The Express. — London, England, 1859-01-20 00:00:00

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Bove of the gentlemen who met Mr. BRIGIFT in Conference at Breaded the day alter he bad pre malgated his Bill. seem to Mee hem diapered to oh lett became he bad set given a mom decided pm- Ihreem to eassulactsriag Merriam, and bestowed the seats takes fres mall agricultural towns as those of miser impetuses whisk derive their sup port szeinsively bum trade. Had the rural districts ef the ►ingdom been is etreagly nopesented cm the 'cession as its anamsreial lemlities, the edam, weld have dealther hem bead Omit with for exactly the opposite seam. !Wembley, Bkiptos, cad Bersaley weal& lilt, of coarse, to come Ia be the esediscated seats, if not of Bulk& sad Wilts, at all events of the Arm Ridings of Yorkshire. On the other head, the threatened ematry towns (or their ovum for them) wee id se doubt gladly offer to take in say amber of terroseding perishes, and so swill their amainsi reil of *beton, if that would mare them hem 'abandon. Mr. Bawer truly says is reply that he weald have been juetilled neither a atteseptiag tars them into little ematies, new in substituting far them another set of little teems. The first expedient could Mn only tended to weaken the electoral strength of the existing toasty constitamosies, with out creating new ones peemesing in themselves any sufficient electoral vitality to least the propel/tonal influence long established thesis. Direct nomination might in some instances give place to an oceseional show of elective freedom calculated the mom decently to corer the force of inexorable dictation. But the two or three calm in which experiments of this kind have been already made, are not calculated to lure reformers satray by their example. If we cannot do anything .hatter than multiply East Retfords and Shorehams, we may as well remain as we are. As for the other alternative, that the tall chimneys should be the only legitimate centres recognised of tutors political power, it is hardly necessary to do more than state in plain terms the most conclusive of aU objections, lamely, th►t the rest of the community would not stand it. No greater mistake can possibly be made by those who world re-organise on a lasting WM@ our electoral system than that of confounding every species of industry that is not commercial or mane- Suturing with the territorial power of the landed clan. It is undoubtedly true that to a great extent daring the French war, and to a still greater extent during the struggle for the maintenance of the Corn-laws, the rural constituencies consented to be politically taken in and done for by the lords of the soil. But it is not true that in the history of the growth of our national liberties the counties have always or generally been behind the towns in spirit and in independence. Not toepeak of the greatstruggle of struggles between King and People in the depict the Sic kITS, or the conflicts between the people and the oligarchy of great families subsequent to the Revolution, we may retell the fact that whew Cn tennis and his friends first raised the my of Reform in Parliament it was popular not only far the free and equal suffrage they proposed, bat be ans they would have given one hundred additional seats to the counties in Great Britain alone. Sixty years later, when Lord JOHN Russr,t.t. introduced the first Reform Bill, though circumstances had greatly changed, and the proportion of the town population to the whole community had vastly in- 1 creased, our-third of the sequestered seats were given to counties. In the conflict which ensued it ought not to be forgotten that the county constituencies rallied with even more unanimity than those of the towns round the popular standard. Oa the dissolution which took place in April, 1831, on the first rejec tion of the Bill, out of eighty-two English county members six only were returned without a pledge to support the measure ; and in Ireland the results were hardly less decisive. But apart from all rea soning founded on precedents, however notable, we are bound to believe that if once strengthened in numbers by the addition of a 101. constituency, and shielded against landlord intimidation by the Ballot, the rural communities of England would use the prisileges of the constitution as honestly and inds pittlently u any other class of their fellow-subjects. In national spirit they have never been wanting. In the contests waged in former days against royal and oligarchic power they hare often burns a distinguished part. They now porno means of intelligence, enlightenment, and sympathy with the rest of the community, a hundred-fold greater than any their fathers dreamed of : why, for the lint time, should they be distrusted new P Mr. BIIGUT proposes to create sic-and-twenty additional county sesta ; Lord Dritor would perhaps suggest • good many more. The question, in oar mind, ought not to be determined by any considera tions either of party, clam, or cal;ing. What we want is to see the whole worth and intellect or the country fairly and equally enfranchised, no matter whose book it suits, or what purpose of the hour it seems to serve. All such purposes are transitory and rain. Earl GREY and his colleagues were charged with having jobbed the repair and remodelling of the ormstitetion in 1832, for Whig uses ; and it looked veey mach at first se it they had done so, when the sew Parliament met, sad it was fend to contain a majority of more than one kindred more or leis disposed to support them. Bat what came of it? In less than two years the Ad ministration had last many of its adherents, end some of its most distinguished members, including its veteran chief; and it was soon after cashiered THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1869. without ceremony by the Court, and replaced by um every one of whom had steadily opposed di* Bill. A quarter of a century has elapsed since then, and it is not too much to say that every succeed ing Administration has more and more distinctly exemplified the futility of building up an unpopular or unnstional policy by means of a packed Parliament. We need not be troubled with any fears of that. Let as rather approach the question of Representative Re form with the temper of arbiters and the spirit of jurors, anxious only that equal justice should be fully dealt out to all. The combined elements of Popula tions, Property, and Intelligence, supply the materials 6r such a re-distribution ea will give none of the great interests of the country any just right to com plain. In applying the rule no single iron test of Mates and unfitness can or ought to be attempted. We are the most diversified community in the civi lised world—so to speak, the community most full of happy anomalies that history has ever noted. Any arbitrary enforcement of an uniform standard of electoral capacity would work infinite mis chief, though the logic of its preamble were