The Express. — London, England, 1862-11-22 00:00:00

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Vining and Stephens: Miss Amy fir.igswick.—And A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. BRITANNIA. TBI Emma, CAST 07riliiIIHRCY OF THE. WORLD. M. S. Lane.--Slnging by MI H. Coveney. Mr. W. Randall. Frote•ror Daley and Little Bob.—Dancing by aldlle. C. Stephan. —And THE FATAL BRANu. Mr. G. Cooke and Miss Lacey. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.. TIM DAY. 2 llornlag, lb. 501 b.. _Afternoon. V. loos. To4t°R&M—Morning. la. 35= 2b. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22. WILL no kind Christian, capitalist, corporation, or public company do something to relieve London bridge from its cruel load of traffic? With all our enterprise, rates, taxes, and representative bodies, are we to sit down quietly for another quarter of a century, say " Dear-a-deary me," and do no thing to lighten this over-gorged thoroughfare? Are we to wait until the struggling crowds, from excess of numbers, will have to squeeze on to the narrow pathway as if they were tying to pierce into the pit of a popular theatre ? Are we to waituutil they ooze over the sides of the parapets in their desperate endeavours to reach Southwark from King William-street, or King William-street from Southwark? Are we to wait until all carters, cabmen, and coachmen whose duty calls them over this fatal bridge, are turned into sour haters of men and horses, or explosive blasphemers? Have we aorespcct for breeches-pocket principles—no power of seeing what is wanted, and what would pay? Have we no power of calculating an obvious saving in time and horseflesh, to say nothing of nerves, temper, and mental wear and tear? Have we no power of acting on popular wishes, and doing something which everybody feels ought to be done, and done at once When the present London-bridge was opened, in 1831, our metropolitan population was little more than one-half of our present numbers. We boasted then of only one hundred and sixty thousand in habited houses, and of only about a million and three-quarters of people. Now we have totted up, in our last census, more than three hundred and sixty thousand inhabited houses, and over two millions and eight hundred thousand inhabi tants. These are vast changes, and many other changes equally vast have kept pace with them, but Loudon-bridge has remained the same. It has not expanded an inch to meet the public growth of thirty years, and it promises to burst before it is let out in a proper way. It still strives to fit men who have outgrown its narrow limits, and succeeds only in pinching theca like the clothes of childhood. If we were at all disposed to fill our space with fancy statistics, we might show the exact number of carts and horses possessed by this increased popu lation. We might arrive at the number of trucks, the number of cabs and omnibuses, and the num ber of vans and waggons required to conduct the London carrying trade. We might go even deeper than this, and analyse the loads which are daily carried over London-bridge, and the cattle which help to carry them. Without, however, plunging into many details of this kind, we may support our arguments with a few round figures. The management of the London-bridge traffic has been necessarily reduced to a science which has its records. The Chief Commissioner of the City Police is responsible for this overgorged thorough fare. Ile has devised a plan to keep the vehicles crossing it from winding into a hopeless dead lock, and he has appointed officers to maintain the working of his system. The position of these un fortunate City constables on a wet and muddy day is something worse than slavery. Their bodies form a human tramway—so to speak—a living, breathing, bespattered line, which divides the whirlpool of vehicles into four tolerably orderly streams. Tho. heavy traffic flowing both ways is made to take the two aides near the kerbstones, and the light traffic flowing both ways has the middle of the road for its channel. The foot-pas sengers, of course, take either pathway, according to fancy, and take the right or wrong side of that pathway according to their knowledge or ignorance. At certain hours of the day, pal iieularly about ten or eleven o'clock in the morning, when the full tide of traffic is at its height, few men ever have courage to cross the roadway of the bridge, or ever succeed in crossing it, without the skill of acrobats. It is not surprising that the Chief Commissioner of Police should sometimes take an elaborate account of this traffic, and tell us what con stitutes the pushing, perspiring, and sometimes cursing crowd. Out of the sixty thousand vehicles of all sizes and shapes poured daily into the City, through about fifty leading thoroughfares, at least twelve thousand help to choke up London-bridge during the twenty-four hours. They cross and re-cross on the average at least twice each, so that the account registers snore than twenty-four thousand daily journeys. They carry in and about them no less than thirty-five thousand passengers, who, of course, make seventy thousand journeys, while quite sixty thousand passengers struggle over on foot, nissk ing one hundred and twenty daily jour neys. Nearly two hundred thousand peoplo thus pass daily over the bridge—counting as two each pas- THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER stinger who passes twice in the same day. Lees than one fourteenth of this number cross the river by London-bridge during the nigbk--esat is, between the hours of eleven p.m. and seven in the morning. The great points of obstruction are Tooleretreet and Fenchuroh-street, where the heavy traffic of the Eastern districts forces its way from either side to crow the bridge. The cost of the ap proeches to new London-bridge amounted, we be lieve, to something like 125,0001.; and yet, for a large proportion of the heavy traffic, there is nothing but two pits very destructive to horses. The ascent from Tooley-street is the mouth of one hole—the ascent from Fish-street is the mouth of the other. A constant exchange of heavy goods, carried on heavy waggons, takes place between these two low-lying districts. Rothertithe alone sends one thousand tons of tim ber, chemicals, and other goods every week over the bridge to the neighbourhood east of St. Katha rine Docks, and