The Express. — London, England, 1866-01-18 00:00:00

\ l;11 LT \PHI • \_\.2\ / _ • • L.wir S S MIAMI ( #E xp t • /, I y - ~ , LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1866. No. 6,069 [STAMPED, ld. ADDITIONAL] [TWOPENCE 9BBENSLAND. BLACK BALL PAS. SING= LLNL—Nleductimse u gements with H.N.'s Colo government. of Menage Faze to Al& land Win £3O, to all chases. gOUTUI/212 OCEAN. for BINBANI, Marston By. Meat puked for Jan. 24. This magailleent ship, forming one of the m u g gal celebrated feet of _Queensland packet., will be do :li:punctually to data The accommodation for all ceases slogan cannot be surpassed. To be followed by the d a pp er fildp STAR OF !NOLAND, Packet fee itnk Februsry. JAMa ail SO and 00., Liverpool; all agents for 6 , - 16 - a SOLID. ; end T. 11.1LaCJEAY and Co., I. Leacknhall *ma Leke. IC. - Trriux FROM LIVERPOOL OR QUEENSTOWN TO NEW YORE. TWICE • TBB LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK, and PHILADELPHIA STEAM-SHIP COWART Waal da s wath* their tuil.powereda i de-ballt Iron Berea fliereallhips, a mps she United States FROM LIVILILPOO for NNW TOIL CITY 07 CORK, Saturday, Jan. SO. CITY OF WASHINGTON, Wednesday, JanAL CITY OF LIMERICK, Friday, Jan, SR A n d wary Wedoseday, and alternate Fridays and Saluda" Cabin atoms by tbs seatersstitit=da= uot as/ n gatessa, sooardias to tile by go Fridays and Lo =rby deineees,ll gelnems. id purge lucludaa a full sup= tooked booked trlelons ralliwry r s ietaas Ca ors da ter a :a l . th. — FU aifd or further particulars &aro INMAN, 22, Wateratreet, livarpool; eft to BS pd mom St, Ring WUlOlanstresk Landow STEAM. —LONDON to GOTHENBURG in 42 boon.—Tts magnigesat, test, sad weltiatown twl* Kau steamer as (LOOS tons burthen, Sta keen 'oven.. captain T. Mali. will clear tor the above port on SAIDA V. Lath lot During the recant heavy gales this steamer made the nut from London to Gothenburg in U 3 hours, and back to London in 67 Mum Has splendid socommodstiou for saloon psaaengers.— p o r might or passage apply to PHILLIPS'S, GlinVka, SEM, LISIS sad Co. St Dunstan's-bonne, LC. TWENTIETH REPORT of the BANK of LONDON. Capital subscribed Ditto paid up 400,000 &SOTTO rum.' 304,411 Head Banking-bouse, Threadneedle-street. charing-eross Branch, No. 450, West Strand. HOARD Or DIRPCTORS. Fir JOHN VILLINIti Sli KLUX, Bart, Chairman. JOILN GRIFFITH F.ITH. Ran. (Frith, Sands., and Co.), ChwiesJ. H. Allen, Esq., s 7, jevoushue-place, Portland-place. Bar, Ask. Esq.. 2 , Upper Pink-road, Haveratock-kilL Thomas DAM, luu., Alderman of London, Abchurch-lane. Colonel Wilitum Elsey. H.E.1.C.5., The Green, Great EaGM. Thrones Gooch, Esq. Gooch and Conseus, London-wall). )almoner lartwortny, Kiri.. 50, Old Broad-street. Thomas Luce, liaq., Oriental Club, and Ilahnsbury, Wilts. Henry Maras, Esq., late of the Madras Civil Service, 26, Mart a Me, City, and ,Badleigh-Salterton. Robert Porter, Esq., 50, Old Broad-street, and Croydon. Alfred WilsPn, Esq., Firgreee, Weybridge, Surrey. MASAGRR—Msmhew Marshall, Jun., Esq. DRYUTY MANAGERS. Jolla Henry Church, i.sq. I John Daniel Mammy, Fag. SECRETARY-I', illi.un Osmond Allender, Esq. At the TWENTIETH GENERAL MEETING of the Share• holders, held at the Loudon Tavern, Biahopagatestreet, on WIDNE+DAV, the 17th of January, 1866, Sir JOHN VILLIERS SUELLEY, Met_ In the chair, Alter authentication of the resister of shareholders, by &fitting the common seal of the Company, the following Report was read 17 the secretary : The Directors have the pleasure of submitting the annexed statement of account made up to the 30th of December, 1866, shoring a balance of prt.itt amounting to £69.498 4s. 4d. After payment of current expenses, including tall provision for all bad or doubtful debts, and allowing fur rebate of Interest co bills discounted not yet due, there remains for disposal the am of 1.42.007 Os. 111 The Direetoradeclare a dividend at the rate of LlO per cent. per annum, and • bonus of at 10s. per share, amounting together to 2 t per cent. per annum, free of Income tan. The balance, £2,087 us. 9tl , is carried to reserve fund, which now amounts to .004,411 to. 1 Id. The Direct. rs have to announce that, subject to resolutions to be passed at two ince wive Extraordinary General Meetings, one of rhieh will he held immediately after this Ordinary General Meeting, they are prepared to effect a division of the present 'Ave shares in the Bank into shares of £2O each, with £lO paid thereon : the necessary consent of the Board of Trade to such subdivision of the share capital having been obtained. BANK OF b)NDON. LIABILITIES and ASoEIS, December Se, 1865. DB. To cupu.d paid up To reserve lima To amount due by the bank ou current, de posit, and other accounts To profit sad ices account alter payment of £31,013 lie. 3d. to customers for interest on the.r balances Z 400,000 0 0 302,324 5 2 89.498 • 4 £5,10169910 3 ..... CR By investments. vie. fa goveniment securities. 111.11 a Bonds, &c... £2!7,16611 Ditto in freehold premises in 11irt ad ueeille.sf reel. let at a rental yielding 41 per cent. £40,000 By freehold premises in the occupation of the Bank . By hills discounted. loans, &c. By call in hand, and at ill . - 75.000 0 0 . 3,985.030 010 820,4W6 18 8 £5,107,00010 3 PROFIT and LOi‘i ACCOUNT, For the bulf.year ending December 30,18e5. DL To hall a year's current expenses at Head office and Charingeras Branch, bad and doubtful debts, directors' remuneration, Ac. ...... £16,8.35 0 2 To rebate of interest on bills discounted not yet _ _ dn., carried to profit and loss new a, count.. To dividend 4.rthk. hali.p.ar at the rate of £lO 10,556 9 5 percent. per annum To bonus A the rote «f lu per cent. per annum, or C ha. tar Aare lo balance earned to reserve fund 20,000 0 0 CR. Ey balance of profit for current half-year RESERVE FUND ACCOUNT. .1: 01),4 08 4 4 469,499 4 4 DR. To balance, £304.411 5 11 CR. By amount from lost half.year By addition brought down .... .... £302.324 5 2 2,087 0 9 £404,411 5 11 We have examined the above ae:ounte, andflind team correct. January 11, lode. F. 0.0 'IIIO3ISON, tiexutt:l.; JIM, Auditors. FRANCIS NALDER, It was reedlied unanimously—That the report now read be received. The Chairman announced that the dividend and bonus would be payable nu and after Wednesday, the 24th January, at the /teed Oltice, m Threadneedle street. It Nat resolved unan 11111 l Indy —That the election of Falconer larksortlky, EMI.. and Thomas Gooch, Esq., as Directors of this Dank, In: coutinited. An Extraordinary General Ali etiug of Shareholders was then held, when It resolved tin aninou..ly —That each £ICO share in the eapi bl of the bank be divided into live shares of L'2o each, with £lO paid thereon. . . . . 