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Mat . ltews, Delmore, and A hley , Wes N. Moore, ant F. Matthews, sal the Maws Nelson. ...And UNDER, THE ROSL—Commease &tn. BRITANNIA. Two t Tumid. OUR LOT IN un. L Lane ani Cranford.—Entertainments by Mina ham and Mr. THE BM OT TIM ORPHANS...And THIS BOOS 011 n . YOREST RI .—Iar. and RYA Hantoon.—Cosubdnod at 6 HIGH WATAII AT LOSLIOS BAIDAL THIS Dia —Morning. AA Altesseen, loh. Sm. To-moaaow—licenhaA 10k. Altasoon, 11S. 104 e. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 9. MR. FORSTER was no doubt perfectly right in saying that but for Mr. GLADSTONE'S recent speech at Manchester we should have heard nothing about economy from the Opposition benches this session, not even the very doubtful and ambiguous plea put forth last night by the Member for Stam ford, amidst the ominous silence of the gentlemen behind him. The leading members of the party are, indeed, very fond of criticising the financial policy of the Government, and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER is unquestionably their favourite aversion. And as their attacks on the details of his financial schemes—his remissions of taxation and sources of revenue—had uniformly failed, it was of course always possible that in sheer despe ration, in total forgetfulness of their maxims and traditions, their principles and policy, their present career and future prospects, they might some day be tempted to protest against the amount of the expenditure as extravagant. Hitherto, however, they have not, even in the crisis of their bitterest party attacks, yieldedto this temptation. A latent sense of consistency and self-respect, or the lingeringhope of an early return to power, has withheld them from denouncing a level of expenditure they have loudly clamoured for, and would undoubtedly do their utmost to maintain. In his recent attacks on the CHAN czuka of the EXCHEQUER, M. DISRAELI never ventured to hint at a policy of economy. While he denounced the remission of taxation, he said not a word against the high rate of expenditure, and the only practical conclusion to be drawn from his adverse criticism was, that had he and his party been in power the country would have bad to main tain the same or a higher level of expenditure, with an increased burden of taxation. This did not, of course, tend to advance their interest with the country, and at length, having voted the estimates, and washed their hands of responsibility for a year, they have determined to daily with the more popular cry of economy. We must say, however, that they have done so with characteristic vague ness and ambiguity. Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTZ prudently left the unwelcome topic to the close of his speech, and even then, after a hazy reference to the Income Tax, immediately relapsed into safe generalities. Indeed he had so very little of a practical or definite nature to urge in his new capacity as the champion of retrenchment, that it was difficult to see why he and his friends had suddenly decided to play such an unaccustomed and uncongenial part. Mr. Dissarm's speech, however, sufficiently explained the mystery. The movement was simply one of those well-known combinations in which , the great party strategist loves to indulge. The strong and growing feeling throughout the country in favour of retrenchment evidently suggested to his ingenious mind the plan of a subtle and com prehensive attack on the Government. If dex terously managed, it might furnish a plausible pre text for denouncing the whole policy of the Cabinet since its accession to office, both in home and foreign affairs. Under the convenient mask of zeal for economy he might attack the financial measures of the Government, bid for the support of different sections amongst the Liberal party, and introduce as many elements of mischief and confusion as possible into the discussion of our foreign relations. If at all successful the attack might be followed up by party manceuvres of the most promising kind, and thus help to gratify the right hon. gentle• man's passion for intrigue as well as his desire for power. The temptation thus presented was too great to be resisted. The right hon. gentleman's main design was of course, as usual. elaborately disguised, and of course, also as usual, the dis guise was so transparent that everybody saw through it. Mr. DISRAELI probably never made a speech which revealed more clearly his defects as a party leader, or his radical incapacity for higher states manship. It was throughout an admirable filler tration of that fatal superficial acuteness which defeats itself. The right hon. gentleman can et course detect quickly enough the growth and preva lence of a popular want, especially when it refers to material interests. But be is unable to appreciate, or even to comprehend, the deeper feelings and more disinterested sympathies of his countiymen. Had be been able to do so, be would never have made the fatal mistake of re viling, under the mask of a popular cry, the main principles and great objects of policy Englishmen have moat at heart. Mr. Disaazu perceives that there is a strong desire throughout the country for retrenchment, and so far he is right. But if he supposes that, in order to gratify this desire, the country is prepared to abandon the principles and repudiate the policy it has deliberately adopted, he is utterly and miserably wrong. Yet this is the fatal blunder he made last night. His speech was an unconscious confession of the blankest political unbelief. He said openly to the House and the country :—" You want a " reduction of expenditure. But expenditure de " pends on policy. Now, for the last two or " three years you have unhappily adopted an ex " pensive policy. At home you have remitted " certain burdens on industry, and these remis " sions are a dead loss to the revenue. Abroad " you have negotiated a Treaty of Commerce " with France, and this has involved large " sacrifices. You have sympathised with the mis " chievous dream of a united Italy, denounced the " temporal power of the POPE, and dared to con " sure the greet potentate by whom that power is " supported. If you choose to occupy such a " position, such a dignified and independent posi " ti on —if you choose to oppose the Derma of THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1882. " the FRENCH, instead of humbly following his lead " and obeying his wishes in every peel " cular—you must pay for it." The right hon. gentleman imagined this to