The Express. — London, England, 1867-12-02 00:00:00

PARK EXHIBITION FIRST-CLASS SILVER MEDAL, ISO 7. JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD CHAINS by troy weight, at realisable value, and the workmanship at wholesale manufacturers' prices. The gold in the chains gua• sauteed, and rapurihased at the price charged. 'Her e's the note, How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat, The fineness of the gold, and charge for fashion " SHAKESPEARE. Manufactory, 16, Hawrietta-street, Covent-prden, Louden. BREAKFAST.-EPPS'S COCOA. bite •xrefss. TO CORBICIPONDENTS. divert!temente Intended for Zion's," London Evening Paper, omit be at the Oblee, 10, Youyerleatreek by Two Welock on the day of publication. DICIIILY-LANE. THIS Evmuma, THE DOGE OF VENICE. Mr. Phelps, Mears. J. C. Cowper, IL Sinclair, L Phelps, Barrett, Temple. kt,.. Mrs. Hermann Venn, Miss Orattan.te.—And THE LA UI F.S . CLUE. MeSdauileS Heaths Shirley, Kate Harrienr, H. Vandenhotf, &c. HAYMARKET. ZTNitiwo THIS WINNING CARD. Mr. Compton.— BROTHER SAM. Marrs, Sothern, Buckafooe , compeon, John son, ke : Mes lamas Chippendale. Robertson, Lewin, &c.—And MY WD}•K4 MOTHER. Stamm Chippendale and Howe. PRINCESS'S. Tlne Eftlnwl. A LITTLE PLIRTATION.—After which THE COLLEEI HAWN. Mews. Bona:Ault, D. Atkins, 0. Neville. J. 0. Shore. IL Mellon ; Bre. Boocteault, t, & Mimes Barnett and Elaworthy.—And hO. ONE ROUND THE CORNER. LIT*UM. TIM ETriEed, Maud Shelley.—And ROMEO AND JULIET. Mears. W. Ley and Ryder; Mae Vestvall, lira Manton, and Mt MUly Palmer. TTNANTI. TIM STagiwo, NOTHING TO NURSE. Mr. Thorne and Mtge Ne •ton.—K IND TO A FAULT. Mean. Parselle, Belford, and James; Mesdames Johnstone, Owynne, and Hughea.—And WILLIAM TELL WITH A VIINGBANCK nouoitx. THLS EVENING, FOS 14VE. Menem H. J. Montague, Pries, Garden, Westland, and U. Wlddleomb; Mesdames stepbe limeade, C. %sunders, dre.—And MARY TlALZitilt; 08, TIAN WICIOUn WILLII 4 I. Miss Josephs. BIUTANITIA. Tare En:TM, THE KING'S BIRTH-TRAP. Mews. Rey nolds, 8011, tc.: Mrs. & E. Fraser: Mr. Mark Floyd: Mr. and lira Langan and Mr. J. Htlitcont—CAPTAlN GERALD. Messrs. Howe, Charlton, ; Mel/lames Coortanay, Booth, to. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGL Till Day —Morning, SL. 27m.. —Afternoon, lb. 4711. to-lloagow—Mondag, Nt. 75...... Afternoon, Gb. 29m. LOYDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2. STRANGE as it may seem, it is no easy task to awaken the public to a sense of their financial interests. For the last twenty years attention has been constantly drawn to those evils of the rail way system which have at length culminated in the present crisis, and the warnings have been as steadily disregarded. Perhaps the reason may be found in the fact that a shareholder is but a tem porary proprietor, and that he is far more affected by a depreciation of his stock in the market than by the necessity of placing the financial position of his company on a sound footing. The usual view has been that if anything should be wrong, the beat plan is to get rid of the matter by sell ing out at once. As long as affairs were toler ably prosperous but little harm was done. Now, however, the case is entirely changed. Investors perceive, not only that many of the ordinary stockholders receive no dividends, but also that the preference and guaranteed shares on some lines are not paid their stipulated interest. Hence it is not easy for proprietors to sell their stock except at a ruinous loss. They have perforce been obliged to hold on, and are now tardily beginning to look somewhat closely into the past and present management of their property. The investigation has not been favourable : in every case it has re sulted in more or less damaging disclosures. So well is this known, that the speculators within and without the Stock Exchange have in one instance been lately induced to operate for the fall mainly ou the ground that an independent examination into the affairs of the company had been insti tuted. Something wrong, it is reported, is sure to come out either in land jobbing, or obtaining favourable contract, or in the many other ways by which the money of railway shareholders has been dissipated. Of course in all these questions the rumour is sure to exceed the reality ; but it is not unjust to suppose that it has at least some foundation. In order to judge of the position of railway property, it will be well to glance at the capital accounts of the carious lines. The annexed re turns relative to ten of the chief companies of the kingdom are compiled from Mr. Skat Garza% " Railway Intelligence," and from a table recently published by Messrs. Warrzazare and CoGra. In 1858 the capital account stood as follows : Ordinary Pre , Ouarenteod, Capitol Debentures, de. Caledonian Great Eastern 5,836.456 5,405,608 Great Western 8,168,919 ... 15,618,657 Greet Northern Lanouldre and Beadily, 9,272,671 ... 4,454,614 Brighton Boath Western North Western ...... 23,033,987 ... 11,750,525 Midland South Eastern 7,433,700 ... 4,037,891 Total £81,228,684 £70,305,571 In 1867 the proportion varied considerably, the totals being as under : Ordinary Pref., Guaranteed, Capital. and Debentures, d..c. Caledonian Great Eastern 9,201,021 ... 14,180,424 Great Western ......t 13,298,808 ... 31,988,583 Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire 12,693,594 ... 9,586,991 Brighton South Western ...... North Western Midland South Eastern 7,637,049 ... 9,746,913 Total. .£113,396,088 £l4 1,823,243 It will be perceived that, as regards these re presentative lines, the percentage of preferential capital has risen in the past nine years from 46 2-3 per cent. on the total to nearly 564. Practically, therefore, the rights of the original shareholders are being so overlaid as to be vir tually in course of extinction. These figures speak for themselves. They are certainly conclusive enough to justify the prevail ing distrust, and ought to be more than sufficient to arouse the holders of this vast property, second only to the National Debt of the country, to some practical course of action. It is idle to declaim against the evil inflicted by speculators for the Lill or the criticisms of the press. Were this great property administered on a sound basis, on the common-sense principles of ordinary busi ness, such attacks would fall pointless ; but it is impossible to dispute the logic of facts. During twenty years the system of adding to capital each six months a sum approaching too closely to the dividends declared has obtained, while the proprietors have at the same time wilfully shut their eyes to the obvious fact that