The Express. — London, England, 1862-11-24 00:00:00

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ARE we to have a North and a South in Eng land as well as in America, each with its local conceits and prejudices, each with its distrust and misunderstanding of the other, ready to break out at any moment into open animosity 1 Is the work of alleviating a national misfortune to be poet polled or hindered till every State in a revived Heptarchy has counted up the number of its poor, and boasted of the pressure dins rates—till Sussex has measured itself with East Anglia, and Wessex and Northumbria have squared accounts? We have somewhere seen it suggested that the growling chorus kept up in the columns of some of our con temporaries by writers whose ignorance of the mat ter in hand is plain in every line, and especially by Clergymen, who seem to have forgotten that Goa is said to love " a cheerful giver "—means no more than the half earnest, half sportive " chaff " with which a man relieves a sturdy beggar of whose claims to help he is not quite satisfied. If the penny be but thrown into the hat, what matter whether it be accompanied by a smile or a scowl : in either case it will buy a pennyworth of bread, neither more nor less. We wish that we could think so. We do not accuse the thoughtless writers of some of these letters of any desire to check the flow of benevolence towards the North, or to foster provincial prejudices, or to serve the purposes of a party. They have simply burned to inform the public of the great burdens they have borne ; and their lucubration., which six months ago would have been summarily consigned to the waste paper basket, have been found convenient by some who can see farther than they can. They have been made the tools of unworthy party ani mosities ; and in their temporary notoriety will doubtless find their reward. But with those who have thus used them—with the men who are able to rise to the conception of national interests, and who cannot deny to themselves, however they may conceal the fact from the public, that Lancashire is passing through the fire for England's sake, and in England's stead—a heavier reckoning must be held. Theirs must be the shame of having chosen a time of unparalleled distress, and of benevolence equally unparalleled, to sow the seeds of mean local jealousy between the givers and the re ceivers of the gift. And theirs will be the credit of having poured with one hand a drop of bitterness into the cup, which with the other they hold to the lips of suffering ; of clogging liberality with a grudge, and conferring obligation with insult. What is the truth about this matter of Rates It is quite true that in ordinary times rates are far higher in agricultural than in manufacturing districts—quite true, also, that the very reverse is the case with wages ; so that what Lancashire and Cheshire save in one direction they spend—far more honourably and advantageously to the work ing class—in the other. Still, without taking this into the account,we must at once admit the legal lia bility of everycounty to support its own poor, even in exceptional circumstances like the present. And the allegation is that now, after nearly a year of com parative privation, and six months of actual distress, rates in the manufacturing districts have not risen to the normal height of some agricultural parishes. Can anyone tell us what the rates amount to in any considerable Lancashire town at the present moment? Everywhere the condition of things changes from week to week, new rates are being laid and collected, in many instances, with fright ful rapidity, while the area on which they can be levied diminishes in an equal ratio, and the ex penditure of the last three ,months of 1862 will much more than exceed that of the first nine. Let it be remembered that, except in a few places, every effort was made, at least up to August last, to keep a certain large proportion of the working population from apply ing to the parish. To accomplish this object all the resources of private benevolence were ap plied ; so that it might well happen that distress was greatest where there was least parochial relief ; and pauperism increased or diminished, not accord ing to the people's actual want, but to the activity and efficiency of charitable organizations. But throughout the autumn every week has seen a steady increase in the number of paupers, and a consequent increase in Poor-law expenditure, till et the present moment even the ablest Boards of Guardians "tend aghast at the magnitude of the work, and the tan which it imposes on their re sources. In a case like this, statistics a month old are valueless. The poor-rates paid in any f THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 1862. parish up to the beginning of October, form no index to what they must be before the year is out. By New Year's-day we have little doubt that many a Lancashire union will be able to point to burdens which will satisfy even critics from Weaver. On this point Mr. HUGH MASON, of Ashton, furnishes this morning some facts which will startle those who have thoughtlessly believed that rates are light in Lancashire. Mr. MASON shows that a rate of nineteen shillings in the pound would be required to maintain the ex pendi'ture of the borough at its present rate. But in one important respect the analogy be twf,en a farming and a manufacturing district al'cogether fails. The millowner is compelled to 7.iay rates upon property which is not only un productive, but may be actually a source of loss. Our Special Correspondent has drawn attention to the fact that a very large part of the money realized in manufacturing pursuits is invested in fresh mills and machinery, often without