The Express. — London, England, 1862-04-16 00:00:00

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The multitude will sooner put their faith in a charlatan who stakes his reputation on a single happy hit, than in • man of science, who laboriously and humbly applies his acquired know ledge to the calculation of probabilities according to defined general principles ; accumulating, controll ing, and classifying his data, and building up a large induction on a basis of experiment. No doubt it is much easier to believe in a man who tells you he can see through • millstone, than in a man who merely uses the spectacles of science to discover and to grasp the order of natural laws. So if Admiral FITZROY " forecasts" a strong wind, or rain, for the day after to.mor row, and in some inland town it neither blows nor pours on the day named, the " forecasting " system is pronounced • delusion. But should • second Mr. MURPHY predict • long frost for next winter, and a frost in due time sets in, the pro phet is bought up at his own price, and maks* a rich harvest before ho blunders into obscurity _ _ _ again. The gallant chief of the Meteorolo_ Department, however, is the last man in the world to complain of hasty or partial judgments of his system. On the contrary, he invites at.d welcomes all mannerof independentobservations. The science itself is in the initial stage ; its operations are purely tentative and exploring. All this is so clearly and frankly est forth in Admiral FITZROY'S Report, that the most captious critic can have no pound for complaint of the insufficiency of prac tical multi. This Report, by-the-by, is a model for all public offices to copy ; so full of information which he who rims may reed, so compact and ex• haustive in the method of its elucidations. The De partment itself, indeed, is a model to all others in the economy of its management and the superiority of its working staff. If the country got half as ninth for its money out of some other depart ments of the State, the occupation of financial reformers would be gone ! It was not, however, to "forecast" the weather for idlers ashore that Admiral FITZROY'S Depart ment was constituted two years since ; though, as the gallant Admiral well remarks, such cau tionary notices may be often useful as well as interesting to persons who are going to sea, or on a journey or a mere excursion, or " those who " have gardening, agricultural, or other outdoor " pursuits in view." The great public and na- tional value of this Department consists in the orgmizAtion of a system of " meteorological tek • " graphy " along the coasts of our islands, com municating by means of signal drums notice of the approach of violent weather. For some tine these signals were held in no account by our coasters and fishermen. How should men born and bred to a calling besot with perils and uncertainties, be dissuaded by the cautionary notice of " a gale " expected" from putting to sea with a leading wind and smooth water ? That the Department should have succeeded in making its warnings ac ceptable to our coast population is a rue result of skill and determination. Nor can it be a trifling satisfaction to the gallant Admiral to feel that he has already saved hundreds of brave and precious lives. This is, in truth, the divine side of science—this enlightened service rendered to humanity ; and we know Do class of public expen diture which should more readily approve itatili to the conwienee of the House of Commons than the which has hitherto been the maximum of the " Meteorological Vote." The Department of Telegraphy maintains an unbroken chain of commu nication with twenty home stations, and, through l'aris, with six on the continental coasts. The co-operatoin of the Coast-guard, by order of the Admiralty, esti. tele the system of cautionary warnings t' some eighty places besides the fifty previously in communication. The weather forecasts are daily published in the jour nals and supplied to the principal Under writers aveiciltiona. Foreign governments have applied to the Dopartment for information as to the workiio4 of the "cautionary" system. It seems in scr.r.lance with the fitness of things that the greatest maritime Power in the world should have invented a system so bold in conception, so accurate and exact in the means of execution. All his countrymen will participate in the honest pride which Admiral Frrxitiiv expresses at the de dication of the last and best work of the most eminent continental meteorologist to the chief of the Department in England. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. AA rome misappn•hensioo of the terms of witnia- Rein to the }:thilutiiic appears to exist among the gentlemen who have consented to act on the juries, we are weiu. , .ted hi state that it is the intention of ber ifajesty'4 cornmiaaViners to grant to every juror ( 66 well l IA forrign and colonial couinaliwioecr) a ticket which will give all the privileges of an ordinary three guinea mason ticket. TUE EXPRESS, WEDNESD, nt Court. mono& Arm IL The Queen drove in the grounds yesterday. Prisms Alice aloe drove amid walked. TeoSudsy was I. Welk, of Primer Beatrice. Thegnisbas wore received yesterday at the Colonial oelos bee the Osmoses of Osylos, Hoeg Koos, the Australian Cisiesiss, sad Malta. Dempatohis were sent to the Loa liligh Oommissionor al the birdie Wands. