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Lane end AM-rate Peafowl=lita—The Neenah of Peru. - THE GREAT GHOST MRCT.—Arthorand Ihrteaset. —The Fairy Founta THR GORILLA HUNT. 111911 WATIM AT WJDON ZED= Tits DAT Womb& 11E. adlances. Ott. Om. TINIMMOW— Morolog, Ob. 25m ..•••60001. Ob. 33m. LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5. IN the dullest of times the Opening of Parlia ment never fails to excite a vague curiosity and expectation, not only among the representatives of the miscellaneous public, who stand about the entrance of Westminster Hall, but even among the actors in the Parliamentary drams, who ought to know better. For, as regularly as the first week of February comes round, this vague curio- sity succeeds to the fate of many other respectable delusions. Every year the Speech from the Throne becomes more neutral in tint, and the Address, which is a mere amateur copy of the Speech, becomes less amenable to criticism. Perhaps tbe pocu cerantc personal regime under which we have at present the happiness to live, but not to move, has done more to establish the principle of absolute Parliamentary non-inter vention on the first night of the Session than ary former administration, by simply leaving out of the Royal Speech any point of difference or subject of debate, and by confining that "document,"as Mr. DISRAELI would say, to general statements ea in capable of controversy as remarks on the weather. 4 0 that by common consent the first night of the Beasion le tegarneu on both sides of the House as a prologue in which the leaders of the Opposi tion divide with the mover and seconder of the Address the functions of Chorus. Whether this abandonment of old Parliamentary traditions is the result of mutual conciliation or of mutual indifference, may be, like many other questions on which a Ministry was once expected to have an opinion of its own, an open question; but foreign nations will remark, we know not whether with envy, or astonishment, or scow, that just wh, n they are expecting the British Parliament to be most demonstrative, that great Assembly is most impressively and imperturbably quieacent. Last evening, however, it was observed that the House was more than usually crowded, when, after an extraordinary number of Notices, the Mover of the Address rose to fulfil with modest brevity an self-possession his appointed task. Faithful no doubt to the injunctions and example of his chief, Lord R. GROBVILVOR folio red the sagacious precept, Clime:, I yez pas. He glided over the spots marked " den " gerous "—Japan, New Zealand, the lonian Islands—with quiet and easy assurance, and touch ing the question of the day hedistributed regret and blame pretty impartially between all the parties to the dispute. O one point, however, he indulged in a retrospective criticism which will excite some surprise in Denmark. " If," he said, the present King of Dramatis, "instead of yield.ing . to his " Ministers when he came to the throne, had " been guided by his own common sense, he " would have revoked that Constitution which he " has now called together the Rigsraad to do." This is easily said ; and might have been easily done, had the present King of DsasiLlt/i not happened to be, like his predecessor, a constitutional Sovereign, and the Danish nation a nation with a will of its own. The present King of DENMARK did in fact, on his accession, provide himself with a Ministry of his own selection ; but be could not change the nature of his oath or the condition of his authority, nor could any Danish Ministry revoke a constitution without consuletig the representatives of the people. It ill beco.net a member of the Parliament of England to speak lightly of the responsibilities of a constitational KING, but the unconscious levity of Lord R. GROSVENOR'S suggestion is only too characteristic of the fundamental error of the felbionable states manship of our day : the error of leaving nations and national impulses out of the account in treating international questions as the exclusive affairs of Sovereigns and Cabinets. The remarks of the Mover of the Address, however, were—with this one exception —very creditable to his discretion and good sense ; and he had the good fortune to be seconded by the youngest and ablest of the Members for the City, in a speech of signal ability and force. The House of Commons has seldorr, if ever, witnessed so fine a performance of a task that seems to defy originality and to forbid distinction, and a Government that can command such services deserves the congratulation of all true liberals. One of the representatives of the commercial capital of the world is sure of a respectful bearing in the House of Commons, more especially on questions of finance and trade ; but Mr. GOSCHLN, at the outset of a career which promises to be brilliant' ■liim. TEE EXPRESS, and useful, is not only an apt exponent of material interests ; he belongs to a class and order of young men whose practical experience and habits of bui -1 nen are advanced and strengthened by large and liberal culture, by moral elevation, and by severe intellectual discipline. Mr. GO6CHIN avows himself one of " the great Liberal party;" by which designation he evidently means to disconnect himself with any particular section of that party, or to follow any particular leader. None of the old watchwords, or of the old movements of the party satisfy him, nor does he swallow any formula, or subscribe to any cut-and dried programme. He is not for peace at any price ; yet he is, above all, for peace with honour —he is not for absolute non-intervention ; yet he is for non-intervention between sovereigns and subjects—he is an advocate of the unenfrancbised dames, whose wants and wrongs he will not over look ; yet he is no agitator, and he deprecates any attempt to impute the misfortunes