be a trium phant redneti4.) ad abnirdUlf6 of the policy in foreign affairs which the country has pursued, the necessary conclusion of his argument being, " Of course, as you desire retrenchment, you will " abandon this policy." In support of this con clusion he consistently held up to scorn and ridicule the "moral power" which England exercises in the affairs of Europe. The right hon. gentleman thought it becoming to satirize and depreciate in every possible way the interest England takes in the struggles for freedom and independence amongst the nations of Europe, and the strong countenance and support she extends to those who are engaged in them. This " moral power," he tells us, is in consistent with economy, and he ventures to in sult the country by supposing that for the sake of a small annual saving it would readily abandon the liberal principles and policy that have raised it to the first place amongst the nations of the world. He coolly assumes that England will barter her birthright of freedom amongst the nations for • mess of pottage. The right hon. gentleman requires to be told, in the first place, that he is altogether wrong in his texts ; that the craven policy he suggests would not be cheaper but a great deal dearer than the independent policy he repudiates. A liberal and dignified policy in har mony with the character of the country is not at all more expensive than a policy of incessant panic and vacillating subserviency to foreign potentates. It is neither by smart criticism nor by small bids for parliamentary sections that Mr. Disa•sm and his associates will best advance their party aims. Before they can hope again to administer the Government of England theymust, inthe first place, come before the country as the representatives of fixed principles and • policy intelligible to common minds, not needing therefore to be spelled out with all sorts of artificial aids. Secondly, they must persuade the nation that their policy is wise and right. And, in the last place, they must give some reason for believing in their ability to carry it out. Mr. Disazam's speculative and aerial discussions will always be read with interest, but when the fasci nations of his oratory are over, we find ourselves in front of the practical question—Who is to conduct our affairs t The foreign policy of Lord P•milasros's Government, which Mr. Disszam more especially arraigned, is clear, and it is ap proved by the country. But if it were leas defi nite and less popular, the recollection of 1859, the distracted helplessness of Lord M•Lmssauny,which left us at the mercy of every vain alarm, would suffice to make us take Nate precautions against a renewal of an experience so dismal. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND AMERICA. The Pads correspondent of the Independence Bilge still harps upon the string that England and France are about to intervene in America. In the indfpendance of yesterday evening we read : The journey of M. Live/att. to London, which had given rise to so many comments, is now explained ; the object of it was simply to induce England to consent to a common in tervention in America. The terms of this intervention are fixed. It will assume at first the form of an offer of mediation ; if the mediation is rejected, the two powers will not shrink even from despatching a body of troops to impose it. It is certainly France which has taken the initiative of this pro- position ; England has accepted it only on one condition , namely, the previous settlement of the Roman question. The imperial government did not expect this demand. How ever, it has not been willing to find itself stopped by this skilful diversion • and, as it is very desirous of as early • conclusion la po ssible with Italy, it has lent an ear to the propositions from Loudon, ardently supported, moreover, by Prince Napoleon. It therefore promised the meal of Goyon es the prelude to the evacuation of Rome, and it has thus led the English cabinet to confer with it as to an intervention in American affairs. This information comes to me from • good source, and I can guarantee its FRANCE AND ROME. We read in the Stick of to-day :—" Letters from Rome announce the departure of the ex-King of Naples without anyone's knowing to what quarter he intends to direct his steps. There is desolation, it is said, in the camp of the faithful. The Prince of Rufano, chamberlain of Francis 11., counter manded orders for flies which were to have taken place at Paris on the occasion of the mar riage of his son. Everything serves to foreshadow an approaching solution of the Roman question." The Prease of to-day says :—" Belief in a near solution of the Roman question is now general. This great news, rapidly propagated, has produced not only immense sensation, but immense astir/an tion. The catholic press itself, which for so long a 1 time fired off all its guns in favour of the temporal sovereign, seems to have been surprised by the possibility of the event. After having cried Out so much, it has now scarcely a word to say." The legitimist exiles present to the Roman people a painful spectacle. The Gazette de France (clerical journal) says :—" The exiles are more eager to sup plant each other than to release their country from the Piedmontese. Instead of crowding round their sovereign in order to open the way to Naples, they are tearing each other to pieces. The chiefs of the royalist bands who are fighting in the provinces conceal their movements with greater care from the Neapolitans of Rome than from the Piedmontese of Naples." A letter from Rome states that the conviction is general there that the pontifical government has made every preparation with a view to a sudden departure. The pontifical archives are said to have been divided into two portions, which will be con fided to the nunciatures of Vienna and ,Madrid. The royal family of Naples has taken similar pre cautions, and all private letters from Rome leave no doubt as to the common determination of the Pope and Francis IL A letter from Rome, in the Gazette de France, contains the following : Between 10 and 11 in the morning the Pope aed Kies of Naples were, on the day of the tatters visit, enjoying the sea breeze at Porto d'Ansio, when the smoke of a steamer was observed on the horizon. Gradually the vessel approached, appearing to come from the direction 1 of Genoa. No flag was displayed, and she was at first thought to be a trader, but her deck was soon discovered to be crowded with soldiers. The vessel approached within