The Express. — London, England, 1867-11-26 00:00:00

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Larry awl Ryder; Slims Vestvall, Mn, Mennen. and Rim 31illy Palmer. am Evangel. NOTIHNO - TO *DIRE. Mr. Thorne and NW s ton.—Kl ND TO A YAULT. M. ?greens, Be: ford, and James: %teatimes Johnstone, Gwynn*, and liughcs.--tud WILLIAM TELL WITH A VENORANCY DOLBORN. Tnts LO% bleetra H. J. Montague. Pelee, Ganlea. Westland. and H. Widdloemb: Mesdames .steph.m•. limeade. C. satualms, ite.—And TUILNEIt ; OK, TIIE NICIOLB WILWY. Miss Josephs. 3 . ItrtANICIA. Ten Ivirsrio, TH= KL01 , 3 DEATHTRAP • Rey no:.ls, Leslie, ic.: Mrs. S. Lane.—Mr. Mart Mod: Mr. and Ufa. Laegao and Mr. J. 111111osot—RIP VAN WINKLE. Mr. Howe. —And MARY BLANK. Mr. P. Charlton sod MissContlavay. QIOQ WATEEyLONDONBILIDOL MS net 1t7.685.. " --Alt7r; - loou, 2h. 17wi. TO-ltoi:zow-31,. ming. 21L 211. s.hu. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26. THE first Ministerial measure of the session was read a second time in the House of Commons last evening. It is a Bill to Amend the Metropolitan Streets Act which was passed hurriedly at the fag-end of last session, and which came into operation, potentially at least, on the first day of the present month. But, in fact, the authorities have not ven tured to enforce some of its most important provisions, one of which Mr. GATHORNE HARDY now asks Parliament to repeal. The sixth section, passed no doubt with the best possible intentions, might be described as a clause to deprive ten thousand of the poorer inhabitants of London of their habitual employment, and only means of gaining an honest livelihood for them selves and their families. It enacts that "no " goods or other articles shall be allowed to rest " on any footway or other part of a street within " the general limits of the Act "—that is to say, within four miles in any direction from Charing cross—" or be otherwise allowed to cause obstruc " tion and inconvenience to the passage of the " public, for a longer time than may be absolutely " necessary for loading or unloading such goods "or other articles." The costenuongers, the dried fish merchants, the dealers in cheap trinkets, staylaces, ready-made boots, earthenware, and tin pots, the entire class, in short, of street and itine rant hawkers, whose trade was thus suppressed, naturally rose in protest against this enactment. Indignation meetings at the Nag's Head, in Leather-lane, and deputations to the HOME SECRETARY, have done their work. The Bill which Mr. GATnoRNE HARDY has introduced removes the prohibition complained of, so far as it affects oostermongers, street hawkers, and other itinerant tradesmen who may conform in the con duct of their business to the regulations of the police. As a provisional measure, intended to bridge over a winter which threatens to be more than usually severe, the Bill may deserve, and indeed demand, acceptance. But it cannot form a permanent settlement. Legislation by Sir RICHARD MAYNE and Colonel FRAZER, as a sort of Lower House, with Mr. GATHORNE HARDY for the Upper Chamber, cannot be more than a temporary settlement. Street trading is unques tionably a public inconvenience in London. The ob struction and the noise form a nuisance which would not be tolerable, if considerations of convenience could be balanced against considerations of life and death, of independence or pauperism, of honesty or almost enforced crime. A rick person, in any of the streets in which this hubbub of sellers and buyers resounds, must lie in torture. The condition of the coeterniongers and hawkers themselves is not such as it is desirable to perpetuate. They stand for hours exposed to the rain and cold, chilled as much by the want of motion as by the season. The only members that they exercise are their tongues and their lungs ; and these have not the physical force to promote a healthy circulation. The reform that is needed is to put a roof over the costermongers and hawkers, and to build walls round them; or, in other words, to erect retail markets in the districts in which street-trading now prevails. Centralization must be avoided. The markets should be in the hearts of the places most densely inhabited, and in sufficient number to make long journeys and elaborate preparation for purchases unnecessary. The very poor must find what they want at their own doors, if they are to have it at all. It is indeed this demand for provisions close at hand which street trailing has come into existence to supply. A wholesale meat market is in course of completion in Smithfield ; the Government contemplates the erection of pub lic slaughter-houses in the suburbs. These things will help to supply defects and remove abuses which have existed too long. The necessity of retail markets is equally or even more pressing, and it is felt by those whose inability to help themselves gives them a special claim upon legislative sympathy. Miss BURDETT COETTS'II inexhaustible beneficence has never been more wisely directed than to the erection of the new Columbia Markets in Bethnal-green. A project for new market• in Paddington appears, we see, among the parliamentary notices. But much more is necessary. The homes of the poor in London have been ruthlessly demolished for the general convenience, in order to clear the ground for lines of railway, for new law courts, and for street improvements. The Legislature would confer • benefit, which would mitigate the un avoidable harshness of some of the measures of demolition and reconstruction which it has sanc tioned, by opening markets in all the poorest districts of London. There is a special reason for its action, in the fact that London—the City proper excepted—is without any go-• vernment of its own. It stands practically to the Imperial Legislature in a position like that which the District of Columbia occupies towards the Congress of the United States. Local self-government scarcely exists in it. The cha racter of some of the provisions of the Metro politan Streets Bill affords a