of the poor to the criminal selfishness of the rich. He is for freeing labour and the land ; but as a scientific economist, not as a social regenerator. All this sounds like the liberalism of an eclectic philosopher rather than an advanced and active political re former. And eclecticism in politics is sometimes only another name for indifference or dilettantism. But young men of disciplined intellect and business habits do not daily with great principles ; and that Mr. GOSCHEN rightly discerns the larger future of the " great Liberal party," we augur from the earnest satisfaction with which he hails the an nouncement of a Royal Commission for revising the declarations and subscriptions of the clergy of the Established Church. Mr. Dissazo, who spoke with the vigour and freedom of his best momenta, addressed him self to the examination of the Speech of the Royal Commissioners, as he somewhat affect edly described it, with infinite zest, and it must be confessed the work was well laid out for him by the framers of the Speech. It was certainly no stretch of his prerogative as the leader of the Opposition to criticise the conspicuous omissions of that Speech, ita bare recital of the " premises" of the German and Danish question, its evasiveness, its inconclusiveness, its barrenness. " What is your policy ?" Mr. DIsRAKU asked ; and was entitled to ask, if the Speech was to be its own sole interpreter. For beyond reciting the names of the signatories of the Treaty of 1852, and summarizing the conditions of that instrument, the Speech leaves the actual policy of England, as a party to the treaty, and as a most unsuccessful mediator between Denmark and Germany, to the mercy of rumours and events. And yet what England has done, or is about to do, is the only question that can interest the House of Com mons at the present juncture ; it is a question to which no answer is given ; for no papers have been placed on the table. Here was temptation enough to merciless sarcasm, and Mr. Disaszu was in the vein last evening. Had he imitated the Speech which he waatearMg to pieces in its reticence, he might have done.more damage to its resporsible authors. But instead of con cealing his hand he chose to sink the statesman in Vie critic, and, as the French say, to make a dart of every stick he could bud. He seemed to cen sure the Government for not supplying the Oppo sition with weapons of offence. He blamed them for saying nothing about Irish distress and emigre tion, about the desertion of Poland, about the prc bsble duration of the American war, about the d's content of the lonian Islanders, about the Emperor NAPOLEON'S impracticable Congress, which while he described it as "an adroit manwuvre " for retreat ing without fighting and with all the honours of war, he blamed Lord Rues= for declining in "rough" language. Criticisms of tbis sort, however epigram matic, made it tolerably easy for Lord Psmizzsros to puff the heaviest charge away. Urem;unately, after all this running fire of banter, the charge subsists, and only forthcoming events can dis prove it. We are authorised to announce that levees will be held by the Prince of Wales for the Queen before Easter, and probably a drawing-room by the Princess of Wales, on behalf of her Majesty. Levees and drawing-rooms will likewise be held by the Prince ani Princess of Wales after Easter. The Queen is still unequal to the performance of state ceremonies, and her Majesty's physicians have declared that any such ever lion would be preju dicial to her Majesty's health. Cbt Court. OSBORNE, Fib. 4. The Queen, attended by the Marchioness of Ely, drove out yesterday. Major-General Seymour and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. D. de Bo: have an:ved ea Equerries in Waiting. The Priem of Wales came to town from Frogman yester day morning, attended by Lieutenant-General Knollys sad Major Teesdale. His Royal Highness attended the debate in the House of Lords, and returned to Frog.nore in the erasing. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Conned sat peter. day. Au appeal from Madras, "Ramalinja Pillai r. Pillai," was heard sod dismissed. An appeal from New South Wales. "Osborne v. Eels," was heard, and judg ment deferred. The lords present were Lewd Chelindord, the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner, Sir Leanne* Peel and Sir James Weiler. Despatches were seat from the Colonial-aim yesterday to the Governor of Oometa. The Cluincellor of the Exchequer yesterday entertained et dinner et his resideece in Cerltoa•houerterrace, the Bishop of Oxford, the )11 , thop of Salsbury and Mrs. Hamilton, Lady Blantyre and Mir Stuart., Lord Cempbell, Sir Walter James, Lady James, and Hies James, Lord &a non, and Sir Walter Farquhar. Mrs. Gladstone received a sake! party la the evening. ACCIDENT TO PRINCE AL/RED.-.4fi1l Royal High ner Prince Alfred met with a alight accident on Tuesday afternoon, while he was eujoyieg a pme at rackets in the Racket Court, Rose-street, Edinburgh. One of the ball' struck the Prince sharpl► on one of his eyes, which has become bloodshot and swollen. The pain, which was severe at first, has now aimed departed, lied the Prince is expected to leave his apartments in a day or two.—Scots- The Duke of Newcastle, whose absence from the recent cabinet council bas been ►lready noticed, was pre% ented by illness from dining at Earl Granville's on Wednesday night. His gram was said to be better yester day. The Duchess of Somerset will have receptions at the First Lord of the Admiralty's official residence on Wednesdeys, the 17th and 24th inst. The Countess of Derby does not, it is said, intend to hare any receptions mad after Easter. The Earl and Countess Russell Lave a dinner and evening party, this evening, at their family residence, in Cheehsm• place. Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for an ..webby tomorrow evening, at Cambridge Boma. The Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday entertained at dinner, at his residence in Carlton Boum terrace, the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of Salisbury and Mrs. Hamilton, Lady Blantyre and Miss Stuart, Lord Campbell, Sir Walter James, Lady lasses, and Miss James, Lord Brahason, and Sir Walter Farquhar. Mrs. Gladstone remised a select party in the evening. The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa Cavendish are passing the mason at Hollis, Ball, Derby shire. Lord Frederick Cammdish has arrived at Devon shire House from Hollis,. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond will leave lasisms-moan early out weak tor Goodwood. Samoa. FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING AFFAIRS IN JAPAN. EARL RUSSELL ON THE BOMBARDMENT OF KAGOSIMA. This morning the above papers, 76 in number, were issued from the parliamentary printing-office. We extract the following despatches of Earl Russell. The first, it will be seen, treats of the Kagoaima affair. It is marked as an extract : BAll. BCRILILL 10 LIZOTINAII , COLOYIL NULL (Extract] Foreigs•oake, Nov. 10, 1361 I have received and laid before the Queen your deepatchee dated Yokohama, Aeiost 25 and 26. In my despatch of r the 24th December, 1862, I directed you to obtain repara tion for the murder of Mr. Richaideks, and the murderousaa malt on a lady and twogentlemen who, with Mr. Richardson, were riding on a nubile road open by treaty, and who drew up on the side of the road to allow the relation and retainers of a great (kind° to pees. For this barbarous and unpro voked stk.* you were directed to require from the govern meet of the Tycoon the payment of 100,CCY. and an ample apology. You were further directed to require from the Prime of &trues the execu tion of the actual murderers, and the payment of 25,0001. as indemnity to the relatives of the murdered man and to the sufferers from the murderous Ammon. With respect to the Tycoon's government, the demo& you were Just/n(44d to make have been complied with. The tam of 100,0001. hoe been paid, mid a satisfactory apology hes been made by the Tycoon's ministers. Her Majesty has been pleased, in testimony of the patience, good temper, and firmness with which you conducted this negotintion, to confer twin you the Companionship of the Oider of the Bath. The &morn plishment of the remainder of your instructions has been found more difficult. Ten mouths having elapsed without the trial or even the r• met of the murderers, you thought yourself vender the neereity to ask the amistauce of Admral Kuper, and to proceed with him to Kagoeima, the capital of the Prince of Satsuma. In your letters of Atuost 1 and August 12, both delivered on the 12th, you communicated to the tnieiveur of the Prince of Satsuma the demands you were ipso Mita to mete. In the answer of the minister of the Prince of Sat-nms, dated the 13th of August, it is stated that it is just that a man who has killed another ahoe'd be guested and punished by death ; that if the murderers in question can be detected, they shall be punished; and that it is not right to impede the pump of a chief with a large body of retainers on a public road. These answers, in edema, 3to • murder com mitted by the retainers of the prince in full daylight, ten months before, upon a poison who ha I not in any way impeded the mange of a public roe 1, show - i • fix - 3 de termination to afford no Teems. ViceAdmr . ..ll{uper then directed that three steamers belonging to the prince should be taken and detained by way of reprisals. But before any farther oentmunioatioa could take place, hostilities were commenced by the Japanese, sod her Majesty's ships were fired upon from the batteries with shot and shell—an act which it became necessary immediately to resent. The Simmers taken were burnt. The batteries were fired upon from point blank range ; many guns were dismounted and various magazines exploded. It is much to be lamented that as the batteries were apparently situated in and about the town, the oonsequenoe of firing with shot and shell upon the batteries and magazines should have been to set fire to the town, which Admiral Kuper says has been burnt. Many innocent perms have thus unfortunately bees injured. At the Nii time it is obvious that if Admiral Kuper had not retained the fire of the batteries, her Majesty's squadron would have suffered a detest, and fresh murders of Britishaubjecte by the trashed ineolent daimioe would have been perpetrated. Her Ma jesty will express, through the proper department, her ad miration of the gallantry of her navel forces. It is my duty to request you to expo t o the civil Hu rants of the crown who accompanied yore, her Majesty's approbation of the'- coolness mad courage. Tisk. knowledge of the Japans* language was no doubt of great value, both to you said to the naval commander-in-chief. For the present the situation appears to be this :—The Yeddo governmeot, who, in the terms of the despatch of the Prince of Satsuma's minister, "govern and direct every thing," have made and ratified treaties of comma= with Great Brits , a and other European powers. These treaties have proved very advantageous to the main body of the apanese people, who feel the benefit, of a profitable trade with foreigners, and wish that trade to continue. But a powerful feudal aristocracy, finding silk and ries and other produce dearer in the market, and their own privi leges lees valuable, wish to expel all foreigners, and have obtained a decree from the Mikado to that effect. French, American, and Dutch ships have been fired upon with a view to accomplish this object. But the European carioca cannot submit to be thus deprived of an intercourse 'auctioned by treaty, and very beneficial to the mass of