The Express. — London, England, 1864-09-02 00:00:00

THE EXFRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1864. "OHN BROODEN. ORIGINAL GOLD CRAIN MANUFACTORY, 10. KOTILICITAdriIiZr. 00VINT4AILD&A. JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD CHAINS. JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD GUARD CHAINS. JOHN BROODEN'S GOLD ALIIERT CHAINS. JOHN BROGDEN '3 GOLD BROOCH CHLINS. THE LOCH, MOOR, SOTSNTN T0171113T end tIILAVKLLING , Three Gutman. la MI the new materials, Better than ever and more than ever,' at LLIPRID WEBB MILES 73, Brookatmet, Hanover-mama Removed hoes Bond-amt. latablished 1851. NS TI and ZAMBRA'S One Gaines and Two Guinea FIELD GUM and TNABOOPIS are war ranted as unrivalled for power and Drama . flu sad as. In caw °owlet'. Hatton-graodea. ; LC.; 124 1.1.12544191 A. W. ISt, Fleetetreet and Crystal Palace. DEAR DOCTOR, what do you advise ? I advise Alfred Mallow's Concerts afterwards to IVANS', COVE-NT-GARDEN. haw some charming singing. order one of their capital chops and magailicent potatoes, sad that Is the best advice I can give you. ghe OVIMOO• _TO . CORB.E3YONDEN74. Ati ortloosoodo Intended for .. The Ennio" 706406 owlet =mesa be at the °Moe, la, laandestreet, by Two oa the day of publicalkaa MINCERS'S. THIS Erman*. BORN TO GOOD - LUCE. Mr. D. Murray. And THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. J. W. Bay, David limber. D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forrester, sad H. Mellon ; Mrs. H. Maraca, illsass Barnett and Owynne. RRITAIIIRIA. TEt9 IMMO. THE DRUNKARD% CHILDREN.- Singingby Mr. H. Clifton. Mr. H. Baker. eed Air.. 7. H. Stead.—Mr. G. W. Jester.—Concluding with TH.& OLD SWISS CHURCH. NIGH WATER. AT WPDOS 1111:11111 1112 A DAY Mamba. 11. 441a.....A.1bwa55e. ay. To-NOAaow Maria m& M. Ift.....Alfirwa. lA. Um. LONDON, PRIDIY, SEPTEMBER 2. Arran we have said and heard everything that can be said and heard about the effect of the drought of this season on the crops, we meet at every turn evidences of the effect of a deficiency of water on the daily life of half the people in the country. The peculiarity of the case is that we are suffering, not from a hot and unclouded sun drying up our rivers and ponds, but from the evils of heat and cold, each bringing drought. Some of us have no doubt observed the earth and sky by night during the periods of east winds, as well as after sultry days. A dewy night we have found quite a marked even; and the nights seemed to be even drier than the days. From many parts of the country notices have been sent to the newspapers of ice found in each of the summer months. It seemed strange enough in June, but in August a thing scarcely credible, except to those who have been in the outer air just before sunrise. All the while, with rushing meteors overhead at night, and will-o'-the-wisps in boggy places, and a glaring sun by day, the drying-up of the soil and the streams and wells has gone on—reminding us of water, water, all day long. The poor people have been the worst off, no doubt, for what can they do when the well is dry, and the pump will not bring up a drop? One hardly knows which to pity most—the town poor, who in their close courts and alleys have not had a full pail of cool water within their doors for weeks, or the oottage wife who has to go to the pond first, and next week to the more distant brook ; and when it ceases to be a brook to its last warm pools ; and finally to the ditch. How can the household wash be done It is hard enough to get enough that is tolerably clear to make a cup of tea. We must all have been struck with the announcement of the sale—most reluctant on the part of the owner—of a flock of two hundred sheep, for the sole reason that there was actually no water for them in their own neigh bourhood ; and now there are people who are obliged to leave their homes because they are under a total privation of water—not annual tourists who have heard of hilly regions where showers are plentiful, and the face of the country is green, but home-staying people, to whom it is inconvenient to leave their business, and who have borne all they could to avoid the necessity. . . . The interference with business is so extensive as to constitute a new feature in our summer life. The difficulty of hatching fowls this year has se riously affected the price of poultry, and checked the hove of au increase of eggs next season. We may still hope that cider and perry makers and the fruit-preservers may find it a good year ; but the untimely fall of fruit has equalled the whole crop of some years. Nurserymen and market gardeners have been at their wits' end to keep their stock alive. The house-painters, to whom a dry season is usually a great boon, have been complaining of the blistering of their work. Builders and cabinet makers have found their new floors and doors, their wardrobes and tables and bookcases shrink and crack, and behave like gentlemen's desks and ladies' workboxes at Sierra Leone or Hong Kong. We read of railway trains which cannot start for want of water ; and even of ships kept in harbour, at great daily cost, because they cannot fill their casks with water fit for any con siderable voyage. If it is true that the Malvern Wells are failing, that must be one of the strangest stoppages of business. It makes a great difference to visitors, and therefore to the inhabitants who live by them, whether those Malvern Hills are green and cool and fresh, or whether they are dry and slippery, but still green, or whether they have lost even the appearance of grass ; but that the wells should shrink is • thing that perhaps we have never before thought of in connexion with watering places. Far more serious is the actual suspension of industry in some of the mineral districts of the country, where the forges and mills cannot work for want of water. Hundreds of people are unemployed from this cause, in South Wales and some other districts. The destruction of property by fire has been vast, both in this country and in several continental states. Rows of wooden or thatched cottages, sheds, bigh dried stacks, have been ready to be ignited by any chance spark, and there has been little or no water to be had. It has been the season for con flagrations on heaths and in young