strong argument in favour of a scheme of municipalities for the metro polis more or les closely resembling those which Mr. MILL and Mr. AYRTOS have brought for ward. In an assembly representing exclusively the internal iuteresta of London ur of its several parts, such a blunder as that which THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING,- NOVEMBER 26, 1867. Mr. HARDY is now making haste to undo could never have been committed ; and a radical remedy would probably before now have been applied both to the nuisance of street trading, and to the greater evils which street trading partially abates. It cannot be imputed to parliamentary politicians as a very serious crime that they are not acquainted with matters essentially civic or parochial. The real fault lies further back, in the fact that the Legislature has not provided a proper organ for the transac tion of the local business of London ; and that it has thus been forced to undertake work for which it is unfit, and which it shamefully and ludi crously bungles. PORTUGAL • LISBON, Now. 86. A contract has been signed between the Portu guese government sad Mr. Rose, civil engineer, fora telegraph cable from Lisbon to Gibraltar. THE DEATH OF SIB P.REDERICS BRUCE.-LORD STANLEY'S LETTER. The following is a copy of the letter of Lord Stanley, forwarded to the Mayor of Boston, relative to the death of Sir Frederick Braes : " Foreign-office, London, Oct. 12, 1867. " eir,—l have received your despatch of the 23rd ult., confirming the melancholy news which you had previously conveyed to me by telegraph of the death of Sir Frederick Bruce. I have already, in reply to your telegram, directed you to convey to the government of the United States the acimowledgmenta of her Majesty's govern ment for the expressions of sympathy with which the United States Legation in this country was instructed to communicate to her Majesty's government the intelligence of this sad event ; but lam glad to avail myself of the opportunity afforded me in acknowledging the receipt of your despatch, to repeat my instruction, and desire you to make known to Mr. Seward, and, if you have an opportu nity of doing so, directly to the President, the high value set by her Majesty's government on the friendly feelings which they have shown on this occasion, and on the general concern manifested by the public in the United States for the severe loss which her Majesty has sustained by the death of her able and faithful servant. Her Majesty's government 'are glad to recognise in the feelings which this event has called forth the regard felt by the government and people of the United States, not only for the person and character of the deceased minister, but also for the country which he so ably represented, and whose policy and wishes he so effectually carried out in cultivating the friendship and good will of those among whom he was commissioned by her Majesty to dwell. But not only to the government and people of the United States generally are the acknowledgments of her Majesty's government due. They have their special thanks to render, of which they desire you to be their organ, to Mr. Gilpin, the gentleman who so considerately accom panied Sir Frederick Bruce from Narragansett to Boston, and to the numerous gentlemen at Boston whose kindness toward the deceased during the short period which inter vened between his arrival at Boston and his death, and whose attendance at the funeral ceremonies with which his remains were honoured before their departure from the United States, entitle them to their warmest acknow ledgments. To Mr. Sumner, to the Governor of Massa chusetts, and to the Mayor of Boston, and other distin guished persona in that city ; to the physicians, clergy, and others who did honour to the remains of the Queen's late minister, her Majesty's government are sincerely grateful, and you will make known to them in such a man ner as you may deem most becoming and best calculated to assure them how deeply it is felt—l am, (Signed) " SUNLIT. " Francis Clark Ford, to." OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE ABTOUNIAN QI7V3TION. The Daily News looks for an interesting discus sion to-night on the resolution which Sir S. Northoote is to move in committee. Theoretically the house will be in full possession of the subject, but practically the wisdom of our parliament has already been either antici pated or annulled in the private conferences of advisers of the crown. Such, however, is the publio spirit which actuates our representatives, that even under conditions so unpropitious as these, the Abyssinian question is certain to be fully and fairly discussed, and we shall get some knowledge —alittle geography, a little history, perhaps even a little poetry—out of the debate, if we get nothing more. The Blue Book ban not even provided the materials of an intelligent debate, but by the exercise of a due admixture of pertinacity and patience we may hope to get in time all the information we desire. We shall hear to-night how the government proposes to act if the captives were sud denly to meet with an untoward fate, and no doubt ministers will endeavour to show that the arrangements u to the ch►rges on the Indian revenue are quite justifiable. In the opinion of the Dail!, Nero, though we have the legal right to throw upon the people of India, not simply this paltry sum, but the whole expenses of the Abyssinian expedition, yet noble.xe (Wive, and our posi tion is too high to permit us to devolve upon a dependent people burdens which truly and properly belong to our selves. The Trferrmph says the country, however it dislikes the expense, strongly affirms the necessity of the expedition. It is in no sense a party question. The safety of our eastern empire and the lives and liberties of our fellow subjects are at stake ; while imperial interests and honour alike demand that the work, so tardily commenced, should be vigorously prosecuted by our soldiers, and un falteringly supported by the people. The Star contends