The Express. — London, England, 1866-12-04 00:00:00

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Mrs. Lane—Miss &intone ; Mr. "Dandle "POLLr ; Mr. Labarsum.—MOTHEß BRO THE NDLING APPRENTICE. Mrs. E. Tarnold.WNRIGO; OR, HIGH WATER AT LONDON Blume. Tim DOT —Morning, Oh. lm Afternoon. Oh. Ira TO-MOnnotr—iforning, Oh. 4710 Afternoon. lh. Tm. LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4. WHAT has Property to say to the great spectacle of yesterday I We shall not be far wrong in re marking that it took many good people by sur prise. We have grown so unaccustomed to strong manifestations of public opinion that the good folks who inhabit the West-end have come to believe that a rough-and-ready must necessarily be a disorderly political demonstration. There has not been for a long time anything like a healthy feeling touching the working men of the metro polis. Most of the self-styled cultivated classes figure to themselves the workman either as a " rough " or a clodhopper ; and these were amazed when they saw the Trades Unions tramp by rank after rank along Pall-mall and Piccadilly. " But," said a Tory gentleman, " what grievances can " men so well dressed and well fed have to com " plain of I" " Why," said another, " these " men are all clean, and most of them fine hand " some fellows." " All I can say is," remarked a third, " that I do not agree with them in poli " tics, but if they have not the suffrage they " ought to have it." Every one of these observa tions were made by men who support Lord Dsnav's Government. This naive astonishment at the fact that Trades Unionists and Radicals were, after all, decent looking, many of them intellec tual looking men, that they had the characteristic sturdy, independent bearing of Britons—pride in their port, and if not defituice in their eye, yet a capability of expressing defiance—is one of the most striking and characteristic effects of the Reform demonstration. And it is not surprising that the procession should have produced this effect. The encomiums expressed on the appearance of the men were de served. They were a very good average manifestation of the British race. One saw that there were the qualities which have made England what she is. Many countenances expressed only rough energy, some quiet determination, others the youthful courage which sees no obstacles that should daunt a brave heart ; but among the mass were rank after rank of men with refined intellectual faces—men who plainly thought, and who were led there by their convictions. " I shall never forget this sight as " long as I live," said ono spectator, whose ten dency is to take a somewhat cynical view of human nature, and who probably, a few hours before, did not believe there was such a sight to be seen. Then they marched along with an easy step, and often really went well, so that a soldier might say, and say with truth, that three weeks' training would make them fit to meet any foe. On the whole (there were of course many exceptions), the physique of the pro cessionists was far above the average of the British army. In temper, at least so far as we observed them, nothing could be better. There was no bravado, nothing theatrical, no attempt to show off. They were natural, unaffected, and themselves. We cannot imagine a finer lesson for the gentlemen who first draw the picture of a work ing man from the depths of their moral conscious ness, and then denounce him, than that promenade of labour. There was a curious absence of anything artistic, not to say showy, in this procession. There was nothing artificial. The banners were compara tively rare--some handsome, some old, but few showed any straining after effect. It was the intense reality of the procession—the evident fact that to the host so engaged this promenade had a clear and decisive meaning, and was not idle show, or mere acting that made it pro duce such a profound impression on thoughtful and often hostile observers. One would like to see, for the mere sake of pleasing the artistic sense, something more varied and picturesque in the " properties " of so great a demonstration. But that may well be dispensed with when we know that it is not the true nature of Englishmen to be artistic in their public parades, and that in this case the real demonstration consisted of the men who were there, and not of their clothes and external adornments. It was, in fact, a purely moral manifestation, owing nothing at all to the property-man or the artist. The numbers who marched through the great thoroughfares of the West-end yesterday may not have been so large as some of the Tories appeared to fear they would be, and in this respect it is open to them to say that the demonstration was a failure. Perhaps we shall see that line taken by those upon whom numbers alone can make any impression. To those who look deeper it will matter little whether there were 40,000 or 100,000. Upon them the moral effect of the orderly march of this fine representative body of British working men will not be lost, but will sink I : 1 i [ t I 1 t t : 1 i ' I f It it : t „ , I i'il 7a•, • FRENCH PROTESTANTISM. 4IjE mows, • TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4 1866. it Court. deep and bear fruit in thatinl;l;l)s yearn. We are not passing, we have'pasestVlbko a nesn'APlN , of political life, and the class so well repre- I WINDSOR Cf*STLII, Dec. 3. atonal yesterday must soon be formally admitted I The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, with in the pale of the constitution. When a went out in the grounds this morning. Reform demonstration musters for a march within I Princess Louise went out walking, and Prince Leopold, pistol-shot of one royal palace and in the court- attended by Mr. Legg. also went out. yard of another, and within hail of Whitehall, it I Prince Christian went out shooting this morning, attended by the Hue. Korthnsr Sackville Wert. Lord is surely a sign that the change which has actually Crofton and Colonel Loyd Lindsay had the honour of come over our political life will soon be recognized accompanying his Royal Highnem in an Act of Parliament. I Prince Henry of Prussia arrived at the Castle last even ing, attended by Captain Von Schroetter. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland left the Castle to day for London. