The Express. — London, England, 1866-11-16 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES. —During the STORM S of the past twenty-two menthe the NATIONAL LIIIBOAT I INSTITUTION. by its Lifeboats and other seams, oontributed to the SAVING of 1,476 PERSONS from different WRECKS on our COASTS. Th e Institution also impended £48,000 in the same period on its Lifeboat letabilsionents, in addition to granting £3,580 for REWARDS. The Committee of the Institution ear wetly APPEAL to the Public for AABIBTANCR to amble then the conttnued heavy domande= the 172 Lifeboat Stations of Co7Dlbu thill io Ab°l3. ne are received by the London and Comb) , Haase ; and hr the heesetsa. RICHARD LEWIS Elk, at t h e Imaitutlon, 14, John-street, Adolph', London. SSER and SHERWIN'S oILLIARD TABLES from C. !AGATELLB BOARDS from 30e. ACE GAMES from ss. WEDDING and BIRTHDAY PRESENTS. NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE Is now ready, and will be forwarded pod tree on application. AMER and SHERWIN, $l, Strand, and 010, Oxford-street, London. AIAPPIN BROTHERS.—Establishell A.D. 1810. CHESTSof SILVERPLATE for theCOLONIES. CITTLERY and SILVER PLATE for 01:1011.811INO. MAPPIN BROTHERS, LONDON-BRIDGE. MAPPIN BROTHERS, 222, REGENT STICYJIT. BENSON'S WATCHES. 68 and 60, Ludgate-6111; 9.6, Old Sond-atrest. BROWN and POLSON'S CORN FLOUR for CHILDREN'S DIET. To obtain extra profit by the sale other kind. are sometimes offered instead of BROWN and POISON'S. '• John Brown," "John Poison," In signed by the makers on each wicket. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, ST. JAMES'S HALL, NOW OPEN for the SEASON, every night at eight; Wednesdays and Saturdays, three and eight. Hall newly and beautifully decorated: company greatly Increased; new mem bers, twenty performers of known excellence and ability, in cluding all the original members; everything new tor the new aesaun. Fauteuils, he. ; stalls, 9a ; area, Bs. ; gallery, Is Tickets at Austin's office, 28, PlecadUly.—Matars. Moore, Crocker, and Bitter, proprietors.—Manager, Mr. Frederic Burgess. Zhe en)regigi. TO COBILESPONDEN - rs. 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BELFAST has once more been the scene of one of those orgies of Orangeism which periodically disgrace that enterprising and flourishing town in the eyes of the Empire without awakening appa rently any corresponding shame, or effectual re pentance in the minds of its own people. The disturbance to which we refer, and which is de scribed as violent beyond even Belfast precedent, had its source in the proceedings preliminary to the coming parliamentary election. There are two candidates for the honour of filling the seat vacated by the present Lord Justice of Appeal. One of them, as we learn from the reports in the local papers, is Mr. CHARLF-S LANTOS, an English gentleman, resident in Belfast, and possessing some repotction in his profession, which is that of an architect and civil engineer. Tho other is Mr. WILLIAM 111`111EstisN, a barrister of considerable practice on the Irish North-Eastern Circuit. Both gentlemen are personally respectable and assert hoc al claims, which we are not in a position to appreciate or dispute. Mr. LANYON comes forward as the re presentative of the regular Conservative party— chosen by its leaders, supported by its agents and organization, and designated by Sir HUGH CAIRNS at the recent Belfast banquet as his successor. Mr. WirIEEHAN, who also appears to be a Con servative, comes forward as the " independent" candidate, professing that his object is to emanci pate the borough from the domination of a clique, and endeavouring, after the fashion of " indepen " dent" candidates, to unite in his interest the disaffected of all parties and sections. His pre tensions appear to have been regarded as positive treason to the Conservative party—as an attempt to introduce mutiny into the compact and strictly disciplined ranks of Orangeism, and to have excited a degree of animosity compared with which the ordinary bitterness of party feeling is mild and amiable. In especial, a declaration that Orangemen and Catholics were united in his favour seems to have driven the former frantic with rage. Mr. M`MEHHA-N sum moned a meeting of his supporters is the Music ball of Belfast, on Tuesday evening, when the place was taken possession of by a throng of the opposing faction. The mob-leaders of the Orangeism were present in conspicuous positions, and by preconcerted signs directed the disciplined disorder of their followers. Verbal insults, the coarsest buffoonery, and the most senseless clamour were a comparatively harmless prelude to what followed. After long delay, Mr. M'MEEHAN succeeded in uttering half-a-dozen words, convey ing a request that he might be allowed to speak. He was unable to proceed further, for at this stage of the business, according to a report in the Northern Whig, a sweep climbed upon Mr. 31`.11itznaN's shoulders, and dragging the candi date backwards, brought his head into forcible and damaging contact with a gas-burner. Mr. WMERHANclisembarrassedhimself of thisantagonist by the summary process of thrusting him off the platform. This was the beginning of a scene of fearful violence. Ono gentleman, who appears to have beena prominentsupporterof Mr. M`3lExitast, was seized by three ruffians, dragged by the legs from the platform, and savagely beaten and kicked by five or six assailants. Amid yelling, whistling, tramping of feet, Kentish fire, and breaking of , it. i . , TUE EXPRESS, pLIDAY EVENING, . forms, other persons, suppoced to bt lot 11qt same dining, were as brutally assaullpd.