The Express. — London, England, 1862-12-01 00:00:00

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B e is soon succeeded by a passion of al Loins &saw, in his " History of the , " lution," has shown us how the " r" we. surpassed in horror and atrucitir b t White " terror." Another month of garotters At large, and Society will no longer be content to wait for the deliberate action of regular tribunals. It will avoid ,its pf sharper and swifter methods of iustice, and organize " Vigilance Committees " to • seize these reffiegs Ong . weir lairs, and hang them to the nearest la mp-poste. Already the dealers in knives, andileaded.atitiksi.v.nd re volvers are driving a . brink . trade. By Now Year's-day, if the Central Criminal Court ham only scotched the evil, London after dusk will resemble San Francisco in the flush of the digging. We shall all be armed with pistols or daggers, and garotter-hunting will be a popular sport. Violence will change sides, and the victims will become the avengers. Can nothing be done by the Home-offfee to pre vent such a disgrace to a civilized com munity ? Mr. Baron Ramwrit's sentences Lade given some satisfaction, but they have no more reentered the public than repressed the crime. One of the cases disposed of by that learned Judge was a " robbery with " violence," animated under the very gallows, " while " COOPER. was hanging." On the very after noon when Mr. Baron BRA-MWELL was passing seatenoe a young lady walking out in a broad fre quented thoroughfare, in one of the richest quar ter% of the town, was dragged down a dark passage, and only saved by the sound of wheels from a gang of marauders who wanted her earrings and her lair. The same evening a gentleman was attacked at Maids-hill, and rescued by a passer-by on horse back. It is almost a social war in our midst. Under neath this enormous capital of wealth and luxury, teeming with immense temptations for all appe tites and all cupiditios, yawns an abyss of crime and desperation. Women and children are among the culprits and the victims alike. Fortunately the victims are the public in its largest sense. One of the lest to be heard of was a cabman. There are few even of the wealthiest class who are always out of reach of such attacks. The HOME SIVRETARY may, therefore, be well assured, that in any measures of repression which he may adopt at once on his own authority, and in any measures of prevention which he may pro- pose to Parliament, he will be earnestly supported 1 by the (mermen sense of the country. The police, no doubt, have special orders to be vigilant, and Baron BRAMWELL has, in one instance, rewarded their efficiency. But unless the Home-office is pre pared toadvanee to the utmost limits of the law in this emergency, the three months which must elapse before the meeting of Parliament will leave worse evils than unpunished garotters behind. There is no evil to be feared more than the public taking the law into its own hands. Baron BRAMWELL, indeed, warned the prisoners that if the sentences awarded were insufficient to protect the public from outrage, "some revision of the " law would certainly take place." There can be no doubt that these crimes are engaging the most serious attention of the Government. Bat we must beware of haste and impatience, even where public safety is at stake. It may be that in Continental countries the cure would be sharper and easier. Violence would be met by violence, and lawlessness by a suspension of all legal gua rantee for the accused. Very likely many of our criticsabroad will be surprised at Baronßaaaawmx's calmness and leniency. Thus it is that every nation suffers from the exaggeration of its good 1 qualities. We trust that law, however lenient, may always be preferable in English eyes to public safety without law. It is to save a whole community from lawless ness that public opinion demands a revision of the law which turns convicts loose without supervision, and makes the Judge's sentence a fiction. The English nation will not relapse into barba rism ; we shall not again see justice vindictive ; we shall not give up our Reformatories ; bat we shall give up pampering irreclaimable ruffians; we shall make prison life really penal; the good conduct of prisoners will be re warded within the prison walls, and a certificate of reformation entitling a prisoner to go free will be earned only by a long and painful discipline of labour without reward or enjoyment. The rest is a question of police and gas lights. M. Ltevo-.. PRI.\"EESICA. THU Evzigna, . Mr. Fitsjams amt Miss lleuderson. —THE TRIPLE ALL/AItCE. Mr. C. Vieing Misses Aylmer, M. Oliver. mn.l Mrs. B. White.—And TILE RONEYMOON. Me:s,e. M. Vecln suck It. Roshy ; Miss M. Oliver. BRITANNIA. Tate Evrcisa. CAST ON THE hIERCY OF THE WORLD. Urn S. Line.—glntring b 7 Mr. W. Randall—Dancing by Mac C. Swphan.—GALE lIRFAZELY. -lad THE SEVEN ST .:.PS TO RUIN. Mist Lanny. HIOR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. VIM DAT -- Morning, 101. soi Atterneoa.lob. 30os. T•sruaEUW-Ilnruing, llh. 1011 Afterooon.llll. ~i I~ , LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1. AmoNc the gangs of garotters tried at the Central Criminal Court last week, and sentenced on Friday last, the last batch were quite a typical illustration of what we may call our Criminal Zoology. The case was common enough in its incidents. The prose cutor had been seized, throttled, robbed, and savagely beaten and kicked within a few yards of his own doorstep. There were four men concerned in the attack ; the leader of them, MARKS, a man of 41, who had already been sentenced to seven years' transportation, but, "for some cause or other," the sentence had not been fully carried out ; and the three others lads of 18, one of whom bad got out of a Reformatory before the expiration of his term, " for good conduct, to be sure," as he cheerfully informed the inquiring Judge, and the other two had not, as it appeared, been previously convicted. Here then was a hardened profes sional criminal, and three promising students, to whom Mum), the man of 41, was an expe rienced master, and young FORD, of the Reforma tory, a discreet monitor. Ilere was an instance of the