gunshot. The Pontifical Zouaves were at their posts, and the artillerymen were asking themselves if their services were not about to be required. Opposite the camp the vessel audaciously slackened her pace, and hoisted the Piedmontese Bag. The display of those colours was • defiance, an insult. The Neapolitan steamers are not even allowed to show them in the harbour of Girlie Vecchia. The pontifical army trembled with anger, and asked to be allowed to sink the offending vessel. Mgr. de Mende calmed them. Three minutes would have sufficed to MUM fag, ship, and Piedmontese soldiers to disappear. But the Pope, with that mildness which the insults of his enemies have never been ►ble to impair, formally forbade any reply to the provocation. "When lam present," he s►id, "arms must not be used, I can only pray for them." The pontifical soldiers were obliged to repress their indignation, but the white and yellow flag was raised, and the Roman camp resounded with cries of "Long live Pius IX. I 'nog live the Pontiff King!" In the face of that demonstration the Piedmontese vessel put about, and steamed away in the -*ion of Naples. MADAGASCAR. "Important news," says the Ami de la Religion, "has been received from Madagascar. An insur rection has broken out in the country, and an attempt to assassinate the King was made. A cousin of the King, who is a preteudant to the crown, is compromised in the plot. His Majesty happened to be armed at the moment he was at tacked by the assassin. The King fired, and killed the latter. That incident had not discouraged the rebels, as, at the last dates, they were still under arms." (11110Ttlea TELEGIUM&) BELGIUM. THE HEALTH OF THE KING. BRUPSIELS, MAT 9, Moalrtso. The Mosifeur Beige of to-day says :—" The state of the King's health has undergone no notable change. "The Archduchess: Charlotte arrived at Brussels last night. " The Archduke Maximilian is expected here on Monday, and the Duke of Brabant on Saturday I next" SPAIN. MADRID, MAT 8, Evan The Duke of Brabant has left for Bruise* THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, MAT 9. The3foniteur of this morning publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following results as compared with the April account : INCRIABL Cash in hand -3 millions. Advances Bills discounted, not yetdue „ Bank notes 2° 4 P P Treasury balance Current accounts -3 „ AMERICA. ROCHE POINT, MAY 9, 2.56 A.M. The Inman steamship Kangaroo, from New York on the 26th ult., is in sight. Her news bus been anticipated by the Norwegian. The following telegram has been reoeived at Mr. I Reuter's office, from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, May 9 : CALCUTTA, CHINA, ILS. AND AUSTRALIAN MA MALTA, MAT 8. The Vectis, with the above mails, sailed this day at 4 p.m. for Marseilles. The Ripon, with the heavy portion of the mails, left at 6 p.m. She may be expected at Southamp ton on the 17th inst. 'at gourt. BALYORAL, YAT 4. The Queen drove out yesterday, attended by the Duchess at Athol.. A deputation appointed by the Baptist, Independent, and Calvinistic Methodist bodies in North and South Wales, I had an interview with the Lord Prreicleot and Vioe-Presi dent at the Privy Council-olioe yesterday, on the spbject of education in Wales. A deputation of the Liverpool Mercantile Marine Service Association bad an interview with the Right Han. T. Milner Gibson yesterday, at the °Bice of the Board of Trade. Despatches:were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governor of the Falkland Islands, the Lord High Com. missioner of the lonian Wanda, and to the Governor of Canada. THE VOLUNTEERS. The following noblemen and gentlemen have been appointed to serve on the commission to inquire into the state of the volunteer form : Viseount Bromley, Earl of Dude, Viscouut Harding., Lord Overdone, Lord Elcho, M.P., Lieutenant-Colonel Berttelot, M.P., the Right Hon. E. P. Bouverie, M.P., Lieutenant-Game& Sir George Wetherell, Major•Oeneral Eyre, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Archibald Campbell, Lieu. tonant-Oolood Gladstone, Major Vernon Harcourt, and Colonel ll'Murdo. THE COURT AT BALMORAL—OE Sunday last I neither her Majesty nor say of the royal family attended divine service at Crathie Church. The Dachas of Athol], Lady Augusta Bruns, the Hon. Mrs. Biddulph, the Duke of Argyll, Colonel Biddulph, Major Cowell, and Dr. Robertson were peewit, but did not occupy the royal pew. The Rev. Mr. Anderson preached from Matthew, 28th chapter, 20th verse. The pulpit and the principal seats of the church are still draped in black—Edinburgh Courant. The Archbishop of Canterbury has so far re covered as so have entered into an engagement to preach at Christ Church, Chelsea, next Sunday morning. The Countess de Persiguy, with her aunt, the Duchess d'Elebingen and family, will arrive this day in Lowodes-street, to pass some weeks in London. The count is expected here shortly. The Earl Delawares has arrived in Grosvenor skeet from Ruthin Castle, North Wales. The marriage of the Hon. Fernina Bellew, daughter of Lord Bellew, to the Has. Captain Everard Stourton, of the 10th Hussars. second son of Lord Stour too, was solemnised on Wednesday, at St. Mary's Roman catholic church, Little Crosby, in the presence of a name rove sad distinguished assemblage. A correspondent protests against the absurd police regulation by Sir Richard Mayne, which has pre vented the formation of cabetands in the neighbourhood of the Interoatiemal Exhibition. The result on such an after noon as that of Wednesday can be imagined. "I myself," writes the correspondent, " saw at least 500 people, many of them elegantly-dressed ladies, unable to obtain any convey ance from the building. The only chance of getting a cab was to seise on the very few that drove up to deposit their freights, and these, of course, could not provide one hundredth part of the accommodation required." Accounts from Alexandria state that the Duke and Duchess of Coburg arrived at Mamowah on the 29th of Mardi, and on the Lt of April the duke proceeded towards the interior. The duchess and the other ladies taking part in the expedition remained during his highness's absence at the mission station at Omkulla. Further intelligence states that on the 3rd inst. the duke and duchess had returned towards Suer. The festival which is to take place at Rome on the Bth of next month already gives Marseilles an unusual aspect. Mitred and crosiered personages abound there. List Sunday, at the celebration of high mass in the cathe dral, a Hussies