The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-09 00:00:00

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Mr. Behnore; limes Foote and Len:oz.—And FLYING Scl:1:1.). Messrs. Netille, wort!, Wake, Vollaire, ; li.nularues F. Josephs, C. Muckier*, Souk YOUle, Fichte*, Lennox, itaymond, cte. BRITANNIA Tlll. ErExtxa, TIIR PlifF4l : l l ,N;;;il' THE PEARL INLAND: OR, 'IDE TicitEE KINi:DONIS OF PEARL, GOLD, AND SILVER Ntr, 1.14, an I M., .lito,bs.—Fir,t-r.tte Pantomimist*. THF: SKELRIoN CREW. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. _ . . Tim DAT —Moroloc, lb. 2in Afternoon. 4h 20141. TO•MOILROW—Morntug, 411. :fain Afternoon. 4b. 650. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9. THERE is no room for dispute as to the aim and intention of the Imperial decrees concerning Po land which have just been published at St. Peters burg. The Russian Government designs the com plete obliteration of all that successive aggressions have spared of the kingdom of Poland. The nationality of that unfortunate people, as consti tuted, organized, and acknowledged, in accordance with the public Low Europe, has been destroyed. So much it was undoubtedly in the power of the Russian Government to accomplish. The treaties of Vienna provided for the maintenance of the kingdom of Poland connected with the Russian Empire ; by its constitution enjoying a distinct administration and national institutions ; and the signatories of those treaties were held to have guaranteed the permanence of these rights. In the course of the discussions which took place in the House of Commons in 1863, our Government was strongly urged to declare that it withdrew its sanction from those treaties, on the ground of their continued viola tion by the Emperor of RUMSIA. But Lord PALMERSTON firmly objected to such a proposal, because it would deprive Poland of the benefit of an appeal to these very rights which are now confiscated. If the course which our Government was urged to take had been adopted, no important political conse quences might have ensued, but we should have done all that lay in us to rectify our moral posi tion. Now, however, Poland ceases to exist as a separate kingdom, and the treaties of Vienna are not so much as mentioned. This is no loss to the Poles, since for them those much extolled much decried treaties have never been anything but a mockery, and it is always wholesome to clear away a practical untruth. What remains, then, of Polish nationality? Those political ob servers for whom diplomatic stipulations, administrative divisions, the rank and title of governors and commanders are everything, will say that nothing remains, and that Poland is now assimilated to Russia. To others, perhaps, the fact that henceforth one decree will regu late alike for Russia and Poland matters con cerning which two decrees would have been issued a year ago ; that the financial, postal, and pro vincial administration of Husain and Poland will, from this time forward, be in the same hands, will not appear to constitute a very important revolution in the state of the latter country ; whether the ukases which impose or distribute the burdens of Poland are signed at Warsaw or St. Peters burg, they will be the acts of an enemy at present too powerful to he resisted. Those who thus think hold that Polish nationality survives, irre spective of the new arrangements under which the country will be governed. But survives how and where ? Survives, these persons would probably say, as a deeply implanted sentiment ; at the domestic hearth, in the poignant yet pre cious recollections of the mother, in the oft-told experiences of the father, in the memory of great hopes and sacrifices that only the more endear those who make them to the cause for which they are made. Sentiment ! what has seemed so empty, futile, and ridiculous in the eyes of states men and politicians for the last fifty years ? Was not the treaty of Vienna a supreme protest against sentiment, and have not Princes, Kings, and Emperors declared in protocols and decrees with out number that it must and shall be repressed ? Very true ; and nevertheless it is at this moment the mightiest political force in Europe, and tho most powerful statesmen of the day are those who know how to evoke and direct it. Sentiment has destroyed the treaties of Vienna. Sentiment has undone the work of RADETZKY and his legions in Italy; sentiment has created a sixth great power in Europe ; sentiment paralyses one mighty host, and enables another to destroy thrones and powers ; sentiment makes a NAPOLEON the dictator of Europe, and then, when be is at the height of his greatness, denies him at the Rhin:: the concession which would have crowned his reign. The recent decrees for " uniting and equalising the regulations existing " in Poland with those in force in Russia" can produce their intended effect only in so far that they destroy the sentiment of Polish nationality or hinder its manifestations. It is not clear that re gulations about taxes and p3st-offices have any tendency to do this. The Poles did not need the THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, ' 1867. administrative arrangements whioh the Russians have been using for many years against them to remind them that they were a separate people, and they will not forget the fad now that their masters are about to affect to regard them as Russians. These administrative decrees leave the question of Polish nationality, for all practical purposes, just where it was before. Some of our contem poraries are disposed to find in their promulgation an ~ e casi,m for advising the Polish people as to their future course. This is an office of extreme delicacy,which no one will wisely undertake. If we believed that any words written in an English jour nal could have the least influence upon the Poles, that consideration would be but one reason the more for preserving a perfect silence as to their national duty. We observe that the Poles are congratulated on the fact that their national emancipation being absolutely impossible, a sub jugation so thorough as to preclude even the chance of a popular struggle will at least establish peace between them and the Russians. Whether this is the destined effect of the decrees intended to stamp out Polish nationality our children may know ; we cannot. Such congratulations, we venture to think, should not come from a free people. We know neither the strength of that sentiment of Polish nationality which has survived so many disappointments and disasters, nor the function that may be reserved for it in the future. We know that it has been cherished at the cost of sacrifices the recollection of which excites astonish ment and horror. No nation has a right to sum mull another nation to the practice of heroic duties. On the other hand, it is not for free man to tell the oppressed at what point they should exchange the suggestions of patriotism for the calculations of interest. No one