1; That the r. 21) s aros be numbered or distinguished es the Di lectors may nod cone. nient. That the Directors may tall in the existing shire certificates, and cancel the same, and issue fi esh certificates In lien thereof. And that for limiting the number of shares o f any holder, and for all other purposes, five of the £l.O Mares shell be equal to one share of Aloe. That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Chairman and Directors for their servicc+ during the past half-year. Extracted from the minutes. JOHN NILLILER SHELLEY, Chairman. W. 0. ALLEN DER, Secretary. 7hreadneeille4treet, Jan. 17. BANK of LONDON yead Banking house—llireadneedle-dreet.. Charing -truss branch—Nu. 450, West Wand. Subscribed Capital £BOOOOO Paid-up Capital &•+cn'e Fund CHAIRMAN Mir J. in. VILLIERS SHELLEY, Bart. E-CIIAIHMAN—.II lil N UKIFS ITH FRITH, rag. 31ANAGEK—Matthew Marshall, jun., Esq. DLYUTY MANAGEKA John Henry Church. Esq. j John Daniel Mine/ , EN. lIANA6FR AT CHAAING.CROSS PRANOL—George Rogers. Esq. RRF:ST ACCOUNTS opened with parties properly intro dared. and interest allowed on credit balance/ If not drawn below 4300 RONEY RECEIVED on deposit, repayable at seven days' Sake, and Interest regulated by the market value of money. as announced from time to time by public advertisement, the pre sent rate being It ve.and.a.half per cent. CIRCULAR NoTE.9 and LETTERS of CREDIT Issued free of Charge, and all descriptions of banking business transacted. W. 0. ALLENDER, Secretary. CBRI ST MA S HOLIDAYS.—We are all going to the NEW GERMAN FAIR and 511 . SICAL PROMENADE titan tree), 95 and 96, Ilochatreet, dorough.—AßTHUß RANGER is the proprietor, 30:+, High Holborn, W.C. DENTAL NOTICE.—Mr. ESKELL, Surgeon Drnttat, of 8. OROSVENOR-STRKET, BOND-STIMET, Suing announced for a considerable period that 'ilia Is not commuted with any one of the name, and that he has NOT IUtiIOVED, and does not Intend doing so," begs respectfully to Kate that an he considers the general public are now sufficiently •ell aware of the facts, he will cease to make thts or aay other Professional atatenieut ilk the public papers on and after the 28th et February next. DESCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, S sever failing remedy, prepared without any me hgWedl rcurial ent, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, will be found tovsluable to all who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, Indigestion. Wind, spasms, giddiness, dlulnem of the eyes, da ler habitual Costiveness, as a hilly aperient medicine, and as a purifier of flu grateful blood, tthey h are truly excellent ; mild in their operation and to e etomeeh, they create appetite, promote digestion, and s tr ength en ch the whole nervous system.—Bold by W. lam bed,ll, hag Willianiedreet, Ling.eross, and by most aregghts, In boxes. to led. and U. ed. Bo sore to a& tor Dr. Bead a Bilious and Liver fills. The penises/so in a square green Vishay with " William lambert" engraved on the stamp. THE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION (Limited). Capital subscribed, £6,000,000. Paid up, £600,000. Mums—JOHN CHAPMAN, Zeq. MASAo22B—Henry J. Harker, Esq., and T. Fraser Sendai:ea, /sq. This Association makes advaates upon approved mercantile and other securities, and receives money on deposit at Interest for short or long periods. Depositors for periods of not lees than three years may procure, on application at the (Aces, debentures of the Amociation, bearing Interest at d per cent. per annum, payable quarterly by coupon to bearer' attached. W. C. WIN 27, Lombard-4feet, London, LC. IM, Secretary. THE LIVERPOOL and LONDON and GLOBE FIRM and Lll2 INSURANCK COMPANY. oMcas-1, Dal►drank Liverpool :20 and 21, Poultry 7. Cornhlll,, and Charing-crosa, Landon. PROGRAMS OP ran ooIIPANY ant= 1860. Year. FIN Remlama. Ide Premiums. Invested Funds. 1161 18343 1861 1864 742.674 238,244 3,212,300 JOHN ATKINS, Resident Secretary, Lembo. Life dahlia am payable in thirty days after they are admitted. TIIB OXFORD.—The MARKET GIRLS, by Offenbach, 11 Trovatore, and the Schiller Centenary Cas tile, by Meyerbeer, will be performed by the whole of the , eratic Company. The Hnngaryy will also hetrodeon their Natioeel Zatiortainmant T 18 ZVENLNO. Private bolas, 10a ed. ; stalls and Woozy, is. ; area, led. METROPOLITAN MUSIC HALL, Edgware road. Open at 7.—HARBY ifigCARTHY, " the eclipse of all comics," will appear for the first time in London in his great delineation of Negro life, introducing the character of Zeb Duckshin, a gentleman from Attlee shores, with the original song and dance of Nip up. The Ballet of AURORA., or the descent of the Morning Star, and Maaaniello still continue the admiration of all who witness them. The new stage scenery and mechanical appliances tend to make our Ballets one of the most complete performances in the metropolis. manager, J. J. POOLE. FOREIGN WINES, cheap and pure :—Catalonian Sherry, 17a. 6d. ; Andalusian Port, 17a. Bd.: French, las.; French Sherry, 18a. per dozen; Beaujolais. lbs. 6d. Macon, 21a. Rouulllon , 17$. &1.. MOIL, 215.: Hock, 211. to Its ; and Sparkling Hock and Moselle, 48s. a dozen: Cognac Brandy, pale or brown, 40s a dozen, bottles Included. Terms cash. Carr iage paid upon four dozen Into the country. 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N.B.