The Express. — London, England, 1867-10-11 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms of the present year the National Lifeboat Institution has contribute,' to the Wing of 7u! lives from Y 111 14 ,41 Illkipwrecka and '29 vessels from destruction. 11w Institution also eapended E23.tio in the lame period on Its Lifeboat Establishments, In addition comet*: Cliala for reward., The Committee of ties Institution earnestly appeal to the Puha , for eadstanee to enable them to meet the continued fleas) , demands otheir Establiame!itx. .... .Utributi.eei trill be ihTu;kloilly received by the London and country hunkers, and by the Neeretary. ktiatard Lewis, Loy., at the Inditutiou, 14, Jehu-street, Adelpht, London. DUTCH BULBS.—Mr. STEVENS' SALES of lIYACINTIIS, Tulips. Cruelties. and other ballot, just port ,I from Holland, will take place every WEDNI , ...OLIAY and w%1I• itLIA Y. and frequently on Monday, at the Attethell"°"tst etivenleortlen, London. • COVENT GARDEN PROMENADE COYCERTS. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. EVERY EVENING •t DIM. Ceder the mole direaluncii6:JtillN Itt'SSELL Fliar.day night.. a "'election Llama:al Music: otheroletta -11..tae.m. The rnezreanne to varied every evening. t Inteet..r—.4htlen. ISOITEnIN I, and teethe Dance Music Here .11)11A\\ STRAUS:l.—Admission, tine shillhtg. Zits Vltvvisis. TO oosassposnwirt 11dserthemente Wended for " The Expreee,^ London Evening P.per, must be at the Offtee, 10, bouverie-street, by Two Yidaelc on the day of pabliestton. DitERY•LANE. i?II Evaarittl, KIN': Mill N. Slaws. Phelps, Is. sulliran, E. Phelps, M•lntyre, Earrett. J. Johnstone, dt Master P. . Mesdames Herman an 4 Vsuilenbutt—And TUE M I LLEIt .V.ND Ills MEN. Miss Edith Stuart. rtAYNI ARK IT. Ia: Etienne, ROM Et) AND JULIE - T. Meters. Chippendale. Howe, Huger; Kendal, Clark, Compton, die.: Mee lames o.cott Chlppondale, ite.—And THE TAMING 9M T +IIR KW. Mr. Howe; M. Scott Siddons. PRINCTIWIA UM EVENT o. POOR PILLICODDY.—After which ARRAN NA 1 4 061 . E. Ileum Beach:Ault, Vining, D. Murray, J. O. Shore, G. Neville, de. ; Mies Halms and Sim Beaelesult.—And NO. ONE, ROUND Tug LIMN Eft. LY('Er M. Tnr FlocNom, THE NINTHEAS OP THE MILL—THE I SOY or LYONS. Mr. Pechter, Messrs. Jordan, Rosary, 01111:1.111, Mellon, Dalton, Stuart, and Frances; Mamas El.- worthy and Carlotta Leclereq, Iln, Marston. lITLAND. urs Evirma, OM DOM MTICS. Hewn. Paraelle, Thorne, awl .I amt.: Mesdames Johnshme and Wcallicreby.—After which WILLIAM TELL WITH A V ENG CANCF.. Wawa Jamas and !Wane ; Mu Ada nwanboronat, dm—Awl OKAY AB A POST. Tills ETROIso, DANDELIONS HOLBORN. DOODES.—And FOR LOVE. !Imes 11. J. Montagne, Rice, Garden, Westland, and 11. Wld• dicomb: Mesdames Stephens, llenrade, Jenny Willman, and C. Sauthlera—To conclude with A.A.S. Mr. J. W. Ray. BRITLa. THIS EVEXI3O , BREAK BUT AB N B OT BRIO. Mrs. S. Lane rite American Minstrels and Japanese Tommy; MM. Castel. , lier and alike, astounding Oymnasta—With LION LIMB, KING OP TILE SOUTH YEA ISLANDS. RIGA WATFR ger LONDON RAMON. LlOl DAY —Warning, Ott. 25=--..Allontoot, Ob. 4510. 10 -1101110W—Moralog, 10. Ili. Ylm. LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11. IF a statement be correct which appears in an Irish journal exceedingly likely to be well in formed, the Roman Catholic Bishops of Ireland have unanimously and positively refused the offer of endowment at the hands of the State under any form or conditions whatsoever. They will not take any part of the revenues of the Established Church ; they decline not less peremptorily a dis tinct and separate endowment ; nor will they ac cept the bounty of the State for the maintenance of their churches and glebes. The Roman Catholic prelates by no means intend that the rival Church should retain the temporalities which they them selves decline, but propose that they should be ap propriated to the relief of the Irish poor. We need not discuss the positive part of this recom mendation until it assumes a more precise and elaborated form than that in which it is now barely indicated. Do the Bishops desire that the temporalities of the Church should form a fund for the relief of the poor in addition to or in substitution for the rates ? If the latter, they will have to show that the local taxation of Ireland is in excess of the resources of the country. We doubt whether they will be able to make a case against a poor rate. If the fund is to supplement that furnished by the rates, the temporalities of the Established Church will simply be appropriated to the whole sale manufacture of pauperism —a branch of pro duction in which individual energy is already quite sufficiently active in Ireland, and which does not need the co-operation and encouragement of the State. The high value set by the Roman Catholic religion upon almsgiving, the sort of wor ship of poverty which it deliberately fosters, and the comparatively light estimate which it makes of the energetic and industrial virtues, appear in this suggestion. But we need not further discuss a proposal on which Bishops, as such, speak with no special au thority, and on which statesmen are more likely to consult political economists than ecclesiastics. The refusal of the Irish Roman Catholic Episcopate to accept any share of the revenues of the Protestant Establishment, or to become iu any way the allies or stipendiaries of the State, does credit to their good sense and self respect. The motives from which they have acted are nut, of course, identical with the feelings which animate the Protestant Alliance or even the Libe ration Society in combating this abortive project. The " sin of fostering Romanist idolatry and " superstition" is not likely to appear a " sin in the eyes of Cardinal CULLEN. Nor does his Eminence, we may presume, hold those theories of absolute religious freedom and equality which the reigning POPE has so repeatedly and emphatically condemned. But as all roads lead to Rome, so does every conside ration which can influence reasonable men, con demn the design of preserving and multiplying State establishments of religion in Ireland. The Roman Catholic