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Lane.—The Wondrous Brothers Vieterelll ; The Great Vaulting Troupe The Deferent' ; H. Wardlul; The LOW/Villa Minstrel/L—And MARY QUEEN Of MITS. MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDOL DAT=goining, 6A. 1571 - i;Ont eh. SS= TO-Monitow—Morning, 7h. Sm Afternoon, 70. Sem. - - - - - LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16. THE Shareholders in Barned's Banking Com pany (Limited) have been advised to resist their liability as contributories, and a Special Examiner in Chancery has been hearing evidence on their behalf. Some of the results of this inquiry were laid before the shareholders on Thursday, at a meet- ing held at the Liverpool Law Association Rooms, by Mr. JOEL EMANUEL, and are of sufficient interest to the general public to deserve the widest pos sible notice. In referring to Mr. Ememuxx's statement we shall not forget that it has to some extent an esparto character, nor that the directors of the Bank have yet to be heard. We may, how ever, exhibit the known features of the case with out attemntine nrematurely to decide the nume- . _ r.:S questions of personal responsibiliiir arise as its history is unfolded. The scheme of Barnod's Banking Company (Limited) was introduced to the public in the summer of 1865, with a capital of 2,000,0001. in 40,000 shares of 501. each, with power to increase. Its object, as stated in the prospectus, was to purchase the business of " the old-established and " well-known private Bank " of Messrs. I. EAR NED and Co., in Liverpool, and to organize it on the broader basis of a joint-stock company. The private bank, it was said, founded in 1809, had done a " large and continually increasing business." The directors had received encouraging prom 4 ses of support, but in making the allotment a preference would be given to the customers of the Bank. The following paragraph formed part of the pro spectua " The purchase-money for the business has been " fixed at one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, " payable by instalments spread over two years, " as stipulated in the agreement, and this sum, "on comparing it with the profits shown by " Messrs. I. EARNED and Co. to have been re*- " lised, and their guarantee of the assets taken " over, cannot be considered other than a moderate " payment for a bieratire business placed at once " in the hands of the shareholders." Thus far the prospectus. Let us now turn to some of the results of the inquiry, as we find them stated by Mr. JOEL EMANUEL. In 1865 the firm of ISRAEL Bsit3rEn and Co. consisted of two partners, CRARLES MOZLEY and LEWIN EARNED MOZLEY. From a capital account, stated between the partners, when Cie latter joined the firm in 1858, it appears that its joint capital in that year was 32,0001. In 1865 certain defalcations were discovered to have been perpetrated by a relative of one of the partners, by which the Bank was a sufferer. The amount of these has been variously stated ; they were estimated at the time at 100,0001., but Mr. Lewis . MOZLEY believes that they were a great deal more, owing to a deception that was prac tised. It was thus necessary to repair the capital of the business, and accordingly Mr. LEWIN EARNED MOZLEY paid into the Bank 20,0001., and Mr. CHARLES MOZLEY 100,000/. This latter sum, however, as now appears, was obtained from the Bank of England on the guarantee of ten Liver pool merchants who took a mortgage on the bor rowers' property, a fact the bearing of which will presently he seen. It appears that at the same time the Bank had about 700,000/. owing to it by firma which have since failed. More than this, the business had for some time been unprofitable. On this important point, since we have not direct access to the evidence, we had better give Mr. En.t.NuEL'S report of the evidence before the Examiner in Chancery : Mr. Banner (the auditor) say* that Mr. Charles Mosley told him the profits of the business were 60,0001. to 70,0001- a year. At ono of the preliminary meetings he said they averaged 50,000/. a year. Mr. Irwin Earned Mosley told Mr. Bison that the profits were 70,0001. • year. Mr. Beneke (a director) told Mr. Robinson that the profits were 40,0001., after allowing for all bad and doubtful debts. Now these bad and doubtful debts were repre sented by Mr. Lewin Earned Morley as amounting to 20,000/. in the last three years. I had better give you the exact words of Mr. Bcncke. sworn to before the examiner: —" When Mr. Lewin Earned Mosley made the statement about the losses there were others present besides myself. It was at one of the pre- RSS, 37- 0 CON' t Weiner, meetings of directors, as near Mr.Piosley said, " I have just to ied 114011. End that 20,0001. will *toyer the Wes thigh, years." Re said this after he had been to look, and this anal,tatioa au excluding the year 1864-5, which was the year in which the defalcations took place. Now, mil -1 wifilinilike losses at 20,9001. in three years, we examine Mr. Morley on the losses for the last three years between 1862 and 1865, and then ascertain that the gross profits of the business were nil t aad on being closely pressed whether the bank had not actually lost money is those three years, he says from the balance-sheet prepared in 1865 he teas notprepaned to say that they had lost amigo although Ac could not say they had made a profit. We think it will sufficiently appear from the foregoing statement that in the year 1865 BARNRD'S Bank was in about as bad a position as a private bank could well occupy. It had for several years made no profit : i.e capital, and more than its capital, was lost through bad debts : and the private property of the partners was pledged to creditors as security. It was under these circum stances that the conversion of the concern into a limited liability company was