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Tits reasons by which General GRLITT has re commended an increase of the number of the regular troops of the United States army point to two of the most striking features in the present aspect of the national life— the enormous development of the country be tween the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean, simultaneously with the prolonged disorganization of the States lately in revolt. The flow of population towards the great mining regions beyond the western plains began during the civil war, and has steadily increased. The movement has often been described, but full justice has not yet been done either to its magnitude or to the effect which it is likely to have upon the wealth of the world, or upon the constitution and complexion of American society. The great mining districts which lie near the Rocky Mountains are being peopled chiefly by emigrants from the eastern and north-western States ; but together with them are mingled numbers of the more energetic youth of the better classes in the South, impelled partly by the spirit of enterprise and partly by dissatis faction with the position of their families at home, reduced, as these have been, to poverty by the war, and now left without the artificial prop to their social consideration which slavery formerly sup plied. It will be an interesting study to watch the growth and formation of the character of these new communities, made up of elements so dis cordant, under the influences which attend free industry. _ _ _ General GRAN assigns the duty of protecting these new settlements as his first reason for re questing that the army may be reconstituted. But he also grounds his appeal on the wants of i the Southern States. A small national military force is required in all the States lately in revolt, and is likely, in his opinion, to be so fur some time to come. This necessity does not arise from danger of a renewal of the Secession war, for nothing has hitherto happened to throw doubt upon the wisdom of the policy which led Mr. LINCOLN to disband a large portion of the army immediately upon the surrender of General LEE, and which has been followed by the present Government. But Union troops are wanted as a guarantee of social order. Our New York Corre spondent states that the most intelligent observers of Southern society at the present moment have no hesitation in asserting that the withdrawal of i the Federal garrisons would, in a large number of districts, be the signal for something very like an internecine war. "In portions of Georgia, for " instance, there exist between neighbours hates, " bred by the opposition or lukewarmness of some " during the war, which if allowed to find vent " would drench every hamlet in blood." We cannot wonder at such a state of things ; but we may be permitted to wonder that the better por tion of Southern society does not exert itself more strenuously to uphold the law, and impress its own character upon its administration. If this were done, what is called the problem of recon struction would be in a fair way to solve itself. The victorious North has done what it can to re place the States of the South in the position of self-governing communities, but it cannot do all that it would in that direction until the people of those States frankly acknowledge all the civil con sequences which rationally follow from the down fall of slavery. As long as those States cling to laws and institutions which are animated by the spirit of that institution, they will not only get no representation in Congress, but they will enjoy no peace at home. They will see the Free States increasing in number in the North-West and West, and hi population, wealth, and power everywhere, while their own development is arrested by obstinate adherence to outworn prejudices. There is patriotism and common sense enough in the Southern States to see and feel the folly of per sisting in this purblind policy, but it seems to be wasted because not adequately associated with civil courage. It is the presence of anti-social ideas in the State laws which perpetuates disorder in the South, and leads to outrages such as those lately reported from Memphis and elsewhere. The upright people of the South ought to make their influence felt, and let the rowdy part of the popu lation see that the days of " Committees of lead " ing citizens" and executive mobs are over, and that the reign of order and legality has begun. But they will never gain the praise of being a law abiding people, long since given to the North, until they have laws by which the most enlightened reasons and the most faithful consciences can de liberately take their stand. We trust that some improvement is taking place in this direction, andif it is not greater than we see it is because influences are at work elsewhere than in the South to prevent its more rapid progress. Just now the chief obstacle to the advance of the South in wise and equitable legislation is President Jonsson. It seems to he that gentleman's chief business at the present time to strengthen the influence of the worst elements in Southern society, and to confirm its most pernicious habits and passions. That he is a sincere enemy of Secession we believe, but that cause being defeated, and slavery as an insti tution overthrown, there seems to be no vice in the jurisprudence and legislation of the South which he is not anxious to protect, no injustice THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY iii*NING, JUNE 1,1.86 et, strafing with the court se Madrid, but will remind Okili that for six mouths a SpoOsh fleet lay Inactive in"Valpw. raiso harbour, awaiting Slit Republic's sessptance of taw which wan not unsatisfactory to Bvitin, said were probed u p on both governments by England lad Trance. The Star refers to Mr. Cavan Duffyk lecture at the Society of Arts as grappling successfully with the misre presentations of Mr. Marsh and Mr. Lowe respect ing the Australian colonies. The worst fault of colonial life is probably the prevalence of slander, of unadvised speaking, of the use of language in relation both to public and private affairs which could scarcely be ventured upon in England with respect to Englishmen or English mea sures. Mr. Loweand Mr. Marsh are unhappily ao far afflicted with this colonial weakness that the one has said of his unenfranchised countrymen what hews. obliged to retract, and the latter has said of the members of the Victoria par liament what we are sure he cannot prove, and what, indeed, in answer to Mr. Duffy's challenge, he declined to substantiate, and ought therefore to have had the grace to retract. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. . glee (Erfurt. • CLIVEDEN, Her Alaieity went out yeaterdet attended by the Duchess Dowager of Athole. In the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Helena, and attended by the Duchess of Athole, drove out. Princess Helena drove out in the morning. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon• Privy Council met yesterday, in the Council Chamber, Whitehall. Present :—The Lord President, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. W. Monsell, the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, and the Right Hon. IL A. Bruce. Mr. Helps and Colonel Harness attended. It is stated that her Majesty will be present at the marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge and his Highness Prince de Teck at Kew Church, on the 12th inst. The Prince and Princess of Wales will honour the Countess Vane with their presence at an assembly, at Holderness House, on the 7th inst. The Princess of Wales, who wore pink on Tues day at Ascot, was yesterday in blue. A blue dress with a tulle slip, a blue silk jacket with a tulle slip, trimmed with rich white lace, a tulle bonnet with blue ribbons and blue nemophilas, became her royal highness admirably, and it only needed, to render her costume nerfect, the bouquet of tea roses which she carried in her hand. The Princess Mary wore a dress of lavender and white stripes, a mantle of llama bordered with white silk, and trimmed with black lace and black velvet ribbon, and a bonnet of white deli cately bordered with lavender. The Duke of Edinburgh will reside at Clarence House, St. James's, as soon as the mansion is in a thorough state of repair. There is no foundation for the report circulated that The Lodge, Bushey-park, formerly occupied by Queen Adelaide, is to be given up to the Princess Mary of Cambridge. Prince Augustus of Saxe-Coburg and Princess Leopoldina of Brazil, Duchess of Saxe, attended by a very numerous suite, have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, Albemarle-street, from Southampton. His Excellency the Belgian Minister is confined to the house by the rupture of a ligament near the ancle. The Archbishop of York received the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Carlisle, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of Soder and Man, the Bishop of Brisbane, the Bishop of Derry, the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of Grahamstown, Mr. Egerton Harcourt, Mr. E. Wilmot, and Mr. Crosthwnite at dinner yesterday evening, at his resi dence in Mansfield-street, Cavendish-square. The Earl of Chesterfield, according to the medi cal report, remains in precisely the same hopeless condition. The medical gentlemen in attendance give no hope of his recovery. The Earl and Countess of Devon entertained at dinner last evening, at their residence in Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, the Right Hon. William Monsell, M.P., Colonel Crealock, Mr. and Mrs. Locke King and Miss King, Mr. and Mrs. Fowler, Mrs. 31alcoln, and Mr. Caulfield. We (Times) are authorised to state that there is no foundation whatever for the paragraph which was copied in our impression of yesterday from the OW, to the effect that the late Dowager Lady Truro has bequeathed to her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge the whole of her fortune and the house in Eaton-square. Lord Henley and his relatives have been placed in mourning through the death of hie eldest daughter, the Hon. Florence Mary, who died on Monday last at 'Malvern. She was born in 184 S. The Bishop of Chichester has had a new pastoral staff presented to him by his clergy on his reaching the 25th year of his episcopate and the 80th year of his age. The Dublin University foot races and other athletic games commenced on Wednesday, and seemed to have attracted all the people in the city who could get away from business. It is said that 10,000 tickets were issued for the reserved part of the College Park, and there must have been fully that number in the free part. The Lord-Lieutenant and the Countess of Kimberley arrived shortly after l o'clock, and met an enthusiastic reception. and inequality which he will not defend. It should be the work of a statesman 1)0W to estab lish society in the South on thoroughly free basis, as the only means of removing causes of, disunion : but of every measure having that ten dency he is the obstinate opponent, and it would not be his fault if the best fruits of the war, those which the United States has moat need to show to the world as the jus tification of its terrible character, were altogether lost. And the reason he gives for his opposition is calculated to encourage the worst members of Southern society, and to dishearten the best. As often as it is proposed to establish equal laws for all the citizens of the Union, he comes forward and declares that such a policy would lead to civil war, as if the authority of the Union were and must be inadequate to uphold its own laws. This is not the language of a ruler, or, indeed, of a man who believes in free government, or in government at all ; it breathes the spirit, and is only worthy of the position, of those cowardly magistrates who in South Carolina and in Mississippi year after year allowed peaceable citizens to be tarred and feathered without stretching out a finger to protect them. Happily, there is in the United States a legal and constitutional power greater than that of President JouNsox, which will never rest until the principles of equal justice reign throughout the length and breadth of the Union. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE REFORM BILL-LAST NIGHTN DEBATE. The Times agrees with Mr. Baxter in lamenting the too probable fall of the government bills, but it dis putes the conclusion that the opposition should be the only part of the house visited with punishment for the offence. They have, perhaps, acted unwirely in preferring the chance of an immediate triumph to the fairer prospect of assured victory a little later ; but they could not have had the opportunity of so acting if the mismanagement of the government had not given the victory into their hands. The Timed then proceeds to detach and adopt from the speeches last night of Mr. Lowe, Mr. Goldamid, and Sir J. Pakington various accusation, against the government measures. The redistribution bill exhibits the mere wantonness of precipitancy. Important omissions occur through pure oversight, and the scheme taken as a whole embodies no principle but the idolatry of numbers. If the failure which the members of the govern- went themselves appear to consider imminent befall their scheme, it can only be regarded as an effect of retributive justice. The Times thinks no one will suspect Sir J. Pakington's sincerity in declaring his desire to see the reform question settled, and it in clines to the opinion that the suggestion which he supported of a royal commission supplies the only hope of escape for the ministry out of their difficulties, and that as no one party seems able to settle the matter by its un aided strength it may be as well to have recourse to an expedient which would at least have the advantage of de ferring all attempts at legislation on the subject for another year. In another article the Times describes the debate on Mr. Clay's bill as a masquerade and nothing more—a chaffing match—a mere farcical episode in a controversy of some importance to the nation. The Daily News attributes the cheers with which Mr. Lowe was greeted, to the sort o: feeling which welcomes the entrance on the stage of a favourite actor, and as being independent of the bill or the government. lie is beyondall question the ablest of parliamentary disputants, though without the faculty of persuasion. His theories being dictated by his prejudices, he has not the fairness and candour of a true political thinker. His _speech last night added nothing to the arguments against the bill. In one instance he showed bow completely a keen intellect may be overridden by a current phrase. In another, espe cially iu what he said of small boroughs, his statements are too notoriously in conflict with the facts to require refutation. The whole speech was in itself one gigantic fallacy, involving a complete iyaoratio elenela ;lifer Mr. Lowe argued, not simply against the government propo sals, but against any change in the present representative system. Now there is nothing which makes conservatives so indignant as to be told that they are opposed to reform altogether. Why, then, do they applaud Mr. Lowe? If their cheers express assent to his opinions, they stand con victed of insincerity ; if not, they are not very respectful to the object of them. In that case he is simply their plaything. To be summoned to make mirth for tory squires is to occupy a position which Mr. Lowe's bitterest foe, if lie have one, might compassionate. However the division may go, the I'ost says, the result cannot be otherwise than unsatisfactory. Vu the one hand, if the ministry carry the day, there will scarcely be left any means of escape from their bills, which, with the accession of strength they would derive from success, they would probably be able to carry substantially lover all op position. On the other hand, if they are defeated, the only two courses open to them would be dissolution or re signation. They would hardly venture upon the former course, and the strength of the conservative party in the house would certainly not enable them to carry on the government except on sufferance. The Herald devotes three articles to the debate and t o Vie bill. Everyone who spoke last night in favour of tie government was in the wrong, and everyone who spoke against them was in the right. Mr. Goschen's speech was destitute of any tolerable or even specious argument ; Mr. Goldamid came to the lamest and most im- potent conclusions, and the Attorney-General is already half way between Mr. Gladstone and universal sulfrage. On the other hand Sir J. Pakinaton's address was exhau,tive, and Mr. Lowe 's must have fallen like a bombshell intotheministerial ranks. In onepoint, however, the Herald thinks its friends committed a mistake, viz., in their direct appeal to Mr. Mill. The Herald can hardly b ilieve that these gentlemen are so ill-informed that they w inted Mr. Mill's explanations to guide and complete t'iem. or that great as is the respect they profess for his authority, they would bow to it, yet they are certainly doing their utmost t.) set the honourable gentleman up as an oracle• The Telegraph charges the tories with having all through this session shunned the honest policy of plain speech and with fighting only by indirect and negative motions. Even these they have invariably borrowed. Lord Grosvenor helped them to one, Captain Hayter was cat's-paw for another. Not a single notice or amendment has made its appearance from the true tory ranks. The pitiful reason hai been, that they might prevent reform without the odium of doing so—as if the English people could he fooled wi a trick like this. The ministers are not capable of the convenient docility required of them. They will either make law of this bill very shortly, or, by force of a tem porary defeat, enter on the course which will end in the passage of a larger reform, and assuredly we are less con. oerned than the tories in that alternative. The Star speaks with much severity of Mr. Lowe's ad dress. If it were believed, it says, that the conservatives thought as be thinks—that if it were really supposed he were anything more than a brilliaat and unprofitable un accountable—the nation, though now so tranquil, would rise in indignation, and wrest from a worthless and re creant legislature the power it was no longer fit to wield. MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS. The Times give the substance of the provisions of the new public schools bill, which it describes as based on the principle of leaving the schools themselves to take the initiative, incited by the knowledge