The Express. — London, England, 1866-01-27 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms of the put year the National Lifeboat InstitnUon, by its life boat and other means, contributed to the wing of 707 persons from different wrecks on our coasts. The institution also ex pended f 21,374 in the same period on its lifeboat 04.011.31=0n* Inaddition to granting Z 4,960 for rewards for wing life and exercising the lifeboats. The committee d the Institution earnestly APPEAL to the public for A3IISTANCE, to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 153 Lifeboat Stations. Contributions are received by the London and Country Bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, req., at the In /Mutton, 14, John-street, Adelphi. London. TORN BROGDEN begs to make the following V.P announcement regarding the VALUE of GOLD, feeling per suaded that the interests of the fair trader and the public will be Mike protected by the wide circulation of knowledge on the subj of ect. 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Moore rod L Rodaras. LYCIRTY. Tate snimra THE ILLIISTRIOtI3 STRANGER. Mr. H. Wlddicomit—THE MASTER OF RAVINSWOOD. M..n Yachter. Jordat Veda. Emery, Widdlcomb, Fitzpatrick. Evaos ; Mapisatas Terusa.Unworthy, Lamm, C. laciercq. BRITANNIA. THIS Velma, OLD DADDY LONGLEGS AND SIR REGENT CIRCUS: OR, THE GOLDEN APPLISe. —IL and Madame Biertzentselt —Signor RevaaL —01=r:45110os? of Golden Rath. —Johany Day.—And J/ISSIZ, THE MORMON'S DAUGHTER. HIGHWATTIL AT LONDON-paI:DM Dm DATZOOOmi 106. 00.— Aftimeoo Ilk. 00. T 04101111011—• 3100/6, O. Om. OIL 60. LONDON. SATURDAY. JANUARY 27. A CONTIMPOItABY has taken advantage of the loss of the London, or rather of the confused panic which that lamentable mischance has created in the public mind, to oppose ; on the ground of the public safety, the very moderate and reasonable demand of the owners and commanders of the merchant navy represented at the public meeting in the City last week. We shall also venture, on behalf of that most estimable body of men, to take that great disaster as a text, but to draw from it a very different moral. On Monday next the Board of Trade will commence an official inquiry into the circumstances attending the loss of the London, and there can be no doubt that the proceedings of the court will be as anxiously and attentively perused by newspaper readers as the most "painful " of cases in • court of law. Too many Englishmen and Englishwomen are at one time or another passengers at sea to permit of inch an inquiry being purely formal in cha racter and exclusively professional in interest. Thousands of possible passengers will be as eager for an official assurance that the catastrophe was due to some preventible cause, as railway travellers are to hear of " swingeing" damages being awarded by a jury to the victim of an "accident." Nor is this disposition of the public mind to be ascribed to any lower instinct than that of self-preservation. Let us see, then, how this Court of Inquiry into the loss of the London will be constituted. It will be hold in the Greenwich police-court, and presided over ex officio by the magistrate of the district. The Board of Trade will be represented by the Solicitor of that department, who in some sort acts as public prosecutor ; and the magistrate of the district will be assisted by "two Nautical Assessors." Such is the Court that will proceed to examine the nineteen sur vivors of the ship's company and passengers of the London ; and unless the course of the inquiry is quite unprecedented and unparalleled, a strange medley of confused and contradictory "evidence " will be the upshot of the conscientious ex ertions of the Board of Trade and its Nautical As sessors to elicit facts from the seamen and to record the impressions of the passengers. We shall hope to hear all about the passage of the London from Blackwell to Gravesend, from Gravesend to Portsmouth, from Portsmouth to Plymouth, and from Plymouth to the fatal Bay in which she foundered, the state of the weather, the force and variation of the wind, the reasons of the lamented Captain (according to the survivors) for proceeding to sea from Plymouth when he did, the amount and description of cargo the ship was carrying and where and how it was stowed, and how the ship was " handled," as to spars, sails, steering, steam power, from the beginning of the gale to the moment when the ship bore up and became un manageable ; how she was equipped as to boats and their lowering apparatus, what sort of crew she had and how they behaved, and so forth. On these leading points the ingenuity of the Solicitor will be employed in sifting the memories of the passengers and in searching those of the crew. It is obvious that where so few of all that were on board, and neither the commander nor any of his executive officers are present, the " evidence " can only be of • secondary and imperfect value. Such as it is, it will be elicited by a magistrate and a lawyer, and by two careful and conscien tious nautical gentlemen, whose professional sense of nautical risks has been sharpened by long ab sence from the sea, and whose professional experi ence was not obtained iu the command of Austra lian passenger .steamers. But the question which lies at the root of the whole inquiry, and which involves the largest considerations, is one which it needs neither the impressions of the surviving seamen nor of the surviving passengers of the London to answer ; and that is as to the construction of the ship ; her length of keel and over all, her breadth of beam, her depth of water line. These details are at the command of the Board of Trade without holding any inquiry at all---they are reg i s t ere d and public. The construction of passenger steamers is a question which deserves a far wider and deeper inquiry than the Greenwich Police-court, at the instance of the Board of Trade, is capable of instituting. It is perhaps • question foraroyal com mission, or at least a parliamentary committee. But the case of the London, as it will be presented to THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1866. the Court of Inquiry at Greenwich, is, we entirely agree with the owners and commanders of the mer cantile marine, a case for a court analogous to that which in a similar case of loss or damage in the royal navy would assemble for the trial of the surviving officers—that is, a court composed of respectable and responsible commanders in the mercantile marine ; men accustomed to the charge of thousands and sometimes of millions' worth of property, and of hundreds of human lives, under all possible circumstances and conditions at sea ; men whose lives are incessantly exposed to all manner of sea rinks, and whose families and for tunes are dependent on the faithful and skilful discharge of their duty to their employers, and whose employers are dependent on the skill and capacity of their servants for the reputation of their ships and the safety of their cargoes. It would be difficult, as it seems to us, to find a court that; should present stronger guarantees of impartiality and severity than such a court se this, and we are at a loss to imagine how the interests of shipowners or of ship masters can be at variance with those of the public whom they serve and by whom they live. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) The Daily News notes with satisfaction the sense of the fairness of the English mind indicated by the ap- peals through the Tunes of Mr. Aubrey de Vera, the advo- cate of the proposal to endow the Roman catholic clergy of Ireland. While pleading for religious equality, that gentle. man is unanswerable ; but when he proposes to give effect to it by adopting the French plan of subsidising opposite and conflicting religions, the beat and most numerous friends of religious equality in England most separate from him. We are a people of convictions, and it is not for sincere oatholits who, in this country, have given so many pledges of devotion to what they hold as tree, to be the 6.st to invite our states. men to set a lesson of unbelief, by basing their legislation in religious matters on the false foundation of indifference. The true spring of religions liberty is, not the supposition that all religions have an equal claim to the bowies of mankind, but respect for the human conscious, and a recognition of the accountability of every man in his own person to his Maker for his religious conduct. Mr. Aubrey de Vera asks for legislation in direct opposition to the progress of ideas in our age. The complete separation of ehurch and state is the goal to which all civilised nations are tending. They may advance towards it with unequal steps, but they do advance. The Post thinks it just possible that some miscreants in America:who are possessed with the evil spirit of Fenianism may have had, and still have, it in contemplation to throw • force into the northern part of Ireland, with • view to lay waste the country, and ruin its loyal Inhabitants ; and it observes that as the Orangemen are now on the alert, we are not unlikely to witness some sad scenes of rioting and bloodshed in Ulster. The Herald trusts that the old law against sedition will not be forgotten in the cases of such men as Alderman Dillon, M.P. While such speeches as that just delivered by him before the National Association are tolerated, it is useless to talk of suppressing Fenianism. Stephens him- self never uttered more disloyal sentiments, and it is time to ask the government of Ireland what steps they mean to tate upon it. The Star considers the proposition of Mr. de Vera in the highest degree retrogressive, pernicious, and impracticable. , The tendency of modern liberalism has been altogether opposed to the continuance of the connexion between church and state ; nor is there the slightest likelihood that [ any true liberal would support the establishment of another instance of that connexion. The endowment of the Roman catholic church in Ireland would be opposed as vigorously by the moat advanced radicals as by the stoutest old tory who yet follows the "No Popery" banner. But entirely apart from these considerations, there can be no doubt whatever that the offer of an endowment would be refused with, scorn by the Roman catholic church of Ireland. must have given grosad for suspicioe, bat unless there be further evidence of Gordon's wilful connexion with the outbreak, we most hold that he ought not to have suffered death. The Standard prints a long letter from Mr. Charles Buxton, M.P.. setting forth the opinions of the gentlemen who form the Jamaica committee. Commenting on the case in its leading article columns, the Standard observes that after a review of all that has been officially noted ea the proceedings of the couit.martial, we have to bear in mind the fact that the transaction of justice by courts martial is seldom recorded in absolute detail. that only abstracts are taken, and that questions put and the answers to them are given in the briefest possible form. The documents relevant to the case are, of course, presented in full. They may tell for or against the accused in the degree in which they are literally or loosely inter preted. With a commission sitting to examine the facts from first to last, and give judgment upon them, most per sons in this country will feel inclined to hold their opinions in suspense until they are justified, upon some basis of authority, in laying them down at large. ;t,t Court. OSBORNE. JAR'. I& Her Majesty walked and drove in the grounds yesterday morning with Princess Helena, Princess Beatrios, and Prince Christian. Her Majesty was attended by the Dowager Ducham of Athol*. In the afternoon her Majesty drove with Princess Helens, again attended by the Dowager Dachas of Athol*. Prince Christian rode on horseback, attended by Colonel the Hon. A. Hanlinge. _ . The Right lion. G. J. Goachen, Sir C. Wyke, and Mr. Gooch, Clerk of the Council and Registrar of the Duchy of Lancaster, arrived from London this morning. Mr. Gooch having given up the seals of the Duchy of Lancaster to her Majesty (Lord Clarendon being prevented by indisposition from attending), her Majesty delivered them to the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, who took the oath appointed, which was administered by Mr. Gooch. Sir Charles Wyke had an &Idiom*, end kissed bands on being appointed her Majesty's minister to Hanover. A deputation from the Metropolitan Board of Work', consisting of Sir John Thwaites (Chairman of the Board), Mr. Tito, AL P. (Deputy Chairman of the Thames Embank went Committee), Mr. Miller, M.P. ; Mr. Doulton, M.P. ; Mr. Freeman (Deputy Chairman of the Main Drainage Committee), Mr. Le Breton (Deputy Chairmen of the General Purposes and Building Act Committee), Mr. Phil lips (Deputy Chairman of the Streets Committee), Mr. Carp mael, Mr. Newton, and Mr. John Pollard (Clerk of the Board), had an interview with the Bight Hon. Sir George Grey, at the Home-office, yesterday. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-ofike yesterday to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, the Australian Colonies, New Zealand, the Cape of Good Hope, and Natal. His Royal Highness the Field Marshal Com manding-in-Chief will hold a levee at 1 o'clock on Saturday, the 3rd of February. The Prince of Wales, attended by Major G. M. Grey, and accompanied by hie Gr►ce the Draw of Suther land, Lord Vane, Lord Shrewsbury, Lord Sefton, the Marquis of Stafford, Lord Chneirenor, Lord Belsrsve, and the Hon. H. L. Bourke, left Lino:shall-home yesterday morning. and paid a visit to the works of the London and North Western Railway at Crewe. _ _ His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has consented to become the patron of the Dorset County Hospital. At a dance given on Thursday evening by the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Lillashall House, the Prince of Wales led off the first quadrille with the Duchess of Sutherland, and the Primes' of Wales and the duke were partners. Ms Prinoses of Wales wore a white lace skirt and blank silk bodice, and for a heed•drrs a boudoir of diamonds. The Ditcher of Sutherland had on a white satin dress, with a lam tunic, and a boudoir of diamonds for a head-dress. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales wore the insignia of the Garter, as did also the Duke of Sutherland and the Earl of Sefton. Supper was served in the dining-room at about 12 o'clock, and the dancing continued till about half-past 2, terminating with a capital Sir Roger de Gormley. _ _ _ The Earl and Counteea of Derby will arrive in town on Tuesday next from Kmowahly Park, for the Beason. The Earl De Grey has arrived at his residence in Carlton•gardens from Hall. The Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Emily Pool leave WhitehaM-gardeu to-day for Drayton Manor, Stiffoidrhire. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington left Apeley House yesterday for Strathfieldmaye. Hants. Captain Wake, R.N., of the Bulldog, is the brother of Mr. Wake, C.B, who was distinguished for his heroic defence of Arrah during the Indian mutiny. Both brothers are now on a visit to their mother, Lady Wake, sister to the Bishop of London, at Weston-super-Mare. On Friday last the Rev. Edward Montague Hare, clerk, N. L., was instituted to the rectory of Little Dunham, in Norfolk, on the presentation of the Rev. Hush James Hare, clerk, and George Copeman, Esq. . _ There was a very crowded audience at the weekly meeting of the members of the Royal Institution yesterday evening, to hear Mr. Baker give an account of his explora tion of the sources of the Nile. His narrative waa for the most part a repetition of the paper recently read by him at the Geographical Society, but it entered more fully into some personal detail. At the Princess's on Monday, Never too Late to Mend will attain its hundredth night of representation. We (Post) understand that a five-act historical play has just been written and printed privately by Mr. Martin Tupper, with a view to its representation in the spring. The subject is, The Life and Death of Balogh. It is said to offer extraordinary opportunities for specta cular display. _ _ An official inspection made by H. B. Farnall, 0.8., the Poor-law Board Commissioner, on Thursday, of the casual wards of the Stepney Union, disclosed a moat debasing and inhuman treatment of the houseless, power fully described in this morning's Times. The certificate of the guardians for these wards has been withdrawn, and the expense incurred by the four parishes of the "union'' for housing the poor will not be refunded out of the gene ral rate. Dr. Jeaffreeon, late medical officer to the Lon don Fever Hospital, says he believes that any endeavour to improve the healthiness of the dwellings of the poor will be io many respects futile till we have a larger staff of medical officers and inspectors, who sh►ll be independent and able to enforce the carrying out of their recommendations by the vestries, subject in case of dispute to a government depart ment, under which the medical officers of health should hold their appointments. With such an arrangement and more summary legal powers l►ndlords could be forced to keep their houses in tenantable repair, and would fled them closed as unfit for human habitation, if they continued pes tilential. The will mile of " Fitzgerald r. Fitzgerald " is proceeding at Dublin. Thursday was almost entirely occu pied with the examination of the deceased baronet's solici tor, after which Dr. Corrigan was examined as to his sanity. He has given his opinion that the testator was of sound mind, though remarkable for dirty habits. The Dublin Gazette of yesterday contains pro clamations subjecting to the provisions of the Peace Preser vation Act, the counties of Sligo and Carlow, the barony of Ardagb, in the county of Longford, and the parishes of Dram, St. Peter's, and Kiltoon, in the barony of Athlone, county Roscommon. The Emperor Napoleon will personally take part in the Universal Exhibition of 1867. His Majesty will appear in the list of exhibitors whose production' will specially interest the working-classes, and intends 'ending specimen of habitations for artisans and mechanics, which will unite cheapness of construction with sanitary comfort The henses are to be erected within the park of the Exhi bition. The Duke of Coburg will shortly leave for the Caucasus, having received an invitation from the Grand Duke Michael, the governor there, who is his brotherin law, The usual Academia of Languages was held on the 15th at the Propaganda, Rome—speeches in every possible tongue, to the number of 30, varied with some excellent dramatic music of a sacred character, were de- livered. The English language was rather unfortunately represented by a young Highlander, whose strong Scottish accent occasioned some laughter, A letter from Rome of the 20th saye :—" Onr eminent Scottish sculptor, Lawrence hf'Deinald, has just been stabbed on the staircase of Mr. Watson, with whom he wee to ►ave spent the evening. He had remarked on quitting the restaurant where be dined that three suspicious scoundrels followed him, but he had paid no attention to the incident. On reaching the second floor of Mr. W►tson's reiiidence he was suddenly seised, dragged down, and n stiletto driven into his neck just between the jugular vein and the carotid artery. His shouts for help brought the servants with lights, whereupon the 'emetics were seared off end dec►mpd. Happily a physician was one al Mr. Watson's guests, and immediately dremed the wound, which it is