of us is entitled to tell the Poles th.it their emancipation has at length become an absolute impossibility. Assertions of this order approach too nearly to that affecta tion of omniscience with which our continental contemporaries are in the habit of amusing them selves at our expense. Affirmations equally dog matic were made respecting Italy until the very eve of her deliverance. We are not comparing the situation of Poland at the present moment with that of Italy in 1859, but it would be folly to pretend to believe that Central and Eastern Europe have received their final territorial and po litical constitution. Russia is herself an unformed limas ; Austria is approaching to a state of chaos ; nobody knows what the interest of Prussia may require before another five years have passed away. Instead of pronouncing or predicting on these sub jects, we shall do wiser to observe and wait, taking care on the ono hand not to excite hopes which we cannot gratify, and on the other not to become the accomplices of oppression and wrong, even to the extent of celebrating their success. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THD3 DAY.) Per, says, is the true foreign policyct Greece. The place among European nations which Tlerkey must speedily surrender will the prim of that one among the Christian nations inhabiting the &dere peninsula of Esrupe which shows the greatest capacity for blending order and in dustry with political freedom, the material with the elements of civilisation and progress. Greece has not yet lost the race ; but assureely she has not yet won it. Discussing a new pamphlet by Lord Reese on the landlord and tenant question in Ireland, the Star says it has never met with any professedly authoritative political publication in which was to be found so much ignorance, so much insolence, and so much presumption. Emigra tion is a capital thing, and so is grazing ; when cattle have supplanted wen from the coast of Cork to the coast of Derry, then will landlords be prosperous and Ireland peaceful. This is, in brief, the burden of Lord Reese's cry. Fenianisra is a myth. No Irishman in America is a Fenian. Fellows like Stephens and Roberts only get in their contributions because, "in a democracy men are not free agents." tin Court. OSBORNE, JAN. 8. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by Madame Van de Weyer and Miss M`Gre.gor, and attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole. Colonel Ponsonby was in attendance upon horseback. Her Majesty drove out this morning with Princess Christian, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole. Princess Louise drove this morning, and Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Henry of Prussia, walked in the grounds. Prince Christian went out shooting, attended by Co lonel Fonsonby. The Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer bad the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family yesterday. The Rev. George Prothero had shoo the honour of being invited. Mr. G. D. Engleheart has arrived at Osborne. A deputation from the Metropolitan Municipal Assocla• tion for prorroting the better Local Government of the Metropolis, consisting of Lard Ehury (president of the asso ciation), the Hun. A. ICinnaird, M.P. ; Mr. C. Buxton, M.P. ; Mr. T. Hughes, M.P. ; Mr. G. Godwin, KKK ; Mr. C. T. Pearse. M.D. ; Mr. J. C. Buckmuter (hon. secretary of the association), Mr. A. R. Martin, Mr. S. Dunn, Mr. T. D. Kcighley, Mr. Washington Lyon, Mr. D. J. Rearden, M.P. ; Mr. G. Offer, Mr. KD. Rogers, Mr. G. P. Miles, Mr. F. Edwards, jun., Mr. F. Warburton Stent, Mr. G. Horton, Mr. W. Phillips, Dr. Hardwicke, Mr. T. liegp, Mr. It. Ellis, Dr. Farr, Mr. J. Lord, Mr. J. J. Merriman (solicitor to the association), the Hon. F. Byng, Mr. P. Graham, Mr. C. T. Elt, Mr. J. M. Ludlow (counsel to the association), Mr. James Beal, Mr. Chas. Illackshaw. and Mr. Henry Fowler (secretary to the association), had en interview with the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, at the Hone-office, yesterday. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governor of the Falkland Islands. The young Earl of Eldon, who has just come of age, has given 200/. to the Devon County Hospital, 2001. to the Small Benefices Fund, sod 1,0001. to the Building Fund of the Dorset County School Yesterday, by request, Commodore M‘Vickar, of the New York Yacht Club, waited on the Duchess Dowager of Somerset, and there met his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador and Mr. Milner Gibson, M.P. Senhor Don Luiz Mascarenhas d'Apiy, of the Portuguese royal navy, and at present serving on board her Majesty's ship Bellerophon, gave a magnificent ball to the nobility and gentry of the Isle of Wight, at the Town- Judi of Ryde, bat week. The concluding lecture of the Christmas course at the Royal Institution was delivered yesterday after noon by Dr. Tyndall, in consequence of the sudden illness of Dr. Frankland, by whom the previous lectures had been delivered. The " Chemistry of the Gases" was the general subject of the course of lectures this year, and in treating of it Dr. Frankland sno:essively explained, and illus trated by numerous experiments, the properties of most of the known gases, comprising hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbonic acid, carbonic oxide, marsh gas, oleflant gas, nitrous oxide, hydrochloric acid, chlorine, ammoniac:al gas, and phosphoretted hydrogen. The last lecture, yes terday, was on the effects of heat on gases, and Dr. Tyn dall, though taking up the subject at a short notice, with the aid of Mr. Macleod, the very able assistant of Dr. Frankland, proceeded to explain and illustrate the various actions of heat on aeriform bodies with as much readiness as if it formed part of one of his own lectures. At a meeting of the National Association, Dublin, yesterday, the church question was fully con sidered; and a letter from Dr. O'Hea, Bishop of Rees, who, it is said, represents the general opinion of the catholic bishops on the subject, declared very emphatically for the secularisation of the revenues of the establishment; and a resolution was unanimously adopted in support of the principle of voluntaryism. Bishop O'Hea repudiates the suggestion of the catholic clergy sharing the revenues. At Christmas there were to be seen in the open air, at Bonehurch, at the back of the Isle of Wight, broad beans in full bloom, and green peas in flower and pod ; also a great many strawberries in Bower and fruiting, large new potatoes, and heliotrope in bloom. The Poole Herald states that the South Western Railway Company have bought up the shares of the Ringwood and Christchurch proprietors, and that the Christchurch and Bournemouth extension will be com pleted in six months. It is reported that Marshal Bazaine, on his return to Paris, is to be appointed to the command of the army of Lyons. We read in the Siicie :—" M. Jules Favre is said to have the intention of coming forward as