• • MGT ablpi but vigorous defiance of the "V&A' ei.aplfut a Mr. WhfEsmur and his friends succeeded in fighting their way to a lower room, the door of which they closed and barricaded. The mob, however, forced the doors ; one obnoxious gentleman was surrounded by a band of men, " several of whom seized him by " the hair, struck him, knocking him down, " kicking him on all parts of the body, and " beating him with a piece of the door they " had broken off." While these events were taking place a religions meeting was being held in a Presbyterian Church opposite, at which several magistrates were present. Making his way thither, Mr. M`Mzinaz presented himself in the church, bareheaded, and loudly demanded protec tion and the suppression of the riot. Two magistrates accompanied him to the Music Hall, but declined interference with the mob on the ground that no breach of the peace had been committed. In spite of Mr. WMEEHAN'S exhorta tions to them to do their duty, and his denuncia tions of what he called their infamous forbearance, they did nothing. If the report of the proceedings now before us is unexaggerated, it is scarcely possible to find fault with the strength of Mr. M`MzzazN's con demnatory epithets. The narrative recalls the fatal and pusillanimous inactivity of partisan magistrates in the Belfast riots of 1864, when their conduct was the subject of cen sure by a Government Commission, and gave occasion to corrective legislation in the Imperial Parliament. But taking the case at its worst, some consolation may be extracted even from this wretched display of party violence and ecclesias tical fanaticism. The dark cloud has its silver lining. If the north of Ireland were free from the faults and excesses which disgrace the south and west—if Fenianism had no counterpart and provocative in Orangeism—the future of Ireland would be darker than it really is, though the misery of the present would receive some alle viation. There would then be some show of plau sibility in the shallow theory which attributes to the vice of race the misfortunes of Ireland. We are sometimes told that what Ireland needs is capital, industry, material prosperity, the substitu tion of the Saxon for the Celtic race, and of the Protestant for the Catholic religion. Well, Bel fast has all these advantages. It has made more rapid advances in wealth during the last dozen years than any town in the Empire ; its merchan:s and manufacturers are as enterprising, and its artisans as industrious as those of Glas gow and Manchester. Its inhabitants and the people of the province of Ulster generally are the descendants of Scotch and English settlers. The portion of them which is most given to violence is Protestant to the core. Yet they display in ex cess what aro commonly held to be the peculiar vices of the Irish character. The phenomenon is not a new one. It is an old story how the English soldiers of STRONGBOW, and of the adventurers who followed, soon became Hibintis ipsis Iliber nivres ; and what is true of them is true also of tho soldiers whom CROMWELL and Wm max 111. left behind them. An old chronicler attributes to the English of the 12th century the servile vices, especially proneness to treachery and murder, which it is the fashion now to consider peculiarly Irish. The fact is proved that races exchange what are held to be their characteristic virtues and vices as they change their circumstances. If the vast differences of physical and moral character which separate the Hindoo from the Englishman are simply the result of diversity of causes acting upon men of a com mon stock—and this seems to be established — there is no need to attribute the vices of the Irish character to any defect of nature or taint of blood. The opposite doctrine is neither more nor less than political fatalism. It attempts to throw on PROVIDENCE the blame due to human misgovernment. Even when the theory does not spring from selfish indolence, it yet strikes at the root of all honest effort to remedy a state of things assumed to be incurable. On the other hand, the evils which external circum stances and events have produced, external cir cumstances and events may remove. The equal faults of the Saxon and Celtic races inhabiting Ireland—faults which differ only as the vices of the oppressor differ from the vices of the slave—show that the legislator has in both ductile material to deal with, which may be fashioned, as he has wisdom or lacks it, to honour or dishonour. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) wamd questing the Alabama claims should got be sib ' Milted to some OW of artdeettion. shaahl not, it t, like tp it* Ike mom se the Magma 04 Shwas ibcalt made &to a precedeak In certain ,cies it would be most inconvenient for us. If the isaians, for example, were to establish themselves in some hole or earner of America, out of our reach ; if they had resources enough to enable them to purohase an American steamer ; if this steamer were to be fitted with an armament on the high seas, and proceed at onoe to destroy unarmed Eng lish merchantmen ; if the American government were not only to wink st this, but to recognise the Fenian craft as a lawful belligerent, we should then have cause to exe crate the memory of the Alabama, and the rule of international law which we ourselves had set up. The precedent we have allowed is, that a pretended go ver.tment, hat :ng no pora; of its own from which to corn mi.tion its ships of war, may fit them out on the high seas without let or hindrance. The establishment of such a doctrine would amount to a renunciation of our maritime advantages in case of a war with any nation of the Western world. LATEST ,INTELLIGEN, :11.177e1e8 TILZGRAYS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, Nov. 16. King Victor Emmanuel visited Belluno and Treviso yesterday. HUNGARY. PESTEr, Nov. 16. The civil authorities of this city have sent a com munication to the government, representing that Hungary has furnished this year double the usual number of recruits, and soliciting, in consequence, that the further levy ordered for next spring may not be carried out. QUARANTINE AT MALTA. MALTA, Nov. 15. Quarantine has .been abolished for all vessels from England and Scotland having a doctor on board, and bringing a clean bill of health, also upon those from Marseilles having left that port subse quent to the 18th November, provided that no new case of cholera had occurred there, and after undergoing a sanitary process here. THE OVERLAND MAILS. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SUEZ, Nov. 15. The Camila arrived at 2 p.m. to-day. OUTWARD MAILS OF 27TH OCTOBEK-3aD NOVEMBER. The Carnatic, for Bombay, and the Sultan, extra steamer, for Calcutta, left Suez at 7 p.m., on the 13th inst. THE BRAZILS. (By Telegrapb from Lisbon.) RIO DE JANEIRO, Ocr. 25. The shipments of coffee since the departure of the last mail amount to 138,500 bags, including 18,550 for the Channel. Sales, 7,000 (! 70,000) bags. Freight to the Channel, 425. 6d. to 455. BAHIA, Oct 29. Exchange on London, 25 to 25i. Sugar, 2.100 to 2.600 ; brown, 1.500 to 2.200. Cotton, 11.000 to 15.000. PERNAMBUCO, Nov. 1. Exchange on London, 25,1. to 25/. Sugar, 3.400 to 3.700 ; brown, 1.900 to 2.350. Cotton, 15.500 to 16.000. _ _ BUENOS AYRE% Orr. 14. Exchange on London, 49i to 494. Dry hides, 38. Lumber, 53. Flour improving. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA. The Royal Mail steamship China, from Halifax and Boston, arrived at Queenstown at 8 a.m. to day (Nov. 16) with 153 passengers but no specie. She lauded 12 passengers and all the mails, con sisting of 122 sacks, and proceeded for Liverpool at 8.10 a.m. All well. NEW YORK, Not•. 6, EVENING. On Saturday the old police commissioners of Baltimore arrested and confined the new commis sioners, with the sheriff, in gaol, charging them with endeavouring to excite a riot. The latter refused to give bail, and still remain in gaol. Their counsel applied for a habeas corpus, which it was decided the warder of the gaol was not bound to return. General Grant visited Baltimore on Sunday un officially, and conferred with the old and new com missioners. Through this interposition the diffi culty was compromised by the appointment of a conservative judge and clerk of the election in each district, in addition to the judges already ap pointed. 4,000 muskets have been seized in the stores of ditiiirent conservatives in Baltimore. The radical republicans have held an open air meeting in front of the City Hall, Now York. General Butler delivered a speech on the occasion, during which he was hooted and pelted. Fenian indignation meetings are still held throughout the States. A Fenian protestant priest, the Rev. Mr.Lums den, has been tried and acquitted in Canada. Con siderable ill-feeling has been aroused among the Roman catholics by his acquittal. A new trial for Lynch and M`Mahon will be applied for during the week. EtcaturiNG FOR THE ARMY. The Daily New observes that the suggestion of the re inJiting commission—that each recroit should have the option of selecting his own branch of the service, or regi ment, being the system adopted by the East India Company —comes to us with a recommendation of experience of suc cess. The institution of training schools is one on which judgment must be reserved till the details are made known. Of the necessity for the Increase of pay in the case of men who re-enlist after twelve years' service there can be no doubt. We can only proceed in this matter, and in that of the pension, tentatively, raising our bids in proportion as we find that we are outbid. Expressing satisfaction that the commissioners recognise the value of encouraging employment in trades, the Daily News regrets to find no notice in the report of providing increased encouragement for mental as well as for bodily recreation, and still more regrets that the oommimioners do not, at least in the abstract as yet published, deal either with the question of promotion or with that of pro tection against petty regimental tyranny. Both these must be faced if we would make the service respected and popular. The Telegraph fears the commission has more than for gotten the main difficulty, and reveals the great vice of the present system of the British army—that pipe-clay school, which is the legitimate heir to the old pigtail re2,ime. Our army is unpopular with young men, firstly because of the tropical service ; secondly, Hogging ; thirdly, the length of time for which the soldier is obliged to enlist. M ISCELLANEOUS ToPICH. The Post remarks that if the claims of the common law cow ts for additional judicial strength are to be recognised, there are other tribunals of equal importance the judges of which are quite as much overworked—sribunabs in which arrears are accumulating to an extent almost un known in recent times, namely, the Court of Chancery , with its six separate branches. The glut which prevails in the judges' chambers extends even to the appellate court. Another evil quite independent of the arrears arises from the circumstance that the chief clerks are most improperly permitted to exercise judicial functions. The Post thinks her Majesty's government may well consider whether it would not be desirable to appoint an additional Vice- Chancellor, to 'have exclusive primary jurisdiction in winding-up cases, and to act as judge of the Court of Bankruptcy. _ . . The Times criticises the speeches of Mr. Berkeley and Sir Morton Pet* at Bristol, expressing the belief that the latter utters the opinions of the great bulk of the liberal party when he says that he All accept a bill from the conservative government, aitrl; to it where it is wanting, and also when be says that it is the bounden duty of each party in the country, conservative or liberal, to sec that the various services are placed in tLe highest possible state of efficiency. Commenting upon the correvondenco which we pub- lid, elsewhere between Mr. Coleridge and the solicdors of the Jamaica Committee, the &et). accuses the Eyre Com mittee of doing by a trick that which they could not ac complish by fair means. The moral opinion of the country will nut be found on the side of those who, by resorting to quibbles and subterfuges, have converted Mr. Coleridge against his will from a counsel for the prosecution to a counsel fur the defence. As for the loss of Mr. Coleridge, however much it may be regretted, the Star feels sure that the course of justice will not be stayed by this untoward occurrence, and that it