dividends so declared could not be reasonably accepted as reliable profits. How often is or has been the question asked, what will this or that railway company pay t rarely on never, how has the profit been earned} The simple truth is that a sort of tacit collusion has existed year after year between directors and shareholders to continue a false system of finance, which should ibn THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBE: prolong to the former their personal power and unhealthy control of a magnificent revenue, and give to the latter unearned profits, with the hope of equally keeping up an undue market value of their stock. The illustration lies in a very small ' circle, and the figures we have cited bring the issue to a strictly mathematical conclusion. Rail way traffic for the last twenty years has exceeded in growth all estimates, butcapital expenditure has gone on at a greater pace during the same period. The man of figures who invests, or wishes to invest, in railway securities is driven to the mathematical conviction that if a capital account is never to be closed, and if the accounts of railway companies are to show on one aide so much expended every twelve months, and so much declared to be profit, railways are not a safe property, and he decides that it would be better for him to invest elsewhere. We suffer at this moment the disastrous consequences of this ruinous finarcial neglect. Take, for instance, the Brighton Railway, once called " Railway Consols." The original stock, which for a series of years com manded the highest repute in the market, and was a orth 20 premium, paying 6 per cent., has sunk to 50 per cent. discount, and the company is compelled not only to compound with its bankers for their advances, but also to suspend payment of interest on even its guaranteed stocks. At this very crisis there are those who argue that you cannot close the capital account of a railway. The answer is very clear : we point to the loss from keeping it open indefinitely year after year. Moreover, in no other department of business is such a system so perpetuated. If every increase of traffic must of necessity involve an addition to capital, then the increased weekly receipts, however large, are virtually an evil, not a gain ; inasmuch as they are sure to be accompanied by further outlay. Under the pre sent state of circumstances railways have almost become a national reproach. Individuals have been enriched enormously. Contractors, lawyers, engineers, landowners, and too many others, have acquiredgreat fortunes. Bankers have given too free facilities to a state of things which helped the evil course, and it is no wonder that at this time the questions should be currently asked, "Are " railways a real property ? and is the old system " to go on ?" OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) EARL RUSSELL'S EDUCATIONAL RESOLUTIONS. In the opinion of the Daily News the above re solutions, to be moved in the House of Lords this evening, assert principles of the highest importance, and the adop tion of them would change the whole scope of our public educational effort. The right of every child to the blessings of education is asserted in order to place that right under the guardianship of the state, and upon no narrower foundation than this proposition can a super structure of primary education worthy of England be built. The country is rapidly coming to acknowledge that the dif fusion of instruction ought not to be hindered by religions differences, and the least that can be asked in the name of public economy and public justice is that no school shall be maintained by public money in which any child is obliged to receive religious instruction to which his parents object. But even this concession will not meet the re quirements of many large sections of the population. There are districts in which schools are wanted which must owe their origin to public bodies, municipal and otherwise, and the arrangements and administration of which must be untrammelled by ecclesiastical pretensions or prejudice. The Times enlarges on the difficulties inherent in the state of things which stands opposed to the educational re former. All the powers and personages who fight for the privilege of communicating education in England are fighting it out, and will long continue to fight it out, without coming to that happy consummation when some one element of the British character is to destroy or to absorb all the others. Such a state of things leaves fearful gaps and shortcomings, and therefore cannot be left alone, but ever calls for interference. But it is not to be met by a scheme for merging all peculiarities and differences under the administration of a minister of public instruction. According to the Standard, Earl Russell's resolutions are instigated by the characteristie disinclination of the whig leader to see the tory party dealing with those large questions which the liberals have either shirked or merely dallied with. Lord Russell is never so seams a reformer as when he is out of office. If these resolutions were passed to-night, and Lord Russell were Premier to-morrow, he would not attempt to carry out his own programme ; his first effort would be to dilute or explain away the effect of the principles he has himself enunciated. Cons. pulsory secular education is the logical meaning of these disingenuously-phrased statements, and Lord Russell knows perfectly well that neither the country nor the legislature is prepared even to entertain such a proposition. The Standard goes on to argue that if education is secularised, the support of the religious men of all creeds will be for feited. They have no motive in upholding secular in struction, and they will either close their schools or main tain them in zealous rivalry to the state *drools. The three central principles, says the TelerrapA, which Earl Russell is to advocate to-night are—firstly, that the education of each British child is a parental and also • state responsibility ; secondly, that doctrinal teaching must not stand in the way of secular teaching ; thirdly, that education must be free of religious disabilities for high and low alike, for scholars as for hawbucks, in the universities as well as in the parish schools. These points together make the Magna Charts of our forthcoming edu cational period. Not one of them can be compromiesd— not one must be paltered with. The Time' points any person, who is inclined to'doubt the liberty accorded to Irishmen, to the accounts which reach us from Ireland of the demonstrations cm the part of the press and populace