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington (says the I Bri t/ tam Montana) will be mon the spectators at the valuator review, Isar* espied spettuasete at the Bed. turd HoteL Sir Roderick Ifurebiroa ameipudes the Duke and Lord Clyde from St ra t►aeldrye, ea Saturday. The E ar l and Lady Constance Grosvenor arrived at their readeeee at Prisoes•gate • few days same from advert*, Park, Marking. Lord and Lady Henniker have left town foal Thomism Hull, Suffolk, for the holidays. Lord and Lady Inchiquin have left the Cavendish Haag, Jormyu street, for kolas& Al.o the Hos. Edward O'Brian. Lady Clinton and Sarah Countess Spencer arrived at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkston*, tin Meader, as their may to the Contiamit. Sir Frederick, la.dy, sad Xir Haney Bathurst hare left !Laurie's Hotel for Cleremion Perk. Relihary. Mr. Jones, of Pantglaa, M.P., and Mn. Jones entertaised at dinner last sight, at their residense lake square, the Marquis of Lassdowea, the Comtism of FM% Lord }Award St. Mast, Lord Campbell, Lady Pasteur, mad Mr. Power, Hon. Mrs. George Campbell, Mr. sad Hem Mrs. °Twills Vernon, Sir George and Lady Otway, Mr. sad Mrs. Swami. Altman, M. Fechter, Mdlle. Parepa, Mr. Be. .did, k.c. On Saturday last a meeting of the citizens of Waterford, under the preskiecy of the mayor, was held in the Town-ball, to semen sympathy for the bereaved by the wreck of the steamer Man, and adopt measures to collect subscriptions to form a fund to relieve the pennons in dir teen. Before the meeting broke nip the saw of 6741. was collected. MASS. widows and 50 children bare bees rendered destitste by this cat strophe. In a leading article of Xunday's Times it was stated that the liberal party forced upon the Duke of Wel basks 'Ed Sir Robert Peel that coomesion to the mime of esibsiis owndptioa "which Sir Robert Peel declares he Ewa* disipperred to the latest day of his life." The gesso( Robert Peel writes :—" Ido not know upon wheemilmeity that statement is made, but, so far from amerevise the measure, Sir Robert Peel has distinctly isfai gnat in curios catholic emancipation be acted on • dsapseweleika that the mesenre wu not only conducive te gnu plural welfare, but Imperatively necessary to avert ben the church, and from the interest of institutions con enacted with the cherish, es imminent and increasing dan -sw-" Two of the railway companies, viz., the London awiNerib Western and Great Western, have consented to moilfy the arrangements which they had previously made for the conuyaaos of visitors to London during the trot week in May. The Leaden and North Western Railway Company have made arrange ments for extsading Mon tickets by the ordinary Mina betimes all deices north of Rugby from the 30th of April to the 3rd of key tailed's, sad also for running excursion trains with tickets available from the 30th Apro to the sth el May. Os the Great Weston 4 Railway the directors hue agreed to make the means ticket. to Loudon os the 30th of April available for the return journey up to the 314 of May. The Chevalier Nigra has lately accompanied Priam Sepsis= Is several of his hunting excursions Is the woods of Menem. Prince Charles Bonaparte, Coast Xavier Braaicki, sod Gently, the paMter, also went along with them. The Prince Napoleon chiefly hunts stags when basting in the woods round Paris. He has at his country seat • munificsot pack of English buckhotiods, which he bed brought from England about twelve months ago. In a day or two the hunting season will be over. His imperil higher' will then leave for London to be present at the The publishers of the Mundt Illustrj, an inns• tested weekly paper at Paris, were desirous of taking ad. vantage of the publication of M. Victor Hugo's new work, " Lee lliairables," to adorn their pages with • portrait of that celebrated writer. The home department has, how. ever, put its veto on the speculation, and the publishers have been forbidden to present to the public who read and admire his productions the features of the poet. The pm.) , who probably suffers most is the publisher of the Monde !imam', who has had to change the whole impression of about 6,000 copies for another without the oboosious frontispiece. Au official return states that the number of arrivals of travellers is Russia amounted to 368,000 during the course of the year 1860. Of these but • small fraction —28,000 people —entered the Asiatic frootiers of the empire. Of the European travellers, 233,00 were of German nationality, who consequently form more than two-thirds of the visitors to Russia. An interesting item of information is also offered in the number of Russian arrivals and departures, which were respectively 84,00 sad 276,0110. A letter from Lorient says :—" The armour plated frigate Couronnis, continuing her experimental trip, Us Oat entered this roadstead, This new trial has con- Sewed in every point the results attained on its first voyage. A successful modification introduced in its water line bas rendered still more evident the nautical qualities which the frigate bad been acknowledged to ponces. The facility with which she answers her helm, ad her rapidity in putting about, are remarkable. The engin worked for more than fifty hours with perfect regularity, and without accident. Oar whole day was devoted to trials at full speed, the experiments taking place off Belleisle, ha calm weather, but with the ma rather rough. The log marked 10, 11, 12, and at oas pored from 13 to 14 knots en hour." . The Prince de Joiuville is about to publish a pamphlet co iron plated frigates. His work, it is said, will present the subject under new selects. He does not admit the invulnerability of the new vessels. A Vienus letter says :—" The fever of specula tion rune so high here that it has even attacked the fair rex. Forsome time peat pone of females have assembled every thy in the neighbourhood of the Bourse, whilst others more timid remained in the houses sear, where they re ceived the visite of the brokers, who come to report the emulations is the market, and receive orders for sale or purchases" LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PRUSSIA. • THE ELECTORAL AGITATION. The Oazette du Ample publishes a proclamation which has been published by the governor of Klosterhaealer, in Pruada. We select from it the following passers : The democrats awl men of proems with to over time the King, eel to edge by violent* alone in Prussia, if be doss nos szerilie Mir will. Hence it is that his 161,0 r bee dedtwed that they ars his most inveterate esmales ; Leese le that he expects of his people that they not elect ismcierate at the approaching elections sllsr Ester. The path of ilia party is everywhere marked milk blood and &mord. There is not the least doubt that lbw cue only attain their object by the