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon- onrable Privy Council sat yesterday on matters relating to the cattle plague. The lords present were—the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams attended the committee. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the West India Islands, Ceylon, and Hong Kong. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, end Lebuan. We understand that her Majesty, following the precedent given by her predecessors, William 111. and George 111., and in gracious remembrance of the place of her birth and education, has subscribed the stun of 900/. to the building fund of the new parish church of Kensington. His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, attended by Lieutenant Haig, and accompanied by Prince de Took, left Sandringham yesterday morning for London. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and Princess Mary Adelaide left Kew yesterday afternoon on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Duke of Newcastle has left the St. George's Hotel. The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings entertained during the past week the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle, the Earl and Countess of Winchilsea and Lady Constance Finch-Hatton, Viscount and Lady Constance Marshem, Lord and Lady Rendlesham, Miss Heneage , Lords Alexander and Berkeley Paget, Sir Frederick John stone. Mr. Henry Savile, Hon. Oliver Montague, &c. The Marquis of Bath has left town on a visit to Col. the Hon. Richard and Lady Margaret Charteris. The Earl and Countess of Derby leave town to day for Knowsley Park. The Eat! of Malmesbury has left his residence in Stratford-place, on a visit to Colonel the Hon. Richard and Lady Margaret Chaxteris. The Earl and Countess of Cardigan have re turned to Deene, from visiting the Earl and Countess of Chichester, at Stsnmer Park. Lord and Lady Cardigan will receive a succession of visitors at Deene until the meeting of parliament. A marriage is arranged (says the Kentish Gazette) between the Hon. Miss Beillie Cochrane, daughter of Mr. Baillie Cochrane, M.P. for Honiton, and the Hon. W. West, second son of the Fan of Delawarr. Mr. West will inherit from his mother (only surviving sister of the third Duke of Dorset) the Barony of Buckhurst, and the mag nificent residence and satiate of Knole, in Kent. The death is announced of Lady Charlotte Jane Dundas, youngest daughter of Lawrence, first Earl of Zetland, by his marriage with Harriet, third daughter of General John Hale, who died on Thursday last, at St. Nicholas, Yorkshire. Her ladyship was born July 2, 1803. Letters from Rome says that Prince Bandini has given a grand dinner in honour of Lord Clarendon and Mr. Gladstone. The Empress of Russia will spend a portion of the winter at Nice. The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden have returned to Carlaruhe, after an excursion in Switzer land and the month of France. Mr. Fox, the Secretary of the United States' Navy, has paid a lengthened visit to Chatham Dockyard, and was occupied for some time in the inspection of the various vessel/ under construction at that establishment. During his visit he wax attended by Mr. Thornton, master shipwright, and other heads of departments, who accom panied him on board the ironclad ship Hercules and the turret ship Monarch. A meeting of main line shareholders and " share holders in the general undertaking of the western extension capital" of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway was held yesterday, Mr. Hartridge in the chair. Two committees were appointed to confer with the directors—one with respect to the Kent Coast and Seven oaks lines and other subjects, and the other as to main line interests only. Thus every distinct class of share holders now appears to be represented by a oonunittee of its own. . . LATN3T INTELLIGENCE. The Protestant Consistory of Caen, like that of Valence, has taken a step which is producing a lively sen sation in the bosom of French pea...tuition. It has just decided that no protestant elector shell be inscribed on the parish register, if he does not subscribe affirmatively to this question :—" Do you belong to the gospel faith as it is met forth in the Apostle's (Seed!" The same question will be sent to each elector already inscribed cm the regieffer, and if he should reply in the negative his voting paper will not be received. When it is considered, says the Sick, that the two parties into which French prates tandem is divided are almost equal In number, the gravity of this proceeding may be easily conceived. It is nothing less than a little coup d'itat by means of which that or. thodoxy of which M. Gullet is the pope would expel all lib er al protestant. from the consistories. The sumer of this attempt would deprive of temples and pastors half of the followers of the reformation in Prince. We trust, continues the Side, that it will completely fail, for it is not possible that consirtories should have the right of modifying at pleasure the conditions which have hitherto existed as necessary to exercise the right of suffrage in the reformed church. a.. AMERICA. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. THE FRENCH IN MEXICO. THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. (131 r ATLA.NTIC 711-ECIRA PR.) NEW YORK, Dm 3. Congress was opened to-day. President Johnson, in his Message, adheres to his former policy, and urges Congress to adopt it. The Treasury receipts for the year ending June will exceed the expenditure by 158,000,000 dots. _ __ Relative to foreign affairs, the Message says foreign nations have shovrnamore just consideration for the national character and rights. France had intimated to the United States government her in tention to postpone the withdrawal of the French troops from Mexico until the spring. The United States have remonstrated against this postponement, and the President hopes that France will reconsider the subject, con forming as nearly as practicable with existing en gagements, and thus meeting the just expectations of America. ~,e r ase in the matter of the adjustment of the Alabama claims is slow, partly owing to the change of ministry in England. The President expects, however, that the claims will now be con sidered in a becoming friendly spirit. The im