The Express. — London, England, 1859-01-28 00:00:00

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Imo,—Aad GIAMI PITIIIOII. 11101 WAY= IT LONDON woes. r esa t te..m v•-li zire:it . it asa....—Alionlia. Ws. LONDON, FRIDAY. -lAN. 28. -.A-- QUEEN VICTORIA must be one of the youngest grandmothers in England. To those who are seen,- tamed to see her among her own young family, sod still with an infant on her knees, it appears like • mistake that the venerable title of grandmother s►ould belong to her. The honours of that relation are seldom acquired before forty ; and moat people think fifty quite early enough, considering what a sacrifice of the free and improving years of youth it implied in the early marriages which bring on a new generation so rapidly. In her entrance on • new stage of her natural, honoured, and happy life, however, the Quote will bare the hearty sympathy of her subjects, as on every prior one. Some of us still remember the day when she was in her mother's arms, as the widowed Duchess received the condo lence of the many mourners of the Duke of KENT. During her entire childhood and youth her future people were preparing their admiration and loyal love, on the ground of her vigorous and most appro priate education. The fervour of loyalty on her secession was really dangerous, so far did popular expectation transcend any fulfilment that it was pos sible for a constitutional sovereign to afford. Bat in this, again, sympathy did not faiL When it appeared that the beet sovereign that England has had for generations could not core all the evils of the State, and abolish the sufferings of human life in her dominions, she was not made to suffer for the follies of the sanguine, but gratefully credited with what she was able to do, and not ask(d for mote. Her domestic life has been exemplarily respected—the popular fueling in regard to herself securing due recognition of the scholarly and the business-like qualities of her ho-band, while dealing gently with such of his political tendencies and foreign notions and habits as may require to be kept in cheek ; ten dencies which have never created such difficulties es must have arisen if she had herself enjoyed less of the national respr:t and attac►ment. As soon as she became a mother, her infants had the whole nation for sponsors. They have lived, sad lie, always will live, under • truly national gam diaosldp, se eetbusiesta of protection which mast elect the twic►motherly heart which presides at IMOD ever the boom and the empire. Last winter, the flat marriage in her family was a national festi vaL eldest daughter was England's eldest daaghter ; and we were all moved and melted toge ther, with the bridal joy and tenderness, when the first of the royal children left home. Not ono oldie wide circle had departed in the drearier way. Death has never yet intend that household. All the sympathy Las been joyfal thin far ; and now, within forty pen from the tts* when we first heard of her, we are called apes to welcome the first of a third generation. Everybody Teloises, of coarse. This child is born, not only at an effecting moment, when the Sovereign of Penman is withdrawn from the mese by a Honig death, and the sceptre is transferred to the hoe I. which the new-born infant belongs, list at a salmis whoa the fowl of Prussia, as to liberty and progress, ee loading-strings and a permanent childhood, is to be &tided, as far se the will of rulers can decide each matters. The date of this child's birth will be connected with • new start for the Prussian people, or with a perilous lapse into national helplessness and ignominy. Prussia will be followed by every Continental Power in re-arranging its no tarial affairs,—soine changing their theory,and others satisfied with rectifying their practice. In many of those countries the progeny of England will erelong be satire; and the hope that they may work moms fully is tranefasing the spirit of English Liberty and Progress into the various life of the Continental nations is one of the brightest and strongest in which we sympathise with our Sovereign on the opening of a new period of her domestic life and her regal relational. THE carious cue of " HATILAND e. MORTMOT," which has occupied the High Court of Chancery for five days, and filled some dozen columns of the news papers, has just been brought to a eouclusion. In delivering his elaborate judgment Lord CHELMSFORD expressed an opinion that, look ing at the iutricacy of the evidence, the time of the Court had not been unnecessarily occu pied. If so, since of the assay residers who took a• intertet in the chin in its early stages few can have followed its remarkable evolution, we may render service by presenting the facts in • brief summary. On the morning of the 26th February, 1824, • man and WOOll2l presented themselves at Bt. Paeans Church as J•si es M AtTEIL4 and M.illTiOnie, widow, and were married. Oa the Bth of March followiag, only ten (Lye afterwards, the same female was married at 3larylebons Church, in the name of MART WALL, to JOHN SHEPPARD. Mr. and Mrs. SHILF• PAID lived together from the time of their marriage until 1843, when they agreed to a separation. In 1846 the husband died worth 8,0001., and his widow, having administered, dietribsted his estate, reserv ing to herself the portion to which she would be en titled as his widow. In January, 1431, she died also, diapering of ►ee property in favour of the chit. dna of Mr. MolTi•oT. the family of Mr. Suer r.a•n. disappointed at this disposal of mosey to which they °smoldered they had some claim, saw no means of obtaining any share of the pm perty, until an accident, as they allege, placed In their possession • certificate of Mrs. Soar. I , 1.1 , 4 earlier marriage with 'Lanus, of