a candidate for the vacant seat in the French Academy. That politician is, sa is well known, not only a master in the oratorical art, but an elegant poet and a distinguished writer. A place ham consequently long been marked out for him by the side of his eminent ronfreres MM. Berryer and Bufaure. From • political point of view every shade of opinion would thus be represented in the Academy." The late M. de Larochejaquelin was above the middle height, of a robust and portly presenee, full, round face, with an open brow and flowing hair, a voice loud and ringing, and an impassioned gesticulation which sometimes reminded one of the tribune of revolutionary times. He has left • widow and four children—a son and three daughters. His eldest daughter entered • few years ago the Convent of the Sacre•Creur ; the others are married. A communication from Saxony states that the wits of the war to that kingdom will ►mount to eighty millions end a half of franc, without reckoning the enormous losses suffered by trade and commerce. An engineer of Trente, M. Garollo, has invented anew needle gun, which fires fifteen shots • minute. The gun is 4ft. long, weighs nibs., and carries a ball 5,1 litres in diameter. A capitalist of Berne named Schweizer has just committed suicide in consequence of some unfortunate speculations in which he had squandered money entrusted to his safe keeping. On learning that a warrant for his arrest had been issued he blew out his brains. Several continental papers give curious statistics of assassination. The proportion of murderers is, in Eng land, 1 in 678,000 souls ; Hull and, 1 in 163,000 ; lin 100,000 ; Austria, lin 77,000. France is left out of the calculation. A correspondent of the Courrier du Bas-Rhin, writing from Frankfort, states that a few evenings ago Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice was being played, and when in the trial scene the judge asked Shylock what he claimed from his debtor, and the latter replied, " A pound of flesh," a man in the gallery cried out, " and eight cigars." The Frankfort people applauded this allusion to the Prussian bill of fare during the war ; the Prussians present lost their temper ; • row ensued, and the police cleared the house. We read in Gaiignani :—" An accident unat tended with serious consequences occurred to Mies Menken the evening before last, during her performance at the Galiti Theatre, in the Pirates de /a Savant. At the moment when she is carried over the mountains, bound like Mazeppa, to the back of a horse, the anim►l in making the ascent lost its footing and slipped with her on to the stage. An exclam►tion of terror burst forth among the audience, and the curtain was at once lowered. Miss Menken, however, almost immediately appeared at the footlights to show that she was unhurt, and the perfor mance was shortly afterwards resumed." THE OFFER TO TIIE UNITED STATES OF ARBITRATION. The Times cannot anticipate that any serious difficulty will be raised by the United States in accepting the friendly offer of arbitration which her Majesty's go vernment has, to the satisfaction of our contemporary, just made. The depredations of the Alabama are of course the real source' of the dispute, and before the arbitrator it is the moral and not the legal aspect of the claim which should predominate. Lord Stanley, the Times believes, will be supported in his proposal by public opinion. Lord Russell's un qualified rejection, and in ungracious language, of Mr. Adams's tender was • false step, and if a false step, Lord Stanley was bound to retrace it without needless delay and without unworthy reservation. There is nothing half so undignified as being in the wrong, nor was there any means of placing us in the right except by assuming the initiative and inviting the United 'Rates to meet us half way. Anticipating comments from Mr. Seward on our change of attitude, and an allegation from the New York papers that we presumed on their weakness on the day of their calamity, the Times insists that this charge is wholly undeserved, as, if there was ever a time at which Great Britain had reason to fear • rupture with America it was that very time when Lord Russell in its name repudiated the Al►lama claims. lint it is not to be supposed that motives so petty will influ ence the counsels of the United States. Englishmen did not suspect America of cowardice when, in deference to the clear rules of maritime law, she gave up the prisoner s wrongfully captured on board the Trent, and Americans of sense will not suspect England of cowardice because, in deference to equally clear dictates of international morality. she retires from an untenable position. No other morning journal has any allusion to the subject. THE DIPEACHMENT OF PRV4IDENT JOHNSON. The Pod does not suppose that the report .vhich will be made by the select committee appointed by Congress will be of a nature to exonerate the President, and therefore regards the trial of the chief magistrate of the greatest Republic in the world by his fellow-citizens for high crimes and misdemeanours as being practically brought within the category of accomplished facts. The Pod entirely supports Mr. Johnson in his policy against the anti-slavery party, whose opinions it says have been endorsed in this country by only a feeble and uninfluential minority. Still there can be no question that the President has used hie vetoing powers to an extent which a constitutional monarch would never have ventured upon. The Herald also sympathises with and praises Mr. Johnson, ►nd says that though he will stand almost ►lone among the men of the North he will have on his side every principle of right, of justice, and of humanity. The Standard thinks that Mr. Johnson has the means, if Coa -1 grass perseveres in making war to the knife upon himself and his office, of striking a blow like that which saved society in France sixteen year% ago—at the cost of estab lishing a military despotism. And it may be that he will prefer sending Messrs. Stevens and Butler to the Dry Tortugas to taking up his own quarters with Mr. Davie in Fortress Monroe. 