hierarchy have come to a sound practical conclusion ; and it would be ungracious to disparage them because the path by which they have travelled to it is not that along which others journey to the same goal. They have been swayed, no doubt, by a supreme regard to what they con ceive to be the interests of their own Church ; and this is a feeling which the sternest Protestant cannot but respect in them, though it is impos sible he should share it. They have resolved to preserve their spiritual independence, and that moral influence over their flocks which depends on their independence, from the taint even of suspicion. They have seen very clearly that the object of English statesmen was to make the endowment of the Roman Catholic Church a means of preserving the Protestant Church Estab lishment in Ireland, and they have refused to be come the bulwark, or rather (to adopt Father NEWMAN'S distinction) the breakwater of that doomed and tottering structure. If they have been wise in rejecting, what is to be said of the con duct of English politicians in making the overtures which have met with a deserved and summary rebuff? The transaction shows painfully the in tellectual poverty and blindness of even our best statesmanship. It gropes about obsolete tradi tions, and falls back upon inapplicable precedents. It is essentially mimetic. Mr. Pirr meditated the ' endowment of the Irish Roman Catholic Church three-quarters of a century ago. Lord FRANCIS LEVESON Gowen carried a motion recommends tory of it in the House of Commons in the year 1825 ; and later statesmen seem to be mentally captive to these pre-, THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1867, , cadent& When Lord REY can devise, and Lord RUSSELL adopt, and Lord DL'FFERIN echo, and Lord STANLEY can seek to give effect to a plan of this sort, the proof is plain how barren of originality and resource, and of discernment of the living forces of the time, is the statesmanship of which they are highly favourable examples. Their miscalculation is gross and ludicrous. The tendency of the ago sets strongly in the direction of what is called the voluntary principle in reli gion. Church Congresses and Pan-Anglican Synods testify to it even more forcibly than the organizations expressly based upon or designed to further it. Whatever may become of old estab lialiments, now ones are impossible. In the time of Mr. PITT, and at the date of Lord FRANCIS LEYESON Gowza's motion, the project of endow- I ing the Roman Catholic clergy was not the absurd anachronism that it has since become. The voluntary principle in religion had then scarcely entered the circle of prevalent political ideas. The temper and attitude of the Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland were not what they are now. They were then Irish rather than Roman ; national, or Gallican, rather than Ultramontane. If the journal on whose authority our information upon these matters depends is to be trusted, the Government itself has strkingly acknowledged this change. Lord STANLEY, it is asserted, though we can scarcely credit the statement, applied to Cardinal AarosELLI to ascertain whether the Irish prelates would accept the endowment of the Catholic clergy as a settlement of the Church question. What was this but to treat the Irish bishops and priests as subjects more imme diately of the POPE than of the QUEEN ? Cardinal ANTONELLI appears, assuming the truth of the narrative, to have treated the Government with a degree of respect which it did not show to itself. The Papal Government declined to interfere in the civil government of England, but referred the matter to the Irish prelates themselves, with the result which has been made public, and which finally disposes, we trust, of a very ill-considered parody of conciliatory statesmanship. weight of labour it will impose upon itself. No wonder that they look forward with some apprehensions to next year's work. The popularisation of the vote Involves as its logical and necessary consequence the popularisation of all the machinery connected with it. In dealing with the subject of the refusal of the Irish Roman catholic bishops to accept endowment from the State, the Trltgrapit contends that the revenues of the Irish establishment must be devoted to the education of the people, by which it appears to mean the endowment of Roman catholic schools. The Star s►ye the decision of the bishops reduces all governments and ministers who attempt to deal with the Irish difficulty to this dilemma—that they must either take up boldly the ground of the voluntaryists or forbear to touch the church at all. Cite Court. BALMORAL, Ocr. 9. The Queen went out in the morning with Princess Beatrice, and in the afternoon her Majesty drove out with Princess Christian and M. and Madame Van de Weyer to Glen Bog. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Harris (chairman), Dr. Shea, Mr. Field, and Mr. Blake (clerk), from St. Saviour's Union, and Mr. Park (chairman), Mr. Barnes, Mr. Sher wood, and Mr. Fitch (clerk), from St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark ; also a deputation from the vestry of Clerken. well, introduced by Mr.W. T. M. Torrens, M.P., and con siatingof theßev. Robert Maguire, M.A. (incumbent), Mr. Willcocks and Mr.Nunn (churchwardens), Mr. E. T. Thomp son, Mr. Gillingwater, Mr. Arnett, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Saywell, Mr. Bestow, Mr. Smith, Mr. Clark, Mr. Olford, Mr. Franklin, Mr. Croucher, Mr. Redfern, and Mr. Paget (vestry clerk), had interviews with the Earl of Devon, at the office of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall, yesterday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of Gibraltar, Malts, and Heligoland. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labium, the Straits Settlements, and to the Governor-General of Canada. The Marquis and Marchioness of Nortnanby and family have left Switzerland for Pau. The Earl of Hardwicke is engaged to preside at the Royal Naval Club dinner on the 21st inst. (the anni. versary of the battle of Trafalgar), at Willis's Rooms, King•street, St. James's. _ . The Earl of Goaford, Lord Downe, and Sir Samuel Hayes have arrived at the Hotel Bristol, Paris, from London, on their way to India. Lord Henry Scott and Lord Claud John Hamilton have left the same house for England. The death of the Hon. Dudley Bingham, brother to Lord Clanmorris, took place on Tuesday night at his residence, Foxford, rather suddenly. The deceased bad been enjoying the shooting on the moors so late as the previous Saturday. General Logan, in a speech at Cleveland, advo cated the election of negro Congressmen. M. Molina, the Nicaraguan Minister, was pre sented to the President on Monday. _ _ The fever continues unabated at New Orleans. General Stirling Price is dead. The democratic convention of Massachusetts met yesterday and nominated John Quincy Adams for governor. Mr. M'Culloch has ordered the issue of Three per Cent. Certificates to redeem the compound interest notes maturing in October and December. Advice, from Hayti to the Bth ult. announce that the insurgents were pillaging the south coast. Commerce was prostrated. Intelligence from Valparaiso to the 3rd Septem ber states that the Spanish fleet was again ex pected. The river Madeira has been opened, so that vessels can now go up the Amazon and deliver their cargoes in Bolivia direct. Prado has been re-elected President of Peru. SOUTHAMPTON, Ocr. 11. .... _ . The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship Teutonia, from New York, has arrived. She brings 57 passengers for this port, Havre, and Hamburg, 1,922 dole. in specie for France, and 3,700 dols. for Hamburg. On the 3rd inst. she spoke the steamer City of Boston and the English ship Aleona ; on the 4th the English barque Lotus ; on the Gth an Inman steamer ; and on the Bth the Persia, all bound west. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (MOM OUR OWN 001 )12rf 3 PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. M. Rouher and the Marquis do Lavaletto have returned to Paris and entered upon their functions. The imperial train has been for the last day or two in readiness at Biarritz, and the Emperor and Em press are expected almost every hour in Paris. Great activity has been displayed in the im proved armaments of the French forces; and those of the artillery, comprising a number of new pieces, destined for the military conscriptions, have just been despatched from the arsenals. Improvements in cavalry arms are also a subject of unceasing atten tion. As to the new Chassepot gun, a very consider able number of these arms have been turned out, either transformed from the old model or entirely new. It is stated that in less than two months from this time no fewer than 600,000 of these weapons will have been delivered to the troops. The banquet to be given to the imperial commis sioners of the Universal Exhibition will take place at the Grand Hotel du Louvre, the number of the company being limited to 300, including about 40 ladies. During dinner vocal and instrumental music will be dispensed by a German orchestra and English singers. The day is not yet fixed. In a recent letter I mentioned to you that depre dations of various kinds, including robbery on the highway, were becoming very frequent in Paris and the environs. As winter approaches I fear there will be little diminution in the number of these offences ; and the want of employment, together with the high price of all the necessaries of life, is undoubtedly adding to the ranks of these depre dators. There is, too, a growing discontent among the humbler classes, on account of the extreme difficulty of gaining a livelihood; and, under these circumstances, as is always the case, there are mutterings, not loud but deep, against the go vernment, which, it is thought, ought, in some way or other, to find a remedy for such a state of things. The police authorities, seeing what is going on, endeavour to reassure the public at large by a reference to the annals of crime in former years, and state that in this respect we are no worse off than at other times at this period of the year. But I have reason to believe that the fact is not so ; and you are already aware that the increase of crime is so far establi,hed as to call for a considerable addition to the police force of Paris. The Bourse opened with higher quotations than at the closing yesterday, but the advanced prices were not maintained, and few transactions took place. Very little was done in the Mobilier, which still declined, and the Rente and most other securities closed at reduced rates. The Duke of Laroehefoucauld is entertaining an immense hunting party at Gatidiniere. The chateau, built in the time of Louis XII., stands in the midst of a forest teeming with grouse and pheasants. The stables contain 120 horses. The guests who go out with the duke wear a special dress, as in the days of the Grand Mon argue, when every groat house had its own distinctive hunting costume. ♦ band of thirty musicians is engaged for the months of October, November, and December ; after which the duke's parliamentary duties compel him to break up this establishment. The Swiss and several of the French papers have occupied themselves for some days past with the resigna tion of M. Fornerod, President of the Swiss Confederation for the present year. He gives up that high post to be member of the board of directors of • bank which has just been authorized by the Council of State of Geneva, sad the principal branch of which is to be iu Paris. At Devismo's, the gunmaker on the Boulevards, appears a printed appeal from M. Pertuiset to sportsmen in general to join him in a lion-hunting expedition he is about to organise in Algeria. Every detail as to the expenses, mAo of travelling, Its., is given. The party is to consist of fifty good shots. On the 24th ult., Mr. Bateman, father of the actress, commenced his bold experiment of giving French comic opera to the public of New York. The work selected was Offenbach's Orunde Duchene de Gerolskin, which, recently yroduced at the Thatre des VariUtes, has been performed at nearly every European capital except Lon don. The greatest pains had been taken