The Express. — London, England, 1867-11-28 00:00:00

BREAKFAST. -E PPS'S COCOA. Ehe entreOL TO CORRTAYONDENTS. Ldvertieemeate Intended for The Ihtpreet," London Evenbs raw, must be et the Mee, 10, Bouverte-street, by The o'clock on the day of pabllealloa. DEITRY-LANL TAta Evsinsa, THE DOGE OF VENICE. Mr. Phelps, Messrs. J. C. t. °wiser, H. Phiebk, L Phelps, burred, Temple, Le.. Mrs. Her num Yam, Miss Grattsnotc.—And THE LADIES' CLUB. Mesdames Besmiz Shirley, Kate Mansur, 11. Vaudenhoff, HAYMARKET. THIS ITEnrno, THE WINNING CARD. Mr. Compton.— BROTHER MAY. Ream Sothern, Dralotone. compton, John son, he.: lisslsanes Clilppandids. Robertson, Lavin, ike.—And 11 Y WOWS MOTUE.R. Mn.ess Chippendale ;mil Hone. PRIM:EWA. Ten Wrinnie. A LITTLE FLIRTATION...-After which THE COLLEEN HAWN. Laws. Boucicaalt, I). Murray. fi. Atkins, G. J. 0. shore, H. Mellon, &C.: Stn. Boucicault.& Mina Ilatatt mad Elswortb7.—Aad NO. ONE HOUND THE CORNER. LITZVII. Tura EVNIMIG, PIIRFECTIO.V. Mtn Mand Shelley.—And WONIEO AND .11.;LIIPP. Means. W. Lacy and 11.31cr ; Yaw Vesivall, Mn. Manton, and Mimi Willy Palmer. IMPAND. TWO Evarnea, :gamma TO RIMEL Mr. Thorne and Miss He • ton.—KIND TO A 7AULT. Meer*. Parsslls, Belford, and James; Mesdames Johnston*, Gwynn.% and Hughes.—And WILLIAM TELL WITH A VOW V.NCIL HOLBORN. TEM EMMA FOR LOVE Mama H. J. Monts/us, Pria), Osrden. Westland, and H. Widdleomb; Mesdames Stephen■, Hamada. C. 'launders, ke.—And MARY TURNER; OR, THY WICIOUS WILLIE. less Josephs. BRITANNIA. Tins EvaNnia, THB KIN( DEATH-TRAY. Messrs. Rey nolds, Leslie, &c.; Mrs. & Inne.—Mr.*Floyd ; Mr. and Mrs. Langan and Mr. .1. Millicent-IUP VAN WINKLE. Mr. Howe. —And MARV !MANE. Mr. P. Charlton sal Miss Continuity. NUM WA AT LONDON lUDOL 1119 D* % —Monde& 31 321. Tan. o-Nontow—Yom, 31 435.... —Abrams, Sh. SUm. LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28. Ir has recently been urged by a contemporary that if the powers of the Poor-law Board were increased, and it were enabled to enforce its rep lations instead of merely bringing "moral in fluence " to bear, parochial arrangements would work more satisfactorily, and the public be spared the periodical discovery that paupers are being starved and tortured to death. It can not be denied that this view has much to recommend it, and if it were certain that the law as it stands were fairly carried out, if workhouse inspection were proved to be Liefficient only because the powers of the Poor-law Board were too limited, social reformers would eagerly agree to strengthen the official hands. But it un fortunately happens that such evidence as is before the country tends to a precisely opposite conclusion. No workhouse is too bad, no discipline too vile, for official approval, and in every case of mis doing which has yet come to light, the guardians have been able to justify themselves by a reference to the last report of the representative of the Poor law Board, and the " satisfactory," or " very " satisfactory" opinion it contains. We are now told that some special reports have been made by the medical adviser of the department, and Lord DEVON has given notice of a motion that these shall be laid before the House. It would be additionally useful if we could have the ordinary reports of the inspectors of each district also made public, and we trust some independent member will be found to call for those made during the last few years. The nature of the work performed, and the action taken on it at headquarters, could then be estimated ; and the public might judge of the ex tent to which the " moral influence" of the Board has been exercised. In the maeter of skilled nursing, of infirmary wards, of the appointment of paid officers, it is maintained that the Act of 1834 conferred such powers upon the Poor law Board as make a resort to merely " moral ir " fluence " entirely optional, and if this view be correct a heavy responsibility lies with those who have glossed over or been blind to such evils as are proved to be rampant now. But it is evident that the first step to a clear comprehension of the subject is the production of the inspectors' reports. Dr. SMITH'S "visit to five or six workhouses" was made after public opinion was roused, and while a controversy raged between him and his medical brethren concerning the number of cubic feet of air necessary for pauper life ; and his reports were drawn up for the special purpose of assisting Mr. HARDY in his deliberations on the Metropolitan Poor B:11. Although interesting from the light they will throw upon Dr. Smirn's views, they cannot be taken as fair samples of official inspection. The result of the ordinary day-to-day visiting of work houses, the discoveries made, the faults censured, the suggestions proffered, and the ad vice gie en, are the points upon which information should be afforded before increased powers can fairly be asked for by the department. We have no wish to prejudge the verdict of the Poor-law Commissioners in the Farnham case, and no very strong belief in its efficacy when pained. Both the gentlemen now sitting as judges, and who, by the way, act in the dual capacity of judge and jury, are Poorlaw inspectors, and one of them has charge of a district to which rumour points as possessing workhouses shamefully inade quate. It needs no cynical disbelief in human justice to see that the official view of official omissions will not be unduly harsh ; and it will be an utter novelty in Poor-law admistra tion if any but the very smallest culprit is recom mended for punishment. It cannot, however, be too widely known, or too frequently urged, that Farnham workhouse is but a type of many others, and that it is not necessarily the worst of its class. Under the present system of control the most glaring cruelties seem to be fostered and sanctioned by the people paid to prevent them ; and it is for the country to say how long it shall be left to private enterprise to expose and remedy the shortcomings of the Poor-law Board. Amin the loss inflicted on many families and the general discouragement which is created by the continued fall in British railway property, it is con solatory to discern signs that it is bringing for ward the remedies which have been so long urgently pressed for by railway reformers, but habi tually neglected by shareholders, and frequently ridiculed by directors. A great change is being worked in the views of railway proprietors, and • more striking proof of this can scarcely be found than that presented in the proceedings at the ad journed special meeting