The Express. — London, England, 1862-10-24 00:00:00

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Half-a-dozen conspicuous in stances within the last few days attest the fact; and it is worthy of note that the Parliamentary indisposition to take fire appears equally great in Berkshire and Yorkshire, in Greenock and Stamford. Neither does party or faith seem to have anything to do with the matter. Tory and Whig, Presbyterian and Puseyite vie with each other in aversion to the idea of being drawn upon any pretence into foreign wars, either civil or na tionaL Mr. MorreeroN Miters, and Mr. Serjeant Proorr are friends of Lord Paimmusrox ; but the one, while pleading for aid to Lancashire distress, warns the sufferers against being deceived by the hope that intervention in America could possibly do them any good ; while the other declares that ho would consider it a great calamity if a new Power were added to those of Christendom, founded confessedly upon the right to perpetuate and to extend slavery. Mr. DUNLOP goes still further, and, true to the popular principles of which he is an able and fear less defender, he avows that his good wishes are still for the North, and that he only regrets so many there do injustice to the real sentiments of this country, and suffer themselves to be mystified and misled by factious speakers and writers amongst us. More curious and more significant still is the language held by the two nominees of Lord Extras for the borough of Stamford. Lord ROBERT CECIL made a sort of apology, half in bitterness and half in banter, for not making a party speech about domestic or foreign affairs. For the life of him, even he could not make out any symptom of liberal progress on the part of the present Government, and therefore for once he had nothing practical to object. to. We will do him the justice to say that, reckoning from his antecedents, if there had been anything of the kind, he would have scented it out, and worried it in thoroughbred style. But his lord ship admits there is nothing in Lord PALMERf3TON'S actual position which any sound Tory ought to object to. He has buried Reform, and now sits merrily whistling on its tombstone. What could his old colleague Siomouni, or his much calum niated master of cabinet arts CASTLEREAGH, do more to please the owners of close boroughs or their representatives in Parliament ? Lord Ropes?, as an affectionate eon, may think that that distinguished and disinterested nobleman, Lord SALISBURY, ought to be in the Government; and considering how well he and the PREMIER agree about dividing between them the representation of Hertford, and that there are no party questions any longer to sever them, we do not profess to say why the thing should not be. Certain it is, however, that the sole reservation the noble Member for Stamford makes in his ex cessively feeler-like speech, is on the point of sus pected willingness to meddle with our neighbours' affairs. He wishes that some of her MAJESTY'S Ministers were members of the Anti-meddling-in other-people's-business Society. This is plainly aimed at the Citaxcin.Los of theExutronea, who, by the way, seems to have a hornet's nest about his ears ever since his unlucky visit to Newcastle. Hardly a day passes without our having to print some perplexing interrogative addressed to him in consequence of his imprudent speech on the banks of the Tyne ; and it is certainly some consolation to think that nationally we have come to a time of life when not even the explosive power of genius like Mr. GLADSTONE'S can ignite a brand so ready for the burning on all occasions as the noble Mem ber for Stamford. Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE is another sort of man. He was once private secretary to Mr. Girnerowe, and still loves to call him his right hon. friend. There are still many points on which they agree ; and in his recent work on financial policy the minister-that-hopes-to-be deals tenderly with every subject in the diecussionof which the name and fame of his old chief are mixed up. We think all the better of Sir Srerroan for this, and we advert to the fact bare to show how strong is the sense of right and truth which impels such a man, at such a moment, to come forward with urgent recommendations against wavering from the rule of non-interference. As a rival candidate for office, he was bound to say nothing to warn those who three years ago supplanted him and his friends on a false pretence of zeal for re form. The most chivalrous honour might have contented itself with silence after the recent protest of the SECRETARY for Was spinet the supposition that the Government regarded the fate of the American war as decided, or that they were in any sense prepared to admit that JEF FERSON Davis