uncertainty and illusoriness of an experimental system of punishments : the man transported for seven years had been released—no one could tell ;the Court why—before his time was out, and had immediately returned to his•eld pursuits. The young man from the Re formatory had got out before his time for " good " conduct," and so attained, it seems, a higher rank in his profession, and qualified himself to be criminal instructor to others of his own age. The sentences on these prisoners were meted out by tho Judge with humane discrimination. Penal servitude for life to the eldest prisoner was, as he frankly confessed in court, "no more than he " expected," for ho had proved himself incor rigible ; his =opiates, lade of eighteen, the Court was willing to treat as not incapable of reforma tion, and penal servitude for four years would give them a chance of retrieving their characters. It teems to be the general opinion that Mr. Baron Beau* au. has dealt with these garotting cases with a firmness and discretion very creditable to the administration of justice in this country. In summing up the first case he had cautioned the jury against being led away by the prevailing anger and alarm in the public mind to convict on insufficient evidence, and in passing the sentences be took the "previous career" of the prisoners into account, and the " degree of violence " with which the robberies had been committed. The caution to the jury, it .is true, was super fluous, since in nearly every case the prisoners were caught in the act, and there was no defence. In every case thu leader of the gang was a ticket-of leavo man, and in ono instance it was the pri soner's sixteenth conviction ; with such a " pro " *feu% career" as that the Judge might well consider reformation as out of the question. The degree of violence used in the perpetration of a robbery can only be a secondary considera tion for the Court ; perhaps it is not a very safe line to draw. A garotter may frighten a nervous victim out of his life without much violence, or stupefy him without smashing his jaw or boating his head in. A ridiculous story, apropos of garotters, is now being told in London. A very timid man, resident in the suburbs, always carries a loaded stack, and is constantly on the look-out. The other night, as he was walking home, near his house a man pushed rudely against him. The timid gentleman, with great presence of mind, immediately struck bim a severe blow with the loaded stick, and the man ran off, leaving his bat behind him. The timid man, greatly elated, picked up the hat, and read on the lining the name of one of his intimate friends. Dreadfully shocked, be at once hastened to his friend's house to explain matters. lie was received at the door by his friend's wife, who, in a voice inarticulate with sobs, said, " Oh, PO glad to see you! Poor Edward!—in bed upstairs!—oovered with blood !—he's been garotted!" sAfal Mr. Stephen, as ono of the inspectors, and acting for Allsopp's brewery, Burton-upon-Trent, protests against the memorandum sent to the lion. F. Cadoso.o by the other inspectors of N. Veillard's estate. Mr. Stephen holds that a public inquiry ought to have been afforded to Mr. Cade gen, and that it was no part of the duty of the inspectors to express any opinion publicly upon those transactions until this had been granted. THE MiNisrnr.—A cabinet council will be held on Tuesday next (to-morrow) at Lord Palnierston'a official residence, in Downing-street. Viscount Palmerston is in town. Sir George Grey is expected to arrive In London to morrow (this day) from his seat Fallodea, Northumberland. Earl Rowell atterded yesterday (Saturday) at the Foreign office. Mr. Milner Gibson is in town, but is suffering from indiapositien. Sir George C. Lewis, the Duke of Newcastle, the herd Chancellor, Mr. Gladstone. and other members of the cabinet are staying in Loudon, and will be present at the meeting. —Observer. M. DU CHAILLUN DEFENCE. du Chaillu, writing in reply to the letter from Mr. Winwood says:—" Mr. Reade has spent five months in the gorilla country. What are flee months to traverse and explore the immense tracts of country I visited, to ascend rivers, scale mountains, become intimate with numerous tribes, learn to uoderstand their various dialects, occupy many days in palaver with each in succeasioe, make the stay with each which in necesaary to acquire their confidence, and pass on to others ; nod how can anyone with such a limited ex perience only venture to contradict such experiences as miner M. Cheillu further adds, " I brought home 21 skeletons and skins of the gorilla, among other novelties, when there had been no perfect skin of the beast seen in Europe before. It was suggested that I bought them of the natives, whence more would be forthcoming sod yet, with every museum sod showman read y to purchase, not one gorilla or gorilla skin fit for 'dueling has reached Europe in the eighteen months since this controversy arose. Dow comes it that I alone obtained perfect specimens, and such a number of them, and that no one has bought, shot, or seen a gorilla iu the mesa time—not even Mr. Reed. or the famous Indian hunter, his companion, after five active months in the gorilla coun try? I will prove how I got my specimens. by the simple expedient of hunting sad shooting others as I hunted and shot these, under certain conditions, which involve a fair offer. If Dr. Gray and hie friends will mime among them and deposit in a lank 2,0 1 10 f., I will deposit 1,0001. on my side. I will start for the gorilla country, and if I do not kill five or six gorillas in the course of two years (I allow so long for fevers and other amain ' genciea), and bring their skins and skeletons home preserved with a preparatioa which these gentlemen shall give me (provided it is ascertained to be suitable for the purpose), I will forfeit to them my 1,0001. Ou the other hand I shall claim their 2,0001. to repay my Wisesex if I succeed, and I shall be very happy of the compan he bravest of them in making the venture. This is all the answer I shall make for the future to any of my assailants, and I trust that all ' England will deem it sufficient." • Society cannot afford to