The Express. — London, England, 1864-05-17 00:00:00

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Messrs. &Akers, Busketcoe.ClMpoendede, tr, Mesdames Moors, flocrdoo, YamUllara.—VENCS ADONLI. Was L. ILmloty.—And HIM WHITE. PRINCE WS. TM Snips', THE OLD STORY: Mr. Dominick Murray. —TILK 00111 DY or 11.1i023. Mean. Vinirg, Nci•on, and the Mothers Webb.—Aud BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Mr. Dominick Murray. TITEYLfOId, LABIUM TO Tint HUY.— DIMO-LEAR. Matter Percy RasaEa and Mara CAL Caw and &att.—And TyroParta of TER LEFT-HANDED MARRIAGR. Mn &Lane; and THE GREAT GHOST 11111C1.—Commence at di. KIM WAS= AT LONDON 112001. rime Day wombs. 1011. das. ....41111.0111111. 1 th. 26m. TO410111:110111... Yoruba, 111. 54a..... ..... Wens Oh. Oh. Os. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 17. Toss Loan CHANCKLLOB has raised in a very practical form the question whether people who have no other source of income than their labour ought to be encouraged to get into debt. The clauses of his County Courts Acts Amendment Bill which give those courts jurisdiction in equity, which enable a defendant to remove into the County Court any action for a small debt that the plaintiff may be bringing against him in the superior courts, and which abolish utterly the right of action for debts incurred by drinking beer on the premises, are universally approved of. But the abolition of imprisonment for debts not exceeding 201., although it has been received by the public at large with applause as being the most important and best part of the mea sure, is protested against in some quar ters with • warmth which is • little surprising. We have practically got rid of imprisonment for debt in the sphere of commerce, in which, if any where, it might be supposed necessary, as the safeguard of credit, which is some times said to be the soul of trade. Thus, those who import or manufacture goods, and those who from their crowded warehouses distribute them far and wide to the retailers, can manage, it seems, to do without the power of imprisoning their debtors ; but infinite mischief, we are told, will follow if the small trader is deprived of the power of locking no a customer whom he has allowed to get into his debt. That this opinion should be taken up by the more timid of the class of shopkeepers is not surprising, but it is also maintained by some to whom we have been accustomed to look for sound judgment on social and economical subjects. .11 It is said that if you abolish imprisonment for debts under 201. the working man will not be able to obtain credit. It may be so. But why should we keep up our gaols to enable him to get into debt? We know the use of credit in com merce. So useful, indeed, is credit, that the privation of it which follows insolvency is the severest, as it is also the most natural, punishment of a man who has to live by buying and selling, and whose advantage in those operations de pends on his standing well in the market. It is for those who maintain the present system to show that credit is also necessary to persons who live by their labour ; and this we believe will be found impossible. A weekly con temporary goes the length of maintaining that whereas " a severe law of insolvency is of great importance to all classes ; it is " of inestimable " importance to the working classes," because " among them there is little pecuniary morality, " and no available public opinion to support it." " Poor persons," we are told, " cannot be ex " petted to have a nice moral judgment ; their " tone is low, and if we do not support their " moral opinion by legal sanctions, it will die " away." Without asking whether this repre sentation answers to the common experience of our readers, and whether it is just to the labour ing classes generally, let us for the present assume its truth, and ask how is this low tone to be raised, this erring judgment corrected,!this weak moral opinion to be reinforced t There are two ways of setting about it. Society may decline to recognise the practice of giving credit to persons who, living by their labour, have ready money in their hands every week, whoever else may go without, in which case the trader who gives the working man credit must do so relying on some other security than the powers of the law. Or it may resolve to acknowledge the legitimacy of credit in the dealings of the labour ing classes, and support it with its severest sanctions. In the former case, if the trader gives credit, be does so because he sees a natural security for the payment of his debt in the character or position of his debtor. He believes him to be able to pay, and if not a person of moral principle, at least one having some regard for his reputation. And since credit will be refused where these securities are wanting, the very fact of giving credit will signify confidence, and honourably distinguish the person trusted among his fellows. This is one way of acting on the morality of a class, and it has the great advantage of resulting simply from the operation of a natural moral law. The other, with which we are all familiar, rests on penalties. Now, although it is necessary to enact penalties in order to uphold the principles of social morality in our relation; with one another, the State is by no means called on to pass laws in order to bring into existence relations such as that of debtor and creditor, which, but for those laws, would not exist. Our prisons re ceive annually thousands of poor persons who ought never to have stood in the position of debtors, per sons whom it was no kindness to trust, and who never would have been trusted but for the law of imprisonment for debt. It might have been sup posed that the last interest to be invoked in sup port of such a system would be the interest of morality. We have met, however, in the columns of a newspaper which inherits the high reputation of the late Mr. .liato. WILSON, with an argument professedly drawn from "dry political economy," which is even more surprising than the preceding. We are told by the Economist that " credit gives the " poor more comfort', induces them to consume " articles in greater quantity and of a more costly "sort, and in the long run and in general it there " fore compels them to work harder and produce " more. The abolition of petty credit would be the " abolition of one of the most diffused attractions " to honourable labour." This argumentis very like that by which Mr. M ‘C tJ Lima proves that the heavy Nation of the productive climes is good per es. It is, of course, very desirable it dm laboring deems should be made to work header lad proem more, and every time that you show a mini an ob ject of desire which is only to be obtained