of the North Eastern Company, held at York on Tuesday. The object of this meeting was to receive the report of the scru tineers appointed at a meeting held on the previous Tuesday, in order to ascertain the views of the shareholders as to whether application shall be made to the Board of Trade to abandon the pro posed Leeds and Wetherby branch. In brief, the scrutineers reported that the votes in favour of the abandonment represented 13,891,3921. of stock, held by 7,154 shareholders, while those dissenting from the proposed abandonment were only 625 in number, representing 633,2181. of stock. The proportion of assents to the proposed application being far more than is required by the act, it may be assumed that the extension scheme in this particular direction has received its quietus. But this is merely an instalment of what railway shareholders have to do if they wish to save their property. If they leave directors and those who thrive upon directors' projects to work their will as hitherto, the rain of this vast interest may be safely predicted ; and already a vicious system has been allowed to proceed so far, that now that the proprietors are being brought at last face to face with the closing of the capital accounts, they are haunted with a fear that such a measure means a diminution, if not suspension, of divi dends. But they must not shrink in vague alarm at any such prospect, for they may rest assured that even a reduced dividend, if proved to have been truly earned, will inspire more satisfac tion and confidence than has attached to the part payments out of capital, styled dividends, which have hitherto been distributed. Fortunately for the efforts of those who wish to give rail way property the much-needed rest from further outlay, the power of borrowing on the old system, and of virtually mortgaging the railways to deben ture holders and other creditors, is rapidly passing away, and there is consequently the less reason to apprehend any effectual opposition on the part of directors and their interested upholders. The remedy lies in retrenchment, in a cessation of parliamentary war, rivalry, and exten aims, and, above all, in an absolute closing of the capital accounts of the old lines for a fixed term of years. Many years ago Mr. Laing declared that be could close the capital account of the London and Brighton Railway Company at between seven and eight millions. In how much better a condition would that property now stand had his proposal been acted upon ! What was pos sible then, in the case of the Brighton Company, must surely be very practicable now, after the ex penditure of so many hundreds of millions has brought our railway systems° much nearer to com pletion. In any ciao, the closing of capital ac counts for a term of years is quite practicable. Shareholders will then doubtless find that, under the pressure of necessity, very large economies can be effected, and, aided by that ever increasing, and never disappointing element —the traffic of the country—they will establish a financial reform which will eradicate the existing doubts, and give the investing public a definite assurance that rail way dividends are honest, and that this property, possessed as it is of nearly all the elements of suc cess, may be implicitly trusted. , THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, '5186:7. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (Irorsa's TELEGRASIB.) ITALY. FLORENCE. Nov. 2G. The Italie says that M. Cambray-Digny will definitively retain the portfolio of Finance. Signor Broglio has been entrusted with the portfolio of Agriculture. The same journal refutes the statement made by the Oseerratore Romano of the organisation of new Garibaldian bands. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE GERMANIA. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 28. __ The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship Germania, from New York on the 16th, arrived here to-day with 75 passengers and 38,407 dots. in specie. During her passage she spoke the following vessels :—On the 16th, 'off Sandy Hook, the Bremen ship Amaranth, bound west ; and on the 19th, in lat. 42 deg. 9 N., and 54 deg. 54 W., the British ship Victoria Nyanza, bound east. (Yip. Southampton.) NEW YORK, Nov. 16, lifoßxiso. The elections in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Florida have resulted in favour of the reconstruc tion convention. The delegates re-elected were nearly all radicals, the voting being carried on mostly by negroes. The New York Herald states that General Scho field, during a recent interview with the President, expressed the opinion that the Virginia convention would prove a failure, and corroborated the report that the negroes generally were armed and the whites defenceless. It is reported that Chief Justice Chase has re primanded Hunnicutt, of Richmond, for the course he is pursuing. The New Hampshire Democratic State Conven tion have nominated Mr. John Sinclair as governor, and have passed a resolution strongly denouncing the views of Congress. The official returns of the election to the state of New York show a democratic majority of nearly 49,000. The steamer City of Cork, from Antwerp, arrived ont yesterday with cholera on board, and was placed in quarantine. 0178 CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE LATE FENIAN EXECUTIONS. The comments of the Irish Roman catholic organs on the execution of the Manchester Fenian and the inscriptions which are seen on the chapel doors, remind the Times of the assertion which s often made by wise people, that the Irish never will listen to reason, never will appreciate fair dealing, and never will see in humanity anything but cowardioe. The late deed, hor rible and detestable by every English standard, con fers glory and immortality in the opinion of the Irish press They proclaim, in effect, that this is what every Irishman ought to do when the opportunity occurs. The doctrine is progressive, and their pupils will improve on it. In order to make England Russia and our Queen a Czar, these writers are rather fond of comparing their own country to Poland. We know not whether the Poles will see the likeness, or even feel fl►ttered by It. So far as re gards the moral aspects of the case, they may even prefer their own country, where, if there is an ever-smouldering rebellion, there is something like reason for it, which there certainly is not in Ireland. The Doily News cannot think with some of its con temporaries that we have discovered, in the power