The Express. — London, England, 1866-02-03 00:00:00

ALLENPATENT AL AWARDED.) 'S PORTMANTEALTS and TRAVELLING BAGS with soave openings. LADIES WARDROBE TRITNKI3, DEEMED EAOB, wtth ewe DV/PATCH BOXES, WRITING and DRIBEIENG CAME, and Mother articles tor hems er owathiental travelling. Disetroted latologuse post tree. Also Alien's Suva& Purciture Catalogue of Portable Bed h at ead tre, Drawees, sag Chain, Waskhancbstanda Coalesce, &a, me. J. W. ALLEN, Load's. W.C. sal Patesstw, 37, West llOrsed, Eh, vrprexiAi. TO CORRIMPONDIDIIIL Ldrertbionanin Intondod for The Iwo= • London Ironing oilM, must be at the Moe, 10, Bonvertiontrsol, by Two k on Um day of pabllcation. HAYMARKET. Tuz ihrearma, BROTHER SAM. Mews. Sothern, Buck stone, and Compton • Walla Nell, Moore. Snowdon, &c.— ORPHEUS IN THE HAYMARKET. Hewn Fenno & D. Flabet ; Edam Keeley, Howard & Wright —FISH OUT OF WATER. PILINCZBBII. THIS SVIIN/NO, QUM LODGINGS.—After which 11' 18 MIVILE TOO LATE TO MEND. Messrs. Vining, G. Mehra* T. Mead, D. Murray, b. Calbasm, P. V il liers. J. G. Shore, G. Mer sey, sad R. Otihmai ; Wow L. Moore sod K. lodgers. LYCII7II. Tars Emma. THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER.. Mr. H. Widdloomb.—THE MASTER OP RAVENSWOOD. Messrs. Pechter, Jordan, Vezln, Emery, Widdlcomb, Mrepatrlek, Evans Mesdames Teresa, Elsworthy, Wen; C. Leelercq. BRITANNIA. Tins amain, OLD DADDY LOW/LEOS AND SIR REGENT CIRCUS.—IL and Ydme. Btertzenteeh. --Signor Bevaol—The Golden Raln.—Johnny Survivors from the Crew of the Internship London will appear.—Olmar.—And BILTRE COLD. MGR WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. T DAY —. Morgue, at. 1eak..... Afternoon, Rs. 32m. To4loaaow —. Moiratag, 412. 61m.....Afternoos, M. 811. LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3. TEE " clothes philosophy" which Mr. CARLYLE propounded more than a quarter of a century ago has at last, through the interposition of Mr. BRIGHT ; found its way, as all great questions sooner or later do, into Parliament. The vest ments controversy will no longer be confined to the Church. Swords and knee-breeches, silk-stock ings.and lappetleas costa, will divide public interest with chasubles and albs and amices ; and we may expect a fierce fight over them. The importance which the member for Birmintham attaches to the right of free dressing was indicated by the time and manner of his introducing the subject. Men of less courage would have scarcely ventured to intervene between the SPEAKER and the House, while the former waited to return his acknowledgments for his elevation to the posi tion of the first Commoner in England, and to the presidency of the most illustrious and powerful legislative assembly in the world. On an occasion of this sort, the question of costume was perhaps a little below the level of the situation. Following closely upon Mr. MONsELL'S elaborate historic essay on the dignity and functions of the SPEAKER, Mr. BRIGHT'S suggestion as to the clothes which honourable members should be allowed to wear at Mr. Demotes official dinner parties and louden produced the shock of a sudden mental drop, and was marked by that incongruity in which, ao cording to some mental philosophers, the essence of humour resides. In the exercise of that moderation which the member of Birmingham has lately cultivated with a success which has gratified as much as it has surprised those of his friends, who are not his indiscriminate flatterers, Mr. BRIGHT does not push his clothes philosophy to the extreme of the celebrated Herr TEIYFELEDROECK, from whom be has, perhaps, derived it. He does not desire to "see a naked Duke of Windlestrew addressing " a naked House of Lords," nor demand that "as " every soul, or rather every body, of these guar " diens of our liberties was naked or nearly so last " night--' • forked radish, with a head fantasti " cally carved ;' so he should be allowed to " walk out to St. Stephens' as well as into bed " in that no fashion, and there with other similar " radishes hold a bed of justice." In some quar ters, it is by no mean, improbable that he will be charged with advocating this return to primitive simplicity of costume, or, at any rate, with laying down principles which inevitably conduct thither. His hatred of the aristocracy, it will be said, makes him desire to see them stripped of their raiment as well as of their land. But these assertions do him an injustice. Mr. Hamar would reform within the limits of the constitution on the clothes question as well as on the suffrage question. Of course he may expect the strongest resistant* on the part of the tailors. Their honourable craft, which is second in antiquity to that of garden ing only, has, for some reason or other, been held always in slight social consideration, and clings the more strongly to its pecuniary solaces for the indignity. Queen ELIZABETH had the cruelty to address a deputation of eighteen members of the profession as " gentlemen both ;" and the sight of a silver bodkin, and allusion to the thread and shears of the furies, threw Sir Pizzas SHAPTON, conscious of an ancestor who had wielded these instruments, into convulsions of rage and fear. A living novelist has made the conflict between the spirit of • gentleman and the trade of a tailor the subject of serio-oomic psychological romance. The acknowledgment that " the tailor makes the mans is, however, some partial compensation for the cruel and unjust imputation of being only the ninth part of one. He not only makes the man, but on certain oc saaiona he makes, in a way, the member of Par liament ; and be may naturally object to the cur tailment at once of his dignity and of his profits. These last must be considerable, for Mr. Banton mentions a colonel in the army who, being also a member of Parliament, "complained with a certain " seriousness of manner" that it would cost him fifty guineas to "put himself inside" a suitable dress in which to appear at the Srs•xsa's table. Putting aside the claims of vested interests in peculiar vestments on the one side, and of economy on the other, we are inclined to think VW Mr. Bstour has reason and good saws in remonstrance. Exception may perhaps be LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—Daring the storms of the past year the National Lifeboat institution, by Its llts noes and other means, contributed to thewying of 707 persons teem diderent wrecks on oar coasts. The Institution also ',u pended £21,374 in the same period on Its lifeboat establishments, Imaddition to granting £4,950 for rewards for saving We and exercising tbutlfebraht. committee of the Institution earnestly APPEAL to the public for ASII3TANCE, to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the institution's ISS Lifeboat Stations. Contributions are received by the London and Country Beakers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the In. siltation, 14, John-street, Ad&phi, Landon. THE OPENING of PARLIAMENT by HER MAJESTY the QUERN.