The Express. — London, England, 1866-01-12 00:00:00

1 , 1i 1' ~ 1 1 r~ t LIFEBOAT SERVICES . — During the storms of molest year the National Lifeboat Institution, by its Ille beat and other means, contributed to the saving of 707 persons from different wrecks on our coasts. The Institution also ex pended 421,974 In the same period on its lifeboat establishments. In addition to granting L 4,950 for rewards for saving We and exercising the Lifeboats. The committee of the Institution earnestly APPEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE, to enable them to meet the continued Leavy demands on the Institution's 153 Lifeboat Stations. Contrlbatbna are received by the London and Country Bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the In atitution, 14, John-street, Adelphl, Landon. GOLD CHAINS.—JOHN BROGDEN begs to call the attention of the public to the FORM of tET VG (CE which he delhan with Gold Guard Chaim pared:mad at his raansfactory hi p L a. d. worionana of pattern chain. 64 incase long To OM carat gold, weighing oft. dwa gra, at LS Ea did. per ounce, Mint few Total _ __ Upon this system, the QUALITY, WZIONT, and VALUZ of 6liti gad are actually donned. and guaranteed to the purchaser ; John Breeden loolthig tor a fair remuneration en the workmanship only, which Is charged according to the Intricacy or simplicity of the pattern.—JOHN BBOODEN, Ooldamith.—Matintactory, 16, Henriett►-street. Covent-garden, London. Established A. 9.1798. N.B. Tins establishment Is closed at 6 in the evening, and on Saturdays at I o'clock. MESSRS. WATHERSTON and SON Goldsmiths and Jewelled,. Rave Ready toe inspection a Great Variety of JEWELLERY, of the Latest Designs, suitable for WEDDING PRESENTS and NEW-YEAR'S GIFTS. it Palteitall Let, S.W. TURTLE, TURTLE, TURTLE. Clair, Thick and Invalid Turtle So always ready at ST. JANIS'S-HALL, Regent-dreet, PiecadUly.—W. DONALD, proprietor. LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC ROOM for Gentlemen.—Remember, we wait for you at .ICVANS," atter the Covent-prdea Pantomime, and the Theatres. Che vrpreoo. 6dvertlaamienta Intended for " " London In re m = mad am, be tiv at of th pabuca l gu o, •10, nortnennet, by Two _IL&YIUI . I,Kr.. TIM immix BRAYTHIR. SAM. Messrs. Bothern, Bock stone, and Compton; Mimes Neil Noon. Snowdon, de.— ORPHEUS IN THE HAY ILARICICT. Messrs Farm & D. Fisher ; Mama Keeley, Howard & Wright —MY HUSBASD'S GHOST. PBINCIBM Tuts /Tango, QUIRT LODGINGS.—AIter which IT Ili 2INVIR TOO Lan TO =ND. Mews. Vining, G. Melville, T. Mood, D. Murray, b. Wham, F. Villiers, J. G. Shore, G. Nor way, and Z. Cathaws Mims L. Moors and K. /Lodgers. LYCIUM. TIII9 ETZNIMI, THE 1171YSTEIOIIS STRANGER. Mr. H. Wlddlcomb.—T MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Mean. Folatar, ordan, Vain, Emery, Wlddlcomb. Fitapataick, Enna Mindanao Taman, Elsworthy, Loon, C. Lecteroq. BRITANNIA. THm smack OLD DADDY LONGLEGS AND SIR RIGINT CIRCUS; OR, THE RACE FOR THE GOLDEN APPLE.— M. and Aldine. FAitetzeabach.—Siver Bevanl—Ohuar.-Bhowor at Golden Sala.—.And JIMMIE. THE MORMON'S DAUGHTER. HIGHFATEit eT LONDON-pLEDGL __---------- 1101 Day Morning, 106. 2.4 m..... /Ammon. Ilh. lak. TO-6066,0W -, Ilaralag, 116. SM.- „Altarnoes. 06. Oa. LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12. THE name, of Jt_mes FEmowsa must be added to those of the dead paupers TIMOTHY DALY and RICHARD (MESON. All three were inmates of metropolitan workhouses, all were sick, all enjoy ing the full advantages of the parochial Buten; and all have suffered shocking deaths through inefficiency and neglect. In none of these cases does there seem to be a reasonable doubt that with proper nursing and suitable food the patient's life might have been spared; and the question will pre sent itself to many minds with renewed force, How long are our sick poor to be killed off because those entrusted with the administration of the law ignore its provisions 4 We have been at some pains to contrast the treatment of FEta.owEs, in the Beth nal•green Workhouse, with the regulations laid down by the Poor-law Board, and the result is not a little startling. This pauper was 65 years of age, was suffering from a bad leg, from rheuma tism, and from incipient bronchitis, and was dis missed each night from the infiimary, not because he had recovered wholly or partially from any of his ailments, not on the authority of the doctor, or even of the muter, but for the reason that MARY ANNE EASON, the paid nurse, " wanted his " bed for some one else." In the daytime, when official and medical visits are paid, FELLOW Es was kept in the invalid ward, and was fed on the diet prescribed for the sick up to the hour of his death. It was only at sleeping time that the rheumatic, lame, and emaciated old man was sent into a room without either light or fire, there to be locked in, out of reach of assistance, with no means of making his wants known to any but brother paupers as helpless as himself, and without any of the neces saries essential to his state of health. At 5 o'clock last Sunday morning he fell out of bed, and died on the floor. The old men who slept in the beds near him lifted him up, pronounced him dead, conferred with the pauper wardsman, a man of 70, agreed not to attempt to rouse anybody, because, as was given in evidence, "no one could hear, and " it's only making a noise for nothing ;" and finally put the dead or dying man to his bed again, and waited patiently for the regular hour of open ing the ward. Whether FefikwEs was really dead at the time he was found, or whether the fit was one from which he would have rallied if proper remedies had been applied, we are not told ; but the parish doctor admitted the treatment he had received to have accelerated his end, and coroner and jury made fOrmal protest against the neglect in providing sleeping accommodation for the sick poor at Bethnal green. We learn that out of the 250 pauper invalids under the care of the nurse EASON, 59 are locked up in cold dark rooms at night, that no one exercises supervision over them, and that the change from infirmary to ordinary work house ward is effected by this woman assigning their beds to others, and leaving to a pauper wardsman the task of finding sleeping places for them elsewhere. There is something so saddening in th'i wretched story, its details are so scandalous, and its end so shocking, that the regulations for the care of sick in workhouses read like a bitter satire upon results. Yet the central authority, upon which re sponsibility is supposed to