The Express. — London, England, 1867-09-13 00:00:00

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Passengers kg Canada and the United Rates booked through on very adven turous terms —Por further particulars apply to WILLIAM is m . o . fl Water-street, Liverpool; and to ZlFF:land MACEY, a King Williametreet. Landon. 3 f AEG ATE and RAMSGATE.—Cheap Fame— s. Gil —SALOON STEAMER, ALBSRT VICTOR, from ••• 61: r. Wove 1. lon.liridge, To-MORROW isaturday:, as It . and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday same hour, rrrsxnut very Monday, Wednesday, and iliday ; leaving Rams. pi d le se ans., and Margate at 11.31 am., direct for London. ,anon, second auleon, h. 6d. ; children, Is. tad. FREE TItADE WIiAR.F. —The Commissioners of Customs and the Lord' of the Tressory.—Preparing for elleation, the Correapondenee on the subject of Privileges, L o . granted and how withheld. IMPORTMUS et GOODS who are sektird M e..X026/111111 chines on goods landed on captain's p ii! 0111 please apply WM. CLAY and Co., Upper pd, OM LL WHISKY. DUBLIN Exinsinow, 1986. 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Beddtag, and l'phastery and a large lot of Linen goods at very reduced prices All , goods warrsnted, and delivered free. Illustrated prised lists gratis. A new reduced voe of Turkey carpets.— ts WAINN, wholesale and export Upholsterer and lieneral furnishing Warehouseman, 133 to 139. Newlngtoo•butta hick, fief, 46 to 19, 9ranetustreet. HARRIS'S CRYSTAL SPECTACLES of well known eseellence can only be had at 62, Great RusseC, sized, opposite the &Web Museum Gates The very beet steel tram Crystal Spectacles, Its. and 181.— THOMAS HARRIS sod 80% CAUTION the subtle against persons aids. their =OS &tat:dished 1780. No travellers or meats. TEETH. —Messrs. GABRIEL (ESTABLISHED ISIS). NEW PAMPHLET, PIM BY POST EWE STAMPS, aphining the Painless System of Dentistry end nit -edhedve ArtMeial Teeth witiumt springs, at halt the venal charges. 64. LUDOATE.IIILL, CITY. In, Harlepetreet, Cavendish-square, London. 134, Duke-Went. LlvarpooL GOUT sad RHEUMATISM.—The excruci atin g pain ot gout or rheumatism la quickly relieved and ,eared `a (ow day A s b 7 that celebrated medicine, BLAIW HiMT and RHEUMATIC PILL& They recialre;;;CUM - 1/14oldierorcoullilin ent daring their gee, and are certain to prevent the Omani attacking any vital port. Sold W all medicine vendon at la. ljd. and 2a. ad. per box or obtained through any chemist TIE NEW NOVEL BY THE A1.7110E07 '•LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET." he. In II vols., at all Moak& BIRDS of PREY.— THE JAMAICA PROSECUTIONS. (Before Lord Chef Justice &MU et Chambers.—dept. 10. BRUCC T. Intl. - Mr. Reece, instructed by Messrs. Sheen and Ramo., the solicitors to the Jamaica Committee, appeared today is support of an adjourned application under 1 William IV. chap. 22, for an order for leave to examine the plaintiff on oath before a commissioner as a witness on his own behalf. — Wien the application was first brought before his lord ship on Friday Let Mr. Reece brought to the notice of his lordship the fact that an order had been made, on the appliation of the defendant a few days ago, by Mr. Baron Bramwell, for the examination of Lieutenant Edenborougb, who it was sworn was about to leave England on a voyage, and whose evidence would be material to the defendant's ease, and urged that the present application was precisely similar in effect to that of the defendant. His lordship said that there was a great difference between this appli cation and the ono made before Mr. Baron Bramwell. In that case the defendant was at liberty to say " An action bas been commenced against me, the cause of which I can oily surmise, but whatever it might be, I wish to take the evidence of this witness for whatever it is worth, and the plaintiff could cross-examine to snit his cause." Bat if this present application were granted, the plaintiff would Dave the advantage in knowing exactly what would be laid before the jury, while the defendant would not, and therefore could not have equal facility for cross-es gaining, and that as them were no particulars or declara tion delivered in the action, the application must be dis missed, and his lordship accordingly endorsed the sum mons dim:nosed. At the request of Mr. Reece to adjourn the summons sine die, with a view of furnishing lan to the defendant, his lordship erased the =- meat, and adjourned the summons accordingly. The per titulars had now been delivered, and Mr. Ream submitted that (even if they bad not been on the authority of Fischer v. Hahn, reported in the Lem Jeered, vol. 32 N. 8. 209, he was entitled to have the application granted. In that case Honyman bad obtained a rule nisi to examine the plaintiff rim ma before one of the warders of the court, as a witness on his own behalf under the above act. The writ was issued, and at the time of the application no appearance had been imbued. The plaintiff was • foreigner, and had to leave England for the West Indies, and filed an affidavit by his attorney's clerk, to the effect that he was a material and necessary witness on his own behalf in support of his case in the action, and that the trial thereof could not be pro ceeded with without the evidence of the plaintiff. Mr. R. E. Turner showed cause against the rale, and contended that the application was made too soon, inas much as no appearance bad been entered, and that the plaintiff ought to have delivered his declaration before the application was made. In support of this view he cited mate. But Lord Chief Justice Erle rid that he was in clined to think that the affidavit was insufficient, but as, however, the ease would in all probability come on for trial before next term, he would make the rule absolute. subject to the conditio n th a t th e examina tion should not be used unless the plaintiff himself made to the satisfaction of the court or judge at chambers ea affidavit that the voyage was one of necessity, and that the application for the examination was made bona tide. He must also give security for costs. In this ruling Jus tices Williams, Wines, and Keating concurred. In support of the present application affidavits by the plaintiff and his medial attendant were filed, stating that the plaintiff had been ill ever since his arrival in England in May last, and was still in a dangerous state of health, and that his long residence in the West Indies had ren dered him unfit to live in England, and