The Express. — London, England, 1866-06-09 00:00:00

ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, 10. liiIHRIZTrA-8111.11T, CO GOLD CHAINS 'oHpi GUARD CRAMS. light Nor must it be supposed that the workhOnse, the discipline, or the guardians of the Strand Union are exceptionally faulty and bad. The stateminit of the nurse Burro*, which has been in the hands of the Sick Poor Association for 'some weeks, is said .tb inolixle particulass con cerning two other workhouses in which she served which are quite as shocking as anything yet pub lished. At . Botherhitbe, where it is understood the next official investigation will be made, her allegations are even more damaging then those just proved against the Strand Union. Linen and sheets only washed when the sick people using them could afford to bribe the washers ; and a want of necessary accommodation so flagrant that deaths ensued wider circum stances indescribably aggravated and re volting ; lax discipline, and a persistent violation of the regulations of the Poor-law Board, are among the charges advanced. The statements concerning the treatment of sick paupers at New ington are equally horrifying though lees specific ; and it may be stated briefly that wherever this outspoken witness has been in a workhouse she has brought away evidence of habitual torture and aggravated suffering, such as it is fair to hope exists nowhere else in the civilized world. The great fault is in all cases the same, and the pro moters of the association for improving workhouse infirmaries hit the real blot when they described the existing establishments as hospitals without hospital management, and houses in which the sick and suffering are now subjected to the regi men and discipline originally devised for the idle and able-bodied. It has been suggested by a contemporary that, as there are twelve inspectors appointed under the Poor-law Board, for the express purpose of super vising parochial management and preventing the scandals which now occur with such appalling frequency, some information is due to the pub lic concerning their implied neglect of duty. But the evils we all complain of occur principally in the metropolis, whereas the twelve inspectors are distributed over the country. Upon one offi cial has consequently devolved the arduous and ungrateful task of visiting thirty-nine workhouses, of making suggestions which can always be ignored, and of drawing up reports which need never be attended to. If it be remembered that a London workhouse numbers as many souls as a moderate ] sized village, that " inspecting " is but a portion of the inspector's duty, it will be readily seen that the active interference of the outside public has been an absolute necessity. It is for the Poor-law Board to explain the admi nistration of its affairs, and the distribution of the funds voted by Parliament. This is certain—no adequate supervision of metropolitan workhouses, and no proper control of metropolitan parochial officers are possible under the arrangements it has sanctioned until now. The country will not be content to trust to the chance revelations of a candid nurse, or the spontaneous inquiries of in dependent witnesses, for the discovery of such horrors as are being dragged to light; and a remedy for the terrible state of things proved to exist mustbe speedily found. Turn which way we will, the story is the same. Pressing requirements which have outgrown all available accommodation — urgent needs asserting themselves which have never been suspected_—discoveries, bewilderment, and dismay. Some weeks ago a circumstantial statement was published by a local journal, in which the nurses in Shoreditch Workhouse were charged with the most brutal and filthy conduct to an infirm inmate. Ten days since the master and one of the principal female officers of Bethnal green Workhouse wound up a violent brawl by appearing in a police-court, and mutually revealing their unfitness for the trust they hold. Not long ago the pauper, but for whose letter to the sitting magistrate at Bow-street the inhuman treatment of Monne GIBSON would never have been known, made statements concerning the treatment of an inmate in another workhouse, which, if true, call for condign punishment upon its officers. At Islington, the guardians or trus tees have just approved of plans for a new work house which are opposed to the rules just laid down by the leading medical authorities, and which, if followed, will perpetuate the evils of overcrowding and bad air. These are a few examples out of many of the necessity for a supervision which shall be more searching, and inquiries which shall be more prompt, than our authorities have yet realised. The details of improvement may be well left to the Minister to whom we owe the Union Chargeability Bill and the Houseless Poor Act, and who is pledged to bring forward a measure for reform. It is the crying necessity for counteracting the ignorance, stupidity, and cruel selfishness of parochial administration in the metropolis, upon which all thinkers are agreed, and to which every new tale of horror points. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE WAR.