The Express. — London, England, 1866-03-06 00:00:00

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Mama. aothuu and Buck aaaa ; Mho NollY Moors.— dinIEHE IN THE HAYMARK IT.—And MY HUSBAND'S (MEWL P*IRCI4OFIL Tam ZVIIIIIWG, pvQr LODalNGi.—Alter which IT I &VIA TOO LATE TO KIND. Wears. Vining, G. Melville, I. Mead, D. Murray, b. Wham. F. Villiers, J. O. Shore, 0. Ynr way, and R. Osiburi lams L Yon* sad K. Rodgers. LYCEUM. Tars EVINING, THE laiiiii.looB STRANGER. Mr. H. Widdloomb.-111E MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Warn. Fachtor..ford Lia, Vain. Emory, Wlddloomb, Irltspodrick„ &sad ; Madams. UMW. Fliworthy, lamas. C. ladareq. egITANIM. THIS Emma. THE CASUAL WARD.—Mr. J. G. fords. —MIAs gonna Kerridge. -CINDRBILLA.-11. and Madame Ettertsezdar.h—And T CANOLS. KWH WATER AT LOWDON-BRIDGE. MO DAY Yarning. 4h. Sem .... Afternoon. 6h. 9tn. TO-KOAAOn Morning, Sh. U. ..Aftersoen. Oa. 41m. LONDON. TUESDAY. MARCH 6. Tax commencement of the open season has brought round the time for renewing an enter prirs which must needs be the greatest of any year in which it takes place. The public be comes acquainted this morning with the prepare- I Lone that have been making through the winter months, and which are now well-nigh completed, for laying a submarine telegraph between Ireland and Newfoundland. It was never for a moment doubted that the enterprise interrupted last summer by an unforeseen accident would be re sumed. The experience of last year established not only the full practicability of the project, but the existence of conditions so favourable for its execution that its abandonment became from that time forward simply impossible. Step by step our knowledge has advanced, and with it every opera tion subsidiary to the enterprise has acquired increasing certainty, the very accidents which tried our patience supplying way-marks to warn us against future error. It may now be said that there is no contingency to which a cable is exposed in the process of laying against which the present state of our science does not enable as to make complete provision, so that the risk of the work is now re duced to a minimum. The experience of 1858 *bowed thit a submarine telegrip i a cable could be laid between Ireland and Newfoundland, and that messages could be transmitted through its length. In fact, by the cable then laid, u many as 271 messages were sent from Newfoundland to Valentin, and 125 from Valenti* to Newfoundland. But even after that experiment many persons doubted whether the cold, deep water of the Atlantic, by its accumulated pressure, would not destroy the insulation of the cable. But the cable of 1865 was submerged to a depth of 2,400 fathoms, and so far from the great pressure at that depth de stroying the insulation, it positively increased it. The most perfect messages which passed in the Great Eastern to Valenti& were transmitted when the cable lay at that depth below the level of the , sea. Experiments made before the cable was : sent out satisfied engineers that this would I be the case, but the result has made what was before a truth of science a fact obvious to the simplest understanding. As to the practicability of laying the cable, the experiment of last year is not , only full of encouragement, but from a rational point of view conclusive. Unless we suppose those with whom the matter rests to be quite incapable of instruction, the work will be resumed this year with means and appliances that should make failure little short of impossible. The qualities of the Great Eastern, which will spin be employed in the service, remove half the difficulties that would attend the laying of a cable from a first-class steamer of the ordinary dimensions. Her une qualled steadiness, the result of her size, and the perfect control over her movements which is ob tained by the joint use of paddle and screws, make the work she has to do virtually independent of the accidents of weather. And an equal measure of confidence may be placed in her paying out machinery, which worked so perfectly last year. It is just as certain, that with good tackle and strong hauling-in ma chinery, a fault when it occurs may be lifted from a depth of 2,000 feet, and cut out on board the ship, when the cable may be spliced and laid in perfect condition. Moreover, it is proved `that in a depth of two mikes cable may be THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1866 caught up at the bottom of the sea by the grapnel, this operation having been performed three times in 1865. In fast, more than four nautical miles of the Atlantic cable were recovered last year from a depth of over two miles. It is further a great advantage that electrical testing at sea can be con ducted with inch entire certainty that the exis tence of a fault in the cable may be discovered in less than a minute after ita occurrence, and its posi tion in the cable aoourately ascertained. The cha racter of the cable taken out last year is no longer a matter of doubt. It is proved to be a hundred times better insulated than cables made eight years ago and still working, and its strength far exceeds any strain that is likely to be put upon it. It is capable of bearing a strain of seven tons, but at no time in the act of paying out, not even when it was laid in the deepest water, was it subjected to a strain of more than fourteen cwt. The existence of all these advantages was ascertained in their fullest extent in the expedition of 1865, the failure of which resulted from deficiencies in machinery which had been overlooked. The arrangements for paying out the cable were perfect ; those for hauling it in were not so ; but this defect can easily be supplied by strengthening the tackle and attaching a steam engine to the paying-out machi nery, so as to afford the means of hauling in the cable the moment a fault is discovered. When that has been done should a fault occur