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LORD MACAULAY dwells in one of his essays upon the strange exchange of principles, or rather of professions, which took place between Whigs and Tories under the earlier years of the Hanoverian rule. The Whigs became strong Royalists, and endeavoured to aggrandise the power of the Crown. The Tories affected zeal for popular liberties, and strove to reduce that power. At heart, both the two great parties were what they had always been. Dynastic predilections and antipathies veiled their real doctrines. The almost servile loyalty of the Tories was given to " the King over the water ;" and their dislike of the " usurper" disguised itself as a zeal for fretaloni. To the Whigs, the house of HANOVER was the symbol of resistance to the spiritual and temporal despotism of the Swains ; and in fortifying the power of the Crown they believed that they were serving public liberty. A somewhat similar transfer of principles has marked the course of the political agitation in which the country is now engaged. Since Mr. BRIGHT took his stand upon the old lines of the constitution, toryism has begun, unconsciously, but not the less dangerously, to coquet with revo lution. By implication, it pronounces the consti tution obsolete,—a thing of the past, to which return is neither desirable nor practicable. But, at heart, both parties are still the, same. The Tories desire, in new arrangements, that assurance of the continued ascendancy of a class which they can no longer fled in adherence to traditional maxims and practices. They are, therefore, innovators. The Liberals believe in the constitution, not as it existed in its rudimentary stage, but as usage and precedent have widened it into adaptation to the growing life of the nation ; and they would not artificially restrict its ex pansive power, or clip into fancy shapes its stately natural growth. The tendency to twos., Parliamentary Reform, on grounds which implicitly involve a political re volution, has been exemplified very lately in the columns of the leading organ of the party of resistance. With the constitutional lore of the Times we leave one of our correspondents to deal, only suggesting that for a beginner in the studies to which our contemporary's attention is now turned, Archbishop WIIATELY'S " Easy Lessons" would probably be found more suitable than the learned volumes of Mr. IlAtxum. The equality of the three (so-called) Estates, which is said to be the theory of the constitution, has, it is urged, long since disappeared in practice. The House of Commons has encroached upon the other two—it has practically absorbed them into itself; and the influence which they manage to exert within it is their only hold upon power. A Reform, therefore, which should make the House of Commons, as its name implies, simply the representative of the commonalty, and impress upon it a purely popular character, would amount to the exclusion of the Crown and the nobility from any control over public affairs. In other words, the separate authority of the Sove reign and that of the peerage have disappeared as completely as the power of the clergy—which has become so fare lost Estate of the Realm that the Times entirely forgets it, and is, therefore, forced, in order to make up its tale of Three, to press the Crown into the service, and to repre sent the Sovereign as pos.wesing, according to the strict theory of the constitution, only a co ordinate and co-equal authority with her subjects. This is a new view of Sovereignty. Pushed to their legitimate consequences, the arguments of the Times involve the abolition of the House of Lords, and the substitution of govern ment by a single elective chamber, constituted f liNgE 4 ! . 1 \ as the House of Commons n 1i; 1 1, 43 be, namely, so as to repreAt elsOle—fick numbers, but wealth, ingerillOrrOsierty, kb cation, and privilege. If it does this, where is the justice or expediency of having a =te assembly to represent one of these over again, and that the class which has the most ample representation in the elective chamber I The reduction of the House of Peers to the position new occupied by the two Houses of Convocation is the least that can be loOkied for in sooordance with the latest anti •tellorni doctrine. Reformers are not so revolution ary. It is true that an alternative is held out. If we go back to constitutional principles, mud make the House of Commons the repre sentative solely of the common people, we must also, it is said, restore to the House of Lords and the Crown the co-equal authority which they possess in theory. But unhappily for this suggestion, power is not s question of theory. It cannot be given or taken away by ingenious devices. The Crown and the peerage would not have lost the power which it is proposed to give back to them if they were capable of keeping it. These speculations which stir the sleeping lions of politics are scarcely justified by the occasion. No practical statesman proposes the sweeping changes in the constitution of the House of Commons to which they would be relevant. Mr. GLIDSTONIeIi Bill, which was de nounced as democratic and revolutionary, would, perhaps, have given an electoral body of a million and a half. It would have left about five mil Pons of the community unrepresented. In the United Kingdom there is at present one voter for every twenty-three inhabitants ; in France there is one voter for rather more than four inhabitants. The distance which we have to traverse before reaching the representation of mere numbers ought to re assure the most timid. No conspicuous poli tician proposes to enfranchise mere numbers, as opposed to property, intelligence, and education — only numbers so far as they have acquired pro perty, intelligence, and education. The authen tically established progress of the working classes in the qualifications for the discharge of political duties is the ground on which their enfranchisement is always urged. The precedent of a blank reduc tion of the suffrage is sometimes deprecated. But that precedent is not now to be set ; it was mare in 1832, and there has been no dangerous