sufficient regard to the need of working capital ; and that many men whose establishments are large, and who, therefore, make a show of wealth, have little that is not now locked up. Whether this be so or not in every case, the millowner is not only not making money by his closed mill, but is losing rent, interest, and the necessary deterioration of stock. These are the circum stances under which he is called upon to pay rates, which in moat cases are to be reckoned by hundreds, in many by thousands, a year. A very striking instance of the working of the law in regard to manufacturing property is furnished by a case which was decided the other day before a Cheshire bench of magistrates. Two or three managers had clubbed together their earnings, had found a friend to build them a mill, and had partly stocked it with machinery when the bad times came. Not a spindle has turned, not a shuttle has flown, but rent goes on, and so do rates. The mill has never had a chance of becoming a source of profit, for not a pound of cotton has ever entered it ; but it is, nevertheless, rated for the support of the poor, and the unfortunate owners see their little capital lessening day by day, with no hope of being able to replace it. What would the farmers say, if they had to keep all their labourers upon the parish, through a year, in which by some strange freak of nature they had no crops, yet in which all other outgoings were upon the usual scale ? Was it not the case, that the time when their poor-rates were highest, and the sufferings of their people at the worst, the products of their industry were artificially increased iu price by partial legislation 4 Has the greatest pressure of their public burdens ever been coinci dent with a total stoppage of their business ? When this time comes, and not before, it will be lust to compare Weimer with Lancashire. tears. General Scott cannot believe that Buchanan, although acknowledging himself responsible, con sented to Secretary Floyd's removing 115,000 guns and rifles from Northern repositories to Southern arsenals, also to the removal of 120 pieces of artil lery to Ship Island and Galveston. General Scott also defends himself for publishing various official communications. Two brokers in New York have been sent to Fort Lafayette for defrauding the government by issuing forged bills ou the government subsistence depart ment. Fifty persons are said to be implicated, and the frauds are said to exceed 1,000,000 dollars. A mixed court of justice, provided for by the recent treaty, has been organised in New York. Messrs. Truman Smith and Cephas Brainard are appointed United States arbitrators, and C. M. Archibald, Esq., the British consul, and W. D. Ryder, Esq., arbitrators for England. The Bishop of Georgia announces that the union of the diocese of Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, and the Virginians is com pleted under the name of " the protestant episcopal church of the Confederate States of America." The first general council will meet at Augusta. The Lager beer brewers and cigar manufacturers of New York city are organising themselves to resist the taxes affecting their trades, as they say the taxes are so onerous as to destroy their busi ness. There is a slight panic in the stock market, various unfavourable rumours being current that General Burnside has been defeated, and that the Confederates again occupy Harper's Ferry. These rumours cannot be traced to reliable sources. The Confederate pickets still show themselves on the Virginia side of the Potomac, between Point of Rocks and Berlin. "Stonewall" Jackson's whole column is at Front Royal, with the exception of 2,000 men remaining in the Shenandoah Valley. . . The Federal general Roae ncranz has arrived at Nashville. The communication between Nashville and the North is restored. The Confederates have retired southward from Nashville, but there is no truth in the reported capture of Mobile, or in the surrender of Confederates in South Carolina. The Secretary of the Treasury has obtained a loan from the bank of 12,000,000 dollars for fifteen days, until the loan advertised for is awarded. This has tightened the money market, thereby causing a heavy fall in speculative stocks. The steamer Champion, with 700,000 dolt., has arrived at New York from Aspinwall. The New York and the City of Baltimore have arrived out. The Europa passed Cape Race upon the 10th inst. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Nov. 13, Evvoia. Money tight. Gold, 32i premium. Exchange on London, bankers' bills, 146 j. Stocks depressed ; New YoticOentrals, 103 ; Minces shares. 744 ; Erie, 60. Cotton very firm ; middling uplands, 64. Flour, good inquiry, sad prices sc. higher. Wheat qoJet. Corn slightly firmer. Provisions dull. Coffee very firm. Sugar and mamma steady. .-(THIS DAY.) u II LX. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PRINCE ALFRED AND THE GREEK THRONE. The desire shown by the Greeks to elect Prince Alfred for their future sovereign is the leading topic in all the continental journals. The IndApen dance goes so far as to assert that the French oabi net has demanded explanations and a disavowal, and that the question will be considered at a cabi net council in London at the beginning of this week. So much importance is attached, it is said, to the reply, that M. Drouyn de Lhuys will go expressly from Compiegne to Paris to receive it from Lord Cowley. The Nord is greatly disturbed at the appearance of affairs. "Public opinion," it says, "cannot reconcile the manosuvres of the English agents in favour of Prince Alfred, supported by a great display of maritime forces, with the disavowals proceeding from London. It understands still less bow Greeks, who know by experience