which tL• y e. re then unaware. Upon dimoverieg this tLry tiled their bill in this snit, ll•vm.sirD being the next of kin of JOUR, and 'MO/11110Y the ' executor of Mcar, Sneress.D. The plaintiffs con tended that the first marriage, with Miirrerts, ren dered the second, which followed immediately upon it, illegal. The defendants replied that the two marriage* were those of the same parties nude: different names—that, indeed, not only was 31ear JONES" MART WALL, as both sides admitted, but that JAME/ MASTIRS was also lons SHEPPARD. The VICE-CHANCILLOR decided aphid them, and condemning the second marriage as illegal, thereby annulled the rights of the testator as SIIIPPARD'S widow, with all the testamen tary dispositions which had been built upon them. It will readily be supposed that to ascertain by ritrbal testimony the identity of parties to a ceremony which took place fire and thirty years ago was no easy matter. Yet this was to be done before either the legality or the illegality of MARY WALL'S second marriage could be established. The defend ants, dissatisfied with the 'ICI-Cwsucruku'e &- shim, appealed, and the plaintiffs were required owe more to prove their case. MALT WALL, to speak of her first in what proves to have been bee maiden name, appears to have ow menced life by trading on her personal attractions. In the words of Lord Justice KinGnr Bacce, she was "a " member of the detni-monde." She is first heard of as living in lodgings at Gloucester-place, where she was visited by a nobleman, who for the purposes of their intercourse condescended to be reputed a com mercial traveller, and to bear the unaristoetatic name of JOWLS. This person, on breaking off his connexion with MART WALL, appears to have bought for her the leers of a house in Mornington-place, in which she afterwards lived. Hermit is certain that she wu visited bye person named MASTERS,W hose name she bore for a time, as she had before borne that of the pseudo- Joins. The question for the Court to decide was, who was this MArreas? The plaintiff.' case was, that hews' a mechanic, mean -look ing, and 45 years old, facts which it is hard to reconcile with the woman's mercenary way of life. The defendants' witnesses say he was a gentleman ; and supposing him to have been a man of property, his acceptance, notwithstanding his per. serial inferiority, bemuses intelligible. According to the plaintiffs' theory, MART WALL committed bigamy without apparent motive, almost on the morrow of the first miming, and MASTERS acquiesced in it against his interest. It was proved that he alled at the door one morning, satisfied himself that the marriage had taken place, and was never heard of afterwards.. Upon the plaintiffs' showing, be thus lightly abandoned, needy as he was, a well-furnished how and • wife with money, while, on the other hand, that wife, in obtaining her settlement on her marriage with SHEPPARD, never thought of securing herself against MASTERS. On the supposition of the defendants, that MASTERS was a " man of property," that Maar WALL wee his mistress, and that Elnarruin had been induced to marry her by a pecuniary cansideration;Offered by MASTERS, the circumstance presents no difficulty. Some body of consequence, at any rate, had an interest in bringing about the second marriage, for the settle ment of MART WALL'S property contains the name of a trustee occupying a station in life higher than those who usually act for the wives of working jewellers. But admitting all this in favour of the defendants, it may be asked why the same persons should choose to be married twice over, and how the difference of name is explained. The conduct of the fema's is not unintelligible. The fiction of • former marriage with Mr. JONRB was one she would naturally favour for her own credit, as landlady of a respectable house. The assumption of a second name by SHEPPARD is accounted for, If we remember that MART WALL had became known to many persona by the 010111 of Mrs. ittsstlas, and that she would like to receive some sanction for bearing it, while BnerrAin was a man who would last object to take any name which would promote his interests. Bat when the settle ment, to which, as we have seer., persons of more intelligeoce than the newly married pair were parties, was to be made, it was probably seen that the see of fictitious names would be fatal, and • re marriage with real names was resolved an. Beek was the suggestion of the defendants' counsel. and it removes the teat difficultly from the ease. The Loan CHAECILLOR, the Lord Justice KNIGHT BIUCZ, and the Lord Justice Tuanut., upon a review et the facts, were unanimouly of opinion that Manus WY one with SHEPPARD as was WALL with JONES, sad that Mrs. tlinkre•an, therefore, was the widow of ions Ilmart•an and entitled to her moiety at the property. In reviewing the judgment of the Court below the LORD Column-ton and the Lumps it:nicks amply acknowledged the usefulness of one of the moat important of the recent Chancery reforms— that which permits the rico rem examination of witnesses. For four days the Court was occupied in hearing witnesses, and the result was that the case, instead of being presented to the Judges in fixed and rigid inoompletmese, grew into form under the searthiog questions of counsel. We find the LORD CnAirczu.oa stating that when the appeal was brought to . the Louts Justices, they were of opinion that " it was essential to the ascertaining of " the truth in a ease of such strange and conflicting " improbability that there should be a vita twee ex " amination of the witnesses in open Court and " before the fall Court;" and that " tie proceedings " before this Court had added materially to the " evidence, and had placed the case in a different " position to that