will not prevent the prosecution from being conducted in a manner worthy of the occasion, and of the gravity of the cause which has to be decided. the Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nor. LI The Queen, accompanied by the Princess of 1 , Wales, walked and drove yesterday afternoon. The Prince and Princess Christian went out walking. Prince Leopold, attended ty Mr. Salil and Mr. Legg, went to London yesterday, and honoured the morning per formance at Her Majesty's Theatre with his presence. Princess Beatrice, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington and Major-General F. Seymour, C. 8., also went to Lon don, and honoured Miss Hililyard with a visit. Their Royal Highnesses returned to Windsor Castle in the evening. The Earl of Bradford and the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington arrived at the Castle yesterday, and bad the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louise, and attended by the Countess of Caledon and Lord Alfred Paget, left Windsor by special train on the Great Western Railway at ten minutes before 11 o'clock this morning for London, and drove from Paddington to Hyde-park, where her Majesty inspected the works in progress for the National Memorial to the Prince Consort. Her Majesty was received by Lieutenant-General the lion. C. Grey, and Messrs. Scott and Kelk, and was by them conducted round the works, after which her Majesty inspected the sculptures of the Podium, which are being executed by Messrs. Armatead and Philip. Her Majesty returned to Windsor Castle at twenty minutes past one. The Princess of Wales and Princess Christian went out driving. The Duke cf Edinburgh and Prince Christian went out shooting, attended by Lieutenant Haig. Toe Earl of Bradford and Lord I'olwarth had the honour of accompany log their royal highnesses. The Duke of Edinburgh went to London this afternoon, attended by Lieutenant Haig. The Earl of Bradford and Sir John Pakington left the Castle to-day. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The ministers pre sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chan cellor, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, Lord Stanley, the Earl of Carnarvon, General Peel, Viscount Cranborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, Lord John Manners, the Right Hon. Gathonie Hardy, and Lord Naas. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. The Lords present were Lord Westbury, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir J. Coble, and Sir Laurence Peel. CADINET CorNcn. Yesterday evening sum monses were issued for a Cabinet Council this afternoon, at the Earl of Derby's official residence in Downing-street. The council is appointed for half past 3 o'clock. The Marquis and Marchioness de San Germano arrived last evening from Turin. The marquis will resume Lis diplomatic duties immediately at the Italian Legation. The Earl and Countess of Dudley have arrived at Dudley House, Park-lane, from Witley Court. Colonel Hon. W. P. Talbot has arrived in town from Cannes. FOREIGN AFFAIRS. The easy confidence which the King of the Belgians appears by his late speech to feel, will help, the Times thinks, to reduce to its just proportions the alarm which has been lately spread as to the fate im pending on minor European states. From the year 1.552 to the present date an ill wind has been abroad boding no good to small states. But there is nothing whatever in common between the Italian or the German States and Belgium. On the mere ground of historical tradition there would be hardly a region in Europe less entitled to a separate ex istence than the kingdom that Leopold founded ; but its condition of life lies in the will of the Belgians, and so united are they, that the Times does not believe there is the shadow of evidence of any design against her on the part of the Emperor Napoleon. Denmark's fate is not a ease in point, for the quarrel there had been one ,of old standing, having its remote origin in the puzzling definition of the limits of a mixed empire ; I and the subsequent fate of those minor German states which were foremost in the perpetration of the outrage, and the feeling of insecurity under which large no less than small states are now lab , uring, will act as a warning to Europe against a similar remissness and apathy in any threatened recurrence of an attempt of that nature. Hardly a state ever fell yet by the hand of a foreign ag gremsor, unless the way for invasion was to some extent Prepared by internal d , sorder ; and it would be well if the hot-headed republicans of Geneva would rea.ember that the " saviours of society" are within a few leagues of them. Having on a previous occasion pointed out the fallacies involved in the reactionary deductions drawn from the workint of the New York municipality, the Dail g Noes contains an article showing that the late Geneva outbreak is equally unavailable as an aro, iment for the oppo nents of reform. From its geographical position the can ton of Geneva is exposed in a much greater degree to foreign than to domestic influences, and its cosmopolitan character has given to the population a restless and excitable disposition. N. Fazy, who has exercised such a formidable influence there, is not so I black as he is pained, but his residence in unsettled times in France seems to have given him a taste for revolutionary expedients, and various doubtful transactions in his pri vate affairs have unfavourably affected his re putation. The reaction against him was first manifested in 1862, and his personal exclusion from cantonal affairs, and the decline of his party, have continued up to the present time. The record of elections in a canton governed by universal suffrage, so regulated that a domicile of 24 hours confers a vote, only I shows the power which an educated people possesses of self-recovery when it has been betrayed into a false path. What is discreditable in the wens of events has been coo fined chiefly to a single canton, and to the conduct of local affairs which, as