incontrovertible and the rigour of its adherence to arithmetic principles beyond all cavil or (listen. Returning to the point whence we net out, we say again that neither the proposal to transfer a large number of seats from small agricul tural towns to small trading towns, nor the proposal ' to turn the former into petty mantles by the in clusion of rural districts, would answer say good purpose. We say this sot because we wish to diminish one parliamentary iaterest, or beans we are distrustful of another ; far from it. It iv simply because we believe th►t on the whole it would be safer and better to confer sass of the sew state on towns sot now sofficient/y represented, some on cosaties that are now too large, and some, where the sireamstances of the locality admit of it, on several esetigsous towns associated together for electoral peeress. We are, in a word, against any exclusive seethed of treating so complex and comprehensive a ealrieet. This may not be the most popular view with any party, bat it is a nes and an English one sad we an satisfied that in the end it is that which is meet likely to be legislatively adopted. ITN Court. WINDBOI3. JAW. 19. Rat Nalent/fe diaaar party yesterday included las Maas £lss Magas d Easter, tire Ilari and Oman@ of Cbassloa aed Oa Wks Carbea tad Alba Villa% Obi WS Sam C. S. 110Aalay, I. Dna d Maim sod la Ilea. M. Wallaby, Makar-Ciesaral Sir T. Willono, sad fho Sae. W. Canby. Tla bosi sear Ina Leh Omni' woo Is atioadasce, sad Owl haft owe : r years. Southey died at Keswick, and Hartley Coleridge on the margin of Rydal Lake ; and the Quillinans under the shadow of Longhrigg ; and Professor Wilson disappeared from Elleray ; ad the aged Mrs. Fletcher from Lang; and the three venerable Wordsworth' from Rydal Mount. LATEST INTELLIGENCE, THE EAST. JAW. 19. The Journal de Constantinople of the 12th inst. publishes an article stating that new conflicts have arisen between the Clamming, asserting that the state of affairs is particularly grave in Moldavia, and regrets deeply that the elections had not been adjourned. Private letters announce that the disturbances in the provinces surrounding Bagdad become more serious. Mehemet Bey will not return to Paris as am bassador. Two Russian vessels arrived here from Nicolaieff and proceeded on their route to Villafranoa. Mr. Murray, the English ambassador in Persia, has embarked for England vitt Marseilles. Prince Alfred is expected at Constantinople. DEATH OF HRS. WORDSWORTH. Mrs. Wordsworth, widow of the Poet, died on Monday night, at eleven o'clock. The last thing that would have occurred to Mrs. Wordsworth would have been that her departure, or anything about her, would be publicly noticed, amidst the events of a stirring time. Those who knew her well regarded her with as Due a homage ' as they ever rendered to any member of the house hold, or to any personage of the remarkable group which will be for ever traditionally associated with the Lake District : but this reverence, genuine and hearty es it was, would not, in all eyes, be a suffi cient reason for recording more than the fact of her death. It is her survivorship of each a group which constitutes an undisputed public interest in her decease. With her claws a remarkable scene in the history of the literature of our century. The well-known cottage, mount and garden at Rydal will be regarded with other eyes, when shut up, or trans. ferred to new occupants. With Mrs. Wordsworth, an old world has passed away before the eyes of the in habitants of the district, and • new one succeeds which may have its own delights, solemnities, honours, and graces, but which can never replace the familiar one that is gone. There was something mournful in the lingering of this aged lady—blind, deaf, and bereaved in her latter years ; but shs was not mournful, any more than ate was insensible. Age did not blunt her feelings, nor deaden her interest in the events of the day. It seems not so very long ago that she said that the worst of living in such a place (as the Lake District) was its making one unwilling to go. It was too beautiful to let one be ready to leave it. Within a few years, the be loved daughter was gone; and then the aged hus band, and then the son-in-law ; and then the devoted friend, Mr. Wordsworth's publisher, Mr. Moxon, who paid his (duty occasionally by the side of her chair ; then she became blind and deaf. Still her cheerfulness was indomitable. No doubt, she would in reality have been " willing to go " whenever called upon, throughout her long life ; but she liked life to the end. By her diaintereetednees of nature, by her fortitude of spirit, and her constitutional elasticity and activity, she was quali fied for the honour of surviving her household— nursing and burying them, and bearing the bereave ment which they were vicariously spared. She did it wisely, tenderly, bravely, and cheerfully, and she will be remembered accordingly by all who witnessed the spectacle. It was by the accident (so to speak) of her early friendship with Wordsworth's sister that her life became involved with the poetic element, which her mind would hardly have sought for itself in another position. She was the incarnation of good sense, as applied to the concerns of the every-day, world. In as far as her marriage and comae of life tended to infuse a new elevation into her views of things, it was a blessing; and, on the other hand, in u far as it infected her with the spirit of exclusiveness which was the grand defect of the group in its own place, it was hurtful, but it was lets an evil than an amuse ment, after all. It was a rather serious matter to hear the post's denunciations of the railway, and to read his well-known sonnets on the desecra tion of the Lake region by the unhallowed presence of commonplace strangers; and it was truly painful to observe how the scornful sad grudging mood spread among the young, who thought they were agreeing with Wordsworth in claiming the vales and lakes as a natural property for their enlightened selves. But it was so unlike Mrs. Wordsworth, with her kindly, cheery, generous turn, to say that a green field with buttercups would answer all the purposes of Lancashire operatives, and that they did not know what to do with themselves when they came among the mountains, that the innocent insolence could do no harm. It became a fixed sen , timent when she alone survived to uphold it ; and one demonstration of it amused the whole neighbourhood in a good-natured way. "People , from Birthwaite " were the bugbear Birth waite being the end of the railway. In the summer of 18;57, Mrs. Wordsworth's companion told her (she being then blind) that there were some strangers in the garden—two or three boys on the Mount, looking at the view. "Boys from Birth ' waits," said the old lady, iu the well-known tone which conveyed that nothing good could oome from I Birthwaite. When the strangers were gone, it appeared that they were the Prince of