—OUTFITS SUPPLIED for INDIA, CHINA, and the COW NIPS, and detailed lista of the articles required for every purpose and appointment will be forwarded on application as above. SPECTACLES are NECESSARY WHEN the Eyes water, are misty, or fatigued after marlin t ; WHEN the print blends, and tLe letters appear to be double ; WHEN more light than formerly is requisite— per example ; WHEN the candle is placed between the eyes and the book WHEN objects must be held further off to be seen more clearly ; WHEN much difficulty is found in threading a needle. The above are premonitoryslgns of decaying sight, and Indicate that an optician should be consulted without delay. From long and exteusive practice Mews. Thames Harris and Son are fully competent to advise on all matters pertaining to the remedying defective sight. They skilfully slept lenses, perfectly true, of the requisite power, and likewise they Judiciously select a spec tacle frame of the form most becoming to the lace. THOMAS HARRIS and SON, opticians to the Royal Family, opposite the British Museum gates. Loudon ;their only house„ established 17SO. Caution—No travellers or agents. TO PARENTS and GUARDIANS. The return of youth to their respective boarding-schools induces u solicitude for their personal comfort and attraction, and ROW LANDS' JIACAASAR OIL, for acceli•ratile4 the growth and im proving and beautifying the hair, Rowland.' Kaiy.lor, for im proving the skin and complexion, and removing cutaneous defects. and Rowlands' Odonto,or Pearl Dentifrice, for renderiug the teeth beautifully white and preserving the gums, are consi dered hli.penaable accompaniments. Sold by A. ROWLAND ami SONS, 20, liatton-gartleu, and by chemists and perfumers. Ask for Rowlands' articles. po WELL'S BALSAM of ANISEED. F OR COUGHS. FO R AST HM A. F OR SHORTNESS of BREATH. SOLD by ALL CHEMISTS. WAREHOUSE, 113, BLACKFRIARS-ROAD. POWELL'S BALSAM of ANISEED. The pm COUGH MEDICINE, Just ready, price " rrHE RESTORATION of NERVOUS POWER," addressed more especially to men of budueas, the studious, the sedentary, and all labouring under :be debili tating effects of over-trisect energies either of body or mind. By Jolt!' limtvr.v, F.A S., London. Dean and Son, Ludgate-hill, E.C. Price Is., DR. CIILVERWELL on MARRIAGE : Its Obligations, liappiuess, sod Disappointments. Maim, Combull ; or Author, 3, Great Marlborough-street, W. Workbag Itsn's tee, halts Guinea. ewe FERENCL Or VOLUNTIZIL OFFICHRS—A num hor of volunteer officers met yesterday at Kiog's College, to confer on the subject of All-Comers Rifle Mestioge. Mr. W. E. Forster, M.P., presided. The chairman said the question they had met to discuss was one of the greatest importance em regarded the continuance of the rifle volun teer movement. The movement could not live unless the shooting was kept up, and there were no means so effectual for doing that as the All Comers meetings. The difficulties which had to be contended with, and which were causing the decline of the All COMM meetings, were of a pecuniary nature, and by no means conceded with the discipline of the volunteers, or the good feeling existing between the different corps He should recommend that instead of money being expended in large prizes it should be divided into a larger number of smaller prizes, which would attract a far greater proportion of competitors. The Honorary Se cretary of the Provisional Committee (Mr. Baines) naidthe committee had ascertained from returns received from 343 or 40 All Comers meetings, that the proceeds did not— with three exceptions—amount to the sums spent in prizes. In some cams the expenses were as low as 8 per cent. on the amount of prizes, but in others were as high as 64 and 67 per cent. The meeting was addressed by Cap tale Goodliffe, Lieutenant Marriner, Mr. Smith, Captain Hill, Lieutenant Pixley, Mr. Scott, Mr. Lockhart, of Glas gow, Captain Woods, Mr. Cunningham, Captain M'Gregor, and other gentlemen. Mr. Hill proposed, and it was unani. monaly agreed, "That the National Rifle Association should be asked to support the All Comers Prize Meetings by offering marks of honour for competition at such meetings, and oo such conditions as may be hereafter speci fied." It was also resolved, on the motion of Captain Goodliffe, "That the National Rifle Association be requested to vote lly a sum of money to be equally distributed in four All Comers Rifle Meetings, to be held in different parte of the kingdom, two before and two subsequent to the Wimbledon meeting ; and that a portion of the money be apportioned at each meeting to members only of the National Rifle Association." A committee warn appointed to communicate with the counml of the National Rifle Association. It moists of the following gentlemen : Captains leGregor, Goodliffe, Cunningham, M`Benzie, and Mr. Barnes. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. ROYAL GDOORAPHICAL SOCIZTY. —At the evening meeting oa Monday, the following papers will be read : Exploration in North Western Australia, by Mr. Jsmea Martin, N.B. ; Description of Cape York district, Amstralia, by Mr. John Judie.. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (aruzza's TZLEGIUM&) AMERICA. QUEZNEITOWN, JAN. 18. The Inman steamship City of Washington ar rived here at 12.15 a.m. to-day, with 143 passen gers, 77,801 dollars, and 1,0001. in specie. She landed 17 passengers, and proceeded at 12.30 a.m. (Per the City of Washington, via Roohe's Point.) NEW YORK, J. 6, liesnum.. The full report of the public debt rows that the official statement, giving the total as 2,800 millions, included the coin currency in the Treasury ; allow ing this reduction, the public debt on January 1 was 2,716 millions dollars. Congress met yesterday, but the house having no quorum, went into a committee of the whole. In the Senate Mr. Sumner presented petitions from the citizens of Boston, asking indemnity from the British government for the loss of a ship harped by the Alabama. The petition was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and both houses then adjourned until Monday. The diplomatic correspondence between France and the United States relative to the Mexican question has been presented to Congress. On Nov. 3 Mr. Seward wrote to