portance of an early settlement of the question ,cannot be exaggerated. Secretary M'Culloch, in his financial report to Congress, urges the resumption of specie payments in 1868. The Inman steamship City of Baltimore arrived out yesterday, and the North German Lloyd's steamship America to-day. Tho National Steam Navigation Company's steamer Scotland, which left this port on Saturday for Liverpool, is ashore on the outer middle bar at Sandy Hook. She came into collision with and sank the ship Kate Dyer, and was put aground to prevent her from sinking. At 10 o'clock last night she was full of water, and will probably prove a total loss. The cargo may be saved in a damaged state. (eze-ree'n Tzeitoasms.) THE HUNGARIAN DIET. PESTH, Dec. 4. In yesterday's sitting of the Lower House of the Diet, Herr Podmaniczky declared that the Haps burg dynasty stands or falls with Hungary. Herr Ghyczy said that Europe would not tole rate the conquest of the Danubian Principalities by Russia. ROME. ROME, DEC. 3, Even No. - - The Osserattare Romano contradicts the asser tion that the Pope had taken the initiative in fresh negotiations with the Italian government upon religious affairs, and adds :—" The Pope will never refuse to listen to any propositions favourable to religion, but after what has taken place in Italy with reference to the affairs of the church, his li(Ainess cannot be first to reopen negotiations." THE BOMBAY MAIL. MARSEILLES, DEC. 4. The Pera arrived at 4.40 a.m. to-day. The mails leave for London at 11.30 a.m. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (r3Ol ova ows coaasaporman.) PARIS. MONDAY Evv.iNO. Although a telegram by the Atlantic cable, dated Nov. 30, contradicts the occupation of Matamoros by United States troops, I have not the least doubt that the fact is true. The occupation, extremely displeasing to France, is at this moment the subject of warm despatches between Paris and Washington, and I understand that the Washington cabinet, ' being hardly pressed for explanations, has gone so far as to say that General Sedgwick's occupa tion of Matamoros will be disapproved of if it shall turn out to have occurred under the cir cumstances reported from New York. This hypo thetical disavowal of a fait accompli will not, I take it, have any great practical result, more especially if it be true, as I hear, that General Sedgwick jus tifies the step he took as one necessary to protect American subjects from pillage. The Liberte contains the following paragraph as " Latest News" : If we may credit the information communicated to us the American President's forthcoming message will not be so moderate in regard to France as the latter power would be entitled to expect, for the Mexican expedition of 1861 ought not, in justice, to efface the recollection of the French expedition of 1781, and the treaty of recog nition of 1778. We will therefore hope that the news which reaches us is, if not erroneous, at least exaggerated. I had to-day in my hand the gold medal pre sented by French democrats to Mrs. Lincoln. It was struck by M. Franky Magniadas, of Geneva, and is a beautiful work of art. The bust of Mr. Lincoln is, I am assured by one who was his private secretary, the best likeness of him ever cast. Around this portrait are the words ; " Dedi4 par la Democratie Frangaise h Lincoln, President deux foie crlu des Etats Unis." On the other side is the following inscription : " Lincoln, honneto homme, abolit l'esclavage, r4tablit l'union, sauva la rpub lique, sans voiler la statue de la Libert4. Il tut assassin' le 15 Avril, 1865. Libert4, Egalite, Fraternite." _ Father Hyacinthe, now perhaps the most fashion able preacher in France, delivered his first Advent sermon of the season at Notre Dame yesterday. The cathedral was as full as it could possibly be. He professed to believe in the compatibility of po litical and civil liberty with the catholic faith ; but, at the same time, expended a great deal of elo quence in favour of the temporal power. The settlement at the Bourse was effected very quietly. Rente closed with a rise of 10c. for cash, and a fall of sc. for account. In other secu rities there is little variation. Professor Oppolzer, the famous Vienna doctor, has left for St. Petersburg to give Princess Dagmar the benefit of his medical advice. Reference was made a few days ago to a report that a 30 per cent. export duty had been imposed at Bucharest. It is now stated tbat the Board of Trade have asoertained, upon inquiry, that the export duty imposed is 3 per cent in place of the old 4 per cent. duty ; but that, from a system of arbitrary valuation of articles of exportation, the duty has been raised on wheat under the new tariff from 4 piastres, at which t 4 stood last year, to 5 piastres, and the duty on maize from 2 32-40 to 4 26-40 piastres. LORD AMBERLEY ON THE ENGLISH CHURCH. In the Fortnightly Review, Lord Amberley deals with church questions. He says :—" The church of Eng land is simply and entirely the creation of the state. The basis of its authority is entirely secular. No remote anti quity, no apostolic or patriotic origin can be pretended in favour of its doctrines. They may, indeed, in some cases have an accidental coincidence with beliefs of an ancient date ; but their authority in this country rest not upon their conformity either to Scripture, or to the fathers, or to the general opinion of Christendom, but upon the will of par li ament The church of Engl and is built up from its foundation solely upon acts of parlia ment. There is ao doubt that parliament may either add to or take away from the sum total of doctrines which the clergy are required to hold. There is no doubt that the interpretation of these doctrines is committed to secular courts, and that the church has no legal voice in the decision of their scope or meaning. It is the more necessary to insist upon these facts, because we sometimes hear appeals to some vague, extra-legal tribunal, which is supposed to condemn particular opi nions as inconsistent with the position of a clergy man, or with the teaching of the Christian church Thus it is occasionally said that the Bishop of Natal is acting dishonestly in not resigning the position he holds, because he no longer believes in the infalli bility of the Pentateuch. Those who argue in this way appear to have in