this not for shipment but for general distribution. From the Limehouae, Shad well, and Mile-end districts upwards of seventeen hundred tons are carted weekly to the south- : eastern parts of London. This— a mere fraction of the traffic—includes one hundred tons a day brought by vans from the East and West India Docks district to the South Eastern terminus, Bricklayers' Arms. Four thousand tons of goods, chiefly eatables, we believe, pass every week from the north to this railway—the great feeding artery of all Kent—without reckoning the mass which squeezes itself over the bridge to be sent by the Brighton line through Sussex and along the south coast. The passengers who pass every year through the London-bridge station alone, to swell the crowd on the bridge, must now be about eighteen millions. The completion of the South Eastern Railway Extension to Charing-cross and the City will, doubtless, help to draw off a little of this traffic, and the Victoria Station at Pimlico has re lieved London-bridge of a good many Brighton travellers and their luggage. These improvements, present and to come, however, are not enough to meet the pressing emergency, and, like drowning men, we catch at straws. Shall we ever see the high-level bridge promised us at an exceedingly low estimate, which is to span the river somewhere about Tower-stairs ? Where are thaw steam ferries, built and managed on the plan found so successful and remunerative on the Tyne and other crowded rivers ? We are always behind the provinces in traffic improvements, but there is no reason why we should never reach their level of perfection. Surely the Thames Conservancy Board, and the vested in terests of the river, can have no sound objection to either of these projects ? The high-level bridge and the steam ferries have been long tried and not found wanting in places where large and small ships are as plentiful as blackberries. Ever/ craft on our London river has its fixed appointed station, and what seems chaos to the uninitiated is order and simplicity to the experienced surveyor. If we are told by eminent engineers that a high level bridge, and floating platforms to carry horses, carts, and passengers, will not obstruct the Thames traffic, we are bound to give the proposed improve ment a trial. London-bridge wants a few safety valves, and how can we obtain them with the least cost and trouble ? That is the question. We are , disposed to welcome any project—even that which proposes to build terraces for passengers outside the parapet of the bridge—if it can be carried out with safety, and will help to relieve the traffic. This is not a case in which utility should be sacri ficed to beauty. The bridge must be relieved, at all hazards, of its surplus population. The murky cloister on one aide, known as Southwark-bridge, and the echoing underground desert on the other, known as the Thames Tunnel, can never be made useful as overflow chambers. In this position, therefore, we fly readily into the artful of the Sul sensible projector. Ilbt emu WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. SI. Her Mglsety, areampanied by Maar Alexandra and Priam end Prinoses Louis of Herne, walked and drum in the meads this morning. To-day is the annivermry of the birthday of the Crown Princess of Prussia (Prinoess Royal). The Creches of Cambridge and the Princess Mary visited her Majesty to-day. Mr. Henry A. Bruce, M.P., transacted business yester day as Girder Secretary of State for the Home Department. Mr. G. G. Glyn. M.P., Mr. R. W. Crawford, M.P., Mr. H. W. Blake, Mr. Watkin, Mr. William Chapman, Mr. Robert Benson, and Captain Glyn, R.N., had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday, at the Colonial office, on the subject of communication through British territory to the Pacific. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office, from the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, the Australian colonies, and the North American provinces. Her Majesty (says the West Surrey Times) is expected to pay her usual visit to Sir James Clark, at Baphot Park, during the present month. . - Her Majesty has commissioned Mrs. Thorny croft to make a boat of the Princess Alexandra of Den mark ; and her royal highness is giving, daily, the neces sary aittinga for the model. The Duke of Rutland is entertaining a large party at Belvoir Castle. The Marquis of Lansdowne has beeu receiving a succession of visitors at Bowood during the past week. The Earl Aunesley arrived at the Royal Pavilion Hotel on Thursday, and left the following day for the Con tinent. _ . ----- Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained t dinner last evening, at Cambridge House, the Lord Chancellor, the Countess of Shaftesbury and Lady Victoria Ashley, Viscountess Jocelyn and the HOD. Mils Jocelyn, General and Madame Oxholme, the Right Hon. Sir George Cornwall Lewis, M.P., and Lady Theresa Lewis, the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., Mr. Milner Gibson, M.P., Mr. Layard, M.P., Mr. Arthur Rus sell, M.P., Mr. Delano, &c. Her ladyship has issued cards for a dinner and evening party this evening. Viscount and Viscountess Enfield have arrived at their residence in Charles•street, Bcrkeley-square, for a few days. Sir Anthony and Lady de Rothschild have lel Grosvenor-place for Aston Clinton. A marriage will shortly take place between Cap tain Arthur Loftus, late of the 18th Hussars, and the Lady Catherine Loftus. The Army and Nary Gazette says that a court of inquiry, composed of the senior officers—Colonels Lambert, Wynyard, Hon. It. Curzon, and Bruce—of the Grenadier Guards, has been sitting for some days, to report upon some of the proceedings which under the designation of "Turf Scandals" bare acquired such as unfortunate notoriety. A 12-ton gun, of lfq, inches bore, is now being rifled by Sir William Armstrong on the shunt principle. We (Army and Nor', Gautte) are given to understand that it is to have six grooves, and that the projectiles are to have zinc strips for bearings. Besides this gun, a rifled 200-pounder breech-loader is said to be in progress at Els. wick. It appears to us that it would be the best plan to confine our attention to making large muzzle-loading, smooth-bore guns, which can be rifled when a correct prin ciple is decided upon ; but to continue making guns of all sized, patterns, and shapes, which