haste in acting upon it. The representation of the working classes in the House of Commons, to the exclusion of all other orders in society, is denounced as if it were a present danger, threatening the just claims of privilege and wealth ; and yet out of 658 mem bers of the present Parliament 458, or consider ably more than three-fifths, belong to the nobility and landed gentry ; and 110, or one-sixth, are bankers, merchants, and others engaged in great commercial undertakings. The real danger comes from an opposite quarter than that to which the alarmists point. It consists in allowing a great social power to organise itself outside of the representative institutions of the country. It cannot be met either by excluding the working classes from the representation, or by isolating them by special franchises from the rest of the com munity. If the upper classes had confined their action to the Upper Chamber, the Upper Chamber would probably before this have ceased to exist. They have wisely penetrated into the Lower. The same amalgamation and association which have pre served their influence in Parliament will alone maintain it, so far as it ought to exist, in the con stituencies. To divide the higher and middle, and the working classes into hostile camps, and to draw them up in array against each other, is to ens..re the defeat and political annihilation of the minority. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAT._ Describing the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company as possessing an epic character from the union which culminates in it of all the characteristics of railway experience, and sketching the circumstances under which the line was projected and made, the Tones proceeds to remark that, whatever extenuating circumstances there may be for much that has been done, there can be no excuse for a purely ficti_ thane and illusory compliance with parlia-uentary regulations, and for borrowing money from the con fiding public upon the pretence of work done that bad not even been touched, and of shares taken and paid up that existed only in imagination. There can be no excuse for a process which has inflicted ruin on innocent people to the amount of several millions of pounds, plundering not only shareholders, who might lay in their account for some risk, but even those who thought they were lending sums of money to be repaid, after a stated term, to the very farthing. Parliament, which conceded lending powers and confined them within cautious limits, is now bound to defend itself. When it provided a public audit, it could not intend one that should exclude from view enormous loan transactions represented by papers in the private desk of the secretalf. The committee of in vestigation has done its work very tenderly, and has ab stained even from comment when it was possible to do so ; but the facts elicited speak for themselves, and cannot but have their true character assigned to them in the Court of Chancery. The Telegraph cannot accept the reply of the directors , as a sufficient answer to the charges which relate to the issue and creation of capital, and to the raising of money on debentures when the requirements of the act of parlia ment had not been fulfilled. Hail the facts now revealed been known at the time the debentures were issued ; bad people been aware that the responsible proprietary were only the firm of Peto, Betts, and Crampton, and that the shares, so far from being half paid up, did not represent cash deposited, but only work done, or to be done, is it to be imagined that they would have advanced their money? Their reply would have been that in reality there was no security at all. TEE LANIRANDE CASE. The above ease, the Daily News observes, not only illus trates a danger which those who opposed the Extradition Bill of last session considered would arise from the exigency of foreign governments, but brings forward another which is more serious, because more insidious and constant, arising from the in. Wads and habits of the inferior, and sometimes also it mint be sail of the superior agents of the law. The Daily News then, in illustration of this, proceeds to men• tion the leading persons engaged in the clandestine re moval of M. Lamirande, the high rank which some of them occupied, and their ability and readiness to avail themselves of the very highest agencies in the State to carry out their unlawful design. We are now in a position to see how an accused person may be got out of the British dominions and be delivered over to a foreign go ' vernment contrary to law and right, and contrary even to the intentions of those by whose power and autho rity he is surrendered. After all the illegality in the colony, it was, nevertheless, perfectly safe, owing to the suddenness of the step and the want at the moment of legal evidence, to bring Lamirande to England and carry him from Liverpool to Dover. We do not say, adds the Deily News, that the operation of extradition treaties may not be made consistent with oar ancient ideas of liberty and justice ; but we do say that, after an experience like this, it is incumbent on the advocates of such treaties to show that there is no radical incompatibility between the two ; for =has that can be done, we must, however re. luetamtly, renounce the advantage of agreements with foreign states for the mutual surrender of criminals, and fall back upon our own resources as a law-luring sad law. maintaining people. ~.