in connexion with the late execu tions at Manchester. Is there any other country in which any newspaper would dare to print such language ? What would have been the fats of a Southern newspaper in New York, a Polish journal in Warsaw, or a revolutionary print in France which ventured on the least approach to such an experiment ? The Tine, confesses, indeed. to a certain doubt whether the prudence of foreign governments might not be justifiably imitated when the provocation has reached this height. The Daily News quotes a case which has occurred at Marseilles in illustration of the way in which ordinary civil justice may be perverted by the spirit of the government under which it is administered. It is that of a judge of a new civil court, who, on taking his seat for the first time, tells his colleagues of the local bench and his brethren of the local bar that they should prove their gratitude to the government for establishing the court by voting for the go vernment candidates for the legislature. Such, it seems, is the form of electoral corruption under a personal go vernment. It is not the corruption or the intimidation which in England is purchased by wealthy candidates or powerful supporters. It is corruption organised by the central administration, and imposed as a condition on all its functionaries and agents, including the judges who in terpret and administer the laws. A communication appears in the Poet signed "An ex- Minister," on "The Plague of Clerks." According to this writer the permanent clerks in the government offices are the gentlemen really responsible for those mistakes which are always getting our public men into trouble and lou of reputation. A " little war," producing great expense and disturbance, is a distressing result of clerkly meddling with aff►irs beyond not only the competence of an Assistant Under Secretary, but beyond what can be expected of • person wt., has passed the best portion of his life in docketing other people's letters. It is not putting the ease at all strong to say that every minister, no matter bow eminent, able, and well meaning, has bad at heart the humiliating conviction that he was a mere puppet in the hand/ of some clerk ha scarcely knew by sight. The Star supports Mr. Otway in the opinion that a short declaratory act should be passed at once disfran chising Yarmouth and Nines, and removing their mem bers from the house. The Reform Bill only makes the disfranchisement take effect from and after the present parliament. the (curt. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 30. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accom panied by Princess Louise ; and her Majesty drove in the grounds this morning, attended by the Duchess of Rex burghs. Princess Louise, attended by the Hon. Flora Macdonald, went out walking. Prince Leopold also walked out, attended by Mr. Duck worth. I Princess Beatrice rode in the Home Park, The Duke of Nemours. the Duke d'Alencon, and Princess Marguerite d'Orleans arrived at the Castle yesterday, on a visit to her Majesty. Prince and Princess Christian and Princess Henriette of Schlerwig-Holatein dined with the Queen yesterday. After dinner her Majesty's private band played in the drawing-room before the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, the Duke of Nemours, the Duke d'Alencon, Princess Mar guerite d'Orleans, Princess Henrietta of Schleswig-Hol stein and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting. The following had the honour of receiving invitations : His Excellency M., Madame, and Mies VaticleWeyer, Lady Emily Seymour, and Lieutenant-General Hon. C. and Mrs. Grey. The band played a selection of music under the direction of Mr. G. Anderson. The Duke of Nemours, the Duke d'Alencon, and Princess Marguerite d'Orleans left the Castle this morning. The Duchess of Cambridge has &leo left the Castle, at- tended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and Major-General' Lord Frederick Paulet. Lady Churchill has succeeded the Duchess of Roxburghe as Lady in Waiting. The Duchess of limxburghe remains at the Castle on a visit to her Majesty. DEC. 1. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Princess Beatrice. To-day is the birthday of the Princess of Wales. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, arrived at the Castle yesterday. The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Priam Arthur, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, sad Princess Henrietta of Schleswig-Holstein, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of New Zealand preached the sermon. The Lord Chancellor and the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. Mr. Vinter has had the honour of submitting to her Majesty his lithographs of the Queen and the Prince Consort, from the chalk drawings by Sir Edwin Landseer. Prince and Princess Christian, attended by Lieutenant- Colonel and Mrs. George G.Gordon, returned to Frogmen on Friday, from visiting the Dake and Duchess of Marl borough at Blenheim. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Halmos bury, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandoa, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northoote, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord John Manners, the Earl of Mayo, and the Right Hon. Spencer H Walpole. Despatches were received on Babarday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the Settlements on the West Coast of Africa. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the West India Wands, British Columbia, Bermuda, and the Australian Colonies. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left town on Saturday to visit the Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham. The Duke of Rutland has arrived at Belvoir Castle, and has commenced hunting for the season. His grace is about to receive a succession of %loiters at his princely country residence. - The Earl of Carnarvon left town on Saturday to join the countess at Torquay. . . . Visoount Cranborne, MY., left his residence in Mansfield-street, on Saturday, to join Viscountess Cran borne and family at his meat in Hampshire. Prince Minbnutaiyou, brother of the Tycoon, and salts, was to leave Calais at 12 noon to-day by special boat for Dover, and thence by special train at 2 p.m. for Charing-cross. MR: DISRAILL —With the exception of the attack of lumbago from which the Chancellor of the Exchequer is suffering, and which at present confines him to his room, the general health of the right hon. gentleman is, we are informed, excellent. The health of Mrs. Disraeli is gradually improving.