hoped will rot prove fatal. The Ls Marche Spring Meeting is definitireli fixed to wine off on the 25th of February, and will be cow Vaned on the 4th and 25th of March ; the Great Militia, will be run on the 21st of May. The Vincennes Steeple. chase will take place on the 11th and 18th Much sad the 20th of May. The rinderpeet has broken out at Somerton and laminator. in Somerutehire. Nairn Aberdeen Leith A rdroessn Oreemmatie . Valauds Cape Clear Liverpool Holyhead Penance Bred L'Orient Rochefort Plymouth Weymouth Portsmouth London Yarmouth Scarborough Shields Heider WOO 30.06 *ll 80.111 1111.22 30.26 FRENCH TINAICI. The Times gives a sketch of the present position and pro- spects of French finance, as detailed in the annual report of N. Fould. The year 1864, which was to have shown ► financial equilibrium, reveals a deficiency, so far as it can at present be ascertained, of about 2,000,0001. Bat the budget of 1865, it is hoped, will be in eguilibrio. The loss from the ule, from time to time, of the unhappy Mexican bonds, iaterfores materially with the balance of receipts and expeaditure. H. Fould has not yet been able to make up the accounts for 1866, bat there is hope that it will show progressive redaction, unless some suspicion be . _ thrown on the Mexican indemnity which forms part of the revenue. It is in 1867, when the reduction in the army comes into operation, that a surplus is to appear. The present estimate of the latter is 198,000/. ; but as the rectificatory budget bas still to be brought forward, and the amount of it depends upon the solution of the Mexican question, or, as we may say, upon the maintenance of peace throughout the world for the next two years, it would be hazardous to reckon too confidently upon its realisation. TM BUICLIM OP ADMIRAL PAWL. The Daily News, after pointing out that Admiral Pareja eras a hero of the Spanish type, depicted by Cervantes, in • Duel Quixote," observes that the choice of such au officer for this particular service was the most wantonly and culpably imprudent one that could have been made, due probably to the evil dream of nuns, confessors, and court favourites of destroying the ancient colonies of Spain, sad " revindicating" the rights of the crown. The poor admiral threw into the enterprise all the ardour and experience of a personal and hereditary feud, and all the fanatical tenacity of • axed delusion —namely, that the opaque t of Chili was indispensable to the restoration of Spanish enpreme/y in the Southern Ocean. When at the scene of the crusade he found the Chilies' laughing at his blockade, Peru making common cause against him, the naval powers of Europe opposed to his pretensions, and the Milted States flag hailed as a deliverer, no wonder he confidently admitted to the American Minister that he had made a mistake. The capture of one of his blockading squadron just after his boasting proclamation to his fleet overpowered him ; he retired to his state-room, and shot himself through the heed. What the next episode in this sorry business is to be will depend perhaps, should Spain unwisely persevere, on other agencies than hers. The Pose is at • lose to understand why the Madrid press should furiously insist that the character of the hostilities with Chili must be seriously changed because an armed despatch boat has been lost. Madrid seems to be unanimous in demanding that some terrible act of vengeance should be visited on the Chilians for their presumption. The Pose trusts that the governments of England and France will not neglect to address such repre sentations to the Spanish government as may induce it to rest contented with those coercive measures by which, until now, it has sought to obtain redress. The Telegraph hopes that O'Donnell will resist the choleric and petulant outburst of resentment which the destruction of the Covadonga in Chilies waters, and the suicide of Admiral Pareja have elicited from his ignorant and excitable countrymen. For Spain at this moment to court foreign war would be an insanity which O'Donnell's proverbial common sense will teach him to combat and eschew. TIM TRIAL OF MR. GORDON. The Times prints this morning the account of the arrest of Mr. Gordon, written by Mr. Bo werbank, custos of Kings town, who himself, under the governor's order, took Gor don into custody. This description gives us the idea of the state of feeling in the island ; everybody who had any thieg to do with the maintenance of order fully believing that Jamaica was in the greatest danger, end that Gor don was the cause. Yet it must be understood that there are grave doubts as to his guilt, wbieh people, high and low, white sod black, appear to have taken for granted. No one will deny that there were grenade for arresting him ; the fatal mistake was i• seeding him to a spot where he could not communicate with the persons who might have given evidence in his favour, and then bringing him suddenly before a court martial to answer for a capital crime. A man whom every body in • moment pointed to as a traitor and murderer THE WEEKLY PRESS. In the course of an article upon the new parlia ment, the Saturday Review observes that the doctrines which attribute great importance to the action of in dividual persona, are countenanced by the present state of political affairs. Mr. Bright, who is equal to Mr. Gladstone in eloquence and, perhaps, in general ability, will for the first time find himself the acknow ledged leader of a not inconsiderable section. It is yet un within whether the radical party have a second or rival leader in Mr. Mill. No new member would have a claim to equal authority if the tendency to dogmatism sad the propensity to crotchets which may be traced in his writings are suppressed in the House of Commons. Some time muss elapse before his character and influence will become an element of political calculation. Lord Oranborne will possess with his party the authority which belongs to an established position, ea well as the influence which follows the exhibition of great ability, joined to indefatigable industry and untiring vigour. Mr. Hardy's solidity will perhaps supersede in conservative estimation, the more antiquated so.. lezdnity of Sir John Pakington. The government would be perceptibly stronger if it included in its ranks Mr. Lowe and Mr. Horsman. Lord Stanley's power •it is impossible to estimate, because the direc tion in which it will be applied is uncertain. With the exception of Mr. Disraeli, who will retain his accus tomed rank, the older members of both parties will