proposed. The scheme appears to have been suggested by a director of the Contract Corporation, who had observed that one of the debtors of that concern was also indebted to BASHED'S in a very large sum. The plan was laid before the public in connexion with the names of gentlemen whose positions in London and Liverpool were, in the eyes of a considerable portion of the public, a pledge of its soundness, or at least of the truth of the representations made to the shareholders. When six well-known merchants and others, not including the Morters, who were on the directorate, joined to assure the world that the business to be taken over was one for which 160,0001. might fairly be paid as good will, he would have been either a very rash or an exceedingly well-informed man who should have said that it was rotten to the core. We pass over the explanations which these gentlemen give of the I manner in which they were misled, because they are so contradictory that we have striven in vain 'to reconcile them. But there is one point which must be noticed—the facility with which the enor mous liabilities and bad debts of the old bank were transferred to the new company. It ap 'pears that when the business was taken over it occurred to some of the directors that it would be proper to inquire into the nature of the engagements of the Bank before pledg ing themselves on the subject to the public, but when Mr. BENCER asked to be satisfied on this point, he was told by Mr. C. MOZLEY that "in " transactions of this kind it was unusual, and " highly improper to ask to see private books of I " account." It was impossible, however, wholly to overlook the fact that a portion of the enormous amount of debts might be bad, and so the guarantee of the MOZLEYS was taken. The importance of the transaction before described, the mortgaging of Mr. CHARLES MOZLEY'S freehold property, will I now be seen. If the solvency of the debtors of the Bank could not be inquired into without im propriety, still leas could that of the MOZLEYS themselves. As Mr. CHARLES MOZLEY put it before the Examiners : " The Directors of Bar " nod's Banking Company never made any " inquiries into the private property of the mem " bers of the firm of 'l. Darned and Co.' They " had confidence in the position we held, and the " property which was patent to the town at " large." So far, then, we perceive that the public were invited to purchase property that existed only in illusion. But if the value of the old bank was a fiction, at least the new one would be a real concern? At any rate there would be a real share proprietary ? On this point the disclosures at the inquiry were anything but satisfactory. A large number of persons applied for and ob tained shares in the belief that the allotment would be an wan!inistered as to associate them with PORAVES. • OirEVLY -- - *i is Atm ---- _ other investors like tleinseiveL 14 appears, however, that from the first a different arrangement was contemplated. There were to be 40,000 shares, and of those one half, or 20,000, representing a million of capital, were subscribed for, according to previous ar rangement, by two insolvent concerns—the Con tract Corporation and the Joint Stock Discount Company—and this after the prospectus had stated that a preference would be given to the customers of the Bank. These companies gave, in payment of calls, their bills, which were credited to them as cash ; when a bill was dishonoured, it was still held that the call had been paid, and the amount was placed to the debit of the company. Now that these companies are in liquidation, it is found that their articles of association do not authorise subscriptions for shares in a joint stock bank, and the legal and bona fide shareholders have to hear the whole burden of responsibility to the creditors. It is unnecessary to point the moral of these disclosures. The shareholders have been most shamefully betrayed by those who of their own accord stood forward and gratuitously pledged their credit to an institution which the least inquiry would have shown them was already ruined. It would be impossible to exaggerate the responsibility of those who, whether fraudulently or by culpable negligence, lend themselves to deceptions of this kind, and it would be satisfactory to find that the law was in this respect capable of enforcing with , its sanction the righteous verdict of public opinion. RESIGNATION OF LORD JUSTICE BRCCE.—We are informed (says the Times) that Lord Justice Sir James L. Knight Bruce has tendered his resignation, in consequence of a dangerous illness with which, we regret to learn, he has been attacked. THE FAMINE IN INDIA.-Within the last few days, observes the Times, several gentlemen have called with or sent subscriptions to the Lord Mayor at the Man sion-house under the impression that a fund was about to be raised there towards the relief of the distress in Bengal and Orissa consequent upon the famine ; but it should be known that, for the present at least, after the authority telegraphed by Lord Cranborne, the Secretary of State for India, to Sir John Lavrrence, the Viceroy, on Thursday last, to advance money from the government funds freely and immediately, it is not the intention of the Lord Mayor and the bankers and merchants in the City who have been in communication with him on the sub ject to appeal to the public for aid in the emer gency. For the time they rely on the energy and prudence of the Secretary of State at home and of the Viceroy of India to cope with the calamity, aided by the means of rapid communication furnished by the telegraph, holding themselves in readiness, however, to step in and use their influence to promote a public subscription should events take such a turn as to require it, and the resources of the government prove unequal to the occasion. To show, if need were, how ready the public bounty would have been to flow in that direction if the emergency had called for it we may mention that on the day preceding that on which the first conference was held at the Man sion-house on the subject two members of an eminent banking firm in the City, father and son, called upon the Lord Mayor and offered to head • subscription with 5001. THE CONVICTION OF A SERVANT GIRL AT YORK. —The following is the reply to a memorial which was pre sented to the Secretary of State on behalf of Elizabeth Longhurst, who was lately convicted of larceny at York, before Mr. Alderman Evers and Mr. Alderman Wade, and about whose case some rioting took place a few days ago : " Whitehall, Oet. 10, 1860.