most terrible civil INE. like that in America, that is to say by spoliation, sadder, pillage, ha. A lieutenant of the Landwehr, speaking at Brauusberg to his company, said, "The question•is simply this. Shall the King reign in future or the Jews l The democrats are for the latter. Break their ranks !" It appears that the president of the province of Posen informed the government that obedienoe to their circular would lead to the complete abstention of the functionaries and to the victory of the Polish candidates. The minister at once replied that the position of the Duchy of Posen was an exceptional one ; that the functionaries might have absolute liberty, and might vote for an opposition candidate or a democrat if they chose, but in no ease for a Pole. - The ministerial circulars have everywhere encoun tered energetic protests from the functionaries. Amongst them is a letter from the tribunal of Treves. "We are compelled unanimously," say the judges of this district, "to declare that in the expression of our political opinions we must decline even the best-intentioned counsels ; we wish in the exercise of our rights to preserve complete inde pendence, and we resolutely repel all external influence." _ _ _ THE JAPANESE AMBASSADORS IN PARIS. At the audience of the Japanese ambassadors at the Tuileries, 1L de 'lrivies, see of the senator, and one of the member of the mission mat to Japan is 18511, under the orders of Baron Cm*. was present. M. de Milieu, who has been appointed by the Minister of Fureign Affairs to attend them duns( their stay in Paris, wan also present. M. Van der Voo, interpreter of the French consulate at Rottesdam, read • Preach translation of the speech de livered by the ambassador, and also translated the Emperor's reply into Dutch for one of the Japanese who understands that language. The ambassador appeared much flattered by the reception they met with, and by the promise made by the Emperor uto their return. They were much struck with the beauty of the Empress, and by the grandeur of the spectacle which met their eyes. On returning to the h tad, after the audience, the chief ambassador invited Baron de Lajas, introducer of ambassedors, and Baca sitatet, secretary to that body, to dinner, as well as seven; other et the personages who had accompanied therm and lama Peuillet de Conchs, who had received them is their arrival in the capital. Among the dishes served at table was an uncooked fish cut into pieces, and with it was eaten boiled rice, which they conveyed very adroitly to their months by messes of chopsticks. They aloe partook of • number of other dishes raid to kos delicate, and took their wine with great gusto. During the whole of the repast they drank a pro. airbus quantity of warm water, for the purpou,it was said, roasting digestion. At the desert the chili ambassador volumed • toast to the health of the Emperor, which was replied to by one to the Emperor of Japan. After thinner the rusts were presented with fans and beautiful little Japanese pipes. The entertainment was kept up to a Ist* hour in the erasing, and during the vial* time the mem ber' of the embassy motioned smoking and drinking liqueurs of different kind.. Ise place of • pocket-handkerchief they use large square pieces of piper, which they then put away Into another pocket, without doubt to get rid of them at their leisure. ITALY. - - A letter from Turin of the 12th, the Conatitutionnel, says : The Prince of Capita, that unfoitunate brother of Ferdinand 11. who was exiled by him in consequence of his liberal tendencies, is at this moment dying in this city, at the Hotel Trombetti. The increment was administered to him yesterday evening, and this morning the King sent to make inquiries. The Prince of Capita, without having taken any direct part in the fall of the dynasty, like the late Count of Syracuse, bad accepted accomplished facts, and had paid homage to K'ag Victor EmmanueL He has been at Turin for some weeks past, engaged in tN settlement of his appanage. The Chamber of Deputise held to-day its last sitting, and has adjourned until the lot of June. Tim Senate, however, will bold a few more sit tings for the examination of some financial laws. ROME. A letter from Rome of the Bth, in the Post, says : The King of Naples has commenced a course of spiritual exercises in the church of Bt. Andrea della Pratte, a church belonging to Calabriau monks, whose exhortations are delivered with all the volubility of southern eloquence, and whose mixture of things sacred and profane, biblical and political, render their sermons probably more attrsc tire, at the present moment of overweening temporal excitement, than more strictly spiritual discourses would be to a congregation composed of royal refugees and their adherents. The sesta occupied by the royal family are railed off before the side chapel of St. Francis of Sales, the King's patron saint. The Queen Dowager and the junior members of the family usually arrive Ord. W hen his Majesty enters, the princes and princesses rise and remain standing until the King has kissed his stepmother's hand and taken his chair. The young Queen has not as yet accompanied her husband to these afternoon preach ing., bat the whole body of Neapolitan courtiers and miler rally round on the occasion, so that the church, Independent of the merits of the preachers, baa become a meat point of attraction, and is crowded to excess. Yesterday the King entered in the middle of a mon signore's sermon, but another sacred orator soon ascended the pulpit, and delivered a most energetic discourse evi dently at the King, whom he exhorted to profit by the example of Job, and to suffer spoliation, humiliation, and calamities of every sort with the resignation which ren ders all trials eventually beneficial to the supporters of them. The sermon was so full of political allusions that it fully demonstrated the connexion in the preacher's mind between things temporal and spiritual ; and it must have been encouraging to the dethroned monarch to per- Olin with what positive predictions the triumph of the dutch