The Express. — London, England, 1862-12-03 00:00:00

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For a man at a distance, whose.ise•me is sure , or 'whose speculations are prosperous, to put his hand in his pocket and to send to Lancashire a 101. or a 201. note, is • com paratively easy thing. The self-denial is probably not great, and the glow of virtuous complacency quite as warm as the action merits. But no public gift, however munificent, however often repeated, can answer the demand made upon those whose lot is now cast in the midst of a hungry and half clad people. There is this pressing case of want to be relieved ; that poor woman to be helped through her time of trouble ; these little children to be tenderly nursed through the fever ; those, to be sent to school or put out to service ; a new plan of benevolence to be tried ; an old and well proved scheme to be kept in efficiency till good times return : these, and many things more, make a constant succession of petty demands upon purse and energy, demands which, either in Lancashire or elsewhere, conscientious and kind-hearted men never leave without reply. The County at large is now in a position to challenge conclusions with its detractors, who if they be honourable will admit their error—if they be wise, will at least take refuge in silence. But the men and women whose labours have been incessant since this trouble began, who in money have given all, and often more than all than they could afford, and in addition time and effort, gifts far more valuable than money ; whose resolution still rises higher with the higher flood of destitu tion, that all that they can do shall be freely done, deserve a more frank apology than we fear they are likely to receive. But still, to have performed an honourable work in faithful obscurity is a more enviable lot than meanly and scornfully to deny, in face of damning evidence, that the work was being done. The beat revenge which the administrators of private and public charity in Lancashire can have over their crilumniators is, to point to the hungry filled and the naked clothed. trbe Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dm 2. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louis of Heme, drove out yesterday. Major-General Seymour was in attendance. _ - Prince Louis of Herne rode on horseback, attended by Lieutensnt.Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe. _ _ _ ..... Sir Andrew Buchanan, 0.0.8., arrived at the Castle yesterday, and hail an audience of her Majesty. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Sir George Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Card well, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey arrived in town on Mon day evening, from his seat Falloden, Northumberland. The Chancellor of the Exchequer leaves town this day on a visit to the Marquis of Westminster, at Eaton Hall. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. An appeal, " The Meander and Florence Nightingale," from the High Court of Admiralty (part heard), was con cluded. Judgment was deferred. An appeal from Canada, "Beacon Fire Assurance Company v. Gibb," was com menced. The Lords present were Lords Chelmsford and Kinpdown and Sir J. Coleridge. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian bland& FOR many reasons, the Lancashire County Meeting, held yesterday in the Manchester Town , Hall, deserves a more marked attention than the numerous charitable assemblies of the same kind which have lately drawn territorial 1 magnates to their county towns. For the im portance of this particular meeting is far less in the actualpecuniary effort which there found a voice, than in the opportunity of reply which it afforded to those who have not scrupled to assert that the county which is the seat of distress hap really done sewn 'm mitigate it. Bo meeting, however con venient the place and hour of assembly, could adequately represent all the varied social elements of so wide and so diversified a district. But this was varied enough for the purpose which it was designed to serve. Earls and Commoners ; Whigs, Tories and Radicals ; manufacturers, merchants, tradesmen, and landowners, apparently forgot any petty differences which in happier times might part them, to join in the performance of theirdutyaa men of Lancashire. Lord DERRY is not the statesman whom Manchester is generally supposed to delight to honour ; nor is Lancashire the stronghold of the party which he so ably leads. His testimony is, therefore, of the greater weight, when he boldly declares that, measured by any test, Lancashire has done its duty. The gage is now fairly cast down ; let it be as fairly taken up—or let us hear no more of the miserable criticism, which, to pander to prejudice or serve the selfish ends of party, is willing if not to check the current of national generosity, to make the bread of charity as hard and as unpalatable as it may. The facts of the case are very few and simple. Of the LORD MAYOR'S Fund we take no account ; if by chance any Lancashire money has found its way thither, it does not go to swell the amount of the County's gift. The sum in hand, or expended by the Manchester Central and the local Commit tees, is, in round numbers, 540,000/. Of this 40,000/. is to be credited to the colonies, 100,0001. to England at large. The remainder, 400,000!., has been subscribed in Lancashire. To this great sum must be added not less than 50,000/. of new donations, announced at the Manchester Town hall yesterday. A month ago, Lord Sarron issued 1,300 circulars of invitation to the county meeting. Since the despatch of those invitations the amount poured by Lancashire into the trea suries of various relief funds has been 130,000/. These figures, for the accuracy of which not only Lord DERBY, but Mr. FARNALL, the Poor-law Commissioner, specially deputed by Government, stands sponsor, prove that up to the present time Lancashire, tested by the subscription lista alone, has borne more than half the whole burden of the distress. The following notice of the Queen at a child's ball at the Duchies of Gloucester's, in 1837, occurs in the new volumes of Lady Morgan's