is which it stood before the Vies " CHARczt.coa." Yet only recently this innovation was energetically opposed as something incompatible with the quiet dignity of the Court of Chancery, and even now that the Court has the power of ogling witnesses before it, some of the Judges main tain their old prejudices against the lessons of ex perience and the dictates of common stoma Malta lotion &amebae the return to that %lead as Us* likk tram Taste, of his Royal Highness Pittes Alfred. Oa tits sane amain Lady Ls Iterchaat pis • ball at the paw% bat his royal highness did i5 , ,4 loaves it with his preseasa Yy.K Cowril, his governor, basins (s• the Salk ourw g ive oat) domed It most esessaal that the primes Wadies bs wit No math broken tale by • saarwelea at seisdars. Prepseallasa were, bowing, bin modeler • peed ball ea the tlith et 'unary in Ist:saraz of the prima, by the geniers, the slims of which subscribe offend days' pay, sad the nee of Lleatenant-Osareal _ . commadiag, Bit last Peasseithar, heads the sabscelftica A letter from Alexandria, of the 18th, ear : " Aeoordleg to ths pre-mete programme wen UM littryalas, with Prism Alfred on board, is mooted la eight, cos of the Vicerefs steamers will pat of to sea to mot bar with oar meal ad sass of the Wain mambas of the Egyptian promnssaf. The menet abs drops bar afficear lb ill. limber a rola' sales ell Is thawherod forth fns ths fats and Rupee we reels, to be Naha repeated whoa the y press we Ids hot at sera There Mei will pablie nospeas sad a red bail, which the eiosroy hes sigailled he lesatiea of attssidiag, accompanied by the heads of the MINA deportinente of his government. Our diplomatis body will, of course, also be meet at the Um, hi the mesas of ths easel/az allele. A Msit this wise be W fled Duke Coastaatias of Rue is Use's spabia of." Wit (CUlinsford Chronicle) are happy to be able is aide dat dr Rev. Sir John Page Wood, Bach hr now gaits naraind from h•. tato attack of Maar% which at or garb/ wan sr mbar as to eacito the fear. of him fried& Clic Court. WINDBOII., JAIL 27. At three o'clock thin afternoon the Queen and the Prince Coomirt received Intelligence, by iderbla Worn& from Beetle, announcing the 000flannent ei Princess Fre dii William, and the birth of a Prtnen - . Her Majesty's dinner perry yesterday Welded the Duke and Dachas d Bkhotond and Lady Cecilia Gorden Lennox, Lord and Lady Cololuder, Colonel the Hon. Bir Charles Phipps, and the lion. Mrs. Biddulph ; also, the Berl end Cowden cif Donoughineee t and Lieutenant-General Bailey, who arrived on a visit in lie afternoon. billd of as Own mbar Outtls ---- played daring dinner ? l imn " Dim linibe WWJiat ........ , THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1869. ::: : : bar. - =' " . Her Moja free private load afterwerde performed In the Dreirreesses She following piers BS: ". retro ,ffe Litany TM QOM with Perms/Weft reds la the Riding House Ws rirsimg, atterki by lbs H. Eleaaor Stanley. Primers Varied' Omer= a/ Coorg 'lilted the Qtwas ita-day, reaspamisil by Lay Legta, and returned to Kew tbe ellessem. 11.H.zldefe. Byag and the Hon. Emily Catboat have emearded the Hoe. Eleanor Stanley end the Hon. Horatio Braked ea Maids of Honour In Waiting to Her Majesty. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exche- quer, in Downing -street. The Ministers present were —The Earl of Derby, the Right lion. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hsrdwicke, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmeebury, Sir B. Balwer Lytton, General Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. Malting, of the Cambridge Us!varsity Commirbe... well held at 5, Adelphi-terrace, on Friday, the 21st, detur day, the 22nd, Monday, lb. 34th, and Tuesday, the 25th inst. The COMIZIWICONII peuesst were ths Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chaster, Lead !Beaky, M.P., the Right Hon. the Lord 'natio' TWIN", Vae-Chataellor Sir William Page Wood, the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, and Horatio Wadding ton, Esq. The Cards of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Cooed! had • resstiag yesterday In the Council Chamber, and beard *petition from Geerneer, between " The elates of the blend of Geermey, petitioners, end Willis= Hichlabothass mad eases, opponents." The Lords mem* mem —the Lord President, the Sweedary of State for the HomeDspartment, Lord Kings down, and the Right Hon. Dr. Lashiagton. . . Despetetwe from the Governors of the Cope of o,xxl Hope. Natal, end Si. Helena, and from the Lord H+gh Commis 'beer of the lonian Islands, wore received yesterday at the Colonia!-offlos. TEE ACCOUOMEME.VT OF THE PRINCESS PRIDIRICX WILLIAM. WINDSOR, THI7IIIIDAT EYZNINO. Intelligence of the Princess Frederick William of Prussia having hem safely delivered of • son attired at Windex Castle at I o'clock this aftensooe. The royal mother and infant prittur, we ere happy to ken, are doing well. This auspicious event was communicated to her Majesty through the electric telegraph, a message by which reached Windex. Castle from Berlin In six minutes after the or- CUrrinoll. At one o'clock the Queen was apprised sf the princess being taken In labour. Her Royal Highness the Dubow of Pent wee haw. distal; apprised of the circumstance at Frogmen Lodge. Several ommounioations have sinse loses reedval al the Castle, announcing that the royal mother end the baba prince were programing fritomahly. Immediately the velem, Intelligence teceme hewer to the borough authorities and the laksbitants at Inge they gave expression to tisk sympathy and joy by stispendlng in front of their ham= mime tessera beaeng the arms of England sod Previa, end other loyal devices. The belts of the Chapel Royal of St. Over and St. John's church erns teeth