The Express. — London, England, 1866-10-06 00:00:00

ght erpreoo* TO CORRESPONDENTS. dvertleemente intended foe "The Express," London Evening =mast be at the Moe, 10, bouveriastztet, by Two I on the day of patdleatlon. DRritY LANE Tam EVEI4IIIO, MACBETH. liiiNTR Phelps, Swlabourite, Mead, L Phelps, Henri Drayton, he.: Mesdames Amy Sade wick, Bauer, Isaacs, de.—And THE COMEDY OF ERROR& The Brothers Webb. PPJNqaSI!.. Ten EVENIXO, THE TRIPLY. ALLIANCE.—After *Mel THE HIIGIT&VOT CAPTAIN. Meson. Pilling And O. Hooey: Mimes Nellsoa, Augusta Thomson, sad Mrs. edifizag.—Aad QUIET LODGING& HAYMARCIT. anomio, TlNcriiiKTElTii;!nii. Chippendale, Howe, be. ; Madame Chippendale. Wright. Atc. —USED UP. Mr. C. Mathews.—Ballet Divertissement Hisses Christine and Agnes Healey.—A COMICAL COUNTESS.—MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. LI ULFI:73I. TIM Emmet, Nuitimf bilieliVEED.—ded THE LONG STRUM Masers. D. Boueicault, Emery, Widdkomb, J. C. Co , lira. D. Boueicault.—tbacludiag with UP IN THu 'par, at 7. STRAND. ETZNING, THE BACHELOR.—Aitar which WAITING FOR THE UNDERGROUND.—The Latest Edition of KENILWORTH.—And JACK'S DELIGHT. BRITANNIA. nas zmirso. MARY EDMONSTONE; OR, THE VICTIM OF CIRCIIIISTANCER—The Woodmua Brother VletoreUl on the Treble Trwse ; The Great Vaulting Troupe The Delarantl H . Wafts! ; The Louisville Mhudrela.—And THE FALSE MOTHER. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TO DAT —Morning, Oh. Ms .JJtersoon, OIL WA To-Nozzow—Morning. lh. On Afternoon, lk 110 n. LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8. " success to the undertakin as;lio irschssue " than diminish the ditiftend:46s—Aits aM " holders." This is the groundwork of the acheme, which will be misunderstood if con founded with the case of a benevolent master gtirixt Ms servants from time to time an addition to their wages in the form of a gratuity. Such concessions, resting on no basis of right and measured by no known standard, too often create expectations which cannot be fulfilled, and lead to disappoir Went and mutual dissatis faction. All the people about the Methley Col liery understand that they are partners in the con cern, know the principle on which profits are cal culated and distributed, and have free accede to the accounts, which are kept in the simplest form. The assembly of working men which met at Leeds on Tuesday had come to learn the result of an ex periment so interesting to their order. Mr. Bamos was in the chair, and stated that " the dividend " which he, u a partner in that colliery, bad re " ceived during last year, notwitbatanding the " 1,8001. they had paid as a bonus, was larger " than he had ever received from the colliery even " in the moat prosperous years previously." If it is asked how it can be possible for the return to capital to be increased while increased payments are made to the workmen, the answer is that when those workmen are partners, more in telligence, more care, and more energy are brought to every operation. The people at Methley regard the arrangement according to which their labour is now rewarded, not as something unavoidable to be acquiesced in, but as one which is advantageous to them, and therefore to be gladly accepted and improved. The work of the colliery is uninterrupted, and is certain to remain uninterrupted, by strikes, which is itself an economy. Each man works in an atmosphere of public interest and public feeling. If capital seems to him to be getting too large a share, it is open to him to acquire a stake in the pro perty. There is thus no room for the old spirit of antagonism between labour and capital. Perhaps as much is to be gained from the increased care likely to be taken of the common property under such a system as from the greater efficiency imparted to the labour. It was stated last year at the Sheffield Congress of the Association for the Promotion of Social Science, that the working colliers at Whitwood and Methley could, by simply taking the trouble to get the coal in large lumps and reducing the proportions of slack, add to the colliery profits 1,5001. a year. If they would, further, take a little extra care below ground in keeping the best coal separate from the inferior, they could add another 1,5001. to the profits. This 3,ooa—which it has been well said represents the difference, not between good will and bad will, but good will and no will—gives at once a fund capable of yielding 1,5001. to capital, after an equal sum has been given to the labourer in addi tion to his wages. We are not inclined to go so far as some of the speakers at the Leeds meeting, who appeared dis posed to accept the results of a year's trial as de cisive of the permanent success of a scheme of this kind. It is not necessary to do so. The wiser course will be to follow the experiment with friendly interest and report the facts. Many eyes are on the Methloy partnership, and if it succeeds, proprietors will introduce it among their men. It is an advantage that i:, can be tried without assuming any peculiar theory about the nature or rights of labour, and that it does not therefore discredit the accustomed rela tions of employer and employed. Most persona wao have reflected seriously on the matter have come to the conclusion that we are still far from that form of the association of labour and capital in which production will ultimately take place in I civilized countries. The existence of trades unions and the multiplication of strikes are signs that an old era is closing, but they do not show the way to anything better. They are simply the appa ratus and processes of war ; they are evidence of a certain amount of destructive power. Any one who can reconstruct the elements of industrial prosperity and restore social peace deserves weh of his country. This is what proprietors like Messrs. BRIGGS appear to be doing, and we wish them complete success. A mgrrixo was held on Tuesday at Leeds to celebrate the first year's experience of a new sys tem of combining labour and capital for indus trial enterprise. The familiar system of associating these two great factors of production, after having worked tolerably well for centuries, is breaking down at so many points, and its interruption is causing so much loss to