The Express. — London, England, 1866-01-18 00:00:00

eite \ 'Jlr prelsgi. TO 0011.1.1SPONDUTS. Advartlamasots Intended far •• The Borate London Evening , no be at the Mak 10, Bouverbmtteat. by Two fg:k Ms (My al pabbaatlaa. HAYMARKET. THIS EYlrma, BROTHER SAM. Messrs. Sothern, Buck stone, and Compton; Misses Nelly Moore. Snowdon, &c.— ORPHEUS IN TIM IIAYMARKBT. Messrs Farren & D. Either ; Ulises Keeley, Howard & Wright,--11Y HUSBAND'S GHOST. PRINCE.S&S. Tars gramma, QUIET LoDol+los.—Atter 1 which IT IS REFER TOO LATE TO MEND. Messrs. irtning, G. Melville, T. Mead, D. Murray, Calhaem, F. Villiers, J. G. Shore, G. Mur say, and B. Cathsart ; Miami L Moore and K. Rodgers. LYCEUM. Tim Eva:KING, THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER. Mr. H. Wlddicomb.—THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Messrs. Yachter. Jord in, Vezin. Emery Widdlcomb, Fitzpatrick, Evans; Mesdames Ternan, Elsworthy, Lamm, C. Leclercy. BRITANNIA. THIN EVENING, OW DADDY LONGLEG9 AND SIR REGENT CIRCUS; OR, THE RACE FOR THE GOLDEN APPLES.— M. and Mdme. Stertmobach.--91gnor Bevanl.-01mar.--Shower of Golden Rain,—And JESSIE, TILE MORMON'S DAUGHTER. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. TRIO DAT Morning, 3h. 2m..... Afternoon, 31%. 20a. TO-110110W -. Morning, 3h. 3nm.— —Afternoon, 30. 1570. LONDON, THURSDAY. JANUARY 18. YESTERDAY morning it was our misfortune to record one of those grievous and tragic events with which in these storm-swept islands the imagina tion of the public is only too familiar, yet which out of the depths of calamity and the you agonies of death, bring to light the noblest qualities of a seafaring race, and leave a sublime example of heroism behind. ' The New Year, born in wrath and violence of sea and sky, craeled, so to speak, in tempests, the like of which, in wide spread havoc and cruelty of persistence, have not been equalled in our shipping annals for nearly half a century, has already written upon the wandering tablet of the treacherous waters, and in more ineffaceable characters on the memories of hundreds of destitute homes, a chapter of terrible sorrow. Seldom has the fury of the elements ranged over so many seas and devastated so many shores at once. Not that it would be inconsistent with what is called " the law of storms," so far as these destructive agencies of nature have been reduced by wide in duction and accumulated experience to the sem blance of a law, that their force should be simulta neously felt over widely distant portions of the earth's surface and vast spaces of the sea. But it is seldom that we hear, as in these days of hces sant and instant communication we are apt to hear, of such devastation of shipping along lines of op posite coasts, and of such huge disasters far off in the wastes and solitudes of the ocean. From quarter to quarter, almost from month to month, we seem to read of whole fleets of colliers and coasters putting to sea from their northern har bours, often in the face of warning signals, and presently after cast helpless on the quicksands or the rocks. Lamentable as is the domestic side of these common stories of English life, we are apt to dismiss them with the reflection that no doubt the vessels were ill-found, half-manned, and unsea worthy, and that the fatal recklessness of the masters and crews was much to blame. Occasion ally we are somewhat more startled by the news of a passenger emigrant ship stranded on a shoal, or burnt at sea, or perhaps of some first-class outward bound ship from Liverpool or London, driven on a leo shore and split to pieces on the rocks within a week of her departure. Some times, as in the memorable case of the Royal Charter, it is a great ship, lost with all her com pany on her return voyage within earshot of home. " Shipa missing" is but the title of an ordinary paragraph in a corner of the newspaper. Familiarity obscures from us the full meaning of sea-risks, if it does not harden our compassion for the sufferers. England gives hourly so many hostages to the mercy of the winds and waves that she scarcely seems to miss enough those who never come back. These overwhelming gales, however, with which the New Year opened, and which have not yet ceased, have been marked by more than one result which will certainly arrest the attention of the future annalist. The wreck of thirty vessels all at one fell swoop in Torbay—the wild sea crowded with the poor men struggling to the shore—the farms and public buildings full of the survivors— the seamen of ships "put back " at Liverpool, re fusing to go to sea again, and choosing rrther to go to prison —the loss here and there of a lifeboat in the desperate service of rescuing men from ascain which no ship could live—these are exceptional incidents of a month of gales. Of course, as it always happens, most sea losses and most sea risks are of vessels nearing or just leaving land. It is seldom that a ship tolerably well found, well manned, and well handled comes to grief where there is plenty of sea room. It must go hard with such a ship if she can neither lay to nor ran before the gale. When a ship goes down in the open sea it is almost always because she has sprung a leak. This may be tbe effect of violent straining and labouring ; but it is a very rare occurrence when a sufficiently well-found ship is actually ' beaten and destroyed by the sheer force of wind and waves. Yet such appears to have been literally the fate of the passenger steamship London, the news of whose loss saddened and astonished this country yesterday. The London, 1,752 tons register, 800 horse-power, was one of the finest passenger ships out of the port of London, and belonged to one of the oldest-established and the most justly-renowned of our shipping firms. She was launched at Blackwell only the year before last. She had already made two most successful voyages to Melbourne, one in 59 days, under one of the ablest and most experienced and respected commanders in the mercantile marine, the senior captain of Messrs. MoNsit WIGELA3I'S Austra- LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms of the put year the National Lifeboat Institution, by its life boat and other means, contributed to the saving of 707 persons from different wrecks on our coasts. The institution also ex pended £2.1,374 in the same period on its lifeboat establishments. In addition to granting £4,950 for rewards fur saving life and exercising the lifeboats. _ The ca . iiiiitteeai7e Institution earnestly APPEAL to the public for ASiISTANCE, to enable them to meet the continued been demands on the institution's la Lifeboat Stations. Contributions are received by the London and Country Rankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the In stitution, 14, John•street, Adolph', London. JOHN BROADEN. fIRIGIN AL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, N... le, inunuarrA4vuorr. COVENT-GARDEN. JOHN