The Express. — London, England, 1862-01-31 00:00:00

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Allmsea. i Ms. LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 31. Evrarrnmo in this world must come to an end, and only for this reason the WINDELK Inquiry it over. It has died of sheer exhaustion. It lasted thirty-four days, and if a sufficient supply of gossips, grooms, end Clarvonaqq ) Vbq had even once seen Unhappy man, could have been discovered, it might have lasted thirty more. Master Wanium bad fixed his seat so firmly that people had begun to speculate whether his chair or that of No None would be removed first. But it is over, and the jury have been permitted to say at last what they have been longing to say for • good while, "that " Mr. WINDHAM is of sound mind, and capable of " taking care of himself and his affairs." Such is the result of what is by courtesy an inquiry, but which has really been to a great extent a contrivance for dodging and evading the evident fact now legally established. The best of all possible witnesses, the young man himself, was the last whom the Court would hear. The evidence of the tint few days showed Mr. WIND HAM to the public as little better than a gorilla; Rroducod in court yesterday, he answered all the questions put to him in a straightforward, cohe rent, and consequent manner, without the slightest hesitation. There are thousands of the sanest men in England who could not have stood that test after an exposure such es he has endured. The promoters of these proceedings, the " friends " of Mr. WIND H•II, have carefully kept themselves out of eight. They should have been able to inform the Court as they had informed the Loam Jravices. But, ready enough to make affidavits, they shrank from pre senting themselves in the witness-hox, and becoming subject to the test of cross-examination. The cense quence was that the jury wee left to find its way through the case by the light of secondary evi dence, and such imbecile wandering was probably never sees before in • British court of justice. The real nature of the case has long been apparent to everybody of the least experience and reflection. Young Wisnasu was a striking, but unhappily by no seems rare example of the results of neglected education. Not that his parents and friends thought education • thing of no consequence. They engaged expensive tutees for him, and sent him to the most famous of our public schoola. But the education which is of highest value—the early influence of a well-ordered home, of pa rental example and authority, and of suitable companionship, advantages which the children of the provident and conscientious artisan may have, he never enjoyed. Probably under any course of education his preference would have led him to an active life rather than to intone° tual occupations. We fail, however, to detect any sign that he was deficient in those faculties which enable the majority of mankind to go through life with fair credit for ability. But from the tirst his energies appear to have bees under no kind of regulation or direction. His father seems to have treated him as a toy, and to have indulged all his whims, and taken no care of his habits lie was without proper acquaint once : passing his mornings in the kitchen with the servants, and in the evening the servants being called upstairs for his amusement. It seems to have been supposed that the irregularities of childhood were to be corrected easily by hurling the boy into the life of • public school. And it is not to be doubted that but for his experience at Eton be would have sunk much lower than be did. But as he seems to have taken no concep tion of self-government thither, he appears to have brought none away. At a time of life when young men called to the inheritance of ancestral estates commonly awake to the sense of the dignity which accompanies the right discharge of the duties of their position, young WINDHAM appe3rs to have been wanting in the most ordinary self-respect. It was not, as his uncle's Counsel tried to show, that he was more eccentric than many another young man never suipeeted of insanity, but his freaks bore the impress of the low influences of his early life. We shall not follow the history of his subse quent debauchery, or dwell on the circumstances which led him to form an unhappy union, buying the transitory compliances of a notorious woman, by permanently impoverishing his patrimonial e s tate. Our readers have had only too much of that nauses:ing story. Nobody doubts that his marriage was the act of a fool. It was the climax and consummation of the thoughtlessness and itio providence of his previous life. General WlNo ll llee Counsel urged it IM a reason why the law should interpose to save the remaining property, and physicians were called to state that, taken in co inexion with previous acts, it constituted proof of unsoundness of mind. Hut that is a matter which may very well be left to common sense to decide, and the law intends it should be so left in confiding the decision to a jury of laymen. The law of England prizes freedom so much that it will allow a man to abuse it very far to his owu hurt, and even to the hart of his family, before it deprives him of it. He may be ignorant and unskilful, and thus incapable of managing his property, and that through his own negligence, bet the law will not interfere. He may be indifferent to his future, and to the prospects of his children, even to the extent of gambling away his whole estate, and the law will not prevent the wants. The law will not infer unsoundness of mind from mere foolish acts, however often repeated. If beads of families will bring up their children badly, unfit for the duties which attend the possession of property in a state of society such as sun, it is by a natural retribution that the family gaffers in tdtertime a decline of its consideration when the representative it has so neglected dissi pates its estates. The jury have declared that "Mr. " Wl:emus' is capable of taking care of his " affairs," but they have not said that he is likely to do so. Their verdict, in