by exer tion and abstinence, you do something towards that end. This is what would take place in the total absence of credit. But we now read for the first time that the way to get a man to exert himself is to let him have possession of the object first on credit, and then work out the debt. If our oon temporary will step in to the first manufactory he pease', and ask the foreman to tell him why a man working under such circumstances is said by his mates to be on a " dead horse," he will hear enough to induce him not to repeat his singular theory. By all means let a working man have all the credit which a tradesman will give him on the security of his character and abßity. Credit given on any other ground is a snare which we sincerely trust Lord WiSTBCRY will speedily abolish. Eft Court. BALMORAL, IfAY 14. The Queen, accompanied by the Primsem Helena and the Prince sad Prisms. d Leieingen, arrived at Balescael at bill-put three this day. The Princess Louise, the Princes Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, with tie Priem= Alberta of Leiningen and the royal suite, arrived shortly after. Lady Churchill, the Lady in Waiting, joined the royal I train at Oxford. The Prince and Prime= of Wales, attended by the Hoe. Mrs. W. Grey and Major Teesdale, vest in the forenoon yesterday to Mr. Holman Hunt's studio, in Hanover-street. The Prince rode oe horseback, Weeded by Major Tees dale. TM Pnoceee• of Wales took a carriage drive, attended by the How Mn. W. Grey. The Prince sod Princess of Wales, Abraded by Lord Han* the Hon. W. and Mm. Grey, and Major Teesdale. went in the evening to the concert given by the Philhar monic Society, at the Hanover-equare Rooms. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Canada, aed from the Lord High COM missiooof of the lonian Wanda. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the Wert ladle Islands, British Columba, and Bermuda. Earl Russell, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has issued invitations for a grand entertainment on Tuesday, the 24th init., in celebration of her Majesty's birthday, to the whole of the foreign ambassadors and ministers, together with some of the leading diplomatic ear vanta of the mown at present in England. Earl De Grey and /Upon, the Secretary of State ter War, will give a peed banquet to hie Royal liiiltmem the Field-Ilaralial Comaradimpin-Chief, and a large party of feeding aikido ecemacted with him department, on Tow day mat, in honour ol she Queen's birthday, at hie private midtown in Carlton-gardenia The Duke of Somerset, the First Lord of the Admiralty, will entertain • lane party of naval and civil aims attached to hi department as Tuesday next, at his offidal residence at the Admiralty, Whitehall. The Duke of Marlborough bee left town to meet hi yacht in the Southampton Water, in order to take a cruise ia the Channel During his cruise his gram will visit Cherbourg and other parts of the coast of France. The Earl of Wilton left Grosvenor-square yester day for Badminton, on a wilt to the Doke and Duchess of Beaufort daring the Bath race meeting. The Earl of Coventry, Viacomlt Canterbury, the Berl Ai meshy, Vincent Carson, Captean Hoe. Prederiek Carson, Sir Joseph Hawley, Sir Henry Dee VOIILI, 00101411 Hon. James Macdonald, Colonel Hon. H. Forester, Captain Leslie, Mr. C. Greml be, Mr. Payne, Mr. W. G. Craven, and a large party have left town for the Bath noes, and will be among the rune at Badminton. Lord and Lady Dufferin have left the Palace Hotel, Backingbam•gat., for Clandeboy, Ireland, for a few days. The Countess of Yarborough had her first "re ception• this 1111111011 at the family mansion in Arlington street last night. Previously to the arming party the Earl and Germane of Yarborough entertained at dinner the Duke of St. Albans, the Countess (Dowager) of Liatowel sad Ladies Eleanor end Adele, Hare, Lord and Lady Rendles ham, Lord Chalks, ROIL Lady Film?, Lady Elizabeth Berth, Captain Ewart, Captain Fraser, Mr. North, &o. The marriage of lady Constance Villiers, eldest daughter of the Earl sad Countess of Clarendon, with Caplan' the Hoc. Frederick A. Stsaley (the Grenadier Guards), youngest eon of the Earl sod Countess of Derby, will take place on the 31st hat. The marriage of Lord Frederick Cavendish, seemed son of the Duke of Devonshire, and the Hon. Lacy Lytteltoo, second daughter of Lord LOUlton, and Maid of Honour to the Qum, is appointed to be solemnised on the 7th of the ensuing month. Elea MAJESTY'S ARRIVAL AT BALMOBAL,•-...a131* Majesty reached Ferrybill Junction, Bear Aberdeen, at 15 minutes pest 12 o'clock at noon, being 5 minutes before time. For the first tints sines her greet bereavement, the Queen had given orders for the admen's* of the public to the socket= where the train stops, and a large numb e r of spectators ansembied. There was so military °rattier guard of honour. the ground being kept by the polio.. During the time the train was 'topped, her Majesty showed at one of the windows of her saloon, and received a hearty cheer from the spectators, which was renewed on the train moving off. Her Majesty graciously ackoewledged this set of homage sad welcome by bowing repeatedly. The weather being beautiful, the journey along Deride wee very pleasant Flags waved at many places along the line. and groups were assembled ; but the train did not stop until Aboyne was necked, in little more than an hour after leaving Ferrybill. At Alamos • large number of spectators had smembled within and around the statics, who gave the Queen a most respectful welcome. Carriages being in wait ing, the royal party almost immediately drove off ; and sitar a stoppage cl a few minutes to change horses at Ballat•r, made the journey to Behnoral in about two hurt, arriving there about 4 o'clock. The country kilts fresh and green. The cold winds have now gins piste to genial weather. The stay of het Majesty, it is widendood, will extend over four weeks ; and the court, it is expected, will return to Balmoral in August, for a sojourn of about two months. .lidisbero• Courant. LORD' BROUGHAM AT THE FEINER INSTITUT& At the lestitate at Paris, on Baturday, there we • very full atteedanos of the members of the Academy of Moral and Political Scieriesej areoupt whom were the Duke do Broglie, Baron Dapin, MIL Duple Proctuenr-lroperial, Mignet, Michelet, Thierry, Odiloe:Barrot. Jules Simon, Michel Chevalier, and Wdowski. who cordially welcomed the appearance of Load Brougham. His lordship attended to introduce to the Academy the new corresponding member, Mr. Elwin Chadwick, nominated in the place of the late Dr. Whitely, archbishop of Dublin. After Lord Brougham had made the cuitomary representation in • few forcible sentences, M. Miguet read in