they involve no high questions of policy, seldom evoke any elevated feeling. The Herald again says it can see no reason why the MEXICO. Advices have been received here from the city of Mexico to the 22nd ult. The Emperor Maximilian set out for Vera Cruz on the 21st via OrizabP, in order to avoid meeting General Castelnau. Before leaving he verbally appointed Marshal 13azaine temporary Regent. The Mexican ministry, on hearing of Marshal Buzaine's appointment, re signed. General Castelnau arrived in the city of Mexico on the 23rd, and took upon himself the administration of the government. THE CREW OF THE ATRATO. (THIS DAY.) NT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, FRMAT. The health officer hag just left for the Mother bank to examine u,to the state of health of the crew of the Atrato. He will telegraph his report to the Privy Council from Ryde, and will then receive a telegram from the Privy Council stating whether the Atrato shall re ceive pratique or not. All the sick arc onboard the Menelaus, but there was an unfavourable report of the state of their health yesterday. It is confidently expected, however, that the Atrato will receive pratique to-day, and that the passengers and cargo will be landed here this evening and to-morrow morning. A number of fresh hands bare been sent down to work the ship from the Motherbank to Southampton Docks. The La Plata is getting ready to leave for the West Indies on the 2nd proximo, instead of the Atrato. The following letter, written by the Emperor to Madame Cuvillier-Flenry, sister of S. Thouvenel, on the day of that statesman's death, is printed in the ifoniteur, in an obituaii notice of the late minister :—" The Empress and myself have learnt with deep regret the misfortune that has befallen you. I lose in your brother an excellent and devoted servant, who seemed likely to render long and useful services. I know with what care you Lave attended him in his long and painful illness, and cannot refrain from expressing the sincere share I take in your grief.— NAPOLEON." - Gatignani informs its readers that " the eldest son of Prince Napoleon took his first lesson in riding the day before yesterday in the Imperial Riding School at the Louvre. This prince is not yet 41 years of age, having been born on the lsth July, 1862. The Princess Clothilde was present at the lesson." " The taste for horseflesh," says the France, " is decidedly increasing in Paris. There are at present in the capital seven butcheries for the sale of that commodity, and which dispose of about 40,00filbs. weight per week. The annual consumption may therefore be estimated at 1,000 tons, or more than ten times the quantity of meat The Lord Bishop of Gloucester (says the Devizes distributed to the poor in the twenty bureaux de hien- G ri:ettr )is continuing to hold conferences of the clergy faisance. So far horseflesh has been exempt from the and laity in the different rural deaneries nn the leading octroi duty, and sells at from five sous to one franc the questions of the day. Meetings have been held at rookie_ kilo. of two pounds." church, and in the town-halls of Malmesbury and Chip- A long despatch has been received at the penham, all of which have been very numerously attended Colonial-office from Governor Rawson, dated Nassau, Oct. by the clergy and loading laity of the neighbourhood. The 17, detailing the results of the late destructive hurricane. Proceedings were private, but it is understood that, with It is gratifying to hear that all classes in Nassau have vied reference to ritualism (which was discussed at the places with the government in their efforts to lighten the common above-mentioned) it was the prevailing opinion that the misfortune so far as possible. The governor has wisely salutary action of convocation was by no means exhausted. discountenanced the idea of charitable relief or public aid, Parliamentary interference was strongly and almost nni- except so far as may be needed to restore the " productive venally deprecated. powers of the community." NOVEMBER. 16, 1866; 111 ... LAW INTELLIGENCE. EQV/TY COURT. 4 4Before Vice-Chancellor Sir R. T. Kinder&ley.) U LUDO BANUSCI COMPARY.—Euuu .11WITHOWIIAN. The question in this case was whether the separate es tate of a married woman was liable to contribute in the liquidation in respect of certain shares of the issue which wee made shortly before the stoppage of the bank. Mrs. Matthewman, under the will of her former husband, of which she was the sole executrix, came into possession of 55 shares of the Leeds Bank , and uppoonn her marriage with Matthewman these shares formed part of the prourty secured to her for her separate u se: When the new shares were issued Mrs. Matthewman applied for and obtained fifteen, and paid the 450/. pur chase money from a balance standing to her credit. In respect of these shares the official liquidators sought to place the name of Mrs. Matthewman upon the list of con- (TRW PAY.) iributories. Mr. Glues and Mr. Cotton appeared for the official liquidator. Mr. Bailey and Mr. Roxburgh, for Mrs. Matthewman , con tended that according to the company's deed of settle ment, there was no power to admit a married woman as a member of the partnership. The Vice-Chancellor said that as the question was a very nice and peculiar one, he would rather not express an opinion upon it without further consideration. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittings in Banco.—{Before the Lord Chief Justice and Justioss * Mellor, Shea, and Lush.) At the sitting of the court this morning, Sir Henry Storks and Mr. Russell Gurney, M.P., Recorder of London, took the oath of allegiance and on their becom ing members of the Privy BAIL COURT. Sittings at Nisi Prins at Westminster.