—A DOUBLE NUMBER of the IXPRESS will be published on TUESDAY peak on the occasion of the delivery of the Royal Speech at the opening of the Two Bosom of Perliament. Advertisements intended for insertion in this number of the " Express" must be at the °Mee by li o'clock as noon. JOHN BROGDKN. nmGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, V 16. EINKITTA4TILCIT COVILYT•GAADZN JOHN BROGDINII GOLD OILUNS. JOHN BROODKN'S GOLD GL &RD CHAINS. jOHNBROGDNN'SG OLD ALIMRT CHAINS. JOHN BROOMS'S GOLD BROOCH C HAMS. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, taken to the occasion which he selected, and his remarks may be held to give exaggerated impor tance to a matter in itself of little moment ; but the question having been raised, judgment most be given in his favour. The symbols of authority and of office are not, we admit, to be altogether dis pensed with. They impress, and impress beneficially, the minds both of those who wear them, and of the public which beholds them. We should be sorry to see the SPEAKER presiding over the delibera tions of the House unwigged and disrobed. There ought to be something to distinguish the functionary of the State, or the representative of an order in the State, from the private gentleman. But neither this principle, nor the fancied analogy of judicial and forensic costume in the courts of law, applies to the case of members of Parliament, who discharge their public duties in any sort of dress they like, and go to the SPEAKER'S evening parties in uniform. They legislate in shooting-jackets and tweed trousers, and put on swords and bag wigs in order to dine. If barristers and judges pleaded causes and gave decisions in morning dress, and clad themselves in their gowns and full-bottomed wigs for society, the parallel might be urged which now fails. It is absurd that gen tlemen meeting for the enjoyment of social in tercourse should array themselves for that purpose in the grotesque and inconvenient costume of a century back. Some persons in as well as out of Parliament, no doubt, value anything that distin guishes them from their fellows. They like mas querading ; but others among them feel an ugly disguise to be a folly, and are half ashamed of it and of themselves in putting it on, though they prefer, sensibly enough, complianoe with a foolish, but harmless, custom, to eccentric departure from it. There is some propriety, per haps, in setting apart a special dress in which English subjects may do homage to their SOVE REIGN. But this case is unique ; and why in the world should not gentlemen of the nineteenth century, when they meet each other, or pay their respects to one who among them is simply primus inter pares, dress as gentlemen of the nineteenth century 1 The good taste of the age is in favour of simplicity, and against extravagance of cos tume; and if the SPEAKER were, as Mr. BRIGHT suggests, to substitute for the Act of Uniformity an Act of Toleration, we should soon see the last, in his saloons, of the fantastic and costly garb which now flaunts it there. But if we did not, there is no fear that the inconvenience which a poet of HENRY IVA time denounces as limiting attendance at the levee of his day would thin the SPEAKER'S receptions. If any wight, virtuous but narrow-clothed, To lords' courts nowadays go, His company is, to most folk, loth's& Men scorn him, for he is arrayed so. In their conoeit there is no wight virtuous _ _ Bat he whose array is outrageous. The array is outrageous enough now ; but it is not regarded u the criterion of either public or private virtue. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) CHIUAJ PRIVATZE/Ui. Spain, the only European power which refused co•cnrreoos with the resolution of the Congress of Paris to abolish privakoring, now seems doomed, observes the Times, to suffer from the maintenance of the practice it held so dear. Chill, in a perfectly legal way, as the abolition was restricted to wars between powers which aooepted the declaration of Paris, is inning letters of marque, and the probability seems to be that Spanish merchantmen will at no distant period be absolutely swept from the seas. The Times • only hopes that the mucous of the Chilians hitherto, and the bright prospects before them, will not indire the nation to turn • deaf ear to overtures of peace. There con k 3 no doubt which of the two combatants bag the hotter prospects. When hostilities are carried on by ships commissioned with letters of marque, Providence is on the side of the longest purses, end we have on the one hind Ch"i wealthy and in good credit, and on the other Spain bankrupt at home and dishonoured abroad. The instructions of the Chilian government are scrupulously careful, too, of general interests, and it is evident their publication fore bodes • new and more active phase of the war. Oa the other hand, everything in Spain just now points to the possibility of an acceptance of arbitration and the re establishment of peace ; and it is the duty of all neutral nations, when such a favourable opportunity is offered for their action, to intervene and assist • conclusion probably desired in secret by each belligerent. of the mall tax would come ; and the Times itself doubts whether that tax would long survive • uniform' represen tatis• of numbers. If this thqj, it says, be Mr. Bentinek's object, and If Vale be his teat of a fait representation and &mad legislation, we think he can do nothing better than strike up au 'Mabee with Mr. Bright. He may depend on it that the consumers of malt liquor are far more numerous, far more interested, far more energetic, and far more able to have their way, than the preduoers—that is, the producers of barley. The country gentlemen have only to give the me tropolis seventy members, Lancashire fifty, and Yorkshire nearly as many more, and they will see the malt duty knocked