strongly recom mended his immediate return to the West Indies as the only mamas of metering his impaired health. Mr. Rose, on behalf of the d e f en d an t , sa id that so far back as December, 1865. a rit ia the Court of Exchequer was issued by the plaintiffs ; thaton the 15th of May last another writ in the Queen's Bench for thi mane cause of action Tr served ; that Dr. Bruce had been in Fegland from the service of the last writ up to the present time, and had not yet even delivered bis declaration, but waited till the long vacation to make the present application at • time when counsel were out of town, and therefore had no erportunity of consulting counseL He had only yester day evening received notice to attend to-day, and had sat up W nigbt to prepare an affidavit setting forth the facts sod grounds of his opposition to this application, which ru icationtt re contended was reads too late- And he fur the was ever • case in which the plain tiff ou r gt e ito be subjected to • rigid cross-examination it was the present one. Rix lordship said that the plaintiff had been in England 'aloe May last, and bad ample time to try his action at the last aria s , but instead of doing so be delayed taking any kin until the present time. The application to examine him lira more was made too late, and he should therefore dismiss the summons. The summons was accordingly die *Caw. PHILLIPS ALKIANDES V. SAME. Mr. Reece made a similar application in this case, and kat ed that the writ had been issued only on last Bator air, and therefore no time could possibly have been lost making this application. Mr. Rose, it appeared, had Pico an un d er t a ki ng to appear for the d efendant , and the Plait . tiff, to obviate the difficulty raised by his lordship nnoself in the former application, had delivered particu lars similar to those deliv ere d i n " Bruce e. Byre." Mr. Rose, who also appeared on behalf of the defendant Ml this summons, said that it was true a writ had been limed in the Queen's Bench on Saturday last, but a former vas in the E xc h equer was i ssue d in the same suit in "Mwober last ; and submitted that in this ease abo the 14sintiff had been remiss, and consequently the applies, km should be refused. His lordship agreed in this view, and semedingly dia. killed the summons. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGIENCR. (azurnee TELZOILLNIL ) THE PEACE CONGRESS AT GENEVA. GENSVA, Barr, 12. The International Peace Congress has been dis solved by the radical party, and the room in which the members met has been cleared. The president retired to draw up a protest. Pdlll9, S. 12. Intelligence received here from Geneva states that at the last sitting of the Peace Congress it was impossible to continue the proceedings in conse quent* of violent popular manifestations on the part of the inhabitants of the town. The congress had set aside the proposals of M. Fazy and M. Cataret, and in consequence of this decision an understanding was come to between K Fazy and the conservative party in Geneva against the corn mitten whose proposals have been adopted by the congress. The vehement protests of the minority against those proposals induced the president to put on his hat, and subsequently to declare the sitting at end. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Bzrr. 12. Count Brandenburg, the Minister at Lisbon, was received to-day by the and Count Bismarck, and then left for his post, journeying rid Paris. He has received instructions respecting a treaty of commerce between Prussia and Portugal. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. KM, SKr?. 12. Count Baudissin, member of the former Schleswig estates, has published a declaration insisting upon the necessity of Schleswig and Holstein maintaining their right of voting upon the question of their future position. The Kiel Gazette says "Several of the Schleswig- Holstein notables called toßerlin do not possess the confidence of the country. The governor has made a one-sided selection." THE UNITED STATES SQUADRON. STOCKHOLM, Sam 12. . _ The United States squadron has left for Copen hagen. Admiral Farragut has been treated with great distinction by the King of Sweden. His Majesty, as well as the Minister of Marine and the Russian envoy, entertained the officers of the fleet at dinner during their stay in Stockholm. THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, Barr. 12. The return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day ahowa the following changes com pared with that of last week : biomass. Cash in hand . . . . fr. 8,600,000 Treasury balance . . . 1,700,000 Private accounts . . . 200,000 Dumas& Bills receivable . . li ("tea Advances AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, Farr. 12. The Royal Mail steamship Soot* from New York, arrived here at 11.90 p.m. to-day, with 84 cabin passengers, and 114,500 dole. in specie. She landed 12 passengers and 71 sacks of mails, carry ing on those for Liverpool and a portion of the Scotch, and preeeeded at 11.40 p.m. All well. The Scotia performed the passage in 8 days 7 hours. (Per the Scotia, via Queenstown). NEW YORK, Sara. 4,Moalrntc. President Johnson has issued a proclamation declaring that whereas the constitution makes him commander in-chief of the army and navy, and binds him under a solemn oath to preserve and defend the constitution, which vests the national judicial power in the Supreme Court and subordinate courts ; and whereas impediments have recently been imposed in North and South Carolina obstructing the action of the said courts, and which unlawful pruceedinp will probably be at tempted elsewhere, the President therefore warns all civil and military officers to yield obedience to the laws, and to assist and sustain the national courts in exercising their constitutional powers. Act ing Attorney-General lirinckley has furnished an official opinion, justifying the removal of General Sickles by President Johnson, on the grounds that General Sickles had been guilty of military insubordination, and had con tracted the powers of the judiciary by forcibly preventing the execution of civil processes in the national circuit courts of North Carolina. It is reported that President Johnson will shortly issue • proclamation largely extending the anumaty to the Southern rebels. The subject was conaidered at a cabinet meeting held yesterday. General Grant has ordered the district commanders to reappoint no civil officers removed by their