—Obserrer. THE FUNERAL PROCESSION AT CORK. CORK, SUNDAY. The funeral procession in memory of the three Manchester convicts was manballed in the following order :—Drum and fife band ; about 500 school children and 1,500 women ; a bier, drawn by six horses, with the name. of Larkin, O'Brien, and Allen in large black letters on white cotton on the aides of the bier; then followed a brass band, playing the "Dead March" in Saul , followed by the trades and others, marching four abreast. The total number in the procession was computed at about 7,000. and there were probably some 4,000 more walking on the pavement. All were exceedingly quiet and orderly. The I I proceuioniets and those walking in company wore arape l bands tied with green ribbons. There were five bands of music in the procession. All the public-houses were cloud. After traversing the streeta the procession arrived at the Botanic Gardens and the burial service vru gone through. There was no interference, and perfect order and sobriety prevailed. Twenty-two magistrates met yesterday and decided not to prohibit the demonstration, but to have all the public houses closed during the day. Preparations are made for a great procession at Kul ' turk to-morrow. There will be high masa and office for the dead. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE TEMPORAL POWER. TheArener National says : The departure of our hoop; from Roam is being hurried on. It appears that only a single brigade will remain at Dirks Vecchia, yet the Onerratore Romano remarks that " order is tar from being established in Boma." Strange and humiliating confession ! What does the Roman government want to make it secure? It is protected by Providence, by the _love of its subject' ; by the Antibes legion, by the Pontifical Zotutves, by the Chassepot rifles. What addition can be made to all this marvellous protection? The lamentations of the Pontificals are becoming comical. The Papacy cries out for help at noon ; at 1 o'clock, it says it wants no one's assistance ; at 2 it summons its guards to the rescue once more. This brings to mind the celebrated carica ture of M. Daumier. A Frenchman who got hold of an Arab cries out " General, I have got a prisoner." " Bring him here." " I cannot, he will not let me go." It is not Garibaldism, stopped by our troops when it was about to triumph ; it is not Mazzinism,which menaces the tottering Papacy in spite of the most singular and carious consulta tion of armed doctors that ever took place ; it is modern ideas, progress, the genius of civilisation, and against such enemies no Chassepot can prevail. The catholic church with its inquisition and its pyres were powerless against Luther. We axe about to have a repe tition of the same kind. M. le Baron Dupin defends it. But, if Troy fell in spite of the valour of Hector, what has the temporal power to expect, when its titled Hector has already so vainly and so unfortunately defended so many different causes? (REUTZR • e TIMOR•118.) FRANCE. PARIS, Dam 1, Evionas. M. Oscar Vallee has been appointed a councillor of state. A despatch from the Governor of Senegal dated 'Nov. 15 states that the sanitary condition of St. Louis Gorea was most satisfactory. Since the 20th October no cases of yellow fever had occurred. ITALY. FLORENCE, DEC. 1, EVENING. The Senate has been convoked to meet the public sitting on the sth inst. The electoral college at Dealt, has elected Count Borromeo Secretary of the Interior. SEIZURE OF ARMS IN DUBLIN. Another seizure of arms has been made in Dublin. Between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock on Saturday morning. Inspector O'Connor, of the C Division of police, detective officers M'Ohee and Egginton, and Acting-sergeant Pready, in consequence of private information, proceeded to the public-house kept by Mr. Power, lienrpstreet where they found a shop &Ralston!, named Thomas WlCenna, a young man aged about twenty-three years. Mr. O'Connor question M'Kenna, who stated that he had a gun, for which he had a license. "Thetis all very well," replied Mr. O'Connor, " but have yon any revolvers r Mr. M'Kenna at first hesitated, hut at length brought the officers to his bedroom, where they discovered two six chambered self-acting revolvers, quite new and unloaded, a leather revolver case, and formidable-looking bowie knife in a leather sheath. bl`Kenna refused to give any explana tion of how he came by the weapons, end Mr. Power stated in his presence that he had repeatedly warned him to have nothing to do with Fenitunam. The officers took him into custody, and conveyed him to Saekville-place police-sta tion, where they charged him with being found in the polo session of arms without a license in a proclaimed district. Subsequently the officers proceeded to No. I, Villa-bank, Phibeborough, where the prisoner's family resided. His father, who has been for some time an inmate of the Rich mond Lunatic Asylum, bad a license to have in the house two single-barrelled guns, and liberty to carry one of them in the county of Dublin. These guns were now found, together with three powder-horns full of powder, three shot pouches, a small box of percussi,on caps, and box containing various kinds of shot, all of which were taken possession of by the police, in the absence of a responsible owner. At a later Lour the prisoner, Thomas M'Kenna, was brought before Mr. O'Donel, at amid-street polioe-office. Mr. O'Connor made a statement similar to that given above. The prisoner offered no defence, but stated to his mother, who was present, that no one knew about his having arms but himself. Mr. O'Donel sent the prisoner for trial to the next commission. it is understood that owing to the unexpected facility with which the more important business of the session has been despatched, the Government will propose that the House of Commons adjourn on Friday next for the Christmas recess. As the House of Commons has no important business im mediately before it, a prior adjournment from to morrow to Friday is not improNible. HArLEYBURY Couxos.