The Express. — London, England, 1867-02-13 00:00:00

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Josephs, C. nauuders, Berle Foote, Fkides, Lennox, Raymond, ate. BRITANNIA. TAI? FNENINO, THE PRINCENi OF TIIE PEARL ISLAND , OR, TIIE T H REE KINGtvnIA Or PEARL, GOLD, AND SILVER. 11/1.4 Jacnin —Furn rate Pantommusts. —And TIIR RETI RN 111 THE WANDERER.. HIGH WATZR AT LONDON BRIM'. TUN DAT —Nfornilig, 7A. r..sro Aftnrnoon, Md 3. TO-ADaluOW—llonling, 9A. I.lm Atternoou. 9A. rk,ra. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1:1. THE incidents of last Monday lend countenance to those sceptics who deny that there is such a thing as political experience, and would leave us nothing for all our pains and toil but an act:mutilation of isolated and barren facts. Experience certainly did not much profit certain of our instructors last week, when they were forecasting the complexion of the occurrences appointed for tho 11th of February. They told us to expect that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would take a straightforward English course, while the working population were to fill our streets with disorder and havoc. The occasion is past. The Reform demonstration has taken place, but the Guards were not wanted, except to start by railway train in the dead of night to defend Chester Castle and astonish the natives of a tine old city. In London not a special constable was sworn in, and Mr. BEAL= is still at large, Lord DERBY not having had an opportunity of "holding him re " sponsible " fur anything that has happened. The fears and the chidings of the PnratiErt's speech in the House of Lords last Friday remain on record to show how little he understands his =enfranchised countrymen, and with what thorough want of sympathy he repays their die; trust. Probably, however, it is only his strong Constitutionalism that makes Lord DERBY so ap prehensive ; and we doubt hot that if the smile men hail vats, he would have the fullest confi dence in their good behaviour. Mr. DISRAELI, like Mr. BEAMS, had his hour, but was unable to improve it. The occasion was one altogether suited to his genius and tempera ment. The political map of England lay before him for reconstruction. The errors of his predo tessera were there to warn him. The voice of public opinion invited him to be for once real and courageous. His colleagues looked to him for strength and prestige, his oppo nents watched to see if he would break away from his antecedents and take a bold line of his own. All were alike disappointed, and Mr. DISRAELI showed on Monday, that instead of being a states man ho was still only a pompous rhetorician. There is no mistake about the effect of his speech; friends end foes have only one opinion regarding it. There is no satisfaction in crying, " I told you " so," as often as factitious hopes collapse, but if political observation is worth anything at all it ought to protect us against needless surprises. Mr. DISRAELI'S performance on Monday was what those who knew him best had most reason to expect. When they predicted just such a failure as has taken place, they were told they were the slaves of prejudice, and that it was improper to state a foregone conclusion. But, after all, there is such a thing as permanent character as a ground of conduct, bearing its own native fruits and not those of another soil. It is of course right to cultivate a state of mind which, withoet too much emotion, can recognise grapes even when growing upon thorns ; but nothing is gained for truth or convenienw by pretending to expect to find them there. Mr. DISRAELI was never more himself than on Monday; hisapeechapparently was exactly what ho wished it to be. He will point to it with pride, and succeeding generatiens will learn from it how it was that one of the cleverest men of his age could never win the confi dence of the English people. Mr. Dissatett's speech gives us the measure of the capacity of the present Government to deal with the question of Reform. If either House of Parliament is to treat that question successfully it must be the House of Commons ; and if there is one man of the Conservative party who can con duct the deliberations of the House, it is Mr. DISRAELI. But that he is unequal to the task is now demonstrated. His constitution and habit of mind do not permit him to perceive oven the elements of the Reform question. It is for him a mere Parliamentary difficulty : its causes are to be discovered and its history traced in Ilatward, and its settlement it to be secured by satisfying merely Parliamentary interests. Of the popular sentiments of the day—of the desire felt by the in telligent artisans to take a part, however small, in the government of the country, he knows nothing, and believes himself all the wiser on that account. While he was speaking at Westminster on Mon day the largest meeting ever held under an English roof was assembled at Islington, im patient of delay, and resolving that the just right of the people to be represented in their own House of Parliament should not I be evaded. It is idle to look any longer for Parliamentary Reform from the present Adrainii- THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1867. tration. They have no heart for it : the only positive conviction they entertain is that, whatever their incapacity as Reformers, they ought not to be turned out of office. That, how ever, is a secondary matter. It is very well to say that the interests of Reform demand a deter- mination to abstain from party triumphs : that is to be ascertained by events. Somebody must con duct the question through its successive stages, and if that office can be performed for Reform without decided intellectual convictions and strong moral authority the question is much more manageable than has hitherto been supposed. If the Tories are willing to permit Mr. GLADSTONE to lead the House and shape a Reform Bill sitting on the Opposition benches, while retaining office as a bribe for their acquiescence, let them say so. But they have lost their opi,ortunity of controlling the question, which is already out of their hands. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) appear this morning in all the newspapers of the American Union. Wu it wise to give so valuable a testimony to the importance of Fenian operations in the United Kingdom? Our conservative government appears to shine no more in administration than in constructing measures of parlia mentary reform. The Herald draws a frightful picture of what the Fenians might have done had they been "successful in their first attempt." The insurrection, which could effect nothing except by a surprise, was quelled before it bad broken out. There is one incident connected with this remarkable episode so gratifying that the Herald cannot pass it over in silence. Earl Uroavenor, who sits for Chester, felt at once that his proper place was among his constituents and neighbours, even at a time of such absorbing interest as the night of Mr. Disraeli's reform speech, and his lord ship accordingly hurried down at once to Chester. The reform mob of that city (continues the Herald) hissed him a few weeks back ; let us hope they will have the grace to cheer I now. The Stiff turns the subject into ridicule, attributing the collection of people at Chester solely to a prize fight. It has no doubt Mr. Walpole slept well last night—first, be cause he would be sleepy ; and, secondly, because he is hardly the man whom the sense of the ridiculous would keep awake. And it hopes that when he "rises from h's bed "he will be consoled by the reflection that even when badgered in the House of lbnunons, and when the exposure of this colossal hoax was imminent, he re fused with exquisite prudence to reveal what was the real amount of military force by which the stronghold, which is so inexplicably supposed to have excited rebel cupidity, is ordinarily guarded. the euurt. OSBORNE, Frs. 12. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon with Prince Louise, and her Majesty and her royal highness walked awl rode on ponies this morning. Prince and Princess Christian walked in the grounds this looming. Princess Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went out. The Duchesi of Rozburghe has succeeded Lady Water- Park as Lady in Waiting. The Prince of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale, hunted with his harriers, near Windsor, yestenlay. The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive, attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen. Their royal highnesses, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, went to the Strand Theatre in the evening. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council sat yesterday at Whitehall on the subject of the Cattle Plague. The Lords present were the Lord President and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams attended the Committee. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. Present—Sir E. V. Williams, Sir R. Kinder%ley, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Laurence Peel. _ . Despatches were received yestenlay at the Colonial- office from the Governors of Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria, Natal, Malta, Hong Kong, and Ceylon. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE FRENCH IN MEXICO. PARIS, Fez. 13. Official intelligence received here from Mexico to the 13th •January announces that the concentra tion of the French troops was being carried out with the greatest order. The troops were to be echeloned on the 23rd January between Mexico and the sea. Their movements met with no ob stacle. THE GERMAN PARLIAMENT. HANOVER, FEB. 13. Herr von Miinchausen, candidate of the demo cratic party, has been elected member of the North German parliament, by a majority of about 4,000 votes over those obtained by Herr Rudolf von Benningsen, president of the National-Verein. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) THE REFORM REsoLETIoNA OF THE GOVERNMENT. The Tims•s would judge the sincerity of the House of Commons on the subject of reform by the manner in which it deals with the ministerial proposals— putting on one aisle those who would oppose the going into committee, and on the other the members who would be fur adopting what appears to be sound, rejecting what is incurably vicious, and amending what is capable of amendment. Condemning Mr. Disraeli for the course be adopted in wasting an evening on a dreary and unconci liatory retrospect, instead of stating the reasons for the respective resolutions, the Tillies proceeds to avoid this error by discussing them seriatim. The first four, it would be supported by large majorities, if not with unanimity, but then they do not touch the difficulty; and as to the fifth the Times its satisfied that a plurality of votes will never be sanctioned by the present house. The suggestion that each voter should be at liberty to give the two or three votes he can now distribute among as many candidates to any one candidate cumulatively seems the simplest plan of solving the problem—at least, where there is more than one member to be returned. Everything turns upon the solution of this central question, and if parliament rejects, as it must, the government proposals, it must find a substitute. The concluding resolutions, if they are ever reached, will probably be as little opposed as those that come first. The government has professed in very bumble language its willingness to be guided, and it becomes incumbent upon the House of Commons to accept its part of the responsibilty. The Doi le News observes that Mr. Disraeli could not resist on Monday, though an occasion which ought to have been one of business, to deliver himself of what his admirers call a grand constitutional oration,—even place and power seeming to be less dear to him than en oppor tunity of personal display. The judgment passed on the resolutions in the house itself, including the ministerial side, was one of instant and almost unqualified condemna tion. It is a waste of time to discuss the second reso lution, the propriety of fancy franchises, without deter mining what the fancy franchises shall he. This scheme, thus hinted at, and the timid suggestion of plurality of votes thrown out in the fifth, appear to foreshadow devices for rendering of no effect that reduction of the borough franchise