The Express. — London, England, 1866-01-06 00:00:00

iTbt i j --y it re% ,1 f ~.. ssaur.tS. No. 6,059 ] LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1866. {STAMPXD, Id. ADDITIONAL] [TWOPENCE EXPRESS FROM PARIS. GER LINE of Ana Largos &net. ,LACK BALL PABBENk cum= IPACEMS he AIISTIALLA • OXFORD. - CHRISTMAS ENTER- A. TAM MINT. The MAREAT GIRLS sod MAO CtiIIISTMAIL —These highly suomesful Operettas will be per formed in addition to the usual varied programme of the above establishment. embracing the serricee of all the moat talented artiste. now in London. Conducted by Mr.F.Jeaglunans—lTlMY ZVISING. AMERICA. THE FENIAN TRIALS. METROPOLITAN BOARD OP WORKS. , Tonnage. I Docks. i Toes& ""------{ 'nabs% Nichol r, ...... Vernon. boa se.inched g o, G rDa. ... W . Royal Albert - .:0 1 . 1 1, me { ;500 2 100 . E. India ! t Jan. 10 K. India ) Feb. 10 K. India Jan. 16 I. loft I Feb. 26 (RIUTZIee The Royal Mail steamship Java, from New York on the 27th tilt., arrived at Queenstown at 6.45 p.m. yesterday, with 51 passengers, but no specie. She landed all the mails and two passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 7 p.m. All well. (now 0171 ow" PARIS, FaIDAT Eviansa. DUBLIN, FRIDAY NIGHT. The special commission resumed its sittings in Dublin to. day. Charles J. Kickham having been placed at the bar, an application was made on his behalf for a writ of habeas corpus to bring up T. Olarke Luby and Charles Underwood O'Connell, with a view to their being examined as witnesses for him. The court granted the writ in the case of O'Connell, who is at present in prison in Dublin, but held that they had no jurisdiction to issue the writ in the case of Luby, who is in gaol in Eng land. The trial was then proceeded with, and went as far as the direct examination of the approver, when the court rose. The prisoner refused to be assisted by counsel, stating that as the evidence of Luby, who was a material witness, hcd been refused him, he considered the trial a mockery. The monthly report of the prorreet of the Thames Embankment oontnct was read, from which it appeared that No. 1 contract from Westminster to Waterloo. bridges bail had work done to the extent of 251,3701., at which 6,8414 was due to the past month. Mr. Panels had stated that be would net be able to complete his contract by August next, according to the terms of his agreement. Contract No. 2, from Waterloo-bridge to Temple.gardena, bad had 163,8821. expended on it, of which 6,3391. was due to the last month. The South Bide Thames Embankment, No. 1 contract, had completed 1,000 feet run of piling for the dam, and 1,250 feet run in staging bad bees driven to an average depth of 16 fest. About 96,000 1 cubic feet of timber bad been used in this work, and about 75,000 cubic feet more wen on the ground reedy for nee. Major LYON thought the progress of the works of No. 1 contract very unsatisfactory, and urged the enforcement of some patios of the penalties. Mr. Rocas said there was no knowing when the contract would be completed at that rate. 11 was progressing at only 6,0001. per month, when it ought to proceed at the rate of as much per week. He moved that that portion of the report be referred to the Thames Embankment Committee. Price Is ed. or Its. *L. 1.4 " VE RYB 0 D Y'S BUSINESS." Ask nor bookseller for .Everybody's Busbeess." ---- 41:1111.1111LLND.—Leed Orders. OM to all awn. ...re Ocean MOO L Inds Jan. PO "Ogee •• • • oticaesua•l 3.000 India, Feb. PO egyboroisib &Weise Golden booth. t,OOO Liverpool Feb. 6 Co. CIRCULATION GUARANTIED 50,020:. "V V itTibl' 8 B IC 8 8." 1-1 ADVERTISING SHEETS.—The moat effective and cheapest medium in the world. Send advertisementa and bkelin to publithen,•2, Neweaatleetreet, Strand. (Per the Java.) 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THE BIILLIONIST, price 6d., is to be obtained of al News Agents, sod at the ltuMotet Offices, 7, Ma kes, Corolla, Loudon, IC. Now randy, price Ss. 60. , THE RESTORATION of NERVOIJS POWER, a Work written especially for the baswilf of all suffering from the effect of overtaxed energies, either of body or mind. By Joint liaasitt. !LC., F.A.S. Dean and Son, O.S, Ludgate-kill, LC. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (arum's mutozuce.) THE MILITARY REVOLT IN SPAIN. MADRID, JAIL 4, EVINUM. It is asserted that the military iasurgents, after leaving Ocana, destroyed the bridges over the Tagus, in order to delay General Zavala in his pursuit, and to reach another town. MADRID, JAN. 5. The latest intelligence received yesterday evening announced that the insurgents were in full retreat. General Zavala was on the point of reaching them, being only one hour's march in their rear, when the insurgents, having crossed the Tagus, destroyed the bridge of Fuenteduenos in order to delay the pur suit. The cry of the insurgents was " Viva &par tero"—" Viva Prim." Madrid is perfectly tranquil, and the news from the provinces is satisfactory. BAYONNE, Jam 5. Advice:, received here from Madrid state that General Prim and Carlos Latorre are at the head of the military insurgents, and that the movement basbeen organised by the Progressista. 