the Japanese people, as well as to European nations. Yon will, therefore, cell upon the admiral in any cases whore British persons, ships, or property are attacked, to resent Inch out rage. In this way security for the time may be obtained. But I must wait for your farther accounta before complete instruction@ can be gives as to our policy is Japan. EAIL4 RUSSELL TO TR' LORDS COXIEBSIOYFILS OF TET Apina•Lry. Foreign-office, N0v.14, 1863. Mr. Lore,—l have the honour to irform you• lordships that I have instructed her Majesty's chargé d'sffsires in Japan, that in say cases where British perdue, ship-, or property are attacked, be should call upon the admiral commanding her Majesty's naval forces in Japan to resent such outrages ; and I have to request that the admiral may receive such orders from your lordships re will anthodes him to act to that effect, as far as the means at his disposal may admit of his doing so. The Secretary of State for War some time ago gave order for increasing her Majesty's land forces in China by LOOS men, so that in case of need the admiral will doubt/ems be able to obtain the support of a body of troops from China ; and if with such assistance a fore of SOO soldiers and marines should be available for service on shore in Japan, the batteries which may fire on British skips, and which are armed by the feudal chiefs for the purpose of annoying and interrupting foreign trade, may probably be destroyed, end security be obtained for the peaceful commerce of nations with Japan. Her Majesty's governmeat are especially desirous that while British parade and property are effectually pro. tested, no injury should be inflicted upon the Japanese population. With this view it will be incumbent upon the admiral or senior officer in command on the Japanese waters to endeavour to confine hostilities undertaken by him, as far as possible, consistently with due protectioa to British subjects, their property, and their commerce, to forts and batteries not surrounded by the dwellings and places of the non-combatant inhabitants. It is, of course, part of the duty of the °Moen in command of the ships to return the fire of battik batteries wherever they may be situated, bat, in planning expeditious to sta tions on the coast, the difference between forts placed to disturb commerce and batteries erected for the defence of populous towns should always he borne in mind, and the first-mentioued of these two cisme of forts should be the object of attack, in all eases where there is no absolute nemesity to attack batteries of the second class.-1 am, to., (Signed) Bows.. Km Rum= vo IacUTENANT-OOLOJILL Mum. Foreign-office, Jan. 11, 1864. Sir,—l have received your despatcher of the 16th and 17th of November, the one reporting the withdrawal by the goverument of the Tyoooo of the ord-r for the expulsion of foreiguers, the other giving an account of your 0041111M0)011. tioas with the agents of the Prison of &tannin, which ten minted in an agreement that the prises should pay the indemnity demanded of him for the sufferers on the 14th of September, 1862, and should endeavour to the utmost to discover the murderers of Mr. Richardson, and should cause them, when discovered, to be executed in the proem» of British officers as witnesses of the execution. Her Majesty's government have received with the greatest male faction this intelligesoe of the termination of the preaskag difficulties wit► Japan, and I have to convey to you their satire approval of the conciliateey and judicious maser in which you have conducted yourself generally in these mattere. Her Majesty's government trust that they may sow look forward to British intercourse with Japan being carried on without giving occasion for future collision. It is their outset denim that nothing should emir to interfere wit► peaceful commerce, sad they are prepared to snake full allowance for the peeve Lac character of the Japanese government. In short, the employment of meraures of coercion or retaliation amid only be warranted, In their opinion, by the mosesity of prompt interference for the protection of the lives sod pro parties of British subjects, or for the vindication of the heroin of the British flag if assailed by wanton attacks on the pert of the government or influential nobles. Her Majesty's government are glad to lad that the return of B. ii i D. W. Y., X. IQ. 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Northern=liootlaed. Westarn=lreland, Wales, and ad jacencies goothern=Englialt Channel and Macy Bay. Yuan Eastward England and liellgoiand. Mr. Ferrand will ask on an early day for a select committee to inquire into the coast+ action, the ex pense, end the working of the Board of Charity C2lll - On Tuesday Mr. Adderley will move "that this house is of opinion that endowments attached to schools for the working classes should be taken into calculation with local cootributioes, in apportioning aid from the treasury to any school so endowed. And that, when new miautes of council on education are made, • statemeot in explanation of them should be given to this house by the Vice President, upon due notice, before they come into operation. * Mr. Harvey Lewis intends to move on Monday seat—" That no railway or other bill affecting the streets or thoroughfares of the metropolis be read • wooed time until ten days after reports a the whole of soon bills be laid before this house from the Board of Trade and their engineer, sad also from the Metropolitan Board of Werke and their eagiseer." On Monday Sir William Fraser will ask the Vioe. Chamberlain of her Majesty's household whether the Lord Chamberlain will grant Boraces to theatres la which no adequate provision is made for comps in as of firs Mr. William Edward Forster will ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on Monday next, whether it be true that