which we know, by his re iterated assertions, that Mr. Disraeli and his party con sider to be a degradation, and regard as inexpedient except in so far as it is unavoidable. But the scheme of plural voting, which has an apparent precedent, but no real sanction in our local institutions, is so invidious, and could so little be made to correspond with that real mental superiority which, besides, can dispense with artificial aid, that it must be looked upon us an indirect expedient for making the Home of Commons the representative of a plutocracy. The resolutions which follow seem to be in troduced for the purpose of consuming the time of the house in barren controversies—the last especially betraying the design of the government to adjourn legislation at least to the next session. Her Majesty's ministers have courted defeat, in the least creditable shape—not as honourable comlsitants, but detected and discomfited inameuverers. A perusal of the resolutions leads the Piot to think un favourably of the government policy. Those which are not truisms involve propositions which the Post doubts whether any representative assembly would be justified in adopting in an abstract form, and on the whole it must pronounce the opinion that the government have been un fortunate in their mode of dealing with the most impor tant question which will be submitted to parliament dur ing the present session. 'Were the laird/ter' to continue iu office after the rejection of their proposals, a vote of want of confidence would probably be paused. No matter what the Chancellor of the Exchequer may say to the contrary, he and his colleagues must stand or fall with any important measure which they submit for the reform of our system of parliamentary representation. The Hessi/4/ is inclined to believe that the ministry have committed an error in tactics in not producing the re solutions while seeking to justify them. But this is only an additional proof of their good faith. There is no humiliation, the Herald continues to argue, in the ministry submitting the conduct of reform to the house. It is on the fifth resolution, that of plurality of votes, that the greatest controversy will arise, and for this the Heroid claims the votes of Mr. J. B. Mill and his fol lowers. Upon the whole the resolutions may be said to have been most skilfully and carefully designed to embody the most liberal and comprehensive scheme of parliamen tary reform which was ever Laid before the people of this country. The Tdegraisl devotes three leaders to Mr. Disraeli and his scheme. The broad question submitted to the liberal party is whether it should seriously debate the resolutions with a view to amendment. &me days must elapse before the subject can be taken into re gular consideration ; but the Tthyntpl4 will at once declare the judgment which has been pronounced by public opinion. The vagueness of the resolutions is said to have dismayed even members of the Cave ; con servatives have been taken aback by more than one of the fanciful traits shadowed forth in the project ; and sound liberals have at once perceived that the plan, both in its details and as a whole, is utterly unworkable. Any attempt to amend it would simply be an acceptance of a share in the political bankruptcy which surely awaits its promoters. • - The resolutions are divided by the &ar into three classes. Find, platitudes which ought to be at once erased as inane and useless; second, made schemes of which no one can pretend to judge until other crude schemes have first been considered, hammered into shape, and if acceptable passed into law; third, propositions which ought to be at aisle rejected. Could any desirable end be gained by entering upon the serious consideration of such a " basis of settlement "! It seems to the &ar that there is only one course which the liberal party ought to pursue, and that is, to declare at once that the tories have again proved themselves utterly incapable of dealing with the imestion of reform. THE CHESTER "FIMIA2JB." The Times fully believes that Chester has escaped from serious calamity, and that a deliberate conspiracy of the Fenian. had been concocted against it. If it had not been for the inevitable traitor, there is too much reason to fear they would have had at least • partial success. The yeomanry and Lord Grosvenor acted with commendable promptitude. It is surprising that the Fenian' did not make some decided attack in the course of the day ; and that they did not do so is probably to be ascribed solely to the bold front assumed by the citizens. If any fault is to be tumid with the government it is for not having acted more promptly. It is not probable that any similar attempt will be soon repeated, but it will obviously be desirable that an additional nimber of troops should be 1 1 maintained for some time in the neighbourhood of Liver- pool and Chester. The story is to the Dail* Noes absurd on the face of it. "Chester is saved" telegraphs that distinguished yeo manly captain, Earl Grosvenor, to Lord Flaw, an equally distinguished volunteer, but it is saved, as far as appears, very much as all our towns and cities are saved every day in the year. Truly we have in Mr. Walpole an "ancient and most quiet watchman," who deserves something better than to be kept out of bed all night waiting for telegrams from a fidgety mayor. The despatch of the Guards to check a supposed Fenian movement has already been tele- graphed by the Atlantic cable to the country front which the Fenian organisation is supplied with funds, and will ANNOUNCEMENTS BY " THE OWL." The Owl, which has made its re-appearance to-day, has the following announcements in its " serious " page : "Al was naturally to be anticipated, the resolutions proposed by the government have at once been taken into the moat serious consideration by the liberal party. A meeting was held yesterday, consisting of the prominent lenders of the Opposition, at which opinions were declared so much in disapproval of the resolutions that we may ex pect at no distant day to see this general feeling of diem tisfaction take distinct shape. A meeting of the party is to be cAled for next week. " We are able to state