it may be pinked up even before it has reached the bottom of the sea. It will be seen by the published statement of the conductors of the enterprise that they propose to take out the Great Eastern with the 1,070 miles of cable she has on board, and to connect it with the 1,212 miles laid in the Atlantic last July. According to the daily reports from the eleo tricians at Valenti*, the constitution of the cable already laid remains perfect, while the observations of Captain ARMEE/30N and Commander H. A. MORIARTY, R.N., have accurately determined the position of the broken end. No doubt appears to be felt as to the practicability of raising this end, and the company treat the submerged cable as an estate, much as if they were dealing with an equal length of draining tiles laid down in a property in the Midland Counties. Together with this work of re covery, it is proposed to undertake that of laying an entirely new cable, and inasmuch as it always has been certain that the business which would be presented to a oompany affording the means of tele graphic communication between the United States and. England would far exceed the capabilities of one or two lines, the enterprise in its new form con templates the opportunity of a twofold profit. The gain held out to the company is, however, a con sideration on which we are not disposed to dwell, in view of the benefits beyond all pecuniary price that would result from the establishment of daily in tercourse between Great Britain and America, although the consideration is one which will remain legitimate as long as the genius of our age prefers to commit great international enterprises, full of political, social, and economical results, to private enterprise rather than leave them in the hands of Government. Whatever may be our future relations with the people and Government of the United States, there is not one of us who does not from his heart wish that this undertaking may prosper ; and we imagine that there are few who have attentively considered the conditions under which it is renewed without recognising in it the elements of success. thrums the Guardians of Clerkenwell be speedily brought to a proper sense of duty, every other parochial board in the metropolis will have a substantial grievance against the public and the press. For the third time within eleven days we publish statements concerning the casual wards of this pariah which prove their condition to be simply horrible. Every defect, shortcoming, and vice of which other workhouses have been con victed would seem to be aggravated here ; expo sure has brought neither penitence nor amend ment ; and as both official authority and public opinion are openly defied, it is time to ask whether some stringent measure should not be resorted to. In spite of all that has been said and written concerning the abominations elsewhere, we find that in the Clerkenwell casual wards nakedness is the rule, and indecent contiguity a necessity ; that neither light, fire, nor inspection Is provided ; that the wretched sleepers are first herded together like pigs in a stye, and then locked up for the night ; that the wards have never been certified by the Poor-law Board, and are inconceivably close, foul, and unwholesome ; and that no pro per precautions are adopted for the re pression of vagrancy. The Guardians cannot plead ignorance of these facts; they have been previously exposed in these columns, and the exposure has been made matter for discussion at their board meetings. A minority of their num ber are ashamed of the deficiencies of their work house, and seek to effect reform. These are opposed by the rest, and the result is such shocking scenes as we record to-day. These are of nightly occurrence. and will remain unremedied until the matter is strenuously taken up. As the case statias it is Clerkenwell against England ; and whilst solemn prayers against pestilence are offered up each Sunday in our churches, a public body is found to be callously fostering pestilence at the expense of decency, and in violation of every sanitary law. We must ask the public to observe that we have done our part in exposing this state of things. It is for us to drag these ugly facts to light, as we have now done three times within a 1 fortnight. It is for others—for the Poor-law I Board, or, if need be, the House of Commons— ' to find the remedy. We are authoriasd to state that the lists for all her Majesty's courts are now closed, and that no further names can be received by the Lord Cham berlain. THE HEALTH Or THE MASTER Op TRINITY..— CAMBRIDGI, MONDAY Evirmo.—The reports of the health of the Muter are (six o'clock) very unfavourable. A relapse has taken place since the bulletin of Sunday, and imminent danger is now apprehended. A telegraph message from her Majesty arrived this morning inquiring as to Dr. Whewell's health, and his Royal Highness the Prinoe of Wales has been in communication with the Rev. W. C. Mathison, fellow and tutor of Trinity, and late private tutor to his Royal Highness, on the same subject. These communications evince the utmost sympathy with the Master's affliction, and express the most earnest wishes for his recovery. A week ago the Polytechnic Society of Berlin celebrated the twenty-seventh anniversary of its foundation. There were about a thousand persons present, meet of them merchants, manufacturers, and skilled workmen. Accord ing to the programme, the first song at supper was to have been one expressive of loyal sentiments. The band played the first verse, the leader called on the company to sing e but no voice was heard. The next three Teresa were also played with the earns result. Got:: ron Berlidtingen wee lately given at the Victoria Theatre. Gas proposes a toast to the Emperor, sad concludes with the words "Con cord is the sure guarantee of our freedom." To which George =swam, "Then much must become otherwise than