French • paper by Mr. Chadwick expounding the Orystem of " mixed mental sad physical training, involved in the hull school-time system." air practised chiefly in the district poor-law schools of England. The paper was received in a very cowlimentery manner. UNIVEItaiI;Y OF LONDON. The Council have given noire that the neat half.yearly examination of can. didatss for matriculation in this university will commenoe on Monday, the 27th of June. In addition to the metro politan examinatioa, provincial examination will be held at St. Cutbbert's College, Craw ; Stonyhunt College, Oweit's College, Manehaster ; Queen's College, L i verpool ; and the Town-ball, Leda. Candidates who par the ma triculation starniaatiori are entitled to proceed to the &- pre conferred by the university in arta, serer, sad modicum, and are exempt from the entrance examination, otherwise imposed on candidates for admission to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst ; from dose examinations of which every medical racket now commencing his proles dotal studies is required to have pared some one, front die preliminary examiaatioa otherwise imposed by the from of Surgeons on candidates for its fellowship, sad front those examinations of which it is neosseary for every person en tering upon articles of te clerkshi to an attorney to have =d some one, such as in the first divisor& entitled to the additional exemption of one year's or rice. The metropolitan examicatioa will be couduatel by the Rev. Dr. C. Bahian, of St. Peter's College , Oembridge Dr. W. Smith, Mr. Isaac Todhn o t er , o f fit. John's College, Cambridge ; Mr. J. G. Fit* M.A., or of Ur Majesty's inspectors of schools, sad other gentleman. A MEDICAL lILIVIIONART Palisrr.—The Rev. C. A. Ramble, M.D., canted St. Mark's Church, Tollingtow park. lalinglon, has bees appointed pllysisian sad m" • to El nuns, Solid America, in ecanexksi with the Scat Amorist Miesbary of reverend 'oedemas is ber • mem of the Royal of Physierns of Rondos. • member of the Royal College Surgeons of &glued, and a licentiate of tits Societe of Apothecaries. The ceremony of turning the first sod of the Worcester, Monmenth, end Forest of Dar Railway took piece on Friday, the spot selected brag sear the Speech Hoe" tithe fart LA MELT LITELLIGENCE. _A.-- SPEECH OF THE DUKE OF AIIOUSTEN• BURG. The Duke of Auguatenburg replied as follows to the deputation who waited upon him with the reso lutions passed at the grand meeting at Rendebtug : I thank you, gentlemen, for the expreeion of your 'esti meats of Atte:Amami to my person, and I rejoice in the manly spirit width nmalleste itself in the resolutions of the assembly of inhabitants of the Duchies. Fate deter mined that the eky Mould remain a eimpte spectator of the esploile of others, even at the moment when its mid mos was at stake. for myself I have, more than all others, been painfully affected at being placed in such a position ; but I was bound to discharge that duty, which had berm imposed upon me by the Mends of the country, sad I know very well that I mould only have accepted it in the ease of a population as loyal sad as persevering as that of Slemig-Holatein. The old warriOn of the army of 1848, who are assembled mew under their flags at Rends- i burg, are not only witnesses of the brave put, but they are also emetics; that the country will not want defenders in the moment of peril. Never will a King of Dims* again reign over this country. I have a firm oonvietioa that I can reckon upon all the strength of my people for the attainment of the comma end, aid the country may rest assured that I shall be happy to pledge my life for the defame of its tights. POLAND. A letter from Cracow has the following : The sadden arrival in this city of emit Ifeendorff Poenlly has had the effect of imparting activity to the zeal of the local authorities in their campaign against the Polish element in ()alien. The last females arrested were the Countess Marie Tareowska and the Counter ?Alma, grand aims of Thaddeus Koeciasko. the mast illustrious patriot of ancient Poland. The Goversor-Onemal de clares that he will adopt the snout severe men sans to make them confess their complicity with the Ns noes! Government. The men are not treated any better. if. Bentkowski, the eminent deputy of the Berlin par ' inmost, who has been detained for ten months in an un wholesome cell, without having undergone any isterrega Moo, is dying of an affection of the langs. General Bros sewski, formerly in the Belgian service, bat since settled to Galicia for several years, is also ill and deprived of any assistance from his family. Lastly, General Count Joseph ?Alaska, a veteran of the first empire, has just been tom from the works of art and history to which be was devoting the remainder of his life. A companion of Napoleon L, he was engaged in analysing and describing with Went the wan and connate of which he bad been a wine's. His intetrogatee, commenced oci the 27th alt. in the criminal prison of Pramard. The following is an official report of the extraditions published by the German journal of Cracow:-275 inhabitants of the king dom delivered up to the Russian authorities (the journal takes ears to add that 46 were handed over by oonstraint) ; 369 expelled, probably to France ; 217 sent for Axed reel deem to Kontepgran In Bohemia, and 80, belonging to different nations, sent to their respective countries. This is the official return, bat it is very far from attaining the real number, which we shall give when an opportunity pre. Dente Unit. THE PRINCIPALITIES. The Pays makes the following deprecatory re marks upon Prinoe Couza's coup d' Etat : The Prime is playing a great game, the Wu* of which is difficult to foresee. He has not oily to opine to en under. standing with hie own people but with the POI.* his mere* and he btu also to give satisfactory explana time to the power. which have granted his posessions. There is nothing unexpected in hie recent act. It was well known six menthe ego that he had it is oontemplation, end we believe that the Roumain Cham ber not oily foresaw the blow which has falleenpon it, bat ha. taken mamma to frustrate its consequences. AIISTRLL The Moniteur du Soir states that the effective force of Austrian troops concentrated on the fron tiers of Transylvania and Bukovine amounts to 30,000 men, and that they occupy the whole line of the Carpathians. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE POISONING CASE. (raoi o ow PARIS, Itonay EvErnra. The great Is Pommeraia trial is approaching its conclusion ; it may possibly be over at a late hour to-night, but at all events it will be; finished to morrow. This morning K Oscar de Valhi°, the First Advocate-General, made his speech for the prosecution. He began by a declaration of his oppressive sense of responsibility to society, of which he was the representative, but at the same time expressed a confident hope that he should be equal to his task. Although he stood there as the stern advocate of justice, he did not shrink from avowing that be entertained a certain feeling of pity for the prisoner. Formerly public pro secutors were apt to see in an accused party only a criminal, and to forget that he was a man ; but now, thank God, there was no thirsting for blood in the tribune from which he spoke. He was fulfilling au impartial duty only, and should be the first to rejoice if he could think , the prisoner innocent. But unfortunately his guilt was incontestable. After defending the memory of Madame Pauw against the asper sions of the prisoner, wbo had represented her as a libidinous woman ready to throw herself into the arms of the first corner, the Advocate-General affirmed that she bad never quitted the paths of virtue except with the prisoner, and then not till after her husband's death. It appeared from the prisoner's books that the sum total of his liberality to her did not amount to more than 680 fr., and there was no doubt that at the time of her death and long before she was in a state of the most distressing poverty. That I she died of poison was beyond all doubt—that fact had been proved by two scientific men in the most irrefutable manner. The chemist and drug gist, K Hebert, whom the prisoner had dubbed a savant, had given evidence which but served to give relief to the conclusive testimony of the medical men called by the prosecution. The main points were : L That the deceased died of poison. 2. That the poison was of the nature of those which, belonging to the vegetable kingdom, might leave no characteristic traced in the organs, and might not be eliminated by chemical analysis, but which revealed their presence by their effects, and were discovered by the deadly action which they exercised upon living animals. 3. The experts extracted not only from the matter vomited by Madame Pauw on the floor ing of her room, but also from the organs which were analysed, a toxical principle which, being tried upon animals, produced effects analogous to those experienced by Madame Pauw. 4. These effects and this action greaUy re semble those known to be produced by digitalis, and the medical men, without positively affirming that digitalis was the poison used, say there is a strong presumption that Madame Pauw's death was caused by that substance. 5. Madame Pauw was in no way ill till the day before her death ; the alleged affection of the heart and stomach for which she consulted several doctors was like the fall she said she bad had— fables invented by her, or to which she lent her self, 6. The autopsy showed conclusively that she neither died from a fall nor from internal hemorr hage, nor acute or chronic gastritis, nor from a TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1864. 8. That digitalis was one of these poison. TUMIDLY, MAY 17, 8 8.11. 2 ... . IT. W. --. Mena .. WOO,, W.N.W. AblMI . 10.18 &&W. UM Al &&& Ardroasaa 10.11 61 S. Orofeboasile 10.12 Oa &W. ()Joey 101066 &ILL Valeatia 1 30.05 03 8.9. W. Caps Mr 30.07 it; B.i. I s Quepoidews .96 OW 1.8.1. Liverpool BO2B 81, 1 &&& Holyhead BO.lB 86' XL& remsbcoka 80.17 111 && Hama 180.16'60 & Brad 130.12 70 B.H. 1:0,10 10.06 ii.x.s. toehatart 80.0 8 .66, & Mem& 1766' ILL Weymouth— 10.21 66' &IL& ._—___... .... —... Dover MOM 411 MILL Tonnages 30.21/ bil IL fiL icarberoush 80.1111:711 S&L Welds a0.27 &W. Inittolsad 10.36 61 24. mfr.) l °l Ib l b b perforation at the stomach, nor from any natural MIMI. 7. That poison was found in the prisoner's house, which he cannot account for. The Advocate-General concluded at half-plat 2. M. Lacband has been speaking for the prisoner all the afternoon. The Moniteur du Soir contains the following letter from the Emperor's private secretary : The English journal, the Owl, under the head of " Fria& Yolibm," radii's. • letter, bearing my signature, whirls it pretends to have received from the imperial court of France. The Mors*, Post reproduces the lams thing in its number of May 12. This letter is, from first to last, a most soda:iota harry. I stigmatise it with this well served epithet in the most unqualified manner. Accept, &a, The Seardar, Ebsoretary of the Emperor. and heed of his Cabinet, If °amour,. I have not the advantage of reading the Owl, int I have an impression that it is a sort of Maria:ors and I suspect it will turn out than the paragraph, of which the Emperor's secretary so solemnly com plains in the leading columns of the French official journal, was no more serious that the report of the sitting of the Conference which appeared in the same publication. If so, the laugh will be against IL Mocquard. An unexpected incident occurred in the Corps Legislatif to-day. The old affair of Lesurques, which lovers of absolute justice have brought for ward over and over again without success, has now met with a favourable vote. Lesurques was a man convicted of robbing the Lyons mail, and executed pursuant to his sentence upwards of half a century ago. His innocence is considered to have been con clusively established, and membees of his family have, under successive governments, made " con tinual claim" for compensation, which ministers have invariably opposed on the ground that such interference with the recorded decision of a court of justice would be a bad precedent. But to-day it was moved, by way of amendment to the Finance Minister's budget, that a sum of 54,585 fr. 35c. should be awarded, by way of compensation, to Lesurques' family, and in spite of the opposition of M. de Parieu, the government commissary, a vote in favour of this tardy act of justice was carried by 113 to 112. It does not necessarily follow that the family will get the money, because in point of form all that has been done is to refer a particular section of the budget back for further consideration. But I venture to say that after this vote the im perial government will think it politic not to raise difficulties and to take credit to itself for repairing a standing grievance. The result will perhaps be thought encouraging for the heirs of the Baron de Bode. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) SIOSMILS. WICDIIMIDAT. OS NOSSIIIII SWOILWAT. S.W. to &IL and I, Oomen. LK. to BM., variable, moderato, dna light to moderate, dna. 8.8. W. to LB.L, ma Winn En. As &boss. dente, fine. lastesly, Moderate, sotsessaz. I. to S. loodersto,Ano. fine. 8. to E., moderate, line. sonny. Ae next above. Northernadkaland. Weetenmlreland, Wales, and ad jitroaclee Southern =English Channel and Biscay By. Bader' windward lingland and North BY . In accordance with instructions received from the Wu-office, recommending the employment of soldiers in cultivating gardens in which vegetables may be grown for their own consumption, the military authorities at Col oheeter have granted a piece of land, nine acres in extent, to the three depot battalions at the camp, each battalion taking three acres. The lead selected is situated near the new infant school at Monkwich, and is to he fenced and cultivated at the sole expense of the troops under certain conditions *sprained in the War-office letter. The Greek newspapers tell us that Mr. Zaimea, one of the members of the deputation that visited Copen hagen to offer the Greek crown to King George, has been named "Greek Lord High Commissioner in the lonian Islands," in order to consummate the onion. A number of royal aides-de-camp h►ve also been named, and a band of 80 brigands has taken np its openers on Mount Gets. The Greek paper is responsible for the juxta•pcsitica of this information. Ctutzsr CHURCH, Sr. Gronoz IN sue East —On Sunday last the large number of 126 children were baptised at this church, alter • careful visitation of this new pariah by the parochial clergy. Of them 16 males and 24 females were less than use year old ; 22 males and 25 females, be tween one and saves ; betimes *even and 14, there were 21 males and 12 females ; and five males and three females over 14 yeses—total, 65 males, 63 females. ENORMOUS CATCHES Or MACYPJAEL.—The Cornish seise owner and fishermen are more than ever of opinion that the present season will prove to be the most prodortive one on record. The catches for the week east( Saturday Wit were enormous, and many of the local markets were overstocked. On the Sunday ilarge quantities of fish were hawked about the county is oonsepuiece of the heavy steak secured on the previous everting by the Newlyn, Mouseholle and other boats, oa the arrival of whitish at • late hoar • same was presented of unwind exciteraset and confusion. So great was the quantity of mackerel leaded that in many instances salesmen were unable to get a bid for their stock. Carts were filled and derpatcbed to the inland towns and villages, end one or two of the baste left for • port where it was hoped "something like a price would be obtained." Numbers of the fisherman, alter despairing of scything approaching ready gala, shared " catches " at random, and the proems of "opening sad curing " was commenced in earnest. Hundreds of poor people were thus employed not only throughout the night, bet during many hours on the Sunday. Much of the fish was of first-rate quality, sad essay thousands were sold for 2a. 6d. to 3s. per hundred of air score. On the same fovea lag some " East-country ,• boats landed many thousands of doe mackerel at Penzance, where the same &Sky* se 4e scribed above was is in getting rid of them. Oa the Saturday • t also the St. Ives drift boats *eight in large es, which, as in other cams, were difficult to quit ; one boat had 10,000. Altogether, there. I fare, the supply of insoksrel secured in one night alone was enormous. On Monday the fishermen had not mach moors, but en Wednesday unmistakable evidence was afforded throughout Cornwall that the catches on the pre vious night had again been large. On Wednesday erasing there was what may be almost termed • blank, while on Thursday the fishermen agile sailed in the tide of good leek. On Saturday the markets were literally glutted with mackerel, and prices were very low. At Truro eves, a town which is by no means ore of the cheapest mackerel markees„ splendid fish were retailed at 10, 12. and (in the evening) 14 sad 15 a shilling. Several scores of tons have been seat over the Cornwall milways, and some of the stations are almost unbearable on account of the great Lb traffic during the week. Notwithstanding the low prices some of the wholesale buyers have lost considerably during the past fortnight in consequent* of the continued large supply of fish, the quality of which seems to be fully equalled, if sot somewhat szed, at every catch. nun PROSPECTS TN Devon.—The country gene lolly, and North and East Devon in particular, is looking remarkably well just now. The late In. growinngg showers mom just when they were wasted. If no nnnsnslly aware frosts come on, the prospect for fruit of every kind is • mode:celled cue, It is long since such • splendid dky at apple Moines has been seen ; the trees sad even wWe orchards are am mess of bloom. Pews are likely to he abundant, and are est, some of the young fruit ori alrr ar cZ measuring two inches round. Cherries, too, are f some bin as inch and half round. There in rem preeppot plenty of garden fruit.—Tiveran Ossetic mai OP WALES (LIZIITED).—(TBIS LAX) —o— half-yearly Medlin of the directors was held st Rook at the Lembo Tama, Mr. J. N. DANTILL in the chair. The following report and balance sheet were presented : "The directors have the pleasure of rubmitting Um:follow ing report and bathes sheet, to the 31at March hat, The proprodoes will observe that the gross profits of the bank have been 5,330/. 16.. 2d., and that after deducting salaries, rent, and current expenses, there remains a balance of 1,1151.75. 3d. ; which amount the directors recommend should be canted forward to the profit and loss new account. The direekes hays to observe that. in February last, addi tional branches were exposed at Cowbridge and Usk ; in March, at Cardiff ; and in April, at fleverford west. The directors have much pleasure in informing the shareholders that they have deoluded to with the olcltste blished dm of Messrs. Lock. dm, and Co., bankers, of Pembroke and Teoby, for the transfer of their blinders, which will matirially increase the oonnexiou of the bank in that part of the principality. Looking at the very short time during which the branches have bees in operation, and the improved position and standing of the bask, the directors cannotrefrainfronexpressingtheir satiefeetioft &tin doped now shown, and they feel that they may safely cosgratu• late the shareholders upon the future prospects of the com pany. In compliances with the Articles of Amaciatios. three directors DOW retire. They are James Goodson, Esq., Charles Homage, Fol., and Thomas Onclitorkey, EN., all of whom are eligible for re- elect and offer themselves accordingly. The auditors of the company ales retire from dike, sod Arthur Cooper, Esq., and Edwin H. Cidsworthy, Ed., being elgibis for re-electios, o ff er themselves accord -141. "Baketorshest of the Bank of WAD (Limited), 31st Match, 1864 :—Dr.: To capital, 71,5801. to amount due on current, deposit, and other doom* 87,8521. 16e. Bd. ; to pow profit from last account, 8221. 