bargain for the cothparative immunity of its skull. Still we be lieve Baron Busiawrix's discretion on the point to be sound. For the specialty of these garotters is, that they use savage violence before and after the robbery ; and English justice, at 'least in police courts, has been too apt to treat property as something infinitely more sacred than life. Mr. Baron BIWIWELL, we are thank ful to find, deems life more sacred than property ; and in this sense he seems to have exercised a dis crimination which may have a good effect upon public morality as well as upon public safety. Brutal violence is quite a taste, a luxury with our crimi nal classes ; it is the rude energy of the national temperament diseased. The social consequences of this sudden and startling growth of crimes are far•more serious than the results of any amount of ;arotter's reign of terror, which ig a jungle of a city, ends by ion of tigers. A passion of fear TH4 EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENIM ,DECEMBER 1, 1862. *- 4. Abe' 14 ( surui WiNDOO , 297 1 mr The Queettf sooompanied by P Hesse and Prince.' Beatrice, drove out yeste Lieutenant-Colonel the lion. 1). de Roe attended on horseback. &MAT, Nov. 30. The Queen and Princess Louis of Hesse walked and drove in the grounds yesterday. Her Majesty and the Prince and Prince= Louis of Hesse, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. The ladies and gentlemen of the court anal the domeetie household were also present. • • The Hon. and Very Rev: the Dean of - Windsor officiated. The Duke of Newcutle arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had an audience of her Majesty. LATE I*. IT lATT:IAGENCIS4. ' GREECE. , . r The hitnipsisithati of yesterday evening •ttaches credit to a statement that the three protecting powers are about to renew the understanding of the triple exclusion from the throne of Greece which was provided for by the treaty of 1832. Frio* it , is said, has addressed simultaneously a despatch to the cabinets •of St. Petersburg and St. James's, asking them to renounce the patronage of the can-. I diditure—one of Prince Alfred, and the other of the Duke of Louchtenberg—and from both cabi nets a favourable reply is expected. WEATHER REPORT. NAIRN gym Lama 11D 40311111... torrmusa GLLWIT The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturday. A petition for a prolongation of Clarkson's patent for waterproof articles was commenced. Di:apaches were received on Saturday at the Colonial oßice from the Governors of- the West India Islands, the Cape of Good Hope, FA—Helena, end Itridsh Columbia• Despatches were nut on Saturday to the Governors of the North Ainericin . Provinces, Bermuda, and to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Ulan& Mowipn, asceal . 211.71/ 410 morrow . itvißlooL PEMBROKE PLimonre rETIMBTR Arstuuts Dprua YARN.. t, BCREIMUWEIBB timm34•. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF HINSE.—The following communication bas been received by Lieutenant- Colonel Gladdisb, commandant of the let Kent (Gravesend) • ' " Vo Artillery :—" have received the commands of her Royal Highness the Princerat Lords of Hesse ternbanr the Kent Volunteer Artillery, which under your comufand turnsti out on the 14th inst. to do honour to her Royal Highness and Prince Louis. on tboii royal highnesses' first visit to Gravesend since their marriage. Will you be gtiod enough to communicate the above to the officers, non commissioned officers, and privates of the brigade. The' duty appeared to me to be moat efficiently performed:— I have the honour to remain, your obedient servant, SYDS EY." THE PRANCE OF WALES AND THE EX-KING OF Nartirs.- 7 -The correspondent of the Post at Rome, writing on the 22nd ult., say sz—" The ex-King of Naples, availing himself of a previously existing acquaintance with the Hereditary Prince of Prusain, went: to call upon him at'the Caffarelli Palace soon after his arrival in Rome, a polite attention acknowledged by the prince, who, • few days ago, went to Me Freese Palace to return this king's visit. His Majesty subsequently expressed • desire to make the acquaintance of the Prince of Wales, and his wish was consequently made known to the prince. lam net aware of the precise channel male use of for the con veyance of the king's request and the prince's answer, but the result of this little coed manoeuvre was, that his royal • highness declined, firmly and immediately, the ho nour of au interview with King Francis U. Some of the Neapolitans complain of the prinixes conduct as leak ing courtesy, whilst others affirm that the interview really did take place, but quite secretly. It is super fluous to state that this rumour is entirely unfounded, and it is useless to put forward opinions respecting the amount of courtesy shown by the prince on the occasion ; for as be is usually so very pleasing and courteous in his manners, it is evident that he had some strong motive for not acquies cing to the king's request, and as he is of age and has right to decide on such questions according to his personal feelings, there is no necessity for criticising his determin sties." The Duchess of Somersot has returned to the Admiralty, from Buistrode Park, Bucks. Maria Marchioness of Aileabury loft Longleaf°, on Saturday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Chester field, at Bretby Park, Burton-on-Trent. The Countess Frances of Albemarle and Colonel the Hoe. Peregrine Cust have left town for Brighton. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston received at dinner, on Saturday evening, at Cambridge House, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and Lady Victoria Ashley, I Lord and Lady Lyveden, the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P., and Mrs. Cowper, Hon. Charles Murray, Sir William Bowles, Sir Roderick Murchison, Mr. 0. Eastland De Michele, and Mr. Delano. Later in the evening her lady ship had an evening party, at which several members of the diplomatic corps sad aristocracy at present in town as sembled. ----- Viscount and Viscountess Olifden have arrived at Dover House, from a tour of visite. The noble lord and her ladyship leave town on Wednesday for Ireland. Viscount Canterbury left Longleate, Wilts, on Saturday, for Brotby Hall, Burton-on-Trent, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield. Viscount Chelsea and the Hon. Miss Cadogan arrived in town on Saturday from a tour of visits. Lord and Lady Lyvedeu will leave Saville-row, on Wednesday, for their seat, Farming Woods, Northamp tonshire. The lion. Octavius Duncombe, M.P., and Lady Caroline Duneombe have been entertaining the following company at Waresley Park, Cambridgeshire, during the put week :—Lord de Lisle and Dudley, Lord and Lady Hantingfiold, Lord and Lady Colville, General Hall, dtc. Lady Edith Abney Hastings, accompanied by Miss Eden, the lion. E. Munson, Colonel Clifton, and Mr. German, visited the collieries belonging to tks Marquis of Hastings at Moira, near Ashby-de-la-Zoach, on Thursday last. Her ladyship and party went down the shaft of the Hastings and Grey Newfield, which is about 1,000 feet deep. They remained underground nearly two hours. The Hon. and Rev. W. J. Brodrick, canon of Wells and chaplain in ordinary to her Majesty, has been appointed to the deanery of Exeter. A, judgment of considerable importance to landed proprietors has been delivered at Dublin by Mr. O'Dowd, the government commissioner, upon claims to wreck of the sea. The claimants were the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Clinton, and others having property in the county Cork, who relied upon a charter given by Charles 11., in which the right was expressly granted. Mr. O'Dowd decided that as no evidence of user had been given, the rights given tinder the charter were forfeited, and became vested in the crown. Several other properties will be affected by the judgment. The Arab chiefs who were invited to participate in the featiNities of Cempi i gne have left Paris for that purpose. A• 'there is a hnnting party to be given in their honour, the Emperor bas provided them with Arab horse. selected from the regiment of Chaeseura of the Guard. The moat remarkable among these chiefs is the Cherif Abou- Aziz, who rendered important service to the French troops in Algeria on several occasions. A Vancouver's Island paper says :—" The fifty damsels who cameout in the Tynernouth Were received by the clergy and some ladies, escorted to and housed in one of the government buildings, and a guard put over to pro tect them from the prying inquisitiveness of certain amorous swains.. The whole hare übtaiued situations of one kind or the other. It would have been better had fewer gover nesses been sent, there being too many of those already. At least 100 more lasses will, it is said, arrive shortly. It is to be hoped that they may be from the rural districts, able to make batter and cheese, and thus, in more ways than one, encourage home production." Among the posthumous remains of the lamented bland are • considerable number of poems that hitherto have not been published. They, like the other literary re mains of the great poet, are now in the hands of his intimate friend, Karl Mayer, the lyric poet, who will shortly give them to the world. The inventive powers of the Patric must bo run ning tow. It now informs us that the Greeks in London are about to give • grand banquet to Lords Palmerton and Bona, and that even "le Lord Maire" will be present I The French government has determined to ac complish a reform in the dwellings of the operative alma* in Paris, sod is about to commence by the construction of • cite nod& Gs the Boulevard Masao for unmarried work men. The situation is well chosen, being in the centre of the manufacturing quarter of Paris. The proposed building is to be five stories high, and each floor is to be divided Into small rooms completely separated, and to be approached by a spacious staircase. The ground floor is to be appro riated toe reception room or common hall, open to all the lodgers, to • restaurant or dining room, an office for the director, and an apartment for the house-porter. The inauguration of the Boulevard Prince Eugene promisee to offer a day of ffte to the Parisians, who crowd daily to the Place du Trdne to witness the architectural preparations, Which are on a scale of great magnitude- Curiosity eosins much excited, and the promanads of visitors during the day is somewhat remarkable at this smarm of the year. &E. 155.471 ELL BASIL *.591 29.72 22.71 29.77 29.78 0.79 3o.crs S.E. E.S. KKK B.E. E.S.X. K B.E. E.S.K. S. 8.8. E. B.E. &Tsai tradesmeik in the quartier Montmartre love tely been victimised by persons who have off as sovereign some , worthless gilt counters, the inscriptipia M. M. Queen Vic toria, and ou the reverse a figure of Prince Albert ofitorseback, with the words, "To Hanover, 1861." -(THIS DAY.) 1, II lit. . o I 0 0 SW 1 vs I 0.78 4 e 1 $ 4 Lit 9 1 o - 1 - 1/.2.5 10.16 0.10 3 3 0.04 - jo.s2 11 I—'7 ro te be o b fte ries. A by ma fr i L ii making a populath 8 1011' 2 _La:_ 3 ky.27 nowu. 811ZSDAY. 8. wW. and N.W.; mo- 600114118 L &rate. • N.l3.ty, to N.N.W., troth to moderate. S,W. to N.W., mode- N.W. to N.E., mode- rate. fine. N.N.W. - to E.N.E, :As no above W. Claw.LL is.w.nictugo. moderate. N.W. to N.E., mode rste, 4oe. Aa next above. B.S.E to W.S.W., fresh . ILE. ICNOLitto. to moderate. LS. X. to N. N. W., fresh E. OUR . to moderate. Hoe. Zisterly, moderate. The Minister of the Interior in France having called upon the prefects of departments to give their opinion as to the expediency of limiting the shooting season to the lit of January, io consequence of the soucity of game, has received an answer to the following agent ;--:Tbe destruc tion of game is not canoed by the regularly licensed sport:- mon. It is caused by an organised system of poaching which is placed at the service of great culinary eetablishmeots in Paris. Shooting by licensed sportsmen is not destructive except fora few days at the onnresecement of the season. On the oontrary, it proteins the game, by ineltieg the birds wild and 3ifficult oY ippiosch to poachers. The limiting of the period of shooting would, mensomr, diminish the num ber el licenses, and thus reduce the revenue. Ma. MensaY.