Wales and his companions. Making allowance for prejudices, neither few nor small, but easily dissolved when reason and kindliness had opportunity to work, she • was a truly wise woman, equal to all occasions of action, and supplying other persons' needs and dell ' ciencies. In the Memoirs of Wordsworth it is stated that she was the original of She was a phsatotz of delight, and some things in the next few pegs' look like it ; but for the greater part of the poet's life it was cer tainly believed by some who ought to know that that wonderful description related to another, who flitted beforehis imagination in earlier days than those in which he discovered the aptitude of Mary Hutchinson to his own needs. The last stanza is very like her; and her husband's sonnet to the painter of her portrait in old age discloses to us bow the first stanza might be so also, in days beyond the ken of the existing generation. Of bar early sorrows, in the loss of two children and a beloved sister who was domesticated with the family, there are pro , bably no living witnesses. It will never be for gotten by any who saw it how the late dreary train of afflictions sou met. For many years Words worth's sister Dorothy was a melancholy charge. Mrs. Wordsworth was wont to warn any rash en thusiasts for mountain walking by the spectacle before them. The adoring sister would never fail her brother; and she destroyed her health, and then her reason, by exhausting walks, and wrong reme dies for the consequences. Forty miles in a day eras not a singular feat of Dorothy's. During the long years of this devoted creature's help lessness she was tended with admirable cheerfulness and good sense. Thousands of Lake tourists moat remember the locked garden gate when Mies Words worth was taking the air, and the garden chair going round and round the terrace, with the ema ciated little woman in it, who occasionally called out to strangers, and amused them with her clever sayings. She outlived the beloved Doty, Words worth's only surviving daughter. After the lingering illness of that daughter (Mrs. Quillinan) the mother encountered the dresriest portion, probably, of her life. Her aged husband used to spend the long winter evenings in grief and tears—week after week, month after month. Neither of them had eyes for reading. He could not be comforted. She, who carried as tender a maternal heart as ever beat, had to bear her own grief and his too. She grew whiter and smaller, so as to be greatly changed in a few months but this was the only expression of what she endured, and be did not discover it. When he too left her it was seen how disinterested had been her trouble. When his trouble hail ceased, she toe was relieved. She followed his coffin to the sacred corner of Grasmere churchyard, where lsv now all those who had once made her home. She joined the household guests on their return from the funeral, and made tea u usual. And this was the disinterested spirit which carried her through the last few years, till she had just reached the ninetieth. Even then, she had strength to combat disease for many days. Several times she rallied and relapsed ; and she was fall of alacrity of mind and body as long as exertion of any kind was possible. There were many eager to render all duty and love—her two sone, nieces, arid friends, and a whole sympatbisiog neighbourhood. The question commonly asked by visitors to that corner of Grasmere churchyard was—where would she be laid when the time came, the space was so completely filled. The cluster of stones told of the little children who died a long lifetime ago ; of the sisters Sarah Hutchinson and Dorothy Wordsworth, and of Mr. Quillinan, and his two wives, Dora lying between her husband and father, and seeming to occupy her mother's rightful place. And Hartley Coleridge lies next the family group; and others press closely round. There is room, however. The large grey stone which bears the name of William Wordsworth has ample space left for another inscrip tion ; and the grave beneath has ample spies also for his faithful life.companion. Not one is left now of the eminent persons who rendered that cluster of valleys so eminent as it has bus. Dr. Arnold went firat in the vigour of his, Licher R. list d Mr~s phis lind attermsreb pallimi lathe Dravlageman r "Am Melb",„ ta amid. TM Quasi, with ?Wm. Alice sad Prime Leopold, walled owl Are,. r Nis Zama Park We sansiair, and ablisd the Daahlas of Ina at Programa. no Prima Oman wont oat aboallag. The Right Hart. C. R. /Ake* bad lba bosom of accompanying his Royal AR dt• defiling esagnny left the Cagle to-day, viz, the Mends d Rzetse, die dad sad Counter of Clarendon and Lad 7 Condemn and Lady Aline Villiers, the Right Ron. C. B. Adder*, and Major-Gesend 84: F. Williams. A *statical oa But 'abject of the Thema conservancy hod aa ottervicer with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley pester- I day at the dike of the Beard of Trade. The deputation marleted of Mr. J. Thorpe. Mr. Joe. Tru airy, Mr. Thee. Dads, Admiral Asada, C. 8., Admire! Shipload, Captain Plgatt (Trinity Roam), Er. Edward Tyrrell, sod Captain Berstsit, The Right Rog.C. B. Adthrioy manta to Load= ren ting ti Moamar Csotle. bampsisliss wire named at the Colosial-odlos yesterday him the dowsraan of the West Indio Islands sad British Cambia. Darpssalssa went seat to the Ciorsrsors of How Kale, Crylost, sad the Itaatitios. noir Royal Highneasee the Duchess of Cam bridge eel the Primes Mary, who hare returned to Ceokeilop Coati', _••, from Waiting the Berl and Cement et Ilesettrich, et Hisulnagbroke, Haab, intend le renew to St. letesie Palace, for the lemon, at the end of tbe week. Tho Dyke and Dachas' of Argyll and family aro a:pada Ms arrive at their villa et C.mpdm•hili, Kea geolles. Os weak saw best, from leverary Castle, N.B. The mils ilk. mad declass Intend to visit the Duke sad Dubin et Sutherland at Trentham, Staffordshire, re wale math. The Duke and Duchess of Manehester have been entertaining the Marquis and Marchionees of Stafford and • Won party of friends at Kbnbolto• Castle, Hontlagdooahlre. The ltiargais of Salisbury comes to town daily front Hat Sold Howe, Hers, to %need to hie °facie' duties, returning to hie *pastry teat la the eremitic. The noble Lord Pretident end the ILatehkeees of Sallebary come to town for the eseeton on Wednesday seat. The Marquis of Exeter his left Windsor Castle for Burghley Haw, hew Btareford. Tir.Earl sod Countess of Durham ars expected in toys as the 2nd presimo, from visiting the )(Argots sad Martelosoas of Atereora at Banta Court, smutty Tease The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady Altos Villiers have Idt Wheless. Curls, far the Oros% sear Watford. Th. Bari and Countess Delawarr and Lady Ara bella Saekville Wad Wail le aims to town from Backhaist Park, Swam, arty in" mob, wiek. • - The Earl do Grey's lateaded grand ball at Wrest Part, Ids esee is Detheiderer ea teeelay high., war pat off ow