plantations. A schoolboy's burning-glass, or the ash from a gipsy's pipe, or that perilous plaything of too many cottage children, the lucifer-match, can scarcely fail of kindling where it falls among ling and dried grass, and then it may take a thousand men from Aldersbott to stop it, after it has destroyed half-a dozen fortunes in plantations and fences, and cot tages, and game. It is a season of vicissitude for birds, In some places. It has been a glorious year for the rooks where turnips and mangolds are grown. The feast of grubs has been enough to gorge the whole tribe where there has not been rain enough to baffle and annoy the larvae and the caterpillars which infest our root crops. Where the country people have destroyed the small birds, which are our defence from insect pests, they must suffer for their igno rance. Boobies who have been hanging birds and eggs in strings and bunches over their persons, to cut a figure in the eyes of their sparrow-club, must bear to see their gardens ruined, under swarms of enemies almost as bad as locusts in the East ; but our rookeries are tolerably secure in the old English attachment to the bird ; and the country owes him much this year, by all accounts. Some of us think that the wasps deserve a remark to them selves this year. In some parts they may really remind us of the grasshoppers in the Mormon territory, and now in the region of the Red River settlement. The soil in our gardens cracks ; everything cracks which is capable of being dried up ; and wherever there are cracks, it is well to look for warps' nests ; and strange are the places in which many have been found this year. The topic of health, in connexion with the drought, is too serious to be treated lightly. There are bad accounts from the Fens, as might be expected. In Lincolnshire, along the banks of the drains which have for some time been nearly stagnant, there is cholera, to which some reporters have given a bad name. The medical men are anxiously looking for a flow of water, to stop the poisoning of the air. Complaints arise from sea bathing places of bad water, foul smells, and the abominable practice of turning out the sewage of the place upon the sands. Where this has been done in reliance on land springs which have failed, the inhabitants will surely take the hint, and mend their ways. While these incidents of a dry season are oc• curring here, it is interesting to read in the American newspapers of the far stronger pheno mena of excessive heat which are presented there. We have no sufferings worthy of mention in comparison with those which are endured even in the Atlantic States. One incident may be worth noting : while the armies in the field are suffering, as was anticipated, from chronic, diarrhaa, the usual precursor of cholera, an earnest appeal is made to the people of the Northern States to re• member the army during the short blackberry season. It is considered an established fact in that country that the juice of the blackberry is s specific for the particular ailment, and tons of the fruit will be preserved in one form or another, and especially as a concentrated medicine, and sent down to the troops beside the James River, and in all unwholesome places. There seems reason to hope now that the drought is for the most part over. If we have the com fort of seeing our springs and wells fill ag►in, we must not forget the lessons of the dry summer of 1864. THE organization for raising a monument to SHAKESPEARE has got back to St. John's, gate, Clerkenwell, where it originated, and where it would probably have been suc cessful, if it had not been seduced into fashionable society. That was a bad day when the humble• plan of the Urban Club was taken under the patronage of Dukes and their followers, and a Corinthian capital of showy names was raised upon a very slender and blown-out foundation. Though SHAKESPEASE is not for a parish, but for all time, it would, perhaps, have been better to have begun honouring him in the parochial fashion. The proposition to raise a monument to a poet and an actor in the public streets was too startling to be received with universal favour. Though the poet had been dead for nearly two centuries and a half, such a proposition required a year or two's further consideration. We are not a hasty and impulsive people in raising statues to literary men and artists. We have very few precedents. A parochial statue to Sir HUGH MYDDELTON was raised the other day, after he had been dead only two hundred and twenty-six years ; but then the person so prematurely honoured was an engineer, a practical man, and not a mere fanciful scribbler. We have very few pedestals, and they are nearly all occupied by fighting men, imported kings, and ground landlords. Dr. JENNLII once stood in Trafalgar-square for a short time, but he was quickly removed to a lumber-room to maks way for a military celebrity. In Paris the Doctor occupies a post of honour in front of the Louvre ; in London he is now banished to a leafy solitude at Kensington. Our only two metropolitan monu ments of any size commemorate a national misfor tune and a national disgrace. On Fish-street-hill we draw attention to a vast destruction of pro perty ; in Waterloo-place another "tall bully " immortalizes an insolvent debtor. Though no committee—large or small, working or ornamental—can hope to compete with the Duke of YOWL'S monument, a good, strong, ser viceable SRAXESPRABE statue may easily be raised, which will mean much and cost little. SHAKE BPIARR may not want such a monument, but Lon don requires it to show that we worship something higher than railway viaducta or practical celebri ties. Such a statue the so-called " working men's " committee," with its "honorary council," are pledged to raise, according to an address which appears in another part of our columns. We ob serve that Mr. MACRE/WY, Mr. PHELPS, Mr. CRYSWICK, Mr. GEOROR CREICIEBRAICK, Mr. Geoaus GODWIN, and other influential profes sional men, are on this " honorary council," and we hope their presence there means something more than a passive approval of the movement. We have seen too much of this passive patronage of Snsicrspr.saz to wish for more of it. The work ing committee is large enough and strong enough to collect two thousand four hundred pounds in pennies and small sums, if it only starts with a good, honest system. One paragraph in the ad dress appears to suggest • want of faith in the small subscriptions, but those who have this doubt had better leave the committee. This is to be a peqny-wise, and not a pound-foolish movement, like the former, and when the penny Sus's- SPEARE statue has been erected, it may be that the guinea statue will soon follow. DEATH OF SIR JOHN RATCLIFL-BIRMINOHAN, THURSDAY Evmuo.