effect, tells that young man that it is not because of any privation, whether natural or incidental, of effective reason that his past life has been one of folly ; that be still has within him, if he will only rouse them to exercise, powers by which he may recover him self from the bad influences which have so often overcome him, and walk in the path of usefulness and credit Mr. WIND• RAM has been very unfortunate ; be has com mitted some terrible mistakes, and terribly has he been punished. We hope he will receive the verdict of the Jury, not as conferring • new license to a life of vanity, but rather as the indulgent voice of the law, and in a certain sense also of the public, which has been virtually present through out these proceedings, inviting him to reflect at this crisis of his existence, and make a vigorous effort to render himself worthy of the opportuni ties which his birth and possessions confer. rbe Court. OSBORICE, Jas. 30. Prince and Princess Leiniagen arrived at Oabon yesierslay. Princess Hobgoblin rensakes on a vied to her Knienly. The King of the Belgium visited the Deb of Ounbrides, yinfarday, et Gloetanier-boose. It hes ben intimated to bat Majesty's Crinumitudosers far Ne letinuelisuel Makibitioe of 1862 that the following pa. them ben bens appointed commiasiosen for Brasil : The Commandant Fraseinor Lowe° de Cs.rvalho Marmite, Brazilisa minister, president ; the Baron de NUN mad the Oommendeur Joao Mental Perms de Salts. Deepatehes wen rewind yesterday at the Ceiedel-oan tram the Goma= a( the West ladie lehado ead the &lama Denalaw inn Nat I. the Governer el Gunk. His Excellency the French Ambassador and the Cosiness de Fla!wilt returned to Co►satry Home yester day evening from Eros ilands. His Excellency M. Tricoupi and family &hived at the Pavilion Hotel. Folkestone, on Wednesday. The Duke of Wellington returned to Apeley Homo yerotarday from fltrote field /aye. The Earl and Countess Stanhope come to town on limey but from Chevening Perk, Kest, for the 011100 a. The Tad of Brownlow and Lady Marian Alford are mein the soma at U. lA* of Wight. His Ion". aid, is noovorios from his moot iadispositioo. Lord and Lady Overtone have arrived at their miasma is Cfaritoapsdom from Overtone Park. Lord sad Lady Harry Vane are expected in town amity Milli WO* from OW, mg io Bosom Sir Harry and lady Verney have arrived at their mama ia South-stnet far Um assaoa. Sir F. Graham sad Lady Moos have arrived to Portman -spar* from B,g►too. Sir Willoughby and Lady Jones and Miss Jones bays arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Bestufrisyqopare, from Creamer Hal. XL Law Fox is expected in town in a few days ben fkiedwa. Th. ;artier was celebrated yesterday, at St. 35..'., Pimaly, by the Rim Lord Artily. Hervey, of Hoary A. W. Be",y Esq., of Ike Porsisn-ofdos, soy of Ike lels Lard Minus Swerey, W Laura Horatio, eldest Aseckter of the lons LisrafiAlessral and Lady Laura Massy, se Orem Plot, Norfolk. At Palace ut the Crown Prince, Berlin, on Xwaday, tbe birthday of the young Prince Frederic William irkeeris Albert (bora Jae. 27, IMO! was duly honoured. The King and Queen paid • visit to their grandchild, and Lord sad Lady A. Lrikes prematml their congratulatioas la the nun et Qom Victoria. Earl Carlisle bald hie first levee for the Ramon at Delia ea Wedasnisy. It wsa sasseromly attmadled. His emesliesicy eniarvid the Throes-reees as sae Atka, wire the rereemay baps. He was eanismodri by the cams el the bwasabeld. wiz% weak the gassed sompany, were is ansanivig, is asesedaste with the oak'sl intimation ktely Weed. The gement company iiselodel the following : The Duke of Lekaisear. lh. Margnis of Drogheda, Luis Hewth, Grassed, Miltows, and Morava ; Viscount' goarillow2h. Bootarms. Hassereeme and Fat nod, Dualo, Magas (Lieuteusat-(7alcissi); Bishops Dews ✓id Coaser. Kdisioe, Limerick. sad Kitimat ; Lards Odle% Talbot de lialahiJe, !Useable, Bellew, Name, Alto litsierakt, sad James Butler ; Judges Fitzgerald, Kink Leatiagie. Ball, O'Brien, aad Hem Dobbs, Kai, Lyoeh, Berwick ; Hight Hose J. W. Fitzpatrick, John Rachel!. James Whitesid' e, J. Napier, A. Brewster, sad Frederick abs.. Mr. Thomas Barnes, M. P., addressed his con- Massaro at 1301i011 last night. After commenting on cissesslic political topics, he referred to the American war, sad his advice on that point wee diametrically op. reed to the opinions of the hoe. member for helloed. Kr. Bermes denied that the breaking of the blockade would afford any relief to the colt.). famine. The scarcity of cotton was caused by the we, and not by the blockade, and it would, therefore, be nib to seek for cotton by the removal of the latter. It MIS to Isla Yr. Barnes looked for a compensating influence to the Americo. eosrcity. To-morrow week Mr. John Wilkinson will sell off at 13, Wellingtonatreet, Strand, a very interesting collection of works made by his late partoer, Mr. 8. Leigh Sotheby, in the coons of his researches for the production of the volume he published in 1 , 410, entitled " Unpublished Document., Marginal Notes, and Memoranda in the Auto graph of Philip Melaocthon and Martin Luther, with nume rous Facsimiles." There are upwards of one hundred volumes with annotations of Melanethon's, or reasonably supposed to be Melancthon's, and about twenty of Martin Luther's, besides a number of other works with marginal notes by unknown hoods, but of the same period. MEETING:4 or SelENTlrle SOCIETIES NEXT WCZK. —Monday—Royal Institution, 2; General monthly meet ing. Geologists' Amocialics, 7 ; 1. Mr. C. B. Rose, " Cretaceous Group of Norfolk" ; 2. Mr. C. Tomlinson, " Plasticity of Clay." Entomological, 8. British Archi tects, 8. Medical, hi ; Mr. Henry Smith, "On thelDifli culla.' and Durum attending the operation ,f Troche°. tinny." Tuesday—Royal Irritation, 3 ; John Marshall, /1,1 . .1., On the Physiology of thistles/we" Civil Engiociers,B ; Renewal discussion ua " Iron-Plated Ships." Pathological, 8. Photographic. h ; Anoiversary Meeting. Ethnological, 8. Wednesday —B..ciety of Arta. 8; Dr. F. Croce Celvert. F.R.S.. "tin the Iniproverneota mid Progress in Dyeing sad Calico-Printing Once 18Al." Geokorkel, 8; 1. Mr. E. Hull, "On Isodiemetric Lines as mesas of representing the Dis tribution of Ordloary Heditneotary as distinguished from Calesesous Wade, with spacial Wens . to the Carboni fern" Barb 01 Orval Britain ; M. P. de Tchihatcheff, "rho the Racist Eruption of Vegovise"--communicsted Sir IL I. Mumblers' ; 3. Big. L Palmieri, "On Some Vol canic Phenomeas °kerma at Tome del Grecoo." Pharma ceutical, 8. Thorsday—Ronal Institution. 