12s. 9d. ; interest, discount, commission, and other o irdita, 4,506/. 3s. sd. ; together, 5,3301. ls. 2d. T 164,7631. 12s. 10d. • Cr. : By pre li minary expenses, 6, 81. 12s. 6d. ; by bani premises, furniture, expenses of establibmg sad purchasing kanchen /en, 8,90 th 2s. ;by bills &wanted, load, ash at bankers', he., 145,3651. 9s. ld.; by current impasses, 4,2151.85. ltd.—total, 164,7631. 12s. 10d. " PTAH and Loss doomed. —Dr. : To current expends, 4,2151. Bs. 11d. ; balance, 1,1151. 7s. 3d. ; total, 6.5361. 16s. 2d. Cr.: By gross prdits, as above, 5.3301. 16.. 2d." The CHAIADLN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that considering the difficulties which they had to con tend with at the commencement they might well ocopata late themselves oa the position they had now attained. The greatest possible credit wee due to the original directors, of whom be was not one, for their strenuous exertions, and be traded the result would be increasingly satisfactory. Than was al first peat difficulty in obtaining the regalia.]: emitted, but this difficulty had now been removed, and the bank was DOW sa highly appreciated ma any bank in the principality. The time for declaring a dividend could not be distant, as the busiams way inoreasiag very rapidly at the various branches. He had no doubt that at the next half-yearly meeting there would be a very fair dividend. Many of the branches bad only just been established, and be believed there were as prosperous days before them as before any similar bank in the country. A SaAasmounta considered the report anything but satirfactory. A profit of 1,1151. was very different from that which the shareholders were led to , ect by the prospectus. He then entered at some length awl amid some impatience on the part of the meeting into a criticism of details connected with the constitution and early pro ceedings of the bank. After some remarks from the CHAIRMAN in reply, the report was adopted. CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LONDON, AND CHINA.-(THIS DAY.) The annual meeting of the shareholders was held at 1 o'clock at tha busk, 54 Threasiousdks4krok, Mr. Grogaz G. Nicol. in the chair. Th;reisititWe isKnows :—" The directors have the = of . presenting to the shareholders the audited sheet, and profit and Ices account of the bank, for the year ended 31st December last. Alter providing for all bad end doubtful debts, and defraying expense of management at all points, the set profits amount to 196,5621. 25., to which has to be added a sum of 4,2691. 9a 2d. undivided profit, brought forward from the preceding year, making a total of 200,8311.115. 3/1. Oat of the above total, 50,0001. has been paid in two hall.yeerly dividends, and 25,0001. as • bonus, making together 15 per omit on the paid-up capital of the bank. A further sum of 50,0001. has been added to the reserve hied. The unappropriated balsam of 75,83 U. Ala. 3d. is carried forward to the profit and loss amens& at the carnet year. As will be sees by the ac. tessels. Unread= on sew shares paid up to 31st Demme bet, eneemeting to 81,1401., ham been added to the omens fund ; the balance doe tt i o n . zect of same, 18,8601., sine received, has also been to this amount, which. with the addition of 50,0001. rout the yinea profits, above referred to, makes a total at this date at credit of that fund of 350,000/. The directors have purchased freehold premises for the baak's • at Bombay, Colombo, %vapors. Shanghai, sad Yokohama. Unties of the beak have been opossdat Point de Galls and Nelms Sllia in Ceylon, Tod mein in Soothers India, Makes , in Okla% and Yokohama is Japes. The tos thoemad new theme have been all takes by the shareholders to wboeithey were allotted, and thesum paid op to this date on &comet of the new capital amounts to 134.8131. The dire don retiring are Yr. George Garden Niool and Yr. George Palmer Robinson, who, Wise eligible, offer themselves for re-election, and the court moommeod them accordingly. The shareholders will have to appoint auditors for the current year." The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, observed that the profits of the past year were within a fmotioe off 40 per cent., and the position end prcepects of the bank were in all respect. satosfactory He added that 75,0001. would be available for dividend on the let of July. The report was adopted, and the proceedings terminated in the usual manner. PRIMINTATION TO LORD HOITORTON. Lord Honghtoo was yesterday premiered by hie old friends et Pontefract with a silver salver, ia " 'wpm:Milan of the manner is which, for twenty-live eneesseive years," be re presented the borough of Panther* I. parliament. la Lis speech, the noble lord sketched the political his oftory the last twanty-five yews. and, whilst claimior the character of • " Ltheral," he defended the existence of small borhs. Be described them as being useful for the isdepsodeat, quiet order of repreesstatives—the In who would attend to Waimea, bit who had sot many enough to a lsria borough or ability enough to asks a He spoke favourably of an extension of the franchise ; in his own words. "be would keep the door of the ceestitution always open," and with all the emeliontring legidatkon on commer cial at social reforms he most cordially agreed. - Till MANCHE:3MR UNITY Or ODD FiLLOWS...— The sauna' meeting of the importaat order of the Yam theater Unity of Oddfellows was held at Birkenhead yes terday, when about 219 deleptar assembled under the pro of the Grand Master. From his statement it ap t the order numbered 358,556 members is January = During the past year the number of " initiations" use 26,900, the total laaeam In the year biug 15,603, after deducting losses by death. eacesiko, and lapsed WHOM. During the year the mortality account amounted to 55,0001., whilst the reserved capital is said to amount to about 2,000,000/. OCTOGENARIAN Irraarsorry.—Lately an old woman, 82 years of age, paid a visit to Miletsed to bid adieu to some relations previous to her starting for Utah. She is Dahlia( daunted at the teak before her, befog saraired by her chief that travelling by railway is so sweet on the other side of the water. She goes with a man about the same ages. herself, and feels cuofident that she shall yet see three sons of hers who have hew some time in the Memo° ooloey. —Maiiistoste Journal. SINGULAR DIA= or • CHILD THROUGH EATING Borricacore.