BROOD/INS GOLD CHAINS. JOHN BROODEN'S GOLD GL &RD CHAINS. JOHN BROGDEN'SGOLDALBERT CHAINS. JOHN 'WOODEN'S GOLD BROOCH CHAINS. MESSRS. WATHERSTON and SON, Goldsmiths and Jewellers, Have Ready for Inspection a Great Variety of JEWELLERY, of the Latest Designs. suitable for WEDDING PRESENTS and NEW-YEARS own. 12. Pall-snall East, S.W. LoNboN must have a SUPPER and MUSIC ROOM tar Gentlemen. —Remember, we watt for )ou at '.EVANS," alter the Covent-garden Pantomime, and the Theatre& THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1866. lien fleet. The London left Gravesend on the 30th of December, and met with such severe weather in the Channel that 'he was obliged to put into St. Helen's Roads for shelter. From St. Helen's Roads to Plymouth she had steamed down Channel against a whole gale of wind and a heavy rolling sea ; and the pilot boat which put off to take her into the Sound was capsized l and the pilot drowned. At Plymouth she arrived on the 4th inst., and embarked an unusually large number of passengers. At midnight, on Friday, the sth, she left Plymouth for her destination, with calm weather, and a light wind ahead. All the next day she was under full steam, 1 1 and making steady way. On Sunday morning I the wind increased and a heavy head sea got up, and on Monday morning, it blowing a whole gale, Captain MARTIN stopped his engines and made the ship snug under reefed topsails, just to keep her on her course. The gale lulling a little at noon, the engines were again set going; next morning the force of the wind carried away the jibboom, foretopmast, foretopgallant mast, and royal mast, and these spars could not be secured. Two hours later the main royal mast was blown clean out of the socket. Still Captain MARTIN endeavoured to keep his ship slowly steaming ahead. About 3 p.m. on the Tuesday a tremendous sea carried away the port lifeboat ; all that evening and night the sea was running mountains high ; but the screw was still kept moving. It was not till 4 a.m. on Wednes day, the 10th inst., that Captain MARTIN resolved to put hack to Plymouth, the London being then some 200 miles south-west of Land's End. But it seems to have been already too late. At half-past 10 on Wednesday night a tremen dous sea swept the ship, broke into the engine -room and put out the fires. This was the night on which the thirty vessels were wrecked, at once, in Torbay. All the passengers of the London worked at the pumps, while the gale became a hurricane, and the ship was losing all control. At length, at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Captain MARTIN called his passengers together, and told them that they must prepare for the worst. The ship had already sunk as low as her main chains. One boat was lowered and instantly swamped, but the five men in her were dragged on board the ship. No attempt was made to launch the other boats, but the passengers gathered into the chief cabin, and having been calmly assured by Captain MARTIN that there was no hope left, they quietly joined with a clergyman in prayer. There was no wild and selfish terror, no screaming, no rushing to the boats ; there was the agony of sudden partings, end of everlasting separations of parent and child, and husband and wife ; but with the example of Cap tain MARTIN . before them, all these dying men and women were composed, and all resigned, while the children wondered and asked why their fathers and mothers looked so sad. Captain MARTIN remained at his station on the poop, once or twice only going forward, and once or twice into the saloon to join in the devotions of the passen gers. At two p.m. the few men who were destined to survive to bring the sad story home—sixteen of the crew and three of the passengers—deter mined to trust themselves to the chances of the sea, lowered away the pinnace, and launched her clear of the ship. These men called to the Captain to come with them, but this brave and stedfsat English seaman declined, saying, "No, I will go down I”ith " the passengers; but I wish you God speed, and safe " to laud." The boat then pulled away, and five minutes after the London, with 270 souls on hoard, went down, and all was over. It seems that after the pinnace came away an ineffectual attempt was made to get the other boats out, but it wrs too late. All the circumstances of this terrible calamity will, of course, prove the subject of a careful and anxious inquiry by the Board of Trade. The first question that will occur to landsmen will probably be—Ought Captain MARTIN to have put back sooner than he did ? This, indeed, is one of those very proper and sensible questions which it is easy to answer in one way only after the event. What ever may be the verdict of the Court of Inqui j, those who knew Captain MARTIN best can desire no other epitaph for such a seaman than his last words to the crew of the pinnace --"N“, " I trill go down with the passoujer3 ; but I wish " you God speed, and safe to land." OUR CONTEMPORARIFS. (THIS DAY.) of steteegroship; or rendered say appreciable service to the country, is thus to be placed over the heads of many men of preyed adminiagrative capacity, and who have la. boured lee( and zealously in office for the public good—not only is a great injustise done to them, but by thus discou raging men who have by hard libou• od devotion to their official duties earned any promotion that might be open— an incalculable injury is done to the public. The Tile,yrapli regrets to hear that Mr. Layard has re signed his place in the government sa Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Aire;re. Lord Russell, we believe, ex pressed his reluctance to accept the tendered resignation, and it was proposed to make the honourable gentlem►n a member of the Privy Council ; bat the proffered distinction was declined. Mr. Layard retsina office until his successor shall be appointed. The Sfar praises the Scotch reformer.; at Dundee and Edinburgh for the good Sense they have shown in sinking the differences between the various sections of the reform party, and uniting to support the bill which Lord Russell is expected to propose. His lordship can only fail to obtain a majority by the existence of unwise dissersiors. bat only to spread the burden over a series of years, the Telegraph sees no reason why government should not grant them • loan. The Star remarks that dramatic critics must be careful in future how they deal with actors who may mot in their opinion be letter-perfect in the parts they have to play. The critic of au evening palm, writing about Mr. Emery's performanos in • piece called the Watch Cry said that the words of the pert were spoken by the prompter. Mr. Emery thought thi s • libel upon him, and brought an action against the publisher of the paper for damages. The action was tried ; and for the defence, Mr. l'algrave Simpson, the adapter of the piece, mid he did not