rest, has made it obliga tory upon guardians to appoint a visiting commit tee, for the purpose of ensuring proper treat ment of the sick poor. This committee is to visit the parish workhouse once at least in every week, and to report to the guardians the state of its several wards, and the condition of their inmates. If any local board neglects to appoint a visiting committee, or such committee omit their visit of inspection for three months, the Poor-law Board is authorised by Act of Parliament to appoint • paid visitor. Among the questions to be satisfactorily answered in writing are : Is regular attendance given by the medical officer ? Are the inmates of the sick wards properly tended ? Are the nurses efficient ? Further, we find among the instructions to nurses, that the duty of keeping a light in all wards where sick people sleep is insisted on, so that, theoreti cally, such a case as we are commenting on is simply impossible. The point, then, for the public to consider ia, why rules which are apparently thoughtful and well considered are practically useless. We refrain from dwelling upon the horrors THE EXPRESS, of the locked up, darkened, chamber ; though the picture of two aged paupers fumbling over a match surreptitiously procured, while the life of the third ebbe slowly away, is one suggesting a world of hidden tragedy. We simply ask whether the forms demanded by the law have been observed at Bethnal-green ; and if not, who is responsible 7 It too commonly happens when a case of this wretched nature comes to light, that through some loophole, some hitch in the chain of evidence, some doubt as to the legal responsibility of particular officials, the inevitable public inquiry ends without practical result. Here at least the facts seem sufficiently damnatory and clear. If regular attendance was given by the medical officer, what has that gentleman to say to the treatment of his patient? If a committee or paid visitors have certified that invalid paupers were properly tended at this workhouse, let them now justify their certificate. If the nurses have been declared efficient, it is for those vouching for them to furnish reasons for their confidence. There appears no escape from the dilemma. If the workhouse has been practically unvisited, if no one had the " overlooking of the warding of the sick," the law points with sufficient clearness to those guilty of , neglect of duty. If, on the other hand, the proper forms have been complied with, the gentlemen visit ing must be held responsible. Vague censure and picturesque denunciation are out of place in a case of this gravity. What we all require is not merely sentimental pity for the wretched circumstances of poor Frixowits' death—that it is impos sible to withhold—but a substantial guarantee that other men in his position will not be sacrificed in similar fashion. The public voice calls for common justice to the Rick pauper, and we warn all concerned that neither perfect "regulations" nor theoretical efficiency will be held to justify such deaths as the one we record to-day. A HEAVY fall of snow, such as that which changed the face of nature yesterday, instantly discovers the faulty joints in our out-door arrangements. It was curious to see yesterday the wires which the day before, stretched across the streets, had been conveying messages of busi ness or pleasure, broken down and dangling from the house tops, or wound round the nearest lamp post. It was inconvenient to find that, from the same cause, the trains on railways managed by telegraphic signals had been thrown into complete disorder. But nothing was half so vexations yesterday as the state of the streets. Not at the Cariboo diggings, or any other place on the outskirts of civilization, could a fall of snow have made travelling more wretched to the way farer than it was in the very heart of London. All night long the snow had fallen and drifted, and by morning its depth was to be measured by feet. Locomotion was at once rendered difficult, and almost impossible. The omnibuses " ran " like snails ; cabmen declared they were " going home," but were willing to relent for a sufficient consi deration. A Page amount of additional traffic was thrown upon the Underground Railway, and at the intermediate stations numbers of persona were left behind for want of room. Hour after hour the quantity of snow in the streets was increasing, and being worked up by the churning of innumerable wheels into a detestable slush, which was most abundant and most watery at the points of crossing and at .the intersections of streets. During all this while not a hand was put forth to help the tax and rate paying public. Policemen, street keepers, and beadles walked up and down, observing with curiosity the extraordinary manner in which the unliveried public took the floods and swamps of the overland route from Temple-bar to the Bank. The snow was inclined to thaw, and a man with a spade and besom could have kept the gutters open for half • mile, and set free the imprisoned waters that were soaking through the strongest of boots. But there was neither board, nor vestry, nor alderman, nor church. warden, nor respected parishioner to set such an one in motion. A more disgraceful state of things was never seen in London ; and for the honour of constitutional government we hope there were no Parisians, or at any rate no Im perialists, in the City yesterday, to make compari sons unfavourable to our priceless free institutions. It might have been thought that in these days, when nothing is too ancient or too august to be put upon its trial, that the friends of our minor local organizations would h►ve been careful to show that they were good for something, and that it is not absolutely necessary to invoke that all embracing, all-devouring Power which the prophet BEAL has seen in rapt vision, raising itself above the ruins of civic thrones, and governing this great metropolis contemptuous of all considerations ex cept the public convenience. But the instinct of self-preservation has been as powerless as public spirit to stir our somnolent and self-coniplacent authorities to action. The streets are still full of snow. The frost of last night has petrified the enor mous plastic mass which all day yesterday was changing form under the wheels of carriages and the hoofs of horses ; and Fleet-street and the Strand are in a state which would discredit the management of a country lane. the Court. OSBORNE, JAN. 11. The Prince and Princess Hermann of Hohenlohe and their family left Osborne