3,000 men had left Madrid by railway for the south. It was asserted that martial law would be proclaimed in Madrid. THE BANK OF HOLLAND. AMSTERDAM, TAN. 5. The Bank of Holland has raised ifs rate of dia. mount from 6 to 6k per cent. CHINA. (By O►erload Tologroph from Gale.) HONG KONG, Dec. 15. Tea unchanged. Total export to date, 96,0( 1 0,000 pounds. Exchange on London, 4a. id. _ SHANGHAI, Dn. 9. Tea firm. Silk dull. Total export to date, 45,500 baled. Excbange on London, Ga. 20. TUE FLOGGING OF WOMEN. TO THZ IDITOZ OP THE =PIM& Siii,—Huiiugth;itaTceadu4at7aken by the mili tary authorities for the suppression of the late riots and disturbances in Jamaica an enormous, but unknown, number of the black and coloured people were flogged. Amongst the number of these wre cbed and unfortunate creatures thus punished it is credibly stated that more than 300 were women and young girls, and we are told that they were flogged with that severe instrument of torture called the cat-o'-nine-tails. The English public are en titled to know something more about this flogging of women to enable them fully to comprehend the enormity of the transactiou. It must, therefore, be understood that flogging women in Jamaica means flogging naked women. Men are flogged on their bare backs and shoulders. It is otherwise with women—they are flogged, ac carding to Jamaica fashion, on their naked posteriors. However shocking this may be to mention, it is not the lees necessary that the fact should be known. The person of a woman flogged is publicly and indecently exposed iu shameful nakedness. The revelation of the facts relating to such floggings of women by the West ludiau slave-owners was the circumstance that most powerfully roused the indignation of the people of this country against negro slavery, and moat pro minently conduced to its abolition. I am alto gether at a loss to conceive that, under aoy possible circumstances of insurrection or warfare, it could be necessary to resort to this abominable and ferocious punishment of women. The subject is quite unfit for a woman to think of, but it is ab solutely necessary for the ends of justice, and a due regard for outraged humanity, that these things I should be known to the women of England. If I have wrongly described the mode of flogging women in Jamaica, Brigadier-General Nelson, who is reported to have authorised these women floggings, is now in this cout.try ; therefore I shall be glad to be contradicted and set right by him in this matter, if it can be shown that I am in the wrong.—l am, &c., H. PRINGLE, Formerly Stipendiary Magistrate, Jamaica. Chelsea, Jau. 5. The Royal Mail steamer Atrato, which left Southampton at 3 p.m. on Tuesday. with the Jamaica COM. missionera on board, started just as the terrific gale from the I sonth-west was main', which lasted until 3 a.m. on Wrd- Dodgy. It wu thought that she would lay to in Yarmouth. roads daring Timothy night, but it how now been ascertained that she did not do so. Captain Jellicoe , her commander, on approaching the Needles just before dusk, determined to go to sea at once, and to sea he went. Such a night was scarcely ever experiecoed. The sea sometimes appeared to tower 30 feet above the monster steamer, and the funnels of the latter seemed occasionally almost to dip into the sea. No boat could approach the Atrato, and her pilot had therefore to be taken on. Os Wedsenday morning when the gale ceased the Atrato was off Dartmouth. She signalled for a boat to land her pilot, and immedi►tely started for the Atlantic. THE LATE MR. ROBERT ORRIDOE.—This gentle- TIIU4 son of the late Mr. Charles Orridge, of Cambridge, , whose death we recorded is our obituary last week, and ' who. as a barrister, practised at Cambridge, Peterborough, Willits*, Ely. Huntingdon, Bury, Ipswich. and London and Westminster (Central Criminal Court) Sesame, end went the Norfolk Circuit, was called to the bar in 1853. He married Mow Evans, daughter of Mr. Evans. of the eminent km of Bradbury and Evans, the well-known printers, and sister of Mrs. Charles Dickens. jou. Mr. Onidge was as extensive contributor to periodical litera ture, in indefatigable and *Detain( advocate, and a true friend, and by the steady pursuit of those qualities, rather than by any brillnnoy of iatelleot, he had secured a lucra tive and steady inoreseing. practice. He bad been ailing for some time before hie death, and at last succumbed to disease of the heart. He leaves so claildreo.—Conbridge Independen y t. -Foam-01 , ms, Jam. 3.—The Queen has been to approve of Mr. Joseph 00Viil as consul at Prince trzdd tor the Limited Maks of Areezioa.— Gauge. The country population in portions of Virginia and Mississippi are flocking to the large towns, fearing a negro outbreak at Christmas. No negro riots are as yet reported, except at Manchester, Virginia, where a coloured mob released two co loured prisoners from gaol At Alexandria, Virginia, a fight has occurred between the blacks and whites, in which four whites and six negroes are reported to have been killed. Secretary Seward, in reply to a request of New York merchants for the friendly intervention of the United States in the Hispano-Cbilian dispute, replied that tke friendly offices of the United States had already been, and were still offered, and it was hoped good would result therefrom. The owners of the ship Nora, in consequence of the repudiation by the British Government of the claim for damages for her destruction by the Ala bama, have appealed to the Federal Government to support them in their claim, pince