bishops conformist—was present; he is stippreed to be the Bishop of Mobilow, a city of some 22,000 inhabitants, situated on the banks of the Dnieper, about 700 miles from St. Petersburg. Apartments have also been already secured at Marseilles for the Cardinal- Archbishop of Paris, Lyons, Rheims, Bordeaux, and He mmen, for the Archbishops of Homes, Rouen, Toulouse, Sens, Cambray, Alba, Aix, Avignon, and Bourges, and for the Bishop of Mets, Strasbourg, Aagouleme, Tulle, Per- Open, Orleans, Pemiers, Felins, Dive, Carcamonne, Nimes, Aire, and Reunion. Mgr. O'Craiee, the Bishop of Marseilles, also intends to leave. A letter from Athens, in speaking of the works of the arclueologiets who are charged by the King of Prude to make researches and excavations on the Acro polis, mays :—" The threshold which has been laid bare at the 'Masses of the Parthenon of Athens, was, on the 11th ult., caned for the first time after 1,500 years, and in presence of all the learned world of the Greek eapitaL There has been also discovered in the Erechtheoo, not the opening through which the noise of the sea was formerly heard, but a skiff in white marble in good preser►ation, and a statue which is of the best epoch of widest art. The honour of these dimoveries belongs to Professor Botteher." ORYNTAL PALACE. OHS SHILLING DAL.— ?RUMAT, MAT B.—Adminione ea parasak 1,344 I ditto, 11 Now. tasks* 514; Wel 1,5541. EXPRESS FROM PA.RLS. Mom ars am PABiB Tanuinia EVENING. The Pays repeats as latest news, and as if it was credible, the assertion of the New York journals that M. Mercier's visit to Richmond was an event of no political importance whatever. But this is absurd. The story about the French ambassador going there to look after some tobacco is altogether unfounded. The French tobaooo manufactory in South America is sublet to Rothschild for a term which has yet five years to run, and President Jef ferson Davis some time sinoe agreed with M. Bel mont, the local agent of M. de Rothschild, to allow him every facility for exportation. There was, therefore, absolutely nothing for M. Mercier to settle about the tobacco. It is, moreover, well known in political circles in Paris that he has made most important overtures, though the nature of them is studiously kept a secret. The Comfits- Sonnet has an article to-day with the motto " mediation and conciliation," from which, how ever, nothing definite can be gathered, except that a serious attempt is making to put a stop to the war. The Archbishop oflßennes' petition to the Senate, against the nomination by the Prefect of the Ille and Vilaine of a lay schoolmaster for the little village of Sel, whereas a majority of the muni cipal council had recommended a monk, was yester day shelved by a vote of the previous question. The law on the matter was absolutely free from doubt. The decree of 1862, which has the force of law, says that schoolmasters are appointed by the prefect, the municipal council being first heard. In the present case the prefect did, according to his bounden duty, " heal" the municipal council, and he afterwards acted against their recommenda tion, as it was his most undoubted right to do. Nevertheless the ultramontaniata de la Roche jaquelin, Segur d'Agueaseau, Cardinal Mathieu, and others made long speeches about liberty of instruction, the rights of fathers of families, and persecution of the clergy. M. Billault, who appeared as the government orator, made a very firm speech in support of the prefect's authority, and taunted the clerical party with their ingratitude towards the Emperor, who had done more for them than any of his predeces sors in this century. He reminded them, in bitter terms, how ardently they had supported the prin ciple of authority in the Emperor's hands eleven years ago, and how far they then were from sus pecting the higher powers of the state and accord ing more confidence to the lower. He accused the party in the municipal council of *lel, which was supported by the archbishop, of being actuated by a spirit of "ultra-proselytism," and mentioned a case in that very commune of a priest refusing the sacraments of the church to a mother unless she would take away her child from a lay school and send it, against the wish of its father, to a seminary conducted by monks. So much, said M. Billault, for the pretext that the petition was presented in the interest of fathers of families. He said he had many statistics, which he could read, showing the aggressiveness of the religious schools, but he abstained, on account of the late ness of the hour. If, which God forbid, another debate of the kind should be brought on, he would state facts which would astonish people. The Marquis de Larochejaquelin and Cardinal Mathieu, with much clamour, insisted upon replying to the minister, but the Senate, taking its cue from M. Troplong, decided that they had heard the affair discussed long enough, and voted the previous ques tion by an overwhelming majority. The Emperor and Empress conducted their guests, the King and Queen of Holland, to the races in the Bois de Boulogne to-day, and the projected fête chantpetre at Trianon was, consequently, put off till to-morrow. It will come off then with great éclat. A breakfast for 150 is ordered in Marie Antoinette's garden. The weather is less charming than it has been since the beginning of the month. The second quarter of the lune rousse began yester day, and is signalised by a disturbed state of the atmosphere, iudicatiug storms and chilly currents of air. The Bourse has been tolerably firm, without much business doing or any great change in quota tions. The Waite closed at 70fr. 70c. (yesterday's price) for cash, and at 70fr. 80c., with a rise of 10c., for account. Mobilier rose lir. 25e. The Italian Loan was in request, and rose 35c. In railways the only noticeable change was a rise of 7fr. 50c. in Southern. Caisse Mires is firm at 150 fr. Some of the journals state that M. Rouhor, the Minister of Commerce, will leave Paris for London about the 15th inst., to visit the Exhibition. A first warning has been given to the journal La Halle, of the Island of Reunion, for an article con taining " insinuations offensive for one of the public services of the colony." Marshal Magnan, grand master of the order of freemasons in France, has just addressed a letter to hie brothers in general, and the dissentient lodges in particular. After regretting the schism which has long divided the order in France, he says that a "sovereign will " desires them to be united. He particularly