what English policy is in the Levant, can let them selves be carried away by the dream of an annex ation of the foul= Islands, when it is very evident that what England aims at is an indirect annexation of the continent to those islands." The Presse says : In Greece the manifestation in favour of Prince Alfred of England is becoming very serious. It is actively sup ported by the former insurgents of Nauplin, who have re turned to Athens. With them are political personages whose influence is not without weight, such as Mavrocorclato, Tricoupi, Kontos, and Zaimia. The masses of the people are dazzled by the brilliant perspective which the support of England opens to them ; first, a large increase of pecuniary resources ; next, an aggrandisement of territory, and the probable annexation of the lonian Islands. The demonstrations of the people in the various localities seem to form a sort of plebiscite which will weigh upon the decisions of the future National Assembly. Is the hand of the English government in this movement' Must we see in it only a spontaneous impulse or the intrigues of a few ambitious people! In either case it takes a character so general that other candidates are not spoken of. The Dfbats inclines to the opinion that England only allows the name of Prinoe Alfred to be used in order that it may sacrifice it generously when the hour comes, on the condition of the sacrifice of the Duke of Lenchtenberg also. " The English people," says the &flats, " have never pushed the chivalrous love of their princes to such an extent as to cut off any part of the nation's domain to give them with a foreign throne an increased territory, especially when war might be the result of au act so magnanimous." The Constitution/6e/ reminds the Greeks of the necessity of observing treaties, especially a certain clause which excludes from the throne the members of the reigning families of France, Russia, and England. The Temps replies to this, "We thought that we had done with this diplomatic fetishism. The only way of respecting and prac tising non-intervention in Greece is to leave the Greeks perfectly free to seek where they like the prince that pleases them." A number of Greeks resident at Paris have, it ap pears, issued an address to the future constituent assembly of Athens, protesting against the condi datnreship of an English prince, earnestly contend ing that such a step would press more heavily even than now the Ottoman yoke upon the Christians of the east. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Smoky Virgin°. The government writers either are or profess to be extremely unhappy about the ambitious designs of England in Greece. The " laurels" of Prince Alfred—l am speaking literally—will not let them sleep. They complain, indeed, greatly of the un derhand manceuvres of perfidious Albion in support of a candidature which she officially disavows ; but their crowning—their insupportable grievance, is that the bust of Prince Alfred is to be seen in all the cafes of Athens, covered with " laurels" and flowers. The Constetutionnel is instructed to aban don for a moment the bitter tone indulged in by its fellow labourers, and to write an article full of urbanity and propriety, declaring the statement I of the Precurseur of Antwerp that Lord Cowley and M. Drouyn de Lhuys bat had some smart sparring on the subject of Greece utterly incredi ble on the simple ground that the London protocol of February 3, 1830, excluded from the throne of Greece "any member of the reigning families of the states parties to the treaty of July 6, 1827" (France, Great Britain, and Russia). This respect for treaties is no doubt praiseworthy in principle, bat it is a new-born sentiment in the French go vernment press, differing very widely from the ideas which they promulgate when it suits them to the effect that antiquated treaties are of no account when opposed to the principles of nationalities and universal suffrage. Long before anybody dreamt of Prince Alfred as a possible candidate for the throne of Greece, the French government bad settled in its own mind that the Duke de Leuchtenberg, a relation of the reigning families of France and Russia, would be a capital representative of those two powers in the East to the exclusion of England. The flimsy argument was advanced, by way of a feeler, that because he is not in the direct line of succession to either of the crowns, therefore he is not such a member of the families as was contem plated by the protocol ; but, in case of this being over-ruled, they were quits ready to go in for the paramount right of the Greek people to choose any ruler theypleased. In this order of ideas a Frenehi fied Greek in Paris, named Agathon Bougiclis, who pretends to speak in the name of all his country men residing in this metropolis, published an ad dress to the Hellenic Constituent Assembly (that is to be) exhorting them, in the first place, to de clare that the treaties which presumed to fetter their choice are obsolete, and, in the second, to choose for their king " a scion of the family of that great captain who was only prevented by the hos tility of the old world from realising the deliverance of the east." It is quite certain that French diplo macy was but a few days ago prepared to support the doctrines of M. Agathon Bougiclis in favour of the Duke de Leuchtenberg. Now, however, these unlucky laurels that the Greeks so obstinately per sist in placing on the brows of Prince Alfred's bust have turned the tables. The Patric announces that Baron Brunnow, the Russian ambassador in Lon don, has communicated to Lord Russell a despatch from Prince Gortcbakoff, stating that Russia means to adhere to the spirit and the letter of the London protocol, and, in