The Express. — London, England, 1867-08-16 00:00:00

B ROWN and POISON'S CORN FLOUR for CHILDREN'S DIET. To obtain extra profit by the ule other kinds are sometimes aered Instead of BROWN and POLSON'S. "Jobs Brown," "John Poison," la sled by the makers on each packet. BRAI AK FAS T.,lCPPti r a r 0111:11YA.; tit e erpretsfs. TO CORIMPONDINTS. .civortfoonlento Intended for " The " London Zomba zziomnte-dxorr.bri. br Two DIURY LAN& Tins wean. TEAT TIWAL JAZIL Maws. Moose and FevWe : Mesdames Allan. and Thompson.—To conclude with THE GREAT CITY. Marra Cowper, IV Int Villiers, trying, Rase, H. Itanold, It Warner; Madames Roarliaf IA Thar,. HAYMASKILT. Tem nmatals, THE SCHOOL FOR sCANDAL. Mama Chip pendale. Howe, Rocas. Kendal, Clark. Weethersby, de. ; Mes dames Sedgwirk, Chippendale, Mtzwill PARIS AND BACK TOR Cs.—And THE MILK AND HOW TO USE IT. siiNClera. EYMrlad. THE DAY AY= THE WEDDING..—THE MAN 0' AMIE. James Harebell. Mr. Harman Veda; Mews. X Price, Yorreeter, Gresham, Maclean, and Elberton ; Mines E. Stuart, Nally Moore. de.—And AN UNFROTECTED FEMALE. TEIS Evzsma, REVELSES. Meows. Imam Parma* Rob son. and Swanhomugh Mesdames Ada Swanboronah and John stone.—And THE LATEST EDITION OF KENILWORTH. Mears. Thorne A James; Mesdames Holt, Newton, de. Tin avininta, MY nii7.7;iii 17Y PARTNER JOE.—The Brothers Hanlon ; My. C. Woodman : Mr. J. Ptampton : Little Lentte ; Jtasie Nina. the Champion iikatere—And JACt 0' LANTERN. Mr. Reynolds and MI 3. Mlles. HIGH RATS AT LONDON BILIDGE. Ms DAT —Morning. th. 42m....—A1tercoott, 2IL 675. to-IgosioN—Mornlag. SIB 131e.._..Afternoca, IX Slim LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16. THE Reform Bill yesterday received the Royal Assent, and is now part of the kw of the land. No great contest is ever decided with out a subsequent dispute as to the person to whom honour should be accorded. Claimants are wont to offer themselves for a share in the glory on the ground that to their unobtru sive yet substantial services the final result was due. It is certain that many a battle has been won for which the general who is hailed as the organizer of victory has deserved little credit, and that many an invention has been rendered pos sible by the previous labours of forgotten men. Thus it happens that fame, which ought to be the heritage of the most deserving, is too often awarded to the most conspicuous —an accident of birth or position proving more important than conscientious service and personal self-sacrifice. How far this rule will be applicable to the case of those who by their perseverance have secured a good instalment of Reform for the country it were premature to determine. But we may anticipate that those who least merit our thanks will be the most urgent in claiming our gratitude. Already we have had indications as to what course will be adopted. The Tories and their friends are even now boasting about their success in anni hilating the Whig party, and rejoicing in having demonstrated to their own satisfaction that the Liberal monopoly in Reform has been terminated for ever. Hereafter we shall doubtless hear these opinions reiterated as if they were gospel truths. They are opinions to which a conclusive answer cannot be made without giving utterance to a paradox. Neverthelese, it is a fact susceptible of a clear explanation that the measure of the Tory defeat is the thoroughness of the Tory victory. The key to this puzzle will be found in a solu tion of the problem : why has there been an irre sistible demand for Reform f Neither party has stood alone in discussing the subject. During the past few years several members of Parliament have endeavoured to bring about particular changes in the representation of the people : more than one Government has made the introduction of a Reform Bill an essential part of its programme. Bet isolated and collective efforts alike failed. It was again and again necessary to postpone to a more convenient season the accomplishment of the self imposed task. The majority held that the time was not ripe for the achievement of great alters tier a in the constitution of Parliament. Mean time the country was undergoing • transforma tion of opinion. Meetings were held in the more important localities by those who could no longer brook the anomalies in our system, and who were heartily sick of procrastination. Chief among the Rip who presided over and gave a tone to those meeting; we must rank Mr. BIUGHT. With an energy sometimes in excel!' v . ; what was deemed good taste, but always in accordance with his genuine convictions, he denounced existing abuses, and condemned the selfishness of those who main tained them to the certain detriment of the country. Frequently Mr. BRIGHT damaged his cause by unintentional exaggeration. He was so thoroughly • in earnest himself, so determined to' gain his point, that he thought more about dealing hard blows against his adversaries than about the con sequences which might ensue from his mode of attack. The natural result was that he was mis judged. It was supposed that no one could be so warm in demanding an extension of the right to vote unless he had ulterior ends in view. He was credited with desiring Reform in order to achieve revolution. No error could be more gross in reality or more pardonable on the part of men who, like the mass of English gentlemen, content themselves with conclusions drawn from a glance at the surface. They cannot rid themselves of the belief that every one who professes sympathy with the people must be • demagogue who has a vile purpose to serve. Their own patriotism is founded on a desire to enjoy their poi:sessions in peace, to possess the maximum of the pleasures of life while discharging the minimum of their duties to their neighbours. Friendship for the people is, in their view of the ease, best exhibited when it is possible at the same time to guide and govern the people. They held that, were Mr. Bazoirr's pro jected changes realised, their position would be altered, that the political power gained by the mass of their countrymen would be equivalent to so much influence withdrawn from them. Hence, in person, and through the medium of their obedient servants in the press, they laid to Mr. Batorres charge accusations which were but the phantasms of their own excited minds. When the Govern ment of Earl Husain introduced a Reform Bill into the House of Commons last year, the squires who could not reason, and • few timorous Liberals who for the time had sunk to the level