the tows of Soochow in China has been taken from the Tsepings by help of her li‘jeety's officers employe/ b► the imperialista with the sanctum of her Majesty's government ; whether also the imperialists were aided by supplies from her Majesty's •reseals ; and whether the town thea takes was delivered over to pillage and mammas by the imperialist troops aotwitluMaading the protest, and contrary to the pledge of the British officer la command ; and, if so, whether any and what steps h►ve been taken by her Majesty's government to withdraw that assistance to the Pekin government On Tuesday next Mr. Newdegate will move. in the Hoar of Closnototia, for leave to introduce a bill fee the commutation of church rates. Mr. Locke King's bill to extend the franchise Is rawatiee is is the list of basis/se for the 23rd. On the 23rd Mr. Hibbert intriods to call the ettentioa of the geese of 00011000/ to the desseralideg effects of public amseations. u , sa.scrarcsx Scrums AT OSBORNE —Two lectures on voltaic sad Meth eketrieity, n sanoanoed het week, were delivers' by Professor Tyadall, is the ormumil•room at Osborne. befits kw Majesty the Quoins, t h e royal ail dreo, and their talon. and about twisty ladles and war men in attendesos. The Iseiares was, as epitome ef the lately given by the professor at the Royal hesitance. Her Majesty, and especially his lloyel Highness Prises T.= exhibited great isterest is many of the mabjeote upon ; and lacked it is probable that the yeast prises may already be leotard anionipt than mindsets of Wean at whom handle electricity may possibly meshy farther extols• doe sad applioatico.—lisorriciart. A Mostrrsa Steam Wuurrts.—A new deals whistle (to arouse the workmen), mix fest high sad Mama ieches in diameter, has been erected on Colt's revolver fen. tory, is Martian!, Commotion.. LAW INTELLIGENCE (THIS DAY.) COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Ware the Jodie Ordinary.) COTTRELL V. COITULL. Dr. Wambey for Mr. Martin for the re. spondaic. This wen a petition filed by a person in the employ of a trunk-maker to Oxford-street for a dissolution of his mar riage, on the ground of his wife's adultery with persons un known. The marriage was in 1854, and cohabitation lasted seven years. There was ooe surviving child. The petitioner, being dissatisfied with his wife's 000 duct, separated himself from her, and made her= allowance of 8.. per week, which he after wards rednoed to ss. He now alleged that she had been living the life of a prostitute. Them were some recriminatory pleas, but no evidence was offered in rapport of them. A witnese was, however, called to show that the Widmer motioned to be in the habit of visiting his wife down to 1863, and of being alone with her in her room. . . . . . ihecOti;tOotarT not conclude that there had been any condonation, and granted s decree nisi. JOTCZ r. JOU& Dr. Spinks and Mr. Searle for the petitioner. The respondent, Francis Joyce, weir • bookseller and librarian at Bouthamptoo. In 18214 he married Ellen Con, of Bath, and lived very hapOly with her till 1836, when she was visited by Miss I marshy, • female friend, with whom he eventually eloped. The petitioner made mineral attempts to bring him to • sense of his duty ; and the friends of Mims Yeerelay twice removed her from him. He had, how. • . ever, s .ed in getting her back and had since lived with her in Franca, where he practised as • medical man. He had voluntarily sent the petitioner • full and formal admission of the adultery, together with a renunciation of all chime upon her property. The petitioner stated that the reason why she could not present her petition sooner was simply because her friends had only lately called her attention to the change in the law of directs,. Sir J. Wilde would take time to consider what was right to be doom He should not improbably order the question of unreasonable delay to be argued before the full court. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) c. PLUMS. 111 Elt This was the sitting for order of discharge. The bank. rapt wan the well known merchant and shipowner, of Nioholnlane, and of Hall, of which latter place the bank rupt was mayor, when the adjudication took place, about eighteen months ago. The accounts have already appeared in detail ; end the facts were fully brouslit before the wort at the lest sitting on au ex amination of the bankrupt. It then appeared that against unsecured liabilities of 324,0001., there were meta of about 32,C.0/. The bankrupt. who had consigned largely of mashing of war to the port of Nunn (igoorantly described in the Times u being in the Confederate States) had had the raidortune to have ascent of hie vessels se i e . r d by the Pedant cruisers, and taken into Federal porta for the decision of the prise courts, on which denims the smote available for division amongst the on mound creditors are to a greet extent dependent. At the last witting the bankrupt nand his lad examination, and to-day wee appointed far the ceder of discharge. Mr. LIWTS2IOI) appeared for the assignees ; Mr. Bagley and Mr. Llok.leter for creditors, and Mr. C. E. Lewis fot the bankrupt. Mr. Gardiner, the official assignee's clerk, read a shock re embracing the figures given above. report said the assignees offered oo oppotition to the order of discharge, the bankrupt not having brought himself within the penal Omni of the act of ISM. Had the law remained as it was prior to that time, the bankrupt would clearly have been liable to a suspension of his oendleate. His Honour suggested that Hr. Lowrance, shored addrees himself to the question whether the bankrupt had been gully of rash and hazardous speculation. Mr. Lowrance said that though the creditors were nume rous, so individual case of (nirvanas bad been suggested ; the amigos" therefore, who represented a large amount al err titan, *paid rely