it is." This brought down rounds of applause. Similar approbation was expremed when Gets milled the servant of the court of law "an us of justice' Professor Lepelus has left Berlin on a journey to Egypt sad Noble, whieh he hoe undertakes far scieetille °Nevis. He is expected to be abseil about four mcertillh 01111 CONTEMPORABIZEL (THIS DAT.) TIM MIXT XISTIKATEL That despite our peace with the world we should I be paying nearly as mush for our army as both army and navy coat in days which are not long passed, must naturally, the Timer thinks, produce a feeling of disap pointment, but Lord Hartington by his able and elaborate statemeet last night showed that he is quite ready to meet any advocate of economy who may attack him. The causes which dill maintain the cost of the army at its former standard are, according to the Secretary of War, first, the increased price of meat, which his made a con siderable increase in the commissariat ; secondly, the ex penditure of a larger sum on the militia, in consequence, of certain charges which it was impossible to control having falls° due this year ; thirdly, an increase in the cost of the volunteer force, through the number of effeetivea having been considerably in creased ; and fourthly, the construction of military works. The Increased expeoditure for the volunteer force at all events will not be grudged, and all will regard it as satis factory that time has brought no weariness to this body, but that the number is still increasing, and that there must now be at least a quarter of a million of Englishmen, who have received some kind of military training through their connexion with the volunteer body. asoruitiog for the army unfortunately is not so sueoustal, but possibly the commission on the subject announced by Lord liartington will succeed in presenting Inducements to a military life more attractive to the class from which the army is recruited. The Daily New says it is not from the flowing speech of Lord Harlington, with its inexhaustible repetition of words poured over a dusty heap of barren facts, that the true condition of the srmy can be ascertained, but rather from the intelligent and penetrating though indulgent criticisms which his statement elicited. Lord Hartingtoo has already learned to play upon the official words "apparent' as ' opposed to " real " items of expenditure with proper dexterity, and the War Depart ment certainly surpasses naval administration in their cal culaion of " causes over which they have no control." Of the large increase of oast in the commissariat the publics will be as little diaposed to compliin as of the increase in the vote for the volunteers, which implies the steady growth and permanence of our citizen army ; but the deficit in our recruits is unfortunately so coestaut bed progressive that, should it continue at its present rate a sum in simple arithmetic will tell us i• what year the British army will have ceased to exist. The Daily News discountenances with Lord Hartington the notion of raising the strength of the army by an in crease in the rate of bounty, though higher pay may be another question. There is much good sense in the sag gantlets that the term of service should be limited to 10 betted of 12 years, thus leaviog 9 instead of U years' ser vice sufficiset to secure a pension ; that part of the latter term should be served in the militia ; and that greater fa cilities should be gives to men of long service aid good conduct to marry, as they might do without detriment to the service during the latter term of their home service in the militia. The receuitine system, in short, will be found mischievous and out of data Lord Hartington's insurance that Fenianism in the at my is insignificant and innocuous, is timely and reassuring. The Post finds the explanation of our exoessive war expen diture in the increase by other States of their army and navy. Regarding the estimates as • whole, perhaps the Secretary for War is entitled to take soma credit for having effected a anise to the anent of about a quarter of a mil lion ; but as the tax-paying public will probably look to net multi, the falling off of the Indian contributon must be regarded as a necessary item In the entire celeulatien, and the only real reduction must be set dos a as only a few thousand pound.. The Teleprapla considers that the Marquis of Hartiogton, in his emisiently well-bred exposition of last evening, laid aside all ambition to become a military reformer. Hs spoke, of course, about " reductios," but he nowhere woks of it as the mm shoull do who expects to hold in his hands the future management of this vast branch of our expenditure. The wholesale economies which public opinion demands are not possible so long as the House of Commons is still cumbered with warlike gentlemen burning for an additional charge upon it. Bat a happier state of things is now so near that the speech upon the army esti mates should have taken colour from the prospect. Relief is at present denied ; but it should at least have been earnestly spoken of as desirable. Since that splendid house garrison, the vo'unteers, rose from the soil, not a penny worth of pipeclay nor a postage stamp of reduction has bees made at the War-offiew. Let the people ponder these things while the prefatory question of reform is under discassioc. A nation which, while it recruits • volunteer army is ever increasing numbers, sees its standing army diminishing is everything but cost, has indeed already begun to see the gravity of the question. By and bye we shall find that for years our iodustry has been needlessly overburdened ; that vast standing armies are not n zees'' y to an island ; end that what you take from the War Secretary and give to the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be returned with cent. per cent. interest. To band over oar difficult subjects to irresponsible com missioner, is, the