yesterday. Her Majesty walked end drove out in the morning and afternoon. THE PRISON AND PRINCESS OF WALLA—The Prince and Princess of Wales are expected to terminate their visit to the Earl and Countess of Leicester at Holk ham, Norfolk, to-day or to-morrow. The weather became very inclement yesterday, snow falling and interposing a barrier to some extent to the prosecution of field sports. The Prince and Princess will leave Sandringham for Marl borough-house towards the close of the month. The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland is still in a very indifferent state of health. Her grace is staying at Stafford House, St. James's. The Earl of Ellenborough will arrive in town on the sth proximo from his seat is Glonosaterehire. The arrangements for the appointment of Mr. Goachen are said to have been completed yesterday after noon, and the right honourable gentleman joins the cabinet u Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Sir Heory Storks, it is expected, arrived at Jamaica last Mooday. Ws cannot receive maws of his arrival out before the 28th host THE DECREES OF CHARTREL—Her Royal High nese the Duchess de Chartres and her son are progressing favourably. The new bon infant is the first great grand son of the Queen Marie Amelia by male descent. The birch crisis took place under unusually favourable circumstances. Dr. Gutman de Mussy, the ordinary physician of the French royal family, dined at Morgan Rouse ou Tuesday, and left for London some time after 9 o'clock, the duchess being then quite well. At 1 o'clock be mu lent for, made es much haste as the hal state of the roads would permit, and found the matter so far advanced that 20 minutes attar his arrival he had to receive the royal baby. In the meantime meseengers had been despatched to the Count and Countess de Paris, the Princess de Joinville, and also to Dr. Priestley, the physician-scnoutheur, end Mr. lead, of Ether ; but, notwi th standing all liasta, they only arrived whoa the happy ergot bad taken place. CRYSTAL PALACE. OHS Sztrzniro DAY. THEREDAY, JAL 11. Admissions oa paroles; 976; ditto by mama ilia" 448 ; total Asthma, 1,424. FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1866. . OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (TEM3 DAY.) Till ANZRICAN MAD/ The Times returns to the discussion of the charso ter and extant of the recent trade with the United States. Attributing to interested motives and political prejudices the t reception which its recent caution has encountered in some quarters, it adds th►t its analysis was made on the Board of r Trade returns, and until their accuracy is disproved by some authority of equal weight it mud abide by:thent. In October and November last year there was an increase of 4,000,0001. in the value of our export' to the Union ; and the falling off is values Imported gives us a balance of 10,272,000/. against the United States as compared with the trade of 1861. Nameless authorities assert that this is met by the in creased value in the cotton imported. But the Board of Trade returns give an increase only in the value of cotton for October of 931,0004, and the gums for November (not yet officially reported), may be computed at about 1,500,0001., still leaving a balance of 8,003,000/. 1 against the Union. As to the cotton imported in Decem ber, nobody knows what He value is, but if we take the excess over December, 1861, at two millions instead of a million and a half, as in November, we are probably rating it at its full value ; and as we must, on the other hand, take into account the anus of export to the Union in the earns month, which we have seen reason to value at two millions, the balance against the Union remains the same, eight millions as before. No ace pretends that the whole of this trade balance remains due from the merchants of New York to the shippers of our midland and north-western counties A great part must still be insoribni on the credit and debit irides of their respective ledgers, but much may to so counted for by investments male here in the government and railway securities of the Union. We have no wish to undervalue Five-Twenties and railway debentures, but the effect on the money market of the 'Dorado( in. debtedness of the Union to persons here is unaffected by the form the indebtedness takes. If we are to provide within a few months eight millions for debtors in the States, a tow more millions for Brazil, a couple of millions or so for the Argentine republic, soma millions for Peru, and by-and-bye Chili, an indefinite number for Turkey, for Italy, for Austria, for Egypt, and for every other go►ern " • meat—autocratic or republican—in the world ; if is addition to this, the new facilities for embarking money is business induos every man who saves to become a partner in some raanufactruing or trading company—why, it is not surprising that the rate of discount ahonld reach 8 par Beat., or that Consols should fall to 87. And these are the ultimata facts which justify and demand caution on the part of every trader. While Russi►n politicians lament the interference ft Rawls in crashing the Magyars ant helping to overran mar German intend" and empire, we liberal of the west, observes the Daily !ems, have but to desire the coaleocing and intermingling of both nos on terms of equality. For the independence of EaSern Europe, as well es for the future freedom of Germany, the German and Solsvonisa portions of the Austrian empire should still remain in conjunction. The Times congratulates the country upon the many rea lm= which exist to justify the belief that, through the gal lant efforts of Commodore Wilmot and the offioen and men of the African squadron, the slave trade on the African coast is at this moment practically extinct. Only one con siderable shipment of slaves took place from the west coast of Africa during the whole of last year, and even this cargo wee ultimately captured off the °nest of Cuba. One or two smaller shipments may, perhaps, have been effected, but at meet of the stations the trade was absolutely stopped. By unflinching resolution, lavish outlay, and patient suffering, have we brought the work to this pas. If the consent of the promoters and protectors of the trade to abandon it has been honestly given the slave squadron, like the alive trade, will become a thing of the part. It is upon the sin cerity of Spain that we mart rely for the fruits of our labour. The Herald regards the Anglo-Austrian Treaty of Com merce as a ridiculous fiasco, describing it as merely • con- tract, by which England buys from Austria, at • hangs s•crifioe of re►ecne,,conovsions which she might have ob tained, if she would have waited • shut time, for nothing, and the full benefit of which, if benefit there be in them, will be at once gi►en gratis to our competitors in the Austrian markets. The Star has been given to understand that the govern ment proposal for the introduction of a Reform Bill is to be met by Lord Elcho, supported by such few liberals as be can find, and the tones, by • direct negative. Mr. Disraeli, it is believed, is not prepared—es yet—to go the length of countenancing or directing such • movement. But there are people who suspect that he holds off chiefly because he is inclined to see what real strength such an enterprise could muster before he undertakes to give it the benefit of his leadership, or even big sanction. The only danger which could possibly arise to the ministry out of such • combination would spring from the adoption of a half-hearted policy which tailed to rally the true liberalism of the country to its support. The Herald protests against the increasing iteration of foul language in our public thoroughfares—an evil which it believes to be, especially in London, on the lemma If the lees of society have progressed in any one way more than another it is in the way of coining and using atrocious phrases. And if this pernicious habit is so rife in the streets what must it be in the homes and customary resorts of its degraded professors The Telegraph fears that when the present tide of specu lation recedes it will leave many wrecks on the Ise shore of insolvency. Already in the share lists there are plenty of investments whose stock is quoted at • handsome premium, and yet, as the holden know to their own con, they cannot find purchasers. Fifty-pound shares on which but 101. have been paid tip can only be negotiated at a discount, say of 15 per cent. In other words, if the owner desires simply to retreat from his false position, he must give, besides the premium at which he probably purchased, another 51. as an inducement for any one to assume his liabilities, and there are not a few instenees in which the shares of companies are utterly unsaleable at any sacrifice. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. TEI CATTLZ PLLCUL Remarking on the fatal peen'imity of the cattle plague, that it is ell pure loss, diminishing the food and capital of the count% j, without any compensation what ever, the lose falling in the first Matinee upon a single class with crushing and almost irresistible weight, the Times proceeds to review the legislation of the govern meet thereon, strongly expreming the opinion that ministers ought long before this to have yielded to the logic of facts, and to have acted upon the recommendation of the oomrnimionms, which, at the time it was made, would not have been accepted as a safe basis for action. Simply from fear of unpopularity, from the dread of an outcry against centralisation, from that abject terror of re sponsibility which seems to be becoming every day more and more the characteristic of our statesmen, the government deserts the country in this great strait, and really furnishes arguments against itself very difficult so meet, for it will be said that not h►ving sued the means of stopping the pestilent*, which were in its hands, it is bound to indemnify the grazier who has suffered from it. Until the government has taken the thing into its own hands, and issued one general order, as to the prevention of the movement of cattle, for the whole country, it is im possible to say that it has done everything in Be power to relieve the grazing interest. Quoting the principal figures in the return which we publish in another column, the Pal remarks that the longer the pest continues amongst es the firmer its hold seems to became ; and the researches made into its history —not only in this but also in other oonntriea—seem to impress scientific men wit► the unpleasant conviction that, now since the seeds have been sown over the length end breadth of the land, years may elapse before it is finally extirpated. The opportunity for energetic action would have been seized long ago by a minister like Lord Palmer ston. There is no prospect of the cessation of the plague under existing arrangements. When thorough uniformity of action shall have been inaugurated throughout Great Britain, absolutely confining black cattle to the farms on which they are now to be found, then we may hope for its discontinuance. THE NEWS PROM JAMAICA. The Telegraph is amused at the horror which Mr. Card well's despatch applauding the vigour of the Jamaica au thorities will cause is Exeter Hall, and thinks Mr. Lieven, the editor of the County Union, ought to think himself one of the most fortunate of mankind for being released from arrest, seeing he had declared in his journal that Mr. Eyte was ruining the colony by his misgovernment. It is satisfactory to think that Sir Henry Storks is by this time at work, and that his associates are on the way to the colony. Thank, to the vigour of Mr. Eyre, Jamaica ha not ceased to be a part of the British empire ; but its rela tion to the home government must henceforth be materially altered. Mr. Eyre himself saw this, and with a true political instinct he roused the Assembly into action—even action against its own existence; but the work will be ell the better for revision. The Star notes that Combiner Eyre 's report, to which Mr. Cardwell's despatch was a reply, was the very one upon which the outcry against the governor arose, end it declines to believe, until the whole of the text is published, that it was throughout of the laudatory tenour which pervaded the extracts sent to the Assembly, though it is suillciently asto- nished that, with the hoc.ible details which were before him at the time, he could have got through three para graphs of approval without one word of doubt or one sign of hesitation. Should he have made no qualifying observations the Colonial Secretary will meet parliament under very awkward circumstanom. The Sear praises the Chief Jodie. of Jamaica for devout/. ing Mr. Lieven's arrest I's unconstitutional, sod for de ciding that he has means of redress. It adds that Mr. Lieven is about to come to England to lay hie case par entally before the ministry. THE PELBCIDT CITT. Without saying that the trustees could have found no other unobjectionable mode of employing Mr. Peabody's gift than that which they hese adopted, the Daily News thinks it will