recognise what he had written in the words uttered by Mr. Emery. He added further that Mr. Feohter himself did not know his part. The jury found for the plaintiff, with five gu'neas damages. Ebe Court. OSBORNE. JAN. 17. Prince Christian of Sleswig-Holstein arrived yes terday evening from Dover, and dined with her Majesty and the Royal Family. The Prince is attended by the Coant de Rantran. Colonel the Hon. A. Harding. also attended his Serene Highness from Dover. A Committee of the Lords of the Privy Council for the Affairs of Jersey sat yesterday at the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords present were the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Chelmsford, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, and the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce. A deputation from Aklershott, consisting of Mr. H. Allen (Chairman), Dr. Barker, Mr. White, sen., Mr. Churchyard, Mr. Harmer, Mr. Wooloott, Mr. Sears, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Walbrook, and Mr. Osborn, had an interview with Earl de Grey, at the War-office, yesterday, in reference to the new canteen system. The deputation was introduced by Mr. Beach, M.P., and Mr. Sclater-Booth, M.P. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Malts. Her Majesty the Queen, their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, and their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess vary of Cam bridge have consented to patronise the grand concert to take place at St. James's-hall on the 13th February next, in aid of the funds of University College Hospital. On this occa. lion Gounod's new sacred drama " Tobias " will be per formed, for the first time in any country, under the direc tion of Mr. Benedict and the members of his choral society- Summonses have been issued for a Cabinet Council for to-morrow afternoon, at 2 o'clock, at Earl Russell's official residence, in Downing-street. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will return to town to-morrow from visiting General Hall at his seat near Newmarket. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter wall entertain a succession of distioeshed v;sitors at Burghley House, Northamptonshire, during next week. The Earl of Lonedale will come to town the week after next from the Isle of Wight. The noble earl is greatly improved in herith. We (Post) understand that the christening of the infant daughter of the Right Hon. Sir Robert end Lady Emily Peel w;'l take place next week. A meeting of gentlemen connected with the mercantile marine was held at the London Tavern yester- day. M•. Crawford, M.P., presided. A good des' of die satisfaction has been created, it seems, by the recent act of the Board of Trade in setting aside the finding of the court of inquiry into the loss of the Duncan Dunbar. Resolutions were passed at the meeting yesterday coademnatmf of this action of the board, and 'a favour of substituting a jury of nautical men for the two assessors who now assist the magistrates in these inquiries. Mr. Torrens, M.P., and Mr. Ayrton, M.P., were present and tc ik part in the pro ceedings. The two young officers of the Ist battalion 22nd Regiment, Lieutenant Swinney and Adjutant Hammersley, who were sentenced to three months' Imprisonment at Malta, on the 11th of December, for assaulting the police, have beau liberated by the a ;ling governor, General Rid ley ; a petition eijaed by the inhabitants of three cities, and soliciting the pa don of the two offi‘wre, lt•viig been presented to him 1-. at week. Brigadier-General Nelson, respecting whose movements there has been considerable specul►tion during the Jut few weeks, aged for Jamaica yesterday in the La Plat . WRECKS ON THE COASTS OP THE UNITED KINGDOM. This morning an abstract was published of the retr-ne made to the Lords Committee of the Privy Council for Trade, of wrecks and casualties on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom in the year 1864. The number of wrecks and casualties from all causes on the masts of the United Kingdom and in the surrounding seas reported in 1864 is 1,390. The number reported in 1863 was 1,664. The annual average number of casualties during the five years ended 1858 was 1,118 ; and during the five years ended 1863, 1,488. The corrected annual average of the ten years from 1855 to 1864 inclusive is 1,343. The num ber reported in :864 is therefore below the ►verage of the preceding five years, but above the corrected average of the last ten years. The general average number of casu►ities reported will probably increase from year to year, owing to the increase in the number of ships frequenting our casts and adjoining etas, whilst the particular number for guy one year will be increased or diminished accoreieg to the prevalence or absence of gales of remarkable violence and duration. The number of ships lost or damaged in the 1,390 casual ties reported in 1864 is 1,741, representing • tonnage of upwards of 350,000 tons. The number of ships reported is in excess of the number of casuplties reported, because in cases of collision two or more whips are involved in one casualty. Of these 1,741 aim, 1,434 are known to have been ships belonging to Great Britain and its dependencies, with British certificates of registry, and 246 to have been foreign ships. Of the remaining GI ships the country and employment are unknown. Of the British ships ISO were employed in British ..suiting trade, and 454 were employ ed in the (over sea) foreign and home trade ; and of the foreign ships 13 were employed in the British coasting trade. Of the total number of casualties (1,390) reported in 1864, 351 were collisions, and 1,039 were east/shim other than col lision.. Of these 1,039 casualties, 386 resulted in total losses, and 653 in partial damage more or less serious. It is specially worthy of remark that the whole number of casualties other than collisions reported, in 1864, is less than the number reported in any year since 1858. The annual average for nine years is for total losses 440, and for partial losses 605, es against this the numbers for 1864 are for total losses 38G, and for partial losses 653. Of the 386 total loom from causes other than collision, 163 only were caused by stress of weather, 89 were caused by inattention, carelessness, or neglect, 39 arose from defects in the ship or in her equipments (and of the 39, no lass than 25 appear to have foundered from unseaworthiness), and the remainder from various other causes. Of the 653 partial losses other than collision, 29'J were caused by stream of weather, 148 arose from carelessness, 53 from defects in the ship or her equipments, and the remainder frem various causes. The total number of ships reported to have foundered or to have been lost on our coasts from unseaworthinees in nine years is 385 ; and the number of casualties caused through unseaworthy ships, cnsound gear, Ice., and resulting in partial damage in the same time is 538. In the six years ended 1864 casu►lties to comparatively new ships bear a very high proportion to the whole number of casualties. 