The Express. — London, England, 1866-02-20 00:00:00

LFKI3OAT SERVICES. —During the storms of the past year the National lifeboat Inatitetkm, by its life boat and other means, contributed to the oaring of 707 8 1 •2 8 8 a• Qom different wrecks on our coed& The institaßon alio ex pended 421,874 in the lame period on ite lifeboat establishments, baddition to granting 44,960 for rewards for saving life aa nndd exerchdag the lifeboat& The committee of the Institution earnestly APPYLL to the public for AbiIeTANCI, to enable them to meet the matinee& heavy demands on Inatlfittion's 163 Lifeboat Stations. Contributloos are received b the London and Country Bankers ; and by the Secretary, Lewis, req., at the In stltatlon Johnittreet, Adolph'. L3odoll. TORN BROOMPS PARIS FIRST CLASS V moil LONDON 11121 mEDALS.—Manutsclory, 16, Hon rletta-street, Coven London, W.C. This establishment I. dosed at ti, awl as at 1 o'cloak. 25 OLD BOND-STREET (late Call and Martin's Bank).—.l. W. RIME, Wake and Cloak )faker I to H.E. H. the Mem of Wales, having reconstructed the above magatlcent Premises, invites an inspe,ttwn of LETISTIC WOIKu, consisting of CLOCKS and BRONZES from the &tellers of Italy, name, and England. Watches of every construction, Diamond and line Gold Jewellery, Silver and Electro-Plate. DIAMOND and GOLD JEWELLERY of Ottsbud Dedgns at moderate prteee—Mater of the Gold Casket presented by the City of tendonirt to 11.1t.R. the Prince of Wales. CC. OLD BONDATIt MOURNING JZWELLERY for LADIES and orarumri. f 6, OLD BOND-STRUM JEWELLERY for BRIDAL PRESENTS, tbsolgood byltiUan and *each Article. 26, OLD )N MUM. SILVER PLATE for TESTIMONIALS, dadised upessilt tor their resoosevo Moats. 26. OLD BONIKITIRST. SILVER PLATE, for RACING, FIELD, sad AQUATIC SPORTS. !A OLD BOND-BTDMIT. SILVER PLATE for the SIDEBOARD, Maar sod Tea Tables, to. 11. OLD BOND STRICT. CLOCKS for the DRAWING, DINING, or DiD ROOM. IS, O%D BOND4IILUT. CLOCKS for the LIBRARY Hall, Carriage, in. 20. ow Bomoorizer. CLOCKS for CHURCHES, Turrets, and Stabled se, OLD BOND-811rsM WATCHES , Chronometers, Duplex, Levers, Imalsis. itapsakirs, Ceatra ssoga&, Keyless,Chro nographs, de. 21, OLD BOND-OTRIZT. B RONZES D'ART, by Rose and Isidore Bonham Praia., Mew% Berm otc. 116, OLD BOND4rager. T W: =IBM, Prize Mewl., London, Clam 33 ; . Dublin. Mrs 10 : Honourable BOND-STRUT. Hendon. London, Claes 15. 26, OLD JW. BENSON'S STEAM FACTORY for . CLOCKS and WATCHES, 58 and 00, LITDOA.TE-HILL; WEST END EBTABLIIIHNE IT, 25, OLD BONNIT'RILET. T.ONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC Teooll torEseidocen. -Rogismber, Ire will toe you "EVANS," else Ms Covent-garden Paataskins, tad Os Timms gke ermfa. altereassools hnsWis-rtor 10. Load= Womb* pw, mob b. a. Nu Olbss ftoaodookoo.. by Two os No day of pobilosiks. .H4YMAILI!LIT . A 1141. 7 177110 AffACrIfYINT. Wows. W. Szerea and Ossapion • Adm Cavendlah.—SZOTHEß BA3i. Moors. sears sal auckitoas • Woo Nati Moors. IN THZ HAYILLRICIT.—Aad A KISS IN THZ DAM. This evimmia, Qum - otdeb TT 15 MOVER TOO LAID T$ KIND. Xmas. V EL Melva* T. Mead, D. Murky, b. °album. F. Vlillarn J. G. Bhorti G. M ae eay. and D. Oblinara : lames L. Moore and L Dodgem LTCZVY. Tim IVErnre,_ ILLITSTMIOI7B BIMANCMIR. Mr. H. Widdicomb.—TlMl MABTEII 01P ILILVIIMEIWOOD. Molars. raohter, Jordgn. Veda. Jimmy, Wkidlcomb, MlNpalrick, Exam ; Mrodaarm Tama. Moronity, Lima; C. Loam% BirFANIA. TIM 1 YW,q, TEI CAStraiii/D.—lirs. Howard Pa:S.- 11r. J. King and other, survivors from the wreck of the Loudon. —Johnny one —OLD DADDY LONGLISIS AND Slit MOIST CIRCUS. Mn. B. lank M. and Mdme. Btaissabach. —And Olmar. HIGH 'WATER AT LONDON-11 IL TIM DAY Mango& 61i. 1912..... 51. 411 A. TO4101•0111-• Manta& Ob. &A....Aftwassa. 64 WM i LONDON. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 20. Ws rejoice to learn that the supper to the home less lads on Wednesday last was exempt from the reproach of beginning and ending with a show. It was a happy and kindly thought of the patrons and conductors of an excellent institu tion, whose name speaks for itself—the Boys' Refuge. Their object was to bring together these deserted, homeless, and hopeless lads, as a sort of deputation from an uncounted multitude of desolate wayfarers in the stony wilderness of London. It was to see and to show what well directed and organized beneficence might do at once for this country and for humanity by rescuing thousands of boys from the waste and slough of misery and despair. Within ten days after the Wednesday supper it appears that twenty-four boys were actually received into the Refuge to be fed, clothed, lodged, educated, and trained for service at home or in the colonies. Such was the condi tion of these boys, that the " filthy rags they " came in had to be destroyed at once," and many had to be kept in bed until clothes were found for them. We were mistaken in supposing that the supper, and the grace before and after, and the fourpence at the door, were the be-all and the end-all of the entertainment. " Two pro " jects," we are informed by the Secretary of the Refuge, "are about to be considered, with a " view to make further provision for meeting the " necessities of these homeless boys. The first is " to ascertain if the Lords of the Admiralty will " give one of the useless ships of war now lying in " her MAJZISIIOB dockyards to be fitted up as a " training ship for those boys who wish and are " able to follow a seafaring life. The second pro " ject is to endeavour to obtain by hire or gift, an " old-fashioned house, with about fifty acres of " land, near London, where those boys not fitted " for sea can be trained to agricultural pursuits, " so as to supply the labour market at home, or to " qualify them for colonial life." Many who read of these simple projects will begin to wonder bow it happens that amidst the vast abundance and diversity of charitable organi zations in this country so little has yet been done for the rescue of the boys who swarm as thick and as foul in every court and alley of the town as the vermin in the rags upon their limbs. We have bad a Royal Commission to inquire into the best means of saving the oyster " spat," but the human " spat " of our city beds, which is produced and consumed in thousands by famine and disease, is only just beginning to be missed and wanted for our fleets and our farms. The first of these projects (the second is perhaps less easy of attainment) for the support of the homeless boys is one so obviously practical and desirable that one is surprised at its appearance so many years after the system of training ships for boys has been adopted by the Admiralty, in order to secure a constant supply of new blood for the Navy, and to get rid