pro- bably find that time has weakened their hold on their poli tioal supporters. Mr. Gladstone might have rendered rivalry impossible, if he had declared his intention ti form and to lead a moderate liberal party. As a reformer, he may perhaps achieve equally brilliant rooms ; but there will be far more risk of failure. In another article the Saturday Review, attributing Mr. Ooachen's preferment to the agency of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, compares the relation between Mr. Gamboa and Mr. Oladstoee to that between Mr. Glad stone and the late Sir Robert Peel. It remiss to be seen whether the future time of Mr. Goechea will fully bear out the parallel. If it does not, a stroeg additioaal argument against this active influence of Mr. Gladstone will he furnished to those who already recognise in its exercise some of the most baneful interpolations in the staff of more than oise department. For, however readily a political party or a civil department may pardon, in a chief so able, so eloquent, and so full of knowledge as Mr. Gladstone, other qualities neither so useful nor so admirable, it is any thing but matter of rejoicing fora great public office to sot its own permanent staff disarranged to make way for some Qladstone-and•water parasite, who, without a fraction of his great model's eloquence, knowledge, or ingenuity, has all his crotchets, all hie waywardness, all his obstinacy, all his love of domination, and who vulgarises Mr. Glsdatone's subtlety into downright mischievous Jesuitism. Replying to the Daily News the Spectator declares it si not asking for less than the ministerial measure of reform, but for more—for a direct share of power within par liament to be conceded to the working man. Our pro posal, household suffrage in all towns with more than a fixed limit of population, will undoubtedly secure them the power of returning from forty to fifty representatives, and will as undoubtedly prevent them from awampiog any other class. The 61. suffrage, on the contrary, will secure only one of t • result•. It will either simply in. crease the liberal section of the exist ng constituency, and thus make the return of the same men with the same ideas more certain, that is, will be almost null, or it will enable the workmen to hold the balance of power in every borough in the three kingdoms. It will either do nothing, which is Mr. Baines' view, or it will enable the workmen to carry any special idea—say the Permissive Bill—in the teeth of the rest of the country, which seems to be Mr. Bright's. The bill, to carry the country in the teeth of the tories, the wave , ete, and the little boroughs must, whatever its other defects, at lent relieve us from the subject for one generation, and this a franchise bill, without a r listribution of seats, avowedly will not do. Is it the Daily News which quails before a measure it allows to be geed, bemuse if proposed Harwich and Ripon and Woodstock might master up courage to resist? The Economist thinks lithe Stock Exchange committee is to investigate such matters, the new rules now adopted are as good as any other. No rules can be good, because the purpose they axe intended to secure cannot be secured. But the present rules, perhaps, do es little harm as any others which could be suggested. Their principal difference from the antecedent col. is that bargains made before the allotment of shares ere now to be recog. nised as well as bargains made after that allotment. The same spirit of needless benevolence which lead the com mittee to retain this singular jurisdiction, led them not long since to forbid—for their refusal to recognise is equi valent to their forbidding—a particularly objectionable class of bargains, those before "allotment," in which there is often more fraud than in any other class. But their refusal has not stopped the bargains ; it has only made them matters of " honour." Some of the dealers would have nothing to do with the pr ibite i bargains, but others male them con stantly. The committee are now retracing their steps; they are giving u- the act of benevolence on which they lately prided themselves, and fur which they were so much praised ; and it is much to be wished that they would confine themselves to t ••• r own besieges, and abandon all attempts at jadieia', or quasi judicial investigations. The Press contends that even if too much severity has been displayed in the sappression of the Jamaica revolt, the conduct of those who raised au outcry sgaiost an officer paced in a very difficult position without a tittle of evi dence to justify their clamours is altogether unpardonable, They condemned General Eyre without knowing what he really hid done, or on what grounds he had acted. And mhisters, who ought to have supported a servant of the crown, yielded to popular clamour, sad actually suspended him, at the same time that they ad mitted that they did not know why. Whatever may be the result so far as General Eyre is concerned, that section of the public which raised the agitation, and the legislators who for the sake of courting popularity visited him with a reprimand, have done wrong. For their conduct, at any rate, there can be neither palliation nor excuse. The John Bull does not hesitate to say that on such evi dence as wee advanced before the court-martial in Gordon's ease, no magistrate in this country would have convicted any prisoner of larceny. If we are told that when a country is under martial law, it does not do to be so particular as to the details of evidence. the answer seems complete, that theca was not the remotest necessity for trying Gordon by martial law e'even days after the offence. The John Bull trusts that the conser vative party will have the moral courage not to attempt a justification of what seema an utterly unjustifiable action, caused, no doubt, to a great extent, by an extra ordinary pante. Raving made a mistake, let us have the honesty to admit it. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEITINOS FOB THE =sumo Wm.—Monday, Actuaries, at 7; " Limitation of Risks," Mr. Sprague. Tuesday, Royal Institution, at 3; " Heat." Professor Tyndall Wednesday, Society of Arta, at 8; " Dwellings for the People, " Mr. Biggs. Thursday, Royal Institution, at 3; "Hest," Protestor Tyndall. Chemical, at 8; Utilisation of Tows Sewa g e," Dr. Gilbert. Lioness, at 8 ; " Anatomy of Echidna." Anthropological, at 8 ; " The Negro," Captain rim. Antiquaries, at 8; ; " Murrain of Ilth Century," Mr. Harrod. Royal, at N. Friday, Royal Institution, at 8 " Influence of Arabic Philosophy on Medheral Europe," Earl Stanhope. Philological, at 8 ; " French Homonyms," Professor CassaL Saturday, Royal Institution, at 3 " Art Education: how Works of Art should be viewed," Professor Wastmaciott.