to render the execution of the farcical opera as effective as possible, Tistim, who had been the Parisian prima donna in some of Offenbach's earlier productions, being engaged to represent the Duchess—a part in which she had distin guished herself at Bordeaux, and supported by • company selected from various parts of France. The ironclad* have left Cork harbour, it is sup posed for Portugal. Tho Liffey and Pallas took their de parture on Saturday eveaing, and the rest of the squadron, consisting of the Bellerophon, Minotaur, Warrior, Lord Warden, Lord Clyde, and Achilles, followed on Tuesday morning, presenting an impreuivo spectacle u they steamed out of the harbour. The Mersey guardahip, which bears the Admiral's flag, is the only vessel of war now at Queenstown. . . Considerable progress has lately been made with the ironclad frigate Wilhelm 1., now building at the Thames Iron Works, Ineekwall, for the Prussian govern. ment. The judges nominated to preside at the special commission for the trial of the prisoners at Manchester concerned in the recent rescue of the Fenian are Mr.Jris doe Blackburn and Mr. Justice Mellor. The prisoner John Groves was born in Clough, in the county Down. He was brought up in the teneta of the church of England by his grandmother, a small shop• keeper, who still resides in the vicinity. His parents, however, were Roman catholic. A silver cradle has been presented to the Mayor of Reading, in Berkshire, on the occasion of the birth of a son during his mayoralty. - - ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN LADIES.—By the Marko Edward to-day five `• aboriginal ladies" return to the mission station at Lake Wellington, Gipps lid after completing their education in the metropolia • They are very prepossessing, lady-like persons, and seem qualified to do much good among their leo educated friends assembled at that station, under the indefatigable tare of the Rev. Mr. Hagsnatter.—Md&ourne Argw. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) IN RR H. A. HOLD e. This was an application for a further stay of proceed. ings under this bankruptcy. Mr. Holden was a con. tractor for the construction of public works, carrying on business in Queen-street, City, residing in Mania -vale. The adjudication took place about 10 months since, upon the petition of a creditor, and on the 11th of January the n meeting of the creditors resolved upon a liquidation of the estate out of court pursuant to the terms of • deed of inspectorship, which Mr. Holden had executed. The proceedings were accordingly stayed in order that the requisite went might be procured to the deed with a view to its registration. The liabilities were of an enormous amount—nearly a million sterling, and the assets are considered mainly to depend upon the result of various railway and other con. tracts in which the bankrupt had been engaged. Mr. Bagley, on behalf of the assignees, now applied for a further stay of the proceedings. Since the lfith of August, when • similar application was granted, further consents to the amount of 12,000/. had been obtained, and the liquidators of various companies winding-up hail agreed to the deed subject to the sanction of the Court of Cl=. Upon application at the office of the court it a that the desired authority could not b e obtained at pre as the business was not of a natu re to be taken in the vacation. There was very little doubt that the sanction of the Court of Chancery would shortly be obtained. Mr. &mood, as representing the Oriental Financial Corporation (Limited), creditors for e4:1,000/.. and Mr. Dona, counsel for the petitioning creditor, consulted to the application. Mr. Reed opposed on behalf of Messrs. Knight and Mender, large creditors, and strongly objected to any fur. ther stay, but His Honour, upon the ground that the bulk o f th e creditors considered that the estate could be more satisfac torily administered under the deed than in this court, and that being also his opinion, granted a further stay of the proceedings until the 9th of December, at 11. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) A STREET NtiIMANCE. The Times supporta an appeal made by one of its correspondents against the grotesque procession on Lord Mayor's Day. All the other municipal bodies have dis carded these usages, but aim* the City barge was made over as a smoking-room to one of the Oxford boating clubs the show has rushed down the Strand with all its roaring absurdity. The last Lord Mayor's coach, it seems, is sow in possession of an African king, who sits in it on all state ceremonies and receptions. Its successor stands without a rival. Where everything has been renewed and modernised the city of London is flaunting its absurdities, as if to astonish the natives unaccustomed to such pomp. The only practical results of the display are the stoppage of traffic and a harvest for the thieves, and just now a far more dangerous class are look ing out for their opportunity. Tho show is simply an antique usage, kept up, most probably, because there are some hundreds of people with a pecuniary interest in it, which there happen to be the resources to meet. It is a street nuisance and nothing more, and contributes to make the City a standing object of ridicule to men of the world and of the taste which now prevails. TRANCE AND GERMANY. The report that General Fleury has brought back to Paris peaceful assurances from Berlin, is perhaps only an agreeable way, the Daily Non suggests, of describing that confidential agent's impression of the state of feeling in Prussia and throughout Germany. Peaceful assurances are needed only where aggressive designs are suspected and menacing intentions are announced, and this is eminently not the case with Prussia. The letter written by the Em. peror Napoleon to M. de Lavalette in August last year, which has obtained publicity, discloses the fact that the French Ainbaasador at Berlin had discussed with Count Bismarck the principle of granting compensations to France in con sequence of the extension of the Prussian dominions in Germany, and it was only when the project got