predecessors in command of the military districts. General Sheridan received on Monday she order relieving him from the command of the fifth military district. General Hancock has been granted 30 days' delay in proceeding to New Orleans, on account of the yellow fever there. General Pope hes ordered the elections for the Alabama convention to be held on the lst of October. It is reported that the negroes in Northern Texas have left work and gone into camp ; they are arming and threaten to administer the local laws themselves. The Republicans yesterday carried the Vermont election by a reduced majority. General Canby has arrived at Charleston. Yellow fever is raging with great virulence at New Orleans and Galveston. The remainder of the Body Guard of the late Emperor Maximilian left New York on Saturday for London on board the William Penn according to advice. published hoax from Mexico. The British and French Ministers left Vets Crnz on the 18th August. Two hundred military officers bad been thrown into pri son in Mexico for plotting ag►inst Juarez. THE HAYTIAN REVOLUTION. Intelligence received here from Hayti to the 12th of August announces that the revolution which had broken out in that island had been quelled. MARLBOROUGH COLLPOZ.—We IWO informed that scarlatina has recently broke out in this college, and the matter has assumed so serious en aspect that the boys are leering for their homes in large numbers until the disease has diiappeared from the establishment. THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOPER RAILWAY. —Yesterday the new act to " arrange " the affairs of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company was issued. It contains 52 sections and several schedules. The misfortunes of the company are detailed in • long preamble, in which it is declared that, to enable the com pany to keep the line open for • truffle and ultimately to meet its engagements, it is essential that the provisions set forth should be passed, and that during " the suspense period" (which by the act is stated to be " 10 years ") all proceedings and suits should be 'toyed ; that • new bowl should be con s titut e d , representing the mortgagees and the shareholders—three of each—end that facilities should be afforded to effect • general compromise and re adjustment of the rights of mortgagees and creditors. The act proceeds to the creation of debentures, classified as "A, li, and C," declaring the purpose to which the money is to be applied and their priority. The constitution of the board is stated and the application of the money, law and equity are not to be exercised, save es permitted, and the p.,wers of the courts are defined over the company. What the act contemplates is • suspension of proceedings against the company fur 10 years L to enable it to mover itself and meet its engagements. 'ihe new board will pro ceed to work out the intentions implied by the various enactments; their remuneration is to be 2,0001. a year, subject to increase, and during the " suspense period" the other management is to cease. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1867. AMERICA. dinary fidelity and success. It is an organization which in the hands of an unscrupulous or careless or incompetent man might, of coarse, have been NEW TORE, Avoca 30. readily abused, and to say that even with as pure Nothing new has occurred, or at least got and able a man as Howard at its head it was never abroad, in the Johnson-Grant quarrel. But the abused would of course be absurd. But I can final explosion cannot be very long delayed. safely say that no one denies that its abuses Whatever illusions Grant may have indulged in as have under his administration been reduced to to the influence he could exert over the President a minimum, while the good it has done has been in case he took a seat in the cabinet must be by enormous. In fact, without it the negro population this time dissipated. Mr. Johnson's policy seems of the South would during the last two years have to be fully settled, and it is not the advice of his enjoyed absolutely no security for either life or official councillors which have either shaped it or ProPerty. This administrative success, added to can now modify it. His principal adviser is Mr. his personal character, has endeared Howard not Black, Mr. Buchanan's last Attorney-General, and only to the political public properly so called, but other democratic politicians who are in open or to that other and still more powerful, because more secret sympathy and communication with the lead- earnest, public, the religious public of the country. To see him, therefore, displaced from a position in ing Southern secessionist,. Another influence which, I am assured on good authority, acts power- which he had done so much good, and in which fully on him is that of his own family. In their there is so much still to do, and sent to take charge eyes, and especially in the eyes of the f ema l e of the wilderness of Walrussia, wounds people to members of it, his personal wrongs have been the quick ; and the spectacle is made all the unendurable. He is Preeideat of the United , more repulsive by the comparison which the reli- States, an office of waribord i wary power sai l gious world—not quite fairly, perhaps, but still not dignity, and he -r ...bees—eheee of ...d ear kriliwaatursll77—makas between Mr. Johnson's all the power by a ares o f men whom rector and General Howard's. every Tennessean has been brought up to I The extreme radicals are still working as hard detest and abhor. This is certainly not what his as they can to make capital out of the crisis against family bargained for when he was sworn into office, General Grant. The publication of his oorre and they are naturally desirous that he should not spondence with the President, as I said in my last, now Submit to it. Then, the feeling has been wall a heavy blow and great discouragement to gaining onhim, in proportionaa the fear of impeach- them, but they are recovering from it, and now, ment has declined, that he has been guilty of weak- while treating him with greater consideration, peas in submitting to so much. He has been en- make every little point against him they possibly couraged in this feeling by the refusal of the Senate can. His taking the Secretaryship of War was unquestionably a mistake, inasmuch as it has given in July to arrange for a meeting of Congress earlier than the end of November, or to prohibit the Pre. his