~K Rv 4Y mt. lips 'NT MOM P The Tiatektensiders Mk Duff's sonaebrost Elgin sole Mi. restyle, aslile andist, deserve Miser* tirom samiaret midienottY According &our oontemporAttiiere are some grounds for believing that a course with Asgard to the Re. form Bill similar to that indicated by Mr. Duff—namely, that in the first session a number of measures which would I have carried the whole party with them should have been brought forward, and the Reform Bill simply read a , first.time before the session closed—wee contemplated by Isard.Palmerston himself, and but for his death might pro. Wily have been adopted. The imputation, however, that Mr. Gladstone samilioed other considerations to his an* 'hoe of power is disputed by the Timms, which adds that no one less deserves such a charge ; other criticisms upon the right hon. gentleman are equally uncharitable and unfounded. The secret of Mr. Duff 'a forbearance to Mr. Lowe is that he hopes more from that gentleman's indepen dent views on education and social progress than be fears from his aversion to a downward extension of the borough franchise. He maintains that Mr. Lowe holds more articles j of the liberal creed than Mr. Gladstone, and, speaking gently of his temporary fall, advises that he should be I welcomed back into the liberal communion as soon as the little scandal of his opposition speeches has iblown over. Indeed, Mr. Grant Duff, like many politicians of the con j tinental school, appears to care less for reforms affecting the distribution of political power then for reforms which advance intellectual culture and hasten the march of civili sation. The Star regrets that there should be in the eloquent and thoughtful words of Mr. Duff something like a sub stratum of grudge. After all, the net result of the late arra. rently fruitless session was a hearty enthusiasm amongst all sound liberals with reference both to measures end men. There was awakened besides a great national spirit, which will soon compel the few exceptions to that en thusiasm for reform and its champions to quit the at mosphere of public life, which, especially at momenta of constitutional transition, is a great deal too bracing for r . valetudinarians. A true liberal majority being thus established, we shall have arrived by the shortest practicable route, not at the exaltation of a minister, but at the triumph of our cause. Let us get a comprehensive Reform Bill, and the Tde • graph assures the intellectual liberals for whom Mr. Grant • Duff speaks that they shall not long have to mourn over the low state of British culture. A generation after the . passing of such a measure it will be a marvel to see an English man or English woman who cannot read or write. Nay, that millennium for which Mr. Matthew Arnold sighs will be at hand, when, se a nation, we shall be In' spired by " Geist." , • WCTOB: INTEL - 4LIGIE , • "r" • itnr#?IALIAN SOLDIERS 4:1133 AUSTRIAN ARMY. The Austrian government has ordered that on the cession of Venetia the infantry reilimenta, Nos. 13, 45, and 80, shall be completed by ()Oki& and the Bukovine, and regiments Nos. 16, 18, 38, and 79, by Hungary. Venetia has been accustomed to furnish to the Austrian army about 45,000 men. The 'plains of the Italian nationality will be brought to the frontiers immediately after the ratification of the treaty, and be handed over to the Ital'an authorities. (aztrna's TKISGEAM.) FRANCE. _ PARIS. Oar. 2. Yesterday the Emperor received the troops sta tioned at Bayonne. The Moniteur of this morning says :—" Intelli gence received here from Mexico states that several enconillters have taken place between the im perialista and the liberals. General Castagny had left Durango and established his headquarters at Loon. He waa carrying out the general move ment of the troops in order to effect the concen tration ordered by the commander-iu-chief in ac cordance with the plan which has been newly adopted." ALLEGED MURDER O RE AF wrps IN BETHNAL GEN. INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) Mr. John Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, this morning held an investigation at the nines Albert Tavern, Mape-street, Bethnal-green, relative to the alleged murder of Mrs. Mary Ann Scott, otherwise Burgess, aged 43 yews, by her husband, a shopkeeper, carrying on an extensive business in the Bethnal-green-road. The cans apparently created the greatest excitement and indignation amongst the inhabitants of the district, largo crowds of persons assembling in the street, and freely ex pressing their opinion that the deceased had been mur dered, and that her husband had ought to be hanged. Dlr. Abbott, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the friends of the deceased. A gentleman said that be had been requested by the only daughter of the accused to ask that the case should be ad iourned until a solicitor could be instructed to defend him. The Coroner said that he should adjourn the case after taking so much evidence as would justify au adjournment. Mrs. Jane Bridges, 1, West-side, Cambridge-heath, Bethnal- •r was the fi rst witness called—She said that she was the sister of the deceased. Mary Ann Bnrgeu was her name. She had been married to • backgammon maker named George Burgess ; but while he was still living she married the man with whom she was living at the time of her death. The name of this seoond husband case Wm. Scott, and she was married to him nine years ago. He was a tripe-dresser. Burgess was, witness believed, alive at the time of the second marriage, because she saw him only a month before it ; but lie went away to 'ea, she understood. Coroner—Did not Burgess call at Scott's shop after the marriage and smash the things ? Witness—l am not aware of that, sir. I was sent for to see my sister on Wednesday. I had seen her on Monday and Tuesday. On Monday and on Tuesday I found her very ill. Sits was very much bruised where she said " he" had beaten her. On Wednesday when I was sent for I found her in bed. I noticed bruises on her person. The man Scott came up into the room, and deceased said that he had beaten her. He said he had not, and swore at her dreadfully. He said, " Die, you —, die !" He said she was not half dead enough yet, and again repeated " Die, you cow !" On Thursday morning I sew deceased again, and I observed that her bedgown was torn, and that there were scratches on her nick. I said to her, " This was not done when I was here last night." She replied, " lie said, ' You cow, I will tear your -- windpipe out.' " She gave me to understand that it was he inflicted the injuries. The husband was present, but he seemed as if he had been drinking. lie said no thing in answer to the deceased. They used both to drink, and they frequently quarrelled. Deceased was sober every time witness saw her during the present