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

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Centel. lier and isni, akn. nog Gymnasts.—With LION LIMB, KING OF lIIE SOl - 111 SEA ISLANDS. HIGH WATILL AT LONDON BRIDOL MN DAT —Morning. Oh. 0m.........Aftern000 noon. ta-MOAAAN—IIornInA. Oh. 2.5m..--Altornoot. OR. 415•1. LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10. THE return of the Emperor of the FRENCH to Paris will, it may be hoped, bring to a close the period of uncertainty and alarm which has been protracted by his silence, and which possibly reflects his indecision. A judicious word will dis pel the apprehension of war and the perplexity and fear which are only leas evils than war itself. It is easy, we know, for observers to be statesmen, and to pacify Europe, on paper, by the in auguration, on the same material, of a wise and magnanimous policy. Nothing is more simple than for us in England to renounce ambition for the French people, to abandon in their name jealousy of Italy or irritation at the aggrandise ment of Prussia, and to lay aside, on behalf of the French peasantry and priesthood, all concern for the temporal power of the POPE ; but those who have these feelings, and who have them strongly, find it hard to purge their minds from every trace of them, and rise to the calm heights of pure reason and cosmo politan philanthropy. Nevertheless, the EmPritoa, if ho has that sagacity which is attributed to him, and which has unquestionably been displayed at many critical conjunctures of his reilim, must know that the domestic difficulties of a policy of acquiescence and non-interposition are less than those in which an aggressive policy would involve him. The united forces of Italy and Prussia, backed by the moral support of Europe, which would see in their alliance only the determination of two great nations to complete their unity, and live their life unhindered by external constraint, would be far more difficult to cope with than the discontent of French peasants and priests, or the patriotic sensitiveness of soldiers and literary men. The Extrzaoit's difficul ties are relative to Mil pretensions rather than to anything in the nature of things. He has affected to be the dictator of Europe, the arbiter of the fates of nations, the builder up and the puller down of States, diminishing this and aggrandizing that at his pleasure ; and he has failed. He has met with, not one discomfiture, but many. He has pursued the igatis fatalm of French influence, and it has led him into marsh and bog. Will he persist in the wild-goose chase, or have the wis dom to renounce it? This is what Europe waits to learn. The French nation is sensitive to the ridicule of unsupported pretensions and the mortification of baffled efforts. Abandon the pre tension and renounce the effort, and the humilia ting contrast with the actual performance ceases. With a deficient harvest staring France in the face, with commercial embar rassments slackening trade, and with the pro spect of a winter full of trial in the great towns of the Empire, it is difficult to believe that its ruler can court war, in circumstances which, regarded from the military point of view alone, are full of doubt and danger. A policy of pure renun ciation can seldom, indeed, be urged with success upon any nation ; and least of all upon that which is governed by NAPOLEON 111. But ambition may be turned into a new channel, aspiration may be directed to new objects. Liberty at home may be made to take the place hither to occupied by the phantasm of ascen dency abroad. For influence and glory, peace and prosperity may be substituted. The history of France is full of these changing moods of mind. The signs are not few that one of these periodical revolutions of sentiment is near. It is for the EMPEROR, if his better genius have not deserted him, to precipitate and profit by it. The crowning of the edifice yet remains to be accomplished. To English apprehensions it might seem that the political structure must have its basis laid in liberty, if the nation is to be truly free ; but if our neigh bours are content to accept freedom as the ornamental addition, the graceful comple tion of the building, and not its deep founda tion, it is not our business to quarrel with their taste. The measures which await the consideration of the French Chambers at their meeting in November, the Army Organi zation Bill and the Budget, will afford the EMPE ROR the opportunity of giving practical confirma tion to the pacific words which Europe hopes to hear at a much earlier day. That the opportunity may not be lost is the desire of all reasonable and right-minded men in and out of France. THE MEETING or PARLIAMENT. It is now stated tb&t parliament will be summoned to meet on the 19th of November. THY. QUZEN ry Tilt HIGHLANDS. —(hr the even ing of Saturday last (writes the Braemar correspondent of the Seotsemte) her Majesty and party drove from Balmoral, on the north , ade of as river Dee, rid Invercauld House. At a short distance beyond the royal visitors enjoyed a picnic, and shortly after returned, rid Invercauld, to the Highland palace. The evening was fine and dry, but ex tremely cold and chilly, with the mountains around shrouded in snow almost to their bases. ETON COLLEGE.—The school dispositions this Michaelmas are as follows:—Captain of the school: T. Prothere, K.S. Captain of the Oppidane--W. F. Tritton. Captain of the eleven—C. Thornton. Captain of the boate—T. K. M'Clintock Binsbum. Old chorus in the eleven—C. J. Thornton, H. M. Walter, W. C. Higgins, C. J. Ottaway, W. F. Tristan, M. Homer, W. H. - Hay, P. Curry, and G. Harris. Old chorus in the eight—T. K. M'Clintock Banbury, W. C. Calvert. and J. K Hoes. Football— Keepers of the field : J. R. Sturgise and W. C. Calvert. Keepers of the wall—J. D. Goldie and M. Homer. lika... THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1867. OUR CONTEMPORARIBb. (THIS DAY.) LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE GERMAN P, On the occasion of the debate upon the military organisation which took place in the German parliament on tho Ist inst., two of the members brought forward propositions for reducing the effective of the army, either by granting furloughs on a liberal scale or by