wind and German indignation bad been aroused that the Emperor signified his amicable acquiescence. It is strange that French diplomacy should have been outwitted twice and thrice in the same way within six months. The Emperor Napoleon wished to keep his private bargain with the King Grand Duke of Luxembourg a secret ; but the King Grand Duke's conscience became sickbed o'er with the pale cast of Bismarck, and the secret was exploded at Berlin. A month or two later Count Bismarck drew from a too ardent secretary of embassy a paper of confidential " instrue- Cons," which, in the altered form of remonstrances and demands, set the susceptibilities of all Germany ablaze. All this, so far as Count Bismarck is concerned, was per fectly legitimate finessing. The Daily New concludes with saying there is good reason to hope that the bette r instincts of the Emperor's nature ate at this moment deter mining his course of action, and inclining him to a policy of conciliation and neutrality abroad and public liberty et home. THE BISHOPS AND THE PRE99. The Bishop of Capetown again lays himself open to the strictures of the Times. He first attributes the articles of our contemporary on the subject of their dispute to Dr. Stanley, which leads the Times, in repudiating the insinuation as ridiculously unfounded, to remark that the bishop has lived a long time in the colonies, and has for gotten, it seems, that it is the habit of gentlemen to respect the anonymous character of newspaper criticism. The bishop, who first asserted that both the conference and convocation had agreed to elect a Bishop of Natal, now says he has nothing to do with the proceedings of con cocation, and that it is of no great importance what the actual proceedings of the conference were. In one sen tence he denies that Dr. Colenso has any legal rights: in the next sentence be says that whatever rights he has in law have been respected. To a complaint which he proceeds to make that if Dr. Colenso is success (al some of the Bishop of Capetown's supporters will be reduced to beggary, the Times replies that the Bishop of Capetown is not the person to utter such a lament. It was he and the Propagation Society who withheld Bishop Oolenso's salary until they were compelled to pay it by • court of law, and who have threatened to deprive any missionary of his salary who should con tinue to obey Dr. Colenso. They have actually done their best, by this means, to " reduce to beggary' one clergy man, one of whose chief faults seems to have been that ho had once been a carpenter, and it is under the influence of this threat that the Bishop of Capetown has received from the clergy of Natal the support which, if we re-' member aright, he exaggerates in his letter to-day. He has no scruple in reducing others to beggary in carrying out his own views, but he raises an outcry as soon as the same process is applied by right of law to his own friends. The Standard insists that a new Bishop of Natal has been elected, and will go out with the sanction of the con ference and the express approval of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is himself a subscriber to the endowment fund of the new see. MIRCELLANE , II.79 TOPICR. Commenting upon the serious struggle which is now witnessed in Austria between the middle classes of the empire and the hierarchy relative to the abolition of the Conoorslst, the Tines observes that the quarrel possesses far greater interest than any arising from the same con. tention in France, Italy, or Spain. The Latin races rush wildly into extremes on these matters, but are subject to equally violent revulsion.. The Teutonic people proceed more deliberately ; but to recede is against their nature. In France, in Spain, in Italy the priest is perpetually being put down, perpetually regaining the upper hand. But any ground that he may now lose in Austria will be lost to bim for evermore. The Daily News gives various illustrations of legal absurditioa which appear in the reports of the registra• tions revisions of the present year. If these technicalities are applied to the long lista of the new voters, the revising barristers will find their system break down under the WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The wills of the Right Hon. Baroness Churston, 'Baroness Georgians Solardi, and the Hon. Henrietta Jones, have been recently proved in the London Court. The will of Thomas Bulkeley Bulkeley-Owen, Esq., of Tedsmore Hall, West Felton, Salop, was proved, at Shrewsbury, by the testator's eldest son, Bnlkeley Hatchets Bulkeley-Owen, Esq., the sole executor. The trustees are Sainsbury Kynaston Mainwaring, of Otcley-park, and Robert Burton, Esq., of Longnor. The personal property was sworn under 10, 0001. The will is dated April 4, 1866 ; and the testator died April 27, 184)7, at the age of 77. He leaves to his eldest son his estate of Tedemore Hall, and all other free holds, together with the residue of the personalty. He has apportioned . outprovisions ay-c to w r en his . yoirger t m . g B. Bulel daughter Margaret, wif e of the Rev. E. jacson ; and his eldest grandson, Shaleross B. Jaceon. To his agent, George Cottle, he leaves 3001. He bequeaths certain por tions of his paintings and pictures as heirlooms with the inheritor of Tedsuiore Hall • and he leaves the other por tion of his pictures, books, aad furniture to his eldest son absolutely. The will of William Swan Dixon, Esq., of Hiloot Hall, Chebsey, Stafford, was proved in the London court on the 27th ult., and the personalty sworn under 180,0001., the executors appointed being his sons William Henry,Charles Edward, and Alfred Dixon, and Edward Wright ; the two first named are the only acting executors. The will is dated 1860,and the testator died Aug. 19, 1867, at Donglas,lsle of Man. It is entirely a family will. There is a legacy of 1,0001. to his grandson, William Dixon M'Coukey. To his daughter Helen he leaves the interests of 5,000/. for her life. The residue of his property be divides equally amongst all his other children. The will of George Smith, Elm. of Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, and 