Star remarks, a growing fashion in England ; but it does not object that the question of recruiting should so be dealt with. An ample supply of recruits is never a very good sign ; and the Star agrees with Mr. O'Reilly that the army is not yet reduced below a justifiable minimum. Indeed if the war deportment would undertake a re-distribution of the forces • still smaller number would prove adequate. INTHIIILHEEB FOR THE RICK. Offering no opinion upon it the Times puts the question —Ought the metropolis to pay all the cost of those who happen to fall sick within it, and should the charge fall wholly upon houses and land' If the great work to which the metropolis is now roused must be done, and if half the metropolis is too poor and toe burdened to do it, there is no other way but a subvention out of the taxes. Things cannot remain as they are. The contrast between the sick poor as they ate and the aick pour as eiley one'. robe is too &great, and too deeply marked on the public mind, to be suffered much longer. The contrast does not exist merely in ideas and estimates, nor yet merely in the comparison of England with its nearest neigh bour, but in this metropolis itself. Ito hospitals are magni• ficent, both in the building ►od the management. But their inmates are a mere handful compared with all our sick, and even of those who suffer acute disease and want the best accommodation and are the greater part are left to boerds of guardians, whoever they may be. Where are all these sick' Who knows anything about them ' Till we can give a better account of the mass, the well•managed " hospital" only reveals that while we are nr•glectiog a great public duty, we are also sunning against better know ledge. The Telegraph tbioirs a great deal can be said io favour of the proposal of the gentlemen who demised the sulject at Willis's-rooms on Saturday, that the metropolitan work house infirmar'es be consolidstel into half-a- %zoo large establishments, and that they should then be placed under uniform management in czonezioa with the Poor-law Beard. Office! supervision might be made a reality when there were only half-a-dozen places tote examined ; and the responsibility of the managers should be greater and more distinct. To preserve the reality of local self-government the new infirmariee might be placed under the control of a representative committee, elected by the various parishes, while the go►ernmental members of the board would occupy a strictly impartial position. WS TOPICS. The Ti mes amoebas it wou'd not be fair to expect quite so strong an ebullition on any political subject as that on the first Reform Bill at so short an interval as a geteration, but thinks there must nevertheless be either • cer.ain decay of centrel heat somewhere, or the occasion must be considerably lets then when we lest re-adjusted our reps,. 'entities system. We have almost to fors* our curiosity with arguments drewo from our own coesciousness, fa order to care much what this bill ➢a to be. Sketching the oharscteristics of the English artisan as distin guished from the small shopkeeper, the Tema thinks the latter, in his character sad poeitioo, on the whole, been • Omar affinity to the state, though it is from the artisans that the 1 ()ninth Gewalt eocries ere now to be recruited. Bat both claws, if aimitted to power, will be arex , ous to meet their els...orb. Let the government we that th e ir measure shall not be such as really to alt, r the government tad policy of this empire, bat if they undertake it at all such as shall net rfy sad settles. The Daily lvews remark§ Chit the explanations offered last 'light la ref,r nos to the action of the Admiralty is the matter of the Devonport election petition pleas the go. veransent is a much better morel position than that which it occupied on Thursday evening. The Admiralty Is not to be blamed for its telegram or for the mode of giving offset to the order, but incidentally a serious question is raised as to theaoustitution and administration of the Admiralty. A department which acts on the stressgth of a private letter addressed t • subordinate °Mow, without the minimums of its he►d or of its representative in either house of parlia ment, may seem to be in a somewhat disorranised and anarchic condition. The Duke of Somerset and Lord Clarence Paget do not need to shelter themselves under the plea of ignorance of the action of the board. The action was innocent ; the ignorance requires to be explained. The Star ridicules the position of Mr. Banks dtsuhope, who his been in parliament the advocate of the most ex treme and energetic measures for the prevention of the re moval of cattle, and who has jut been fined 201. for as ie fraction of the very measures which he insisted that his neighbours ought so cheerfully to bear. The Time expects no lass from the good sense and judg ment of the Americus people then their approval of the presidential veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill. In this eciantry the courage and decision exhibited by Mr. Johnson will confirm the respect in which his policy has been held, and will entitle him to credit as one of the ablest states men who have ever conducted a great nation successfully through a perilous crisis by firmness, moderation, and wisdom. _ . The Herald *uteri into a etatement with regard to the evidence before the Jamaica commission with the view of proviog that it teada not merely to the exculpation but to the thorough and triumphant vindication of Mr. Eyre, and the superior military authorities. The testhnoay intended to pro►e particular acts of cruelty has turned out to con sist of ow mass of /lamellas and stupid perjury which any careful sad scrupulous lawyer would have detected in Ave minutes' examination. UNIVERSITY AND NATIONAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND. This morning was issued, for the information of