The Express. — London, England, 1867-08-15 00:00:00

1 .---- T - - --,-- -- / 7 I i, _..... ,____......., .....],„ ..,,, . 44.1 ..._ r • „ ,Z: : --a- - -------' *. . 1 • o• .. . ,C t" . - . • :: ,. 1 '' -r t \ ..„.....i,;...,,,5.,:„..,..4.4,:..,,; . -,/ ,-- 4,:,....„,z.„..... ___--. 4 t K, Xrt __ , •.o m• -,....5.a...u.:11x-a- LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1867. N0.6,560.] [TWOPENCE [STAMPED, la. IN3IAN LINE.—The LIVERPOOL, NEW' ogE. and PHILADELPHIA ISTKAIthILIP COMPANY lnteml -patching their hddpowered Clyde-built Oren screw edrr) Jog the United States' Mails, calling at Queens ‘ d ro, ou the following day, to take on board gen „I 4.pm h.e, and with liberty to call at an intermecC port: E. 1, Sattirday, August 17. CITY Of 140 , 61 MN, Wednesday, August 21. EDI KWH. naturday, ArWiNa 24. CITY 01 BALTIMORE, W „ August And every Wednesday sod Saturday. Calla p usage by the mall gasmen sailing every Wednesday, is, sod guineas, according tribe accommodation. Forward pdtdge Lao holes a full supply of cooked provisions. Passenger f C. 1113.111 and the United States booked through on very Mean pima—roe further particulars apply to WILLIAM rsmAN, 4, Water4reet, Liverpool: and to El VkH and MACgY, 41. hug Willianiatreet. London. CWEDEN and BACK in seven days from Loons. allowing PS hours in Sweden.—This is an rumor. tuoty that may he embraced by the renowned twin screw st,..ma MARY, Captain TIIOS. LEIGH, appointed to sail on I; ill %ogu.t, front the West India Dock buoys, for GOTHIIN BUM, ry alternate Saturday as heretofore 'weather permitting). will likewise find this ► moat interesting routs to h.lsro and guns* and should make early applications for berths. Varna to Gothenburg, LS Sa and £2Si.: return, 1. 145. 14 And £33a. ; deck, Lt.—Apply at Cli A MIN'S Office, &gent 0. 1 , , W. or to PH I LLIPPs, GRAN' KS, VII I LLI YTS and Co., gt uuoatao'►beuse, Cross-lane, Great Tower-street. EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, London. Dixon of the Directors for the year and quinquenniom ending .4th June. 19.7, rea.l at the Annual General Meeting of Pre .- • ~ . . prletors, 9th August. Wet _,,, CfnUDE RI'AsELL, Esti , Chairman of the Company, la the hair. .. . . _. _ . . The report which the Direeion have now to make to the pro rates has rekrerce not orly to the profess of the Com. r " during the past pair, but also tothe wore Important con • rtti. 41 of Its financial condition at the close of another nub.- tar maim.. awl of the long term of sixty years from the date of Av rigimis the progress of the Company during the year, it n a y br suftleieut to state that the ordinary receipts and pay s. hart. horn augmented by those of another small assurance • vii. the business of which has been transferred to the Eagle in thi. barnal. Tim*, the total premiums received have been sod the Interest front investments £1!3,364: whilst, on th e • other Mori, the claims on decease of lives assured have A mounted to £:107,0411, and the expenses of management to sia..rtu-- this last teem Including £3,909, which will, for the part. uuw cease. An ex.., pt.on to this general augmentation Is to he found in the (swot the premiums ou new assurances, which have amounted to s I . ...Ili—Mess nun than they have reached in foregoing years. Adv e rting now to the results of the quinquennial Myatt nation which has been in progress for several months, and a hieb has been conducted with all due care and circumspection, It appears, from the actuary's statement, that there were in font. on the avith June last the following policies. viz. le.c.et participating, assnrinr, with luldilions, £9,30),062, and paying premiums amounting to £274.617 per annum. And ags; non.toutitipating, assuring 1 . .1.709,743, and paying premiums amounting to £112,319 per annum. Th e total amonnt assured In these two classes—viz., £13.015,70 -together with some annuities, is found, by the minute and laborious processes used in such investigations, to Involve an inintrtliato liability of .1:0,244,&10. The total annual premium recelvabie—riz., £386,836-Is moan, lo the like processes, to be now worth £4,506,169, or nearly 12 years' purchase. The net liability arising under these large Items, viz., £1.7.,i5ia.2. is included in the following statement, which has been vet diml by the auditors, and which comprises all the rea lised and unrealised assets of the Company, and also all claims aping it, immediate or reunite. 43,633 7 6 641,774 14 1 ie 11 6,2441,bal 14 1,159,19 13 9 67,466,290 6 9 Amount Invested in fixed mortgages 1,352,448 3 6 NU° Ilitt.., decreaslog mortgages 104,919 8 2 Ditto ditto, reversions hitto ditto, fended semnitiss Ditto ditto, temporary securities Current interest on the above investments Cash aril bills Advance) on security of the Compaars policies 148,572 3 8 Agents' balances 28,017 0 3 Sundry accounts Yoke of reassurances Value of premiums 4.605,167 18 0 £7,486,280 6 9 Deducting the sums payable on demand, or at an early matu rity, it will be found that the realised assets above set forth amount to £2.897,886 10 3d., and the Proprietors will observe Plat of this amount C 177,680, their paid-up capital, is set apart ticlualvely for them; £1,738,061 10.. (Ml. exclusively for the poik7hoblers, sad £iiill,6l4 I. IN. for both. This Let item forms the pmeisbos for the present bonus, and the accumulating fund for future bonuses and expenses, and It is recommended accord- Indy that £208,774 be now appropriated for immediate distribu tion, leaving £772,740 115. 9d. to accumulate, and also to meet Ike reductions of ;wend in respect of the policies transferred by the National Mercantile Assurance Society, the first of which reduction., it may be remembered, la to take place In 1668. The share of the present distribution pert.dning to the pro- Wktors will be paid to them, with the dividend, early In hewer s The portion to be allotted to the policyholders will be determined as quickly as possible, and notices of the addition made hi each case despatched to them ; but this process will seormarily occupy considerable time. Meanwhile, some Idea may be formal of the amount of these reversionary additions by as examination of the inilSoined table, which exhibits them in the Instance of assurances twenty years old, effected on lives of various ages at commencement of the risk. Additions to the sum of £l,OOO, assured under Park Polldes of Twenty Yews' standing. Aigs at Additions prior Additions now 'rota Entry. i to 1867. reads. --- W t 235 0 0 £871! 0 I £302 12 0 55 221 610 ft 16 0 264 1 10 27 213 15 10 X 10 0 273 6 10 31 193 19 7 X 13 0 248 12 7 X 180 6 8 49 14 0 230 0 8 41 161 2 4 46 8 0 213 10 4 46 l6l 2 2 46 12 0 537 14 2 The additions to be made to the sesame.' of the Society just twinsferred .111 be in the same proportion, but will be neces sarily smaller in amount, In con nation of the shorter time, that is to say, of the eighteen months only In which they have acrrued. The Directors consider that these results are satisfactory, and they trust th.II the Proprietors will be of the same opinion : look ing at the pr..grew which the Company has made during the last twenty years and the position which it has now attained they feel themselves Justified In anticipating that Its future career will be a successful one. They will only add, that they hope In a few weeks to be enabled to remove from their Temporary Ofikes to the new premises In Pall-mall, and thenceforth to hare more Suitable acconimodation for the carrying on of the Company's business than it Ms been their good fortune of late year's to seloy. The direction of the Company Is now constituted as follows : Col. CHAS. WYTkIERALL, K.C.T., Chairman. Right Hon. filr JOHN YOUNG, Bart, K.O 8., Deputy-Chairrnan Charles Bischoff, Esq. Charles Thomas Holcombe, Esq. Thomas Bodslington, fail. I Joshua Lockwood, Esq. Charles Chatfield, Esq. James Murray. Req. Wt lianr V. De Ls Rue, Esq. Ralph Charles Price, Esq. flir J. Buller East. Hare., DAIL- Philip Rose. Ea%sront Eohert A. Gray, Esq. George Russell, t . William Augustus Guy, M.D., Thos. Godfrey Sans e, Req. Captain L 8. Tindal, R.N. FREETRADE WHARF.