had made the South a nation. But the Tory baronet in this instance casts wide all THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1862. reserve, and boldly asserts in linguae as strong as any ever used by MACKINTOSH or Onsi(we mean, of course, the real not the imitation stetenton), that the duty of England is to synipathisewith every nation seeking to be tree, 'whatever forme of freedom it may prefer, but in no case to attempt the imposition of our selfish or arrogant will upon a neighbouring people. He did not wish to say anything which should seem to throw out a taunt to any foreign nation. He desired to see happiness sad peace and prosperity prevail everywhere. But we must feel that all the principal nations of the world were in a state of the greatest anxiety, and, in =my re spects, of the greatest confusion and suffering; and we must also feel that England bed a mission towards those countries which it was our duty and our privilege to fulliL Constitutional government sod peace and order were in peril in many countries throughout the world. We, by exhibiting a friendly attitude, might be of infinite service is pointing out the path for them to perms, and encouraging them in their time of trial. It was not, however, by inter ference in their affairs, bet by holding out the hand of friendship, and offering them advice and encouragement in their need, that we should best enable them to attain the same safe ground we ourselves had reached. So, too, the path of Italy was still beset with snares and pitfalls : be it England's part, like a true friend, to light her steps by clear and neutral counsel, and neither to bargain with nor to bully her in her hour of need. America, said Sir STAFFORD, " had been one of the great apostles of freedom ;" WAS it, then, for England, who claimed a similar mission, to have any hand in weakening her, or to anticipate her humiliation or dismemberment ? Truly, Mr. GLADSTONE seems to have made few proselytes among the intelligent members of the Legislature to the Confederate cause. He will hardly point to Lord llARDwicicz as an instance the other way. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) This morning the ceremony of proroguing parlia ment to Nov. 13 took place in the Hose of Lords, in the presence of those of the officials who are in tows at this dull season of the year. The house itself presented the dullest possible aspect. The throne was covered up so closely that not a bit of it could be seen, while all the benches were similarly cared for, giving the place the ap pearance of the large room of a gentleman's house, the owner of which was out of town for the season. Cbc eroun. BRUSSELS, Ocr. 23, 9.25 A.M. The severity of the gale still renders it impossible for the Queen and the royal party to embark no their return to England. Her Majesty remains in privacy at Lacken. The Duke of Newcastle ban arrived in London, from his seat, Clamber Park, Notts. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey arrived in town on Wednesday night, from his seat, Fallodon, Northum berland. The Chancellor of the Exchequer hex arrived at hie resi dence on Carlton•house-terrace, from Hawarden Castle, Chester. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of the settlements on the West Coast of Africa. It appears that the cabinet council summoned for yesterday afternoon was not held. The Prince of Wales and the Prince and Princess of Prussia arrived at Marseilles on Tuesday evening, and passed the night on board the yacht Osborne. Their royal highnesses left on Wednesday morning for Palermo. A letter from Coblentz states that the Duchess of Hamilton was expected there in a few days on a visit to the Queen of Prussia. The Grand Duchess Louise of Baden and the hereditary mince are also expected w arrive at Coblents, on a visit to the Prussian Queen. The Grand Duke of Baden will visit England in a few days. His high ness will be accompanied by the court marshal (H. von Gemminger) and M. Ungern-Sternberg, a cabinet coun cillor. Hie Highness Prince Paskowitch, Count Hares kiss, and General Ohaneakoff have arrived at the Bruns wick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Paris. His Excellency Baron Bentinek has returned to town from Brighton. His Excellency the Bavarian Minister and the Barman de Cetto have arrived in town from Brighton. The Earl and Cowlitz= of Fife are receiving company at loam Hausa, Moray. The Earl of Kinnoull has bought a mansion in Be'grave-square, lately the residence of the late Mr. David Bairns. The Earl and Countess of Scarborough, Lord and Lady Bloomfield, Mr. and Lady Catherine Woyland and Mrs. Talbot Clifton have left the St. Goorge's Hotel. The marriage of the Hon. Selina Rice Trevor, daughter of Lord Dynevor, and the Earl of Longford, is fixed to take place on the 12th of neat month. A marriage will shortly take place between Sir William Russell, Bart., M.P., and the only child and heiress of the late Mr. R. Wilson. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is at Rockcorry, county of Monaghan, on a visit to Lord Cremorne, with whom he will remain until to-morrow (Saturday). The Bishop of Loudon, who is still in Norfolk, has consented to preach in St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich. on Tuesday next, on behalf of the Home Missions of the Church of England, in connexion with the Additional Curates' Society, in Whitehall. The Bishop of Norwich will preside. Yesterday evening the mayor of Liverpool en tet Woad the mayor and corporation of Manchester at • grand banquet at the Town Hall. Covers were laid for 250, and in addition to the members of the civic bodies of Manchester and Liverpool, Lord Stanley, Sir H. Havelock, Admiral Evans, and the mayors of Preston, Rochdale, Bel. too, Stockport, Wigan, Blackburn, and Leeds were among the guests. The Lord Chancellor of Ireland has subscribed 201. to the O'Connell statue fund. The Freeman's Journal points to the significance of this large subscription, as coming from the head of the judicial bench, the head of the magistracy, the highest official next to the viceroy, and "the keeper of the Queen's conscience in Ireland." The Daily Express comments in strong terms on the alleged impropriety of thus honouring the memory of the greatest sgitator on the part of a high state functionary. Dr. Corrigan has just been elected for the fourth time President of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland. This election four times in succession of the same president is unprecedented in the annals of the college. The conservatives of Essex had another gathering yesterday. On this occasion the meeting took place at Colchester, and it was attended by nearly all the members of the party within the county. The principal speakers were Mr. Miller, Mr. Peacocks, Mr. Du Cane, and Major Beresford. Mr. Peacocks pressed the necessity of the recog nition of the South, and declared that he had it on the beat authority that there was nothing the Southern States de sired so much as recognition. He also stated that the Em peror of the French had informed Mr. Slidell of his wish to acknowledge the Confederate States, but that be was un willing to act without England. Mr. Du Cane claimed Lord Palmerston as the tory head of a radical cabinet, and re calling the fable of Penelope weaving her embroidery by day and taking it to pieces by night, said Lord Palmerston's administration was the Penelope of the day, sad Lord Palmerston the Penelope of the night. THE DISTRDIS IN LANCASHIRE.—Yesterday after woo, a meeting was held in the lower room, Easter-hall, in 000nexion with a supplementary food which has been established for the relief of the distress in the manufacturing districts. Mr. Wilbraham Taylor, who presided, said that op to the present time the amount received on account of the fund bad been 2,6671. 4s. 2d., while only 2071. 6 8 . had yet been spent. A scheme was on foot which would require 1,000/. for Manchester alone, while if the scheme were ex tended to Blackburn, Preston, and other towns, 1,0001. or 1,2001. would be required for each, to that the money was as good as gone although they bad more than 2,0001. in baud. The meeting was addressed by Mr. Robert Baxter (of the firm of Baxter, Rose. and Norton, parliamentary agents), Mr. G. PBlllll4 of Westbourne-terrace, and other gentlemen, end a subscription was entered into on behalf of the sup plementary fund, in aid of which it was announced that Mew*. Bouverie, Ransom, and Co., the baaken, of Pall. mall East, bad consented to receive donation,. LekTkAT CONSTITUTIONAL COLLISION TN AUSTRIA. It is a carious fact . that in Austria a conflict of the same kind as that iu Prussia kaa just arisen between the government and the Upper Chamber on the one side, and the Chamber of Deputies on the other. The Chamber of Peers has maintained the increase of salary proposed for the ambassador of Austria at Rome, and for the president of the Military Commission of Frankfort, without taking any notice of the vote by which the Cham ber of Deputies had suppressed the demanded augmentation. The government has taken part with the Upper Chamber, declaring that no erasure of an expense inscribed in the budget can acquire a legal and obligatory character until it has been sanctioned by both chambers and by the crown. "It will be seen," says the Vienna Prase, "that this new constitutional theory is precisely the one which has been put forward by the Prussian Chamber of Peers and by M. de Bilmark. Now we know also, by the example of Prussia, where this doctrine leads." Nam. Guru PorrLosa ..