that if they do not make beneficial changes themselves, the work will, after a certain time, be taken out of their hands, and done by an extraneous authority. This would be an invidious and dangerous power to place in the bands of any but mode rate and trustworthy men. No one, however, will see hostility to the public school system or undue propensity towards change in the Archbishop of York, the Earls of Harrowby and Carnarvon, Sir Edmund Head, Sir William Heathcote, Sir John Lefevre, and Dr. Blakesley. A more conservative body, and one more likely to deal leniently with our venerable places of education, could hardly be named. But the Times thinks that parliament might give the schools a longer day than to the Ist of January, 1867. Commenting upon the Valparaiso despatches the Tele graph accuses the American minister and commodore there of duplicity, and winds up with expressing an earnest hope that Lord Clarendon will not confine himself to remon• THE CONGRESS AND THE CRISIS. Although the eyes of Europe are at the present moment directed with prospective anxiety to the congress which is about to be assem bled for discussion of the difficulties that are agitating it, it seems to be doubtful, so strained is the situation, whether some sudden outburst of popular feeling may not precipitate events before the meeting of the diplomatists. The Florence correspondent of the Debuts, for example, writing on the 29th of May says : There are military, political, and financial considerations for not wasting time. The last, as everyone knows, are becoming more serious every day. The 250 millions bor rowed from the bank are being rapidly exhausted. A new issue will be required next month, and if the present state of things continues, war will have to be commenced with a paper circulation enormously depreciated. In a military point of view, it is dangerous to maintain an army concentrated and inactive during the hot season, and politically it is extremely difficult to keep a country in which the national movement has been so decided as in Italy without division and distrust breaking out and destroying the unanimity which has hitherto existed. In times like these action is the essential condition of concord. The government is well aware of this state of things, and will not be inveigled into a pro tracted negotiation, at the end of which is certain ruin. Whether the conference meets or not, be assureil that the prolongation which is anticipated at Paris will not take place. Yesterday a notice appeared in the Official Gazette ordering the volunteer officers to join their corps in 24 hours. This imperative order induces people to look for the speedy arrival of Garibaldi, whose appearance will be the war signal. The government is doing all that the party of action ask for, and between both there is now entire harmony. There are 20,000 volunteers in the depots waiting to be equipped. 50,000 have inscribed their names, and there is little doubt that when once Garibaldi appears on the continent the number of volun teers will reach near 100,000. Nobody anticipated such a general and continued movement. In Naples likewise the war feeling is spreading. A sou of Prince dAngri, a son of Duke Cinelli, and a son of Signor Spinelli, the last pre sident of the council under Francis 11., and other members of the aristocracy, have entered the cavalry as simple sol- diem. The brat batch of the Garibaldi volunteers left on the 4th ; the Venetian and Roman emigrants have also left for the army ; the students are under drill and deserters front the Papal army are constantly arriving. " Italy, Austria, and Prussia," says the Anenir Sat weal , "have consented to a congress, but they are at the same time continuing their war prepara tions with redoubled energy." The King of Italy has replied to the forced loan of 30,000,000 on Venetia by calling under arms 22 new battalions of volunteers. 80,000 men have already enrolled themselves, and before the end of the week it is calculated that 130,000 men will have inscribed their names. (REI TER'S TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA AND THE CONFERENCE. VENICE, MAT 31. The official Gazette of Venice confirms the intel ligence that Austria has positively refused to enter tain any project for the cession of Venetia; that she proposes the solution of the Schleswig-Holstein question to be brought about by the convocation of the Estates of those Duchies, and maintains the incompetence of the Conference to discuss the affairs of the Germanic Confederation. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Je Ns I. Colonel Triss, of the French army, arrived here at the beginning of the week. He had an inter view with the French Ambassador and several high personages, and returned to Paris after one day's stay. A certain importance is attached . to his journey. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JUNE The Vienna papers of to-day confirm the news that Count Mensdorff will be the Austrian Pleni potentiary at the Paris Conference. TURKEY AND EGYPT. CONSTANTINOPI.E, MAY 30. It has been definitively arranged that the annual tribute paid to Turkey by the Viceroy of Egypt is to be increased by 350,0001. It is said that should an European congress meet Fuad Pacha will represent the Sublime Porte. SPAIN AND CHILI. FLORENCE, Juwi 1. Letters received here from Peru to the 25th April announce that the Italian minister Signor Migliorati had interposed his good offices between Admiral Nunez and the Peruvian government. On the departure of the mail on the 28th April a favourable result was expected from the negotia tions. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS, SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 1. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pera, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 165 passlngers, 3,2301. in specie, plate value 2501., 1,997 chests of tea, 1,000 packages of sundries, and 468 bales of raw silk, value 40,0001. sterling. (REUTER'S RIPENS.) THE PRUSSIAN ARMY. BERLIN, MAT 29. Prince Albert, the elder, is to have an importing cavalry command. Major-General von Blumen thal has been appointed chief of the staff to the Crown Prince. According to present arrangements the various army corps will not be kept together entire, but single regiments from different corps support those first engaged in active service. The whole Prussian formation has undergone a complete change in consequence of the determination not to assume the offensive. The Crown Prince and Prince Frederick Charles have been appointed to command divisions. The King will certainly command in chief, and his Majesty's field equipment is already completed. The King's head-quarters will not be settled until the commencement of hostilities is close at hand. A new and monster hotel is about to be erected at Littleiumpton, in Sussex. The prawn fishery has been a successful one on the Sunni coast. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) ..-...-.. EQUITY COURTS. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir R. T. 'Cindersley.) VIZ BUROPLAII BANK (LIMITED). Mr. Baily, on the part of the company, asked that • petition for the winding up might stand over till the first petition day after term, on the ground that arrangements for a voluntary liquidation were proceeding. Mr. Swanston , who appeared for certain of the contribu tories in support' of a summons for the appointment of Mr. Ball as an additional liquidator, objected to the postpone ment. The Vice-Chancellor understood that there were three petitions to come before the court in the matter of the European Bank, and that they were all opposed. The petition will take its place in the opposed list. COURT FOR DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES. (Before the Lord Chief Justice, the Lord Chief Baron, and the Judge Ordinary.) BYTES V. THE ATTORNEY-GINERAL.-THE " PRINCESS OLIVE" CASE. The petitioner, Lavinia Jannetta Horton Ryvea, of 24, Oeorgiana-street, Camden-town, petitioned that her mother, Olive Wilmot Serra, might be declared to be the legitimate daughter of Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumber land, and of Olive Wilmot, his wife. The Attorney-Gene ral, in the first instance, declined to plead, and left the petitioner to make out her case as she could, but at the re quest of the Judge Ordinary he filed a simple traverse ; and the cause now came on for trial before a special jury. Dr. J. W. Smith and Mr. D. M. Thomas appeared for the petitioner; with the Attorney-General were the Solicitor-General, the Queen's Advocate, Mr. Hansen, and Mr. R. Bourke. The petitioner's case is likely to occupy a considerable time, but as it has already been published in a pamphlet it will be convenient at once to give an outline of it as it is stated by her : The petitioner's great grandfather was the Rev. Dr. James Wilmot. He is described as having been descended from De Villemot, who came over with the Conqueror, ' and as being a kinsman of the celebrated Earl of Rochester. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, by the fellows of which lie was presented to the valuable living of Barton. on-the-Heath,Warwickshire, which he hell during his life, together with that of Aulceiter, uear Ragley, where he became the intimate acquaintance of the Earl of Hertford, the ancestor of the present marquis. Dr. Wilmot con tracted a private, but legal marriage with the daughter of Stanislaus, last King of Poland. Of this marriage, one child, a daughter, was the issue. As she grew up, she attracted much attention, in conse quence of her beauty and accomplishments. The position of her father at court made her known to the royal family and to the principal nobility, and a noble earl actually came from the continent for the sole purpose of making pro posals to Miss Wilmot, but she had attracted the notice of of the Duke of Cumberland, who demanded her hand. It is alleged that Dr. Wilmot had married (twice over) the Prince of Wales (George III.) to Hannah Lightfoot, and that the following certificates arc still in existence : " April 17th, 1759. " The marriage of these parties was this day duly solemnised at Kew Chapel, according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England, by myself. "Witness to this marriage, " J. WILMOT. " W. PITT. " GEORG! P. " Ana TAYLOR. " HANNAH." " May 27th, 1759. " This is to certify that the marriage of these parties, George l'rince of \Vales to Hannah Lightfoot, was duly solemnised this day according to the rites and ceremonies of the church of England,at their residence at Peckham by mys. If. " Witness to marriage of these parties, " 'WILMOT. " WrtuAst PITT. "(E.HIGR Gt . ELrH. " ANNE TAYLOR. " HANNAH LIGHTFOOT." There is a further certificate of Dr. Wilmot, as follows: "I solemnly certify that I married George Prince of Wales to Hannah, his first royal consort, in the year 1759, and that such royal personage departed this life, Decem ber the lst, 17-4, leaving issue two sons and one daughter, lawfully born in wedlock.—(Signed) J. WILMOT." It is, therefore, suggested that George 111. consented to the marriage of hie brother to Miss Wilmot, at the house of Lord Becher, in Grosvenor-square, as set forth in the following document : " I lierebycertify that I married Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, to Olive Wilmot, March 4, 1767, such marriage having been duly aoleninised according to the rites and ceremonies of the church of England. (Signed) "J. WILMOT. (Signed) "C;EuRCE It. " CHATHAM. " I witnessed such marriage. (Signed) " WARWICK." It results therefore that the subsequent marriage of his royal highness with Lady Anne Horton on the 2nd of Oct. 1771, was bigamous. Olive Wilniot was delivered on the 3rd of May, 1772, of a female child who was at once pri vately baptised by Dr. Wilmot. The following documents referring to this child arc said to be in existence : " April, 4, 1772. "G. R. " Whereas it is our Royal will that Olive our niece be re baptised Olive Wilmot, to operate during our Royal plea sure. " To Lord CHATHAM." " We hereby certify that Olive, the Duke of Cumber land's infant, was re-baptised, in onler that she might pass as the child of my brother Robert Wilmot, and that such child was entered in the Register of St. Nicholas's, at War wick, as Olive Wilmot only. (Signed) " J. WILMOT. " Roar. WILMOT." " We hereby acknowledge having received to our joint protection Olive, the infant child of the Duke of Cumber