--Sir John Retellf died at his residence Wyddringtoe at noon to-day, after a few weeks' Mimes, the immediate cause of death having bees diabetes. The de. ceased was mayor lot this tows three times consecutively, and on the occasion of the Qaeen's visit to one. Aston Park be received the honour of knighthood. Ile was for many years engaged in trade in the town, and realised a large fortune. THE PEEWEES Loris or lirssz.—The profesaion will learn with great gratification that Professor Priestley, of King's College, has been appointed to attend the Prince's Louis of Haase at Darmstadt in her approaching oos6ee• merit, which is expected to take place about the latter end of October or the first week of November. We have much pleasure in congratulating Dr. 'Priestley on the honour which has been thus awarded him. We have before re marked on the admirable manner in which our court ap. pointments have been bmtowed, and we think the present only another instance of the happy selection exercised by bee Majesty's sdvisen In professiooal marten.—Mestical rime. Tas DEPARTURE OF TER PRINCIC AND PRANCERS or WALES TOR DREMARL.—Ws understand that Provost Parker, of Hyades, has officially received • telegraphic menage anoonaciag that the Pricer and Abscess of Wales are to embark at Dundee for Denmark on Saturday. Her Majesty's yacht Osborne arrived io the river yesterday fore. wog, andooals and stores were being put on beard from the Medusa, which came in here on Mooday evening. The other semis of the squadron are hourly expected. The royal train is tuned to reach Dander at 3 o'clock, sod orders have been received on board the Osborne to be in readies.. to mil atd o'clock on Saturday. There is to be a meetiog of the Town Conceit to-day, when arrargements will be made for the reception of their royal highossees. The volunteers, it is said, will form a guard of honour on the occasion.— Scotsman. tax gout. BALMORAL, Aostrirr 3L The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Helena, Prisons Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Ltepold, with the Doke and Duchess of &x. Coburg and Gotha, arrived at Perth at 8.45 a.m. yesterday, and was received by the Lord Provost, the Hari of Mansfield, Visooont Strathollan, Lord Dopplic, Lord Kinnaird, the Hen. A. Kinnaird, he. At 9.45 her Majesty proceeded to inaugurate the statue erected by the inhabitant' of Perth to the memory of the Priem Consort at the entrance of the North Inch. At the termination of the proceedinp the Lord Provost received the honour of knighthood from her Majesty. Her Majesty, though a good deal fatigued by this great exertion, has not suffered from it, and was much gratified by this mark of respect and admiration paid by the city of Perth to her beloved consort. The Queen expreesed her high appreciation of the status itself to Mr. Brodie, the sculptor. The Queen then returned to the Station, accompanied as Wary, and at 11 o'clock preceded on her journey to Bal moral, arriving there at 4.30 p.m. The Prince and Primers of Wales received her Majesty at the Castle, and dined with the Queen last night. THE PRINCE AND PE/NCI9B OF WiLLS' VISIT TO DENILLEZ.—The Fart Spews, as groom of the stole to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, left Althorp-hall, Northamptonshire, yesterday, for Bootie:id, to acoompany the Prince and Princess of Wales to Copenhagen and St. Petersburg. The countess has gone with the noble earl, and will accompany the royal party to the Baltic. THZ CROWN PRINCESS OP PRCSSIA.—Sir Charles Looock, who has been commissioned by the Queen to at• tend upon the Crown Princess of Prussia in her approach ing acoonchement, arrived at Berlin on Monday evening. It was intended that Sir Charles should proceed to Potadam at the end of the present week, end reside is the new palace occupied by the Crown Prince and Crown Princess. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge left Cambridge Cottage, her fOlideDoll at Kerr, yesterday for Scarborough, Yorkshire, when her royal highness la tends to reside several weak,. The Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, French antbsuador at Loodoo, is at present on a visit to his brother, the Archbishop a Booms. Louisa Marchioness of Waterford has arrived at Farranee's Howl from the Continent. The Earl Spencer, as groom of the stole to his Royal Riglines the Prince of Wales, left Althorp Hall, Northamptonshire, yesterday. for Scotland, to accompany the Prises and Priooool of Wales to Copenhagen and St. Peteseburg. The Countess Spencer has (000 with the noble earl, and will accompany the royal party to the Baltic. The Earl Annealey returned to London early in the week from the Continent, and the day following left for Bretby Park, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Chester field daring the Derby races. The Countess de Grey will leave Studley Royal, neer Ripoo, Tockshire, this =rein, in order to joie their Royal Richneeses the Prime sad Princess of Wales at Dundee. The countess, as lady in waiting to the Princes', will accompany their royal highnemes on their northern tour. The Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Derby, Lord Wharacliffe, and two other gentlemen shot over Long, shave Moor, near Hathersage, on Tuesday and Wednesday and had good sport. Oa the first-named day the five guns produced 3091 brace of grouse. A Chesterfield paper says :—" We regret to hear of the serious indisposition of Mr. W. P. Thornhill, M.P., for North Derbyshire. The hon. gentleman,who is now on the Ooatinent, will not, we understand, under say circum stances, allow himself to be again nominated to represent his present constituency." The O'Donoghue, M. P., has been entertained at a banquet at Cahisciveen, county Kerry. His health was drank with much enthusiasm. In