that Mr. Brand finally give s up the office of ' whip' to the liberal party, and a gentle• man has been found who, we hunt, will be able to dis charge the duties in the same amiable and courteous manner which has so remarkably distinguished the career of Mr. Br.tiol, who is accompanied on his retirement from this responsible position by the sincere regrets and good wishes of both sides of the house. " A marriage is arranged between Lord ll'aterpark and Lady Coreilance Finch-Hatton, daughter of the Earl of Winchilsea. Also between Mr. IValshrun, at present attached to the Legation at Madrid, and son of Sir John Walsham, Bart., and Mies Scarlett, daughter of Mr. Scar lett, C. 8., late British minister at Mexico. Also, between Mr. Bement and Miss Anstruther, sister of Sir Robert Anstruther, Bart., M.P., and Lord-Lieutenant for the county of Fife. " We understand that the scheme for the reorganisation of the army is now nearly completed in its details, which, when announced in the House of Commons, will not be found to coincide in all points with the recommendations of the Royal Commissioners on Recruiting. The militia will be made the foundation of the active army. Men will be enlisted for 12 years, insteiul of 10 as at present ; seven of these will be spent in the army available for' general service, the remaining five in the militia under certain advantageous conditions. A measure will be proposed for obtaining their further service at the end of the 12 years. Nonoommissioned officers and men will still be permitted to re-engage in the army and serve for pension. Such, we believe, well be the leading features of the plan. The difficulties of the details are, of course, financial, but the House of Commons will, without doubt, afford the government the mean' of carrying into effect their scheme if it can be shown that, it will give the country sufficient available force for general service and an efficient reserve to rely upon in case of need. " We are sorry to bear that, after immense expenditure in providing ammunition for the new Snider gun, it is found in practice that the copper of the cartridge so obstructs the barrel after the discharge as to render the gun useless. This was not the case with the hand-made cartridges, and the fault is directly attributable to the use of machinery adopted by the government under the yre.sure of the great demand. ' "By the eucceo.ion of the lion. George Barrington to his father's title, 110 vacancy will, as is generally tenoned, be ' created in the representation of Eye—the peerage being an Irish one. It is, however, generally rumoured that Lord Barrington will succeed the present Marquis of Exeter as Lord Treasurer of the Household, in which case a new election will he neon:Lary. " In reply to the many complaints made by the public about the narrow passage between the hoardings in Hal kin-street, which terms the thoroughfare from Belgravia, we are glad to he able to announce that the Marquis of Westminster will, in about two months time, open the street from ttroavener-crescent. It is necessary at pre sent to wait till the new reed settles." The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are enter taining a select party of friends at Badminton. The Countess Cowper has leaned cards for a series of small awl early eeening !ionic+, at her residence in St. James's-square. The first of the series takes place to-night. Lord Houghton has arrived at his residence in Upper Brook•street. Lady .4utrobus's first soirk tionsoitte will take place on Tue.day, the 18th inst., and the second on Tues day, March 5. A marriage is arranged between Mr. Arthur William Crichton, eldest son of the Her. William John Crichton, of Broa,lwsnl Hall, Shroinhire, and Eaton-plies, Landon, and the Hon. Constance Emma Augusta Powys, fifth (laughter of the late and sister of the present Lord Lilford. Miss Burdett Coutts and Mrs. Brown have left Stratton-aUvet for Torquay. DEATH OF LORD FEVERS/JAN.—We regret to announce the death of Lord Feversluun, which took place on Monday night, at his residence in Great Cumberland street. The deceased wee son of Charles, first Lord Feversham, by his marriage with Lady Charlotte Legge, daughter of the second Earl of Dartmouth. He was horn Jan. 14, 1798, and married Dec. 18, 1824, Lady Louisa Stewart, third daughter of the eighth Earl of Galloway, by whom, who survives him, he leaves issue two sons and three daughters. He was a conservative in politics, and was a member of the Royal Agricultural Society, of which he was a trustee. He is succeeded by his eldest son, William Ernest Duncombe, M.P., who was born is 1829, and married in 1831 Mabel Violet, daughter of the late Right Hon. Sir James Graham, of Netherby. The DieNni E.rprem is happy to be enabled to announce that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have re solved to allocate 12,000/. for the purpose of increasing the incomes derived from small benefice.. A mooting of the Schools Inquiry Commission was held yesterday. Present—Lord Taunton, the chair man, Lord Lyttelton, the Dean of Chichester, Rev. Dr. Temple. Mr. Achttel, M.P., Mr. Raines, )LP., Mr. Raster, M.P., Mr. Erie, Q.C., and Dr. !Mortar. CANNA. MALTA, FEB. 12. An American war vessel has been despatched from Spanish waters to Candia, in order to assist in removing the Christian families from the island. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE GERMANIA. SOrTILUIPTY/N, FEB. 13. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Germania, from New• York on the 2nd inst., passed the Needles at 10.45 a.m. to-day. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (raox OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. The imminence of the Emperor's speech either silences political speculation or renders the little that is ventured upon of small interest. All is now expectation. I cannot, however, help noticing an extremely absurd argument volunteered by La France for the purpose of showing that the anxiety with which the imperial discourse is awaited is a most flattering homage to France and the sovereign who directs her destinies. No doubt (the F'runee is good enough to admit) England, Italy, and Prussia are great nations ; but still the Euro pean public dues not care so much to know what their sovereigns say as it does to learn the " grand exceptional word " of Napoleon TH. This bragging is must ill-timed; because, without any disparagement to the greatness of France, everybody knows that the peculiar interest attach ing to the Emperor's speech lies in the fact that his government is a personal one with no settled policy ; that ho loves to deal in surprises, sends irresponsible servants to the rightabout unexpec tedly, and that nobody knows from any reliable data what he is likely to say. Negotiations pending between M. Gregory Ga nesco and M. James Foxy, the Swiss statesman, for the sale of the Jure riud de I'm gehrt, having been broken off, that paper is now offered for sale by public auction. " A certain number of deputies," says the.lon nut 1 dm Ham, " are said to intend proposing to the government to buy up all the railways, as it has a right to do according to the various cahiees de charge. To that party belong several speakers who have been for some years remarked for their attacks against the administration of the companies. The government besides appears disposed to accept the discussion and to fix the attention of public opi nion on this question, which has long attracted its attention." The quartermaster gunner who fell into the soup boiler of the Solferino atToulon has since succumbed to the injury which he received. M. Della Seale has been named professor of singing at the Paris Conservatoire, in place of M. Paulin &pinion, deceased. The Bourse was affected at the opening by the fall of / in Consols, and Route went down to 69fr. 65c. ; but it recovered for the close to G9fr. 80c. for cash, and 69fr. 75c. for account, with a fall of only be. and 2ic. Mobilier fell 7fr. 50c. Italian declined but 25c. upon the news of the resignation of the Ricasoli ministry. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) WZDNIDIDAT, I , BB — ackar 18, 8 A.K. lar. W. tents 30.00 48 W. Aberdeen 30.03 40 W.S.W. Leith 30.17 48 W.S.W. Ardroseen 30.20 40 W.S.W. Greenmails 30.21 eV W. Valenta._ = 4 1 W. c 1 2 If 2, H.B.R. • c —!1 2 4 , W. , u 1 3; 4 N.N.W. , 114 8. leo —.l Cape Clear 30.23 49 B.W. , 4 4 W.& W. ; f 0.07 4 Liverpool 30.23 1) B.L . 1 2 • S.S.W. oe 1 Dolyhead 30.20 47 W.M.W. , 1 1 8.8. W. o 2 Pomona SO 41 43, Z. 10 4 W.N.W. of 2 Brost 30.43 48 %W. 4 5 W.M.W. rio 0.03 4 Lorleut 30.3147 N.N.E. • 2 4 W. j o —• 2 Rochefoet 30.4 S 46 3 2 N.K. /co , Plymouth 30.42 44 6. W. 1 3 W.S.W. j ef 0.01 3 Weymouth 30.1347 Z. ! 0 4 W. lom 2 Portsmouth 30.40 47 N.N.W. I 2 3 W. I o 0.01 1 Loudon 20.39 47 W. 1 4 8. W. em - Yarmouth— 30.3840 W.N.W., 1 2 W.N.W. leo • ftuarbormigh. :AN 46 W.M.W. 1 2 N. W. he 1 8134034 Edam REMARKS. Light werterly 'rinds prevail on our coast.; thls morning. The sky is more or lose overcast. and Ina Is prevalent on our southern coasts. Iktremetriml pmrsure has cootiuned to increase. Tem peratures have not materially clnngod. On the Continent yes terday barometrical prmaitre wu high over southern and cvotod EriroPe, derrcoodog frnolusily In a northerly direction to about 29.1 inches over the north of Sweden and Norway. The Paris-Lyons Mediterranesa line have lost their suit in the case of Madame Griesvilliers. This lady, a widow at the time, was travelling by the night train along this line, when, as the train approached Joigny, a piece of burning coal flew into the compartment in which she w.is alone, and set fire to it. With great presence of mind Madame contrived to open the door of the carriage and atind on the step, hoping to be able to remain there till the next station was retched. However, the progress of the dames was so rapid that she was compelled to throw herself off the step, and in the fall she broke her ann .and dislocated her shoulder and wrist, yet in this state she contrived, with the help of a railway en+f✓nv( w h o h ap _ pened to be on the line, to walk as far as Joigny, a dis tance of three miles. The lady has since married a gene ral officer, and sued the company for 32,000 fr. as co:open. nation for the injuries she received. The Lyons Tribunal has sentenced the company to pay Madame 20,000 fr. (4001.), besides the fees due to the physicians who attended her, and the cost of the trial. _ _ _ A singular accident occurred three days back in the theatre of Perpignan (Pyren6es-Orieutales) during the representation of the Cosoriers de la Scisr. At the end of the first act, when a number of the performers had entered a haat and arc supposed to be about to start for liougival, the men in the slips, who were to haul them across the stage, jerked the rope so violently, that the actors and actresses were thrown down in a heap, and one of the latter, 31.111 e. Leontine, had her arm broken in the fall. A Melbourne letter says :—" Our Christmas is the usual Australian one, with its sunshine, its pic-nics races, cricket, and boating out of noon, and its panto: mimes and oratorios within. Tho New South Widen are victorious this year, both in rifle shooting and in cricket (in the latter in one ienings) over the Victorians. In cricket we have bad a great novelty this week. An old Etonian, and one of the best bats in the colony, has been carefully drilling an aboriginal eleven, of whose quickness of eye and band he had great hopes against our own countrymen. Something more, however, than quickne.s of eye and hand is necessary even for cricket. The black men, although playing well in spurts, were nervous amid a large concourse of people, and were impatient, confused, and unsteady under disaster ; and they were beaten, poor fellows, but by no means disgracefully." F. . Yanzewne. AIL 110 ...----,--...,' W. W. 11 to II F.. D. 1 I 1 lb. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings ►t Nisi Prins in ldiddleser..