—The Commissioners etutoms and the Lords of the Treasury.—Preparing for Cr:Con. the Correspondence on the subject of Privileges, ranted and bow withhold. IMPORTER:Ie MODS who ere subjected to excessive charges on goods landed on captain's e ntry will ny. please apply to R. CLAY sad Co., fig, Upper Thames- SCIENTIFIC and MISCELLANEOUS APPARATUS. . J. C. STEVENS will SELL by AUCTION, at his Great Rooms, 38, Klmegtreet, Covent-garden, TO MORROW, August 16, at half-put 12 precisely, TWO valuable MICROSCOPE-6, with all the necessary apparatus, telescopes, CUMIN and lenses, opera and race glasses, sewing machines, levelsote.—On vlew to-day and morning of sale, and catalogues bad. LAITUE.—The LETTUCE contain an active principle, the Latucine, width pansies' all the soothing MZrles of opium without its dangers—Mr. O. JOZRA U, French at, 49, Haymarket, prepares a Syrup end a Pate of Laitue (or lettuce), highly recommended by the Medical Profession for Cold*, &sauna, bronchitis, and all chest artectious. /Syrup. 2a. lid.; Pate, la. lid. and 2*. 3d. Pate, by post, Is. Bid and 3s. ad. JOZEAU'S COPAHINE-MEGE.—M. Cullerier, the secretary of the committee appointed by the Academy et Medicine of Paris to institute experiments touching the (b- Mtge, expromed himself at the meeting of the 17thc , 1840, a• follows:—" The ten patients trestea with the vopshine were cured in four, seven, and eight days, without nausea, colic, sickness, or ashy repugnance." The Acadseny ne ighed to send a letterof thanks to the originator of the Copahhee. Munn. Lloyd, Poland, Le Oros Clark, Gay, and Callaway have anoceedully repeated these experiments In London, at St. Bartho lomew's, St Thomass, Guy's, and the Royal Free Hospitals. (See The Lancet of March 90, 1967).—501d at 45. ed. a hoWo by all re fttable chemists. General Ds, 40, Haymarket, London, at M. JOZBAL - S, the only Pram& /Unmade, with Ms diploma of Wm Paris School of Pharmacy. KEATING'S PERSIAN INSECT DESTROY ING POWDER.—FIeas In dogs, poultry, de., are in stantly destroyed. AS also buss, beetles, and every other insect, by this powder, which is quite harmless to animal life ; *pete r/ten pertkviarly will therefore Dad It invelsable.—Rold in Packets IL, tins M 6d. end 46. 6d. each : or Is. packets free by pod for 12 paged* stamps, and Ds. 6d. on receipt of 36, by 71103168 'Milli°, chemist, 79, Bt. Psurs-churehYarit Lou don, EX. D• . SCOITS BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, never tailing remedy, prepared without any mercurial higiedlent, will be found invaluable to en who suffer from bilious awl liver complaints, Indigestion, wind, spawns, 'Mamas, died. NM of the eyes, due. Vor habitual costiveness, as • family aPrient medicine, sad as • portlier of the Mood, they are truly em Went; mild In their operation mid grateful to the stomach, fIleY create appetite, pr mote dMen, and strengthen the Lw__Whole nervous system—Sold by W. lasnbmt, chemist, g, Ling Ullametreet, Charingmom and by most druggists, to boom lid. and three times the quantity in me, la ad. Be .are to AM fee Dr. Scotrs Bilious and !her Tbs genuine me In ale green peoksge, with laratert" alarmed on ea - - ANY PEERS or Others having RECEIVED a COPY of a PRINTED STATEMENT, privately sent, In the end ,1 July last, to the law lords and others, on behalf of the respondents cited in the pending Shedden appeals, and ehkh statement was only aceklentally brought to the appellants' knowledge yesterday, are respectfully requested, In the interests ut public Justice and in order that the Statement may be Muted. to FURNISH their NAMES. and, If possible, the copies so received, to Mew& Cookson, Wainewright, and Co., No. 6, \ ew square, Lincobiwinn, Solicitors to the Appellant& (lOVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. coVENT-GARDEN LONCCET3.—ruder the sok Direc tion of Mr. JOHN sr:vim.. yocatist*-111,111e. Smoke, Male. Inetinmentallats. —M. Web% pianist Mr. Richard Levey, vie lined Le Petit Bonney, xylophone Mr. Reynolds, cornet.i. pktons ; the eourtuis Bras Band Union. , . Rawl of 100 performers. PROGRAMME, THIS EVENING (Thursday', August 1%: Part I. Overture, La Garza Ladra, Rota ; elude, violin solo, Ernst —Mr. IL Levey, accompanied on the pianoforte by Madame Eons : grand fantatia, the Courtola Union; vales Morgenblatten (Feitilles du Matin), Johann Strauss ; Brindisi (Herculaneum Felkien David—Male. Eraclio; fantasia on themes from Gonad's Faust, Mobil—pianoforte, M. Wehli ; polka, Armen, Johann Strauss: aria Uon Pasquale, Dunlzetti Mdlle. karolta ; fantasia, xylophone, Air Vim's, Le Petit Bonney. Grand march, Tiumhauser, Wagner. The National Anthem. Part 11. Grand Orchestral Selection, Romeo and Juliet ((Monad', arranged expressly for trifle concerts by Sig. Bottesini, com prising the chief musical features of Interest In Gila mostsuocees ful opwa among others the following moreeaus :—.9infonla, 11 sonno di Juliet; Canzone, Tortorella the fat to ; Scherzo, Ballets Della Regina flab Madrigale and Blotto, Anglol the 'esti, Ah fo.n part*: Dwain. Notts genii!: Nuptial Starch and Cortege false Arletta. Neils al with solos for flute, oboe. come, ophe. chide, Ac., Mr. IL S. Pratten, Barret, Reynolds. Hughes, 11111, Ac.: Spanish gong, Mdlle. Emilio : fantasia, pianoforte," Home, sweet Home, for heft hand only (Wehll.-11. Mobil Value " Knwittorl~' (La VW ft Artlete)—Jobassn Aloninss; aria, Minim Semite: medley fantasia, violin, on Naval Airs Levey), intro. dating Blackwyed Mum My trinshulit Wherry, the Death of N einem. Warming Old Stairs, &c,—Mr. It. Levey ; Getup, Flick et ?lock (Hertel). _ _ _ _ lbnd nctor—Rignce BOTTEBINI. . . Mr. Roma has al.. the p'eaunre to announce that, in order to wire (did to these concerts, he has engaged solely for the dance muck the services of the renowned Johann Strauss, from Vienna. . . . . . _ 174 refreshment department is entrusted to the eminent firm of %Ars and Pond. Promenade, amphitheatre stalls. and amphitheatre. la ; private boxes. foe four persons, grand tier, 0:2 3., Li ill. Gd., and .et Is. ; ditto. first tier, Its. 6.1. :dress circle, 2s. Gt. CIOVENT-GARDEN CONCERTS. —The Box t/ once. under the portico of the Opera In How-street, is open dilly from to till X, under the superintendence of Mr. Ed ward Hall. The entrance to the private boxes, grand tier circle, and promenade, is in Bow-street. 4 Doors open at ,ball-past 7. Commence at a. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. (Managing Director. Mr. F. Strange.) Three Ballets, 200 Dane, 60 Instrumentalists, Singers, Acrobats Mimics ; Pic tures Wart Telegrams, Saloons, Suppevmoms, Lavatories, Sng-roonis, Evening Paper 10 Orchestral Pieces Every Night, Open at Half-past Seven, begin at Eight. Prices-Is., '2l . and ed. ; Reserved Seats, es. ; Private Boxes, from AI Is. Bo:tithes open from Merest to Your. NATIONAL SUNDAY LEAGUE. FREE SUNDAYS AT THIS CRYSTAL PALACE. August ti„ 1867, for 'Trades, Benefit and Friendly Societies, leruc Onus, &c. Applicants to state by letter the number of members or emplo)ts they are authorised to apply for, September I, for Shareholders' friends. Tickets /implied on and after August 26 on production of scrip or ordinary Sunday admission card. As the expense of printing, advertising. dm., considerable, contributions to defray the same are expected. Free Sunday Committee, 4, Beaufort-bulldogs, Strand. CHARMING semi-detached VILLA RESI DENCS, containing ten rooms, conservatory, and ante room, stained Pam windows, ps, and Venetian blinds through out, to be LET or SOLD, with beautiful Rimer gardens taste fully laid out, summerhouse, ornamental vases, dc. Rent on lease, w annum ; or purchase, fts ground rent, long lease, first-rate tW 000 . including ftxturex £6OO can remain . —Apply to Mr. NM. WILLIAMS, Surveyor, IS, guess -street, CITY OFFICES to LET, Coleman-atreet.