—(Before Justice Blackburn and Common Juries.) OTTOWE v. DE DIAUNET. This was an action for assault and slander. The words complained of were uttered in French, viz., " Vous etes un cochon, nu voleur, et un Mr. Talfourd Salter and Mr. Purcell were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. liuddleston, Q.C., was counsel for the defendant. The plaintiff is a Frenchman, residing in Hercules ' buildings, Westminster-road, and the defendant is also a Frenchman, and carried on business as a photographic artist in Euston-road, and the wage of action arose in a cafe in the Haymarket. The plaintiff described himself as a member of the French bar, but had left Paris for twelve years, and was now engaged with • solicitor in the City as translator and foreign correspondent. The parties were at one time friends, but in consequence of the defendant having re fused to lend the plaintiff 21. or 31. their friendship ceased, which, as the learned judge said, was no: an uncommon thing to terminate a friendship, and an angry feeling suc ceeded between them. It appeared that some months since the parties met in the café, when the plaintiff was engaged in conversation with a gentle man from Paris, with whom he was negotiating for • com mission or agency in London, but which he lost in conse quence of what the defendant said. The plaintiff's case was that the defendant came up to him, tapped him with his cane ou the right arm, uttered the words com plained of, and made a thrust at him with the cane , knocking his hat off. The evidence was ex ceedingly conflicting, both as to the words used and the assault. The defendant, however, admitted that he used strong words, but intended nothing more than ulgar abuse, and added, "To call a Frenchman • warm was an every day occurrence, and was repeated over and over again in a cafe." He intended no particular meaning in the words. The learned judge truly characterised it as a trumpery case, and the jury immediately returned • verdict for the defendant. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) H %RBIS r. H.lRilltl.. . . Mr. Inderv.:ck for the petitioner. Her parents kept the Wyndham Arms, at Swansea, and she was married to the respondent in 1657. He was a person who had been stay ing at the house for some months, and he represented himself to be a person with an establishment in America. and to be possessed of great wealth. The honeymoon was spent at Llandudno, and a brief cohabitation followed at the Wyndham Anne, after which the respondent came up to Loudon. He sent fur his wife and lived with her at the 'Waverley Hotel. Cheapside, for four or five days. Ho then told her that ho had no means, and advised her to go home, promising that he would soon follow her. She never heard anything of him, however, till 1859, when he put an advertisement in the Swansea papers cautioning people against trusting her. After this he went to Farnham, in Surrey, where he proposed marriage to the sister of a miller at that ilace, to whom lie represented that he was a widower. Her brother found out who he was and remonstrated with her, but she refused to gave him up and she had since been cohabiting with him as his wife. The case was adjourned for formal proof of identity. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN ItE EDWARD TITCHENER. The bankrupt, an attorney and solicitor, practising at Chichester, came up for examination and discharge. The debts are returned at 1,96 W., with considerable assets, one dividend of :1.. 11A. in the pound having been already paid, and it is anticipated that ultimately a further sum sufficient to produce 10s. in the pound will ultimately be divided. On behalf of the assignees, no opposition was offered, it being conceded that having regard to the largeness of the assets, the case was more than usually favourable, and that the bankrupt was entitled to an immediate order of discharge. His Honour at once granted the order of discharge. IN RE A. H. LEASE. The bankrupt, described asof Bury St. Edmunds, banker's clerk, appeared before the court on his own peti tion, attributing his difficulties to losses on purchase of shares and want of capital to meet the calls made thereon. The liabilities are returned at 1,907/., of which 1,747/. arise upon shares in the Joint Stock Discount Company (Limited). and Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited). There are no assets, the property held as security being returned at $0!. Mr. R. Griffiths suppoi ted the bankrupt. Mr. Ilagley, for the assignees, did not oppose. He said this was the case of a banker's clerk who had invested all the money he could obtain in shares which since proved worse than worthless, as heavy calla had been made upon them. No doubt the bankrupt considered at the time that he was making a good iuvestuient, and the assignee felt that no useful purpose would be answered by keeping him before the court or requiring him to render additional accounts. His Honour granted the order of discharge. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Bodkin, Assistant-Judge.) AN INGENIOUS TRICK TO OBTAIN SPJNEY. John Young, 27, clerk, was indicted for obtaining by false pretences from Hannah Shearagh, the moneys of Henry L'rassniere, with intent to defraud. There were two other indictments against him. It appeared that Louise Bram:acre, sister of the prose cutor, lived at No. h 3, Burlington-street, and about a mouth ago she was waited upon by the prisoner, and in the presence of her mother said that a telegram had come from Marseilles, and that they were to call at King William-street for it. She asked him several ques tions about it, but as she could not clearly under stand him she thought it the best way to go to the City, and make inquiries for herself. She went to King William-street, City, but she could tind no telegraph office, and when she was going there she saw the prisoner stand ing at the bottom of the street, and asked him if there would be any money to pay, and he said there would not. It turned out, however, that soon after Louise Brassmere had gone to the City the prisoner returned to the house and told Mrs. llrassinere that ho had just met her daughter, and had left her in the office of a Mr. Roberts, and that her daughter bad told him that she had only a pound with her, and that she had asked him to be good enough to come back and ask for 4/. 