enemies a handle against him, and inasmuch as silent from removing the military commandivrs at it has not proved of any use in counteracting Mr. the South. The house was anxious to take both Johnson's designs. Allthat haaresulted fromit thus of these steps, particularly the latter one, but the far has been that General Grant, instead of some Senate, which felt that the progress , towards radi- worse and less popular man, has been made the in can= was sufficiently rapid as it was, resolutely atrument of promulgating perhaps the most refused to concur, and it is simply owing to this obnoxious orders that have ever issued from the hands of the executive in this country. The "war that Mr. Johnson retains as much authority as he does. He has for a long while back been in daily democrats" will unquestionablynominate Grant for H e b e li eves fi rm ly the next presidency ; and the republicans are, as expectation of a " reaction." matters stand, very likely to do so ; but it will not in the popular love of the Union, but, like nearly per , be certain that they will do so unless he makes all the old democratic politicians, he cannot suede himself that they greatly desire any d e . ,an unmistakeable declaration of adhesion to their Principles, which he has not yet. done. In the parture from the old type of union, or greatly desire the introduction of new principles into its meantime the candidate of the '° extreme left," framework. A certain timidity which nothing headed by the Tribune, is Chief Justice Chase, and in his past career would fully explain h as k ep t, they are determined to have him if they him from acting ou this expectation hitherto. I ran- Perhaps the strongest objection to him But in the refusal of the Senate to impose further is, that, in his present position, he should restrictions on him, or to provide for an earlier be willing to be a candidate at all. He has had a session of Congress, he doubtless saw signs of that hankering for the office ever since 1860. There reaction, or of that widespread and deeply-seated was a strong effort made to have him put in nomi feeling of conservatism from which he has expected , nation against Mr. Lincoln in 1864, but his sup reaction to flow, and this, combined with the ex- porters were not strong enough, and such of them hortationsof his family and of his old democratic i as were utterly opposed to Mr. Lincoln in any event friends "to be a man," to "put his foot down," i were compelled to accept General Fremont. Mr. and " show that he was really President of the' Chasm has not since his accession to the bench of United States," has probably nerved him to ta k e the Supreme Court done much either to conciliate his present position. I his enemies or win over the conservatives. He has His cabinet has for a few weeks been more a , gone about the country too much, made too many name than a reality. He submits his plans to, speeches at negro meetings, and has "lobbied" a them in the form of questions, and if the majority ; little too much in Congress in favour of radical should be of his way of thinking, he takes the measures. There is a class of politicians here who really seem to think that if "impartial advice of the majority ; if they should not be, he suf takes the advice of the minority. The resignations frage" be once established, all the ills from which mankind suffers will in this country be removed ; of the whole body, including Mr. Seward, who has done and suffered so much for him, were sent in other words that if the source of power be the right one, the machinery through which power in some days ago, but he has not yet decided which of them he will accept. The only thing cer- is exercised is of no importance. They therefore tau about it is that Mr. M'Culloch is km* even on courts of j ustice as sim p l y instru to be retained. He has not meddled much in ments for the propagation of right principles, and party politics, and his disappearance from the are as ready to have a judge come down off the bench and take the stump in favour of them as any , treasury during a crisis like the present would, I body else, no matter what the effect may be on his it is felt, give a serious blow to the national credit. authority as an expounder of the law. All the party But all the others will probably retire. Far as Mr. Seward and one or two more are prepared to managers in think State are working hard for Mr. ! Chime ; but I there is little doubt that work as go in the work of " conciliation," they not they may, General Grant will, after all, be the man dently intends to go, and keep the company he prepared to go as far as Mr. Johnson now evi get the nomination, particularly as the West is is to now evidently bent on keeping. not always under the same influences that the His changes in the cabinet, however, except as East is. an indication of the completeness of his perversion, make comparatively little impression on the public mind ; no members of it, except Mr. Stanton, had much hold on the people. What kindles the most intense exasperation is the removal of the generals —the displacement of heroes of the war like Sheridan, and Sickles, and Howard. It is no consola tion that Hancock, or Canby, or Thomas, who are to take their places, are also heroes of the war, and did distinguished service, and may perhaps be relied on to carry out the policy of Congress in the insurrectionary districts with just as much faithfulness as their predecessors. What stings people is, that such men should be removed because of their faithfulness, that they should be removed, too, in compliance with Seces sionista' prayers and entreaties, and that their re moval should represent the triumph of Sams sionista' ideas and plans in the White House. Sheridan is just now the popular hero. His ad ministration at New Orleans gives perfect satisfac tion to the public. It is just what they consider that region needs, for there is no region in which the pinions and vices of slave society still flourish with such rankness and luxuriance, and if there be any peculiar honour, distinction, or satisfaction to be had from the position, they think Sheridan is I fairly entitled to it. To dismiss him from his post, therefore, as if in disgrace, and send him to fight Indiana on the plains, is regarded as an insult to every loyal man and woman at the North. The same feeling exists, though in a minor degree, with regard to Sickles. Howard's case, however, touches feelings still deeper and more