—The head-mastership of 1 this cam is vacant. The salary is 1,5001. per annum. The appointment is in the gift of the council. GMAT STORM. The extraordinary fall in the barometer, as noted in our meteorological report, was followed swiftly by a terrible storm of wind and rain, which set in yesterday, and last night pedestrians in parts of Loudon exposed to the south-west found it difficult to make head against the I tempest. Towards morning the storm seemed to Increase ratherthan diminish, and the temperature, which bad been unusually high for the time of year, fell considerably, while snow became mixed with the rain. Before daybreak frost came on, and in the places where the streets bad not been dried by the wind there was • thin sheet of ice. Large icicles hung from the windows and edges of the roofs, and the air was piercingly cold. To-day there has been a alight fail of snow. Advises from the north give a similar report. At noon at Liverpool yesterday a dense darkness overspread the town for about half-an hour. In several places of worship pastors and people became invisible to each other, and the gas had to be lighted. At 6 o'clock at night, the barometer stood at 29.00, at midnight it was 29.28, but was rising rapidly. Towards morning several showers of bail fell, accompanied by • keen frost, which covered the streets with ice. RAMSGATE, Suirosr. During a strong gale from the south-west this morning signal guns were fired from the Gull light-ship (says Capt. Shaw). The Aid steam-tug and the Bradford lifeboat were immediately got ready, and in the coon. of twenty minutes proceeded out to the Goodwin Sands. When in the Gull stream a yawl was observed on shore in I the high part of the Sands, on her beam-ends, with the crew clinging to the rigging. The lifeboat was then slipped and run on the Sand about a qua' ter of a mile front the wreck, a heavy surf breaking over the Sand and over the boat. Three of the lifeboat meu then waded through the surf to the vessel, boarded her, and assisted the crew of eight men out of the iigging in an exhausted state, as they had been there for about eleven hours. The eleven men then proceeded to the lifeboat, and after much difficulty, on account of the heavy sea, the anchor of the boat was weighed,and she was taken in tow of the steamer, ani all returned safely to Bamegate harbour. The wrecked vessel was the brigantine Amor, of Elefieth, bound from Newcastle to Genoa, with a cargo of Goals and coke. KINGSDOWNE, KENT, SUNDAY. Lest night, during the heavy storm of wind and rain, and in the almost impenetrable darkness, the South Sand Head lightship fired guns, and exM bited rockets, and soon after tar barrels on fire were seen on the Goodwin Sands (says T. Sydenham Clarke, Esq.). Immediately afterwards the Sabrina life boat was launched, and after some little difficulty, owing to the heavy surf, was got off and sailed to the spot where the light appeared to burn ; but when she reached the sands no trace of a vessel could be found, and the dark• nem, together with the heavy showers, prevented their being able to make out anything, or to make much of • starch especially as the sea was breaking tremendously over the sands. After trying various tacks end finding no ye-eel, the lifeboat was obliged to run for Ramsgate har bour, as the wind prevented her returning to Kingsdowne. It was en awful night, and the lifeboat men did their work nobly. There are no tidings of the wreck or of her crew. The Widmer boat, it seems, also went out, but could find no trace of the vessel on the sands. LITTLESTONE, KENT, SUNDAY. Late last night, during fearfully rough weather, and when it was very dark (states Henry Stringer, Esq.), in telligence was received hers that the Dover Trinity pilot cutter, No. 4, was on shore about six miles to leeward of this lifeboat station. The Providence lifeboat belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, was launched as soon as possible, and proceeded to her assistance. After a long pull the lifeboat reached the spot, a.d found that the crew, with the exception of one man, had managed to reach the shore in their own boat. One poor fellow, however, in at tempting to get into the boat fell between her and the cutter and was drowned. The vessel is now rapidly knocking to pieces. An English brig, laden with • general cargo, is also on shore near No. 1 Battery, Dungeness, and if the gale continues she must soon go piece'. The crew are fortunately all saved. RIMING LAND, SUFFOLK, SUNDAY. In a strong wind from the S.W. yesterday morning (re ports Mr. Atkins, the officer of Coast Guard) the brigantine Naomi, of Seaton, ran on the Barnard Sands. The Grace and Lally lifeboat, which belongs to the National Lifeboat Institution, and which has just been placed here, was launched to her assistanos, and when the flood tide made the vessel got off, and there being a heavy sea on the life boat accompanied her to Lowestoft. WICKLOW, IRELAND, SATURDAY NIGHT. The Rev. Henry Bootee reports that • message was re ceived this morning from Newcastle, distant some five or aix miles along the coast, that a dismasted vessel was drifting broadside towar,4 the Greystonee, and asking for the assistance of the Robert Theophilua Garden life boat of the National Lifeboat Institution. The boat was accordingly got out and despatched, and found that it was • lighter which had broken away from • vessel. The weather was very thick and rainy, and it was blowing fresh at the time. Tho Moniker (*Mains the report of the corn mberion charged by the prefect of the Slone to examine into the scheme for creating a cemetery at Mary-sor-Oise connected with Paris by a railroad. The report occupies five oolnmns of the official paper. The opinion of the oommission is in favour of the extramural interment, and suggests that there should be branch trains for the convey. ing of the dead from the suburbs of the metropolis to the main line. Soon after the Union screw steamer Briton, which has just arrived home with the South African mails, had left the Caps of Good Hope, and while she while she wee running at the rate of nearly 12 miles an hour under full sail and steam, a government passenger, named Jones, an officer of the royal navy, jumped over board in a fit of madness. Immediately • cry of " A man overboard" wee raised, and a young men, named Dune, the third officer of the Briton, at once snatched up a life buoy and jumped overboard from the stern of the ship before the latter could be stopped, and swam in mid-ocean towards the madman to give him the buoy. A couple of boats were lowered as soon as possible, and both men were picked up. Mr. Dunn was complimented by all on board for his dazing and benevolent act. In California grapevines are planted about 1,000 to the acre. In four years each Tine yields half a gallon of wine, or 500 pilau to the acre. In 1665,40,000,000 Tines were planted in California. The yield in 1888 was 8,000,000 game, and Nan value about 6100,000 dollars. HOSPITAL FOR HISBASIS OF MI Hauer, 67, Mano•ser.stassr, W.—The number of palliate treated during the weak ending Nov. 30 wee 139. ' • - •• 2, 1867. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DA Y. ) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Alter Term Nisi Pries Sittings at Westminster.—(Before the Lord Chief Justice and Special Juries.) COUNTZSES D'ALTRIRAC V. LORD WILLOOGBY DR ERERBT. Dlr. Coleridge, with whom was Hr. Philbrick, said that when last week he and his learned friend Mr. Hawkins asked for the postponement of this ease, they were under the impression there were some hopes of a settlement. His learned friend was to try and see the defendant, and he now informed him (Mr. Coleridge) that he regretted to say he could make no offer, hat as he was not then prepared to go on he wished the case to be made a remanet the next term. The Lord Chief Justice said it ought not to have been put into the paper to-day. It was to have stood for Wed- nesday, but he was informed that counsel wished the case to bo put in to-day's paper. It must go on without the plaintiff withdrew the record. Of course he could not prevent that. Mr. Hawkins (with whom was Mr. J.O. Griffits) said that if the case went over in all probability his lordship would hear nothing more of it. He should have been glad if he could have settled it before this time. Mr. Coleridge said there was some difficulty in seeing the parties. The Lord Chief Justice said he could not allow counsel to play fest and loose with the court and inconvenienoe other persona. The case must go on. He could make no difference in a case where • counters' was the plaintiff and a nobleman the defendant than in • case between very humble persons. The case must go on, or the record must be withdrawn. -- The learned counsel both expressed a hope that his lord ship, under the circumstances, would allow them to make a remanet of it, feeling assured that by so doing it would be satisfactorily settled, and his lordship hear no more of it, and ultimately is was arranged that the case should be made a remanet till next term, and that a week's notice should be given whether it was to be tried or not. Tee remainder of the day was occupied in trying an action of ejectment, of interest only to the parties concerned. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goalburn.) IN RE ALVARADO.-APPLICATION FOR RELEASE. The bombes:L t d. • • merchant, of Nicaragua. He had been arrested • &temporary residence in this country, on an affidavit that e was about to go abroad. The amount of debts did not transpire. Mr. Reed supported the application. He stated that in 1804, he bought goods to the amount of 11,0001. through the detain' creditors (Meads. Horn, merchants, Fen church.screet), the whole of which bad been paid except 2,2001. In October last he came to this country, sad was arrested, having gone by appointment to the house of the detaining creditors where they had • sheriff's officer waiting to take him on the ground that he was shout to quit the country. His Honour held that he bad no power to interfere with an arrest so made, and dismissed the application. IN an ROBKRT SMITH Anil co. This was an application under a deed of inspectorship, executed by the debtors, who were East India merchants in Leadenhall-street. The Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, who are creditors for 13,0001., asked for an order upon the inspectors under the deed to deliver up a bill of 1,3001. in their possession upon which the bankrupt was liable, or that the negotiation of the bill might be restrained by the court. The bankrupt was willing to give credit for the 1,3001., and desired to prove against the estate minus that amount. After hearing Mr. Bailey in support and Mr. Sergood in opposition to the petition, His Honour held that he bad no jurisdiction, and dis missed the petition. (Before Mr. Registrar Murray.) IN HE SIR ROBIRT GTLL, KNIGHT. The bankrupt wrs described as formerly of Wslgrave house, South-street, Chelsea, afterwards of Bedfont, and since of Feltham-hilL The adjudication was on the bankrupt's own petition, filed on the 11th alt. ; the preliminary statement of accounts prepared by Mr. Banes, shows debts of 2,1881. The assigned cense of failure is insufficiency of income and non.receipt of a legacy to which the bankruptbelieved himself to be entitled. This was a sitting for proofs and choice. Mr. Clayton, surgeon, of Harley-street, was appointed creditors' assig nee. Mr. Chidley is the solicitor under the proceedings. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) . The December general sesame of the peace for the oonety of Middlesex commenced this day, at the Sessions- house, Clerkenwell-green, before the Assistant Judge and the following msgstrates :—Mr. Pownall (chairman of the wart), Mr. H. H. Harwood, Mr. Marten, Mr. J. G. Pilnbar, Mr. Woolsey, Mr. Rankine, Mr. G. Ashley Dodd, Sir James Tyler, Mr. T. E. Baker, Mr. Tanner, Mr. Warner, Mr. Hughes Hughes, &o. THE GRAND JURY. A sufficient number of gentlemen summoned having an swered to their names to constitute the grand jury, they were sworn by Mr. Rumbelow, the officer of the court, and alter a brief address from the Assistant Judge, they retired to their room. :166 17. I Maws*. ,fies ~.---...--... W. R. '1 Ur is I. D. & _.._.._ g. _T.I W . _7. _ -- 7 - Aberdeen - 39.56 V I N.N.W. 8 13 W.LW. n 0.36 9 84 1 faith —. 49.68 33 N.W. 6 3 LW. eh 0.59. - Ardrossan. 111.78 IS N. 610 N.L oh 0.12 6 irshentla . - 30.1039 N.N.R. 9 U N. ho 018 9 Cape Itoche'sPuint 37 N.N.W. 620 N.N.W. oc - 4 Uverpooll t 29.071 N.W. 81 9 N.W. ro 0.071 4 :I Holyhesd 29.75i N.N.W. 111 W.N.W. 0 1.911 - Permutes-- .99 N. II IS S.N.W. °he •.40i T Bred 19.90 87 N. 7 9 LW. fa 0.19 8 Loricot . 29.88,38 N.W. 3 7 W. rc 0.30. 5 Rochefort 4.8843! N.W. 5 7 LW. rb 0.16 4 Plymouth . - 29.87,31. N.N.W . 910 N . W. rhs 0.53 6 Weymouth .78 34 1 N.W. 1 03 10 N.W. 00 0.93 5 Portamouth 19 00 331 N. 710 B . W. re 0.50, 6 London 29.60 29, W.N.W. 5 ilO LW. rib 0.52 - Yarmouth 29.30 32 W.N.W. 10 .10 8. so 0.73! 5 Scarborough 29.30 23 N. 10 11 N.N.W. 0.82 9 Shield' 2054 a N.E. 7 'lO N.R. DC 410 8 Helder --! - -I - - - -I - THE CALXIMAR. The calendar, notwithstanding the brief period that has elapsed since the last sessions, is again heavy, and con tains the names of 94 prisoners in custody, and to these must be added several others charged but admitted to bail. Of the prisoners in custody, 79 are indicted for felony and 15 for misdemeanour. THE BUNINESS OF THE COURT TOR THE ENSUING TEAR. Mr. Pownall, the chairman of the court, took his place on the bench, and made the following arrangements for the sitting of the court for the ensuing year : January.—Monday 6th, quarter sessions; oonnty day. 16th • adjourned quarter sessions, 20th; appeal day at Westminster, Batorday,2sth. February.