they,as private citizens, have no other means of redress. It is reported that a movement is on foot for a compromise between the Fenian factions. Great numbers are said to favour the retirement both of Mahony and of the senate. The Hamburg ship Newton, from New York for Hamburg, has been totally wrecked off Nan tucket. All hands were lost. Captain Semmes has been arrested by order of the government, on the ground of having during his tight with the Kearearge hoisted the white flag, and escaped under cover of a cessation of hostili ties. Captain Semmes claims to have been in cluded in the Sherman-Johuston capitulation. The Mobile Register of the 19th inst. pronounces the Government Cotton Agency system in the South to be a total failure, a social misfortune, and a source of great robbery and corruption. MEXICO. NEW YORK, Dec. 27. It is stated that General Grant will shortly visit the Rio Grande in the flag ship of the Gulf squadron. Doubtful Mexican advices - reeeived via;San Fran cisco, but bearing no date, report that a revolution has broken out against the Emperor Maximilian. Intelligence received in New York by direct steamer from Vera Cruz on the 13th December mentions rumours that Juarez had resigned the Presidency. Matamoros papers assert that Colonel Jean ningroa had, as a ruse, permitted Escobedo to occupy Monterey, and afterwards surprised and totally routed his army with great slaughter. IThe re publicans claim that Escobedo withdrew from Monterey with the loss of 30 men. Doubtful ad vices vid New Orleans represent the J uarist General Diaz as carrying all before him. The whole State of Oaxaca was in arms against the imperialists, and the liberals were masters of the whole coast between Vera Cruz and Tuspao, as well as to the south of Vera Cruz. Intelligence from Brownsville to the 7th lust. states that additional correspondence has been ex changed between Weitzel! and Mejia, urging mutual grievances. Weitzel intimates to Mejia, by General Sheridan's authority, that if outrages upon American citizens such as he complained of were continued, no excuses for such conduct would be accepted. " You will not be permitted," says General Weitzel, "to commit acts against the United States which are not accidents. The; Fede ral government will not accept your personal apology for your bad faith." Mejia returned Weitzel's letter with a verbal message. The latter iuformed Mejia that be considered his .letter unanswered. CANADA. MONTREAL, DEC. 26. The Merchants' Exchange in this city has been totally destroyed by fire. DOWNINO-STREET, JAN. 3.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Francis Bertrand Pinney, Esq., to be Collector of Customs, Principal Comptroller of her Majesty's Customs and Navigation 1A.., and Registrar of Shipping for the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope ; • George Wing Browning, Esq., to be Sub-Collector and Comptroller of her Majesty's Customs and Navigation • Laws sod Reaistrar of Shipping at Port Elizabeth ; and Frederick William Burrower, Esq., to be Sub-Collector of Customs. Searcher and Landing Waiter, and Comptroller of her Majesty's Customs and Navigation Laws at Skoog • Town, in the aforesaid colony.—Gozerfe. RAILWAY PROGRESS IN THE EASTERN COUNTIES, —Railways are gradually extending in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, sod Lincolnshire. Not only did the Great Eastern_ open 48 miles of new line last year in Suffolk and Cambndgeshire ; but in Essex the Saffron Walden line was opened for passenger circulation a few weeks since; whde the Toyama Hundred, and the Wivenboe and Bright -1 hope., which have been on hand ever so many years, are lat last oo the verge of completion. These two latter lines will open up two dints on the Essex coast., viz, Bright ' lingoes and Waite' on-the-Naze. At the former town yacht building is carried on to some extent, and Walton-on-the-Naze is m.kiog desperate efforts I (which may ultimately perhaps prove successful) to become a prominent watering place. Toe Saffron Walden of course puts that town into COM 11111DiCa• tion with the Great Eastern at AudMy-and ; years ago the Great Easters deemed it prudent to give Saffron Walden a wide berth, but now the inhabitants have begged to be admitted into the vast and ever extending railway circle, and have carried their point, although the works ou this I small line are somewhat heavy. In Lincolnshire, we have to note the prosecution by the Great Northern, of the Spalding and March line (of which the Great Eastern is to be part owner), the Hooington and Lincoln, Id. In Suf folk, a commenossmot has just been made, or is on the point of being made, with the Bury St. Edmunds and Thetford, while Mr. W. F. Bruff has been consulted as engineer with a view to the prosecution in the coming session of a scheme for the establishment of a line from Haleeworth toSouth wold. The same gantleasan (a eon of Mr. P. Sniff) ties been prepar ing working pleas for the Melba and Eye lid, a small treason intended to secure for Eye what has Jost been achieved for Saffron Walden. The Bury Bt. Edmunds and Thetford line will, it is said, facilitate considerably the traseit of coals from Peterborough to Harwich, and thence to the contiaret. It will further be of service in connexion with the Walton and Thetford line, which will be laid before ' the new