Mr. Bigelow to call the serious attention of the French Government to the military proceedings in Mexico, by which cap tured native Mexicans, while adhering in war to their own government, are denied the rights which the law of nations invariably accords to prisoners of war. On the 28th of November Mr. Seward wrote to Mr. Bigelow that he had received information from Romero that Generals Urtega, Salazar, and numerous other Mexican officers, who had been captured by Imperialists, had been executed. Mr. Seward instructed Mr. Bigelow to call the serious attention of the French government to this subject, and to inform M. Drouyn de lihuys that the Federal government received these reports with the utmost concern. Mr. Seward added, "If upon investigation these reports prove true, the United States cannot doubt that, as far as the French government is concerned, it can never countenance proceedings so repugnant to the sentiments of modern civilization and the instincts of humanity." Mr. Bigelow wrote on the 30th of November to Mr. Seward that' M. Drouyn de Lbuys, referring to his (Mr. Bigelow's) representations in regard to the shooting of captured Mexican republicans, and to the case of Madame Iturbide, had asked him why he did not go to Juarez ( ? Maximilian), and said, "We are not the government of Mexico. You do us too much honour to treat us as such. We had to go to Mexico with an army to secure certain important interests, but we are not responsible for the Emperor Maximilian or his government. He is accountable to you, as to any other government if be violated its rights, and you have the same re medies there that we had." On December 10 Mr. Seward wrote to M. Romero, thanking him for his despatches concern ing Maximilian's outlawry decree, which despatches had received from the Federal government the con sideration to which they were justly entitled. Washington despatches state that Count Zuch, the Emperor Maximilian's envoy, had arrived at Washington to seek Federal recognition of the Mexican empire. The Brownsville correspondence of the New Orleans Times states that the American General Crawford had arrived at Brownsville, with authority to raise an American division of troops for the Mexican republican service, and that he had estab lished recruiting places at Brownsville and other towns iu Texas. The Federal authorities had not interfered with these movements. It was rumoured that Generals Logan and Vial lace were connected with the movement ; and Mejia was said to be preparing against an attack by Crawford. It is semi-officially announced that Mr. Seward will call at Havannah and Vera Cruz, and such other ports as he may see lit. °Mahoney bas sent a message to the Fenian Congress declaring that if the Senate faction had not tied his bands he would ere now have bad an Irish army on Irish soil, fighting fur their inde pendence; and• an Irish fleet sweepicg English commerce from the ocean. The Moravian has arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JAY. 6, MORNING. Money abundant. Gold, 143. Exchange on London, 153 k ; on Paris, 3.62 i. Stocks dull : New York Centrals, 96 ; Illinois, 131 i ; Erie, ; 5-20 Bonds, 104. Cotton firm, but active : Middling Upland, 52. Flour dull. Wheat quiet. Corn slightly firmer. Provisions, limited demand. Coffee quiet. Sugar firm, but active. Molasses held firmly. Petroleum, limited demand : crude, 37} ; refined, 59 to 6L NEW ORLEANS, JAN. 5. Cotton dull : Middling Upland, 30. Saks of the week, 13,000 bales ; stwk, 181,000 bales. THE MILITARY REVOLT IN SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 17. No intelligence has been received to-day of the movements of General Prim. It is, however, officially announced that he has not yet entered Portugal. Complete tranquillity continues to prevail in Catalonia. Some armed men have however appeared in the vicinity of Rens. Order has not been disturbed in Saragossa. The movements of the troops in that province continue. The Corresponelencia of to-day confirms the news of Admiral Parejas's death. FRANCE AID SPAIN. TOULON, JA t. 17. The steamer Caton has been ordered to proceed on a cruise to Barcelona and other Spanish ports, and the captain is instructed in case of need to place his ship at the disposal of the French consuls. THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBER. BERLIN, JAN. 17. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies President Orabow and Vice-Presidents von Unruh and von Bockum-Dolffs were re-elected. Herr Grabow delivered the usual opening ad dress to the house, in which he sharply criticised the language of the reactionary press, the prohi bition by the government of the Cologne banquet to the Prussian liberal deputies, and the mea sures which bad been taken to restrict the liberties of the press, the freedom of voting of government officials, and the meeting of political associations. Herr Grabow deplored the conflict between the government and the chamber on constitutional questions, a state of things which had now become chronic, and bad brought political legislation to a standstill. He added that liberty was the only thing which could lead to moral conquests, to the solution of the Bleswig-Holstein question, which the Gastein convention had but complicated, and to the Federal unity of Germany. THE FRANCO-SWEDISH TREATY OF COMMARCE. STOCKHOLM, JAir. 17. The joint committee of the Swedish Ohambers bag agreed, by thirty to seventeen votes, to a reso lution proposing the adoption of the Franco- Swedish treaty of commerce. INDIA. (Vi 4 Auxsedris.) SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT. DEATH OF LORD E. SEYMOUR. BOMBAY, Dzc. 28. A. terrible accident has occurred on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, on the Thull Gbatt, occasioned by a goods train rushing through a station, and being precipitated over an embank ment of 70 feet. Six lives were lost, the engines and carriages destroyed, and the goods utterl j damaged. The Great Indian Peninsula Railway was opened to Budmaira on the 18th inst. Lord Edward Seymour was attacked by a bear whil% out shooting on the 13th inst. in North Canara. One leg was afterwards amputated. He did not survive the operation, but died on the 20th inst. A petition for the removal of Judge Anstey from the bench has been presented to the Bombay go vernment by many leading natives of Bombay. Shocks of earthquake have been felt near Cal cutta and in Ole Punjaub. The Nagpore exhibition has been opened by Mr. Temple, the commissioner, with great eclat. The Indian budget is expected to be published on the Ist of March. The weather is cool, and public health good. The cotton and piece goods markets are quiet. Money tight. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom OUR OWN CONIESPONDNNT.) PARIS, WEDNISDAY Evian:No.. A duel took place yesterday at St. Germain between Prince Achille Murat and M. Rochefort, a writer in the figaro. The cams Belli arose out of an article published in the Figaro of January 7, on the evidence given by Prince A. Murat in Mies Cora Pearl's horse case. The prince challenged the journalist and a meeting was speedily arranged. The seconds of Prince Achille Murat were Lieut. Jerome Bonaparte Patterson and M. Eapeletta, those of M. Rochefort were M. Tazile Delord, of the Siecle, and M. Plunkett, manager of the Palais Royal Theatre. The duel was fought with swords in a riding-schooL It lasted only a few seconds. The prince's shirt was torn by the point of his adversary's sword, and M. Rochefort received a slight wound in the hip. The seconds then de clared " honour satisfied," and the affair termi nated. Viscount de Massagnac, the new French ambas sador to Persia, whose arrival at Teheran has been already announced, was suffering when he left France from the consequences of a fall, and the long and fatiguing journey greatly affected his health. He travelled 500 leagues on horseback, and took 61 days to perform the distance. He was able to pay his respects to the Shah the day after his arrival, but was subse quently and up to the departure of the last mail confined to his house. The Shah sent every day to inquire after his health. In accordance with a custom said to have prevailed siuce the time of Cyrus, an Arab horse with a gold collar was sent by the Persian sovereign as a royal present to the French plenipotentiary. Toe present generation is likely to see the last of rouktte and rouge-et-noir. Within a short period the gaming tables will be suppressed at Baden- Baden, Monaco, and Geneva. On this very day au amendment of an article of the Swiss constitu tion is to be submitted to the Helvetic Diet, the effect of which will be to prohibit publi: gambling throughout the Swiss Confederation. A Paris journal, La Liberte, says that the French govern ment is at this moment negotiating with all the governments which tolerate the exciting boards of green cloth, with a view to their suppression within a certain proximate time. It is hard to see what business the French government can have to interfere in the matter ; but in one way or another the doom of the public hells which the spirit of the age pronounces will certainly be executed. If the question were referred to the universal suffrage of any mixed assembly, such as may be found any day in the season around the tables at Homburg or Wiesbaden, the verdict of even such a tribunal, which might be thought committed to the defence of its own practices, would be hostile. English peers, members of parliament, magistrates, clergy men, nay, even judges, throw down their silver or gold pieces on the fascinating squares and numbers and await the fate of them with a certain degree of excitement, but would never seriously maintain that the institution was one that any government ought to tolerate—much less patronise. At the same time I feel painful doubts whether those delightful German watering places, Baden, Wies baden, Homburg, Ems, itc., will not lose a vast proportion of their charms when gambling is abolished. I am greatly afraid that nothing but the profits of gambling will ever pay for keeping up those unlimited miles of pleasure grounds around every one of the great gaming centres, which make newly arrived strangers late for breakfast, seduc ing them as they do, to run without heeding time from lawn to hillock, from cultivated copse to heath artistically preserved wild, and from models of modern architecture to picturesque feudal ruins. The principal clubs of Paris, including the Jockey, the Union, and the Cercle MalesherbeP, have just laid down the rule that no gaming shall be allowed by members, except for money staked down. The scandalous losses in credit of person a without means to pay has led to this. Au instance is given of a clerk in a public office at 601. a year who lately lost 5,0001. in one evening. The Renal was in great demand at the Bourse to-day for a short time, and although the highest quotations were not sustained, owing to an appre hension that the Bank of France may again raise its discount to-morrow, a rise of 10c. for cash, and 120. for amount is shown by the closing quo tations--68fr. 60c. and 68fr. 570. Mobilier rose 3fr. 15c. TRI GOVERNMENT AND TWR CATTLE PLAGUE. LOANS TOWARDS INSORANOR. --•-• In the following reply of Earl Russell to a letter tram Lord Joh* Mumma is as exprenden of the views of the government oa the subject et the national ismaraece against the cattle plague : "Pembroke Lcdge, Richmond Park, Jam 15,1868. •• My Lord,—l readily acquiesce in the Ulmer of your lordship's request that the views of the goverioneat re. evicting national assurance should be =do knowo at au earlier period than the meeting of parliament. I may say. therefore, geuerstly but positively, that her Majesty's goverament are opposed to say guarantee by the Tree %a.: in favour of owners of stook who may be losers by the cattle plague. Bat they era not opposed in principle to loess in order to help forward plans of insurance, on the security of repayment by land. oweers, or out of local rates. I doubt very much whether a plan of immures* entirely voluntary, would be adopted by the satin at large, bat in counties or unions plans of insurance founded oa the circumstances of the county, or union, might be beneficially adopted—such at least is the view of the government.