—Gentlemen,—I am directed by the Secretary of State for the Home Department to thank you for your report on the case of Elizabeth Long hunt, and to acquaint you that, under all the circum stances, he does not propose advising any interference with the prisoner's sentence.—i am, gentleman, your most obedient humble servant, Betmoar..—Mr. R. Reeves, J.P., Mr. E. Wade, J.P., York." Mr. Lowrie states that the box stolen by his late servant, Elizabeth Longiturst, was an enamelled lodiaa hoz, for which he paid 10s. in India; it is in perfectly good oondition, and he values it far be yond its intrinsic worth. The writing case alluded to he paid 4a. 61. fur, and it had been but little used. TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1866. • lb Court. BALMORAL, Ocr. The Queen drove in the morning yeate socompanied by Prime's Christian, and went out afternoon, accompanied by Princess Louise and &item by the Hon. Emily Cathcart. Sir Stafford Northoote had the honour of dining with Queen and the royal family. The Queen of Denmark, with the Prince and Prh of Wales and Princess Thyra, attended by the ladies . gentlemen in waiting, 'went to the Lyceum Theatre yester day evening. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council eat yesterday, in the Council-chamber, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present' were—the Right Hon. S. IL Walpole, Lord Stan. ley, and the Right Hon. H. Corry. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Helps, Mr. Harrison, and Colonel Harness, attended the committee. --- --- - - - Mr. C. Parker Rhodes, late acting-consul at Havre, had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Foreign office. The Queen of Denmark, with the Prince and Princess of Wales and Princess Thyra, attended by the l►dies and gentlemen in waiting, went to the Lyceum Theatre yesterday coo:nig. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and Colonel Home Purace, arrived at Cambridge Cottage, Kew, yesterday afternoon, from Lord Londesborough's marine villa at Scar- borough. His Excellency Prince do la Tour d'Auvergne (the French Ambassador) is expected to arrive at the French Embassy at Albert Gate on Monday or Tuesday next, to resume his diplomatic functions. The Marquis of Hastings and Sir Augustus and lady Paget have left the St. George's Hotel. The Marquis de Caumont Laforce has returned to the Clarendon Hotel from Pith. The Earl and Countess of Dudley have arrived at Witley Court, Worcestershire, from Black Mount, In- verneas-sbire. The Earl and Countess of Sefton have arrived in town from a tour of visits. Lord and Lady Stafford have left the Clarendon Hotel, for Costessy House, Not wich. Lord George Gordon Lennox, M.P., has arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from High Cliff Castle, near Christchurch. Lady Margaret Charteris and infant son are both progressing very favourably. Governor Hincks, C. 8., has left the Alexandra Hotel, Hyde-parlocorner. Mr. Peel has left Farrance's Hotel for Scar borough. The Gazzetta delle Romagne announces the arrival of Mr. Gladstone at Bologna, and that he is staying at the Hotel Brun. Early yesterday morning the Lord Mayor left town for Brussels, to be present at the Belgian Tir National and the fags to be given in honour of the occasion and of the visit of the English volunteers. He had received a pressing invitation, conveyed in very flattering terms, both from the commissioners for conducting the Tir and the at tendant festivities, and from the burgomaster of Brussels, in consideration of the very cordial reception afforded by his lordship to the Belgian riflemen on their visit to the City during the Wimbledon week. M. bovant, a high officer in the household of the King, also called at the Mansion House on Friday last to pay his respects to the Lord Mayor, being, it is understood, the bearer of a message from his Majesty. The inhabitants of Micheldever intend placing a memorial window to the late Lord Noi;lbrook in their parish church. THE LATE BISHOP OF CALCLTTA.—The tele gram announcing the untimely death of the Bishop of Calcutta caused the most profound gnef at Marl borough. Dr. Cotton was for six years head-muter of the college, where he was deservedly held in the highest esteem and veneration. The chapel services on Sunday were attended by 500 boys, who together with the masters and their families, were all attired in mourning, and th e scene when Heber's funeral hymn was sung was deeply moving. We understand that nearly three weeks must elapse before fuller particulars can be received. At pre• sent little or nothing is known beyond the bare fact that be was drowned in the Ganges, and that his remains bad not yet been found. It is needless to add that his loss will be felt very widely and keenly.