--COM BISMARCK'S DESPATCH. As negotiations may be considered at an end, Count Bismarck, the Times observes, feels it needless to do himself further violence by using the ordinary language of diplomacy, and accordingly writes a despatch breathing the very spirit of war. No wonder that when it became known, General Galsleast's' ordered to retire from Holstein. It is the peculiarity of the present state of affairs that it may end at any moment or be indefinitely pro longed, but even though matters should seem to move slowly for a while it would be imprudent to cherish hopes of a favourable issue. For Italy to draw back would be fatal, and we may expect to find the Prussian government exposed to the strongest solicitations of its ally. If any gleam appears on the dark horizon, it is to be found in the temper and behaviour of the Prussian and other German populations. But an act of hostility on the part of Aus tria, such as the entrance of •Marshal Benedek into Prussian territory, might make the people forget their hardships in hatred of the enemy. Meanwhile every power is interested in checking a war which may spread over the greatest part of the continent. Even the out lying portions of the Turkish empire are not so secure that we can afford to dispense with the supervision and guar dianship that the great powers have exercised. If those powers are engaged in war, an ambitious empire like Russia may attempt a return to a policy that has been only temporarily abandoned. If the publicists correctly define war as that state in which we prosecute our right by force, the war, says the Daily News, has begun, though prudence may dispose both the powers to withhold a recognition of its existence. If it he true that the French government has impressed upon the middle and minor states the importance of remaining completely neutral, Austria has a strong reason why she should make a formal breach with Prussia depend on its withdrawal from federal duties rather than on any injury zustained by herself, and so attach the middle states as firmly as pos sible to her interest. Count Bismarck's despatch is piece of downright railing and vituperation— the Prussian minister stopping at no imputation to produce the belief that the ferocious Austrian lamb will not kt the Prussian wolf live in peace. It is further remarked by the Daily News that the questions to be settled are broader and deeper than those which have hitherto figured in the quarrel. If the cabinets can so conduct the war as to bring it to an early issue, the governments may escape ; but a long war would certainly call into play revolution. THE COIIIIIIICIAL FAILMIZEL It is observed by the Times th►t a cursory perusal of the provisional report of Messrs. Turqusnd and Harding is sufficient to show not only that no considerable pea-tint of the paid-up capital of Overend, Gurney and Co. will ever be recovered, but that no company ever ought to have purchased the come= at all. The truth is that Messrs. Overend and Gurney bad not a sound business to dispose of on the 31st of July last, and, instead of receiving 500,0001• for the goodwill of it, should have beerr •thankfnl to pay a handsome stun to any company which should take it off their hands. We have in the report one secret of commercial failures, and an intelligible answer to the question so often asked of late—" Where does the money go ?" The money goes in loans, at high rates of interest, to contractors and com panies who may ultimately be able to repay it, but who cannot repay it at short notice. It is locked up in works that require years for their completion, and, for the purpose of meeting a sudden call, it might just as well be at the bottom of the sea. So many embarrassments did Overend, Gurney, and Co. inherit from the old firm it could hardly have weathered the storm of last month, even had the " bean" not con spired to undermine it. The can of the Agra and Master man's Bank, in which the families of so many Indian offi cers had invested their savinp, appears to have been very dif ferent, and the downfall was, it seems , directly brought about by unprincipled speculators who had made time bargains upon its shares. It is for those who are familiar with stock-jobbing transactions to discuss the expediency of making any contract for the sale of shares void at law where their numbers have not been specified in writing. It is our duty to point out that, unless some remedy be adopted, the London Stock Exchange will soon acquire a ehUneful notoriety in Europe. The Herald does not believe, with Lord Overstone, that the principle of limited liability is Imo visions as to reader its prolonged existence a calamity to be deprecated for the Mk& of honest dealing and legitimate commerce. We accept it as a necessity of the times, and as an expedient well calculated to meet the tendency of modern trade to centre in comparatively few hands. We do not hold the new principle responsible for the failure of Earned's, of Masterman's, of Overend and Gurney, or of the other cues in which a long and apparently prosperous career of private trading has oome to a disastrous end after a reconstitution as • joint-stock company. The fact is undoubtedly true that in the foregoing, and in many similar instances, the hope of success from taking over an old-established busi ness, has ended in dire disappointment and disastrous downfall. But this rather teaches that the element, of unsoundness were present before the change took place, and to this conclusion several of the lately published balance-sheets distinctly point. PARIS. C l* k r i11ini11.111 7 1111.1111.11111.1111.111.11111...1 7 1.1 . Apa.lS' e ; SATriltrott- Ermartp: Ha I jam BROGDEN. fully significant as anything ream : not to to loeforeth= ct of ! LA.TEST -OiTl t light. 