that the attempt to throw the re sponsibility of conducting a great war upon the Indian Secretary is an entire departure from constitutional usage. Sir Stafford Northeote has a sufficient task upon his hands in the government of Irdia, and would have been wise to decline to conduct a war in a country of which he knows no more than Sir John Pakington. THE FRENCH AND PAPAL RTATES. The limitation of the French occupation to the seaport will help the Italian government, the Times observes, to meet the grave difficulties with which it will find itself encompassed on the opening of the parliamentary session. If the solution of this question is postponed, there is every danger of a disruption of the Italian kingdom, and though the Emperor may have found that to restore order in Rome was an easy achievement, to bring to reason five and-twenty millions of revolutionised Italians would be an Atlantean task. The occupation of the Papal States by the French,or even the unsettled state of the Roman ques tion, leading periodically to a reoccupation, is a perpetual source of danger. The Frenchman cannot set his foot on Italian ground without ►wakening the German's jealousy. It peeing evident that the Emperor, aware of these jealou sies, is anxious to retrace the step he has taken. He hopes a conference will relieve him of a burden of responsibility which begins to weigh intolerably on himself, and if the conference turn out a failure, we trust he may come to the conclusion that the maintenance of the temporal power, which lie is unable to induce all the I'owers of Europe to undertake, is a task too difficult and too dangerous for himself. The Post inclines to the opinion that a conference to be successful must be composed of parties who have before. hand made up their minds to a pacific solution. the Court. WLNDSOR CASTLE, Nov. Si. The Queen went out walking in the grounds this morning. Princess Beatrici and Prince Leopold also walked out. Princess Louise rode in the Home Park, attended by the Hon. Flora 51acdonald. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, has left the Castle for Greenwich Park. The Right Hon. H. T. Lowry Corry arrived at the Castle yesterday and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. The Dean of Windsor and the lion. Dirs. Wellesley, and the Rev. Charles Vaughan, D. D., and Mrs. Vaughan, had also the honour of receiving invitations. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel the Hon. J. Macdonald, arrived at Frogmore on Saturday, on • visit to Prince and Princess Christian. Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, dined with Prince and Princesr Christian. The dinner party also included Lieutenant-General Pio Ron. Charles and Mn. Grey, Sir Thomas and the Hon. Lady Biddulph, Lady Susan Melville, Sir John Cowell, Lieutenant-Colonel George Gordon, and Mr. Gardner Englebeart. . _ _ Their Royal Highnesses afterwards bad an evening party, at which Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold were present. The ladies and gentlemen residing in the neigh bourhood had the honour of resolving invitations. Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Henriette, and the Duke of Cambridge, with their suite, attended divine service on Sunday morning in the Chapel, Windsor-park. Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise, attended by Lady Coaoline Barrington, visited the Soho Bazaaryeewmhty. The Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue and Frances Countess Waldegrave received at dinner, in Carl ton-gardens, last week—his Excellency the Prussian Am bassador and Countess Bernstorff, his Excellency the Italian Minister, the Earl of Airlie, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Lady Molesworth, Lady Sott, the Right Hon. Charles P. Villiers, M.P., the Right Hon. W. A. Glad stone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone, the Right Ron. R. Lowe, M.P., Sir Henry Bulwer, Mr. Childers, M.P., and Mrs. Childers, Mr. Henry Grenfell, M.P., Mr. Bernal Osborne, M.P., Mr. Hayward, Mr. P. Alderson, Mr. W. Harcourt. &o. The Marquis of Huntly has arrived in Paris on his way to Egypt and the East Indies. Mr. Watkin, on Thursday, will ask the Secre tary of State for Foreign Affairs when he proposes to lay further papers before the house in reference to the ques tions under discussion between the government of her Majesty and the government of the United States ; and whether he proposes, before the house adjourns, to make any statement to the house as to the negotiations which have been in progress during his period in office. To-marrow Mr. Newdegato will bring forward hie bill for the commutation of church rates. Mr. Hardcaatle's bill for the " abolition " of church rates stands for Tuesday next. . - Mr. Ayrton intends, after the recess, to move for a select committee on the collection of poor and other rates. Mr. Pease will ask the Home Secretary, on Thursday, whether it is the intention of the government during the present session to introduce any measure by which the granting of licenses for the sale of spirits, wine, and beer 'hall be placed under the same jurisdiction. The general committee of elections for the pre sent session consists of Mr. IA Whitbread, Mr. J. Clay, Mr. E. F. Gower, Sir F. W. Monate, Sir W. Stirling-Max well, and Mr. A. F. Egerton. Upwards of eleven millions of persons, the Pays states, passed through the turnstiles of the Universal Es hibition. THE WEST AFRICAN SETTLEMENTS. —MT. Arthur E. Kennedy, C. 8., baa been appointed Governor of the West Aitken Battlements. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ITALY. 