and of legitimacy were announced, the subtlety of Napoleon inveighed against, the iniquities of the liberals held up to universal detestation, and their attempts to ren der Italy one and united derided as likely to be crowned with no better success than the futile endeavour to twist a of sand. GREECE. The Greek legation at Paris has communicated to the journals the following despatch, dated Constantinople, 13th inst. : The English and French steamers which had been tent to Nauplie by the ministers of the two powers to afford protection to their consuls and fellow subjects, and which had been authorised at the same time to take on board any families that might wish to embark, have returned to the Pincus, without having arrived at any resell,. After the departure of the steamers, the insurgents allowed the fami lies to quit the town, but by land, and after the payment of a sum of money. _ . _ (acumes THE EMPEROR'S VISIT TO ENGLAND. PARIS, Aram 16. The Moniker of to-day says :—" The journals speak of a journey of the Emperor to England and Prussia. We are authorised to declare that, up to the preseMt, his Majesty has not formed any plan fur such a journey." ITALY. TURIN, Aran 15. To-day, in the Senate, the Minister of Justice, in reply to a question from Signor Chiesi, proposed that an the landed property which had been con fiscated by the late Duke of Modena for political motives should be restored to its former possessors. This proposition was put to the vote and approved of by the Senate. THE BRAZIL MAILS. LISBON, Aran 6, EvENnio. Tho Messagerie Impßriale's steamer Navarro, with the above mails, arrived here this evening. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Magdalena arrived at Pernambuco on the 29th ult. Rio, MAZCH 25.—Exchange on Loudon, 251, 24 ; on Paris, 370 to 375. Coffee good first, 7,200 to 7, 400 . Shipments since the departure of the last steamer, 42,900, including 14,700 for the ChanneL Stock, 16,000 bags. Freight, Ns. At Bahia Exchange on London was quoted 252, 26. Sugar, 2,600 to 2,800. Cottons, 11,000 to 11,200 rein. Exchange on London, at Pernambuco, 254, 25k. Sugar, white, 2,700 to 2,800 reis ; brown ditto, 1,980 to 2,300 rola. Cottons, 11,000 to 11,200 eels. BUINOS Al - RIA, Manna 15.—Exchange on Lon don, 655. &I. Ounces, 406. W. S. ox hides, 47. Hides, American, 411. Wool, 80 to 85. Tallow, 162. MONTI Viva°, Mama 16.—Exchange, 41d. W. 8. oz bides, 67. Dry hides, American, 55. Wool, to 5. Tallow, 20. .Y EVINING, APRIL 16, 1862. ARRIVAL OF THE ANGLO-SAXON. 1 LIVERPOOL, Arm IS. The overdue Canadian mail steamer Anglo- Saxon, train Portland on the 29th ult., pasted Point Lynes at 6 this morning, with only sae engine in use. THE BRIGHTON VOLUNTEER REVIEW -- The number of Volunteer tieketa betted by the Loudon and Brighton Railway Company, up to-diy, is a—London-bridge, 8,000 for Monday ; 2,000 for Saturday and Sunday ; Victoria, 5,800 for Mon- day ; 1,500 for Saturday and Sunday; and pro►inces, 3,500. Total Mimed by the company, 110,800 ;in addition to which we may put about 2,000 more, who will come over the South rattail lima. The most careful ananpmenta have been made for the despatch of the tavola', but one-half of the swam of the day's proceedings will depend upon the volunteers , themselves, who cannot be too streesonaly exhorted to "he in time." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom on owl" PARIS, TOISDAY EvwPa. The Bourse is again very firm, but, contrary to what was the ease a abort time since, the Rents is the favourite security, while railways are neglected. The Threes rose NW for cash and 510 c. foraesount, closing at 70fr. 45c. in each case. Mobilier was without change. The Italian Loan rose 50c. Most of the railways were from lfr. 25c. to 2fr. 500. lower, but Lyons rase Ur. 25c., and Western 2f.r. 50c. The sudden transition to cold has done consider- able injury to the fruit trees and vines in the neighbourhool of Paris, which presented so fine an appearance. Many persona attribute the change in the weather to the lune rousse, or Easter moon ; but that opinion must be erroneous, as the moon does not commence until the 28th inst. The ac wants from various parts of France show that the change is general. The wheat has its roots too deep in the ground to be injured, and the promis ing accounts of the coming harvest still, therefore, hold good. A telegraphic despatch from Douai states that Mires, having yesterday repeatedly interrupted M. de Side, one of his counsel, the latter declined acting any further for him. Mints does not want to plead except against the previous examination of his books, and is anew to have the general merits of the case entered on. He said repeatedly that he would rather have the maximum punishment of five years' imprisonment confirmed than see it re• I duced to three months' imprisonment without a re examination of his books by competent accountants, I which course, be avers, would prove his entire innocence. When M. de Side threw up his brief, I Nougier, M. Mires' other counsel, asked for an' adjournment, to enable him to consider what he' should do. The court at once granted this request, saying that an adjournment was desirable in the interests of Mires himself. We learn by telegraph to-day that M. Nougier made a speech, which the Procureur-General replied to. The arguments are now over, and the court intimated that it will pro nounce judgment on Monday next. The trial of a man bearing the singularly appro priate name of Glitebourse, who is accused of having habitually forged Bank of France notes ever sines 1853, has been going on yesterday and to-day at the Assize Court of Paris. The prisoner, it may be remembered, was arrested a year ago, in cones queue° of suspicions raised in the mind of an intimate friend of his, named Tenaille, a commissary of police, by statements spontaneously made about his (the prisoner's) knowledge of the way in which notes were made. Tenaille went to stay with Gate bourse (or rather Giraud, for that is his real name), at his country house in the Charente Infirieure, and there, after passing several