be admitted that the scheme eombines all the essential elements of a useful charity, one which, unlike most charities, will be perpetually increasing itself and extending its influence over a larger area. With one remark, however, la the report it is impossible to coincide—namely, that the Peabody buildings should be exempted from the poor•rate on the ground that the fund operates to the repression of th e rates for the poor. Even if it were possible to define with any reasonable accuracy the sort of property which " operates to the repression" of such rates, it does not seem very clear why property which, if it were in private hands, would be liable to poor rate, should be relieved because it is in the hands of trustees. Nor does it seem fair to the other proprietors of house property in the neighbourhood that whilst they are charged with poor rate, the houses bought by Mr. Peabody's trustees, from which rent is also derived, should not be subject to a like burden. Surely the existence of any such privilege would tend rather to deter proprietors from the conclusion that they might with advantage to themselves improve the character of the houses erected far the cue of the labouring clause. It seems to the Star that the trustees of the Peabody gift have hit upon am of the best ways of securing all the benefits of a charity without incurring any of its dangers. The help they give is aocsorded strictly on the great prin ciple which Yr. Mill lays down as essential to the beneficial operation of say such scheme, in order that those who re solve it may thereby be enabled to help themselves, MOOS TOPICS. The Tiwea, looking at the matter calmly and seriously, rejoices at Irish emigratioo, and believes we must look to it even in the future as the best means of giving prosperity and tranquillity to the country. It is only emigration which an prevent the fieros competition for land, which can cam smicultere to be conducted with adequate skill and capital, and on a male which will permit fall justim to be done to the soil. The effects of the demeans of popula tion which has already taken place are most eatiefarAcisy. REFORM MEETING AT CARLISLE. On Wednesday night the Carlisle Parliamentary Reform Association held a twit*, and a large public meeting was afterwards held, presided over by Sir WiLrar.D LAwsox, Bart., of Brayton Hall. The largest hall in the city was crowded to the doors. The principal speakers were Mr. E. Potter, M.P. for Carl;tle ; and Mr. Wilfred Lawson, the ez M.P. for that city. Mr. Lawson made • spirited speech, in the course of which in referring to the attitude of the late premier upon the question of reform he quoted • speech of his noels, the late Sir James Graham, who upon the hustings at Carlisle said, " This will be Lord Palmerston's course with regard to reform : he will gave the minimum of reform which he can give with safety, and be will accept the maximum of sup port from the tones which he can accept with decency." Thal predictio; was fulfilled to the letter. Sir James said to him afterwards, when Lord John Russell was promoted to the House of Lords, " Don't yea see what this means' It means that when Lord P►lmerston dies Russell will be prime minister and Gladstone will be leader of the House of Commons. Then we shall have a reform bill." The first prophecy was right : he trusted the second might prove so too. (Cheers.) THE CATTLE PLAGUE. IMPORTANT MEETING AT PRESTON. A county meeting was held at Preston yesterday, to oonsider the propriety of urging upon the government the establishment of a system of national insurance against the cattle plague. The High Sheriff presided. Letters were read from the Chancellor of the Exche quer and Lord Stanley, both of whom were unable to attend. Mr. Gladstone states in his letter that he is "no believer in national insurance," but, on the other hand, he sees no insurmountable objection to the principle of a loan to enable the farmers to spread the burden of their losses over a series of years. Lord Stanley is against asking assistance in any form from the state. " Whatever," he lays, "we may come to hereafter, I cannot think that the case is yet bad enough to justify an application which ought only to be made after the failure of all other resources, and on the clearest de monstration of its necessity." The meeting, however, de cided to present a memorial to Lord Russell, " praying the government to consider and lay before par liament an efficient system of national insurance, whereby the agriculturists of Great Britain, while they were protected from the most severe losses, might be enabled by the universal contribution of a fixed charge to protect each other from the pressure of ruinous local burdens." It was further resolved that the government should be urged to take upon itself the duty of stopping all traffic in live stock in Great Britain, under such limitations as may be deemed fit—the object being to secure uniformity and promptness of action throughout the country. A remarkable instance of the result of diverse jurisdiction under the recent orders in council with reference to the cattle plague comes from Newcastle-on-Tyne. A valuable ball, belonging to the celebrated Warlaby herd, and said to be worth 1,0001., was despatched by rail from C'atterick, in Yorkshire, to a farm in Northumberland. The necessary license wee obtaiecd, but the station master st Catterick would not book the bull further than Newcastle. It was therefore necessary to obtain a fresh license at that plate, and as no farmers could be found who had a2B days' knowledge of the beast, it can neither go north nor south, but is kept in the truck at the Newcastle Railway station. This is a novel difficulty in the present dais. The Secretary to the London Hospital writes : "The letter of Mr. James Phillips in the Times of to-day conveys to the authorities of the London Hospital the first intimation of the serious charger therein contained. I have written to Mr. Phillips requesting him to be good enough to attend here on Tuesday next, when the matter will receive at the weekly meeting of the house committee that searching investigation which it would have received on Tuesday last had the opportunity been afforded." A letter from Rome, dated the 6th says :—" On Thursday afternoon the venerable old church of Ara Cceli was crowded to excess, the attraction being the drat execu tion of a canticle recently discovered in the Imperial Library of Paris, re-arranged by the Abbi Lista, and en titled the 'Stabat Meter Specials,' by the