1 1 The Telegraph, however, though sympathising equally with the Maw/sect with Mr. Johnson, thinks it is out of the question that be can maintain his position by force of arms. It may be found impracticable to frame such an accusation against the President as, in the opinion of the congressional majority, would coincide with the peoples sense of justice ; but if that barrier be passed, and the impeachment be actually voted [it has been voted appa. rently], Mr. Johnson's summary deprival of his office seems inevitable. MISCELLII(SOUS TOPICS. In the midst of our civilisation, says the Times—revert ing to the Indian famine—in the second century of our rule, after a season of unexampled prosperity, and with prospects brighter than had ever been offered before, a visitation which might have been disarmed, if not averted, by wise administration, has destroyed a million of human beings. Cuttack is only a little further from Calcutta than York is from London, and had grain been conveyed there a large proportion of these victims would have been saved from a miserable death. The truth, it is to be feared, is the effort was not so much as made until the dearth had nearly done its worst ; and why this relief was thus withheld or delayed is the question to which an answer must be forthcoming. The Daily News gives an account of a judgment which Sir Joseph Arnould, the Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of Bombay, has delivered in a remarkable case, in volving the most abstruse points of Mohammedan doctrine and ritual. Since the strange current of events ham made a Christian court to be the arbiter between rival Mohammedan fanatics, it is pleasant to see such singular functions discharged with a dignity and lucid discrimina. tion which recall the best examples of our English judges. In another article the Daily News describes various schools amongst Greek politicians, and sketches seine of the numerous changes and combinations which have taken place in modern times. Internal development, the Daily LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (NEUTER'S TELEGR %MS.) PRUSSIA. BERLIN, JAN. 9. The party of progress intend to bring forward a bill in the Chamber of Deputies demanding that the members of the North German parliament should receive a salary, and that their travelling expenses should be repaid to them. It is positively asserted that Herr von Savigny will be appointed president of the federal com mission. AUSTRIA. 4 ANNA, JAN. 9. An imperial letter published to-day grants complete amnesty for all offences against the press law, and relieves the newspapers from all legal con sequences of the sentences which may have been passed upon them. FRANCE. ST. NAZAIRE, JAN. 9. The mail steamer Panama has been signalled this morning. SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 8. Several journals publish articles urging the government to modify the Customs tariff in a liberal sense. OVERLAND MAILS. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. MALTA, J. 8. The Nyanza left at 3 am., and the Delta at 7 p.m. yesterday. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 9th, and the latter, at South ampton about the 16th instant. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL The Syria, from Southampton on December 27, reached Malta at 3 p.m. on the lith . , and left at 8 a.m. on the 6th inst. for Alexandri►. The Ripon, from Marseilles on the sth inst., arrived on the Bth at 3 MIL, and left at 7 a.m. for Alexandria. AMERICA. (a ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, DEc. 8. _ _ The House of Representatives has passed the re solution for the impeachment of President Johnson. The Inman steamer City of Baltimore arrived out to-day. Gold, 1341. Sterling exchange on London, 1001. 5-20 Ronde, 1071. Illinois, 119,1; Erie, 67. Cotton : Middling Upland, 35ic. THE LATE GALES. POOLE, TUBSDAY. We have had a fearful stormy night (says G. Nave Penny, Esq.). At daylight the Russian brig Autores, was seen on shore on the Pool-sand with a signal of dis tress dying. The Manly Wood lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Institution, was thereupon at once launched, and proceeded to the vessel over which the sea was breaking On arriving alongside, the crew of the brig would not leave her but requested the boat to remain by them. After taking the master of the vessel to a steam tug, the lifeboat returned to the ship and remained by her until he returned from Poole. If the weather keeps tine the vessel will be lightened, and will probably come off, but if the gale continues she may break up and the crew would be glad of the services of the Manley Wood lifeboat again. KINGSGATE, KENT, TUunD.ty. A vessel went on shore on Forename Rocks, between this place and Margate, on the sth inst. with a signal of distress dying (reports Captain Isacke). The Kings gate lifeboat belonging to the National Lifeboat In stitution (the Brave Robert Shedden) at once went out to her, but did not succeed in reaching the ship on account of the heavy sees. The night was very dirk, with a strong wind and drifting snow. Fortunately the master and crew of the vessel —which was the Italian brig Olga— were enabled to walk ashore the next morning. The Margate lifeboat—the Friend of All Nations--also went out to this vessel. WICKLOW, IRELAND, JAN. 5. A smack was observed ill the bay about 10 o'clock making signals of distress. There was a heavy gale blowing at the time, and she was riding with her top. mast and bowsprit gone. The It. T. Garden new lifeboat of the National Life boat Institution was promptly launched, and was, happily, the means of rescuing the crew of three men of the smack, which proved to be the Shamrock, of Arklow. WALMER, KENT, TUG-DAY, During a gale from the southward, with snow and hail, un the night of the sth instant (states Captain Dicey) the Gull, steam light vessel, was observed to fire guns and throw up rockets in a north easterly direction, in. dicating a vessel on the Goodwin-sands. The Wainer lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was promptly launched, and proceeded towards the sands, and on in. quiring at the Light-ship was informed tbata Bashing light had been seen in the neighbourhood on the sands, but that it had disappeared. The lifeboat was, however, not able to find any distressed vessel, and she, therefore, re turned to her station. PLYMOUTIg, TUESDAY. It blew a toirific gale last night (says Captain Pickford, A.N.I. About half-past 2 this morning the moat guardsman on the look out at Stonehouse Point observed several signals of distress shown from Mount flatten. The Prince Con sort lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was at once launched and proceeded to the hay. Owing to the extreme darkness and the heavy sea run ning they had some difficulty in finding the vessel in distress although they were guided by blue lights shown from the shore. They at last found the schooner Teaser, bound from Sandersfoot with coals, and having dropped their anchor they veered down and saved one man, who jumped from the bowsprit into the boat. The coxswain then thought it prudent to return to the shore for the assistance of a steam-tug as his boat had been twice filled with the heavy sea, the vessel being so near the shore, but unfortunately before the lifeboat could return the other poor fellows were gone. Another vessel, the Palmyra, has also gone to pieces ; all hands have unfortunately perished. She was not seen by the lifeboat. PENZANCE, JAN. 8. The ship John Gray, of Glasgow, bound from Dome rare to London, has gone ashore to-day off this place. The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution has been the means of saving fifteen of the shipwrecked crew, but the captain, mate, and two men, who refused to leave their vessel, were unfortunately drowned. This valuable lifeboat has been the means during the last few days of rescuing thirty-one persons from wrecked vessels. It may be mentioned that the lifeboats of the National Lifeboat. Institution have during the recent gales contri buted to the saving of 82 lives from different shipwrecks on our coasts. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF A BARONESS.—TIIO I mit' prude WY Beige contains the following account of the death of the Baroness Ds:standee :—" A fearful catastrophe has brought desolation upon the family of 31. Simon Oppenbeim, one of the heads of the great banking firm of Solomon Oppenheim and Co., of Co logne. His daughter, Mal Le. the Baroness Deslandes, who married one of the youngest and most distinguished of the sub-prefeets of the French empire, had come to spend the Christmas holidays in Cologne with her family, leaving her two young children, whom she did not wish to expo'e to the inclemency of the weather, behind her in France. On the 'pith of December, in the midst of the family rejoicings, she received • letter from her governess, informing her that her little daughter had been coughing for some hours, but that the doctor said it was of no consequence. On this news the imagination of the young mother became excited. She thought that her daughter was very ill, and she reproached:herself for having left her children behind. Her husband, father, and mother endeavoured to tran quillise her by representing that the letter was of a favour able character, but nothing could dissipate her fears, and she determined on leaving Cologne at once, to make preps rations for which she went to her chamber on the second story, 'Ger husband following her, but on finding that he ' could not shake her determination to leave, he came down to give instructions for the journey. Shortly after wards he returned upstairs, accompanied by his sister-in law. On entering the room they found it empty. A window was open. In a moment of frenzy, produced by over anxiety, the baroness bad flung herself out. On being taken up, she said in • feeble voice ' What have I done! I thought I had wings, and that they would take me to my children.' Alas ! she was never to see them more. There was a hope for some days that she might recover, but it was not realised, for she died on the 31st December, aged 24." LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY. PROCEEDINGS IN PUBLIC COMPANIES.-BEFOG THE CHID CLEItiCSI. This day there were nearly thirty applications in public companies before the chief clerks under the Wind ing•up Act. In each of the four courts there were several THE BIILMTNI:HAM BANKING COMPANT. There were two summonses in the winding-Up matter under which a dividend of Rs. in the pound has been paid. An application was made to Mr. Charde, the chief clerk of the Master of the Rolls, to sell a ship called the Express and other property. The Chief Clerk said he would look into the papers. On the application of Mr. Barter, the solicitor to the liquidator, permission was given to sue some debtors. It is expected that another dividend will be payable at Easter. In the other chambers an application was made as to an attachment in respect of money in the Inns of Court Hotel, and on Tuesday the matter will come before Vice- Chancellor Wood. In the court of Vice-Chancellor Stuart the case of " Harper Twelvetrees " was in the list, but it stood over. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Registrar Roche.) TN RE HOWARD ASHTON HOLDEN. The bankrupt was described as of 2?4, Queen-street, City, and of Clifton-house, Clifton-gardens, Maids-vale, contractor for public works. He had been en gaged se contractor in the construction of the European Central Railway and other lines upon the Continent end elsewhere. The adjudication was upon a creditor's petition, that of Mr. J. H. Ships/ay, of Westminster Chambers, Victoria street, Civil Engineer, and consequently no accounts have yet been filed, but the liabilities are said to reach 800,0001., and the Meets are believed to be considerable, but depend in a great measure upon realisation. In order to avoid bankruptcy efforts had been made to wind up the estate out of court by means of a deed of inspectorship, but the requisite assents not being obtained the deed fell through. This was a sitting for choice of assignees, but the pro ceedings were not concluded when our report left. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) (Before Baron Pigott.) TRIAL OF THE MANAGER OF THE JOINT STOCK DISCOUNT COMPANY. Mr. James Freding IVilkinson, the late managing director of the Joint Stock Discount Company, surrendered to take his trial for misdemeanour, in having unlawfully and fraudulently appropriated two several sums of 4,000 f. and 8601., a portion of the funds of the company, to his own use. The case appeared to excite very great interest, on account of the position occupied by the defendant among the mercantile community in the city of London, and from the circumstances connected with the alleged offence. Mr. Ciffard, Q.C., we. specially retained, with Mr. Poland and Mr. F. H. Lewis, to conduct the prosecution ; Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and Serjeant Ballantine, specially retained, with Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Sargood, appeared for the defendant. This charge was preferred under a special act of parlia ment which enacts that any manager or director, or public officer of any company, who shall appropriate any portion of the funds of such company to his own use shall be guilty of misdemeanour, and being convicted thereof shall be Liable to such punishment, fixed by the act, as the court shall direct. The defendant was the managing director of the shove-mentioned company, and the case on the part of the prosecution was that he had been largely engaged in share transactions on the Stock Exchange, his brokers being Messrs. Capper, Escombe, and Lawson, and that in the month of August, 1863, there was a bal ance of 4,000/. due to those gentlemen for a large numberof shares in the Joint Stock Discount Company that had been purchased when they were at a considerable discount, and that the defendant gave Mourn. Capper a cheque for that amount upm the hankers of the company, which was paid out of their funds. A similar transaction was represented to have taken place in the month of November, when the sum of MO/. was paid for other shares in the company that had been purchased by the son of the defendant, but which were transferred to him and paid for by a cheque upon the company's bankers ' out of their funds. It was alleged on the part of the prosecution, that in order to conceal the real nature of the transaction the defendant had caused entries to be made in the books of the company, by which it was made to appear that the two sums mentioned had been handed to Messrs. Capper and Co. as loans in the ordinary course of business upon the security of the shares that had been purchased, this allegation