week. She died yesterday (Thursday) morning at 9 o'clock. By Mr. Abbott—The bruises witness saw were on the leg, where she said Scott bad kicked her, and also on tho breast. Had seen Scott hit her, but that was some time since. By the Foreman--I know that the shop had been often closed during the last month on account of those quarrels. When I used to go to assist deceased Scott often ordered me out of the room. A juror—Deceased went to Ramsgate a month ago. Did she not return drunk, and was she nut drunk ever since ? Witness—She came on the night of her return to my house. Ido not know that she was drunk since. The juror—Well, I know it. Thu Coroner—A juror is not • witness. By the Foreman—l have heard her say that Scott ill treated her, because she would not transfer to him her interest in the shop and house. The name of her mother was up still, but the business was carried on in the name of Scott. James Ritson, tripe dresser, lat in the employ of Win. Scott rend the deceased, depo sed that Scott and the deceased frequently quarrelled. On Tuesday morning last, at 2 o'clock, he heard her scream, and she rushed down into the yard. Coroner—Did you go to her assistance ? Witness—No, sir. Coroner—Had she not salmi you to go to her assistance whenever she cried " Murder"? Witness—Yes ; she had asked me. I was in bed on Tuesday morning. On Wednesday, the sister of the deceased came, and made her some arrow-root, and then left at half-past 12 o'clock. Scott was down stairs, and not sober when she left. He said, " Now I'll go ußstairs, and have a-- row." Witness asked him not ; but he said he should do as he liked, and he went up stairs. Directly afterwards witness heard screams of " Murder !" and he rushed up. The deceased said, "He hit me in the side !" Scott called out, " And I will hit you again !" and rushed at her. Witness laid hold of him, and a struggle ensued, he catching bold of witness's neckcloth. Finally witness left him in the room, on condition that he would not strike deceased again. The same evening de ceased got a pint of ale, but she seemed to be sober. On Thursday morning witness was awoke by a noise, and be heard his muter say, " You cow, will you wino into bed?" The deceased said," Oh, Bill, come and help me, I sin so bad." Scott answered her by saying, "If I get out of bed, I'll chuck you downstairs." Witness heard him get out of bed, for his boots were on, and then there was • dreadful fall that shook the whole place. Witness jumped up, and called out to his master, " You —, what are you doing to her now," and went and got • light. He found the gas-pipe upstairs broken, and the gas escaping. He entered the bedroom, and found the deceased on the floor, with her head under the bed and her feet towards the door. Scott was on the bed with all his clothes on. Deceased cried out to witness, " Oh, pray lift me up." Witness said, "No I will fetch your friends," and he called out to a person below to come up and see the state of the deceased. Scott called out, " Oh, let the cow die !" Witness then went to Mr. Bridges, the brother-in-law of the deceased, and told him— Mr. Bridges said, " Get a policeman and I will go there at once." But witness had to go to Whitechapel-market, and he could not get a policeman ; he put the horse to, and drove to the market and came back by 6 o'clock. He found the deceased still on the door at 7 o'clock, when another man employed in the business (Godfrey) called him up. Godfrey wanted witness to help to lift her into bed, but witness said, " No, she has laid there so many hours now that she may remain there till her friends come." By a juror—Witness remembered deceaaed's having put a tape out of the window to madeget a bottle of gin. By the Foreman—She wasa prisoner in the up stairs room, but whether to prevent her getting drunk or not he could not say. On last Saturday night, at 10 o'clock, Scott held her down by the hair of the head with one hand while he hit her with the other. Witness knocked him into a chair. They were both not sober. Witness never held down the deceased while Scott beet her. A Juror—Then you were not the one that did that. By the Coroner—Yesterday Scott said to me, " You know," and tapped his breeches pocket, saying. " You stick to me and I will stick to you." I made him no answer. By Mr. Abbott—They used to quarrel, drunk or sober. Scott used frequently to threaten to kill his wife, but not when sober. 'When sober he used to sweu dreadful, and would only sometimes strike her. The Coroner then adjourned the case, in order to give the accused an opportunity of being present to make his defence. The accused, Win. Scott, was last night apprehended by the police on a charge of murder. At the Worahip•street Police-court this morning, the prisoner Scott, who is a stout and powerful man, was charged with causing the death of his wife, and after the evidence of the witnesses, which was as given at the in quest, the prisoner was remanded, bail being refused. Prince de Tointille has returned to Vienna from a tour in Hungary. Baaaet-common, in South Hants, was at one time a famous phoe for rabbits, where they had a good cover amongst the heath and form, but they used to be kept down by poachers. The common has now now been extensively built on, and forms parks and ganlens. These inclosnree have driven off poachers, but the evergreen in the park still affording a cover, Basset is 01111M/Il more than ever by rabbits. X 1 4 -; ~ e g , il P OS.. '." --. Y ' \•• 1% 7 ' • $66.. , THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) BOW-STREET. • FORMIDABLE ROUGH. Michael Collins, a big, burly Irish labourer, was charged with assaulting two police-constables. Timothy O'Connor, F 111, stated that about 6 o'cloek last evening he was on dqty in Clemeary-lane, whim 'the prisoner, who was drunk, was pepointed out to him by • gentleman who had been assaultad by him. The gentle: man did not with to give him in custody, but desired witness to keep en eye on him. The prisoner went into Cursitor-street, where be aenoyed several passengers, and at last, finding his way into the Appletree and Mitre public house is thet street, mid. inch