deal with the arse in the concrete. The baronet bad made • =map settlement in 1038 ; the assignees had inquired into his position at that time, and (mud that be was solvent, with • or plus of 20,01 Y. —at least they were not in • position to disprove that statement. A man with such • surplus might properly eater into speculations, which in another would be rash and hazardous. There were no means of testing Mr. Remotes position between July, 1858, and the bankruptcy ; the surplus of 20,0001. might have been increased, or it might have teen gradually dimi nishing. There was no ground for charging the bark' zpt with ezoosive personal expenditure. The Commissioner—How much is it put down at! Mr. ClardinF-1,5C04 •,year. The Comnr.sionor —And what where his gems profits Mr. Lowrance feared it would be very difficult, looking at the result, to amigo any amount as grow profits ; it would rather be • gores lose. Th e only question was woollier the bankrupt was chargeable with nib sod hazardous speada tie°. In the CUM of B rased and Rosenthal, which west before the Lords Justices, it had been laid does by Lord Justice Turner that no speculation on the pert of a trader 000ld be rash and hazardous =lees be roe signed goods to • desert island. (A laugh.) His Honour observed that that ease only referred to • single Teutons ; cod wish el deference to Lord Justine Turns, he could not think that she reference to the desert Weed had beet seism* employed. He wished to know if this teaks apt bad not asharkod in specelatioas debars bin trade of merchant and shipowner. . . Mr. learience said it ion quite true that the bankropt bad exported 'age quantities of munitioes of war, which, had they succeeded in tanning the blockade, would bare sold in the Confederate Staten at an enormous prods. as in tact some of them had dose. Considering that the auditors who supplied these goods were probably aware of their destination, the cue was not so strong against the banki apt as if he had peur.hasti the good. on the representation that they were meant for a trade in which there cur so risk. There were claims spinet the Federal, Confederate, and Italian govern ments to the extent of 185,0CX but this item was not carried cuts. an asset. There wee a deficiency of 288,0001. ; and the question really wee one for the court to determine, looking at the bankrupt's position as a merchant and ship owner, and at the result of tbe trading, whether he had been guilty of rash and hazardous speculation or sot. Mr. Gardiner here pcaistcd out to the court that the per sonal expenditure of the baakrapt hal bees really upwards of 3,CC Y. a year, mid not 1,5031., as stated at the foot of the balasossibeet. Hi Honour said the bankrupt aught to be calla o n to explain ibis discrepancy 111 in cries o f rub speculation or gambling the ersonot ist Personal expenditure was always an =poi WA consideration : . . . Mr. Lawrence said that the larger item included many expenses of the firm, which could not properly be included under the head of personal expedditurs. Through this pro. Lotted inquiry the bankrupt had given the assignees all the as istime an his power. The bankrupt, azamiurd by Mr. Bagley, stated that Lb liability was kat confined to Hull. He began lib se a railcar boy, became master of • ship, and then maw sad merchant. He had begun as • merchant; he used to carry ha owe goods. lie had had • furnished house is Loudon for the last twelve months ; bed lived is Hereford. road end Wegbourne-grove, Bayswater. Had only Ulm • house in town at the UM of his basin entry. Before that time he lived at Hull, and ease up to town oece • week. Ha I had an office in Loaded also. 1855. Every expense iodine wee entered in his hooks. He was debited ia different ledgers with 4,3001.. sad 13,0001. as penmanl expos. altars. This included 1,1501. as premiums on life pollens, some of which were included ia his wife's settlement, omega and bones (which had been given up), 8001. This expenditure exteedr t over font years. Hr. Gardiner explaised that out of 18,0001. debited to the bankrupt in four years, ha had sped 12,4001. Oil himself or his owe purposes. Examination existioned—Had not made say lodence4heen sines Deeember, 1858, but knew his position. Up to 1880 he was in partnership with lfr.Colemaa, his I rotherdn-law r who had one-fourth of the busbies. When he retired aai estimate of their position was made, end witness Mr. Coleman outßeconsidered that the concern we= flourishing. He lad took stock within three mouths of the failure ; the particabus were in one of his books ; could not r) which. The resell showed a large balance is his favour taking credit for 130,0,.)1. due on bills which had bees re; tuned. Mr. Lawrence mid the assign.. had never seen QM stook-taking ow had Mr. Beene, the so3ouotant. Mr. C. B. Lewis said he was prepared to show, on the se dude as they stood, that the bankrupt's position, three months before the failure, 7iras . seed!s. he described. Bankrept, further agai;cined—Did mot bean to mortgage ships, as woe se he crianiceneed beams& Had dose as toe the last two years. Has bed large trumetioss is the pur chase of ships with Messrs. ()reread, Gurney, and Company. is all Mims tirensactioos part gamma was in eseh, and bills were gime, with mora gages oa the vessels se eiscurity. He accepted tine, and gave mortgages ou the ships as security. One traasection was the purchase of 7 steamers, in Mg 1861, for 88,000 i. For those he ace. pled the drafts of 'blame. Barker, by arrespimeet with Messrs. Overeed, who sever drew bills tbemselvea. He did not give 'maimed' oil the freighte, scaly on the ships themselves. Afterwards, I. coasegosece of the ammo in premiums of is manse from 15 to 60 per mot, be was obliged to borrow money to effect insurances. He borrowed of Berm Gamey, sad gave them security oe the freights. The