—Times. The Paris correspondent of the Independanee Beige says that Dr. Langenbeck, a celebrated German physician, has been consulted by the Emperor Napoleon, and that the result of an examination instituted by him was not considered satisfactory. On the other hand his Majesty has received sensible relief from a alight operation which he has undergone at the hands of Dr. Guillon, and it is added that this physician will remain at Biarritz until his Majesty's departure. The celebrated Dr. Nelaton has also been sent for. " The King of Bavaria," says the Cologne Gazette, " has just made a present to his protigé, Richard Wagner, of a walking-stick, the head of which is a swan chiselled in gold and enriched 111th brilliants, the whole worth several thousand ducats." It has been decided that the governments of the States of Northern Germany which take part in the Uni 1, venal Exhibition of 1867, that is to say : Prussia, Bruns_ sick, Saxony, Saxe•Altenburg, Saxe-Meinengen, Saxe- Coburg, Schwartzburg, Waldeck, Anhalt, Oldenburg, Bremen, and Mecklenburg-Schwerin, will appear under the title of the Union of the North. A Vienna letter, published by the Monde, sa y s :—" Prague has been for some days past in a state of great popular agitation. This is what has happened : , The Jesuits, during the Prussian occupation, purchased a house for the purpose of opening a school, paying cash for it out of their funds ; and now, although under the pro tection of the government, they cannot appear in public ' without being assailed. The inhabitants want to have them removed altogether." " The Empress of Russia, we learn," says the Journal de Nice, " intends to pass the winter in this town." _ _ The official Roman Joitrnal stated the other day that more than 60 young men of Roman families who tool part in the late war had been permitted to return to their homes, being merely subject to the " ordinary police regu lations." It seems from a letter in the Mats that these regulations consist in the inscription of their names on the list of suspected persons submitted to a vigorous sur veillance. They are compelled to return to their domiciles at sunset, and are prohibited from leaving during the night ; and they are not allowed to be seen at a theatre, • café, or any public place. JUDICIAL STATISTICS, 1865.—0 f the result of the 3,018 cases tried at Westminster at Nisi Print and on the circuits the verdict was absolute for the plaintiff in 1,742, or More than half, and in 343 only it was for the defendant. Other verdicts were subject to • special case, or to a re ference, or the jury were discharged, dc., and the total amount received by these verdicts for the plaintiff was 535,5561. Rules nisi far a new trial were granted in 212 cases, and refused in 95 ; 88 rules were made absolute by the court sitting in banoo, and 97 discharged; in 4 the court was divided. The business done in the chambers of the judges is shown by the returns furnished by the chamber clerks, and exhibits • very large increase on every item. More than 11,000 summonses were issued in 1865 above those in 1864, and the returns show a proportionate increase on all chamber business—Solicitors' Journal. AN EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE. A foreign schooner was towed into harbour on Saturday after . noon, whose history has awakened a somewhat unusual interest in the neighbourhood from the fact that it was one of those which had been long lasted for in vain, and which, indeed, was gener►lly supposed " would never more come home." The vessel is the Charlotte, of Stral sund, and sailed from Memel for Dunbar, with • cargo of rags, exactly three months end three days previous to the date of its entering the harbour here. During all the three long weary months the vessel has been knocking shoat in the North Sea, unable from straps of weather and I contrary winds to make the land until some three days ago, when it entered Aberdeen harbour, from which it at last gained its destination. As the passage is frequently made in three or four days, or a week at most, all hope of ever seeing the vessel or its crew had long been lost; and we believe the claim for insurance bad either been made or was about to be so, when the long-lost vessel fortunately turned up. Such a voyage is unparalleled in the annals of the seafaring folks here, and on Saturday and Sunday the vessel was the object of particular attention. Notwith- I standing the long exposure to wind and weather, the vessel does not appear to .have suffered much damage.— TulinGurph Courant. [GENCE. ritsweß FINANCES. PROPOSED LOAN OF A THOITSAND MILLION FRANCS. Anuses independance states that the Duke 'ersigny has addressed a memorial to the containing various suggestions as to policy, and amongst other things the issue of a - milliard of francs for works of pesos. This million, however, would include a hun- ' dred millions for the conversion of muskets. The rest would be devoted to effecting the conversion of the Mexican Loan into government stock, as sisting the sufferers from the inundations, giviirg work to labourers, and especially providing for un foreseen events. It is added that General Fleury and Baron Hausamann approve of this scheme, and have recommended it to the Emperor. Com bined with this statement are rumours of minis terial changes in France, including the retirement of M. Fould and Marshal Bandon. L .14.