of the squires, declaimed against Reform because it was the lever with which Mr. Bawer had resolved to upset the constitution. There was hardly a speaker among those opposed to the Bill who had not a fling at the honourable member for Birmingham. Every writer in the Tory press maintained that the Bill must be pernicious because Mr. Bawer had in spired its framers and proclaimed himself its friend. The fallacy which vitiated all the Tory arguments consisted in attributing to Mr. Baiorrr a power to which he had no claim. Even the much-abused demagogues are not so clever as is generally sup posed ; if they convince their fellows, it is be cause their fellows are open to conviction. Pro minent Chartists have made speeches of great elo quence, and conducted an agitation with great shrewdness, but they have not convorted England to their doctrines. It was the conformity be tween Mr. BRIGHT'S views and the wants of the 'entry which rendered them acceptable. The ..,fqrlieform has been answered because the cir ,umstances of the country have made Reform in dispensable. Are we, however, to applaud those who offered themselves as instruments to do the nation's bid ding after having up to the last moment resisted the nation's will ? Shall we acknowledge that the great Liberal party has been discomfited because its leaders are members of the Opposition at the time when liberal principles are embodied in an Act of Parliament ? There is much in the method of procedure to which we must take exception : a precedent has been set which many will hereafter deplore ; yet now that the Bill has virtually be come law, we can accept it with the greater satis faction insomuch as its finest features are moulded by Mr. GLADSTONE. Be has good reason to re joice, for he has proved a true prophet as well as an enlightened statesman. It is but a year since he assured the enemies of Reform that " You cannot fight against the " future. Time is on our aide. The great rocial " forces which move onward in their might and " majesty, and which the tumult of our debates " does not for a moment impede or disturb— " those great social forces are against you : they " are marshalled on our side, and the banner " which we now carry in this fight, though per " haps at some moment it may droop over our " sinking heads, yet it soon again will float in the " eye of heaven, and it will be borne by the " firm hands of the united people of the three " kingdoms, perhaps not to an easy, but to • " certain and to a not distant victory." Seldom has a prediction been so literally and speedily verified by the event. While we praise Mr. OLanwross's foresight, we need not condole with him on account of his incapacity to anticipate that the opponents to whom these eloquent words , were addressed would ever be foremost in the throng which should carry the banner of Reform to victory. We do not believe that our country men will be too ready to honour as true re formers men who legislated solely to retain office. In this sense, the triumph of the Tories is a dis grace. They have established the rule that foul play is permissible in the game of politics. Mr. Manama has gained everything except honour. Mr. GLansross, Mr. Baionr, and the band of true Liberals, have vindicated their principles, and thus earned the applause of those who, not having bowed the knee to success, regard the maintenance of an exalted political morality as the first duty of every public man. =7 OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE JCDCRENT IN THE CANE OP °PERINI), GURIET, AND CO. (L 1111711) The judgment delivered yesterday in the House of Lords confirming the decree of Vice-Chancellor Malin u to the liability of the shareholders of Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited) to contribute to the fall extent of their unpaid calls towards the payment of the creditors of the co.npany will surprise no one, says the Thies, who has fully considered the law which now regulates the position of joint-stock companies. It would, in deed, have been • national disaster if our Courts of Equity had been compelled to decide that a creditor dealing with a joint-stock company may never know to what persons and to what resources he is to look for payment. The register of shareholders of Overload, Gurney. and Co. (Limited) consisted of eight persons who originally signed the memorandum of auxiaticon, and of 676 others who acquired shares in the company by allot ment or by purchase. If the appellants could have sue ceeded in their contention, the creditors would have lost all remedy against the 676 shareholders, and against the three millions sterling they were liable to contribute, and have been remitted to their rights against the small resi duum of 8. Had this been settled law, it is no exaggeration to state that all Joint-stock enterprise would henceforth onus. It is only justice to the directors to add that, if they pear teed fraud on the shareholders, they participated with them in the risk. Each of them embarked a large capital in the company, and though the shame, with 181, paid up, rose to a premium of between W. and 101., none of than sold any shares, but retained them to the last. What they recommended to others they did themselves. But, though this may exonerate them from the imputation of an intent to injure u well as delude, none the less are they to be blamed by every honest man for the statements they put forth and the knowledge they withheld. _ The Daily News likewise, - after giving a deteseent of the we t affirm, the substantial jtailce as well as the iechnieal legality Cf the decision. It strongly condemns the persons who got up the new company. The additional capital was obtained, and could only have been obtained, by unscrupulously persuading the public not only that the old firm of Ovoreud, Gurney, and Co. was solvent, but that the business was such as " could not fail to ensure a highly remunerative return to the shareholders ;" whereas at the very time when this representation was made, those who made it knew that the seamen was insolvent to the extent of more than this, millions. The Pod, SandArtl, and Ttiegreph have articles as the woe subject. TEN PARIS After • personnel's* worthy of • better and a happier cause, Mr. Hardy has succumbed, and the Parka Regula tion Bill has disappeared for the session. The Times eon gratu/ates the public on this concession. It is, however, to be regretted he should proclaim that ho yields solely to compulsion, and that he withdraws