off as easily as the " head" off a pot of porter. They will see a few other things knocked off, too ; but mind. It will be an inestimable comfort to feel that everyone has an equal share in the representation, even if he has ne sham in anything else. The Duly News thinks the American people will note the recurrence in M. Dronyn de Lhuys' despatches with regard to Mexico of the phrase "we return to the prin ciple of non-intervention"—.,phrase which has served its turn so long with respect to Rome. According to • despatch dated the 2nd of but mouth, the Emperor interprets this returning to non-intervention as an Intention t 3 create a double intervention, securing the papal government in its sovereignty—a moral intervention which no independent nation with a spark of pride would tolerate. Meanwhile to Italy the Daily News would say, " Trust to the force of circumstances, and to what the Foreign Miniter of France so well describes as the iofinence of moral and materiel intimate, and to the effect of time." For time is the sure and viaterious ally of every good and just cause. The Post understands that, as without the authority of a local legislature the Queen's commissioners in Jamaica have no power to compel the attendance of witnesses, certain parties in the colony contemplate calling the extinct assembly into life again to confer the requisite powers ; but it trusts the Colonial Minister will listen to no such suggestion, and that if any additional powers are required they will be conferred at once by an act of the imperial parliament. The Herald can add to the statement that the Reform Bill will not be produced before the Easter recess, the information that the details, and even the outlines of the scheme have not been settled, and that the members of the cabinet have as little notion as anybody else what they mean to do or how far they intend to go. The only point on which they have really made up their minds is that they will carefully abstain from anything conclusive or comprehensive. The Telegraph think, it a legitimate subject of con troversy whether the time absorbed by the process of taking the initiatory oath in parliament is profitably spent. Prac tically the oath affords no safeguard, and that • special form should be imposed upon Roman catholics is invidious and absurd. With respect to the majority of members, the sweariog-in is an inoffensive, if somewhat superfluous care mony ; with regard to the Roman catholic', the correl stive proceeding is highly offensive, and utterly valueless s" • protection to the interests of the community. The Star attaches considerable importaeoe to the Pberal demonstration in Surrey. All the speakers concurred in the necessity for reform ; all, including Mr. Layard, made the presumed faithfulness of the ministry to reform, the basis of confideace in the reconstituted government. The last gift of Mr. Peabody's appears to the Adrertizer to make the future of London decidedly hopeful. By the constant accruing of fresh funds, from the rental of 12,001. • year, there will arise the constant building of fresh houses, until, before 1885, there may be a sum of 25,0001. annually available, and a large new model lodging-beans built every year. Nor can the example fail to be contagious. The corporation of London, encouraged by the success of their recent effort, will go further. Wealthy landowners, when they find the undertaking no longer hopeless, will begin to lend their aid. The tette, the feeling, will spread, and we may find, before • dozen years have passed over, • widespread and hearty agreement, that the working men of London, in whatever part of the metropolis they may be placed, shall be able to find, and to enter without difff• catty, • well contrived, well provided, and wholesome habitation. the Court. OSBORNE, FEB., 2. Her Majesty drove out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by Pramers Helene, Prineeas Lott4e, and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. A deputation, consisting of Sir John Simeon, Bart., M.P., Admiral Denham, the Rev. W. H. Girdlestone (Vicar of Newchurch-cum-Ryde), Mr. Thomas Dubwood (Chairman of the Ryde Commissions*, Mr. Edmund Hands, Mr. W. IL Pollen (Clerk to the Hyde Commissioners), and Mr. John R. C.E., had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, at the office of the Board of Trade yesterday, upon the subject of the Ryde Station Bill. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. Present : Lord Chelmsford, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir J. Colvile. and Sir Lawrence Peel. Deepatehes were mot yesterday from the Colonial•offioe to the Governor of St. Helen► CABINET COIINCIL. —Summonses bsve been issued for a Cabinet Council on Mooday afternooo, at two o'clock, at Earl Russell's official residence in Downing-street, The Field-Marahal lev6e, announced for to-day, is unavoidably postponed till Wed. wedgy the 7th instant; but u there may possibly be officers who have come some distance for the purpose of seeing his Royal Highness, to whom it might be inconve nient to remain in Loudon till the last day named, the mili tary secretary will be happy to receive them to-day sod communicate their requests to the Duke of Cambridge. . . . _ _ . _ His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is confined to his house with an attack of gout. The Archbishop of Dublin has arrived at Maurity's Hotel, from the Palace, Dublin., Sir Hugh Cairns's health, it is said, is daily im prow*, and he porpoise returning to England at the end of the present month, to fulfil his parliamentary and pro fissional dutle The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster sad Lady Augusta Stanley eaterta'ned a select party at dinner yesterday even:ng, at their residence in Dean's•yard. . . It is probable (says the Army and Navy Gazette) that Major• General W. C. E. Napier, now ouoimanding • brigade in Ireland, will succeed Major• General Hamilton as Vice-President of the Council of Military Education. Be fore his appointment to his present command. Major- General Napier was for ems time commandant of the staff college. A deputation from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church waited oe the Lord-Lieutenant yerter day, and presented a memorial against any change in the saldoeal system of education. His excellency replied that government had not the slightest intention to disturb the