cannot on armunt of their differeuces be brought into compaiixon, is, we hold, a waste of public money. A letter from the President of the Poor-law Board—who, we regret to bear, is suffering from the effects of an accident—was read at a meeting held at Wolver hampton yesterday, for the purpose of taking steps to assist jo the alleviation of the calamity which has befallen the cotton manufacturing districts. In this letter, the right hon. gentleman pays a warm tribute to the heroic en. durance of the operatives, and strongly urges their claim to public charity, inasmuch as " the poor-laws are of them selves unequal to such an emergency." The following meetings of scientific societies wil be held io the ensuing week :—Monday—Actuaries, 7, 0 Estimating Liabilities of Life Insurance," Mr. Tucker ; Royal Academy, 8, "Anatomy," Piof. Partridge; Geo graphical, 8, " Latest Explorations, Africa," Dr. Living stone, &c. Tuesday—Engineers, 8, " Howoes Gill Viaduct," Mr. Cudworth; Zoological, 9, "Osteology of Gallinaceous Birds," Mr. Parker ; " Beaver, Zoological Gardena," Mr. Bartlett ; " Human Entozoa," Dr. Cobbold. Wednesday—Society of Arta, 8, " Utilization of Peat and Manufacture of Hydro-Carbon Oils," Dr. Paul; Society of Literature, Si ; Archmological Association, 84, ‘• Tumulus, Maet-Howe, Orkneys," Mr. Pettigrew ; "Translation of Ruuic Inscriptions in Same," Rev. Prin cipal Barclay; "Antiquities in Roman Villa, Somerset 'hire," Mr. Moore. Thursday—Philological, 8; Royal, ; Antiquar:es, Mr. Phelps appears in a starring engagement of twelve nights at the &art" Theatre, commencing Decem ber 1. Dr. Liszt is expected to arrive shortly in Paris ; it is added, with the intention of giving concerts there. It is said that tho Viceroy of Egypt inuinils es- tablishing a French theatre, the inauguration of which will shortly take place. The Paris press will be invited to this ceremony. Amongst other amusements which will be offered to the tarit.'s will be a crocodile hunt. Among the Arab chiefs who have gone to Com piegne is one of the richest in French Africa, namely, Eschaga of Lljendel-Si-lloualetu, possessing at some leagues from Miliaoah a considerable estate and residence. The Lerma !holt! of the 12th says :—" oglou, one of the principal and richest Armenian bankers of Constantinople, died suddenly on Monday evening, leaving. it is said, a fortune of above toe million sterling, nearly the whole of which has been made out of his dealings with the government within the lid ten yearn." A vast quantity of snow has fallen within the last few days in the Pyrenees and on the Black Mountain, in the department of the Aude. The weather became so bad in that department that on Thursday morning last the diligence which runs between Carcassonne and Guam was abandoned in the mildle of the road, at about a league from Martyry. The bursas were prevented from proceeding further by the immense quantity of 11110 W which had fallen, and which was still falling. There were three travellers in the diligence, who would have inevitably perished of cold and have been buried in the snow had it not been for the brigade of gendarmerie at Martyrs, who came to their endgame. MR. BAITER, M.P., AND THE NATIONAL Ex. PENOITURE.—Mr. Baxter, 1%1.P., addressed his constituents at Brecliiu and Forfar ou Thursday. His speeches at both places were substantially alike, and were chiefly devoted to a review of the national expeoditure. After speaking in severe terms against the "excessive armaments" lately it vogue, and particularly against the fortifications ; and after giving son's statistics of the iucrease of the war establish ment, Mr. Baxter said—" For several reasons I am very tio williog to take part in any motion which would have the effect of upsetting the ministry ; but should they be inconsiderate enough to propose estimates for IPAi3 on a scale as vast as for the last few years, I shall feel it to be my duty, as a faith ful representative, to give them every opposition in my power without regard to the cousequenoes. But I hope that there will be uo necessity fur taking that course." The hoe. member advccated an extension of the suffrage, con demned the government policy in China, advised the Italians motto be ins hurry to become possessed of Rome and Venice, and concluded by expressing his approval of the policy of nou-intervention in the affairs of America. Votes of thanks to Mr. Bettor were given both at Brechiu and Forfar. Dl it. FORSTER, M.P., AT BRADFORD.—Mr. Fors ter, addressed a large meeting of his constituents last night in St. George's Hall, Bradford. The honourable gentleman spoke on several topics of interest. Referring to the American question, he strongly condemned any at tempt et intervention on the part of England, believing that so far from its being successful, it would only be attended with increased difficulty and expense. Those who advocated intervention, be contended, did so iu the hope that it would be of advantage to the slave-holding por lion of the American community, and Le was of opinion that in this country we should take no step that would in any way favour such a result. The war, be observed, might end in one of four ways—either by re-union with liberty predominant, by separation with liberty predominant, by re-union with slavery predominant, or by separation with slavery predominant. These were four possible alternatives, but he believed that any peace made by patching up the slavery question would be a hollow peace; and he there fore should give his own preference to a peace founded either on re-union or separation with liberty predominant. Speaking of the distress in the cotton districts of Lancashire and Cheshire, be said if it were found not possible to support tlie unemployed poor without an application to the national funds, though loth to make such an application, lie should be prepared to support it. (FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.) • WHITEHALL, Nov. 21.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Andrew Rutherford Clark, Eaq., advo cate, to be sheriff of the shire of Iladd"sgtm and Berwick, in the room of tkorge Young, Eaq.. resigned. The Queen has also been pleased to appoint William Ivory, Esq., advo cate, to be sheriff of the shire of Inverness, in the room of Andrew Rutherford Clark, Eaq., resigned. The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Alexander Burns Shand, Esq., advocate, to be sheriff of the shire of Kincardine, in the room of John Muntgomerie Bell, Esq., deceased. FoltEluN-OFFICE, (kr. 30.