—There is no foundation for the detriments which h►ve appeared in several of the public prints relative to Mr. Mamey's illness sad intended resigna tion of the chairmarship of ways and inesne—Timer. PUNISHMENT AND REFORMATION OF CRIMINALS. —ilia Emily FaithfUll lug just issued from the Victoria Press, in anticipation of the publication of the Transactions of the National Amociation for Promoting Social ficieoce, the .papers on Punishment and Reformation of Criminals, read it the last congress of that body. The collection in cludiii four Papers by Sir Joshua Jebb, one by Sir Walter Crofton, one by the Rev. W. L. Clay, one by Mae Car pester, and about ten others. WARRHOURTMEN AND CLERK'S 601100L8.—On Saturday the anniversary festival of this irwtitution was celebrated at the London Tavern ; the Duke of Cambridge in the chair. About 240 prawns sat down to dinner. The subscriptions aimouncad amounted to 1.500 guineas. VICTOR litloo ON THE GREAT FRRECH PUTZLI. Such, then, is the way in which it plows our neighbours to write the history of Waterloo. It manses them, and deem% hurt as. The theme is for them lire an indeter minate equation, or si charade written about nothing, and which coommasatly admit. of an infinity of solutions. The objection to this method of treatment is that mey be turned against the inventors. A German writer, forinatanoe, might compose in his fashion an entirely new Tendon of Marengo. It might begin by asserting that, if the peasant who con ducted Napoleon over the St. Bernard had only pushed him into • atavism of the mountain, there would have been no battle at all, which would be indisputable ; and not only no battle, but no consulate, no empire, no Austerlitz, no Waterloo, and the history of the century would have been quite different. He might thee state that Destiny was getting alarmed at the'progress of the Anstrians in Italy, d the downfall Ted and therefore - of Moles, who com manded them ; • might represent the hostile power as giving signs of die ensure, varied of comae, for the sake of avoiding too close imitation; thus, instead of rain and mod, there might be • hailstorm and • sharp frost ; instead of muttering, thunder, we might have the whistling of an easterly wind ; and a derisive wink might be substituted for the frown that was seen in the depths of heaven. Next the features of the battle-field might be brought into play : a great maoy of the Austrians were actually checked and destroyed by a rivulet, the Footazione • the singular pheno menon of • rivulet existing on • batisfield might be de scanted on, tied, to increase the ominous effect of the cir cumstance, it might be mentioned that an old woman had been drowned in it one dark night in the year 1037. Bona parte might be slightly alluded to as a second-rate general, the real antagonist being Destiny ; aod • it might ha *hewn how, by pushing him into the Po and Sachet into the Gulf of Genoa, whorl) , knows what might have happened ; but ' that oertaiply Lonato, Castiglione, and Arcola would have beau aveneed. and the man of Marengo would have blotted' out Rivoli. Lastly, to complete the details of the picture, some thrilling inehisate might be introduced : Dania might be killed in single combat by an Aintree fifer, and • Parisian musician might be represented as seated amidst the mete* with something corresponding to a pibroch under his arm (say the Merseillaise), his melancholy . eye full of the reflection of the Place de Grays and the ruins of thsEastille. and thinking in his dying moments of theloc de Boulogne or the Champ de Venus. Such a course is manifestly open to the opposite party ; but the execution of the idea would create a terrible commotion in France ; besides, impartial people might prefer the real facts ; and on many accounts we think it will be better to Jet the French enjoy the dis tinction of being the only nation that write their history in this way.—Blaciavood's Afagaztee for December. CHEAP 000KERY.—MX. John Fender has opened in Manchester, entirely at his own expense, an exceed ingly useful institution, known as the Gaythorn Cooking Depot and Dining-rooms. The place bee been opened specially for the working "Lases, but visitors are in vited, the desire being to make it • model for the *sta. blishrueut of similar kitchens in other parts of the city. The food provided is both good and cheap, and it will be dispensed. at cost pries. The rooms have been fitted up with very great care for the comfort and convenience of the working classes who wish for • good and cheap meal. One room is intended to be converted into a kitchen for dis pensing free rations, awl to be called the "Finch-street Kitchen." The other rooms are now fitted up fur cooking and dining-rooms, and for the accommodation of the attend ante of the room. The principal room will seat 300 at a time, and arrangements will admit of providing three times that number with three meals during she day. The break fast boon are between 8 and 10 a.m. ; dinner mu be had from noon till 3 o'clock ; and tea is provided from 4 o'olock sill Bin the evening. On Friday the astonishing number of 1,200 persons, mostly wo rking men, were served with din ner' between 12 and 2 o'clock, at the rooms. The charge for the refreshments, all of a wholesome and substantial character, is moderate. A cap of milk may be had for • halfpenny ; and a bowl of porridge, • cup of coffee, • cup of tea, and bread and butter, each for one peppy. For dinner there ia supplied a bowl of broth, a howl of soup, plate of 'potatoes, bread and cheese, the charge for each being one loony ; for ed. • plate of cold beef may be had. At tea • cup of coffee or tea is provided for a penny, and bread and butter may he had at the same price. A reading-room, furnished with daily papers and useful and entertaining pe eiodicabi, is free to those who have used the diming-rooms. UNSEA:4O.NABLE SALMON.