sacred than that of either Sheridan or Sickles. Howard was educated at the Military School at West Point, but he is a man of deep religious feeling, and instead of entering the army, began to prepare for the ministry, and was thus engaged when the war broke out. He at once went into the service, but as a veritable crusader, and deeply impressed, if ever man was, that in drawing the sword he was about to do battle for the Cross. His whole career during the struggle was marked not only by great military ability, but by a religious fervour, which displayed itself, not in words only, or in a faithful discharge of his professional duties, but in untiring and unceasing devotion to the relief of the thousand forms of suffering which the war of course every day presented. He was a veritable Bayard and Howard rolled into one, and when the peace came he reached his home with a reputa tion such as no other man had won. When the Freedmen's Bureau was organized it was felt that he was just the man to take charge of it, and he was accordingly at once put at its head. Since then he has diacharged its duties with extraor- (FllO3l OUR EIPECUL CO] THE ABYSSINIAN TELEGRAM. TO TUN ZDITOR OF TRE ZIPRZRE. Sin,—Having by the mail of this morning received the Levant Herald of September 4, containing the paragraph which Mr. Banter's corrrespondent has had the hardihood to refer to as the excuse for his mischievous telegram of the 3rd, I venture to ash your permission to quote it as conclusive contradiction of the statement in his message of the sth that the Herald had first published end then contradicted the news in question as having been •• received by the British Embsasy." The only allusion in the paper to the subject is the following, under the head ing of " Reported Release of the Abyssinian Captives :" " It Is reported in Constantinople that the mission of the Armenian bishop, Isaac, w►o wee sent to Abyssinia about four months ago by Mgr. Isaiah, the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, to endeavour to effect the Mesee of the European prisoners, has proved anaemia), and that at his intercession King Theodore has liberated Consul Cameron and his companions in captivity. We have made inqui ries regarding this rumour, but have not yet been able to authenticate it." This, es I have raid, appears in the weekly edition of the 4th instant, but may probably have been reproduoed from the daily Bulletin of the 3rd, which I have not re ceived, and, if so, formed absolutely the only authority for the falsehood—simply telegraphed to Mr. Reuter on the sth in attempted palliation of the original blander of the 3rd. I think I need add nothing in further vindica tion of the Levant Herald. As to the morality and trust worthiness of the correspondent, I leave your readers to form their own opinion.—l am, &e., THE EDITOR OF THE " LEVANT HERALD." Reform Club, Sept 12. P.S. Since writing the above, I have seen the Constan tinople telegram of yesterday in the Dail,y News of this morning. It confirms my surmise that the paragraph quoted had appeared in the Bulletin of the 3rd, but offers no further tittle of justification for the statement that the rumour had been originally published as having reached the embassy. The " contradiction " in the 'Midi* of the sth may be safely imagined from the wording of the para graph itself, and, I feel confident, but little mends the case for the correspondent. [ln justice to Mr. Renter we most observe that the question thus raised cannot be decided until the Levant Herald of the 3rd inst. comes to hand:l THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. —About 700 tons of pig iron hat just been despatched from South Stafford. shire to be sent out to Abyssinia. It is understood that the iron is intended to be out into shot on the way out, and that crucibles fur that purpose will be taken on board with it. The pigs are those known as the Birchilla Furnace iron, and they were sent from Bloomfield, near Tipton, by railway to Victoria Basin. Though not a the beet quality of iron they are not of the worst, and will stand the turn ing to which, after they have bean mist, they will have to be subjected. Yesterday, the following vire* forming portion of the steam transport fleet for the conveyance of storms and troops between Bombay and Mainowah, were in the Kersey, and nearly reedy for sailing :—Thelgisgland, Queen, Californian, West Indian. Kangaroo, and City a Dublin. Orders were given to four of the transports to go to sea last night, viz., the Kangaroo, West Indian, England, and Peruvian. [STAMPED, 141. ADDITIONAL.] TRADES OUTRAGES COMMISSION. Sicrr. 12. William Tetlow, examined by Mr. Chance.— Is a hrickmaker at Hurst, nee Ashton In 1861 was in his father's service. Resides near the brickyard. Is not a member of the Ashton brickmakers' union. Ceased to be one 20 years ago. Gave up paying because they ill used him. In 1861 the men turned out and the masters had meetings. They employed non-union men, sad they wanted an advance and his father agreed to give them Is. 10d. They then turned out, and they put needles in the clay —many a thousand. It was in May, 1861. Some bottles were thrown into his house about six months after. His father and self, and brother and the chap that wed his wife's sister agreed to work the concern themselves as well las they could after the strike. The bottles ware thrown into his house about 1 o'clock in the morning. He was asleep, and when his wito heard the first bottle she said there are some brickmaken throwin g bottles into the room. He said, "Oh never heed them. " Tbeywere thrown into the parlour, and he eould not get down stairs for the smoke and smell. There was a smell of naphtha. When he got down stain be found a bottle neck, Some of the bottles struck the bedroom window frame, and ex ploded outside. One or two bottles were struck against the frame of the bedroom window. He found parts of the bottles under the window outside, and pieces of the wood OD fire. The blinds were set on fire in the room below, and pictures were broken. They bad to have window shutters afterwards, and altogether the affair cost them many a pound. By Mr. Pickering—Had been threatened since, sad used shameful. . Had Wake spoiled fear or five times since, and ante time they spaded 20,000. Men had come ' and shouted "Knobstickm" Had been ill-used this sum mer through a disturbance over the water in the brickyard. Burns and Henry Watson attacked him is the yma d, sad