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint James Fino, Esq., now her Majesty's consul at Jerusalem, to be her Majesty's consul at the Dardanelles. _ _ _ . FOREIGN-OFFICE, Orr. 31.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Noel Temple Moore, Esq., uow her Majesty's vice-consul at Beyrout, to be her Ma jesty's consul at J el usalcm. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Nov. 20.—The Right Hon. the Lords of Committee of the Privy Council for 'Trade have received from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affair* a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's consul at Lisbon, enclosing a copy of a notice issued by the Portu guese Board of Health, declaring the Port of Tenerifie to be considered infected with yellow fever, and that all the other poi is of the Canary Islands are suspes:ed of the same 1 disease, since the !HI October last. llibsi(u OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Nov. 20.—The Right Honourable the Lords of the Comniittre of Privy Council for Trade have received from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affaits a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's cowed at I)unkirk, stating that the Tribun►l of Commerce at that port has panted the following resolution with regard to the discharge of vessels in the harbour :—" That, accord tog to the customs of the port, the fifteen days called run ning days shell he wholly at she disposal of the consignee, to commence 911 the day following that on which the vessel has been berthed idougside the quay." We are requested to state that the National Portrait Gallery, 29, Great George-street, West minster, will be closed from Saturday, Nov. 29, to Winliiesday, Dec. 17. THE RIGHT 110 y. E. ELLICE AT ABERDEEN.—On Thursday afternoon the freedom of the city of Aberdeen was conferred on the Right Hon. E. Ellice, M.P. for Aber deen, who is at present on a visit to Lord Dalhousie, at Reecho Castle. The ceremony took place in the Music hall, which was well filled by a most respectable assemblv, about 2.010 being present. Mr. Ellice returned thanks for the honour conferred on bin, in au address in which he dwelt emphatically on the relations between himself and his constituency ; their mutual independence, and the ab sence on their side of all suspicion of hie conduct, and on his side of anything to give cause fur suspicion. THE REPELNENTATION tor TOTNE . A.—Mr. Polder is not to be allowed to take quiet and peaceable possession of the vacant seat for Tomes. The coniervatives, as we have already mentioned, have been engaged in negotiations during the bat few days with a gentleman whom they deemed an eligible candidate. This gentleman, it is under stood, has consented to be put in Doman...Lion, and his address would have already appeared Lad not the forthcoming candidate been suffering from a slight attack of illness. He is well known in the commercial world as the bead of the firm of Dent, Palmer, and M'Killop, Chins merchnuts, of London cud Hong Kong. Mr. John Dent iaturnol from China during the present i l ea!, and is , now desirous to obtain a seat in parliament. about 43 years of age, and is, we need not gay. im mensely rich. Mr. Vender, accompanied by some of hia chief supporters, commenced canvassing the electors on Thursday. It is stated that this gentleman did not meet with a very favourable reception among the advanced radical patty. They hold that the succeseor of Mr. Mills should be ready to vote for the abolition of church rates and the in troduction of the ballot, neither of which measures Mr. Pander is as yet prepared to support. Oo the other hand, the moderate conservatives, who might have been inclined to support Mr. Pander in case no opposition were offered, were deterred from promising their votes by • placard which was posted extensively during the morning, and which called upon the conservative electors to reserve their votes. The advanced radicals talk of introducing a candi date of their own views, but it is scarcely likely that they will find one who will be able to compete in wealth with either Mr. Pewter or Mr. Dent. —Wade, n Morning Ner-c, The Spanish Transatlantic steamers are ap pointed to leave Cadiz and Havaanah respectively en the 15th and 30th of each month. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ROME. A letter from Rome states that between the months of November, 1859, and the end of October, 1862, • period of three years, the collection of Peter's Pence has added to the resources of the Pope the sum of 5,150,000 crowns, that is, more than 1,700,000 Roman crowns (upwards of 9,000,000 fr.) a year. The annual deficit of the Pontifical finances is five millions of crowns ; Peter's Pence reduces it to 3,300,000 crowns. " Not withstanding that deficit," says the letter, "the government meets the expenses of the public ser vice, and has at this moment a sum of one million crowns in the treasury." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PION OWN OWN PARIS, FerDAT EvJarmo. " Prince Napoleon's pamphlet," as by anticipa tion it has been conventionally called, is nothing more than a collection published by the prince's secretary, M. Hubaine, with the approbation and assistance of his imperial highness, of the official and authentic documents which were referred to by him in the great speech delivered in the Senate on March 1, 1862. The public has now an oppor tunity of consulting at leisure a series of diplo matic papers extending ever two centuries, which prove that the most eminent French statesmen who represented France at Rome during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, uniformly pointed out the vices of the Papal government. A French court-martial at Rome has just con demned two Roman peasants to death for the murder of a soldier, named Braman, of the 19th Regiment. The soldier, with two of his comrades, was caught in the fact of stealing grapes iu a vine yard at Viterbo—a very favourite pastime as it seems with the French garrison there. The owners of the vineyard, who bear the formidable names of Saturnino Terribili and Valentino Terribili, were watching their property, with a loaded gun, and it was proved that