concert between the Northern Confederation and the other powers with the view of a general disarmament. These proposals however, were rejected, and the military estimates voted by a great majority. In the following sitting the parliament approved unanimously the treaties relative to the reconstitution of the Zoll verein, and shortly it will have to deal with a mea. sure for granting freedom to reside in any part of the Northern Confederation. This scheme, already adopted by the Federal Council, would put an end to a number of abuses and arbitrary regulations to which Germans transferring their residence from one State to another are subject. The proposed reform would be received with satisfaction through out Germany. The first article of the bill is as follows :—" Every citizen belonging to the Northern Confederation has the right to reside permanently in any commune of the confederation in which he can procure means of subsistence. Citizens cannot be impeded in the exercise of this right, save in cases specified by the law, either b the authorities of the commune where they are born or by those of the commune in which they wish to settle." (REUTER'S TEL EG RAMS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, Ocr. 9, EVENING. Since the encounter between the insurgents and the Papal troops at Bagnorra, no intelligence of any importance has been received. The insurrec tion still continues in various localities, and it is believed that the concentration of the different bands is intended. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAT.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Beim Mr. Commissioner Eolroyd.) 1N RE IVILLIAM NAVIN._ The bankrupt, deacribed as of Cooper's row, Crutcbed friars, and elsewhere, hemp and jute merchant and ware houseman, applied for an order of discharge. The accounts show unsecured debts, 6381. ; secured ditto, 4007. ; and liabilities on accommodation bills, 913!. ; against property held as security, 2007. Mr. Al& idge apptured for the official assignee. The bankrupt stated that at the time be became liable on the acconurodation bills a lease was deposited as security. A person named Webb was also a party to the bills, but he bad become bankrupt, and the lease was forfeited. His creditors were aware that Webb was re garded as the person from whom payment of the bills was expected. Mr. Aldridge informed the court that there had been a previous bankruptcy under which the bankrupt obtained • certificate. His Honour suspended the order of discharge for six months, upon the ground that the bankrupt Lad Incurred liabilities without reasonable expectation of payment. Protection was granted. IN RE ALFRED BILVESTER. This was a sitting for examination and . The bankrupt was described as of 19, Oxford-terrace, pham road, artist and illusionist, formerly of the Theatre Royal, Great Yarmouth; Her Majesty's Theatre, Richmond ; and the Polygraphic Hall, in partnership there with one Albert Schulze. He attributes his failure to the non- success of his entertainment at the Polygraphic Hall. The unsecured debts are returned at 9601., and there are no assets. Mr. E. Reed, who supported, said that the bankrupt, who possessed oonrderable talent, was the inventor and P of a very attractive exhibition known as " Pepper's Ghost." He was also the author of an enter tainment called " Yes or No." His Honour—l thought " Pepper's Ghost" was the pro duction of Professor Pepper. Mr. Reed—No. Mr. Silvester was a patentee, and he was also the inventor of the fairy fountains which have been exhibited at the Crystal Palace and other places. Unfortunately for the bankrupt, he had not derived much benefit from his genius, ax the money has gone into other persons' pockets. In answer to Mr. Aldridge, the bankrupt said that a former bankruptcy bud been annulled. He had also been bankrupt on another occasion, and had deposited the fees for the order of discharge. His Honour being informed that the creditors were aware of the bankrupt's speculations, and had furnished goods and edvanced money with a knowledge of his position, said that as there was no opposition the order would be granted. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) WHAT THE BI , HoPS HAVE DONE. Could the resolutions of the late conference of bishops be carried out, they would produce, the Times argues, the moat injurious consequences. If one of them means anything, it asserts that some new assembly ought to be devised which shall be superior not only to the colo nial churches, but to the existing convocation of the English church itself, which church would be laid at the feet of a mixed assembly in which there was • prepontie. ranee of Americans and colonists. The necessary effect of a pan-Anglican synod must be to admit strangers to • voice in the alai.' of the church of England, but the English people all no more endure the meddling of Amei:cs,u bishops than of an Italian priest, The proposal of the conference, of the establishment of an ecclesiastical tribunal which shall decide, on appeal from the Colonial Churches, what is the true sense of the fomiulai:es of the Church of England, comes in direct col lision with our present court of appeal, the Judicial Con.. mittee of the Privy Council, and the result would be that the opinions tolerated by the latter would be condemned by the former. What would be the consequences to the peace of the church we need not describe. By all mean., let the colonists and the Americans do so if they please. They are pei:ectly free. But let their proceedings be confined to the Colonies and to A merles. It will never be endured that this country should be made the centre of ap " ecclesiastical domination," rivalling and disputing the conclusions of English law. FAR!. RUSSELes IRISH TOUR. Graceful as was the proffered testimonial of the esteem of the inhabitants of Belfast, the Daily News thinks Lord Russell exercised a sound discretion in declining to ac cept it. The banquet to which he was invited most necessarily have bad in some degree a party character. In the present condition of Ireland, the revival of party topics, whether historically or as regards the questions of the future, would bee course of very doubtful expediency. It would have been easy for the late Prime Minister