their own minds some unknown and unauthorised standazdof belief by which they think proper to judge. At any rate they completely overlook the fact that there are means by which an heretical clergyman may be tried and punished, but that they have not the smallest right to adjudicate upon the question what tenets are contrary to the formularies of the church, or to blame any man for remaining in an ecclesiastical office so long as his opinions have not been condemned by the recognised tribunals of the land. The belief to be demanded of the clergy is, therefore, a matter which, in this country, the state ha s power to determine. Had the arrangements made in Mng Edward's reign continued in force, every c l er gyman must have be li eved three more Articles than he does at present. Were parliament to abolish subscrip tion to the Thirty-nine Articles, and to take away the penal ties for teaching in opposition to them, there is no reason to doubt that they would all of them sink into an oblivion as complete as that which has befallen those omitted from the series in the revision of 1562." Lord Amberley, favourable to a national church, holds " that the state has no business to protect any one set of theological opinions rather than another ; it ought to hold the scales with perfect impartiality between them all. Let this be granted, and it will follow that an established church, in order to justify the fact of its existence, ought to be not sectarian, but national ; and national not only in name but in fact. It ought to represent the religious feelings of the whole community. No one should feel himself utterly excluded from it ; no theological faction should be per mitted to use it for the exclusive promotion of its own opinions. Variety rather than unity of doctrine should be its aim ; for the manifold beliefs of the nation cannot be summed up in any single formula or aggregate of formulas, however comprehensive. Should it appear that the conditions required of the clergy, by checking the free development of thought, put obstacles in the way of this variety, and thus leave a large part of the nation quite unrepresented in the church, a sufficient case has arisen for the interference of the state ; for the laity are defrauded of their rights when the national church, which ought to have room for all, is, in fact, reserved for the benefit of a few." The article closes with an argument against clerical subscription. " The theory here maintained," says the writer in conclusion, " is, that all legal provisions, contrived with the express purpose of preventing the full and free expression of in dividual thought among the clergy, are impolitic and unjust; impolitic, because they tend to exclude from the ministry the very men who would be the best fitted to enter it ; unjust, because in a national church they shut out from its pale a large portion of the laity, and thus prevent it from being a real or accurate representation of the reli- gion of the people." A PANIC AT DUBLIN.—A number of idle rumours are daily floating aboat, arising no one known where, but propagated with result of creating alarm. These would ! be absolutely unworthy of contradiction except that they may teed to increase an unreasoning panic, which, we are ashamed to say, has already induced some weak persons to flee from their homes. Among these rumours is one to the effect that certain gentlemen in official posi tions had left their residences to take shelter in the Castle. Nothing of the kind has occurred. There is no apprehension of real danger entertained among that class. A paragraph in a morning contemporary would produce an impression that the legal profession generally shared in the alarm. The deputation so Lord Naas alluded to consisted, we understand, of some three or four nervous gentlemen. Al we learn from the paragraph re ferred to, they were assured that the government enter- tain no fears of any emergency arising —Dublin Evening Mail. A RAILWAY TRAIN ON FIRM. —On Saturday morning last, the lit inst., about a quarter-past 10 o'clock, while the passengers were awaiting the arrival of the up-train from Roniford, they were rather alarmed by observing the approach, from the opposite direction, of a luggage train on fire. The conflagration proved to be in the fifth truck from the engine, laden with 54 trusses of hay. It was supposed to have become ignited by a spark from the engine, and the flames were fi rst observed on this side of the Whalebone-gate. A few of the trusses were removed in coming down the line, and upon reaching Romford the remainder was one sheet of dame. The next truck laden with sacks of corn was par tially ignited, but the trucks were speedily unooupled, which prevented a further extension of the flames, and the burning track was shunted and removed to near the gullet. Plenty of assistance was procured, and under the direction of the station-master, Mr. Collier, a copious supply of water was poured upon the burning mass, while others removed it from the truck before the latter sus tained any considerable damage. The whole of the hay was destroyed • the tra ffi c was not in the slightest degree interrupted.—kssez Herald. ESCAPE OF A FEYALS PRISONER FROM A GAOL.- On the afternoon of the 26th ult., a fine robust young woman, named Mary Ann Webber, convicted by the borough magistrates of stealing an alpaca umbrella from the County Court-office, Church-street, Chelmsford, and sen tenced to seven days' imprisonment, made her escape from the borough gaol. After her conviction she was removed to the female portion of the prison, and about ten minutes past I was supplied with her dinner by Mr. Harvey, the governor, who, in consideration of her having been confined all the previous day, left the door of the airing yard open, in order that she might have an opportunity for exercise. Shortly after wards, while Mr. Harvey was at his own mid-day meal, he was startled by the announcement that his prisoner had been met in West Stockwellestreet, going in the di rection of High-street, by a young man named Peachey, who had been present in the court during the in vestigation of the case. Mr. Harvey was at first rather incredulous, but on examining the gaol he found the escape to be a fact, on which police-constable Wass and the man Peachey started in pursuit of the