—General sessions, 3rd ; adjourned general session., 17th ; county day, 27th. March.—General sessions, 2nd ; adjourned general sessions, 16th. April.—Quarter sessions, 6th ; county day, 9th ; ap• peal day for public•house licenses, 10th ; adjourned quarter sessions, 20th; general appeal day at West minster, 2641. May.—General sessions, 11; adjourned general sessions, 25th ; county day, 28th. Jane.—General sessions, Ist; adjourned sessions, 22nd. . - July.—General quarter meadow, 13th; county day,l6th ; adjourned quarter sessions, 20th; appeal day at West minster, 25th. August.—General sessions, 3rd ; county day, 13th ; ad journed general sessions, 24th. September.—General sessions, 7th ; adjourned general pensions, 28th. October.—General quarter sessions, sth ; applications for licenses for music and dancing, Bth ; county day, 15th ; adjourned quarter sessions, 19th; appeal day at West minster, 31st. November.—General sessions, 2nd ; adjourned general sessions, 23rd ; county day, Nth. December.—General sessions, 7th ; adjourned general sessions, 21st. The Chairman said in fixing the days of the sessions the court had carefully avoided holding them upon any day that might interfere with the customary holidays of the people. These arrangements were then ordered to be made accordingly. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) GUILDHALL. CITY POLICILIN AND 3IETKOroLITAN Alderman James Clarke Lawrence on taking his scat on the bench said • case had occurred at this court recently and had been reported in which a statement was made that was so opposed to fact that he felt it neat'. sary to give it the most complete and unqualified contradiction. The statement that was made was that offenders in the City used to get over the City boundary, and that the officers could not follow them, and on the other head that the metropolitan officers could not follow offenders into the City. A mis apprehension had gone abroad in consequence of that state ment, and he therefore wished to any the assertion was en thely opposed to law and practice. If a City policeman saw • person committing an offence in the City be was empowered, and in all easel did follow him not only over the boundary, bat to any part that be might go. It was then his duty to take him before the nearest magis trate, and have him transferred back to the place where the offence was committed. The law and practice went even further than that, for they did not require an officer to see an offence committed in order to follow a man over the boundary, for he could do it if he had ground to suspect that the man had com mitted an offence. There were many instances in which City officers had apprehended persons in the metropolis and brought them before the magistrates of the district in which they were taken ; and also where metropolitan officers had apprehended persons within the City and taken them either to the Mansion house or Guildhall. He had thought it his duty to way this much in order to remove the mieappethension that had gone abroad, and he trusted that the press, which had given publicity to a statement that was contrary to law and practice, would give as wide a circulation to his unqualified contradiction of it. GREENWICH. BTILIZT OUTRAGr. John Oonaor, aged 18, of Old King-street, Deptford, wax charred with assaulting James Knight and his wife Harriet Knight, under the following circumstances: It appeared that about 11 o'clock on Saturday night the complainants were in the High-street, Deptford, and while standing at a tradesman's shop the prisoner, who was with fee or six others inter= with everybody they met, jumped up and en umbrella the female oomplainant was bolding down over her head, injuring one of her se. The husband then interfered for his wife's proteetim, on which the The southerly gale reported on Saturday increased is form, and continued at many stations during yesterday Last Mato the wind veered to the northwest and northeast, aid blew with greater violence than on Saturday ; the wind is now very strong from the northwards on ail our coasts. The oscilla tions in pressure have been most sudden, amounting to a tall if eight-tenths of an inch in plama, this morning by • rise of nearly equal =gutted°. wed have been accom panied by heavy rains generally. Snow and hail fell ye in places. A very high ma is reported from our westerri terd a northern stations. Mr. J. Stansfeld, M.P., Mr. W. E. Forster, LP., and Mr. M. W. Thompson, M.P., are announced to appear at the annual soirée of the Bradford Half•day Holi. day Association and the Early Closing Association, ca Thursday, the 12th inst. The professional attendants of the late Mr. Mervyn Prover, of Brazenose College, Oxford, agree in considering that the blow received during the bread riots on the 9th of November was not the primary canoe of death. So little did he regard the blow on his head, that he dined the following day with friends some distance out of town. The symptoms remarked through the entire illness to Its melancholy termination at 9 p.m. on Thursday, the Mb, were those of a severe attack of typhoid fever. EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE OP FOUR PERSONS FROM DROWNING.—Last night, about a quarter peat 11 o'clock, a cab containing three passengers met with an accident which very nearly proved fatal to four persons. The cab was proceeding to High-mreet, Peckhsm, up the \Villo► Brook-road, from the direction of the Old Nent-mad, but in the darkness of Vie night the cabman missed the Boat-house-be over the Peckham branch of the Surrey oana and pasted over the riming ground at the foot of it, it the bridge. The gentleman who was inside with two ies called to the driver to go over the bridge, and he at once turned his horse to do so, but being close to the side of tho canal the horse stepped over the bank, where the canal has been deepened for a coal wharf, and precipitated cab-driver and passengers into the water. Their cries fur help roused Mr. Nevill and his people, who by the means of boats sad ropes succeeded in rescuing the unfortunate persons from a watery grave, but not before two of them were nearly drowned. It was with great difficulty the horse and cab were got out. The ladies are at present dear erously and the cabman, who was perfectly sober, Is far frm _ _ _ ICOBBERY OP 3501. WORTH OF JEWELLERY AT WlOAN.