757 casualties happened to newly new ships, and 1,441 to ships from three ti seven years of age. The state of ratennees and want of repair of some of the ships above 20 years often calls for remark. Even at the age of 25 to 30 it sometimes happens that a ship is so rotten as to fall to pieces immediately on touching the ground, without giving the crew the slightest chance of getting out their boats. In one case, an old ship, • foreigner, which went to pieces as soon as abe touched the ground, it was found that her seams had been payed with clay and red ochre to keep the water out. The number lost from shipwreck on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom in 1864 is less than the number lost in any year since 1855. The number of lives lost on the coasts of the Irish Sea daring the six years is more than double the number lost on any other part of the coasts, although during the past year (1864) the number on the east coast of England is very slightly in excess of the number lost on the coasts of the Irish Channel. 720 casualties happened when the force of the wind did not exceed a strong breeze, in which the ship could carry single reefs and top gallant calla, sad 514 only happened with the wind from a strong gas to a hurricane. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (lIIMITER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE MILITARY REVOLT IN SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 17, EVENING. . . Official intelligence received here announces that yesterday the insurgents, under General Prim, left llava, and arrived at Zalamca, a small village on the frontiers of Portugal. The royal troops were taking many prisoners notwithstanding the forced marches made by the insurgents. MMSTERS AND MEASURES. The Times tbiuks the serious self-consciousness with which Mr. Goachen spoke the other nisht was amply justified by the situation he has reached, and that it is no wonder if a man who has achieved so much should speak with boldness, if with me laity, of his prospects. An ad vance so rspil as to be almost unprecedented, inevitably excites inquiry amongst men who have served the state more years than Mr. Gasehen has lived • *About attaining the goal he has reached, as to the secret of this early die. tination,—there being just enough in their carping compl►int, to enable them tomes cut rent. The Times finds the fact t o be that Mr. Gov:lees contemporaries and acquaintances, including wit his acadamic fi:ends alone, but the more sceptical men of business in the City, recognise in him the qualities which eminently befit a man for public service— vigour and independence of mind, originality of thought, the faculty of sriziog upon the essence of a question and of putting aside everything which is merely accidental, the power of determining at a critical time what ought to be done and what can be done—qualities which can only be detected by 'help observation and by such delicate testa as defy classification. It is on this account that the rapid promotion of so young a man is creditable to Lord Russell, since it is evidence of bis desire to enlist the best talent in the service of the crow.), however unsupported it may be by family influence, and however unconnected with whig traditions. In his new position there will be need of all Mr. Goechen's confidence, his knowledge, and his ability, but eves/one who has a generous sympathy with courage and ambition will alsh him good speed. _ . The mutterings of disaffection excited amongst wavering or apostatising llberels by the proposal of • reform bill cot fined to the mingle article of an extension of the suffrage, are ascribed by the Daily Nara to the fact that these mo• dente gentlemen desire a bill which shall excite the I maximum of opposition, and rre ready themselves to be the opposition if no other should be forthcoming. If it were not superfluous to argue against • pretext, they might be reminded that parts of a scheme to which effect cannot I be given simultaneously may be passed in succession ; but I Lord Russell wisely meets their threat of • hostile line of action by the announcement of • counter course of pro ceediog, —with a dechr►tion which means in substance that the rejection of the nascent bill would produce a dissolution and a general electioo, with or without a brief interregnum of Lord Derby. Lord Russell's firmness will probably convert these meditating dis torters, who would hardly have the courage needful to meet their constituencies after throwing out the bill. into effective though reluctant allies. The faulty political action apparent in the course taken by the deputation of I working men the other day, adds the Daily Neics, in re istiog •smaller measure of reform than manhood suffrage, is natural in persons who have been wholly excluded from it ; since men to whom politics have of necessity been only abstract and speculative are not to be severely blamed if they do not always exhibit that practical good sense which can I be leaned only by participation io The Advertiser insists that the liberal members are be. coming mare •nd mare dissatisfied with Mr. Gosebea's ap• polutmeat, which they oonsider an affront to the whole party. A mere youth, says the Advertiser, without having proved himself to be possessed of any qualities worthy the name THE MIS 01 THE LONDON AND THE ANALIA. The above disasters are referred to in the leading articles of all our contemporaries this morning. The Times de scribes the loss of the London as one of the worst cues of shipwreck ever known. The captain died bravely with those whose fate was entrusted to him. As is always the cue in these disasters, the women and children all perished. The few who escaped were of corrals men in the fulness of their strength. ln those moments of agony the in stinct of self-preservation is the only one which remains in the human breast, and when a few desperate men determine to take the only chance of safety and commit themselves to an open boat in a rsging hurricane it is conceivable that they should forget all but themselves. Both the London and the Amalie foundered from the same cause—namely, from the sea carrying away the engine-room batch ad stopping the engines by putting out the fires. Surely greater care might be taken in ►ecuring these vessels against the shipping of heavy seas and the putting out of the fire by the rush of water which must be looked for in a storm. The wisdom or humanqy of putting to sea at such a time might also be doubted. These two vessels met with heavy gales from the very day they left port, gales which we must presume the barometers of their captaintforetold. The London certainly need not have taken