` Drafty, PRO in the 'tended The Eh de Persil rith the Emperor, new polio loan of a 'rineess Li. end peaceful lies toe ITALLUI TINANCIA AND ADIIINIBTEk After crediting the Italians with a disposition to grapple with theft &modal diffioulties, and remarking that even the war expenses and the share of the Lom bardo-Venetian debt are little to give for one of the richest provinces in Europe, the Timis' goes ` on to say that unfortunately the expenses caused by the liberation of Venetia will fall on an exchequer exhausted by several years' reckless improvidence. The government has to contend with local as well as personal selfishness, Italy being divided into 59 provinces, every one of which has a swarm of official ' locusts. With the reconstitution of Italy into a great country the mesa local spirit ought to give way before consideration of a more enlarged patriotism. In addition to the waste of an exorbitant civil service thee, is the burden of public works, the new government having had to exhaust its means on works which ought to have been left to pt:vate enterprise, and to sustain enormous losses at every stage. The acquisition of Venetia will not tend to any sensible diminution of outlay, as vast sums will be sunk in the maintenance of the fortresses of the Quadri blend, in the improvement of the city and harbour of Venice, and in a railway across the Gothard, the Splugen, or the Brenner, so necessary for the revival of Venetian trade. The financial condition of Italy is no doubt very grave, and requires self-denial, devotion, end hard work on the part of the nation. THE REPOBLICAM VICTORIES IN THE ENIILD STATES. The result of the late elections in Pennsylvania will, the Daily News thinks, have surprised only the most in. perficial observers. The violent speeches of Mr. Stevens and others raised a considerable feeling in Mr. Johnson's favour, but from the time the Philadelphia convention met the turn of the tide became obvious. Mr. Raymond, of the New York Tines, in his letter declining to be again nominated for Congress, has confessed that Mt. Johnson's party is identical with the old de mocratic organisation, and the endeavour to fight the battle on new ground has utterly failed. Mr. Johnson has exacted no conditions from his new supporters, ' and the issue before the people has become exactly what it was years ago. Of the extent of the republican victory in Pennsylvania we know nothing at present. But of the immense and even decisive importance of a victory in the " Keystone State" even the British public are well aware. The great State of Pennsylvania occupies a position which has long made its movements the key to the politics of the Union. In every great presi dential contest the vote of Pennsylvania has gone on the winning side, and every change of public opinion which has been decisive enough to affect the policy of the Federal government has been foreshadowed in the Penn sylvanian elections. Mr. Johnson's party, in the days of its hopes, set down ten other districts as likely to be gained from the republicans. We shall most likely find that not only have all those districts returned republicans ea before, but that three of those now represented by de mocrats have returned members hostile to Mr. Johnson's schemes. In that case those schemes may be considered es at an end. THE QUEER'S coLLEass IN 'mum. Remarking on the curious i•tfelieity of the late ad ministration in leaving the question of Irish education in • more difficult position than that in which it found it, the Times observes that when Sir Robert Peel established the Queen's Colleges in Ireland he sought to raise up a new generation, whose habits and feelings might be in harmony with each other, and the mixed system of teaching has enlisted in its favour the warmest sympathies of the liberal party. Unhappily the late government came to the conclu sion that it was desirable to reverse the policy of Sir Robert Peel, and, in order to carry this resolution into effect, they fastened upon an imaginary grievance. Within a fortnight of the last general election it was pointed out to them that the Catholic University, an institution set up under the direction of the Pope in rivalry with the Queen's Colleges, had not the power of conferring degrees. The government admitted the grievance and promised to remedy it, but instead of confining themselves to giving the Queen's University the power of granting degrees to students not educated in the Queen's Colleges, they promised to re model the senate of the Queen's University so as to give it the confidence of the Roman catholic hierarchy, the determined enemies of mixed educa tion. After sketching the history of the supple mentary charter, and alluding to the pending trial of the legal question whether the senate of the uni ,,ersay"ad power to accept it, the Times remarks that although the system o: mixeit t,iucation was establishes' by the direct action of parliament, the house of Commons has been transparently manoeuvred out of the possibility of expressing its opinion. Without the assent of the legis lature the government clearly ought never to have acted. Ireland has not been treated with the respect due to it as au integral part of the empire. The Telegraph says that the step taken by the late go vernment has been misrepresented. It is simply a per missive measure, a step towards free trade in education. The main question is, shall the monopoly of the three colleges in the privileges of the university be continued or not? The Supplemental Charter, of which the Tele graph approves, says " No ;" its opponents say " Yes." UISCELLANEOCS TOPICS. Referring to the recent intelligence from Australia, the Tones observes that the questions engaging the public mind at the Antipodes are precisely such as might have been discussed at our own Social Science Congress, and only in the matter of income and expenditure do we recognise the features of political youth. The resources of the colonists are practically unfathomable, and the people of New Zea land are almost vain of the ease with which they can sus tamtt a rate of taxation above that of the mother country. The colonists of Victor;a are complaining just as we do of the price of meat, and looking in all directions for new sources of supply. Deep sea fishing has just been tried for the first time, and 14 th apparent success. It is creditable to the people of Frankfort, observes the Daily Noes, that they are ready to lose their independence far the sake of the unity of the Fatherland, but their insisting that they must not be absorbed until after all the rest enables us to understand why it was that German