parliament, copies of memorials addressed to the Home Secretary and the Lord Lieutenant on the above subject. On the 9th of August last Archbishop Wilde wrote a short note to Sir George Grey, referring to the rumour that modihoations were to be introduced into the system of university education in Ireland, and asking if such infor mation could be imparted to him so as to enable the bishops of his pro►isos to consider it. Sir George Grey, in reply, referred to his speech In the House of Commons, and, after citing the principle announced in that speech, added that the details of the arrangements could not be given until they had been approved of by the cabinet. Oa the 27th of the same month Archbishop Cullen applied for an interview on the part of the four Boman catholic, archbishops. In his letter be said : " The archbishops are also instructed to state that the Bam►n catholic episcopal body, while declining to sooept as satisfactory any arrangement which will leave prepon derating advantages to existing state institutions, colle giate or university, that have been condemned by the catholic church, will not refuse for themselves and their flocks concessions that may diminish the evils and injus tice of which they have had so long to complain ; it being, however, distinctly understood that such acceptance is not to be construed as an acquiescence in any form of mixed eitmation. The archbishops are further charged to urge upon you the cossidsration, with a view to removal, of the grievanoes involved in the present system of national edu cation in Ireland, by which the catholics are denied what is granted to the cathulios of Eastland, viz., the right of investing their school, and the whole system of their edn civion with the distinctive character of catholicism." Oa the 14th of January this year Dr. Cullen forwarded to the Home Secretary two letters, or memorials. on primary and university education on the part of 29 Roman catholic archbishops and bishops in Ireland. They con tain, he set's, " very little more than the statements which the four archbishops had the honour of making to you in the interview which you granted to them, and in which they 'nth:avowed to state, as briefly as possible, the many disadvantages pressing oa Irish Roman catholic/ in regard to education. I humbly confide that • just end liberal government will take oar memorials into favour able oonsideration, and commence to remove the grievances which for • long series of years have weighed heavily on the education of Romin catholic is Ireland." On the 30th of the same month Sir George Gray replied that ber Majesty's government had no intention of pro posiog any alteration in the principle on which the Queen's Colleges were conducted, but with a view to relieve the large number of persons who entertained a conscientious objection to them, they had advised her Majesty to assimilate the Queen's University in prin ciple to the London University, by which lay degrees are oonferred on students of every religions denomination without any suspicion of interfaranee with their religious principles. The right hon. baronet added :—" Her Ma jesty's government &reglad to observe that the Roman ca tholic prelates reoogniss in this decision on the part of the government an intention to place Roman loathe:lice on a footing of equality as rnpects university education with their fellow subjects of other denominations, and they trust that when the charter of the Queen's University, which is now under revision, shall have been amended, and the requisite alteration In the composition of the senate shall be completed, the objects which her Majesty's government have in view will be attained. I have already informed you that her Majesty's govern. ment are willing to advise her Majesty to grant a charter of incorporation as a college to the institution founded in Dublin by the Roman c,thol c archb shops, for the higher education of ynth. But hay tor bad under their considera tion the draft of the charter contained in the memorial, her Majesty's government regret that they are unable to advise her Majesty to grant it in the form which is there proposed. Without adverting to other points which will require revision, her Majesty's government think it essential that while due precaution is taken for the protection of the faith and morals of the students in such a college, for which purpose the archbishops might be constituted visitors, it■ governing body if it is to revive a charter from the crown should not be entirely compseed of eacleriasties, but that it should contain a considerable proportion of laymen. Her Majesty's government hope that no practical difficulty will be found in a ravisio of the terms of the charter with • view to meet the objections to the form in which it has been proposed. They are willing, if it should be desired, to suggest the form in which they think the charter might properly be granted. With re ference to the other points adverted to in the me morial, I have to inform you that her Majesty a govern ment do not intend to propose to parliament that an en dowment should be given to the Roman catholic college, but they are willing favourably to consider the proposal that parliament should be asked to grant a sum, se is demo in the ease of the London University, for the purpose of providing bourses or scholarship open to competition to all students without di arinction who are members of the univer sity. Her Majesty's government are not aware that power has ever been granted by charter to any college to affiliate to itself colleges or schools. A charter giving such a power appears to be appropria'a exclusively to an university. Her Majesty's government menet sure that they clearly appre hend the messing of the two paragraphs in the memorial as to' the testa of knowledge,' but if as they desire the senate of the university should be so constituted as to entitle it to