—AMOlClNlS. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (Erarmes miasma.) BELGIUM. BRUSSEL/1 0 JAIL 27. Yesterday Lord Howard de Walden and Sea ford had an audience of the King, to whom he presented a letter from Queen Victoria, condoling with his Majesty on the death of Leopold 1., and felicitating him on his accession to the throne. He was subsequently received by the Queen, who entrusted him with a letter to Queen Vic toria. Lord Howard is confirmed in his post as Envoy- Extraordinary at the Belgian Court. (11IIT11111 manias.) REPORTED DISTURBANCE IN THE PIINJAUB. PARIS, JAN. 26. Advises received here from Bombay give an ac count of disturbances which bad taken place at the end of December in the valley of Loond Kar, on the frontier of the Punjsub. The inhabitants of three important villages entered the English territory, and after committing various acts of pillage immediately re-crossed the frontier. The robbers were pursued by the English troops, and the booty recovered. The three vil lages were also destroyed and the ringleaders cap tured. THE LAMBETH CASUAL WARDS. TO TEI LD/TOB 07 TEI UPSON. Sta,—Allow me to testify to the fidelity of your description of the casual wards—certified and un certified—of the pariah of Lambeth. I also visited the workhouse there last Wednesday night, and had pleasure in giving my testimony in the visitors' book to the excellent arrangements of the casual wards, whose inmates appeared to be well cared for. Half an hour later the scene was reversed, and I witnessed what I must designate as most revolting. Naked men and boys huddled together, without the pretence of decency, in the wretched room of the lodging-house, afforded a strong and painful con trast with the previous scene of the certified ward, and was calculated to make thinking men ask whether the time has not come for remodelling the parochial system, however beset with difficulties, to the advantage of the State.—l am, dec., A. KINNAIRD. 1, Pall-mall East, Jan. 26. WEATHER REPORT. -(THIS DAY.) &MIMI, JA2(8•18 87, 8 A.X. N.Z. N. W. N.W. W.N. W. I 1.01. 2 W.N.W. - I - PIOBAIDIN. ON NORTNZAN 11111IDAY. MOUDLY. Sontb•weaterly, fresh to strong, unsettled. As above. WlfflNltl. ~.:~ W.S.W. 8.11. E., fresh to strong, unsettled. 8. to W., fresh to strong, unsettled. Variable, moderate to BOirrniail. 8.8.8. to W.S.W., fresh S.W., strong. to strong. W.N.W. to 8 S.W.. ZaBrIM.I. B.S.W. to W.N.W., moderate to fresh. moderate to strong. Northens=Bcotiand. Western=lreland, Wiles, and adja cencies. Southern=inglish Channel and Say of Biscay. lastern.Eastwerd ZOlglaad and North Se► FOREIGN -OFFICE, JAN. 24. —The Earl of Claren don, her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received a note, dated the 23rd inst., from Count R. d'Appooyi. Austrian ambassador at this court, stating that it will no longer be necessary for British subjects, desirous of visiting Austria, to have their passports wised at the Austrian embassy in London.—Gazette, ACCIDENT TO LORD BROWNIAW CECIL.—The Marquis of Exeter has lately been entertaining a distin guished company at his seat in Burghley Park, and on Thursday a party of gentlemen proceeded to the race course preserves for the purpose of enjoying cover shoot ing. Amongst the firing party was Count Bernstorff, the Prussian ambassador. By some accident the discharge from this gentleman's gun chanced to strike Lord Brown low Cecil, the shot taking effect in the lower part of one of his legs. His lordship was conveyed to Burghley, where surgical aid was promptly rendered, and most if not all of the shot was extracted. Lord Cecil is fortunately only slightly hurt, and by the latest accounts was pro gressing satisfactorily. EGYPTIAN HALL—The latest novelty introduced at Chang's levees is the evening tea parties by the giant's wife, who kindly invites her patrons to parta ke of the re freebie; cup in trent Chines 'Kik —that is, without milk or sugar—being at the same turn served up in the most ortho , do: china utensils. Another sorprixe to thou assembled is the sudden appearance of Mau, who, during the repast Prompts himself as a gout attired in European oostume. The conceit of celestial music, produced under the able superintendence of Mr. M. Chisholm, still continue, a great attraction. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.— The following gentlemen, having undergou the nueseary examinations for the diploma, were admitted members of the college at a meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 26th inst., viz.—Messrs. Stephen Wootton Bushell, Brixton ; Herbert Goldinghsm Budd, Worcester; and William IC Bubot, M.D., Jest!. College, Pennsylvania Tobago, West Indies, students of Guy's lioapital ; Israel John In Mere. Albemarle.atreet, of University College ; John Fraser Hussey, Salisbury, of King's College; Thomas Diver, M.D., St. Andrew's, and L.S. A. London, of St. Bartholomew'. Hospital ; and Henry Pelham Gordon, Queensland, of the Dublin School. It is stated that out of the fifty-six candi dates who have been unJergoiog their examinations at the college during the past three days, only eight were referred back to their studies for six months. NATIONAL SCHOOLS OF DONCASTER:-1130 mini nacos of the Rev. Dr. Vaughan in his gifts of 1,0004 and the leasehold, at a cost of 4301., of the site for the new school buildings, has elicited the sympathies and the gene rosity of his congregation, parishioners, end the gentry of the neighbourhood. The response is so marked that it is doubtful whether any similar proposal has excited, in es short a space of time, such a manifestation of liberal feeling. The total amount subscribed during one week wee 1,059/. There is, however, ample scope for further effort, as the estimated wet is 3,8901. Doncaster Gazette. _ _ • VACCINATION FOR THE CArrLs Pr./WL—Mr. Tollemache writes to the Times :—" You were good enough on the 16th inst. to insert a letter from me, in which mentioned an experiment which I was making with an Alderney calf. lam sorry to say this morning the calf succumbed to the disease, after being ill eight days. The poison generated in her system, from her having been so long in close contact with animals suffering from malignant rinderpest, seems to have overpowered the influence of the vaccination. I have also one vaccinated cow ill from the