le the Mr ends lorediee the NATI of Ripon. Lady Peel arrived i Whitehall-gardens, yester day, ham Hardy Hvl, Bak mad pumas to haw to-day as a visit to tha Rigtit Has. rtahrisk aad Pild, at Hang• oa-park. Warwieksairo. Vise:aunt and Viscountess Palmerston are ectimeted tear(l.ll at Cambridge Haase, riccaddle, cm the Llamado°, :comßroadlaada, Heats, far tie meeling at parlitemmt. We rivet to learn that the Eiji of Ripen is sat. /Mai Ines elvers Indisposition, at Um wills at Putney-beet/ la cansopente of the Moon of the noble earl, Visa:mat and Irlsosinlos Gatwick have been enmisonal sa the thimily deals emabled at Putney. We (WelverhamploW Chronicle) regret to dal tkes W voiashlo Lord Northwirk is vary ill sod is set wooled Is surds* may doys. His lordship Is wally 90 psis of ars . _ _ The krebdesconry of Ely ben been conferred ars Ile Rev. Charles Hardwick, L.A.. Fellow of 88 Cedewlee's College, Cambridge, and Christian Advocate is ling University. Oredusesd is 1814, when be was iret radar spdgs, having previsnsly obtained s scholanWp, and bums Asslisksi Organ. He was siege& Mew of bM ease is 1148, and was appointed by Use Isle Bisbee of Lambs prembar at tha Chop.) Royal, wrismain, is 1651. In 1153 be was appointed Professor of Divinity st Gisswee Coll ge. Birmingham, end to 1565, Cbrieliss damsel at Cambridge. It is understood that the project for constrocting extortive wet sad dry docks at Northeast, near Gravesend, which his been for some months under considentior et, will he bereght howerd is shoat a fortnight. The ens treaded to be brought hie or will he very large, sad great reliance le said to be pieced upon the facilities which the chalk forma tion of the locality will afford for the solid and CCOIIOOIIOII waretruction of such works. The ultimate capital to be rimed is repeated to he 2,000,0007, rid the title of the un tiortekre will be "The Northeast Goths Company." The Oen includes errangeasente for an absorption of the %whim Orme of the private wharves at Lesdoe-bridis. MR. COMMISSIONER PANE ON BANIRUPTC7 BIFO.BM. Mr. Commissioner Fins ham published the follow ing observations on proposed reforms in the bankruptcy and insolvency laws " 1. I do not think that any legislative assistance should be given to enable any majority of creditor,,' seeking what is called liquidation' (which, however, is nothing but a plau sible word for' secrecy') to control any minority of creditors however small. I would not allow even ninety-nine cre ditors to control the hundredth creditor. The ninety-nine who advocate secrecy are public enemies. The hundredth man, who insist' on publicity, is the friend of the public. " There is nothing so agreeable to an insolvent and his creditor' as serrecy—nothing so disagreeable as publicity. The debtor is only too oftena tine.; the creditors are almost all victims of their own readiness to give oredlit without in quiry. The debtor hater to have his knavery, the creditor hates to have his folly exposed. They are in a conspiracy against honest men, and their engine is' secrecy. " The (meal °ours. te this. When the debtor cannot longer delay the evil day, he calls his creditors together to hear his statement of debts and use* sad he submits a preposition, which is always to pay so many ehillhigs in the pound. Oenerally he offers about as much as he can pay. The creditors consider his proposition, and almost always stipulate for something more. The debtor is so anxious for secrecy that he generally undertaken to pay the something more, but he proposes to pay it by acceptanoes, at three, ix, nine, and twelve month,. Having thus bought secrecy, he obtains during the twelve months, of tradesmen who have not heard of his insolvency, the means of paying his existing creditors; end thus Peter is robbed to pay Paul, ani the result is that a knave is turned loose on the world unexposed. The existing creditors do not trust him during the twelve months, because they know him ; new creditors do trust him, Wean= they do not know him. Is this a system which the law should =course ? If I *mkt make the law, 1 would not only not eve the smallest power to the majority of creditors to bind the minority; I would go farther, and would even enact that the creditor w►o established the bankruptcy should receive some advenisp le a reward for having been the first to de• mance the insolvent, and so stop his mischievous career. In a bankruptcy bate me a short time ago, two eminent banking houses in the city lost—one 6,0001., the other 1,6001., by not hewing that a person who pot hie name to a hall as a mewl swarity had privately arranged with bib creditors a year bdent. I, for ow, will saws lift a bap, to artist private arraageniant The Wes poilcy Y publialty. " 2. I think there ought nosh to be two leare—s, law of bankruptcy and a law of irolveacy. . 4 I think that there should be but one law, and that law should be the existing law of bankruptcy. The principle of the law of bankruptcy is right. It is this—take pommies of the bankrupt's property; realm It, end after min ex penses distribute it among the creditors. Inquire into the con duct of the bankrupt before and pending his bankruptcy, and treat him accordingly, so far em puniahment goes; but In any event, return him sooner or later to the world of In dustry, entirely free from all former debts. Let him re commence the struggle to maintain himself and his family ; do not impede, or, it might be said, neutrallre his exertions by weighing him down with old debts. Creditors are ri as much to blame as the debtors, and ought not to be teed to oppress those wham they have themselves mis- bJ the 011 . 41111140111 with which they have given credit. smmm that there ought not to be two laws, a law of beakrsploy and a law of insolvency, and assumieg that the mein prinapies of the law of bankruptcy are right, it fol lows that the Insolvent law should be dropped, and the bank rupt law sebstinted, with such amendment as should be approved of. It Is proposed to coesolidate the Bankrupt and Tirol- Teeny Courts, and have only one court, the judges of which shall be ogled judges, not commissionets. This seems right. I think that the word bankruptcy should be dropped. The proper word is insolvency. The consolidated court should, therefore, be called the Court of Insolvency. But it would be inexpedient to have all eases of insolvency managed by the gems court, as there is great it:merman*, In mixing the lowest of the low with persons who have always moved is a higher sphere. The proposal, there fore, to Math the court-house and establishment in Par tegel-etnet, as well as the building and eetablishrmat in Besinghallutrest, end use the former for the lower edam of thadveale mad the creditors, and the latter to, the higher clues@ mem. judicious. It lea gnat-advantage that they are a mils and more from each other. Insolvents should be divided into two clasese—my _edam A and clam B. Clear A should consist of those biselveats whale available meets would probably exceed 2001.