autobiography :—" The young Queen was there, looking quite • child her self. When her uncle. the Duke of Sussex, was leaving the room, she ran after him and said, ' Won't you give me a kiss before you go?' and then whispered in his ear, ' You have forgotten to wish mamma good night.' What a charming trait—it is • pity to make a Queen of this creature with these warm affections.'" The Prince and Princess Royal of Prussia intend, it is said, stopping some days at Vienna, on their way home from Italy. . _ . "It will be seen," says the Bury and Norwich Pan," that our member, Lord Alfred Hervey, is appointed a lord of the bedchamber in the household of the Prince of Wales. We have reason to believe that the noble lord was designated for this appointment by the lamented father of his royal highnees," The Count and Countess de Flabault and Miss Elphinetone de Flahault will leave town early next week, ' for Bowood, on a visit to the Marquis of Lansdowne. The Duchess of Athol' has left the St. George's Hotel. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and Lady Georgina Hamilton have left Chesterfield House, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Mount-Edgcumbe, at their seat is Devonshire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath have been entertaining his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and a select party at Longleate, Wilts, during the part week. The Earl of Malmeibury left Stratford-place yesterday morning, on • visit to the Earl and Countess of Derby, at Knowsley Park, Lancashire. Her ladyship re mains in town. The Earl and Counteß4 of Carnarvon have arrived at Bretby Park, Derbyshire, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield. _ . The Earl of Eglinton attains his majority this day, and greet preparations have been made at Fenton Castle, Ayrshire, for the celebration of this event. Lord and Lady Huntingfield have left the St. George's Hotel, for their seat, Heveningham Hill, Suffolk. Lord Henry and Lady Ulrica Thynne will leave Worthing oil Friday for their seat, Maiden Bradley. Lady Goodria has arrived at the St. beorge's Hotel But none know better how unfair is the appeal to the subscription lists than those who make it. That the County can afford to be so tried is only what those who are most intimately acquainted with it would confidently expect. But such an appeal altogether excludes evidence as to rates, the whole amount of which, whether great or small, as critics with various prepossessions might decide, falls not only on the County, but on those very parts of it where the distress is most intense. Places like Ashton, Stockport, Oldham, Glossop— where one-third at least of the ratepayers are already insolvent, and where rates which really come to from Bs. to 15s. in the pound, are being paid by the owners of cottages which yield no rent, and mills where not a spindle turns— may surely be excused from any large contribu tions of a voluntary kind. We will say nothing of the great expenditure which is made week after week by the millowners—an expenditure which, if we are to believe Lord DENBY'S emphatic testi mony, far exceeds in munificence any other dona tion to the needs of the distressed poor. But those who will give Lancashire credit for only those amounts which adorn the columns of some local or metropolitan paper, would no doubt be the first to point attention to the fact, could they do so, that the County's liberality was all of the osten- Sir Redmond Barry has left the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn4treet, for Melbourne, Australia. Sir William Jardine, Bart., has left the Caven dish Hotel, for Jardine Hall, Lockerbie. The members for the borough of Nottingham, Charles Paget, Esq., and Sir It. J. Clifton, have accepted an invitation to dine with their constituents in the Ex change Hall early next week. In one of the letters of Lady Morgan—who died lees than four years ago—given in her autobiography, just published, is the following passage. She is writing from Rome, Feb. 4, 1820:—" Cardinal Feeds (Bonaparte's uncle) is quite my beau ; he called on us the other day, and wanted me to drive out with him, but Morgan looked at his scarlet hat and stocking, and would not let me go. We have been to his palace, and he has shown us his fine oollection (one of the finest in Rome). Lotd William Russell, Mr. Adair, the Claremonts, ha., are coming to us this evening. Madame Mere (Napoleon's mother) sent to say she would be glad to see me ; we were received quite in an imperial style. I never saw so fine an old lady—still quite handsome. She was dressed in a rich crimson velvet, trimmed with s►ble, with a point lace ruff and headdreae. The picture: of her sone hung round the room, all io royal robes, and her daughters and grand children, and at the bead of them all old Mr. Bonaparte / Every time she mentioned Napoleon the tears came into her eyes. She took me into her bedroom to show me the miniatures of her three children. She is fall of muse, teeing, and spirit, and not the least what I expected—vulgar."' M. Mario was amply compensated on Sunday, at the Theatre Italie', for the rudeness with which he was treated atlhe French Opera a few days ago. The former building was crowded, and the illustrious tenor was received throughout with the warmest applause. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVErNG, DECEMBER,. 