The Express. — London, England, 1862-04-26 00:00:00

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Lane and Cralif..nl.—EsM4rtainswesta by Was IL harem. Mae. Celeste Mephan. and Mt Moclatan.—TlE DARK SLUZ ATXII9. —And El E 1.001 OUT AND nil 1 CVL—C - - - eeßy. 1111GE_WATI1 AT_LO/13011 ll tillei TFII. sti. sea T,lsuasuw—Movulos. Oa-- Allftwas. 11 lam. LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 26. Tar Carower's Inquest held yesterday on the body of MAROARIT ELIZABETH HALLIDAY, a young woman found in the Regent's Canal upwards of a week ago, furnishes another and profoundly touch ing example of that moat heartless 'pixies of vil lany which is often more fatal to its victim than the worst form of violence. It is the story of a girl in comparatively humble life, but respectable, industrious, and of blameless character, regularly courted for nine months, and eventually ruined under a solemn promise of marriage, by a man who not only had a wife, but had actually been married only three months before he commenced this deliberate, revolting, and fatal attack on the virtue of an honest girl and the peace of a respectable household. The use is, in deed, not altogether free from suspicions of a darker kind, the mysterious circumstances connected with the death of the poor girl not having been cleared up at the inquest ; but the main outlines of her sad story are sufficiently clear and may soon be told. She lived with her parents and sisters in Cleveland-street, Mile-end road, was employed during the day as a bugle trimmer, and appears to have been not only regular and industrious at her work, but careful of her Gaming., as she bad bought some furniture in anticipation of her marriage with the man Wses, wbo so cruelly wronged, outraged, and deceived her. Her sister describes her ea having been " a 4 ' very correct, moral girl ;" and, apart from the fetal step which led to her &Mb, there is nothing in the crribance at varianoe with this 'Whim She became acquainted with (2111•MLLS Wiwais Wcsa nine menthe ago, and had, in the language of her own circle, regularly "kept company" with hanffrona that time to the day of her death. Wes% who described himself as an engineer, paid his addresses to her, talked of marriage, and held out the confident hope that be would in a short time make ber his wife. She fully be. lieved him, and saved her earnings to contribute what she could in the way of furniture to their little establishment. Under these promises and profession be succeeded in seducing the poor girl about two months before her death. Subsequently Wass's conduct appears to have confirmed a sus picion already entertained by her sister that he was a married man, and she began to fear she might have been fatally deceived. About a fortnight before her death she told her sister if this were so she would be revenged, and talked vaguely several times about committing suicide. Last Monday week, the last day of her life, it appears that she received • short onto signed "W." appointing a meeting for eight o'clock in the evening. She left home at that hour, excusing herself from doing an errand for her brother on the ground of being already late, and was never afterwards seen alive. The only trace we have of the poor girl after she left home is six hours later, and that is one of the most tragical and affecting kind. At two o'clock in the morning a gardener living near the canal heard "a about or loud exclamation, followed by a " piercing scream." The dogs of the neighbour . . . hood began barking furiously,; and he went out to "bee what the matter WWI, but in the darkness could distinguish nothing. The body of the poor girl was found in the water near the spot five hours afterwards. Masse circumstances are sufficiently mysterious. what happened to the poor girl during that long interval of six hours from the time of her leaving home to her fearful death we cannot tell, and no light was thrown on the fatal mystery at the inquest. But it is not for the purpose of fixing attention to the suspicious circumstances connected with her death that we bring this poor girl's awe under the notice of our readers. It is the course of heartless deceit and deliberate villany which produced this fatal issue that we are anxious to drag into open light, the more so because, though one of peculiar aggravation, it is far from being an isolated came. Several other cues of the muse THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY ETENRIG, APRIL 26, kind—omega, that is, in which leneest, indus trious, and respectable girls have been ruined under a solemn premiss of manisge--have rases* occurred. A eogresposdimt writing fro* Lin oolnahire, whose Islts; appeared in - our columns last week, gives a similar case that bad re- I cently occurred in the rustic life of his own 1 neighbourhood. A girl, seventeen years of age, , who was out at service, " returned home to her " parents for a week's holiday, and while there was " persuaded by a young man to go with him to be , " married, instead of returning to her situation. " Trusting to his word she went. The following " Sunday, finding no banns put up, she remon " strated. He said there had been a mistake, " and they should be the next week. It came, " and he then jeered at her simplicity for sup " posing he ever meant to marry her. She would " not live disgraced, and went and hanged herself. " For this villain the law had no punishment " whatever ; but the magistrate might if he " pleased have sent the victim to gaol." This happened some months ago, but during the last few days a similar case, followed by the same results, had occurred at Great Grimsby, in the same county. Our correspondent calls attention to the peculiar cruelty and hardship of three cases, and the difficulty—or rather in most cases the impossibility—of obtaining redress for the irreparable injury done :—" The " only way by which a villain who has made use " of • promise of marriage to ruin a poor girl can " be punished is by • civil prosecution, when a " sum of money will be gravely awarded by a " judge and jury as compensation for the injury. " In the days of the Normans a similar law " existed in cases of homicide. We shrink with " horror at the thought of awarding money for " human life • but a pecuniary mulct is still " the only p unishment for a crime that often "brings the victim to the madhouse or the grave." Every now and then one of these cases in which a poor girl has been ruined under a solemn promise of marriage comes before the Courts in the form of a civil action, and some alight damages are awarded. But in most cases even this nominal re dress is not within the reach of the unhappy victim. Our correspondent naturally asks i— _ " Might not these cruel cues of seduction under " promisss of marriage be separated from those of " deliberate immorality on the part of the woman , " and transferred from the civil to the crimin► " side of our courts of justice I Such a measure " would extend the protection of the law to those " classes whose poverty at present both exposes " them to temptation and deprives them of all " redress ; for where the seducer is as poor se his " victim compensation is impossible, and damages " are a mockery." There is undoubtedly an enormous difference between the cases of girls who easily or willingly allow them selves to be drawn aside from the path of virtue, and those who are deliberately seduced under solemn forms of promise which are in their own circle not nnfrequently looked upon as virtual marriage. In these latter cases the result proves that so far from having had any criminal desire or intention, the deluded victims prefer death to dis honour. If it were possible, the cases ought un• doubtedly to be separated, and some fitting penalty provided for so grievous and fatal an injury. We are all aware that the subject is beset with grave difficulties ; that any such legislative attempt would tend to recognise a deviation from that solemn and public form of marriage contract already established for the protection of women ; and further, that it would be extremely difficult Ito prevent a law founded on such a distinction from being widely abused. But these are only reasons for proceeding with caution, not reasons for acquiescing in the present grievously defective state of the law. We commend the three asses mentioned above to the consideration of law r► formers. In the meanwhile, in the absence of express and severe legal penalties for this worst and most cruel species of injury, it is the more important that it should be brought before the tribunal of public opinion, and exposed to the just xecration of all manly and honest minds. LATENr rNTELLIQIII4OII. ... AUSTRIA. It has been renirullad that of late the Vienna jeurnala have dimmed various subjects with great freedom. The question of the Beak ' that of Hun gary, with its dependencies, and that of federal reform, are remarked on without restriction. The Concordat also is the subject of warm discussion. As a proof of the advance recently made, it is suffi cient, perhaps, to state that a Vienna journal, the Neueste Nachrklaes, has openly declared against the Pope's temporal power. A letter from Trieste states that the iron-cased frigate Salamander was launched three days back, and is to be immediately fitted out. She is the first vessel of the kind in the Austrian navy, but three others are being built, one of which, the Schwartsemberg, will be launched at Pole next month. The Austrian builders have not followed the American system, but that of Franca The Salamander will, it is expected, be ready for soa in June next. 0111,011iii irmsoa titill box for the Voistiassires, sad Ow dboorre pasobad that • forgo, bed bream 'MAlL Oa bog* K Wasod oat that tits lb* two lotion two ormalorfolt.lo4lw lbo swain cif tho paw anortal Sae imos who won offselgiobobox so pro cured for TOOK. They wore tam to prima. Fourteen busts of celebrated ;dramatic authors, from Rotron to Scribe, are about to be placed as ornaments on the front of the ThdLtre Francais. INTIMNATIONAL Bsanrrtox. The amn received for the sale of season tickets already exceeds the sum received for the corrresponding period in 1851. The sale yesterday at Exeter-hall exceeded 1,0001. We understand that Sir John Lefevre is about NAVAL AND MALITARY:' THE ROBERTSON COURT-MARTIAL. ERE VERDICT. (Prom Saunciers's NewsZegter.) The finding has been this day (Friday) read to Captain Robertson, acquitting him. AmaxAzar Aran 25.—Arpourrimmi.Com wander O. J. Billow, to the Rails, commissioned. Lieutenant T. IL H. Wyoyard, to the Colossus. Nader R. O. Dyer, to the Royal Adelaide, for service in the Priming Alice. Shooed Hester W. J. Hooper, to the Shannon. Surgeon D. Lyall, M.D., to be additional to the Piaprd. Paymaster J. Hayward, to the Eagle. Ambient Sugeosio—W. Edney, to Greenwich Hospital; J. Jefferson, to the Doris ; J. Earrelly, to the Exoellent ; T. G. Wilma, to Bermuda Hospital ; W. D. Snr ita t t o iso tte Victory • H. G. Ruby, to Hadar Bonita ; J. to the 'trick% for lentos at Hadar Hoimitel ; E. B. gory V ari ting), the Devastation ; and J. (adios), Hasten' Andresen—B. J. Sims, to the Rener ra iT. Goober, to the Trafalgar; H. Bder, to the V ;W. Spun, Victory ;G. S. i re odo the Ivry ;P. to the Defame ; J. E. Babr„11. O. mg* and 0. P. o, to the Adventure. Assistant Paymasters—T. W. Moore, to the Royal Ade laide; J. L. Order, to the Adventure; and W. H. Has. well, to the Awnless. Oterk—W. Adams, to the Adventure. Pint-Class Anistent Eocineer J. Simpson (eating), to the Royal Added*, for memos in the Prinosin Alww Naval Cadet C. R. Bell, to the Deleon. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 25. The Royal Sovereign, three-decker, undergoing the proms of conversion into an irow.creed shield ship, was docked to-day to be brought forward as soon as poenhhi. The Royal Marine* light infantry were of loiauy inspected today by Major-General Ws:ahem Oaptain Eadreff, of the Imperial Russian screw EH gotsal,°let. ;47,e'r, by trei lu r a Pa V utt, Vine-Admiral W. Brom RtarAdmiral the * Hon. G. Grey, this morning. CHATHAM, Ann 25. By direction of the Lords of the Admiralty, Luteaant M. Rogge, Royal Marines, serving on board the Hero, 89, has been dismissed from the awes" their lordships being diasatiafied with hie conduct in • recent case where he was stabbed by • corpora of Royal Marines, who was subsequently asiatenced to 14 years" penal servitude. Moors IBON bIIDLC—The Windsor Castle, E. L troop ship, which arrived at Gravesend yesterday from Bombay, landed her cavalry sad infantry troops, to the number of nearly 250 men of all tanks, at Government-quay this morning, when the whole were immediately forwarded to this garrison, when, on their snivel, three regisking inediMl treatment were admitted isle Fest Pitt Hospital. Cbt Court. OSBORNE, Aram 23. The Queen and Princess Alice drove out yes terday, attended by Lord A. Paget. To-day is the anniversary of the birthday of the Princes, Alice. The Dachas of Wellington be. arrived et Osborne. The Queen will hold ► Privy Council this day (Saturday) at ( Nhoroe, hle of Wight. The light Hon. Sir Oeorp Grey has returned to town from bill seat, Pelham. Northumberland. The I hike of Somerset has returned to his residence in the Admiralty, from Osborne. THE QVEZ?eS VINIT TO BALMORAL—We (Perth- Awe Adrertiarr) understand that her Majesty will pass through here on Thursday next for Bahooml, breakfasting i• the retreshmeot rooms at the gators' station. It is her Majesty's wish to make this journey with the utmost privacy, and the Lord Provost has received notes, from the Home Oflks that all ceremooy is to be dispensed with at the statism Prince Frederick William is to leave Berlin for England ea Yoaday. His stay will not be long, and he will probably be back In the first week of May. He will go ma= to Engle.= in June for the marriage of the Princes' Alice with Priam Louis of Hesse. The Princes Victoria, whose ocroechesient is expected to take place in that month, will aftermath go (towards the end of August, it is =id) to the liewart Palace of Reinhardsbrunn, in Gotha, fore stay of scars duration : and at about the same tiros, it is me td, the Queen of England will go on • ✓isit to the Ducal Court of Saxe-Coburg. The total amount et contributioue received up to yesterday afteraomi is aid d the Albert Memorial Fund was *boat 47,250/. Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Meck lenburg-Suellen is expected M tows fn a few days from Gar. May. His Excellency Mr. Adams, the United States Minister, has taken, for a term of years, the house lately occupied by Mr. Rumen Sturgis, in Upper Portland-Om% whither the olSce of the legation has been transferred. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are eapeetad to arrive at Northumberland House on Monday oink from Alawick Castle. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch will return to lidgraviragotre on Toesday But from Delkeith Home, Edinburgh, far tae mason. The Duke of Beaufort and Mr. Gilmore passed through tow* lasi evening, on their way to Badmintou, from Newmarket . . .. --- The Duchess of Sutherland has issued cards for sa assembly on the let of Nay, at Stafford Howe. The Marquis and Marchioness of Donegal' and Lord and Lady Harriet, Ashley come to town today from Brighton for the season. . . . The E&rl of Shrewsbury will arrive in town to day from 'maestro Hall, Stallordshire. Her ladyship is expected in town on Monday. The Countoss of Seftou and Lady Cecilia Moly minx left Grosvenor-place yesterday, for Pans. Field-Marshal Viscount and Viscountess Com bermes have arrived is Belpavuesquere far the maim. Lord and Lady ellelnistord are expected at their madman in Eatoa-squars. oa Monday, from Paris. Mr. President Benson and Mr. Roberts, ex-pre sident, have arrived in London, from Liberia. M. !Linke, the historian, has set out from Ber lin for Fuji and Logsdon, in quest of references and in formation requisite for the completion of his history of Freud to retire from the office of Civil Service Commie- gamer, and that the Hon. Edward Twistleton and the Right Hon. Sir Edmund W. Head, K.C.8., have been appointed Commialionera. Dears or TIM Kati or Promoim—A tele. gram was received last eight from Paris, announcing the death of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, who ex. pined at his residenoe in that capital at noon yesterday, after a abort and sever* illness. The Marquis and lfarelticesee of kileebury reached Paris on Wednieday last from TotMbam• park, Vi ilia, having hem summoned by *sentence Mama of the auk and were with him at his dimolutka. The de. awed earl was the only son of George Anemias, eleventh earl, by his fint marriage with Elisabeth, sexed daughter of Mr. Topham ileauclerk, and wan born 19th September, 1791. His lordship married, 17th August, 1814, the Pria m's Ootavia Spinelli, daughter of the Duke of Lorine, and widow of Prince Rubari of Sicily. He succeeded to the family honours sad large esimsu an the death of hie father, in October, 1827. The deceased nobleman was Hereditary Visitor of Jesus College, Oxford. and High Steward of Wilton. In default of lima the earldom devolves upon hie nephew, George Hobert Oha:lee, the youthful Lord Herbert, eldest son of the We lamented Lord Harbert of Lea (Sidney Herbert), sow la Mr nth year. MEYER/MLR AND Allllll6.—Her Majesty's COM. minimum far the International Exhibition Of 1662 having sent special invitations to Heyerbeer and Auer to be pre sent at the opening ceremonial on the lit of May, when the overture of the former and the march of the latter will be performed under Mr. Costa's directions, lifeyeriteor has as eepted the invitation, and will arrive in Lowden this day (Eatarday) ; Anber, who, 60 years ago, was • clerk at • wipe merchant's in the metropolia, has never visited Eng- Lad sines that period, and being sinmr in his 814 year, is unable to undertake the fatigues of the journey, and has been compelled to decline the honour of the invitation. Meyerbeer, who is in excellent health, will arrive from Berlin in time to see his Prophete and Dinorah at the Royal Italian Opera. We (Gardeners' Chroniek) learn with great isatia tonics that the Marquis of Lansdowne has appointed to the highly rerponsible post of steward of the Bowood estates, in Wiltshire, his most intelligent and experienoed gardener, Mr. Spencer, who also retains the garden manage. meet. We (Cambridge Independent) regret to hear