—A Third Floor, with plate-glass windows. Rent Its guineas per annum—Apply to W. WILLIAMS, as above. VITT HOUSE or OFFICES WANTED, to Rout or Purchase. Yorwartt particulars to W. WILLIAMS, as above. N;V ANTED, to Rent or Purchase, within ten miles of town. a small detached RESIDENCE, with good gardens. If with paddock preferred. Pull particulars to be forwarded to Mr. WM. WILLIAMS, surveyor, 18, Queen.street, Cbeapaida. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN lIIIIBMON, 1866. This celebrated old IRISH WHISKY gained the DUBLIN PRIZE MEDAL—It Is pare, mild, mellow, delicious, end very wholesome. Sold in bottles, Ss. ad. each, at the retail booms Is London by the agents In the principal towns In lingland or wholesale at li, Great Windmill-street, London, W. Observe the red seal, pink label, and cork branded " Klnahan's LL Whisky. R and OLENNY, OUTFITTERS. ii a y 1331 anisbligament fa Landes. Dart door to Bourg holm alma& N.& Lida of seataaary outfit for usury purpose and appolatmet to India. Cigna, and the Wend's, all] to tar wardad-ca application. PRICE'S SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE • (Patented).—The newest and best toilet amp, wears well, ems a rich and fragrant labor, is entirely free from cocoa nut oil or excess of alkali, and contains half its weight of Prices dis tilled glycerine. Sold in id. and 6d. tablets. PRICE'S PATENT CANDLE COMPANY (limited), Belmont Works, Betters's. S.W. TEETH. --Messrs. GABRIEL (ESTABLISHED 1913'. NEW PAMPHLET, FREE BY POST FOUR STAMPS, Explaining the Painless System of Dentistry and selleAlmelve Artificial Teeth without 'primp, at half the usual charges. 64, LUDOATE,HILL, CITY. 36. Holey-street, Cavendivh-square, London. 134, Duke-street, Liverpool. WHITE and SOUND TEETH are indispens able to personal attraction, and to health and longevity by the pmper mastication of food. ROW LAND'S orioNTo, or PEARL DENTIFRICE., compor•nied of Oriental ingredients. Is of inestimable value In preservini o and beautifyim the Teeth, strengthening the and in ring a pleasing fragrance to the breath. It eradicates tartar m the teeth, removes spots of Incipient decay, and polishes and preserves the emamel, to which I t im parts a pearl-like whiteness. Its invaluable proper ties have obtained the patronage of royalty and the aristocracy of Europe. and It Is universally In high repute. Price 2s. 9d. per box. Sold at 20, Hatton-garden, and by chemists and perfumers Ask for Rowland's Odento. 1-7USTRIOUS LUCCA.—The BUILDER of .111 s week ed., or by post ad., contains • line Vkw of the Triangular Porch at Ratisbon Cathednd—tine View of Carved Pulpit In St. Marfa, Taunton —A Gossip about Lucca—Archreolo gists at Bowden, Wessel, and Selby—Memoir of the late Sir Robert lindrke, R.A., Architect, and various other , with all the cognate Hewn-1, Yorknireet, Covent en, and all newsmen. Tan HOT WZATHRT.—On Tuesday two Me, of sunstroke—one of them fatal—occurred in Yorkshire. During the last few days, through the excessive beat, the largest destruction of meat and poultry known for many years has taken place in Newgate Market. In consequence of the maintenance of high prices, a considerable quantity of stock remained in the storehousesunsold, and the hot wea ther coming in with snob intensity caused the suppressed supply to be offered for sale at very reduced prices. Prime beef was offered for immediate consumption at 44. per lb. and lamb at 24. Ducks were mad at la. each. Several hundred weights of meat, Bc. , have been condemned by the inspectors as unfit for consumption, and ordered to be destroyed forthwith. Our Wolverhampton correspondent writes that, on Tuesday evening, a Manchester betting man died suddenly in that town from the excessive beat. SAILORS AND VIZIR WIVF.'4. —A few days ago sailor named James Dugnoon, just arrived in the Mersey after a long voyage, was taken into custody on a charge of having left his wife dependent on the parish. He was brought before the magistrates, and remanded ; and yesterday, on being again brought up, he stated that be had seat his wife while he was abroad about 1001., and he produced receipts for upwards of 60/. which she bad re ceived from him from time to time during his absence. The magistrates at once disch►rged the poor fellow, who expressed his intention of " clearing the port " at once. ARKIN° A KING FOR ♦ LP:INT.—A letter from Ems haa the subjoined:—" The King of Prussia lives here with great simplicity, and goes out almost unattended. Two days back his Majesty was descending the staircase of the !Curium., smoking his cigar, when a young Walla chian residing in the same establishment was going up to his room. Having a cigar in his h►nd he went up to the King and asked hum very politely to be allowed to light His Majesty at once held out his cigar and the other was quietly proceeding to put his to it when he felt himself suddenly seized by each arm ; he turned round and found that be was in the hands of two orderly officers, who were very much scandalised at the familiarity of the young man. The King had some trouble in making them under stand that they were not to interfere. The Wallachian was totally at ► loss to comprehend what the whole scene meant, when a gentleman passing observed to him, 'Do you not see what you have done' It is the King of Prussia from whom you have asked a light.' The other was fora moment struck dumb at his mistake, and for fear of meeting King William subsequently on the promenade, left Emathat same evening." NZWRPATZTA TOR CRIMINALS. —The Austrian Minister of Justice has just decided on a singular measure. Henceforward a certain number of copies of the official journals published in the empire will bs distributed gra tuitously to the criminals confined in the different prisons. Since the London Hospital for Sick Children was opened in 1852, 135,121 children hare been admitted there. LIABILITIZS. Interne due to proprietors -- Cairn, os decease of lives assured, sadaddltions thetvto. u•ipabl, Scuds) accounts Vahw of sums assured Prvietone laud, bAuplus fund £177,0130 0 0 001,5.4 13 9 .ate» . TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (anima's Tzliqa.tme.) THE FONTAINEBLEAU MURDER. 1 MELUN, AuGusr 14. The woman Frigard, charged with the murder of Madame Mertens, has been found guilty, with extenuating circumstances, and aentenoed to penal servitude for life. THE FRENCH EXCURSION TO DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, AmaysT 14. An address, numerously signed by Schleawigera who have left their homes and are residing in Denmark, has been presented to the French jour nalists now on a visit to this city. The address thanks France for her disinterested sympathy, as well as her defence of the rights of the Danes, and expresses the firmest confidence in the further mag nanimous aid of the French people. GREECE. AUGUST 14. Intelligence received here from Athens, dated August 8, states that a great number of Candian families were still being conveyed from the island by French and Russian vessels. The Arcadi had accomplished her 22nd voyage. Tko Annexion another Greek steamer, had also gone to Candy, and after disembarking victuals and ammunition, returned with Candian fugitives on board. The brigands are being pursued with the greatest activity, and are now almost wholly ex terolnated. THE KING AND QUEEN OF PORTUGAL. MADRID, Acoutst 14. The King and Queen of Portugal arrived at San Sebastian yesterday, and left again at 8 p.m. for San lldefunso, where they will arrive this evening, and where great preparations have been made for their reception. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Acarsr 14. It is semi-officially announced that the Prussian government has still no news of the moat recent events in Mexico, and no report has been received from the Prussian minister in the Mexican capital respecting the attitude he has taken up. lJubal an?! Military. PORTSMOUTH, Auciver 14. The trial of Lieutenant R. P. Montray, of the Osprey, for negligence while officer of the watch, during which the vessel was lost en the 30th of May, off the south-east oast of Africa, was resumed and concluded to day on board the Victory. The prisoner's defence was that there was no such material change in the wind and weather as rendered it necemary for him to report to the commander ; that as soon as he bad ascertained that it was really land ahead he did report ; that there was not sufficient time to pat the ship's head off shore on land being reported ; and that Commander blenzi.s came or. deck and took command before the prisoner had time to take any steps to avoid the catastrophe. Witnesses were called for the defence, and, after an hour and three-quarter's deliberation, the court came to the conclusion that the charge against the prisoner was in fact proved, inasmuch as he neglected to perform his duty, and was guilty of a great error of judgment in not endeavouring to put the ship's head off shore, or to stop her way when the land was reported. They therefore adjudged him to forfeit two years' seniority in the navy, and to be severely reprimanded. The court were also of opinion that with the statement of Commander Menzies, to the effect that " from the time of his taking charge of the ship, till every one was out of her, the assistanm he received from Lieutenant Montray in performance of the various duties amounted to nothing, and, if anything, his manner made it more di ffi cult to get the work done, as he considered it disheartened the men," was not supported by the evidence brought before the oo7xt. The court could not separate without expressing their opinion of the unsatisfactory manner in which Mr. Saunders, the gunner, gave his evidence before them. ROYAL VICTORIA YACHT CLUB RBOATTA. RYDE, Aocuer 14. The lovely weather to-day drew together a largo company on the pier to witness the proceedings of the Royal Victoria 1 acht Club Regatta. The little breeze that prevailed at an early hour soon ceased. In the re port of last evening the winner of the cutter prize was left in doubt, on account of the allowance for time, and it was afterwards found that it was won by the Fione, who had 2 minutes and 14 seconds to spare. Mr. Routcher is thus the winner of another prize, and it will be remem bered that he was the winner of Earl Vane's Cup at Cowes on Thursday last. The race to-day was for the Town Cap, a prize value 1001., presented by the inhabitants of the town of Hyde, open to all yachts belonging to any Royal Yacht Club. Time race, Ackers' sale. Twice round the Victoria Comm, from Ryde to the Nab Light, round the middle buoy and back to Hyde, the whole distance being about 44 miles. The following yachts were entered for this prize Yachts. Tons. Owners. Volante Manna Witchcraft Cambria Condor llll Mr. W. Ewing. Hone WI Mr. E. Homelier. Diadem llO Mr. F. Stanley. Pantomime l4O Colonel Markham. Aline ll6 Colonel 'Monosson. Sphymt 47 Mr. .7. A. Earle. Clorlsaa &nave lO6 Colonel Nicoll. OveliFs pia ln Mr. J. Mulholland. YeW l9 Mr. W. F. !Quillen Loadatar 64 blr. C. F. Alison. Bironders 6B Lord H. Lennox. Albertine At the time the preparatory gun was fired the Cambria, Diadem, Pantomime, Gloriana, Losdatar, and Hirondelle were not at their stations. At half-past 10 precisely the starting gun was fired, with a very light breeze and a strong ebb tide, the course being to the eastward. The Elphynx soon got round, and was away before the rest, the Aline being second, the Witchcraft third, the Omiara fourth, and all the remainder so near to each other that the difference between them was not worth recording. As it was dead beat to the eastward against tide, every sail wee set to catch even the promise of a breeze, and boom ing out became the orderof the day. Under a scorching sun, and with the sealike a sheet of glass. to contend with a strong ebb tide was a work of difficulty, and the slight puffs of wind now and then caught only served to show the utter hopelessness of the work m which the ships were engaged. The position of the leading vessel, the Bphynx, for a time re mained unchanged, but after about three-quarters of an hour spent in playing with catspaws, a dead calm set in, and all the yachts found themselves drifting backwards to the place from which they darted. Long after midday they were all lying about in this listless manner, when a very gentle zephr, for breeze it could not be called, sprang up, and the ebb tide having now lost its force, they managed to crawl along, and were ulti mately lost eight in making their way to the Nab Light. About a quarter before 3 o'clock the Aline was seen making her way to the westward, and passed Ryde pier at 3 o'clock, having occupied four hours and a half in accomplishing something less than 12 miles. The following time was taken on the yachts passing the No-man Buoy, going to the westward: - - - Aline Mose Sphynx Condor °raters Witchcraft The others were a long way astern. At the time this report was despatched the vessels had not concluded the first round, and as that bad occupied seven hours and a half, and as it is a condition of the race that it shall he concluded an hour after sunset. it is quite improbable that that can be done, and therefore the race must be sailed again on some future day to be named by the committee. A coroner's jury at Liverpool have returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against a domestic servant named Maria Darby for strangling her new-born child. The girl is 18 years old, Between twelve and one o'clock on Tuesday a violent thunderstorm burst over Alnwick and the sur rounding country. The lightning flashes were vivid and frequent, and the thunder seemed al most to roll in one uninterrupted peal. The lightnin in one instance proved fatal. Mr. Henderson, of Amble, had put out to sea in his boat, with two other men. As the night looked stormy they cast their anchor and lay to. Two of them slept while the third kept watch. Mr. Henderson and the other man were suddenly awoke by a shock, and on starting up discovered that the boat was partly on fire, that the mast was splintered by lightning and OD fire, that the lamp was thrown down, and that the man who had kept watch was lying dead la Use WO= al the beat. Drama. OLYMPIC. Two young ladies from America, known as the sisters Webb, who arrived in Liverpool a few months back, and have been unsuoressful for a time in obtaining a metropolitan engagement owing to the sudden death of their agent, Mr. Brough, made their first appearance in Loudon last night at the Olympic Theatre, in a three-act drama, called The Grasshopper. This piece, we believe, is a translation by en American-German of a German drama, founded on Georges Sand's French novel, " La Petite