—(Before Lord Chief Justice Bovill and ► Special Jury.) RAMP V. ROBINSON. . . _ . This was the sixth day of the heating of this ease. Mr. EdwardJames,Q.C., Mr. Field, Q.C., Mr. Matthews, and Mr. Cleave appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., Mr. Giffard, Q.C. and Mr. H. Jame' for the de fendant ; and Mr. Archibald watched the case on behalf of the trustees under the will. Witnesses were again called for the defendant, and a great deal of discussion took place between the bench and the bar as to the rejection of some evidence on a former day, and in the end his lordship adhered to a decision ar rived at on the first day of the trial, that Mrs. Hemp should not be allowed to give evidence as to her course of life whilst she was living separate from her husband be tween lssB and 1863. Mrs. Elizabeth Williams was called to explain that Mr. John flamp, during August, 1861, stayed for a fortnight at Oswestry in the house of her husband, who was a con nection by marriage of Mr. Hamp. The object of this evidenoe was to account for Mr. John Hemp during tho time that he was known to have been away from Ross in August ; and also to show that during this time he could not have been in Birmingham, as had been stated by wit neses for the plaintiff. . . . . A Dumber of witnesses were also examine,' to show that Mr. Hemp wu at Ross or elsewhere than Birmingham and Shirley on particular days between the let March and the 30th June, 1861. The object of the whole of the evidence given under tide head was to show that Mr. John Hemp could ~ot have had access to his wife during those months and therefore could not be the father of the plaintiff, who was born on the 17th January, 11462. [The case was proceeding when our report left.] COURT FOR DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSFJ3. (Before Sir J. P. Wilde.) HANCOCK V. !KATY. This extraonlinary case came before the court again this morning. It will be remembered that it was a suit by the guardian of • young lady to dissolve her marriage to the respondent, Mr. Peaty, a clerk in the Bank of England, on the ground of her madness at the time the contract was entered into. Several times during the progress of the case his lordship suggested an arrangement between the parties, but it was found impossible to carry this out, and this morning the further hearing was resumed. Dr. Spicks addressed the court at some length, arguing that the insanity of Mrs. Peaty had not been made out, while Sir R. Phillimore (tho Queen's Advocate) contended on behalf of the petitioner that there could be no doubt whatever, from tho evidence which bad been called, that )Ira. Peaty was as mad as any lady could be when her marriage took place. His lordship said he must postpone his judgment until he had given the case further consideration. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goo!bum) IN RE BE.EPIELD. The bankrupt, an innkeeper, of Newmarket, applied for his discharge from debts of 859 f., giving up meets returned at 3.10/. In answer to the court, Mr. Worrell, clerk to the official assignee, stated that only 41. had been recovered. The solicitor to the assignees said that the bankrupt's house at Newmarket was expected to produce the amount above named, but it had not yet been tposed of. • . . His Honour, in the absence of opposition, granted the order. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) CLERICENWELL THREATENING TO SHOOT AND STAB A PHYSICIAN. William Meg Lander, aged 13, a ticket collector, re siding at 14s, St. James's-street, Pentonville, was charged before Mr. Cooke with being drunk and threatening to stab and shoot Henri Pectin, physician and surgeon, of 4, Penton-street, Pentonville. The complainant stated that yesterday evening the de fendant called at his house in a very excited manner, and having spoken to him he took up a knife from the table and attempted to stab him. The defendant hail before wanted to shoot him, and had made use of threatening language. He had known the defendant and his wife for some time, and therefore he did not wish to press the cluirge harshly against the defendant. All that he wanted was that he should be bound to keep the peace. The defendant, in reply to the charge, said that some time since his wife spoke to him about being divorced, and he then understood that in the event of a divorce being ob. Mined the complainant was to marry his wife. He at first consented to these arrangements, but afterwards he felt annoyed, and then he did say something to the complain ant about a pistol, to show him that be was in earnest, and did not intend to allow his wife to get a divorce from him. As for the knife, he saw it on the table, and might have touched it, but he really had no intention to stab the complainant or to hurt him in any way. He was excited, and regretted what he had done. . . Mr. (''Doke said that the defendant would have to enter into hiv own recognisances in the sum of 1001. to keep the peace and be of good behaviour towards the complainant and all her Majesty's subjects for the space of twelve calendar months _ _ The defendant having been bound over, left the court. MARLBOROUGH STREET. A CAB-IMIR Ea CHANGED WITH STEALLNU A GENTLEMAN'S IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS WI.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. The private business included 134 bills, mat of a' ich were read a second time. FINSBURY ESTATE BILL Mr. AYRTON moved the second reading of th',. 1 ill. The bill was not a new one, for it was before the house last session, the Secretary of State for the Home liep.rr. ment assenting to the second reading. As he un derstood, the representative of the Ecelesi.,stic a l Commissioners in that house intended to oppo s e the second reading on the present ,Cession. The estate to which this bill referred was church property. It now produced 45,0001. a year, and it was certain to yield a still larger revenue. The estate had been leased to the corporation of London, and that lease was to esp., :a the course of the present year. It therefore became a questien what was to be done with the estate when it COM: into the hands of the ecclesiastical commissioner,. Thel,l, laid down by that body was to grant donations and anneal sti pendsoutof the ecclesiastical funds provided the in h a lq of the parishes to which grants were made raised n certain amount amongst themselves for supplying the aut o of spiritual destitution. He contended that this rule was unfair to the poor parishes of the metropolis. The commissioners received more than 48,000/. fie, the ecclesiastical property in the metropolis, and they .hd not distribute half that amongst the parishes. T1.... 