prisoner, and overtook her near East Bridge. She was brought back to the gaol, and on an examination being made of the means by which the prisoner escaped it was evident that she had first endeavoured to get over the wall at the north end of the yard, hut failing here, in consequence of the revolving spikes, she went to the south-west corner, adjoining the Green Market. Here she placed a chair against the wall, and climbed up the bars of the room used as the prison chapeL She was then enabled by means of some fixed spikes above the chapel window (in tended to prevent (!) the escape of prisoners) to catch hold of the bars of the window above ; then, placing her foot on a slight projection in the brick wall it was no very difficult task to step over the projecting re volving spikes on to the top of the wall, which is on a level with the buildings in the market occupied by Messrs. Kierman, photographers. At one end of this building a men named Simmons had been engaged painting during the morning, and there was a plank pined across from the wall to a ladder leaning down to the Green Market. Being dinner time there were very few persons about. The pri soner was seen by Mr. Kierman as she was descending the ladder. but, thinking she had been up with Simmons' dinner, his suspicions were not aroused ; and thus the woman got o ff clear , until met as related above.—Essex Herald. ACCIDENT TO • FOLKESTOSE STEAKEIL.—A. strong south-west gale prevailed as the South-Eastern Company's steamer Prinoe Ernest, from Folkestone, was making Boulogne Harbour at about half-past six last evening. She struck the western jetty and disabled the starboard pad. dle-wheel, but succeeded in entering the port and landing her passengers safely. OUR CONTEMPORARIE& (THIS DAY.) Till WORM DEMONSTRATION. - _ Admitting that unnecessary apprehensions were entertained, owing to the looseness of statement on the 1 part of the originators of yesterday's demonstration, and placing the numbers in the procession as short of 25,000 men, the news proceeds to express its admiration of the behaviour of all who actually took part in the day's pro• °ceding,. Indeed, considering that towards the end they had been standing and walking for many hours, that they were under a cold, drizzling rain, and covered with the mud which they splashed up at every step, their patience and good humour were beyond praise. What was done yesterday, though on a comparatively small scale, is amply sufficient to show that a large number of the artisan class desire the franchise ; and assuming that the time has come for the question to be finally settled, the TiVita thinks that the London working men may be satisfied with the gatherings of the last few months, and be content to await, like other classes, the action of parliament. The Daily News observes that by curious inoonsisteacy the theorists who announce that numbers are of no ac count in politics are strangely gratified when they find that the numbers mustered spinet them on any occasion are not so great as they had anticipated. Without dwell ing on the obvious causes which made it a matter for wonder yesterday that the procession and meeting took place at all, it should be remembered that the artisans who defiled through the streets exceeded in number the electors who return a sixth pert of the House of Commons, though an equally respectable and trustworthy body. Can anyone who saw the procession affect to believe that the enfranchisement of the men who formed it would de teriorate the constituencies? That the 25,000wh0 have no member are inferior to the 25,000 who have a hundred members ? Perhaps if Mr. Lowe had been present to observe from some coigne of vantage what passed even he might have been half converted, and as it is the impression which was made upon some tory and Adullamite lookers on seems to have been very salutary, and therein lies the justification of the demonstration. The resolutions which they adopted are to be held as conveyingthe ideal to which they would gradually approximate, and show the desire to leave the details of the large measure which is required to advisers of the crown and to parliament. As to the ordinary employment of similar means of political action, our climate is against them, and as the proportion of electors increases they will become less necessary. Pro cessions through the streets, which are part of the public life in America, will only be adopted here in crises which do not occur once in a generation. This fact gives them their importance, and deprives them of their danger. The Herald compliments the committee of organisation and the working men themselves on the remarkable punc tuality sad the success of their arr►ngements, and doubts if an equal number of the best trained troops in Europe could have been marched in less time. But the demon stration has by no means proved the universal prevalence among the working classes of an intense desire for reform. . The Post treats the subject in a similar way, while the Telegraph and Star place great stress on the political sig nificance of the spectacle. The latter adds that there must be no more attempt to hold a meeting in a private ground, but the right to meet in the parks must be conceded. THY RUMOURED SPLIT IN THE CABINET. The Herald and Standard make merry with the report which the Scotsman has circulated of a break up in the cabinet on the subject of reform. There is not one word of fact—there is not the slightest vestige of truth in the whole statement. No conservative fears that Mr. Disraeli will introduce a democratic reform bill, or that those statesmen whose names have been so unwarrantably coupled with his in the same imputation would ever give their sanction to such a measure. The Herald greatly questions whether a reform bill has ever yet been dis cussed in the cabinet councils, though it must no doubt have a place in their thoughts. The Standard is yet more definite in its statements. There has been no divi sion, it says, upon the subject of reform or any other. If Mr. Disraeli introduces a reform bill into the House of Commons next year it will be one that all his present col leagues will heartily support ; and if the government re solve to leave the subject alone, and ask parliament to devote itself to other and more urgent questions, it will make the appeal by the mouths of the statesmen whom both houses acknowledged as their leaders at the close of the session. THE NEUTRALITY LAWS.