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The dis graceful inadequacy of the infirmary wards ; the cruelties practised by the pauper nurses ; the un fair browbeating of the doctor by the guardians ; and the hard indifference to the sufferings of the sick and dying displayed by these gentlemen, are all familiar to our readers. We have published, from tune to time, the result of independent investigations into the conduct of the authorities of the Strand Union, and the attitude maintained by them ; and, however astounding the evidence recently given may appear to others, we find it little more than a repetition of the heartrending and horrifying facts previously made known. The poor consumptive patient, who was found choking his life away from the dust rising from the car pets beaten under his open windows ; the broken down and infirm potinan whom a guardian insisted upon his collcaguesappointing nurse to those unable to turn in bed without assistance ; the sneers at " the new blood at this 'ere board" for its honest endeavours to inaugurate reform ; and the dogged persistence in evil implied in the assertion that the trade of carpet-beating, so long carried on in the precincts of the infirmary, had caused neither injury nor annoyance to the sick, are facts as pain- THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Spectator says that the results of the vote on Lord Stanley's motion should be a lesson to the tories on the fatal attempt to express insincerely the most sincere dislike. It is to be hoped that after the inevitable contest about the borough franchise, the mere party fighting will be over, and that the house may devote itself honestly to im proving what it will no longer hope to extinguish. If Lord Grosvenor, after showing his reluctance to defeat the government, will use his influence to induce it to accept a few practical amendments, there might still be reason to indulge a certain moderate degree of satisfac tion in the prospect of a settlement. The grouping should be either amended by the introduction of at least one large non-parliamentary borough into each group, or abandoned altogether, and the requisite number of seats got by taking one from each double-seated small borough up to some higher limit of population than the proposed B,ooo—perhaps 10,0000r12,000 would give sufficient. Rut the greatest amendment which could now be introduced into the bill, and which, by Lord Grosvenor's influence, if he would use it, probably would be adopted, is one likely to be raised by Mr. Yorke,—to leave the present 10/. franchise untouched in all the small boroughs and descend to 71 only where there is the special sort of working 1 population on accout of which the cry for this Reform Bill has arisen. _ _ . The Saturday Review pronounces Lord Stanley's motion a political mistake of the gravest kind. Any reasonable conservative should have known that this was a question in which the liberal majority would not be likely to desert their leaden, and the tones should have considered the effect which their motion was likely to have outside the house. If the house adopts a 71. borough, as it has a 147. county franchise, the event will be a very important one in the history of the English constitution. It must be a starting-point for all future discussion, and even if there is no time to pass the present bill this session, and a new bill is brought in next session, men's judg ments will be naturally and insensibly guided by the re collection that the point of the reduction of the fran chise has been already decided. The past history of the bill has shown that it is impossible for the present government to retain office and at the same time shelve the bilL Mr. Lowe may laugh at the notion of their honour being concerned in not bolding office unless they can carry a bill sooner or later. But they distinctly tell us that they think, whether rightly or wrongly, that their honour is concerned, and England would indeed be falling if she permitted her public men to do that which they themselves announce to be dis h mourable and disgraceful to them. The Examiner claims for the government the gain of fresh around during the week. A week ago few were sanguine enough to count on a majority of twenty-aix upon the first division in committee. If we thought only of the fortunes of party, we should be disposed to pray that Lord Derby would do something clever once a week at least ; and we should not object to his going down to the Grand Stand, as he did on Thursday, to see his dark horse beat and its ri ler flung. Had Lord Stanley succeeded in turning the bill upside down, what would it have availed! Ministers would have been thoroughly justified in calling on the House to re c insider its ill-advised decision, and thus the spectacle would have been presented of the oldest elective assembly in the world compelled to make the humiliating confession that it had been taken unawares