one of them did shoot the French soldier, in a very cold-blooded manner. After the murder the culprits took refuge iu Cardinal Bedini's carriage, and were conveyed by him to a sanctuary in which the Roman government pretended that their persons were inviolable. The French com mander-in-chief, however, intimated to Cardinal Antouelli that lie should recognise none of this medheval nonsense in a case where French subjects were concerned. The Terribilia were dragged from the sanctuary and brought be fore a court-martial. The Capuchin monks made great efforts to suppress evidence in the case, but the French military authorities got quite enough to satisfy the court-martial. The men are con demned to death, and the sentence will, doubtless, be executed. The officer acting as judge-advocate pressed for an example, as, he said, the prisoners were actuated by hatred to the French army, and not by a desire to protect their grapes. What a singular jurisdiction is that of the French court martial in this case ! The eldest son of the church —who protects the temporal power—cannot trust the Pope to do justice upon his own subjects for vulgar civil crimes, but tries Roman citizens by court-martial, as if the French army were in an enemy's country. Correspowleuee gives currency to a ru mour that the ministerial council to-day was occu pied with the "pretensions" of Prince Alfred to the throne of Greece, and speaks of a paragraph the Muniteur and a collective note of France and Russia on the subject. It is now certain that the three French vessels fitting out at Toulon are under orders for Greece. The Esprit riddle gives out that the Emperor means to go ou with his scheme of mediation in America by himself. That is precisely what Pnnch of this week tells him he had better do. At the Bourse the rise of yesterday was main tained in the Rente, and surpassed in many other securities. Mobilier rose 17fr. 50c., and the Or leans Railway sfr. The other railways were Hr. or 2fr. higher. The Italian Loan fell 20c. EXTRAORDINARY JUDICIAL ERROR. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. I doubt whether all the collections of mows eeli,bres in the world contain such an extraordinary case of judicial error as the one which has just been redressed by the assize court of the Somme. On August 13, 1861, the assize court of the Nord found a young married woman, named Rosalie Gardin, guilty of the murder of her father, Martin Doize, and the jury having out of compassion given her the benefit of " extenuating circumstances," she was sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for life. The evidence against her raised nothing more than a case of slight suspicion, founded upon her having been at times on bad terms with her father, but she had confessed to a matron of the prison of Hazobrouck, and to the Judge of Instruction, that she did commit the murder ; and although alto retracted this confession at the trial, both judge and jury believed her first statement, and she was con victed on the strength of it. There is now not a shadow of doubt that this woman was innocent. She passed upwards of a year in penal servitude, pursuant to her sentence, during which time she constantly expressed a confident trust that God would one day prove her innocence, and whenever she wrote to her husband she begged him to expend money in masses. Ou August 16, 1862, the same assize court, upon overwhelmiug evidence, strengthened by a full con fession, found that Martin Doize was murdered by two notorious robbers named Vanhalwyn and Ver hamme, and sentenced them—the one to death and the other to hard labour for life. The Court of Cessation then quashed Loth these verdicts, on the ground that they were incompatible the one with the other, and sent the three prisoners to be tried de m e tro by the assize court of the Somme. At this new trial it was proved conclusively that the murder was committed by Vaultalwyn and Verhamme, who moreover renewed their confessions. But how did it happen that the poor woman Cardin, if of sound mind, charged herself untruly with the frightful crime of parricide ? The answer, the shocking, the heart-reading answer is, that she was goaded into confession by the torture of solitary confinement. For two long months this innocent woman, who moreover was cacciat , of her first child at the time, was locked up by herself in a cell to which air and light were only admitted iby an aperture a few inches square made, by the j removal from the wall of a single brick. The sole furniture of this horrible dungeon was a fetid tub and a straw mattress laid on a brick Hour. The , mattress was daily taken away to be aired pursuant ;to sanitary regulations, and then the unfortunate !creature, who never had a chair to sit upon, oatdd not even lie down, except upon the cold bricks. • The prison matron, who brought hor the daily prison food, told her continually that if she would confess, she would be taken out of that place, and would not have her head cut off. This woman was herself a convicted prisoner in a state of pro batiom and it was her interest to curry favour with authority by extracting • confessions. At the end of the two months the poor woman, whose terrible position was aggravated •by those nervous feelings and fancies which uotoriously accompany the advent of maternity, felt herself abandoned by God and man, at I least in this world ; the idea struck her that if what the woman constantly told her was true, that by a confession she might get out of the " black bole," and prevent her " head being cut off," (these are her own expressions), she would at any PllOll/1112. :+t•NDLT. N, to W . .7lacterate, BoorLAND. fine. N.N.E. to W.N.W., mode:ate, One, N. to W. sod E., light, W. CfiglefitaL. MONDAY. N.N.W., to W.8.W., moderate to fresh. N.W. to 8.8. W., mo derate to feealt,rainy. N.W. to s . W., mode rate, 'bowery. W. N. W. to 9.8. W., moderate to fresh, rainy. N. to W. and S.W., az. ENGLAND. N.W. to S.W., mode. light, variable, tine. rate, showery. bi.N.E. to Vi .N.W., exastr. N.N.W. W.S.W., moderate, tine. moderate, showery. INSLAND. line. N.W. to S.W., light 6.W.EX6LARD. to moderate, line. A curious instance of opposition has taken place I at Pima between the government and the " party of ac tion." It is stated that during the night a marble slab had been set up at the spot where Garibaldi was landed, commemorating