for ever of the old difficulty of manning shipe efficiently in a sudden emergency. No one can have watched a group of these London street-boys, whose origin, habits, and language are a mystery, without regretting that such raw material should be wasted in the gutter when it might become part and parcel of the strength and courage of England. No one can have looked at those huge hulks of line-of battle ships in ordinary in the Medway or Hamoaze without putting this and that together, and antici pating the admirable combination which the Secre- THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING,.. FEBRUARY 20, 180 e. tart' of the Boys' Refuge describes. There ale the ships, rotting with premature old age and decay ; there are the young Englbe lads rotting with premature old age and disease ; but how infinitely more precious, how much more capable of good aervica these wasting young human lives than those wasted wooden hulks 1 There can be no doubt that the Admiralty may spare as many ships as the Boys' Refuge desire, and we heartily join with Mr. WILLIAMS in the hope that the public, ever ready to give with both hands, but too ready to give without discrimination, and too often, it may be, for the relief of its own con , Kerma as much as of the distress of which it hears or reads, will enable the Refuge to supply the boys, by subscribing liberally to this new lifeboat institution of the London streets. There is not the slightest danger of the funds of such an insti tution outrunning its necessities, or exceeding its opportunities of the most practical Christian bene fioence and national usefulness. a committee of the home. And if sash thankless trouble hams:lced the dimension of a bike° carefully and ably &awn IN that of the hanonrable mellhar, the reason simply is PM the anbjest bristles with .m.ltial4 and tilat the best which can be dons will, after all, be little bet* than a compromise. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (asons's TILZORAMB.) FRANCE. PARIS, FIB 20. The Minister of Agriculture has sent M. Delpech, professor of medicine, K Raynal, veterinarian, and M. Alfort, to Germany to examine and report upon the tziohime disease prevalent in pork. HUNGARY AND CROATIA. MTH, Fn. 20. The deputation of the Croatian Diet commis sioned to present to the Emperor an address in reference to the union of Hungary and Croatia is expected here to-day. The deputation will be received by the Emperor the day after to-morrow in the castle of Buda. THE FENIAN CONSPIRACY IN IRELAND. DUBLIN, Noma: Niour. Several additional arresta were made to-day in Dublin; all the parties had lately come from Nag land and Sootland. An attack on the police is re ported to have taken place on Saturday night in the county of Tipperary, on the borders of Limerick. Three constables, suspecting that drilling was going on in the house of a labourer, endeavoured to obtain admittance, when they were fi red at through the panels of the door. Constable Dunne was dan gerously wounded in the knee. The men in the house have escaped, but it is said that the owner of it has been arrested. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURT. Vigor, Vice-Ohaneellm Sir R. T. Kinder'ley.) Psalm e. 7011.13.—THM DRABAE COGAN COMPANY. Him Hamm delivered Judgment in this nee. The NH was filed by some of the directors or other members of the company for the purpose of compelling three other members to contribute their respective quotas towards the lasses which had been incurred in carrying on the business of the company, and which had hem discharged by the plaintiffs. The company was formed in 1867 and it was to be carried on with • capital of 120,0001. divided into 1,200 shares of 1001. each, the Wainer being that of sager producers in India. Amongst the dame of the deed of settlement was one to the effect that if any shareholder did not, within 21 days) after the time fixed for the payment of • call, make that payment, he should cease to be • pro prietor and his shares were to be forfeited, unless the di rectors should within the 30 days at ter the expiration of the 21 days decide to the contrary ; but even if the toe feiture did take place, the shareholder would still be liable for the calla made up to that date. In October, 1842, the capital was increased to 180,0001. by the addi tion at 600 new shares, an in 1845 a further imams was made by the isms of 1,800 quarter shares of 261. each. The company, which never numbered more than 32 share. holders, appeared at the outset to have been fairly pros perous, but afterwards it got into difficulties, sad in June, 1847, it became necessary to make a call, only 50 per cent. of the capital having up to that time been paid. There wee a all in July, 1847 of 201. per 1001. share and 51. ripm the quarter shares, to be paid in three instalments, and in Oc tober of the same year it was determined to call up the remaining 30 per oink of the capital in two instalments, which, by a subsequent resolution, were made payable in November and February. About this period 88,0001. had been borrowed upon • deed by which the shareholders, or at least such as signed the instrument, bound them selves to pay the lender their respective quotas of the amount, and it was sought to make the three def endasta liable for their fair proportion of this and other lasses. The defence of Ford was that his shares had become for feited by reason of hie non-payment of calla, he having paid only • portion of the first call and nothing towards the second. The plaintiffs held that the first call was invalid, the notice not having been advertised soconling to the deed, but that was • contention which could not be aliened to those who made the cell and used upon it as valid. The non-payment of the call made on the 12th of November had the effect of forfeiting Fad's shares in the absence of any resolution within the 30 days that that remit should not follow. That would be suflicileat in his case, but the plaintiffs were precluded from coming to the court by allowing 14 years to elapse before taking the step to enforce their claim. Beattie, the second defendant, submitted that the shares with respect to which be was sought to be mode liable were only held by him LE security to an advance of mosey to the manager of the company, but the shares had been transferred to him, and he had attended meetings of pro prietors as the holder of those shares. Still as in the other ease the delay in the proceedings was a suffi cient answer to the bill both es regarded Beattie and the third defendant. The bill must be dismissed with oosta as to all the parties but in each tam without prejudice to any action of the law which might be instituted on behalf of the company. 