3. Professor Tyndall. "On Hest.* Chmak . al. 8 ; Mr. Adis. "On Graved las ;" Dr. Beam Jesse, 'On Crystalline Xenthin in Human UrMe;" Mr. A. M. Church, "Oo Silica;" Prof. Blount, "Om Anemic in Salphurie Acid." Lissome, 8; I. Mr. Jolts Lubbock, F. R. 8., and LS., o Notes on the Smyothorkke ;" 2. Mr. A. Mur ra y, "O n the Geographic &al Warm of the Coleoptera of Old Cala. Ur." Royal, St. Antiquorim. Royal Soc. Club, 8. Artiste and Amateurs, 8. Friday—Royal lostitutins, 8; Professor T. H. Harley, "Oa Fossil Remains of Man." Archeological, 4. Saturday—Royal lairtitotion. 3; Rev. A. J. D'Orsey, "On tie laslia& Lassuage." Royal Botanic, hi. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. H AN OVER. The Chamber of Deputies of Hanover, although elected under the auspices of the present ministers, has just shown its independence by inflicting severe blame on them. The government having, by an ordonnance, introduced a reform into the code of military penal procedure, the Chamber, on the motion of M. Roeseing, decided, almost unani mously, that the ministry should be requested to suspend the execution of the said reform, which was to come into force on the lst of February. The motive alleged for this request was the im mense responsibility which such a flagrant infringe ment of the constitution would throw upon the ad visers of the crown. (awnia's nuiaimgc) ITALY. TURIN, JAW. 31. Advices from Rome state that a band of 150 brigands, under the command of Edward Kamer, had been despatched to Brindisi. Preparations were being made to effect a landing on the Neapolitan coasts, with the object of pro voking an insurrection. The health of the Pope has improved. SPAIN. MADRID, JAL 30. Immediately on his return to Paris, M. Mon, in behalf of the Spanish government, will sign the deed for the settlement of the debt due to France since 1823. PORTUGAL LISBON, Jaw. 30. Two war steamers were launched to-day, on which occasion a popular demonstration was made in honour of the Kiug and his father, Don Fer dinand. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, JAJ. 3L The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Tagus, with the above mails, has arrived. She brings five passengers, 7001. in specie, and 406 packages of cargo. The steamer Sheldrake, with a cargo of coals on government account for Bermuda, bag put into Lisbon leaky. She will return to England after undergoing repairs and discharging her cargo. At Lisbon, on the 27th, exchange on London was quoted 531 ; Paris, 532. Three per Cent. Rented', at THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, 3.111. 31. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pera, with the heavy portion of the above mails, arrived off the Needles at 12.30 p.m. IMPRESS FROM PARIS. (FLOW OUR OWN PARIS, TISIMADAT ETINCIG. Owing to rough weather at Cherbourg, the only vessel of the Mexican expedition able to get out of poet yesterday was the corvette Forfait, with Gene ral de Loreucez and his staff This, at least, is the statement given as "latest news" in the evening papers. Without being a sailor, I can understand that after the Forfait had got out of the harbour it was possible that, the weather getting worse, it may have been deemed prudent that her companions should not immediately follow her. But it is diffi cult to conceive that the general himself could have known at the time of his departure that he was not to be accompanied ; for it would have been mani fest folly for the head of the expedition wantonly to incur a sea risk which was judged dangerous for the bulk of the fleet. There is so much mystery and contradiction about this Mexi can affair, that I cannot repress a suspicion that the weather may possibly not be the only cause for the detention of the ships--and wh:le writing this I observe in one of the evening papers that General de Lorences received " new instructions" just before he sailed. May it not be that these new instructions have shorn the enterprise of some of its preconceived grandeur ? It is quite certain that the expedition was suspended at the end of last week. The Toulon journals rate the assertion that the countermand came from Marshal Castellanos at Lyons, and are at a loss to explain the mason. Twenty-four hours later there was an ' order to go forward, and now, very likely, there is a hitch again. The project of reconciling the Pope with Italy, by setting up an Austrian archduke as King of Mexico, being a pet conception of the Emperor's, the probability is that, after a little more working of the telegraph, General de Lorencez's original following will put to sea. The Opiaiun Nationale throws cold water upon the Mexican business, and doubts whether, "in spite of the information received by the Petrie from Vera Cruz just at a convenient moment," the people of Mexico are disposed to come into the proposed arrangement. It ridicules the speculation that the Mexicans, "acting freely," will give themselves to Austria, and that later, no promise being exacted, or any indelicate bargain made, Austria will "spon taneously" give up Venice " in exchange for ample territorial possessions." The Opinion Nationak cannot see where this territorial compensation is to come from, unless by the dismemberment of Tur key ; and, besides that the &laves of the south would have a good deal to say on the subject, it wants to know what is thought of it at this moment by England and Russia. There are people, it seems, who connect the above notable scheme with a telegram from Frankfort, affirming that the Emperor of Austria has written an autograph letter to Napoleon 111., laying down the basis of a " cordial understanding." The diplomatic correspondence