to have aide political capital out of his visit to Belfast by a bold manifesto of liberal policy ; but Lord Russell pre ferred, in the actual crisis of affairs, to strengthen the hands of the government rather then to canvass for popu larity against it. The Daily News proceeds to illus trate the c i ifficulties caused to the Irish executive through the Orange Society by an allusion to some proceedings in the county of Down, where the magistretes under the fear of violent personal denuncia tions from a certain Dr. Drew and his friends have with drawn a declaration which they had intended to issue con demnatory of party processions and displays. The fury with which the government is now assailed by the same faction is described as unprecedented, and in these cir cumstances Lord Russell's manly expression of confidence is a public benefit. His reticence on other matters is equally to be praised. Liberal statesmen are in advance of their opponents, but even they lag behind the necessi ties of the time. Lord Russell has done wisely in not com mitting himself to partial views which he might possibly find speedy occasion to recal or to modify. The Times takes much the same view of Lord Rus sell'. reply, which it says evinoes greater liberality of spirit than we are accustomed to expect of him. The con dition of Ireland is at this moment satisfactory to no one in the three kingdoms. The statesman who could point us to a srro and just method of conciliation would deserve well of his countrymen, and great fame has before now been acqued by less important serv:ces. If Lord Rouen cannot assist us in this exigency, he at least ,bat. us from casting obstacles im the way of other men. >U TOricg. The Timer writes in amusing terms upon the appeal M. de Lemma has just made for subscriptions in England to the amount of four millions and odd to complete the Suez Canal. After so many years of inquiry, after each long, learned, and more or less impartial dissertations pro and contra, the subject is still involved in all that beauti ful obscurity which gave it its main interest at the outset. That the Suez Canal may be finished is what we all wish but is what few, if any of us, can even now confidently assert But whether or not it will pay is a question which its fresh application for English funds ought to solve to every man's satisfaction. Glancing at the irksome duties of the class who wait in shops, their physical fatigue and trials of patience, the narrowing effect upon the intellect of perpetual interest in small transactions, and the rigid limitation of their horizon, the Daily News proceeds to contend for yet further opportunities of relaxation for persons so cir cumstanced. We write our letters before the post closes because we know the hour after which it will be useless to send them. Just so we should do our shopping before the shops closed if early closing had become a custom. There is no reason in public convenience or in the necessities of business why the shops should not generally claw at what now seems the romantically early hour of 6 in the evening. The Saturday half-holiday which is so gradually establish ing itself in most of our largest cities completes and rounds off the early closing movement. According to the Herald it is very unwise to assume that the Emperor Napoleon will resist the war current. The chances of peace now rest almost entirely upon the broken reed of one man's moderation—we may almost say abnegation—and it needs robust faith, indeed, in the power and the peaceful intentions of the Emperor Napoleon, to affirm that ho will or can shirk the war for which he has certainly been preparing for more than six months. _ . . The Telegraph contrasts the free and thoughtful spirit of the Duke of Argyll's address at Glasgow with the pain fully antiquated composition of the Archbishop of Canter bury. Toleration, his grace, points out, has substantial pounds for action, even when it is accompanied with the faith which prefers death to denial. Chief among these grounds is, first, that no man is infallible, and, secondly, that no man can possibly embrace in his religious system the whole of the truth taught in Christianity. The Star is in favour of the election of working men to the House of Commons. Unrepresented classes are always likely to be conspiring classes, and if the English working men think they cannot be properly represented without having some members of their own body in parliament, the bare fact that they think so is an overwhelming argument in favour of the expediency of the proposition male on their behalf. the Court. BALMORAL, Ocr. 9. The Queen drove out, accompanied by Princess Christina Princess Louise, and Prints. Leopold. Prince Christian went out deerstaiking. M. and Madame Van de Weyer and Sir Thomas and Lady Biddulph had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. Mr. Mowbray has left the Castle. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Lahuan. Despatches were bent to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena, Sierra Leone, and Lagos. The Duke and %chola of Marlborough are en tertaining a distinguished party of friends at Blenheim. _ . _ - - Lord Lyons, it is expected, will leave for Paris in the mune of the ensuing week, to enter upon his duties as Ambassador to the Court of the Tuileries. Viscount and Viscountess Hblmesdale are shortly espeeted to arrive at Linton, near Maidstone, from his lordship's shooting quarters in the north of Scotland. Sir \V. Bovill writes to the Telegraph to contradict, in indignant terms, a statement to the effect that he, as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, was about to appoint his son, a cavalry officer, to a sinecure appointment of 3,0001. a year se s registrar, and for the purpose of securing to him a pension for life to that ■mount at the public expense. " There is," says his lordship, " not a word or atom of truth in it, and there is not, and never was, even a shadow of foundation for such a statement." At the Congregational Union Conference, yester day, Dr. Vaughan read a paper on councils of reference in relation to church questione, on which a discussion ensued. A paper wu also read onassistant ministers and co-pastors. The Clonmel Chronicle states that an attempt was made some nights sines to burn Lismore Cathedral. The sexton found a fire lit under the organ loft ; but there fortunately not being a sufficient current of air in the building to cause it to burn briskly, the fire had not done much harm when he discovered it. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Ocr. 9. The Emperor has sent a letter to Baron von Beust with reference to the recent address of the Austrian prelates in favour of the maintenance of the present Papal Concordat. In this letter hi s Majesty lays doe a the principle that the address will be reserved for due constitutional treatment at the hands of the ministers, and the Emperor's final decision on the subject is postponed until his return, which will take place probably the day after tomorrow. The Presse learns that the Papal government fears that the Italian troops will enter the Papal States and invest Rome, so as to prevent the de parture of the Pope and the cardinals to Civita Vecchia. HAMBURG. HAMBURG, Ocr. 10. The order prohibiting the importation of cattle from England, Holland, Belgium, and Russia, in consequence of the cattle plague, has been re scinded. DENMARK. HDERSLEBEN, Ocr. 10. M. Gessen has returned from Berlin. While in the Prussian capital he had no interview with any of the ministers, but merely conferred on educa tional questions with Herr Bucher, the Councillor of Legation. PORTUGAL. LISBON. Ocr. 10. A statue of the poet Camoens was inaugurated by the King and Queen this morning. The court and the diplomatic corps were present at the cere mony. A state ball was given in the evening at the Palace of Belem, and many streets of the city were illuminated. (By ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, Ocr. 9, 6 P. 11. The democrats have carried the elections in Penn. Sylvania and the republicans in lowa. In the latter state the republican majority was greatly reduced. The result of the Ohio elections is doubtful. The Allan steamship Nova Scotia arrived out to day. Closing Prices :—Gold, 143. Sterling exchange on London, 1091. ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 112 i ; Illinois, 122 ; Erie, 69i. Cotton—Middling Up land, 20. PHILADELPHIA, Ocr. 9. Petroleum, standard white, 36. Tho remains of M. Fould are to be interred in the protestant cemetery at Pere La Chaise, where the deceased had a family vault constructed. The Libert4 Bays that a daughter of the late Lola Monte* is about to make her debut in • tragedy at the Odeon Theatre in Paris. She has been the pupil of one of the most distinguished French professors. The Mooimento of Genoa states the following : " On the 3rd inst. died at the hospital of Giovanni, at the age of 24, Giovanni Patarelli de Valnuggia, having fallen into a state of lethargy on the 3rd of last April, and re mained in that condition till his death." Winter hr.s been ushered in at Paris by its usual forerunners, the chestnut roasters, who have already taken up their accustomed positions at the corners of many of the principal thoroughfares throughout the city. Most of these poor men are Swiss or from the Southern Alps, and merely come for the winter to Paris ; sad on a bitter winter day their bright charcoal fires impart warmth to many a frozen hand, whilst a pennyworth of their admir ably roasted chestnuts is a comfortable meal for many a hungry passer-by. Immense works have just commenced in the south of France for rendering the Rhone navigable from Arles to the sea. First of all large sandbanks, which stretch over a distance of more than three miles, and now permanently block up the river, have to be removed. Then the Canal St. Louis must be carried along about two miles further, a lock erected at its mouth, while a bassi* and port have to be constructed at other points. The cost of this undertaking is valued at eight millions of francs. In the same province they had also begun draining the marshes and improving the state of the Camargue —a sort of island formed by the two branches of the Rhilue. It is estimated that the sum already paid this year for foreign wheat imported into this country has been at least between seven and eight millions sterling in excess of the total paid up to the corresponding date of last year. Russia bail been the principal gainer by the movement, and next to her Prussia, the United States, and Turkey. lipwavaa of 1,600 Germans have left Southampton for New York in the but two days. No less than six steamers are advertised to take out American mails—viz., the China, Union, City of Inn don, Arego, Worcester, and Austrian. The Poet-office has given notice that extra mails will be made on the 16th inst. for St. Vincent (Cape de Verdes), Monte Video, and Valparaiso, to be conveyed by the steamship Perm, which is to leave Liverpool on the 17th inst. THE YELLOW FEVER IN AMERICA.—The yellow fever epidemic seems to be alarmingly increasing at the South. According to the Nem Orleans Picayune of the 20th, there were no less than 7,000 cases under treatment in that city, and the fever was extending into the Louis iana parishes. It is stated that many persons are actually dying from fright at the first symptoms before medical treatment can reach them. In Texas the fever was ►lmost universal along the coast end in the interior. In Corpus Christi there had been 127 deaths up to the 7th of Sep tember, and at La Grange every house was filled with sickness and death. Everywhere the people are doing everything in their power to relieve the sick and suffering, and the papers are publishing various remedial efforts for the fever, and adding advice to people how to care for themselves. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EYWXQ. There is very little news from Italy to-day. A telegram from Rome in the Abeupost of Vienna notifies the entry of a Garibaldian band on Ponti cal teiritory, near Areae. A despatch from Flo rence, received in Paris, reports that an encounter had taken place between the Garibaldian volunteers and the Pontifical Zouaves at Comae, in which the latter were worsted. This intelligence seems to requ;re confirmation. The command of the Italian troops stationed on the Pontifical frontier, to de fend the entrance against the Gariballians, is con fided to General Cialdini. The Emperor, on the 12th of July, 1861, wrote to Victor Emmanuel in these terms :—" The Ita lians are the beat judges of what suits them, and it is not for me, the issue of popular election, to pre tend to influence the decision of a free people." In refusing to recognise in Rome, says the demi?, the right which ho declared inviolable at Milan, Naples, Florence, and Turin, the Emperor stands in con tradiction with himself. He would give up the Ro mans to those councillors of the Papacy of whom he speaks, in his letter to M. Thouvenel, as men who, " without any regard for tho legitimate vindica tion of the rights of the people, condemn without scruple a part of Italy to eternal inaction and oppression." The France, a semi-official organ, [by no means underrates the serious consequences of a rupture between France and Italy, as will be seen from the following extract from that paper : If the antagonism which blind pass Corm seek to excite between two nations united by so many interests is to be the issue of this Roman question, let it be well under stood at the bitterest misfortune of our age ; it would be the greatest evil for Italy and for France. This evil, says the Arenir t is imminent ; and that it is so we may thank the policy which the France has always sustained and encouraged, and which is still maintained and supported by it. The Accnir National says that foreign states men and journalists are very ill-informed as to the wishes of the French, and the tmdencics of public opinion among them. Some English journals lately maintained that the large cities in France desired a European conflagration. Nothing is more false. It would be much more easy for the government to excite a certain bellioose enthusiasm, more or less durable, among the rural popula tions than in our large democratic cities. France was never hostile to German unity ; she has only regretted, and still meets, that it has been constituted under the too exclusive domination of the conservative and military elements by which Prussia is now governed ; she blames her own government for not foreseeing the events which were brought about in 1866, and feels herself in some degree humiliated ; but, on the other hand, she c►n readily and promptly restore her prestige by the acquisition of liberty. It is liberty and not war that she desires. When will the German and Engl , sh publicists understand so palpable a truth! The palace of the Tuileries, being thrown open to the public dming the absence of the court at Biarritz, has been an object of extraordinary in terest to the visitors to Paris, who have crowded the imperial residence daily by many thousands. The apartments have been ordered to be closed to public view on and after to-day. The necessary authorisation to publish a liberal journal at Saint Etienne, to be called the Indepen dent Stiphanois, has been refused; while the Cognac, a journal devoted to the trade and process of wine growing, and supposed to be more com plaisant to the government, has received the re quired permission to transform itself into a poli tical publication. The Bourse opened with a better promise of im provement than was effected in the course of the day. As usual the fluctuations were somewhat considerable, and the Rente closed at a slight fall. The Italian Loan began at 4Gfr. 40c., rose to 46fr. 70c., and returned to the first quotation. Credit Mobilier was quoted at the commencement at 187 fr. 50c., but afterwards retrograded to 187 fr• The Rente closed at 68fr. 45c. ; Italian at 46fr. ; Mobilier at 176 fr. 25c. ; and Fonder, 1,275 fr., a fall of 20fr. from the opening prices. Dr. F. C. Skey, in a letter to the Times, pro tests against the mischief caused to those who row in the Oxford and Cambridge boat race. He expresses his con viction, and he believes he may add, that of his profes sional brethren generally who have considered the subject, that young men averaging from 20 to 23 years of age cannot perform a feat which compels them to put forth the absolute strength of their physical frame for 20 minutes without injury often of a permanent nature. " I venture to assert that the University boat race as at present eetat Wished is a national folly, and that, until it is brought within the range of a harmless effort, it involves a draugh on the muscular powers of the gentlemen engaged in it more or less injurious to their future health, some tem porarily, soma manently." _ A London barmaid, writing to a contemporary, reveals the existence of s treacherous course of tactics on the part of the landlady of • public-house. The corres pondent had newly entered a situation when she found between the leaves of • book a sovereign, evidently put there as • bait to entrap her. Previously two sovereigns had been placed, wrapped in paper, in the barmaid's bed room, with the same intent of provoking the young woman to acts of dishonesty. The " London barmaid," was proof against temptation. She handed tho sovereigns to her employer, who said the money was not hers, but never theless retained it. There is little doubt that the gold was marked, and that had the barmaid yielded to the in ducement, • police-constable would very soon have ap peared upon the scene. At the ordinary meeting of the Edinburgh Town Council on Tuesday, a report by the Lord Provost's Com mittee, recommending that the freedom of the city should be conferred on Mr. Disraeli, was approved of, and it was remitted to the committee to make the necessary arrange ments—the Lord Provost remarking that, in order to so oommocLte the public, it would be necessary to secure Queen-street Hall as a suitable place for the ceremony of presentation. A letter was read from Mr. Bright, 3LP., thanking the magistrates and council for their wish to confer upon him the freedom of the city, but asking that the honour intended for him might be deferred for the present, as he did not expect to be in hA' linburgh at an early period, and could not now arrange to visit the city. .9a4sman._ THE REPRESENTATION OF BRADFORD. —Teeter day, the Mayor of Bradford (Mr. W. Brayshaw), having received the writ ordering him to proceed to the election of a burgess to represent the borough in parliament, made due proclamation of the fact, and announced that the nomination would take place in front of the Bradford Court-house, at 11 o'clock on Monday next. The contest is expected to be a severe one. The friends of each state that 9,000 promises have been given to bim, and that the result will depend on the mode in which 1,000 electors who remain neutral record their votes on the day of the poll. DEPARTURE OF FENIAN AND OTHER CONVICTS FOR WEsTERN Aurrnumg.