10s. to be sent to her. As Mrs. Braisimere had no change she gave a 5/. note to the servant, who accompanied the prisoner. He took her from Huntingdon street to Richmond-mid, where he asked her if she could write her name. He left her standing in the road, and told would si gn wait there to v M e r. Roberts, ute he sh w e he r re e turned and beckoned her across the road, when he gave her a very large letter, and she gave him the 5/. note. He said it was two shillings more, but he would pay that, and having asked her name he took out a book and wrote some thing down in it. lie told her to take it to her mistress and that she would know all about it. Wh n the letter was opened by Mrs.ltnuanuere it was found only to contain I a piece of blank paper. The prisoner was subsequently apprehended, and he said he had an unfortunate sister. In another case he went to the house of Mr. Turner, of Leighton-grove, Camden Town, and inquired for Mr. Turner, a lodger, and on being toldthat he was not at home he said that he had come from Balaton, with a telegraphic I message for him. He presented a large letter, and said that there was 7s. 6d. to pay. He was told by the servant that lie must call again,and on his saying that he could not, she, thinking that the " message" might be of some im portance, paid the 7s. 6d. for it out of her own pocket, and the prisoner went away. When Mrs. Turner curie home she opened the letter andiound onlya piece of blank paper init. A third case was practised on Catherine Evans, servant to Mr. Moorhonse, of No. 20, Eleanor-street, Richmond- road, Dalton, where tLe prisoner went and presented a " telegram" stating that there was 10s. to pay. He said the case was very important and he could not stop as he wanted to go and pay for the message. The servant said she had not got the money but she would go to the lady next door and borrow the. amount. Ths not got 10s., and she Pee her a 1-gm' handed over to the prisoner and sat e d He said lashed not got it, but that be would master at the aloe. He said he should come t - 6 o'clock about the paper. He left se semi the servant not to open it as it was very pe r m p a h. her master came home she gave him the ami ss " him open it, and it contained only a blank sheeCii The prisoner Ina found Ou ilty. The Assistant Judge said these were most k ries and calculated to take persons off their sentenced the pe t soner to be imprisoned tad labour for twelve months. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAT.) MANSION•HOUSE. PHI 4111•1103 OP eCUTTLINU • BM Charke William Lee Webb, late chief ash Severn merchantman, Joseph Stanfield Dewy commission agent, and Robert Borteiek, a n mariner. were this morning brought bakes Finnic for further examination upon the sharp t and feloniously destroying that vesseL hlr. G. Lewis again appeared for the presen t * , R. Buchanan attended for the prisoners wlta wick, and Mr. Wontner, senior, for th e r" Captain Dorman, of Lloyd's Salvage ale; present. Mr. George Lewis did not make any a— but at once recalled the captain of the ship further examination and cross-examination. Captain La land was then re-sworn, and s a questions put by Mr. Lewis, stated after rere i d e k t don three days he left town for a week, sad 6. come back to Loudon, when he saw the nsw.k book now produced. This book wee not the kg c i but was mule up while in London. Holdsworth he would allow him IW. a month until the ela settled and they got the money on a b o cies. While witness was in London he the three prisoners frequently at Holdawarlier he was in Liverpool the prisoner Berwick ea , and said he was going to London, as he oa k anything out of Holdsworth, and be the 1 wick that the mattes was so palpable to all that the affair was sure to be found q t this Borwick replied that he had received isse e , Holdsworth, in which he stated that all was r right in the way of a settlement. He ges s a sovereign and said he would take ears wages should be forwarded to him. p ea Holdeworth came to Liverpool and gave his W. on account. Holdsworth added that the writers were going to institute criminal precut* respect ti the insurance of witness's own efera had been insured for him by Holdsworth for 4tp, policy has since been found among Holdurcetal About ten days after that Mr. Consent', inspestolia Liverpool police, called upon him, and he rude s e k a statement of the facts, and was brought to Loedu vy e he repeated his statement before the authorities stiles He had not benefited a farthing by the trameetimask ee k he bad been promised 700 f. The witness waa cross-examined at some lesmok Buchanan, who elicited that he had been a su s e the mercantile service since the year 10, N o a last year he was captain of a ship called 0 which had the misfortune to founder on Liverpool to Newcastle. None of the preteef , were on board that vessel. The mate of the Thai, she was lost was Robert Mills, who bad since disl. that affair be (witness) had cleared about4ol., after the seamen's wages. He did not know what . amount for which the Thomas andher sego wee , She went down in a storm, off the west coast of but no lives were lost. [The cross-examination was proceeding, and on iak to occupy a considerable time,and there are ethical. to be called on the part of the prosecution.] MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SENT OUT TO BEG. - - John )isle, or Lyons, a boy, was charged We l k Knox with begging. James Replay, 745 A, said that on the previa . are noon be saw the boy et the corner of the Totteoisaws road with a box of fusees. Having seen the byss el annoy several persons, and as he had frequsaily m tioned him on different days, he took him tato ere*. Mr. Knox said it was not the poor children's holt* were sent out to do it. The boy said he had got a mother and etepfsitit only went out when he thought proper to do DO. The boy's mother stepped forward, and said &Ili had a deal of illness, and she had been obliged ssf everything to keep themselves. Her husband, a Wahl been ill for five months, but was now getting hetet Mr. Knox said it was a sad story. The roother,akt, was unable to support the boy. He would like aha whether the boy went to school. The mother said she les unable to send hint Mr. Knox asked the mother whether it would milts good thing, as the boy did not go to school, sad in unable to keep him if he (the magistrate) sestliti school, the boy being about the streets and being Mai fur a London beggar. The mother said she did not wish the boy Intl I He should not o ff end again. Mr. Knox said he would give the boy up to . this time ; but he would promise her that if the* we brought hero.