Fadette," which was played by these ladies in America under the title of Parisian, the Cricket. The version produced at the Olympia last night has been ar ranged or edited for the English stage by Mr. Benjamin Webster, jun., much in the same way, we presume, as Mr. J. o:enfold edited the American translation of Mosesithars Deborah for Miss Bateman at the Adelphi. The Grass hopper adds another pastoral drama to the modern stage, though it gives us very little character or incident with which we are not thoroughly familiar. Those who know as all playgoers must know, Mr. Buckstone's admirabli; little comic drama, Good for Nothing, will see in it little more than an extension of this piece in three acts, while others will see in a grasping old farmer, who is somewhat prominent in the drama, a repetition of Daddy Eardrum. The plies is not deficient in true rustic character and comedy, hat it is disfigured by one of those impossible witches or gipsy women who remind us of Ela the Outcast and the *orst kind of cheap fiction. When so many cooks heels been employed in the manufacture of a dish of theatrical broth, it is impossible to say, without an amount 4 research that the importance of a hundred such dramas would scarcely justify, who has contributed the I little fierier that is palatable. The interest of the drama is concentrated in the young half-wild girl, Fanchon, who gives it Its title, and who is played by Miss Ada Webb with a degree of dashing spirit and "Yankee-girl" fun that secures the approbation of a mixed audience. This girl is converted by love fora young farmer, whose life she has sant, from a half-savage. mountain-side hoyden, dressed 4 rags, unwashed and uncombed, into a village belle, whale coquetry is none the less effective for being 'impulsive: No actress who was afraid to " gush," and who had the slightest doubt as to her hold on her audience, could go through half the scenes that Fanchon, the "grasshopper," has to go through—especially a dance with a shadow, that may have been taken out of Dinorak. The part given to the other sister, Miss Emma Webb, an bid witch of the Meg Merrilies type, re- quires far more melo-dramatic force than she is able to give it, and her impersonation scarcely rises above the very lowilevel of character assumptions in a lecture•hall entertainiient The Daddy Hardline of the piece, known as " Old Barbean," is excellently represented by Mr. Horace Wigan, with all that subdued finish and intelligent force that will tear comparison with the best style of French acting. The lover, Is.ndry Barbeau, is played by Mr. John Clayton in a good, manly, unaffected manner; and Mr. Dominick Murray is provided with a rather conven tional but decidedly amusing char►cter—a village trades. man—which be makes the most of. Miss Sheridan repre sents the niece of old Barbeau, • shrewish young lady, who is betrothed to Landry, and who marries the village tradesman, when Landry show. him preference for the " grasshopper," and acts most naturally and effectively. The drama is very well put upon the stage, and provided with Breton dresses, that are sometimes more correct than elegant. The two sisters, particularly Miss Ada Webb, were very warmly received and encouraged, but the drama appeared to meet with only 'qualified approval. Its Gen et...action and dialogue are not of the highest o-der, and we fancy we can see many trues of injury done to the creation of the original novelist by the joint-stock company of adapters. Dzsrilkz IRA AMMO:QR.—The death of Ira Aldridge, w was well known bi"ffingland a few years ago as • black tragedian, and who was termed the African Romans, is announced at Lodz, in Polonia. He was about 62 years of age. He was the son of • chief of Senegal, who was brought over to New York by • Christian protestant American missionary to be educated in the faith, and who returned to his native country after having completed hie education. But the desire for • civilised life prevailed over the love of country and home, and after some difficul ties and troubles he contrived to obtain • passage to America, where he settled down as • pastor to • negro congregation. Young Ira was destined by his father for • similar position, but he had an irresistible penehaat for the stage, and at length contrived to make a debut in New York with • troupe of amateurs. His talents were immediately recognised, and be re ceived a perfect ovation ; but his representations appeared to have provoked serious riots, for the police • put • stop to them at the time, and he found himself obliged to accept the position of • servant at an inferior' ' theatre in the city. In the year 1833 his father sent him to England to pursue studies in theology ; but here again the Tragic Muse enchained him, and yielding him self to her charms, he, after many at tempts to overcome the obstacles in his way, made his first appearance in England in Othello, and subsequently played Macbeth and Sactork. He was enthusiastically received, and entered into an engagement to perform in Covent-garden Theatre, after fulfilling which he made the tour of the kingdom, and won laurels as well as more substantial rewards, in Edinburgh, Manchester, Liverpool, Dublin, and the principal towns of the kingdom. Though well appre ciated in these islands, his performances were, however, yet more applauded and better remunerated on the conti nent of Europe, and especially in Russia. His genius was also more particularly noted as that of an African, and his race gave an additional zest to thb spectators of his dra matic creations. In Brussels, Cologne , Peath, Vienna, Paris, lie., he has ben received with acclama tions by crowded and delighted audiences. From the year 1852 he was in the habit of making tours through the principal cities of Europe, but he was particularly fond of Russia. He had the honour of receiving decorations from the Emperor of Russia, and had bees similarly noticed by most of the European sovereigns. Not many weeks since he performed in Bromide, where he was most warmly re ceived, and he was on his way to St. Petersburg when he wait taken ill and died. Two MEN EATEN BY SHARER.—On Monday, the American ship Josephine, Captain Mitchell, arrived in the harbour from Rumados, Cuba, for orders. Captain Mit chell reported the fearful death of two of his crew, by being devoured by sharks while the vessel was lying at Rumados. He had been on shore on the 26th of June with two of his crew purchasing some stores. Having trairested his business, Captain Mitchell took his boat, and • fair wind blowing, he rigged sail. Having accomplished half the journey, accompanied by the two seamen, a *quell struck the boat, and it was so severe that she was com pletely turned over. The captain and his men were preci. hated into the water, the boat sinking under them Inabout two fathoms of water. Two barrels which had been in the boat were floating about, and Captain Mitchell directed his men to hold on by them till assist ance came, while he himself seized the mast, about a foot of which projected above the water. The captain believes the men did as be told them, but in • few minutes after be heard their cries. On looking round he found the two , men had disappeared from the surface of the water, and in a minute he saw the water about where the men were become red, which left no doubt on his mind that the unfortunate men had been taken by sharks. The captain then prepared for the worst, and at the time be gave up all chance of escape, as the waters in this place are actually infested with sharks. He lashed himself to the mast of the boat, and for 13 hours he remained in a state of fearful suspense. The accident to the boat occurred at four o'clock in the afternoon, and about two o'clock on the morning of the 27th he found that his fears during the ten hours were well grounded, for when the preceding yt to dawn Captain Mitchell's alarm may be ima gined when he saw two immense sharks swimming about him, at an oar's length, evidently watching an opportu nity to plunge at him. With these two monsters of the deep watching over his person, Captain Mitchell remained in this very perilous position for three hours longer. The captain, from mingled fear and exhaustion, was getting insensible, when fortunately, about five o'clock, a lighter Iwhich was passing came to his assistance. The approach ,of the lighter frightened off the sharks, and Captain Mitchell was rescued from his awful position in • half in sensible state. He accounts for his preservation by the ' fact thata small portion of the sad was above the water, and the wind kept it continually waving and splashing the water, which, honeys, kept the sharks from coming nearer to him than they did.