unity could only be accomplished by the sword. Every king, assembly, and people, saw that national unity was necessary, and was ready to clamour for it, but always upon the understanding that its own independence must not be sacrificed ; so that an amicable agreement between them for the purpose was impossible. The Frankforter' do not perceive that the work of confis cation cannot be done everywhere and all at once, but they may tranquillise themselves. Prussia will in time rise to the magnitude of their ideas, and they will yet be grateful to the Prussian people for making them citizens of a great , and united country. The Post presumes that when General Dix arrives a t Paris as minister of the United States he will find all the unpleasant business already done so far as diplomacy is concerned, but observes that, so long as there is a French soldier and a French flag on the republican soil of the wide American continent, whose great and growing family has no desire to greet imperial European visitors who bring crowns in their portmanteaus, the relations between France and the United States cannot be thoroughly cordial. The Part ani Herald comment on the Frankfort protest. The latter has but few words of regret for the position of the German city, and thinks that, though the means by which its independence has been forfeited are only such as can be justified by the privilege of usurpation and the laws of force, and that though it is possible a time will come when Europe may wish it had never repudiated the prin ciples of political right, still the fate of Frankfort is not the most disastrous that might be imagined. The Star defends the course taken by the Jamaica Committee in the prosecution of Mr. Eyre, and in another article condemns the conduct of Mr. Lawrence, the Liver pool magistrate, in anticipating his own acquittal, and for the terms in which he referred to the subject on Saturday from the bench. "We mentioned the other day," says the TeulonnaiP, " the arrival within a space of twenty-four hours of sixteen vessels laden with oorn ; we have now something even better to report—the arrival in a single afternoon of twenty-two cargoes of wheat. If the sliding scale were still in existence, we might have to apprehend famine-prices this winter, and the quotations of wheat in our marketiwould be already exceedingly high, because the imports would be inconsiderable. How different is the cue at present DISTRESS aT BOHEMIA• Letters from Prague state that Bohemia has suf fered more from the last war than any other part of the Austrian dominions, and that that unhappy province is now enduring extreme misery and pri vations. The peasants, especially in the neigh bourhoods of the great battlefields, are without bread and without the means of cultivating the fields ; and the government, in place of coming to their aid with the 400 mil lions of florins which it granted after the war, has instituted special commissions for Bohemia, charged with the duty of slowly verifying, in accordance with bureaucratic traditions, the demands of the unfortunates who are dying of hunger. These commissions are not authorised to do justice in relation to the demands justified by receipts of the enemy ; they exact also from every one complaining other evidence which it is almost impossible to furnish. The peasants, exasperated by these requirements, have resolved to address a petition to the King of Prussia, in the hope of receiving from his pity that which they believe they cannot obtain frotn the justice of their , own sovereign. At the moment of the grant of 400 million florins, the government promised to undertake great public works ; but up to this time nothing has been commenced, not even a single line of railway, although one was announced six months ago. The number of people destitute alike of food and shelter increases every day. Entire families, it is said, sleep upon the pavements of Prague, while dis charged soldiers wander and beg through the streets. (RECTI3 . B THE INSURRECTION IN CANDIA. PARIS, Ocr. 113. The Moniteur of this morning says :—"Accord ing to intelligence brought to Constantinople by the Sultan's aide-de-camp, Djemil Pacha, who left Candia on the 12th inst., no engagement had taken place to that date. The Turks had com menced an offensive movement, and had occupied an important and advanced position in the direc tion of Dapoconio, the principal centre of the insurrection. This point was to be attacked on the 14th inst. Dissension was beginning to arise among the insurgents." ITALY. FLORENCE, Ocr. 16. It is stated that Count Opezzoni, formerly charge d'affaires at Frankfort, will take charge of the Italian legation at Vienna until the appointment of a plenipotentiary. AMERICA. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, O. 15. The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship' Bavaria and the North German Lloyd's steamer America arrived out to-day. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nem( OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The Moniteur du Suir reports that the long pending and difficult negotiations between Prussia and Saxony are now in a fair way of settlement, and that the conclusion of a treaty of peace between the two governments may be very shortly expected. The papers say that General Fleury has been created a count. Nothing is more likely. It has been the custom of the Second Empire to confer its patents of nobility secretly in the first instance, and only to publish them after the public, by common rumour, has become familiarised with the idea of certain titles as associated with certain names. When General Fleury shall be gazetted Minister at War, as he no doubt shortly will be, "General Count Fleury" will look well in the announcement and help to make up for the want of such military antecedents