responding to the toast be discussed Irish politics. He denied that Ireland had I anything to hope from the English parliament in the way of the removal of her great grievances. They would never I be remedied until the two countries for legislative purposes were separated. That, he said, was the opinion of O'Con nell, and it was tlit firm belief of the Irish people. The' speech was received with a good deal of cheering. The new chapel of St. John's College, Cam bridge, which is being erected from the designs of Mr. G. G. Scott, is to receive an important alteration, from the muni ficent liberality of Mr. Henry Hoare, of Eleetstrest, formerly a distinguished student of the college. Soon after the work was begun it was suggested to Mr. Scott that a massive stone tower, as a substitute for the fiche, or wooden spire, would bee great improvement in the design of the building. Mr. Scott warmly espoused this idea, and prepared a design for a tower upwards of 160 ft. high, and open within the building to the height of the second set of windows. The authorities of the college, however, finding that the proposed change would involve an additional ex penditure of between 5,000/. and 6,0001., decided that they could not in prudence adopt it, and resolved to proceed with the work according to the original design. Mr. Hoare has recently proposed to the college, in a spirit of princely muniSoeue, to erect the tower at his own expense. The offer has been accepted by the college, and the requisite changes in the plan of the building have beec already oommenced. Mr. Richard Evans, for some time well-known in the Eon, died lately at St. Helen's, in Lancashire, at the age of 86. A correspondent of the dtlaturum gives front penonal knowledge the following particulars of his life nom retiring from London :—"Mr. Evans was formerly in ' the Row,' and succeeded sufficiently by bookselling to induce him to retire from business ; subsequently he and his sons beestos colliery owners, sod last year, when I dined with the old geutleman, who oould tell his story and cut his joke pleasantly, and who warned absorbed in the book he road, the fun owned some twenty-fee locomotives, waggons by the hundred, pits by the donne, houses, farms, schools, sad buildings, as though they were primes. They paid in ems to Sir R. Gerard 5,000/. a year, and to Mr. W. J. Leigh 4,0001. a year; their machine shop for repairs was large mough to embarrass many a machine-maker. I was fairly bewildered with the magnitude of everything around me. The old man died much respected; one of his last site was to make a provision to build a handsome independent chapel at Haydock. Fortunes are made in the Row, but not always to such an extent as in this lostance.” The story entitled " Margaret Denzil's History," which is understood (ears the Pabliaters' Circular) to be yb Mr. Charles Allston Collins, will be concluded in the neat number of the CornhitlMagazier ; and Mr. Wilkie Collines new novel will he commenced in the following number. Tb. Englishwoman's Journal, incorporated with thedlesaudre Magazine, will from September mist be published by Messrs. Jackson, Walford. and Hodder. A recently published statistical account gives the following carious details m to the division of trades in the States of the Zollvemio :—" There are 58,518 master bakers who make bread ; 54,262 hatchets who famish meat; 10,583 liehermen who supply fish ; 14,027 barbers who shave the male population, to which number must be added 966 tauter hairdremen, for throughout almost the whole of Germany the two laMmentioned trades are dis tinct, sad when a person eaten • hairdresser's shop to have his hair cut, and also wishes to be shaved, a barber is seat for, who comes with all his apparatus, razors, soap, NOW, Sic. Over the same extent of country there are to be forted We enormous number of 189,006 master shoemakers, minted by 127,875 companions, making • total number of 316,881 employed in that businms. When one thinks of the number of Germans who exercise that trade abroad, it may be seen that shoemaking is • business held in high homur in Germany." • A singular trial bay taken place at Madrid. A soldier was cited loot week before the police-court for hay ing stolen a gold clap of considerable veins which bad hew placed as a votive offeries on one of the numerous alien dedicated In that city to the Virgin. The soldier at once explained that he and his family being in great distress, ke bad appealed to the Holy Mother for assistance, and that while engaged in prayer sad eoetemplatioe of the four millions' worth of jewels displayed on her brocaded petticoat, she stooped, and with a charming smile, handed him the golden cup. This *splenetic,a was received by the court in profound silence, and the seas banded corer to the ecologies tidal commission, to whom it at once occurred that however inconvenient the admission of the miracle might be, It would be highly impolitic to dispute its possibility. They there fore gave the cup to the soldier, at the same time solemnly warning him for the future against defiler farmers from images of any kind, and impressing him with the conviction that the Virgin required profound silence from him as a prod of his gratitude. 'War Minister Roon, a host of European mill rtary officers, officers from Egypt, Persia, and Turkey, and a numerous staff, from some rising ground. An enemy's corps, 30,000 strong, was supposed to have approached the camp and entrenched itself. The Duke of Magenta undertook to drive the intruders back along the road by which they had arrived. He succeeded in doing this with 30 pieces of artillery, which opened a heavy fire on the enemy's works, by driving in his skirmishers, and finally outflanking his position. The forces with which the marshal accomplished this object were the Ist and 2nd divisions of infantry, who were formed in line in contiguous columns of battalions left in front ; the 2nd divi sion, which was in reserve ; light cavalry protect ing the right wing, and the two attacking divi sions ; a division of dragoons supporting the re serve and artillery. The different movements were followed with great interest, and it was several hours before the foe was compelled to retreat. UTMOST. MIDST. S. to W., drone, squally Of NOnglllllll &W. to N.W. freak a to moderate, some OOMML Cow elieweri. rain. W.