the bill only because a strong-lunged minority threatens to talkfor a month rather than let it pass. Kr. Hardy, who has been, perhaps, secretly incited by a desire to avoid the weakness of his predecessor, appears in the end before the public in not a vary different guise ; for both ministers, after challeng ing a pertinacious opposition, have yielded to it at the last moment, and the victory of Mr. Beale' outside the house is not very unlike that of the radial obeiznotons within it- Hyde-perk has owe more been the scene of a ministerial defeat, observe' the Daily NC/08. The ground does not seem at all suited for tory manoeuvres, and air. Hardy has been no more suocesdul than Mr. Walpole. When next the subject is mentioned la parliament we may hope that many things which have embittered the recent disenesion will be forgotten, and that all parties may approach its discussion in a deliberative temper. The Herold sad Standard are both eery Irate at the conduct of what they call the " extreme radicals" of the house, and admit that Mr. Hardy had no other coarse open to him under the circumstances than to yield to their obstinacy. On the other hand, the Telegraph and Star are quits jubilant. The former remarks that poor Mr. Wal pole bad gone out of °Moe weeping and discomfited, and Mr. Hardy concluded that his line must be to bloater and talk big, and draw up heroics hills. " Trafa/gar"-square might have suggested to him those words of Nelms, " Anchor, Hardy, anchor." He bad only to bold his tongue, and he would have been troubled with no meetings in the park. The Star observes that the firmness of a few liberals has saved the government from a great danger and the country from a great disgrace. Of course, the bill is done with for ever. The tranquil experience of the rooms is sure to prove incontestably that it is not wanted, and we may depend upon it that as the next election approaches, the tory managers will become less sad less inclined to provoke the public. 111111:71P/au 0071•131; The conduct of the members of the flaw-Orinden• Volon of Sheffield, in deliberately associating with Crooke. and Broadhead, is severely commented on by the Doug Pew. The social cancer Si Sheffield le deeper seated, it say; than any of um had sup posed. Of an the heathens to whom we send mis sionaries, none more need to be converted than these anion caw-grinders. Living in the bosom of a Christian society, they are a set of Thugs. Nobody has ever painted THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 18$7. them blacker than they have now painted themselves. They have made their own position, and it is their ersk fault thakintessforth tiny most be sham& like lepers by all who are not as depraved and reprobate as themselves. The Standard remarks that the mark of Cain is so deeply branded upon these men, that in any other society than that of Sheffield they would be hunted out of the eyeshot and earshot of honest men. In the opinion of the Telegraph it would be perfectly useless to argue with the saw-grinders. No discussion is possible with men who deliberately shelter • Broadhead and a Crookes. They are not indeed outside the pale of the law, but they are outside reason and remonstrance. Fortunately, they are but a small minority, who are re garded with as much abhorrence by the rest of the working classes as by the other grades of society. LATEST INTELLIGENCEI, (tainTia'a TaLsGRAIM.) AMERICA. The royal mail steamship Persia arrived A' Queenstown at 9.30 a.m. to-day (August 16), with 84 cabin passengers and 7,000 dole. in specie. She landed all the mails, consisting of 116 sacks, and 15 passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 9.40 a.m. All well. NEW YORK, AVOOST 7, Mortmo. The democrats carried the elections in Kentucky by a majority of 60,000, electing Kr. Heins governor, nearly all the members of the legislature, and Mr. Galleday am mem ber to congress, to fill the vacancy ceased by the death of Kr. Rise. General Sickles has ordered the postponement of the re assembling of the North Carolina Legislature until further notice, and has directed the suspension of trial by jury until the jury lists are revised. General Pope has ordered all civil suits against officers for acts done in pursuance of military orders to be aban doned. General Sheridan has removed the ell treasurer of New Orleans, and appointed his successor. The State military authorities of Tennessee have &mourned the protection of all negroes discharged by conservative employers for voting the radical ticket. The Union meeting held at Covington, Kentucky, cm the evening of the 3rd inst., was dispersed by a mob. Negro troops, armed and equipped, participated in the radical procession at Prattsville, Alabama, on the 3rd. The Attorney General has received complaints that the military-commander at Wilmington obstructs the serving of civil procemaes issued by Chief Justice Chars in North Carolina. Genera Michel ham resigned the command of the military forces in Canada. Advice; received here from Tees Cruz, to the 24th ult., state that the city was healthy. The presidential mamma wee prang quietly. The Austrian frigate Klinairth was about to return to New Orleans, the Mexican authorities refusiug to sur render to the commaader the body of the late Emperor Maximilian. All the foreign caw& at Vera Oxus, except the American, had lowered their national lags. It is reported that Marques, the brother of fdiramon, and other generals, are organising a large force in the mountains. Losada still defies Juarez. Admiral Palmer, et the United States Navy, hu gone to the capital, it is reported to demand the penon of Santa Anna, who is still a prisoner at Campeche. r, Auoaer 16. The National Steam Navigation Company's steamship Pennsylvania, from Liverpool, arrived here at 11 o'clock last night, embarked her passen gers, and sailed at 11 this morning for New York. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. ROUSE OF COMMONS.—Auoun 15. PARKS REGULATION BILL. In the Committee.