and caught napping. But it is not conceivable that a majority who for three months have persisted in requiring government to go on with their bill should submit to have it picked out of their pocket before their eyes, and made away with because those who do the trick are not ashamed of being taken in the fact. Let toryism be convinced that it will gain nothing by trying to import the arts of the Stock Exchange or Tatter sall's into the halls of Westminster. Discussing the failure of the Agra and Masterman'a Bank, the Economist places in the front rank of the errors committed the abandonment of the plan of having an independent party in London upon whom the branches could offer bills, and the error of attempting to join together two enterprises so totally different as Indian and London banking. The utterly mistaken policy of entering largely into a lvances on securities of an unusual kind was scarcely leas fatal. There are two practical reforms which ought to be secured out of this lamentable failure. The first is the shortening of the usance of Indian billsfrom the presentperiodof six months' sight to four monthedate. The shorterterm is every way suf ficient for all needful purposes, and the objection to the longer terms are becoming so grave and obvious that the parties willing to accept at six months will presently be very few indeed. The second is the immediate issue to cre ditors of failed banks of " Certificates of indebtedness," to be cancelled by the payment of whatever dividends the estate may afford. In the meantime, however, the certifi cates themselves would be negotiable, and would be sold, or pledged for advances according to their esti. mated value. As it is, the unfortunate creditors are not only subjected to the ultimate loss of part of their money, but for several months they are wholly without the means of raising a sixpence on the security of their estimated dividends. PASSPORTS FOR AUSTRIA. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 7.—The Earl of Clarendon has been in formed by the Austrian ambassador at this court that it is not necessary for the bearers of Foreir office passports who may wish to enter the Austrian dominions, to provide themselves with the rixei of the Austrian embassy. It is, however, at present advisable that all British subjects wishing to visit Austria should be provided with passports. FOREIGN -OFFICE, JUNE 7.—The Queen has been pleased to aprove of Mr. Thomas Abbott as consul in Nova Scotia f ur his Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves.—Gazette. 11! 9 9 TVit t-4 • Although the Prussian ana in the Duchies have managed to avoid a conflict, 'each seeming desirous of avoiding the responsibi lity of striking the first blow, the hope of main taining peace is all but abandoned. General 'lGablenz, with his small force, has retired before General Manteuffel, and two of the principal towns in Holstein lately in the administrative occupation of Austria are now in the hands of the Prussians. The question now arises, will Austria attempt to co nvoke the Holstein Estates at Altona, and if so, will the Prussians force General Gablenz to evacu ate Altona as he has Kid and Rendsburg In the present temper of the antagonists every one must feel that this continued pressure put upon Austria must inflame the popular and military sentiment of the empire to the utmost ; and the Emperor will be compelled to adopt some decisive course. He will, in all probability, either order General Benedek to advance into Prussian Silesia, or call on the German Diet for Federal execution against Prussia. In the former case war would exist ; in the latter it may be deferred for yet some days ; but no illusions as to the permanence of peace exist either in Berlin or Vienna. The Prussian government have made the final arrangements for the defence of the Silesian frontier, and there is a rumour of suspension of the Prussian constitution, so as to remove every obstacle to the free and unfettered action of the government. The Vienna Gazette on its part declares that the pressure put on Austria in Holstein is a real commencement of hostilities. On the Italian side of the question the Italia and Opinione both speak of war as an event that must take place in a few days at the utmost, and some of the foreign correspondents go so far as to indi cate Monday or Tuesday next as the day when the die will be cast. It results from the intelligence that arrives from all quarters that the opposing forces are about to clash, but the chances seem to be pretty equal as to the first battte-field being in Germany or Italy. A letter addressed from Volhynia to the Cuts says: The greatest secresy is observed regarding the move ments of the Russian army. The local police themselves I receive only two days' notice of the advance of troops and of changes of encampment. The Russian army is evidently being concentrated by regiments along the eastern frontier of Gallicia. Persons coming from Podolia state that Russian troops are constantly on the march towards the Danubian Principalities, without how ever losing sight of Gallicia, which is traversed at the present moment by Russian agents who are endea vouring to stir up the Ruthenians of that province by telling them that Russia is their friend. They pay especial attention to the clergy of the Greek rite who have in former times done so much for Russia. 