being, however, positively negatived by those gentlemen, their evidence being also to the effect that the money had been given in payment for the shares that had been purchased upon the private speculation of the defendant. The com pany, of which the defendant was the manager, stopped payment just before the great money panic last year, and its affairs were wound up under the supervision of the Court of Chancery, and in the course of the investigation of the accounts by Mr. Harding, the upend liquidator, the irregularities that were now the subject of inquiry were discovered, and the present prosecution was instituted by the direction of the Court of Chancery against the defen dant. The learned counsel for the prosecution, in opening the case to the jury, said that it was one of considerable ha portance to the mercantile community. The charge was formed under a special act of parliament that was passed in the year lied, and the object of which was to prevent persons who had the control and management of public companies from making use of the funds of such com panies for their own private purposes, and the offence imputed to the defendant was that he bad applied two several sums of 4,000/. and 5601. in the payment of shares that he bad purchased for his own private account, and the ease on the part of the prosecution ap peared to him to be very plain and simple. He did n o t nosrwhether an attempt would be made to establish the fact that the defendant had the authority of his co-direc tors for what he had done, but it appeared to him that if this fact should be established, the defendant would still be liable , as the object of the act of parliament was to protect he shareholders of the company and prevent their funds from being improperly expended. The evidence for the prosecution was then proceeded with. The case is likely to occupy the whole day. (Before Mr. Justice Slice.) IfEkloUt4 CHARGE GP ARSON. Fro brick Bicknel , a respectable-looking man, described as 27 years of age, and by trade a cooper, was indicted for unlawfully, maliciously, and feloniously setting fire to his dwelling-brume with intent to injure and defraud the Liver pool and Globe Insurance Company. Mr. Metcalfe, with whom was Mr. Straight, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Ribton defended the prisoner. The opening statement of Mr. Metcalfe disclosed that some time in September last the prisoner entered into ecru. pation of the house and shop in question, situate in the Queen's-road, Counnercial.road East, where his wife cur ried on a small light business, including crinolines and other articles of female attire. On taking possession of the premises the prisoner brought in • small quantity of household furniture, and also an inconsiderable stock-in trade, the value altogether not exceeding 70/. On the 7th November last the prisoner effected an insurance with the Liverpool and Globe Insurance Company for the sum of 400/. on the furniture and stock in trade. On the sth December following • fire broke out in the , premises, which on examination was found to have been wilful and intentional, and could not bate been acci dental. The question for the jury would be by whom the premises bad been set on fire. It appeared that on the night of the fire, the prisoner sent his wife, two of the children, and the female servant to Weston's ?dude Hall, and at half-past 9 o'clock he and a man named Stricknell I were alone in the house, a female attendant having been sent away after procuring, by the prisoner's orders a quantity of paraffin oil. Shortly after 11 o'clock 'the prisoner and Stricknell were seen to leave the premises by the back door, and in three quarters of an hour afterwards one of the neighbours discovered that the house was on fire, and raised an alarm. The engines arrived, and the fire having been subdued, the police made an examination of the premises, and discovered that the fire had broken out in two placed, namely, between the ceiling of the shop and the flooring of the bedroom above, and also between the ceiling of the ha c k parlour and the room over it. Both these places were stained and had been saturated with paraffin oil, as were also • quantity of crinolines which were hanging up in the shop. The paper on the walls in the upper rooms had been torn down from the height of five feet and hung in festoons capable of speedily igniting, and the shelves in the shop and parlour had also been impregnated with paraffin oil, and underneath each were discovered • large quantity of partially burnt paper. A f urtherpreparation had been made with • view to conceal the existence of a tire by nailing up before the fan-light over the hall door part of a cellar door, which had been cut up after 9 o'clock the same night, as would he proved by the female attendant, who was sent away by the prisoner at that hour. These were the facts on which the jury would have to say whether, on being proved in evidence, they were of opinion that the prisoner has been guilty of the act imputed to him by the present indictment. The examination of the witnesses to support the ease for the prosecution was proceeding when our report left ; and the case is expected to occupy • considerable portion of the day. Tax RAINFALL OF 1866.—The extreme rainfall of the last year has been most apparent among the hills of the north-west of Yorkshire, being nearly 90 per cent. over the usually large fall. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) GUILDHALL. CLEVER CAPTURE OP A THIEF. William PI ar.ou, who gave • false address, was dragg e d before Alderman William Lawrence and Alderman Cotton with stealing a number of workmen's tool.. Richard Reif, :Its, laid, about 9 o'clock the previous morning he wits in Newgate-street, when he saw the pri. soner coming towards Holborn with • large phute under his coat. He asked the prisoner where he got the plane from, and he replied that it was his own. In reply to farther questions the prisoner said be hail come from his brother's, in Tooley-street, her. mond.ey, and that he was going to work up in the Cale donian-road, close to the Model Priam. He then saw that the prisoner had a centre-bit, a hand saw, and other tools in his pocket on the right-hand aide, and put ques tions to him with regard to carpentering. The prisoner's answers were not at all satisfactory, and Relf said he would not tske him into custody to hinder him in his work if his tale were true, but he would go with hits to see if his sto ryi were correct, but th e prisoner said, " Ob, no , you won't," He refused to go with him, and Reif ook him into custody. When they got near the station he said, " Well, I told a go o d tale, didn't I? But you knew too much for Inc.' In reply to questions put by Relf, the prisoner said he stele the tools from some houses that were being built at the back of the Model Prison, near the Caledonian-road, and if he went there he would find a coat full of Oaths which he had not brought away. He got hits