principle of th►t system in Ireland. To a deputation from Galway who waited upon the Lord Lieutenant on Thursday, asking that troops might be stationed there to resist any attempt to effect a hostile landing, his excellency said that there were other places on the western coast of Ireland an likely to be selected as Galway for making a hostile landing, if such were contemplated or would be attempted. There was not a harbour or week on that onset of which the some this could not be said ; but he did not believe that any attempt at a hostile landing would be made. Applications from various places had been forwarded to the government for troops, but it would be impossible to comply with all of them. Opera In English will shortly be given at Drury Lane 'Theatre. with Mr. Etonscliot as conductor. Schumann's Paradise and the Peri is advertised for the Philharmonic concert. Signor Mongini is said to be among the artists roomed by Mr. Marleooo for his Itali►n meson. Mr. Sothern is studying a new part, in comedy by Mr. Westland Marston. The comic vein of the ►uthor of The Patrician's DauAter (observes the Athencrum) has not been worked so much as men who reeolleet hie drama of Rough Polities desire. The new play ie in four acts ; report speaks highly of its literary merits ; sad the Haymarket mummy are mid to be much Is love with it. Mr. bothers, "specially, is said to ban a character-part of singular simplicity and power. The Fellows of the Astronomical Society will sat their annual thence together at the Freemasons' Tavern, on Friday neat, under the new president, the Rev. O. Pritchard. Tat Fox Cram —The first meeting of the Fox Club thbryeer will tete place at Brooks's, on Saturdey, tke 10Ik of February. RITUALISM IS THE CHURCH. The Daily Yews character:Yes the guarded language used by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the influential deputa tion who, on Thursday, represented in so moderate a way the ritualistic practices which change the whole face of public worship, and leave but a shadowy and imperceptible distinction between the Holy Communion of the church of England and the Boman mats—as peculiarly under the present circumataocr a, the language of policy and prudence, The clerical leaders of the extreme ritual party in the dio ceses of London and Winchester have measured very nicely the limits of episcopal authority, and a certain rubric exists which seems to counienanoe them. If, as the tend ency of opinion bas lately indicated, law is on their side, it will be very difficult to reach them. The subscribers to the memorial are desirous t, refer themselves solely to the wisdom of the bishops, but the ultra-ritualists refuse to do anything of the kind, always reply jag, as the Bishop of London told the House of Lords lest year, that they need no interpretation of the rubric from a bishop, archbishop, or anyone else. It is not easy to see what can be done under these circumstances ; but, looking at the multiplica tion of district churches, in which, for the most part, these practices expressing a theological system so inconsistent with that of the Church of England are most prevalent, divisions more dangerous than any that have ever yet oc curred threaten to weaken the church. The Poet eonimente upon the multiplicity sod eontra riety of the rules now in force with respect to live stock, remarking that they have naturally given rise to many attempts, either deliberate or oniotentional, to evade the law, and so caused a good deal of irritation. In March fresh difficulties will arise. If we continue to atop the circulation of black cattle in the spring as we are now doing, we shall hinder graziers and others getting stores to eat their grass, and in many eases prevent any increase of the bovine species. On the other hand, even the slightest relaxation of existing precautions cannot fail to spread contagion. We h►ve then a short month before us prior to the opening of the ordinary spring trade in cattle, during which the work of stamping out the pest is to be performed. Can the thing be done in that time, or. indeed, at all ? The country looks to parliament with hope and confidence that it will deal with this serious evil In a prompt and, if possible, effectual manner. The daily avenge of awe, which wee 222 in October, and 1,343 in January, shows a rate of increase which, if maintained, the Herald say., will clear hill and dale, field and meadow, shed and cow-Loose, of every horned animal before the close of the current year! The measures of the government have been confreedly inadequate, bat moat eves sow might be done by forbidding th• transport of five attic, the imperative use of the pole-axe, and com pelling all dealers to beoome wren butchers, sending their meat to market ready killed. Upon the question of com pensation the Herald at present says nothing. Parliament is now in seeks, and we shall before long have an oppor tunity of learning whether the legislature will, or will not, be disposed to accord to the sufferers by this national &s -tatues that consideration which the cabinet denies. Mr. George Bastin/Ir, who has retired from parliament oe secant of ill health, addeseens • keg letkr to the Times bedding that it in the rural &dries which have moot reason to complain of inadequate representation in par liaised. Were they barer repreerated, he WA the repeal FEBRUARY 3, 1866. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (=Tries Totamms.) BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, FEB. 3. The Moniteur Belge of to-day publishes the text of an address to King Leopold 11. from the English Volunteers who were present at the national rifle meeting held in Belgium in 1864 and 1865. The address condoles with his Majesty on the loss he has sustained, and congratulates him on his accession to the throne. HUNGARY. PESTH, Fa. 3. A congratulatory address was presented yester day to the Emperor by a deputation from the Hungarian Diet. His Majesty replied in very gracious terms, and declared that, notwithstanding the many difficulties in the way of an arrangement, a resolute will and mutual oonfidence would bring about a satisfactory solution. THE BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, Fits. 3. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Oneida, with the above mails, auived here. She brings fifty passengers, 1,6421. in specie, 2,5971. in silver, 7 packages of diamonds, value not stated, and 4,000 packages of cargo, consisting chiefly of cotton. From Lisbon to the Channel she experienced a south-westerly gale and a heavy sea. On the 14th ult. she:spoke the English ship Sarah Dixon, on the 15th the Hamburg barque Lizzie Annie, and on the 16th the English ship Calliope. The allied army under President Mitre was ex pected shortly to enter Paraguay. The Brazilians were daily sending recruits to the River Plate and the army in Corientes numbers 40,000 men. In Paraguay an army was concentrated at the Paso-de-la-Patrea, awaiting the approach of the allies, and a battle was considered imminent. The state of the Argentine Provinces was satis factory. The works of the Argentine Central Rail way were proceeding rapidly. The markets were crowded with wool, and prices bad considerably declined in consequence of the stringency of the money market. The paper money in circulation was insufficient for the demands of trade, and was worth 24 per cent. per annum, while gold only commanded 12 per cent. Business was quiet, and the banks had ceased discounting in paper money. In the Coventry districts water and grass were very abundant, and there was a large increase in the flocks. Sheep were very cheap. Advices from Rio Janeiro state that small-pox, measles, and fever had been very destructive amongst the Paraguayan troops and the allied army. The Brazilian fleet was still at Corrientes, and a combined attack upon Paraguay was expected at the end of January. From Paraguay little is known, but several thousand citizens and troops stationed at Ascen cion are said to have died of disease arising amongst various encampments and spreading to the inhabitants. It is understood that the allied governments will listen to no proposals of peace the funds. mental basis of which is not the expulsion of Lopez from Paraguay. The chief news from Monte Video is a rupture between that government and the Chilien Envoy, whose exequatur was cancelled. The English vessel Anne has been lost off Santa Catherine, from spontaneous combustion. The crew were saved. The English steamer Powerful has been lost on the coast of Rio Grande do Sul. She had 400 troops on board, but only five were drowned. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom on ovng ooaaseroarnirr.) PARIS, FRIDAY EVltittiG. Among the many contemplated evasions of the convention of Sept. 15 was that of making the French General de Goyon commander of the Pon tifical army (composed in part of a French Algerian legion, whose service with the Pope was to count as French service) after the departure of the French troops properly so called. It is said, however, that General de Goyon would not accept the command unless he were allowed to remain one of the Emperor's aideade camp, and that thereupon the negotiations with him leave gone off. It would be a little too much to maintain at Florence that France had observed the convention if oue of the Emperor's aides-de camp were in command of the papal army. The Cciurrier Francais announces that its pro prietors lately resolved that the management (geraricc) of the paper should be transferred from one of the present partners, M. Lebigre Duquesne, to two others, MM. Weiss and Hervt The government, which reserves to itself a veto even upon every change in the editorship or management of a journal, has arbitrarily refused to sanction the arrangements, and thus interferes without any assignable reason with the rights of property. There is a most reactionary tendency just now. The boasted reforms of 1861 seem to be repented of, and there seems fair ground to accept the suggestion that they were made as a diversion, with a view to foreign aggressions then contemplated. The Moniteur contains a severe admonition to the press against any free comment on the debates in the chamber. " Reports," properly so called must we know be exclusively official, but it has been over and over again proclaimed by members of government that the prese was free to com meo t upon and criticise the speeches of the representatives of the people. How a journalist could criticise a speech without quotations, or at least a sufficient description to show to what his criticism alluded, the govern ' meat has never explained, and many writers have been caught, when they little expected it, for pub lishing "unauthorised reports." However, bad and absurd and tyrannical as the law is a considerable latitude, with fitful intermissions, has existed in practice. But the Moniteur of to-day prohibits any "critical report" (compte rendu critique), going farther than any official manifesto on the subject has hitherto done, and warns the journals that in case of any infraction the law (the govern ment delights to call coup d'etat decrees the " law ") will be put in force against them. There was a considerable rise is the Rents to day, and other securities were favourably affected by the movement. Rents closed with a rise of sc. for cash and 35c. for account, at 68fr. 700. and 68fr. 9k. Mobilier rose 10fr. The Daily News is seized. The writer of an article published by the Mor geableit of Silesia, sod charged with " baying ridiculed she talk kaolin as go holy oast of Trine," appeared a few daps ago before the Isibasal of that city, aid was con densed to a week's imprisonment. The genet of the }canal was idea mantises& to a Ass of 90 thalami. prosaism. NUNDAT. 011 NOM MEN MONDAY. Southerly and westerly, 00Aggg. W.& W. to N.N.W. gales at intervals, strong squally to with rain. fresh. As above. Winn& As above. W. N. W. to S 8.W., • 80177111L1t. Similar to above. gale tofresh, showers. As next above. Naomi. Similar. Northern=Scotiand. Western=lreiand. Wales, and adja cencies. Southern= gosh& Channel and By of Biscay. hastern=liesitward ineland and North Pea. A REFORM DEPUTATION TO EARL RUPSELL.—.. We understand it has been arranged that the depu tation appointed at the recent reform meeting at Leeds, to present to Earl Russell the memorial then adopted. will wait upon the noble Premier on Thursday next, in conjunction with the deputation [rem the National Reform League and those from other pasta of the country. The Leeds deputation will I.onsist of Mr. Alderman Carter, Councillors Gaunt and Linsley, and Messrs. Josh Laptop, Edda Finnic, Dadra"), Battle, and Armitage. It is ex pected that they will be socompanied by Mr. Bailie*, M.P.