3; 1862. DENMARK. .4 collect The Gazette of last night contains a despatches *elating to the dispute between many and Denmark respecting the Duchies N.. Schleswig and Holstein. The first, dated Sept. 24, is from Earl Russell to Mr. Paget, at Copenhagen ; and the second, dated Oct. 5, is from M. RAH, Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs, remarking generally on the German demands : both of these despatches have already been published. The third. dated Oct. 11, is from Lord Russell to Mr. Paget, reporting a conversation with M. Bile, who had come suddenly from Copenhagen on the news of Lord Russell's first despatch. The fourth, dated Oct. 25, is K Hall's reply to Lord Russell's despatch of Sept. 24, and has already been published. The fifth and sixth were from K de Biamark and Count Rechberg, expressing the satisfaction of the courts of Vienna and Prussia with the views of the British Government. The seventh, dated Nov. 20, is Earl Russell's reply to K Hall's despatch of Oct. 15, and concludes as follows : ' It has been my duty repeatedly to advise the Danish go verament to remedy the grievances of Schleswig, to fulfil completely all the promises of the King on this matter, and thus to take away all pretext for German interven tion. In these representations her Majesty's government have acted in concert with the governments of France and Russia ; but these three powerful and friendly governments have seen their advice neglected, and the oppressions and inequalities complained of but little abated. It has become necessary, therefore, to consider and select some other course. Such being the cage, there are various courses to pursue : 1. To allow the present state of uneasiness and danger to continue till it ends in some violent explosion. 2. To adopt a common constitution, in which the German element would have more weight than mere numbers would give it. 3. To divide Schbrewig into two parts, of which one to be German, and closely connected with Holstein ; and the other to be Danish, and to be incorporated with Denmark. 4. To adopt a plan framed upon the basis which I have suggested. The last of these courses appears to her Majesty's govern ment the most favourable to the integrity and independence of Denmark, and, therefore, most in accordance with the treaty of London. M. Hall does her Majesty's government justice when he mays that he does not believe I intend to renounce, or put myself in contradiction with, the sentiments of sympathy and sincere interest which I have always expressed for Den mark. Her Majesty's government, however, are bound to weigh the position of Denmark, un influenced by those passions which in the course of a long controversy may have gained an ascendancy among all parties in the controversy. Nor does her Ma jesty'le government stand alone in its view of these matters, for Russia partakes the views of Great Britain, and France thinks them deserving of the gravest consideration. Her Majesty's government can only, there fore, escrow a hope that the voice of unpartial friends may be listened to, even amidst the storms of controversy ; and that this long and bitter dispute may at last be terminated in such a manner as may be consistent with the honour and conducive to the interests of all parties concerned. Her Majesty's government trust that the cessasion of this long strife may increase the stability and strengthen the inde pendence of Denmark. I request you to read and give a copy of this despatch to M. am, &c.—(Signed) Roseau.. LIFEBOAT SERVICES. THORPENESS, SUFFOLK, TUESDAY NIGHT. At about 4 a.m. one of the coaet-guardmen reported to the coxswain of the Ipswich lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution, stationed here, that lights had been seen on the Sizewell Sand Bank. The wind wee `.l.,ving hard oo shore and the sat was very rough at tune. The lifeboat was immediately launched and led in the direction of the lights, which were found town from the screw steamer Normanby, of London, From Hartlepool to London, with a cargo of p•• . ot. She had struck heavily on Sizewell Bank. and 'Jed broken her screw propeller, but afterwards came off and ,es To her anchor. She was making water, which was kept under by the steam pumps. Although the services of the lifeboat were not actually required to take off the 016 W yet she contributed materially to the ultimate safety of thii valuable steamer by taking through the surf a menage to the shore for the assistance of steam tugs, which will bring her to a port of safety. The lifeboat behaved very well is the heavy sea, and the crew spoke highly of her. ARKLOW, IRELAND, Dec. L At daybreak this morning • large vessel was observed aground on Glasgorntan Bank. It was blowing • gale ? and the sea was running so high that no fishing or ordinary boat could put to sea. The lifeboat of the National Life boat Institution on this station was instantly launched with all despatch. As she was nearing the verna l the masts were cut away, and the ship floated inside the bank. On arriving alongside the vessel proved to be the ship Eliza Beneke from Liverpool to Bombay, with a crew of twenty-live men on boani . The coxswain a the lifeboat asked the captain if the crew wished to come off in the boat, but, after consulting with them, they de. termined to remain by their vessel. and the lifeboat there fore put back ; but when she was some distance o ff , a signal was hoisted for her, and she returned, when the second mate got into her an d was brought on shore, for the pur pose of going to Dublin for a steamer. Had it not been for the lifeboat, again in this instance, no communication could have been effected, through the heavy, sea then running, with the shore. If the wind does not increase, the vessel will probably be got off the bank, and be taken into Kings town Harbour. WEATHER REPORT.-{THIS DAY.) WIIMMIDAT. DllOOllllll 3, • L.Y. L - I i .... . . . . - L • 8 . 7 DODOI • ••,_1 & D. di 48 1 2 4f,1 Linn 129.73 1322111.72 20.79 LILD2OBB9B (IALwAr le 1 Yaw:au 29.22 51 2 aIIEI2ATOWII 1 9.34 51 0 Hoto 22120 ;19.55 2 lincapooi —.29.64 4 1 P 21111021 ELM; 1 Puma= 6 1 1 22.21101114......47 51 3 .111111161 . 129.57 4813 WIT 15517111 29.91) 60, 3 P 06111158211 - 1 29 55 4712 ,•.N.77 4813 LONDON 29.71 441 2 29151159714 '.'9.83 45 1 1 80128J90092. 29.78 4di 1 2E22298 . 29.75 4712 2121.2301.1111) 30.0 8 .33 1 8.8. S TIMSDAT. ELL to &&w., fresh to 1100TLIIM S.S.E. M W.S.W., fresh ISALAXD. B.S.W. to W.R.W., trash, some rain. B.E. to 8.W., strong to &W.F.:m-MU 8. to W., fresh, fresh. showery. As next above. B.E. ENGLAND. As nest shove. 