edemas is the rate of reserance was swiss to a orgies y Presideet Lisools that vesesle appcoachiog the blockaded goods should be warned off; bat no ware* was ease, and the mewls ware matured. Through the course taken by Berl Rumen, they hat bad to pay 30 per cent. matriume en vessels booed for a British poet is Bermuda is April, 1862, be purchased three vowels, leeleding the Merrimac, from Messrs. °reread, for 55,0001., given 10,0001. in cash and a moarettggaaggee oa the vessels and cargoes ; but they had 'Moe :rrederad their elan to the produce of the goods. there leg =iambi ia the agreement. The estate vreald bacelit by time to the attest of about 8,0301. Smith sad Co., heehaw. of Hell, iberaciatedlo.oook worth of bills for hlm June er July, 1863 , for which be gave them arearity ea eer y sad to the Omfederate gsvermasidi for 22,00/. Some of the vendors of those goods were still crclitors on his estate. Could not tell how low it was LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE POLICY OF FRANCE. The uncandid conduct of the French government with regard to the Danish question provokes the following remarks from the &Me :—" In former times an interpellation in the chamber would have compelled the foreign minister to say what the policy of the government really was. Now we are reduced to the articles of the Constitutionnet as our only source of information. Would it not be better to give direct explanations, if not in the chamber, at least in the columns of the Moniteur In spite of the assurances of the Constitutionntl, that France has no direct interests involved in the contest on the Eyder. the country cannot under stand how it happens that a treaty to which France was a party is flagrantly violated, or how such an important question as that of the duchies can be settled by force without France having any part in the arrangement." THE DEFENCES OF SLESWIG. The People's Gazette of Berlin publishes the fol lowing details of some of the defensive measures adopted by the Danes : According to private accounts from Slaiwig the Danes °cation° actively engaged in fortifying that tow*. Their lad refuge will consist in the works erected on the Finde. dobbin, an eminence situated at the gates of the town, and which, notwithstanding its Imo extent, arll offer • very solid point of reeistence, in consequeore of the bat teries which defend it. Those works are prim :dad with high ramparts and deep ditches, and join, by forming a half circle, the suburb of Fredericksburg. Four homes which do< d is the way of those redoubts have been demolished, and the road has been out in order to join • stream of water which protects them on the south to the Eichlei. Neasures have been at the same time taken to cover • retreat by putting those redoubts in coonexion with a military road which goes from Fredericks berg towards the north. That road extends in an opposite direction as far ro the Dannewerke. In coosequeace of those arrangements, any attempt to turn the Dannewerke by the aid would meet with very serious difficulties. Gen. de Nese, doubtless, had such au eventuality in view when he lately fortified an 'eland in the Schlei, whence the Eekerofcerde raid could be commanded to a great extent. No doubt can, therefore, exist that the Doom are prepared for a desperate resistance. POLAND. The Chwi la (the Moment) of Cracow of 31st ult., says :—" Yesterday afternoon • perqnisition was effected in the offices of this journal, also at the residences of the principal editors, MM. Maslowaki and Szakiewiez, and at the printing office of the Czas. The object of this measure was to search for the late proclamation of National Government. The document sought for the was not found, but four other printed papers referring to the Polish insurrection were seized." RUSSIAN INTRIGUES IN INDIA. The Levant Herald of the 25th ult. has the fol lowing: A piece of intelligence has reached us is a letter from Tiflis of the 4th inst., of more than usual interest. Four Rustic officers, endeavouring to penetrate into India, for the purpcee, it is alleged, of joining the frontier trit insurrection there, have been arrested by order of the Khan of Bakhara, and are now imprisoned in the latter city. They were disguised as travelling merchants; but seme little indications of ocetume and speech, betraying their foreign origin, excited the suspicion of the Boklaarlees, and resulted is their ►ppreheasioo. They then &vomit who they were, and what was their destination. The Emir, however, suspecting them of being spies, - - Word them ; and the nu t active measures are being taken by the governor of Auremberg, on in struetioes from St. Beteniburg, t s procure their relc- We have this fact on undoubted authority ; rid it afters a st,ili;eg ioetr-ire of the yen teed persevering modr- re sated to by the Russian goveinment, in order to hi , .her their political ends. Hare air four skillcd Russian officers, caught, so to speak, red-handed, in an endeavour to g:v perpoee and power to the insurrection of the &Urns h"I fanatics against British rule in the not .11-west pros; - s of oar India.' F-up're. TURKEY. The Levant Herald of the 25th ult. says :—" We have reasons to believe that the Turkish govern ment has decided upon establishing at Constanti nople a distinct law court in the form of a Tribunal of Arbitration, for the purpose of settling in an equitable manner all commercial disputes and dif ferences, whether between the Porte and foreigners, or between Turkish subjects and foreigners resi dent in the Ottoman dominions. The con will consist of three members—an English barrister, and a French and a German advocate. Wo have heard the names of these gentlemen who have been selected for this new judicial office ; and we understand the salary of each has been fixed at 1,2001. a year. This institution may, no doubt, be made