the employing and so much suffering to the employed class, besides exciting ill-feeling between the two, and striking heavy blows at the material interests of the country, that any plan which promises to relieve us of these evils deserves attention. The scheme which in Yorkshire has successfully passed through its first year of trial is a peculiar form of co-opera tion. The public are tolerably well acquainted with the applicatioa t;f tl:2 co-operative system to the distribution of commodities. A co-operative store is a kind of club, by means of welch its . members supply themselves with food and other articles of trade at a cheap rate by economising many of the ordinal/ expenses of trade. Such stores are very numerous, especially in the north of England, and greatly in crease the purchasing power of wages. But the association of labourers for production has been found a much more difficult matter, and instances of failure have been more common than those of success. As Mr. THOMAS HUGHES observed at Leeds, men who have been accustomed to the mere work of production all their lies have not sufficient talent necessary for carrying on a great productive industry. Nor have they always the moral qualities necessary to success. As the same speaker observed—" They had been in the " habit of distrusting those at the head of the " house in which they were employed ; when " they entered on the new order of things they " were unable to give up that distrust, and very " many associations had broken down from want " of confidence in those who had the manage " rnent." It may be remarked, by the way, that perhaps one of the most valualde incidental advantages attending these co operative experiments will be that of dis abusing the minds of the working class of the exaggerated estimate which many of them form of the part played in production by mere manual labour. A little more than a year ago, Mears. Ramos, of the Whitwood and Methley Col lieries, near Normant in, in Yorkshire, issued a proposal to work their mines by a Company, two-thirds of the capltal of which they intended to hold themselves, while in the allotment of the remaining third they promised to give a preference to the officials and operat'ves employed in the concern. So far their plan resembled that on which the Messrs. Cno.s.n.Ev, of Halifax, about the same time, reconstituted their great carpet manufactory. But the Messrs. BRIGGS went further. They undertook to propose to the share holders that whenever the annual profit should exceed 10 per cent.—the rate at which they con sidered a return for capital invested in collieries ought to be made—one half of the excess should be divided among the workpeople and employds, whether shareholders or not, in proportion to their earnings during the year. It may be asked why Messrs. BRIGGS proposed OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) The Times treats this morning of the military excesses in Spain ; of Mr. Newdegate's late speech in favour of reform ; of the coming change at Rome ; and of a demonstration of sympathy of which Colonel Crawley has been the object, on the occasion of the death of his wife. In the article upon Spain the Times sketches the rise to power of the military bands and shows how fickle and faithless even these are to the men whom they thrust into power. The present rule of Gonzales Bravo is described as a reign of terror unparalleled even in Spain. The Spaniard is as eager for the show of the scaffold as for that of the bull-ring. Still, with all the callousness of the nation to deeds of bloodshed, it could hardly be proof against the horrors that have been perpetrated in the country for the last two months ; and the foreign press, especially the French, has raised acry of execration that has been but too successfully smothered in the Peninsular it self. Commenting upon reform, the Times, without com mitting itself to any details, expresses its sense of the danger of allowing an estrangement of the working classes from the governing class, and the gradual transfer of their interests and aspirations to countries in which political and social equality prevails. We hear much, it says, of the peril attending the admission of men who belong to trades' unions within the pale of representation, but is there no danger in keeping them outside it, and can we afford in times like these, and with recent events on the continent to warn us, to dispense with anything that may tend to make us a more united nation ? From the questions which have occupied the attention I of the Social Science Congress, the Daily News selects that of the treatment of crime, dwelling more particularly upon ' the recommendations of Mr. Commissioner Hill and Sir , Walter Crofton. The former, it will be remembered, pro poses that life sentences shall he so inflexibly carried out that in future liberation shall he the exception and not the rule. This project the Daily News questions on vari. ons grounds. Juries would rarely convict of crimes which necessarily carried such sentences with them, and judges would seldom impose such sentences when they had the option of inflicting a lighter penalty. In this way, and by the indirect operation of his own plan, the class of men whom Mr. Hill wishes to exclude from the ordinary prisons would be thrown into them. Mr. Hill has opened a pro fitable and necessary discussion, but he has not said the last word in it. Anther topic discussed by the Doily News is the late trial in India, of Captain Jen .s. Sir William Mansfield is charged with acting in a vindictive and ungenerous spirit, andwith throwing sway an opportunityat the last of retiring with some appearance of dignity from a false position. It is impassible, the Daily News thinks, to be lieve that a man who could so stultify himself and dis grace hie high office and his English blood can be allowed to retain the all but moat responsible post in India. The Past says the composition of the American Senate will be unaffected by the approaching elections, a - ' hitherto the President has been enabled to rely on the sup • port of one-third of its members. With such support he will be in a position to maintain any vetoes which he may deem it expedient to pronounce. The Past in other