parliament in the now close at hand session. I. Norfolk also the West Norfolk Junction lid is all but ready (wird% to Holkhatu at say tate • the Lyon and Salton Bridge (which has been a great while on hood) hen • bad the bead% of • visit from the government inspector, although his report is not wholly complete or satisfactory. The Weestam Valley Company has held a defends with the landowners adders Maass and be dealt with, and ni lmama/ an early proweention of theism& Norfolk it.. have oiled bed reeideg with a meted anthority. M. Henri de Penes one of the most respectable links between /a noblesse and la petite presse, and a man whose particle "de " cannot be contested, tells the following pleasant -story of last week's masked ball at the Opera, in the Gazette des Strangers : You may believe me or not, but last Saturday there was an "nitric's," at the Opera quite of the old sort. A very putty lady is the owner of a mansion almost as pretty, which she wishes to sell. Having heard that a rink fo. retest who had been looking at it was going to the bid losseirsti, eke went there, of coarse rigorously disguised, knocked at the door of his box, and did her utmost to fear& sate him. He, as • man of the world, could not fail to see from her conversation that she MA • lady of • far dif fereat class from those who usually attend public masked I 1 belle. However, as it was palpable that she was paying coati to him, he accepted him bonne fortune, and asked her to supper. She answered that she would be very happy to sup with him, but that be meat come to her house. After some hesitation he consented to this condition, and getting with bee into • very handsome carriage, was rapidly drives to oae of those many palaces which abound in the new streets branching off from the upper end .4 the Champs Elynee. The carriage entered the courtyard, sad on the flight of steps Touting to the frost door of the house were standing two WI footmen, waiting for their mistress. The astonished guest pored through a sumptuous suite of apartments, to • most coon. fortable dioing•roore, in which coven were laid for two. There the lady took off her mask, and dis played • face, the beauty of which even tran scended highly wrought anticipation. "Your house is &arming," said the gentleman, "but far more charming is the owner." "Speak not of me," she said, " but of elle"—(a pronoun which may signify either • lady or • house). "Who is eller "My house." " You talk es if you wished to get rid of it." "We shall see, let as sow sup." At supper the lady played part of the hostess with graceful hospitality, but the: repast finished she immediately brought the house on the tepin" " What • pretty hand you have !" "There is • court in front and a garden behind. I must let you see by daylight. " What eyes ! What a complexion !" " Did you notice the two drawing-rooms, with • trassparent glass between them !" " What teeth! What a smile!" "There is stabling for four horses ; and there are coach-houses for three carriages." " When, adorable charmer, one has once seen you, it is im possible not to sigh for another meeting." "The smoking-room is most commodious, and the cushions all in Russian leather. Come with me to look at the smoking-room." " Where would I not go with you!" "There are four bedrooms and • drawing room on the second floor." " What a fortunate elm-numinous was it my meeting with you at the Opera r "You are right ; them oever was such a splendid opportunity. lam obliged to leave Paris. I must sell my house; and I will take for it the ridiadonsly low price of 14,000&; what do you say ? Is it a bargain r At this point the visitor, though a man of wealth and rank, and under the influence of a grande dame whom he supped with after the Opera, showed himself • mem of business. He said he would consult his architect, and no coaxing could bring him to budge from that ulti matnm. M. de Phne thinks the motto to be written under the anecdote should be—Ci-git la galanterie de funte. . _ . Madame Grisi has just passed through Paris on her way to London and Edinburgh. Mario and Madame Meric Lablache accompany her to open the new Italian Opera House in the Sootch metro polis. 'Madame Grisi passed the night at her house in the Rue des Bassin, which she has just let to the younger prima donna, Mdlle. Patti, who takes possession to-morrow. Under the impression of the alarming though vague news from Spain, the Bourse was again depressed, and there was a further fall from the lowest quotations of yesterday. Rents fell Sc. for cash, and 71c. for account, closing at 681 r. 25c and 681 r. 32ie. Mobilier fell llfr. 25c., closing at 7971 r. 50c.