between the courts of Rome and Paris, just published, greatly strengthens the interpretatiou of the Emperor's . speech in a sense highly unfavourable to the Pope's own pastimes. On looking narrowly at the Emperor's language, it will be found that he does not now affirm that be entertains hopes of reconciling the two antagonistic causes of the Papacy and Italy ; he merely says that when ho recognised the kingdom of Italy (J'ai rec )he did indulge such • hope. He speaks to the catholic world to excuse himself for having recognised Italy, and does not pledge himself to a present expectation, which it would be ridiculous to cherish, after the most unequivocal declaration of Cardinal Antonelli that the Pope will not treat with Victor Emmanuel in any way whatever, and so far from renouncing the temporal power at Rome, will not cease to claim the principalities which have been already taken from him. As M. Psyrat truly says in the Prase, these despatches Proclaim a state quo which may last for twenty years unless France takes her troops away from Rome. To that it muet come, and if the Emperor is to have credit for being the sincere and disinterested friend of Italy which he pro- :im:d,~i w.ii.w. mamas to TIM BMOC& /1110111111111 MOSS MONDAY. N.Britaln—W. to N. and to X, Lto N. sad N.W., strong to • moderate to tree& or Aroma, gals, rain at Masse. rainy. Ireland-B.W. to N.W., mod,- W.E.W. to N.N.W., stroog to rate to strong, with rain la pie, some rain. places. Central--81mitsr to above. Finglar to above. Z. Cosst—W. to N. W., mode- W. to N., trash to Aron, rainy. rate to strong. rein In planes. & lagiend —Westerly, @Moog W.B. W. to N.N.W., strong. to a gale, with much rata, rain at times, then clear and fine. M mesa Ns EXPLANATION. 11.-11sretneter corrected and reduced to frf di keel :sorb 10 feet. of vertical rise, causing about el an lace dlallautlon nod each 10 ciaa, above dim. imenimp hearty threabundredths Increase. IL —lCsposal WriaMilesisr Is shade. .11.—liolsteoed bulb (for evimermflem mid dew point). D.—Directlon of wind (t no—two palate iml or mam. ottle). 7.—Force (1 to 19 —estimated). C.—Clood am L Initials b, blue sky :e. deeds (detached): I, fad: h,ban lightning: m, misty (11): o overcast (doll) : r, rate: a, snow : t. thunder. B.—lbsorbease (1 to 9). W.—Wst, rem-fat or snow, or hall, sines Yet report, In inches and Mislnsals. & Calm. _ . Warping drum—Thursday evealog. A Munich letter of Tuesday says :—" After the baptism of the newly born Prince Alphonse, the day before yesterday, there was a dinner at court at which all the members of the royal family were present. At the des sert King Lords gave the following toast : I, the oldest of tiss Wittelshaehs, being 75 years and 5 months old. drink to the health of the youngest, who is only two days old.' The Princes Adalbert and the young Prince are A considerable quantity of new peu and young asparagus las arrived Ode week from Algeria. The Fruition Gazette announoes that gymnastics are to be introduced as a oompulaorY branch of education in meads at every degree in Prairie. - _ " The winter this year," says a St. Petersburg letter, "is unusually severe in Russia. Almost every day [roses bodies are found on the Neva. A covered sledge from Cronstadt, with three persons in it and the driver, were all found on its arrival to be completely frozen, the horses having brought the vehicle on to the usual place of stopping. Even the stones do not resist the cold, and several cracks are visible in the Alexander monument, °Destructed of red Finland granite." Donizetti's opera of 11 Furioso, which was never beard in Paris, is ready for representation at the Italians, and will be performed in the course of a few days. M. Gounod's new opera La &ine de Raba is announced to be brought forward at Paris next week. A rumour is abroad that Mme. Goldschmidt will visit Paris at the does of a musical tour in England, and that she will be heard In three concede. THE HOP DUTlM—Yosterdity a numerously &needed public meeting was held at the Goat's Head Hotel, Farnham, to consider the means necessary to procure a repeal of the hop duties. The chair was occupied by Mr. G. rlslater Booth, M.P. for North Hants, and on the plat terra were Lord Hohnestiale, M.P., Mr. Dodson, 11. P., Mr. G. Cubit', M.P., Mr. W. W. B. Beach, M.P., Mr. J. I. Briscoe, M.P., ho. Mr. Briscoe, M.P., moved the first resolution:—" That in the opinion of this meeting the bop duties are becoming year by year more intolerable and op prossive to the plonters and nilintornstal in the cultivation of hops, and ought to be entirely abolished." Mr. G. Cubitt, M.P., in seconding the motion, said that last year a good case in favour of the hop planters was made out in the House of Commons on the discuision upon Mr. Dodsoa's motion, which was defeated for financial reasons, but that their prospects had now much improved. They hail an ailditioual number of supporters in the house. They accepted tho doctrine of free trade, and, therefore, objected to the actual protection which Mr. Gladstone bad conferred upon the foreign hop-grower. Mr. A. J. B. Beresford Hope having spoken, the resolution was unanimously adopted. Mr. Beach, M.P., moved the second resolution, to the effect that a deputation of gentlemen from the venous hop-growing distr.cta be appointed to wait upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the purpose of requesting him so to arrange his next budget as to provide for the total repeal of the hop duties ; and that memo rials in favour of the object be forwarded from each of the hop-growing parishes. Mr. Elston° seconded the resolu tion, which was then unanimously adopted. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. Twg INDIAN TARIFF.—The following members of parliament have promised to take part in the proceedings at the meeting on the above subject. convened by the Mar of Maisehester for Tuesday next :—Thomas Healey, Beg., H. P., the Hon. Algernon Egerton, M.P., the Hon. Wilbraham Egerton, M.P., W. J. Legh, Esq., M.P., Ceo. Hadfield, Esq., M.P., and W. Oral, Esq., M.P. 'Jul Bisuor or EXETER AND • Rim. READER or " liawcer."