ancient corn poser Inopone da Todi, intended to celebrate the joy of the. Virgin Mary et the foot of the cradle, as the • Stabat Mater Dolorosa ' celebrates her grief on Monet Calvary, This afternoon the same church is orowded still more, not by the lovers of ecelesiutioal music so much as by the devotees of the Santo Bambino, which miraculous image, glittering with precious jewels, is always exhibited to the public and carried in procession daring the Epiphany." . _ _ . A letter from Madrid of the Bth nays :—" We have had here for the last week Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald. He had been in Madrid, and travelled about Spain in the summer, and people, not unnaturally, attribute his Journey to some political or Snancial motive. In foot, hardly an Englishman is ever seen in Madrid without being taken for a negotiator, or, in other words, a duo, etunieg to nettle the great question of the Spanish Coupons or Corti ficatea." Morant Bay, the scene of the riots at Jamaica, it nomad after an ancestor of John Monet, Esq., of Bracken. Lent Park, fa the New Forest, wbo owned larp property there. JAMAICA. The following are the extracts from Mr. Card well's despatch, which were laid before the Jamaica House of Assembly on the 12th ult. : Sir,—By the mail from the Wad Indies, the arrival of which did not talcs phi* until yesterday, I have received your despatch No. 251, of the 20th October, reporting the breaking out of a rebellion of the negroes in the eastern districts et Jamaica, which has involved the cruel massacre of many of the principal white and coloured per sons in that part of the island, and acquainting me with the measures which, in canoed with the officers in com mand of her Majesty's military sad naval forces, you have takes to suppress the insurrection, and to prevent its spreading to other parte of the island. 2. I have been greatly shacked at the barbarities which you describe, and I wish you, in the first place, to inform the inhabitants of Jamaica how deeply her Majesty's go. vernment deplore the lases which the colony in general has sustained, and how sincerely they sympathise with those who have to lament family bereavements incurred under oircumatanoes so distressing. 3, I will not fail to bring under the notice of the Field Marshal Commanding•in.Chief and the Lords of the Ad miralty the high sense you entertain of the wireless rendered by Major-General O'Connor and Captain D'Hor- Bev, FL N., and the other odious of the army and navy whom you mention, and of the tailors and marines under their orders. And it is with the greatest satisfaction that I receive the high, sod I doubt not deserved, conmend►- tion which you bestow upon the members of the execu tive committee, the Curios of Kingston, Inspector Ram sey, of the police, the volunteer and the militia officers, who accompanied you in the Wolverene. 9. I reoognies with great satisfaction the alacrity with which the well affected subjects of her Majesty plead I themselves at your disposal, and I shall bring wider her Majesty's special notice the loyal sad pliant behaviour of the Mareons.—l have, he., (Signed) E. CLRDWiLL. Governor Eyre, he. The case of Mr. Sidney Lieven, the editor and proprietor of the County Union, who was arrested by order of Governor Eyre came before the Chief Justice on a writ of habeas corpus, who gave judg ment discharging Mr. Lieven on the ground that the " Act to provide for the trial and punish ment of offences committed during martial law, and within a limited period there after," was unconstitutional, inasmuch as it gave the Governor power to detain persons at his will and, as he gave an order to detain Mr. Lieven for 90 days, he might have done so fer 90 weeks or for ever—a power which (said his Honour) ought not to be entrusted to any governor. His Honour de clined to go into the other grounds raised, but, with regard to Mr. Lieven's arrest in a parish where martial law did not exist, stated that Mr. Lieven had his redress. (airtnnes Trumusts.) THE MILITARY REVOLT IN SPAIN. MADRID, JAR. 10, Eviortsa. On receiving a deputation from the Chamber of Deputies to present an address, the Queen replied that in spite of the affliction she experienced in viewing the sad sight of a rebellion among a portion of the army, it was for her a great consolation to see the representatives of the nation offering her their support and the testimoay of their unanimous loyalty. The latest official despatches announce that General Prim's carriage and baggage had fallen into the hands of the royal troops. He is still stated to be in the mountains of Toledo, nil nceuvring to reach the Portuguese frontier. Columns have been sent to cut off his retreat by way of Estramadura. The rumour current here that General Concha was wounded is officially denied. After arriving at Madrid he had an interview with Marshal O'Donnell. At 11 last night an alarm, which lasted a short time, was given, but quiet is now completely re established. Some anxiety continues to prevail. The authorities of Saragossa and Barcelona telegraphed to the government on the 10th that perfect order reigned. PARIS, JAN. 12. The Monittur in its bulletin of today says : " The state of affairs in Spain seems to be un changed. A proclamation has been promulgated at Madrid declaring that groups shouting seditious cries will be dispersed by military force. The pro vinces are tranquil, with the exception of Catalonia and Aragon, where a certain uneasiness prevails." SHIPPING DISASTERS AT CIVITA VECCHIA. ROME, JAN. 11. The tempestuous weather yesterday caused several accidents in the port of Civita Vecchia. The corvette Conception was driven against the French steamer Aunie. Many fishing vessels have been lost. The festivities at Hillsborough Castle in celebra tion of the coming of age of the Earl of Hillsborough con tinue. On Tuesday evening the tenants of the KilwarFn estate, to the number of GOO, partook of the hospitality of the Marquis of Downshire, and, amoopt the sejoymentn provided for them, witnessed a private theatrical perform ance in an elegant little theatre expressly fitted np in the mansion. Other amusements are in contemplation. His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin delivered a lecture on Wednesday evening, in the Metropolitan Hall, Dublin, before the members and friends of the Young Men's Christi►n Association in connexion with the church of 7.ogland, on "The Poetry of Wordsworth." The chair was occupied by Judge Berwick. The railway from Rome to Foligno was opened on the 4th inst. The distaeoe 11167 chilometen, ant that from Polio° to Ancona is about the same. The rate of travelling is comparatively slow, for U hoar* are required to perform the journey, delays being no doubt inevitable from the fact that from Rome to Comae the line is in the Pope's dominions, whew' to the 70th chilometer it tra verses Italian territory ; crossing the Tiber to the right bank at that point, it reenters and continues on Pontifical soil as far as the town of Otte, where it again crosses the Tiber, and finds itself definitively subject to the Victor Emanuel. The regulations and tariffs for each of these portions of the line are different, according ea ttey we situated in the Pope's or the King's territory. LIBERTY OF WORSHIP IN JAMAICL.