land, April 4,1772. (Signed) " WIRT. WILMOT. " ANNA IfitHlA WILMOT. " 'Witness (Signed) "J. WILMOT. " WARWICK." " May 1, 1773. " I declare the Duke of Cumberland's marriage with Olive Wilmot to be legal, by command of the King. (Signed) "J. DUNNING (Lord Ashburton.) " Witness (Signed) "J. WILMOT." It is alleged that Lord Chatham agreed, on behalf of his Majesty, to pay the sum of 500/. for the maintenance of the infant ; and the following attestation of her legiti macy is produced : G. H. " May 3, 1774. " In the face of Almighty God, we, the undersigned, solemnly certify that hie Majesty gave his royal command that Olive, the legitimate daughter of Henry Frederick Duke of Cumberland, by Olive, his first wife, should be re-baptised as the supposed child of Robert Wilmot of Warwick, to save her royal father, who had committed an act of bigamy by marrying Ann Horton. (Signed) " J. DUNNING. "J. WILMOT." It is next alleged that the King created the child Duchess of Lancaster by the following instrument : " GEORGE IL . . . " We hereby are pleased to create Olive of Cumberland Duchess of Lancaster, and to grant our Royal authority for Olive our said niece to bear and use the title and arms of Lancaster, should she be in existence at the period of our Royal demise. " Given at our Palace of St. James's, " May 21, 1773. (Signed) "CHATHAM. " J. DUNNING." The death of Olive Wilmot is thus recorded by her father : " I solemnly certify that Olive, my dear daughter, Duchess of Cumberland, died December 5, 1774, in France, of a broken heart.—(Signed)—J. WILMOT." Five years afterwards the King is said to have signed the following paper : " GEORGE R.—We are pleased to recommend Olive, our niece, to our faithful Lords and Commons for prote ction and support, should she be in existence at the period of our Royal demise—such being Olive Wilmot, the supposed daughter of Robert Wilmot, of Warwick. (Signed) " J. DUNNING. " 7th January, 1780." " ROBERT WILMOT." In the meantime the history of the child is said to have been as follows :—lmmediately after her birth she was committed to the custody of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wilmot, who then resided in a house called St. John's, at the west end of Warwick. With them her earlier years were paned, but in 1783 she became an inmate of Dr. James Wilmot's parsonage at Barton-on-the-Heath. Her taste for drawing was such as to give great promise of future excellence ; and in order to afford her the oppor tunities of cultivating and improving it, Dr. Wilmot ' brought her to London in 1791. She became acquainted with Mr. John Thomas Serres, a painter of marine subjects, who married her at Barton-on-the-Heath, Sept. 1, 1792. Of this marriage four children were the result. The two eldest died young ; the third, the petitioner, was born on the 16th of March, 1797 ; the fourth, a daughter, born in 1802, also survives. Do mestic differences arose between the father and mother, and in 1803, • formal separation took place under the provisions of • deed. It is alleged that Lord Warwick, before his death in 1816, communi nicated all the documents to the Duke of Kent, who, be lieving his story, executed the following paper : " London, April 3, 1815. " I, Edward Duke of Kent, do hereby give and grant to my cousin Olive, Princess of Cumberland. one-third of my estates, lands, and mines, situate in Canada, North America ; binding myself, my heirs, and executors, to so -1 lemnlv observe this co*enant. (Signed) " EDWARD. Witness — WARWICK." It i; eatedth;t:hi;;;;al highness actually paid her 400/. a Tear while he lived ; and it is asserted that she in return raised the necessary funds to enable the Duchess of Kent to come to England so as to allow her present Majesty to be born upon British soil. The following other papers are attributed to the duke :—" I solemnly testify my satis faction at the proofs of Princess Olive of Cumberland's birth, and declare that my royal parent's sign-manual to the certificates of my dearest cousin's birth are, PAINFUL SUIrIDE 01 A SHAREHOLDER IN THE BANK OF LONDON. An inquiry was held by Mr. W. J. Payne, the coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster, last night, at the Bowyer Hotel, Manor-street, Clapham, touching the death of Mr. James Christie, aged 16 years, a gentleman who was alleged to have committed suicide in consequence of losses incurred through the City panic. Mr. Thomas Christie said that the deceased was his father. He resided at 141, Manor-street, Clapham. Up to within the last three weeks he was in good health and spirits. Since that time he bee me very de pressed in consequence of having lost a great deal of money through the panic in the City. lie held a number of shares in the Bank of London. He was always talking about his loss, and as he was a shareholder in the bank, he did not know the full extent of his loss, and that preyed upon his mind. He used to go daily to the bank for the purpose of seeing whether the doors of it were going to be closed. He did that in consequence of finding the shares depreciating. He had a great many shares in the bank, and he was afraid of a further call, and he did not know how to meet it. William Oakey, 3, Ship-street, said that on last Wed nesday morning, about 10 o'clock, he was passing No. 141, Manor-street, when a servant ran out of the house and called him in. Upon proceeding upstairs he found the deceased lying on his back on the floor of his bed room. He was dressed in his drawers and night dress, and he was quite dead. A piece of broken bell-rope was hanging from the pole of a French bedstead. W.tnesa saw a la d y standing near the deceased. Matilda Comber said that she had been in the deceased's service 12 months. He lived with his wife and three children. Everything wag happy and comfortable at home until within the last fortnight. He then be came very low-spirited, as if he had something preying upon his mind. Mrs. Christie told wit ness that be had had a heavy loss, and that he was always thinking of it. Witness heard him say, " How unfortunate it is, everything I do seems to turn out for the worse. This is a heavy loss." On last Tuesday morning he was very low and desponding. He left the house at half past 10 o'clock to