that event, and mentioning that be was wounded at Aspromonte. That circumstance was considered by the authorities as intended to cast a slur upon the army, and on the following day a picket of carbineers was sent to pull down the slab, and put another in its stead, with the same in scription, except the words, " wounded at Aspromonte.' But, lo! notwithstanding the vigilance of the police, on the night after the government slab was taken away, and one identical with the first one put in its stead. The corre spondent of the Opie tone of Turin, who relates this, says that while the carbineers were at work, Madame Mario (Miss White) might Le seen at the window of the hotel in habited by the general, watching them in great apparent agitation. A Lyons letter says :—" Large orders for silk stuffs have been received here from Italy and Loudon ; already the plain silk and foulard looms are being again set up, which circumstance leads to the belief that there will be plenty of employment during the winter." Hist-toe CoLeNscie BOOK.—The Archdeacon of Taunton gives notice that io the Session of Convocation of the Province of Canterbury next ensuing he will move that the standing orders he suspended, in order to the conside ration of an address to the Upper House, praying the Upper House to direct the appointment of a committee of the Lower House to examine and report upon to the Lower House a book lately published, intituled • The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua, critically examined by the lt , ght Her. John William Colenso, D.D., Bishop of Natal. London : Longman and Co. 1862," that the Lower House may de liver its opinion to the Upper House touching the proceed ing - to a synodical judgment upon the book. ETROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS—The weekly meeting of the board was held yesterday, Mr. Thwaites presiding. A report from the committee upon new streets was brought up, submitting for approval a plan of plow of the land in the line of Southwark-street, between South wark-bridge-road and Illackfriars-road, and also recom mending that the committee be authorised to take the necessary steps for letting the pieta fur building purposes. After some discussion it was moved and seconded that the plan bo approved, which was agreed to. A report was re ceived from the engineer and superintending architect on the line of the new street from Blackfriars-bridge to the Mansion-house, as recommended in the report of the Royal Commiyaioners of IS6I, and farther to consider as to apply ing to parliament for powers to make the new street, and ss to giving orders for all necessary steps being taken by the solicitor, parliamentary agent+, and officers, with a view to a bill being prosecuted in parliament in the ensuing session, , and further to consider that part of the cornmuni cation from the First Commissioner of her Majesty's Works, Ac., which relates to the einhankrneut of the south side of the river. The motion was carried. The engineer submitted a report upon the south embankment of Ithe Thames, the estimatedcost of which would be 2.50,00 W. ; I compensation, this,i.oo l . ; together requiring an outlay of 515,0(01. It will give a direct lice of roadway near to the river between Londou.bridge and Vauxhall, and it will is ! cream , the width of the Thames opposite Milbank Peniten tiary from 500 feet to 720 feet, and will thereby allow the tidal waters more freely to piss up the river, amid with seve ral other advantages it would cost less than half that pro posed by the plan of the royal commissioners. A men•ber moved that the report be approved of, which, after a long discussion, was agreed to. After the routine business had been disposed of, the board adjourned. THE SOI:IAL SCIENCE. ORGANIZATION.—A numer ous meeting of the council of the Social Science Association was held at their rooms in Waterloo- place on Thursday last ; the principal business being to decide the place of the annual meeting of the association, iu lhlid. Lord Brougham, on ' taking the chair, moved a resolution expressing the deep sense of the council of the loss sustained by the association in the death of Sir Benjamin Brodie, one of their earliest members. The Lord Mayor of York, Mr. Alderman Husband, and other gentlemen, attended as a deputation to urge the claims of that city to a visit from tile seurciatiou ; the rival applicant was Edinburgh, repre sented by Mr. Charles Cowan, Mr. Billie Momman ' and Mr. R o bert Chambers. After a long discussion. in which Lord Stanley, Mr. Kinnaud, MP., Mr. Denman. M.P., Mr. Macqueen, Q.C., Dr. Fart, Mr. Newmarch, Yr. Hastinga, and others took part, a majority of 22 to 17 decided in favour of Edinburgh, in which city the next congress will be held. MARRIAGE DIFFICULTIES —IL will be in the recol lection of our readers, a few weeks ago, of the publication of . banns between Charles Pearson and Margaret Stockdale ' having bees stopped by the poor-law guardian of Bedale church, that functionary stating as his reason that Charles Pearson was an imbecile. An appeal was made to the bishop of the diocese. who ordered publication of the banns to be proceeded with. A surgeon's certificate now be came nocesaary, to show that the bridegroom was tempos 'acetic This having been procured. the parties presented themselves at the Hymeneal altar of the parish church at Kirkby Fleethani, on Saturday last. Everything now went smoothly on until the ceremony of putting on the ring took place. Here the clergyman demanded the fees, 7s. &l. The parties were in another dilemma, having only a. ad. between them. Several r eunions assembled in the church to witness the interesting ceremony took pity upon them, and subscribed the remaining portion of the fees. The marriage ceremony wan soon over, and Charles Pearson and Margaret Stockdale, after meeting with may obstacles, are now legally married, and they departed from the church apparently very happy. The bells rang merrily at intervals throughout the day.— Yorkaltire Ga:ette. 22,. 