—a very low figure. The Daily News is seized. MILITARY DISCONTENT IN SPAIN. A correspondent of the Paris Temps, writing from Madrid on the 31st December, says :—" In 1; spite of the indifference affected y the official journals, and the silence imposed upon the semi official, it is none the less true that the gravest event of this month, without excepting the elections of the chambers, or the abstention of the progres sista party, has been the democratic and military conspiracy discovered this last week at Malaga—a conspiracy for the success of which a regi ment garrisoned in that town was reckoned upon. This is the third pronunciamiento which has failed this year. It would seem, therefore, as though less importance were to be attached to it. But to think so would be to wake a great mistake, and for these reasons. Because this regiment considers that it is justified iu com plaining of grave injustice from the Minister of War, since, though the first to land in 1860 upon the coast of Africa and the last to return, it nevertheless had but a very small share of the shower of rewards which fell upon the army at that period ; and, to crown all, it was being sent back again to garrison the penal colonies in Africa, and being torn away from Malaga, where life is so agreeable and pleasures so numerous." The cor respondent of the Temps then goes on to say that what would have rendered this military sedition so grave is the political state of the own ' try iu which it would have occurred. He recalls the fact that in 1860 the socialist party was so strong and so able in Andalusia that it enrolled, organised, and marched 20,000 men to Lorca, which it seized and held for several days. Had these men been • supported by a regiment the matter might have proved much m.re serious. But like true Anda lusians, they were satisfied with laughing at the fear they caused the government. Since then, adds the correspondent of the Temps, socialism has advanced with giant strides in the district; and it is for that reason, be says, that the " symptoms at , Malaga are of the utmost importance in the eyes ,of all who know the country and the disposition of the public mind." ADDITIONAL SHIPPING DISASTERS AND LOSS OF LlFE.—lntell.pnce of additional disasters still continues to be received in Liverpool. The ship Lookout, which loft the Mersey some deys ego for Rio de Janeiro, has put beak in distress with loss of sails. The Zulkiel, which sailed for Chili several days ago, was towed up the river yesterday afternoon, much damaged. The General Williams, which ' left for Boston on the 24th December, put into Lambash on the 2nd in &damaged condition. The Albion, a large New York packet.ship, which sailed some days ago from Liverpool fir New York, is a total wreck year Strom. nem, and the M. Nottebohm, from Liverpool to New York, has been compelled to put into Quesestowe Mom. sequence of severe damage. The Peliourne, which left Liverpool for New York oe the 28th November, is a total wrack near Cymbyn (Holyhead). Her cargo is washing along the coast, but fortunately the captain , o ffi cers, mid crew have been saved. The ship Moroieg Star, which arrived in Liverpool yesterday from Africa, experienced the full format the gale in the Channel, and when off the Irish coast she was struck by a heavy sea which washed four of the crew overboard. They were not reformed. Min.ancnolx Occusitinrca. —An accident m atured on Tuesday evening at Carrie, in Bate, which ter misated fatally in the case of a young man named James Crosbie, and is the narrow escape of Mims yam women. I It appears that a cart belonging to Mr. James Barak was prooesdiog home, and on the way had to cross a small bora by s low turf bridge. The hone, is spite of the driver. drew the cart too mach to on side, and pitched it sad Its contents into the water below. The driver amoseded is I extricating himself at owe, and the guess kept shear water estil assistance camel bat the deemed. be f og ears = nadir that fart, goad maks so efforts to save By direction of the Lords of the Admiralty, every possible saving is to be effected in the weight of =Maria placed in the tron-clad frigate Bellerophon, 16, 1,000 horsepower, the quantity already placed WA board being considerably in excess of that originally ietended. The same order also directs the proposed shot and shell coven and gratin, for the hatchways to be dismietinued, awl sea d the ilears4 planed 614 wee•-the arm Ana ester bottoms of the frigate to be removed. The Bellerophon is t 3 be ready for uodocking by the 31st inst. WOOLWICH, JAS. 5. Upwards of 100 of the new description of rifled gum designated the •• Woolwich guns," and which are saki to In more efficient then any similar weapons intro duced ipso the servios, bare been subjected to every de scription of proof at the government praotioeirange, sad are now in sores to be forwarded to stations as requited. THE CHURCH IN DANGEE..— The Press te-day has an appeal to churchmen from a Mr. George F. Ohm. ben, who dates from the Junior Carlton Club. " The next session of parliament," he says, " will in all human probability, be one of momentous import for weal or ter woe to the church and the Mete of England. Our ea mire are girding on their armour to fight with redoubled energy, and we must be up and doing. Let me there- fore entreat every reader of the Press to contribute during the next few weeks something to the funds of the Church Institution. Bank notes, cheques, so vereigns, half-crowns, shillings, will all help the good cause in connexion with which stands the Divine aphorism ' Bighuionsisess ezalteth a nation.' Hooey we want, and money we must imperatively have, if the Church of England is long to be retained on its glorious pinnacle whence it pours down light and succour to all the earth. How little sovereigns are grudged for luxury and finery on the part of many, who cannot afford' more than a shilling (sometimes nothing at all) for the preservation of what, if once lost, a substitute could National Church of England. The enemy are clamouring at your gates : take warning. 