• clam B should con sist of those whose available mein would probably not exceed that sum. Clam A should be dealt with by the Jeeps sitting in Basinghaff-strest and the Bankruptcy CoureiC la the country, dem B by the judges sitting in Portapl-strest and the inseiveney judges in the country. 3. The law which now ambles a creditor who has got judgment te take the propeety of his debtor In execution for his own private use should he abolished. lie ought to have 110 s in the pound on the cost he has incurred, but should come in with the other creditors for a dividend on hie debt. Under the existing system, the debtor is constantly in league with the execution creditor, end the two contrive to cheat all the other creditors. Even If the demand of the creditor is an honest demand, it is most unjust that he should get 20e. in the pound upon his debt, when the other creditors get little or nothing; but if it in not an honest demand (and it is very difficult to Cad out whether it is or is not) it is a most! revolting piece of knavery, became it is tuning the law, which ought to be a protection to honest men, into an in strument to cheat them. 44 4. The law should declare that It is the duly of every person when tumble to meet his engagements, to record the feet is the Court of Insolvency. The mode of pro ceedlag should be for the debtor to go before the regis trar of the day, accompanied by en attorney of the court to identify hire, and declare himself unable to meet lie en gagements The court upon this ought to cause the Meet vtacy to be pzetted, and the usual proceedings should take place. If the insolvent did not originate proceedings against himself, any unpaid creditor should be at liberty to go before the proper court, and mate upon oath a prima font case of debt due. There should not be any specific amount required. The smaller the debt due and unpaid, the stranger would be the proof it afforded of the insolvency of the debtor. lie who cannot pay 61. mend pay 601. Tim judge should immediately issue his summons to tile alleged debtor. calling upon him to attend the court on a Ind day and show came why he should not be adjudged leaolvent. Whew the insolvent attended, the court would deal with the cue Ns Julies required. lithe insolvency was declared, war thing would proceed as now till the insolvent had paged his Int examinants. U. would then ask for his ortileste, which wool& he granted as of course, unless opposed, the court greeting a era second, or third claw, accordiog to the eircurestaness of the case; but I think that no offal- CPAS but a third-class certificate should be given, miler the court should be of opinion that the insolvent bad produced meets which, II they had been sold according to the usual course of business, would have amounted to 20 per mat. upon his debts. "There ought to be a code of commercial mimeses offences and punishment. The punishment should en on the side of teeny, not severity. A law constructed on these prieciples would, I think, win public favour. lam very apprehensive this the bill, if passed KS proposed, will throw us all into con him, from which we shall not recover for a gnat length of Ymsa "Jane 26, 1666." "The preparations for the marriage of Prince Napoleon," stye a Paris War. la the inelipmertasre of are Ogg ea Naively. The menials of the young bride mere pertlealsrly excites curiosity. A dress and shawl of ,Uslipia bee of peat value ; three India duel' of entreerdhrey twenty; sad the diamonds of the Princess Canssreso of Wartemberg, Which were stoles la 1816, but sitairmis hod or repurchased by the family, will form *me of the 'Weeks composing the marriage offering of the prince. • megaidoent diamond necklace is spoken of as a preen" drew the Empress, and some blue fox and other valuable fate tram the Prince's Matt:nide." A letter from Berlin of the 17th, says :—'The ' festival of the coronation of the Prussian chivalry, which was =speeded last year, was yesterday celebrated at Berlin with unusual splendour; and orders and decorations ti numerable ware then dispensed to all who could advance any claim for such distinctions. An the royal family, with the exception of the Princess Frederick William, took part in the proceedings of the day, and though—(fres bin met highenis having taken an airing through a great sorties of the city on the previous day, when the meet hearty =clause liooll greeted her on every side)—the health of the princess le known to be excellent, the arrival of Sir James Clerk shows that it has become pendent that her royal We should not be exposed to unnecessary fatigue or excitement. sod 'anciently accounts for her absence on that grist 01:0101011." General and Mdme. McMahon gave their first ban for the wagon at Algiers last week. The jottrnals of that city eve a glowing des:rip:lon of the entertainment, . . sad otaiothof a camber of Roilish, Boodlok, Iluosioo, soi Bowie. officers Imo prewar. AUSTRIA. We read in the Lloyd of Pesth :—" The :state ment that Anstria is about to contract a loan is confirmed. Circulars from the house of Roths child announcing the approaching conclusion of the matter were circulated yesterday (the lath) at the [ Vienna Bourse. According to a despatch from London the convention will be signed either at the end of the week or at the beginning of the next. The loan will be fifty-two millions of Austrian florins at 5 per cent." SARDINIA. The following telegram was received lut night: TURIN, WEDNESDAY.. - . The official Gazette of Milan publishes an article endeavouring to weaken the sensation produced by an article in the Austrian Gazetta, which announced a system of terror for the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. . . . Prance Napoleon received yesterday the members of the diplomatic corps. TYE INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. (IT 12.11CTRIC TILZOILI2IO (ram 0171 OWN oosauromagr.) SOUTHAMPTON, THORSDAT. Arrived the Indus with a heavy portion of the India and China mail, 12,10 W. in specie, and 2,000 bales of silk. The weather is stormy in the Mediterranean, and several vessels have been wrecked. Clibraltar Exchanges on London, 601. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (ritox oxtz OWN PARIS, WIDIRSDAT ETINIMO. A few evenings since some twenty leaders of the democratic party found themselves (not altogether accidentally) assembled in a salon where the ques tion was solemnly debated whether a war would be likely to benefit the cause of liberty in France and I Buropo ? A negative vote was come to almost unanimously. Indeed, the minority consisted of only two, of whom one was a military man, and as such habitually disposed to look upon war as a isolation for every difficulty. In the course of the debate the question was humorously asked, what was the use of the democratic party expressing any opinion on the matter, seeing that they had only her or live representatives in the Legislative Body, had absolutely no organ in the press, and were pre vented by the strong arm of power from exercising any appreciable influence in the country ? To this objection it was answered that the small staff of the party which enjoyed the privi lege of interchanging their ideas unnoticed in the immense throng of Parisian society should look to the future, consider every great question as it arose, and make up their minds for a wane of action in case of need, as decidedly as if the whole army of their disciples were organised and ready to do their bidding. Cases were suggested in which it might be very useful to have it recorded that the recog nised leaden of the party, which under moat disad vantageous circumstances is struggling for more liberty, were opposed to war at this crisis. The Bonne has again given way to a panic, and the rise of yesterday has been nearly obliterated. The articles of the Prom and Patrie, to which I called your attention yesterday, were taken as show ing that the settlement of the Serviau question had in no degree removed the chances of war. On the contrary, the idea, which though obvious enough was lost sight of yesterday—that Austria had given way on the Berrien question, in order to put herself right with the other powers of Europe, and concentrate her attention to the defence of Lombardy, was now dwelt upon as a son-reassuring element of the question. The Bents fell 700. for cash and 40c. for account, closing at 691 r. 100. and 69fr. lfle. Mobilier fell 17fr. 50c. The Orleans railway fell 12fr. SOc., and the other lines from Mr. to 7fr. 60c. At the close there were some consider able purchases. ly and, notwithstanding his sudden illness, unexpected news of the death of Count de Hatt&ld, the Prussian ambeasador, has arrived this evening by telegraph from Berlin. He was much esteemed by all dames of society in Paris, where he had long resided. An election of a deputy ham just taken place in the department of the Indre, in the room of the Count de Bryas, deceased. M. Charlemagne, mayor if Chatesuroux, the government candidate, was elected by 20,484 votes against 7,700 given to M. Lancoeme-Breves. SPAIN. The Madrid journals, of the 14th, state that Mar shal O'Donnell, having learned that the committee on the budget proposed to increase the allowance for expenses of repreecntation to the President of the Council, sent some of his friends to beg that it would not adopt any measure of the kind. Some of the journals state that the government has sent an agent into England to purchase 24 steamers of small tonnage for the Philippine Islands. It was said that the government contemplates making various im portant reforms in the administration of the isle of Cuba. The French Peninsular Correspondence asserts that there is no truth in the statement made by some of the journals that the Duke de Montpen- OAT is about to visit Italy. M. Rios Roses had left Barcelona to continue his journey to Rome. In the Senate, the bill presented by the government making new regulations respecting mines had been adopted. A grand review had been given in honour of Prince Adalbert of Bavaria. The Gazette de France, tired by the example of the L‘ipsiger Ontvereations Lewin, devotes so article to the merchant shipping of France and England, in which we find the following pita of information :—" In England, any man ha+ a right to leave his shop or workshop and assume the command of a vessel. Captains who poems oertlficatee do exist, but they ken so eteepties." MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT KENSINGTON GATE. Yesterday, Mr. Waklay, coroner for West Mid dlesex, and a highly repeatable ry, composed of the gentry and inhabitant houasholdass of t he district, assembled at the Marlborugh Tavern, Abbey-road, St. John's-wood, to in quire to uching the death of Mrs. Mary Ann Finds Hera path, the wife of Edwin John Herapeab, Esq., banister-at. law, which . took piece under the subjoined melancholy cir cnmatances The coroner and jury having viewed the unfortunate lady's remains at her late residence, 10, Blenheim-road, and re turned to the inquest room, Charles Flint said he was out u groom with his mis tress, on Saturday afternoon, in Hyde Park ; she wee riding her favourite man , and he was riding some yards behind her. They arrived at Hyde Park-comer at a quarter-past four o'clock, ea he observed by the clock over the gateway lodge, and the deceased had just pared through the plats or poets at the top of Rotten-row, Una her hone went o ff at a canter, sad immediately st ruck into a gallop. The deceased beckoned with her band to him to stop the end he galloped after her, but his horse ran amongst the trees, snd he was unable to come up with the deceased until after the accident had happened at Kensington-gate (about a mile distant). Upon reaching Kensington-gate he found that his mistress bad been thrown from her horse, and was much injured. lipra this he left her in charge of some medical gentlemen ma others, who happened to be on the spot at the time, and proceeded home to inform his mister of what had occurred. _ _ . Ennis Teff a 7aid that he was gatekeeper at Kensington gate, Hyde Loft% Hyde-park. Heating the deceased scream, he looked about and saw the de:cement horse galloping down the road towards the gate as feat as It could. The animal passed through the gate, but then, instead of going o'n straight through the tell-gate on the high road, it diverged to the right hand, end went up ageinst the wall adjoining the picket-hones. The animal wee thrown down by the violence with which It woe against the well, and the deceased was thrown violently to the ground. Shama picked up in an unconscious state, and conveyed ito a private home, No. 13, opposite, where Mr. Hutchinson, a medical gentle man who happened to be passing, attended to her until she was removed to her own residence. Mr. Charts, Francis James Lord, surgeon, of College cement, SL John's-wood, gave testimony as to the nature of the Injuries which the deceased had received, from which it was evident that nothing could areal to save her life. The coroner commented upon the fearful nature of the Norio, remarking that all the medical amistance in the world could not have prevented fatal conaerptenees. The jury returned a verdict ef "Aocidental Death," and tke inquiry termhutted. A CASE TOR INQUIET.—TEE EXETER MAGIS. TRATES.