1862. rate be spired to bring her child alive into the world. This natural and mysterious feeling was not, doubtless, expressed in poetical or polished language. The much to be commiserated victim is in a very bumble rank of life, and speaks no len guage but the Flemish of French Flanders. Her answers to the interrogatories of the judge were con veyed through an interpreter. This circumstance serves to diminish the astonishment which must be felt at the mistake committed by the Assize Court of the Nord. The convict prison matron, however, eagerly reported to her superiors that Rosalie Gardin had confessed her crime, and therefore the prisoner against whom no evidence had been found wss ushered into the study of the Judge of In struction. This functionary, who, without being more cruel than the rest of mankind, feels as much professional pleasure in hunting down a prisoner as a Leicestershire huntsman in recovering a cold scent, invited Rosalie Gardin to repeat her oonfea aion. She, being restored to the light of day, said at first that she had told a story, and that she did not murder her father ; but when he spoke severely to her, the fear of being immediately sent back to the " black hole" operated so strongly upon her nerves, that she repeated the false avowal, and the judge forthwith recorded it against her, doubtless with such " addition" and rhetorical aggravation as it is the " nature " of the judges of instruction to indulge in. Poor Rosalie gave birth to her child—her first child—prematurely in prison, and, as is not astonishing, this offspring did not live long. At the new trial, which began on Novem ber 17 and finished yesterday, the innocence of Rosalie was made to appear as clear as day. She was acquitted. Her counsel, M. Lambert de Beau lieu, cited some opinions of M. Dupin, M. Berenger, now a judge of the Court of Catenation, and other high authorities, tending to show that solitary confinement before trial (le secret), as now practisul in France, is nothing else than a revival of the torture, that it is quite as inhuman, and that it tends to extort false confessions. Let us hope that this fearful instance of the abuse of the system will lead to its reformation. .-(THIS DAY.) 22, B LW. WEATHER REPORT. g I N ...Anut .. . 10.07 LINNDM —130.03 tm2 Banwicc F0RT101111.... GALWAY . 41311.NSTOWII . 01.1 MEAD.... PKMBROKI. PMIZAIOIII 3O. PLYIIOCrEf 30.05 JIM= 30.03 %V ET* •UTR -130.02 PORTO3IOOIII 1211.03 DOTER AMMON YARMOUTH SOAROOROUGB HRLNIOLARD SATURDAY, NO ILD. W. 371' &W. 38 1 N.W. 41 2 W. ',41 2. N.N. 137 2 BZ. 137 2 8. 137 0 Z. 1391' Z. 139 1 N.N.E. t 45 1 . N.E. 130 2' N. 41 0 N.E. 437 1 ; 7.. 139 2 Z.. 440 0 N.N.E. 37 1 N.N.W. 437 1 N.N.W. 11.37 1 N.E. .1 34 1 N. :38 3 N.N.E. 140 3 N.E. 1402 N.E. 334 2 N.W. NEWS FROM THE GORILLA COUNTRY. Mr. Winwood Ronde and the famous !what. hunter known u " The Old Shekarry," who went out to th.. Cahoon about a year ago, arrived in the colony in earl% spring, and went over the pound described in M. d, ChaiSn's book. At the end of five months they we position to speak. The Atheivrant of todey publishes following letter from Mr. Reads : . _ " Loanda, Sept. 7. " Having spent five active mouths in the Gorilla Countn. I am in a position to state that IS. do Chaillu ha, rh o neither leopards, buffaloes, nor gorillas ; that the gerilL, does not beat his breast like a drum ; that the killu.k.smi, doss not utter the cry of ' bootee,' or anything like it , the young gorilla in captivity is not savage; and that while dtt Chaillu affects to have been ' a poor feverstrin.r. wretch' at Gamma (June 1, 1859), he was really reoxlm.: . L robust health at the Gaboon. " Ifoegilomba, who is not a native hunter at all, sad alio was in my service three months as steward and natural history assistant, duped Mr. 8.. B. Walker in ueerting the M. du Chaillu had killed two gorillas ; nor did be en.. accompany that gentleman except in the above capacity . " From the Balengi of the Muni, from the Sheicani an! Fans of the Galloon, from the Conrad Bakele, &c., of eh. Fernand Vas, upon the hanks of which rivers I has. hunted (always unsuocessfully) gorillas, examining thin. only who were hunters, and reserving alone such evideacc as was corroborative, I have gleaned the following facts respecting this ape of contention. The gorilla dwells in the densest parts of the forests ; he feeds exelunre:r on vegetable matter, sad one kind of gran is sure indication of hie proximity ; at noon and e. he approaches the village plantations for the sake ~f th. plantains, occasionally uttering a wild kind of cry, h.: which in rage (as imitated by Etia) becomes a quick abari. bark. By day he moves along the ground on all fours (oi, having crawled for haws on their tracks, I can testify ) , sometimes iumendlog the trees. By night he chooses a Lirg t tree to sleep in. He is exceedingly wary and keen of ‘eir, When the female is pregnant, he builds a nut (as d., the kfilu-kamha and the chimpanzee), where she b livered, and which is then abandoned. These nest., serend of which I have seen, are simply rode layers of dry stidk and of small branches evidently torn off the bye tree Li the hand. With regard to his ferocity, an a nil, when mislead or wounded, he will charge. Hi. charge, from which the natives often escape, heing themselves nimble as apes, is made on all-four-. Etia, whose left band ha been severely crippled, informed me that the gorilla seized his wrist with his Lind foot, and dragged his hand into his mouth as he would hare done a bunch of plantains. Two things suet least certain - that thegorilla isles' feared than the leopard; and thertory of a man killed by a gorilla at Camma is a complete fabrica tion. Traditional accounts of such an incident exist, but nothing of the kind has happened within the memory ,Amani The tale of the gorilla mewing a boxing attitude, and beating his breast like a drum, originated from Quenguen, and was unanimously refuted by all hunters from the Mimi on the north, to the Fernand Vas on the south. Thus it an obscure African village an old sevage could tall a Le, which has blazed through Europe. " The Apiugi country, which is the Ultima Thule of M. du Chaillu's explorations, is distant from Gambi ( Ngumlii) four foot-days' journey, in a southerly direction. lu tracing the course of the Rambo, however, he adopted a longer route. " His deecription of the Fans (Bafanh), whom he visited in company with Mr. Mackey, of Corium, is very good. Is ascending the Gaboon to ire rapids in the bosom of the Sierra del Crystal, I advanced some distance into their country, and found them gentle, hoepitable, bat cannibals undoubtedly, as one of them confessed to rue. Even the account of their ghoul-like