—Aa *wet was held on Monday last, at the Bull Hotel, Dartford, baton C. J. Canter, Fag., °Droner, oe th e body of • child named Sarah Ithatheth Berm, aged six years. It appeared by the evidence of the mother sad father of the child that setae tine before death the de ceased had complained of feeling very unwell and in great pain about the body and legs. The mother afterwards discovered that the decreed had bees eating buttercups from a field aloes by, and sent for a powder from • chemist's ; but as the deceased vomited • great deal and pressaied every appearance of having hem poisoned, she hasteasd off for the parish surgeon (Mr. Mar- tin), but that gentleman did not arrive at the house till the child was dead A pod stork= examioatiou had been mad*, which clearly proved the deceased had been poisoned by eating huttercups ; and the jury returned • verdict to that effect, but thought Mr. Martin might have attended sooner upon the dowses& —Maidstone Journal. A VESSEL SOCKED INTO A WHLBLPOOL.—About three weeks ago a stoop bound from Stornoway to How% with a cargo of dried fish, while paining down the Sound of Jura, wan drawn into the whirlpool of Oormweekan. The crew, ou ending that else was wheal under the power of the current. the wind being light, a her in the boaßand masa the plate is a nd s (Enda"). whence they proceeded to Obis, on their way back to Lewis. About a week after wards a steamer while as her way to the North observed a sloop, with all sail set, es above is a mull bay at Jura, at the entrance to the Gulf of Oorrevreckan, and oe her arrival at Oben reported the matter, and the crew of the smack, who were there waiting for the steamer to take them home, immediately returned to the meal, got her are and proceeded as the voyage. It was said that ate was sucked in by the whirlpool, and, after being thrown out, drifted with the eddy tide and writ ashore at the spot when she was found.--Greesock Advertiser. Tax Glaxsas LY Mistaxnu.—The Germans develop the resources of the country wherever they go. Last saran at Hennas sad vicinity, the grape crop in the way of grapes, wise, and cattier, yielded the handsome awn of 164,250 dole. Miesouri will soon be one of the P s . os p tst wine growing stain in the Union.—Jfisantri Tuts Nww AxgwroAx Two Cvrr. Pram —The wow two met. poem leeks like gad. A wreath of whisk eurrewidieg " 2 mete. " sod armed which we the weeds " (roiled States of Amities," form ewe side. I% Meld of Liberty, and the words "God oar Treat," sake ap the l oam's' aids. EXECUTION AT GLASGOW. Yesteria7 morning John Reilly was executed in Glasgow, in front of the Court House. The culprit was convicted at the last Glasgow Circuit Court of the murder of Nervy taffy, in the parish of Bothwell, near Glasgow, on the 17th or 18th of December last. The widowers tendered at the trial was of a circemstanual nature, and as it was held by some to bed as inconclusive character, efforts ware made to obtain • reagents of the capital =Dine& A public meeting was held, from which a peliMon in favour of the prisoner was seat to the Home • and at • meeting of Roman catholic', co-religionists of the enlprit, it was resolved to follow a similar course. A petition was also traernitted by Mr. Black, the religio us adviser of the primmer, and another by the culprit. Om Friday last, however, • letter was received, intimating that, after doe *airy, Sir George Grey sew no sufficient reason for setting aside the verdict of the jury. The convict since his conviction has conducted himself with remarkable finsuree and composure. He took, et amuse, a good deal of interest in the efforts made to obtain a commutation of his sentence, but when the decision of the Horne-oMee wee communicated to him he received the intimation with unflinching calmness, having apparently made up his mind foe the worst. Being • Roman cathol, he was attended throughout by the Right Rev. Dr. Murdoch, the bishop of the draft, and the Rev. Mr. Black, and he is understood to bare devoted himself assiduously to the religious duties befitting his 'Metro. He maintained his innocent* of the crime, but seemed quite resigned to the dreadful fate which awaited him. The hour fixed for his execution was 8 o'clock yesterday morning. The I,atlold was erected in front of the South Prison, the usual plena of mention in Glasgow. A large crowd, computed by some to comprise about 20,000 persons, assembled to witness' the dismal erne. The prisoner to the last pee. served the firmer of demeanour that bad chanctesuei him from the day of his conviction. On Sunday ni g ht b e retired to rest about 12 o'clock, and slept iotermittingly for a few hours. After getting up about half-past 3he was attended by the Ern. Mr. Black. and subsequently by the ' bishop, both of whom remained with him to the last. ' About five minutes past 8 he was brought out from his cell, where he had been pinioned by Calraft, and delivered over to the city magistrates, when the bishop briefly inti. mated that he had nothing to say. The wretched roan was thee conducted to the scaffold, which he ascended with an unflinching step. He knelt with the bishop an d Mr. Black on the drop, and engaged in • final act of deco tion, and immediately afterwards he was thrown off. He seemed to Waggle hard for about three or four mioutes. The scaffold was surrounded by a screen, which almost entirely hid the convict's person after he was dropped. THE MURDER NEAR ROTHERHAM. The hearing before the Rotherham magistrates of the evaders,. spinet the two mu, James Sargiroo and Richard Denton, for the murder and robbery of John Cooper, near Roche Abbey, on the night of the 9th April, was concluded yesterday. The murder, it will be meal. looted, was of a very brutal character. Cooper called at a public-house, near Laughton, oe hie way to the house of his parents on the Saturday n4ht. He wu shortly afterwards attacked is a narrow, lonely Law and beaten on the bud until his skull was knocked in. The Pie against the two men differed very materially. Sargiason, shortly after his apprehension, admitted having been present at the murder, which he said wee committed by Denton. He told the polios that they would find the murdered man's watch in his (Sargisores) piptye, and hie (Sergiseon's) bloody clothes between his bed and mattress. These articles were found acoordiogly, aod are conclusive proof of his gu il t, in addition to his statement; which wu not made until after the government had offered a re. ward of 1001. for information and a free pardon to as informant who was implicated, but not the actual murderer. Dutton was apprehended on &reboots's state. mut, and the additional evidence against him was purely cumunsbatith It was shown that he lives in the imme diate neighbourhood of the some of the murder, and was out at a bee hour on the night of the murder, being also akin with Sargiron at the public houses at which Cooper called at the time the murdered man, Cooper, left. When apprehended Denton denied that In had ever bees with &grime, or that they were compaciou. This denial wu clearly proved