—The Hougoumont, which has been chartered by the government for the conveyance of several hundred convicts to Fremantle, Western Australia, arrived in Portland roads on Tuesday last, having on board • number of convicts from Millbank, Chatham. and Ports mouth. Shortly before midday 90 convicts were marched down to the government pier at Portland under a strong escort of the 13th Light Infantry. The party included 23 Fenian convicts, among whom, it was said, was Moriarty, At the pier six Cosetguarilsmen, under chief officer Mr. Boxall kept guard. The government steamer employed in the breakwater service wee used for conveying the con victs on board the Hougoumont transport ship. The convicts were chained together on embarking, and on board the steamer a strong guard of marines from her Majesty's ship St. George was formed, and saw the con victs safely placed on board the Hougoumont. The gover nor of the penal settlement at Fremantle, Captain Young, is on board the Hougoumont, and returns in that ship to his sphere of duty after paying a visit to his native land. ROYAL LONDON Mattis.—Colonel Wilson has doubled the guard on duty, day and night, at the barracks in Finsbury, and given the whole of the staff a full supply of ball cartridges. MUSTC AND DA.VCING LICIMES. The court sat to-day at Clerkenwell for the purpose of granting and renewing lionises for music and dancing, under the act of the loth Geo. IL, cap. Ziti. The list con tained 360 applications fur renewals, 4 opposed, and GO new applications. Mr. Henry Pownall, chairman of the court, presided ; and there was a full bench of magis trates. The court fiat proceeded with applications for the re newal of licenses for music and dancing granted last year. The following licenses were granted without opposition: Alfred Nicholson Wornum, Music Hall Store-street, Bed ford-square ; Thomas Groves , White Hatt, Drury-lane ; James Hodgman, National Assembly Rooms, High Rol hot n • Jack Straw's Castle. Hampstead-heath ; Charles Morton, the Oxford Music Hall ; Thomas Young, the Eyre Arms, St. John's-wood ; Daniel Williams, the Crown and Anchor, Albany-atreet ; George Lancefield, York and Albany, Regent's-park ; William Suter, Prince of Wales, Kentish Town ; Charles Peckham, Elephant and Castle, King's-road, St. Pancras; George Tilley, Free masons' Arms, Suffolk-street, King's-cross ; Mary Ann Catchpole, Assembly House Tavern, Kentish Town ; John Ruddock, Exmouth Arms, Hampstead-road ; Frederick Anderson, King's Head, Cumberland-street, St. Pancras ; Benjamin Young, Oipsey Queen, Malden road, Kentish-town •, Horatio Chi pp, Hope Tavern, Stan hope-street, Hampstead-road ; John Stevens, Queen's Anna, Haverstook-bill ' • Samuel Bloomfield, New South ampton Arms High - street , Camden-town. James Carter applied for the renewal of a license for music and dancing to the Camden Arms, Randolph-street, Camden-town. The Chairman inquired of the applicant for what pur pose he applied for his license, ilasmucl. as he did not use it. Mr. Carter mid the license was granted to the house before he took it, and he had kept it up ever since. He had a large room, and he thought of shortly using it, although he had not done so during the last twelve months. . _ . A Magistrate said they kept up these licenses because they enhanced the value of the property. The Chairman said that might bo so, bat u the license had been granted for many 'nu, a nd never abused, it would be very hard to take it away from the present appli cant. (Hear, hear.) The license was unanimously granted. The following licenses were also granted, without apposi tion:—Wickens, Old Jerusalem Tavern St. John's-square ; Cl Philip Jagels, The New own, St. J ohn ' s -road ; Sarah Smith, Crown Tavern, Clerkenwell-green ; Samuel Sher gold, The Cherry Tree Tavern, Bowling-green-lane, Clerkenwell. Thomas Goswcll applied for ► renewal of a license for music and dancing to the Belvidere Tavern, Penton-street, Clerkenwell. Au inspector stated that Mr. Gomel] bad been sum moned twice for keeping his house open between the hours of I and 4 in the morning, but on each occasion the sum mons was dismissed. Mr. Goswell said he did not keep hie house open late, and on the two occasions referred to there were annual suppers of two benevolent societies. The first summons WAS dismissed, and the second Mr. Mansfield refused to go into, and dismissed it as frivolous and vexatious. . . Mr. Woodward said if Mr. Gamell wanted to keep his house open late, he ought to apply to Sir It. Mayne for an extra license for that purpose. But at the same time he must say that be thought Sir Richard Mayne should not grant these special licenses so freely, as they led toe, great nu , sanoe to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. The license was then granted. TSB POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) BOW-STREET. TILL ROBBERY AT THIS " TOMAHAWK." Two boy', named George Winder and iiornas Hagan, were charged by Walter Dyer, a clerk at the tomahawk office, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden, with stealing money from the till at that office. Mr. Dyer said the prisoner came into the office at Go'clock on Wednesday morning, and Winder asked for • quire of Towthatoks Witness served him, and he went to a bench to fold the papers. At that time the waitress from a coffee-house called to ask for some knives and forks which had been sent with the clerks' dinners on the previous day. Witness went to the back room, and desired one of the other elerlui to give her them. When he came back he missed 31. 101. from the till. From information which he received from a newsman who was in the shop at the time, he afterwards went in search of the prisoners, and ultimately found them is Fleet-street. and gave them in custody. He knew the amount of money in the till, having taken 5/. 