of diffusing terror, the certain means of checking crime. The comparative unanimity with which a political character has been ascribed by the inde pendent press and the organs of Irish opinion, to the crime of Allen, Gould, and Larkin, and the justifi cation of the execution by some of the most influential exponents of English public opinion, on the express ground that the gallows ought to be employed to check political offences, leads the Daily Ncwa to fear that the death of the three men, which it has always main tained was within the moral and legal right of the government, may do more to strengthen the cause of Fenianism than to weaken it. Out of protestant Lister, Allen and his companions have been accepted as representatives of Ireland, and martyrs in her cause. Irish feeling has been deeply wounded by these executions ; the sympathy of the neutral masses, which was with the law as long as the law was mildly ad ministered, has been carried over to the Fenian ; and any estimate of the consequences of the new policy of rigour woold be incomplete which did not take account of that fact. The Roman catholic clergy, we may be quite sure, counsel obedience to the law as strongly as ever ; but it is a fact that throughout England and Ireland on Sunday last catholic devotion was blended with the warmest sympathy for the men executed on the previous day. All this shows, and it is most important to be remembered, that capital punishment is capable of awakening throughout a whole people and on behalf of criminals that sympathy which should naturally be felt only for their victims. As far as can be seen at present, the most striking effect of the executions of Saturday has been to intensify the exclusive national and religious feelings which have hitherto made the government of Ireland so difficult, and to deprive the executive of a moral support of which it stood greatly in need. CtIRILENCT REFORM. Currency reform, in visiting us again, discovers the people, observes the Tisses, in a mood, and under dream stances, favourable to its teaching ; for almost everybody finds himself in the unfortunate predicament of having to spend less, enjoy himself less, work harder, take less holi day, and be wiser and sadder than he was a few years ago. To them comes the currency doctor, with a panacea for all pecuniary and political disappointments. Cold is the root of all evils ; the cure is paper. All the unions end associations which are to be repre sented at the meetings of the new Currency Reform Union want ready money, and to get it they combine to obtain a paper currency in which all private and public debts shall be payable, and which shall be capable of sufficient exten sion to meet the reasonable wants of the population. But as our contemporary has often had occasion to observe, it has never yet been favoured with the exact cabalistic form of words which is to render a bit of paper worth as much as a given weight of gold without being the promise of its immediate payment. That the charm exists we are not in a condition to deny, but we have yet to be initiated ; and therefore we look with some interest to the joint labours of all these trade and political unions on the currency question. SAL ALTRRINIAN EXPLAMON. Noticing the published resolve of the Rev. Mr. Krapp, a German missionary, who is to be employed as one of the dragomans attached to the expedition, to express his re ligions opinions should the proper occasion arise, the Post takes the opportunity of protesting against religious pro pagandism in Abyssinia. Already the expeditionary force threatens to assume proportions which, relatively to its objects, may be termed gigantic. The army of ten thousand soldiers involves a force which it has been estimated will In the grow amount to fifty thousand men, so that every combatant will require four non-combatants to look after him and the eironmstanoes of war of which he is the actual fighting element. We need not add to that surrounding, excavating philosophers, literary curiosity hunters, or doctrinal propagandists. However useful or desirable they may be in their proper place, this is not the occasion, we would submit, out of which to create opportunities for developing them or their tendencies. The Standard accuse* Ir. Layard with ungenerous con- duct in attacking Consul Cameron, and regards the hon. member's defence of himself and of his late chief es but • lame answer to the charges which have been made against them. It is characteristic of such an advocate that he should conclude his harangue with the marvellous declar ation, that, though he approved of the measures which had been taken to relieve the captives, aid believed they wee the best to effect the object in view, he would " re serve to himself the right of condemning the 'measures if failure or disaster should occur." A good many politicians are in the habit of acting by the safe principle here laid down ; but Mr. Layard is the first who has had the courage to avow it. The Telegraph cannot comprehend why the revenues of India should not contribute • quota to the expenses of the war. India is part of the British empire, and so far as the Abyssinian affair is concerned she is the principal part. When a blow is struck at the root of our power in the East, what can he more righteous than that India, the chief depository of that power, should 'apply troop. and pay for their wages and transport The Tines invites attention to the extraordinary expla nation which has been given in parliament of the landing of troops from India at Portsmouth, although they had to be quartered in garrison at Plymouth, which port was passed by the troop ship on her way up the ChanneL This explanation is, that the Indian Belief Ser►ice is in the hands of the government of India, and the representatives of this government have decided that they a 31 recognise no port exoept Portsmouth for the embarkation or disem barkation of troops. No matter where a regiment is, or to what place it may be going, Portsmouth must be the point of departure or arrival. When it is remembered that as much as 2,300,000/. of the entire charge of the expedition will he required for equipments and transport service, the Times thinks enough is said to show the gravity of the quarrel between two departments engaged in the business. If one office "acts contrary" to another office at home, and in the fall light of pub licity, what may not be done in the Red Sea? What security h►ve we for the economical concert of authorities at Sues, at kfassowah, or at Bombay, if such co-operation cannot be established even in this country Four millions of bullion, says the Star, taken out of the country in • year when our imports of corn must be very large, cannot fail to act disastrously upon trade ; and we fear greatly the cottages of England will feel the effects of the blunders of officials in a shape which is peculiarly hard to bear. Nevertheless, let us endure the burden without attempting to throw any of it upon the natives of India, and as the last folly of a parliamentary rt gime in which officials did much as they pleased, and the unrepresented people were the victims. Cht Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 27. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Princeu Henrietta of Schlaurig-Holatein, drove out 'eater day afternoon in a carriage and four. Prince Leopold and Princess Leatrice also drove out. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe, drove over to Claremont. Princes Louise went out driving. Princess Henriette of Schleswig-Holstein dined with the Queen and the Royal Family last evening. Count Lavradio arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. North cote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord John Manners, the Earl of Mayo, and the Right Hon. Spencer H Walpole. Despatches Were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of Malta, Gibraltar, the Straits Settlements, and from the Governor-General of Canada. The lords present at yesterday's sitting of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council were the same as on the day previous. Her Majesty the Queen, with the junior mem bers of the royal family, attended by the mite, will, it is expected, leave Windsor Castle on or about the 37th or 20th of December for Osborne. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES IN THE HUNTING FIILD.—The West Norfolk Hunt had a most brilliant meet yesterday, their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the Count and Counter of Flanders, being present, with their suites. Though a subscriber to this pack of hounds, his royal highness was unable last year to hunt with them, but this season the Prince hu attended the first convenient meet since his arrival Norfolk. The meet yesterday was Harpley Dam, about twelve miles from King's Lynn. The Prince of Wales was dressed in scarlet. The Princess of Wales drove her pair of beautiful grey., the waggonette contain ing the Counter of Flanders, the Hon. Mr. E. Coke, and the lady in ►ttendance upon the (cute... There was a large but select field present. The weather was fine but keen, and a splendid day's sport was enjoyed. His Serene Highness Prince Tea and Her Royal Highness Princess Mary of Tech, attended by Lord F. Paulet and Mr. Russell, and accompanied by Earl and Countess Granville, Earl and Countess Spencer, and Baron and Baroness Biome, honoured the performance of The Grand Duchess of Geroistein, at Covent-garden Theatre, with their presence last evening. The Royal party oc cupied her Majesty's box. The Lord Chancellor entertained at dinner yesterday evening at him residence, in Eaton-square, Lord Hominy, Lord Chief Baron Kelly, Mr. Justice Bytes, Mr. Justice Mellor, Baron Pigott, Mr. Justice Lush, the Attorney-General, Sir R. Collier, Sir George Honyman, Mr. Pailly, Serjeant Hayes, Mr. Montagu Chambers, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hawkins, the Common Serjesnt, Mr. Giffard, Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Druce, and Mr. Percival, secretary to the Lord Chancellor. The Earl and Countess Russell have left their residence in Chesham-place, for Pembroke Lodge, Rich mond Park. lady Moleeworth entertained their Serene High nesses Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Earl Granville, Frances Countess Waldegrave, and the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescne, M.P., the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P., the Right Hon. Edward Howman, M.P., Mr. Hsrtopp, Am, at dinner last evening, at her re sidence in Eaton-place. After dinner her ladyship had a small end early party. Newt of the death of Count Bernard de Quatro barbes has reached Paris. It will be remembered that the count took took a conspicuous part in the attack at Ban tam, and being wounded in the arm was obliged to undergo amputation, after which fever act in, which terminated fatally. The imperial comminnion of the Universal Exhi bition has voted a sum of 4,000/. to M. le Play as a reward for his services, of 2,0001. to M. Jaquard (the treasurer), of 1,000/. to M. Focillon (ehef de service of the French section), and of a similar sum to M. Donnat (tilling the same functions for the foreign section), of 2,000/. to M. Alphond (the designer of the park), and of 501, to each of the gentlemen who gratuitously superintended the aqua rium, MM. Gassier sad Dar. A letter from Florence. dated Saturday, says :- 1 " The streets of Florence are once more thronged with pedestrians ; the ellAtille exhibit numerous, though not in many cases very stylish, equipages ; you again reoog- Diee the wonted figures before the Club and the Café Dopey; everything, in short, betokens the approaching 1 meeting of parliament, and the consequent influx of senators and deputies, and of social not less than political notabilities. Amongst the later additions to our higher diplomatic and aristocratie circles must be mentioned the British minister, Bir Augustus Paget—with Lady Paget I and his family—who hie taken up his abode in the spacious Orlandini Palace, tenanted, when I first knew Florence, by the el-King of Westphalia, Jerome Bonaparte." We read in the New York Times of the 15th " Mdme. Ristori is taking a brief rest in this city, after her recent rapid tour of the cities in the eastern and middle States. On Thursday next she will deport for Havazumah, where bar some= is assured in advance, since tickets and places for bar performances have bees in demand before she has placed her foot upon the Cuban shore. Previous to leaving New York, however,Mdme. Rioted is announced to give two evenings and matinee of Marie Antoinette. These performances, seats for which are already in demand, are to take place on Monday and Tuesday night next, and in the day of Wednesday." THE ALLEGED SUBMERSION OP TORTOLA AND ThE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. The arrival of a batch of New York papers up to the date of the 16th puts us in possession of the circum stances under which Reuter's telegraphic agent at New York must have forwarded the