consequence, will not recognise as the sovereign of Greece any prince belonging to either of the three interdicted families. M. Oubril, the Russian charge d'affaires at Paris, has made a similar communication to M. Drouyn de Lhuys. The Patrie is careful to add, in a sepa rate paragraph, that whether the Duke de Lomb tenberg comes within the exclusion is a ques tion for discussion. • An extraordinary cabinet council was held thisday (Sunday) at Compigne. M. Drouyn deLhuys, who is staying there, has his secretary with him, and the belief is that in the course of the weak the Nonikur will coutain a political manifesto. M. de la Tour d'Auvergne, the newly-appointed ambassador to Rome, has been sent for to Com piegne, and his departure to hie poet is deferred till the beginning of December. The France and other government journals betray evident vexation at the dismissal of General M'Clellan, which plainly betokens the determina tion of President Lincoln to go on with his anti slavery proclamation, and bodes the ill-success of a great many pretty little schemes which Mr. Slidell and the Emperor have been concocting between them. - _ The church of Saint Elizabeth, in the Rue du Temple, was crowded yesterday to witness the marriage of a young Chinaman with a Paris girl. AMERICA. (REUTER'S TILTARMI.) The Royal Mail steamship Arabia, Captain Stone, which left Boston on the 12th and Halifax on the 14th inst., arrived iu the Mersey at 2.30 yesterday afternoon. A Washington letter of the 11th says : Major-General M'Clelian and personal staff left Warren ton at 11 o'clock today. On reaching Warrenton Junction a salute was fired. The troops, which had been drawn up in line, afterwards broke ranks, when the soldiers crowded around him, and many eagerly called for a few parting wools. He said, in response, while on the platform of the railroad depot :—" I wish you to stand by General Burnside u you have stood by me, and all will be well. Good bye." To this was a spontaneous and enthusiastic response. The troops were also drawn up in line at Bristow Station and Manama Junction, where salutes were fired, and where M'Clellan was complimented with enthusiastic cheers. The party arrived here this afternoon just in time to take the 5 o'clock train for Trenton. The cars being detained owing to some impediment on the track, General M'Clellan was recognised by the many soldiers quartered in that vicinity, when be was greeted with oft-repeated cheers. The follow. iog farewell order was read to the troops composing the army of the Potomac, yesterday morning, on dress parade : "Head-quarters, Army of the Potomac, Camp near Rectortown, Virginia, Nov. 7. " Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Potomac, — An order of the President devolves upon Major-General Burnside the command of this army. In parting with you I cannot express the love and gratitude I bear to you. As an army you have grown up under my care. In you I have never found doubt or coldness. The battles you have fought under my command will proudly live in our nation's his tory. The glory you have achieved—our mutual perils and fatigues, the graves of our comrades fallen in battle and by disease, the broken forms of those whom wounds and sick. nese have disabled, the strongest emaciation. which can exist among men, unite us still by an indissoluble tie. We shall ever be comrades in supporting the constitution of our country and the nationality of its people. " G. B. kl`Cumtati, Major-General U.S. Army." General M'Clellan arrived at Baltimore on the evening of the 11th, on his way to Philadelphia, whence he was to proceed to Trenton, New Jersey. At the last-named town great preparations were being made to receive him. NEW YORK, Nov. 13. The prize steamers Reliance, Swan, and Union, have been sold at Key West. A large side wheel steamer, tho Caroline, formerly called Arizona, has been captured about 50 miles off Mobile, laden with arms and munitions of war from Havannah. General Corooran's brigade has left New York for the seat of war. The Harper 's Ferry Investigating Committee has ordered Colonel Ford, of Ohio, and Major Baird, of the 126th New York Regiment, to be dismissed the service. It is semi-officially announced that there are no divisions in the cabinet on government measures. Lieutenant Johnson, of the 17th Kentucky Union Regiment, having tendered his resignation on account of Mr. Lincoln's proclamation, has been dismissed the service in disgrace. The Richmond Examiner says that the declaration of the British Secretary of War, that the South had not yet accomplished her independence,baa dissolved the prospect of foreign intervention. The Examiner thinks that England wishes to see the continuan.e of the war to the point of exhaustion of both North and South, iu order to remove American rivalry in commercial enterprise and empire. Lord Lyons left New York for Washington on Tuesday last. Archbishop Hughes has written a letter to Mr. Seward, in which he says that America should be prepared, for there is no love for her on the other side of the Atlantic. Generally speaking, in Europe the United States are ignored, if not despised ; treated of in conversation in the same contemptuous language that Americana might em ploy towards the inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands or Vancouver Island. The archbishop is sorry to say that these assertions are unquestion ably true. Letters are published in the New York journals showing that Superintendent of Police Kennedy, of New,York city, on his own authority, caused a lady from New Orleans, 22 years of age, named Brins made, to be arrested in Washington and brought to New York, where she was confined in a common oell of a police-station during five weeks. All ap plications of ber friends to see her were useless, Kennedy threatening if they continued their ap plications to have them arrested. They then ap plied to the War Department and to Provost- Marshal Draper, at Washington, who denied all knowledge of this arrest ana ordered the lady to be released at once. The grounds of her arrest were Kennedy's assertion that she sung secession a 1.