—A peat deal of remark has been made on a judg ment of the Exeter bench of magistrates. John Venton, a paper maker, war summoned last Wednesday week, for leas. tag his work on New Yeer'e.day without the leave of his muter, Mr. William Tramiel& The men sad the master had had a diapute shoat the payment of Christmas boxes ; the result of which mu that the men threetesed to leave their worki and they say that the muter said—" I will never pay It, and you may all go directly and be —." The defen dant left his work. It appears that there war an agreement is the shop, that either muter or man might climbers* cult other at a moment's notice on payment of a guinea. The master dialed that he told the men that " they might go," &a. His ea corroborated his evidence. The men, on the other band, all sutra, positively that he did. These are the facts of the mes. The case of the master was advocated by Mr. H. W. Hooper ; his father, Mr. H. Hooper, was on the bench, end took • very decided view of It against the defendant. To the surmise of everybody is court the bench mental:mad the defendant to a month's imprisonment, and hard labour I The use ben excited a great deal of remark, and a petition is to he sent to the Secretary of State, an the subject. The master was very mach shocked at the sentence, and made an urgent inter wagon with the bench on behalf of the defendant. But Mr. Hooper was haexcabh, and the other maghdrates fol lowed him. The man had been many years in his employ, was very much reipseted, and the whets affair was one of heated dispute between mese and man, which a few kindly words might, perhaps, have calmed down. But at the worst—there wee only • guinea In dispute between them. The man might have left lawfully, without notice, on paying the guinea, and ,the sentence ought, it is said, to have borne some relation to the shop-arrangement for quitting. The magietratis present were the Mayor, Mr. H. Hooper Mr, Bastard, Mr. Davies, and Mr . B hepped.-BArrbou Journal. FATAL ACCIDENT ON TIER EAST KENT RAILWAY Woaxe.—Two slips of earth havetaken place on the works of the East Kent Railway, now in comae of oonstruodon in the parishes of Faversham and C tinhorn, causing the death of two men, and very seriously Injuring a third. The fall at Fa verstiam took place near Love-lane, about three-quarters of a mile from the station and where the cutting is not Ws than 21 feet deep. Fortuna tely, only a few of the men were at work s when the earth suddenly gave way, and fell with a tremendous crash, carrying everything before it, and burying two men, named George Johnson and Samuel Smith. - Other portions also fell in Immediately after, but not before the other men had made their escape. Every possible exertion was then made to rescue the two men from their perilous situation. This was soon accomplished, and it was then ascertained 'that they were both Wire, although, evidently, vary seriously Injured, as they had been duelled by the falling earth against the waggons at the bottom of the cut ting. The poor fellows were conveyed on stretchers to their lodgings, but it was found that Smith's jaw and arm were fractured as well as his thighe, betides being internally fujared. He has since expired. Johnson's lag was frac tured, but his injuries were not of so serious a character. The soil is of a sandy c ha racter, and it is supposed that it had been undermined ralx too much, which led to the slip taking place. At Chilli= the fall of earth was not so great, end only one man, James Latter, was seriously injured. He was engaged pushing the waggons along for the purpose of coupling them, when the earth suddenly gave way, and buried him up to his shoulders. He was immediately got out and taken to his lodging'', and thence to the Kent and Canter- Duly Hospital, where he expired about six hours after his re. caption. An Inquest has been held on the deceased, and • verdict of " Accidental death" returned. SUICIDE IN DVIIIIAM COUNTY PRISON.—As Mr. Reeve:, the deputy governor, was going round the prison ea Monday about 2..40 p.m., be found a prisoner, Thomas Painter, hanging by the neck In Ms cell. Mr. li. immediately cat him down, and mat for the surgeon of the prison, or the first medical man that could be found, and in the meantime efforts were made to notate life by rubbing the body, which was warm. In about ten minute*, Mr. Wm. Stoker, arrived, who pronounowl life extinct. The cell in wh i rr LT placate wee confined contained a wearer's loom, from which he procured the rope to hang himself, and had fastened it to abeam attached to the loom. Deoearid,who was only nineteen years of ego, and was described se • pitman, late of Oldham, Lanceehire, was committed on the 24th Nov. by the Mayor of Sunderland, for obtaining a shilling from William Pople, the recruiting sergeant, under Mee pretences. At his trial at the quarter sessions he pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three calendar months with hard labour.—/fewoutle Ohre. mete. THE LATE NIORDER AT DITLIN.—BIack, the mitre derer of his wife, V said to be In • very preouiees Mete of health since his committal to prime. At;tlmes he raven fear fully,and blerecovery tsregurded as problematical. It 'spelt, generally reported that jalousy laid the foundation of the fearful crime which ha. jeopardised his life. The unhappy wife, unfortunately for Itereelf, wits remarkably hendsome. and is his drunken savagenase the husband frequently taxed her—unjustly, it is believed—with levity of conduct. WOMEN Senrstrre.—A correspondent of the Times bevies brought the usual complaints against this clue of domestics, another oomespondent writes : As • householder of the same meant, and also with font women servants, may I be permitted to speak a word for that ooneantly abased oleos so kindly denominated In a popular book ' The greatest in life r. For eighteen yeas I have bad experienoe fl'g several nai re of thin clue. I have never had an inspertisest word from one. I never had the slightest anxiety about one. I have never received warning from one, exce pt when they were about to settle In life by respectable marriage. I have never heard a complaint from one whatever extra work wee required of them. Ide not believe that I was ever robbed of the value of a penny by one. In the oonme of that time my wife ham obtained situations for more than forty girls frame our villagtrochool, and we know where they are all Is dier tions now, and they are ell vsloed and respected enweete. There Is, I believe, nothing wonderful to this, end the mast ls to make thou who are indeed ' the greatest cordate is life.' one's Mende." • NEW STEAMERS.—Messrs. Martin Samuelson and Co., Woo ship-builders of this town, have commenced tho con struction of two large stamen for the Atlantic Royal Mall Company, which from their dimensions alone will fat serous any wends of the kind ever constructed in Hull. They are of equal size, the length being 330 feet; beam. 33 fed; depth V 4 feet; ant of • nominal horse power of 600. They will be constructed on the paddle principle, and no labour will be spared to make them models of perfect workmanship. Messrs. Samuelson guarantee a sred of 20 mile, per hour in still water. We may also add that Messrs, Earle are building a screw steamer of 1,003 tons burden, for the Baltic trade, and two small steam tugs foe the Liverpool and Leeds Steam Navigation Company.—. Roll Herold. MAILS TO NORTH rtmellact.