—The royal commission to inquire into the state and working of the neutrality laws of this country will be constituted as follows :—Lord Cranworth, chairman ; Sir W. Erie, Sir Hugh Cairns, Sir It. Phillimore, Sir Rouudell Palmer, Mr. Vernon Har court, Mr. Baron Bramwell, Dr. Luahington, Dr. Twine, Lord Houghton, Mr. T. Baring, Mr. W. Forster, and Mr. Gregory. THE REPRESENTATION OF ARIIAO H. —.John Vance, Esq., has left Dublin for Armagh, to commence his CAW. vase. It is probable that the vacancy will take place in a week or ten days, and the Speaker's warrant will then be issued for the new election.—Dublin Ereniag Mail. THE REPRESENTATION OF COLCHESTER.—We understand that Mr. Serjesnt Ballantine, who, at the Mahlon liberal festival, signified his intention of becoming a candidate for the representation of Colchester, on the retirement of Mr. T. J. Miller, will not now solicit the suffrages of the electors, but another gentleman, in the person of Dr. Brewer, of Westminster, will probably offer himself as a candidate in the libe ral interest. Dr. Brewer was chairman of Mr. Stuart Mill's committee, and took an active part in promoting that gentleman's return to parliament as member for the city of West minster. Last week a deputation, consisting of several leading liberals of Colchester, and a representative of the working men of the town, waited on Dr. Brewer to ascer tain that gentleman's views in reference to the borough representation, when be expressed himself perfectly wil ling to become their candidate if the electors gave him a cordial invitation to do so. We are informed that Dr. Brewer has been invited to address a meeting of liberal electors on Wednesday.—Eavz Herald. MR. MONCREIFF ON REFORN.--M F. Moncreiff addressed a crowded meeting of the electors of Edinburgh last evening on the question of reform. He said he did not regret Lord Russell's resignation if for no other reason than because it would restore confidence in public men. A settlement of the reform question, to which everything else must be postponed, was now inevitable. He regarded representation as the right of the community, not of the individual, and, like Mr. Fox, he thought the beet prin ciple of representation was that which should bring Into activity the greatest number of independent voters. He commended the advanced liberals for their support to the late bill, and said Mr. Bright's speeches in the house, whatever they might be elsewhere, were calm and mode rate. He thought the advanced liberals were unjustly suspected as having had too great a baud in preparing the late bills, which, in fact, came far short of their own i views. He advised the working classes to give up the cry OYSTER AND MUSSEL FISHERIE - i. — A series of 1 for manhood suffrage, and take up that of the old re formers, " The bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the Board of Trade regulations for the instruction and guid- I bi n . " He would not give the present government a fac ance of persons applying for fishery grants under the tious opposition, but hoped the liberals would return to Oyster and Mussel Fisheries Act, 1866 (29 and 30 Vict., 1 parliament with more united ranks. The speech was re cap. 85), were published yesterday. ceived with great cheering, and followed by a vote of con- THE Qu999'B UNIVERSITY IN IRELAND.—We i fidence. THE FENIAN ii ovum-Hr.—Th e Dubl i n Express learn by telegraph from Dublin that the Master of the I says :—" A deputation of gentlemen connected with the Rolls yesterday granted an injunction to restrain the legal profession, who had been appointed by a meeting Senate of the Queens University from granting degiees or I held at the Four Courts on Friday, waited upon the Chief taking any other proceedings under the supplemental ' &enter! at two o'clock on Saturday, at the Castle, for, I the purpose of inquiring whether any organisation of charter until further orders. 1 loyalists was at present desirable. Lord Naas, who re- The Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the , oeived the deputation most courteously, and freely dis recommendation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, has cussed the subject of Fenianism, stated that there was submitted the name of the Rev. Chalks R. Alford to her really no emergency to require or justify such a course, Majesty for the vacant see of Victoria. Mr. Alford was and assured them, at the same time, that, should the occa for many years principal of the Metropolitan Training In- sion arise, the government would at once avail itself of the stitution at Highbury, and his experience will be of great services of the loyal people of the country." value to the important training schools which form the 1 DEPARTURE OF TROOPS TOR IRELAND.—LIVER nucIeus of missionary exertion at Hong Kong. POOL, MONDAY. —According to previous arrangements the The foundation stone of a new college at Trent, 39th Regiment, 729 strong, with 40 officers, 68 women, near Trent station, on the Midland line, between Not- 150 children, and 6 horses, the whole under the command of tingham and Derby, was laid yesterday by the Duke of Lieutenant-Colonel Carry, arrived here this morning from Devonshire. The college is to be especially adapted to Manchester, en routefor Ireland. The regiment arrived at the middle classes for the education of youths intended the Lime-street station about eleven o'clock, end marched for professional and commercial pursuits, public schools direct down to the Prince's landing stage. Here they were being ton expensive, and private establishments not offer- embarked on board the government transport steamship fag au education sufficiently advanced. Trent College is Tamar, which arrived at Liverpool on the previous day. established by a company. The buildings are planned for The embarkation was meat efficiently conducted, in the the accommodation of throe hundred boys, with a suitable sight of a large concourse of spectators. The Tamar house for the head master. The site fixed upon for the sailed for Belfast during the evening, but it is generally college is about two miles from Trent station, and con- expected that &regiment willproceed from that town to the tains