many peals, and In the evening many of the royal trademen illumfusted the ' homes. The Address in reply to the Qorea's Speech will be timed in t►e Hero of Lords by the Lei of Wincbebros sad Nottisibm, ad CU be isessiml by Lord Dalamare. The Priam of Wales arrived at Verona on dm Md. His Excellency the Prandial' Mins tar and the Counties Bernatord have returned to the Pniesies Legetton, Carlton House-terrace, from visiting Viscount end Vis count... Palmerston, et Broadissule. His Pacell,4 the Prussian Minister and the Caution do Ilenagari left totss rotorag, etas visit to Kr. Haisoort sod Femme Countess Waldeirsve, at NOI4I. bon Perk. Hie Run Hasty the Marquis trAteglio and Count Lauds Corti base r.rived in town Inns Broadlauds, Hants, when they bays bass visiting Viscount and Vim:aunties Palmestan. The Doke of Baocleach and the Earl of Dalkeith M.P., an expected to arrive at their 120 W resides°, la Bel graneeptere on Tharedey neat, from Delimit& Palms, tom Ediabargh. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester come to lowa foe the meson on Wednentay next, the nachdem, is Kieran of the Robes, having to attend on her Majesty at time °paha; of pa/Hamel. _ _ The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have a large party mesa= et Strathfleldaeye. Hie Excellency Mankal the Duke of Malakoff and the Duchene of Makkoff, tie Marquis ad Manilas= of Saliently, Lord and Ludy Arthur hay, 81r Robert mad Lsily Em.ly Peal, Count ineelecid, sad Y. Gude in among the =a= of the sae dab sad Oscine. The Marquis of Clanriearde has arrived in town Cron visiting Yr. 0. G. Harcourt, M.P., sad Frowns Co..tnes Waidsgreve, et Neashem-park, Othedshire. The Mareldsassa are to town yesterday, from visiting the Hari sad Counting of Cote, at Manton Home, aser Proms. The Earl and Counter Granville have arrived at their moan= is Bruton-strcst, from as Cciailasat, for the SWIM The Earl and Coulter of Ellesmere ere expected at Brldaawatat Hums in a few days, Irina Asiatic the Bari and Comtism Cawdor, at their rat la Wahl. The Earl and Countess Grey will return to town to-morrow, from N tic:wheat Park, when they him berm warn Oa a visit with Mr. Harcourt mad Fraser Countess Waldersee. Ihe Earl and Countess of Shelburne arrived at Lundeen' House ou Tuesday, from visiting the Marqude mud Marchioness of Allesbary, at Sereruake Lodge. The noble =takes left town yesterday for Bowood, Wats.. Hie lardahlp ressaias is lowa. The Earl and Counter Spetwer have arrived at Naples hees BOOM T 4 noble earl sad eetiaboes Weed be Mara bens by the thh of March. Lard and Lady Liitord and the Hon. W. Powys NO eau a s Nke We regret to hers his lordship's health Is mot mach improved, Lord Robert Montague and his youthful family hare arrived at Clarldge's Hotel, from Brampton .Park Httatlegdeashko. Colonel the Hon. George Byng, M.P., and Lady Alms Bye( hare returned to town from visiting the Counter Dowager el Ineemere et Ratchford, Cobham, Surrey, for the num. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert. M.P., and Mrs. Herbert, who here • 'shot party at Wilton Howe, near S•Whary, Intend to be be town by Thursday next, for the MM. Lord and Lady John Rumen and family will arrive et Mir menetes la Cbseharplaes to-day, Iron Paw brafra-ledia, Riehreed-park, for the swan. The Right lion. the Speaker of the Room of Cornrow will giro hie Bret parllatosatery dreier ea Saturday, the 12th realmo, to , ris ertersary at the Orr eutertarmatt, the mlairLaial piety member. of Me lower house. The bouquet will be gives et the right bow gesrleman'a official naideoce, at the Now Pekoe, West ninety/. Lord Eglintoun held his first levee for the lesson ea Wednesday afternoon. The ettaathuaoe, though respect ably wee not se anemone se It wee impacted to be, the fall o!, perhaps, being seeribabis to the Inclement state of the washer frs the earlier pert of the day. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ACCOUCHEMENT OF THE PRINCESS FREDERICK WILLIAM OF PRUSSIA. BERLIN, THMUIDAT, 4 P.Y. Her Royal Highness the Princess P'rederict William was safely delivered of a Prince shortly after 3 o'clock this afternoon. Both are doing well. The Regent and his consort appeared on the balcony of the palace, and, amid vociferous cheering, thanked the populace for their sympathy. OFFICIAL BULLETIN.-(THIS DAY.) (IT ILICTIIC AND INTRINATIONLL TILIOILAPIO BERLIN, FAIDAY, JAN. 28, 10 cm. The Princess Frederick William has passed a most favourable night, and is, together with the new born prince, u well u can be expected under the THE ITALIAN QUESTION. The le d ependunee 8010 of yesterday, referring to the belief in peace which is entertained in the financial world, observes, "As for ourselves, without ignoring certain symptoms, favourable, if not to an immediate arrangement of the Italian question, at least to a prolonged adjournment of the danger of an armed conflict, we are less of optimists, and we watch, not without a certain degree of anxiety, the movement of public opinion in England, and the secret play of parliamentary influences which are at work to undermine the existence of Lord Derby's cabinet. It is at London, in fact, that the knot is to be dealt with; thence will proceed the mot d'ordre of the approaching destinies of Europe. The present cabinet neglects no means of preventing a collision ; we have already described its proceedings with this eod at Paris and Vienna, and, we should add, its advances at Turin, all in a pacific spirit. But if by some coalition it should be upset, and re placed by a combination, of which Lord Palmerston would again be the moving spirit, the face of things might change from day to day, and then, that which Is termed by one of our corre spondents the ambition of Piedmont to draw England with her