a disturbance that the landlord, Mr. Hardy, called in witness and another Con stable, 303 of the City force, to eject him. The prisoner ratted so violently that they could with difficulty get him out of the house. They then released him sad triad to persuade him to go away. He attacked them furiously, and fought so hard that they had great trouble to master him. After having received several kicks and blows the constables were obliged to throw him down, and when en the ground he again kicked witness in the ribs, and the ether constable on the head. His aster, who was as drunk as himself, oontinusd in the meanwhile to pummel both officers in the back. Some roughs had collected and interfered a good deal, bat were, to some extent, kept o ff by two gentlemen who happeaed to be passing. Pruriently two more constables came to their *mistimes, and by the united strength of the four he was carried as far se Duke street, where they ware obliged to set him down to met. By this time he was pretty well exhausted, and at last be agreed to walk quietly, which he did for the rest of the dis tance to the station. The two gentlemen referred to corroborated, and spoke in high terms of the forbearance exhibited by the police. The prisoner said the constables handled him roughly, and he was quite sore frees the blows. Mr. Vaughan commented on the aggravated nature of the caae and sentenced the prisoner to 21 days ' imprisonment for the ease& ca O'Connor, and 10 days for the saw& on the City constable, with hard labour. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. REFUSING TO SUP2ORT A WIFE. Alex M'Carthy, a coachman, living in Gromenor-mews, was brought before Mr. Knox charged with refusing and neglecting to support his wife Eliza, who, Sint* the 21st June last, has been chargeable to the pariah of St. George, Hanover-square. Mr. George Badderley, militant overseer of St. George's, Hanover-square, said that on the 21st June last he admitted the prisoner's wife to the workhouse, she being at the time yeti , ill. The prisoner came to the house with her, and When to take her away as soon w she recovered a little. When the wife was discharged by the medical officers he caused inquiries to be made for the prisoner, but he was unable to get any trace of him till last night, when he was taken into custody, a warrant having been obtained for the purpose. He had made inquiries amongst the prisoner's relatives, and heard a bad account of him. The wife was still chargeable to the parish, and he (Mr. Badderley) believed her illness was caused by the prisoner's cruelty. The prisoner asked whether there was not an under -1 standing that he was to take his wife away when he got a home for her? Mr. Badderley said there was no understanding of the sort, and that the home which the prisoner had when his wife was admitted to the workhouse was sold off by the prisoner before be went away. Mr. Turner, officer of the parish, said he took the pri soner into custody in a public-house, when he said the reason why he ha 4 not been for his wife was because he had been out of work. The prisoner said he was willing to take his wife away now. Mr. Knox said the charge against the prisoner was that of leaving the parishioners to support his wife instead of supporting her himself. The prisoner would be committed for a month with hard labour. ENDANGERING LIFE IN KENSINGTON GARDENS. William Colfax, • rough looking fellow, was charged before Mr. Knox with throwing stones in Kensington gardens to the danger of the passengers. Hem., Howe., parl.-constable, said that while on duty in Kensington-gardens he saw the prisoner and two other lads lying under a tree. As soon as they thought he (wit s ness) was out of sight they began throwing stones and pieces of iron at the chesnut trees. He knew the prisoner and the two other lads as daily in the park, and they never did any work. It was the third case he had bad that week, and children playing about were placed in great danger. Mr. Knox said he him-elf saw a person nearly killed in the garden • few days ago. If the prisoner did not leave off suck practices he would some day be standing in the dock on a more serious charge than that of throwing stones. The prisoner would have to pay a fine of 20s. or 14 days, he (the magistrate) being determined to stop the nuisance if he could. SIESCELLAICEOTB TOPICS. The Times anticipates, with regard to Rome, that if the Emperor of the French withdraws his troops at the a- - pointed time—and there can hardly be a doubt about it— the Pope must needs be made to see his real position. Twelve hundred, or even five thousand' men would hardly suffice to keep the peace in Rome, and the provinces would be lost without striking a blow. The revolution, if the Pope awaits it. would surround the walls of his capital and blockade him in it. The subjects of the Pope lOng would take pos session of the capital and send a guard of honour to the CapitoL But neither the fair-weather friends of the Pope nor his more honest advisers are likely to allow matters to come to such extremities. Before the 10th of December approaches Saverio Vegezzi or some other agent of King Victor Emmanuel will be again closeted with Pius IX., and the last soldier of the French garrison will just leave Rome at ono gate as an Italian soldier enters it at another. Upon exchanging French for Italian protection, the Pope will be able to dispense with the Antibes Legion. The Daily News draws attention to the part which the Viceroy of E6,fpt is taking in the war upon the Candiotes. At this moment there are 25,000 Egyptian troops in Candle maintained at the Viceroy's exclusive charge ; and his highness has engaged to send more, if more are required. This intervention of the Viceroy in a quarrel which does not belong to him must be assumed to take place with the consent of the great European powers, or, to speak plainly, of the governments of England and France, since without that consent it would have been impossible. We do not overlook the difficulties of the case, or the extreme desira bility of postponing as long as possible the inevitab'e cat strophe of the Ottoman