— Leeds Mercury. MARRIAGE LAWS COMMISSION. The commis sioners met at 32, Abingdon-street, yesterday. Present : Right Hoo. the Lord Chelmsford, Right Hon. the Lord Naas, the Right Hoe. William Monsell, M.P., the Right Hon. Mr. Justice O'Hagao, the Right How. Sir James P. Wilds, Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood, the At toroey-Oeneral, Mr. Travers Twin, Q.C., D.C.L., and the secretary. The ceremony of swearing in members of the House of Commons is very simple. Having advanced to the table and answered to his name, each member is pro vided with s cord on which the oath required to be taken is legibly printed, sod also with a copy of the New Testa ment—or, in the case of certain members of the Jewish persuasion, with a eopy of the Old Testament Scriptures. As soot as all who can be oonveniently accommodated at one time gather round the table, the clerk reads aloud the words of the oath, and from the body of members arises a reepoosive hum of voice, such as one bears in churches. The oath taken, members append their namee to the roll, and as they pass the chair they are presented individually to the Speaker, their names and those of the constituencies represented by them being called out aloud by another of the officers of the house. The ceremony of presentation over, members return at once to their seats. W. D. 8., himself a new member, writes to the Times to put new members of the Horne of Commons on their guard aga'nst the visits of a well mannered, well. dressed, plausible, respeclable young nun, accompanied, very likely, by an equally attractive associate, who will be the sun or the nephew of some well•koowa aid influential tionatiteent, and in ►hat character will do his best, on a very specious tale, to extract some mosey. W. D. 8., on receiving a visit of this kind from twa of the fraternity, replied that, being extremely busy that morning, he was afraid they must leave the house unaccompanied by a policeman. " My constituents," he add., " were not in the least offended, nor did they show any outward sign of disappointment, for I think I never saw visitors retire with a more marked expression of gratitude and relief. I may add that one of the rogues was middle-steed, stoat, fresh-coloured, and aged about 30. He had only one arm then, but may bare two now." At the weekly meeting of the members of the Royal Institution yesterday evening Lord Stanhope de livered a lecture " On the Influence of Arabic Philosophy in Medieval Europe." A very influential meeting on railway reform waa held yesterday in the Mansion-house, Dahlia, the Lord Mayor to the chair. Mr. Galt made • statement, end • number of resolutions on the subject were unanimously adopted, affirming the necessity of government 000trol and the reduction of fares. A sttbsaription was entered into to carry out the object. The Dublin Gazette published last evening, con tains proclamatloes subjecting the following places to the provisions of the Pesos Preservation Act :—llhe barony of Slievemarigne, is the Queen's County ; the county of Kil kenny, part of Down, part of Armagh, county el New ham, county and town of Drogheda, and part of Louth. The official report of the Court of Inquiry into the collision in the Channel between the Samphire end the Fanny Back is published. The court blames Captain Bennett for dririeg his ship at inch • speed as twelve knots an hoer on • sight so buy as that oe which the •ocidest happened. As, however, the col lision was mainly due to the Fumy Busk car rying so light*, the court does not think it necessary to euspeed Captain Beenett's certill este. It severely Demure' the misdate of the crew of the Samphire in leaving their ship apparently in a sinking s t a t e snd taking to the boats, end desmibee the sondes* of the mad master as heels( been " cowardly" for a similar reason. Captain Bennett is praised for his conduct after the eollisioe. The requirements of the mail eostrect se to speed se doubt canes the upteiss of the steamers is drive their vessels at great speed, but do not, the court thinks, justify them in doing so in busy weather. Findly, it is recommended that although the Samphim has all the boats required ar the Board of Trade regulations she should have still more. A movement in favour of cheaper and better Qua is causing great excitement in Weymouth, Dorchester, sad other town' in that neighbourhood. WiIACILII IN TORBAY. —EIGHT 110111 V/8811:111. Three bodies, ow In a nude eta* aed all more or lees mutilated, were washed ashore at Torquay ou Wednesday. Some divers went down in Torbey on Wednesday, and re port that there are at bast eight motels soak of which there bad boon no pre rims knowledge. It was gursda that mum reamig must have gone down at their anchors, bat nothing positive was knows. —resters noes. DAZING Al Benienti before Sir str,gts 174 Tb proem about Ulf= street, wl He had no one el wl violence oose..and condition s and also near) Was tEI in ptting him down and after f and followed them, and saw them all walking together. Graceohurch-street. A constable came up, and the pi. coast was taken into custody, but the other two wet got away. When the prisoner was searched soda( was found upon him but a pair of stork* quite wet, and which the prisoner said he had put into his pocket to dry. The prosecutor positively identified the prisoner as we (I the man who bad attacked him. The prisoner was remanded. GUILDHALL. _ THIC ATTZMPTED MUIDII OF TWO woinx, Devitt carpenter, wee ;gain brought up as remand before Mr. Alderman Salomon., charged nit feloniously stabbing Mrs. Harriett Herring in tee WWI and is , so wounding Elizabeth Doyle, his wife, is we places on the arm with a knife. The prisoner bee been remanded from week to writ in order that Mrs. Herring might give evidence. It Bill recollected that the prisooer, who lodges at 31, fie* lane, Old Bailey, was limited on the 14th January by landlord, a man named Poplar, into his room. Pepler ski invited the other lodgers in the house "mpg tin prisoner's wife, and the whole of that day, which was See day, was spent in drinking and fighting. The man Pe* was induced by the prisoner to go and abate Mrs. DV* and, on her demanding the reason of his coat* brutally assaulted her, in doing which be was hooked s' the prisoner. Mrs. Doyle having been Mooed from PT ler's violence, retained to her room, where she was wfill Mrs. Herring when she beard screams from Mrs. Pali sad her children ; the two women went to her