—l have the honour to be, your °beast servant, " BUBSILL. " The Right Hoe. Lord John Manners." The following letter has also been addressed to Sir Jams Bay Shnttleworth : - - Whitehall. Jln. 16. Sir; I am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to in form you that having referred your letter of the 6th inst. and its enclosure, as to a scheme of national insurances against losses from cattle plague for the consideration of the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, he bar re ceived in reply the letter of which • copy is enclose& With reference to the first part of your proposal— namely, that the burden of the loss incurred by the cattle plague should be diffused over the whole of England, her Majesty's government are of opinion that even were this expedient very serious practical difficulties would be found in attempting to give effect to the proposal ; nor if the attempt were made is there any sufficient reason why the scheme should be limited to England, and not include other parts of the United Kingdom. The government could not properly undertake to superix.ond or control the machinery which would be required for the management of • National Immune' Association. They think, moreover, that the necessary result of such • scheme would be an injurious interference with county or other local associations, which are far better adapted than a national association to ensure vigi lance and efficiency in the admiaistratiou of the funds applicable to the purpose of such aseociation, combined with ustronger interest in the adoption at themes' affestual inessMfor checking the disease. Her Majesty's government, however, are of opinion th►t the second part of your proposal, namely, that the lass should be diffused over a series of years, is well entitled to favourable consideration. If they should have reason to believe that such a proposal would be generally acceptable to the interests specially concerned, her Majesty's govern• meet would be prepared to ask the sanction of parliament to a bill authorising, under certain conditions, the advance of money from the public funds by way of loan upon adequate security to county or other local associations, with a view to spread the charge in respect of losses from the cattle plague over • short term of years, in cases where the amount of such loss has been considerable. _ . --- The slime principle might be applied to individual land. owners, if they claim to avail themselves of it in respect of loess. incurred on their estates, either by themselvee or their tenants.—l km, &c., /1. WADDINGTOS. Sir J. Kay Shuttle worth, Bark., 38, Cloucester.equare,W. The High Sheriff of Cheshire states that his ten mei nated cows ire up to the present time quite healthy and well, and that, after the moat diligent inquiries, he has not been able to hear of one fatal case in this neighbour hood where the operation had been snocessful. Many vaccinated cows have died, but not one where the vaccine had taken. Indeed he has turned • heifer, which had been successfully vaccinated, into a loose place, where she has been kept for five days and five nights in a most fetid atmosphere, and coming in immediate contact with four dying and dead calves, and yet she remains as healthy and sharp as ever. TIM JAMAICA MISSIONS.—We understand that ' in addition to she gentlemen whose 09,132C4 have been already:announced as having been sent by different bodies to Jamaica to watch the proceedings of the commission, and to inquire into the condition of the island, Mr. William Morgan, solicitor, and formerly town clerk of Birmingham, has just gone out to represent the Anti Slavery Society of London. Mr. Morgan went in the Royal Mail steamer La Plata which sailed from Southampton yesterday. Messrs. Thomas Harvey, of Leeds, and William Brewin, of Cirencester, the representatives of the Society of Friends, also sailed for Jamaica yesterday. COMMUNICATION BETWEEN GUARDS AND PASsEN GEES ON RAILWAIS.—Mr. Howell, the secretary of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Company, has, with scientific usistann, matured very ingenious machinery for obtaining means of instant communication between pas sengers and guards, and between the latter and engine drivers in railway trains. Even lunatic asylums have their romances. Some years ago there were in Colney Hatch a young man and a young woman who made each other', acquaintance at one of the monthly balls given for the amusement of the in. mates. Mad though they were, they carried on an innocent courtship, and, despite the vigilance of the officials, managed a written correspondence. Both recovered, and after their discharge, having renewed their courtship, married happily. So far is is known at the asylum, neither has had a relapse of ioaanity. ETON COLLEGE.—Yesterday the Christmas vaca tion terminated with the return of the lower buys to the schooL To-day the fifth form will arrive, and the sixth form will reach the college to-morrow, by which tune the whole of the scholars will have reassembled. BISHOP COLENSO IN NATAL.—The Rev. J. Hari land, of Pershore, wntts to the Guardian "It will be interesting to your readers to know that the ipaissima rota spoken by the Dean of Pietermaritzburg io the cathedral, after the readies of the sentence of deprivation by the registrar, were not those reported in the Natal newspapers, but the following ;—• It is written, that which ye shall bind on earth shall be boned in heaven. That sentence, therefore, studs retitled before the throne of the Almighty. Fear God, and depart from evil.' 1 have seen the true version in a private letter from one who took a prominent part in the proceedings." FENIAN PRISONER:4.