18.1 to 8.3. W., fresh E. ;GANT. iK to W.S. W., fresb, to worlentte. showers. B. I & - I 2 - I 6 -Ii -I' -ii 0.18 6 0.08 4 0.00 6 0.12 4 -I* SAT. 8. to W., moderate to firm' As above. • to moderate. As next above. W. CORRAL Letters from Augaburg speak in gloomy terms of the health of the Queen of Naples. She is said to be in a state of complete physical and moral prostration, and fears are even entertained for her life. She is more than ever opposed to the idea of reconciliation with the King. The Governor of South Carolina, in a recent edict, declares that wages shall not be paid slaves, and that the practice of allowing them to hire their time must be stopped. "There must," he significantly adds, "be • diatinction between the races, as marked as their colours, and it must be distinctly and universally understood that the white is the governing race, without an exception, I and without regard to disparity of intellect, merit, or ' acquirements." The New York Tribune says :—" The extraor dinary premiums on gold will long remain a notable fact in our history ; but it was not without precedent in English history. At the end of the year 1813 the price of gold was 51. 10e. per ounce, and the depreciation of the Bank of Eng- ' land paper, the currency of the government, was conse quently 201., four shillings, H. per cent. —almost 291 per cent. discount ; and for many years gold averaged 20 per cant. premium." Charles Lamb, 20 years ago, addressed the fol lowing genial and kindly lines to James Sheridan Knowles : " Twelve years ago, I knew thee, Knowles, and then Esteemed you • perfect specimen Of those fine spirits warm .souled Ireland sends To teach us colder English how • friend's Quick pulse should beat : I knew thee brave and plain, Strong sensed, rough witted, above fear or gain ; But nothing further bad the gift to espy. Sudden you reappear—with wonder I Hear my old friend, turned Shakspere, read a assns Only to his inferior in the clean Paws of pathos with such fence-like art — Ere we can we the steel, 'tis in our heart." Tan LAYS Jetrss Slimmer( Knowtm. —We learn in accordance with a desire which he had long ex the remains of the deceased James &widen I i =to will be buried In Glasgow, whither they are beim conveyed from Torquay. Dr. James D. Marshall, his eon io-law, left Belfsetyeeterday evening, to meet Mrs. Knowles in Glasgow, sad swinge the funeraL —.Northern Whig. RiTIALLIGIINCE. ij f ign Theiollowing is the order of the day whitit was prepared by the opposition in the'Furin Chamber of Deputies :—" The Chamber, as a zealous pro tectrem of the rights of the crown and of the par liament, declares that the present cabinet has not the oonfidenoe of the nation, and passes to the order of the day." RUSSIA. The Emperor and Empress of Russia have arrived at Moecow, and have been received there with great enthusiasm. The Grand Duke Michael, brother of the Emperor, his wife, and the Grand Duchess Marie Maximilia Novna, daughter of the Duke of Leuchtenberg, have left for Warsaw, on a visit to the Grand Duke Constantino. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PION OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS. TIMWAY EVILNLIG. The Constitutionnel, after having boxed the com pass in a most extraordinary manner about the Greek question, has now a fourth article on the subject, and still with a new signature. Messrs. Limayrac, Troismonts, and Simon all tried their bands, and contradicted each other, and now M. Boniface is set on to make all clear. He protests in the outset against a certain journal, meaning La France, which writes bitterly ; whereas he, M. Boniface, is all for good temper, and the depreca tion of alarm. His argument to-day is merely this, that if a member of the Bonaparte family were to be made King of Greece, Europe would certainly take umbrage, because it would feel that a great power like France could not make common cause with the Greeks without leaving it to be supposed that she would further that expansion of their territory which they notoriously aspire to. No diplomatic denials or explanations would remove this impression. A like jealousy must of necessity be felt of any member of the royal house of England ; and as Francs cannot suppose that England would make light of her alliance, the Constitution/lc/ hopes that the English government will reflect very seriously before coun tenancing Prince Alfred's election. I am not dis posed to deny that there is a great deal in this argument. The France rays the Greek difficulty is at this moment under the considera t i on of a cabinet council in London, and hopes that it will be satis factorily settled. A subscription for distressed cotton operatives in France is announced by the Temps. A delegate of a Rouen committee writes in that journal that th are is " a Lancashire at our doors--il ' , ~t of the Seine Inf6rieure." It is • * 100,000 persons are already out of work sr,i tute in the above district, and that the num ,r soon reach 150,000. The Chamber of Con-,eree of Paris, the Comptoir d'Escompte, and . ..hres com mercial houses, initiate the subcriptionv ithl,o4ofr.. each. ulemnation of sin itino- of till Another case . ie cow_ cent person for murder has just been brought to light—this time in Corsica. During a canvass for an election to the Federal Council a faction fight took place between the friends of a candidate, named Patricius de Corsi, and his opponent. Pa triciva de Corsi was knocked down by a stone, and cried out that he was murdered, but he was able to get up, and turned out not to be much hurt. One of his partisans named Filippi then rushed towards the aggressors and was allot dead by a pistol. A man Ilboutwil, taloa gran arrested for this murder, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment with hard labour. He wrote from prison protesting his innocence, and alleging that one Simoni was the really guilty party. The Procureur-General, M. Bedarrides, who had but recently been appointed to that office, was struck by some of the observa tions in the convict's memorial ; he instituted an inquiry, the result of which leaves no doubt of the guilt of Simoni and of the entire innocence of Renosi. Simoni has been convicted on the clearest evidence, and is sentenced to twenty years' hard labour. The Court of Caseation must now do ' precisely what it did in Rosalie Gardin's case. It will quash both convictions on the ground of incom patibility, and send the two prisoners, pro frenta, for a new trial, at which the mistake will be set right. These things are very shocking, and make a great impression on