0, ye English churchmen and English churchwoman ere it be toe kits, and they get within the tonnes.' THE LATE OUTBREAK IN JAMAICA.—it is under stood that a government short-hand writer will proceed forthwith to Jamaica, for the purpose of taking notes of the evidence given befoul the Royal Cumbria), and transmitting • manuscript copy of his sots, to government by each sucoessive mail, in order to prevent as little delay as possible is laying the whole mania the seldom, before parliament as soon as the inquiry is terminated. THE It/PRESENTATION OP Hu D0ZY...47111Ln. —A meeting of the principal inhabitants of Huddersfield was ! held on Thursday, " to wafer es to the positing of the town in relation to the coming reform MD.' The meeting was convened by Mr. J. Turner (the constable), who pre sided, at the suggestion of Mr. T. P. Crosland, M.P. Mr. Crosland spoke is favour of an 'eternise of the franchise. He moved • resolution which,after ticaffeatiese and additions, reed thus :—" That this meeting, uuderstandieg it to be the latest/on of government to propose a measure of reform, daring the next sessioo of parliament, deems it the imp°. retie* duty of the people of Huddersfield to prefer their claim for • more equitable share of representation than the town has hitherto enjoyed ; tied that the position of Hud dersfield, whether viewed with refs/epos to the present population of the borough, or its Number of electors, in comparison with those of other boroughs, strongly entitles it to claim the privilege of returning two members to the House of Commons." Mr. C. Brook seconded the motion, which was carried. Mr. J. Wrigley, jun., moved a reso- lution to the effect that the area of the borough ought to be extended, sod it was seconded by Mr. W. P. England, and carried. It was then resolved, on the motion of Mr. Hirst (Wilshaw), seconded by Mr. D. Marsden, that a deputation should be appointed to present • memorial to government on the subject ; and • committee to draw up the memorial and present it was chosen, after which the meeting thanked the chairman and separated. FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE CITY OF LONDON. —The following ere the terms of a notice of motion by Mr. John Richardsoo, member of the Court of Common Council for the ward of Bishopsgate : That it is desirable • free public library should be established in the Guildhall of the City of London, under the control and at the coat of the corporation, sod that it be referred to the library committee to consider and report forthwith to the Court of Common Council as to the probable expense for estab lishiog and carrying out the same. NEw CHURCH AT HAVERNTOCK-HlLL.—Yesterday afteroooo the ceremony of laying the first stone of • per manent church for the populous district of St. Andrew, liaverstockhill, took place on • plot of ground already purchased by the building committee at the top of the Malden-road. The preliminary proceedings took place in the temporary iron structure used sizes 11163 as • " school church." The chair was taken by Lord Diary, who was supported by Mr. Harvey Lewis. M.P., Dr. Garvey, several of the metropolitan ministers, and other gentlemen. CONVICTION OF • WoRRHoUnE MASTER.—At the Essex Quarter Sessions on Tburstley Thomas Twou ' late master of the Halstead Union Workhouse, was convicted of stealing • considerable quantity of wheat, barley, beans, peas, Am, the property of the guardians, and also • number of glass end china articles. The entire value of the articles stolen was about 3001. The prisoner was sentenced to two years' imprisomeot with hard labour. A WOMAN RUN OVER AND KILLED BY • RAIL WAY VAN.—Last evening Mr. John Humphrey., the Mid dime: courtier, held an inquirry at the London Hospital, touching the death of Lacy Griffi th s , aged 60. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was a married woman, living with bar husband, a working man, in Parliameot place, Spitalfislds. On last &turd.y evening she sat down on the kerb stone in King-street, Brick lane, in • state of intoxication, when a Great Eastern Railway van driven by a boy named Bennett, who was only 13 years of age, ; came along at • quick pace, and the deceased was knocked I into the roadway by it, and the wheels weot over her body. She was removed to the London Hospital, where she expired nu Thursday, hon. the effects of the in . juries she had received. The deceased bad, three months before this accident, been knocked down and ion over while , drunk. by • cab, in Union-street. Spitalfields. Thomas Williams said that be was the van driver. He bad directed the van guard, Beonitt, to take the van and one hone to the stables. He was in the habit of letting Bennett drive the van three times • day. A Greet Eastern Railway in spector said that it was contrary to the company's roles for a boy to drive a van through the streets. The boy Bennett. having been cautioned, said that he did sot see the deceased in the roadway. The Coroner said that the driver, Williams. was • lazy, idle vagabond, who wished to skulk I work by leaviog • boy of only 13 years of age to drive van through the streets, and endatiger the lives of the pubbc. The jury returned • verdict of "Accideotel death," and censured the conduct of the van drieer, Williams. THE MURDER AT A BEM/AlM—The rumour of further