propensities is in one case sup ported by evidence which I find it impossible to disbelieve. " This book, so strange a tmlanyc of truth and fiction, wee prepared by a gentleman well known io the New York literary world, from copious notes made by M. du Challis when engaged in theme expeditions. And I must do the litter the justice to confess, that from the same payees which afforded me proofs of his impostures, I learn that be is I good marksman; possessed of no common cou-age and endurance ; that he has suffered many privations and min fortunes of which he has said nothing ; that his character as a trader has been unjustly blemished ; that his labours se a naturalist have been very remarkable ; and that during hie residence in Africa he woo the affection of the natives sad the esteem of those who moat merit to be esteemed—the missionaries. And a fellow-labourer, though an humble one, may be permitted to regret that, actuated by a foolish vanity or by ill-advice, he should bare attempted to all artificial flowers to a wreath of laurels which be had fairly and hardly earned. " W. WINWOOD READL" THE FIMIT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP. —We kin. from the &coral, a well-known clerical organ, that the tight for the championship, between Mace and Kiog, " is fired to come off on Tuesday next, at a place near Aldershott." DlOtTntiE OF CHESTER.—ORDI?iATIoN.—TIie Doi Bishop of Chester intends to hold hie next ordination at Chester, on the second Sunday in Lent, March 1, 1: ,. .3. Candidates for ordination un th at day are required to for ward all their necessary papers complete, on or helm Monday, January 26, to his lordship's secretary (Charles T. W. Parry, Esq., Cheater), from whom all necessary it structione and information may be obtained. PREM, , . miacrs.—The Her. George Ramsay Feilden, M.A., has beet instituted by the Lord Bishop of Chester to the rectors . of Bebingtou, Cheabire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Robert Mosley Feilden : patron, Rey. G. R. Feilden. The Rev. Benjamin Maddock, M.A., ban been licensed to the perpetual curacy of Marple, Cheshire. vacant hy cession of Rev. Richard Dawson : patron, the rector of Stockport. ALARMINii FIRE AT THE SEAT OF Slit MAmFT LOPEK, BART., M.Y.—Yesterday morning, shortly before ' o'clock, fire was discovered to be issuing from the minim room of Mariston Hall, the residence of Sir Massey Lopes. Bart, M.P., about five miles from Plymouth. The mansion, which is an Elizabethan structure of great brauty, Las bees recently undergoing extensive repairs. At the time of the alarm Sir Massey and Lady Lo pal had not arisen for the day, and the household were for the mad part in their rooms. Messengers were instantly despatched on bareback to Plymouth for engines, which were at once sent out, and meanwhile hose were attached to a reservoir near the house, and at an elevation of 50 feet above it. With such seeress I was thi s stream brought to hear that the fire was centiord to the wing of the mansion in which it originated, and was got under iu the course of an hour. The damage, probably, all nut exceed 1001. MYSTERIoUn AFFAIR.—!i. singular story f.irwil a topic of conversation yesterday in Dublin. It is stated that a young lady of high respectability, daughter of a well-known merchant in Dublin, left her fatlaer'a red. denim early on Tuesday afternoon for a walk. Not re turning home at the hour at which die was expected, her friends became uneasy for Ler safety, and their anxiety increased when Lour after hour passed by with' out any tidings of her being received. Search sets, el course, made, and peewees sent in various directions to co- I deuirour to discover some intelligence as to what had I become of her, but it was not until late in the evening I that she was discovered 'oy one of the servants. who foetid the young lady tied hand and foot to a tree in her father'' shrubbery, her month being so completely pet:el that she was totally unable to cry for help, or utter A 6011111 She was, of course, immediately released, and couveyed to the house, but it was some time before she win restored hew the condition of exhaustion to which she had been relereL On recovering, she stated that while walking through the grounds she su ddenly met two men engaged in tab.. ~,t to one h of o t he I:a r m ; followed t the Le r,moment a hkeis and, having gagged her, so an to prevent her c* ,. in , f l • Lelp, they decamped, first cautioning her that if she vdvw : c h , e u r re life d tyingndiscloseoth er tthe any tm I l L 'e w n":" 1 ' 'lt'd h3.1'.. did nut o ff er her any molestation. The stil e of t h :r r , t r h % which the lady remained until discovered I,y the ~.,sent ' may be readily imagined. It is stated that hei father ass' aequently received an anonymous letter warning boo to take no proceedings to pursue the matter further. as. if be took any step towards discovering the pattie4, his ilmithtrr i would be shot. It is surmised that the parties were 04 " ! fleeted with the murder of Mr. Braddell. and that oar ol them was Haves, and that they feared that the bay lid • overheard sufficient of their conversation to piut out Who I they were. BOILER ExPLOSIoN AT AtERTIITR.—()Ii M.,t,,i.ir night last a boiler. belonging to an engine wlvelk vodo h machinery in the Old Puddling Forge. at the Duels,- Works, exploded with a tremendous report, waiter% pieces of the boiler and the brickwork in which it vin no' bedded for • conaiderable dint ince around . and with =!vh ' force that a puddling furnace and its stick were levelled with the ground. We regret to add that the engineer ma four other men were severely injured ; one badly e•Aldel. ; and the others much injured by the falling rid , r ,, . T 1 surgeons of the works were promptly iu ar'endentw• Wl ' every requisite appliance, and under their skilful treatment .• the poor men are doing well, no fatal resu lt being Art VIP l peed. Most fortunately no men were working at . I:t I furnace which was knocked down , or th e loos of life wonld. no doubts have been great The cause of the eaphenn los i not yet been aticertsoned.—Bristol Msearry. 1 ARRIVAL OF THE WELLESLEY FROM 711 , ,L1t0 1 ".: ., PEN7ANCE. NOV. 21.--The Wellesley, Captain .Inlet Siitl i % from Melbourne on the 22nd of August, arrived oil' ••0 1 ! yesterday. She have landed e h d a h d eni on board 140 passengem, about 10 of li'