1 MANIFESTO OF THE ROMAN COMMITTEE OF INSURRECTION. The Morimento of Genoa of the 23rd has the following : The Insurrectional Committee of Rome has issued the following proclamation in favour of a fresh rising : " Romans,—Our national aspirations having been dis regarded by Europe, seeing that we are made the sport of the priest-King by unbelieving cosmopolites, let us arm, and protest by our blood, against a govern. ment which is the negation of civilisation and progress. The days of October 22, 23, 24, and 23 will be memorable in the history of the resurrection of nations. Crushed by force we have succumbed, but the nation which fights for its liberty and emancipation is oppressed but not con quered. Romans! Women, children, and harmless old men, cruelly treated by infamous foreign zbirri, the cham pions of sacerdotal tyranny, cry aloud for ven geance. They shall have it. The insults re ceived from some of the props of the priests by our brethren in prison will not remain unpunished. He is no Roman who has sympathy with the soldier of France, who has come again to stain the soil of our country by his presence, and who has decimated our brethren at Blentana. lie is no Roman who wears the fabrics of a nation which has buried the immortal glories of 1789 beneath the shameful defence of the government of the Syllabus. Romans ! Concord, perseverance, courage. Let us wait and be ready. Our rights are now in the hands of the Italian government, and are supported by it. If it should abandon us, if Europe, disregarding our imprescriptible rights, confirmed by demonstrations, by numerous ad dresses to the King of Italy, by the plebiscites, of our brethren in the provinces, by our blood and that of many brave Italians—should condemn us, as slaves of catholicity, to endure the abhorred yoke of a theocracy; we shall then, closing our ranks and swearing our sons, take up arms anew, certain of either conquering or of not falling unavenged to the cry of ' Long live Victor Emmanuel, King, in the Capitol," Long live Garibaldi' " Rome, Nov. 17, 1867." The Mornnento comments on the above as fol lows : We beg the Roman committee to observe that the august personage whom it proclaims cannot be king in the capitol ; that he has imprisoned Garibaldi, the man who gives away kingdoms, and keeps him shut up in two damp and gloomy rooms at Varignano. It is in the name of the unity of the nation that they should proclaim Liberty queen in the capitol. Apart from the inconsistency which we have pointed out, the manifesto of the Romans is good. A letter from Vienna, says : The second expedition of Franoe against Rome has greatly diminished the number of the partisans of the Austro-French Alliance. The policy pursued by the French government in regard to the question of the temporal power is strongly condemned. The body of Major Cesar Martinelli, who was killed in the battle of Montana, was buried on the 15th in the cemetery of Bologna. His remains were accompanied to the grave by the University Asso ciation, the working mon's and democratic societies. Several speeches were made over the tomb ; that of Professor Ceneri made a deep impression. The Roman authorities have given the body of Henri Cairoli to his family. It will be conveyed to Pavia, where it will be received with great funeral honours. SPAIN. " General de la Torre," says La Libertl " a friend of General Prim, has issued a new procla mation to the Spanish nation. The proclamation is openly anti-dynastic." THE EMPEROR MLXIMILIAN'S REMAINS. The Vienna Gazette publishes the following de spatch sent on the 19th by the Austrian Consul at Havana :—" I left Mexico yesterday with the body of the Emperor. Prince Balm and all the others have been set free.—Tr.ormorr. Rio-Frio, Nov. 13." THE UNITED STATES. PRESIDENT JOHNSON ON THE LATE ELECTIONS. At Washington, on the 13th, the Conservative Army and Navy Union tendered to President Johnson a " congratulatory serenade." The President addressed the assemblage as follows : Fellow-Citizens,—lt is not my intention to make an address upon this 00CIRS1011, but simply to tender you my thanks for this demonstration—a demon stration approbating what your fellow-citizens have declared in the recent elections in various States of the Union. They will appreciate your response to what they have done, and send beck greeting that the Union of the States must be maintained accord ing to the original design of our fathers. I confess lam gr.dified, bat not surprised, ►t the result of the recent elections. I have always had undoubting confidence in the people. They may sometimes be misled by a lying spirit in the mouths of their prophets, but never perverted ; and, in the end, they are &lege right. In the gloomiest hours through which I have passed—and many of them God knows have been dark enough—when our constitution was in the utmost peril, when our free institutions were wailed by a formidable force, and our great republic seemed to be tattering to its fall ; and when I felt how vain were my efforts ►lone to preserve those institutions in their integrity, and to save the repub lic from ruin, I was still hopeful—l had still an abiding confidence in the people and felt assured that they in their might would come to thereacue. They havecome ;andthank God they have corns and that our republic may yet be saved. It was but the other day that I officially declared that the remedy for the present unhappy condition of the country must come from the people themselves. They know whet that remedy is and how it is to be applied at the present time. They cannot, acoording to the forms of the constitution, repeal obnoxious laws ; they cannot remove ur control this military despotism. The remedy is, nevertheless, in their hands, and is a sure one, if not controlled by fraud, overawed by arbitrary powers, or from apathy on their part too long delayed. With abiding con fidence in their patriotism, wisdom, and integrity, I am still hopeful that in the end the rod of despot ism will be broken, the armed heel of power lifted from the necks of the people, and the principles of a violated constitution preserved. The people have spoken in a manner not to be misunderstood. Thank God that they have spoken, for it is upon their intelligence and their integrity that I bare always relied, and still rely. The constitution of the country which war imperilled had recently been before them for consideration, and it has had new