fifteen acres. Amongst those present were Lord F. Curragh Camp did Armagh. The Liverpool authorities Cavendish, M.P., Mr. Evans, M.P., Archdeacon Hill, Mr. have not yet been informed that a regiment is to be Wright (chairman of the Trent College Company), &e. The , despatched from Chatham, to be stationed in Liverpool. tie building is in the Tudor style of architectui e. is reported in IMO of the papers. THE BISHOP Or LOHDOWS CH %BCE. Those who look to the Bishop of London, the Doily News says, for a manifesto against Bomish and Romanising errors may find what they want in this charge. But most persons look in such a quarter for something more than denunciations, and it is to be doubted that they will share the genial but also somewhat feeble optimism which pervades those portions of the charge in which they look for practical measures. This is from no incapacity to perceive the extent of the evil, but th e bishop evidently does not believe in the possibility of suppressing ritualism and the principles which it repre- sents by law. What he says on this point may be true ; but what is it but to acknowledge that the church is powerless to defend her organic beliefs, and is a field in which the ritualists must be free to win if they can! LOYALTY IN IRELAND. Mr. Bagwell, M.P., answering the query of the Tsmes, " Where are the loyal people of Ireland , why don't they show'" says he will venture to assert that not a single Irish nobleman, gentleman, or county or borough magistrate knows why or wherefore the imperial government is taking the extraordinary precautions it seems to be doing. "As far as we know, oar country was never more peace able ; our rents are well and cheerfully paid, our gaols are almost empty, our poorhouses thinly occupied by bed ridden, infirm old people and orphans of tender age. I ask, therefore, what are we 'to show' for' We may sally forth by day or night protected by our umbrellas. Were we to carry arms we should be arrested by the police, but except colds we should catch nothing, not even a tramp robbing a hen-roost." By refusing the right to allow volunteer regiments to be formed in Ireland, the British government has itself undertaken the task of keeping the peace ; and if through any neglect on its part one life is sacrificed, history will not hold England guiltless. . MIDDLESEX _BESSION3: (THIS DAY.) BROOND COURT. (Before Kr. Payne.) OSTER CAPTURE 07 A NOTORIOUS settatet. Rear, Bdoe, 20, described se a clerk, gag dressed, was indicted for breaking and enteei iisi. r 4 4 ing-bones at William liills, end seeslimg a Pr a e r Y prisoner pleaded not guilty. The caw is one which reheated some credit lig e g . police, and celled forth an observation from thr to their assiduity and sharpness. —•• G eorge D u dl e y, polieweenetsble 47 N, quarter peat 8 on the evening of the 14th of licogec r g was on duty in Thornhill-road with another corm! 151 N , . and noticed the prisoner, who was, wiel lei a b ou t Brooksby-street. He noticed Wei. to the of several bonen, and after PA down for a short time they stepped at No. 3 wa tlig i 4 street, and opened the door with a akelstee key, female otenbAr up they went away, and the heals wi a , 4 the house. Witness then bet sight of them until 8 when he met them walking arm in arm along r o ad. The prisoner, who had something edd arm, ran away immediately he perceived wh y did also the other man. A hard chase egigel-74 witness followed them to Ramsey's hams, r ir e is some considerable distance from Tant:iaPliscaermagtoricttthoirugglewthseompeeetrirender, , a bu w a t a n Y h d e s W ( u ironeteb i cc i l e 4 i2: 4 o6l ll, him safely lodged at the police-station. The *bei m got away, and has not been apprehended since. ge e * ' was in custody witness returned to Raw, uins, and found the tablecloth he produced in cerg: Mr. Wm. Mills, of 124, Offord-road, haniabary o leaving his house perfectly safe, and after a short s ew returned and was much surprised to end a piece on the doorstep, and shortly afterwards fogad ake, cloth bad been stolen, and it was evident the hour IN been entered by a false key, end the burgh" rise s they were, had been dirt - tubed. The prisoner cross-examined the witnesses win gee ingenuity, but failed to shake their evidence. After a short and impartial summing up from the reek during which the learned iudge took occasion to We is the conduct of the police as being praiseworthy ed ce awkausa, The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Mr. George Lockyer, sessions-house officer, prays& y es prisoner wu an old and accomplished skeleton•kay ih n j and put in a certificate of a former conviction fat leis? which was read by the clerk of the court (Mr. 11 0 4 1 6: son), and proved that after a previous convicts' for felony he was convicted at the Middlesex Felker sentenced to 12 month" imprisonment for stadia' f n . the Great Northern Railway vans, in company 0 tk t ,,,,, o ther men, who went about with a truck, folio* tie vans, and when an opportunity presented Jag goods were extracted from the vans and curled sag quickly in the truck. He had also bees na. victed at the Lambeth police-court se • rout ad vagabond and sentenced to three months' impriscuat He was tried in that court and acquitted of a TAT i f a cash box, which was thrown into a canal, and bent it was not recovered the prisoner got off. Mr. Payne said, as long as he could combine the pap tion of the publics with the reformation of the prisurie would always do so and pass • light sentence, bet •••• he bad to deal with such persons as the Fame, its was clever at his profession as a thief, it was kis My t o send him away. The sentence of the court span Lm was that he be kept in penal servitude for seven yen. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) BOW-STREET. TAN RZTORM PROCEMON. A small, slight, active young man, named DesaieffOr. a ticket-of-leave man, woo charged with stealing a ens from the person of a coachman, out of plea, ransilJe seph Prestige. The prosecutor was standing in the street at ChM" cross, near Spring-gardens, looking at the proclaims passed on its way to Beaufort-house, when the jam snatched his watch from his pocket. PIMA* seized him, and attempted to detain him, but he got FR ! , Two young men walking in the procession, with tides' their hate, endeavoured to seize him, bet he maaegel get away from them also, and they were a little dela** their pursuit of him by the crowd. M he got clear of the crowd he ran, as one of the vs noises said, " like a deer," and had nearly mei the further end of the Haymarket before he me overtaken by the two young men, who took the Woking him and gave him into custody. He was taken toile street station-house, and thence to this court Us waiting in the gaoler's room he made another stlesSie escape, but was stopped by the officers of the mart oil whom received from him an injury from which he le feting some indisposition. The prisoner who offered no defence, was conmitiei trial CLERKENWELL. COMMITTAL OF A POUTER PAL ATEALING OVUIOO I . Williams Anderson, a porter, was charged oa read, before Mr. Barker, with stealing from his employee 111. Prinoe, of 2, Flora-villas, Hammersmith, the said la 12a. hr The prosecutor formerly carried on !minas at 10, tonville-road, and the prisoner was his porter. Os the 12th of June last year the prisoner was sent to thaw don and County Bank, Islington branch, with the Awe sum to place to his employer s account. Instead it kit so he decamped with the money, and nothi n g fortairot heard of him until Sunday week, when Policeessent Abberline, 24 Y, heard that he was detains' it Chelmsford. The sergeant went there, and took dame custody, and on telling him the charge the primmest' he was sorry for what he had done ; test r Ist spent the whole of the money, and bad we been in the greatest of distress to get bread; be fader said that he had bad to deliver bills for s trsolikt circus, and that the thoughts of the robbery, with his distress, had made him give himsell up; at ww that he bad done so he felt more comfortable than ls tai since he had committed the robbery. The prisoner said he had no questiou to ask or Mk' fence to make. Mr. Henry Francis Smith, in the employ of the lois and County Bank, proved that the sum of 101.11 a to& not been paid in to the prosecutor's account between de 10th and 17th of June last year. Mr. Barker committed the prisoner to the Midget: sessions for triaL MARLBOROUG H -STREET. POCKET-PICKING. Patrick Curry, an impudent young fellow, was dwitd, before Mr. Tyrwhitt with atte m pting to steal the "Wag Mr. Samuel W. Reynolds, civil eng ineer, o Rust f ic. street, Pimlico. Mr. Reynolds was in Piccadilly yesterday. M the prisoner tried to pick a quarrel with by asserting that he bad pushed against 104 - object, no doubt, being to cause • dittirhal so that the prosecutor might be the owe wall robbed. Mr. Reynolds walked away, but 10 IF gone a short distance when a fight occurred hetwee men. Mr. Reynolds feeling a hand at his trousers p00k,..„, into which he had just put Lis watc h, having trldP"' for safety from his waistcoat pocket, turned and iss prisoner close to his side. He immediately seized t prisoner, and a crowd gathered round them sad Writ make him release his hold of the prisoner, but vi 6.11 effect. Without his saying what be had in titat° still got your watch." A constable M ani, pocket the prisoner replied, " See if you het 89 Nei! to his assistance he gave the prisoner into custody I.° denied having attempted to rob him. The prisoner, who said be was a butcher livirg • Luke's, denied attempting to rob thenrowcuter. Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the per for t w o May with hard labour. WORSHIP-STREET. MORE ItOSIBEItIES PROM LUC:GAGS SRAM. Georoe Crume, 43, many years in the service' Great Eastern Railway Company, and at the time is tion employed as a " pointsman" at the Bricklater•_, station of that line, was charged wit h being in Pour.„ of a variety of property and not satisfactorily wow" for the same, it being reasonably believed fo to pro, be stoke. Mr. Straight, the barrister, appeared r the tiers ; and Mr. Daly, barrister, for the prisoner. It appeared by the evidence of M r . Joseph dins : superintendent of police on the Great Eastern from suspicions entertained by bim the prisoner had watched and stopped while carrying a basket. C'S' questioned as to its contents he instantly dropped ran away. Portions of a pig were found there. quently (on Saturday, the 24th ult.) be was takes custody, by Richard Crawley, an inspector of pale! , at No. 6, High-street, Shaawell, in the o h person named Knight, and he asked " Who told Ta was here ?" When the pork was mentioned,. said " Another ten minutes an d I should bac ' • I gone, but u it has come to this quietly and see it out. I did not steal tbe niesk . 7 know who didd and that it was wrong when I 1." I have brought disgrace on my wife and (sal , had I thought it would have come to this, 1 have made away with myself." At his hall_ 7, St. James's-place, Old Ford-road, a search cro_r), resulting in the discovery of numerous articles about 51b of nutmegs, cigars, foreign fruit, moo ' r (inclosed in each wrappers as cover mat sat the country), oil of the same description for working the signals of the comps*, and malt sacks branded, sample bott le of rum, sac,' bottle, of wine, with tin cans, all sunk in the arc and full of water, respecting some of which palm!. 0, " As to the rum, it will take you all your Jig° Lid out how I became powered of that." To Supeclsr," ' Rusell, when questioned as to his possession of perty, he replied, " I shall not say here ; this ic • not a magh place." Richard McGuire, a sergeant of police , • rug broken open the prisoner's locker, prisoner's signal-box, and to finding five pig. ~Jit there Mb, in weight, similar to that f oun d in Me which vises* irolual Ll= b o n o cuarri prah'tr• ..gs trahur acne& Pc" " estood food. ••••• t h o c would s . • °° llvin 00 mg i t r oity for • William • western d e • o moru - It It• • meet_ooet ..• out, which b oo m& The and carrots• asked him w isitir and i• • Tubbs gu' - him until paisoosr w hich he . were found p e nt, whit • corks. inapector the tubing emelt very P risoner. I *barge of Kr. Ind • Po ny's serer Inspector d ra nk at tit of his &Lill The p Sabina was Mr. Tug • It told a worth Ho labour. Roily B cash bor. IT: P r :b y Police .. trace the • Mr. Ins • was comm . • mend the . , • labs •- - Aberdeen Ararciimp raith • • , vaNatla- 01e0cisar H DeM Peoeseee. beteni zochotai i• • London Tarrson Melds.. Hader .. 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