—A company of 10 Fenian prisoners arrived at Holyhead in the Royal Mail steamer , Ulster, at 11.15 a.m. of Tuesday last. They were in charge of 24 soldiers, who bad escorted them from Cork, where they had been convicted for various terms of penal 'ern , tads, from five to 15 years, and were en route for a London penitentiary. A great number of persons were awaiting their arrival from Ireland on the Admiralty Pier. The mail and ordinary passengers having lauded, the Fenian ni lsours were marched two by two to a third-clus carriage, which was attached to the Irish limited mail, leaving Holyhead at 11.40 a.m.' Twelve warden from the penal settlement received them at Holyhead, and the escort returned by the 2.15 p.m. mail boat fur Kingstown, Ireland. They had all a very repulsive and poor appear sou, not use of them bearing any marks of iotelligeoos or respectable appearance. Among them was a short hunch-backed person of very weakly bodily appearance. THE POETRY OF THE LAEREATE.—S,,arceIy, in deed, has any work of his issued from the press when it is found in almost every drawing-room in Penland, and as fast as steam can carry it, it borne in thousands to every market where the Eoglish tong is ue is soken, so eager are ell to read. Maidens bend their faces over the page, and sink ing slowly down where they stood, are lost in the story of Elaine or of Adeo ; and fathers, in the quiet of evening, will trust to the poet's care those tenderer thought& which love to dwell in secret. It is strange, to one who thioks of it, this vast and silent power which she modern post wield,. Oar bards stand DO more in the midst of the people, spothing to them boning words, or bowing before the athWm of myriad teepee. They pus no more from side to side oof the mark/is-place, or from street toe:ennui ways. gather. ing aroma them young and old io little wondering circles. The power of the old slogan was more directly reflected in action, but yet bears no comparison with the power of him who now can weave in secret a magic web of waving lion, sad by the Waite ninhiplisetioa of the press can gather at once kingdoms and eantineete alder big spell. The whiting , mum perfect as it now /060111 to be, is the means to Mr. Tennygoo of a power at owe wider and more immediate than ever fell to the lot of poet. Perhaps since its inventing. no poet has, during his lifetime, obtained so extensiveanandiewe.—TAt Quarterly limier, new number. THE FENIAN TRIALS IN DUBLIN. DUBLIN, WIDNIIIDAY Nu m. Cornelius Dwyer Kane was found guilty of trea son-felony to-day. When asked what he had to say, he said he was proud of the friendship of Stephens, and considered he was bound as an Irish man to join a combination which was foe the Rood of Ireland, and not for assassination and plunder, as was falsely asserted. In conclusion he said, "Now, my lord, I have only one request to make, and that is, that you will not give me any advice or lecture, as you have done the other prisoners. I ask you simply to pass sentence on me, and give me nothing 111 the shape of advice or lecture, for I assure you it would be lost upon me." Judge Fitzgerald sentenced him to penal servitude for ten years. John Olobessy pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. BETHNAL-GREEN WORKHOUSE. Yesterday morning Mr. Formal, Inspector under the Poor-law Board, resumed in the bard-room of the Bellinel-green Workhouse tee inquiry relative so the treat meet of Old Sia fire esesssiatolbpn*lnnes• The MN of Robert Scully was Was an the nemeses untesl. Mrs. Cardwell, one of the witnesses. said Qat she van superintentlest of the women's reeeiving-ward. She had to receive 15 owns, women and children, oe Monday eight. Three of them were sink cases. Wittier reported to the matron that they were sick cues, and that they occupied the beds of six people. One of the persons vas dropsical. Mr. Sadleir, relieving officer, said that he was called on by Robert Scully, and finding that he was destitute and had Do home, he gave him a ticket of admission on the 9th instant. The luspectorsaid that inquiry should always be made, except in casea of urgency, before relief or admission was given. Mr. Sadlair said that be considered the case d Scully an urgent one ; he had no home. Mrs. Cardwell continued, and said that the medical officer was not sent for to see the sick cases. Hs saw them the next (Tuesday) morning, and plaosd them is the sick ward. Witares never had to use the cloths' of persons leaving the hones for those ooming in. She bad an instrument for measuring the heat of the bath—generally from 90 to 96 degrees. She had got stimulants in the middle of the night when eases were brought in requiring them. She was never refused. Mr. Cardwell bad used her thermometer, and could have got. is when he wanted it. Her salary was 101. per annum, with board and lodging. Her husband's salary was 401. Stephen Hayward, an inmate of the workhouse, 65 years of age, wardsman of the reosiving ward, had the deposi- tions which he made before the coroner now read over to him. Scully did not take much of hie gruel or any bread. Witnesa asked him if he was ill, but he could not or did not answer. Witness thought he was ill, but did not think he was ill enough to be reported. At three o'clock a change took place. Witham did nothing. At seven o'clock witness saw him on the bed lying on his back and his mouth open. Witness had to do day as well as night duty. It was he who fetched Scully . ' supper. He saw Fleming, a pauper cook, and asked for gruel. He did not ask for bread. He did not think of asking for tea. Scully did not ask for anything. The Inspector—He could not speak for himself, and you got bim a worse supper than he otherwise would have got I Wither —.Not with a bad intention, sir. The Inspector—l do not say that. 'Your heart may be good, as I believe Mr. Cardwell's is; but in a workhouse we want both head and heart. Have others died in the ra calving wards ? Witness—Scully makes the eleventh person that died there. 