—Cork Examiner. ADMIRALTY, Arrorurr 14. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenants A. M. Williams to the Nassau; C. H. Bliss , b the Warrior. Aesietent-Paymaster T. D. Goodwin to the Irresistible. Assistant-Surgeon C. O. Mitchinson to „the Cumberland. At the Liverpool Assizes yesterday, a young women named Roberta an assistant in an out fi tter's shop, brought an action against a Mr. Edmunds, a wholesale spirit dealer and bottler, to recover oompeasation for in juries received by falling through a trap-door into a cellar. It betas proved that the door was Item% and its holdings rotten, the jury gave the plalatiff damages 1501. and tests. THE BISHOP OF OXFORD ON EDUCATION QUAcKEBY. On Tuesday a meeting was held at the Corn I Exchange, Hayward's-heath, which is the *mitred point ol Sussex, in furtherance of a scheme to promote another I educational institution on the plan of "St. Nicholas Col lege," and of the College at Hurstpierpoint. The new schools are to be called the Artlingly Schools, and the first stone was laid three yes= ago by the then Lord Pre sident of the Council, Earl Granville, but since the wing has been in course of erection the does for &dais mien have been so numerous, y for boys from Lon don, that it had been decided to build two wings. The building is to be on a beautiful site purchased near Beloomkie, possessing all the advantages of a fine healthy country, • good supply of water for boating and bathing, and a large playground ; and the teaching will be men tially the same as at the other institutions named above. The chair was taken at the meeting by Mr. F. B. Boate -1 IiON the chairman of the local committee. The meeting was addressed by the Chairman and the Rev. N. Woodard, when The Bishop of Oxroan rose amid loud applause. He said the simple consideration put before the public showed that nothing could be much more important for England than that her lower middle classes should have reel educa tion within their power—he did not say "provided for them," as there should be nothing eleemosynary whatever in the scheme ; but such an education should be placed within their reach. There was nothing more difficult for a middle-ohms parent than to have to go about the'country schools hunting for their boys. The question was settled for the parents of the upper class. They had only to send their children to Ragby, Haseow, or Eton. Such a parent thought to himself the boy' might get more or less of bad, or he might get more or less of good ; but there he was in one of the accepted training plume— s oollegiate place, where a number of fellows of his own rank were collected together, and were undergoing the process of being shaken up in the great bag of life, to be thrown out in one shape or other. But there was no such place for the middle class, and the middle-class parent bad no guarantee such as the upper classes had, that the place of education of their boys would give them any sound education at aIL But it was necessary for the English people that there should be such • guarantee. The English people were always boasting that they were not to be taken in. It might be that those barbarous people on the other side of the water—those frog-eating people— might be taken in, but "we Englishmen," so the speech went—"No, sir." The fact was, no one was so gullible as John Bull. It was notorious that any one who would spend 5001. in advertising anything for sale would bring a good return for his money. He would not like to mention pills particularly, or ointments, or anything with a name that a noun-substantive of the English language would convey ; but they might have noticed the top of the advertising column of a newspaper beaded, say "Pills." Well, the reader would say, "Bother pills," and go on, and 10, the succeeding and succeeding advertisement would be pills also, the idea evidently being that by the time the middle of the column should be reached the reader would be in such • frame of mind that he must rush out for a box of these self-same pills. That being the condition of the people there were to be seen great " institutions," he would not " name names," but he had seen magnificent " institutions " built out of pills and ointments, and in honour of that glorious quackery to which most men, in some shape or other, in the course of their lifetime, contrived to burn a little pinch of incense. If a man went to school himself, and had bad food, bad lodging, indifferent companionship, and little good teaching, he would not be "taken in" when be yras sent home at the end of the ball-t ear with a prim book giving • description of him as the " most promising boy in the school." He did not go to school himself, but he sent his boy, and the boy would not tell all that occurred. It was perhaps uppermost in • boy's ideas that his father weak' not be likely to be li eve what he said of so " respectable • school." Perhaps he thought that his father might tell the master, and then he guessed what would follow in the "next half ; " sad then boys generally had great revel nice for the men who gave them little to do—eo altogether it was hard for a father to trace out the education quackery— and this, indeed, was a most portentous quackery. The places founded by Mr. Woodard were guaranteed centres of education, and they were to the middle classes what Rugby and the other places were to the upper classes. In them the boys would be sure to be fairly taught, fairly treated, and fairly fed, and brought into connexion with there in their own tank of life. Such were the institutions founded by Mr. Woodard, and they were, moreover. con nected with the Holy Church of Christ. Education, to be efficacious, must be religious, and to be religious it must have the moving spit it of the beloved church of England. The right my, prelate proceeded further to speak in favour of the schools by saying they were throughout good, not like the sack of wheat of the cheating farmer who put some good what at the top of a sack, some good at the bottom, and, with bad in the middle, tried to pass the whole off as good. There would be formed a board of managers of every class in London to govern the whole of these schools, and this fact would prove that there was no party spirit at work in the schools. He concluded by saying that the education given in these schools was such as to fit the boys to take their places as English Christians in the great strife of life which assuredly awaited all. Mr. HubNird, M.P., Mr. J. H. Campion, Captain Sergi- son, and other gentlemen spoke, and • subscription having been entered into at once, the proceedings closed