001 LIPNBOAT& Referring to a debate which took place in the House of Lords on Thursday evening, the Times contends that no cage can be made oat for government interferenoe in assist big the National Lifeboat Institution from the resources of the State. Nothing that government could do would equal what is done by the Lifeboat Institution already. If money is wanted, the institution tells us that it has only to appeal to the public ani the funds pour in. If men are wanted that is a want which neither the Institution nor governmeat itself could at cnoe supply. At pre sent all classes cooperate with the institution to the utmost of their power. The resident authorities give their super intendeneq the beachmen of the place give their personal savior, the railway oompaniei transom* the lifeboat' carriage free, and the public finds money without stint. Put all this into the hands of government, and nothing would be certain except the demand—probably 60,0001., Instead of 30,0004—made annually for the service by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Daily Non oleo differs from Lord Malmeebury in his argument that the inetinstion could do more if the State were to take it up. At present it lives on its proper merits, and every shilling it receives may be said to be given under Mr. Lowe's valuable law of payment for nssults. It does not appear that there is any single point of the coast unprovided with a lifeboat where one is shown to be needed, and where there I. a sufficient number o resident boatmen and fishermen to form a crew. Any change which should make the boats more dependent upon coastguard men, who seldom take an oar in hand and are very suety. Weed. afloat in rough weather, would be dis artrone, espeoially as fishermen and ociptgriard men very rarely work harmoniously together. The institution is doing its work well. It has the coofidevos of the public, which provides it with an income of thirty thousand a year, and it needs no government help. ICSCILLABROUS TOPICS. Returning to the Commons' debate of Saturday the Tina contends that the questions opened by Mr. Bright were foreign to the ocoutoo. No single *abandon to the agitators would arrest foe half an hoar the machinations in progress or make them less dangerous to the public security. When a brigand is about to strike a fatal blow a reasonable person will not refuse to move aid will not set about imagining the possible ill-usage of the brigand's great-grandfather. And, thee, no cause of natiosal importance will ever be promoted by men who decline the responsibility of the hour and take refuge in generalities. The reason why there are so many politicians who are not statesmen is because they are not men of salon. They are men whose very fastidiousuess and amity prevent them from entering the arena of work, socepting the small duties and doing the small things that constitute not only the ordinary badness of life, but also the chief school of practical power and real goodness. The only lesson Mr. Bright learns by the part he has just taken is that of the separatist—that everything is bad, and nothing can be done, and virtue consists in declaiming and doing nothiog— a course which has only to be taken by all good men, and we shall soon be at the mercy of those who are not so good. The Herald publishes a rumour which will be read with something more thee surprise is Ireland, viz., that Sir Hugh Roes, in demanding further instructions from the government with regard to his duty in Ireland, says that he has the example of Governor Eyre before his eyes ; that he snows bow to put down a rebellion, but that he cannot act without further orders. Mr. Oirdwell'a Jamaica bill allows ministers to endow the island with that government which may be thought best rotted to its present ciroussiancisa The Daily News remarks that to be seasesful our legislation mat supplant Jamaica incapacity by British statesman ship. Those who undertake the task of plating the island as a sound social base cannot with. out embarrassment accept the active oa.operation of the people of the colony to any peat extent, though they must be able to eommand confidence. To be impartial, the local government must be of British origin, sad its business to regenerate Jamaica by mesas of British civili sation, British ideas, British justice, British capital, British order. The problem is mot likely to be solved by working up the old bed material of former government■ into new and arbitrary forms. The Daily News does not find fault with the ministerial bill, which seems on the whole a wise one, reserving to the imperial government the liberty necessary to deal with the island according to the highest wisdom it can command ; but thinks it is important that at the present time the full extent of the emergency should be recognised, and that it should be felt that hence forward England, not Jamaica, will be responsible for the condition of that Island, and that we cannot afford to make any more =bakes. Che Court. OSBORNE, Fla. 19. The Queen, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Printer Beatrice, attended Biel's, service at Whip. pingham eltareh yesterday morning, where the her. G. Prather* officiated. Prince Alfred, attended by Lieutenant Haig, arrived at Spithead in her Majesty's ship Raooooa, from Gibraltar, yesterday. The Prices name shortly afterwards to Osbor se, where hie Royal /Lemma remains. The Prince of Wales went to 'the South Kensington Museum yesterday morning, and presided at a meeting of her Majesty's Commissioners for the Preach International Exhibition of 1867. His Royal Highneas went to the House of Lords in:ths afternoon. The Duke de Nemours and the Princess Marguerite visited the Prince and Princess of Walos at Marlborough. hakes. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. Present—The Lords Justices Knight Bruin and Turner, Sir K. V. Williams, Sir J. Co!vile, and Sir Lan recce Pad. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, the Mauritius, Ceylon, How; Kceg, Labile°, the Australian Colonies, and New Zealand. Tai Counr.—Her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prin t:4M Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the royal suite, is expected to leave Osborne House to-morrow (Wednesday) for Windsor Castle. At Windsor Oartle the private elute of apartments have been prepared in readiness for the arrival of the Queen and royal family. Several members of the court have already reached the palace. ROYAL OLTIIPIC THEATas.