& W. to N.N.W. and Wiergall. W.&W. to N., fresh to back, strong to mode- moderate, generally rate, tome rain. Ilse. &W. to N.W., strong BOVSECIMN. As next above. to moderate, with rain In places. As next above. KAMM. 8.3 W. to N.N. W.. fresh, showers to places. _ _ Northern.Soothoul. Woolonsmlrelaad. Wan, and ad - jacenAeo. Soothers=loch& almost and Hay of away. Santoro &Award rag land an North 800. The Journal de Frankfort states that Cardinal de Gemmel, Archbishop of Cologne, Is seriously ill, sad that pavan have been ordered up for him recovery. A Roman journal hue the following, which is copied by the Opinion Nationak :—" The Emperor Napo leon has jolt received from the *min Pope the Lace which wee in the tomb of Charlemegae. Asa Christ= relic that object ia of incoeteemble value." Galignani records the death of M. Enfantin, so well-known after the revolution of July as the bead of the St. Simonises. For many years past the deosased was extensively oonneoted with railway and industrial under takings. •' Whatever," says Gelignani, " may be thought of the deceased patlemaa's religious and political erred, he has always bees regarded as a most upright and honour. able man. He woe in his 69th year." The (hide Mail says :—Tbe most striking illus tration of the wing that the pith of a lady's letter is in the postscript, which we have heard of, was that of a young lady, who, having gone out to India, and writing home to her friends, concluded with the following words : " P.S. Yon will see by my signature that I ma married." THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES AT ABERGELDIE.—On Monday the Prince of Wake west dear stalking, lent killed nothing. In the evening the dineer party, besides the ladies and gentlemen of the suite. con sisted of °metal Briefly; do. The Princess of Wee drives oat every day, and takes great pleasure is walking about the grounds and garden. On Tuesday the Priam of Wales, u also the primmer and the mamba., of their suite, remained at home until afternoon, whim they west to meet her Majesty, who with her mite, arrived at Balmoral at t3O p.m.—Ditedee Advertiser. LATENT MODE Or TAKING SALIM/C—One even- Jug last week, Mr. teleran, heed forester, laveroaakl Forest, while on hie way ham* • 10 •1 with a few of the ghillies, observed a beautiful same lying in the pool the Bridge of Dee. In sport he essually o " How would ft do to try • abot at the EERY erode,* r aed suiting the action te the word, be immediately lifted his tide sad bred from the top 01 the pareS a distance of at least sixty feet, mangy, of Ave feet of water in which the objeM of kis aim lay. The t was, • dee tab of some th ing over 10Iba. weight turned up quite dead. —Dania Advertiser. tilrocu-Ixcaurros ENsisms. —A room just com pleted for the eves heard el broken is New York in frescoed, the metre pies, repreesstise the Oalam of Podium emptying s miser el cob' spas the hes& of • bell sod e beer—the letter is the sot of hassisc the phew to the earth, while the farmer Mass titers is the sir. PAZIRLIDGEI 11! TRU LONDON IdAAIM& —Tester day io the Nov/gate sod Leadeoball markets putrldies to flos cceditise told at sa. 6d. a brae.; the resoUsr binds were sold at 3s. 6d. sad 4.. a brace, sad there were several hampers at 3. 6d. std 3s. a braes. Hares were dos, and fetched from 3.. 6d. to fo. each. THE SUPPOSED MURDER OF A WIFE IS HATTON-GARDEN. INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) This forenoon, Dr. Lankeeter, coroner for Central Middlesex, resumed, at the Three Taos Tavern, Cross. street, Hatton-garden, the investigation into the circum stances of the alleged murder of Eliza Wilkinson, aged 94 years, by her husband. Lem _crowds of persons, principally of the female am assembled in the street outside the court in consequence of its being known that the prisoner, Henry Wilkinson, I would be brought up in custody under a warrant from the Home Secretary, and great anxiety was evinced to get a view of him as he was driven up in a cab. Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, appeared on behalf the accused ; and Inspector Potter had the management of the case on the part of the police authorities. The prisoner, • respectable-looking young man, wearing a beard and moustache, was brought in to the court in ,o• tody of police-constable 69 G. The Marquis Towashend, the chairman of the Satiety for the Protection of Women and Children, was present. Oa the last occasion the evidence adduced showed that on Sunday night last the accomd returned home drunk to lie wife. with whom he bad bad a quarrel some hours presi oaaly in consequence of her allowing a young man to kiss her, although be bad himself told the individual to do so. and assaulted bee savagely ; and while she was imploring him not to kill her be gave her a kick in the stomach that ruptured her spleen and caused her death in an hour. It was proved, however, that he bore a good character gees rally, and that he was devotedly food of his wife, and m a very kind to her when be was sober. The Coroner now addressed the prisoner, and told him 'that he would read over the evidence already taken, sod then would give him the opportunity of offering any expla nation of the facts deposed to. The depositions having been read, Sarah Turnbull, of Cruse-street, was called, and she said that she had known the deceased for ten mouth,. sb e and her husband frequently quarrelled. He was always tips y when they quarrelled, and was always sorry when it was over. He used to may be was very sorry, and he wished someone would come and knock hie head off. He was often tipsy. Last Sunday evening witness was very poorly, and west to bed at 10 o'clock, and said to her niece, Sarah Collier, that if deceased was shut out of her room during the night she should send her (deceased) into witoess's room. Deceased mom into witness's room about 12 o'clock, and about half-past 12 o'clock Wilkinson came in and asked if his wife was there. Witness awoke and found her ey her Mile in the bed, and the told Wilkinson " She is here." He told her she ought not to have left her home. He pulled her out of bog lie was in a great passion. Mrs. Collier came in directly after Wilkinson, and tried