—Motion made and Question put, " That the Chairman do now leave the chair :"—(3(r. Den man :)—The committee divided : eyes 31, noes 86. AYES. Amberley. Via& Lawreaeesi. Potter, B. &yams, IL. & Lettere, 0. J. Bearden, D. I. Butler. C. 8. Locke, J. Sheridan, H. B. J. Lusk, A. =t i r l ot, R. W. ll'loren, D. tykes, Col. Taylor, P. A. &Ada., Vice- Adm. Yak . S. Tomos, W. T. Gilpin, C. C. .T. Whalley, O. IL Olyn, G. 0 Norwood, C. M. Nardi, J. D. O'Beirne, J. L. TILLER{. Hay, Lord J. (Ylirien, Slr P. Denman, 0. Kinglake, J. A. O'Logaket, Sir C. Gray, Sir J. Laboacltere, H. Otway, A. J. NOES. Adderley, C. B. Graven 8 R. Mowbray, J. R. Anson, Major (hey, T. de Neste, C. Barrington, Viect. Otlmth, C. D. Newdegate, C. N. Bathurst, A. A. Gurney, B. North. Col. Beach, Sir M. Hamilton, Masud Northootet, Bfr & Bingham. Lord Hamilton, 14. C. J. Pakingtoo, Mx J. Brooks, B. Hamilton, Placa Patten Col. Campbell, A. H. Hardy, G. Paull, Capper C. Hay, 81r J. Peel, Oen. Cartwright, COl Henley, J. W. Powell, X 8. Cut 8. Herbert, Col. head, C. 8. Chatterton, H. X Hope, A. J. Robertson, P. Cochrane, A. D. Jonas, D. Schneer, C. Corry, H. L. Kerslake, Sir J. Sclater-Booth, G. Delkeith. Earl of Kerslake, R. K. Selwyn, Sir C. J. Dickson, Major Kelk, J. Seymour, G. H. Diteadalo, B. Karam, W. Smith, J. A. Disraeli, B. Knightley, fik X Stanley, Lord Dowdeowell, W. K. Laud, J. Stopford, 8. G. Du Cane, C. Leader, N. P. 9 Start, H. G. Duncombe, Col. Lennox, Lord G. Walpole, & H. Dunne, General Lennox, Lord H. Walks, IL W. Fgerton, A. F. Lowther, J. Whitmore, H. Fgerton, E. C. WlCesea, J. N. Williams, Col. Met Lord M'Lagan, P. Williams, F. M. Fans, Col. Manners, Lord I. Wise, H. C. Ferguson, Mr J. Heller, Col. it t fi . d 6 C. K. Montagu, Lord B. 1711.13111. rotn4d Montgomery, Sir O. Taylor, Col. Gore, J . A. Morgan, 0. Noel, G. J. the Court. OSBORNE, AvailTer 15. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning with Primer Louise. Prince Leopold end Princess Beatrice also went oaL The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke arrived at Ositonte yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. Sir Thomas and the Hon. Lady Biddulph had also the honour of being invited. The Prince of Wales honoured Mr. Lewes Dickinson with a sitting at lungham-chamber. yesterday. A meeting of her Majesty's Commiassioners for the Ex hibition of 1851 Ina held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. There were present the Earl of Derby (President), the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Alexander Spearman, Bart., Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Mr. T. F. Gibson, Mr. Thring, and Mr. Edgar !taming, C.B. (Secretary.) A deputation from the London Necropolis Company, consisting of the Hon. F. A. Berkeley, M.P., General Sir James Chatierton, Mr. Ivimay, and Mr. Churchill (the Secretary), had an interview with the Right Hen. Gathorne Hardy at the Home-oak* yesterday. The Hon. A. F. 0. Liddell, Q.C., commeneed his at tandenos at the Home-office yesterday, as Under-Secretary of State in the room of the Right Hon. Horatio Wad dington, retired. MARRIAGE OF LADY GEORGIANA RUSSELL AND MR. ARCHIBALD PEEL. Yesterday morning the marriage of Lady Georgian& Adelaide Russell, eldest d►ughter of the Earl Russell, KG., to Mr. Archibald Peel, third eon of General the Right Hon. J. Peel, M.P., and Lady Alice Peel, was solemnised ►t Petersham Church, near Diamond. The bride, accompanied by her father, who gave her away, was received on her arrival at the church by the following bridesmaids :—Lady Agatha Russell, Miss May Drum mond, Miss Kate Warburton, and Mlle Ada F. Villiers. The church was handsomely decorated, and the whole of the school children were there to receive the bride and bride , groom on their arrival. The Rev. Lord Wriothealey Russell, canon of Windsor and chaplain in ordinary to the Queen, assisted by the Rev. P. Nott, performed the ceremony. In consequence of the adverse weather few person' except those forming the welding party were in the church. Alter the ceremony the newly-married couple repaired to Pembroke Lodge, Richmond-park, scoompaaled by their friends, to partake of bresklest. There were present his Byrd ilithues, the Duke de Charts'', the Earl and Countess of Leven sal Melville and Lady Julia Mel. the Countess of Dalkeith, the Countess Dowager of Westmorland, the Countess of Newburgh, the Countess of Kerry and Hon. Charles Gore, the Countess of Jersey and Mr. Brandling, Lord and Lady Dunfermline, Lord and Lady Wriothesley Russell, Lady Gilbert Kennedy, Lady Augusta Onslow, Lady Bowater ►nd Miss Bowater, Lady Anne Baird, Lady Elisabeth Romilly and Him Romilly, Lord Cosmo Rummell, General the Right Hon. J. Peel, ALP., and Lady Alice Peel, IL &lima, Colonel Palmer, Colonel Peel, Colonel Wilmer, Captain Monad, Rev. P. Nott, Mr. Maurice Drummond, Rev. Mr. Villiers, Miss Villiers, Mr. 0. Russell, Mr.Georp Russell, Mr. Algernon Russell and Miss Russell, Miss Lister, Mr. William Harcourt, Miss Peel, Mr. and Mrs. Warburton, Mr. Melville, Mrs. William Russell, Mrs. Arthur Peel, Mrs. Owen, the Rev. Mr. Hugh, Mr. George Elliot, Mr. Weighall, Re. Shortly after 2 o'clock the newly-married couple left Pembroke Lodge for Woburn Abbey,the Duke of Bedford's seat in Bedfordshire. Lady Georglana's presents were very numerous. and among them wee • very handsome •etimoniall of regard from the domestics of her father's household. The Prince of Wales, attended by Mr. Fisher, Mr. Holzman, and Captain Ellis, witnessed the hundredth representation of the Great City last evening at Drury.lane. PRINCE AND Paixcasa 011818TIAN.—Yesterday afternoon their Royal Highnesses Prime and Princess Christian of Elehleswig.Holstein left Dover on their return from the Continent, by the &45 p.m. up train on the South Eastern Railway, en route for Windsor. Mr. Bnighs, *alio superintendent of the line, had charge of the arrangements. On reaching London, shortly after 6 o'clock, their royal highnesses and suite quitted the Waterloo terminus of the London and South-Western Railway in a carriage attached to the 6.35 p.m. down train for Windsor. Their royal highnesses, who were attired in mourning, arrived at the Windsor station at 7.40 p.m., Yr. Dixon being in attend ance on the platform. On quitting the train their royal highnesses drove to Promote House. The Prises and Princess will probably accompany the Queen to Scotland. The Duke of Northumberland, according to a telegraphic message received in town yesterday afternoon from Ainwick Castle, was stated to be "rather better." The Duchess of Buccleuch and Ladies Margaret and Mary Scott, accompanied by Lord Henry Scott, M.P., left town on Wednesday evening for Bleeingen. The Marchioness of Lansdowne and family come to town to-day from Bowood, Wilts, on their way to Cromer. The Earl of Glasgow has left the Clarendon Hotel for Bootland. The Countess of Clonmell and family have left Soya for Wiesbaden. Lord Dunkellin, M.P., is, we understand, la bouring under a serious illness at the Marquis sad Mar. chimer of Olanricarde's reddens. in gtrattonstreeß Lady Mill has left the Clarendon Hotel for Wineherier. The Hon. James and Lady Louisa Homed and family, who have been vbdting Bowed, left there yester day for their °wintry seat. The Hon. Mn. Westby has arrived at the Quesn's Hotel, Upper Norwood. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. MON MI OWN ELM, Tatrsemts Molars°. The post goes out at noon, and the great event of the day, thus far, is that there is not a line of interest in the Ifoniteur. The rumours of a liberal letter from the Rmperor hastening the realisation of his promises of January 19, and of the withdrawal of the Army Bill, turn out to have been all moonshine. The secondary story, which amused the Bourse for some days, that M. Rouher was preparing a financial surprise for August 19, had no better foundation, and we have not even got so much as a decree on country cross roads (which was the last thing talked of) to fall back upon. The fête day opens with a most unpromising morning. At an early hour a storm seemed im pending, but now the rain is coming down steadily, and, though not heavy at present, it seems likely to last long. The weather is much cooler. Yes terday Chevalier's thermometer reached 33.5 ; at II this morning it was down to 22. This is so much the better for the people now flocking to the gratis representations at the theatres. The Fontainebleau murderess has obtained the benefit of extenuating circumstances. This was nearly a certainty. Ido not think a French jury will ever again send a woman to the guillotine. But I see by the legal journals that the verdict of guilty upon the charges of murder and forgery against Madame Frigard was sooompanted not only with extenuating circumstances, but with an acquit tal on the head of "premeditation." That I cannot , understand. I should have thought premeditation resulted very clearly from all the surrounding cir cumstances. This part of the jury's verdict was of no benefit to the prisoner, for the court diminished the highest punishment known to tho law by one degree only, not %wo. The sentence pronounced Was imprisonment with hard labour for life ; and the court by reason of the extenuating circum stances, could not have done more even if preme ditation had been found. I dare say some writers will exercise their inge nuity in endeavouring to prove Madame Frigard innocent. To my mind a clearer case of guilt de- w °nitrated by circumstantial evidence never came before a court and jury. All the circumstances converged towards the proof of guilt, and were in consistent with the supposition of innocence. The prisoner showed the same coolness on hear_ jug her sentence which she had maintained through out the trial. The great " chair" case was decided on August 13 by the Court of Appeal against the imperial com mission. The court is of opinion that the chairs placed outside the restaurants constitute an infrac tion of the contract with M. Bernard, the plaintiff, to his damage and injury. It is referred to the court below to inquire what damages aliould be paid to M. Bernard. Five persons, one of whom is a woman, are in custody on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery of the Queen of Sweden's pearls, which lately disappeared from their place in the Exhibi tion. A Persian richly dressed, and of gentlemanly manners, has been arrested on a charge of having stolen a chronometer, value 2,100 fr., from the Swiss department about a month ago. He war in formed agaituit by a jeweller, to whom he coolly took the chronometer to have his initials engraved on it. FILAILFUL RAVAGES Or THE CHOL2RA AT ROME. - A private latter from Rome, dated the 11th instant, states that cholera is Wing peat havoc in the city and the environs. " The disease is," it says, "of the m os t virulent character, two or three hours sufficing to settle matters. In so small a place as Albano, where, too, the climate is considered very salubrious, hundreds of oases daily l Nine of the family of the ea- Bing of Naples have been attacked. The Queen Dowager is dead, and two of bar ehildrem,as I hear, havefellowed. Both Quirinal and Vatican are invaded, several deaths in each." In a postscript the writer says, " Worse and wares news of the cholera. Cardinal Altimi, Princess Colony, and hoots of others have died after a few hours' nines,. Those who fly from Rome die in retie* their destinations. This has been seen at Terri, Leghorn, and elsewhere." Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo sisLotflos from the Governor-Gaze' of Clam& sad the Governor of Heligoland. Despairing were mat to the GIRILUIS IN DINKAILL—The Colopt Gazette pablishes a piece of intelligence which may not be agree able to Count de Bismarck. It reproduces a declarative made by 993 Germane, domiciled in Denmark, which eon. firms that already published by 421 of their countrymen. They all affirm t ha t the Danish government, diet, and people, have ever exhibited towards them the greatest good will, end that they have never been injured in th e i r righta. Till 4NTIBES LEGION. The following letter from the French Minister of War to the °eked of the Antibes legion at Rome has been published in an order of the day issued in the Pon tidal capital : " Paris, June 21. "My dear Colonel,—My attention has been too seriously fixed on the Roman legion for me to be ignorant of the grave facts which for some time have been taking place in that corps. What explanation is to be given for that desertion, not individual, but collective, which threatens to reduce your effective to nothing! The soldier has nothing to envy of the troops of the mother country. He is commanded by French officers holding fitting grades in our army; he is serving • respectable cause at his own desire; he has before him what ham always attracted the French soldier—an enemy to fight and a danger to affront—and yet he has shamefully deserted the flag he had freely chosen, and, giving way to guilty reductions, he is abandoning his chief to follow some mise rable foreign recruiting agents. His excuse is not a wish to see his country again, for he knows well that as soon as ha *turns to France he will be sent to • disciplinary corps in Africa, where he will remain until the expiration of his period of military service. I deplore that state of things, my dear colonel, as it is • retain on the French army, which, wherever it is represented, should maintain its prestige of honour and