cut his lip with his fist. They mid it was not hie water he was using. Burns and Watson were union men. They tried to get him into the water. Watson said, " What are you doing with this water " They put Inm into the water. He got the opperband of Watson, bat Burns came and used his fiats. His wife CUM and talked to them, sod they threatened to throw her into the water. Watson had said in a publio-house they would take his life before the summer was out. He had been shouted at, and he was afraid to go down the street. Timothy Burns examined by Mr. Pickering—ls a mem ber of the Ashton union, and has been 17 or 18 years. There were men regularly employed to go round and gauge the bricks, and look whether union men were employed. There was a dis pute about taking water out of a pit. It wee in Tetlow 's yard, but he allowed Mr. Oeorge, in the next briehoroft, to take water out of his pit. This summer he wee called from hie work and told that Tallow was taking the water. He then thought the water belonged to Mr. George, his master. He went and found Tetlow and Watson struggling, and he parted them. Tetlow's wife smacked his face, but he put her away without striking her. He had never called Tallow a knobstick, but had beard that he employed knobstick men. Never be lieved in spoiling property, and was never engaged in doing it. Henry Watson had been a member of the union, bat was not now a brickmaker. Worked for Mr. George, in the next yard to Tetlow's. The water well in their yard, and Tetlow was letting the water run off in waste. He told Tetlow he must not let it run off in spite, and he said it was his water, and be would do as he liked with it. He told him he should not. Tetlow struck him, and Burns same tip while they were struggling on the ground. Had heard Tetlow Galled " Knobstiek." He did not employ union men at that time, but had em ployed them. Witness never spoiled any bricks. Would swear he never mid he would have Tetlow's life, or ever heard such words spoken. James Taylor said he is a master brickmaker at Saddle worth, 51 miles from Aabton. Had • brick-croft at Cook Brook in 1859. He believed the Ashton union brokeu about that time, and the men werereforming it. He turned his hands away, and engaged fresh ones—six or seven, who were non-union men at that time. Paid them the same wages as the others. They worked for him all winter. Two union men came in October and asked him to take his old hands back. He believed one was Thomas Harrison. Told them he should keep the men he had, and one of them said, "Then he must take what fol lowed." He replied he would, "He wield take pot luck." On the 4th of November a fire was discovered is his brick yard at between one and two in the morning. He got out as soon as he could and removed some boards from the shed which stopped it from spreading. The upper part of the shed was destroyed. The shed would hold 2,300 bricks, which were spoiled. A aumber of barrows and other property was destroyed, and the loss would be about 401. Thought at the time the premises had taken fire accidentally, but finding bottles of naphtha and oil left on the premises he thought it must have been maliciously done. Hs offered a reward of H., but did not discover the offenders. Worked comfortably afterwards up to 1864. Employed non-union men up to 1861, but employed union men afterwards, because he wanted his work done, and to go on comfortably. Jsmes Clifford, examined by Mr. Pickering—Worked for the last whims in 1850. There was a union about to be formed of brickmakers at the time. He and the men employed by Mr. Taylor were Dollllllioll men. One of the unionists came, named James Meriden, and asked them if they would join the union. They answered they did not know. Remembered the fire at Taylor's, yard. Hs had no watchman at the time, but had afterwents. Had been a member of the union, but left it because he did not like it. John Butterfield said he is the son of John King Butter field, who bad been watchman in Februery, 1861, at Mr. Barlow's brickyard in Droyladen. Seine nimi came at the time and threatened him if he started watching. There were two or three, and they kicked up a regular row. They said they would do something at him if he started firing (the bricks). His father went that night and lighted the fire. His father's bores after this had its throat cut, but only akin deep. The horse had his back sinews out and had to be shot there and then. This was six months after. His father continued to watch and fire after this. The union men were on strike at the time, bat Harlow's men were at work. . _ Joseph Firth, examined by Mr. Pickering—ls • member of the Ashton Trades' Union and bad been president one quarter of lest year. Was • member and went to the bottle-throwing at Kirke'a. He was there with Burke and the others, and received a pound. He believed Kolar was engaged to carry out tbeaffair and paid all the money. The reason for the attack on Kirke's and Clifford's places was that they employed non-union men. He had not been oonoerned in any other. He did not know of any depre dation' while he wee president, but if there were any ho should pay for it as president. He was president in 1860 or 1861, and remembered paying Honor 161. or 101., but could not remember what it wee for. Thought it was for spoiling bricks. The secretary gave him the money and entered it ea he liked. His duty would simply be to pay the money. The money was kept in • safe with Ave keys, which were held by five different persons who had all to be present when it was opened. By Mr. Chanoe—lied only been at two of these affairs, and never intended to be at any more. Ho did not approve of these outrages and should be glad to put • stop to them. Before the commissioners adjourned to lunch, at one o'clock, Mr. W. P. Reborn served His fallowing eerie on the court in reference to the box they bad threatened to force open:—" To Messrs. Pickering, Barstow, and Chance, barristers-at-law, commissioners acting at the Arise Omer, in Manchester, under the ' Trades Union Com mission Act, 1867.'