% on the steamer coming from New Orleans, and that she was a spy. The New York journals denounoo Kennedy's conduct as most infamous. The Federal expedition which left Newborn, North Carolina, has captured Hamilton and is advancing on Tarborough. The correspondent of the Boston Journal, writing from the squadron off Charleston on the 18th of October, says that the British gunboat Racer en tered Charleston, and took away as passenger the British consul, who states that the Confederates have launched a powerful ram, and that two more are ready for plating with iron, which they expect to arrive from England. The steamer Nash ville is lying at the month of Stone Inlet, six miles from Charleston, watching for a chance to run out. There were 200 cases of yellow fever at Charleston. The same correspon dent says that a steamer ran the Charleston blockade on the Bth (1). The Federal steamer Flambeau fired twenty-two shots against her sides to stop her, but the shots rattled off like bail. She is sup posed to be iron-plated, and also to have iron plates , on board. Major Sanders, • eon of George N. Sanders, has been captured on his way to Europe with Confedev rate despatches. • The Bermuda Gazette says that Admiral Milne, • with a large fleet, will leave Halifax for Bermuda • on November 15. General Fremont has been ordered to report him self for duty. • General Scott has replied to President Buchanan's communication that Buchanan might have rein s forced Forts Jackson and St. Philip with malt garrisons until Congress could have raised volun. be court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 22. Her Majesty drove and walked out yesterday. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Alexandra, and Prince and Princess Louis of Reese, drove out in a carriage and four this afternoon, attended by Lord Charles Fitzroy. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphiostooe, arrived at the Castle to-day, from Greenwich-park. SUNDAY. The Queen, Princess Alexandra, Prince andfrincess Louis of Hesse, Princess Helena, Princess LoMae, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold, attended divine service in the private chapel this morning. The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiated, and administered the increment of the Holy Communion. The Right Hon. Sir George Cornwall Lewis arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had an audience of her Majesty. Mr. S. V. Sicotte and Mr. W. P. Howland had an inter. view with the Duke of Newcastle on Saturday at the Colo nial-offlee. _ . _ Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colociaboffice to the Governors of the Bahamas, Canada, and the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Cases= COUNClL.—Summonses havebeen issued for a Cabinet Council to-morrow, at the official residence of Lord Palmerston, in Downing•street. THE PRINCE OF WALES.—A telegram was re ceived at Buckingham Palace on Saturday lest from Rome, by which we learn that the Prince of Wales, together with their Royal Highnesses the Crowe Prince and Princess of Prussia, was still sojourning in the Eternal City. Both the Prince of Wales and the Crown Priam& of Prussia were in excellent health. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wale*, attended by Lieutenant-General Knollya and suite, will, on leaving Italy, land at Marseilles, whence the Prince comes to Paris, and after a brief &edam at the Hotel Mirabean, ' where Hie Royal Highness is expected about the 28th will at once proceed direct to meet her Majesty and the Royal Family at Windsor Castle. Tlie Russian Ambassador and the Baroness Brunnow have arrived at Chesham Home from Brighton. The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland has left Stafford House for Chatsworth. The Duchess (Dowager) of Norfolk has taken for a term of years a mansion in Grosvenor-square, late the residence of the Duchess of Cleveland. The Marquis of Londonderry still continues in a very impaired state of health. The Eirl and Countess of Bective and family have left Underlay Hall for the Lodge, Virginia, Ireland. The Counteis of Shaftesbury and Lady Victoria Ashley leave town to-day, to Join the circle assembled at Wrest Park, on a visit to the Countess Cowper., The Countess Granville is suffering from illness, and her condition occasions much anxiety to her family. Viscount and Visoounteas Palmerston [received at dinner, on Saturday evening, at Cambridge House, his Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Countess de Flahault and Miss Elphinstooe de Flahault, his Patellae:lay the Italian Minister, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, Count Pahlen ' the Earl of Listowel, the Conntees of Shaftesbury and Lady Victoria Ashley, Viscountess Jocelyn and the 800. Miss Jocelyn, Count Strzelecki, Hon. Julian Fan., the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper and Mn. Cowper, Hoc. Evelyn Ashley, Hon. Frederick Byng, Mr. Calcraft, Later in the evening her ladyship reprised a select party. Viscounteas Jocelyn and family leave town to day for St. Leonards-on•Ses. Among the persons invited to spend this week at Compiegne English society is represented by Lord and Lady Cutlerosse, Jetty Florence Paget, Lord and Lady Wiochil sea, and Mr. and Lady Catherine Coke. Literature elm hers but one representative, M. Silvestro de Saoy, at one time editor of