—On Friday last, before the borough magistrates of Newcastle, George Rocket was prosecuted under the 14th section of the 24th and 23th Vi c t or i a , cap. 109. Sergeant Robert Spence, of the North umberland county constabulary. said that at half-past 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 20th of November he went to the Trafalgar goods station of the North-Eastern Rail way. His attention was directed to three boxes. He opened one of the boxes, and found in it salmon in an un clean state. He found tome ova in the fish. The boxes were addressed to "Messrs. F. Friend and Co., Custom house and Shipping A i e nta , for Mr. Dillattre, W. T., to be delivered with speed. A few of the salmon were in • putrid state. William Soaks, agent to the North-Eastern Railway Company, stated that he was in the good' Within on the 20th ult. when the defendant came there. He said he had reason to expect that salmon would be brought to the station about the 20th of she month. He was in the goods station on that day when the boxes taken poitamaion of by the police were brought, and was told they contained bacon. The boxes were opened the same night in the pre sence of witness, and were found to be filled with salmon. On the consignment there was " 7cwt. Ogre., from William Thompson." The rate for fish was 31. Bd., for bacon la. Gd. per cwt. The magistrates imposed • fine of 10s. for each gosh, or 541. in all, with the alternative of three months' imprisonment. An important addition to the business institu tions of Cornwall has just been made by the opening of • Mining Exams"? at °embank*. An influential meeting of the conaerrators of the Sze was hoiden in Exeter on Friday, when it was deter mined to apply the act for the preservation of salmon fisheries to that river, with the belief that it would, before loag, become 'gains salmon river. The Sandyford 'Place affair has (says the Abertletes Herald) so preyed upon the mind of Mrs. deck, a sister of Mn. M•locidan, residing to Inverness, that she has become insane. imilmililliiiMil iliilir PRUSSIA AND CASSEI•. The text is published of the last note sent to Cassel by the Prussian government, which •led to the renewed concessions of the Elector. This document is ridieuled by many of the continental journals for the contrast it presents to the policy of Prussia at home. The tleoteor is threatened with a yet more active interference if he does not give way, and the Prtuittian minister, who officially is in antagonism with his own chain be - _ T, pays a compliment to the ctlicluct of the Hessian deputies for their mo.leratioii The Prin cipal, if not the Only of of the Hessian chamber in the eyes of the Elector was, it will be remain.- bered, the claim to vote the budget Its they pleased. (RttrrEll'S TILEOLLY.) DENMARK. • COPENIA.GI3,N, DEC. 1. The Dagbladet of to-clay says :—" The Estates of, Holstein will assemble bhortly after New Year's Day. " As soon as they have finished their business the Rigsraad will convoke a common parlikment fur the kingdom of Denmark and Schleswig." THE BRAZILS. • • • MONTE VIDEO, Otr:29. Exchange, 40.1 \Vot gaited ox. hides, 100,000 sold at reserved price, said to be 6llrls. ; dry bides, American, 50r1s. Wool in active demand, but nothing done. Prices still nomivaL Tallow, 20r1s. LISBON, Nov. 2& • The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Oneida will leave for Southampton at 4 p.m. to day, with 48 passngers, 9,157 f. in specie, 460 rolls of tobacco, 200 bags of coffee, 254 packa . ges• of cotton, and 306 packages of sundries. EXPRESS FROM PAIiIS. (MY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARTS, SMOLT EVENING. The France slightly amends its news of last night concerning the negotiations on the Greek question. ' Instead of representing the three powers—France, England, and Russia—as all but agreed on the sub ject, it now says that the cabinets of Paris and St. Petersburg are "in the way of coming to an agree ment," and that " there is reason to hope that England, which put forward Prince Alfred's candi dature principally for the purpose of ejecting the Duko do Leuehtenberg, will be brought to adhere to those principles which alone can ensure a good understanding between the three great powers." Thu .Iloaitear observes, in its bulletin, that the Coburg Gazette denies that Prince Alfred is a candi date for the throne of Greece, and represents his presumptive heirship to the dukedom of Saxe Coburg Gotha as a conclusive reason for his re foing. M. Martin Vreto, the editor of the &mains Unirerseik, himself a Greek, was, and indeed still is, a warm partisan of the Duke de Leuchteuberg ; but he now admits his candidature to be " nothing more than an historical souvenir." He thinks the Greeks, in choosing Prince Alfred, are making the same mistake as the horse in the fable who asked the man to ride him. M. Vreto's opi nion is that it will yet be found necessary to fall back upon tho Duke de Leuchteuborg. He thinks it essential that the new king should be of the Greek religion, which the duke is ; "a catholic or a protestant would always be looked upon as a foreigner; and a renegade would never be re spaded." A republic he regards as impossible. The Phare de la Loire has received a warning for associating itself with the Sicte in au attack upon the constitution. There is a rumour that this journal contains some details of the Boulevard , Prince Eugbne plot, but I have not boon able to sue it. . The Sernaine Universe/is states that when Baron g Gros took his final instructions from the Emperor, on his nomination to the Loudon embassy, he car- g ried away the impression that, notwithstanding many subjects of irritation between France and England, it is still an essential part of his Majesty's policy to maintain the English alliance. It appears from the Dfoniteur that the inquiry which has resulted. in the dismissal of the gaoler and principal matron of Hazebrouck gaol, was or dered by the Emperor himself, on the very day that the report of the trial of Rosalie Gardiu appeared in the newspapers. Despotic government is enti tled to the benefit of whatever argument can be derived from such an instance of its good and speedy working. It is re markable that the imperial procureur of the assize court of the Nord did all he could to screen the prison authorities, and warmly defended every step that had been taken with regard to the unfor tunate Rosalie, whose innocence, though it was proved as clear as day, he to ,the last refused to admit. Constrained as he was by the judgineut of the Court of Cessation to ask for a verdict of acquittal, this functionary thought it so shocking