—1, the undersigned William Prouting Roberta, of 44, Princess-street, gentleman, attorney for the Brickmakers' Burial Society of Manchester, for whom I am appearing in the said courts, hereby give you were' that the rid society deny your right to seize or authorise the seizing of their boxes (the same having been seined and taken away from their possession, as is said, by your authority and connivance), and they require you to cause such boxes to be taken back to the place and places from which they were so illegally taken. And they deny your I right and the right of all persons to open the said boxes' by violence or otherwise. And U any violence is used to the rid boxes, or any boxes or property belonging te them, they will bring an action or actions against you under the Bth section of the said sot, and also against all other persons by whom such violence is authorised or practised. And they desire me to require you to atop at once the practice of examining them in private, either be fore or after any public examinations, or at any other time or times, such private examination being most unfair and partial, and calculated to entrap Into admissions and state ments the persons subjected to them. And they desire to conform to the law in all respects. And lam to intone you that the act of parliament under which you are act ing gives no power of seizing of boxes, or of breaking them open, or of private examination.—Dated this 12th day of September, 1867.—ISigned) W. P. Rormirra." Joseph Frith having been recalled, said that on one occasion his carter was carting bricks to build the Man chester City Gaol, out of the Ashton district and into the Manchester district. His carter got a good threshinr, and so did Samuel Lees, who went with them. Witness afterwards sold about 40,000 into the Manchester district, and had delivered 30,000. On one ocession the carter was obliged to bring his bricks back and put them in the yard again. Manchester would not let the brick setters set Ashton brick,. The Manchester union rimmed • circle of four miles round Manchester for ten districts, or 121 square miles, and were two powerful for Ashton, and the weak always fell to the wall. Them was no objection by the Stockport or Oldham unions to Ashioa bricks. The Manchester union was the only one that claimed that monopoly. James Harrison said, in answer to Mr. Chang" that be is • master brickmaker. As a journeyman ha was a member of the Ashton Trades Union. In 1868 hie brother had some clay that they were grinding by machine, and the men said they must not use it. The clay was net lit for bricks without grinding be ruse of time being lime in (TWOPENCE it. There was • reedy saki for such bricks, if they could have supplied them. Three men come and gave notice and went away. This was on • Wednesday, and on the Sun day following the shed was on fire, in which bricks were drying. About 3,000 bricks were spoiled. Could not find out who did it. Were only employing three or four union as. That was the only damage they had sustained. Once afterwards they were fined 2s. for using moulds out of shape, and as they had • good deal of work, sooner than 18 or 20 men should be stopped, they paid the fine. Some of their fowls had been poisoned. A neighbour was knocked insensible by • man on his way home, the other Sunday night, and there was reason to suppose he had been mis take, for their watchman. Joseph Smith said, in 1863, he was manager of the Ard wick Brickmaking Company, and during the night a quan tity of timber bad tar thrown on it. They were having timber from Mr. Bennett, but bad ceased because of Ben nett's carters being threatened, and one of their horses being killed. We wire machine brickmaken, and Bennet* thought we had better get our timber somewhere else. The tar thrown on the timber was set alight, and the timber destroyed, or rendered unfit for the purposes in tended. On one occasion a stable was broken open of theirs and • grey mare being tied up by the bead, shavings were placed under it and set on fire. The horse died within a couple of hours. This was at three o'clock in the morning. A neighbour woman gave alarm of the fire, and said that I she saw three or four men like brickmaken leave the 'tables. When the horse was found it bad struggled and pulled the by-catch down. In July, 1864, their brick carts had the kicker-bars withdraws while the carters were lunching in the Ashton Old-road. If this had not been discovered the five carts would have been a sad the bricks in them when started, and the horses wool d base beeninjured. A womansawahandbrickmakerdo it, and told the carters. On mother occasion be left a boy to take some lettere to the Post-office, and as he went, three or four brickmaken took him and threw him into • pit of water 10 or 12 feet deep, and left him there. A =ohmic was puling, or the boy must have been drowned. One man took him by the shouldthe end the other by the feet, and they throw him five or au yards into the water. Knewelno reasonfor it, bat tbattksywenaaken of Woke by machinery. In June, 1864, some brr,kmakere set fire to a joiner's shop belonging to them. A bottle had been put into his house since that containing gunpowder, and • flannel saturated with spirits. On the Ist May some bricks made by machthery were sent by them In carts, and three bad-brickmakers cause and cut the ornaments from the horses, and the traces were cut. One of the carters came to tell him, and he went to see what wee taking place. There were three bticicenthers, widths, beat him, and one while he was down struck a knife at his shoulder but it went into the ground, and the blade broke off. It was about three in the afternoon. He ran off as soon as he could, and went into • wheelwright's shop, where he got • hammer. By that time there was onlyone brickmaker following hint, ar.d he turned on seeing the hammer. He went back to the place where the knife had been struck at his shoulder, and felted • • rises of the blade of th e k n if e i n th e groun d two to thresusehse long. That was is 1864. He left the company's service in consequence of that attack, his friends pomading him to do so for fear he would come to some serious injury. Ultimately the company gave up making bricks by machine, Laving so many break-downs of machinery in the place that they thought hand brick makers got ink) their employ under false pretences, who caused these break-downs. Machine-made betake were much superior to hand-made. Thomas Cole was about fourteen years old. About the latter and of 1864, about seven o'clock, he wu going home from the works, when two men, dressed in brick makers' clothes, threw him into • pit. He could not swim. A stranger coming by got him out. It is • pit in as open field, with • road passing it. One man took bold of his hands and the other of his legs, and threw him four or five yards. Was going to the poet-office. Had