into a war against Austria for the enfranchisement of Italy, would be, perhaps, very near accomplishment." In referring to the late article of the MostiGntr on the Franco-Sardinian marriage, the Opinions of Turin expresses itself in the following terms, which, while echoing the theory of the Moniteur, that national interests have not been sacrificed to any family exigencies, assume the existence of the alliance which superficial readers fancied was deemed by the French official organ :—" The alliance between France and Sardinia is quite distinct from the marriage. The latter strengthens the bond, of amity between the two dynasties, and it has, moreover, the advantage of perfectly suiting the interests of France and Piedmont. If France is to intervene for the independence of the Italian Peninsula, it is because her interests induce her to do so, independently of the family alliance just concluded." SERVIA. • BELGRADE, JAW. 27. The laws which the Bkoptschina has passed for the regulation of its own constitutional power, con tain enactments of such a nature that the name liberty of the press is guaranteed by them. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. CORFU, JAx. 26. Sir John Young has left. The lonian parliament has been opened to-day. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (runt ova OWN CORSZSPONDINT.) PARIS, THURSDAY' EVRNI7IO. Its decided that Prince Napoleon and his bride will make a public entry into Paris. The day now spoken of is Friday, Feb. 4. The city of Paris is making preparations for a brilliant reception. Prince Jerome, the Princess Mathilde, and the high dignitaries of the court will go to the Lyons railway station (which will be splendidly decorated) to meet the newly-married couple. Triumphal arches will be erected on the Boulevards, along which the bridal procession will pus to the Tuileries. Immediately after their arrival • series of fates will be given at court. Gaiety will, therefore, be the order of the day in Paris at the end of next week ; and then on Monday, Feb. 7, comes the Emperor's speech—will it speak peaoe or war ? The announcement that the Princess Matilda wu to go to Marseilles to meet the prince and princess on their landing is contradicted. General Fleury will receive them there in the Emperor's name. Admiral Jurien de Lagraviere, with his broad pennant, on board the Algesirea, will escort them from Genoa with a squadron of honour. Two steam frigates of the Sardinian navy, the Goveroolo i l und the Sardinia, will accompany the French squadron to Marseilles. The Prince Napoleon and the princess will come in the Heine Hortense. The idea of a congress, which was yesterday pre dominant at the Bourse, is to-day "nowhere." The I Prune treats the statement of the lalpendanee Belge on the subject as an invention. " This *elu tion," it nye, alluding to the offer made to Lord Palmerston's government in 1848, " would doubtless be a very desirable settlement of the Italian gees tee. It would assure to the Lombardians and Ve netians a sort of independence which would be • step towards a still more desirable result; but Aus tria, in accepting such a proposition, would mani. festly sign an act of abdication. Now, u a Vienna paper declared the other day, Austria does not yet feel her position so desperate as to come into any seeh arrangement.* In another article the Press* thus continues to sound the war trumpet : We satertain a great regard for peen, but there is some thing la this world superior to peace—it is joalioe. Let UP, therefore, seek what is just and practical, what is ream eneadad both by the greatness of France and by the Interests of European pesos—a lasting result, not of itiolanoe and op pression, but an equitable satisfaction given to invincible aspiration. And should the Bourse reply by a fall to this policy, we sight say that the Bourn has nothing to do with questions of national dignity. that it always exaggerates evils is .ruler to make them profitable, and that when It dio cesan It is on the wrong scant it retraces Its Mops with con siderable Jill The Bourse was very weak. As the settlement approaches, speculators become more and more un easy and undecided. The Rente fell 16c. for cork and 26c. for account, closing at 68fr. 85e. and 68fr. 800. Mobilise fell 12fr. 60c. The Orleans railway, which for several days has fluctuated more violently than any other, fell 12fr. 50c. The remain ing lines were about 2fr. 60c. lower. It appears that the Diritto of Turin was in error in announcing the death of the Marquise de Pepoli, ode Princess Murat. Telegraphic despatches from that city of the 25th state that although the health of the princess causes some uneasiness there is nothing to lead to the idea of her approaching death. The pretty summer theatre in the Freest,len was entirely destroyed last night by a fire which raged for four hoots. PERSIA. TREBIZONDE, JAx. 12 . Letters from Persia received here state that the Frani& military mission continues to be favourably looked upon at Teheran. After a review on Dec. 19, the Shah sent for all the French officers, and, paying them a handsome compliment, said he should always be happy to receive from any one of them full suggestions in writing for any reforms in the service which might occur to them to be de sirable. Fernkh Khan is still a great favourite at court. The Shah has just made him a present of a splendid horse from the royal stables. This is considered in Persia as one of the greatest favours that can be conferred upon a subject. There is no doubt that Ferukh Khan will soon be made a minister, but it would be an infraction of usage if the appoint. meat were to take place before the Persian new year's day (16 Chaban). Djedeffer Kon li Khan el K hani, the governor of Astrabad, the