—A correspondent at Torquay (says the Plymouth Journal) sonde us the following i.—`• The Bishop of Exeter has does an extraordinary thing, I hear. A clergyman, named the Rev. Julian Young, has come here for the season for the benefit of his health. He delivered a lecture on ' Poets and Poetry of the Bat half century,' at the Mechanics' Institute. The people were so much pleased with his readings, that those Interested in the Torbay Infirmary asked him to read a lecture for the benefit of that institution. The rev. gentle man consented. and lent Friday accordingly read Hanslel. The lecture realised 451. De., which was handed over to the infirmary, the supporters of which at the weekly meeting, hold last Tuesday, pained a vote of thanks to him. But in consequence id reeding this play, the bishop has prohibited him from preaching in his diocese. Mr. Young was now and then in the habit of sasisting at BR John's." felines to be, it is not rational to suppose that he can long delay leaving the Romans to themselves. The ultramontam journals are in consternation at the speech (which they construe as I do), and declare, with loud wailing, that things are much worse for catholicism than they were a year ago. 1 NEEDIXWOMEN. OXFORDSHIRE ELECTION. We hear much of the sorrows of needlewomen, sad all know that it is but too true that the lot of this in dustrial class is a hard and troubled one. We would, how ever, for once call attention to something pleasant concern ing them. Ou Tuesday, the 28th, a joyful gathering of between 400 and 500 members of the Institution for lieedlewomen, 2, Hinde-street, Manchester-square, were invited to spend the evening at the Stafford Rooms, Titchbourne-street. A large number of ladies and gentlemen kindly received them there, who in the true spirit of Christian sympathy and good will took upon themselves the task of entertaining for the even ing their poor sisterhood. The programme was as follows. There was a liberal tea at five o'clock, after which Lord Radatock and the Rev. H. Lumaden addressed to the needlewomen a few words of counsel and advioe. A piano having been provided, several amateur ringers from the company present, led by Mdlle. Pareps and Signor Berdoni, who kindly joined the enter tainment, gave to all assembled, for upwards of two hours, a musical treat. Mdlle. Yampa sang " I know that my Redeemer liveth," Signor Berdoni " The Lord my Shepherd shall prepare," &c., after which some lively and bracing airs followed. The countenances of the poor women, as they drank in the harmonious pounds, proved that "a soul for music" is not confined to any class or nation. At nine o'clock Mr. Whitwell exhibited and explained his beautiful Scriptural dissolving views, which also afforded intense pleasure and interest. Coffee end buns were then distributed before the party separated. The gratitude expressed by the needlewomen for the enjoyment they had received was most unfeigned, and afforded full comma- Mon to the ladies and gentlemen who had prepared the treat foe their benefit. This institution, at Hinde-street, is, we are happy to observe, pining increased interest and appre ciation from the public : inculcating, as it does, industry and self-dependence, it deserves to be encouraged. POLLING.—(THIS DAY). RLIZTYIO AND DITRRNATIONAL TELEGRAPH.) (PROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) STATE OF POLL—On o'CLOcg. We are without returns from several districts. The agoras known give the following : Fans 921 Dashwood - - Considerable difference of opinion is manifested subject of M. de Morny's in sally the writtenon the speeches. Nobody denies that they are, generally speaking, an abuse and a nuisance, but the question is whether they should be prohibited by any positive rule. It is pleaded that many of the best informed deputies, whose opinions would be most valuable to the house and the country, have not the gift of expressing themselves consecutively in public without com mitting their ideas to writing. M. de Morny is taunted with having himself written the speech in which he would deny the privilege of writing to others. I have no doubt that he did " write" it, but he did not "read" it to the house. Upon the whole, though indisposed to sanction the interfer ence in this country with any of the few political liberties enjoyed, I am inclined to think that the arguments against permitting members to read their speeches have the best of it. Royer, Collard, General Foy, and many other eminent parliamen tary men, were in the habit of reading their speeches, but Benjamin Constant, who drew up an article of the additional constitution of the em pire against the practice, testified that many de puties read their speeches for the gratification of their personal vanity, who were wholly indifferent about the result of the debate. It is not proposed to make any objection to a member looking at notes, as is done in England. The infliction of long essays read for publication and not to influence the debate is the evil complained of, and I think it reasonable that that should be put a stop to. The Bourse is now a little weaker, but no reason is assigned beyond the play of transactions conse quent upon the approaching settlement. It is only natural that during the extraordinary spurt of the last few days a good many speculators should have overbought themselves. The Rente fell 30c. for cash and 10c. for account, closing at 7lfr. and 71fr. 10c. Mobilier fell Mr. The Lyons Railway fell llfr. 50c., and Norther, bfr.; in the other lines there was little change. The only security in groat favour was the Italian Loan, which rose 55c. SCOTTISH AUSTRALIAN INVESTMENT COMPANY (LIMITED).