that the health of the noble Lord-Lieutenant of this county is ' sot oonsidered in • satisfactory st►te, and that snow gttently his lordship sod the Countess of Bardwicke purpose spending some time at the German baths, proceeding re Moisday next to Aix-la-Chapelle. We read in the Gazette of Bankruptcy:—" It is stated that Mr. Roupell, late M.P. for Lambeth, whose unsocond n 1 building speculations have, it is understood, principally contributed to involve him in his present Mil eulties, has offered his creditors • composition of Is. W. la the posed." The relative merits of iron ships and fixed forts is discussed in a letter to one of his constituents by Sir S. M. Peto. He contends that the recent experiments at Shoe baryons afford additional arguments against fixed fortifica tions and In favour of floating batteries. He doubts, how. ever, the utility of oonverting wooden ships into such floating batteries, and urges, as the least expensive in the end, the oonstroction of " iron ships of marina size to mount large guns in central batteries, protected by shields and fitted also to act as rams by the aid of powerful machi nery." Last evening the annual soirée of the Photographic Society of London was celebrated at King's College, Strand, under the auspices of the Lout Chief Baron, Mr. Fox Talbot, the councils of various learned societies, and many of the most distinguished .promoters of the photographic art. . . . A useful little pocket volume, containing a list of upwards of 30,000 cab fares to and from all parts of Lon don and the Exhibition, has just been issued by Messrs. Boulaton and Wright, by the authority of the Commis• sioners of Police. The directions are printed in English, French. and German, and will prove of considerable service. In the fourth volume of Earl Stanhope's "Life of Pitt" is an account of Pitt's last illness, derived from the papers at Woburn Abbey, and drawn up by the Hon. Jas. H. Stanhope, who was present in the room when he died. The handwriting was far from good, and Earl Stanhope read in it the last words of Mr. Pitt as follows :—" Oh, my country ! how I love my country !" As such the words have been published, but his lordship has again examined the original paper, and is now fully convinced that "leave" is the real reading. The last words of Mr. Pitt, as an ear witness has recorded them, were, therefore, " Oh, my country 1 how I kart my country," referring to the disas trous state of the continental war produced by the battle of Austerlitz. - _ - ------- The meetings of scientific societies for the en suing week are :—Monday.—Actuaries, 7, "Future Rate of Interest," Mr. Newmarch ; Architect, 8 ; Geopaphisel, Tuesday.—Zoologio•l, 1, Anniversary ; Antiquaries, 2, Anniversary ; Civil Engineers, 8, " Reclaiming Lands from Seas and Estuaries," Mr. OM= and Mr. Meier ; "Sea 'Dykes of Sleevig and Holstein," Mr. Paton ; Royal Insti tution, 4, "Ancient Art," Mr. Newton. Wednesday.— Society of Arta, 8, " Silk Department of Exhibition, Flo. rem, 1861," Mr. Winkwortb. Thursday.—UODOWS, 8, "Habits of Females of Genus Orgyis," Mr. Statutes ; Chemical, 8 ; Royal, Bi,"Terminations of the Nerves in Muscles," Professor Batiks, ; Royal Institution, 2, Annual Meeting. Friday.—Horticultural, Election of Fellows ; Archseological institute, 4 ; Royal Institution, 8, "The Exhibitions," Mr. Milne'. Saturday.—Asiatic, 3; Royal Institution, 3, "Agricultural Chemistry," Professor An demo*. The comic opera by M. Berlioz—written by for the inauguration of the theatre at Baden, rapidly ap proaching completiou—is bead on Shakspeare's AU'e Well that Bede Well. The Queen Dowager of Prussia has printed the arannesipt prayers of King Frederick William IV., and distributed a number of copies among her royal relatives by way of Prater gift. To the public at large this royal manual of devotion is not yet accessible. The Count de Sere, formerly a peer of France and President of the Royal Court of Paris, but who resigned in 1830, has jus died, aged 82. The ceremony of inaugurating the statue erected to the memory of Ary Sohcoffer, at Dordrecht, in Holland, his native place, is fixed for the Bth of next month. The Diet of the Grand Duchy of Baden has at present before It a bill for the emancipation of the Jews. Similar bills were dammed in 1859 and 1860, and postponed till a more favourable moment. ' Some Prussian naval officers have during the week bas. la rammanication with the Admiralty, with a view of parelisslaa a certain number of our sailing men-of war. "There will be no difficulty on the subject," says the i Amy sad Navy Gazette, "ea we have a large fleet from which they will be able to pick sad choose." New LEGAL MEMBER OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL Or INDIA.—Mr. Henry Sumter Maine, LL.D., the reader I . :ruden3e and civil law at the Middle Temple, bu the Sloe of legal member of the Supreme Council . :,rUaTitt.. Mr. Maim was offered this appointment upon the promotion of Sir SWIMS Pennock to the Chief Justice. ship of Bengal, but in eamegualee of ill-health he was oompellad to give a alma T'he late Mr. Ritchie, at the time adroatelemeral, then resolved the appointment ; but, in ocasequenes of his premature death, a sewed has oosured. Mr. Kans. wlatee health has boss r W i sisre has sow ammeterl the appotsharat, sod Sir Clarke l has bad the opportunity of promoting toe patios of great sail asehasst a gentleman whose ability as as sea sehobr and learned jurist has keg bum ap• W the lbehereity of °substage, sad by the pre emies of aphid' be was a member. Mr. limas esalmently diatiagolehoil bawd! at Osalindge, when for wall Yews he hell the •••• of Begins Profaner of ova Low ; nod, both as ea WINE ma Jeri*. be Is well entitled to the hist ages to wide la hoe bees oppolvated—Post. Tai Scrim& —Oa Moaday sight last eight of the stew Owl Memel Waging to Ile Amerkan IMow fdemisr anived la ea pmeengers on baud Kam Dana sad N'lver's sditerisnam steamer Mends, SPAM. The El Reino of Madrid, of the 21st, dates that the Court will not leave Madrid this year until the middle of July, when hey Majesty will go to St. Sebastian, and thence to Corunna for sea-bathing. In August her Majesty will go to St. Melons), and remain till the beginning of September. "It is possible, however," adds the above-named jonr nal, " that political events in Europe may modify these projects." (Ria?RYR nrAmuns.) THE HERZEGOVINA. RAGIJEA, APRIL S. A battle bee taken place between the Turks and the insurgents at Bjelopoglie, in Albania. Hansom Pacha, the Turkish commander, lost four cannon and 600 men. ITALY. TURIN, Aram 115. The National Bank has determined to take Italian Five per Cent. Rages upon deposit, at the rate of 70. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Renter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, April 26. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The 'hot* with the above mails, arrived at Israel See at 9 am this day. The mails leave for London at 10 am. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (not ova ows PAR,M, Fawaylinlmo. The following paragraph in the Journal de Rouen, may, perhaps, be thought to throw some light upon the mysterious "Latest News" of the Pays, which I commented on yesterday : It is now affirmed that the Marquis de Lavalette has oblides& from the Immix a renewal of his leave of ahem for two months. It is said, besides, that the meg& will not return to Rome, even provisionally ; on the entrary, the arrival of Madame de Lavalette at Paris egiseted. The supposition is, that during the next tweaseths events may assume a form sufficiently definite I. regulate that difficult situation. "It is said," says the Conatitutionne2, "that a bill is to be shortly presented to the Legislative Body, the object of which will be to completely identify, from the Ist October next, the two Three per Cent. funds, the interest of which would be henoeforth paid simultaneously every three months. By the same bill the Legislative Body will be asked to confer on the government the necessary means and powers to complete the conversion into Three per Cents. of the Four and Four-and-a-Half per Cents., which, in consequence of the abstention of the holders, or from legal obstacles, have not been comprised in the voluntary conversion. The teak that the government had imposed on itself is thus approaching its end. Everyone will under stand the importance of removing the antagonism between two rival funds which, in the judgment of all economists and financiers, was a serious obstacle to the good constitution of the French public debt." The majority of the Court of Caseation over ruling the judgment of its civil chamber has taken the view of the law which I contended yester day was the right one, and has irrevocably decided that the marriage of Mdlle. Zo6 Herbin with the discharged convict must stand good. Common sense, therefore, prevails in this case against subtle refinements which have lately taken wonderful possession of many enlightened minds in France. Perpetual copyright, and the right of the heir to protect his remotest ancestor's memory, are, how ever, in a fair way to become the standing law of France, and yet they are principles infinitely more absurd and mischievous than the doctrine now happily overruled by the Supreme Court. There will be very few instances of people marrying a convict by mistake, but every volume of history contains innumerable libels upon the ancestors of living persons, and perpetual copyright, while doing no good to authors, would be a perpetual incubus upon literary enterprise. The Bourse to-day gave way considerably. Heide fell 10c. for cash and 23c. for account, closing at 70fr. 35c. in each case. Mobilier fell 7fr. 50c., and thi Italian Loan 25c. The Orleans Railway fell sfr., and the other lines about 2fr. 500. Caisse Mires fell 25fr., closing at 100 fr.--a great falling off this from the 170 fr. of Tuesday last. A letter from Marvejols (Loik:e) mentions an incident as having taken place in that neighbour hood, in which a young nobleman, belonging to a wealthy family residing in that part of the country, is gravely implicated. The 10th Regiment of Artillery, being on its march from Toulouse to Besancon, the Count de —, who was ac quainted with the officers, from having made with them the campaign of Italy, went oat to meet it, and was invited by the colonel to dinner at Canourgue, where the regiment halted. Im mediately after the repast, the count took his leave, under the pretence of being obliged to go by the diligence which plies between Rodez and Montpellier ; but had hardly left when it was dis covered that the bag, containing the funds of the regiment, had disappeared. Suspicion fell on the late guest, and he was followed to the diligence, which was just about to start. He was requested to alight, and, being charged with the theft, acknow ledged himself to be the author of it. The colonel thought it his duty to call in the assistance of the local gendarmes, and the count was placed at the disposal of the procureur. The count alluded to in this paragraph is said to be the nephew of a duke living in Paris, and who was sent for by tele graph in consequence of the distressing circum stances above narrated. The Figaro-Progranum says : Five days before the Ent representation of the To/m -ewing M. Fournim received a letter, purporting to come from Baron de Itoduchdd. which requested to hare a bar for the first repnesatatiss. M. Fournier replied the* he would plies one at Ids disposal. Amu afterwards pre sented himself at the theatre of the Porto Saint Martin with another lettes.sigund like the Sat, and begged to hare the ticket. It wee delivered to him, and he paid the price of it. On Tuestisy, X. Yeeriest reesivel a htt frees IL REVIEW OF THE TROOPS ♦T DOVER., The troops garrisoned at Dover were reviewed yesterday by the Duke of Cambridge on the exteedve plateau at the rem of the castle. His royal blebs's'', rode over from Folkestone on horseback, sesompanisd by we ar two of the principal)officers of the sta ff attached to the South Eastern distri The remainder of the staff arrived by South Eastern Railway. His royal high_nees had been enraged in reviewing the troops at Shama! on the pre vious Wednesday, and had made an inspection d the Hy th e School of Nuaketry on Thursday. The