10s. in gold the evening before, and also having placed 2!. there for change. William Room, a newsvender, said he was statding in the shop at the time, and while the clerk was in the bask office, Winder leaned over the coun- ter and took something from behind. Witness took 'no particular notice, imagining that he was only taking a show bill to wrap hie papers in. But when the clerk said that money was missing from the till witness's suspicions were awakened, and he mentioned what be had men, -- 1 3 Olioe-constable Heaven. 545 City police, said he was on duty in Fleet-street yederday when the prisoners were given into his custody by the first witness. They were searched at the police station, when 21. 10s. was found concealed in Winder's stocking, and lf. in Hnsn's pocket. Winder said, " I might as well be transported at first as at last." They were remand. I for inquiry as to their character, it being supposed that former convictions could be Proved squint them. CHARGE ACAISBT AN HERBALIST DOCTOR A tall, gentlemanly-looking man, who gave the name of William kolket, and was described on the charge-sheet as • " medical man" residing at 51, High-street, Camden toe a , was charged before Mr. Barker with using a certain instrument on Mary Ranstead, and administering a certain drug to her, thereby procuring abortion. Mr. Ricketts, solicitor, of Frederick-street, Gray's-inn road defended. The evidence wax little more than that the prisoner Lad sold medicine to the girl Ransteml, and attended her after her confinement, on being sent for. He then said she had deceived him as to her condition. She was not among the witnesses. . _ _ Mr. Mr. Henry Charles Andrews, M.D., divisional surgeon, of I,o*kley-square, St. Pancras, said—l went to the police station, and was shown four bottles and two pill-boxes. I afterwards went with the constable to 9, Pluenix-street, Somers-town, and saw a young woman lying there ill. I saw the dead body of a female child lying there on a cloth. I examined the young woman, and found evidence of re cent delivery. By Mr. Ricketts—l examined the woman, and found no marks of violence. The patient is going on very well. There was nothing lumina in her appearance from other women who have recently had children. Of course. I can not say what the pills and the mixture are made of unless • most minute dards is made. Police-sergeant 36 Y,ia et „,. en "d 4 o'clock in the morning I went to the residence of the pri. loner, 51, High-street, Camden-town. The r me to the dam., and I told him I wan t e d bim. =eked Ca me what for. I said, " For causing a female, residing at Phcenix-street, tofive untimely birth to a female child:" He asked me in what way he caused it. I told him from what I understood by operating en her with in struments, and also for giving her drug.. H e said, " I never operated on her with an instru ment, but I did examine her in my room." I said, " I understand you have a tt en d e d her for the last two months, that you have given her medicine, and that she said so." He said "She must be • peat stet/. teller ; I never saw her before last Tuesday." I said " She has 6,lven you 31." He said, " Yes, I h ave rece i ve d 31. from her, but that was for future attendance." At the police. station the prisoner, when told the charge, said be had been attending the woman for two months. By Mr. Ricketts—The defendant did not my that the 31. was for a course of medicine and vapour baths that she was to undergo. Mr. Ricketts said that the prisoner was a member of the Eclectic and Hygienic Institution, and, as such, was instructed not to undertake such cases. It was plain Ahat the prisoner had been deceived by the woman. He con tended that no case was made out against the prisoner that there was not a tittle of evidence ab ou t th e use of instruments, or that the drugs weredeleterious ; and that, therefore, the prisoner was entitled to his discharge. Mr. Barker discharged the prisoner. MAELBOR.4 /UGH STREET. WHOLESALE PLUNDERING. &Intl, Chandler, s young man, in the empl o y o f U r. Sharp, butcher, of Air-street, Piccadilly, wu charged before Mr. Knox with stealing above 1201135. of beef and mutton, of the value of 4i., from his employer, and Bettie- Mill Wren, a butcher, residing at No. 19, Rutland-street, Pimlico, was charged with receiving the same with a guilty knowledge. Police-constable Shrives, 82 C, proved seeing the pri soner Chandler admit Wren to his master's shop this morning about half-past 6, and Wren left with • bag con taining about 120Ibs. of beef and mutton. He followed Wren and took him into custody and afterwards went an d took Chandler. Wren said that he received the meat from a stout elderly man who had brought it from the market for him, and that he took the bag from the rulings of • house in Air-street. Mr. Knox said the charge was one of joint stealing, and committed the prisoners for trial. WOEtSIITP-STREET. A DIMIONIST BERVANT. Sarah Ann Smith, a nullen-looking girl, 16 year, of age, was brought into court by Sergeant Pickles, K ilivisiou, who said that between 1 and 2 o'clock that morning be saw her sitting at a ooffee•stall in WhiteohapeL Her ap pearance attracted his attention, for, although in the com pany of several low prostitute', she wore a black silk velvet cape, a second one of plush, and indeed a superfluity of dress that reasonably excited suspicion. In answer to some questions, she stated that she had run away (romper home last Friday, and that abs was desirous of getting back to it ; that her father was dead, but her mother would gladly receive her. While making this communication he perceived that she wore • turquoise ring and a gold brooch set with blue stones. She refused to tell from whence she had come, and he therefore took her to the station-house; but had scarcely done so when the police " route list" was put into his hand giving an exact description of the prisoner, who it 'stated hail absconded from her mistress, a farmer's wife, near Southend, and particularly mentim in.; that she carried with her • large carpet bag containing • quantity of wearing apparel, the property of her mistress, which it was strongly believed she was wearing. All this was named to the prisoner, who at onoe admitted its truth, and mentioned a public house where she had left her own clothes. She made no reply to questions put by the magistrate, except that she came from Essex by train