to be untrue, and in hie possession were f mod several handkerchiefs identified as the property of the murdered man by his brothers and mother. of blood were also toned upon his coat sod underneath the buttonhole of his vest. His right-hand pocket was also stained as if a bloody hand had been thrust into it. The knees of his trousers bad recently been cut out and patched. At the moduli= of the evidence the prisoners were cautioned in the usual way, and Bugle= this repeated the coofession which he had = t 0 r.. .4 made. Dudes fainted several times daring the and be and Sargissoc ex changed recriminations save& in the dock. figural witnesses were called as Wolf of Denton to prove an alas. Both the prisoners were anandeled for triaL Accurierr To • VoLurrrant. —The annual in spastica of the 3rd City of Loudon Volunteers by Colonel Ainistarit-eeter of Volooters, took place yesterday Oabloods HA Morn, the readmit* of Mr. Nicoll Of the amp, width unites nearly 1,000 effective naseibera, upwards of 500 were present on parade. and nearly 2 230 were absent as leave t th e balance only rema unaccounted for. The only accident occurring to mar the proem:lisp of the day was one which befell Private Lodge. Haring loaded his ride, he incautiously Crkis kit band on the muzzle and brought the smartly to the ironed. The hammer falling with the shock, the middle finger of the unfortunate man's left band was so shattered that anaputetion had to be resorted to. This was bores with remarkable firmness, almost with in difference, and the young man, ref the aid of a stretcher, walked to the poorest cab, in which he war duly forwarded to hie resideses. Bach was the sympathy excited by the accident and the asap finial with which it was endured that a saworiptioa amounting to close epos 271. was raised on tie spot by Mr. Nicholay, the quartermaster of the regiment. Cuaious lotoroarr Ar • thitrzen.—On Sunday, the Bth of May, the second Lima of the awning service in the established church was the oth of Matthew, in the 9th verse of which commesoes the Lord's Prayer. It L customary on arriving at this portion of the lessen for the to stood up, and at St. Peter's Church, Br hby cis Sunday the usual rale was observed. The eapaith however, who we are Warmed is hard a hearlag, eosin the orogrigatioa rise, imagined that the lemma hod been completed, sod therefore played the Jubilate Deo, and the choir, evidently not knowing what was best to do, sang the psalm. The minister—the it.,. Mr. Gebtorido—ctutiosod the reeding for a few momenta, when east his stentorian effort. were overwhelmed by the more powerful voice of the organ, he ors compelled to reliequish his teak, and the remaining twenty-five vanes a the chapter were consequently Idt anted The hardest caused great confusion and annoyance to the onegregation. —Suss= Advertiser. Cortuw•LL, MAY 13.—Two or three rather im portant Whiten cattle fain have bees held in the county daring the week, sod thesiderabis beams bee been trans mated. At Bode* en Wednesday, the second and princi pal day of the fair, there was a very good supply of cattle of all descriptions, and nearly all the animrls changed ovum Fat cattle averaged from bps. to 635. per cwt.: store cattle, 40a. to 4Z.: cows and calves, 53a. ; aeon, 101. to 16/. each ; ores, 301. to 341. per pair. Oallington Fair on Thursday was not largely supplied, but the quality of nearly all stock was exceediagly good, sad prior ramrod as at Bodmin cm the previous day. Roche Fair, like Calliagton, was not Imply supplied ; there was a great demand for fat sheep, of which there were yore few, sod. cousequently, theme on o ff er were readily dispose of at prom in favour of the seller. The pastures in Cornwall are un capital condition. Ti. WEATINKIL Ti. CIOPti —The rains of last week have been succeeded by splendid weather, and the last few days have beought summer suddenly upon us. The upset of the entire °cushy speaks of promise sad abseil soca The growing crops ate everywhere looking vigorous and luxuriant. The late rains came moth opportunely, sod the spring corn, beans, pets. he., all give stroog evidence of their valuable inflames The pastures have also benth Pad immensely, and the grass everywbeeu looks as if a heavy swathe may be calculated upou. Altogether, prospects are most cheering. This report is of course in reference poni es:dirty to this district, lint it is most gratifying to add that the accounts from almost all ppaarrttes of the kingdom are sub staatially of the same eatiatactory character—Sumer Ad. eertiser. FARMING PILOSPECTS fle lILISLAND. —A letter from Dublin says :—" The weather daring the presume mostk has been the moat favourable foe the crops that has been known for =ay Tsars. The vegetation is exesedingly bun , riant. It to long sines the ll` Or. ea Isle' so well deserved the title as at present. There is • alightd. slam a railway traffic, sod Uwe* who bars invented in shares we cot pleased with their dividends. Bat the farmer are in excellent spirits. The &nosed for fat stock isvery brisk, and the priersglvire are highly reaumentriive. Thera Is • was; of store cattle, which were formerly well supplied by the small farmers, who reared this, in their monotain ranges of pasture, and thee sold them to the lowland plusses. The prices are sow so high that only men of ea past are able to stook their farms. But they are sum to mil is autumn at • large Weak NM of this elms say that the farming interest wee never in • better state; while Mel of the less tortoise.* dam—that is, anall farmers without capital—declare that it was never at so low an ebb. This class is emigrating as fast as possible. The consequence is that the shopkeepers in She small tows' whom they ans• mined are giving w, and their failure acts quota the awe chants in Dublin a n other cities." . . The Woei3et•tec4 epotirim ----- en for tbe ensuing shoot ing seams in Perthebbs are at present very encouraging• The weather hie bees all that could be desired since nest building oornmeaosd, and daring the last two met/ especially the sun has shone out brilliantly every day. On 41 the moan of the county there la a large stock of grams breed*, and a number of the more early wets were hatched a week ago. Nests generally this season were well filled with eggs, sod gamekeepers state that they found in numerous oases tea sip in a single oust. If the imam ensues favourable the hatching season will sots be over, and the greater part of the young broods pest denser from Goads. TM grease, WWI few moeptions, ap• pear Mbe Wee' and healdiy. All other kinds of pros on both high sad low meads are abundant, aid in good con dition. Oapereailsie ere breeding in hip numbers in all the woods of Pertheitire.-Bcotssion. ir F Ilia