to part them. Witness heard great scuffling, tut saw no blows struck, foe her niece was between her and them. There was a lamp burning very low. Witham directly alter. wards saw the deceased on the floor. Mr. Wilkinson and Mn. Collier lifted her up, and carried bee across the room, and took her downstairs. Wilkinson seemed Yen much cut up, sad rid, " Do try and bring her round—bathe bar face, and he ran for a doctor. The whole affair did not occupy 10 minutes. By the Jury—Wilkinson used often to turn his wife out of his room and leave her to sit on the stairs, when lie was drunk. He used to fall asleep and forget she was there. but he was always sorry in the morning . She mid that th e was afraid to go in. Witness expected that she was likely to be turned out on Sunday night, and that was the reason why wittier o ff ere d to let her into h e r room. Dr. Clerks said that deceased bed a mark of a blow on the upper part of the abdomen. But there was no mark of a blow near the spleen. A severe blow would haws left • mark. The spleen was diseased, and such being the cue slight blow would hem raptured it. A blow such as would be far from destroying life in • person of ordinary health, would produce death when the spleen was diseased. By • Juror—The damn of the spleen could not have beat produced by the prisoner's previous ill-treatment. Fatty degeneration of the spleen would not be caned by pummeling on Unnamed) every day for a mouth. Inspector Potter said that he bad witness* that could de. pose to former severe ill-tinge by the husband. The Coroner said that that had nothing to do with the death of the demand. _ Ann Chadwick, 1 3, Baker's-row, Clerkenwell, said that she bad ka3Wl2 the &owed for two yeam. She often con, rutted of ved io would ill : usa b te r , but o s ibs never t he r i d gave she her all his wages after • quarrel to make it up. Last Sanday evening she told witless, that she had been with him and her niece aad the latter's young into to the Underground Railway, and that he bad kissed her niece and said to the young man, " Kiss in, young woman—nerve all alike." She said that 'ben her niece was kissed its (de ceased) coloured up, and because of that her husband tasselled with her, and gave her a blow on the eye. deceased went !home to Cross•street at 10 o'clock, quite well. She said she would sleep with Mrs. Turnbull to keep out of her husband's way until he was asleep, and then she would go to her own room. Francis Cock, 116 G, said that on Monday morning about 1 o'clock he saw the door of 9, Cross-street, open. There was a light on the stairs. As no we came to faster it, wit tier west! upstain and found the deceased dead in the back room. Two children were in bed, and a doctor and some females and the prisoner were in the room. Witness said " How were those marks caused on the deceased's facer The doctor said, " I think it is a case for your intrfere•os, ecustable." The prisoner said that he had had a quarrel with his wife on the Friday, but be had not struck her since. Witness cautioned him and took him into custody. Witmer totted a chemise torn to pieces. Mrs. Collier said that when she entered her aunt's room after Wilkinson, she found Nis. Wilkinson naked on the floor. Witness never heard Wilkinson say be would have his wife's life. George 13;ldock. 1 G, said that prisocer was brought into the Bagnigge-wells station at 1 o'clock oc Monday morning. He said, "It is not what I did to-night, bat what I did on Friday that tamed it." He asked to have a telegraphic mamma sent to a friend. Ha appeased per fectly sober. He was not so cut up about the affair as one would *apnoea a man would be that bad killed his wife. Inspector Potter said that it eould be proved that the deceased was a very sober, industrious woman, who took great can of has cluklreu. There was no compliant made against her. Mr. Lewis said that he would reserve his observations and the examinatios of mitered.. The Coroner,hTsuMMiag up, said that the facts disclosed In the evidence showed the necessity for such • society as that represented by the Marquis Townshend. In cues where 'within and ill map way coetinually occurring, an application to the Society for the Protection of Women and children might prevent fatal results. In the present case, if the jury were of opinion that the accrued inteedld to take the life of he wife when he struck and kicked her, the case wan one of murder ; but if they believed that i• • quarrel he assaulted her to the beat of passim, they might reduce the offence to one of manslaughter. The jury they withdrew to deliberate on their verdict. After an abase,» of half an hour the jury gamed into court with • verdict of "Manslaughter against Haag Wilkinson." _ _ The foreman said that the jury bad taken into considere• tion the fact that the prisoner had evidently no intention of causing his wife's death. The Coroner then issued his warrant for the detention of the prisoner in Newgate until his trial at the Central Criminal Court. The prisoner was loudly biased by the dense mob in the street as be was being removed hem the court, and the women, who appeared especially indignant, shook their fists at him. The proceedings then terminated. LA.TBST INTELLIGENOZ. DISTURBANCES IN SYRIA. . OONESTANTINOPLE, Anwar 24. _ Disturbances have again broken out in the dis rict of Pays; in Syria. D4el4 Bey, son of the Caimacan of the district, Mostik Pacha, who was recently arrested by order of the government, hex declared himself in armed revolt. Baia followers consist of some two thousand mountaineers, well armed and mounted. Their refuge is in an almost inaceseible spot in a gulf on the sea, at about four hours' distance from the commercial port of Alexandretta, and has been rendered notorious as the scene of the assassination of Mr. Coffin, the American missionary. This rebellious lair commands the roads from Marasch to Alexan dretta (Scandaroon) and from Adana to Aleppo. These routes are now quite unsafe, and the com merce from the interior, which comes down to the sea at Alexandretta, the port of Aleppo, is vexatiously impeded. Mr. Skene, the British Consul-General at Aleppo, travelling the other day from Aleppo to Alexandretta, to embark there on his leave of absence, had two valuable horses stolen from