productive of great future benefit. It will save the Porte the frittering away of large sums in protracted wrangles about contracts ; litigations on questions of personal, commercial, and international contention will be considerably shortened, justice will be promptly administered, and both the public and the government will reap the benefit." (moires Trumums.) AUSTRIAN LOSS IN THE ATTACK UPON JAGEL. RENDS:BURG. Fm. 5. In the attack upon Jagel, the day before yester day, the Austrian brigade Gondercourt lost 400 men, with many P uperior officers. Two persons named Hardeavogt and Blauenfeld offered themselves as guides, but conducted the Pruisian troops against the Austrians. Both parties fired into each other. THE MEXICAN QUESTION. PARIS, F. 5. The Moniteur of to-day publishes a oOrrespond enoe from Mexico, which contains an extract from a letter addressed by the Archduke Maximilian, on the 4th November, to General Almonte, stating that his resolution is well washed. The &dykes also announce the departure of a fresh deputation commissioned to offer the Arch duke the ratification by the Provinces of the vote of the Assembly of Mexican Notables, which was the condition laid down by the Archduke for his acceptance of the crown. The same authority holds out the prospect of the early adhesion of Generals Doblado, Drags, and Etchegaray, to the new empire. " M. Guizot," says the /edipeadance, "has read to the French Academ► an interesting fragmeet from the volume of his ' Memoirs,' which is to be published shortly. This extract contains an account of M. Guisot's entry into the ministry in 1840. and a relation of the ooeveysoes of the remains of the Emperor Napoleon I. to Paris. IL Oairot, in referring to the profound security which Louis Philippe appeared to enjoy at that period, admits the im prudent coafidsece which go►ernments often place is them selves." Of the four Polish deputies belonging to the Premien Secood Chamber, who were proviiimally released from prison in consequence of s vote of that body, two, K. de Lelasoski and Doctor &omen, have diappeared without leaving as, truss. The third, M. de flalerezyski. has been again confined is prison, while the fourth, IL de Nigro .lewski, is seder surveillance. Peen are entertained that ►e will out recover from his Mess. RAILROAD ORNRILOSITY.—The Cleveland Sad Columbus Railroad Compeer ham voted 10,0C3 dole. to the sadists' families during this whiter. It is usderstoad that the other railroad companies in Ohio will:allow this liberal sad praiseworthy szareple.--oSio paper. • : ; 1864 v . friendly mulattoes has beet quickly followed by as iscrsesed had' ; but ►er Majesty's gosera>•eat approve your inter forams with the J 441111118 goverment, as reported is your despatch d tie 16th of November, to prevent the erection of batteries which would have plated forega shipping at Yokohama in a disadvantageous position in cue of any _ . Menace with the Japanese government.—l am, km, (Signed) littsain. A despatch from Lieut.-Colonel Neale to Earl Russell, dated Nov. 17, 1863, concludes by saying that "the information which has reached us from various sources, including some of the officers of the Prince of Satsuma, establishes the fact that the losses sustained by the prince and the punishment inflicted by her Majesty's squadron at Kagosima were very considerabla. The destruction of pro perty is estimated at 1,000,0001. sterling, and the number of Satsuma's adherents killed and wounded is stated to have been 1,500." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ant owl oonswonnsirr.) PARIS. THEIBLWAT EVZNING. The Queen's speech was known in Paris before the close of the Bourse. The assurances of her Majesty that she would still continue her efforts in favour of peace were laid hold of by the speculators for the rise as evidence that England will not help Denmark; and, under these circumstances, their hope is that speedy success on the part of the over whelming forces of Austria and Prussia will put an end to the war. On the other band it is remarked that the Queen is advised to insist strongly upon the "integrity of the Danish monarchy " and upon the maintenance of the "avowed objects" of the treaty of 1852. Moreover a telegraphic summary of an article in the Daily News of this morning hints that ministers in their speeches to parliament will probably submit to the country that a more energetic conduct is really neceasaty than it was desirable to indicate in a speech from the throne. The latter conside rations, added to the material fact of a fall of Consols, made the Bourse extremely heavy. Rente fell 20c. for cash, and 15c. for account, closing at 661 r. and 661 r. 10c. Mobiller fell 13fr. 25fr. The Northern Railway fell 6fr. 25c. ; in other Foes there was little change. The France speaks of a pilvate despatch from Hamburg of this day's date, stating that Miasunde has fa"en, but no other paper contains the news, which I would fain hope is not true. A despatch from Kiel tells us the story that General Meza has declared that he cannot hold the Dannewerke for more than six days against the superior numbers of the German army, but that the enemy must lose 5,000 men per day. The Dannewerke is the stronghold of the Danish army. The Pays says that out of 70,000 men which con stitutes their whole force, 63,000 are in that fortress. The Akkbar of Algiers states that as soon as the speeches made by M. Ernest Picard and M. Jules Fevre, in the Legislative Body, on the Algerian question, became known in the colony, a number of persons came forward to offer subscriptions for the purpose of presenting to those gent:emen an object of Algerian at;. as a testimonial of geatitude for their efforts in promoting the interests of the colonists. A committee is to be appointed on the matter. WEATHER REPORT.—crEas DAY.) 711JAT, naItILIT I I LK .ca sec!J