life and vigour imparted to it from its original source —the people. It comes back to us with renewed strength and vigour; let it now be translated high up in the heavens, written in letters of living light, as the symbol of liberty, union, justice, magnanimity, and fraternity. Good night. (ascrea's reizoaams.) ITALY. FLORENCE, Nov. 25. The Official Gazette of this evening announces that Garibaldi having been unwell during the last few days, the government immediately sent Pro fessor Zanotti and Chinozzi to visit him. They found him somewhat improved, but declared that the health of the general would suffer if he re mained in that climate. In consequence of this declaration, a council of ministers was held, at which it was decided that Garibaldi should be transferred without delay to Caprera. The Opinione states that the questions relative to the private property of the ex-Duke of Modena will shortly be settled, as an agreement has been arrived at on various points. The property has provisionally been consigned to the representative of Francis V., to whom a ministerial letter has been addressed on the subject. THE BOMBAY MAIL. )N, Nov. N. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Tanjore, with the above mail, hm arrived here with 22 passengers, 1,500/. in specie, and a general cargo, including 2,780 sacks of wheat. She ex perienced fine weather throughout. The British war ships Psyche, Wizard, Cale donia, and Enterpriae were at Malta, and the Terrible at Alexandria. GIBRALTAR, Nov. 21. The last batch of mules for the Abyssinian expe dition leaves for Alexandria to-morrow. The British steamers Sydney, Sofia, Latona, Peninsula, Syrian, Olympus, Poonah, Grecian, Amazon, the ship John Fraser, the schooner John Bell, and the brigantines Gem and Saturn have arrived here since the departure of the last mail for Southampton. Exchanges unaltered. CHINA AND JAPAN. ANOTHER TYPHOON. HONG KONG, OM 15. Another disastrous typhoon has visited Hong Kong, causing serious damage on shore. The Spanish mail steamer Malpesina is missing having been 21 days out. Fearful inundations have taken place at Manilla. It is reported that many lives were lost. The Pacific Mail Company's steamer Great Republic arrived at Hong Kong on the sth inst. There are large arrivals of silk at Shanghai and business is active. Advices received here from Japan state that the treaty with Belgium was ratified on the 12th September. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 96. The North German Lloyd's steamship Hermann, from New York on the 14th November, arrived here to-day, with 66 passengers, 38 sacks of mails, and 6,000 dollars, for Bremen. During her passage she experienced easterly storms and very high sea. NEW YORK, Nov. 14, NooN. The counsel for Mr. Davis and the Attorney- General, after consultation, have determined to proceed with the trial on the 25th of November on the original indictment. General Swayne has issued an order giving freedmen in Alabama a lien on crops for wages. The citizens of Boteoourt County, Virginia, have petitioned General Schofield to suppress the armed negro leagues. It is reported that General McClellan had been offered the Secretaryship of War. General Grant has issued an order requiring greater economy in the army contracts. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, Nov. G P.Y. The majority of the Judiciary Committee have presented their report, which is in favour of the impeachment of President Johnson. The Moravian, Saxonia, and Manhattan arrived out on Sunday. Closing prices :—Gold, 140. Sterling exchange on London, 1091. 6-20 United States Bonds, 108. Illinois, 130. Erie, 71. Cotton—Middling Upland, 17i. . . PHILLDIELPHL‘ Nov. 23. Petroleum, standard white, 25. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The announcement that • fleet has left Toulon to bring back a division from Civits Vecchia must not be understood as meaning that France is about to evacuate the Roman Stated.. The Presse taunt ingly says that although M. Nigra professes to be satisfied, and has telegraphed to hia government that he looks upon the return of this division as the symptom of a speedy evacuation, he may rest assured that a sufficient effective force to protect the Pope will remain as long as thought necessary. This confirms what I noticed yesterday as an in ference from the blue-book. In a group of deputies assembled in the con versation-room of the Corps Logi'latif to-day it was said that Baron David has received a positive promise that he shall be the President of the Corps Legislatif after the general elections. This is the only post which he thinks worthy of his ambition, and it is said he lately refused the port folio of Minister of the Interior. Baron Jerome David, though little known in Europe among the " men of the time" has cogent claims upon the Bonaparte family, which the Emperor recognises. Of his parentage nothing is said in any Lirre d'Or. His history begins with the fact that he was born at Rome in 1823, and that his godfather and godmother were King Jerome Bonaparte and Queen Catherine of Wurtemberg. He has some talent as a debater. The Marquis de Moustier gives a grand dinner to-day to Lord Lyons at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The in/Upend/owe yesterday announced that a number of generals and admirals who knew the first Lord Lyons in the Crimea were to be asked : but the gathering alluded to must be meant for another time. I have seen the invitation list for this evening, and the twenty-four names it contains are all diplomatic or civil, not military. There are the Turkish, Swiss, American, Danish, Belgian, and Dutch Ministers, several attachts of different legations, including the lion. Julian Fane and Captain Hore, R.N., some consuls, and M. Duruy and M. de Forcade La Roquette. The Marquis de Monatier is a pri vate friend of Lord Lyons, whose acquaintance he had an opportunity of making at Constantinople. The Emperor has a grand military dinner at St. Cloud to-day, and it is said a council