-(THIS DAY.) THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) PMl4f. JAIIVAM in. 8 LI. In May, it is believed, Paddington is to be joined to Finsbury by • new and distinct thoroughfare. The nil. way has a width of nearly 30 feet, and its teaselled area is a mast gmesiul curve, the majestic sweep of white art be mess at any point, as the whole is well lighted with gas. In the half of the contract which is being earns i out by Mesas. Smith and Knight, and which extends from the Great Western Railway terminus to Euston-square, there yet remain three pieces to be got through. Ie the Easton-read * 107 lineal yards have to be bored ; in the Marylebone-road, 303 ; and at the junction of the Portland.road, 108. The extension of the line from Enstooaquare to Finsbary is taken up by another amatractor, Mr. Jay. The stations os Messrs. Smith and Knight's moiety of the line will be five in number, namely, the Bishop's-road sta.. tion Sr terminus, at Paddington ; the station in Chapel street, Edgware-read ; and those in Bakeretreet, in Port land•road. and in Gower-street. They will be built substantially, and with some ornamental preimasioss, in the Italian style. The line of road to admit the platforms will be widowed to something over 45 feet. THIS DAY. This morning that portioiiOl the tunnel of the Underground or Metropolitan Railway, which is situate in the Euston-road, and of which Mr. Jay is the contractor, was completed, and joined to that position which is contracted for by Mesas. Knight. The tunnel is now completed from 'instep-square to King's.cross, and the open cutting is b' 'pidly proceeded with. The Fleet-ditch is turned, s• eannel is made seder it for the rapid removal or eth and rubbish which comes from the destruction . houses in liagnigge. wells-rand, in the formation of • .anel at that spot _ _ _ _ JANUARY 31, Doi 4`.* The half-yearly meeting of the proprietom was held, at noon, at the London Tavern ; Mr. A. W. YOUNG in the chair. The report, which had been previously published, we taken as read. The Cuarnmstr, in opening the promein said be pre sided at the request of the chairman of the board, in cones. queers of that gentleman's indisposition. They were all I aware that the business was of a mixed character, including the sale of lands and the disposal of wool and other articles on commission. Recently it had not been considered desirable to sell any ' land, and consequently nearly the whole of the proem ware derived from rents and commissions. 2,1171. was obtained by the sale of shares of the Scottish Australian Mining Coany. The gross profits were 13,2871., and the pro posed divided of 10 per cent would leave at the credit of the reserve fund upwards of 2,000/. lie then adverted to the acquisition of a large moan. tity al territory in Queensland, and expressed his con. viction that it would prove beneficial to the company. A set was now being made towards that colony, the high lands of which were very favourable for the growth of fine wools, They bad secured a half interest in 768000 acres of good pastas land, the rent of which was 10a. per acre. Tie wank Mr. Morehead, proposed in the first instance to stook this land with cattle, as being the cheapest. Sheep might_ be substituted for them herceft er . Mr. KRIIDAL Sheep the IDOIIOO. Mr. WARD thought that some other companiee which had been engaged in sbeefarming operations had not ben successful, and doubted the wisdom of that company's en. gaging in thee Might it not be better to convert the hued gradually into small fneholds ? The emataitna repeated his belief that the land acquired in Queensland would prove profitable. He did not deny that sheep farming wag not uniformly 'nooses'. He led known men to buy sheep at 3s. each and loge motley, and he had known men to buy sheep at 30e. each and make money. There was great activity at present in promoting emigration to Queensland. After a short conversation the report was adopted. A dividend at the rate of ten per cent. per annum we thew declared ; and the retiring directors and auditors were re-elected. On the motion of Mr. Homan, thanks were voted to the chairmaned his oolleeines, and the meeting terminated with a Millar atiknowledgese te Mr. Morehead, and the other officers of the comma, Is Agelrelia. WILLS .411 D BEQUESTS. The will of Colonel Sir Claude Martine Wade, C. 8., of the Hon. East ladle Company's Bowies, late of the city of Bath, was proved in Loodoe by two of the executes—namely, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Q.C., and Jobe Romps, Req., solicitor, Bath reserved to Robert Wigrant Crawford Feq.= .sheaf, City, and John Dickinen, jun., Req., of Abbot's Hill, Hemel Hempstead, the other examine& The personalty in Rei land wan sworn under 20,0001. Colonel Sir C. M. Wade, the testator, distinguished himself both sa • mili tary Miner and u • civil diplomatist, and re mind the honour of knighthood, the rank of C. 8., and several other badges of distinction for his valuable services. The testator has died poesemal of a competent fortune, the principal of it Apparently being invested in Indian securities. To Lady Wade, who en income under settlement, he Ins bequeathed • Mi ll it a rerest in two-thirds of the general estate, su bject, to ' certain p_symenta as provision for younger childr en , his mu Claude Fitzroy Wade taking an entire third el the property. To Lady Wade is also bequeathed the jewellery, furniture, carriages, ha, abided* ; but the presentation swords god other trophies, seam fn., an ally beseseabsd to hoe for life, being directed en her deems to peas to his ma Claude, and retained by him as heirlooms. The residue of the estate is bequeathed amenpt the teelatee's y . children. The Wood he. left lognehe to the forismmg chari table Mediu time 3—T. the Earl of filhaftesbnry. fa according to his dieweilee, towards the el ragged schools to the Mineral Weber Inennary, Bath support _ , ;to St. Oeor p's Hospital, Hyde-park, Rik ; sad to • lunatic asylum, BM BO Mande hes left his becks, WS., and other documents to his executor...An be dealt with according to their discretion, and, if published, the profits arising from such are directed to form • part of the residue of his estate. The will of Sir James Williams, Bart, of Meal, Court, eon Bideford, Devoe ; Rdwinsford, Cermarthemnre ; and Upper Grosvenor-street, was proved in London on the 18th ult. The executors appointed were the Hon. John William Forteeme(rinse dammed), end the Hon. Gererd James Noel, M.P. for to whom probate was granted, the M "ael posenimnl i et tri a l intil e s" : 1 pent con e l 