—His Royal Highness the Mace of Waleo, with the Duke of Sutherland, Major Teesdale, &c., visited the Olympic Theatre yesterday evening. . _ It is understood that the provision to be made for the Prime's Helena on her marriage will be brought before parliament on Thursday. A contemporary states that a provision will also be proposed for Prince Alfred. The Countess Russell will have a second as sembly to-morrow night at the noble Premier's official red den°, in Downing.street. Lady Stanley of Alderley will have evening parties co Saturday, the 10th and 17th of the emitting month. The Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and the Right Hon. Chichester Forteecue do not return to Carlton 'arises so soon as originally intended. The counteis and the right hon. gentleman will remain in Ireland till after the Chief flecretery's re-eleotion for the county Lowth. His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador re. mined yesterday the melaaeholy news of the death of his mother ' Madame Casaadis Mutants. The dammed lady had reached the advanced age of 80 years. Information was received in town yesterday of the death of the Earl of Sinnott!, whioh took p'soe on Sunday at Torquay. Hie lordship was born in 1785, and married 17th August, 1824, Miss Louisa Barton, second daughter of the late Admiral Sir Chas. Rowley, Bart., G.C.B. He is encoeeded by hie eldest son George, Vie. roust Dapplin, who was born in 1827, and married in July, 1848, Lady Blaneke Somerset, third daughter of the late Duke of Beaufort. Sparrows are now seen in the streets of Ballarat, is Mukalla, haviss been cimpletaly aoclimatind thin. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) 11110111 BW Though Lord Russell gave no inkling of such a cheap in his reply to the deputation yesterday, the Times is told, mad is glad to beer it, that simultaneously with the Franchise Bill a second bill will be introduced dealing with the question of redbAribution. The spectacle of timidity, of embarrassment, and of indecision which ministers have presented has, it cannot be denied, weakened their position ; bat if they are now determined to sot worthily of the sub. jest and of themselves, they may yet present a scheme of reform to the Legislature which may be :waived with rational satisfaction. The gravest defeat in our parlia mentary government is the unequal representation of in termits, and it is not easy to acquit of incapacity • government which could have dreamt of a measure which did not attempt to remedy it. They are possibly as yet in the dark themselves as to the particular proposals, but if nothing else can be dose, recourse may be had to the simple expedient suggested in Lord Renall's BOOM Bill of 1850. Neighbouring beraeghe may be grouped together—Totnec, for example, may be associated with Ashburton and Dartmouth ; and If • ample of members be given to the four towns there will remain two to be bestowed on more worthy constituencies. It was torten that a maze franchise bill could not peas, and it may be that their better resolutioa is now too late, but even though the venture be desperate, it is better to fail in making a sincere attempt at legisistion than to be de. hated after a pretence of attack oe existing abuses. Earl Russell's reply to the Glasgow deputation yesterday manta to the Star to clearly indicate that the Reform Bill will be limited to the reduction of the franchise. Rol Russell pointed oat that the defeat is our political system - - which would be oared by a rediatatatiou of seats is not "so obvious and so immediately requiring a remedy" as OM which would be removed by a lowering of the amount of the voter's qualitioatioo. The Star cannot but assume, although Lord Rumell did not so pat it, that this remark conveys an aunounomasot of the p3licy which the govern• meat will plum, end the Star is satisfied that on the whole swat a wane is reasonable and prudent. The TelegrapA repudiator the rsactioaary doctrine which is to be found in the lea ling artillcs of many of its eon- saporartes, sad with which the lobbies of iheHonse of Conanotis sn voeal—that reform should be put aside for Jamaica or Fenlanieni, the Irish ehurob or the cattle plague. The Jamaica question will be adjudicated by far Henry Storks and his 1181100i1141, rather than by the House of Commove. The imported, up-Irish, agi tation of Menisci= ie eviscerated by the ens passion of habeas wrens. So far se legislation goes, the cattle plague question will be !settled in a few days. It is the intention of Mr. Clay, this evening, or upon an early day, to introdnes to the homes a reform bill based upon an educational tart. That snob a bill might with ad vantage be appended as a corollary to the government bill, is possible ; that it can displace, or be accepted ea a substi tute for the government measure, the Telegraph emphati cally denies. To the full height of their promises and pro fessions, this House of Commons will be called upon to amend. THA CATTLE PLAGUE. Now that the government bill is certain to become law, the Times would direct the atteotios of the government and the mariateatea to the care which it will be necessary to observe in not destroying cattle which may possibly escape infectioe. It is satisfactory in this matter to re member that those who have the inspection and the shangliterieg In their bands will have to pay the rates, and therefore have the best roams for moderation is what they do. The infeoted besets ought of course to be alacehtered and buried or destroyed at once, and the same course may, perhaps, be the safest and most economical where the number of theoattle that have been in communica tion with the sick beasts is 8 ) (Mill that ►heir value is of little Recount in comparison with the expected benefit to the district. Bat the local authorities mast guard against seeding an army of wanton and indiscriminate destroyers where►er the dimes appears. Lord Airlie's amendment touching the very principle of the bill, the Times cannot regret it wan rejected, but it is still certainly desirable that all attempts to deal with the disease should not be aban doned- With regard to the iodation of the cattle, some relaxation has bees made is the Commons by Mr. Bovill's amendment allowing cattle to be removed a distaste* of two miles along a highw►y, and the scope of the regul►- tions which will be shortly in force cm hardly be judged till the passing of the bill which is now before the House of Commons. But it Is to be hoped that, whatever may be decided upon, the stoppage of the traffic will be thoroughly observed, for to isolation even more than to distraction must we trust for the extermination of the disease. Dr. Fur, the eminent statistician, has published a letter In the Daily News, which that journal observes has com pletely (teemed the crude fallacies of Mr. Lowe as to ill. man ner in which what the hoe. gentleman called the " terrible law of increase" affects the program of the cattle plague— demonstrating that the law which has hitherto prevailed implies just the reverse of Mr. Lowe's proposition, and that that law would lead to the conclusion that the disease wall soon show signs of subsidence. The Daily News fears that the House of Commons will not gain in credit when the fruits of legislating in • panic come to be seen, and a re.. action takes piece in favour of reason and common sense. This panic Mr. Lowe has need his beet powers to intensify. Dr. Farr points out that all epidemic poising lose part of their infective power in every person whom they attack, and the observed facts to the latest date indicate that the cattle disuse. will probably follow the same rule, the only link wanting to make the chain of Dr. Farr'. messing conclusive being to show how his doctrine will apply to the murrain of 1745-57, whentheepisootis destroyed upwards of 200,002 beasts in the twelve years of its existence in Eng land. If it can be demonstrated that the same law of rapid Increase and more rapid decline, whish appears to be the result of present (aperients", ruled 100 years ago, we shall be encouraged thereby to take heart of grace for the future. The Daily News ventures to say that the bill as it leaves the House of Commons will create general surprise and indignation amongst all excepting the class in whose I favour it will operate. The only legitimate means by which such • calamity can be met is insurance ; and the Daily News holds that a national cattle iesnrance would be attended with far less difficulty than will arise in putting Ithe government bill into force. Hitherto the mortality by rinderpest has not exceeded 2 per cent. per annum on the estimated insurable stook of Great Britain ; and at that rate a rough calculation shows that leas than 4s. a year ; a per head would pay 101. on ovary 100,000 deaths. I The Poet hue three leaders destine, directly or Jodi- redly, with the cattle p'ague. In the form in which the fint bill went to the House of Lords the diseretiooary power entrusted to loci' authorities of determining the exact limits within which the transportation of cattle should be allowed was specially excluded, but the Pod thinks there as be little doubt that the Hews of Commons will take owe that the supplementery IMAMS now before them shall confer such powers on the local au thoritios is will enshle them to provide for the pecessities of partieular else.. The Telegraph thiaka Mx. Haat must by this time have learned to feel pity for the rivernment which be defeated. After having seorifiesi thirteen Awns oat of seventeen before getting to the central topic of his own eneenare, doubt.. felt that be would prefer to drive short-bortte through Logsdon lather than preamble end &ewes through ARRESTS IN DUBLIN. Numerous arrests continue to be made in varionsquarters of Dublin. The following are the names of part es who have been tonally taken into custody :—Heory Gibbons, John Shell, James O'Neal, Owen Bartley, John Hammond, Henry O'Connor, Henry Browne, John Mahon, Patrick Gill, John Browne, John Toohy, Bartholomew Kane, Fran cis Balt, Austin Mealy, Thome Clonally, Thu. Lawless, Matthew Began, Thomas Bryan, Michael Green, Patrick Myles, Edward O'Sheugbnessy, Thos. Tracy, Edward Drummond, Thos. Mldanus, Thos. Wheleton, John Gil more, Daniel Joseph Mykin, and Passed. O'Dolierty. The latter two state that they belonged to the American army, Mykin alleging that he sum a captain in the Federal ser vice, and O'Doherty that he mum aide-de-camp to Gemini Owen, also of the Federal army. We (Dub/in Mail) understand there is no foundation for the statement which appoint in a morning contemporary, to the effect that Mn. Luby, Mrs. O'Donovan (Roses), and Mn. Stephens had been arrested. John Parker, a young man of about 17 years of age, who, along with his father, was arrested on Saturday, has been liberated. _ _ There is no foundation foe the statement that ► guard of the mail van bad been fired at damn the passing of the ran from the Post-office to the Great Southern Railway on Sunday morning. The authorities of the Post-office have made the strictest inquiry, and are satlafied that there is no foundation whatever for the statement. Two additional regiments of infantry are every hour expected to arrive from England. This precaution will obviate the necessity of removing, as was intended, some of the troops from the Curregh to the country porta, where there are at present no troops stationed. The tegiments coming from England will number over 1,000 men each, which, distributed in the most isolated parts, will tend very much to rectors that setae of security which it is so desirable to promote. _ Large escorts of oavalry and mounted pollee were en• gaged till nearly midnight on Saturday assisting in the removal of the prisoners apprehended by the polio° from the police-stations where they bad been temporarily lodged, to the convict prison at Monntjoy and Salmeinham The Ist hattalion of the bOldstreem Guards are to pro card to Ireland this day. A eourt-martial was assembled yesterday to try a soldier charged with Pealsraism. In Limerick on Sunday four non-commissioned officers of the 73rd ware placed under rarest. General Napier has gone down to hold an inquiry. ILLNESS OF nut BISHOP or LONDON.—The Bishop of London continues indisposed, and in his absence on San day afternoon Dr. Francis Jenne, D. D., the Bishop of Peter borough, performed the ceremony of confirmation at fn. Andrew's Church, Holborn. We (Dublin Evening Mail) understand that the Earl of Dinneen will be the new repreeentetive peer. Yesterday, Sir Charles Wood issued his retiring address to the electors of Ripon. Subsequently, Lord John Hay issued an address offering himself as • candidate for the vacant seat, and setting forth his political princi ples. He states himself to be a liberal, prepared to sup port the present government. and in favour of the ad- mission of a fair proportion of the working classes to the franchise. A supplementary estimate places the sum re quired in t►e year ending March 31 next, to make good ad vances from the Treasury cheat in New Zealand, and from army grants, on account of expenses caused by the wee in that colony, such advanced being repayable by the colonial government, at 764,8291. The colonial government hes already remitted to the imperial government, on this ac count, Four per Cent. Debentures amounting to 500,0001., which are held by her Majesty's government ea collateral security towards the repayment to her Majesty's Ex chequer of these advances. This' morning was Maned with the parliamentary papers, the Revised Code of Regulations, incorporating