of war will be held in the evening. Queen Christina purposes to pass some time this winter at the house she hat built in the Champs Elysks. She is expected at Paris from Aranjuez in a few days. A duel was fought yesterday between M. Vermo rel, editor of the Gurricr Fr«nrai.,, and a well known journalist, M. Anatole de Laforge. The latter received a slight wound. The Bourse, supported by the " discount " sys tem, rumours of a conference, and the belief that the loan is postponed, was very firm. Rente rose 30c. for cash and 121 c. for the account ; and Italian 33c. The correspondent of the Post at Rome writes : " The London Garibaldian, Mr. John &holey, who was erroneously taken by the Correspondaner de Rome for GaribiildPs Englishman,' has, I hear, undergone Amputa tion of the arm in hospital. Another British subject, Mr. Laroque, a Canadian, lies very badly wounded at the Ben fratelli Hospital. He is quite a young man, and enlisted in Belgium for the Papal Zouaves. He waa at the attack on Mentana, where be was shot from above apparently, as the ball carried away one of his lower jaws, and passed out through his shoulder. Mr. and Mrs. Batley, friends of his family, are taking care of him, until his father, who has been telegraphed for, can arrive." OVIIRLAND MAILS. BOMBAY (HEAVY) MAIL.-8017THAMrZON, Nov. 26.—The Tanjore passed Hunt Cutle at 7.35 a.m. to-day. BompAY Nov. 25.—The Baroda, from Bombay Nov. 14, arrived this aftarnoon. OUTWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN htsity.--GuntturAß, Nov. 2.s.—The Pen, from South- ampton 2 20th inst., arrived to-day at 6 am., and left at 10 a.m. for Alexandria. All well. ASSOCIATED CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE. CONFERENCE.-(THIS DAY.) This morning a conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, which is to last till Thursday evening, was commenced at the Westminster Palace Hotel, Mr. Lunn, of Birmingham, the president, in the chair. Delegate' were present from Leeds, Hull, Brad ford, Sheffield, Birmingham, Nottingham, Macclesfield, Huddersfield, Newcastle, Kendal, Falmouth, and other towns. The subjects upon the notice paper are chiefly those which were considered at the sitting in the spring, including bankruptcy law reform, tech nical education, patent law reform, government control of telegraphy, postal reform, the Mer chant Shipping Act, Ito. This conference (se the chairman explained) will not supersede the annual meeting generally held in February, but it was called in conse quence of some of the members of the standing committee urging that the views arrived at by the Associated Cham bers should be laid berme the government earlier than the actual commencement of the session. The first question considered was bankruptcy law reform, upon which there were resolutions from the chambers at Birmingham, Leeds and Macclesfield. The resolutions were brought forwa rd and discussed, and ultimately the following was unanimously adopted :—" That a thorough reform of the English law of bankruptcy is urgently needed, with a view both to the more speedy and economical realisa tion and distribution of the estate, and to the repression of fraud. That in the opinion of this association, the pro visions of the Scottish law of bankruptcy (19 and 20 Viot. c. 79) have proved eminently successful in accomplish ing these objects • and that in any measure for the reform of the law of bankruptcy, those provisions should be copied as closely as possible. That this association regrets the great delay which has taken place in the settlement of this question . deeply, and wou l d therefore strongly . urge 17;o h r e t r h il e aßliseastYpa miniands te rs o e f ri necessity nst;:e p aa re m p : r afoy a s parliarnett imm ve ealely after' its assembling; and further, that every exertion should be made to pt the same passed into law during the next session. That in training such bill, it be strongly recom mended by the association that it should contain provisions to enable the creditors themselves, or persons appointed by them, to realise and distribute the meets of bankrupts, with as little interference on the part of officials of the bankruptcy courts as possible ; but giving to the courts jurisdiction in all cases where the bankrupt or any creditor may deem himself aggrieved or injured. That it is desirable that the law of bankruptcy be divided into two bills ; one providing for the civil part, and the other for the criminal part of the law. That it is also desirable that provision be made for winding up and distribution of the estates of deceased insolvents in bankruptcy." A resolution from the Macclesfield Chamber was added, proposing a deputation to wait upon the A.ttoruey•General. Mr. MURPHY, of Belfast, hoped that the deputation would bo instructed to press upon the government the necessity of at the earliest possible opportunity extending the provisions recommended for England to Ireland. (Hear, hear.) This was added to the resolution. The next question was that of registration of partner ships, and four resolutions respecting it were upon the notice piper, each urging the necessity of a law providing for compulsory registration. After some conversa tion, Birmingham, Leeds, and Nottingham, with drew their motions in favour of Huddersfield. The proposal was opposed by the representatives of the Hull Chamber, because they considered it utterly imprac ticable, and Mr. 51 atstead , of Hull, moved. and Mr. H. Pease, of Darlington, seconded, an amendment, urging that firms might he able to use their trading names in courts of law, without the names of the individual partners being of necessity required. After discussion the amendment was rejected, and the following motion was passed :—" That her Majesty's government be respectfully requested to in troduce a bill providing for the compulsory registration of partnerships ; and in the event of their refusing that this association ask some member of parliament to undertake the introduction of such a measure, and promise its