jeweller's shop. The prisoner (laded having taken anything, but while on the way bark to the prosecutor's shop . he dropped the watch at his feet. lle searching the poisoner at the station, I only found two- pence upon hini. The pnsoner—l have no questions to ask. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner that be might be seen by the police. WORSHIP-STREET. ISTSTOIATIO ZOBBERIF-A TIT SERVANTS.. James Walker and Matthew Couch , i n the s ervice 11-mse of ffn John Arthur Garton, carcase salesma n of Lead enha ket, and James Marion in the service of Mr. Toms, et B ow - com mon, were charted, the too former with s.alirit and the other with guiltily receiving a quantity of fat the pt.p.....ty of Mr. Garton. the The prosecutor said that he had l oft p rof ot description named to s very large amount, and it bonne necessary to have the continual attention of the polio on Lis slaughter-house in Deal-street, Mile-col Nor town. The prisoner Marion had no right to eks from the slaughter-house one particle of fat, only blood for his master, Mr. Tons, and known as the " blood man." His (prosecutor'a)own sernn had been well treated and well paid, yet they had acre"t complicity with Marion repeatedly under similar stances to the present, and it bec ame absolutely tive to prosecute. ,Ditty and Isted, constables of the II division' tht proved the offence. On the 11th and 13th inst. tb.l be o seen Marion drive into the yard, and under the en g nol gw . tu of bs t . he o %th th e e r fipritrisoomanersibmlrecetihvee mathetterfatwains btauhotetobr: lie ec tli clear to warrant their sopprehensions the constables found it clear that they toot three into custody on the sprit, not, however,withont Wig severely maltreated, and compelled to send for assigned Walker and Couch declared their innocence, and Ms declined sa ying anything. The three were fully commit for trial at the Clerkenwell sessions. • -• •• • •• • " - A PROTEST Anialtirr RITUALIBII.--OR Satufo afternoon last a public meeting of the clergy and lest' tial laymen resident in the Deanery of Front, Suwel, held in the National Schoolroo m at Front, for the r t i! of entering their protest against the introduotioo 0! n ism and other practices of a Romanian,: tendencr.into services of the church of England. The Rev. Sir . 8( Thompson, Bart., rural dean, occupied the dna.. 0 . there was a numerous a ttendance of both clergy 2 ' 3 .a l t men, several of whom addressed the meeting, th e° marks being strongly directed against ritualism. . • who has been a Common Plea'. Clotirt-hone. Mr. BEBBZII9 . WO seconded by Mr. Mints G ould be heard ; The candida the noise was so beard. The show of poll was deman • 8 o'clock, and THE MANSION -H Thin MO os eived by She. the fund who • of the widows the recent oat o bscribed u d i m, and a of Derb icor ningto 10 °I. ; g oe s, 50/._; dent*Chapei MeMas. J. M. X wort, 201. ; M. Sheriff r lze d tt, being 11E RORER; RECOVERY The ow ivi late robbery at r estitution of a prisoners l o n confined ninon ; and Xitehell,, that tie missing a advantage wou without lune Bator of swig omit for Leeson bad a private • ' si idained to . • a most sera prisoner not • benefit to him sad most pest would lead to • which bad n. be influenced inquired wise would have the sentences rates. 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