intelligence of the " rub mereion of Tortola." It will be remembered that the telegram was positive and definite. " The island of Tor tola," it said, " has been submerged. Ten thousand lives were lost." On turning to the Ncie York Herald of the 15th, which a subsequent telegram gave as the authority for the original statement, we find that the language of the New York journal was not, with regard to the loss of life, equally absolute. The Gerald telegram runs thus : " Havana, Nov. 14,1867. " Tortola, one of the smaller British West India Islands between Virgin Gorda and St. John's, containing an area of 48square miles, has been completely submerged by the flood following upon the great gale of the ith and it is reported that 10,000 lives have been lost." The next day, on the 16th, the Herald had another " special telegram" from Havana, in which the statement was reiterated. Still, we find that the report was received with general discredit at New York, and this was expressed by the New York Mars of the 16th in the following way :—" The public will do well to suspend its judgment about the sub mersion of the Island of Tortola until further ad. vices. Islands of forty-five square miles with ten thousand inhabitants, and the usual arrangement of mountains, val leys, &c., are not so easily submerged by hurricanes as this report would imply. A good deal of damage may have been caused, and a good many lives may have been lost, by the flood consequent upon the hurricane ; but the catastrophe as reported by telegraph is simply incredible. The next despatches will probably reduce the loss of life by several thousands, and permit the island to reappear on the map." A good deal of anxiety would have been spared at home, if the agent who forwarded the original announcement had given the authority for it, and had made known the doubts with which it was regarded at Now York itself. A NEW MORTARA CASE.-THE TABLES TURNED. It appears from a letter addressed to M. Louis Venillot, of the Univers, that Par's has been the scene of a new Mortara case, with this difference, that the Jewish Rabbi has, in the present instance, played the role of Pope. The facts are as follows:—M. Rosenthal, a Polish Jew, placed his son, aged twelve years of age, in a catholic school in the Ratignolles. The father of M. Rosenthal, who happens to be the chief rabbi, hearing this consulted the Jewish coneistory in Paris, and it was decided that the lad should be removed from the catholic seminary. Accordingly, one morning as he got out of the omnibus which conveyed him to school, he was seised and carried off. The boy's father made com plaint to the chief rabbi, who returned for answer, "You will see him no more." The facts were laid before the Pro cures Imperial, the Prefect of Police, and the Minister of Justice, but up to the present moment no ' satisfaction has been obtained by M. Rosenthal. Asa last resort be wrote to the Univers complaining of the violence done to him as a father, and asking whether it is to be en- dured that the parental authority can be thus openly defied and annulled in the very centre of Paris. The point of the matter is that M. Louis Veuillot, who strongly maintain. the right of the Pope to take sway the son of a Jew from his father, as strongly protests against the chief rabbi doing the same thing. "Either," says M. VenUlot, " the father must recover his son, or he must know and we must know why his paternal rights are not respected." The Emperor Napoleon is said to be busy at a " Life of Augustus," which will be the complement of his " Life of Crier." The French blue book not only gives its readers statistics on the trade, commerce, and finances of the country, but curious bits of information on the most com mon place subject. From the report on the state of the floating debt to the derivation of • chignon the transition is startling. Nevertheless the " Livre like" contains the latest and most reliable information on these very different subjects. It informs us that the convents of France are the best markets for hair. Thus the daughter of • noble house becomes the spouse of the church, her golden tresses are cut off by the ecclesiastical scissors in view of a crowded congregation of the faithful, and fall on the marble pavement of the convent chapel amidst the sobs and sighs of the fair recluse's family. The ceremony over, the long hair is carefully gathered up and sold for • con siderable sum to an agent. A letter from Trieste, in the Wanderer of Vienna, mays :—" The experiments made in December lest at Pole with the new artillery has shown the superiority of the projectiles manufactured in the Austrian arsenals, as the English shells burst at the moment they touched the armour-plating, whilst those made in Austria penetrated it intact. Those results have recently received a striking confirmation. Experiments were being made on the prac tising ground with an Armstrong gun, when two of the English shells burst in the tube and damaged it. Such • thing has never occurred with an Austrian shot." Tau BISHOPRIC OF LICHFIRLD.—Ii wee stated in our columns, yesterday, that the Rev. Dr. Selwyn, Bi s h o p of New Zsabuid, had been offered the above preferment, and declined it. Sincei the negotiations with Bishop Sel wyn which resulted is this answer, further steps have been taken to induce him to accept the Alm, and although be considers the claims of his antipodal diocese as a bar to his acquiescence. it is not out of the bounds of posdbility that homey yet be influenced to alter bin determination.— Birmingham Pod. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. After Term Nisi Prins Sittings at Westminster.