support in carrying it to a suczeesful issue." Captain Hall, the Arctic explorer, has advised his friends in New York that he will winter at Repulse Bay, sad in April neat will start with eight men for King William's Land on his search for Sir John Franklin. The Pacific Railway has been constructed across the American continent as far as the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains. The contractors will soon cease opera tiara for the winter on this section, and on the other which is being built eastward from San Francisco to the Rocky Mountains. It is confidently expected that this great railway will be completed by the spring of 1870. M. de Keratry's work entitled " The Emperor Maximilian, his Rise and Fall," has appeared at Leipzie, but has been stopped on the French frontier. Several chapters of this work have been already published in La .Flerise Cuntemporaise. It will not be forgotten that when the French Genera Dumont went to Rome last summer the Muniteur of the Ist of August, in answer to some criticisms of the press, spoke of it as • sort of pleasure trip, of quite • private character, during which he was exclusively to ascertain the cause of certain desertions from the Antibes Legion, and it gave it to be understood that the official mission attributed to him by the journals was but an " arbitrary hypothesis." There is now no further reason for denial. The Bine Book heads one of its para graphs " Mission of General Dumont to Rome," and speaks thus of it:—" A general officer of infantry, General Dumont, was sent to Rome to ascertain the causes of this discouragement (in the Legion), and to re animate the spirit of the corps," &c, The Danish press is highly satisfied with the sale of the West Indian Islands to America. All parties agree in wishing that the 2,000,0001., when received, may be pat by plait the next war. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. After Term Nisi Prins Sittings at R•estminstcr.—(Before the Lord Chief Justice and Special Juries.) This was the first day of the after term nisi priva sittings. The list contains rJO causes, of which lul are remaneta, and nearly 100 marked as specials. ROWLAND AND OTHERS T. MORETON. This was an action to recover the value of two proud,- sory notes for I,ooof. each, and a third for JOU. The de fendent denied the making of the notes, pleading no con sideration, and fraud. _ _ _ Mr. Huldleston e Q.C., and Mr. .1. 0. Criffits were counsel for the pinuitiffs • Mr. Keropley and Mr. Wbsiton were counsel for the defiadent. Mr. Headlestoo, in stating the case to the jury, said the plaintiffs are the executors or the late Mr. Joh n Wilkins, who formerly resided in the neighbourhood of Oxford, and the defendant is the son of the late, sad brother of the present, Earl Dome, and is an ofScer in the Hunan. The action was brought upon three promissory notes made on the 3rd October, 1860, at eight months, and they were the joint and separate promissory notes of a person named Law and the defendant. So far as the plaintiffs were concerned they knew nothing of the trim. action between the testator and Law and the defendant but having, as executors, found the bills among the testator's papers, it was their duty to investigate the matter. The deceased, it appeared, dabbled is bill transactions, and there was reason to believe from papers which bad come into the executors' hands that he discounted largely for Law. How much Mr. Moreton had from the discounting of the bills in question the executors did not know. It was sufficient for them that they found Mr. Moreton's name upon the bills, and they commenced this action shortly after the testator's death, but in con sequence of the absence of the defendant in India and Canada with bia regiment no proceedings could be taken upon it until within the last year. Law bad since become bankrupt, and it was for the jury to say if the defendant was liable os these bills. _ A conference took place between the learned (annul, when Mr. Haddlesion said be had communicated with his learned friend who appeared for the defendant, and he WM ready to take a verdict for the amount for which the de. fendant entered between himself and Ltw, that the bills should be drawn. The defendant, it smeared, intended th►t the three bills should only cover :1001., but Law, with. out his knowledge, had filled them up for the larger amounts. Mr. Kemplay add the notes were obtained from the defendant upon the express understanding that they should be for only 1001. each, but Lew filled them up for 2,0001., not one farthing of which had reached the defendant's pocket. He, however, would consent to a verdict for 3110/. the amount for which he intended to become liable. Verdict accordingly. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings at Nisi Prins in Middlesax.—(Before Lord Chief Justice Berlll and a Special Jury.) STRAY V. BULL AND ANOTHER. This was an action to recover damages upon the ground that the defendants had maliciously caused the plamtift to be adjudicated a bankrupt. Mr. Hawkins,Q.C.; Mr. lierjeant Simon and Dr.Keneely, appeared for the plaintiffs ; and Mr. D. Keane, Q.C., and Mr. Turner for the defendants. The plaintiff was a tailor and outfitter in the Strand, and the defendants, Messrs. Bull and Goodey, earned on the business of woollen drapers in St. Martin'adane, under the firm of Bull and Wilson. Towards the close of 1866, the plaintiff called his creditors together with the view of asking them to t o v e etime for the payment of their debts in full ; but sac l uently Mr. Honey, an accountant, in vestigated the boo s, and the result was that a composi tion of 10s. in the pound was offered, payable by instal menta. It was also proposed that there should be an as signment of the plaintiff's property, not with the view of its being sold, but to protect tt against execution at the suit of any individual creditor. Afterwards some diffi culty occurred io reference to security being given for the payment of the last instalment, and it was