* him again he would send him to MA without caring a straw for what she said. The boy then left the court with his mother. 8017THWARK. carrioN TO RAILWAY TRAVELLELt Hantiton White, a draughtsman, residing lathe Tat road, Lambeth, was placed at the bar before Mr- Wei* charged with opening a carriage-door on the Sai• Eastern Railway while the train was in motive, Dame witting damage to the amount of 31. Ile nisi charged with being intoxicated and jeopardisia; hisffs Mr. Brown, from the law office of the company he had to prefer a serious charge against the prumsr-1M of opening a door of a carriage whilst the tail w le motion, thereby damaging the company's propertya Ike extent of 31., and had it not been for a young ma litho carriage the prisoner would have fallen oat midrib* been killed. It was then discovered that he IMO ads is influence of liquor, and so grossly inisconducted kalif that he was given into custody. Charles Day, a guard in the company's em aim that he had charge of the 3 o'clock train from , mela, I for London-bridge and Charing-cross. Just uffiff Poo the Spa.road station he saw the prisoner lancelet third class carriage, and then open the door. lie ssni out to him to close it, but instead of doing so be Po" the door open and nearly fell out. Fortunately, s pal man who was in the same traiu sewed hold dillies' pulled him back. The dor of the carriage was Who and the wall of railway much damaged. On the genii the train at Greenwich the prisoner was elm:Mune tody. Joseph Monk, an inspector in the company' s mabl that the door of the carriage was looks smashed to pieces. The damage done a mount/dm! In answer to the charge the prisoner said be ' drinking a little and fell aslaep. lie woke ut and thinking the train had arrived at its date" jumped up and opened the door before he suns' what he was doing. He was extremely sorry for" occurred. Mr. Woolrych ordered him to pay 31. damage, oil fine, or 21 days' iramiseninent. WANDSIVORTIL EXTRAOROINARI CA REIM Robert Joseph Thompson, a young man. was gully mined on several charges of burglary and robbery. In 1864 the prisoner was in the service of a lady at Mortlake, and he attempted to poison her hoot refused to give him a day's holiday. He w aschsrgedee Richmond petty sessions, committed for trial. ad f . guilty at the Old Bailey. Thesentence was deferred. bed the end he was liberated at the instance of his sirens' o D f u ie ri v n eml gth b e u pas ro t ari fez a w n7ro ks b t b h e e ri l e io ,, l c i o ce ni ree nri e tted i v o l in in t f b o 74 bourhood of Mortlake , Barnes, and Putney'. sad there was strong presumption that they were coe'rto by one person, yet the thief Lai lied them in his Apr?! ,ion. Eventually the prisoner was aiSCOVOI the garden of a house at Clapham, and les. r y then found in possession of ROM: of the property. It appeared that on the night o f the Ile! the windows acid doors of the house of Mr. Joseph i 4 l; of No. 4, Alexander-villas, Richmond-road, Datleli_, all securely fastened. On the following a ssort the back hall door leading to the gado es found open, and the closet window also In the kitchen the gas was burning, and sll • es 0 0 drawers in confusion. Everything had been tat hi the larder into the kitchen, the bacon seel„ cut and some taken away. The butter was neadvaell al7r.sornseevseuragal other r,ne articles w . ar ar lytwi ola e r r e e nsoifi,v, nssomdei becbtert, were found upon the prisouer. In a second use. ffee of Mr. William Light Hicks, of No. 21, Cestelosolr, Barnes, was broken into, in the night of the 3rdieU coat, boots , umbrella , BMOC tobacco wete!!fl, army. All' the drawers and eupboarav in the r eetl" bad been turned out. The boots belonging to a ere found in the kitchen fire-place by Mr. re''' . r ho/ servant at the time she discovere d her muter; broken open. The prisoner was wearing them In o broke into Mr. Wilson's house, and he exc han g e foal°e:fee a pair belonging to Mr. Wilson , wh ich were him when apprehended. A third cage was _do which the prisoner was proved to have pawned sea. proPerey- Rtß Th m t r th e . D o ilh l y e y ni ce re :nt a sai ra rk l a ( t iri b :u p h ii ri z s ii n n ( e o •o r u m a rt i a t . e d rn e w d u i,e t : u ha t 11. 0 , 0 1 to him to the Old Bailey as the cases were burglars Committed accordingly. THE REPRESENTATION (W PEMBROESS0:111; W e (Ceroarthen Journal) learn on reliable auth° l .. / . ir ge Mr. James B. 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St. TI . The mether,ibt taken e wouLl like te her • the 51 the pi o send him. Dr. Cher it would sat les skelel to school, sad item of de magistrate) sem MY Wins cets and beingsad she d The I the boy enthrall say w blow boy up to his may - nigh her that if the* fad boar d send him to gild, the e said. belie his mother. lamp K. An 'I3AVELLIIS. milling in th. Tel knoll 'ari;m h ';:itr i oneh l fib: s sewn t rt cfa itrm t : ah h ee: n e tath;:b al l 0 ":57:14 dallivibw ali eehTnTe : l:llll tram hon for a young mss atY fallen oat sad pill! u the door. He uosi of doing 10 he r•••• Bee Fortunately, t ye" seized hold of lie el lwr carriage was "k" Ord Ore :eocryl On tie . Val ner was given into ae Cup lir a the onion, 112 1 : E p et age was brae Bre lone amounted to 31. Loa risoner said be WW l ' Roo lie woke up wdl4 Ply ea at its destintlin, W before he WY 800 a POI iwelysorryforwhi V Ye LOI Bee Be Tll t pay day iO, 13115 1 as 1 . I • I i~ 'l'