the Jostled des DThats, wherein no longer presides but still retains grist Masten. M. Octave Feud let, a well-known dramatist, is also among the guests ; the remainder of the company offers no name of note out of the official world. The Rev. William Lincoln, of Bereaforcl Episco pal Chapel, Wslworth, last evening announced to his con gregation his intention of seceding from the church of Eng land. He stated that when he viewed the connexion of the church with the state and the world, he was convinced "it was that Babylon out of which real Christians were com manded to come." He intended to join a free church, which shook' be partly Independent, partly Baptist, and partly Plymouth Brothrow. Hs is gulag to publish a work in which be will give the remora for the step ha has takes.. Mr. George Dixon, vice-president of the Bir mingliam Chamber of Commerce, ban received a note from Mr. Gladstone, in which the right hon. gentleman declines the intended ovation to him, excusing himself on account of the demand of public business sue his time and attention. Tex Mizurrax.--Bince the Cabinet Council, held on Thursday last, some of the ministers have left town. Sir George Grey has returned to his east, Fallodoe, Northam berlasd. Earl Granville is detained is London by the ill ness of his mother, the jpwe sr Cession Granville, who is resident in Hereford-street. 7.ord Palmerston is ataYiad at his mansion in Pioenciiity. Earl gue.•_ ll feosiojai at lila residence in Richmond Park. The !Mao &ebe...to the Duke of Newcastle, Mr. Gladstone, sir DearlpC. Lewis, sad Mr. Milner Gibson egotism in Losidose—~rer. WEATHER REPORT. moirsay, Rol ~. tip...l i _ . . Lusa 120.02 1 9 - Amami 1•10; - Urea 19.86 • GRIMM 7 AiDSOOSAN 19.80 P, POSTIAOII I GALWAY 40.85831 YALWATIA oziatrrowit 29 8'2.30' 01vRIAD 29.44= IrIIPOUL 20.88;31 P 1119012 29. 81W9 YZNIAIIO9 22.71. PLY 110071..- 29.70 121211 '22.65 Wi7744.7770 20.74 Posmoues 29.73 Wyss 2177 - LOWDON WILTS 2 4 412 AKil YuCITI 29.80. 80AABOWANAIL 19.85 37, 2 9111111.14 . 29.82.80, - ItsupoLUlD - 29.7331 10 LW. LIT.N. LN.L LN.N. U.W. N.L N.L LN.L L N.L. N.VIL N.W. TOEND AT. rA..... WEDNICIDAT. W.N.W. to 8.8. W., SCOTLAND. N.W. to 11. W., fresh, moderate, some mow. snowy. N.N.W. to W.S.W., lagListo. W.N.W. to &SM., moderate to strong, fresh to strong. some snow or rain. N.N.K. to W.N.W., W. MIMI. N. to W. and S.W., moderate to fresh• fresh to strong, snow. N.N.W. to W.S.W., 11.W.EgoLagn. N.W. to S.W., fresh to (irk some snow or strong, rainy. to W. and S.W., &X. &INLAID. Ash above, or with moderate. with snow. =Ow. i.N.W. to W.S.W., ACoaae. N.N.W. to 8.P.W., fresh, with snow. fresh to strong, with some snow. GARIBALDI. The following telegram, dated Nov. Zi, was received by Professor Partridge last night from Dr. Ripari ;—" Rifle ball eerily extracted with forceps this morning." The only locality in Naples where any dis turbances now occur is the Theatre of San Carlo. On Sun day week the new company attempted to make themselves heard again ; but all in vain, for their voices and the orchestra were drowned by howling; and every species of insult and disapprobation. This continued till near the end of the second act, when such was the uproar that the cur tain dropped and did not rise again for the opera. A com missary of police then walked up the pit, and followed by a carbineer placed himself near the stage ; but so far from calming, this increased the fury of the people • . All roes to man, shouted, howled, whistled with their keys and darn, =tit the caws were compelled to retire. Another nom miseary, a good-natured looking person, then walked slowly up with his bands in his pockets, and shrugged his shoul ders, intimating by this pantomime, " Well, go on ; it can't be helped." This had the effect of restoring good humour. "It is not surprising," says a correspondent, " that popular indignation has risen so high. The govern ment grants a subvention of 90,000 ducats elem, and yet with all this the Sapraintendenza provides voices that would lie hissed in a third-rate theatre." The medals awarded to the Australian colonies at the International Exhibition were as follows :—To Vic lls ; New South Walea,New Zealand, 33 ; Q u eensland, ; Tasman* 26 ; South Australia, 24 ; arid Western Australis, 14. M. Alfred Sirven, a man of literary distinction, the author of some anti-papal works in France, together with the recent pamphlet entitled " Revenom i l'Evangile," has just been condemned to two months' imprisonment and a fine of sC3fr. The publisher has a fine inflicted upon him of 300 fr., for having been declared to be guilty of an attack upon the ministers of the catholic faith, and of an excitement to discord between citizens of diverse religions. M. Ronan, whose course of lectures as Professor of Watery at the College of France was some time since suspsoded in consequence of his proclaiming his assent to doctrines not sanctioned by the imperial government, and whose pupils made demonstrations which acquired consider. able notoriety last session, has received notice from the principal of the college that his annual lectures, which com mence under ordinary circumstances the first week of De camber, are not to be delivered by him. The typographers of Paris, who were condemned to different punishmeote is consequence of a strike, hays made their advocate, M. &fryer, • present, unique in its execution, and remarkable for the ingenuity of the thought. They have printed on vellum the orations of Bouvet, sad have produced • book in • style of magn&losave unequalled for typographical excellenoe, la order that no other copy should exist, the forms were immediately broken up. The English galliot William Alice, which has arrived at Rosen with a cargo of imatirea, lost her splits at ma. The vessel was off Fikamp, whoa the captain was struck by the yard of the visional, sad thrown overboard. It was in vain that every, effort was made to Gave him by throwing ropes. The Med had gam ahead, sod the &A WNS of the night readers& it quite impomible to sada Two agoalsiag shrieks IMO hand, sad all was dent. The onfortnasne eapeethi was oily ffi yams st sexi. Ms wife on board, sad her inifferier &besot easily be described. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURT. (Before Vice Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood.) THE ATTORNEY-GENEEAL V. THE CONBEBVAIORY OP THE RIVER THANE:N.—THE CITY OP LONDON BREWERY n. T NR NAME. —THE CLOTRWORICER:ti COMPANY O. THE NAME. THourrom V. THE BANE.—THE NEW LANDING isTA(.I3 AT LONDON-BRIDOL _ - These were several proceedings (the first by deformation as well as by ordinary bill, and the rest by hill only) pro- moted by the several informants and plaintiffs for the par. pose of staying the erectico of the new floating piers or landing stages now erecting off Allhallows.laus, and Swan-lane, in the River Thames. Thee piers consist of two large floating stages, measuriug 3lift) feet each, supported on pontoons, and approached by foot bridges from the shore, from the points occupied heretofore entirely and still to some extent by Allhallows and iild Swan•atairs. They are being erected by the defendants, th e conservators of the Thames, under the powers of the act Of parliament by which they were constituted, and the real question in all the cases wax whether that act justified the defendants in their proceedings under the circumstances now about to be stated. The informants in the first snit were the Fishmongers' Company. who sued as owners of the landing pier and wharf immediately adjoining London bridge-stairs, and they based their suit upon the ....meal that the operations of the defendants were, first, a nuisance interfering with the public navigation of the Themes ; and secondly, an infringement of their private rights as owners of the wharf and laoding.pie r above mentioned. The other suits were instituted by the various defendants as owners of other wharfs and landing places, complaining merely of the injury done to them by the new landing stages. To all the mite the reply of the conservators was, first, that the private damage was so small as to be immaterial ; secondly, if it were not so, their act for the purpose of general coo. venieoce overrode private interest ; and, thirdly, that that act, which gave them the powers of erecting piers for the public convenience, legalised the nuisance which those piers would otherwise create. Mr. Holt, Mr. Bovill (of the common law bar), Mr. Free. Mop and Mr. Boyle were for the plaintiffs ; Sir Hu g h (..irns, Mr. Gifford, and Mr. Cotton were for the defen dants. The Vice-Chancellor, before giving judgment, stated that he had received several letters on the subject of this suit, to which, of course, he could ray no attention whatever. One of these letters called for some little remark. It was anonymous, though if the writer meant well, as his honour was bound to suppose he did. he would take leave to tell him, if in court, that it would be mare honourable in him to have appended his name. This individual stated be wrote, in performance of what be sag to consider • public duty, to ware his hoooar against giving any judgment whatever in the cense, because he (the VicoChancellor) was a member of the Fishmongers Company. It might be a satisfaction to that individual to know the'. his honour, though as a member of that company he took no part in its concerns, had thought it right to mention the fact of his being a corporator to the defendants before the muse was heard, and that they had requested him, notwithstand ing, to hear the matter. The writer also stated that he wrote to his honour out of consideration, and rather than write to the newspapers ; his honour considered that be had mistaken his course, and that he had better have addressed his co notelet to the quarter to which he alluded. Bin honour then proceeded to give judgment, stating that the case was one of some public interest and importance. The first case to which he would advert was that of the Fishmongers' Company, who based their case in the first instance upon the grimed of the general public injury. It must be admitted at the ontstart that prima facie the placing of these piers was a nuisance. They must obstruct the stream more or lea, and the ques tion therefore was, as to this part of the case, whether the legislature had legalised this nuisance. This turned on the statute on which the conservators acted, and practically upon the 59th clause of it, which authorised than. "at they deem necessary for the convenience of the public, to erect at any convenient places piers or land ing places, of such form and construction as they shall deem most advantageous to the public sad causing the least obstruction to the navigation of the river Thames" Now in construing this clause the court could not shut its eyes to the feet that inconvenience must be caused in some degree to some one, and the legislature fore seeing this had in another part of the same act directed that all plans by the conservators should be approved of by the Board of Admiralty. Taking the whole of the act into consideration, it appeared therefore that the legislature gave the right of determining upon the convenience or inconvenience to the conservators under the superintendence of the Board of Admiralty, and it did riot appear to his honour that this court could interfere upon that ground. If the conservatoes were to erect a pier in such • place that it could be of , no use to anybody a nee far interference might arise, hut