courageous abnegation. Notwithstanding such lamentable incidents, my dear colonel, I do not despair in seeing the good elements which your legion still contains, efface, by means of devotedness and per severance, the recollections of recent times. Your energy is well known to ' e ; the governments rtof the Emperor and of the ope know that it will not fail. It is important that your ofiloers, in whom you so firmly trust, with such good reason, should give omit deuce to the troops, by their attitude, their language, and that military spirit which is in France the source of such great things. In all the ranks of your legion I shall be happy to point out to the Emperor those who shall dis tinguish themselves by their conduct. lam aware that you are to present to me Sergeant Douse& and two sol diers. I shall examine their claims with great Interest. Tell your legion, my dear colonel, that we have our eyes upon it ; and th at I suffer deeply at everything that is an insult to • flag so justly venerated ; I combine it with the corps of the French army for everything that concern" its military honour and the neocesities of its organisation.— Receive, ko., INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR DESTITUTE OIRLS. Yesterday an interesting ceremony took place at Baling-house, Sal*, Itiamon, oa the occasion of the inauguration of the building as an industrial school for homeless and destitute girls, which, in connection with the Refuge Home, 18, Broadetrest, Bloomsbury, was for several years carried on at Acton. The Karl of SWISS num presided, and was suppo rted by Judge Payne, the Bev. W. Belton, Mr. J. H. ordham, he. A large tent had been erected in the extensive grounds et the heck of the house, and a bead was in attendance to perform on the occasion, but the unfavourable weather rendered it indoorsnecessary that the business of the day should take place . _ _ It appeared from • statement read by Mr. WILLUMB, the secretary to the Rehire for Homeless sod Destitute Children (with which the present institution is associated) that the total cost for the purchase of the and the repairs and alterations was over 2,600/., P = meeting which expenditure and for anneal subscriptions for the support of the girls an earnest appeal was now made. There were now 44 inmates in this house and 48 girls in the home, 19, Broad-etreet. The committee in tended to increase the number to 50 in each home, so that they might have 100 girls under their core. The girls in each home are fed, clothed, lodged, educated, and trained for domestic service. They are taught all kinds of domestic work so as to fit them ea f•r as parable to become useful and efficient servants. Since the establishment of the homes down to the close of last year 710 girls had been admitted, and 586 had been sent to Navies at home or abroad, or otherwise provided for. The Custom...it, in addressing the meeting, meld he was quite satisfied that this undertaking was one of paramount importance in the present condition of the country. He bad long been of this opinion, and he had hoped that pester efforts would have been made ere now for the wel fare of such pew girls as were intended to be benefited by this aroai Lion. They had established man/lrflormato ries and other institutions for the benefit of ; but it I was only lately that the idea seemed to have enter kilned that the girls were entitled to an equal share of public. consideration. All history showed—end ex perience supported the lessons they learnt from his tory—that the moral condition of the male population depended to • peat extent, upon the character of the women. (Hear, hear.) It was not so much the employers of labour as the fathers and mothers of the children who were responsible for the degradation which besets large portion of the juvenile com munity. The present movement was one in which everybody (from the Queen en the throne to the meter monger) had • personal interest. (Hear.) The object of this home was to provide good domestic servants, and he sincerely trusted that it might achieve the same success which had attended the operations of the Chichester training ship. The scheme was undoubtedly • very large one, sad it was eminently deserving of public support, seeing that it was calculated to give to this country • new generation of wives and mothers. (Cheers.) The Rev. W. Belton, Mr. J. H. Ferdharn, Judge Payne, and others, severally addressed the meeting to • similar effect, and the proceedings terminated with a col lection of subscriptions at the entrance door. This morning was issued the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Special and Com mon Jerks, together with the proceedings and minutes of evidence. The committee state that in consequence of the late period of the session they have been linable to com plete their inquiry into the emitters referred to them, and they have accordingly agreed to report the evidence taken before them, and to recommend to the house the re appointment of the committee in the next minion of par liament. WILLS AND BisQtrEsTs.—The will of Sir William Mordaunt Edward Milner, Bark, of Bolton Lodge, Nun Appleton, Yorkshire, and of Eatoo-place, Belpave-square, was proved in the court at York by Lady Milner, his relict, the sole executrix. The personalty was sworn under 25,0001. Sir William was for some time M.P. for York and Deputy-Lieutenant for that county, and died in Febraary last, at the age of 47, having executed his will in 1850. which is brief, disposing of the whole of his property, sad personal, to his wife absolutely. The will of Carey Danger, Esq., former ly of Chaloot-Alias, Haverstock-hill, Hampstead, and late of Effingham House., Copthospe, Sussex, and of Great St. Helen' s , was proved in London on the 13th alt., and the personalty in this oountry sworn under 30,00 &. — the executors and trustees appointed being William Dangar, the brother ; Henry Carey Dangar , the nephew ;' Th omas Oliver, Nicholas Michell, and William Golding, jun. The will is dated September, 1856, and the testator died June 16, 1867, at the age of 49. He was in partnershpthe fi rm of J. B. Rundle, F. H. Danger, and Edward Chap man , merchants, New South Wales and London. The testator has settled an annuity upon his wife, with an allow ance for children during minority or on marriage. but in the event of no issue acquiring a vested interest, the testator leaves annuities and legacies to other members of his family, and also to charitable por poise—namely :--To the Univ ersity of Sydney, New South Wales, 2,0001. the interest to be paid to the scholar (born in Australia) most proficient in elocution, and in compo sition in English, French, German, or Latin, to be celled " The Danger Prise ;" to the Incumbent of St. Neot's Cornwall, some gifts for the poor of that pariah ; to the chairman of the Quarter Sessions at Bodmin, 4,000 f, to wards establishing a juvenile reformatory in Cornwall ; and divides the residue of his property equally amongst the undermentioned hospitals— e London Hospital ; UniversiHovital ; Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road ; Collage King's Hospital ; and St. Mary's Hospital, Pad dington.