the public mind. At the Bourse there has been a great recovery in the Rente,which rose 50c. for cash, and 60c. for ac count, closing at 70fr. 50c. and 70fr. 75c. Mobilier rose 24fr. 75c., and the Italian Loan 60c. The up ward movement did not extend generally to rail ways, in which, with the exception of a rise of Mr. in Southern, there is very little change. In the Pecan to-night, M. Rouy, the editor who has succeeded K Peyrat, announces that K de Girardin has promised his co-operation, but " in what measure" must depend upon circumstances. M. Rouy proposes to make several changes in the arrangement of news iu the journal, and, amongst other things, announces that when existing con tracts with authors expire, he shall abolish the feuilleten. He thinks that now that books are so cheap, there is no longer any reason for encumber ing the columns of a nevmpaper with novels. The public are invited to write letters to the Prase, and promised that their correspondence shall be pub lished liberally, as far as space and the laws which regulate the press will allow. King Leopold will enter his 73rd year on the 16th hest. A letter from Rome says :—" The Prince of Wales has left a few commissions here amongst the artists, but his visit has been very hurriedl; and it is surmised that, as he entertains such an affectionate remembrance of Rome, he will probably revisit this city with his bride, and then show such encouragement to art as suits his taste and really princely means." His ex-Majesty King Otho was strict in his adherence to the Roman catholic faith, while Queen Amelia adhered to protestantum. In Miss Brewer's two volumes, "Greece and the Greeks," containing the narrative of a winter residence in Greece (just published) is a curious amount of the way in which the Roman catholic chaplain preached to the King in the morning ; and in the same room the protestant chaplain to the Queen, in the after noon. "Few persons," says Miss Bremer, "are more decidedly opposed in their ecclesiastical views than the court preachers of King Otho and Queen Amelia. And it is I no small proof of the Christian disposition and tact of both I these gentlemen, that they, notwithstanding this differ -1 ewe ' live in perfect peace with each other, and preach in the same church and serve at the same altar, without un pleasaot collision ever occurring. It is also remarkable . that the difference in the religions faith of the King and Queen does not prevent the royal couple from living in exemplary oosoord and harmony." A letter from Leipeic states that M. Weber, of : that city, who has recently returned home after a long re ' Moue in Australia, has been charged by the Acclimate. tion Society of Melbourne to send out to the colony as ! many German sparrows as be can possibly procure. Cater pillars and other insects commit such ravages in Australia, particularly in Victoria, that those birds would be the most effectual means of destroying them. A great number will be shipped off in March neat. 0.101 i 0.41 8 0.031 i 1 0.11 2 THRONE OF GREECE. IRETING OF GREEK RESIDENTS IN LIVERPOOL • A numerous meeting of the Greek community of this town was held on Monday evening, in the Church wardens'-room, 4, 9aodon•terrace. Mr. G. IL PAPAYAIfiII, chairman of the committee, in opening the proceedings, said a most important question, namely, the election of a King for the throne of Greece, now engaged the thoughts of every Greek, the attention of the press of Europe, and would shortly occupy the councils of the National Amembly in Greece. On such an important event the committee thought it very amicable that the Greek community of Liverpool should expreee its opinion and feeling, and for that purpose the meeting had been called. The following resolution was unanimously adopted : " That it is the firm conviction of the prevent meeting that the elevation of Prince Alfred of England to the throne of Greece will be the surest guarantee for the future happiness of our country." At the conclusion of the speeches three enthusinstic cheers were given for the Queen, Prince Alfred, the Royal Family, Lord Palmerston, and the British Government, and the Provisional Government of Greece. HEALTH OF LONDON. It appears from the weekly return of the Regis trar-General that the mortality of London was high in the second and third weeks of November. as has been shown in the reports for those periods ; but it has risen still higher in the week that ended last Saturday, when the number of deaths was 1,743. This is • considerably greater number than in any corresponding week of the last ten years, except that of the year 1858, when the number that occurred in a lees than the present population was 1,738. The following numbers show the oonstant increase of deaths in the four weeks of the last month : they were 1,307, 1,429, 1,569, and 1,745. In the first of those weeks the mean temperature of the air was about 45 deg,. In the last three the mean weekly temperature was 37 dep. or 38 degs. The atmos phere was cold, and frequently very humid. Nearly 300 deaths occurred last week more than the number that would have beer. returned if the average rate of mortality at the end of November had ruled. Alth the birth-rate was near the average last week, e number of births exceeded that of deaths by only 89. The table of fatal diseases shows the increase to have been due principally to pulmonary complaints. The deaths from " disease' of the respiratory organs" were in the last four weeks successively 197, 233, 360, and 470 ; and to take two special diseases in that class, those from bronchitis were in the same periods 101, 130, 186. and 269 ; and from pneumonia, 73, 115, 103, and 131. Phthisis, which ranks in the table with "tubercular diseases," was fatal in the four weeks in 152, 166, 177, and 169 cases. Nearly • half of the deaths from bronchitis occurred at GO years of age and up wards. There were 94 fatal asses of measles and 95 of scarlatina. Seven children died of roesales in (Emden-town, 6 in the East sub-district of Islington, 5 in St. Peter Wal worth. Scarlatina was fatal in 8 eases in the sub-district of St. Mary, Paddingtoo r in 5 in that of Bt. Peter, Wal worth, in 6in