capital of the province of Mazinderin on the Caspian sea, has just gained a decisive victory over the Turcoman hordes who have devastated that country for many years. He took possession of their camps and made many prisoners, after which the chiefs tendered their submission. An article of the treaty of Erzeroum, concluded ten years ago between Persia and Turkey, stipulated that all merchandise imported from either country iota the other should pay a uniform ad valorem duty of 6 per cent. The Ottoman government has, however, long been in the habit of exacting 11 per cent., and, notwithstanding the remonstrances made by Fernkb Khan when he was at Constan tinople, the Sublime Porte has not yet taken any steps to put a stop to this abuse. It is much to be wished that the Sultan's ministers would pay imme diate attention to this subject, for I hear that, un less a change be made, the Persian government is re solved to retaliate, and to take 11 per cent. on their frontier. The question is one which affects not only the trade of Turkey but that of Europe. Mims Melkonn Khan hie received the decoration (first clams) of the order of the Lion and Sun, as a reward for the servioes he rendered during Fernkh Khan's mission extraordinary to Europe. THE UNITED STATES. (xi so.oxwnc xxx.sexxxx.) (room orx owx C011111111PO2DWIT.) LIVERPOOL, FIUDLT. The steamer City of Manchester, from New York, the 15th, has arrived. She brings 139 passengers, 124,000 dollars specie, and the United States mails. The steamer Niagara arrived at Boston on the 15th. Mr. Seward has introduced into the Senate a bill amending the existing act for the suppression of the African slave trade. It provides for the employ. meat of steamers for the capture of slaves, autho. rises the several states to pass laws to suppress the traffic in foreign slaves, and appropriates a million dollars to carry into effect the provisions of the bill. A bill was introduced in the same body to esta blish a line of steamers between American and British ports. A resolution was pending, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare a plan foe raising revenue adequate to the wants of the government, by the imposition of specific instead of ad valorem duties. The Pacific Railroad Bill was being fully debated by the Senate. The President had officially notified to the Senate that the yacht Wanderer had landed a cargo of slaves is the southern coast, and that measurer were being taken to punish the guilty. General Jerez had been recognisod.at Washing ton as mini►ter from Nicaragua. New York money markets continued quiet and unchanged. Sterling exchange inactive. 109 k was p price foe best bankers' bills. Stock market fluc tuating. Latest sales were Illinois Central shares, 70; ditto bonds, 891. Erie, 16. Panama shares, 117. Cotton unchanged. Middling Uplands, Coffee firm and good demand. Floor steady. Wheat buoyant. Corn•holders demand the advance. Iron firm and stocks light. Spirits of turpentine advanced to 1 cent. Pork active, and 10 to 20 cents. dearer. Beef quiet. Sugar buoyant and dearer. Tobacco firm. Freights rather easier. Tonnage more abundant. NEW ORLEANS, Lax. 14.—Cotton unchanged. Sales to-day 14,000 bales. ROME. A letter from Rome of the 14th instant gives the following personal and royal gossip : The Kies and Queen of Prom's am ladies advantage of the floe end bracing weather to see all the carieskiee of the Eternal City. They have been to the top of the Crelitas to visit there the convent of the Peerionlets, and have visited for the second time the Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican. Those who were in attendance on their Majesties could not fall to remark that the King preserved distinctly all hie re membrances from the period of his foram visit to Rome in 1828. Hie health is evidently improved. The Queen paid a visit the day before yesterday to the Granddachess Mary Ot &ISMS at the Hotel di Londra. Tee same letter says: The hurricane Ise Saturday did great damage, and whilst It was ragtag a the broke out le the vamp Censer/eta, situated is the diocese of Subiaco. Every hoses was °assumed, leaviug 760 persons without shelter. Many lost their liras In the lases. The ltbrary of the princely family of Altiori I. Win sold by public suction. At a ball at the Tuileries on Tuesday night, the Emperor conversed for some time with Id. Hubner ; Coast Podgy alio chatted with the ambassador, to whom, on the lit inst., the phrase was addressed which created ao much mks:amt. The Turin correspondent of the Timer, describing the visit of the Sardinian royal family to the theatre last Sunday evening, saw—. I cannot endorse the detrimental( the Opinions that the prince's was brilliant with beauty. She le not beautiful, but she has what is perhaps better than beauty, a very sweet and amiable expression, which I am sewed le but the fail blot mirror of her charming character. She is near petite and girlish-looking, with brown hair, sad a beautifully white skin. Hoe bearing wee graceful, and free from any sort of embarrassment, although her posi tron Met night, me IM focus of the public gaze, meet have been a little trying to a young lady not yet Aztecs. I saw many eyes turned upon her with an expression of almost mournful interest." A Naples letter gives the following u tho caw* of the lilumen with which the King has been Intely attacked : " Between Plaplee and Foggia there an the Appoints to ores', and the climate is not by any means as mild as that of Portid end Cattellamara. The roads were covered with snow and Ice, so es to render them not my practicable for the homes al the royal party, which at times &lipped in a menet to endanger the safety of the carriages. The King and royal family ware at lest compelled to alight, and