the minute of the lit May, 1865, with a schedule of all article. cancelled or modified, and of all new articles by the Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council of Bducation. The following are the 15 peers who voted yesterday for the Earl of Midis'. amendment, to the effect that where animals were certified by an inspector and justices to be recovering it should be optional, and not compulsory, upon the local authorities to direct the slaughter of such cattle—viz., Earl Mille (teller), Earl , 1 Donauder, Earl Ellenborough, Earl Leven and Melville, Earl Selkirk, Earl Verulam, Viscount Melville (teller), Viscount Torrington, Lord Chawortb, Lord De Tabley, Lord Hatheston, Lord Kenyon, Lord Lyveden, Lord Panmure, Lord Sundridge, Lord Walsingham. The Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Somerset, Eorl Clarendon, Earl De Grey, and Earl Granville voted in the majority. On Friday Viscount Lifford will call the attention of the Howie of Lords to the causes of the present condition of Ireland, and will ask her Majerty's government whtther it is their intention to introduce any measure into parlia. meat providing for the support of the Roman catholic clergy of Ireland independent of the contributions of the people. To-morrow Sir Brooke Bridges will ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it is the intention of the government to recommend the appoint. ment of a day for maim's' fent and humiliation in owner queues of the national calamity of the cattle plague. On Friday General Dunne will 88k the Chan °eller of the Exchequer whether the commissioners ►p• pointed to inquire into the condition of railways has con cluded the inquiry with respect to Irish railways ; sod, if such be the case, whether it will make a report with regard to that kingdom at once, and without waiting to pursue the inquiry u to the railways in Great Britain. THE LOAN OF WORKS OF ART.—A bill has been printed and brought into the House of Lords by Lcrd Stan ley of Alderley, providing that the owner for the time being of any work of art may, without incurring any re. sponsibility for any consequent loss or injury, lend such work to the Lord President for the time being of her Ma jesty's Privy Council, for any period not exceeding twelve months, to be exhibited to the publio by him or by his direction at the proposed exhibitions of national portraits, and the Universal Exhibition of Paris next year. The Lord President is to take due precautions far the pre servation of all works of art lent to him is primaries of this act, but he is not to be personally liable for any loss or injury any article may sustain. The expression "owner for the time being" will include ; trustees of museums and other bodies of persons, whether corporate or unisoorporate, having in their possession or under their control works of art, on trust for any public pumper, or for any artistic or scientific society, or poisoned thereof on behalf of themselves sod their successors ; it will also include any tenant for life or other person entitled 'otherwise than m mortgages or as trusties for creditors) tie the posesesion or enjoyment of works of art and mums for life or any other limited period. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. After Term NW Pains flitting, at GuildhalL—(Before the Lord Chief Justice and Special Juries) The court sat this anomie; at 10 o'ck. The find case was an interpleader issue relative to the manes and lobo of 9,000 pairs of shoes, in which the jury returned • mallet far the defendant, subject to a point of law. The seoond MIN which was • disputed acoottnt between the London, Brighton, and South Owl Railway Company and the London, Chatham and Dover Railway Company wee referred, and in the third and last cue, and in to-day's list, Wilkinson v. the London sad North Western Railway Company, which was for personal bajada'. and in which the damages were laid at 5,0004, • verdict was taken by consent, subject to a referenee. The court rose shortly after 12 o'clock. COURT OF RXCHEQUER. Sittings at Nisi Prins at Gaildhall.---(Before Mr. Heron Bramwell and Common Juries.) WILLIAMS V. BOND. This wee an seamier elsoder. Fhe defendant pleaded not guilty. kb. Lopes appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. ilHeary James for the:defeodant. The plaintiff was a traveller, and the defendant a retired butcher, and both resided at Cardiff. The alleged slander was uttered at the Griffin Tavern, in that tows, in the presence of several persons. acquainted with the parties. It appeared that an espy dispute arose betirsea the two upon some private MASK and as it pew " fast sad furious" the defendant called the plaintiff' a thief." The plaintiff in his croes-eramins tion hesitated when sicked whether he believed the defendant I really meant to convey that he was a thief. and ultimately said he did not know. He also said be wee not aware whether the defendant's solicitor bad offered to publish an apology in the newspaper, and pay 31. for expenses. Only cue other witness wee milled for the plaintiff. Mr. Henry James submitted there was no case. The words complained of were not libellous, and nothing more than the expressions of an angry man. Mr. Baron Bramwell—The word " thief " means a.person who steals, but it is a question for the jury. What is your opinion, gentlemen ? The foreman—We are all agreed that our verdict should be for the defendant. Mr. Baron Bramwell—Of course you are. It le an abominable thing that an action of that nature should have been brought up from Cardiff for trial here. Verdict for the defendant. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Beim the Judie Online/7j RIB= N. NAM= AND OSIMIN. In this ease, in which a special jury had found against a codicil of Mr. Jonathan Downes, late of Stretton Hall. near Cheater, on the ground of want of capacity, Sir J. Wilde had reserved his judgment on the question of ousts. He now ordered the plaintiff to pay them. /MIS V. - Till A.TVORiIIi•WINZILAL. Mr. Bourke, oa behalf of the Attorney-General. moved that this suit, which stood for hearing before a speoial jury on the 28th instant, might be postponed till the east sitting of the court, on the ground that the Attorney-General had not had sufficient time to examine the very numerous papers in the cartes, and to obtain the neesseary evidence. It will be recollected that the petitioner claims to be the legitimate granddaughter of the Duke of Cumberland and Olive Wilmot, between whom it was alleged a marriage bad taken place 99 years 6 6 ,0 . Mr. Smith strenuously opposed the motion, which be said was equivalent to adjourning the trial for three mouths, whereas the petitioner was herself a material witness ; she was 70 years old, and in delicate health. The pleadings were ended eo long ago as the 7th of September, and the Attorney-General bad therefore had plenty of ime to get up his use. Sir J. Wilde nevertheless granted the application. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Below Mr. Commissioner iruslow.) I 1 RI A. W. D. ALTHEA, The bankrupt was as atbriey, of 44, Dim°lu'adan. fields, and residing at Prinoe s-equare, Fisyswater. This was an adjourned sitting for exassiostion and discharge. The aessonnte, prepared by Messrs. Johnstone and Com pany, show an aggregate liability of 11,7084, 3,2531. of which is on accommodation bills ; assets estimated at 4,4294 •, property held as security, 1.7924 Mr. Sorrell. for the amalgam asked for an adjournment. A resolution bad been passed under the 183 th section, ac cepting a composition of fie. in the pound, and a day had been names for the confirmation of the resolution. Adjourned aoeordingly. (Before Yr. Registrar Pepys.) Ilf 112 B. WILIILLYS. The bankrupt wag described as a merchant tailor, of the Poultry. He originally came to the court on his own peti tion, but that petition was dismissed by comsat, and an adjudication was made on the petition of a creditor. This was the first sitting under the sew adjudication. The liabilities are stated at about 14,0004 ; assets depen dent on the result of some legal prooeediogs. Debt. of be tween 4.000!. and 5,000!. were now proved, and the follow ing creditors were chosen assignees :—lfir. David Parker, warehouseman, Goldamith-street ; and Mr. Edward Nash, woollen factor, Aldgate. Messrs. Lowrance, Plow', and Boyer are the solicitors under the bankruptcy. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DIY.) (Before Mr. Bodkin, Assistant Judge.) IXTIMUTIC ROBBLIIT BY 1 TOWN TRAVILLIM. William► Barrie, 27, commercial traveller, was indicted for a series of robberies of a very extensive Denim com mitted epos Campbell sad Co., wholesale milliners of Islington. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the several in dictments, and also to having been previously oonvicted at the &mimes-house, Newingtoo, on the 18th of January, 1860. Mr. Metcalfe, instructed by Mr. Thomas Beard, appeared for the prosecution. Mr. Metcalfe said the prisoner had been in the service of the prosecutors for about two years es town traveller, and during that time they had found out that they bad bees robbed to the extent of upwards of 6001. He also wished to bring under the amiss of the court the aoodnos of a witness named Locke, the former master of the prisoner, who bad riven him a first-rats character to Campbell and Co. although he bed bees previously oonvistecL lfr. Locke WWI called, and be denied positively that he knew anything about the prisoner's previous emaciation until last week. He had been in his service for eight months, and during that time he served him honestly sad industriously, and he only gave the pr i eossr each a character es his service to him justified. He remand a rthrauss from the prisoner, bat being tumble to find out the p ans , he took him upoo his own repreee n t a ti oa , The AnsisteatJudge caudated him to be more andel is (atm", and said no expenses would be allowed to bisi, seven years. then sentenced the prisoner to be kept in penalserritide tor THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) ILLITSION HOUSE. ItAILWAY VAS BOBBIZII6 Three yens( toes, named Hairy Will., D e * . cad Aka Blake, all of wboardieceited men, were brought before Ablgroma Lusk, who t Lori liayor, charged wttlt attempting to steal tths ahulr Cl try the property of Menge. Pickfrad sad 0o: It appeared that in courrequence of the very afRIOU et beat to which tberobbery of railway Taus i n the testropehis; beau carried of late, special ecastablas ham bare emehm Is &is clothes with a view to detect the papa There appears to be very little doubt that the / A min ere a part of the gang who have been these depredations, and their proesedings w Z to be of • very systematic sod ingenious amoeb o s Monday evening the prisoners were seen by Gross, s e a . halve otiose, in Watling-street, and he witoliad ho z p ro ssidiep. Blake mid Davis bad a treat, sad ti n all went to Easteheap, where • via was is , Aged is loading chests of tea, Two of the pi, eaters stood with the truck about 50 p r y fr ea the yen, end the other prisoner went up te front of the van, end commenced man dowe th is chests of tea from it . A boy wee m the b e e at v . van, but he could not see what wee gang on in from, het it appeared that he esm OW of the chests more, s a d he ea about to go to see what're' wrong, when the reemeas the cheats back to their place in the vae, and wire oh" to walk away, when the constable went up, sad with as. &tome took than into custody, but two other ma no were associated with them contrived to make their New Yam, the detective officer stated that a short thee Ws a cart containing • pipe of port wise wee stoke fa h Tower-hill, and he had reseoa to believe that the pas ha Wen * Rana :can who :Lot DARING BIIIGLAST BT • nineausx.—oonwerrn Louis Inprind. aged 26 , of no flied nada*, ea engraver, a native of France, was sharpd leas Sy Barker with breaking and snaring the dwelling hornet Mr. Edward Perryman, linen draper, of 7, &daytime, Holloway, and stealing therefrom 17 final shirts, n shirts, 75 silk handkerchiefs, 18 silk neckties, two ping drawee, and fis. Bd. in Wilda" ell of the value of 401 Mr. Albert attended to interpret the name, sal spectre Barber, N division, watched the ease ea bekefid the commisdoems at polies. The prosecutor stated—l reside at 7 and 8 Raihray4n Holloway. Yesterday morning, about 7 o'clock, f v t j around by haring • knocking at the door of my a rs which commentates with my dwelling-house. Ths dip was shut up, fastened, and everything roads sears at std half Tort 11 night. When I got up I found ose &an down and three gas Bights harpies in the shop. The g m wee not open, but the shutters act as the dos to hem the place wheel they are UP. The shutter tin as down had been forced out of the pone It which it ran and pushed up. An entry had beta pia to my house through the skylight in the red of the shop. The shop is built out to the height et a second floor. I toned a ladder of ropes hanging hoe Its skylight into the shop. I found the prisoner is meek and on going to the police statics I found that he bed li flannel shirts, • large number of calico shirts, sad other sH tick*, my property, which bad been takes from am En When he was searched at the police station he was wean three final shirts, four calico shirts, and three phi d cotton drawers, one woollen muffler, two pea of rk and one pair