articles deals with law reform and international copyright. The Herald thinks it en auspicious circumstanoe that the two great prizes of Italy have been won by foreign force, as it prevents that martial exultation which might otherwise have led it into difficulties. The state of our this innovation. Perhaps it might be suffi cient to answer that they believed the relations between the employer and employed to be capable of improvement. Perhaps they felt that the Legislature had invited employers to do something in this direction by passing in 1865 the Partner ship Law Amendment Bill. But, further, it is well known that in the coal districts of Yorkshire the disputes between masters and men have been as fierce as in any part of England. It may not be so well known that in these disputes Mr. BRIGGS, the head of his firm, stood in the front of the battle to defend the rights of capital. While occupying this position, he bad opportunities of perceiving how many of these conflicts might be prevented by modifying the relations between the two classes without the least sacrifice of the rights of either. After mature consideration, he re solved to form an industrial partnership. In the prospectus which ho drew, after describing his plan of distributing profits, he expressed his confi dence in its principle in these words :—" The adop " tion of the mode of appropriation thy:l:recommended " will, it is believed, add so great an element of CRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1866. Eft, Court. . BALMORAL, Ocr. 4. Princess Christian called on the blare and d'Anmale, who have arrived at Abergeldie Castle. • Princess Christian drove in the afternoon, attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart. Prince Christian went ont deer•stalking. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honor able Privy Council mat yesterday at the Council chamber Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President, the Right Hon. S. H• Walpole, and the Right Hon. H. Corry. Mr. Helps and Colonel Harness attended the committee. The Mayor of Oxford, introduced by the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, had an interview with the Lord Presi dent of the Council and the Right Hon. H. Corry, at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, yesterday, on the sub ject of the cattle plague. Mr. Saul Isaac had an interview with Lord Stanley, at the Foreign-office yesterday. Mr. John Holly , of Blackwell, yesterday exhibited, at the office of the Board of Trade, Whitehall, his model of a new brake for railways, giving the power to the driver as well as the guard. The Earl and Countess of Roue, Lord Oxman tows, and Hon. Randal Parsons have left Claridge's Hotel for Bin Castle, Parsonstown, Ireland. The Earl and Countess Delawares party this week at Buckhurst Park has included the Marehionese of Salisbury, Sir Thomas and Lady Cochrane, Sir Thomas and Hon. Lady Biddulph, and Mr. and Mrs. Baillie Cochrane and Miss Cochrane. _ _ _ The Earl Brownlow and Lady Marian Alford have been entertaining company at Aahridge Park, Berk hampstead, during the week, including Viscount and Via countess Stratford de Radcliffe and Hon. Misses Canning, Lord and Lady Proby, Lord and Lady William Compton and Miss Compton, Lord and Lady Alwyne Compton, Hon. Adalbert Cust, Lord and Lady Cheaharn, Sir John and Lady Sebright, Mr. and Lady Sophia. Macnamara, Colonel and Mrs. Elliot, Mr. Cheney, Miss Boyle, &c. The Earl and Lady Marian Alford came to tows on Thursday after their friends had separated. The noble earl shortly leaves for Mentome for the winter. Sir Fitzroy Kelly has arrived at Paris, at the Hotel Bristol, from England. _ . . Sir John Pakington is expected at the Admi ralty next week, but will not remain in London, it is sup posed (says the Army and Nary Gazette) more than a couple of days. Sir John will doubtless visit Deptford Dockyard during his stay in London, and will then have completed his official inspection of the different home naval establishinenta under his control. A marriage is arranged to take place between the Hon. and Rev. Rev. Reginald W. Sackr:lle West, second son of the Earl Delavarr, and heir to Ms mother's barony of Buckhurst, and Bliss Constance Cochrane, daughter of Mr. Baillie Cochrane, M.P., and grand daughter of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Cochrane, C.C. B. The members of the Royal Commission on Re cruiting will reassemble on the 15th instant, in order to frame their report. It is understood that the president, Lord Dalhousie, wi'l be prepared to Bohm% for the adoption of his colleagues, a series of recommendations. The Loan Exhibition at Southampton will be closed on the 2Sth inst., after being opened for about four months. Nearly 100,000 persons have visited it. Story's statue of Medea still continues to draw crowds of persons. The statue is life size, and represents the famous sorceress meditating the murder of her children, according to Hurl pedes. Mr. Chamber Layne, one of the tidiest landowners in Hants, and a clever mechanician, has sent to the exhibi tion a model of an invention of his for preventing acci dents from the breaking down of a wheel of a railway carriage while in motion. This is effected by the buffers of one can:age forming sockets into which the poles of buffers of adjoining carriages enter, so that one carriage effectually supports another. _ Mrs. Dallas, better known to the general public as Miss Glyn, a :11, in the course of November, give six Shakspearian readings at the Hanover-square Rooms. Mr. and Mrs. German Reed, with Mr. John Pany, will reopen the Royal Gallery of Illustration on Monday evening, the 15th inst., with the old entertain ment, the Yachting Cruise and the Wedding Breakfast. Notices of action in the Court of Common Pleas were served yesterday upon each of the directors of Over end, Gut oey, and Co. in the name of Mr. Frederick Dundee, a shareholder and member of the defence committee, to re ...over damages, on the ground that he was induced to be come a shareholder from misrepresentations in the pros pectus. Owing to the excessive wet season the trees in the New Forest are being prematurely stripped of their leaves. During last month 759 sheep, 479 pigs, and 2 goats were imported into Poole, in Dorsetshire, from Cher bourg• . .. _ _ -- —.