his escort, although protected by a strong force. These brigands are not wanting in boldness. Even the town of Alexandretta itself, where there is probably never less than 4,000 bales of merchandise waiting for shipment or conveyance into theinterior, is not free from their marauding incursions. Aband of 30 horse men appeared in the town bat week and attacked the premises of M. Derivaux, the local agent of the Russian Steam Navigation Company, but as M. Derivaux rapidly collected his people, and the other European residents hurried to the rescue, the assailing party were driven off. Since then Sureya Pacha, the governor of Aleppo, has, so to speak, garrisoned the town with 50 soldiers. (RINTZIeI TiviaaAsia.) FRANCE. PARIS, Sim 1 The Constitutionnel of this morning contains an article signed by M. Paulin Limayrac, reviewing the language used by MM. Rouher, Rouland, and Behic, at the opening of the councils general. The writer says :—"ln view of these manifesta tions of the ideas of the government who can deny to the empire the spirit of progress and initiative. In the restricted sphere of a depart ment, as in the wider sphere of state, we find the imperial policy animated by the desire of most completely and surely developing principles in which we discover the same thought of giving to France all the benefits of progress and saving her from all excesses of revolution." THE ELECTION OF M. CHENEVIERE. BERNE, Sim 2, 1 r.w. The election of M. Cheneviere to the Geneva Council of State was declared valid by the Federal Council to-day. Geneva is quiet. BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. MALTA, serr. 1. The Ellora will leave here at 10 p.m. to-day for Marseilles, and the Ceylon at 3 a.m. to-morrow for Southampton. OUTWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Delta, from Southampton on the 29th August, reached Malta on the 29th, at 8 a.m., and left at 6 p.m. for Alexandria. The Syria, from Marseilles on the 28th August, arrived at 11 p.m. on the 30th, and left at 4 a.m., on the Slit, for Alexandria. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom DON OWN COI PARIS, THIMEDAT ETZNING. The Courtier du Dimanche, which is now in pur gatory, thanks to the wit of M. Assolant, which got that paper into another sea of troubles, intends breaking a lance with the minister. Two papers which ventured to question the authority of M. Boudet in this matter, and dispute his right to sus pend the Courrier, have received communiques, in which, of course, the minister maintains his com petence. The late laws drawn up for the guidance, or rather for the bridling of the press, certainly did lay down that a paper before it could be sus pended must have received two warnings. The Courrier had only received one warning when its offices were closed and its editor driven from his stooL It will bo curious to see a court of law trying a case which the papers cannot discuss with out having their columns burdened with • long communique, which is not paid for like an adver tisement. There are some questions which are impossible to be settled and are constantly being argued. Not long ago the descendants of the famous jewellers sued the descendants of the Cardinal de Rohan in re the necklace of the Queen, and an able and eminent lawyer is now going over the whole case again in the Monikur. Perhaps Marie Antoinette's character, which has been cleared up on so many points which were long doubtful, will be fully re-established as regards " le collier de la Reins." One is reminded of the revival of this old trial by seeing in the papers that an incident of nearly the same date is soon to be brought before the courts. We are told that M. Rouget de Mile is about to bring an action against the chapel master of the King of the Belgians, whom be accuses of having contested M. Rouget de l'lsle'a paternity to the Marseillaise. Rouget de l'lsle is the historical father, but his right to the authorship of the sir has been always contested. The music is said to have been played in Germany long before his day. We are now in search of another princess for the future King of Italy, for of the two ladies assigned to him one is about to take refuge in the Holy Land, whilst the other has her matrimonial alliance already marked out. It is to be trusted that the young prince is not discouraged at these failures on the part of the European press to find him a suit able mate. It is said to-day that his highness will visit England for some time, and on his return here be feted at Meadow and Fontainebleau. To have more fetes so shortly after the departure of the King of Spain would pall upon the appetite. We were told yesterday (as mentioned in my cor respondence) that negotiations were on foot with regard to the evacuation of Rome. The Temps bad sure indications that this devoutly to be hoped withdrawal from Italy would soon take place. Cer tain circles speak tbie evening of an old project, to wit, a visit to the Pope by the Empress Eugdnie. Her tendencies lead her in the direction of Rome, and in addition she wishes to meet the Murat family, who intend, after their trip to the Holy Laud, to stay fora time in the holy city. There have been brilliant man (c uvres and A sham battle at Chalons, which were wit nessed by the Emperor, the Prince Imperial, Prince Humbert, Prince Napoleon, Prussian THE CONGRESS AT MALINES. ADDREES TO THE POPE. The following is the address which the Roman Catholic Congress at Menne* has voted to the Pope ;—" To his Holiness Pope Pius EX.