3s t j i t i g ortinr Ja m es m ts e l: estates, together with the data N above mentioned. He married, in 1823, Indy Mary ter of Earl eogene, by whom he had issue three tars (all married) ; and, having no male heir, he has devised amongst them hie various estates, rendered mosedingly lucrative from their mineral products. Lady Mazy Williams being provided for under settlement and otherwise, Sir James has bequeathed to °her au immediate lope of 500 f., together with ' the enjoyment of the town mansion, furniture, co riagea, plate, ho. The plate, oe the decease of her ladyship, is directed to pus to his three daughters and to their children in respective portions. The daughters are also appoietedresiduary legatees. The baronetcy, which was mated In 1796, has now become extinct. Sir James succeeded to the title and estates in 1829, es the death of his father, and attained the age of 71. He served the amen of high sheriff for Carraarthenshire in 1848, and re primand that county in parliament for a brief period. The will is of rather unusual dimensions, ita contents having =over an extent of nearly 303 folios, and bean date bee, 1858, and • codicil 1859.—Illustrated London Nene. In view of the large expected influx of visitors to London during the present season, the special Sunday evening services in Westminster Abbey will commence on the first Sunday in April, and occupy a later portion of the year. SOCISTY 1011 THZ Eiwouisrounwr OP THZ FIZZ Arm—Led evening Mr. liontaitue Davis delivered • lec tors retitled the " Divine Whispering.; in Art." The sub ject nee handled is • masterly maser, and to the satire estidaatios d the audience. Tows AND COUNTRY.—We who are lovers of the country are not unnaturally disposed to consider that our preference argues some flair poetry of sentiment--some steadier devotion to those ennobliny, studies which sages commend as the fitting occupations of retirement. Bat the facts do not justify that self-conceit upon our part. It was said by a Philosopher who was charged with ail the arm of a world's empire, that" there is no such great matter M retirement. A man may be wiseaod sedate in a crowd as well as in • desert, and keep the noise of the world from getting within him. In this case, as Plato observes, the walls of a town and the enclosure of a sheepfold may be made the same thing." Certainly poets, and true poets, hove lived by choice in the dingy streets of great towns. Men of science, engaged in remonings the most abstruse, on subjects the most elevating, have usually fixed their dwell ing-place in bustling capitals, as if the din of the streets without deepened, by the force of contrast, the quiet of those solitary closets, wherein they sat analysing the secret heart of that nature whose everyday outward charms they abandoned to commonplace adorers. On the other ban d, men perforce engaged in urban occupations, neither bards soy sages hut city clerks sad traders, feel a yearning of the heart towards • home in the country ; loving rural eaters with so pure a fervour that, if closer intercoume is forbidden, they are contented to go miles every evening to kiss the skirt of her robe. Their first object is to live out of Lon don, if but in • suburb • to refresh their eyes with the green of a field ; to great tine first harbinger of spriog in the primrose venturing forth in their own tiny realm of garden. It is for them, as a class, that cities extend beyond their ancient bounds ; while our nobles yet clung to their gloomy halls in the Flat., traders sought homesteads remote from their stalls and wares in the pleasing village of Charing ; gradually nobles were allured by the gentle example, and proud villas, with gardens sloping down to the river side, chased the woodlark, or rather the bittern, away from the Btraed. Nothing more stamps the true Coekoey than his hate for the sound of Bow bells.—gir E. B. Lytton, In Blackt.rood's Magnsiatc for February. A DtissuaT'm FezuNos.—is it all over? May we lock up the wee of instruments? Have we signed our wills ; settled up our affairs ; pretended to talk and natio quite cheerfully to the women at dinner, so that they Xhould not be alarmed ; sneaked away under some pretext, and looked at the children sleeping in their beds with their little unconscious thumbs in their mouths, and a flush on the soft-pillows.' cheek ; made every arrangement with Colonel Maclurk, who acts as our second, and knows the other principal a great deal too well to think he will ever give in ; invented a monstrous figment about going to shoot phea sant. with Mac in the morning, so as to soothe the assume fears of the dear mistress of the house ; early as the hour appointed for the—the little affair —was, have we been awake hours and hours sooner • risen before daylight, with a faint hope, perhaps, that Ma;Turk might have come to some arrangement with the other side ; at seven o'clock (confound his punctuality !) heard his cab-wheel at the door, and let him in, looking perfectly trim, frosts, jolly, and well shaved ; driven off with him iu the cold morning, after a very unsatisfactory breakfast of co ff ee and stale bread.and butter (which cho ke, somehow, in the swallowing); driven off to Wormwood S crubs in the cold, muddy, misty, moon shiny morning ; stepped out of the cab, where Mac has bid the man to halt on • retired spot in the common ; in one minute more, seen another cab arrive, from which descend two gentlemen, one of whom bas a Case like fdacTurk's under his arm ; looked round and round the solitude, and seen not one single sign of a policeman —no, no more than in is row in London ; deprecated the horrible necessity which drives civilised men to the nes of powder and bullet . • taken ground as firmly as may be, and looked on whilst Mac is neatly loading his weapons • sod when all ready, and one looked for the decisive one-- two—three, have we even heard Captain O'Toole (the woad of the other principal) walk up and say : "Colonel Mai Turk, I am desired by my principal to declare at this eleventh—this twelfth boor, that he is will* to own that he seem he has been wrong in the dis pute which has arisen between him and your friend ; that he apologises for offensive expressions which he has used in the heat of disposal and manta the course he has taken?" If something like this has happened to you, however great your courage, you have been glad not to fight ; however accurate your aim, you bays been pleased nut to fire.