- By a decree issued by the pontifical authorities two days since, and transmitted by her Majesty's vice consul at Civita Vecchia by telegraph, it is announced that " Travellers enterlng the Papal States by Otte (Le., by the railway from Ancona and Perugia to Rome), and by Montalto (or that from Leghorn to Cis its Vecchia) must produce certificates of 15 days' residence in uninfected localities, and undergo d'ainfeetion of person and baggage.' The same rule had been already applied between Naple■ and Rome, by railway, and at Ceprano. The Areuir _Natl./usl of to-day publishes the greater part of a brochure, 611 , ng six of its columns, in which Admiral Persano enters into a defence of his con duct at Lissa. A few days ago the steeple of a Roman catholic cathedral at Stockholm fell in while the men were at work upon it, dreadfully injuring some 20 of the labourers. Much sympathy has been shown for the unfortu nate men. The Lutheran pastor placed his church at the disposal of the Roman catholic', and on the following Sunday the Roman catholic bishop officiated within the walls of the protestant church. _ The new constitution of Denmark, granting full libel ty of worship, prwiides that no one is to be compelled to contribute to the rapport of a church of which he disap- proves, but that every individual who does not show that he is the member of some religions community in the country, must pay towards public education the personal contributions imposed by the law in favour of the national church. A correspondent writing from Berlin to the A renir National, states that a great meeting has been held in that city, in the office of the Stern Z , ifung, to decide what title of distinction should be awarded to the King of Prussia on the occasion of his recent victories. The sur name of " Great " was proposed, but rejected, because already applied to Frederick 11. " Magnani mons" was suggested, but objected to because It did not sufficiently designate William L A member then re quested a vote upon the words "Indomptable," "For midable," "Invulnerable," or "unswerving,' Another proposed the expression " King Cavalier." This title re ceived at first a good number of votes, but was abandoned on the observation of a member that it had already been used by two Kings of France—Francis I. of the House of Valois, and Charles X. of the race of Bourbon. The desire appears to have been to get a surname having the merit of novelty. On a division, " Indomptable" and " Unswerving," obtained an equal number of votes. A final ballot has now become necessary, but the writer does not say when it will take place. THE YORKSHIRE FINE ART AND INDUSTRIAL Exinsirlos.—The days of the Yorkshire Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition are now fast drawing to a alarm On Wednesday, the 31st of October, in accordance with the original arrangement, its doors will be finally closed, and the splendid collection of pictures and the many articles of vertu which it contains will onoe more he scattered over the country, and again adorn the mansions of their various owners. Up to Wt Wednesday evening nearly a quarter of a million of people had visited the building, the actual re- turns being only a few hundreds short of thMnumber. The receipts from all sources up to that time were 9,333/. 3e. 51, the sale of season tickets amounting to a little over 2,0001. Single admissions Lave realised more than 5,0001., and the remainder is made up from various items. The total estimate of expenses, allowing a considerable manadrgritigrouritliintri7rsr:ern cla her rieidnus, doe ced t 7 l n e t e muc e h i epeed 8 4 001 fixtures, which cannot realise less than 3001. The Retrial surplus up to Wednesday evening may therefore be taken at 1, .5001 ., and to this must be added the receipts of than month which yet remains before the close. The final surplus will therefore be very considerable, probably be tween three and four thousand pounds.— York Herald. GOLD CHAINS.—JOHN BROGIDEN be to call the atteutlidi of the ioiblic to the FORM et M IMICS which be delivers with Gold Chains purebred at Dfs manufactory: S a. d. To workmanship of pattern chain, St ladies keg To (18) carat gold, weighing oa. Mr. ZS Va. Sit par ounce, Mint price I, ....—.— Total 8 Ll tfpon this system, the QVALITY, WEIGHT, and VALUE of Jogeld are actually dodged, Gad guaranteed to re purchaser ; John Brogden looking for a fair remuneretton on the workman ship only, which is charged according to the intricacy or simpli city of the pattern.—Manufactory, le, Henrietta-street. Covent- garden, London. DAVIES'S BEST REFINED COLZA OIL, S& per gallon ; palace paralane candles, la. 6d. per lb. ; warm, la ed. and la 6d. ; transparent wax, la. 6d. botanic WU, IS. : composite, 9d , 10d. ; best, 1141.: best dim 7d. ; moulds, SO. ; yellow soap, Ws., ens., 445., and 435. per 11 b. ; mottled, 48a., for ea* at Y. P. DAVIIII and SONI, GS, St. Marthes-kane, W.C. BROWN and POLSON'S CORN FLOUR for CRILDRITS DIET. To obtain extra profit by the sale other kinds are sometimes ofwed Instead of BROWN and POL8ON"8. John Brown," " John Tolson," Is signed by the makers cm each packet. (PRI= MEDAL AWARD. AI A LLEN'SPATENT PORTM A EAUS and TRAVELLING BAGS with square openings LADIES' WARDROBE TRUNKS, DRESSUNG RAGS, with Alm ittUssess DESPATCH BOXES, 'WESTING and DRESSING CASES, and 500 ether articles for home or continental travelling. Mostzated catalogues pod tree. Also Alien's Barrack Furniture Catalogue of Portable Bed dow* Drawers, Easy Chats, Washhand-gana„ Canteens, Re., post free J. W. ALLEN, Manufacturer and Patentee. S 7. West Strand, London, W.C. , 1 14 I V I qnerchant shipOng and tie tinderpset see then diamond. la the *Mole on the latter subject it is amused that our flock' and herds are far from being in se healthy or safe state. The ToisiirepA lament" that Lord Mayor Phillips, whose services it lands in the most eulogistic terms, should have to receive from the Belgian King the recognition of Ms merits, and that one who, it says, has gained such golden opinions should not have been rewarded in some wry of our own. Mr. Brand's unwillingness to take part in the reform