such a ease had oer. tsinly not arisen here. The information, therefore, failed on that point. It was, however, endeavoured to sustain it upon a further ground—namely, that the conservator' had not, as required by their act , pro vided other convenient stein in the place of Allhallows and Old Swan stairs obstructed by them. His honour had no doubt but that such an obstruction bad taken place, though the defendants attempted to make out that it bad not. But upon this point the information failed, because the construction of other convenient stain was rot a condition precedent, and it was still open to the conservators to construct proper stairs. If they did not fulfil their duty in this respect, the Court of Queen's Bench upon mandamus would afford a remedy, sod this coed could not stop the erection of the landing stages upon a bare apprehension that by and by the conservators would not fulfil their duty. There remained only the question of private injury, which was the common subject of all the suits. Upon this, it was urged on the one side that the defendants had no right to interfere in any way with private rights, and, on the other hand, that they might, wader their art, obstruct them to the utmost exteet. Neither of these conclusions appeared to his honour to be the tree one. If the conservators interfered with any purely private right so as totally to destroy it they might be arreeted, but if they interfered only with privets rights in the same way that they interfered with public rights then his honour thooght they could not be reetrainable. Thus, if they shut to the Fab. mongers' right of MONS to the highway of the river is Into, then a are for interference by the court would arise; if otherwise, then the Fish monger., though damnified by hindrance of access, were only interfered with as the rest of the public sod no injunction could go. What were the feria here! That the access to the Fulimongers'-wt was rendered more difficult no one could doubt, but that it had been rendered impossible nobody could assert. The Fishmongers suffered, doubtless, but they suffered only as the test of the public suffered ; they bad a private nuisance as the public at large had a public one. But ea the court could not stay the public, so it could not stop the mere private nuisance ; sad the case failed in the private equally as on the public grounds. The lame reasoning as applied to the Fah' mongers' Company in the first suit applied to all the other plaintiffs is the other suite, and the result was that the ne formations and all the bills must be dismiased. But ie there was something of hardship and mach of nicety of con- be struction involved in this decision, the dismissal would without caste. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Satiny Baneo.—(Before the Lord Chief Justin Cocks burn, and Justices Wightraan, Blackburs, sad Mall0L) CT. GILES, CAMBIRWI.LL, o. EAT. Mr. Lush, Q.C., moved for • rule calling upon two of the joaticee of ;Surrey to issue their distress warrant sgaiost May, for arrears of church rates. The parish of ha Grits claims to make and enforce the rates, including church rate*, under the local act& the 53 Geo. 111., chap. the 3rd Win. IV., chap. 33, by which the parish was "?' powered to cress the SWIMS of houses under a certain value to the church rate, and there was no clause in the acts taking away the jurisdiction of the magistrates on the validity of the rate being disputed. The defendant had been properly assumed, and before the =OMR. be did not set up any ground of objection es to chargeability or rateability, but that the rate bed Shot been duly made by the vestry. Oa the justices intimating that they should issue their distress sssn' ai for the amount, the deleodant asked them to state • WI for the 77 opinion of this court, hutlling th e y declined. Upon c that ' moved for • rule caon e ustices tO nets as, but it wee refused; sod on up the t chbujnhwerdens plying for the distress, it was found that the defeedanti attorney bad written to the justices, threatening an *ruia if they did so. The magistrates on that withheld the diatom warrant, and now came for the opinion of the coat Rule granted. no 12 IHINTBRIT. T. Pearce mond, co behalf of Yr. Humphrey, for•rale to quash an order of two of the justices of Suffolk for the payment of church•rates. The objections to the rats veil that it was made on a higher armament than the finnr•_,_„'" the °mimics el oertain cottages from the rate, and far t Mr the rate was retroepsetive. Rule gnats& COURT OF COMMON PLEA& Sittings In Banes.—(Betas Lead Chief Justice Erie, sod Jmdoes Williams. *lea, and Seatiag.) GORE C. RIR GEORGE GUT AND OTIIIMIL—ACTION AGALOI THE ROES 111CRILTAST. The plaintiff in this cam having been a primmer for debt in the Queen's Prism was removed from that establishrou t to Bethlehem Hospital u a lunatic. and he butt" the present action against the Home Secretary, the gorer° of the prison, end other official persons to recover diiUd el for false imprieumeot. At the tile' before the lord t bid Justice the verdict was for the defendants, but salsomeol l Y the plaintiff moved fora rule fora new trial, or for iudr went eon obsteate veredicto. The court toot time to ear elder the matter, avid this moralise gave judgment. Mr. Justice Williams laid that the grounds of the spyli• cation for a new trial were for novidirecteoe, misdirectioi; and improper rejection of evidence. The *Kum tt evidence was that the judge refused to a cw the plaintiff to ask a witness what was his of" opinion as to what his dnty vies. This *maim fr* (erred to a matter of law which might be c omineuted tiPo° by the judge, bat could not properly be asked of a meows The great ooataation was that the verdict was &riot tkr i