Rotherbithe. The registrar of St. May (St. George's-in-the-East) reports that there have been 7 cases of typhus in two families that reside in the house, No. 9, Morgan-street, in his sob-district. At • house in Francis-terrace, Rotherhithe, 4 children, being the whole number of children in a family, have been carried o ff by scarlatina within eleven days. Four deaths are returned as caused by privation. The following are the particulars of those cases :—On Bth November a man, aged 67 years, who had been an artificial florist, died in Pancras workhouse of "exhaustion from starvation." On 17th November, in the same workhouse, the widow of • tailor, aged 43 years, died of " exhalation from starvation." On 24th November, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, a loan un known, probably about 33 years of age, died of "cold and want of food." He had been found in the Smithfield-pena On 14th November, at 11, Parliament-street, Bethnal green, the son of • weaver, aged 3 months, died of "desti tution ; the mother not having mdk for the child from want of food." Last week the births of 971 boys and BG3 girls, in all 1,834 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1852-61 the average number (corrected) was 1,879. A RAILWAY RIOT. The right of possession in the refreshment-rooms at the Worcester station, on the West Midland Railway, has been the cause of something bordering on a slot. The matter came before the Worcester magistrates yesterday, when amen named Thomas Jarrett, in the employ of the railway com pany, was charged with a violent assault upon Mr. Walton, the tenant°, the refreshment rooms. The facts which gave rise to the charge were briefly these :—For some time • die puts has elated between Mr. Walton, the tenant of the refreshment rooms, and the railway. company, as to the terms of his taking, and matters were brought to • crisis on Sunday last. The rooms were locked up as usual on Satur day night, and on Sunday morning, on the attendants going to open them, they found the doors and windows barricaded, and • pore of railway workmen stationed to pre- want ally Ingraat to the rooms. Mr. Walton was at once communicated with, and he thereupon got together some 20 or 30 men, and armed with as axe he was proceeding to cut down the barricades to effect an entrance, when the railway men advanced, and Jarrett, selecting Mr. Walton for attack, aimed a blow at him with • bludgeon, knocking him down senseless. He was carried away from the scene of action, and • general fight between the two parties seemed inevitable, when a body of police arrived and put a stop to the fray. Jarrett was taken into custody, and on Monday afternooa appeared before the magistrates. (The Mayor, Mr. Sherriff, being the manager of the railway, did not set.) A medieal certificate was reed stating that Mr. Walton was too ill to attend before the bench, and Jarrett was accordingly remanded for a week. A great deal of popular feeling appears to be excited. The railway officials on leaving the ball were hooted and mobbed, and had to he escorted by the police through the town. The refreshment rooms were still closed yesterday, to the inconvenience of travellers. THE BItEaDALBANZ StalltsslON.—The Dundee Adrertirer says :—.` A rumour has obtained circulation with regard to • new claimant to the title and entailed estates of the late Marquis of Breadalbane which seems i almost too romantic to be true. It is asserted—oo what authority we are not aware—that the marquis, a few hours before his death, married a woman with whom, before his 1 engagement and marriage to the late marchioness, be had bad . an - affectiorate intimacy, and who at that time had presented . him with an illegitimate son. By his lawful marriage with I the pious and amiable Eliza Bernie, of the Jerviswoode family, he bad no children, and it is generally understood that he regarded with considerable aversion the suceession of Glenfalloch as heir of entail, which seems to be attested I by the fact of the Duke of Buckingham succeeding to the large entailed property and appearing at the marquis's • funeral as chief mourner, Campbell of Glenfallocb not even being present. The existence of such a feeling between the marquis and his recognised successor gives in the meantime • an air of probability to any rumour indicating a desire to change the descent of the Breadalbane property, and lawyers are already discussing what would be the effect of such a marriage as is alleged to have occurred in Swit garland between the marquis and his supposed first love." Tun FORDINOMUDGE MC alien.. --On Monday last, as a man named Parker was engaged in removing a portion of the thatch from the roof of the cottage of George Jacob Gilbert, who was executed a few months mince for the murder in June last of Miss Mary Ann Susan Hall, of Midgham Farm, near Fordingbridge, be discovered, hidden in the thatch, the trinkets worn by the unfortunate young lady on the day she was so brutally murdered. These melancholy memorials of the murdered girl were taken to Midgham Farm by Parker, the finder, who was liberally rewarded by Mrs. Hall, the stepmother of the deceased. Her father, Mr. Hall, it will be remembered, died a short time after the pe rp etration of the crime. Tan Mouetorm.