go to the bank, and he returned at 5 o'clock in the evening. He was then very sad. Witness did not see him alive after. In the morning in order to try and keep his spirits up, Mrs. Christie took breakfast with him in the bedroom. It was his usual habit to take a walk before breakfast, but that day he did not do so. After the deceased had taken breakfast Mrs. Christie went into the gar den, and witness hearing a noise in the deceased's room informed her mistress of it. Mrs. Christie then went to the door, but finding it locked, called "Christie, Christie! I know he is dead." Witness then got a large stick, and Mrs. Christie covered the end of it with a piece of carpet, and burst the lower panel of the door in. She then knelt down, and looked ! through the opening in the door, and called out, " Oh, my God, be has hanged himself." Mrs. Clara Christie, widow of the deceased, said that her husband had removed the bell-rope, and fastened it to one of the curtain rings of the French bedstead. After witness unlocked the door from the inside, after bursting the paella in, the bell-rope broke, and her husband fell dead at her feet. He had never threatened to commit suicide. Sergeant H. Beaumont, 23 W, said that he found some pieces of torn paper in the deceased's bed. Upon potting the pieces together, the words "J. Christie. Issue of 1212. Chatham a hotment," could be read. Henry 8.. Sdrester:elapham-common, said that he was called in to see the deceased on Wednesday. He we. finite dead and the cause of his death was strangulation by hanging. The Coroner having summed up the jury returned a ver dict of " Suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity." A sea wall is about to be built at Bognor, in Sussex, at a cost of 6,0001. PROPOSED VISIT OF THE PRINCE OP WALES TO Cotclicsree.—The Prince of Wales, it is announced, will visit Colchester on Tuesday next to review the 11th Hussars, and it is understood that he will be accompanied by the Princess, Prince Teck, the Duke of Cambridge, and a number of the nobility. A large marquee, capable of aeoomwodating 50, is to be erected near the Cavalry Barracks, in which luncheon will served up to the royal and other guests. Late last evening we learned that Col chester is making great preparations to receive Eta royal visitors in a becoming manner, and uphold its ancient character for loyalty. The Hussars and Rifle Volunteers will form a guard of honour to the Prince and his party from the railway station to the camp. An address will be presented to his royal highness by the mayor and corpora tion, at the Town Hall ; and the day will be observed as a general holiday in the town. There is also to be a ball in the evening. It is stated the Prince is likely to proceed to Wivenhon to see his yacht, the Diagram, built by Mesas. Harvey and Son.—Chelmilord Chronicle. to the best of my own compreh lief, the genuine handwriting of t h e ,pe lather. Thus I constitute Olive, ' vie'"eg the guardian and the director of my n eeg killek,, drina's education from the age of four yam ' ,1.. . 44 %. I n e a se of my death, and from the Ditches, o f g...7 1 0 11, 4i4 so unacquainted with the mode of English e a ui T ion ' . in case my wife departs this life in my daughisi em i_ I oonstituto and appoint my cousin Olive the MU r , of my daughter till she is of age. geT (Signed) "IlawAgE t . " London, Nov. 1, 1819." " I promise to guarantee the rent of any le e " ft , cousin Olive may ror against my return shire, wishing rue mansion to be suitable to , hien.i. " Nov. 9, 1819." (Signed) R D V: " I hereby promise to return from DevOillhire 4 5. the spring , to lay before the Regent th e eert i fi ome dearest oous 6 in O 81 li 9." ev's birth. (Signed) E nna " 1 " I covenant to pay to my cousin Win es ," %I Cumberland, 10,000/. ; hereby fully autheri s i ei v cousin, Princess Olive, to receive 19,0001. of whn e ;;'Nn sons who may sell or dispute of my house, fermi: estate, situate at Castlebar-hill, in the pe!jek of Ealing. (Signed) Entriir . " London, Nov. 17, 1819. " To my cousin Olive, Princeu of Cumberisutiout wrongly, at this time, Olive Serres." During his illness the illustrious duke is allow teie, also written the following : " Should I not recover, I solemnly recommend E lL ry i , Serres, otherwise Olive, Princess of Cumberliad, brother, the Prince Regent, as the legitimate 44 ,4 " my un c le, the Duke of Cumber land . d. "For Mrs. Olive Serres, arid. her cousin's ag tekii , love an 1 blessing." j " If this:note meets my dear Alexandrines a cousin Olive will present it, whom my deag e ltl iala t my sake, I hope, love and serve, should I delartaah li tt (Signed) gnaw " Should I not recover, I recommend my ore . my wife, who will, for my sake, love and servilsee l e she recovers her royal rights. I solemnly retains* daughter to revere the Princess (Cumberland) for r ye (Signed) &mew " I sign this to say that I am very ill, but, I not get better , con fi de in the duchess my vii., whe y for my sake assist you, until you obtain your royal " God Almighty bless you, my beloved cotton, pip (Signed) p; D i ew "To Olive my cousin, and blessing to Lavinia`A eldest surviving daughter of Mrs. Serres.) One other document must be quoted : " George R. ct st. " In case of our royal demise, we give sad beQ b Olive, our brother of Cumberland's daughter, the eat 15.000/., commanding our heir and successor% mg, same, privately, to our said niece, for her me, ass rem' pense for the misfortunes she may have known thee her father. " June2,gh Witness, J. DUNNING, CHATHAM, WARMIOI." In 1122, Mrs. Sevres propounded this papa l , s i s hut after a solemn argument between Dr. LA*: Dr. Dodson, and Dr. Haggard on the ore ea and the King's advocate (Sir C. Robinson) on the di Sir John Nichol ruled that the Prerogative Csmit hi s power to grant probate of a royal will. Mrs. &m ash the year 1534. The petitioner had previously hesseds wife of Mr. Anthony Thomas Hyves, and that Ira* of that marriage six children—three sons sad daughters. In the year 1841 slie instituted • the ecclesiastical court against her bus fee add a mend et thoro. upon the grounds of sdsly and gross cruelty. Her suit succeeded, and she lad ese since been entirely dependent upon her own exerts h the