weather yes terday was warm and resplendent smooth to give a complete foments of rummer, and the spectators who mounted the Castle Hill were more tha n =wily numerous, considering that the season proper has not yet nommen/ad at Dover. The troops arrived on the pound about 11 o'clock, and consisted of the 59th Regiment, under the command of Colonel Burmester ; the '64th, wake Lieutenant-Co/onel Shute, both of which are etetioned at the Western Heights ; and the 2nd Artillery Brigade, wider Colonel Cuppags. The two regiments of the line had not been before inspected since landing from foreign senior, the 84th having recently arrived from Bombay, and the Nth from the Cape. The troops remained on the for upwards of an hour before the Duke oll " Cat d - bride made his appearance. On his royal highnem entering the field they were drawn up in review order, and received the Commander-in-Chief with a general Wide. A variety of field evolutions were then gone through with a steadiness and on which elicited general admiration. Shortl as to the termination of the review the artillery stationed at the Western Heights loft the field at double quick time and made for their posts at the Western Heights Batteries, to be in readiness for his royal highness's inspection of the heavy gnus mounted at the different fortifications, including the Armstrong guns at the Castle, which was afterwards dole. The whole of the batteries opened fire with shot and shell at half-past three o'clock, and continued firing for nearly an hour, some excel ' lent practice being made. The duke subs equently in ' 'pentad the various works of defence already constructed and in course of construction in the garrison, and then re turned to Folkestone. THE ListrrENANT-Gloviaffos On GHEE:Hems HOSITTAL.—Vice-Admiral Sir Stephen Luahi LOB., I who commanded the Navel Brigade in tba is, we are informed, .Oral y to encased the late Bear - Admiral Sir W. F. Carroll as Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich Hos pital, and should this event take place, there will be ano- the vacancy on the flag Hat, which will promote to be an active Rear-Admiral Captain George Goldsmith, C. 8., the Hon. Keith Stewart, C. 8., and Captain Lydiard not having served sufficient time to entitle them to such an advance ment. Captain Charles Frederick, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, will then be the senior captain for removal to the effective Hat. A captain's good-service pension will also be at the disposal of the Duke of Somersot.—Aresy and Nary Gazette. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE BDTTIL—An accident, which has since proved fatal, occurredat the Rifle Ranges, Ash Common, on the 22nd inst. A co m m i s: the 84th Regiment bad been firing during the in an d had lett the ranges for camp, one or two of the remaining for the purpose of experimenting with breech-loading rifles, together with the noncommissioned officers and men in the butts. One at the officers fired a shot, and the corporal ci the butts (Corporal Jenkins* was in the act of running to point oat where it had struck the target, when at the same instant Lieutenant Brownrigg delivered the second shot, which unforkasately passed through poor Jenkinson'e body. There being no surgeon on the ground, the man was car ried to eisnipa distance of nearly three miles—and taken to the hospital of the 84th Regiment. Dr. Grant, attended upon him from the moment of his arrival in camp, together with the Inspector General at Hospitals, until 10.30 p.m., when death put an end to his sufferings. Corporal Jenkinson, who was highly respected by both the of and men of his regiment, was a young man of ex cellent character and education. Lieutenant Brownrigg has oommunioated with the man's friends, who will attend his funeral this day (Saturday). We understand that no blame whatever attaches to Lieutenant Brownrigg, which the man acknowledged to Colonel Lightfoot, C. 8., in a statement a short time before he expired, as he states that he ran out when be ought to have known the danger flag was hoisted. We may further add that Captain kl'Orea, the Insp ector of Musketry for the division, was present the accident occurred, and that he entirely acquits Lieut. Brownrigg.—West Surrey Tow. (net Lute moos cuserre.) Swree PAesponve.—Foaanne-oinnes, Alum 25. —Earl Rasesll, her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received a note front M. Rapp, Agent and Consul-General, ia London, for the Swiss Cooled dated the Bind inst., stating that it is no longer rrqtt i in by the Swift government that the passports of British rub jects visiting t3witmerland should be riard by any Swim' au thorities in the United Kingdom. Foavun-olnca, Aram 5. —The Queen hen been graciorady pleased to appoint Thomas Conon,' Pam ham, Req., to be her Majesty's Consul in the lidaM of Ma- da rlillON-OFFICR, APRIL 23. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Miguel Snares p Gonna u Vioe.Consul at Aunt for her Majesty the Queen of Spain. FORRIGN-OTTICIN Aran. 24.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Hoe. Henry Gongs Elliot to proceed on a special minion to his Majesty the "Cu of Greece. FORZION-OFFIC/L APRIL 24.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Mut F. Whit* as ries-eon gal at Aberdeen for his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh-Schwerin. FArm DALY'S APOLOGY'.