as the public has been accustomed to look for in the recipients of such high appoint ments. I say this without expressing any opinion on the fitness for the office of General Fleury, which may be very great. The Emperor generally shows great sagacity in the choice of his servants, and if he never loses sight of favourites seldom puts them into positions for which they are unfit. Although General Fleury's promotion has been singularly rapid, and although his military laurels were principally gained in coup d'etat warfare in Paris, he is known to be a man of talent and energy, and may be a very good administrator. The diplomatic changes lately on the tapir are said to be postponed. M. Benedetti, now on leave of absence in Corsica, will shortly return to Berlin —it may be, however, only to present his letters of recall. The Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne and Baron Talleyrand are both now in Paris, but will shortly return to their respective posts at London and St. Petersburg. Count de Sartiges is also here, and he will certainly be replaced at Rome. The Temps, after noticing the "transports of joy" of the Patrie at the news that Mr. Harris had asked the Swiss government to prosecute the Gazette de Lausanne, and quoting the remarks on the subject made in my correspondence in the Daily News of Oct. 13, says : The case of Mr. Harris does not prove that countries which enjoy the advantages of a free press are disposed to hold the privilege cheap to please the Patrie ; it only shows that ewers of zeal in functionaries is a fault com mon to all countries, and, furthermore, that vigilance is as necessary to maintain as to conquer liberty. The Avenir National alludes to the subject in precisely the same spirit as the Temps. The France Centrale of Blois says several pro vincial journals have received an authoritative communication to the following effect : It is desirable to contradict at once a rumour persistently circulated in foreign countries that cholera prevails in Paris. It results from most positive information that the deaths from cholera in the metropolis do not amount to more than five or six per day, a very inconsiderable figure in a city containing two millions of souls. In this instance I believe the contasuniqu4 to be quite correct. There has been no cholera worth speaking of in Paris for some time. The France says there is much talk in 6, Duchies about the financial embarawanents of a e late pretender, the Prince of Auguateeberg. meeting of his friends was lately held in MMus` consider what means could be taken to cilia h i c reditors, whose importunities are creating kaadt Since the beginning of the Danish coo d& wit Germany he is said to have spent four mill* of thalers (600,000 i.). Half of this sum was a 4 vanced by his family and partisans. But he one the remainder ; and his creditors are the ex i i i anxious for a speedy settlement , became the p n , sians have seized and intend to sell the Whi m , stores and uniforms which the Prime bad *Ado and which he represented were a guarantee fer ti debts. The Bourse was very firm at the close, bet hi news was not active. Rente rose 30c. for cask sal 121 c. for account, closing at 68fr. 90 e , 68fr. 80c. Italian rose 80c. There are yak. reports about the Italian Loan ; the but k e ig the negotiations of the Credit Foncier have failid Mobilier rose 10fr., and Credit Fouler, sfr. ACCIDENTAL POISONING OP A Mut CAUTION TO PARENTS, INQUEST (THIS DAY). This morning an inquest was concluded by N t. Humphreys, coroner, at this Bridgwater Tavern, g ai g o field-street, City-road relative to the death by 0 0 , 4 little girl five years of age, named Alma Miller. The deceased was the daughter of William Miller, alai finisher, living at 25, Palmerston-buildings, City-rod last Sunday week, being seized with what appears:dish premonitory symptoms of cholera, her father pre her, short interval; 6 teaspoonful, of " Coa's Nish* lied Mixture," which he had bought at Na, 87 W e , street, St. Luke's, and which had cured hime/X. next morning the child died. Then Dr. /IVAN was Sail in and he pronounced the case to be one of pim a * Dr. Henry Letheby, Professor of Chemistry at %slaw don Hospital, said that on Friday last he received fn.* coroner's officer a child's stomach, and he also wma give s medicine bottle containing drachms of red liquid, found the liquid to contain peppermint, • distinct Ina s( rueric acid, and grain of morphia, equivalent t o a gok of opium. The child's stomach was healthy, b a t ij oa , tamed traces of morphia. Six teaspoonfuls d sack liquid would contain about a grain of opium, gait s m g, eient to kill a child five years of age. A use was maid of a child of that age being killed by half a grain of min, Dr. T. H. Hurler, 23, Essex-street, tSt. Lao, sad y found no evidence of cholera, or any natural same fa death. The child died from an overdose of °pica. A gentleman, who stated that he wee the mellow d the " red mixture," said that it was very extol*, and be could produce testimonials as to its good aids; but in the present case an excessive quantity hal h is given to the child. The Coroner said that no doubt the medicine is was a useful one when properly admi • b i t d course the proprietor was not to be held reepoosilit rya an overdose was given through the anxiety c 4 the hike to cure his child. The jury found a verdict of " Accidental death.