—The Mormons have been hold ing their annual fair and conference at Salt Lake city, and the attendance is said to have bees the largest ever seen since their first organisation. Visitors from the east who happened to be present declare that the exhibition of wrii. cultural and mechanical products would have been credit able to any of the old states of America. It is • mistake to suppose Utah to be • desert ; it may be true of the small portion which is of volcanic origin, bordering upon the great Salt Lake, but the slopes of the extensive valley beyond are capable of producing is abundance all the great staples of that latitude. The collection of fruits and vegetables at the fair consisted of the fluent varieties, and indicated a most luxuriant growth—with the exception of grapes alone, fully ; equal to those of California, which is admitted to be the • best fruit-growing region in the world. The cereal @pea mena were also of superior quality. The product of wheat i and other grain in the present season in Utah has been enormous, enough to supply the people with breadatuffs for , two years to come, besides making a liberal allowance for immigration. Fine samples of tobacco, flax, and cotton were also on exhibition, as well as domestic mauufactnres of the latter, such as cloths and counterpanes, equal to the ' finest fabrics of the eastern stated. The mechanical arts , are the forte of the Mormons, and coming, as many of them do, from the great manufacturing district, of Europe, they are probably the meet ekilful artificers in America. Cotton ' of excellent fibre is of easy growth in the valley, a large surplus of which, for export, has been raised the present year ; and, as thepriee of factory cloth is now 60c. per yard in that remote region, the saints are about to engage largely in the cotton manufacturing euterprise on their own ac count. To that end they are preparing and with); up ex tensive machinery, and expect by the time the Pacific Rail road is built not only to supply with their fabrics all the new settlements east of the Roney Mountains, but to compete in the California and Oregon markets. The fair lasted ten days- Before the adjournment of the conference the people voted that Brigham Young should have the entire direction of their labour throughout the territory, foe the better de i velopment of the resources of the country, and a better • equalisation of labour. Up to the present time the great i majority of the immigrants have gone into wheat raising I and farming in a general way, and the consequence was a • superabundance of certain canals and a great absence of II others. In future Brigham is to my where they shall go and raise cotton, where las, and where every other thing. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Alter Term iiitSings at Nisi Prins.--(Before Lord Mel Justice Cockburn and s Special Jar y.) BEI NMI V. BUITERWORTII. 7 IIII. =GM IMMIOIIit, AND THE BENCHERB OF TIN MIDDLE TEMPLE: - The farther hearing of the as was rammed this rauru- il Mr. Seymour was mairexamined by Mr. Serjeant My speech, protest, and bitten are corrsotly printed i a the scuds. At the time I joined the Northern circuit Mr. Knowles, Sir D. Dundee, the late Mr. T. Barnes,i and Ir. Baton Martin were the leaders of the curuit I tut my" red bag" from Mr. Baines. There were also au toe circuit four gentlemen who graduated at the Dublin roi. versity. And were they not Mr. Justine Crompton, Mr. li L iti ce Hill, Mr. Baron Martin, and idr. fierjeant Murphy Plaintiff-1 can only speak of Mr. Berjeant Morphs, wean 'shofar end an eminent member of the Dahlia l'a,. ;5711 . 47 I have no douAt about the °then, but 1 4 , Z : 1. know it fora tact. The Northern circuit consisted tu ft . . - of about 207 memben, including the local bars. Of these were not more than a dozen of them !nehmen Plaintiff—There were some, but I can't if there were a dozen. I don't think Mr. Seymour Fi tzgerald was a mere. bee of the Northern circuit ,when I join ed it. 1 never am him in court practising se • barrister. You My in the speech you delivered at Southampton that from the first you were made the mark on the circuit from • jealous opposition and a determined effort to keep you down if possible, because you were an Irishman! Plaintiff—Yes. Om your oath is that true—Strictly speaking possibly my words convey more than was meant, or that I was justified in saying. Not at first, but certainly I was very early mads the subject of what I considered =WI. treatment. My rAit, didattue for Sunderland, and matters connected with it, seemed to give considerable annoyance to many. lam jus. tified in saying en, dating from the time when I begun to take a position on the circuit. It is one thing to make a statement at a public meeting io the excitement of moment and =ketone in cooler momenta and on reflection. had sufficient canoe for say* what I did from the conduct of certain members of the circuit towards me. Are not your observations au imputation oo the whole body!—The Northern circuit as a body are like others. They are guided by the few who have influence, which gives • tone to the conduct of the juniors. The juniors do not like to give offence to the seniors and they generally go with them. . . . The lord Chief Justice said the plaintiff must confin e himself to the answering of the queetione put to him. bid you intend by your remarks to convey an imputation or the whole body t Plaintiff-1 meant to convey that I had been subjected to what I considered unfair representations and jealousy on the part of the members of the circuit which were nut gab ciently condemned by the body, which f could refer to nothing else than my being an Irishman. Then the statement is not true !—lt is substantially true, As I have already said, the words convey no doubt strictly more than I meant. In plain honest common sense, do not your words convey a most disgraceful imon upon the whole body of the Northern circuit 1— convey my complaint. I was stung at the time with what was put forth at Southampton relative to the inquiry and I spoke under feelings of excitement. Did you not convey, and did you not mean them to con vey, that the whole body was lammed towards you by feelings unworthy of men and gentlemen ?