empire, when we affirm that this alli• -Ice between two 51ahommedan and semi-barbar ous states to hold a Christian people in a hateful bondage is a shame and a disgrace to the powers by whom it is tolerated. The Post comments upon the case exposed by one of its correspondents of a person of some position establishing in London a roulette table, his table being surrounded by nightly assemblages of the men who are in town and by all that description of beauty and fashion which usually swarms where easily won money is carelessly disposed of. The public mention of the case, the Post has no doubt, in duced those who are engaged in it to abandon their illegal practices. These congresses, observes the Tinvs, speaking more particularly of the church congress, are simply coat crsa. :ionrs on a vast scale. They arc great social meetings to _ . . - which people go to see one another and become better friend., or to learn, in a genial, off hand manner, the general course their thoughts are taking. The hospitality - - of York, which was a theme of the archbishop, is, per the most important element in the arrangements. When a man invites a number of intelligent friendsand a few great geniuses to come and spend a pleasant evening with him, the conversation is sure, of course, to be charming and instructive ; but, after all, be knows that the dinner is the most important part of the proceedings, and that cold mutton or bad wine would be fatal alike to the in struction and the enjoyment. It is impossible to look for any very material results from these social gatherings, and there is even some danger lest they should divert the thoughts of churchmen from the really serious work before them. What service, for example, can the Archbishop suppose will be rendered by church congresses in meetly g the great theological discussions to which he alludes ? It is in the studies of divines and philosophers, and not in the . . " wigwams . " of clerical orators, that the theological diffi culties of the day are to be met. In obtaining an in fluence over the multitude it iv personal religion, and not the interminable machinery which these congresses help to multiply, that is really needed. the Court. BALMORAL, Ocr. 10. The Queen and the Ducheas - d'Aumale, attended by the Marchioness of Ely. drove to Loch Bulig, and rode on ponies by the B il-na-D3erig road to Inrereauld. Princess Louise went out, attended by the Hon. Mn. H. Poneonby and the Hon. Miss Cathcart. Sir Stafford Northcote had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer let town yesterday fur Hughenden Manor, Bucks., The Prince and Princess of Wales are expected to arrive at Dfarlborough House to-day from Dunrohin Castle, N. 8., after a prolonged visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. It is understood that the Duke of Edinburgh will pay a private visit to the Duke of Roxburghe on Monday, to enjoy a few days' fishing in the Tweed. It is expected that his royal highness will stay at Floors Castle till his depar ture for Glasgow, where, on the 18th, he is to inaugurate a statue of the late Prince Consort. Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weirrar have returned from a tour of visits in Scotland, and have been among the distinguished guests of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland during the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales at Dunrobin Castle. The Earl and Countess of Eglinton are enter taming a select party at Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire. The Earl and Countess of Derby are expected to leave Knowsley Park at the end of the month for their villa at Roehampton, where they intend passing a few weeks A marriage is arranged between the Earl of Goa ford and the Lady Alberta Hamilton, sixth daughter of the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn. Yesterday a marriage was celebrated at St. Paul's, Enightabridr, by the Rev. Lord Alwyne Compton, be tween the Hon. Nassau W. Jocelyn and Miss Cecilia Mary Elliot, daughter of the late Admiral Ron. George Governor Hinekß, C. 8., and Major Longley have arrived at the Alexandra Hotel, Hyde-park-corner. BOUTHIVARIC. IMPORTANT TO BREWERS AM) mcesatn vier/ALLEM. William Edwin Ashley, n beerseller, of 71, Kent-street, and Richard Hillier , carman, 23 Clarence-street, were brought before Mr. iurcharn, charged with stealing twelve cask*, value 12/., the property of Henry Furze and Co., brewers, Whitechapel, Robert Duncan, a clerk in the prosecutor's employ, said that in January last, they had a customer named Parrott, keeping a beerhouse in the West India Dock-road, who was supplied by them with twelve barrels of beer on credit. He, however, never paid for theta but shut up the house, and when they gained possession the casks had been re moved. Information was given to the police and the twelve empty barrels were found in the possession of Mr. Putley, a cooper, at Dockhead. Witness identified them by the marks, but the name of the firm had partially been erased. Mr. Henry Putley, cooper, Dockhead, said that the twelve casks were brought to the place on Wednesday morning by Hillier, who said that he was desired to leave them by Mr. Plant, of the New Kent-road. Witness was not at home then, but previous to that Plant bad called on him about the casks, and requested him to call at Hillier's to see them. He, however, did not go ; so they were brought to him. He had not purchased them or made any bargain for them. A detective officer said that the prisoner Hillier was taken into custody near Putley's, and on him wan found a paper produced. "Received of Mr. Putley 31. 