—The Galway Vitidicci cek tor states that the following is an accurate yof Father Dalys apolop to Bishop M'Esilly :—" I leave to express my sincere regret in not having obe the man date of my bishop, issued to me on the 26th bar last, which was preceded by several latices of entreaty and re monstrance. I have also to express my sincere regret for having violated, by the public celebratioa of mass, and by hearing oonfeesion, the suspension indicted oa me by my bishop. I regret having addressed the people no Banda y, Jan. 5, in the chapel of Busby-park, and subseqnsetly la this parish church of Bt. Nicholas, on the 'object of the sus 'I regret the excitement created la the Howe al God, and in the public streets, and as • minister of lla I cosier, these who behaved irreverently in proseneeiire Amid flaeransent to make reparation teethe insane offered to car Bland Lord in the sacrament of his love. I desire to express ray entire disapprobation of the we of language :I=to the office and authority of my bishop, sod al 3 conduct or form of expression ma the part of say per. whomsoever calculated to coerce or isealmwe those whom alone the Holy Ghost has appointed to govern the church of God in the free exercise cd that authority confided to them by the exercise of St. Peter, the supreme visible head of God's church the Vicar of Mist upon earth. I do hereby request of my bishop, in vireos ot the powers specially delegated to him by the Apostolic See, to absolve me from the suspension he inflicted on me, and the Wigs. buities I incurred by its violation.—(Biped) POI= DALT." MR W. Z. FORSTER, ALP., AT BRADFORD. Mr. Forster, M.P., Iran among the speakers at the annual meeting of the Bradford Liberal Registration Society, on Thursday evening. He said the circumstances of Lame shire would probably occupy the attention of parliament on their again meeting. If this question should come before parliament, he thought he should not be departing from what he coneidered to be the feeling of this constituency if he took these two principles for his &damn :—First, that whatever distress might arise in any district el this country in consequence of the withholding of cotton, we moat do all in our power not to interfere in any way in the American quarrel Secondly, that if it appaim neceniary those who were in distress should be as. sisted--and he was sure that the exemplary patience with which those who were placed in this unfortunate position had borne their sufferinp entitled them to the qmpathi of_ the nation—(applause)—he did not believe if be rends support to such a measure. Whether it would be brought forward or not, he did not know. The ggeentlemen in the House of Commons connected with Lancashire had a high-spirited feeling which inclined them to object to come to the nation for asiustance, and appeared determined themselves, if possible, to cope with this_ great distress to the end of it. (Hear, hear.) They could not forget that the nation gave assistance to the Irish people when • great calamity befell them ; and he was mare that if they were called upon to give assistanoe to our own fellow-countrymen, who had borne their sufferings with =oh extraordinary patience, the nation would gladly afford it. (Hen, hear.) The very fact that they had no borne these sufferings, must create the deepest interest in their behalf. They knew the cause of their calamity, and wore disposed to endure it patiently, till relief came by the termination of this terrible war. Mr. Fonder next observed that the prospect was favourable, especially in the present state of the continent, for the consideration of the question whether we could not reduce our large national expenditure. He thought it desirable that we should seek to control and check that expenditure ; at the same time taking care, while saving money, we did not leave the country without complete protection. Mr. Bonier observed that it was the opinion of many that then would be no election this year, while some thought there would be one next year, bat both might be mistaken. He thought, however, there might be one next year, and that they ought to take such en interest in the Registration Society, that they would be in a position to take the Lisa which they ought to occupy in the DIM division of the Wag THE NIGHT HOUSES AT THE WEST END. William Barton, the keeper of the refresh ment-moms known as "Sate Hamilton's," in Leicester square, was summoned at the tharlboroughstreet Police court yesterday, for knowingly permitting prostitutes to assemble and remain on the premises on Sunday, the 20th inst. Mr. Superintendent Bement attended to watch the use for the Commissioner of Folios, and a great many inhabit ant' of the distract interested in the ease were present. Inspector Draper, 0 division, said—On the 19th inst. went, in company with another constable, to the defendant's house at midnight . Two men were standing at the door, one of whom was the doorkeeper. The latter shut it and rang a bell. We were then admitted, and proceeded to the refreshment-room,ground-floor. In that room, on a raised platform, on a chair, sat a woman I knew to be Sate Ha minors, with a woman on either side of her. There were 17 women present I knew to be prostitutes, liming seen them in the Haymarket at various hours of the night. There were several men also present. At half-pest 12 we went again, having remained within view of the door. In the same room were 95 women, nearly all prostitutes known to me. Five or six were taking lemonade or soda water; • few coffee-cups ware about on the tables. Ninety men were also present. The cups did not appear to have been moonily used. The defendant on my inquiry ‘ canie for ward and said he was the proprietor. I said, You have more than 70 prostitutes here. ' He said it did not =ether if there were 100 if they conducted themselves in an orderly manner. If any persons present were objected to be would turn them out. We then again left, but re mained in the street till 1 o'clock, when we visited it again, and found 61 women present, and not taking re. freshment. Most of them were those I bad seen before. We left, but went again at half-past 1 and were let ie. Half-way up the masers was • second door 'Mimed. We were admitted, and found 48 women, Dearly all preen. totes, also nearly as many men, and we again left. About 2 o'clock we visited it again, and were let in as before. Twenty-eight women, prostitutes, were then present, and as many men. Six or seven were taking supper ;we left, sad visited it again at • later hour, when we saw the defendant, and I pointed out that many were then present whom I bad before sees, and that they were not taking refreshment. He mid they had had refreshment, or he should not have allowed them to remain. The inspector described the results of several other visits. The women were all well dressed. He never saw a poorly-clad prostitute there in his We. There were eight