days as a guest, during which he found out th►t be had implements for forging bank notes in his possession, arrested him on a charge of forgery. Giraud de Ghtebourse kept a sumptuous household, and was visited by the leading families in the department. It is now alleged that his principal means of subsistence for many years were derived from forgery. The number of lOOfr. notes presented to the bank, and supposed to be forged by him, was so alarming that the bank last year impended for a long time the issue of any more notes of that amount. The " instruction" of this case has lasted an unusually long time, the prisoner having been a twelvemonth in custody. He is defended by M. Lachaud. A great many old soldiers in the uniform of the first empire were seen walking about the streets of Paris, and excited public curiosity. They were returning from the funeral of General Piat, the veteran Bonapartist whose death I mentioned yes terday. SAILING OF THE GREAT EASTERI The following is a copy of a telegram received at the oflicea of the Great Ship Cowpony, this morning, from Captain Jackson, Company's Agent, Milford : " TO J. H. TATES, 90, oannon.wrnswr, LONDON. " The Great Eastern left the gridiron safely at 6.55 this morning, and steamed down the Haven." The Royal Mail Company purpose sending their monster steamer Parana next mouth to the Brazils, to bring over passengers to the International Exhibition. ACCIDENT WITH THE SCARBOROUGH LIFEBOAT.— On Monday an accident occurred in 'mune:ion with the new lifeboat, which had the effect of painfully reviving the remembrance of the sad scene of the 2nd of November last. The recent heavy gales from the north and northmast having caused a rough sea to prevail along the oast, it was thought • favourable opportunity offered fee the exercise of the life.. boat and her crew. Accordingly, she was manned, and pro ceeded along the shore, the men seeking the ruugheet parts of tho suit for the display of their abilities and the beat's qualities. After ranging • mile or two along the coast, the bust's broadside became opposed to the breakers, when she was teased about in such a manner that six of the men were violently thrown out. Captain Woodall, F. 0.8., who cc compered them, WAS also pitched overboard. Had it not been for the lifebelts, which are always worn by those who outg in the boats of the National Institution, there seems to be o be very little doubt that loss of life would have occurred. As it was , the men escaped with some slight injuries. One lof them bad his head cut, having come in contact with • rock when landing. The boat was brought home without further accident ; but a very painful sensation prevailed through the town until the particulars of the accident became kuown. THE MISSING BOAT or THE OCEAN MONARCII.--. The boat which left the Ocean Monarch the night before the ship foundered in the Atlantic has at length been heard of. It was picked up with its living freight, consisting of the mate, carpenter, bison and 19 seamen, by the schooner Oliver H. Booth, from Ale xandria, for New York. The cc count they give of the loss of the Oisean Monarch is as fol lows:—She sailed from New York for Liverpool on the sth of March, and on the night of the 9th experienced very heavy weather, during which the cargo shifted, and in wearing the ship she was struck by very heavy seas, sweep ing the decks of everything moveable. Cargo re-shifting, the ship suddenly sprung a leak to such an extent that it was impossible to do anything with it. The boats were o rdered to be got out, when four were immediately put overboard and alongside, the largest of which was soon filled and cut adrift by one of the seamen in it, he supposing that more would get into it end swamp it. They state that they then attempted to reach the ship again, but could not, and she was soon out of sight. When they left, Captain Page, the first officer, and the remainder of the crew were still on bean! the ship, and the boats alongside. She had 19 feet of water in the hold, and was settling very fast. The carpenter had his leg broken in get ting into the boat. After remaining 48 hours in the boat they were picked up by the schooner Oliver H. Booth, as already stated, and subsequently six of them were trans ferred to the ship James B. Healer, which supplied the schooner with provisions, cordage, and chronometer, advis ing them to go to Bermuda, which they said they would do, as they were in want of sails, ko. They shaped their course for that place. The following cargo was on Ward the Ocean Monarch :-10,811 barrels of flour, 10,802 bushels of wheat, 33,774 bushels of core, 193 tierces of beef, 76 hogsheads of ci2 ;,, 8 . ?,0201 1 1 ) ,..: f f sh tal ou ln l y :m 2:l4l , li tie nf lard rcea of , J . 89,801..ab. of e A BAD Titers:mom Comrammis.—One of the Ocean Monarch was 2. 199 tuna burthen, and, wiah ni rer cant ' ni steam-packets which recently strived at Boulogne from was insured for mow. England brought as reassager a German, who, while on a ANGLING IN DERWENTWATER.—During the last board, made acquaintance with some English tradesmen, week or ten days several good fishings have been made, who were on their way to Paris, and on landing they' one gentleman having captured the king trout of the all went to the lama hotel. A short time after his arrival season, 44 pounds weight, measuring 2 feet in length ; the German changed threesl. Sank of England notes, which others also, 2 to 3A pounds, have been taken, which were soon after given by the waiter of the hotel to • pn- bold out great encouragement to the Angling Mao- Hems° leaving for England, in exchange for French elation to persevere in their endeavours to protect money. Later in the day the German sent several other the streams running into the lake, thereby not only notes of five and tea pounds to be changed, when they increasing the axe but the quantity . of trout. Two were found to be forgeries. The polio, were informed of salmon also have been caught, a rare circumstance of late the fact, but before they arrived at the hotel the German years. This may in some measure be attributable to the had decamped, leaving his trunk behind, in which were salmon act recently passed, as it provides for the free rue found a number of other notes making up. with those of the fish, which previously were prevented in any num ' Wad, a total of about 400/. The English tradesmen were hers from getting so far up the rivers at this period of the erneeled, and underwent an examination, but wale after- year, and if this state of thing' continue to progress Ken , wage set at liberty. A photographic likeness of the Ger- wick may be expected to become not only a station far we. was also fined in his trunk, copies of which have been pleasure seekers, but also one for salmon fishing, et a time nods awl forwarded is different directions, in order to of year when the place is little frequented by the Warble of lead t• hisseelk— 0 2• 1 4 14 */ 4 " t h e season."