2ELLIGENCE. . • THE APPROACHING WAR. the Pruasian and Austrian commanders (mow outt owl cowasorowowyr.) PARIS, FRIDAY Evainaa. tion it If any change is to be noticed in the sitnat_ is only that the belief in immediate war is so uni versal as to find no contradicters. The in genuity which hitherto inspired pen holders like Boniface and Limayrac to make the best of bad symptoms is exhausted. Even the weekly Memorial Diploniatique, which never before failed to invent something reassuring for Saturday readers, is now fain to declare that Austria sees a cams belli in the invasion of Holstein by Prus sian troops. Prussia had already declared that she found a earns belli in the Austrian appeal to the Diet and the Convention of the States of Holstein at Itzehoe. The game of brag cannot possibly go on many days longer, and the question of striking the first blow must by this time be in military hands. The Liberte, M. E. de Girardin's paper, contains the following paragraph, which exactly dovetails with the situation : The rumour of • manifesto of the Emperor of th e , French, under the form of a speech, to be addressed to the great bodies of the Ante, is now so strongly attested, that we cannot do otherwise than notice it. There ought to be nothing surprising in this hint. The attentive public must remember that several days ago when people were exhorted to believe in the conference, the Pattie, doing its work awkwardly, concluded an article headed " There will be no war," with the ominous assertion that, if the powers should be so obstinate as not to make peace, the Emperor would make an appeal to the " patriotism " of the Corps Legislatif,and that he could put 600,000 men in line at four days' notice. At the Bourse there were fluctuations caused by persistent attempts to raise prices by the system of discounts. This system, often explained, con sists in a usage sanctioned by the house to call upon sellers to deliver securities they may have sold for amount on receiving full pay ment. The original object was to check fictitious transactions, but now the offer of dis count has oome to be so fictitious that the syndicate is petitioned to make a change in the regulations, requiring those who offer to discount to deposit their funds for payment, so that the offer may not be, as it very often is, merely in terrorem. To-day it was observed that the discounts produced but little effect. Ultimately Rente, after oscillating between 63fr. 71c. and 62fr. 50c., closed, without change from yesterday, at 62fr. 90c. Italian fell 25c., closing at 36fr. 75c. Other securities were a little weaker only. Cite Court. WINDSOR CA/MLR, Jews 8. The Queen went out yesterday afternoon, with Princess Helena. Her Majesty drove in the grounds this morning, accom panied by Princess Louise. Princess Helena and Princess Beatrice rode in the Home Park. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh and attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, rode on horseback yesterday forenoon. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh went to the House of Lords. The Duke of Edinburgh took the oaths and his seat as a peer of the realm. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by the Crown Prince of Denmark and the Duke of Edinburgh, and attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, drove to Kew in the afternoon, and were present at an entertainment given by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. The following noblemen and members of parliament had an interview with Mr. Childers at the Treasury yesterday, to urge the expediency of a reduction of the court fee charged on property passing through the Landed Estates Court (Ireland), and also an equitable arrangement of the stamp duties payable on land debentures to be issued under the authority of that court :—The Duke of Leivater, th e Marquis of Clanrlcarde, the Earl of Belmore, Lord J. T. Browne, M.P., Sir Frederick Heygate, Bart., M.P., Mr. W. H. F. Cogan, M.P., and Mr. Jonathan Pim, M.P. A deputation of the owners of property in favour of the gas works of the Chartered Gas Company had an interview with the Right Hon. W. Cowper, at her Majesty's Office of Works, Whitehall-place, yesterday. The deputation connoted of Mr. J. Glass, traffic manager of the River Leo navigation, Mr. W. White, Mr. W. Baines, Mr. G. Wright, Mr. W. Davey, Mr. S. Clark, Mr. R. White, Mr. J. Glossan, Mr. G. Stretten, Mr. G. Hare, Mr. G. A. Brown, and Mr. J. Raw. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of Jamaica and Honduras. Despatches were sent to the Governor of the Falkland 18 I Islands. HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING-ROOM. (THIS DAY.) Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales held a drawing-room to-day, at St. James's Palace, on behalf of her Majesty the Queen. Although it is somewhat late in the season, carriages began to arrive at an early hour. their occupants being content to remain in them all the morning, in order not to lose the chance of speedy preaen tation. The principal officers of state were as usual present on the occasion. The number of presentations was large, and they are to be considered equivalent to presentations to her Majesty. No other drawing-room for the season has at present been announced. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.—Her Majesty the Queen and the royal family are expected to leave Windsor Castle for Balmoral on or about the 13th inst. Her Majesty will only remain in Scotland about a fortnight, and then return to Windsor, in order to be present at the Princess Helena's wedding in the private chapel on the sth July. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge gave a grand entertainment last evening, at Cambridge Cottage, Kew, in honour of the approaching marriage of her Royal Highness the Princes Mary. In the course of the banquet the Duke of Cambridge proposed " The Health of the Princess Mary and Prince Tack," after which the Marquis of Aberoorn prcposed "The health of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge." During the evening "The healthy of her Majesty the Queen and the members of the royal family " were given, followed by several other toasta. Later in the evening her royal high ness gave a grand ball. The Countess of Derby will have assemblies on the IGth and 30th instant, at the mansion in St. James's square. The Bishop of Oxford will preach to-morrow morning in St. Philip's Chapel, Regent-street, on behalf of the National Schools of St. James's, Westminster. _.•1111. Ito WHITEHALL, JUNE 7.—The Queen has been 9 . pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the great seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 1 1 Ireland, granting unto Mr. James Robinson Plane)* j Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms, the office of Somerset 2 Herald, vacant by the decease of Mr. William Courthope. 2 —Gazette. g g BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JUNE 6.—This day had i audience of her Majesty Don Francisco de Rivera, en -1 Toy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from the republic of Peru, to deliver his credentials ; to which 4 audience he was introduced by the Right Honourable the 2 Earl of Clarendon, K.G., G.C.8., her Majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, and conducted by 2 General the Honourable Sir Edward Cast, K.C.11., her t Majesty's master of the ceremonies.— Gazette. HEPREAENTATION OF WATERFORD. —The nomina tion of candidates to represent the county of Waterford in parliament, in consequence of the acceptance of the Aloe of Lord of the Treasury on the part of Captain Esmonde, took place on Thursday in the Court-house, Waterford. There were very few attended, and little or no interest was manifested in the proceedings. Captain Esmonde was pro posed for re-election by Sir Richard Musgrave, seconded by Mr. Patrick Power, Pernbrokestown, and, there being no opposition, was declared duly elected. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. - - - The following address from Prince Charles ap pears in the Voice of Roumania.: Roumains,—The destiny of man presents no nobler ob ject than that of being called on to maintain the rights of a nation and to consolidate its liberties. A mission of such high importance has influenced me to give up an in dependent position, to resign unhesitatingly my family and my country, to which I was at tached by the most sacred ties and souvenirs,' ' and to comply with your appeal to me. The acceptation of the plebiscite which has placed on my head the crown Of Stephen the Great and of Michael the Brave, imposes on me great responsibility ; but, with the help of God and by entire devotion to duty, I hope to be able to secure for my new country an eaiatence at once prosperous and worthy of its past history. Rouniains, I am with you heart and soul. You may at all times reckon on me as I rely upon you. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Sass 9. The Politico Economical Society has addressed a memoir to the Emperor on the distress at present prevailing in Austria. It is expected that the taxes will not be collected in some parts of the empire, and that other con cessions will be made. VICTORIA. (Via Trieste.) MELBOURNE, APRIL 2S. The M'Culloch government has returned to office. The Tariff Bill has again been introduced, and after a conference it was amended and passed through I both houses. _ The Appropriation Bill has also been passed. Governor Darling proceeds to England next month. Considerable excitement followed the news of his recall. It is reported that parlia ment will vote him 25,0001. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. ADELAIDE, APRIL 27. The Ministry has been reconstructed. NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, APRIL 22. Parliament was prorogued on the 25th of March. The Public Debt Commissioners Bill has been withdrawn. Trade in the colonies is generally active. NEW ZEALAND. PLYMOUTH, Jolce 9. The troop ship Ballarat, from New Zealand on the 21“ of March, arrived here this morning with the head-quarters of the 68th Light Infantry. CHINA AND JAPAN. HONG KONG, APRIL 29. The Foochow tea season is about commencing. Intelligence from Japan announces that arrange ments are being made most favourable to commerce. The disaffection in the north is assuming a serious aspect. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. MARSEILLES, Juxs 9. The China, with the above mails, arrived here at 6 a.m. this day. The mails leave for London at 11.30 cm. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) 9AWRDAT, JUNI 9, 8 AAL P. Extreme. *ea B. T. W. '1 W. 11, Ito 12 F. ; D. 9. —l—. — Nairn Aberdeen 30.19 61,1 8.9. W. 4 5 && W. b 1 Leith '30.24 67, E. 1 2 B.W. c 1 Ardrossan. Greeneartla; 30.17 57! 8. 2, 5 B.W. so 10.0.5 2 Valentla 29.99 66i S.S.W. 14 6 W.B.W. for 0.02 8 Liverpool 30.25 621 88.8. 2 3 W.S.W. to —I 1 Holyhead Penzance 30.195 9; 8. ; W S •_ B.&W. 'mo 3 Baud .. I Lorlent Rochefort 90.120a E.N.E. , 3 3 N.E. b 2 'Plymouth Weymouth Portsmouth 30.26 64' S.K 2. 3 W. Icl_ 1 London _ 30.26 63 B.&W. '1 . 2 W.S.W. he - Yarmouth._ 30.3061, B.&W. . 2I 3 B.&W. oh 1 1 Searborough.l -- -I - - - Shields 30.3200 B.W. 2 2 B.W. e 2 Helder REMARKS. On nor coasts this morning ilie winds are salami!, and easterly. light , and the weather generally is tine. Barometers have fallen a little in the west. and it Vi“li raining this morning at Valentia. Temperature is higher on our south and east than ma our west coasts. LAW INTELLIGENCE-. (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURT. (Before Vice-Chancellor Bir R. T. Bindersley.) no ILL SHADWELL WATIMWORPM -711 D01[131 4 The Shadwell Waterworks, which were esiablidtoa the reign of Charles 11., and inooTorated by l a id at reign of William 111., had carried on business m o te end of last century. A suicidal competition with oh ; W est R im Company, carried on about the middle cif ti o . century, had led to a decline in their *fairs, sy appeared that from that time some shareholders asmK paying calls. The rivalry was put to by an agreement between the two oom lad it 1794 it was resolved that no proprietor who l a to his calls for 40 years should receive the dividends to tr Q he might be entitled, but that the money ?h e wn in reserve for the decision of a future meeting Thom only 36 shares in all, and of these the calls hon b oo 7 , in respect of 34. In the year 1800 the London De c k piny obtained their set of parliament, and pureke tt g ftadwell Waterworks for 50.000/. The lug the 34 shares divided 34-36 ths of Cr ..000 - r" .. ', themselves, and a emit having been institute/IR reference to the other two shares, 2,7871. 10a, or tai l o f th e 50,0001., was paid into court and invested la ) in the then low state of the funds in 5,0001. Commis. aim had since been accumulating, and now sesmand upwards of 40,0001. A petition was presented in Ise,„ determine who was entitled to this, and isq u ht t ..... directed in chambers. The matter came before ta t upon the chief clerk's certificate. The rep the thirty-four shareholders claimed that the feed win d be divided rateably among them, but naiad then a cha t was set up in respect of one of the other two share s Isy si t Sir tative of John Bweetapple, who it was le o * fo i r e l r n share in the company between WM and 1709 Mr. Bally and Mr. George Mimay appeared is of the petition presented by one of the 34 and Mr. Cotton, Mr. J. Pearson, Mr. Geo. Miller, li t ! I Pontifex, and Mr. Charles Brown appeared fur th e 0 5... c l a imants for the 34 shares ; Mr. Darnel and Mr. B ew i7 represented the claimant in respect of Sir Jolts gist r apple's share. The Vice-Chancellor considered that the fact dr 4 ' ministration baying been taken out till the War iio g 4 the estate of Sir John Sweetapple , who died is 1 711,e0t ' almost conclusive that he died insolvent ; and these - ; s t r ong probability that, wanting money for hie bea u ", a banker and goldsmith, he parted with hie ohms i t ty waterworks, which must have been worth at ths t it something like 1,3001. As, however, there was es e m u .• the advertisement of the namesof shareholders ia gm cony, Itiohsrd Boddington being printed for Be** Icourt could not proceed to administer the fend MI tut mutely accurate list had been published. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittings in Banco.—(Before Justices Blackburn aed Lk) =PARTS marmot:um BORTHWICL This wee a ease of very considerable reference to the power of the Lord Mayor Zliass h ki sma of the City over stookirrolues. Mr. Mellish, Q.C., with whom was Mr. Remake rua for a rule calling upon the Lord Mayor and City of London to show cause why a mandamus abeam sat issue commanding them to admit Mr. Borthwiek s Veda of the Cit 7 of London. The question in dam e whether besides the usual personal bond of 1,0001, fu e l into by a stock broker the corporation bad parr r demand a bond from securities as to the h F i t a rina once of the duties of a stockbroker. The wt not madefrom anplifficulty Mr. Borthwick of firlagn a required securities but it was made in his name ea lad of the committee of the Stock Exchange in order a Ma the question whether in law the corporation bad p e u under the 6th of Anne to make ouch a rue or replan, That act empowers the corporation, in referable to when they admit them, to admit them " nada Na 16 strictiona and limitations for their honest and good Nor viour as that court (the Lord Mayor and Aldersm( id think fit and reasonable." In February, 1865, the Cep ration reviewed their rules and regulations Mill nie voce to brokers, and by them they now require sae. brokers as well as other brokers to disclose their pan pals in a bought note within a certain time, sad Min enter into two sureties of 