meeting the Telegraph attributes solely to a delicacy which cc-dicio members of the liberal party must feel in taking up a position which complicates their individual with their party interests, and thinss the cause of reform itself will be best served by being kept entirely free from the guidance or advocacy of any politician' who are likely to have an official bias. In another article the Tdegraph seeks, to use its own word., "to improve the lesson taught by the sudden and and accidental death of the well-known jockey Harry Grimshaw." Bruce and Captain Speke having been alluded to, the Tdegraph continues, " When, after having escaped the perils of the race-course, after having identified his name with the triumphs of one of the greatest race horses that ever graduated with all the honours of New market, Epsom, and Doncaster, Harry Grimshaw, in the prime of his young and prosperous life, is launched into eternity by a fall from his gig, who is there amongst us but recognises the Impressive nature of the catastrophe ?" The condition of our rural labourers and the unfounded character of the tory attacks upon Mr. Bight are the themes of the Star. THE WEEKLY -PRESS. The Saturday Review anticipates that the Eastern question, which means the future extension of the vast Russian empire, counterbalanced, perhaps, by the aggrandisement of other ambitious powers, will within a few years or months unsettle still further the peace of Europe. The continental changes inoe 1856, in supplying a plausible precedent for political innovation, have diminished in many respects the security of peace. Eventually, perhaps, the question—like other uninviting problems—may receive some comparatively desirable solu tion ; for the present it seems to be dependent exclusively on the force which may be available for purposes of sel fish ambition. Discussing the position of Prussi► the Saturday Review arrives at the conclusion that the perils which lie in the path of Prussia render the attempt just now of any aggres sions on her part outside of Germany Improbable. In the Irish problem, it Bays, we must confess that the mistakes of the English government are almost irreparable save by the aid of time. The whole system of parliamentary go vernment, and the whole tone of the English mind, are entirely alien from the habits and instincts of the Celts, who still constitute the great majority of the Irish people. Pity is it that Cromwell began his process of eradication at all ; or that, hatlng began it, he aid n. t more fully com plete it, and thus leave us to deal with a people more like ourselves in instincts, In habits of thought, and in religious sympathy. Pity is it that in the year of graoe 1866 e n Englishman is obliged to admit that, in critical times, the beat guarantee for the adhesion of Ireland is to be found in the intolerant protestantism and narrow loyalty of the province of Ulster. Elsewhere the Saturday Review taxes Mr. Bright with opening the floodgates of sedition, and with uttering wanton threats of revolution. It allows, nevertheless, that the events of the recess have strengthened the con viction that some reasonable Reform Bill ought to be passed without further delay. The chances are perhaps in favour of a change of ministry during the session, and of a Reform Bill passed by the liberal party. It is unfortuna' e that contingent sedition will necessarily claim a part of the credit which may belong to the construction of a suc cessful measure. _ _ Observing that additional experience tends to confirm the misgivings it has frequently expressed with regard to extradition treaties, the Examiner goes on to contend that with increased facilities of transit and instantaneous mode of communication between civilised countries, them is no longer any need or use for this bad and blundering desire of extradition. Let the good old principle of our common law be disentangled of the network thrown over it by diplomacy. " The courts are open : let them im plead one another." Let every facility be given for the prosecution of fugitive foreigners by their own country men or by their governments before our tribunals, Napo leon the Great did not disdain to sue for justice apOnst Peltier at Westminster; and though the practice might not at first be free from the evils of prejusuce and miscon ception, it would soon become a point of honour with judges. advocates, and juries to prove that justice was aa scrupulously meted out to the stranger as to the native. IP Do the ministry, asks the Examiser, feel quite as hope ful of being able to tide over their reform difficulty as some of them did perhaps three months ago! They have made a terrible mistake, and they will bless Mr. Lowe many a day. Since they would not, when they might, have the mildest of infusions of reform possible, when they next have the spoon thrust between their teeth, they will find a much stronger dose in it, and swallow that they must, or wait for what they will like even less. There will be many more Manchester, is the autumn and winter, and no doubt the same feeling will be generally expressed, that a large reform and the ballot should be carried, and that the present administration cannot be expected or trusted to cany them. There will be no quatml about the extent of the reduction in the francl“,e qualification, so it be a real, considerable, working reduc tion. There are plenty of zealous attendants at the great gatherings in progress who, like ourselves, object to mar hood suffrage, and momthan a few (though probably much fewer) who object even to the time-honoured system of household suffrage being as yet restored in England, but all agree in desiring the immediate admission of large numbers who can give as sound and honest a vote as most of the electors now upon the roll. All are of one mind with regard to the disgusting revelations of the dealings of Yar mouth and Co., and the only cure of the leprosy. All, too, agree in desiring to be rid of those who stop the way. The Spectator protests against rejecting a tory reform bill merely because tories bring it in. Supposing a to./ bill passed, it must, if a just one, inevitably strengthen liberal bands, for England, as radicals are never tired of repeating, is at heart