—1 meant to con vey that such feelings had operated against me. I have no complaint against the leader of the circuit when I joined it, but of those with whom I wee brought into more Imme diate contact. I was made, as far back as I can recollect, the butt for insinuations, jokes, end ridicule at the grand court. The Lord Chief Justice—The jokes of the grand court are well understood. Everybody might be joked there. (dtuibier.) Mr. Serjeant Shes—And I have been made peat fun of at these courts. (Laughter.) Plaintiff—The jokes I wee subjected to cut at chars:ter generally. Such jokes are supposed to be refrained limo, but in my case they were singularly p . rtment, as the recon's of the circuit will prove. Ido not Impute it to every in. dividual member, because there are many of theta ss honourable men as ever breathed, and I have some generous friends amongst them as ever breathed. I did not intend for my words to convey se strong a censure' as the learned serjeant puts upon them. If they bear it, I very much regret it. I had in my mind at the time conduct which I thought the circuit, as a body, did not sufficiently condemn, but rather acknowledged_ it. The transactions which were the subject of inquiry before the brothers occurred so long ago Si 1852-3, 1854, and 1&55. The question brought before the rise cult committee had reference to the settlement of an action which was brought against me by Mr. Parker. The mums not properly investigated by the committee. They broke up before finishing it, without allowing me to call witnesses, or hearing my statement 1 implored them to give me • week to finish the case in, and that they would not hastily conclude it without hearing me. Mr. For syth and Mr. Serjeant Wheeler also called upon them not to decide on the evidence then before them. Thirty mem bers of the circuit bar declined to vote on that occasion for my expulsion from the mess. It was proposed upoo the committee's report that I should be expelled, and when I heard it was to be proposed I resigned. A sufficient number met to form • committee, and they passed a resolution expelling me. When I stated that I had not been expelled the bar I had been expelled the bar mess of the circuit. The decision was pronounced at York. I don't believe it would have been done at Liver pool. There was only a small number of the her at York. I may ask you with confidence whether you have been treated in Westminster Hall as you may you were on circuit? —There is a great deal in being an Irishman. Possibly from his nature—his seal., his energy . , said his perseverance—to become generally successful in Ms profession and rise in the estimation of the public, which circumstance might create • jealousy. Don't you know that on all the circuits "riehmen are well received, and liked by the other members of the her *!---By the tar generally, I believe eo. I never accused them. At the time you received your recordership were there not any on your circuit who were your senior? Plaintiff—Yea. But in smokes practice I was on a par with any of them, and more so with many of them at the assizes. I had ten times the criminal and civil business of any of them at seasiona. The Lord Chief Justice—Whet was your standino f t ` that time' —Eight years. When I got the recordenbip ew castle I champed my session, and got good practice at the other places. The recordership has a minimal and civil juris diction, and it is worth about 3001. • year. gee civil busi ness of the Newcastle sessioes has greatly increased sioce my appointment. I can't eay if heard of the vacancy Deoember, 1854. I first beard of it from the Attorney- General (thee Mr. Atbertoa) who told me he had great doubts about going down for re-election for Durham. It was during the sitting of parliament is December, KA, after the introductioe of the Foreign Enlistment Bill. Had you spoken on that measure beforelyou heard of the vacancy in the recordership of Newcastle. Plaintiff— I think I was aware at that time that it bad been offered to the present Attorney-Geuerel. I spoke on the introduction of the measure, and on the second reading, and it was between those occasions that the vacancy oc curred. I gave my adhesion to the measure before I beard anythiog about the recoldership. Did you apply for ill—l think I was asked to send in my standing at the bar. Mr. Serjeaot Shee—There is no harm in applying for it. Many do, and nobody gets it without applying for it. (Laughter.) Did you apply for it?-1 think I was asked to send my standing to the Home-office. The Lord Chief Justice—By whom? Plaintiff—l can't say. I think I was advised to do it. Did you leak enfan t. for the appointment by word of mouth !--Except by that application I did not. • I did not by word of mouth. No doubt I was a candidate for the office, and sent in • formal application for the appointment It was between the first and the second debate on the Foreign Enlistment Bill. o t Who told you it was necessary to send in a etateme to s°whmr7tha lnr friends at the bar ab out it I ey were. Did you not speak to anyone else about it! — Not that I am aware of. I was not told by any political person to do so. By no one in the House of Commons?—Not that I met& lest. I bad & conversation with the Attorney-General bat , he mid nothing to me about applying for it. Did you speak to anyone else about it °—l was not told to do so by my political person. Did you not apply for it personally to any member of the government ?—I have no doubt. I had a conversation with some one of them—at least, I dam say I had. With whom ?—1 don't recollect. If you will assist my memory I will give you a hank answer. No doubt I 'peke to some member of the house. Did you not apply to some member of the government to give you the recordership ?—1 applied to the Home.olfice by sending in my application, and I have no doubt the matter was mentioned to me by roma member' of the govern . went. I may have mentioned my standing to them Did they apply to you, or did you a pply to them ° -3 ly recollection is that I sent in my qualifications aud c laims to the Home-aim. I heard the reoordership had bees offered to Mr. Ingham and afterwards to Mr. Atherton, sod I inquired or spoke about it if be was likely to accept it. • I don't recollect to whom, but I think it was to the Attor new-GeneraL I Anybody else ?—1 dare my I did, but I don't recollect at this moment. Did you not inquire of some person connected with the gov ernment if the Attorney - Geoeral was likely to have it I • —lf you will mention any name I will give you an 111111111% Your question is so very general. IThe Lord Chief Justice—The question is ver y gible. Did you inquire of anybody. Yes or no . Mr. Serjeant Shea —lt is not a crime. It is the only issue you have raised. I Plaintiff —I do not recollect. No doubt I must have spoken to more than one person about it, but I cannot recollect. Will you swear that you did not make personal &POW** tion to some member of the government for the dike before I you got it ?—1 aui't my if I did not speak to any at all