121. for 12 barrels." It was ready to be signed when he was ap prehended. John Hill, a broker, of Kent-street, said that Ashley offered to sell him the barrels last week, but be refused to buy them. The first witness was recalled, and in answer to Mr. Ilureham he said that the beer as well as the casks were debited to Parrott. If he (lid not return them the value of them was placed to his account. Mr. Burcham, observed that If such was the case, there was an end to the charge. According to the testimony of the witness, Parrott had a right to dispose of the casks. It was only a matter of debt. The prisoners must be dis charged. In the course of the day Mr. Furze, one of the firm, at tended to contradict the testimony given by their clerk, who had only recently been in their service, and had made a mistake. . He informed his worship that it was not the custom of their firm to debit casks to town customers. They were only lent to them with the beer, and sent for by their men when empty. Mr. Burch= told him that the clerk said in his evi dence that the cask+ were charged to Parrott, who bad not returned them, and consequently be had no alternative but to discharge the priponer. Mr. Furze assured his worship that the casks had not been charged to Parrott, and he had no right to dispose of them. Unfortunately the clerk who attended was new to the business, and did not understand the custom of their trade in London. Mr. Burchem after hearing Mr. Furze's explanation observed that it was questionable whether it was more than an unlawful disposal of the property, and he thought it was not a case coming under the Ilaillee Act. It appeared that Parrott sold his house to another man with the casks in question, and the letter disposed of them to some one else,and they came into the prisoners' possession. The prosecutors, under the circumstances detailed to him by Mr. Furze, could, however, proceed against the parties under the criminal law for unlawfully disposing of the casks. Mr. Furze thanked his worship for his attention, and left the court. Sir John Pakington, First Lord of the Admiralty, accompanied by Admiral Milne, arrived at the Admiralty house, Portsmouth dockyard, from London, yesterday afternoon, and soon afterwards drove over to the new bar racks for the Royal Marine Artillery, at Eastnry, accom panied by Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Sabine Pastry, K.C.B. Sir John and both admirals returned to the Admiralty house on the conclusion of their visit to Eastney. General Peel, the Secretary of State for War, ac companied by Sir John F. Burgoyne, C1.C.8., finished his inspection of the land and sea works of defence around Portsmouth with • visit yesterday morning to the Ports down-hill forts. The gallant general left Portsmouth for London on his return from Portadown. Earl Granville, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, will preside at the biennial dinner of the Dover Sailors' Home, at the Lord Warden Hotel, on Tuesday, the 30th inst. _ _ We (Ayr Advertiser) understand that our towns man, the Rev. John Mlturtrie, minister of St. Bernard's, Edinburgh, has bad the honour of receiving the command of the Queen to preach before her Majesty, at Crathie, on the 21st current. Dr. Henry Bryant, of Boston, United States, has purchased and presented to the Society of Natural History of that city the La Freanaye Collection of Birds, one of the largest and most valuable in Europe, numb's.- ing 8,989 specimens, all staffed and molested la Ike best manner. LONDON, HATHAM, AND DOVER BAILIN' _.____ ADJOURNED HALF-YEARLY lIERYING. (THIS DAY.) The - adjourned half-yearly meeting of s h ot. holders was held to-day at St. James's-ball, to twelve a, report of the committee of investigation, appointed at e is meeting held os 31st of August. As at the lest anen t the body of the roan wee occupied by shaiebougai, the side galleries were reserved for debenture sof holders. The attendance of both classes was Te l h a There ware separate tables en the platform for the em miter* of investigation and the debenture commit*. At soon the chair was taken by the chairman of d is tocapany f Lead SODDIB, on whose right eat the f or 4. eb o h eio n, Lord Hurls. and Sirßobeit Cardin. Si Mipl a Pete.X.P., we. on . ** platform. . The report of die aintmittee of investigation Al i been taken es ' reed,. The Cainintian. in opining the Petwieedimie, at, cu ll e d u p on Yr. Hodgkins= u the chairmen of the en, mittee of investigation to address the meeting. • • '' • • Mr. HODGICOSsox moved the adoption of Itsr revert ai commenced by bespeaking indulgence and a:pressing ev i at the time which elapsed before the report me pes vented. It was, he observed, difficult to snug, facts to be laid before the shareholders la s• big I :gibli manner. It was • misapprehension to en, pose that it was pert of the duty of the coranittee moan and recommend measures for the ham ; v t, they had to do we 'imply to investigate the facts mg* them before the shareholders. There mast be am* variety of plans before the shareholders ea they could tell what course it was best to pony and he thought the meeting of +hugest I* whs. In limiting, as it did, the labours of the comadtbs, it wee with pain and regret the oommittee Lid before beeps♦ prietors • document which showed that there wse ssy in the past management of the company which ye highly reprehensible. Since the report wail issed had been told that what was disclosed wu era after all very extraordinary or monstrous in the eyolei the railway world. (" Oh, oh") Even if similar Wei had occurred before, two wrongs could not make owed" nor could it be right to do by concealment what could ttl have been done in the open day. It was said that say am acquainted with the money market might have knop that shares and stocks of this company were issued et ,e discount, and that therefore the public should ham best forewarned. The public generally were not acquainted teak the practices in question ; they took for granted that if they advanced money on bon& the advance was made a bond Me security. (Hear.) In this company even debate stock had been boned at a discount, and in some tam only 75 per cent. reached the coffers of the maps', (Shave') The committee had thought it their duty b deprecate individual action on the part of debates bolder*, believing that such action would not improve their position ; but they did not intend to prevent th em from averting their legal rights. (Hear, hem.) The debenture holders had, lio believed, knead .1) committee of their own, and no doubt Mat • prudent course ; but he wished to refer to a Whey et. pressed by some of that class of persons. It