pro- ', Deed on foot for about two leaguers. The reampoine of Fer dinand 11. rendered this • difficult task for him, and he got into a violent perspiration, which being afterwards checked by the cold awed the gulden illness announced by tele graph." . _ . In the discussion recently retard on the fitting attitude of the Taman Btate, the Grand Duke—if we (Mow on, Peet) ere COMOily informed—wee anxious that complete neutrality sherald be preserved. The hereditary prison the Archduke Ferdinand, would place the whole Tuscan army at the ►beolute dirporal of Count Ginlay end Gen. the ascend son, the Archduke Charles, insists on the restora tion of the Constitution of 18—a meseure which, we need scarcely ray, Implied an unreserved submission to the popular wants sad wishes. And, ea the solarium by which this memo soy be rendered acceptable and effective, the youthful prises ftlooo3¢lelllB hie father's immediate abdica tion, and hopes that the Tureen people may accept, in the premmed energy of the eons, an atonement for the wavering and vacillation of the sue. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURT. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir W. P. Wood.) at THE ATHENATX COMPANY, El P•IITE SHEFFIELD. The Vice-Chancellor gave judgment in this cue. It will be recollected that Mr. Sheffiell became a shareholder in the Atheneum Life laminate at the time when 'n provision affect. ing to limit the liability of the compsny had been fraudulently inserted in the deed of settlement. Mr. Sheffield was nom yeare since appointed an agent of the company_ in qua tion, and was soon after asked to take shins. He went to the office of the company, and there saw Mr. Whitehead, one of the clerks. He entered into coovereation with Whitehead on the subject of the prospects of the company, and espsdally asked whether ha would be liable beyond the amount of the shares. Whitehead assured him that he would not be liable beyond that amount, and he went into the board-room and fotcluel out the deed of settlement. He told Mr. Sheffield that the deed was very voluminous, and that he would not be able to mad it through, but he stated that then was a clause for limiting the liability of shareholders. In point of fact, each a provision was than a portion of the deed, but it had been fraudulently inserted by the director,' after the registration of the company. Sheffield signed the deed as It then stood, and duly received dividends on his shares until the stoppage of the company. The question now wee whether that gentleman ought note to be placed on the list of contributories. Thi;Honotor,aiier briefly referring to the circumstances of the case, said that Mr. Sheffield contended that he ought not to be charged as a contributory on the ground that the deed he signed waged in fact the deed of the Atheneum Compels It was that deed, with =addition ; and, thendote, it wee sal he never was a alterehoider of the Atheneum Company, oeuid therefore not be a contributory. But it was to be noticed that Mr. Sheffield hod for some years gone on receiving dividends upon his shares, and in so doing he had himself acted as a shareholder. With regard to the frond which had been perpetrated in surreptitiously inserting a clause in the deed his Honour did not think that Mr. Sheffield could escape liability on that ground. It had been decidod by the House of Lords that parties dealing with directors meet be taken to be aware of their powers. To enable persons to ob tain dee information, the deed of settlement wee sub ject to reparation. Here Mr. Sheffield had agog the deed, and had followed this up by receiving dividends to. several yearn without Inquiring into the powers or authorities of the directors. Under such circumstances, although no doubt the case was a bard one, Mr. Sheffield's name must be placed on the list of contributories. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. eittinp la Bozoo.—(13oforo Lord Compbse mid Juliann Wtglantra, Crompton, and OL) Til PIIIIIEW. ox TRI POOLE, V. 1111 Talimeww\ IP OF CANTILIIVIT.-JIIDO. MIXT. In last Miehmakeita lean Mr. Ravill obtained, on the part of the Rev. Alfred Poole, a role calling upon his Grime the Archbishop of Canterbury to show muse why a msadamm should not was commanding him to make, or canes to be made, an inquiry into the matter of the appeal of Mr. Poole, according to the provWona of the statute 1 and 2 Viot., a, 106, and to hear the said appeal, and to decide upon the merit. thereof. The Dr. Twins, and Mr. ap• pried on behalf of his &GM the Archbishop of Canterbury, to show muse against the rule. The conneol on the 'part of the Rev. Alfred Poole WWI Mr. Bovill, Dr. Phillhnors, sad Mr. Coleridge. The Attorney-Cieseral, in showing cause, said this was undoubtedly • very important and painful ow; but the points raised in it laid within a vary narrow compel. It was • cede of petition under the statute (1 and Z Vic., o. 106) referred to in the rule, by the 98th section of which it was enacted " That it shall be lawful for the bishop to license any curate who Is or shell be employed by any non-resident incumbent of any benefice within his diocese, although no express nomination of such curate shall have been made to snob ►ishop by the incumbent; and that the bishop shall have power duo having given the curate sulBcient opportunity cd showing reason to the contrary, to revoke summarily, and without further process, any liosnae granted to any curate s and to remove such curate for any cause which shall appose to such bishop to be good end reasonable—provided always that soy such curate may within one month of service upon him of such revomtion, appeal to the archbishop of the provisos, who shall confirm or annul snob revocation as to him shall appear just