27, Norfolk - crescent, Hyde-park gardens, was proved in London on the 26th ult., by the executors—namely, his brother, the Rev. Harry Smith, and the testator's nephews, the Rev. Harry Barber and Harry Smith Ryan, Esq. The personalty was sworn under 80,900/. The testator died July 3, 1867, aged 80, having executed his will in 1864, to which he has added six codicils, the last dated July 19, 1866. He has left numerous legacies, pecuniary and specific. To his niece, Elizabeth Styan, he leaves his bond of the Royal Botanical Society and the admission tickets belonging thereto. To each of his executors 2001. for their trouble. His books, pictures, and furniture, not specifically disposed of, he leaves to be divided between the children of his late sister Ann Baber, and the children of his sister Elisabeth Styan. To his nephew Harry Smith Styan, be leaves his interest in two sets of chambers in Stone-build ings and has estate at Pilling, Lancaster. He has left liberal annuities and Inacies to his servants and others, free of duty. The residue of hie property, real and per sonal, is to be divided into two , one moiety amongst the six children of his d sister, Ann Baber, and the other moiety in certain specified portions amongst his nephews and nieces, the children of his sister, Elizabeth Styan. The late Miss S. S. Farmer, of Gunnersbury House, Acton, has bequeathed to the ladies' branch of the Wes- leyan Methodist Society, of which she was the secretary, , 500/. • the Home Mission and Contingent Fund, and the' Wesleyan Theological Institution, each 2001. ; to the Aged Wesleyan Ministers and their Widows Auxiliary Fund, 100:. •, to the board of the Hammersmith Circuit, 1001. ; the Missions of the United Brethren the Moravian, 50/. ; and 251. to St. Giles's and St. George's, Bloomsbury, Girls' Refuge, a branch of which is now carried on at Bank House, Acton. The late Henry Ilayne, Esq., of Torquay who died pos sessed of 45,0001. personalty, has left to the Church Mis sionary Society for the Fox Memorial Fund, 100/. i and, should his sou, William Amherst Rayne, not attain 25, he leaves to the London City Mission, 7/00/. ; Church Missionary Society, 500/.; and to the Pastoral Aid Society, 200/. The late William Hollingworth Drifflil, Esq., of Winter ton Hall, Lincolnshire, whose personalty was estimated at 50,0001., has bequeathed 5001. to the Church Missionary Society.—Mustested London News. The Earl of Carnarvon will preside at the annual soiree of the Leeds Church Institute, to be held next month. Lord Lyttelton says it is a misapprehension to suppose that at the Church Congress he advocated Litur gical revision in order to bring back nonconformists to the church. " What I advocate," be says, "is liberty of action to the church to deal with her own system. This I hold on broad general grounds ; how far it should be exercised, and whether it would or would not tend to bring back nonconformists are public questions. The instances which I gave were given, as I stated, simply as illustrations of the unreatrictedness of the freedom which I desire to see possessed. I said distinctly that I con sidered such points might be discussed, but that I did not commit myself to an opinion on any one of them." The Bishop of Cork (Dr. Gregg), in a charge de livered at Lis recent visitation, spoke in such terms of the Roman catholic ritual and doctrine—describing the Host as "only baker's bread"—as to give great offence to the members of that church in his diocese. So wide•aprearl, indeed, was the indignation felt at the bishop's langu :~gr, that a meeting was held on Tuesday, in Queenstown, ►t which resolutions were adopted condemning, in emphatic terms, his "grossly profane and insulting observations," and his "generally offensive demeanour towards Roman catholic*, whose goodwill had been assiduously cultivated by hie predecessors." _ . Yesterday the Bishop of Rochester laid the foundation-stone of a new church at Plaistow, in F.ssex—a portion of " London over the border." Instructions have been received at Aldershot for the Royal Engineers to fit up and prepare a schoolroom in each of the camps at Aldershot, for the purpose of lec tures, concerts, and theatrical representations. The Ordnance Select Committee has within the last few days tried, at Shoebaryness, ► new chronograph, intended for the purpose of measuring the velocity of shot. The committee has sent to the War Department a requisi tion for a new target, similar to that at which the Rodman gun was fired a fortnight ago—vis., an eight-inch plate on a " Warrior" backing. LATEST INTELIALIKNOL THE INSURRECTION IN TILE ROMAN STATES. The intelligence from the Papal States continues to be confused and contradictory. The insurgents appear to be traversing the country rather than holding positions, and by doing so they are repre sented as putting the papal troops to great fatigue. Perhaps the most important fact in the Italian papers received to-day is the appearance of the following appeal, which it will be seen is signed, among others, by the chief of the parlia mentary Left in the Italian Chamber, M. Crispi. To Italians. —Our brothels are shedding their blood in the sacred name of Italy and Rome, and so impose upon us incontestable duties. Interpreting the national con- science and seconding the invitation of General Garibaldi, the undersigned announce that they have formed them selves into a central committee of assistance. " Viva viva Roma." (Signed) G. Pallavicino, F. Criapi, B. Cairoli, L. Lsporta, 0. Oliva, F. Da Boni, and L. Miceli. The Florence correspondent of the Libertl says that the volunteers are crossing the frontier every day, and that the occupation of the papal pro vinces by the Halian army to prevent the revolu tionary party from gaining too much power, is im minent. He adds that the telegraph is in the hands of the government, and that even despatches of an inoffensive character are often suppressed. The riedmoutese Gazette says that the insurgents could put 10,000 men in line, and the Journal of Naples declares that they are armed with the needle gun. We need hardly