ems assumed that the shareholders had shroud the line to the debenture holders. That was not the case. There were three parties interested-. the creditors, the shareholders, end the public. The idis had to be managed for the sake of the public, though*. shareholders could of mum receive nu benefit till the we ditors had obtained their rights. As regarded th e comments of the directors he thought that some of thaa were rather in the old style of the London, Oath*, and Dover accounts. lie then entered into some of the details of the directors' statement to chow that they wets vague and unsatisfactory. The amounts set down, far Ic.f. - ample, for traffic on leased lines included the messy earned on the main I; ne. (Hear, bear.) Tie directors did not seem to think the overawes of debentures so very unjustifiable. The committee thought differently. Before the cod of 1865 there had been 183,0001. paid for debentures on a leased lye, whereas only 108,000/. was returned ; and it wee bi the face of such figures that the committee said that • what occur.'ed was unjustifiable. Re could not sup. pose that the directors themselves would attempt te justify the Registration of • large amount of stock whisk was not authorised by she shareholders. (Headles) As regards the contracts being let without due regard to the interest of the company, Mr. Cubitt stated to tr committee that he did not consider himself °spaniels fee the prices paid, and that he did not ere thin before they were fixed. (Oh, oh.) The Nebo. of politan Extension prices were to be the lams se those paid for the western extension " with a pee center added." What that per centege was to be did not appear. lie made these remarks merely to show that the cam mitten were justified in what they said on this subject (Cheers.) The SecarrAny then read a letter from Mr. Cubit! TO. lating to the subject, in which he said he did not boiler' s that, taking into consideration the companis ciresene stances, lower prices could have been obtained. Mr. Horseeirsor observed that that letter did not at all contravene what the committee said. As to the 0 company's circumstances" they had been taken into account previously in the price at which stock and dente. tures were issued, and ought not therefore to have beige considered again. In reply to a question from a shareholder, Mr. lioneer.rusets said he could not state how much t h e contractor obtained for the bonds taken by him at 761. pet 100/. No doubt 100/. was paid into the bank, bat the company only got credit from the contractor fat 751. (Oh, oh.) By ineana of the report of Bs committee the shareholders were made sernieted with the real position of the property. The cot mittee bad concealed nothing, and bad Westland nothing. The shareholders now knew the full extent of the evils by which their property wan beset, and, knowing the worst, they might look forward to something bodes It was true the prospect was rather gloomy, but whether the gloom was to Le dispelled and Mb ceeded by sunshine must depend on the fugue management. He trusted that, bad as was the neat aspect of affable, they might if they had patience, sod to* care that the proceedings of the past were not repeated, anticipate a brighter, if not • very brilliant fans. (Cheers.) Mr. Hn.brann, deputy-chairman of the commhtesif investigation, seconded the motion. The report was arse one, and be hoped the meeting would deal with the IOW before them like men of business and men of ewe. 5 1 should have been glad if they could have laid &el something for the future guidance of the shareheld. but it would have been out of the maxims of the so mires to go beyond a statement of the facts. The nil of the company's affairs was urgent, and requited Ars° handling. With proper measures the company'' he believed, soon be put in possession of fob to a considerable amount. The line was oellent and • popular one; its traffic wee est to increase ; and if all parties interested "Is not act hostilely towards each other, and would unite 0 0 efforts as one man, the result would he believed Wall factory. Mr. Bribery, another member of the committee, deg that he had, as had been supposed, acted as broker to tki company and everybody connected with it. He indsl, friends interested in the property, and in all thighs he relied upon the information afforded ID ll* As to the reports, not a single true report had been r r Dented for four or five years, and yet no officer of the 01 ' pany seemed to know why. Even the accountant tab by him on the subject ciuld not e ndemism' matter. The line bad been throughout a coutneetort bris with • vengeance ; but a contractor's line was gm t n it ; Emily a bad one ; on the contrary, a connector wee to act only in cases in which he would have good ole iritT l (Cries of " Question.") The undertaking itself was Ili a}' rate one. The continental traffic could not but heiss e _ largely ; and next year, the year of the Great Saw Mon at Paris, was not likely to be the west °: They must all put their shoulders to the wheel i ventured to tell the debenture holders in the Sallerea there was not money at present to pay either their Pswr — , or their interest; but he deprecated legal Prs* . " - _,.. as tending to injure all parties concerned. Tb • new directors were men of business and 1,144. keels' and the company's affairs might well be left in their (Hear-) Every claim upon the company roust be ,sav at met. As to the leased lines, though they m i g ht not e-• best, it did sot follow that they would not do sobro a b. f .; and let there be no attempt to get rid of their obtif sw' an SI As regarded the eastern extension, the company oso. Iseek to get rid of any honourable obligatioaL bear.) Hitherto they had had enemies evardrA but be hoped they would now be a reformed OW* is "Mob beldam. holden. W the sem regard f° Jobison three koor tat Oiced Vbe be del Mt. J Slet el A • direeteit day Alf about the ltoind Wok it hot Oa He sow director', el the have bim cm*. Mr. 8 received Is did •moel Mums. monies the Old Sir Mai fibs IWO* it the sat The sethorii SMITS, Reath One In New plain fta New Yc Dr. has just P We Bishop from a