is reached Merthyr on Thursday, but has tot I • been confirmed up to the time dour despatch. It is certain, however. that other arrests will be mode, for the more closely the case is examined, the stronger are the indica tions of more than one having aided in this most brutal murder. The friends of deceased say that he could have had but 30s. ; but no money was found. The discovery was made in a singular manner. Davie, the farm-r. and a servant man were together in the wood looking for sheep. They were preceded by • dog, one of thou sqgacious Welsh shepherd dogs which seem, in many cues, to pause more than the Intelligence and sagacity of their owners. Suddenly the dog stopped and exhibited great uneasioesa, so much that the servant man said, " We must see what ails the dog. master ;he barn got something there." They then made their way through the briars, when the glust,y spectacle lay before them. The murdered man was of steady habits, ' earl bore • good moral character. His friends say that he was not given to drinking, sad they do not think I that he was made drank sad entieed into the wood. The supposition is that be was certainly inveigled Into the wood, but by what means are unknown. ! He was found In the back part, where mere ramblers would namely go. One surmise thrown out is that there is a woman its the ease. Some time before hie disappear's°. • ismer came en • visit to the holm from • voyage, and being • lighthearted miler it was thought that his adven tures and daseriptioes bad tempted Davies to run away from the plodding habits of • blacksmith and see the world. This wee one reason why a keener search was not made. The adjouroal biggest will bake plain on Monday, and it is tally eatieipated that by that time more streets will bays taboo plum—Cambrian Deily Leader. THE CONDEMNED CONVICT IN MAIDSTONE GAOL. We understand that within the last few days a marked =retetit ti t= r dWLaiett tir s Mtlystre" of the sesteses of death in hiaidatone Gaol. The chaplain, the Rev. C. Shirley %too'mar, and the amistant-chaplsin, the Rev. H. F. Woolrych, are with him daily. Be reads a number of religious books, including the Scriptures, but constantly quotes the latter in support of his own conduct. He refuses to attend service in the gaol chapel, but owe allowed the chaplain to pray with him, "out of respect" to the chaplain, although he added, it was also because of " that moral weakness which has been his weak point through life, as he considered it his duty to protest against the general formalism of religion which prevails, by ref risbg to have anything to do with forms even is prayer." Dur ing the last three or four days, however, helms received the visits of the chaplains with great intoreet, and peayed with them daily. Although Southey acknowledges the kindness with which he is treated by all the officials be complains greatly of WOO of the gaol regulations. One of his principal grievances is that he is not allowed to be at any time kit alone, and that a light is always kept burning in his cell. The execution, it is expected, will take place oa Thursday next. It ippeare that Southey never admits that the murders be committed were =WIMP. Indeed, be appears to think that he has really done a service to the community. With re gard to hie approaching fate, be cossiders himself as already dead ; but the two persons he wished to die with him (Mrs. White sod her child), he says, are some back from life to moral death. Os* of his great anxieties is lest certain MSS confided by him to his solicitor should get into the hands of Lord Dudley. The paper' con sist of 48 pages of manuscript, and contain a tough sketch of Mrs. White, the woman with whom he was living, and whose children he de stroyed. It is beaded--" Account of two visits to Wittily Court, showing the oironmstanoss which have united to roues my death." The number of eminent persons who were visited by Southey, or to whom be wrote letters and detailed the circumstances upon which "eight lives de needed," was *Glower than 200, and all their names were carefully preserved, He asserts that his immoral autos with Mrs. White wea not entered into until all bops of the payment of the mosey he had won at billiards from Mr. Dudley Ward was gone. There is no doubt that for eight month, previous to the crimes for which he is oondmitned be entertaiued murderous thoughts against others, and particularly against Lord Dud ley. Hs say. that on several ocessious he was on the point of shooting his lordship within a few days pro vious to the perpetration of the other murders. He eves files the places where this intended deed of blood had so nearly been consummated—at a dab to the Opera Coles nude, but his lordship at the critical moment stopped to speak to a policeman ; at another time at Fortnum and Mason's ; and on another occasion he actually held the muzzle of hie pistol close to his lordship's beck while he was looking into the window of as Albanian shop in Sagest street, but concealed the weapon in his coat pocket. He could not, however, make up his mind to fire, as " he had received no direct vole* from Gad to rid the world of the tyrant," and bemuse his motives might be pat down to viadietivesam THE FIRE AT CREWE•HALL There have been some inaccuracies in the accounta that have been given of the conflagration of this !Astoria