wishes to establish the fact that an " act of high and public sympathy, the first that has honoured the French freemasonry, has confided to him the direction of the rites in France," in order to prevent their true import from being mis construed. For this purpose he appeals to all hie brethren, and expresses a firm conviction that his appeal will be heeded. He thee, et ter having addressed the dissentient ma sons, turns to those of Paris , and urges them to set the example in the work of union. He concludes bj saying that the Bth of June of the present year ought so inau gurete a new era, and expressesa hope to see all the lodges gathered around him in harmony on that day. The Imperial Library in the Rue do Richelieu, Paris, has undergone a complete transformation, sad the new reading-room, which is of immense size, will shortly be opened to the public. The library contains 1,800,000 volumes, and the shelves on which they are arranged measure 28 kilometres, or 17 miles. It is generally sup posed that the library collected by Marin V. in the Louvre formed the stock for the Imperial Library, but this is as error. That library waa purchased for 1,206 lime by the Duke of Bedford during the Ugh& occupation. The few books existing in Paris of that period ware scattered among the other royal palaces, and were saved by their insignificance. It was Louis XL who collected them in the Louvre. Louis XIL transferred the new collectiou to Blois, and Francis I. to Footainebleau. It was in the year 1722 they were transferred to the Hotel Nevers, in the Rue de Richelieu. A letter from Algiers, in the Semaphore of Mar seille, says :—" If I am well informed, the superior autho rity has decided that a certain number of natives shall be sent to the Exhibition in London at the expense of the colony. It is probable that that deputation will be taken from among the chiefs, and it is to be desired that the peat industrial solemnity in question may gins them a taste for European civilisation." RIMIIHN OF TBI ALL-ENGLAND ELlFlN.—Cap tan Stephenson and his tea companions, who bays been winning fresh laurels in Australia, arrived at Alexandria with the overland pomusgers on Sunday last, the 4th inst., sad left the following day for Marselllee, which port they ware expiated to reach on the 12th. They will in all pro bability get to London by the 14th, in time to receive a hearty welcome hem from the gentlemen of the Surrey Club. who dine at the Bridge HOO2O Hotel on the 15th inst. LONDON GzszaAL Owsinus COMPANY (Lamm* —Trafilc receipts, week ending May 4, 13, 4924 7s, I.ld. THE DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE. Shortly before the conclusion of the business at the Mansion-house yesterday the Lord Mayor left the chair for the scum of a warier of an hour, and on his return be said he was sorry to bus kept the public waiting, but he had been called away ea a matter of great immta n trebi.. the distress among the operatives . in Lucas had just then been waited upon by a deputation of several mer chants of the City, and he had considered the matter with them, and the result was that he was that afternoon tossed to several of the towns where the dishier prevailed • por tion of the money which the public had confided to his care. It might, perhaps, be recollected that about • fortnight ago he stated he had been applied to on the subject, and that he was w i ling to be the medium by which the public bounty mt be transmitted to some central or paniation. Such an orpakation had not been formed ; but various load orgurisations were now in action, and acting under the advice of those gentlemen who hail been with him that morning, be felt he should be fulfilling his duty if be sent the money to these local agencies. They were all working to one end. There wu one, and perhaps more than one committee already formed , which would act in harmony one with another to one end, namely. the allevia tion of distress which was known to be prevslant in lAnoa , shire. A considerable amount wee received yesterday, and the sums which the Lord Mayor sent away during afternoon were as follows :—To Preston, 5001. ; 500/. ; Stockport, 2501. ; and Wigan, 2501. At • meeting of operative spinners held in Idane.heater, last night, • committee was appointe " to collect subscrip tioos from the workmen of all ender who are fully employed, and from others, and to distribute theism* to the necessitous unemployed operatives in the manufacturing districts." A letter from Lord Shaftasbany was read, ia whi earl ch the sable expressed his warm sympathy with the suffering . opera tiro of Lancashire, whom he has '"' always in his mind." The letter contained • cheque for 20L—the Sri contribution towards the proposed subewiption, which is to be called the " Shaftesbury &diet Fund." (From the Afaseekster Exastiner.) It is desirable that all er roreou" 'miseries' of what is being done in the direction of relief should be at once re moved, and that no political or party colouring be given to manifestations of sympathy. We are informed that the deputation of members of parliament and others to the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, at the office of the Poor-law Board, on Friday, took place in accordance with an opinion by • of th e mooing of Lffinorahire members in n do rtes-room of the Houma of Commons. From the inter. prated= of the law ae laid downby Mr. Villiers to the depu tation, it was evident that the board would tolerate indulgent measures of relief, and would not 'squire very narrowly into exemptions from the labour test, or require • poor man's house to be stripped before relief was obtained. The members who attended were invited to resume their deli berations on the Tuesday following at the house of (Idabel Patten. Afterwards the place of meeting was ciod to Bridgewater House. Colonel Nies, IL P., we 4 and the meeting was also attended by _Lord Ellesmere, Lord Overstoue, Mr. Cardwell, M.P., Lord Harlington, M.P., several other Lancashire members, and about haffie-doers private gentlemen from the manufacturing districts. It was then ascertained that the publication in the Times of • list ef seines of a pro committee for ea appeal to the °amenity to rams • gessral subscription in aid of the unemployed operatives was wholly without , and had emanated from a dram in • Lancashire who bad taken on the respossibility. names had Included those of the Earl of Sabo, Mr. Card well, M.P., the Earl of Deft, the Earl of Illeirme, the Earlei Crawford and Warren. Lord Stanley, IL P., Lord .Lindsay, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Hon. A. Egerton, M.P., Colonel Patten, M.P., Major-General Lindsay, IL P., Mr. Hadfield, M.P., Mr. H. Woods, M.P., and Hl. H. Ashworth (Bolton). The initiative thus attempted was at once undone ; and, after two hours' discus sion, in the course of which it appearedthat eomeof the leaded gentleman present were in favour of a public appeal, while all the mercantile or Maori facturin g represeetatives were opposed to it, it was resolved, by a majority of three to one, that the time was not yet come for any such action to be taken. This decision will in no way interfere with local efforts for the relief of deities, and it is not at all improba ble that some influential meeting may be held in Lancashire to confer upon the subject, as well as to express a suitable recognition of the fortitude and forbearer , e of our suffering -vtrymen. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) FRIDAY, MAT 9. 9 LK. , a S. I. /1. D. F. I 1. B. —.---. --- ---..——. NBl9lll We II 60 W.S.W. 11 o Unman" 2667 62 49 L&W. 6 a OAS WM SUS IS 60 W. 1 6 OM= . u 62 4 &Lt. 2 b 6.266003 As 0 .00 .60 62 61 LLW. S 1r 9.09 Poisson. . 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The following extract of a despatch from Lord Lyons respecting political %Freda in the United States, is printed to-day in a parliamentary return :—" Lord Lyons to Fad ItusselL—(Received April 284 —Washington, April 14. —Although the power to make arbitrary political arrests has not been formally remounted by the executive govern ment, it has not, so far as I know, been recently exercised. I am not aware of any British 'object being now arbitrarily detained am a political prisoner. Arrests, without form of law, are still made by the military authorities in plum sa mpled by the forces of the Uoited Stater ; but they appear to be maned in general to persons accused of offences affecting, more or leas, the discipline or the safety of the army." THE JAPANESE AMEAPEADORS. —Yesterday morn ing five of the medical gentlemen attached to the Japanese mission paid a visit to King's College Hospital. They went over all the wards, examined mescal of the most interesting cases, and minutely inspected the srrangements for the comfort and convenience of the patients and muses, which, as this hospital is the most recently constructed in London, are all of the beat and moat approved description. They spent a considerable time in the dispensary, ern mining the drugs in most frequent use, many of which ware quite familiar to them, and they seemed struck with the simple machine used in the manufacture of pills. They were also particularly interested with the various descrip tions of plaisters , the mode of preparing which was shown to them, and they carried away small pieces as specimens. They afterwards visited the kitchen, where for the first time they saw jousts 000ked by gas; and the machinery of the hydraulic lifts for winding up patients and diets appeared greatly to interest them, as they all ascended in the lift to the top of the building. PUBLIC EXAMINATION or LAW STUDENTS. --The public examination of law student+ which will take place in the Beacham' Reeding-room, Lineoln's-inn, will be on , in the following order :—Friday morn May 23, at 9.30, on Constitutional Low and Legal History • in the afternoon, at 1.30, on Equity. Saturday morn i ng, a. May 24, at 9.30 ► m ,on Common taw •in the afternoon, at 1.30, on the Law of Beal Property . ko. ' Monday morning, May 26, at 9.30,00 Jurisprudence and the Civil law • in the afternoon, at 1.3 0 , a paper wi l l be g iven to the itodents including questions bearing upon all the foregoing subjects of examination. The oral examination will be conducted in the same order, during the same hours, and on the same subjects, as those already marked out for the examination by printed questions, except that on Mon day afternoon there will be no oral examination. The oral examination will be conducted apart from the other stu dents, and the character of that examination will wavy according as the student le a candidate fur honours or a stu dentship, or desires simply to obtain a certificate. The oral examination will be founded on books mentioned in the prosus, regard being had, however, to the parti cular ob ject with a view to which the student presents himself or examination. In determining the question whether • student has pawed the examination in such a manner as to entitle him to be celled to the bar, the exa miners will principally . have regard to the general know ledge of law and jurisprudence which be has displayed. A student may present himself at any number of examina tions until he shall have obtained • certificate. Any student who shall obtain • certificate may present himself a second time for examination as a candidate for the Mildest ship, but only at one of the three examinations imme diately succeeding that in which he shall have obtained sash certificate ; providing that if any . student so preempt ing himself shall riot moved in obtaining the stexlentehip, hie name shall sot appear in the list Thom students who have kept more than 11 teems will not be admitted to an examination for the studentship. THE RECENT BOILER EXPLOSION AT Marstaillmi. —Mr. Thomas Rose, the proprietor al thews weeks, ream day remind • cheque forlool. from Rest Dndloytewasaithe fund which is being mimed for the relief el the enffierere by this calamity. Mode are being made to remit the damn* done, with a view to the rsconsmenemeolt al eporatices, which is mast desirable, there being arelnuarter el maa is the Mike district who are net aPJ~I. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) The court made decrees In several ueoppoeed cases tha morning, but *one of them were of much interest. In Brlsp v. Brier. the husband was charged with throwing teapot full of boiling water at his wife, sad with holding her bands in a hot oven. He hadalsocornmitteindultery. In ray lor v. Taylor a judicial separation was granted . It having bee n proved that the relp= , t, a City —` drunken Erin, who habitually ill, Easy v. and Smith , the meadow ship's Me had been guilty of an td wok in the employ of the New River r husband was at me. In /Lapp v. M Wild, a publican's wife, in courses, and and had finally eloped with maker at linerkenwell. In Cumber the parties had contracted a hasty an had never lived together. They kept respondence for a time ; but eventual, deserted his wife and left the count, COURT OF HAN . _ (Before Mr. Commissioner DI In DOWITON AND The banizapte, were provision mongers, of Nei/inn-yard, Old Bailey, wee the examination sitting in the oar well has already passed. The joint assets returned at 2,4701. Downt Own account before he was joined b, no less than seven places of business town and suburbs, had filed a eeparat log debts of 11,8851. ; assets and n creditors, 4,4381. Mr. Lawrence, for the assignee', ai of the examination of Downtoo. Mr. appointed by the creditors, had r account, and there were certain rapt was required to answer. Mr. C. K. Loma, for the bankrupt, adjournment, which was ordered. //tN HAIRED AND COLLINOWIy CADIL—LITNNIIIVZ The baniffepts were hop-merchant was the sitting for examination and liabilities ale 16,5011., and 8,354/. secured. The amen are barely expense*. Mr. Lawrence appeared for rough for creditors ; Mr. Poole fo and Mr. Linklater for Collingwood. Mr. O. F. Kemp, the manager presented the following report, singular facie of this case : " These bankrupts commenced malt, September 10, 1860, at of shortly after removed to Mark- Hamper had, previously to that • nese of a maltater, at Ipswich F. Co ll imgwood, being then in I viotoeller, and having previousl; ;el a butcher at Islington. Althoui lain were drawn up by a solicitor, th bans hew exeseted. F. Colliogrrood, essenennemene el the partnership, pe • Wei capital wee subsequeolly manta to 2,7061.19 x. 3d. The ban commencement of the eartnership, tent of 3,199/. 3s Id., the greater have been liquidated by &twin , No balance-sheet appears, to Inv partnership. Oo analysing the on hand was taken by their Sept. 10 to Dec. 31,1880, the w resulted in a pose profit of 47 sold being 1,741qm., of the aggregate From the state of the books it le what amount of expenses were LL The course of trading from the bankruptcy, December 7 shows the purchases to of malt, of the vales the sales to 6.196 qrs., the balance of 3,667 qrs. being posed to be in the hands of wnbroker, of 32 , Strand , and T. beeper, of Worcester-place, Upper wham, although repeatedly applied raider any account either of the on or the nub they have advanced inshllity to do so, on t' kept no account of the with the bankrupts, and which period of the paitaership. The habit of systematically pawning these portico ; the aggregate v. represent being several thousand milt of the trading it is until the stock is accounted so far as I have been enabled 3,1601. 18s. 2d., of which 1,114/. and the balance for ordinar t 1041 by bad debt' appears W h at bankrupt, Thomas Hamper's, dra of fifteen menthe over which ti methods, was 4,71:`1. Bs. 8d out his old liabilities to the "tent of (with the amounts now due to 8661. Bs. 9d.) his house and 2,334 i. 7s. 4d. The only asset ho horses, since sold for 621. I pears, did not draw anything out o balance-sheet shows sufficient separate creditor' 20s. statements show a direct exclusive of 8,3641. estimated creditors, who are supposed to b they bold. The amen coons since sold for barely imfficieni debtors said to be good, 42/ words not cos farthing in ' or to pay the necessary expenses The result of this disgraceful be mainly attributable to the seh...„, nerating prott, and recklessly and systematically pawning of their goods, trafficking largely in accommodation bills, no less an amount tha n , 44/. 14s. being still outstand ing, and excessive priv drawings by Hamper to meet an extravagant person' expenditure, and to discharge liabilities incurred by him prior to the partnerdip. Scarcely . any accounts of their transactions have been kept, and it is therefore impossible to trace with the present means of information what has become of either the cools or cash. No entries appear in the cash book, and bat few in any other books, the information contained in the accounts being principally gathered from memoranda and personal explanations. The balance of the goods "- count, representing 3,717 qrs. of malt (unless in the bands et Atteoborough or Berridge) have yet to be accounted for, whilst the cash and bill account contains items, c to hick bare yet be explained, amounting to 20 . ,500/. Very fee of the transactions of the firm appear in the books, Oa those they . do contain are mostly of a fictitious char Et The following purchases were made on the eve of the bask ruptcy. at the undermeotiooed dates, the g o ads N obtained being immediately paw bed :—September, October. and So. number, Donnell, 1,385 qrs., at 5fi5.,4.0041. ; November 18. Chariwood, 236 4-8 qrs., at Wm., 6311. Is. :id. It is bet right to mention, that the bankrupt F. Cotillion...l MN not in any way appear to be implicated in these trsauctioce, he having takes co active part in the business, leaving it so • tirely to the menagemeot and control of Thos. Hamper ad the clerk, John Christie." Mr. Lawrencesaid the assignees were willing that Coiling . wood should pass and receive his order of di s charge. he d bebie: e• lug that he had been the victim , it n ot the tool, of t bankrupt. Be had givers up property sufficient to dieciarf" his separate debts, sad leave a surplus of 5001. Be ba d paid over in cash 9601. to Mr. Kemp, the manager of the estate. The Coromindorier —Do I understand that be had teen sleeping partner I Mr. La wsttee—A very sleeping partner indeed. Oririani he was a publican. He advanced large sums of nnue7 Mr.ininper for his business in Mark lane, and bad held to be a partner. Hamper had incurred unsecured debt. of 11,760/, and those creditors wo oould not th get t tar thing, But for the surplus from Colliogwd's estate em " UM " bo mouth to Pay the expenses of the beekrap tc r . Mr. Oannaa, the official aseignee—And tint a vo7 doubtful. Here is oae claim of 501. now put forward. milk. does not appear in his baleacetheet, and there ma r be others. ID Collingwood was examined—He said be bad brollibt 2,1791. on joining Hamper, in October, 1960. But. Li e ' viously been in Wainer many years as • P"" 7 " . "...,„ nod was then worth about 10,0001. The of this had been except 1,600/. He began tr e k "" "Load of Bay " ; it bad mom bee fioliel b t afenses. for 9,ootrr.,betromandwChkho., th h e ere mo w n o lga i re b e e . a tat ro w id t : e 41391. or 5001. He made purchases for the bus hes r Mark-lass ; that was done by Hamper. Never knew alto goods. Had never pledged malt with Mr. Atter klatar, who represented Colliogwood , said itA very &Withal whether he had ever been a partom or Lib ••• No deli had bees signed ; but havi n g agreed to le 11 , share in th e prate he was a partner in the construction et law. and tr