—At a meet ing on Tuesday last of the Glasgow Presbytery of the Coiled Presbyterian Church, Mr. Stark, an elder, gave notice of the following motion for next meeting of Presby. ten :—" Whereas it is beyond the province of the cavil magistrate to decide who should and who should not be preschars of God's word, wad whereas, by a letter in the United Presbyterian Record for January, 1866, from the Rev. James Watson, of Kingston, Jamaica, it appears that he assisted io the preparation of a bill for the regulation of religious worship in Jamaica, which bill, be says, ' will put down effectually all unauthorised preachers, such se are at present an injury to the island ; this Presbytery resolves :—lst, to take meantime :- Ist, to prevent such bill coming into operation by receiving the sanction of her 1 Majesty the Queen ; 2od, to ask the Mission Board of the United Presbyterian Church to disavow, it they have not already disavowed, said procedure of the Rev. James Wat son, as ultra vises of his Waco as a missionary of that church." BITIINAIOIirIf WORKHOUSE —The following letter has beets addressed. by Mr. H. Fareall, to the clerk of the guardians of Betbnalirees :—" Poor-law Board, Whitehall, S.W., Jan. 11. —Bbr, —The Poor•lew Board have observed la the Timm newspaper of to-day's date that a coroner's inquest wee held yesterday respecting the deaths( an inmate of the Betbaslireen workhouse, named Jamas Flowers, The depositions taken in this case reveal air cumatances which hays induced the Poor•law Board to dimet me to institute an official inquiry into the particulars of the ease without delay. I sow beg to inform ou that I shall be present at the beard-room of the Bet -gross workhouse on Tuesday, the 16th bulk. at 11 a.m., for the purpose adverted to. and I shall be obliged to you to give the guardians of the poor of Betheal-ereen notice of my futeatios.-1 am, air, kc.., H. B. Fatotoz, Poor•law laspedor." LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) SITTINGS IN ERROR. Lord Mid Jamie:* Erie eat in the Court of oda moraine, and announced that there would in errors the Court of Exchequer Chamber ou th e jag days : For errors from the Queen's Bench—Tbursday, February, and two following days. hi Fee arras from the Commas Plea—Mouday, th o February. and &Unwind day. For errors from the Exchequer — Wednesday, ib e February, and following dsy. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Nisi prim wasp at Gondhall—Melon the Lord% Judie' awl a Special Jury.) HILL C. /jailer. The court sat this morning at Guildhall, by adj oin to finish this extraordinary case, which, it will lieja laded, was as action brought by Captain Hill , d Bombay Amoy ? avian Mr. Finney, a highly rs ew l! attorney Ia the City, for negligence it ionlil int the tire suit la the Divorce Court. The case occupied six days of the late sitting., di d l a to be adjourned in eousequsaoe of Mr. Coleridge, doe tiffs leading counail, haw* lost his voice to such In 16 ► test that he was unable to address the fury. Evidence di cossluded at the last sittings, and what remains lobs di m Is for the Jury to hear the Mdreeses.of the leased my and the summing up of the Lord Chief Justice, VA N & ease was so recently heard it is suineceseary to recairdir, the facts beyond what appears in the learned mow speeches and the learned judges summing up. Ks, coleridp, Q.C., and Dr. Tristram appeared for plaintiff (Mr. Mika* the other learned mussel, 'rod e o, the interim been appointed ow of the Royal Commie relative to the Jamaica inquiry). Mr. Kerslake, Q.t.* Mr. Welkin Williams were mussel for the defestket. Mr. Kerslake, Is addressing the jury, adverted y , importance of the ease, both with regard to the pr iaterested mid the sherries made on both sides. the main point in issue other points had been raised be plaintiff. the effect of which were to chaise his ink e ll many of the witnesses with having, in the Divorc e c orn aid in this trial, stated, with reference to yid took place before mad after the marriage led tin birth of the child, that which wee directly untrue, d what they knew to be false se to the plaintiff's ants Ili condition, when he married, in April, MO. HO M a i* the jury of the plaintiff's three visits to Wales, sad lo tor evidence which the defendant relied on as show* dd the plaintiff was the father of the child which sr he three mouths after marriage. There would be email 'pa lions for their ocualdsFatiop.. The first was, whit aesthete with, tepid to the plaintiff ? Wee his mag got true or fake, that the Rev. Mr. Wood wired hh bdore hie marriage, and after the plaintiff bad relemel from India, or was Km. Hill's positive testimony meow the plaintiff wee the father of her child. That minim was raised in the Divorce Court, and the karma Jdp Ordinary (the late Sir Cresswell Cromwell) expend his opinion in the strongest terms, that the correspasiam which peed between the parties showed to his mind that the plaintiff was the father of child, and he Me learned counsel) ehoeld ask Mesa iffig entertained the slighted doubt that such was the 6* plaintiff denied that he was in the diseased state at the ti t of the marriage as represented by his wife in the DANN Court, but there was overwhelming evidence to show kg her statement was correct. Besides the oral 'Mom*. wife's letters fully bore out the truth of her stater* is had formed the greatest affection fur her husbandongy was idle to suppose that Mr. Wood had seduced her cols Ns of her marriage with the plaintiff, which was atilt fixed to take pima in February. After reading new spondee*, that passed between Captain Hill and lbs Clarke before marriage he ridiculed the idea that Se plaintiff had been cajoled by the Woods into marry* he represented to Mr. Finney, when he instituted woof. lags for a dime, after his wife had commenced premshap for a judicial separation. [The case was proceeding when our report left.] Sittings in Banco.