its munitnde of passengers to sea with the prospect of such weather at the very outset of the voyage. The remarks of the Daily Nam will be found unabridged in another column. The Post asks on what principles the hatches cover log the engine -rooms were constructed; whether the lifeboats were placed in a part of the ship where they were exposed to more thus ordinary dvger, and whether either of these vessels wt. built in comfartments. It would seem, the Howld observes, that after all which has been done in the shape of government regula tions and well-constructed lifeboats, there is no security that, when an emigrant or pauenger ship is in distress, there will be any adequate provision for the deliverance of those on board. In the cue of the Amelia the simple want of lid coverings to the bunkers is said to be the chief cause of the rowel having been sacrificed, with ell the costly cargo, valued at 2C3,0001. The foundering of big ships at sea is, of all disasters, the most fatal to the repute of our naval archi tects, and the catantrophe is the more fraught with die. appointment, when it is expleined that the water did not enter so much through an ordinary leak from below the water-line, as through in opening in the vessel's deck above, so that the Teasel may be said to sink for the want of a shutter—a proper lid to a hatchway. The Telegraph confidently asserts that the valuable lives lost with the London might have been in safety this very day. Not engaged in the mail service or pressed for time by contracts, the vessel started on the 6th, at a time when the storm signal was hoisted on ell orr coasts, and when all over western Europe the barometer wen lower than 30 degrees. Although the barometer continued to drop on the 7th and Sth, the c-.pta'n, not trusting his barometers, did not hr.' back, but waited until the 10th. The bugle Susan Pardew was caught in the same place in the same gale ; but knowing from his barometers what wan approaching, her captain made hie ship ma tight as a bottle, mid brought his own news home to Plymouth, where the London could and should have been on the right of the Bth or the morning of the 9th—bad her captain acted with such circumspection as that which we find recorded in Captain Davis's log. " Having careful'y noted the barometer during all its changes, I was quite prepared for everything, being con vinced by the movement of the nutriment and the unsteadiness of the weather that a fearful storm was raging to the N. of lat. 47.6 N., long. 14.48." That is a seaman• like entry. The fact is that captains rue nothing, as a rule, for barometers and scientific meteorology. The Tclegrap4 further urges that there should be a public testing-office for meteorological nuts amenta close to the docks at Tower hill, and that underwriters should not insure vessels unless provided with first-rate weather instruments. No fishing village that sends a couple of trawlers out should want a first-rate barometer; and no captain, if he an possibly help it, should put to sea in the face of adverse signals. MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS. The Times gives Count Bemarck the full credit in hie foreign policy of having clearly perceived and boldly acted on the realities of the political position, of having need the follies and vanity of his neighbours as a rare means for the advancement of Prussia, and of having seen at home that the balance of strength lay with the army avian the perils ni3nt. That he should have represented the King at the opening of the chambers is en assurance of the determina tion of Prussia to adhere to her ambitious and encroaching policy. The people ate told that the government will persist in violating the constitution, but that it confidently relies en their unanimous assent to its dealings with the rights of neighbouring nations just as it has done with their own. But Prussia, alter all, may be setting an example which she should be the last to establish. If the little states of Europe are absorbed by overbearing force, they will infal libly bring down with them in their fall that system of public law in Europe which, since the first dawning of modern history, has been the refuge of the weak against the strong, and a perpetual, though not always an effectual, protest against high-handed rapacity. The Daily Para attributes the groundless rumours which reach us from the South of intended negro insur rection to the conscience which " makes cowards of us all." It also objects to the extraordiony rashness of supposing that, as slavery is announced to be at an end, we may as sume the slave tra le to be at last abolished in fact, as it has been in profession for some generations. As long as any state works its colonies by any non-natural supply of labour the danger to the African negro exista. If the strictness of our watch at sea has been the means of ruining the Cuban trade in negroes, we must maintain that strictness till the Spanish and Portuguese governments have satisfied the world that slavery is really and truly abolished in their dependencies, or we may be played fast and loose with for another half century. France, too, amidst loud professions of giving freedom to the negro, has carried on • virtual slave trade whenever and wherever it was pos sible. As • beneficial trade springs up and expands, we may hope that our watch will be reduced in extent and cost; but there is much to be done first, and we are not likely, after all that we have suffered, to allow the African slave trade to raise its head again, under any pretence or disguise, through any over-haste or false con fidence on our part. The Puse thinks the proceedings of the Irish executive in the treatment of Fenianiem have been judicious, while it laments the feeling of insecurity which the movement has produced amongst capitalists. Rightly or wrongly, the H(rald says, we have cancelled our obligations to the smaller states of Europe, and King Leopold has no other claims upon us than moral ones, There is no charter for Belgium worth • square yard of parchment. To preserve his position the King must avoid meeting half-way, or any way, those revolutionary tendencies which one party within his realm imbibes from another without, and which if ever they become formid able, might induce even good Belgians to consider whether • conventional national independence may not, after all, be too dearly purchased. The Herald laments that eo little hes been dooe is Eric land to afford comfort to 13,000 white men in Jamaica, while heaven and earth have been moved to vinlicate the mule of the 450,000 indolent blacks. The Telegraph point, out the example of Aberdeenshire to the °mien of stock, and advisee them to organise, sasses, offer oompensation, and then kill without asking many questious. That is what Aberdeenshire has dots ; and hence, while of all counties is the kingdom it had most to dread from the rindsrpest, it is whip' the one that will feel the effects least. If they do not wish to shirk the duty, ROME. ROME. JAN. 17. Baron von Hubner, the new Austrian ambas- sador, has presented his credentials to the Pope. THE SWISS CONSTITUTION. BERNE, JAL 17, EVENIIG. The inhabitants of this canton have rejected the proposed revision of the constitution, with the exception of the articles referring to the emancipa tion of the Jews, which have been approved. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE PERUVIAN. (Vi 4 Greencastle.) NEW YORK, J. 6, Zvi - lam The City of London arrived at Halifax to-day, short of coal. Money abundant. Gold, 142. Exchange on London, 1542 ; Paris, 3.65. Stocks dull. New York Centrals, 951 ; Illinois, 130 ; Erie, 941 ; 5-20 Bonds, 1042. Petroleum ; Crude, 38; re fined, 69. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTIIAMPTON, Jaw. 18. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Mongolia, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 81 passengers, Australian gold, value 20,7711. ; precious stones, value 2,500 rupees ; and a general cargo, including 969 bales of raw silk, value 85,0001. sterling. Across the Bay of Biscay she experienced westerly winds and a heavy rolling sea, and up Channel W.S. W. winds and a heavy swell. Twenty-two British war vessels were at Malta. The Racoon and Redpole were at Gibraltar. The British barque Express has gone ashore to the east, off Gibraltar. Exchangeh unaltered. THE RIVER PLATE. BUENOS AYRES, DEC. 14. Exchange on London, GG.B Ounces, 402. Wet salted ox hides, 32. Dry American, 36. Stock of dry bides, 47,000. FUNERAL OF SIR CHARLES L. EASTLAKE. (THIS DAY.) The reinterment of the late President of the Royal Academy of Arts took place this afternoon at the Kensal-green Cemetery. On the body being conveyed from Fitzroy-square, where the deceased resided, to Trafalgar square, it wee placed in the library belonging to the Aca demy, where it remained till its final removal. At 10 o'ck dr the boll of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields began to tell, and at a few minutes ►(ter 11 the coffin was placed in the hearse. The cortege wee preceded by a lido( feathers, followed by the hoarse drawn by four horses. The filo. mourning carriage contained William Eastlake, Charles L. Eastlake (nephews), and Nicholas Tucker, who is an old and faithful servant of the deceased, and who was one of the chief mourners at the express wish of the family. In the second carriage were Dr. H. Eastlake andl John Eastlake (nephews) ; the third contained J. S. Knight, Charles Landauer, S. Smirks, and S. A. Hart, who officiated as pall bearers. In the fourth carriage rode Dr. Hasher, A. H. Layard, M.P., Sir R. Murchison, and John Murray, (publisher) ; fifth, John Forster, Esq., Feigns') Simpson, F. J. Palgrave, and H. Motivate; 'lath, private friends; seventh, Sir H. Hol land, Bart., and A. Cooper, Esq. ; eighth, D. Awns., S. M 'Dowell, Beresford Hope, and J. S. Herbert; ninth, E. Taylor, C. W. Cope, R. Weatmsoott, and Lord Monteagle ; tenth, T. Creswick, R. Redgrave, and F. Grant; eleventh, W. C. Marshall, W. S. Frith, S. Cousins, and F. Hurlatone ; twelfth, E. A. Ward, F. R. Pickeragill, G. T. Doe, and H. Warren ; thirteenth, G. G. Scott, S. F. Poole, H. Weeks', and W. Boni! ; fourteenth, F. Goodall, J. E. Millais, E. W.Cooke, and J. C. Horsley; fifteenth, Professor Partridge and J. T. Lewis ; sixteenth, H. S. E. Eastlake. The remainder of the mourning carriages, amount. ing to twenty-three in all, were occupied by inti. mate friends and representatives of the general body of associates; and also a deputation from the Royal Scot tish Academicians. There were several private carriages joined in the procession, headed by that belonging to her Majesty Queen Victoria, who had graciously intimated her desire to be represented. It was the intention of the Bishop of Oxford to have performed the burial service, but the businees of his diocese p ted him doing so. There were crowds assembled in Trafalgar square to witness the procession, which moved at a slow pace to the cemetery, where it was met by a number of friends. The proceedings at the ground were not marked by any specialty. The arrangements of the funeral were entrusted to Messrs. Holland and Son, of Mount-street, 13erkelepsquare. PRIVATE BILL LEGISLATION.-(THIS DAY.) The private bill campaign of the new parliament was opened this morning in No. 16 committee room of the House of Comn,uns, by Mr. Frere, one of the examiners on standing orders. Mr. Smith. the other examiner, was unable to sit to-day, and Mr. Frere consented to dispose of the unopposed bills set down for his colleague. The Hat of petitions embraces upwards of six hundred and thirty bills, authorising, it is estimated, the raising of nearly a hundred million sterling. Several of the schemes, however, have already been allowed to drop or have fallen through for want of the necessary deposit of cautioci-money required by the law, while it is more than probable that many which still help to swell the catalogue are destined never to trouble the committee of selection There were 17 unopposed cases appointed for bearing to-day, including the St. Margaret's, Westminster, Improvement Bill ; the East London Railway (ad. ditiolial powers) Bill; the East Loudon Railway, (Smith Western Extension) Bill ; and the Metropolitan Rail way (additional powers) Bill The only opposed cam standing for proof was the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Surrey lines) Bill. There are two opposed asses appointed for Mr. Smith. viz., the Metropolitan Railway (station collect. ing lines No. 1) Bill, and the Vale of Crickon-ell Railway Bill, but owing to the unavoidable absence of the examiner these had to stand over for reappointment. Last evening a distinguished number of persons gathered together at Willie's Room', King-street, St. James's, on the OCCIWOU of a " reeeption" given by Mr. Warren do le Rue, F.R.S., the president of the Royal Astronomical Society. The rooms presented an extremely interesting and impoeiog eppearance, the various articles exhibited by members of the society, and by many other well•koown authorities in the scientific world, being dis played with much taste and profusion. The merchants of Konigsberg have petitioned the Prne•ian government for the gale of corn by weight instead of by mftwaratuent, and are advocating this change for the whole Zollverein. The restrictions of the Prussian Bank against the exoessive speculations in corn and produce have, it is maid, begun to tell, and a long list of failures is reported—st Magdeburg the firms of Eichel and Schmidt, Simon and Schulze : at Stettin, Edward Wellmann, F. Springinann, Bally, Billing, and Co., and August Richard, all for large rams ; Eichel sad Schmidt, and Wellmann, for 800,000 thaws each. The King of Sweden has sanctioned the contract for a new loan of nine million thalers with the firms of Erlanger and Bethman, of Frankfort and Merck, and the Norddentsche Bank at Hamburg. The particulars of the new line to Brighton, the plans for which have been deposited by the &nth Eastern and the London, Chatham, and Dover Companies, are ex pected to be introduced forthwith. It oommence• at Beck enham, me an almost direct coarse to East Grinstead and Lewes, and proceeds thence, via Kemp-town, to the centre of Brighton. LAW INTELLIGE (THIS DAY.) EQUITY coußr. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir R. T. Rinds l 4, l THOMAS V. DAW.—CITY IMPEOVEM/37 6 .'" The Vice•Cbancellor gave judgment in this eas t , before the court ou a motion for an injunction, been agreed between the parties that it treated as a motion for a decree. The were 'stockbrokers carrying on busier@ at Threadneedle-street, and the defendant WM the Commissioners of Sewers. The object o to obtain an injunction restraining the frum getting possession of the whole No. 50, and also of No. 49, of which the acquired an agreement for a lease for the of enlarging their premises. Under the with the tensor the plaintiffs were into down both houses, and had proceeded ' when the Commissioners of Sewers, opportunity for oontinuing the wet _ street, which they had already commenced t end, wrote to the plaintiff in Dec. 1864. with I purchase of the [rootage of the property to a 4 04 Negotiations were carried on between its and after a time the commissioners determinsdf of the largeness of the expense not to • arrangement. In June, 1865, the plaintiffs tl of No. 49, and were preparing plans for the I . to occupy the sites of both hours, but the con again changed their minds, and though their ete, the plaintiffs a formal notice to treat for th e ground then vacant, and subsequently a similar . respect to No.lo, the plaintiffs insisted that dopers were entitled by their act to take only land as was required for the purpose of the prop moot, 'berme the commissioners desired to L of the whole of the property, in order that widenindof the street bad been effected they s* residue, and in that way recoup themselves foc i of the outlay. The plaintiffs accordingly filed praying a declaration that the commis / a u not entitled without the plaintiffs' ow* take more of their property than au for the widening of the street, and th e before the court was really the constratke put upon the act of parliament under which Gs shiners held authority to nuke improvements h.' London by altering, widening, turning, twee He admitted that the section (40) Priacipt. was so clumsily worded as to afford a justification to the claims of the comnanto in his opinion the necessity, under the section,, party being required for the purpose of the street, expressed the intention of the lege, yarned the construction to be put upon the clam a house projected only partially into a street Mil' Proposed to widen the legislature seemed to have ea as a matter of course, that it would be the hie owner or occupier that the whole should be taken regard to a piece of laud it was hardly e that it was intended to give the con the powers for which they contended, did pusses such power they might, who strip of land was required for the purpose of eidiu ri street in tho outskirts of Loudon, take VOlimeliOn d number of acres of land, destroying perhaps the ha w , the occupier. Improvement Commissioners were mile it was true, to a larger discretion in the mufti lof their legal powers than were persons to on works simply for their owe pecuniary bow but the principle only held good to the extent to fie they were improvement commissioners. The corn: mss would have no right under their act, therefor*, tin the vacant piece of land, and as the contract had ham tared into to pull down No. 50, that site must also te a girded as vacant. With respect to No. 41, hurtful plaintiffs had precluded themselves from complies', what was proposed to be done, they having with that missioners sent in a claim for the whole of that site, betel regard to No. 50 they were entitled to an injuanisi ; restrain the commissioners from issuing their matt the sheriffs and other offices of the city of Landoll, foe purpose of summoning a jury to assess the purebasempr S r to be paid to the plaintiffs. This would of comes teethe, prejudice to any other notice to treat. As regarded Yak the bill was dismissed. Under these circumatesou hung no order with respect to costs. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittings in Bauco.—(Before Justices Blackburn, and Lush.) THE QUEEN V. ROBERTS, CLUE. ..... . . . . The defendant in this case, a clergyman of the druid England, came up to-day for judgment. It Lopes:adobe& defendant, who now has a curacy in Yorkshire, preilor4 I held one near Lutterworth, and in consequence of aa proceedings in which he was interested Woes it magistrates not resulting in his favour, he publish pamphlet in which he grossly libelled the presiding alp trates and their clerk. Two criminal informations filed against him which came on for trial before theld Chief Baron at Leicester, and as the defendant did a appear he wu convicted, and he had suffered Hid imprisonment for hie contempt. Mr. Bovill, Q.C., appeared for the defendant, ended their lordshire to take a merciful view of the cue. It defendant had removed from the district, and had oared from publishing any more libels. He produced dam from a number of the defendant's present penults who spoke highly of his present conduct, and be la deeply regretted having published the libels neoplasia. and would abstain from doing so in future. He hopdti court would consider his entering into recognisance re he the pesoe a sufficient punishment. ISMr. Keane, Q.C., with whom was Mr. Metalloid there could be no doubt eat the defendant had pallid most malicious libels upon the prosecutors ' sad dor there was a case in which the crown should retell. trates in the faithful discharge of their duties the messo However, he was instructed to say that the prosecntonal no desire to act vindictively towards the defendat ul would leave the matter in their lordship.' hands. Mr. Justice Blackburn (the senior puisne jade) ups ' ing sentence upon the defendant, said that the clap' true, would have shown that the prosecutors us • woithy to hold that position, and would be clear Mil severe puoisment, but they were written in such te art Berated manner that few persons who read them wail disposed to believe in them. Taking all thecircurastanua consideration the court felt they could not pas a kis sentence on him than that he be imprisoned for Orr months, and enter into recogoisaoces to keep the peek two years, himself in 500 r.. and two sureties of 501. ad and to be imprisoned until the recognisances were seta into. The defendant was then removed in the custody oil Ching,lthe Upstart of the court. COURT OF EXCHEQUER Sittings in Banco.