— narrated London Neon. tin EARL OF KIIIEERLEY ON THE WORETNO OLANIZIL—On Wednesday afternoon. at the inaugural meeting of the Norwich and Eastern Counties Industrial Exhibition, the Earl of Kimberley was present, and made • brief speseli. The noble earl said that in the close race which England had now to sustain with the manufactures of other countries, it was essential that our artisans should show that they were not merely ready to work with their hands, but that they were ready to do their part in improving their minds and their intelligence ; and lie was I confident that, although in some matters of taste we might not have been quite equal to other countries, yet, by the careful cultivation of the capacities of our artisans, we should be found as pre-eminent in future times as in the past. Even in matters of taste, he considered It was impomible to go into the house of • middle-class man, or even of an erMna, without observing the improvement which had taken place Lot anyone take the arti c l es o f china and porcelain, for instance, and he would see th e improvement which lied been attained; and why should not the same excellence and the came progress be attained in other directions? It should be remembered that idea tion was not only effected through the ear, but that it was effected to • very great extent through the eye also. Parliament had this session given politieal power to the great mess of the people, and it was by each an exhibi tion se the present that the artisan eases should show that the time had emus when they ought to be entreated with that power. Stiscrzota.—On Wednesday afternoon a labour ing ism named Flack was at work on Kr. finish's faros, Writtle, during the intense beat, when he was observed to stagger end WI, and war found to be dead, it is auppowat from the effects of sunetrokm—Chelerrford CAronick. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRI7PTOY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) IN II H. A. HOLDEN. This was an application for the further stay of proceed. ings in this bankruptcy. Mr. Holden wee • contractor for public works, carrying on business in and Queen-street, City, d residing at Clifton-house, Maida-val e . Th e h . Milne. were of large amount and it appeared that creditors whose debts represented • total of 100,000(., were desirous that the estate should be administered oat of court, pe r . stunt to a resolution which had been pared for that pin. pose ander thelBsth section of the act of 1861. The proceed nip had been stayed from time to time, sad the applica tion for • further stay was opposed on behalf o f two creditors, the Imperial Mercantile Arociation for 4 ORArt and Mr. Raton for 5,000 i. Mr. Bagley and Mr. Doric in 'rapport of the application; Mr. Reed opposed ft. His Honour said that the case was one of enamel matude, and he did not think he ought to refuse the application for further time. The majority of the aedi. tors, who ought to be the best judges of their own int-erten wished to wind up the estate °eta oourt, and there appeae4 every reason to suppose that this course would be beneficial for all parties. It had been argued that the court having oncestayedthe 'proceedins, had no power to grant • farther stay, but it had been the_ practice of the commissioners to give further time if weroessary, and the Court of Appeal had not decided to the contrary. It had been shown by affidavit that since the last order the liquidator of two companies whose claims amounted to upwards of 300,0000 had agreed to the deed, but it was be ahouhl obtain the sanction of the Court of Chancery be ore sigma, his assent. There did not seem to be any ground for supporting that due diligence had not been used, and he should therefore give effect to the wishes of the bulk of the creditors, and order • further stay of the p rocee di ngs until the 11t h of October next. Order moordingly. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) GUILDHALL. 5111 DINO DAD =AT TO • LONDON 11•111T.-INIIII801- MU? WITHOUT FINK Gerard Samos, of Preston, Donetshire, a butcher ie a small wa , was summoned before Sir Robert W. Cards by the of Sewers for the City of London, for sending six dews of bed to Leadmhaßmarkst for human food, the mine being diseased, unsound, un w h o l s . some, and unlit for the food of man. Baylis, the solicitor to the Commissioners of Sewers, said this was a very aggravated ease, and one that he must ask the bench to deal with severely. A farmer resithig near Preston had a cow that had been afflicted with " bearing down" in July and previously in January, so that she was in • very diseased state front Litho. nation. In other repeals the now was • fine animal and worth about IN., but in consequence of the disease the animal was labouring under it was sold for 5/. After the defendant had had the cow and found the condition it was in he went to the framer from whom he bought it sad offered to lose half the Si. if be would lose the other half. The farmer refused and then he had the cow killed and dressed. Some portions of the meet were given to the defendant's pigs sad the rest he sent up to London, where it arrived tha most stinking state. a was not stinking from the state of the weather but from the diseased condition of the meat. When the is. specter went to the defendant he told hint that he had sold some of the meat down there, but upon inquiry that turned out to be incorrect,' and the fact that he had offered to loss half the 51, was evidence that he knew the meat was unfit for human food. He, therefore, asked ter a severe sentence against the prisoner. The inspectors of meat having proved the above facts, Sir R. W. Carden said it was • very aggravated ease, and he should not think of inflicting • fine oa the defsndsat, but should send him to prima without the option of