to reflect upon the sagacity or humanity of any member of his own magisterial cloth, that he would only submit to take the verdict as one of " not proven." I am glad to hear that the Couucil of State is preparing a bill for the better security of personal liberty, founded in great measure upon a report of M. hal: d'Est Aug°, who recently visited England for the express purpose of studying the English system. No reform is more loudly called for than one on this subject. I shall, however, be agreeably surprised if the measure now iu contemplation goes anything like as far as it ought to do. The house of Ardouin and Co., which had under taken to make the new boulevard in the lino of the Rue Lemartine, has been unable to realise the required capital, 25,000,000 fr. It announces that the subscribers (to the amount of 8 millions) will ' have their money returned to them with interest. In abandoning the contract the house makes the very large sacrifice of one million, the caution moneydeposited with the city, and about 500,000 fr. in expenses incurred. Several landlords in Paris have recently assumed a right to prohibit their tenants from using gas not only in the upstairs rooms, but even in the shops on the giound floor. The Court of Cassatiou has I just decided that the custom of lighting by gas r having become almost universal, every landlord , must be taken to have consented to its use in the & b iome of any express stipulation to the contrary. As above. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Salop at Nisi Prism in Middlesex.—(Before Lent tlict Justice Erle and a Comeau Jury.) MIMI V. HOLLOWAY.—" HOLLOWAY'S UINTHY-NI." This was au action to recover 500 i. for procuring . p.,ket for the sale of " Holloway's ointment" in Bruce anti l, French colonies, aid the defendant pleaded that he hal met made the promise to pay, and that the patent had nut teen ref:Seised. ' Mr. Braudt appeared ,or the plaintiff ; .and Nr.llesill 0 ' and Mr. C. Pollock for the defendant. The enamel for the plaintiff said that his alieut w:... Swedish physician, and whilst in England in the° he ma introduced to Mr. Holloway, who said that he would give 25,000 franca if he could Obtain permission to sell his pills and ointment its France and the French colosecw. Ile ou. bodied this in a letter of the 7th of Noveinhan, 180th, ...,, added, " The permission must he formal and mutt eiLIAL,,t, from the minister upon the report of the medical council ,1 Paris," Ile added that 215,000 franca was all be would give i t , ow el seiccess—uothiog In case of failure. Thereupon Ur. Bitten went off to Path, and saw several persons and sum.: them M. Robert de Itheballe, physician to t he Eimaroi, whom be thus alluded to in one of his letters ;—" Ibis p d gentlemen is almost ' aim hty, and never fails given promise." It a that in France a good deal of restriction was p upou the sale of what wee. celled "secret remedies ; " sort as it was feared that there might be di ffi culty in the case el the pills, the defendant wrote, "1 am of opinion that you iiiimdd say nothing ...,out the pills in the first instance, bat tither let all your endea vours be concentrated on the ointment. You may state that it is wonderfully efficacious in the cure of old wooed. and With. The pills are a grand preserver of health, and act dlrectly upon the liver and the blood." It was also 'arranged that the plaintiff should have 5001. if the patent were obtained for the ointment only. The plaintiff, in with to facilitate his operations, asked of what the ointment was composed, hut the defendant replied that it was quite km possible that he could furnish him with ingredients of which the ointment was composed. but added that be did not ote 'The to amalyeis, and hempelossd two bound the ointment. 'The plaintiff took one boils a chemist, who upon analysing it • . found tbsoompoueut parts to lie butter, lard, white ass, tal low wax, and Bordeaux turpentine. (Laughter.) The mid of the matter was that the plaintiff obtained a regular brevet or patent permitting the sale of the ointment, and though it wu in his own name he was perfectly willing to transfer the right to the defendant. The plaintiff was called, and detailed the correspooslence (most of which IMO with the defendant's brother Hem)), and added that when be left the analysis with the council they laughed, but said thaeit would do if a patent tuned, as the ingredients oould do neither harm nor good. The I patent, however, won not granted until a long while after this. It was produced •in court, it was giguesl for the minister by the director of internal oomme.-ce, and the article to be sold was described in it as " Yommade lit • Hollowa" y. •• A good dad of dismission took place betweea the learned counsel, and ROlllO evidence was also given upon the question whether the word " poneada" motet ointment, or *Leith if the permission to vend ointment had been given, the French word "onguent" would not have been used. In cross-examination the witness said that he was stile that butter, lard, turpentine, and wax would nut cure wounds; slid be did not think that they wound make • denud e fit for the hair. The turpentine would not suit the hair. ,He also said that he was present at the analysis, mid he be lieved that there wuuothing of importance in the ointment besides the things which had been named. The director of the Chancery had told him that there was no chants of get. the; the patent, and witness left Puns in February. loot ; but his agent got the patent after a good deal of delay. Be did not, however, know where to write to witness, and the so communication was made to the defendant until the Ugh • August, 1e62. Re-examined—He bad sever beard until now the objet. Mon that the patent was for pomade, end not ointment. A French timer explained the law of France upon the matter, and said that the patent would give the exchnive right to sell pounds made according to the analysis, and there Wellebe other means of ragtag each • right. Ciothexamined —lf anybody had gone with the analysis, ' there would have been no difficulty in getting the patent. The hearing of the case had proceeded so fez on Friday ' last ; and this morning some &maim