the house by breaking • window. Witnesa went up to the place indicated, and found everythic t as had been described by the prisoner. The coat on. Mined about three-quarters of a hundred weight of nails. Subsequent) yhe told the prisoner he should go to the place where he said he lived, and he replied that he need not trouble himself, for it wee • false address. John Starke, 13, Offord-street, Caledonian-road, ides. tided the tools as his. He was • carpenter working ce some houses that were being finished, and he bad left his tools there safe the night before and missed thew o: the following morning when he went to work. The prisoner was remanded. BOW-STREET. A DANGEROUS CUSTOMER. . . A tall, powerful-looking man, black bearded, haggard of visage, and with a fierce brightness in his eyes, who gave the name William Miller, and said he was a leather cutter, was charged under the following circumstances : It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Knight, proprietor of the Oyster-rooms at Charing.cross, and his assistant, that the prisoner entered the shop last night and had dozen of oysters and some bread and butter. When called upon to pay he refused, and drawing from hie pocket a weapon, of which only the handle, resembling the butt of a pistol, was seen, he exclaimed, "I will show you how they do it in America.' Mr. Knight and his assistants, fully believing that he had a loaded pistol ready to shoot the first that laid hands rei him, were so alarmed that they hastily retreated to the parlour behind the shop. The prisoner then coolly marched away, and walked along the Strand. He was no wooer out of the shop than the assistant came out from the par. lour and went in pursuit of him. Finding Police.eonstable Mew, A 72,'0n duty in the Strand, he informed that officer of what bad occurred. The constable followed the psi. seiner, overtook him near Drummoud's Bank, and took him into custody. On being told that he was charged with threatening Mr. Knight with a pistol, the primate said it was only a knife. He added that he was an Irisk American, and he would let them know "how they do it is America." The constable took him to the station-home. He gave up the knife, which has a peculiar round, thick handle and a crescent-shaped blade, like that of a cheese. cutter. It appeared to be a tool used in the prisoner's trade of a leather-eutter. The prisoner made a long, rambling, and incoherent statement, about a lose of money, Ice., which, u far as it could be understood, seemed to be intended to convey that when he ordered and consumed the refreshments in gutm tion he believed he had money to pay for them but when he was about to pay be for the first time dis covered that he bad loot his money. Mr. Vaughan asked if he could produce any persona who would speak to hiseharacter ? The Prisoner said he bad some friends in this cowitry, but they lived at a distance. Mr. Vaughan said it could not be tolerated that amu like the prisoner should go into a shop, and, after roe. earning provisions, threaten violence to anyone who should press for payment. He did not believe that the prisoner really meant to injure Mr. Knight or the assistant, but be certainly meant to deter them by the apprehension of violence. If he could produce anyone who knew him to prove that he was generally a peaceable man, it might be sufficient to bind him over in his own recognisances; . . otherwise be must be held t; bail. Prisoner WAS remanded. THE LEEDS BANKRUPTCY COURT SCANDAL. Yesterday, Mr. Patrick Robert Welch, registrar in the Leeds Court of Bankruptcy, appeared bu'ore Coos. missioner Ayrton , at Lassie, to 'bass his last exatuinatice and receive his order of discharge. From his statement of aocounts it appeared that he owed to creditors unsecured 5,72431. ; to creditors holding security, 9,toYfl. ; to liability on guarantee, 1,0001. ; and to creditors to be paid in full, 40/. Total liabilities, 10,666/. His assets were thus esti. mated:—Good debts ; property given up to assignees, 2384 ; property in hands of assignees, 9,3101. The de. ficiency is thus 7,1011. Mr. Middleton, barrister, appeared for the assignees; and Mr. Simplon, solicitor, represented the bankrupt. Mr. Middleton said he was instructed by Mr. Moore, the trade assignee, and the largest creditor, to ask his Honour for an adjournment, and also to ask for a cash sod deb. ciency account. Mr. Moore was very much dissatisfied with the bankrupt's statement in its present form : and be, on that gentleman's behalf, had to ask that the mall account should go back as far ft 3 inasmuch as he gathered from certain examins. tiona elsewhere that there were large sums of money dealt with in 1863, of which the assignees ought to have some account. If MI. Simpson con,idered it would not be reasonable to go back so far, then the bankrupt might be called upon to furnish a special account. Mr. Simpson said it was quito proper that the assignees should receive an account of specific sums of mosey to which his attention had been drawn. Generally a cash account was only granted for a particular period—rarely beyond twelve months. As to the deficiency account, Its (Mr. Simpson) raised no objection whatever. As to the cash account, he would consent to ono being furnished for twelve months, and such an account of the disposition of sums received between ifei3 and the beginning of sock cash account as might be required by the assignee. its to specific sums of money, his client had no objection to fur• nish an account of them. The caws was then adjourned to the lot of March, bank• rapt being meanwhile ordered to hle a deficiency and cask account for twelve months, and en account of such specific sums as may be required by the assignees between Jas., 18114 and the beginning of the ,:aid cash account. The first of two lectures " On Greek Art, espe chilly Architecture," was delivered List night to the nem hers of tLe Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, by Dr. Kinkel, F.H.G.S., Professor at the Federal I'olyteci• :ileum of Zurich. The Fieherica Commissioners have commenced their inquiry regarding the salmon firslimies in North Wales, opening their investigations yestenlay a, Conway. Some very remarkable evidence was given yee tertky at the inquest on the bodice of the n.iners killed by explosion at the Talk-o'-th'-llill Colliery, North Stafford. shire. There can be no doubt that the men were in the habit of smoking in the pit, and it is equally certain tint they carried duplicate keys, by means of which they could open she safety lamps. It is to be feared that before the close of the present week a very largo number, if not the whole, ol the colliers in the Ashton-under-Lyne dist iet sill be out on strike. The men require an advance of wages, but the masters, who have announced their inten tion of reducing the price of coal, have so far resisted the demand. Seine of the men arc already " out," and tie re mainder, it is expected, will follow their exempte en the expiration of the notices which have been given--that is, of course, if concessions are not made ou one side or the other. MANCHESTER MEETING:.