disease, and another cow, also vaccinated, that I have great misgivings about- As I do not consider the death of the calf to be a fair test of the vaccination theory. I ppuarrppoossae to-morrow to inoculate a cow (that has been successfully vaccinated) with the tears 'lnning from the eyes of a diseried beast. I also purpose subjecting another cow, which has been vaccinated and which (after ddeation) took oowpock, to precisely the same experiment. If either of these cow. are proof against 'inclement, we shall gain much insight into the nature of the disease and the best mode of dealing with it. The mast eminent authorities seem satisfied that 'indorsed is bovine smallpox ; we are not, therefore, groping in the dark, but hells,/ our way with the view of dimmed:l'g some antidote or palliative against this desolatieg scourd." HER MAJESTY'S STAOROUNDL—It is stated that Mr. Charles Davis, the veteran royal huntsman, who is now 79 years of age, will retire from the position which he has so long bald in the Queen's Hunt, at the end of this season. Harry King, it is believed, will succeed Mr. Davis. SALE or Hownts&—On Wednesday there was an unusually large sale of heroes at Meanie. &oft. °rod], I and Bons' bazaar, Lothian-road, Edinburgh, and more than ordinary interest was exhibited in it from the fact of the magnificent stud of the late Mr. Ramsay, of Barton, form ing part of the catalogue. The total sum realised at the sale was over 3,C30L It is understood that other horses connected with the Linlithgowshire and Stirlingshire fox hounds will be exposed for public auction, along with the hounds at the end of the present hunting season, in eon. sequence of the decease of Mr. Ramsay, the master of th e hunt. v i LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) (BURT OF PROBATE AND DI FOUL (Before the Judge Ordlaw.) LgY V. LIM Dr. Middleton, for the petitioner, the wif e of a__ carpenter at Boutin. Be married her in 1841, sod nj with her on comfortable terms for a fortnight, au, - ‘ , 1 7, he began to treat her with baseborn, and cruelty. bilia he beat her, tore nearly all the clothes off her. lee thrust her into the street,. The same day he took r tw woman into his house. The petitioner at first b ooms chargeable to the parish, then she went into mei* ist she was now keeping a grocer's shop at Plymoetk then Ley had committed bigamy with BAIT Au ghoi, beer, a widow. Decree nisi with accts. FRANCIS V. FRANCIS AND OFTWOOD. Mr. Pritchard, for the petitioner, a what-614er, attim i Clapton. The respon den t, whose maiden wee 14 Charley, had been adopted when a child by a 112. liana,!, and the marriage, which took place in 1847, it for IC: mouths unknown to her. It was then declared ay the respondent went to live her husband. gi ft 1854 she made the acquaintance, in some casual INT d the co-respondent Off wood, a tailor sod waiter. intimacy led to frequent quarrels with her hitshald o w in 1858 there was a !leporello°. The respondent had elan been living with the co-respondent, who wee a reacid man and borne him children. Deere. nisi with oasts. Lossimi e. LVYDDU. HIGGINS, AND JORISOL Dr. Tristram and Mr. Plummer for the petitioner, s cgs. termini". of the 28th Regiment of Infantry. R. wee f inally a private soldier, and he married the respe o w 1847. At the end of the Crimean war he reesicid a re a , minion for his meritorious services, and is 1858 be India with his regiment. Before doing so he mode s t' : arrangements for his wife's support ; but since 1860 been leading the life of a prostitute at Canterbury. had been six children of the marriage. The owe was chiefly proved by the eon of the pi* who was a peepers' in the army. Decree nisi. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) IN RN PRIMIIIICI NORTH. The bankrupt, a stockbroker, of Throgmorton-stre e t sal elsewhere, renewed his application for release h ut custody. The debts are between 0,0001 s y 6,01:01. ; assets uncertain. The bankrupt &unhand )k failure to losses in busies= and pressure by makes, application had been adjourned till after the Erin d assignees, and no opposition was now made on their pol l the release. Mr. flargood opposed for a creditor. The bankrupt stated that be expected to realise orgy thieg from a debt of 2.0001. He had parted with A* property to meet the claims of pressing creditors. His Honour said there did not appear to be any m ei for detaining the bankrupt longer in custody, and grind the Meese. 111)13 PIELD AND HABIL Mr. Chidley, on !What of the corporation of Loy & applied to the court for an order for the pafmeat silt due under the following circumstances. The cis were dryealters, in Apple yard, Ooswell-street, beide* premises as tenants of the corporation. and at the Used% bankruptcy 76/. was due for rent. The corporatism * trained from di/training on the faith of an nude:tan kr the solicitor that the rent should be paid on the per* being realised. On the assipme being appointed tip bad refused to fulfil the undertaking on the grosad Out they were Not bound by it. lir. Pattison, who appeared for the &Wpm., said fig did not dispute the undertaking, but wished fir its direction of the court. His Honour said it was most important that go:d fdi should be kept with landlords; he should, therefore** the payment el the 751. as prayed. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DIY.) GUILDHALL SESTREATIC ROBBILIES PROM WAREHOUSE& John Bute, aged 37, described as a draper, wanes brought op on remand .before Sir F. G. Moon, de* with illegal possession of a piece of lawn, supposed to Mr. Wontner prosecuted. The piece of linen in question forms only one WWI 41 many which the prisoner had pawned, or cowed teh pawned ; and from the evidence adduced it appeared eg he had carried on a system of robbery for the hi twelve martin; The prisoner, who has a palm conviction against him, was formerly in a lir warehouse, and in consequence was aware of the model which business was transacted in the several wirehair.' His plan was to walk in as a buyer, and if questioned ets passiog through a department he would say he wet pm to another. This having .been carried on for nn time, and Mr. J. M. Walter, pawnbrek; of Aldersgate-street, findiog that he had some trrn different paresis which had been taken is by ti militant', at once suspected that they had not bees horrid come by, and immediately eommunicated with the peast who advised him to continue taking in the plaq as that might give them an opportunity C tracing the property. Mr. Walter did so, id the result was the prisoner's