say that M. Mazzini is declared to be in the midst of the movement, as the continental journalists assume him to be en gaged in every insurrection. Menotti Garibaldi is represented as having crossed the frontier in the garb of a priest, with a passport which he had obtained in another name from the Spanish legation at Florence. The ac counts of his military operations are rather con flicting. The official Roman Journal represents him as retreating at full gallop after an engage ment at Montelibrietti, while in other accounts he appears with a numerous band in the neigh bourhood of Rome. At Turin, where a subscription has been opened, 100 francs is given to each individual who joins the insurgents. It is said that the Papal government has re solved to consider as prisoners of war the comba tants who do not belong to their own territory, and to treat as rebels and as guilty of high treason such of their own subjects as are taken with arms in their hands. The latter will be tried before a Council of War. It may be observed that the sparse details which aro given by the Paris Moniteur to its readers, are distinguished by a spirit altogether hostile to the enterprise. The Corriere Italiano announces the arrival at Rome of two French prelates who are supposed to have some secret mission from the Imperial Government. These prelates, it is added, have had several interviews with Cardinal Antonelli and with the Pope. , . . (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) RECAPTURE OF ACQCAPENDENTE. FLORENCE, Ocr. 10. It is stated that Aoquapendente has been recap tured by the insurgents. ROME, Ocr. 10. A strong column of Papal troops is marching towards Monte Carpignano, to prevent the concen tration of the insurgent bands. AUSTRIA. Vienna letters describe M. do Beust as being much harassed by the hostility of the feudal and clerical parties in the empire. The minister stated in the Reicharath, on Tuesday, that if any other principles than those which actuated his policy prevailed, ho should not hesitate to retire. Great anxiety prevails on both sides respecting the nature of the statement which the Emperor Francis Joseph is about to send to the premier on the subject of the Concordat. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. A royal decree, to come in force on the 28th October, has been issued, whereby the National Bank of Italy and the Bank of Tuscany am charged with the sale of the bonds created by the decree of Bth September, 1887. From the 28th October next until November 6 the issue price of these bonds will be 73 lire per cent. The interest is to be calculated from the Ist October, 1867. The decree contains other regulations relative to the bonds. DENMARK AND PRUSSIA. COPENHAGEN, Ocr. 10. The editor of the Danish newspaper Heimdal has been sentenced by the Chief Tribunal of Jut land to a fine of 50 thslers, or imprisonment for 14 days, on account of an article abusive of Prussia which has appeared in his paper. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Ocr. 11. The Bien Public of Ghent publishes an analysis of a circular said to have been addressed by Cardi nal Antonelli to the European Courts, in which he accuses the Italian Government of abetting the invasion of the Papal States. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE RUSSIA. The royal mail steamship Russia, from New York, arrived at Queenstown at 2 a.m. to-day (Oct. 11), with 73 passengers and 3,000 dole, in specie. She landed 84 sacks of mails and eight passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 2.14 a. all well. (VL Queenstown.) NEW YORK, Om. 2. General Canby has ordered the suspension of all taxes in North and South Carolina, except those imposed by the Federal government. The election at Nashville passed off quietly. The radical ticket was elected without opposition, the conservative candidates having withdrawn. The newly elected officials were quietly installed yesterday. The municipal authorities have ap plied for an injunction on the grounds that the election is illegal. The election for the Alabama Convention com menced yesterday ; 3,000 negroes and 32 whites voted at Mobile. The Louisiana election was decided on Monday in favour of the State Reconstruction Convention. Great apathy was shown, the voting being mostly by negroes. General Grant has refused to issue artillery to the Maryland militia. Rumour assigns as the reason that President Johnson . intends to employ the militia against Congress. The New York Herald says that President John son has informed a friend that he will resist any effort of Congress to suspend him during the im peachment trial. General Sheridan has been enthusiastically re ceived at Newark, Cork, and Brooklyn. The general's responses contain no allusion to politic. MUSIC AND DANCING LICENSE. The court a► again to-day at the &anions House, Clerk. enwell-green, to hear opposed cases and grant new licences for music and dancing, under the Act 25 George 11., cap. 34;. Mr. Henry Pownall again presided, and there was a full bench of magistrates. THE ALHAMBRA PALACE, LEICEBTER-SQUARE. Frederick Strange applied for a renewal of a license Ice music and dancing for the Alhambra Palace, Leicester. square. This stood over from yesterday as an opposel application. Mr. Poland said he appeared in support of the petition to apply . for the renewal of a license for music and dancing to the Alhambra Palace, Lei oester-9Pare, which was set down as an opposed application, but now there was no opposition whatever. It was only right that he should state to the court that a petition had been lodged against it, but it was signed by only one person who had au alterca tion with one of the private constables at the Alhambra. This matter was investigated by the magistrate, and the charge was dismissed. This gentleman, however, still thought be bad some ground of complaint, and presented this petition, but since, regret had been expressed that such a thing ;should have occurred, he was happy to say that the petition was withdrawn, and there w a s no opposition to the license being gran ted. The license bad been renewed far