the confidence of persons of different religious denominations, they think that it may safely be entrusted with the regulation of all matters of detail as to the time, manners, and matter cf examioa'ions." On the 11th of last month Archbishop Cullen informed the Home Secretary with regret that the prelates were all of opinion that the promises held out to them in his letter were far from corresponding to the hope which they bad , entertained ; they were not will ng, however, to give any I decided opinion until they had seen the proposed charter of ' the new university and the draft of a charter for the Roman catholic, university college, in the form in which the government would consider it admiss able. Three days later Sir George Grey wrote to sac that he hoped in a very short time to send the dornments referred to, adding that he had forwarded to the Lord Lieutenant the memorial from the prelates on national education in Ireland, with a request that it be communicated to the Commissioners of National Education for their observations, their attention being specially called to the statements contained in the memorial with reference to the model schools. The rest of the return consists of copies of memorials presented to the Lord Lieutenant on the subject of univer sity education, from the Queen's University, and from the presbyterian and other bodies in Ireland. Heavy snowstorms have fallen in the Isle of Wight. In some pule of the island the snow le lying three inches deep. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. AGITATION IN BOHEMIA. At a recent sitting of the Diet of Prague, the dissidence between the Czech and German races in Bohemia exhibited itself in a degree of agitation whioh almost amounted to violence. A proposition for abolishing the privilege accorded to the German language in the secondary and higher departments of education, and putting both the Czech and German languages on a footing of complete equality, was the occasion for this outbreak of national feeling. The sitting continued for nine hours, which shows howkeenly the question was contested on both sides. The government wishing to give offence to neither party proposed to take the opinion of the universi ties, which was equivalent to an adjournment of the question for the session. This proposition was rejected by 121 to 101, and the result was received by the Czech party with great enthusiasm. The people who crowded the tribunes and who were assembled before the chamber loudly cheered the national deputies, while the German members were insulted, and in some instances maltreated. The official Gazette of Prague strongly censures the municipal authorities for not acting with greater vigour on the occasion. A similar display of feeling manifested itself in different points of Bohemia and the armed force had to be called out to preserve public order. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. The Wanderer of Vienna openly advises the government of Austria to take advantage of the crisis in the Danubian Principalities by annexing them to the empire. By adopting this course Austria would at once escape from her Italian diffi culties, and the dangers with which M. de Bismarck threatens her in Germany. The two Western powers would be glad to see the exchange of Venetia for Moldo-Wallachia, and Austria could then reckon on their moral and material support against the pretensions of Prussia. . . _The ost Deutche Poste also has an article in which much the same policy is advocated. (ulna's =ma FRANCE. PARIS, Mum & The eondition of the Prinoe Imperial is very satisfactory, the disease being rapidly on the de cline. SPAIN. MADRID, Mises 5, Emma. ♦ meeting of the shareholders of the Bank of Spain was held to-day, when an animated discus sion took place. The directors of the bank propose to issue notes for 50 reels and 20 reels respectively. DIVISION IN THE HOUSE OP LORDS LAS? NIGHT. __.___ LAW OF EVIDENCE AMENDMENT BILL. Moved that the bill be now re►d a second time (The Lord ChinosMr) ; objected to, nod an amendment moved to leave out " Dow," and insert "this day six months" (the Lord Chelmsford) ; on question that " now" Mead part of the modoo—costenta, 29 ; non-oontents, 29. The num bers being equal, it was, according to ancient rater, re solved in the negative. OOFTWIS. LD.CHANCILLOII. BARN. WHOP. LORDS. Cranworth. Aiello Peterborough. Northbrook ARCHBISHOP. Albemarle Wars. Oversaw York. liklthnees Doyle Ponsooby BURRO. Clarendon Clandeboye Geller) Cleveland De Grey Foley (teller) Homily Bt. Albans Dude Llanover Stanley of Al- Somerset. Mato. Monson derley MARQUIS. VIIOOOIIS. Mentes& Btratheden Camden. Sydney.____ Alwyn Sundridge. NOZOONTZifTS. MEHL 11.1114. LOAD& LOllB. Buckingham Hardwick* Abinger X.ilmola° and Chandoa Harrow by Chaworth Lyveden Marlborough. Lucan Chelmsford Redeadale EARQUI3I/11. Portarlington (teller) Sitchester Bath Shrewsbury Colchester Skelmersdale lonadowno. (teller) Colville of Cal• Taunton soma. Strange. roan 'Vivian Belmors VISOOIITE Houghton Walsingbam Cadogan =ord. Hamadan Wharnellits. fit Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, NAZI= 6. The Queen with Princess Helena, and attended by the Hoe. Emily Cathcart, drove in the grounds this morning. Prince Alfred and the gentleman in waiting attended Divine Service yesterday afternoon at St. George's Oliva. The Prince of Wales went to the House of Lonis yew. terd&y. The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive. A deputatioo,f oossisting of Messrs. Thomas Powell, Frederick Hepburn, Henry Page, and Alfred Latinos, had an interview with Earl Granville at the Privy Counoil-oflioe, yesterday, on the &mom in the Cattle Plague Bill vela I g to the removal of hides and skins. Devpstobes were received yesterday at tbe ColoniaLodlite from the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Hoeg, Matta, Hell- Roland, Canada, the Falkland Islands, the Bahamas. sad Vaimonver's Mend. The Prince and Princess of Wales will, it is under. stood, prolong their autumn stay at Abergeldie till the last week in October; sad the triennial musical festival at Norwich, which they have promised to attend, will foc their Royal Bighorns's' o-nvsnieoco be postponed till the lut days of Ootobor and fit st easy, of November. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wsles will hocosr the Dake and Duchess of Marlborough with their company at dinner on Weloesday. the 21st Inst., at their resides°. is St. James's Roars. Lear in the evening the clochees will give adaadag party to meet their royal highnesses. The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle and family leave town in a day or two for Clamber Park, Notts, till after Easter. The Countess Russell entertained the following aompany at dinner hat evening, at her resMesee in Cho& ham-place :—His Rainßepay the Italian Minister, the lied Cowper, Viseount and Viscoustess Ambetley, Lord and Lady Wm. Compton, Lord and Lady Frederick Cavendish Lord Ebony, Lord Charles Russell, Led; Georgians Romig the Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley, Sir James and Lady Mary Wilde, k The Bari Reuell was unsbis to join the patty owing to sliiht hid/- position. The Countess Russell will have an assembly to. morrow at the official residence of the First .Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. . . The Speaker's levee, announced for Wednesday, the 7th of March, ia =avoidably postponed. This morning a copy was issued of the corre spondence whirl has taken plane relative to the sickness and mortality in the god battalion of the 9th R.giment. and 2nd battalion of the 11th Regiment, in China and Japan. A return bas also appeared of the mean annual streagth, total annual sickness, mortality, and in validing of the troops of ea* arm, ofsoers, end men, at Hong gong, from the year 1850 to 1865, both inclusive, and of the number of deaths annually on the voyage to England by the troops invalided. The mean an- nual strength last year of European troops at Hong gong wag 1,350 ; the average number of sick wan 172 (in 1864 it wee 75, in 1863, 95); the death. were 117 against 47 la 1864, 31 in 1863, 48 in 1862, Ste. The invalided were 254, against 168 in the previous year, 114 in 1863, and 65 in 1862. No less than 66 died on the passage to England, while in the previous year there bad been only eix oases of the kind, in 1863 eight, in 1862 one. It should be said, however, that the mean annual strength of the European throe last year were 353 stronger than in 1864, 321 more than in 1863, and 226 more than in 1882. The publisher Abeladorf, of Berlin, against whom a prosecution had been instituted, on the demand of the French government, for an insult to the Bmpe•or Napoleon oostsiced in a work entitled, " Life of the New Caw," has been eondemned to a floe of 60 ths'ere (18710. This being his third osedestnation his privilege of bookseller has been withdrawn. LAW INTELLIGENCE. MRS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Bdore Mr. Commissioner Wisdom.) 13 II JOON OHM= 1111/0/1. Th e bankrupt was • oolocial messier sad madame of mils end engines, of Lime-stre e t. cu r . and liabilities representing a total of 43,6967 eh ere 7, giros up, 1,4041.17 5 . 6d. ; Duleit"oanau,"Vtlfie. 6d. ; good and bad d e lo s i ll 4M sad property in the heads of creditors, 27,17 k &Twh a his was sa adjourned meeting f or lad etatelnalies m. Mr. pulp, for the assignees, said that a mew had been made by the bentrupt for • Bespea n k e the proceedings undor . tbe 110th erotical, aag mild oraditors generally wandered that they h e bummed by the estate being wound u p i n she way pol. rood. The ally doubt i n his mind w as w h et h er seek sae solution mead be Tamed to-dal. His Honour thought the proper course woald be to jewel the present sitting, in order that • monis' wed he oonyousel, at which creditors could pane any moieties tombs m te ight agree to with regard to the edieleawatioa esw. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIB DAY.) SECOND 001711 T. (Before Mr. Payne.) IBOBBEIT DI • " CASUAL" 1 17111 WIT, John Brennan, 30, labourer, was "Whited for stoo l lOs. 13d., the moneys of William ; Redding The prisoner pleaded not guilty. William Redding, a po or - looking mu, said, a the 214 of February he was • • esenal" la the infirmaty st Ur, bridge, acid bad 10s. 6d. Jo his pocket when he west to IsS The primmer slept in the same room, about three beds off. When he went to bed the mousey was quite egfe, end ohm he awoke in the morning he found it was gone. Si ward Healey, a pauper. said he slept in the ease Nog with the prisoner and the progenitor, and in the middle el the night be saw the prisoner walking about theme,* saw him fumbling at the prosecutor's pocket. The porter, or the " Daddy " of the tribriclie w = ; said he received information of the los of the mosey sod watched the prisoner. hle saw him In* gcoecedl smoothies under the door of the iolfrtmy, went tip to him and asked bins whet he window tie nil " soothing." Witness then took 10s. 6d. from bin. pd, mow said if it was not for making the ass worse be world have poached his head. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Mr. Payne said it was a very bal thing to rob a poly man like the prosecutor and sentenced the prisons' to bs kept to hard labour for nine mouth'. THE POLICE COURTS. (TRIB DAY.) LA MOTH. 11011 DIEVISIXITION 0! CLOMIL IcompA Skipper. 20, a pauper, belonging be daunted Workhouse, was charged before the Hon. G. Norte' Mit destroying a coat and pair of trousers bekaging to ne guardians of ties parish. The task-master at the workhorse said thatenthe 9tkil last month the prisoner applied for admission into Is house ' and he was taken in there. It was then bed that he belonged to the parish legally, sad he au allowed to sleep there until that morning, shin demanded his discharge. The master of the weekluen told him (witness) to let him have a coat and Monism ml he brought them to him, bat the moment be tumid big back he destroyed both garments, saying they rut set at for weer. . 