other houses of the same oleo in the neighbourhood. About 15 out of 180 were taking refreshment at the first visit, sad, but about 6 out of 170 at • subsequent Sergeant Ward, 290 A, corroborated the evidence given. He saw two gentlemen's broughams at the door at half-past 12. He saw two of the women go away in use with a gentle min. He never knew • poorly-clad person go there. Mr. Superintendent Bement said that the house wee utter ruination to the property in the neighbourhood. The home could only be shut up under the Excise Act if wine IMO 'applied. Mr. Archibald Smith ? who resides opposite the hones and his dose so nearly all his lif maid there was nightly so meek disorder and annoyance that he and big tenants could get so red. Women came at all hours of the night with me in cabs sad brominism up . to the house in question. As many as 900 were let in nightly. Mr. John Meadows, Primes-street, maid his home was nearly opposite, and he could get no test in the front pert of his house. The magistrate said it was the first time the defendant had appeared under this act, and he should flue him Pk and costa, but would advise the defendant taking a an fee a higher court. Mr. Samuel Belasco, the keeper of • similar estalikir , went, No. 6, Pantos-skeet, Haymarket, was then mar mooed for the like offence at the same time. In this cam Mr. Lewis submitted that mani a / a ka Allis court bad formerly held that prostitutes, so long as they were orderly, were not debarred from going into seek bow to obtain needful refreshment. The questions were whether the person' were there for a bona Me purpose, and whether they remained an unnecessary length of time. Nothing had come out in the evidence bearing on these points. Themagistrate remarked that the bulk of the magistrates bad always been against Mr. Lewis's view of cases of this sort, and he should recommend this case going before • sir perCor court. Mr. Lewis said he would rather have left the case fat present settlement, but that at the recommendation of the court he would take a case for the Queen's Bench. In consequence, a merely nominal fine was inflicted. mrsmuous CASE OF SUSPECTED POISONING. (From the Westmoreland Gazette.) An inquest was opened on Tuesday, before C. G. Thomson, Eeq., coroner, at the Royal Hotel, Kirkby Lo r dsle, dsle, to inquire into the death of the late Mrs. hen Atkinson, dressmaker, of that town, who died in the month of October, 1860. The body was disinterred. and a post sealers examination made by T. R. Whitaker, Req., sumo% and the contents of the stomach, ka z transmitted to Dr. Mundy, of Leeds, the celebrated analytical chemist, for examination, pending whose report the inquiry stands adjourned to Tuesday. the 29th tad. From the evidence of Mr. Joseph Atkinson, the husband (examined by Mr. Roper), which was p a rtly taken at the inquest, and from what we have been able to leant, appears that the deceased died in London after a few days' severe alga% at the house of a Mrs. Taylor alias Wino (the Constance Wilson who was committed for trial ca Tuesday last by the magistrate at the Marylebone Pohcr office for attempting the life of a Mrs. Cornell, by poison)• her symptoms being such as to create at the time suspicious that she bad been unfairly dealt with. These suspicions. however, were by some means or other allayed for the time, and nothing more was thought about the matter notd some months since, when farther events transpired which once more raised in the mind of Mr. Atkinson suspicions that his poor wife had oome to an untimely end. Inquiries were made in London, and the result was the discovery what it is hosed will turn out to be a (arta' train of atrocities committed by ibis woman Wilson, who ewer , uoder the garb of devoted friendship to have lured her victims to her house, and then poisoned and robbed them. and in some cases even to have adopted that means of de straying her victims for no apparent purpose than the re. =oval of an obstacle to the gratification of her pusses. The inquiry is creating the greatest interest in the tow! where the deceased was long . and intimately known by all mound, sad much sympathy is felt for Mr. Atkinson in the &drew* positive is which he is placed. Ms BIOWW-WIETHEAD, M. P., AND COLON' Simla, ILP., !AT Yomm.—On Wednesday the iced May've of York pan a gaud dinner at the Mansion-home to more than 100 genthesea, including the two members for that city, the clerical dignitaries, the officers of the 10th Hunan, &c. Mr. Weatheed. M.P., in responding t". h° toast of the oity members, said he trusted the Britir ll parliament would be disposed to endeavour to maintain the volunteer force in that state of efficieocy which all Englishmea would desire to see. (Applause./ coked BamYtkr ll .P., in also returning thanks, said he was stating the opinion of a large majonty of the present 14,41.1 0011111101.1 when he told them they were satisfied with the mood administration. (Applause.) Whatever partymight las in °Mos, he believed the foreign policy ot the aliment was the only one which would !no tSahr v tothe oountry. Noe -ioterventiou in the demi of asadoss ought to be honestly and cousistently PM' reed, sad be was confident that would be the policy permed by the Mesas of Commons. (Applause.) lie referred fie tbm Went of the war in America upon this mutiny, Frames sad Budiams. sad while they hoped foe a speedy osomaado of Irostaitios, be did not think that the Norther' sod Bonaire Sista Gould ever again cordislly unite. The a mi m ed e was an printer a don and north, fo edition o tiff, but Lomat. given by Insert in whole pm sewed cm vided a the paine in the el to pay lb court th that that fore the? Rale The he the folio' Crosse When I had and Mr other wh my fathe five or xi meat N the board brother-i went to DO guar wished elm used I do not 1 Dr. e a 1 aaw the , lift Ito thtetnill This i who wa working was anti of the c( liable. x:11 a nonsui port of and tuts r. Ji ligence a Mr. Jr Mr. Ji Mr. Ji Mr. Ji enter e iii. do worked I bat it a what thi Rule 1 Mr. K the give arbitrate some et sod t two ai empire. Vete h! bed e viouely but with his meet The a The I roust wa for (Tani COL