said nothing to the men. John Cole, • brickmaker, mid he remembered, in July, 1864, there was • machine briokinaking company in Aril wick. Was taken into custody iu 1864, on a charge of drawing the kicker-ban from some brick carts, but he had done nothing of the kind. James Broom said be was a carter in the employ of Mr. Mainland Bennett, and remembered, three or four years sego, one of the homes in the stable bad its throat out. There were seven cuts, and one laid the windpipe bare. It was in the night. The horse recovered. They carted timber to the machine brickmakingeonoern at the time, and it was supposed to bedews by brickmaken . This was • white faced hone • among four in the and was the one em ployed always 12 take timber to the stables, achine tirickmakera. The court adjourned to Friday (this day). THE BRITISH ASSOCIA [ON AT DUNDEE. DUNDEE, WIDNIRDAT EVE2II7O. The thirty-seventh annual gathering of the Bri tish Association for the Advancement of Science was brought to a close this afternoon, and is generally pro nounoed to be ono of the most successful meetings they have ever been held in connexion with the aaeociatica. The preparations made by the public authorities for the reception of the association were of the most perfect the racier, and the arrangements throughout have been admi rable. The attendance at the meetings of the various sections has been unusually large, prooably owing to the popular cbatacter of many of the papers read. The number of members admitted is considerably in excess of that at Nottingham last year, while the financial malt is equally satisfactory. The only section which met to-day was the mathe matical, in which aerial excellent papers were read. There was not • very large attendance at this meeting ; but a considerable number of the members visited Pen man, chapel, where the wonderful collection of articles found in Kent's Cavern were exhibited. By far the larger number, however, seemed to avail themselves of the opportunity afforded them of learning something of the various branch,, of industry carried on in the town ; and every facility was afforded them fur this purpose, the whole of the public works being thrown opento their inspec tion, while the utmost attention was shown to theviAtors. , . The meeting of the general committee was held in Pannuire chapel, at one o'clock, at which the sums granted to the association for the promotion of scientific objects—not the least useful function of the institution —were agreed upon, and at three the concluding meeting took place, in the h;innaird•hall. The attendance wis, of course, not nearly so large es at the opening ceremony. but the ball was well tilled. Sir Roderick Illurchincn., Professor Ramsay, and others bore cordial testimony to the lIIICOCIIS which had attended the meeting, and well-merited compliments were paid to the authorities and the inhabi. tants of Dundee for the reception the awoeiation bad met with. A banquet was given in the Albert Institute in the evening by the corporation to the principal members of association ; sod the Philharmonic) Society gave a grand concert in the evening. The Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, First Lord of the Admiralty, aeoompanied by Admiral Sir Alexander Mike, paid a visit to Liverpool, and in the early part of yesterday attended the atonal distribution of pnzes on board the school frigate Conway. A large number of ladies and gentleman were present on the measion, cludirg Mr. T. B. Hornell, M.P., Mr. Laird. M.P., Capt. Brandreth, R.N. (Mr. Cony's secretary), Mr. l&'Oregar (Admiralty), Mr. Montagu Corry (secretary to Mr. Dis raeli), Mr. lirocklebank (chairman of the Mersey Dock Board), Captain Ward (chairman of the Mercantile Marine Service Association) &J. Tux WARKINOTON RAILWAY AOCIDENT.—Mr. Herbert, of the Board of Trade, writing on the subject of the report made by Colonel Tolland un the collision that took place on the 29th Jane last, between a passenger train sad a coal train belonging to the London and North Western Railway Company at Walton Junction, neer Warrington, draws the attention of the directors of the railway company to that portion of a report made by Captain Tyler,oa a collision that occurred in the same place on Jan.l, 1862, in which, amongst other things, he pointed out howdesirable it was "that the most approved apparatus; should be applied for working the points and signals In connexion with one another ; ' and to Colonel 1, olland's remark, that if "Captain Tyler's recommendations had been adopted, the recent collision at Walton Junction cer tainly would not have happened." He adds:—" It is a matter of very deep regret to their lordships that the com pany did not think fit to carry out Captain Tyler's recom mendations, the adoption of which would, as far as eau be ascertained, have prevented so lamentable a loss of life. Their lordships trust that the company will now see the necessity of at once taking such steps as may prevent the recurrence of a similar accident." A DANGEROUS PRACTICE ON Itall.wava. —The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade in transmitting to the directors of the London, Chatham, mid Dover Railway Company the copy of is report by Captain Tyler, the officer sppointed to inquire into the circumstances which attended the accident that occurred on the 10th July at the Battersea Pier junction on the London, Chatham, and Doper Railway, direct attention to the following remarks of Captain Tyler:—" It is, unfor tunately, the practice generally at railway junctions for the signalman to tura his main srm.iphore signal to danger while a train is passing, and before it ha, completely passed through his points. The safety derived from the application of the locking ap paratus is thus partially lost. When tho lever of the signal is turned over the lock is taken off the points, and the signalman is at liberty to make the disastrous mistake which was evidently made by the signalman on this occa sion, and which he could not have made if he had allowed his signal to remain down until the last vehicle' of the train had passed through his points. The signalmen at the junctions of one of the principal companies are even subjected to the penalty of a tine if they do cot raise their signals sharply while a train Is passing them ; it not having been considered that such a practice, which is as regards distant signals, is attended with the danger here illustrated as regards the main signals."