—Cumbcriend Paved. A BOON TO ENGLISH TRAVELLERS. We are glad to be able to state that, dating from yesterday, Bie formalities of passing through the Custom. house at Boulogne have been abolished, and that passengers can now land with small hand-bap, free from any examina tion whatever, and are on the same footing as at Folkestone, or any English port. The passport system is thus extinct. MR. COBDBN, M.P., ON THB LAW OF BLOCKADE. A long letter from Mr. Cobden to the president of the Manchester Chamber at Commerce on the present state of international law as affecting the rights of neutrals his been made public. The hon. gentleman enters into a narrative of the diplomatic antecedents of the American blockade, and claw his communication by stating that the three great reforms embraced in his arguments are 1. The exemption of private property from capture at see. during war, by armed vessels of every kind. 2. Blockades to be restricted to naval arsenals, and to towns besieged at the same time on land, with the exoep tion of articles contraband of war. 3. The merchant ships of neutrals on the high seas to be inviolable to the visitation of alien government veaeels in time of war as in time of peace. " It is at the option of the English government," says Mr. Cobden, "at any time to enter upon negotiations with the other great powers for the revision of the maritime code, and I speak advisedly in expressing my belief that it de pends on us alone whether the above reformaare to be carried into effect. I will only add that regard these changes as the necessary corollary of the repeal of the navigation laws, the abolition of the corn laws, and the abandonment of our colonial monopoly. We have thrown away the sceptre of force, to confide in the principle of free-, dom--uncovenanted unconditional freedom. Under this new rlgime our national fortunes have prospered beyond all precedent. During the last fourteen years the increase in our commerce has exceeded it. entire growth during the previous thousand years of reliance on force, cunning, and monopoly. This should encourage us to go forward, in the full faith that every fresh impediment re moved from the path of commerce, whether by sea or laud, and whether in peace or war, will augment our prosperity, at the same time that it will promote the general interest& h...nanitm " THE BEPEWUJITATION OP LAMBETH. Last evening a meeting was held at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, to take into consideration the present position of the borough with regard to the liberal muse, ammquent on the contemplated retirement of Mr. Bow& Mr. ELLINGTON, who was called to the chair, hoped the skaters of Lambeth would not allow the election to be made a money question, but that they would return a man who would truly and properly represent their interests. Mr. Wittuals, churchwarden, proposed " That no mu dictate for the representation of this borough will be en titled to the support of the constituency unless he ;assess enlarged and liberal views of the extension of the bum of the reprreutetiou, recognising the fullest rights of civil andMipous liberty, an intimate acquaintance with the =Ms sod requirements of the borough, ss a portion of the South side of the Thames, in those measures which affect the metropolis at large." Mr. Tour wooded the resolution. Mr. Buns, a scarily= of Newington, suggested the emanational Mr. George Thompson. Mr. Botha= would put before them the name of Mr. Frederick Dodtao, who well understood the business re quirement' at the borough. Be was of enlarged views on polithal and religious questions, and he thought, as a local candidate, as he mesa intelligent end indefathpble worker, he would be most acceptable to the constituency. Mr. BERL= wanted to know why the names of Mr. Wilkinson or Mr. Miall had not been mentioned? Several other gentlemen having expressed their views, Mr. Witxrealavu= called upon the meeting to adopt the resolution in its integrity, which would, at least, pledge the meeting to have a candidate who would support true liberal principled& The resolution was ultimately carried. Bk. F. W. -^ in a clever, effective, and humoroi r. w. GODDARD _ =t• proposed the fo llowing - resolution Th a t t h e i n . acquaintance with the matters which affect the borough cif Lambeth, hie long continued advocacy of _liberal measures, and the similarity of views which be hallo with Mr. Williams, entitle Mr.Frederiek.Doultan to the . of the constituency, and that a requisition recluestlig " = to come forward u a candidate be at once d rawn u p ." Mr. it. TAYLOR supported the resolution hi a warm eulo gium upon the qualifications of Mr. Doulton as a local can didate, a man of honourable feelings and enlarged and en lightened liberakviews. Mr. Y. Muaaoutia supported the resolution. Mr. BOSLEY moved as an amendment—" That a com mittee of gentlemen be appointed in order to ascertain what candidates fulfilling the foregoing requirements are willing to allow themselves to be nominated for the borough of Lambeth. and that the committee do report to a filters meeting." Mr. SIDI supported the amendment. Mr. G. STIFF objected to the meeting pledging itself prematurely to any candidate. After a discussion of some length, in whieh allegation recriminatory and to some eutent abusive were indulged in, the on motion was put and carried, and the meeting concluded by a vote of thanks to the chairman. WEATaIa RSPORT.