* PAINFUL SUICIDE OP A MERCHANT. An inquiry was held by Mr. Richert* ** 1 coroner, at the Royal Cricketers' Tavern, Old Fond,be evening, relative to the suicide of Mr. Fenian Fdi; 36 years, a German merchant. Madame Eugenie Felix, whose evidence was istapdeg to the court, said—l am the widow of the dosed. We lived at No. 40, Sewardstone-road bat Is wan in aga busin acig e in u alc , an han d la he t, t w tean aa rldy dej h ec hee ted de;l in ut emsequ rinciPilit"Y ence. yaahn.."l ll: lls ci his travellers had caused him losses—one had regalia I,ooofr. and goods, and could not be found. Mylisstendlad purchased the house in which we lived, but he weed as tell me what sum he had given for it. OnWedneday ede ing last he came home at 7 o'clock, and had a sapped bread and cheese. He was much depressed on atowasst a packet of goods having been returned. He had eastims said that be was tired of his life, but he mede no throat is commit suicide on that night, or indeed at any tide. Vs went to bed in different rooms as was =al so that be might not be disturbed by the children,of whom theme four. I heard nothing until Thursday morning at case, when I was frightened by the explosion of a pistol is to next room where my husband slept. I thought is bed shot himself, but I was not sure that there wen see* bets in the house, and I was afraid to stir. No ono bat id children were in the house, and no pervert was rah street, and I could not speak English to make any= vs demand me, and I did not know what to do. Iprayd le two hours until I heard people in the attest. 11* I went into the next room and there 1 sarr my husband ahot. He was undressed is bad, his right hand be ng outside the bale* alongside a double-bat relied pistol, and blood over tbsteL Upon seeing this I began to scream, and so did the ailed; when I told them that their father was shot. Bat 1 dhd not know how to make any English person in tbsaegh bourhood understand what had happened ; and I went le some friends in the City, and in two hours they totandi with me, and Dr. Meldola was called in. Mr. J. Pereira, Gescoyne-road, South Rode* said that be knew the deceased, and was aware till he had lost much by d 4 nhonest travellers. Ho had arranged to enter into partnership with a gentlense, ui to pay down 500/. on Wednesday, but he had only 25g. is money when the time came. He bought his hoses ken witness, and paid for it. He never said that he was die satisfied with the bargain. He was a very honourable di high-principled man. His losses seemed to prey P 4ll l on his mind. Mr. Eifiander said that he knew the deeded, As appeared to be much depressed latterly at 111 ill-hrtasa He said that be could do nothing, for everything he pat Id hand to turned out badly. He was until lately is pada , cumetanoes. He paid tioo/. for his hove onl7a foe months ago. Mr. But rows, coroner's officer, said that be food * double-barrelled rifted pistol produced, but there wes neither ramrod, powder, nor bullets about the duo. ON of the barrels only had been discharged. Mr. Raphael Meldolts, M.H.C.S., said that he food* ' deceased quite dead, with a pistol-shot wound in thsegb temple. Death must have been instantsnemd hos the position of the body, he was of opinion that for del must have been fired by himself. The Coroner having summed up, The milted j s u suicide by returned ave hootuigniliiicmtsc`ifThwtletheindeddelissitadt SINGULAR CHARGE OF AGAINST A SUMO OLIC. C- A singular charge was heard before Lord Russell and two other magistrates sitting in ratty 1101. at Woburn on Friday. The complainant was the William Cuff, baptist minister of Ilidgmonnt, charged the defendant with having i n his `Tessiel od ° superintendent of police forbidden him from g oing piece of laud called Tuddingten-green and Freda therein. It appeared that the piece of land in misitima in the centre of Toddington, and the inhabitants claim da right to use it for the purpose of public meetings. lit Cuff had issued hand bills, s t a ting his intestine to Pm these. Boon afterwards the defendant called IV, DI coming to his house in a cart in which were tiro proles r. handcuffed, and informed him that 'foddingtoirr o r li thepropertyof Major Cooper, and he forbade him on the green, and on Mr. Cuff saying he intended i r d 4 there he replied, " Then I shall take yo u for./ ping the thoroughfare." On the day ti es/ &PP however, Mr. Cutf, accompanied by Mi. 1 ,.. Walker, another minister, went to the qot, wbeeer,', met by Police-sergeant Ogden, who forbade him plai, but he did preach, nevertheless. The chairman ... a . defendant had been with them as superintenden ts many years, but for that fact the magistrates Wei:i felt it their duty to represent his case as tee dismissal. But they did not do that—WT., a it was an error of judgment on his PrAt should take no further steps in the "1, beyond their expressing their m agistrates ion,, It was the unanimous opinion of the rr7l bad exceeded his duty, anal they were much rintaim ips the circumstance after his long experience ; "1 0 time they were led to tnink that th e ex p ression opinion would be sufficient to preve nt a repel f$ act which formed the subject of the chair only add, the parties were still open to w nessi ale o h fendsnt before the grand jury at the quarter a . Mr. Willis who appeared for the complainaa 21; said after the expression of opinion blithe 700. interest, subject b .n jecl seems clients were perfectly satisfied, and would IeSSM rest. great deal 41 0 1.1 i. th thsuhbjaecvet excited ciiintedicrys local jotirnals. There are now thirteen steam-packe t acimP.lllH.A.i. running steamers b e t we en Europa and the United 4 17 4 These steamers ma ke about 420 round triP abo i year, and the gross annual revenue they itela__ l ' b• four millions sterling. The Itali an e ven"...... just subsidised a Sine of steamers to r un betelsa,. York and the Mediterranean po rts, toucbisi st J l 7O, the Azores, Cadiz, and Marseilles , a nd it is ellolwo a bill will be passed by the United States WM° session, authorising the subsidisat ion of Ameriela y steamers to and from Europe at the rate of two acals ° HumP alig° ' 1.1 A new Aura st Ovingtnn, in jut been consecrated by the Bishop of Wi%hada. IX !LE graPho. whopi. 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