re solved to treat the assignment as an act of bank. ruptcy. On the same day Mr. Goodey and an other creditor went to the Bankruptcy Court and bad the plaintiff adjudicated a bankrupt. The plaintiff was unable to attend in consequence of illness, when the question as to whether there had been a good act of bank ruptcy came before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn, who supported the bankruptcy, but upon appeal to the Lord. Justices it was bald that the defendant, having assented to a deed of assignment, could not afterwards treat it as an act of bankruptcy, and the adjudication was annulled. The learned counsel in his opening speech contended that the defendants had no reasonable and probable cause for making the plaintiff bankrupt, and be stated certain cir cumstances from which he asked the jniv to infer that the defendants bed acted from some bye motive, which he Laid in law would amount to malice. ~ The Lord Justice said that lie had been reading a report of the Chas before the Lords Justices, and con sidering that Mr. Commissioner Goulburn, who had great experience, had decided the point one way and the Lords Justioes only after two days' argument bad reversed that decision, be should hold that the defendant bad reason able and probable cause for what he did. After emus discussion this ruling waa adhered to and the plaintiff was consulted, leave being reserved to hie counsel to move the full court upon the points. COURT OF PROBATE AID DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) FINNEY C. FlNNEY.—mwrimcE. This morning the Judge Ordinary gave judgment in this case, which was tried ► few days since, and which was the petition of a wife for a judicial separation on the ground of cruelty. It has already been fully reported. Sir James Wilde did not think that so far as actual violence was eon cerned there were s materials in the wife's story to support her prayer. But then it was alleged th►t the continued ill-usage to which abe had been subjected had undermined her health. The question, therefore, arose as to how much f her story was true. The court was satisfied that the respondent's allegation that his wife was too much addicted to the use of stimu lants was justified by the facts. VAS seemed proved by one little circumstance, namely, that tho respondent was in the habit of measuring out for her her quantity of wine which she was to take—a custom (of which she did not complain) not tobe accounted for except on the hypothesis that the husband's story was trues Therefore, if the respondent's conduct had ren• dered her m►rried life intolerable, the obvious answer was that she had brought it upon herself. But it was im possible after reading her own letters to conclude that she found her married life as she had described, or to believe that she was afraid of living with the respondent. In fact those letters were the letters not only of an affee donate wife, but of a wife who, when her husband was absent from her, always ardently longed for his return. Petition dismissed. PEABNE r. PEdliqZ AND 1,1‘.111. In this case, which related to the will of Mr. Pearse, late of the firm of Maples and Pearse, the solicitors of the Great Western Railway, and in which the court had a few days ago refused to revoke the probate already granted, Sir J. Wilde condemned the plaintiff (the widow) in the costa, remarking that if anyone was aware of her husband's sanity she must have been that person. Dr. Tristram intimated that there would be an applica tion for a new trial. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Hokepi.) IN RE CHARM.; JOHN MARE. This was an application for release by an arranging debtor, Mr. C. J. Mare, the eminent iron shipbuilder, late of Orchard.lard, Blackvrall ; since of Northeeet, Kent; and of Great St. Helen's, now of Mill's terrace, Hove, Brighton, who asked for his release from custody on the ground that he had executed a deed of composition. Mr. Reed opposed. The debtor had canted on the bug• nem of an iron shipbuilder, and having got into difficulties in 1865 he executed a deed in January of that year. His debts then were 49,4021. Notwithstanding the deed he bad been sued by Mr. Scott, a creditor, whose debt had been omitted. Judgment wa. obtained, and the debtor was arrested in September, 1866. A second deed was then made, under which the debtor under took to pay 20s. in the pound. The opposing creditor, having obtained a warrant of attoruey, let the debtor out, who threw over both his deeds. Ile had been arrested again at the beginnuog of the present month, and had since executed& third deed, undertaking to pay Is. ed. in the pound in 14 days ; and it was under this deed that the presentapplication was made. The oourt would natu rally look with suspicion on a cam where three deeds had been executed in so short a time. Under the present deed there were 31 creditors, whose debut amounted to 11,8271.; but the contention of the opposing creditor was, that the first deed being invalid, all the debts under it had revived. There were several cre ditors under the present deed whose debts were disputed, and an opportunity for examination was desired. Mr. Bagley, on behalf of the debtor, asked that he should not be detained in custody while the intended investi gation was going on. His Honour did not think that he had power to release the debtor on bail where the validity of a deed was dis puted ; and as the creditors were entitled to be satisfied that the deed was a good one, he did not see that be could refuse them that opportunity by granting the 'time of the debtor. Mr. Reed FAR be should ask for the production of three relatives of the debtor, who were returned as creditors: and also of Mr. Wheeler, the whole of whose debta were disputed. Ultimately an adjournment was ordered for the purpose of examining witnesses. IN RE HANNAH NEWINGTON. The bankrupt, who has been Law,: the court since February last, was described ae of sereral addresses in London, Brighton, Hastings, Paris, and elsewhere, --s 11 t~