apprehension. Tlr different warehousemen in the City were then applied M and gentlemen from Messrs. Bradbury, Greeters; sad ON and several other firms, identified a quantity of the geci as their property, and also identified the prissier m stantly visiting their premises never being a ham lad that they always mimed property after his visite. Mr. Walter stated to the court that his losses lad bee so great by men, apparently respectable, pawning re at his shop which they had abstracted from their moitet warehouses, that he was determined to bring even it. he now regarded as a suspicious case, to the notice of it police. Bit F. G. Moon said Mr. Walter would be sant* right in doing so, and cowmitted the prisoner for tridit the Old Bailey. CLFILICENWELL. • ESTR•2IOI C• 0811 FOR ATTEMFII/10 BIJICIDL Mr. Pearce, who described himself es a granite serckink of Sutherland-villa, Horosoyaroad, was charged with drunk and assaulting the door-keeper at the Avi. Hall ; mad further with attempting to commit nisi& hi police cell at Islington. Mr. Ricketts, solicitor, defended. The prisoner, who stated he was connected with tls Islington vestry, went to the Agricultural Hall, end gin into the part set apart for the performers. He wee sebth to lease, and as he would not was ejected. Ile Ss struck the doorkeeper a violent blow, and we about proceeding to further violence when Is SN given in charge, and taken to the Islington Pax. station. Whilst there he wee very violent, 01 said that %opacities he was placed in was enough tem& • respectable man go mad. He was put into nee sl tie cells, and when the constable went to take bin caii a gentleman having attended to put in bail for him, ths ear stable found him with a bankerchief tied tightly song kk throat, and the primmer almost black in the face Eros BP effects of strangulation. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said that be not drunk, and as for attempting to commit suicide, ell _, 111 did was to tie hie handkerchief round his throat to pre y= the bugs from biting his neck, as the cell was full el Win He was pleased that he did say that be attempted 10 04 °_, atruction, el he had the cell door open all eight. !Alm also the company of some constables to look after bin. Mr. fifyncourt at first remanded the prisoner, bat OM wards allowed him to go at large on payment of ano 20a., which was at once paid. WORSHIPSTREET. • BEGGAR'S ELEA. A cadaverous and ball-clad nun, with but cos ere !r two children, • boy aged eight years and • girl a l, isthe clinging to the remnant' of his coat skirts, WU court by Police-rotatable Smith, 99 N, charged with 111 himself in the public streets, for the purpose of MM.. alms. Smith said—About an hour sines I nw all three is tM Hackney-road, they looked to me like professional briPl_t The man was making • noise, as though trying to istv the children walked about receiviog some moon► Itall Ides that he could not be allowed to make each I ~_ Urbane'. He said that he had lost his left arm frac 0 18 dhow, and had left Liverpool with his wife mud fo ghildree, thirteen month's dace. He said that his same was John Bolton, and that his wife and the other_ .. .two ebildres were lodging in Flower and Dean-street. Slitor fields. I found 104 d. on him in halfpence sod farthiutir Mr. Elliscro—What do you say to begging! Defrodsat—Your worship, I was tinging. Mr. Ellison—How did you come from Liverpool! Defendant—We walked all the distance, your wonhiPi and I sang. Mr. Ellison—Yes, and lived by it I gunnel& llei Dd og ends for t a h l— elrdre y n " w r it w h Mr. Ellison—Earn • living with what I had Defeedeet—A hook, your worship, to Ini atm*. b 4 Mr. one sad worked well with it till it broke—it rem so NA — Mr. Ellison—Do you know anything of this man! Senith—Nothing further, sir. Mr. Ellison—Very well, let him be remanded, ad o a nh hoo ip, k but I'd be able to sen s Andres taken to the workhouse. When he coed again be SUM that his wife is in attendance. Make inio' des, and if his story is correct he shall ban • new Wl' Smith—l should mention to your worship that he I/I Is. • week for tholodging. Mr. Ellierin—That is for dl the family. Very wen , so IND you. Remanded. MARYLEBONE. 1111001IZIOTBLI CIASUALS SWUM OP 11111111 CLOTIaI‘ , Rokrg Celeplell aged 21, shoemaker, E mm a Cori, MizabetA Eldridge, both aged 30. sad abla.bodled. ekarged by Er. Douglas, the master of Maryleboss WN W Muse, nigh teazle' up their clothes. Williams Roberts. aasspepennoteedset of the metal said—Last sight the an were admitted IMMO* wards, sad this 211Orn o s and asked Court and Eldridge wi t / I'm T corps. eluding the Bt. orders to sees o'clock, where, jutant Marl* the other of formed up to ‘Jalieguished c before sm. Bo once. The con Lard which 11 1 'Upwards of 2, admission of it Houses of Peri are expected tc Tau Done l'saricuLann.• don) marched de Caloiv• SDI On last Friday on exquisitely eontaining 68., panel, on tt u All good Ci tuy dear moil unopened to parcel was fa rbretally to polls Ile Barn Bt. Carmine Vicaire•Geoer letter to the atnive were had lived witl to and that t Clapham. Flrll Port-mm hold an fugue TUB CON bad not been Devon tip to oompliee Han looted to any gard to Wines tied out al if • torn up their o disi. I Sold e s she wag mostihs ag a nd was fa Wag Wi t h . r 1• • this morning, . wee after 9 . sad looked • e prisoners hi 21 days' hard h e rt time alter, . Amsted OW tore rap , Muted had r••• ▪ a * lee °wad b spin tear thi Correction. MSG oral e • cabmen, a ▪ ht to moves county of lm tatty the halm In th üb e li m c and o e mess s pil L i same time , fro - d e fendant's h ▪ en miles. halul a mile °utak ▪ The defendant titled to divide Mr. Doi_ ims as . y amid gat t clearly was 7, • always halt ► • by mile. tame 3s. for ih for extra per Stone said the . inside bete the radius I • re ; eo that hia The defendant • was afterw to accept the payment Stone—Are wi Mr. Daymaa— and you ref MI Stone —docoM od • sununoned y Dayman— li n o. 6 t ra c tio n 16.1 s Ston are t u r ep sef_o n r o n a n not ottu d isha :e f s f a _tr e s i * Stone-OAm Mr. Derwin- - of Qoses'i li d • on the Stove--Ws • • emends who Mr4a ty In the second id▪ e ° ▪ . 1t 0 11"isi v isglies s ma-cvart d ili e e c Y' isi "tegi on. l"viel the act of p - •• ils up to the •rtioa of a rn • o's opinion it • til the last m hMt. TEM gush r D.)— , • arise the past & • • • ranges at •w altogethi beautiful frog bated at We Grosvenor, the theemps. Th _ &*. 13.&w. 8.8. W. B.W. XL& 8.1. W.B.W. &w. W.B.W. &W. W.S.R. 11.&M. N.L XN.E. 68. E N.W.W. N.W.