1 have sometimes dressed persons entering the house in the clothes of persons leaving the sick wards. That was not very often. W. Arthur Thomas was called by the clerk, and said that he had been paid pantryman for seven months. He could supply nourishment to a destitute person coming in at ten o'clock at night to the reeeitiog ward. He could give tea, arrowroot, butter, gruel or anything of the sort. He gave up the keys to the master about ten o'clock. He could, however, get up and supply requisites at say hour of the night, and he had sometimes so supplied them. Witness had a pauper assistant named Fleming—a very steady man. Tbeobaid Meyrick, master of the workhouse, deposed that he bad never been refused any stores by the guardians during the years he had been master. His applications, when entered in a little book, were always granted. He had never been short of clothes for males or females. He was surprised to hear the evidence el to a sick man's clothes being put on those coming into the house. He always had plenty of clothes, and he never refused an ap plication for any when wauted. It was the duty of Mr. Peens to apply for clothes. Miss hley rick (matron) said that she had heard the evidence of Mrs. Cardwell, and did not crosa•examies her. Witness knew that there were three cases in the receiving ward re quiring separate beds. Witness did not visit them, for they were not reported as " urgent." Nevertheless, witness would have visited them only that she had a sprained ankle. Wit ness had been matron seven years. The Inspector said that in every sick case the matron should visit it. He supposed that but for the sprained ankle the witness would have done so in this case. John Pears, examined with reference to the dressing of paupers in sick people's clothes, sad that oo one occasion the clothes were not dry, and he saw a 1111/1 leaving. He said to the incomer, "Take his clothes." But be did not know the person cams from the sick ward. The stores in the house were sometimes very low. lie believed that be mentioned that very case to the master, but he did not know positively, or when it occurred ; but he knew that the stores were sometimes deficient. They were deficient now. He had reported that to the muter on Meader, and he bad done so before. When clothes were not in store they were in the laundry, and they would be hurried up. Witness and the rimmed bad had unpleasantness about the clothes. Inspector—le it a matter of frequent occurrence to clothe a man coming in with the clothes of a man going out Witham said it did not uccur frequently—net once a week ; but it happened once in a quarter. The Inspector—Now, as to a similar matter. A dirty bath is as bed se • dirty shirt. There is, I know, a groat deal of typhus among the lower or tramp class. Typhus ia a species of plague, and to put two or three persons into the same wider is to promote the spreading of the con tagion. It is, I assure you, and not to you in Bethnal green only, a vitally important matter, in respect to the prevention of disease, to give to every individual clean water in his bath. Mr. E. Howard Moore, deputy medical officer to the workhouse, deposed to the correctness of the depositions which he made before the coroner, and in which he attri buted the deceased's (Scully's) death to disease of the heart, and admitted that destitution might accelerate death in such a case. The Inspector, in closing the inquiry, urged upon the guardians the advantage of seeding the MO children at present kept in the workhouse to schools in the country. Mr. Collins moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Israeli for the able and impartial manner in which lie bad conducted the inquiry just concluded. Mr. Ward, in se conding the motion, said that the evidence taken that day by Mr. Parnell w oul d show the exceilent manner in which Bethnal-gran workhouse was conducted, and how besets.' was everything said in the papers to the contrary. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Pusan said that the best way to earn the approval of guardians was to do his duty as inspector. The proceedings then terminated, it being understood that the Poor-law Board would transmit its decision in the usual manner to the guardians. FEVER IN MARYLEBONE.—Yesterday Dr. Lan keeter resumed an inquiry at the Bose and Crown, Upper Lamm-street, Lisson-grove, on the body of lama Brads, 14 years of age, who died on Thursday last in Providence place. The inquest was adjourned from Soturday last, in order that an examination of the place might be made. Mr. George Benson Baker, the district medical officer, said he attended the deceased, who was suffering under and died from typhus fever. He had had twenty-five cases of typhoid and typhus fever in Providence-place. There were twenty-four houses inhabited by 198 people, each house having three rooms. The muse of the disclaim the withers attributed to the water the people drunk. About the centre of the court was a tank, and the water for the supply of the residents was drawn up by means of a pump. The water supplied was that of the West Middle. sex Company. Clam to the tank the inhabitants emptied their slops, which would communicate fever if taken from houses where persons were suffering from the dimes. The drippings of the sink filtered into the well, and in that way witness believed the inhabitants had been poisoned, and the fever propagated. The room in which deceased died con taioed about 1,000 feet of air. Dr. Whitmore, medical officer of health to the parish of Marylebooe, eorroborated the hat witness as to the wretched state of Providence place, which was calculated to spread serious contagious disease. The jury returned a special verdict, " That de mooed died from typhus fever, generated through dirt, foul water, and losuffleiset cleansing of the waterckeete." The proceedings thee closed. PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. The following candidates yesterday passed the major examination se pharmaceutical chemist.:—Laurence R. Barnes, Prestos ; Henry H. J. Bound, Creditor; Robert Rowe, Yeovil; Denzil Thomson, Worcester; Almasder Towerzey, Lo ndon. ADMIRA.LIT, JANUARY n.- AMOY= Lieutenaat E C. Hall, to the Royal George. ~. Price One Shilling, sewed in wrapper, A NIGHT iu a WORKHOUSE. Reprinted from the "Pall Mall Gazette." 011 Ice of the " Pall Mall Gazette," 11, Salisbury-street, Strand. W.C. .1. J