and proper." The appeal of the Rev. Alfred Poole arose out of the follow. tug circumstances :—Raving boon called upon by the Bishop of London to answer certain charges made against him, through the medium of the Rev. Mr. Baring, a dermas residing within the same dioesee—he appeared before the bishop, and gave certain sewers to the questions which were put to him, an/ to those oharges. Afterwards some correspondence by letter took piece between the bishop and Mr. Poole, the result of which was, that the bishop felt himself under the necessity, or felt it hie duty, to revoke the license of Mr. Poole ea mats, and he revoked it accord ingly. Against this act of revocation he appealed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and in the petition of appeal the whole facts of the case Wen distinctly and elaborately stated. Upon this appeal the Archbishop took such steps uhe deemed necessary. He considered the matter of appeal, and he confirmed the venison) of revocin. don by the Bishop of London. Lord Campbell, without complying with the request of the petitioner, thought that a time and place should be appointed for his being heard. The alleged, would give only en outline of the circumstances In which the petition of appeal and this motion originated. The Rev. Mr. Poole was curate of St. Barnabas. within the chapeley of St. Paul, Wilton. place ; and in tits month of March last, the Rev. Mr. Baring, who was a clergyman of the church of England, submitted to the Bishop of London the statements and deposition of three females, parishioners end inhabitants of the dim= within which Mr. Poole of as carats. There state• meets were to the effect that on certain occasions, and pre. paratory or previously to the administration of the Holy Sacrament, these three persons came severally in corn =Monition with Mr. Poole. and went through the system or ceremony of auricular confession • in the course of which cart= question., it eta; alleged, were put to them by Mr. Poo'e, of a highly indecent, indelicate, and improper character. Them forme and oeremonies were set forth at some length in the state. meats; and on the latter being aubreitted to the bishop, a communication took place between tumult and Mr. Pools, It was • matter of gratification to him (the Attorney General) to be able to state at once that Mr Poole most solemnly and dleitictly denied having put any question whatsoever of so indecent or inde heats nature ; in fact he went through the whole of the statements and exonerated himself—at least so far as hie own aolemn assurance could exonerate him—from anything of an indecent or improper character such as was attribute' to him by these deponents. But it appeared beyond all ques tion, that Mr. Poole had pot certain questions to one or more at the three females In relation to • breach t..e breaches of the7th commandment. It appeared likewise from the statements, and was undseled, that these three persona bad, in hot, be• twain the period when the the oommunication took place Weems them and Yr. Poole, and the tone when the Barra* meat was administered to them, gone through the form ar ceremony of auricular confession at coneidsrable i ttt, In certain letters which passed between the Bishop of and Kr. Poole, it seeped that the bishop assumed that Kr: Poole had sarisfaetorily contradicted and rebutted thee to which he (the Attorney-General) bad Jut alluded; bat still it also appeared that upon his own ednuseket he had pat certain gentian in relation to the Ithceinmaedenent,olwhlch the bebop highly disapproved, and that he adopted this system of confession with respect to @event persona in his perish. end within the scope of his ministry—a system which the bishop thought contrary to the principles of the church of Beglaad, and such as could not be permitted by hi= within his diocese. Accordingly their lordship, would end that ft was upon those groan and not at all in reference to the particular s as contained in the statement, that the bishop, es the power conferred upon him by act of parliament, though fit to revoke the liaise of Mr. Poole. All Mee m►tten sad more were set out in the written petition of appeal which was submitted to the archbishop, and the archbishop. after an in quiry to which he alluded in his affidavit, in a letter of the 9th of July, 1838, in clear and distinct language affirmed the sentence of the Bishop of L oidon. The letter was as follows " Lambeth Palace, July 9, 11168. " Reverend Sir,—l have considered very carefully the statemente contained in year petition of appeal %Oast the revocation of your licence, en curate, by the Bishop of Lan do., which you have presented to no under the provielons of 1 and 2 Vic., cap. 106, e. 99. Under that statute the bishop bee power, after having given to the curate sufficient oppor tunity of showing reason to the contrary, to revoke, sum marily, and without further proems, soy licence granted to any curate for any cause which shall appear to such bishop to be good and reatiouable. My duty, tilt refers, is to (111 a. mine, in the Bret place, whether sufficient opportunity has been given to you of showing reason to the contrary. And I end that by a formal letter under the hand of the bishop, dated the 18th of May, you were appointed personally to attend the bishop for that purpose at London House tun the fled of May, unless you pawed, at any time before that day, to show such reason is writing under year hand ; and that on the 21st May, in obedience to the blobep's letter, you addressed to him, in writing under your own hand, what appeared to you to lto necessary on your own behalf. I have to consider, secondly, whether there bee been good and remonabk cause for tbn revocation of your Boone. It appears from the statements in your forma