liberal. It is the middle class, not the nation, which, having secured every object of its de- sire, except perhaps :such trifles as education, a creed, and a foreign policy, has grown feeble of temper and cold of spirit, and is half inclined to doubt whether practical toryism is not the rich man's natural rGle. Cleaning cesspools seems such dangerous work when one never smells them. When one does, somehow the danger grows less, and the toil, and sooner or later the task is begun and ended. The nation is liberal altogether, and all this excessive fear of tory devices shows a latent distrust in the truth of liberalism itself, a secret doubt whether, if England were fully repre sented, England would horestly be liberal, a doubt for which there is not a vestige of foundation. The evil of raising it is that it tempt testes to consider blank resist ance the only safe party policy. If their bill is to be thrown overboard, whatever it is, why make it a good one! Why introduce one at all, when they may live longer without it Way not wait and fight till the threatened crisis has actually arrived! They need not, we believe, be afraid. Englishmen are too fair to reject sound measures, whoever may introduce them, to tell any man that from his hands they will not accept even justice. Only let tories look to it that their bill is sound, that it really adds a new power to the existing middle-class forces, for if they deceive the country this time they will not be trusted again, and the next bill proposed by whip will brush their party back into history. It would not be difficult to prepare a bill under which tory members would be as scarce as red coats at a Quaker meeting, and resistance by the peers alone is, as Lord Derby well knows, a policy of the past. If they want to settle the question, their bill must be broad, very broad, broad enough to enlist the popular sympathy and satisfy the popular hunger, and that condition con ceded, the guarantees they seek for the minority will not be summarily refused. SIR JOHN PARINOTON AND EDrCATION.—The First Lord of the Admiralty presided lad night at a dinner, in Dudley, of the Association of Schoolmasters in the diocese. of South Staffordshire and North Worcester shire. Sir John Pakington spoke about forty minutes, and said hie conviction was deep and profound that if there was one thing more than another which at the pre sent time embarrassed the councils of statesmen, threw a stain upon the history and impeded the progrese of the country, it was the unsatisfactory condition in which the education of the people of the country remained. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (soma's Trumaxis.) FRANCE. PARIS, 0cr..6.. The Moniteur of this morning publishes a minis terial report on the decrease of the cattle plague in France. This report is followed by an imperial decree authorising the importation of all except ruminating animals arriving from England, Holland, and Belgium. Fresh hides coming from the same countries will only be admitted if they have under gone 0 sufficient salting or other disinfecting ITALY. FLORENCE, Om. 5, EvzlmtG. The official Gazette of this evening publiahes despatches sent by Baron Ricasoli to the munici palities of Venice, Verona, and Mantua, an nouncing to them the conclusion of peace with Austria. The municipalities in their replies state that this announcement has been received with great exultation and gratitude and has been greeted by the people with cries of " United Italy for ever !'' "The King for ever!" " The King's government for ever!" The Gazette also publishes addresses from several other towns to the government expressing their great satisfaction at the conclusion of peace. PORTUGAL LISBON, SEPT. 29. it is stated that Count Lavradio will return to London as soon as the health of the counteas is re-established. A fresh attempt is being made to induce the present Portuguese government to recognise the debt contracted by Dom Miguel. Tents are being put up in the - experimental camp of Tances, and arrangements are being made on a very complete scale, in order that, as soon as the rains cease, the troops may be marched thither. A universal opinion exists that the British government suggested this plan of treating the army more efficiently. The expression of the Emperor Napoleon in his recent manifesto, that the existence of small countries is inconvenient as Europe is at present constituted, has caused much comment among Portuguese politicians. AMERICA. (sy arralrrw TILZOILLPH.) NEW YORK, Ocr. 4, Evairnsa. General Dix will leave on the 20th inst. for his post as United States Minister to France. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Gold, 1481. Exchange on London, 1601. 5-20 Bonds, 1121; Illinois, 127 ; Erie, 91; Cotton, 41. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. PROSECUTION OF DUELLISTS. (rams OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS. FRIDAY EVENING. The government has determined to prosecute M. Clement Duvernois and his seconds for cutting and wounding M. Sarcey. Before the correctional police a conviction will be easily obtained, although if M. Duvernois had killed his man a jury would have doubtless acquitted him with flying colours, just as was done in the case of the Duke de Gramont Caderousse, who killed Mr. Dillon, and very many other cases. A prosecution might do some good, as showing the opinion of high authority, which the French moutons de Panurge are always prone to follow, if there were any settled intention on the part of the government to discourage duelling. But this is far from being the case. A prosecution is so rare that principals and seconds, so far from standing in fear of the public prosecutor, always make haste to send their names to the papers for the admiration of their friends. I have already expressed my opinion upon the particular duel in question; but in a legal point of view it is no whit worse than the many silly rencontres that are constantly taking place between vain writers in the daily and weekly press. Unless the government means to take notice systematically of every duel that is fought, the imprisonment of M. Clement Duvernois for two or three months will do nothing towards crushing the system. It would