maintenance and support of herself and it eisleg, they being totally unprovideil for. In her peso (dated 1K58) she claimed on behalf of her mothers ■ of 1,004,644 f. besides a third of the Duke of Eeseseas dian propert y, and other sums from the royal hi t amounting to 105,520/., all which, however, she lay that she was ready to resign for a sum of 100,030/ Dr. Smith in opening his case was met by the ekeee e that the petitioner having obtained a deem the court as to the validity of the mar* ea could not now ask for another dame is daring the Cumberland marriage valid. That mil n have been the first point raised. After msid.eg e carrion, the Chief Justice directed Dr. Smith to laylie the jury the evidence on which he sought to lasi Serres marriage. Dr. Smith said he was not pretend* this, and after an offer from the Attorney-Gen side adjournment, Dr. Smith was allowed to go on, and proceeded ts tend that his client was the issue of an English cars married into a foreign family, and that the royal earnig act did not apply to such asses. The Chief Baron observed that the point wan Age, according to the true construction of the royal amp act, if a foreigner came to this country he could semi member of the royal family without the queen's lima Dr. Smith then referred to Hannah Lightfoot is of the wife of George 111., a statement which weeder sensation, and was declared by the Chief Baron ais hardly compatible with decency. The Attorney-General observed that he should mad the whole case of the petitioner was one of fraud. Dr. Smith was continuing when our report lift. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) GUILDHALL A SUSPICIOUS At'VAIR. Camille Leidel, a Frenchman, without any haw in, was placed at the bar before Sir James Duke, churl* being on the promises No. 80, Newgate-street, with alsi to commit a felony. Miss Helen Crawford said she was housekeeper toles Smith and Dymond, pawnbrokers. 80, Ne Bleuze, a foreign importer, occupied the t flea. la evening about half-past 7 o'clock she was on thews:4oe landing, and in consequence of what the servos alio her she looked over the banisters, and saw two ss Mr. Bleuze's door. She said, "Is this all riFht-eesiw the parries belonging to the place ?" The primeval! into the warehouse and the other men went dos. and out into the street. Witness went downatim teg! assistance to capture the man, who had wade off WS the prisoner, who was safe in M. Bleute's washer Mr. Reed, one of the assistants to Messrs. Smith id Dymond, called a constable, and they found the past in the first floor hiding under a screen. George Murray, 317, said he went into Mr. 131/ 4 warehouse at the request of Mr. Reed, and found law Boner hiding under a screen. lie asked him whale , ' doing there, and his only reply was, " Me don't aides. English, me is a Frenchman." He took him toilet*i house, and searched him. He found on him one alka two cambric handkerchiefe,a gold scarf pin, and sow* trifling articles. The prisoner was remanded, CLERKENWELL. CASES UNDER THE FIRE BRIGADE AC7,1865. -1120 ANT Ti) PAKIsIif. , NUSS. Mr. Angier, of 56, Cannonbury-road, Islington,ro. mooed by Mr. Norman Bevan, on behalf of the Rafe litan Board of Works, under the provisions of WI. politan Fire Brigade Act, 1865, to show cause 41 11 should not pay a penalty, not exceeding 201., to beel one of the chimneys of his house which he **cupid , '" The defendant did not deny the fire, but objectsdle. the costs asked by Mr. Bevan, viz., 2 s. B d. , fo r the 11P., ance of Wood, the engine-keeper for th e p ond" Islington. Mr. Bevan said he must ask for the costs, as if shed did not allow them he should have to pay them. WOO not yet in the employ of the 6letropolium Board ofli Mr. D'Eynoourt asked by whom Wood was pa d also what were his duties. Wood replied that he was employed by the si nholl . of the parish of Islington, and his salary v 513 1",: week. His duty was to look after the e n g issisa engine-house. Mr. D'Eyncourt—And to attend all the fires is parish ? Wood replied in the affirmative, and said in this took the hand-engine. Since the passing of thisscia" emoluments had been taken away, and it wades digs. of quite D. per week to him. Mr. D'Eyncourt remarked that Wood was pa ..... .!a!aw i to the fires in the parish, and paid by the and he did think it a little hard that the dereUlak was a parishioner, should be called upon to Pal costs. Under the circumstances, be would allow ' shilling ; but he could not allow more. The _ would have to pay a fine of 10s., and in utilities 11, include the cat of the summons and the witnem. There were several other cases of the same charshw i MARLBOROI 'G 1 i -STREET. THE KEEPERS OP A SERVANTS' REGIATHY oFFICE WITH CONSPIRING TO DEFRAUD YOUNG SOlStil John Wye)! Smith, agent, No. 6, Clarendon Somers-town, and Adolphe Charles Wattery, trarita. No. 5, Adelphi-terrace, Old-ford-road, Bow,. "Tee before Mr. Knox with unlawfully conspiring vo obtain and obtaining from Marian Shaw and , de Velde the sum of sa. respectively, with intent w" fraud. Mr. West, from the office of Messrs. SW° °d ill. : lomen Plneeen'teti, on behalf in and Children th E ., Mr. Lewis Lewis, of Ely-place, appeared for the , of the the S oc i e ty for the e Mr. Levy (from the office of the soci.,ty), who some weeks weeks engaged in getting up the case, also Mr. West said he appeared to p rw iecute th e the manager and the secretary of the Cave u tion, a registry o ffi ce for servants. on the ch dud` sea spiring to defraud several young women, who victims of a most cruel fraud. Mr. West then called Marysaid —anl saw e an Vel, l l, Tren who advertisement in the rips'+ and inconsequence I wrote to the Cavendish lorlost and received post a prospectus. In conseqnsn,o, to the Cavendish Institution, awl there sa w theyni. I asked them the address of the widow_rb,‘ I had advertised. Wattery " P"; 37. should receive the address, and I paid latarnad Letter -of war a nd that 00 Woo It I gol j about eve me hierne dived n it to th letter It books en teach hi' oohed fo I ought false. __ +Il i~~ BY M ari+ stoat of • alth( that Meg 1124 that buts give] and, Le n are] 101. seat . iin; Plea • date .or, for tool Ida M.. . Via • mai ' ..the • rize • bre . •, the we: t o 77 - wwi