166strate—Was that the *tee? Witaees—Certainly not, your worship, they was my good. Prisoner—No such thing, you know they WWI set. Magistrate—Eves so, you Led oo right to destroy Min, If they were not flt to wear you should have implied to is muter of the workhouse and he would have pm you some better. I shall commit you for foudsss days' b labour. _ _ _ _ . -- Patrick Keefe, an Irish labourer, was charged with ab seconding from Oamberwell Workhouse a suit d clothes belonging to the governors and guard ass of tie Mr. Mr. Smithery, the master of the workhouse, mid that the =had been treated with much kiadeess in the week and the Tatum he made was to absecod with emit of cloths.. The prisoner was sent to prison for ten days hard Wash THAMES. • 001111ZECIAL MAIIMLIM ',MATING NIII naffs Thomas Parrott, t well-dreised man, aged 45, sad di. scribed u • coesnierele/ traveller, was brought up as ri mead before Mr. Paget, charged with strafing three fowls sod three phials of salt pork from the shop of Mr..Utred Sweet, poulterer. of No. 620, Milemnd.tood. Mr. Sweet sa.d be had recently het s gnat mazy feels and • oonsidorable quantity of meat from h's shop. On Saturday eight • girl told him • gentlemen had taken UM fowls off the wiodow board, and gene up the mai with Mesh Hs at ogee mimed three fins capons worth 12a.0f the Mk dow board cease* the shop. He saw the miaow wan* briskly along with three ta p ou in his had. He took him by the arm and asked him for the foils. The P" They me mine." He said to him, " Are you sure they are yours ?" The adopted this question himself, and he took im 1j the arm and led - him beak to the shop. He held bin mg • police-constable arrived and gave him into custody. AI the station-home • bag which the primer wee may* was opened, and three pieces of milt pork ware forted it hi They bad been taken from his shop. Mr. Paret—Then he took the pork first sod eme bark for the fowls ? Mr. Sweet—Yee, Mr. He was very choice. He Mk three pieces of piekled pork, and thee retuned and Wt the throe best fowls in my shop. Henry Boulton, shopmaa to Mr. Price, buteher,No. Priory-re:nos, Bow - road„ said the prisoner had be. la the habit of buying • lot of pieces at the shop, end the dieoppearasee of joints bad followed kle visits. Oa filaturesy night Via prisoner picked Si piece of veol, sod said "My style is halfpenny per pound." He said he could sot take= pito* as that. The misuser raid, " I will seed my Iris to you; she menages those things better than me.' llem after the prisoner had left there was a band of peek aim log. He saw the prisoner cline by the shop in custody slot balf-an-hoer steer wards, and followed him to the swim house, where he saw the miming hand of pork take hes the prisoner's be;. A piece of rite et lesl and • piece of muttoo, alas belonging to Mr. Prier, end which had been stolen trim the sbop about the maw Mt% were also found in the bag. Lewis Lambert, police-constable N , 3 11 H. as °almd* . fowls and six pieces of meat ; the Tight of the whets Ni about 451 b., sod it was se mach as he could lift is allarklis "Here are the fowls," said the witness, "three pis" I pickled pork, a hand of fresh pork, a fine piece of MOW= • piece of mutton." Mr. Paget—ls the prisoner • provision dealer? (A 1144 Lambert—No, no, sir ; he said he went to market Po rally in the beet way he could, and that be bouehl_ti whole in Leadenhall-market. He lives at No. 6, Ea..' street, Sespeey. The peleeser—l will leave It all to the mercy of theta* I did it through distress, sir. I have • good charade* here is one of my testimosials. Mr. Paget—l oaonot look at it. Imi. The in prim a u n ct 7 r; l in b pA ave ata fo e ur id.. yr est ne m eh m ild w ren . , inir teci . I kal i. meat and fowls for my poor children. r wit. read Kulisl. ll Mr. Paget —I mono' accept your plea. You hsv i A about systematically from shop to stop, meat sad fowls. You have been v chow your selection of fare for your ehadroo. I bave the greatest empathy for • poor swam Meshes • bit of food to se ray cue czarinas of Integer, sone for a man who hoe committed an extensive rattrs and whom 1 unspent to be a practised Olio'. Tredemlo, have a right to be proteitsd from awl depmdatiom shall not accept your plea of guilty, but commit pal. trial for stealing the fowls and meat, Mr. Sidney Smith, the secretary of the land re gistratioa of the City of London, conkeds in the cause of the Tines, that for the purpose of ascertaining there her of persons whowill bs enfranchised by 'qualifier's's ! 61., Mr. Baines's return is " ridiculously fallacious." A private of the 60th Rifles was charged al Dublin yeeter lay with a wanton assault upon • &MAW odium. As the oftlaer was pus , ng through Lower Oaf y late at night the soldier assaulted him with his belt, sal cut him about the bead. The detective bed just come from 0 rk, where he had given evidence at 111 court-martial, which is rid to have instigated the sage to commit the assault. After being flued by the rosaf' tote the soldier was taken into custody by the maitsil• The friends of stazzini in Genoa, says the coo* pendent of the Nord, having commenced preparations le celebrate his election for Messina by s public misfire. lion, the polies authorities Intimated that they would IA permit any such demonstration, and would, if measselo lll peer any assemblage of this kind by armed force. The Libertd of this day is headed by the follow* announcement, signed by A. de Tension'', the editsdal eserrery :—" From this date the on-operation of Falba. Girardin, Clement Davernois, and Auguste Vermorel been secured for La Lacrti. 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