—Early on Saturday mominj m it was discovered that the premises of Mr. Elijah Sw • watchmaker and jeweller, Mitigate, Wigan, had been burglarionsly entered during the previous night, and articles of very considerable value carried off. The shop was a lock-up one. The burglar bad apparently climbed the water-spout in front of the shop, and the window of the upper room was then forced by a lever, end afterwards the passage to the shop beneath wee easy. The watches had been placed in • safe. The thieves swept off nearly every article of value which lay within their reach. The property consisted of gold chains, rings, brooches pins, lockets, &-c. A small' jemuly," a file, and a dari lantern were found on the premises, from which egress had been obtained by taking out the fan-light over the door. Tits FOOTBALL MATCH AT ETON. —On Saturday St. Andrew's Day was celebrated at Eton Coll re with grand football tournament between the " Collegers" sad " Oppidans." From the end of the college buildings to the ornamental water a rope was stretched, by which the spectators ranged themselves, facing the wall, between which and the rope the game was played. At half-past 12 o'clock the competing elevens made their appearance upon the ground, and play was at once commenced. The "Oppidans" won the toes, and chose to kick ::way from the school, while the "Collegera" kicked towards it. The elevens changed places at 1 o'clock, the Collegers kicking from, and the Oppidans towards, the school. With this change the good fortune which bad befriended the forme deserted them. The Oppidans were declared the victors by a couple of " shies to one. The match between Old Eta:miens and Cambridge is deferred till the 14th Decem ber, when it will take place at Oxford. The aucient cus tom of presenting the ledge to the Head Master by the nobleman with the highest title in the echo d on St. Andrew's Day was, it is understood, disponsNl with oa Saturday for the first time, and the ceremony will DOW become obsolete. _ _ _ THE COUNTRY DINNER PARTY.—But the country dinner party still survives in all its ancient dignity, and has certainly now become one of the moat incomprehensible modes of giving and rsceiviug pleasure which mankind have yet invented. A man comes in tired from hunting or shooting, or from working in his pariah, at 5 o'clock ; and instead of refreshing himself with all those comforts which no man can find out of his own house, ho is hen rie-1 upstairs to dress, is dragged down shivering to the hall door, and bundled into a damp carriage, to Ise jo.tled some eight or ten miles maces a country, there to swallow salt soup, clammy cutlets, and cheap claret at a aeigh hour's house, in deference to conventions from which the whole spirit has departed. In former days, when the dinner was at half-past 5 or 6, when the men did really and seriounly drink port wine together foe a couple of hours, and when • round game and a rubber were per. milted to carry on the evening till II or 12 o'clock, the arrival of the carriages being preceded by " a tray"—then, indeed, there was some meaning in a country dinner peril. People met together to do something which they could not do so well in any other way. The conversation mirk* not be metaphysical, the scandal might not be metreesh• tan ; but the port wine, the whist, and the Pepe Jana were sound realities on which people looked back with satisfaction, as on so many more good thing' , got oat of life, and stored away beyond the reach of foot use. Bet the dinner at 7, the coffee after two glows, tes and photographs at half - put 9, and the ca rriages at the door at 10—these things are an mob. dantial pageant. . . . Country people ougut to meet together for what seems natural in the country—real coa viviality, and fun and merriment of all aorta. The mud dinner party, consisting of two squires, four parsons, • local barrister, and an officer from the nearest barracks, with ladies young and old to =deb, may make • vet/ jolly evening. But the painful gentility of country bOO' quote as practised at the present day is a total mist4a. It is out of place, and suited to conditions of life which prevail only in cities. Probably the farmer's "dined party" is, in spirit at least, nearer to what a country' ought to be than the respectable assemblage which looks down upon it from the neighbouring halL—Corakill Nap" sine for December. DIBPRNSAIY TOR BLIIT IkszAsza, 56, (Rear MARLBMinUOR-RTRISIT, ROGETIMITTENT.W.--000 haadld and seventy-eight patient. were relieved at this its' pessary clarify the week ending November 30. prisoner stripped to fight, and the complainant was ',Knocked down and the umbrella taken from him by the pris m and broken to pieces by beating him with it. Police•constable Drewett, :30 A reserve, said he heard screams for assistance, and saw the prisoner break the umbrella over the male complainant's body. The prisoner, when taken into custody, was drank. The prisoner called a witness, but his evidence tended to confirm that of the complainants. Mr. Train said he should not impose fines in such cases, and the prisoner was then sentenced to fourteen days' im prisonment with hard labour in Maidstone gaol. THE SHOCKING MURDER IN HAMMERSMITH. INQUEST.-(THIS DAY.) This morning, at 10 o'clock, Mr. J. Bird, the coroner, resumed the inquiry at the Wart London Hospital respecting the death of George Frederick James, aged 22 years, a joiner, who was stabbed to the heart while in the Broadway, Hammersmith, on Saturday night, the 23rd ult., with two friends. Ann Pureey, a servant, now stated that she saw the five men standing te ther u the clock struck 12. She beard Thompson say on have been on to me all the evening,* and immediately afterwards he knocked the deceas ed down. He struck him in the breast. After the DM fall down he put his bands in his pockets. In answer to questions, the witness stated that after Thompson knocked the de ceased down he struck the other two men with backhanded blows, and they both fell. The man with a hare, as he was getting up, was knocked duo a second time. Witness saw the constable open his lantern, and shethen saw blood flowing from the deceased's trousers. She saw Thompson put his hands in his pockets before he knocked the deceased down. The blow given to the de. ceased was in front of him, and the blows to the other men were given back-handed. After the deceased was knocked down, he put his hands in his pockets, and kept them there. The tall man, Thompson, was the only man who struck the men. __ . _ _ _ _ _ Charles Palmer, of 13, If ey'eterrace, said he heard the tall man say, " I have been waiting you ; you are the three who interfe red with me and my mate." He then heard the deceased fall. - - After some evidence, the jury retained a verdict of " Wilful Murder " against John Thompson. WIATHER RIVORT.-(THIS DAY.) MONDAY, DL:1211211 2, 8 &IL i I it