took place between the bench and the her, which ended in it being agreed that I the questions between the parties tamed upon matters of law aad should be reserve', for the full court. He. Holloway, however • was called, acid he slated Used ; three of the things weather, in the analysis which had - been referred to were not used i the ointment, and there were in it several things not =Wooed in the analysis. Cram-examined—The castanet which was sent to the I plaintiff was the tame ointment, and imitative& all the things which constituted the secret of its nuinufacturm The component parts of his ointment were all vegetable, and it would he a very difficult thing to analyse It, though it could be does perhaps. Re-examined—The pablicatios of his secret would of cane destroy the vales of hie property ; A verdict was then taken for the plaintiff, subjoin to leave reserved to the defendant to move the fell court. ' His lordship said he mast not be understood se laving expremed any opinion one way or the other. • COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings at Nisi Prins after Term at Westrninstrx—(Before Mr. Baron Martin and a Spacial Jury.) CIA= V. THE METROPOLITAN lAILWAY COMPANY. This action was brought to recover clematis for injury dose to Iwo house at Cow-cross by the works of . the Under graded Railway. Me. E. James, Q.C.; and Hopwood 'were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Manisty, Q.C., and Mr. liuddleston for the ocesimaY• It appeared that it was necessary to divert a certain sewer in order to construct the railway tit Cow-moss, and- in ow selptenee • the excavation for that parguae. the homes of the plaintiff- were so damaged as to require entire rebuilding.- The alleged negligence on the part of the • defendant* was that they had brought the sew. sewer tee near the houses, when they could have taken it in another direction, whore it woild not 'have affected the safety of the buildings, and that the houses were not coreplepily and el. lettnally shored up before the excavation. The works were executed for the cowpony by Mr. Jay, the contractor, anS t it appeared, with the sanction and under the superclean of the Board of Works. The expense of rebuilding the house , was estimated at 1,2001., and the defendant claimed 701. tis csainpenetion from the company, the difference being the increased value of the property after the rebuilding. Mr. Manley, on the part of the defendants, submitted that the contractor who did the work was liable for any , injury done to the property, and sot the company. Mr. Baron Martin held) that if the convey employed • oontractur to do certain works that did not relieve them ~ ' from responsibility for the general mode in which they had been tamed on. It Might • relieve diem him liability as to a partdeuler piece of negligence ' such as that of a workman of the contractor, whereby dee maga was caused, because in a ease of that kind the relation of master and servant would apply. In the present in , stance, however, be thought the company were liable. After some discussion, The learned Judge said he thought the sum claimed wee a very fair amount, and it was only com mon justice that ' the plaintiff should be compensated. A verdict was ultimately' returned for the plaintiff—de • magas, 7004 LIAIDT r. BROX HOLM& This wen an action for libel brought by one medical man • molest another. The plaintiff livedat P althea, Middlesex, and complained of words uttered by the defend ant reflecting seriously epos his. profeseional reputation. Mx. Rerioant She., who appeared for the plaintiff. ail he understood that the defendant was prepared to o dersa ample apology, and in that cue it would not be uccee sar y to proceed with the trial Mr. Henry James, on the part of the defendant. gave the 1 unqualified retrectation required by the plaiutiti. end A verdict for the plaintiff, with 40s. damages,w... , t‘ken by coasent. inTIMAN V. WISDRA/d. The plaintiff. Mr. Bramston Bateman, • livery stable keeper and job master, carrying on business at Rsdnor Mee; Paildingtou, brought this action against Mr. tl'iWaw fro- derick Windham, late of Feibrigg Hall, Noifolk, to recover a sum of Of. lfis. for broughams supplied to him fur the use - of Mrs. Windham. The &dissident paid AM. into court" and as to the rest pleaded never indebted. Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., and Mr. Lloyd were counsel far the plaintiff ; and Mr. Kerslake, Q. and Ir. D. lions for the defendant. The carriages were supplied for the use of Mrs. Windings between the 31st January and the nth February in the present year, during tho time when the inve-iligUion was going on at Westminster as to the state of Mr. Windhanes mind, which it will be recollected created oue• siderable sensatleo. The plaintiff stated that when he sent the broughams Mr. and Mrs. Windham were living gather at 34, Claroudon-gardens, and that on nee OCC11,111) he met Mr. Windham in the street and asked him to pay the hdl when he said that he was to send it in to him, and that if he found it all right ho would pay it if it were i 4 adding, he wu not quite broken yet. He aeon iu the Lill but it was never paid, and the present actiou warn there. fore brought. [The trial was proceeding when our report Mid COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Oisnmesionsrs Bolroyd and GottlbOTO.) SUSPC4BIOX OF Till 111 W ORDI:14 A$ TO !TM. The two learned commissioners came ou the bench WMr. Commistioner Holroyd immediately said, be much regretted that a mucouceptiou appeared to roved respecting some duel:Mom which he was stated to have given to the registrar, proprio mote t d to the fees payable on de own petitions for ad. judiestion of bankruptcy, in aims where there was a deficiency of wets to meet the expenses, and where the debtor did not come before the court in forma pauperis. The facts were these. It had been represented to lion by the register of his court that the messenger of the court had I beau mach out of pocket by the advances be had been mild upon to snake on mob petitions. He considered that that ought not to be, and ought to be died, and he ioformel the registaar that where there w oveno availing assets. the _ 1