7 , 0 t value of this property was created by the increase of the metropolis. What he asked for was that half of received by the ecclesiastical commissioners should 0 I,:t as u special fund to be applied for the spiritual reii, f of the poor of the metrolis. (Hear.) The motion having been seconded. Mr. HOWM moved that the bill be read a s.cond time that day six months. He did so as • member the Ecclesiastical Commis ion, but not as representing that body. He was not responsible for what had beet done by the Secretary of State in the last session of parliament. The real object of the proposition of the hon. geliti,:i.ut was to deprive the ecclesiastical commission of „b ou t 30,000/.—for the estate to which he referred was nor t h he believed, 60,0001. a year--and so far diminish their ability to relieve the spiritual wants of the country gene rally. He denied that the spiritual wants of the metro poll* were disregarded. If they had then it would le the duty of the government to exercise over the con.e.i , siel that control which they possessed. Mr. LEEMAN seconded the amendment. _......__. [Left sitting.] NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ELECTION. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) NORTHAMPTON, IVEnNesDAY MORNING. Mr. Sackville Stopford was returned this morn ing without opposition. The proceedings were good. hinuotued, but noisy. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. (THIS PAY.) The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was heLl at noon, at the London Tavern, CoL PEALLSoN in the choir. . . . . . . . . The report, which had been previously issued and lab. fished, having been taken as read, The CHAIKWAN moved its adoption. He said it con. tained the substance of all the directors hail to cornmeal.. cote ; and though the dividend was not so good a. he could have wished, compared with those announced lately by Dome other companies it was very satisfactory. From the year 1848 to 1883, he had taken periods of threeyeas for the purpose of comparison as regarded the dividends. In the first period ending in 1810 they received an average of 11. 4s. 10;d. per cent. ; in the second period, 2/. 2.. rid.; in the third period, 2/. 12s. ; in the fourth period, 3/. sa; in the fifth period, 31. 10a. ; and in the last period, ending in 11405, 4/. He hoped they would go on progreving. The traffic recently showed a great increase in the tonnage of minerals carried, and a decrease in the amount received under that bead. That railway afforded an illintra. thin of the fallacy of measuring the revem:e of I a railway by the work actually performed. As reonkd the strikes which had so much affected that company, he was happy to think that there was reason to believe that the operativei would not take so injurious a course in future as they had done in the past. There was a prospect, too, of improved relations with the London and North Western Railway Company. Notwitlo standing a distrust of the company with regard to railway debentures, he must say he did not believe that there was any better security for the public than that of go.' lines in full working. The revenue of that company would lay off its debenture debt within live years. In the meet consuls, people were satisfied with a margin of ten per cent., that is to say, they would lend 81/. on the present value, and it would take 27 pets to pay off the debt. (Hear, hear.) After a short discussion the report was adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. pia annum wade. dared. THE NEw NATIONAL GALLEILY.—WO at I . e• quested to state that the public will be admitted to view the above designs on Wednesday. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, from 10 to 4 o'clock, until 16th March. Mr. Bertuford Hope, on the second reading of the Church Rates Abolition Bill, will move " that it be read a second time upon this day six months." In the House of Lords, on Monday, Earl Ruaaell will move, " that there be bd.l before this hom certain returns connected with the representation of the people in p Aiament." A special telegram from London to the Lois Mercury says:—" The liberal chiefs met to-day to consult with reference to the government resolutions on reform. No final resolution was come to, but the deci.l.4l drft of the opinion of those present was that the phut of the go. cerement is not worth a serious liscusaion." • ----- - Conunenting upon the reform resolutions, the Afonchour Zzarisiner says—Mr. Disraeli lass furni.le , l the country with an easy task. " A little less of specio,:•tass and dishonesty might have baffled us for a week or two. hut he has cut short all uncertainty, both as re5.0.,1. the tory Reform Bill and the tory ailuiiiii.tration. - The Leeds Mircrtry thinks it is a pity "the only dinar) principle laid down, amidst all this ma,s of common-place, is one which it is p.rfectly cett.iiti the People will never accept." The Birani,:do ,,, Poo " If there is no hitch, and if everything is done •1•4 Pik:4 as it can be, the new Reform Bill may come into elfect is about the month of August in the year NO. An I until then, the Tory ministers are kind enough to 4:9- thit they expect to remain in office. Do they 7 We fancy t', :t the public opinion expressed at the B' ham meeting 114 night followed as it will be by similar meeting , through. out the country, will make an end of them, their r. , olta• tious, tl.eir bill, their commission, and all the n•st of it before the session is a month older." LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIE ,, . — TiIi% ww. issued a return to Parliament of the wieder of patties registered under the Limited Li..hility Act during the years 18d4, 186.71, and 18tki, with the amnaut of capital proposal to be r iad in Aare% The summary of the return for 1814 : 992 companies were register. , l, with a I , M" iea capital of T37,4:57,0Ki1. 