only show, and lam afraid that is the real motive for the exceptional action of the Procureur-Imperial, that the government is glad to take any opportunity of suspending the pen of an opposition writer. M. Clement Duvernois, who, when an editor of a paper in Algeria, was a thorn in the side of the Governor- General, who knows already the interior of a political prison, who started a journal in Paris which was very quickly suppressed, and who both in the Presse and the Liberti has written telling articles against the Mexican " folly," is marked for a scapegoat. I venture to think that it would be very easy to put down duelling, an institution which now scarcely exists except among newspaper writers, if the government were seriously to take up the matter on principles of public policy. A month's hard labour for principals and seconds as a minimum whether blood was shed or not would be a sufficiently deterrent penalty. Another journalist duel occurred yesterday. Two gentlemen named Rossignol and Maxime, who write in some of the scores of publications belonging to the petite presse, had a paper war which culminated in a challenge. Their seconds send to the papers an account of the meeting, in which they say that, " seeing from the manner in which they crossed their swords that they intended to act vigorously," they at once interposed, and expressing the opinion that the articles in question contained nothing affecting the honour of either party insisted that the affair should have no "further consequences." These seconds were not very logi cal. They alleged an excellent reaaon why they should not have brought their men upon the ground, but, the theory of duelling being admitted, one cannot understand why the manifest disposi tion of the combatants to use their swords " vigorously " should be a reason for taking them out of their hands. The trial of the Etinernent, on which its existence is imperilled, came on to-day. The result is not known at the hour at which I write. The question for the court is whether the expression of an opinion bythe Etinement that the tax levied on theatres for the poor had ruined many establishments was an allowable criticism in a journal not licensed to discuss political questions. Nothing is more elastic than this word " political." The whole thing comes to this, that the government can suppress anynewspaper when it pleases, whether by the machinery of multiplied warnings, by simple decree sic rote sic jubeo, or by i.rosecutioL. T think the government on the whole would be sorry to suppress the Refitment and therefore I think the public prosecutor will give a hint to the judge to acquit. The Bonne is again bad. Rent. fell 10c. for cash and 17c. for account, closing at 68fr. 85c. and 68fr. 821 c. Mobilier fell Bfr. 750. There were no political rumours. LAW INTELLIGUat era's DAY.) 03 (T f Ult orenimi T az. 0 00 : limmissiolus BANKR samerruyt. htrproyivbbiouwzizia tyre od This wee an application for relater., aw e cumstances. The debtor, a gentleman of 4 Chelsea, had executed a deed of arranw eeet under which he had position of fin in the pounT e l P eee ralr, six, nine, and twelve months. T was t e t i. h -e n e ot li credi , s e t . =W i ner, had returneYti - iili s di ed Gaffed wi fo t r h t t h h e e : r ali resn''th. dity e lemlus ' • bit ilk b l taken the debtor in execution, notwit mes iron given him under the deed. °l* pmts taining Mr. hi cr ed edi lin to r r iPor ,baerrell tb. &PP , hal ei sum tk romus isr a l ls--- . 18181 Th s court and disputed the validity of the de h e =g 4 l *aft mange ; notwithstanding this a twelvemonth Am he bad inverted the debtor in &flame of the Ps the court, baying previously indemnified the isbeetN mo application was supported n the ground tled cotu;: was bound to uphold o its own Juisdissh e. were cited in which the asurt led :IL that power. It bad been decided by Lord Clissoallor, in the case of Overead, Waters, a i d that the Court of Bankruptcy was the rope seem to ' effect to a deed of arrangement and it had been th e e d form practice of the court to uphold its prote e d ee* grented. His Honour doubted whether a sip* N o amdi found in which the court had interferred to bankrupt who had been arrested in the face of tre e = Non of the court. The course had always b eet se to the court under whose process the bankrupt hat sanded. There had been hundreds of such cams is be d TAI , and it had never been held that the Gen i i , •• • in inch asses. Hr. Reed was of opinion that the court audit GI.. snob jurisdiction. f As it regraded the merits of lye e the deed had been ully carried out. Hr. Gray, who opposed the application, called forst deuce that the deed complied with the requi red , * of the sot. Many of the statements in the 'Resit a st s debtor were capable of disproof. Tho ug h bi ll s b ad tendered en d er th e deed, they were not paid eh e due ; application had been male for th e money will ed effeet ; and the deed was therefore void. His Honour said he could dispose of the applied a without going into the question of jurisdiction the covenants of the deed was that the compaesk e w h should be tendered to the creditors forthwith, smu t was no evidence that this had been done in Mr. PGA lir. Reed said he understood that the bills to 4 h um tendered within three weeks of the exeeuties of the The Commissioner—That is not " forthwith.' The plication must be dismissed, with costs. IN HE PHILIP ANLET. The bankrupt was a builder, of Whitemmesirest case hu been before the court 14 months, time be* been some unsuoceseful attempts to take It oat rimy The debts are 19,369 E., out of which security is kell fa' 10,396/. A dividend of ss. in the pound has tees Min the unsecured debts. . . _ ~ This was the sitting for examination and dada". • • Mr. Godwin, for the essignees, offered n o appends. Mr. Perry supported, and stated that a companies d Bs. in the pound had been offered in the first iambs% and afterwards 6s. Bd., which would have bees yid, y for the difficulties that were interposed. His Honour granted the order. TN RE CORSET. The bankrupt, a livery-stable keeper sad emaily agent, of Warwick-mews, Helgrave-wpare, appitniht le order of discharge from debts of 1171. Mr. Sykes appeared for the