last Friday. The sergeant received directions to convey her into the hands of the Essex constabulary. MAKYLEBONE. CHARGE OF CACHING THE DEATH OF A NAN BY A BLOW OF A HAMMER. ✓ercmiaA Meaney was brought npin custody of Inspector Nicks, S division, charged with causing the death of Cor Delius Rayne by striking him on the head with a hammer initegent'apark-road, on the 17th of August last. Mr Pain ;appeared for the prisoner. Inspector Nicks stated that on Sunday afternoon, the 29th ult., he received a communication frum Mr. Shoppse house-surgeon , University Hospital, to the effect that the man Hayes was in a dying state, that he was arffer.ng from a fractured skull, and be wished to state who caused it. Witness at once, accompanied by Superintendent Loxton, went to the hoe. pital. It being Sunday, and the impracticability of obtain. mg a magistrate, coupled with the dangerous state of the injured man, induced the inspector to take dowa his statement, which on Monday he produced before Hr. d'Eynoourt, who directed Moony to be taken into cus tody. This was done, and he was taken to the hospital, where Mr. d'Eyncourt also attended, and took Hayes 's de pition. He said the prisoner was the man who struck him with a hammer. Upon this he was reminded. He was now brought up again, and as witnesw, were not in attendance be was again remanded. Hayes died yester• day from the effects of the injury. Mr. Pain said he was Informed that no hammer was used at all in the affray. He said there were a number of people about at the time, and no doubt if publicity were given to the case they would come forward on prisoner's behalf. AN ArnICATI , OI BY A cosricr's WIFE. A very respectable-looking woman, possessing *amide. rable personal attractions, made a very extraordinary ap plication to the magistrate this morning. Applicant—l wish protection against my husband, who is a convict. Mr. Selfe—Of course be is not with you then. Applicant—No, he is not. Mr. Selfe—Then you cannot have much to fear at pre sent. What is his sentence? Applicant—Ten years transportation. Mr. Selfe—How long has he been gone? Applicant—About 12 month.. Mr. Selfe —What protection do you want? Applicant—l have a letter in my hand from him at Chatham commencing with the words " dear wife," in which he says I must join him in Australia or America; that nobody else shall possess me. He says that if I don't have bum nobody else shall have me. I feel in great danger, knowing as I do what be is. Mr.;Selfe —I should not think you have much to appre hend ; he is pretty safe at present. Applicant—l don't know that ;he has made two er three attempts to get away, and may succeed next time. Mr. Selfe —They will hold him pretty fast. It is not so easy to get away as you think. Applicant—This is the sixth time be has been away from me. Can I have no protection for m' property! I expect to come into some in a few months' tame, and my husband may claim it. Mr. Selfe—Your husband's is an involuntary desertion — not such a leaving you as the law contemplates. Applicant—l am afraid he will come back. Mr. Selfe—lt will be many years hence ; they don't put with them easily; make yourself contended. Applicant then withdrew. PAINFUL SUICIDE OP A YOUNG WOMAN. A sad case of suicide came under the notice of Mr. Ilii•ophreys at an inquest at the 01,1 Fountiin Towers, Baldwin-street, St. Luke's, last night, respecting the death of Jaime Gniy, aged 18 years. Mr. Richard K.ipps, Hope Cottage, St. Luke's, said that the deceased had been his domestic servant since she was 12 years of age. She died on Monday. Ile kept several poisons in his business which the deceased could get at. He did not know the name of the person who had seduced her. Mrs. Mary A. Kipp' 'aid that last Saturday she charged the deceased with being enciente. She denied it. and burst out crying. Witness then said, " I should wish ' , onto use a doctor," and the girl replied, "I am willing, and I will go to a doctor on Monday morning." Charles Brower said that at 8 o'clock on Monday he found the deceased lying insensible on the floor of the at Hope Cottage. A doctor was sent for and she 1 1 :1 41 . 41* Dr. E. Smith said that a post-mortem ersmin•tion of the deceased's body had proved that her death had been caused by cyanide of potassium. She had been enciente 8 months. The coroner having summed up the jury returned a ver. diet of " Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity." THE FIRE AT DUNDEE.—On Tuesday night, shortly after ten o'clock, fire was observed bursting out in the south portion of the westmost shed in the shipbuilding yard at the Dundee Marine Parade, belonging to Alexander Stephen and Sons. The wood of which the sheds and other erections were built being dry, and the roofs covered with pitch, the flames spread with great rapidity. The fire brigade was promptly on the spot, but their efforts were of no avail to check the fury of the fire. In less than half as hour the whole erections in the yard, which covers wore than an acre of ground, along with two fine ship' on the stocks, one of them nearly ready for launching, were enveloped in one great mass of fire. Shortly after eleven the roofs of the sheds fell in with • fearful crash ; but the slips and other combustible materials in the yard continued to burn with great fury. A very gentle wind from the west prevented the fire spread log to the erections at the patent slip and other propertied which are separated from Messrs. Stephen's yard by • street. The shipbuilding yard to the east, belonging to Messrs. Brown and Simpson, caught fire, and in • very short time was also in • mass of flame. A Loge iron vessel was on the stocks in this yard, the deck and other wooden parts of which were destroyed. There is • range of buildings used as a machinery and joiners' shops, be twixt this and the next yard, and by keeping water playing on these, the fire was prevented spreading further east ward. By one o'clock all the erections in the two yarls were destroyed, but the fire continued to burn fiercely. The damage is estimated at 60,0001. Two hundred men will be thrown out of employment, and nearly all their tools are destroyed. The fire was witnessed by thousands of spectators, who were attracted by the brilliancy of the flames.—Scotanian. !I I