—(Before Lord Chief Boma Pollak M I Berens Martin and Ch tenelL) GRIMY r. GIBSON.—JUDGMECL The case came before the court upon a demurrer boor setting up a composition deed under the Bakraptry-1 , " o lS n al one side and w al a hf ra r u . ed lio a l t h l e e r n o the length h y The Court now gave judgment. The only gesstioso whether the deed was bibdtog on the non.asseetteg tt esterd other. a y by 2 .111 1 1 of whom the plaintiff WAS one. Their lordships bold lig it was not, and gave judgment for the defendant. Judgment for the defendant accordingly. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner G11111)011.) IN RE LEOPOLD REEPAILL—DIVIDERD. This bankruptcy, though it occurred 10 years sisal be well remembered. The bankrupt, wbo was is tM Il i ', ploy of the Great Northern Railway Company, was sin victed of fraud and embezzlement to • Lirge amostai sentenced to a long term of imprisonment, the criminal proceedings were pending an adjadioliess bankruptcy was made, with a view to protect the Wald , the creditors; and some 50,000/. was realised. The 00 Northern Railway Company, who bad a claim of ntose of 200,0001., paid out the smaller creditors and toot* estate into their own bands. .1 fin.l dividend sitting go now held, the small anisuut of MOI !. being in booth fM llama order was made. (Before Mr. COMMieliOner Winslow.) IN RR 8. /METZ/IR.—THE STRAND NCSIC•HALL CONnr , The bankrupt, described as of Kilburn, of no was • director of the Strand Musie•Hall. The ease is been already reported at length. The liabilities are gen ii of 23,0001, Mr. Harrowell opposed for the European and Telar tional Finance Company, who are creditors for 7,0004 The bankrupt stated that when the money was Do the Strand Music•hall Company was in • most critical git money was at 9 per cent., and they mast then have dor bat for the loan. The comosnv was now being wonsise , the ball had not yet been sold ; be estimated its yield 30,0001. An adjournment was ordered for a cash 'aeons!. How 1P1:01 Andrew Limehouse, w being drunk. men in the W Michael Ho et 20 minutes driving a hon were three wi the prisoner, narrow street or used any es the tramway c two men who struck in the constable font prisoner was The prisons every word sp Dennis Dri Dock•rosd, w cart. Th hini a Te a h m y a a n w el p d erori F D .o i rie n sou l : one could hut Driscoll an They were uc The prison ginning to so furiously *he Mr. Partrit Holton—Y Mr. Paden Cliff, a pol wags intoxioal attempting ti the ooeurreet he could. Fl hie lite. The prieon4 bolically fals Isaac - Emir the back of at all, and the ean't butt us Mr. Partri come very pi ble way. at a reckless queues, that and injured them I shoul alaughtAr. 1 the pri. c I can inflict. a! it It. T. Kiedettley . ) __--__—_--_ LLIGEliet olffl ' her,' i th iltY.) • ” ow it. • owe • t's wiodo . l 'I s' ldlp Oldreii ... Both e r' mr. _ , ;oußr. Imam in this mew. , . e I hs n• an injunctic h , I Q „. . .. eand • b°49°. I do irtiee that it eh' . ' it ° of I decree. Th e .7 .Me Or Ur . . . two French n heehaws at • makers. deaden' was th s . sss l ollnr s t a nd The object ci the 2- ""dent Lining the I . • 'W. y let my I" 1 whole of th e . , • Etitomolde • "ale if which the pl estsku .... sa y who I lease for th s 1 ' ''' la jut Under the Po k , , ow la •. , A 1)(4 is were iateneertit •• 'H. m ul e .. ,1,004204.11 is 1, °l.a. Orden widening of ' - . . house , . commenced at th e ... to Ely ~,IgOiT c. 1864 , with a Mt n t o°°l° ' °Wile* Ilk• property to a dep k s . d r i s i n g up 11 between iki 4 cibi titutes ri oars determined et t ' i m Pli njlante needed eaut3vEptiliztrit6l6. 4 11: 'moth Asliivetsouhisiiinii tame not to .orrg soi ' K r . oidreive to plaintiffs meseellt s . a t snow plans for the see teik .. . g o nad for the e MI, but the •• ." 7-.1 Mr. wailers" though their bers is , v s. G e orge to treat foe th e l i a , w o k s ,. to II neatly a similar man , 1 161 b.. m rs . ail " Es to ias tal lid eordl ai so 6 .. . wiad " ."7 `Thlht ]ids one of the prepa i d. des the of of th nired to pt • wife sa id h er li in order that st et Ai m Elisa Si effected they eighty- worme d Iww themselves for som t b s pet witn°° wording', filed UM w the board the commission. • "B y We 01 2 plaintiffs' corm mar ried to t ' 4 arty than was • we a wife liei beet he , sod the ctiro h quot e were any bad t coestia s • bathaaa opened under whi c h th e gift did oot i impsements is dy e r s . women l a the ovng, or exteediel . street at nig" , ($0) Priacifwil7 old h a s made 100 '; a to afford a tismrs pi n g bet the coromiseirser t knew any r",_. der the section, ot u s that notice ""' pose of the widish's • Thomas ROW of the legislators al 12 yesterdsT I ut upon the clams . room ocionPlod_ into a street Mike e es ' board as eau a seemed to hare ono* isms ashes would be the intoned' - and amongst e should be Mks; tet ' of those on ill it was hardly -. ' the defendant give the c 0... ts time his wife Ley contended, II s mum and Yr ay might, when a the purpose of Mister. t " as he would an, take poseemioe al i t ' morning. ring perhaps the beaks . i t B y ph..oldr muntssioners WWI lII* 1 es had bees shoo in the COlindi .• tines In were perms. imp . Yr. Knox— owe pecuniary PM s sue next we d to the extent to eh ; j oomes on seed' sionere. The couralime ; a was put ir'' THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Joan sfora gzraa ae Or o. INA6.ISI i stree T Cll ße A oy aGE 4r O . F Llan g. . sein . gilder, was brought before Mr. Knox, on warrant, t! kelly, one of the warrant officers, charged with cab wickedly, and maliciously publishing a false and semi libel coinurning Mr. Robert Williams, of Queen' Haventock.hill, and who is also the landlord of houses in Bohover-street. f c r Mr. Oldreive, of Great Portland•street, appeared - defendant. Mr. Williams said—l reside at 7zeen's- creo cen.. goer stock•hill,and rent some houses in lsover-atreskiad„.7: No. 63, sod the defendant lodges in that how Oa Ira sand floor front room, and has been there sow I have several times given him notice is i io consequence of the riotous way is which duets himself and fighting going on. Yesterday ma7 e di messenger mune to me to say that a large board rrr out in front of the house, No. 63, with an ides& tion on it. I went to the house and saw a board Meta ',that It Gould be seen from one end of the stroosw METAOI , - D - Was - sWe Dr.: To pro 10,0001. ; to to 860acais ol 068/. ono , of dividsiad Cr. Assets.- at call, 125,9 price. 76,30 1,2081. 15.. counted, low by stamps, 3 2851.; toga] office and expenses, 1 ooPtances, 2 Profit and branches, inl expenses, 7, to dividend Portion of p to reserve to Unapproi 9s. 44.; tog. by balance profits for la doubtful deb belaime to a " Reserve last account by balsa*. t The Ca& the bank ha 4 • dividosd putdio oontiti sumo to &tor - 401. la the WI itnesi I haa Row