official assignee. It we stated that the bankrupt had been 45 years is ham He had been once insolvent before, but never lisino;, He was in custody at the suit of a Mr. Tyler, to visa le had sold a horse, taking 101. deposit, and by millsks horse had been sold again, in his absence, to raw person, by whom it was taken away. Proceedings wee thereupon taken by Mr. Tyler, and the liankrapt bed Isa in prison four months. Hie Honour granted the order of discharge. TY is lease from custody was ordered to stand over, the aft not being rofficient. IX RE EDWARD THOMAS AKEFICRST. The plaintiff was a horse dealer, of St. limb o Debts, 9591. ; assets returned at ;W. The official nom stated that nothing had been received. Mr. R. Griffiths oppcsed for Mr. Freeman, a *pot creditor for 18W., for horses and carriages, and gaol fig cash, goods, and deficiency accounts. An adjournment was ordered for the additional Kali to be furnished. IN RE WILLIAM CLIFFORD. The bankrupt, described as a commuirio re i4 merchant, of Leadenhall • atreet and the Meg his discharge from debts of 1,5141. Ile gym" of 900 f. due to him as bad debts. On the application of Mr. Sykes, an adjournmie ni ordered for mqur•y into those debts. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) BOW-STREET. MEETING AN OLD A/AiI:AMA:ICE. Louisa Aelacrod, a young woman of OF pearance, who would hardly be supposed to - besprodhidl but that she so described herself. was charged Maeda. ing la. 2d. from Mr. Edward Frank, a private pedals, residing in Lloyd-square. The prosecutor stated—l was passing glom theatre' about an hour ago when the prisoner came and ergot! me. She reminded me that I knew her about &mu MI a half ago, and asked me to treat her. She led nsiste the Wellington Tavern, and I treated her to some sig. called in some friends ' , who also had some drink, Midi I paid for. I did not chink anythinganhmysell- I pi! down a florin to pay for wh d Meads taken, and the barmaid laid down Is. 2d. chasm The prisoner took it up, and p ut it in her pocket. I do essied my money, and she said, Why you owe me a pedant of money. You are in my debt, and I shall not mire a nything." Ido not owe her anything. I called syli man to give her in custody, but told her if she weld give me my money I would say no more &boat it. as refused to do so, and said it would just pay for &cohost I gave her in custody. Cross-examined by the prisoner—l did not give Ryes Is pay for a cab. I did not say I was very limey ad only ot that two shilling piece d ask you whet rebel for d i nner ; but you asked me to an go home to dimwit& you, and said you had boiled leg of mutton sod oPlo sauce. Emma Corbett, the barmaid, corroborated the Add went ea to the prosecutor pre) ing for the drink yid a florin, and the prisoner taking up the change, la 2d. A companion of the prisoner )also a prostitute) mid Vet the prosecutor gave the prisoner the money to pay fad cab, as he was going home with her to dinner, was afterwards spent in drink, of which the preemie partook. This the prosecutor denied. He had formerly bend& mate with the prisoner, but they had parted oa tams a year and a half since, and he would not have camsld to go home with her. him Vaughan asked the prosecutor if he really vista, press the charge, observing that his object en/meld s not so much to execute justice so to get the modelle& The prosecutor said that was not so. He did sot ero to submit to robbery, and therefore he determined to Ys his own, whether le. or 11., or popish her. He Of care about the 14d., but he did not like the insoleat Soo of what belonged to him. Mr. Vaughan asked the prisoner if she would TOW should deal with the case, or send her for trial'. The prisoner said sbe would rather be dealt wick Ism Mr. Vaughan need not ask the prisoner whether sbe guilty or not guilty, as the amount being so small oef deal with the case, however she ploaded. lie limatlif. justice of the ease would be met by sentencing ee her day's imprisonment. The prisoner was locked-up till th e rising o f the coot CLERK ENWELL. GROSS DESERTION OF A ‘‘ltT. AND FAVILT.—now s, NEXT WITHoIT A FINE. -LA lasses Castle, aged described on the clime a shoemaker, having no home, was charged oofr4 Barker, at the instance of the authorities of the MM. St. Mary, Islington, with deserting his wife sad IP' children, and leaving them chargeable to that Falk,. From the evidence of Mr. Messer, the ItheviSi and Mr. Moss, the warrant officer of the parish 01.7... ton, it appeared that the prisoner has left his to d family on three previous occasions. In the wail !T A August of last year the prisoner, without giving*. ",:ji warning, absconded, leaving his family in amass f plight. The wife at once applied to Mr. Messer or= and she and her family were admitted to the w011T.7 0 Mr. Moss then commenced a series of inquiries ea 1 " 0 4 whereabouts of the prisoner, and ultimately 401 he was following his trade at N or thampton 0e a warrant from this court, Ile. M om above town and there found the prisoner In folli l 7,' owing to the small price that was paid f or the r"...„,k per pair for children , ' hoots, he was not earsolE7i money. When the prisoner was told the cluoleeX.s. that he was aware that his family were in the we0r"....; that he bad written to his wife telling herwlieror,T, and that as soon as he could earn mow WT4, tended to send for her, as it was his wish to btortiol family in a respectable manner. From jogai*. beau made, it was ascertained that the wife weit i o working respectable woman, and on one oemsMlP.l.l, only kept her family by her industry but the ala tog The prisoner, in answer to the charge, Isia;el out of employment he left his family ✓ fur seeking work. Had he stopped with them they,ol been Marred, and therefore be went to Notelessei having then got work be intended to smid 004 for liiii"majg family at the earliest opportunity. He did 1 7 - 0 that he had deserted his family uhe bed wri". wife nearly every week. anyM arrange r. Barker ei essakedwithif thheepaprirsieohnearulthcaitim era.— 11. sent labo, 1 .1 1 bloc , the T"! seta a ri othe to 1 he up f tb• Mika ca tell who the se hl ran If p do kept of bl mak torii Ur. Etre' the I coin it ni e 1 tw. tf t l aPI , 1 OW •he WI SSC tlu Um du niti