—Most Holy Father! More faithful even to the unanimous suggestion of their hearts than to the voice of duty, the eatholks assembled at Relines imamate their labours by prostrating themselves humbly at the feet of the vicar of Jesus Christ. Attached to the Holy Roman See, mother and mistress of all the chnrehee by the bonds of a strict obedience, and by the moat filial love, we come, most Holy Father, to offer to you, divinely predestined to the care of the sheep sod of the lambs, to the government oC the pastors and of the faithful, the respectful armed= of these sentiments. We movies solemnly in all their plenitude the rights of your supreme authority. You are the priest par excellence; the incorruptible gnu dian and the infallible interpreter of the Divine verities ; the pilot ei that mystic reseal whirl Lode humanity regenerated by the blood of Jens Christ to the shore of its eternal destinies. At the same time as your spiritual power we recognise also, most Holy Father, the temporal power which is its providential bulwark. The more the pontifical royalty is attacked and misunder stood the more ardently we apply ourselves to its defence— the more we condemn the sacrilegious usurpation' of which it is the object, the more closely we rally ourselves mood the Holy See—the fruitful and inexh►ustible source of truth, and of justice. against which the league of the unbelieving and the impious has for ages used its efforts. Assembled at Melina to cement the union of the catholic', to develop eatholio works, to op-operate, in the degree which becomes laymen, for the defence of our mother church, we mooed to open our second session by this solemn profession of our faith, of our submission, of our love. May it be received with kindness by your Holiness, and obtain for as one of those paternal benedictions which hive to hearts with good in tentions confidence, strength, and peace, and have spread themselves' from the time of St. Peter to that of Pius IX as a beneficent dew isr6i et orbi, over the city and over the world. " The enbadmive and reepeetfully-devetel " Sous of your Holiness." The Bishop of Orleans, in his address to the congress, stated that his visit was occasioned by the deplorable defeat of the clerical party in the elections in Belgium. " The hour of adversity," he said, "is the hour for salutary counsels, generous resolutions, and faithful friendships." His address was devoted to the subject of popular edam. Bon. The sole idea which he enforced upon the audience was that secular education was not only indissolubly con nected with religions, bat that it must always be communi cated by the Flatboat Consequently he urged them to open their purees and their hearts towards increasing the number of convents, by which the education of the people should be conducted. Ooe of the speakers at the ampere, who was received with very peat anthmiesm, urged that a great natioeality of faith ought to be organised in the world, of which Boole should be the centre, the heart, and the heed. Differesoes of race, or the rights of Wogs, were of no importance ; the sole sovereign should be, he maid, the Pope. NVICATRIDA REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) FAINIT, IMPTIMINIR 2, $ LYS. & r. • Nairn l2O. 4807 1 B.W. Lberaisa 29.6094 P.& W. Leith 29.6998 W.&W. Ardrosum Ali 8. Greencastle MEW W.B.W. Galway N.W. Valestla 29.77310' W.N.W. Ceps Clear 129.7711112 W.N.W. Queenstown lO6B 61 W.N.W. Liverpool 29.74 at 8.8. E. Holybeid 29.71 69 8.8. W, Pembroke 29.61 69 &W. Emmen 29.68 $9 W. Brest 30.00 69 &W. L'Orieut 30.00 60 W.S. W. koehefort 80.16 16 W. Plymouth 29.10.0 W.B.W. Weymouth 29.110 69 &W. Portentooth 2918 60 B.W. Lead= 20.9208 W. Dover 29.97198 &W. !smooth_ learborough 4913 BO 8.8. W. Shields . , WILL a law. w.a.w. w.s.v. , &w. 6' &W. W.B.W. 6 &W. 4 &W. I I N.N.E. W. I 6 W.B. W. 6 W.&11. a • a.w. 4 , W.5.W. 6 6.W. I I.W. Lim 0.6$ •m • - 3 - 3 - 'MASTLESS CASS Or SEDUCTION. An inquiry was held by Mr. Richards, deputy coroner, at the Green Nan Tavern, den►street, Cnmtaer eial-road, lest night, respecting the death et Julia Sullivan, aged 19 years. The deceased was a tailoreso, residing with her father, a bnotmaker, at 3, Hangerford street, St. Georgria.io.tbe- Best. _ . Hrs. J. Sullivan, mother of the deceased, deposed that about twelve mouths ago a young man, a wire.worker, named William Willman, came about the place to keep her company. But though deceased was very fond of him the family forbade him the house, as he never would give any other &tidier than " over the water." He nevertheless contrived to seduce hes, and got her to go away with him. Withal lostsight of ber until she returned a few weeks Nolo consequence of his ill-treatment of her. He had ill-need her, he did sot give her money, he starved her, end was harsh towards her. She was so ill when she returned, she was in fact llying, that witessa did not well ascertain whether he used to beat her or sot. She had an infant. The young man came after her, but she was so frightswed that the polies were sent for to remove him, and the/ took him away from the house. Demised always append to be in grist and deepoodency, sad she had to be kept up by stimulants. On Saturday but obi moaned and said, " It is come at last," and asked to be so. misted dowestaba. She asked to see her father, who came 12 and said, " Oh, my God, she is dying. Let me p I can trot look at her." Witness said, " Her eyes are bright. 05 she isnot dead." Demand gave a moan, turned her heed away, and died. Tin; Coroner naked if the witness knew where the nom Willman lived or worked. .. . Wastes said she did ea. They bad tried to god out, bat he kept it conosaled. He was a abort. fair young tots, IS years ot age, and he wore a shooting jacket aad a wkly. awake bat. Mr. J. Morrie, surgeon, mid that a poet-mortem exami• cation showed that the immediate cams of deceased's death was congestive apoplexy, acoelerated by diatom of the lung. There wens no external marks of violence, such a• would have been caused by blows. If the girl had received kind and prepay treatment and medial attendance, the dimmer , of the leap would have succumbed, sad she would have lived. The Dormer said that the jury should be pitted by thu , medical 'widows. Whatever might be thought of the heartless aoednet of the seducer, be could Dot be made on• mislay responsible for it. His behaviour was utterly du'graceful The jury maid that they quite concurred I. the °puke expressed by the learned oorooer in regard to the midge , of Willman. A verdict of "Death from ceogestive apo plexy aweloratei by disease of the lunp from natural causes" Was returned. go opt< and plac away tw and on tl baud ill was the! SD instil Ou th, Mr. Jc About h to the 1.. Co the n good de of the n Mrs. him the charge. Mr. E Mas. of the in Leine big. hie to iv ae and be him I w another to my meat it caught 1 that nu roam. r i g i i By 1 meat I the m mode he left 1 living ec 'Dimwit( the nig] been so to coma hemyl Dow qa The clerk. 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