mention. Lord Crewe WAS the first to perceive the presence of smoke at about 1 SAL an Wednesday morning. The hot air apparatus was examined and found in perfect order and already extinguished. For some time nothing serious was apprehended, but the valet, going up the hack staircase encountered a thick body of smoke in the passage above the gallery where the female servants slept. Before they could escape in their night clothes the ceiling broke through, and it was seen that the roof was is flames. It is supposed that the joists of the old beams had come is contact with the tires in the flues of the gallery chimneys, not- withstanding all the care that was taken in the restoration of the old house. It was some hours before any effectual check could be put to the program of the flames from the great height of the building and the facility given to the tire to sweep through the long sad open roofs. Nothing could oxtail the seal and activity of the whole establishment, by means of which a large portion of the family memorials, including the chefs•d'reurres of Sir domino Reynolds, were placed in security. Nevertheless, the lose has been very great. The fine cabinets and other costly furniture of the gallery, the whole of the library, including many rideable and rare works, the curious decorations of the carved parlours, and the whole of the property in Lord Crewe's private apartments, have perished. The great hall has suffered lees, the large oak screen being only partially injured, and the quaint mantelpiece not at all. The resto ration of this room, and even of the beautiful staircase, can easily be accomplished by the resources of modern art. The main walls of the house remain in apparently safe contrition, with the exception of use end of the gallery. The mansion was fir Weed by Sir Randal Crewe early in the reign of King James L, bat it bad fallen foto much decay by the of time, and was completely and skilfully rest by its present owner, under the superintendence of Mr. Blocs. After this present disaster it is still to to hoped that Lord Crewe may be able to effect a second ree iteration. MYSTIRIOre DEATH FROM Dxow:ciNo.—Last evening Dr. Lsnkester held an inquiry at tl.e Elephant and Castle, King's road, St. Pancras, tie the body of George Swain, who, after having been mimed for three weeks, was found dead in the Regent's-canal. Mary Swain, wife of deceased, said she lived at 18, Sidmouthdnews. Her hos. baud, wbo was a cabman, was 44 years of age. On Saturday, the 9th of December, he left home with his cab at &Wilt half-past three in therd ternoon, and she never saw him again alive. The cab and horse were brought home by the police. She was sure deceased bad not committed suicide. He was not the sort of man to do that. He had riot bees quarrelling nor drinking before he left home. He had sot any valuable property with him. Pulice-constable 53 8 gave evidence which still left the case in mysterr :;eoe ts said that on Saturday evening, the 9th of ber, th e cab of deceased was found standing near the Primromehill canal-bridge. The sow log was on the horse and a cloth was across its loins. De ceased was searched for but could not be found, and the canal was twice dragged without success. On Wednesday bust, at about twelve o'clock at noon, witness was stantEng on the Gloucester (canal) bridge when a steamer passed, and he thought he observed something appear on the top of the water near the steamer. He wentdown to the side of the canal, and there found deceased siatdieg perfectly upright in the water against a garden alt which sloped into the canal. The feet of the corpse were muck in the mud. Wit ness pulled the corpse out, and found the ovvrceet which it had on buttoned up to the chin. The usual driver's badge wan In its proper p lace. Ohl twopenc,halfpenny and a knife were foetid in his pockets. There did not appear to have been any struggle, as the clothes were not disarranged in the least. The bridge under which deceased was found was twat the one near which the cab was found. Mr. Butts, resident surgeon at the St. Pancras Workhouse, said be bad made a pos t- mortem examination of deceased, and found three ribs fractured cc the left side, but that injury might have been caused after death. He believed that death reaulted from suffocation by drowning. An open verdict of " Found drowned" was returned. 'rife Blurt AT GUILDFORD. —The four prisoners, John Stevens, alias Jumbo Stevens, John Pearson, William Nugent, and Thomas Reeves, charged with having taken part in the riot and the assault on Police coostaible Stens on the evening of Tneeday, the 26th Decem ber, were is ought up yesterday before the mthistrates at Guildford. on remand, from llorsemouger.lase Gaol. They ware all committed far trial. -- • A sorrowful affair (gays the Western Morning .Yew.) has oecurrecl at Fairlight, Torquay, the maiden*, el the Rev. Julian Young. The rev. gentleman had • party at which • number of the resident gentry were present, and &month= the seafood daughter of Certain Mill. Potts, granddaughter to the venerable Btahop of the dioemm In the con eine the evening the young lady was called open to sing. She bad not been long engaged thus when she suddenly faltered and fainted. She was immediately removed to another aparMsent, but died shortly alter wards, to the ireaxpresAN• Fief of her friends •l ~~