wide* when they were stabbed by the prisoner in the maser stated. Mrs. Peeler, although in the room. meld not be prevailed upon to come and give evidence until a romans was WOW to compel her attendance, and she thee meal stated that the two women were stabbed, but she did sod gee the prisoner do it, She also accounted ler Will a black eye by stating that bee husband gave it to her Ow Mrs. Herring and Mrs. Doyle had been taken to tholes. pital in a cab ; mod Joseph Pepler, the eon, said that whes he came home his father was out, and the prisoner Dells was asleep in his mother's bed. He saw Doyle strike Ys Herring, bat saw no knife. Mrs. Harriet Herring, who was accommodated Wit h I chair, said—On Sunday, the 14th of January, I west Into Km Papler's room with Mrs. Doyle, in commence of hearing Mrs. Pepler and her children screamiog. Iso her looking pale gad frightened, Doyle was cloak td Mrs. Pepler said he was going to strike her. I WNW the prisoner go towards Mrs. Peeler, havieg his Ira raised, and I went between them. I said, "Idn perk don't strike her." He then put his face aloes te wee. after ming some filthy leaguers that th ey were all Win the house and I wee the worst. He then struck me will • knife on the cheek end I bled very much sad beams insensible. The prisoner cose-matnined the last witness d POI lecgth, after being repeatedly cautioned that's was MAK against himself. The surgeon described the wooed as being for Who long and two deep, the blade of the knife had been by the rib bone, it was a very dangerous wound, Vw 9.11 not yet healed. Mr. Alderman Salomon' fully committed the primer is trial for telonionsly cutting and wounding with WIWI bh CLBRICENIVELL. ATTENITED SUICIDE AND GALLANT MCC& Elizabeth Grates, as artificial florist, was charts& g lit attempting tot:omit suicide by throwing herself into fin Regent's-meal. About 12 o'clock as Saturday night last the ddeseiti threw herself into the Ragent'a-cianal, at a pot where the is about eight feet of water. Before assistance mild be she bad gone under the water, ash it was believed SO she was drowsed. At that time a mechanic of ths name of James Pickett was paseieg. and he get ove r " railings, and on to the towieg.pdh, andwitboa s t ua lo to take off his clothes Jumped Into the water. and in bringing up the defendant. At that time see weir sensible, and apterestl7 dead. She was hassle WI/ Poe Hospital, Oray's-inc.is ad, and after a grill trouble she was restored to comedowns's, hint tee tea wn 7 ill since. The defendant said she was very sorry for y1114 11 ./ 4 done. She was induced to attempt taking her life WWI she had separated from her husband. The husband said that he was willing to take his 144 home if they would allow him. His wife Did s'f°rtiliml•lY taken to drinking, and that wee the row whbe had separated from her. ?. D'Erissourt discharged the defendant, and °id tlst Pickett had behaved in a very gallant mealier. Os L SI (adored hies to minim 1/ ant of the fends of the INCIAXT.-ONDIL DNIMINDON ON VEZ SECOND Win IS 111150 A. "Wu Sewell, aged 30 11 , a teller, of 7, Coreelfeedlub rase, buirtmeesd, was charged before Mr. Inilyegoirt•iil feloniously marrying Antis Hodder ShaveleY, 41114 2 Church, Ow's-inn-road, his first wife being then sad alive. Mr. !Ladle. mildew, prosecuted. cella leoesse4 •' oa 'CMICE 3 bras lu., 0.1)70' fo Kai owes seed hi 1.4111# fel +~~•.:: t • LAW ibl 4 3 iLIGENON I. ••• I (THIS DAY.) - pPearod from „ o f Willis --.-- whose maiden COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. . of MarYlebn After Term NW Prins Sittings at Westminst er .— . t o have li the Lord Chief Justice and Special Janet)" --" . marriage, tt 'MONAD V. UDELL AND Agonize, that day he I . Church, Or ni. was • part-heard cue . It wee an action o in sta l negligence agaiaat an attorney in not having noisier 'ladder Steyr marketable title to a house purchased by tin, all . . t e a with be . e s 0 mu The cum, which iseenpied the greater part of the' d• . - - a - ,2 1 • devoid of public interest. f eas • .er his " Mr. Bovill, Q. 0., and Mr. Philbrick were mufti 'W s per with of 4 bees there plaintiff ; Mr. llnddleston, Q.C., and Yr. Dicies t -" counsel for the defendants. 11110 , .. that she 1 i d, and Win, Daring the opening of the defendants' epee, the L.—. coa tter r w l, w o c o h th rei e u sugg lted estr al o .uro f h r is hoing lordsh w is: th , th" ccet t. ea u t — "n it i L id l" sul tr i faulita tTh h aa i plaintiff withdrawing all isoputatioas await tke fendante. de wid be MI • On Polka . ' . COURT ' OF EXCHEQUER. e him into • er was not Sitting, at Nisi Prior.—(Before Mr. Baron Bramwell mg . iting with b a Common Jury.) , the prisoner DILL V. DACHAU. wer to the e This was se action to recover 264 7s. f or " squared " t esimy. I ts defendant pleaded never indebted and • set o ff. troubled any Mr. Digby Seymour. Q.O„ and Mr. Ford were could* . e t r i g i sona ve ay w a l the plaintiff ; and Mr. Cooper for the defend an t . e charge, and The plainti ff wee an engraver , and had b ees a me* .. D'Synoourr soldier in India, and the defendant was the ezeteter et, ' ni l Oonti fo person named Simons, who formerly carried on k ad . UMW as • manufacturer of emery and slam a * at Birmingham. It appeared that the plaintiff was ee cosisarrat 0 aocepted suitor of Miss Simons , and his case was the • • Potter, a the father engaged him as foreman of the w iles *dere-baildiei at a salary of 1004, and promised to imam A l e • before Mr amount as the trade extended. On the death of gi me having in hie the defendant and another executor mast • tlyutolen, at White took posseseioa of the business std a l . Blue app. money ai d other propel, belonging to them . Why appeared fro afterwards ossoanced probate, and purchased the burr o on the 1811 for a sum of 1,1351., but • suit had been Mantua * both Police. behalf of the children in regard to the administrates i t . he aanowl the estate. was in the b The defence was that the plaintiff was not B e. Witna esp dere-buildinial by NINON/11411 salary. but placed by him in the be in order that he might learn it, and be able to wry ig at adjoining ha • front himself after ho married Mies Simons. The leameircend and three I for the defendant admitted that his use must des* containing upon the evidence of Miss Simons, whom he wee toameiala sing be foul .all, u she had not been produced by the other s ib s* .. oak case. when she