14s. ; 5 c 1.11 i.... were reg o, tered without nominal capital—total, te.c. 1 4 'n 2111%.01,Alt:/. ; 20 cowponies were regkten 4l companies were registered, with prolmakvi i:.l .4 nominal capital—total, 1,0*3. registered, with a proposed capitd of 7 , ;.:0 9 .': 2 companies Were registered without uotuii...l c..i.it 765. . . Mr. Peter Tait, Mayor of Limerick, has sc. ceptedi as invitation to a public banquet to I.e on the 21st inst., as "some acknowledgment of I:4e regard entertained for him, and in recignition of Li , ec ertions an mayor for the welfare of the city, th , • benefits he has conferral on it and the people. his :44 ,4 cent gifts of charity, and unbounded awl gracobil tally." The requisition is signed by nearly all th..1....hr.,; men of the city and county, without distinction of p The banquet is to be given in the Theatre Royal. tie I. ".1 of which will be reserved for ladies. At the meeting of the 'loyal Gemfrapliii al So ciety on Monday evening, bir Eudetick Murchis. t. in the chair, two papers relating to the 4 Imre otriatoiA ..c.I to . the Cascade Mountains near California were real. first one, by Mr. Hines, described his perilous Mount Hood, assumed to be highest mountain in North America, in July last, with a small party. 'rite IMP , ' CU "The Oregon Territory," by Mr. Brown. ile•anibei tie tract of country on the east of the Casesul , M tttttt [lin% As sandy and barren, and as contrasting ..trooglt wit. the more fertile tract on the west towards the Pacific, sel.,,h is well watered by many streams. THE NATIONAL EDTCATION SY,TEM.—We have some reason to believe that no proei.ion for earrYit.' l Mr. Fortescue's schemes for chani:Mg the rototit to MI the model schools in the Pish nloc.stion I:•ti.o.t. • a: 11 be made. It is probable the whole s e.boo sill 9uired into by a royal commission. comp osed of thereiN l •! l independent men. In case of such un inquiry ••••t toted, we would suggest that, to nick" it in at.y . valuable, it must he co nducted contidoeti" ll • ^n i ' neases being protected from any tn.) 14,Prehend.—DoUio Zeroing AA d. LUGGAGE. Chore Band, a eab.driver, ba.lp 13,249, was charged before Mr. Tyralitt, with *telling a portmanteau contain ing article* of wearing apparel of the value of 20/., the property of a gentleman named Phipps residing in Albv noirle.street. The Icusecutor said—On Monday evening, at a quarter to 6, I engaged the prisoner on the rank at Hyde-park corner, and stopped and took up a portmanteau and some parcel, at different places. The prisoner then drove me to Piccadilly, where I got out and went into a shop to settle an account, and on any leaving the shop, not being there more than live minutes, 1 found the prisoner hail driven away with the portmanteau and parcels. The penman. team and 'orals contained wearing apparel of the value 20/. I afterwards gave information to the police. Henry Putnam. cab driver, badge 12,443, said—On Monday evening I was on the stusd, opposite Baron Rothschild's house in Piccadilly, and saw the prosecutor get into the prisoner's cab. Yesterday the prosecutor came up to me and asked me if I knew the num who took I him up the previous day, and I said I did, and that he worked for Mr. Moran, of Smith-square. Henry Dawson, 301 A, said—l went to Smith-square yestenlar, and found that the prisoner hail not been to work. I afterwards saw the prisoner in Victoria-street, eel said, " Boyd, I want you. \l - hat did you do with the portmanteau and other articles belonging to the gentleman you took upnear Hyde-park yesterday r' The prisoner said, " I did not take up at Hyde-lark, and know nothing about it." I asked him if he was driving onMonday,andbe said he was, fur Mr. Moran, of Smith-square, Westminster. I then took the prisoner to the last witness, and lie identi fied hiiii as having taken up the prosecutor, but said ho was differently dressed. I then went to where the prisoner lived, but could find no trace of the portmanteau or other things. I found in the house a pair of leggings and a coat, which the prosecutor bletatified as being them worn by the prisoner at the time he engaged him. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner. WANDSWORTH. THE EARKIAGE DIFFICUIST. Archites 41/0,4v, aged Zi, • plasterer, of 27, Lavender villas, Lavender-road, Battersea. was brought up on a war rant, at the suite of Emma Hamlin, for the non-payment of arrears of lxistanly. Mr. Andrew, the clerk, explained to the magistrate that there were four or five warrants against the prisoner, who was apprehended on one and coiumitted to the Wands worth House of Correction. The money on that warrant had been paid, and he was now brought up on another. He (the clerk) also told the magistrate that the parties had arranged to be married. The complainant, a pretty dark-eyed young woman, who carried a plump little child in her anus, was called into the witness box and asked whether she was willing to have the warrant stand over until the marriage hail taken place. She replied that she was willing to have him. Mr. Ingham—Has he told you he is willing to have you ! Complainant—Yea, sir. Mr. Ingham—Has the day been named ! The complainant—No, sir. Mr. Ingham — Then I had better hear you.. --• Mr. Andrew—Mr. Layman suggested that they shan'l be married in prison. Seymour (the otilcer)—The prisoner says the governor told him it would not be allowed. The complainant wssi then sworn, and proved that there was 1/. 12s. Q. due on the warrant. There was upwards of 4!. due altogether. Mr. Ingham then toll the prisoner he would let him go and put up the banns at once, and when this was done he would keep him in prison until the three weeks were over for the marriage to take place. To this course the prisoner objected. lie said if be had his liberty lie could work. He was willing to be married, and all be wanted was to be allowed time. He could be married in a month. Mr. Ingham said the prisoner W3l a slippery fellow, and U he allowed him his liberty he might be off again. l'ltimstely the magistrate consented to take hail for the prisoner's appearance that day month, and said that if married in the interim there would be an end of all the cases, but if not he must go on with them. Johns, the warrant officer, ,said the prisoner bed given him a great deal of trouble, perhaps he would now invite him to the wedding. I Ma. tell the loon I. tti to ti