His Ilse said he would psis his examination, olive his ceder of discharge. With reference to the other bankrupt, Mr. Law:seas said the case was a most monstrous ~!: and at • More stage be should ask for the refusal of _ a. t. order of discharge and probably for leave to trade's the old law he should have asked for a protection at once ; but as creditors who bed proved or not now take a bankrupt in execution, that anon IT! alder. The god. been clearly yarding fat IN C: P pT e rt gober frei°tie from t aas. • thpeilianodth6ntiheseit:stp:grealwonf things t he City - warehouseman, was a er natty Mused his wife. In ae e reepoodent, the wife of • Y of an intrigue with a turn. ,w River Company while her ea pp v. Mapp and Squires and :yes-inn-road, had Wien to ml l with a journeyman watch. Jumberlidge v. Cumberlidge tasty match at Coventry ; bu t ly kept up an affectionate 0, • t eventually the responde nt country. er ANICRU PTC Y. unissioner Fans.) ns AND BATCHWILL. an moo merchants sad cheese- d Bailey, and elsewhere. This the cue et Downton ; Satelr of • joint liabilities are 8,0754; la motor'. who had traded oo hu Dad by Satchwell, and who had eileess io different puts of the separate balance-sheet, shoe. and property held by secured so Dees, asked for an adjournment Mi a. Mr. Hutton, the minim ad reported oft the deficiency sin questions which the bank. e bankrupt, consented to the ea bred. bi LLINGWOOD.—ECTEAORDINARY rMI PAWNING. fa orchards, of Markiane. This on and discharge. Their joint 8,3541. due to creditors fully rei barely sufficient to pay the for the assignees; Mr. Mat sir for the bankrupt Hamper; (wood. ger appointed by the creditors, art, which fully discloses the ts ti mooed busier as dealers in at offices in Water-lane, and h, Mark-lane. The bankrupt T. that date, carried on the bun. pswich ; the other bankrupt, tl en in business as a licensed previously carried on that 11 1 n. Although terms of partner. &kites they do not appear to ollingwood, at the data of the tt tership, paid to the firm 1,5001., wetly increased by further pay. be bankrupt T. Hamper, at the seiship, was insolvent to the ix • q greater portion of which alai= drawings out of print estate. • o have been pre daring the g the tutting when the stock their clerk, Mr. Christie) from he sale of malt appears to ban if 4751. 45., the amount of malt e agsrmate value of about 6,001 X. , Ira it is impoeible to media rem incurred to produce ilk pro. from Jan. 1,1861, to the date of her 18, in the mane year, to amount to 9,870 qrs. le of 32 011. 7s. 3d., sad c ~ realising 21,2801. 11s. Id., being unaccounted for, bat s ads of Mr. J r. Aden ad, and Thom as Berridge, mosey e, t y p tp e el Tharoer of street, both to, have neglected I. of e quantity of malt they hold, snood on the same, stating their a the ground that they have he large transactions they had which extended over the entire ▪ The bankrupts have been io the awning both malt and hops with • ;reside which there pawainp I thousand quartets. The ear it is impossible to siscertaia • anted for. The trade expenses, luabled to traos them, amount to 1,1141. 10a. sd. are for disowns, Unary trade disbursements. The a to have been 9161. 7s. Bd. The per's, drawings, duties the period which the statement of accounts Bd.. out of which he discharged extent of 2,3931. Is. 4d., leaving ✓ due to his separate credit" ase and personal expenses at ly asset he has surrendered is his ✓ 621. F. Collingwood, it air thing out of the Men ; his separate sufficient to pay all his in the pooled. The yoid eat liability of 16,500. 18s. 51. timated to be due to the secarei osed to be covered by the giantlike ohs consist of the office furnit sufficient to pay the rent, sod pod, 421. De. 101, or in other is in the pound for the crediton expensm of administeriog the estate. ' graceful state of things appears to to the selling of malt at au uuremu. eklessly and systematically pargiog • Ling largely in accommodation bills, tan 4,7441. 14s. being still outstaad• irate drawings by Hamper to meet goal expenditure, sod to discharge ry him prior to the parteerslip. of their transactions have been kept, apossible to trace with the present what has become of either the gads appear in the cash book, and but las, the information contained in the tipsily gathered from memoranda lions. The balance of the goods at. 17 qrs. of malt (unless in the hash et ridge) have yet to be accounted for, bill account contains items, which led, amounting to 20 ,5001. Very fer I the firm appear in the books, mad are mostly of a fictitious character. • pas were made on the eve of the bulk. :entioped dates, the goods No obtaisd woad :--September, October. sod So- -3.5 qrs., at 56s , 4.0041. 16s ; N o vember qrs., at 5f0., 651/. Is 3d. It is bet it the bankrupt F. Coiling's:el dun r to be implicated in these trausattise tive part in the business, leaving it so. tent and control of Thos. limper sad : tia." the assignees were willing that Collint 1 I receive his order of discharge. belief. the victim, it not the tool, of the tide pvee up property sufficient to We:IMP ad leave a surplus of 5001. Ifs be 1. to Mr. Kemp, the manager Cl the —Do I understand that be bad bass very sleeping partner indeed. He advanced large sums of money to business in Mark lane, and bind or. Hamper had incurred Unseal.' ad those creditors would riot get s tar maid= from Colliagwood's estate them to pay the expenses of the baakreptcf. • official assignee—Ad that is e,e/ Doe claim of 501. now put forward. Ines. a his haleace-sheet, and there rust' lo examined—He said be bad breecht Hamper, in October, 1960. Had Ler business many years an a Pehl h2 ",,,. worth about 10,0001. The os"" tks except 1,600/. He besan to tehei tla shim-house; it bad Noce been finish and Co., the m audio's' b!, cm which there Votl a rt e s . a surPho lever made purchmee for the busives saaddueonvoebryplifzujer. malt rt. r..toftwhil. rho represented Collingwood , odd it " I ' thee he had ever bees a parted or Ise t signed ; but having a greed to 1-4 , 0 she was a partner in the construct::: 1 d he would par his examinatio, and ear discharge. to the other bankrupt, laid the case was a mod monstrous orn age be should ask for the refusal of t_t e • and probably for leave to r.!gr, r be should have asked for a Wean e; but as creditors who bad proved c'"'" Dankrupt in execution, that course !!! ads had been clearly purchued for ins them. Thin was gro ss miacooduc2! as at, and the pawnee was no t beam.ln this 'tete of Minis th e • 11111111111111 I .