—{Before the Lord Chef Judie* and a Special Jai'.) ASSOLON v. STATHAM. This was the third day of the hearing of this extraor dinary case of tooth drawing. Mr. W. Chambers, Q.C., and MrW. Taffourd Salter were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Giffard, Q.C., and Mr. Murphy were counsel for the defendant. Amitie, of Westminster H ospital, deposed that he made chloroform his particular study between 1856 and 1881. The plaintiff's symptoms on the first administration of chloroform by Dr. Kelley were the result of a timid administration; that was in not giving sufficient chloro form. The symptoms would lead such s medical man to believe that the patient was not a fit subject for chloro form. The patient's present condition could not be traced In any way to the administration of chloroform. In cross-examination, he said that fatal results had fol lowed its administration by eminent practitioners. There was scarcely any risk when administered with proper care. He should not like to swear absolutely there was none, but it wee very small indeed, in his opinion. It was impos bible that plaintiff's condition could have been produced from tenor so far back as the first administration. Re-examined—lf any harm happens from chloroform it happens at ones. qty the Lord Chief Justice—He held that every person who was fit to undergo an operation might, with due care and skill, have chloroform administmed to them. Some patients required more care than others. There were practitioners who were of opinion that some per sons ought not to take it. Hysterical patients had a curious tolerance of chloroform, that was the power of the heart to resist its paralysing action, and when people spoke of the danger of chloroform, it depended solely in taking gasping breaths ; is then required a little more manual care and skill in administering. The inhalation by lint or an inhaler was an open question. The Scotch prac titioners practice the lint system. He had writtenstrongly in favour of the use of the inhaler, sad he still adhered to it in the case of an inexperienced practitioner, as it enabled him to give it with a little move safety than lint. There was no mischief in this case that might have been avoided by the use of the joinder. Dr. B. Richardson, consulting physician to the National Dental Hospital, had examined the teeth. They pre. seated marked indications of the disease known as cans tomb', and they had caries. The former was a thickening of the fangs or bone, and the latter the destruotion of the masticating power. One presented the largest exostosis he had ever seen but with one ezmi tion. There was no known condition of the teeth that produced so much pain as exoutosis. He had made the use of chloroform his study for years, and he had extensivelT practised it, and he should not hesitate to admicister It again to the plaintiff. A person who bad been told that the administration of chloroform had endangered her life, would be, no doubt, in some degree of terror, and that terror ought to be dealt with judiciously and carefully before its second Dr. Hanson, author of the work on " Chloroform : its Action and Administration," which was gre►tly referred to in crow-exsadning the medical witnesses, deposed that he considered the chloroform was properly administered to the plaintiff at the Great Northern Hospital, and that her present state and condition could not be ascribed to it. Mr. Chambers—Do you think her case one of imagin ation Witness--I have a strong impression that if the plaintiff was to throw away her crutches and have a few cold baths she might be able to walk nearly as well as I can. Hyste ric al pandysis can be cured, and I have seen it cured in a short time. Mr. Chambers—What is hysterical paralysis! Witness—There you put rather a &Mule gouda's. I should say it is the loss or partial Ices of motion in one or more limbs which is the result of the particular date of the system with or without any exciting cause. A person under terror is excited. I oannot predict how long that terror might last. The object of calming and re-assuring s patient before administering chloroform was that moat of the deaths bad occurred from sudden syncope from moral --- This was the defendant's cue. Dlr. Chambers said he wished to correct a mistake into which Sir William Ferguson inadvertently fell in giving his evidence last night. Sir William said that when the plaintiff came to him for his opinion she had no crutches, when, in fact, she bad them, and walked with them into Sir William's room. . ._ _ _ The plaintiff i attorney wag ii;;;Called, and stated that he took the plaintiff to Sir William's hones, and that she used crutches. In cross-examination he said he took her there to learn Sir William's opinion ; but he did not call him on the abortive Mr. Gifford said that after the expression of the jury yesterday he thought he should best discharge his duty to his client by abstaining from occupying their time with any general remarks upon the cue. Mr. M. Chambers, in a lengthened address, summed up the case for the plaintiff to the jary, and was proceeding when our report left. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings at Nisi Prius in Middieses—(Before Lord Chief Justice Borill and a Special Jury.) 11ACILICT/IT r. RAXINDALL. . ----- This was an action against the defendant, who carries on business under the firm of I'ickford and Co., to recover damages for false imprisonment, and also to recover pos- session of some sacks. Mr. Pe►roe ►nd Mr. Will► ►ppeared for the pl►intiff, ►nd Mr. M►nnen for the defend►nt. The defendant was • general dealer, living at Walworth, and his case was that Christmas-eve last be bought an odd lot at a clearance sale at !Merry's wharf. When he got the things home he fonad among them eight sacks, five of which had Messrs. Pickford's name upon them, and intending to take the sacks to the owners, he went to Messrs. Chaplin and Horne's, and was there directed to the defendant's place in Gresham-street. He saw Mr. Gale, who wailln the defendant's employ, and after some investigation that gentleman gave him into custody upon a charge of having stolen the sacks. and next day he was taken before a magistrate, who dismissed the charge. Afterwards his attorney wrote to the defendant asking for an apology and compensation, and as he got no answer he commenced legal proceeding, against Mr. Gale, and also against the defendant for the same cause of action. Mr. Gale suffered judgment, and upon a writ of inquiry the jury assessed the damages at :10/., and he had since, by arrangement, paid UM. down and agreed to pay the balance at ss. a week. _ _ To prove the authority of Mr. Gale Ito give persons into custody for stealing the property of the firm, an answer of the defendant to en interrogatory was put in, and in this the defendant stated that Mr. Gale had given into custody and prosecuted persons for stealing the property of the firm in cases where he get the previous sanction or subsequent ratification of the firm, and that in one case such ratification was refused because the matter concerned a railway company who themselve s prosecuted. Mr. Mennen submitted that this rather negatived than proved authority. The Lord Chief Justice intimated an intention to decide the point in favour of the defendant; but the counsel consulted together and agreed that a stet processus should be entered. COURT OF EXCHEQUER . Sittings at Nig Priws.