—Corsetiii liopeeise for February. anti .It 4 KN.& && w.ir:w. N.W. W.k.il. W.B.W. wii:w. W.i.W. W. N. W. W.N.W. "'7. The couductors a "qsure Hour, and of the mane canal the Sum. -Re, lase commenced the lulus wild each of the me • of a imp coloured illustration. The subject this m be Snit named pe riodical is the Exhibition building of a, ' that in the Sunday at Home is Westminster Abbey. HARTLEY COLLIERY RELIEF FUND.—.....aillg the whole of yesterday, ae on the three previous days, thw contributions in aid of the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the accident at the Hartley Colliery continued to poor in, and the amount received during the day, including 2041. from Messrs. Roberts, Lubbock, and Co. was 1,1971. 7s. 4d., making a total of 4,2671. in four days. The subscriptions were so numerous that it is utterly impossible to give them In detail. MR. SPURODON AND THE HAWELZE COLLIERY CALAMITY. —The announcement made a few days ago that the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon would last evening preach a wince to behalf of the families who have been bereaved by the terrible calamity at the New Hartley Colliery, bad the effect of bringing out a large audience at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, !notwithstanding the bad state of the weather. Though not crowded to the extent it is on Sunday the large and spacious building was comfortably flrl veal ed. b t. Spurgeon concluded an interesting and touching discourse by callieg on those whom he addressed to think of the state of the 400 widows and orphans who bad been left destitute by the sad calamity. After the sermon a liberal collection was made on behalf of the sufferers. SCOTCH LEGAL .APPOINTMENTS.—Her Majesty's pleasure having now been taken, Mr. Robert Macfarlane will take his seat on the hooch as soon u the usual form alisers completed. Mr. Macf►rlane was called to the bar in 1838, but bad practised as e W.S. since 1827. He has thus, and by the venous character of his practice as an advocate, base made conversant with almost all the de partments of law. The Sheriffship of Reufrewshire, Wed by Mr. Madsclane's elevation, will be filled by Mr. Patrick Fraser, sad Mr. Frasei's office of standing comma for the Exchequer by Mr. Andrew Rutherf urd Clark.— Scot@man. IMiTllANceorrEtt CHAMBER OF COMMERCE... This body held their annual meeting yesterday. In the conversation which followed the report, the main subject of discussion was the American war, and a univalve.' opinion was expressed against the breaking of the Southern block. ade. It was argued that raking the blockade would cooly 's. volve the necessity of a war, without removing the diffi• malty under which the working population of this country laboured; but it was urged that an equivalent for the failure of the supply of cotton from America might be found in the adoption of bold, gonad, and economical measures with respect to India. One suggestioo was made that a de putation should represent to the New York Chamber of Commerce the disastrous effects of the civil war in America on European commerce ; but it was only a suggestion, and the main point insisted on was the encouragement of Indian productioe, and the reduction of the import duti es in that country. It was mentioned as a strong anomaly that, whilst Canada was soliciting imperial aid for the construction of • railway, the colony was taxing British goods at • rate of from 25 to 30 per cent. ACCIDENT TO THE ETNA STEAMSHIP.—OD Wed nesday night, about 9 o'clock, the screw steamer Etna, Cap tern Kennedy, put into Holyhead, haying been in collision with the ship Cheviot, Captain Orkney, from Bombay, laden with cotton. The Etna, which had sailed from Liver pool at 1 p.m. the same day, for New York, with the United State, mails, at the time of the collision, was making her way to Cork against • south-westerly gale, while the Cheviot was inward bound, with the wind in her favour. The fore compartment of the Etna filled with water, but she being fully supplied with water-tight bulkheads, the captain bas telegraphed to Liverpool that there is no damage to cargo. She left Holyhead yesterday morning for Liverpool, but bad to return to the smoother water of Holyhead bar. boar, till she can be lightened of some portion of her cargo. As soon as the occident was made known the company'. screw steamer Edinburgh, then in port, commenced coaling ? and will proceed with the mails, cargo , an d passengers o f the Etna as soon as the transshipment can be completed. The Cheviot, concerning which some fears were at first en tertained, arrived in Liverpool yesterday morning. Her starboard bow was stove, her bowsprit was sprung, and she had lost her ontwater, figurehead, &c. COLLIBION AT SEA, OFF ScAHEOROUGH.-011 Thursday morning between seven sod eight o'clock, the screw steamer Hinton, Captain Craig, belonging to the Henan Company, came into collision with a Warkworth barque, when off Scarborough, owing, it is said, to a bad lookout on board both vessels. The steamer, • large vessel, Pow lies sunk near the mouth of Scarborough Itarboor. It very fortunately happened that the Ryhope. another steam yard belonging to the same company. was near at the thee, and seeing the Hetton was in a dangerous condition, at mos towed her to the ground where she now lies partly filled with water. The barque has lost her bowsprit in the collision, and is otherwise damaged. She was also taken in tow by the Ryhope, and brought to an anchorage in the roadstead. Had the accident occurred during the night, the rossemseates would have been undoubtedly very serious. How the eollisioo has happened in the daylight will have to be ascertained by official inquiry, NA= Imes Maws= GALWAY LnarooL VALINTIA /rSI all i rOTl LONDON DOWNS tith and the thi the bro coo the Al'i