21'07. each. The Ms •to disclosing the principal was clearly illegal, beau the first place, it could not be complied with; secondly, that in law a stockbroker was liable mum tract as the principal. Mr. Justice Blackburn said that rule could selybe pt over and complied with. With regard to the seenitm there might be a difference of opinion u to its mama, but he was inclined to think that as the act Preto corporation full power to make rules and rephneaske the government of stockbrokers, it could not be said fiat it was not a fair, proper, and legal regulation. As to as expediency of the rule, that might be a very good ago meat for the Lord Mayor and corporation. Mr. Justice Mellor—You say that they cannot isms conditions which involve a bearing upon anotba pew! Mr. Mellish—Yee. They might make roles to pod against improper behaviour in discharging the dates d a broker. Mr. Justice Blackburn—Can we say that this is a improper restriction or limitation in the discharge els stockbroker's burliness ? I think not. Rule refused. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Bitting@ in Banco.—(Before Justice* Welles, Bike, sed Smith.) TOTTERDELL B. THE PAIRHAM BRICK AND TILL COMBS (LIMITED.) The defendant's company was formed for the per of making bricks and tiles out of a bed el tew clay, and seven persons signed the memorandum el association. The act of parliament said tkat sad directors were appointed the subscribers of the ne morandum of association should be deemed to be ins tors. Messrs. Brace and Ponsonby, two of the mews sons, engaged the plaintiff as foreman and managers/ 1 W company, and he now sued to re cover the wages dw him. At the trial before Mr. Justice Bylee, the valet was for the plaintiff, 18/. Mr. Pope now moved for a rule for a nonsnit sad et tended that the arrangement made by Mesas. &swag Ponsonby was not binding upon the company. The court held that the plaintiff having been enSBl 4l . l, two of the subscribers to the memorandum to the Milk tion, to do work which was within the scope of the 0a templated operation,' of the company, there was I loni facie case for the plaintiff, and therefore the defewinit were not entitled to a rule. Rule refused. COURT FOR DIVORCE AND MATRDIONIAL - - -- - CAUSES. (Before the Lord Chief Justice, the Lord Chief Bum, el the Judge Ordinary.) RTVES r. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL. The cross-examination of the petitioner was resatstaf the Attorney-General, and a memorial to Orr IV. was read, in which Mrs. tones assumed fit sw first time the title of Princess of Cumberksk In this document she stated that the wsza of the Duke of Cumberland with the ter of Dr. Wilmot had taken place hf 11 . 1 somewhere in Middlesex ; that the manses *I solemnized in the presence of Lord Warwick sailhal Addes, D.D. ; that the' memorialist was, Ws 4111 after her birth, substituted for a still bore of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wilmot; that Duke of Cumberland had contracted the bigamous WI with Anne Horton in consequence of the threats Luttrell, her brother, to shoot him on account of so* proper proposals he had made to her, and that Dr. "lit having no other means of obtaining .redress bad 0• wi.„` re rign ve ed nge, twrihottecnertutthecoletostterawhoifc; Jhuadatutswo"FoArrotsoduatil Gel 1 , the ease. She also stated that it was the me t who had first communicated the facts to her, sa. she told the Duke of Kent he appeared ensells ty a alarmed, and immediately made her promise to matter secret ; that he also persuaded her that hula marriage was against the provisions of the Marriages Act ; that it was not till November, 1 819, she was informed by the Rev. Mr. Rennie, that *4_7 did not become law till five years after, and thstLoultaw I ham had ordered the petitioner's mother tots* ocarel oll° France where she died of a broken heart. Witness said that the memorial contained some Addez was not a D.D. • but witness had t nit h oad a t t he n jt eder ai hthso.ordmebeldbinfocareabOtesutthtahinte D ot u h l: 4o : of II Glowst dates nisds they purported that the petitioner's grandmother was conveyed wts es e" -- 4 1 by order of the Lord Chathans. These were the WO!, Mr. Nugent Bell, the genealogical counsel, wheal snolt; mother had consulted. The Duke of Kent had &en y 1 15 et, after calling her in that document " Princew ef 'AI: the grant of a third of his lands in Canada is hwhwd," he afterwards told her that he nadersool; was illegitimate. The fact was his royal he „,di d know the exact bearings of the act, and he had ww...: that she was illegitimate because somebody had Sol s ; so. The duke had thought her legitimate iron lew 1818. The Chief Justiee-During that interval whom did Ist mother believe to be her mother" Witness-I don't think she knew. to bear. It was also rgq lee Tte mo Ju te dfe Ordinary-Then how did she know Ws ° Witness-By documents. oeived Th e Chief overywh Baron-asThecli, and if i o f f LYsi had mbeborosrlsad 741 would have been regarded as legitimate ; *nd that the Duke of Kent thought a prior of uncle was void under the Royal Marriages A ct 's di. The Attorney-General observed that the wording. spring " in the memorial was spelt " orfsprin&" error was that! Win:ma-Mr. Bell's. 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