--(l3cfore Justices Blackburn, Salim and Lush.) kt BE JOHN STOCIWOOD, AN ATTORNET.-II PAM Mr. Gates applied on behalf of Mr. Josiah Lark, In executor of Evan Morgan, deceased, for a ride for • attachment against Mr. John Stockwood, se attorney the court, for not having complied with the term of an order of Mr. Justice Crompton, which W eines been made a rule of court. The order, which vu dated the sth of December. 1964, directed Mr. Stocked to send in his bill of costs against Mr. Ron* Ink* with an anlottat of all mooeys received by him ea be half of that gentleman within 14 days from the ibis of the order. lir. Blackwood failed to comply with the terms of the order; it was made a rule of court on the June, 1865, but although demand had been made upoc bin on several 0001116001 he bad not yet mot in the eccoustd the moneys he had received oil be of air. Morgan. The court thought that Mr. Gates had made out a MI fora rule nki. Rule nisi moordiegiy. ermined, V. HATRAID. Mr. rule whisk had been granted in this ease for a new trill. The action was brought by a labnuriog man eh had been for twenty years in the service of is Trinity House against the keeper of the Gun Toren Wapping for false imprisonment. The cue was tried Wien Mr. Justice Crompton sod resulted in a verdict Ice in plaintiff with 251. damages. It appeared that the defended gave the plaintiff into custody for stealing an oilskin at from his bar parlour, but that the charge was disliked by the magistrate. The defence was that in plaintiff was observed to be rather bulky in his dram when he left the defendant's house, and that subsensafir the coat in question was missed from a room to whisk tY plaintiff had had access. But it was also shown on behalf the plaintiff that several other persons bad had semi the room before the coat was missed. It was therefore sir contended that the verdict was not against the weigtdd evidence, and that the damages were not exaseuive. Their lordships were of opinion that the verdict ns accordance with the evidence, and that the jury were WI justified io awarding the amount of damages they ea ion Rule discharged. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. , Satiric' in Bedoo. —(Bgotors Lord Chief JueticeEds, Jarboe' Willes, Keating, and Smith.) HIBISCHFULD r. 8111TH. This wet an actioo spinet a French, bill of eschew which toot teen endorsed in England by the defendant kr the plaintiff; tad notice of dishonour of w ,ich tel been &yen to the decedent in a way lAA was goon according to the French law, tat which would !not b. sufficient 'll the ease of d ordinary Eno lish bill. Another circumstance was that* defendant having indorsed the bill in blank, the (Idea oonsiders,tim w.a subsequently filled in to reader the sa. dorsement perfect according to French law. In addition there was added the rate of exchange at which the total against both was to be pid in Franoe. The oourt io giving judgment held that notice of honour, good according to French law, ought to be hii good in England. They added, that adding the date ui consideration did not vitiate the endorsement, beam only forfeited what was intended to be dope by the deka. dant ; but inserting the date at which the bill was perbb„ varied the oontiact without the consent of the partial; loth and therefore rendered it void, Judgment for the defendant. COTTEBALL V. HURDLE. The plaintiff in this case woes cotton spinner at Pad* and he sued to recover 274!. 7a. for goods sold by his o p al Mr. Fetintsio, to the defendant. The question was wheel' a settlement of the account made by Mr. Fountain, add which the amount had been written off a claim the doled' ant had against him, was binding upon the plaintiff. The Court held that as agent employed to sell had ON facie no authority to receive payment otherwise Uwe ■ money, according to the usual corny* of business 111 being so the plaintiff was entitled to the snot he dahlia. Judgment for the plaintiff. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings in Barroo.—(Befere the Lord Chief Bar= PeBA and Barons Bramwell, Chinall, arid Pigott) BOUILLON V. VALENTIN. The Lord Chief Baron said the court understood tilt both parties ie this case were desirous to haws ji4guat delivered. They were now prepared to give judgoreot, wished to do so is the preseeoi of some of the leuerf counsel engaged in the ogee, if thaw learned gentles" especially the counsel for the defendant, were preisat. To-morrow the court would deliver their judgment. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Hoiroyd.) In IR J. T. NOIIIB. Mr. John Thomas Norris, formerly member of wassail for Abiagdon, and one of the directors of the Crest Eviler! Hallway, and also a commo councilman of the Cal Loodoe, was described as of 128. Aidefsgate.atreet, fuloW and stationer, sod of Batton Courtney, Berko, paper nom lecturer. The edjudication was made upoofthe retinae Messrs. Morgan sod Co., of Cannon-street West, 'bole* stationen, and emsidersible surprise was expressed 111 the time of the failure. At the first meeting, debts mer proved by 51 creditors whose claims represented an Wm gate of 12,4891.. and Mr. C. Morgan, of Cannonsarsvt, N. Marsden, of Bu ow, wholesale statiooer. end Xf. a Gibbs, juo.. of Arlie -court, Fleet.street, leather meta' lecturer. were appointed trade amigos's. The lishililia are said to be large but no assets hays yet bo's Sled is consequence of the complioation of the bas affairs ceased by his soasencion with a Mr. Tack, who the management of the bosirsem, and whose death is MAT last ma to some extent the cause of the bankruptcy. It Y believed that the "meta, however carefully they may realised, will produce hat a small dividend. At preemie. boy' over, it would be more °misstate to give any estimates' what the estate will produce, es a great deal will &PIP apes the seemete to be furnished by the represiotativo Tuck. It would appear that Mr. Tack, altUoailk ad! partner, bad bees engaged in the superintaideece a vvernment coetasets in which the bankrupt was is bat several Wee quertime easy arise as to the roletial existing between the parties. ♦ rated i. Mr. Idol Bean tod. Mr. Bora o hood 1: 4 4 air? um ka t. le. ye filod folly LW" ' 114 Mr. Mei th• ah Jour"" 7, the sit teL H. bend wbo Loot ci te r r Vis or Mr. Bar Ijoom m " that at Oa a ll In WI. 11 ,811114 10 t me * armed balk rad hi 0 . 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