-(THIS DAY.) wasrusua Aim IL s La & I , D. 11. D. P. O. L It. 8. -- -.- —.— . - ---.— Nana .. ILO 4 46 W. Or 0.10 imaiii *7B 61 40 8.8. W. 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B.—Barometer corrected and reduced to 32 deg. at mean sea level , each 10 feet, of vertical rise, causing about one-hundredth of an inch diminution . and each 10 deg., above 32 deg., causing nearly three.hundre4lths Increase. E.—Esposed thermometer fu shade. M.—Moistened bulb (for evaporation and dew point). D.—Direction of wind (true—two points kit of mag netic). E. —for* (1 to 12—estimated). C.—Cloud (1 to 9). I. lottists h, blue slq • c. clouds (detached); f, log; b, ball : lightning: m, misty (hazy) ; o, overcast (dull) ; r, rain : s, snow; t, thunder. It., rain-tall, or snow, or ball, since last report, la inches and dechnals. E.—Bea-cllsturbance (1 to 9). Z. BOILER EXPLOSION AND LOSS OP NINETEEN Lin t& WOLVERHAMPTON, Ann. 15. At a quartet pad 11 o'clock this forenoon a boiler explosion happened about two miles from this town, which less occasioned the death of nineteen perms, and serious injuries to ten others. Of these latter two are dying as we write, bet of the remaining eight there is ground to hope for their ultimate recovery. The site of the explosion is ?riestfleld, the first station between this town and Birmingham, on the Great Western line. At Priestlield, among other iron works, are those now carried on by Mr. Thomas Rose, and _ belonging to the Birmingham Banking Company. The works are called the Millfiekl Works, and consist of two fare and three mills, all for the manufacture of different descriptions of finished iron. One forge, the only one now at work, consists of twenty puddling furnaces, a shingling hammer for beating the draw from the balls of molten iron, which are produced atthe puddling furnaces, and a train of rolls for rolling the iron after it leaves the &Waster's hammer into paddled bars. preparatory to its being cut up, reheated, and rolled into merchantable iron in the mills. The engine which worked the massy shingler's hammer and the paddled bar rolls was of 80.hoese power, high pressure, and supplied with steam from two cylindrical boilers with hemispherical ends, eight or nine feet in diameter by shout twenty feet long. Each boiler was heated by the super. flume flame from a get of paddling furnaces, and was seated upright on one of its ends. One boiler was heated by the duce of four furnaces, and the other by the flues of two furnaces. The other four furnaces were unconnected with any boiler. At the time mentioned the puddler, were working at the four furnaces attached to the boiler No. 1, were taking out their charges, and were dragging their red.hot balls of iron to the 'blunter,' hammer, and thence. to the paddled bar rolls, the furnaces having been for a quarter of an hour previously working at the utmost heat required in the operation, and the boilers eoessgtautly under the sans proportionate influence. ln. deed the whole of the machinery of the forge was in full • and beamed' the roof which covered the whole = ti w o :tii about forty men at work. When everything was supposed to be sale, and without any previous warning, • report as of a mighty peel of thunder immediately ovce•band was r he:ti sl and in en instant death and devastation The entire forge was a complete wreck. o. 1 boiler had exploded. Throe. fourths of it, weighing about eight tons, had been toned into the air to a height of between 200 and MO feet; and the remainder. in three portions, had been driven through the forge in three different directions, tearing down the iron pillars which supported the roof, and reading the massive timber beams which rested upon them into splinters. At the same time the brickwork sad masonry of the furnaces, with their contents of molten blood the burn. ingooshi from their fires, completed the appalling catastrophe. Before Unsaying &bar men were driven blinding and lifeless, some into boas lying upon the adjoining nasal/another on a brick wall twenty yards distant from the boiler ; and others were buried beneath the molten iron, the burning coals, and the redhot brick work. Within an hoer after the explosion fourteen bodies had been recovered, all of Qom most shockingly mutilated. One was without its had, and that member has not yet been recovered. Another upon an attempt being made to lift it up fell to pima t it had been literally cut in two, and the extremities bed been burnt aw. The remainder were more or lass dig/Wired. But few ti t he fourteen referred to have yet been identified. By far the larger number of the men at work in the forge the accident happened were strangers, and were taken on oily this morning. In addition to the 14 found deed, 15 ware discovered alive, but the greater number sadly in. Jared. Hine of these were taken 0.4> the South Stafford. shire Hospital, about a mils and a half from the Millfields Works, and six to their homes. Three died on their way to the hospital, and one whilst being taken to his home. In the hospital one has already died and two are supposed to be dyisg. The ruins are still being searched for two bodies supposing to be missing, and until tomorrow it is not expected to be known if even a larger number have not yet to be accounted for. Most of the deceased who have been recognised are fathers of families. The damage done to the works is estimated at between 2,0001. and 3,000/. They have been put up shout 11 yam, and until the beginning of last month had been unoccupied about four years. The quantity of water scattered through the works affords abundant proof that the explosion cannot be attributed to a want of that element in the boiler. To us there Rooms evidence of a seam-rend below the water line and along a line of rivets, the heads of a few of which are burnt off. Hero the rend doubtless commenced, and if the fire