was put in the box she confirmed the plume, a hamper nor account as to the nature of his engagement. Upon this the . ... la acmPb learned cowherd said he could not resist the cue far% plaintiff, and belonging f 4 He had Mr. Baron Bramwell said the plaintiff was entitle) its verdict, and that the defendant ought not to be alallif thee whinh prate the costa of this action out of Simou's estate, It IN , he found t clearly an undefended action, and might have been trier d In the yard Birmingham. The learned judge held that the nada( ant brewi not been proved ; and the jury [mind a verdict forty g Me oods. He a plaintiff—Damages 264 7s. • .malader of COURT OF DIVORCE. when he kep• Opts for • (Before Sir J. P. Wilde, Judge Ordinary.) Witness ha KATI V. LAM ' .try, This was a petition for judicial separation, os the rganst Grose of adultery. The petitioner, being a Roman gg time-piece a not ask fer a complete divorce. ' himself and Dr. Spinke sppeared for the petitioner, and Dr. Wu* Sits lost i for the respudeaL i y 'Toni/ The petitioner was a wholesale butcher in Lissepeos, i open by s and was married to respondent in 1845. They had stud rgeant Bahl children, but latterly the respondent had taken to drab .n from an i nog. In the month of September last Mrs. Kaye west a , tradesman i an ion at Great erosbie kept by some persons mug kik roll of house and got so drunk as to be incapable of peg n from his home, sod was put to bed. Later in the amid owner of thi Mrs. Kelly's husband tame in very drunk sad hada= identified it. champagne, which made him still more drunk. Be wee r. Wwir,d ho bed, sad, fen alleged by Dr. Wambey, by mistake te gis :mg Song! E bed in whir* Mrs. Kaye was lying. They woe sheelly afterwards found, but both denied MOIL positively lid • Ti adultery wee committed. The judge disbelieved the defence, and granted judichl . Mr. Dayru king young separation. —Please, su to bury our THE POLICE COURTS. up a subscrii ire only got (THIS DAY.) . Hayman- -es— a funeral. MANSION-HOUSE. dpplicant—C IG. Daystars- DAZING ATTICIIPT AT HIGHWAY ROBBIAY NTH VIM= Applicant-11 Benjamin Palmer, a radianly.looking fellow, was be* . out of worl before Sir B. Carden, charge t) with having attempted II ' Mr. Darman- I strangle John Morris, with intent to rob him. for that II The prosecutor is a warehouseman, and on Friday slahl, will do so. about half-past eleven o'clock, ha was in Grandpa . plicant—T street, when he had occasion to turn up Talbot-alit . ruffle for it He bad no sooner doneso than he was followed by throne, Mr. Day man . one of whom e•is,d i ins to a i llt3 throat with mil •ye you any aC violence as to cause the blood to ooze out dit i . y state or n sod he became insensible. While he was is rite make it a ra h condition ossi the other two men tore out his trousers mean The apollosoi and also pony tore his troours off ; but es his meg i in her ha was in his waistcoat pocket, they did not .nerd se to what s h e 4 is getting anything from hint They thee Wu him down on his back, and all three west any, and after a short interval the prosecutor recovered timed A MYSTERI and followed them, and saw them all walking casaba, An inquire tie City and I nwipectlng the bon horseback ma dreamt r. Robert V en up to I ted the dim dammed or don, Chath thrown off • then oalle# o the gent!, ay without nearly ie. about 45 y r. R. Burn deceased, s broken SDI nor, for he ht. Nothit nee The had the ant in G In eating du • to apparent • Comer 'oh damson .•tbythep • r sod co • • t the mati pen might I would adjoi could be proooodi THE Snoc Leigh w • log, whit in sash a • bably eau. ..r evidene cod at 6 , expired. A POLICE ping at 3 • duty in # • •is ottani • log a. brea en sad lac the top of t this was w. The before ha he ,seem pistol prow led oat os: 'rate over* • TM% fo • t of the b DZATII 01 • Mr. W . p, costly %sub expired n lab. Re ha WIT tromp leas died... ken with . , at he ruptu at the hot yesterd s , • ...other • • to • • e 000dition sad al he, sad vim map ma s am. suet /a l alit suet .1 4 . 1 , L i s plu m viroom b ay . 11.°040 71% t Oa Th Gain a r ia taloa. of L im , 31611 •7. *mule eistraiseed vAlota baildi anodorm ti ab s perii "V-Irxte yrs. sagtahm indel mtg.& l's " THE FENIAN TRIALS. DUBLIN, PimAy NIGH?. Andrew Kennedy pleaded guilty, and was sen tenced to five years' penal servitude. The Attorney- General stated that it was not his intention to bring forward any more cases at the present com mission. The court had now been sitting without intermission since the 27th November until the present time. They had tried 41 cases, 36 pri soners had been convicted, and five acquitted ; and in one case only had there been a disagreement. All the leaders of the conspiracy, with the exception of James Stephens, had been found guilty, and with respect to the rank and file the crown had no desire to pursue them if they returned to their allegiance. Judge Keogh congratulated the grand jury on the termination of their labours, and complimented the counsel for the crown on the calmness, modera tion, and firmness with which they had conducted the prosecutions. He expressed the pain which he felt at the conduct of the wicked men who were now reaping the consequences of their folly. They had brought upon themselves and their families the most tereible punishment, and had frustrated the best hopes, and paralysed the energies of the country. He concluded by expressing a hope that peace and industry would yet prevail in the land. Judge Fitzgerald expressed his concurrence in what had fallen from his learned brother, and said that the decisions of the juries in the several cases brought before them amounted collectively to the verdict of the intelligence of the country against this wicked, disastrous, and insane conspiracy. The commission then closed. WEATHER REPORT. —(Tam DAY.) SATIMIDAT. 813RIJA1T 3, 8 3.71. W. Nairn Aberdeen Leith Ardrossan Greencastle Valentin Cape Clear Liverpool Holyhead Penzaace Brest L'Orient Rochefort Plymouth Weymouth Portsmouth London Yarmouth Scarborough Shields Helder.. cb eo be 0 re 19.11 1 41 19.911 41 07.28 47 29.11 217.14,44 29.00'41 29.49 47 211.86 30.04 48 30.08 50 30.21 48 29.87 1 49 19.8849 2990 4‘ rlilliii 19.84139 49.63189 2.66143 S.W. B. N.W. 8.8. W. W.B.W. 84:W. W.B.W. W.S.W. &W. w.s.w. s w. &W. &W. B.&W. N.W. W.N.W. W.& W. N.W. N.N. W. W. B.W. N.W. LW. SA W. LW. N.W. N.W. N. W. co 10:i C P.( re 0.1 rc 0.1 rc 10.4