of gloves, also my property. I neaett prisoner before be was in custody. I mimed a lot eta thivp from the BM Pollos.coastable Anthony Ryan, 296 Y, said—l Wes ot duty in the Holloway-read at 7 o'clock in the esom saw the prima with the bundle containing en stirla named by the last witness in his possession. • bey ems, that the prisoner had left the shop doer ems, I stopped the prisoner and asked him what he hada there, but he made me no answer. He understood legfig • little. Finding that the bundles contained akin, Is. I took him to theyoliceastion. Os searching him !bid in his pocket 2s. Bd. in farthings, • ante of tools, • chisel, • knife, • saw, two emir bits sad mother tool, and he was wearing a of clothes, consisting of three final shirts, four eillm shirts, three pairs of drawers, two pain el stost s muffler, • pair of worsted gloves, all owned by Ms wiener: I then went and examined the house, an fermi • rope ladder hanging from the roof. It is not easy to M is to the roof ea there are 14 feet of wall to clamber, Us going a n to the roof I found two squares of glen broke", eel from the led witness some clothes that were kb In the shop. Mr. Barker having duly cationel the primer as h what he might say in answer to the charge, The prisoaer said—l wen In bed on Satuedsyi sight an 012 Sadlm orning ; having no work to do, Igoe op is go sad see Mr. Dupla, • man who was the ease of ay gating six months' imprisonment, in order to gat 1111111 money from him sod some clothing . that aided in money paression during my impraneaset. Mee I was In the Holloway-rand I met three per sou running along, no one being is the street Whilst running they dropped a parcel. I *kid up • little box not here now, also a leather bee, sad a parcel containing tools. Thishirt I had on me 1 beef is the parcel. Then 1 was rather embarrassed with 61 things in the parcel, and looking about to see where thee people could have oome from I went into the shop, eir the pa slight, and the ladder hanging. I thee pet on the drawers and the other things, and in don( so eel my baud with the broken glass. Mr. Barker oommitted the premier for trial • SCISI IN 0001 T. dreffslie*ll6B.ll4.6n, aged 23, , St. John-street, 01 6 dreamlaker erkenwell, ' wm wbo rksrad ran bir lerfore ad. Mr. Barker with being drunk, disorderly, sad assanltin George Winfield, steer shopkeeper, of 148, Bt. Jahn-street. Olerkenwell ; aad G further, with severely Warble Polk* sergeant Alfred 'W est , 24 ,in the execution of bb duty. The prison, has frequently' figured it this mart os charges of assault on Winfield, with whom she read the seed to cohabit, and by whom, awarding to bee aboon, she is pregnant. Sergeant Wing was so injured by her as to be sett foe duty ki.r. Barker said it win clear that the prisoner we a violent, dangerous woman. For the assault co the pier sergeant be should order her to be imprisoned and kept bard labour in the Hauls of Correction for t wo months, without giving her **option of paying a las. At the expiration of that term she would have to Ind two melee' in the sum of 101. each to keep the pee and is of good behaviour to all her Majesty's subjects for the speed sir calendar mouths. The prisoner no cooler beard the one than dr b 631 8" verF _violent. attempted to jump over the dock strike Wieneld, and it was not until she was polled sad dragged by air or eight men that she could be meth le loose her hold of the dock, and thee eh* was carried ont ef tho court swearing revenge whin she came out of prim MARLBOROUGH - STMT. INALOUBY.--••••171:f ON • WWI. Richard Wad, a young man described as gold better, d No. 18, Crowe-street, Soho, woo brought before Ns. TT" wide, on a warrant, by Olhaughnessy. one of the mine oaken, charged with assaulting hie wife. Mrs. Mary West, who had a bad black eye and cried Ago giving her evidence, said—On Saturday night my babel was going out, saying he had • little job to fi n i s h al es shop. I told him I would go with him end wait fer bin, but he objected, and then went out Honig a s epias of him I followed hint, and saw him walk to St. Nsalist Chureh, where be waited a few minutes, and was the joined by • female. I followed them and law them elan • street in the Strand. I walked up and said, "Wh o this female ? Why it's Louisa." The faunae then aid le my husband , " le this your wife," and my husband the tried to got rid of me, but I wonld not Neve him. lai after taking glass of ale together, we went home, whet he took some mosey off the mentel.plece, and this street me in the eye, saying, "There, take that, you fig watching me." Mr. Tyrwbitt—Do you know the young woman. The wife—Oh yes. She has a husband and foe childres. file used to be after my husband when she re singly Mr. Tyrwhitt—Have you any children The wife—Yee, two. He bad no business out with the female. The I went out to meet a young n u n. Mr. % 1 1: 1 11 . 1;—But you met a young woman instead. The prisoner—My wife provoked me. A witness corroborated • portion of the complainer's statement. Mr. Tyrwbitt (to the priemer)—You will have to mate your pesos with the husband of the otter lady, and hoer and a bail to keep the peace to your wife for six maths. - Tax EMPLOYKIMIT or Gnus no' Cou.turss.-- A girl, 12 years of age. has been 'rushed to death in a ed , hery near Wigan, under circumstances which suggest do neomisity for an alteration or amendment in the law se speaking the employment of children in mime. The decesati was empiged to remove tracks full of coal from one porda„,.. of the pit and to replies them with empty trucks. ,Ba. appears, however, to have entered upon do duty instructions • soy instrucOss from those in authority. Whav'" 'Doh instruction it is not surprising that she filled.* apply the break at the proper moment, in aod Ihe m00d.4 alarmed she ran in front of the waggons t obileint hoes of impeding their progress. In this, of coarse al wee unsuccessful, and she was struck with the buffed and fatally injured. The evidence at the Wined showed that although colliery proprietors are liable to penalties for employing boys coder • certain se, 1 16 the law has not thrown a similar protection over girls, o'd are often, when only 10 or 12 years old, employed in miss in the neighbourhood of Wigan. It cannot be doubted that the omission to extend the Hinitatioe In 10 " ?Mat" was wholly unintentional on the part of do ; and the objections to their employment is. -= ". ar• so grave that we are confident they only Nom to be brought under the attention of parliament to b• promptly comocUri—Leeds lifereriry. agoo AI wit ,w the • wendit south+ , B by raC tdr. • ib 4 std. 11 0 1 111 ' the the 1 in Th tbe F TO het dPi l CIMOM 1 07.2 SIM TI Hem ?bell dm Um thi Ils dY