had bees an ordinary one it would have been put out by the water which escaped, but the combined flames from the four furnace Mae were so strong t h at steam was engendered Wreath the boiler and by the escape . of the water an ix. creased pressure to o k place within sufficient to produce the explosion, which we keys no doubt was really a double ex. ; plosion. MURDER IN PRANCE. The Court of Assizes of the Meuse, aittiug at St. Michel, last week tried a man named Vincent for the murder of Dr. Guyot, of lloudelaiu-court, in December last. It appeared from the evidence that on the 26th of December Dr. Guyot went to St. Geoire to visit a patient, and, 'caving his carriage there, be walked to Bibaecourt.,l a ' neighbouring village, whence he returned to Geoire about six o'clock, and met at the entrance of the town a person named Branded, whom he knew. They walked together along one street and then parted. A very short time after, the doctor's body was found lying inthe street, with the head dreadfully mangled by blows with some heavy cutting in. strument. As his watch and purse were found in his pockets, it was evident that vengeance, not robbery, was the motive of the crime. The next day a man named Com. pagnoo, employed in repairing the roads, went to his superior in a state of great excitement, and told him that Vincent, the prisoner, bed confessed that he had murdered Dr. Guyot, and intended to kill Dr. Benin. Vincent, who had already been suspected, was then arrested, and not only admitted that he had committed the crime, but er• plainest his motives for the act. It seems that the prisoner belongsg ceased to a respectable family of St. Geoire , but baa to to have any intercourse with his parents or relations, living quite alone. Being afflicted with an incurable scrofakes disease, be brooded over it in solitude till he berme almost a maniac. Some time ago he consulted Drs. Guyot and liana, who succeeded in affording 'him a little relief, and be er• pressed his gratitude to them on several occasions. Bow• ever, thinking their treatment too slow in its effecta, ha applied to a quack, who promised him a speedy and Ached cure, and mitred him that hie doctors had adopted a moss treatment. The prisoner then conceived the moat violent animosityt against} his first medical advisers, and at LA determined to avenge himself by murdering both of theta He accordingly sharpened his pickaxe, and purchased a piatoL On the `26th of December, darling that Dr. Guyot was at St. Geoire, he waylaid him, awl starting from behind a wall he felled him to the ground ' with a blow of the pickaxe, and struck him repeated! afterwards. When arrested he had a pistol on his person, and was actually waiting ;for an opportunity to shoot lie. Beanie. In court, the prisoner persisted in his oedema" and gave all the details with the utmost minuteness. lie ' counsel argued that he was labouring under monomial. The jury having brought in a verdict of guilty, with ems tutting circumstances, the court sentenced the prisoner to ' hard labour for life. THE OFFICERS OF THE INSOLVENT COURT LSD THEIR Inconsm—Another quarter has passed and no neje have been taken to provide for the officers of this court SS full amount of the income; which they enjoyed before the passing of the Bankruptcy Act, and which were surf to be secured to them by that statute. The bare 0 alone have been paid, and the business from which the renurinder of their Incomes proceeded has been trans forced to the Court of Bankruptcy, as have also the offs ems themselves, but it is held that the funds of that court, although ample to remunerate new officers at high salaries, are not sufficient to meet the claims of those who have laboured in the public service for lengthened periods, in some cases exceeding 40 years —Time". LIABILITY OF A HUSBAND FOR THE DEBTS or Rd WIPES PREVIOUS LICSBAND.—A case of some importsoce was beard on Friday last in the Wolverhampton County Court, before A. IL tikinner, Esq., Q.C. The plainti ff s the case were Messrs. Parkes, wiredrawer', Willeuh. ll, " d the defendant was a lockmaker, named Mini, residing , the same place. Mr. Stick appeared oa behalf of tilt plaintiffs, and Mr. J. Walker for the defendant. The Fir ceediogs were under • wire facia. summons to revive II judgment. An original summons was taken out and judg• ment given upon it in 1858, the defendant's wife being then sued fur 121., as the executrix and de son tore of her late bus' band, a currycomb maker, named Kershaw. On thebearitiii o that use both parties were represented by their snowy% and judgment for the plaintiffs was signed in the court hooks in the ordinary manner. The object of the present proceed. legs was to make Atkin liable on this judgment — re . covered against the wife in 1858. Mr. Walker contenied that the judgment being signed generally in the hooks of the court must be taken as VI judgment again° }11 " Kershaw in her representative character as e xecutrix , and consequently could only be a judgment de bona testaforis and not de bonis propri is. Mr. Walks!' sod he could also prove that Mrs. Kershaw wire in 6 destitute condition when she married Atkin, that Atkin never received • farthing benefit from KO' sbaw's estate, and th at shortly after the judgment had been obtained in 1858, the landlord entered Kershaiee premises and swept everything away. Mr. Stirk cootv rue uded that the judgment entered on the books was a ]ode ut against Mrs. Kershaw as an individual ;it i.u.d mid conclusive between the parties, and could not be quotionni except in the ordinary way—by an application for • new trial, which it was now too late to make. In giving link' sneut his Honour said that it was • well-known law—whet a man married • woman he became liable for her debts, in° he could make no distinction in the use now before land. He could not deny that it was a hardship, and considering this he should make an order for payment of se. for the Bratthree months, and 10.. • month afterwards. In addition to the debts of Mrs. Kershaw Atkin also had the coinage° take her family of seven children. r'