with hearty votes of thanks to the chairman and to the bishop. PLAISTOW MISSION. Yesterday the Bishop of Rochester consecrated the new church of Holy Trinity, Barking-road, the care Teeny being witnessed by several of the clergy of the diooese and a large number of the inhabitants. The spiritual wants of the large and increasing district in the midst of which the new edifice is situated first received attention ten years ago, when the Plaistow and Victoria Dock Mis sion was started by Mr. Antonio Brady. The work of the mission was begun in a bowling alley, but it soon cc tended its operations, and in a period of four years schools, school churches, and ministry were provided for the labour ing poor throughout the wide areaof the Plaistow Marshes, The Victoria Dock portion of the district in the beginning of 1861 was taken in band by a separate committee, and it has since been formed by them into a distinct perish, with its own churches, schools, and resident clergy. Thus relieved, the mission dropped the part of its title that referred to Victoria Dock, and under the present name has since confined its operations to the district of Ho:y Ti :silty, which will also be henceforth an independent pariah. The new church, which is • building aslmintbly adapted to the locality, contains provision for 1,029 sittin3s, which are to be free and unappropriated forever. The archi teeter. is what may be termed a no red style, and the design is by Mr. Charles Barry. After the consecration the ordinary morning service was proceeded with, and his lordship having preached • sermon suited to the occasion, the Holy Communion was administered to a considerable number of communicants. The clergy and friends of the mission subsequently adjourned to the adjoining school rooms, where an excellent lureheon was served. Mr. Antonio Brady pres‘ded, and speeches advocating free and unappropriated (+arch sil .ings to meet the requirements of the working classes were delivered by the Bishop of Rochester and the Archdeccon of Ely. Mr. Brady's health was drunk amidst warm expressions of approba tion, and the services of Mrs. Brady, who has nobly seconded her busbard's persevering efforts in aid of the mission, were acknowledged with equal warmth. The Rev. Mr. Meyrick is the incumbent of the new church. THE RITUAL COMMINIIION.—It is understood that the ritual commission will adjourn to-morrow for ' the vacation, and, in fact, for the present, their labours are ended. We rejoice to know that, at all events, the exceptional legislation in regard to vestments, reco mended for parochial churches, has been disallowed , and that the attempt to exempt private and proprietary chapels from the obligatious of uniformity has been also defeated, although by a smaller majority. We presume that the Archbishop of Canterbury will feel it right to make some statement to the House of Lords to-morrow, before Lord Shaftes bury intimates his intention of leaving his bill on the table of the house. To proceed with it during the last days, or rather hours, of the passing session would be vain ; but his lordship has also put a notice on the order book of the House of Lords to the effect that he means at the same time to call the attention of the house to the state of the ecclesiastical courts. These have been strongly. hut not inaptly, compared to an Aegean stable, and vsricns at tempts have failed to disturb a system round which there cluster so much episcopal patronage and ecclesiastical sinecures.—Betorel. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Miss Jane Myers, the young lady who fell over the rocks at Craighall, Scotland, on Thursday week, died at Blairgowrie on Saturday. The most serious wound she appeared to have sustained was on her right leg, the ankle-bone of which was dislocated and protruding several inches through the flesh ; but her whole system had received a shock from which recovery was impossible. The lady stated before her death that, having wandered up to the cliff, intending to proceed to the waterside, and being fond of botanical specimens, she had stooped to gather a fern, when some loose earth gave way, and she was precipitated through • bush into the chasm below. Something had caught her, however, and borne her up fora time. hut ultimately that, too, gore way, and allowed her to fall to the bank. She had only a dim re collection of being sorely tormented with flies and other insects, swarms of which bed gathered round her as she lay for five or six hours in that dreadful piece ; and in this plight she was discovered by some visitors. A line hung over the edge of the crag to the bank where the lady fell was found to mesunire 170 feet. the remaining distance to the water making the *odes height of the precipice almost 400 feet. rums TO BENIPlati. THS BIOBT Op BISHOPS TO REPUSB IN TI• The following are the opinions of the judges on the question of law propounded to them in the cause of " the Bishop of Exeter and another, plaintiffs ' r. defendant" error). The judges present at the hearing were, Mr. Baron Martin, Mr. Justice Willie, Mr. Justice Blackburn, Mr. Blazon Pigott, sad Mr. Justice Lush. Mr. Justice Blackburn.—My Lords,—l have the honour to deliver the int opinion of my brothers Pigott and Lush and myself. In answer to your lordships' questionm o ti that, in our opinion, the judgment on the whole ought to be given for the pkiintiff. Our reasons for this opinion are as follows: The right of the patron ie an advowson is a temporal right of property, the exercise of which, however, neinum rily attecte the cure of souls. The clergy in early time wished to establish the doctrine, in favour of which, no doubt, a good deal may be urged, that the cure of souls was of the higher nature, and that, as the temporal right of the patron was but an incident to the institution to the care of souls, which, according to their view, belonged exclu sively to molesiastioal cognisance, the jurisdiction as to the temporal rights of the patron was necessarily drawn into the spiritual court. But this doctrine was successfully resisted in England by theorem and the common lawyers; and since the Statute of Westminster the 2nd, chapter b, at all events if net before, there can be no doubt that the patron has the right to sue in guars impedit in the tempo ral court to enforce the institution of his presentee, and the ouster of any clerk wrongfully instituted ; and that the bishop must, if be defend. the suit, by plea show the maim why he did not admit the clerk presented by the patron, and that of the sufficiency of thi s reason in point of law the temporal mart is to judge. There is no doubt that the law is that the patron ma present no one who is not a it person, and that the bishop is entitled to inquire whether the primates is a fit person, and, if be is not, is bound to reject him. But in the plea in qusre impedit it is not enough for the bishop to say that he thought, or even found, that the clerk presented was not a fit person ; he must state positively that he was not a fit person, and must state in what respect he was not fit, with so math certainty and particularity as will enable the court to judge whether the objection is one which, if trait in fact, renders him unfit, and will enable the patron to take inane upon it if he ditputes the truth of the objection. It it nut material is the present case to inquire what( degree of certainty or particularity in the plea was requi site ; probably sines the abolition of special demurren that question will never again be raised. All that is important for the present case is to point out that the uniform course of pleading, from the earliest times, has been