many years, and he asked that it might be again fi ranted, as there had been no complaint against the place itself during that time. The license was then granted. THE CROSS KITS, THEOBALII'S-ROAD. Mr. Poland applied on behalf of James Georg e Burden for a license for the Cross Rey*, Theobald's-road! He said that the application was opposed by Mr. Hart, the propri etor of the Raglan Music-ball, but Mr. Burden bad not the least Idea of using the license for a music-halL He had held the hones for two years, and during that time be had conducted it with great propriety and in an unexceptionable manner. At this house there were meetings of the Bookbinders' Club, and on these occasions they wished to bare the amuse ment of a little music, and, as he bad rid, he bad no idea of opposing the Raglan, which was a music-ball. The peti. tion was signed by 40 of the most respectable inhabitants, and the signatures of many more could hsve been obtained. The license was granted. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) BOW-STREET. ROBBLIIT WHILE MAXIM; AT A TIRE. George Ward, a decent-looking young .- man, was charged with dealing a meerschaum pipe, value 31., the property of Mr. William Smallwood Nt hits, of Feather. stone-buildings, Holborn, schoolmaster. Mr. White stated that on the 4th October there was a fire at his house. It commenced, he believed, a little before 4 o'clock. Passing through the passage into the back yard he found the prisoner there, end asked him to get into the back room on the ground door, by the window, and bring out two sovereigns which were on the stand of the looking glass. The prisoner got in at the window and afterwards witness saw him handing oat the looking•glad and some other articles to a lad named Ker risen, who passed them to Mr. Hanshaw, a neighbour, to take care of them. Presently witness remembered the two sovereigns, and mentioned the matter to Mr. Ilenshaw, who went in search of the prisoner and got the money from him. After the fire it was found that a meerschaum pipe worth 3!. was missing. Mr. Henahaw corroborated, and said that after Mr. White spoke to him he went to look for the prisoner, who seemed to be suffering from the half-suffocation he had undergone from the smoke in the room. He asked for a glass of water, which witness procured for him. Witness then asked him if he had taken two sovereigns from the room ? He replied, " Yes, here they are," and banded them to witness. Police-constable Y said he was on duty yesterday in Somers-town, when en assistant from the shop of Mr. Harrison, pawnbroker, called him in, and gave a young man named Johnson in charge for offering in pledge the meerschaum pipe produced, answering the description given in Mr. White's information to the police. Johnsen said he bought it of a young man at the Foundling public-house in the City•ro.ol. Witness made inquiries, and found his story was confirmed. Johnson was then released, and witness went at night to the Found ling in private clothes, and apprehended the prisoner, who said he bought the pipe of st man whom he met at a fire in Holborn. Johnson, who is s working jeweller, wu next examined, and said he bought the pipe of the prisoner at the Foundling. . . . . . . . The pnsoner acknowledged that he stole the pipe, and begged the magistrate to deal leniently with him. Ile pleaded guilty, and wished to be tried at this court. Mr. Vaughan remanded the prisoner for inquiry. If there were any previous convictions ho must commit the prisoner for trial. If not he would deal with the ease summarily. CLERKS:WELL. THE LATE EXTRAORDINART CHARGE OF TICEGLART. Frank Oates, of 37, West•street, Somers-town, a labourer, was charged before Mr. Barker, on remand, with burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Mr. George Watts, tailor, of 16, Skinner-street, Somers town, and stealing therefrom a number of pairs of mole skin trousers and some pieces of cloth. The facts of this case were reported last week, and it will be remembered that the principal evidence against the prisoner was that of a prostitute of the name of Emily Stevenson, who bad cohabited with the prisoner. She stated th►t the prisoner had brought the things to her room along with three other men, and that she bad left him in consequence of this robbery. On the other hand, the prisoner stated that the woman had committed the robbery—that he had left her in consequence, that she had stated that if he (lid not live with her he should not live with anyone elms, as she would "lag" (transport) him, and that she had pawned a portion of the property. To bear out this statement the mother of the pti►oner was called, who stated that the woman had given her the duplicates to take care of relating to a pair of moleskin trousers, and, finding that they formed ► portion of the robbery, she sent the duplicates to the police station. To-day when the case was called on the witness Steven son did not appear. Mr. Ricketts, solicitor, who attended for the defence, said he was prepared . to prove a complete alibi, but he sup posed that the magistrate would not call on tint. He also had witnesses in attendance to give the prisoner a good character. . . . . ...Mr. Barker said that there could be little doubt of who was the thief, and discharged the prisoner. WORSHIP-STREET. ♦ RTEP•MOTM ER. James King, a healthy looking about 9 years of sec, was charged before Mr. Newton, on remand, with begging in the public street'. One of the K division had seen the defendant commit the offence, and Mr. Newton directed • remand. The father now was present, and said that be was a porter on the Great Northern Railway, that his duties kept him out all night, and he was unable to look properly After his son, who was, however, well clad and fed, but he was in the habit of running away from home, end not returning until his clothes were destroyed and be could get no more food. Mr. Newton—Are you married, Father—Yes, air. . Mr. Newton—Then your wife might look after him. Ton are clearly in a good situation, and must take care of him. A voice from the back of the court—He shan't come home. I U I - I