—(Before Mr. Baron Pigott and • Special Jury.) HECTARE O. THE GREAT WEsTEILY RAILWAY COMPANY. . . This was an action for bodily injuries alleged to have been sustained by the negligence of the ddendanta. The defendants pleaded not guilty. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Mention Griffiths were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Huddleston, Q.O. Mr. Powell, Q.C.„ and Mr. Digby counsel for the defendsints. The plaintiff, Mr. Henry 13. Stuart, had formerly been lieutenant in the 114th Regiment of the Bengal Native Infantry, and now resided in Oreat Western-terrace, Westbourne•park. His case was that on the evening of the 21st of March lut he went to the Westbourne.park station for the purpose of going to the Edgware-read. He got into a 6r4-class carriage, but before he could take his seat the door was closed, and his thumb was trashed by it. As the train went on immediately, he had not time to make a complaint at the sta tion, nor could he identify the person who shut' the door. The thumb became inflamed, and the plaintiff suffered severely. He incurred an expense of about U. for medical attendance, and he said that in conse quence of the injury he sustained he was unable for some time to pursue certain literary avocations in which be engaged, and lost an opportunity of becoming pri vate secretary to Mr. Sheridan, H.P. for Dudley. There were twoor three gentlemen in the same compartment, but he did not tell them that he had been injured, and it seemed that be made no complaint to the company on the subject until about a week afterwards. The train arrived at Westbourne•park station shortly after 12 o'clock at night. On cross-examination it appeared that his literary em ployment was not very great or of very recent date. He said he was in the receipt of a pension for his services in the army. The only corroborative evidence was that of a retired medical man, a friend of the plaintiff, who attended him professionally, and who described the nature of the injuries sustained. For the defence, it was said that the company made every inquiry to ascertain whether such an accident bad occurred at that place and time in question. but could not find that it had, and, consequently, felt bound to defend the action. -- Tit;in;ids, porters, and other officers of the company on duty on the occasion were called, and each stated that he knew nothing of any accident having happened to a passenger. The learned baron having briefly summed up the evi dence, The jury found a verdict for the defendants. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) PALM= V. WILLIAMS .UID ANOMIE. ^•• - - Mr. Serjoaat Bsllaatine, Mr. Ila - Zen, ;TM/ Pritchard for the plaintiff ; Mr. Ibiddleston, Q.C., Dr. Swaby, and Mr. Phubrick for the defendants. This was a suit to establish the will of Agnes Constanoe I Williams, who died at Highland Farm, Frimley, dieser, on the 4th day of May last. She was the gitimate daughter of • woman who had lived with the plaintiff at the farm ; and after her mother's death abs continued at the farm, and by • will executed four days before her death she left the bulk of her property, which amounted to 1,400 f. Probate was opposed on the ground of undue execution, undue influence, want of capacity, fraud, and nonege. [The case had only just opened when we went to prat.' COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) IN NE W. W. WHILLPHEY. The bankrupt was a New York merchant, who bad been arrested daring • temporary residence in this country, sad with much difhculty obtained his release from custody, This was an adjourned sitting for examination and dn. charge. The debts are 8,1941. ; no assets. The bankrupt applied for • short adjournment with a view to making a proposal to his creditors. Mr. R. Griffith., for creditors, did not object; and an adjournment for a month was ordered. IN lIN.3IARVIERN._ The bankrupt warn a solicitor , of Great James•treet. The case was before the court and was fully reported • few days ago, when Mr. Bane accountant, a creditor f or 8001., complained that he had b ad - no notice of the sitting, and obtained a short adjournment. He now asked fce additional accounts extending back to January, 1865, the date of a former bankruptcy, when the debts were Z 1,300/. The cam was then taken out of cou r t by • deed under which the bankrupt undertook to pay a composition by instalments, but failing to do this most of the debts had revived. The iernkrupt, in answer to the court, dated that he kept no ceab book. _ — gin Honour adjourned the ow, and rave the opposing creditor leave to tender requisitions. IN RR reingatca NORTH. The bankrupt war described as a stock and abate dealer, of Lombard-street, late of Copthall.buildines. Ile came before the court with debts of 6,98. V., against assets returned at 7401. The principal creditors are gentlemen connected with the Stock Exchange. This was a sitting for examination and discharge. It was stated that the bankrupt had only o b • tained his order of discharge under a former bankruptcy in Feb., 1866, and that all his present debts had been con. traded since. Mr. Godfrey, for the assignees, and Mr. S. Woolf for • creditor, asked for cash and other •000auts extending from the date of the last order of discharge, and an ad. jonnunent for this purpose was ordered. IN kg 61A1LLES GARNETT. The bankrupt was • contractor for railways and public works, of Bansteed, Surrey. The liabilities are of the large amount of 45,7801.; there is a debt stated to be due to the bankrupt of upwards of 48,0001 . from the Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway Company, but unfortunately it is returned as doubtful. The good debts are "kited at 4871.; property, consisting of shares in the Bedford Pania.n, 1,2601. ; proper held as seen city, 15,0941. Amongst the liability creditor, are Messrs. °reread, Gurney, and Co. (limited), for 5,0001. This was the sitting for examination and discharge. Mr. Bagley, Mr. Lawrence, and Mr. Chidley appeared in the cue. It wee stated that the claim on the Salisbury and Dorset Railway had been made the subject of award, and decided adversely to the bankrupt. Instead of 44,0001., he had been awarded only 0,0001. odd, and, as each'party was to pay his own costs, there would be nothing coming to the estate. On behalf of the liquidators of Overend, Gurney, and Co., • large proof for 36,0001., wen tendered, but was ordered to stand over for investigation. An adjournment was ordered till the the 28th of January. the claim of Overend, Gurney, and Co., to be inquired into in the meantime. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) SOUTHWARK. COSVICTION OP A THILVEIe MAME. Willian Bridoer, 26, described on the charge sheet as a shoe black. but well-known to the police as a trainer of juvenile thieves infesting the New-cut and Waterloo road, was brought before Mr. Partridge charged with creating a disturbance in the Waterloo-roa d, and causing • mob to assemble outside the Olive Branc h public-house for the purpose of committing robberies. John Chester, 128 L, said that in consequence of the numerous and daring robberies committed in the vicinity of the Waterloo-road and Lower Marsh, near the Olive Branch public-house, he was placed on special duty to detect the thieves. On the previous afternoon he heard that a gentleman had been hustled and robbed near the corner opposite the gallery entrance of the Victoria Theatre and on proceeding there he saw the prisoner and a number of young thieves congregated there to the annoyance of the manager of the public-house and the passers-by. Witness dispersed them and they all went away except the prisoner who refused, and set him at defiance, threatening to smash his head in if he interfered with him. Knowing the prisoner to be a trainer of young thieves, and a ray bad character, he told him unleu he went away he must take him into custody. The prisoner still refused, and when he was compelled to take him into custody he collected a mob of persons round him, calling on them to rescue him. Another constable Came up, and with his assistance he was removed to the station- house. _ _ The manager of the Olive Branch tavern, a woll-con• ducted establishment. informed his worship that for some time past the prisoner has led a gang of young thieves to congregate in front of their house to the annoyance of the customers and of Mr. Grammar, the proprietor. Persona coming into and leaving the house have frequently com plained of being robbed, and at last Mr. Grammar was oompelled to apply to Mr. Webb, the superintendent of the L division, for the assistance of constables to drive the thieves away. The prisoner denied having annoyed anybody, and com plained of being ill-used by the police, but Mr. Partridge told him he was satisfied that he was • dangerous character, and in default of bail committed him to prison for three months. A DISORDERLY FELLOW IR A WORKHOUSE. John Irorp, a stevedore, of No. 2,l.lon7eoutt, Poplar, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with being drunk and violently assaulting an assistant relieving officer, at the Poplar union relief office. Mr. William B. Foster, one of the relieving officers of the Poplar Amine, western district, stated that yesterday the prisoner presented himself at the relief offices in a state of drunkenness, and demanded relief. He told the pri soner he had better go home to bed ; upon which he became very excited and violent, made use of abominable language and threats, and refused to leave the office. With some difficulty the prisoner was ejected. He then commenced kicking and knocking at the doors, and using fearful threats for some time. The prisoner was not attended to, and he became mad with rage and threw a large stone through the window into the office, doing damage to the amount of one shilling. Fortunately the stone did not strike any one, but it went near the heads of several persona. In answer to Mr. Paget the witness said that he saw the assault committed upon the assistant and gave the prisoner into custody. Mr. Edwin L. Machin, assistant to the relieving officer for the north district of the Poplar union, stated that upon opening the door of the office leading to the yard the pi ironer struck him, upon w hi c h h e threw him down and shut the door. The prisoner was then making use of very abusive language. Shortly afterwards he heard loud knocking at the other door, and Mr. Foster called upon to assist in ejecting the prisoner. On so doing the prisoner bit his finger and made it bleed and like wise tore his coat to pieces. A. severe and long continued struggle took place and ultimately the prisoner was secured and given int, custody. The witness produced his damaged °oat and exhibited his lacerated finger. John Rye coefirmed the statements of Mr. Foster and Mr. Machin in every particular, and added—l saw the pti soner throw a stone through the window. Mr. Paget said relief was intended for the poor and destitute, and not for such ruffians as the prisoner, who preferred spending his money in strong drinks to providing breed for his family, and then had the daring impudence while he was intoxicated to demand relief. At the present time the relieving officers bad a very arduous duty to perform, and must be protected from such desperate characters as the prisoner. He would, if possible, put a atop to these outrages. He sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonment and bard labour-- two for the assault and one toe wilful damage. A telegram from Cronstadt annonneft that the ma is covered with compact toe. Communications with Onutienbaum are made on the frozen surface. From the 21st inst. the navigation for 1867 may be considered as at au end. MELANCHOLY DROWNING Or A LADY.—Betweol 4 and 5 o'clock on Sunday evening last, Mrs. Martin dale, the wife of a large farmer, at Witherslack, West moreland, left home with two of her nieces, intending to accompany them a abort distance towards their residence. As the did not return, her husband became Rimmed, and at half-put 7 o'clock he went out to look for her. rail ing to meet with, or hear anything of her, on the road, he inquired at the Derby Arms, and ascertained she had left there about half-past 6 o'clock, having called in to see the landlady, after leaving her nieces. Mr. Martindale hurried back to his house, and, with the assistance of a novels r of servants, commenced a thorough win* along the iced and about the neighbourhood in every direction, bat without success ; his missing wife was not to be found. This was continued up to 4 o'clock ; at that hour the party repaired to the fares, and awaited the return of day light, when the examination was resumed, resulting in the discovery of the body of the unfortunate lady at the bot tom of a river. Yesterday, an inquest was held, and a verdict of "Accidentally drowned" returned; it being supposed that the deceased, after leaving her friends at the - Derby Arms, bad mistaken her way, and, wanderiag in an opposite direction. had fallen into the river.