—Yesterday (Wed. usaelay), the steam ship Kangaroo sidled from Liverpool le New York with the malls end 103 massagers. On Sew. day next the Cunard mall steamer Asia will &leo sail for New York, when the post-office box will close at 9 a.m., with late lass at 10 a.m., and on the landing stags at 11 a.m. ALTERATIONS IN PENINSULAR MAIL SERVICE . The following amine hes been issued from the General Post.. office :—Commencing with the packet appointed to lava Southampton on the 27th inst., the Peninsular canned mail pickets will in future terminate their voyage at Lisbon. Lulea of going on to Cadiz and Gibraltar. All for Cadiz will in future be forwarded in the ensile foe via Franoe ,• and letters, kc., for Gibraltar wffi be f by the Mediterranean mall packeta, leaving Southampton four times In each month. The Peninsular packets will con. those to sail from Southampton on the 7th, 17th, and 27th of the mouth, and will sail at Vigo and off Oporto (weather Permitting) on their way to Lisbon. The return marls will be due at Southampton on the let, 11th, sad 21st of esob =alb. LAW INTEL] (THIS DA COURT OF WEEP Sittings en d Homo in Hibuy Tsar bell loathes Wightman, APPLICATION TO STRIKE AN All Mr. Garth, on the pert of the : moved for • rule calling upon a show why he should not be slouch against whom he applied wee to by • widow at Plymouth accost of her late husband at 801 the duty upon it. On the 18th attorney, and asked him what won He laid 181.; and the gave camas purpose of paying t months afterwards she ematand what be was doing, but receive; In April, 1868, she desired him to the MOW. H• sent back the gas together with • bill of costa for 41. to the master for taxation, and guineas, and the attorney had meta of taxation. An orde obtained, directing him to ppaay omitting to do so, an attachmeu and he was confined Is the Ca petitioned under the Insolvent Del amination he acknowledged the 181., but said he bad spec it to his own use. He, 1 as the sum was under 201., al him. The judge of the county cot remanded him for six months. Society thought it right to being tl ships, and to ask whether they we for • rule. Lord Campbell—Take s rule to Ede granted. COURT OF COMM rttlags at NW ref= In Mtddli ~,.., Bess sad . Comm ClOOl.l L CAM! AND WITYL—AI This vas ea sotka against Bei Mora, and ft wee breigtt to I =het Mrs. Cased had... his shoulder. The dean date pleaded not guilty SI mating a disturbanoe in the deft the mask alleged wee committed thrjeaat Ballantils and 1.; plaintiff, and Mr. Serpent Parr, defendants. John Crooks-1 am the plaintif Caunt's house, the Coach years, on and off. I left het. There wee then owing the 16th September I called as but she had not come downstairs. et 8 or 9 o'clock in the evening to you, if you plows," and voles, seked her if sW woi money. She said she did DI she did and must pay me. E counter and she deliberately drew me. I ducked my head and ft we laugh.) She drew some more am swans. She begged the soldiers' bad got was meant for me. counter, took me by the shoulder street. I fell down the step sad which was much hurt. I was me Semen picked me up. Next day, Hospital, where my shoulder was have not been able to carry snyt about 1 in the morning when I w Cross-examined—l was not dot Cunt foul name. I did not ten I did not know how it had ham had sweated Bea before, and shoe not know what is Josh's trade or Mr. Jutioe Byles-1 suppose is a gunman of the bar. (Lang DR. Serjeant Ballantine—At th George. Carroll. I am a mown In the Strand. I was at the del in the morainic of the 17th Sr speak to Mrs. Caunt. He said it but I did not hear what. I now pints of beer at the plaintiff. in the plaintiff's face, he wipe came from behind the boss like Some one opened the door, and the back of the collar, put her otl out he went like that (striking sharply). (Renewed laughter.) CroAe, the plaintiff, recalled— Couch and Horses. I walked hoe Martin Webber—l am landloi Conduit-court, where the plaint home between twelve and one o September, he was sober. He co Mr. Skegg—l am helm Hospital. I found the plaintil adminiatered chloroform and th The plaintiff told ram he was 6 age would not so easily reoove would probably feal ft for son weather. Mr. &demi Ferry and he not belonged to the profusion of the misfortune to have the hem England, no attorney would have into cond. He did not know vi Mr. Giant, but if not, he could ti deg to me. (I.aughtw.) The p hen to Mrs. Count, but Mr. restrained himself, for he the "eight do the plaintiff a serious I had continued hie annoying rend moiety put out, but the dialocatio way the act of Mrs. Count. Mrs. Catint—l have known I He has been in the habit of dots' about the louse. Any time he w one. He has no regular weer. my dinner without eendingl Ms, I do not know that anything was d tember; be had only been smu hint about midnight on the was very drunk, and wed ve He wasted some money. I /said you come to-morrow morning I wan noisy, and need very bad It bar, and said " Will you go, Jed bar was between no. I never let door end fell down, and went was four yards from where I , I rang for William the w put him out. I did nothin pat him out. William said drunk," and the plaintiff said " know I am." William then to went out. Between the time wl the welter put him out, two h threw any bar at him. Crass4'xamised—Bettjemia frost of the bar all the time. (A (At this stage of the case th with s fit, sad was carried oat of —...— Witness oontinued—When thi out of the door and hie len math dills body remained InAh measure it. (Aniugh.) I did He did ask for money, and I next day. I kept him for fourte soldiers at our house; we could' Mr. Serjeant Ballantine—Yo assattlts several times. Wfteams—l have bees assaults Mr. Serino' Ballantine—Hoe Witness—You had better tell open confession is gond for the e , Mr. Sedalia Ballengee—Then Witness—l hove no doubt y Pr to ask shear questions. rexamined—l hare only be and that was thirteen years at was it Ballantine P (Loud leapt Mr. Setjesnt Ballantine—l I (Laughter.) Wham—The magistrate's n and ha dismissed the case. Mr. Benjamin Caunt acid—l Mr. Jun ice Bylets—We don't the case regularly. Kr. Seejeent Pam—l only Kr. Justice B)les—Then tt hVg. (A laugh.) illteas-1 have know the ph haveltequently given him clothe (Mr. Count then details addressed by the plain It — orgrlown from the path by 1 In an hour or um and made a gre the bell for the waiter, who tool helped him down the step, and Count never came from behind over the bar door. No beer we+ Crogerzemined—She put her the did not push him very mud Lewis Heys—l was the waits but am not now. I was a was Spy. I asked him to go, I my advice and go. I handed hi gooig d nht, andt up the shut the dr. two. I lad h ouseshu Matter with him beyond being I Mary Ann Carter said she Coach and Home, and was pre Son. She confirmed the eviden Frederick Eons—l am a store after the accident I asked the p with him. He said he was drunk know how it happened. I said"' an action against Caunt about it Hutchins= (the attorney) has will sweat him again.' Plainti on him: Baron Nicholson, I Iree Baron Hutchinson, (Rem