—Theft races have melt postponed until Friday and Saturday, the 25th and *-h;th mat.—not the 11th and 12th, as previously statid. A BURY MECHANIC TAKEN Volt A FEN I S.—.t trR days ago Mr. Boby, of this town, sent one at his r intincerei named William Downs, over tototion-1, in Indatid. nt some machines at Messrs. Dlurphy's htewery at that place, He had been there at work three days, hut on the evi niag of the fourth day, when on his way home from work. he ale seined by three policemen, armed, as Irish police always are. Being questioned by them, Downs answered too easily, it would appear, for he was at once token to the barracks ,ad placed under a policeguanl. Hi a atatell tea t havin7 been tike' down here, Mr. Murphy had to he found up, and a< he lad left for home, had to be followed some iliatance. The employer's statement of coot-se agreed with that of the supposed Fenian, hut nevertheless, aid although the eieht was already far advanced, he W. 1.11 taken to a magisttstet but as he had just retired to rest, he was taken before the mayor, who accepted the two statements made, apologised for the detention, and lie was at once set at liberty. The supposed Fenian kept his temper ti.renjt• out, and joked with his captors, who informed him they really thought they had got St , Owns. as he was so ninth like the build of the Head Centre.- Borg and ,V , r,ri , * Post. RATINU.—The question of rating the North &Latent itAilw•ay in the East Riding h.s at length been finally settled. The new rtes am in tit:my u ses fully 100/. per cent. increase over the old a.se..ment., are in all eases higher. The telegraph is included in th° rateable value. 'II 1: ay t uw to some 1 141 y, MIT 1. 111 blo rtf, :u was f. tir,t ad th it. 1 • dti. ile fro dre. salter uusly crew, wn wit E F yri INQU IgMr tined !aim: ate otf rem t . appca ereste. other . She I.ly na ntil h. No. ad. r ras 1,1 1111011 rt she .1 s calle ion be . Ice oft I. On Unio. it, and w resid n the b pped it y room lord, s alive I routed th by inns a Sund eoesee.l .3e. Sb remov \Vitn n a hab that thr —Wan Toned id that very of n could the con I LOCO( NO DE iTILEE NQU m Mr. to Green 01111111 o ails in c le 'WI anday m 'a, and trunk. . n, two p alk, and police-sta e, 445 i • MRS p the cell. Wipe! . meased c n was sun etter, and a police • . ate. She k to the s arrow, th ined of In Monde body was 'talon sh lungs, ace thin and s of the t was ilres narked " id no food oily by the ptently cc ken anyth oor step edition in rated that The said tl not was fo kind was that the r ig at nigh she had sl the read ft was also L THE On Saturday tons left Glasgow ft general cargo. ttu struck the land 11011 and Marahaniah The night was vc a strong .ale was afterwards got off, creek. but thin was got out, but the tir,t next lowered, and th captain entered it. steamer the Lato-c down about a mile lifeboat suffered mutely they got uhoi *engem are variously remainder of the crew to have gone down THE CHARGE OF This morning sex coroner, resumed Cityroad. respecting alleged illegitimate of Mr. Webb, from sham, solicitors, upp some parties interest The alleged mother 18 years of age. she ployment of a lady IL, was suspected until 1.. residence from No. 172, Goswell•road. the furniture eras very ill, and upon 'certain condition she Dr. 'Watford waa c," make no admission name of the father of • City policeman. On the East London t'nio made a statement, am' moved to her new real. found to contain the I male child wrapped • line tied tightly row Mr. W. 'Watford, have been partly alive • piece of calico roun , would cause death by Maria Gale, nurse ton, said that on Sun, mother of the decease. of that workhouse. ' witness had her rem, lowing Tuesday. IVi " There has been a be She did not say that tb By Mr. Webb—Wit before she questioned Dr. Niblett said the vented the recovery 01 prostrated. She could evidence before the con The court was accord THE SHOCKING OLD-STI INQL This forenoon Mr. an inquiryt the fore/ the death of • woman who expired while in station. Police-oonstable . 2 o'clock last Sunday lane, St. Luke's, and step. She was drunk. quarterna of rum, t. She could not walk, conveyed to the Samuel Hodge, 445 placed in a warn' cell. were dried. She was she was shut in the cell Sergeant John We 5 o'clock the deceal divisional surgeon was tine. She got better, the station, and a po/ before a magistrate. was brought back to tin Mr. G. G. Yarrow, dectwaed complained of her medicine. On Mow her dead. Her body WY mortem examination disease of the lungs, Her blood was thin ani poverished state of the a skeleton. She was are stockings were marked" Lad evidently had no for taken into custody by tl that she was frequently I , after she had taken anyti sitting on the door step exceed in the condition in Mr. Girling stated this the deceased. She said but that statement was property of any kind was It was stated that the habit of sleeping at ni archways, for if she had I. not have been in the (earl she was found. It was also want of food must have ts lived by begging, and it is drink by labourers when sh frequent habit to ,to. She s she was given drink she dm The Coroner having semi following verdict : - " Thal Old-street police-station fr ease of the lungs, accelerat sure to the cold." WEATHER RE I E frN I , B. T. w. I Nairn Aberdsela N I. Lidth Antrousaa Valenti& I • - - 11;ii — zA,erp.01.... ;:l 4.1 B.s Holyhead ... I; • s E Penzance.— 5•• , 7 Breit Lonent . . e 1 4- 44 Weymouth tro 4• • W %V, POrtAlit9.4ll32 S , YarmoutLLreelen .1 I . •• W 29 I I 4 , Scarborough. t.!•• ts P Shields 1. , S Molder — . This morning nn oar mot R h EM s, from west, and the .1\ id very , 11 , 111.111 UV VIYlt rly, and moder.. tnetrie pressure continuo, L o t geuerall) Inter declined. Rain I, North .4 Notkuul a Irmo 1011.1 i purtc.llPun N.tim Allot had fro THE GIiEsHAM Lra-ri• tures in the forthcoming Hil cording to the following arm Rev. Joseph Pullen. 8.D., of bridge, Jinni:try II and 12. 14 and 15. Divinity- The January 101, 17, and Is. Lane, M.A., of Jesus Cell e Hampstead, January 19 and • laiq Hall, Cambridge, Jamul The Rev. IS. Morgan Cowie Cambridge, January 2.1 an January 28, 29, and ;11. I.Frge.S.trltiNaL Aid Commission for the Paris has announced to her Map, intended during the Exhiloth rowing regatta 0111 the Sa•illl C OUntry to take part. Her aocordingly appointed the fe the 000eanuT arrangements on --The Duke of Stitherland, tit Earl of Wilton, the Earl of Alfred Paget, the Hon. ft. Chitty, Mr. J. Macgregor, M White, and Mr. C. Wyltle I Commission has appropriated . the regatta, and contributions Ina Royal Highness the I'. Item the Duke of Edinburgh. Sir J. Pakington. M. d'., the I The committee has recommem be held in thy second week y comprise races for boats of all and canoes up to eight o-trs. races will be conveyed from 1 again free of expense.