a fins. The salesman to whom the matt was consigned said that he had been in the habit of receiving meat from the de. [cadent foe a long time, and he never sent him any bad meat before. Sir HZ; W. Carden said that in consequence of the good character the defendant had received he would reduce the puniahment he intended to inflict by one-half. The sentence was that he be imprisoned and kept to bard labour for one mouth. Kr. Chilean, the fanner, wee then called forward, end told by Sir Robert Carden that he was almost m culpable as the defendant, and might have been placed at his side bad be been lent to the old Bailey. • BOWSTSHSP. HILLIS° SPIRITS WITHOUT LICZNMIL. Hairy Roberts, sliikebW, fa Bodoey.road,New Heat road, appeared to en excise summons charging him with selling sin without a license. An excise officer named Yen stated that on Sunday, the 12th May, he went to defendant's shop to get shaved and have his hair brualied. After being shaved he went to wipe his face with a round towel hanging behind the door, and there noticed a small glass upon a shelf. Re. turning to the chair where he had sat to be shaved, be waited for defendant to out his hair. Having gone for the purpose of ancerteining whether the defendant ma selling gin, he was just "hesitating Moat asking fer some" when the defendant " saved him the trouble " by saying, " Could you do a drop of gin! " Witness said " Yee," • and he fetched a bottle from a cupboard and poured out a glass of gin, which witness drank. Witness then handed him 6 d . , and received 4d. change. He had previously paid 2d. for being shaved and baring his hair brushed. As he handed witness the gin, defendant "This is a little on the quiet, you know." Mr. Parker, supervisor of excise, said the defendant bad no license to ell spirits. The traffic was carried on every Sunday morning When the public Masse were shut some eases there was a pretence that the gin was given to the customers.— Sir Thomas Henry said there was an old rhyme ending, " 11l shave you and give you some drink," but the meaning depended upon where the stop was put. Mr. Parker said attention had been drown to the deka dant's shop by an anonymous letter addressed to the raper. intendant of police, and by him handed over to the excite. Defendant at first /tatty denied the whole thing. After a little hesitation he admitted that be sometimes got in a little gin over night to accommodate one or two very old customers, but then he never took any money fur it. He received it from them over night. He had no recollection of seeing the officer. Sir Thomas Henry said that if he nitrite a practice of supplying people with gin on the Sunday, even though be bought it over night, and even though he obtained the money from the customers first, he would find it • very dangerous trade. The deleadant said if he had done wrong he would rat do it agsin, and he hoped the magistrate would excuse ia Sir Thomas Henry load so power to excuse it. All be could do was to mitigate the penalty, which was SOL, to one-fourth (121. Mary Mole, • wardrobe dialer, Harriett-street, Low Marsh, was summoned on • similar charge, but did sot appear. Inspector Edmonds, of the L division of police, said he visited the defendant's shop on the lith of May, sad found her there with three women and two men. Ss was in the act of pouring some gin from a glass into • bottle. One of the women handed ha 2d. and took the bottle, saying " Do you call this ltsil a quartern?" He took the bottle from her, and now pro • dirtied it, still *attaining the gin. Defendant mid, "JIT• Edmonds, you have been here a great many times—look over it this once and it shall not occur again." Lie also found under the table three bottles, one containing • quad and another • pint and • half of gin, and one a pint and s half of rum, and a stone jar containing six pints ram. The defendant had long been maPec" of selling spirits on Sunday morning, and he had several times visited the house, but had until this occasion do' covered nothing. He believed that the person who umiak kept watch and gave the alarm was out of the way, onto that was why he was enabled to surprise defendant ma her customers. One of the men was lying drunk on the floor. Defendant said to him, " You know I have lost my girl"—which was true. He did not think she would st• tend—she was • very stubborn woman. Sergeant Hart, L I (who accompanied the inspector cc the occasion) corroborated his evidence. Sir Thomas Henry imposed the mitigated penalty of 12/. 10s. GREENWICH. 3.—IXTENRIVE DISCOVIRT 0? mat ♦ GANG OP GOODS. Mary Jane Smith, aged Si, and Louisa Mot-Awn, srd 30, were charged, on remand, with being in raceme if various articles, the proceeds of a burglary at tile bow ot Mr. Smythe 1, St. Jaznee's-street, Hatcham , N esr•crsa. and also with being in of other piorert/ , " Iwd at nearly 1001., sup to be stolen. The case excited great interest in a crowded court, of the circumstance which led to the detection of the fn' sneers and the apprehension of three men sod a boy acv awaiting their trial at Chichester fur housebreakii and horseetealing in Scene was ....enst to tfultf• It appears that Smith some few watts sum married a London omnibus coniluctor, ID' than double her own age, and after remaining v him only three days she absconded, taking with her to his hard ravings, about W. She then formed an sol o* dine, with the prisoner Stockwell's son, a re t u rned, co vict, and had lived with him, occupying a kind of atlas! van, which had been drawn on to • piece o f waste Wg at Hatcham. two other men, and also a boy, stsl' in the name van. About three weeks since the Prim's!: Smith was detected in the possession of a wino cabbage., stolen from a market garden , and being O'. A'' with the stealing she was sentenced to 14 days impOte =ma Pollosemmtable Yardley, who took her as custody, acting under the instructions of Inspector Ihiblt proceeded to the van in question, which be found in for session of the primmer Stockwell, and under PretW . ci searching for potatoes, gained admittance. lie that saw so greet and mimelleneone a collection of stacks tkth r ioe teirseasion of tie van and goods, and likelstaljt into custody, she claiming goods now as having been stolen from Mr. Smythe's lame, which burglsriously entered on the night of the 27th Julie Isai m at 2 to bed r tutas — l deems maai& 1 wheths WY ON aspeot gat au tats to Wady patent Tae to Intel kag is tl the lot. 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