based on this —that the finding of the bishop never concludes the patron, bat that whatever be the objection which the bishop thought fatal it is examinable and traversable in the tem poral court. This, we think, has never been disputed, and it is not necessery to refer to any further authority in sup port of it than the tad institute, p. &fit. After an elaborate examination of the authorities, the' learned judge continued : . . The giatiite of Westminster was passed mainly to glee . patrons an effective remedy i when the bishop had is truigcd the patron's right by instituting a clerk not prti:_ semen by the patron. It has been followed by a kmi sense of decisions, establishing that the bishop must, 1 order to defend himself in a quire impedit, allege tl at the clerk preser ted was in fact not fit, and that this is tracers: , able. Even were the bishop knows of his own knowledge (or thinks that be knows, for it is to be remembered that he is fallible) that the clerk is crindnosus ' though he may refuse him on that ground, yet in his ple a he must 'mere positively that be is oriminosus, in order that issue maybe taken thereon. The whole scheme of the law in fact is framed to secure that the patron may have the right in every cased having the bishop's conduct examined,and that hie decision shall never conclude the temporal right. We think it repugnant to this that such a condition as is con tended for should exist. _ _ In the early times, when, if at all, this condition must have been introduced, the whole of Europe was of one communion, and if a priest was ordained at one of the foreign universities the testimony of the bishop of the diocese in which that university lay would be as essential as that of an English bishop. Is it credible that when the common lawyers and the legislature were so jealously guarding the rightsof the patron against his own bishop, by providing that nothing he did should conclude the pa tron, but all be subject to review in the temporal court, they should have loft those rights completely at the mercy of the foreign bishop, who might not even be a subject of this realm, and whose refusal to grant a testimonial would be final! It ie clearly established that the bishop cannot defend himself by saying, " I believe the clerk to be unlit, and therefore I did not examine him ;" but that to make • good plea be mast say. he was opal. sal-tirpt allipmeala traversable. The contention on the part of the opponent is that be may plead that the foreign bishop does not even say he is unfit, but only does not choose to certify affirma tively that he is fit, end this is to be a good plea, though there is no power whatever to compel the foreign bishop to give such testimony, or to render his reasons for refus ing it : it is no plea to my, " I think him bad:" but it is a plea to say, " The foreign bishop don't choose to say he thinks him good." We think thus so repugnant to the whole policy of the law on this subject that it would re quire the strongest authority to establish such an anomaly, and, as we have already pointed out, there is absolutely no authority for it. For these reasons we give our opinion that the plea is bad in substance, and that being so, the special verdict ought to be found for the plaintiff, unless every part of the plea is proved, which is not the case. If your lordships should, contrary to the view we take of the case, think the plea good, it would become necessary to consider the validity of the replication, which, in the view we take of the plea, is immaterial. Mr. Justice Wines anal Mr. Baron Martin presented judgments in accordance with the foregoing. THE TRAGEDY Ar LJMEHOOSE. Yesterday John Wiggins, a lighterman, lately dwelling at No. 1, Temperance-cottages, Lower Nonh attest, I.imebouse, and within • few yards of the Regent's-canal. was brought up on remand before Mr. Paget, at the Thames pol We-court, charged with the wil ful murder of Agnes Cakeeiam the 24th of July loat. Mr. Charles Young,itlicitor, again attended for the prisoner. Mr. Paget wished that William Dunn, a labourer, should be recalled, and he was sworn. He stated that when he went into the prisoner's bedroom, on hearing the alarm of murder, he was by himself. Mm. Wig gins, the prisoner's mother, was on the landing at the top of the first flight of stairs. The woman he was living with, and to whom he was not married, followed directly afterwards. She did not go so far into the room as he did. Mrs. Wiggins remained on the landing. The prisoner was inside the door along side of him. The bead of the dammed was lying on • pillow and coat. He put his hand to her heart ; pulsation had ceased. He then went in quest of a policeman, and soon returned with one. He did not then notice that any thing had been removed. He was not absent more than five minutes. In cross-examination by Mr. f'ha•les Young, the witness said he was called into the house by the prisoner. When he opened his window he maw the prisoner's father about the rune time. The prisoner said "My wife has cut ler throat and has cut mine." Some other evidence having been taken, the case was adjourned for • day, in order that inquiries might be made into the state of a witness who is sail to be too in to attend and give evidence. EXPLOSION AT STOWNARKET GUN-COTTON WORKS. Yesterday afternoon an explosion took place in the building used for the purpose of drying gun-cotton at the works of Messrs. Thomas Prentice and Co. The build ing was a two-storeyed one, the bottom being built of clay lumps, the upper par;. of wood, with a lining, and the space filled up with sawdust packing. The roof was of slate. The building was situated near the bank of the river, on the railway aide, at almost the furthermost part of the works. The custom his been to place the manufac tured cotton in this building moist, and subject it for • time to beat varying from 110 to 120 degrees. This beat was imparted by means of pipes from an adjacent shed, in which were a series of stacks of horizontal pipes, generat ing beat from steam conveyed to them by a pips across the river. About three o'clock a loud dull report was heard, and people whore attention was drawn to the noise saw • sheet of flame shoot up into the air like a gigantic rocket. This was quickly followed by another rather sharper report, not so loud, and the building was levelled with the ground and in a blare. This instantly spread to :mother drying shed in which was a quantity of the sheets of paper used in cartridges hung up for drying. The roof of this abed was quickly sent up, and came down in some thousands of picot. (it was in this building that the explosion took place two years since). The dames went thence over the large tanks containing cotton in process of manufacture. Sonic of the covers were burnt, but the cotton was only blackened in places. Beyond these the flames reached an old tree, which wee set on tire, but went no further towards the main part of the factory. The trees on the railway side were burnt and scorched, and some cattle belonging to 2.1 r. Arnold Bottle were badly burned ; one poor animal wu killed on the spot, end all the others more or leas blackened about the had and back. Fortunately no pennon was in any of the buildings on that side of the river when the explosion took place. A boy who was standing about thirty yards off, amongst the tanks, was either knocked or fell down and hurt his arm, and this was the only casualty. A large number of the workpeople ore women, who were desperately frightened and scampered off in all directions to get away front the works, and some few fainted. The occurrence is no doubt to be attri buted to overheating.