„ GALWAY DALMTIA QUKI.NBDOWN IDOL. MILD LINN:IA*4. Pr.toutor. PIDININON PLYMOUTH— WIND, •17111 ruiIUVI H DOVID LONDON VailloUTH iOl . • He; tetoi.Awn W.N.W. W.N.W. N.W. N.W. N.N.E. W.N.W. 8.8. W. W.N.W. W.N.W. W.N.W. N. W.N.W. W.N.W. N.W. W.N.W. N.W. W.N.W. 1710114111.1. )1. 6 8 712 4 4 2 -- SATUILDAY. 51:111PAY. N. to W. and N.L, Boomatio. N.N.N. to W.N.W., omit, rain or mow. strong, squally. now. N.N.N. to W.N.W., IRTUND. N.W. to 8.W., strong strong. wlnato moderate. N.W.to A . W.w. and W. CLNTILLL N.N.N. to W.N.W., - N . N. fresh to moderate. fresh. W.N.W. to N.N.F, B.W.Enot.AnD. N.E. to N.W., mode fresh to moderate. rate, ABC N.W. to N.E. strop" S.E. EnoLtato. KN.& to N.N.W ..._ ...... . ' .fresh. ' As nest above. fresh to moderate f'Aane. As neat above and fine. Advice' from Vienna state that the Empress of Austria will probably again pan the winter at Venice. The Finland journal buometar estimates at about 530,000 souls the population which is suffering from the effects of the bad harvest in the governments of Uleeborg, Kuopio, Wasa, Tavastehus. and Saint Michel. Active measures have been adopted by the Finland government to assist the necessitous inhabitants. It has opened, as already announced, the corn storehouses of the crown, and distributed 345,000 tons of flour in those provinces. Public works have been increased, and a sum of 4fr. each has been specially devoted to draining the marshes of Palate and Perche, in order to furnish employment for the suffering villagers in that neighbourhood. Private individuals also do their beat to second the measures of the government. A letter from St. Petersburg, dated the 13th inst., gives some details respecting the reforms introduced by the Czar into the administration of justice. The trial by jury is to be established such as it exists in France. The administration of justice is to be completely inde pendent of the government. Magistrates have been appointed for the examination of criminal matters. AU judicial proceedings are to be public. The judges hold their appointments for life, and they cannot be removed from one bench to another without their own consent. The Senate is authorised to form itself into a Court of Cliasatioc,and it is to be divided into several sections, of which each is to have its particular attributes. A. TURKISH GREAT Exumrrmx.—The example of the International Exhibition seems not to have been lost on the Porte. A greed show of native produce sod industry has been decided on, and will be held in Stam boul during the coming Itamazan. To secure the success ful realisation of this idea, special local delegates are to be at once appointed in ►ll the principal d i stricts of the empire.for the collection and classification of samples. These last will be forwarded to the capital free of all custom or other dues, and at the government expense. As in London, mien of the articles exhibited will be slowed, and, in the event of their not being so disposed of, the government will engage to buy all the smaller parcels. Prize*, in money or medals, will also be given to the succesaful exhibitors. Wholly new though this ides is in the history of Turkish industry, and obviously suggested also by the London ease. prise, if intelligently and energetically carried out, it earn hardly fail to have the best effect as a stimulant to the agriculturist. and manufacturers of the oountry. The initiative in the matter is, we believe, wholly due to the Orsnd Vizier.—Lcrani Herald, Oat. 15. =PRIM FltuM rAuts. A FATAL DIIEL-AN EDITOR KILLED BY A DUKE. tisox oua owe oosaseronwrr.) PARIS, THURSDAY EYZNINGI. - Mr. Dillon, a member of the English bar, who for many years past has been the editor of the French journal the Spiwt, and wail well known as an organiser of French races, was killed yesterday at St. Germain in a duel with the Duke de Gra mma Caderousse. The cause of the quarrel which has resulted in this fatal issue is said to be that the duke, some time ago, on the occasion of some races at the Chalons tamp, objected to a certain Mr. Thomas being entitled to the qualification of a "gentleman rider." Mr. Dillon, in his journal the Sport espoused the cause of Mr. Tho mas, and wrote several paragraphs which greatly irritated the Duke de Caderonsse. The latter addressed several letters to the Sport, and to the France Hippigue, and those journals not inserting them, he got them printed in a minor Belgian paper. Thereupon Mr. Dillon sent a hostile message to the duke, choosing for his friends Colonel Viscount de Nod, and another officer named De Maury. The duke at first ob jected that a man of his rank was not bound to meet Mr. Dillon, but being provoked by a strong letter from Colonel de Nod, he waived that objection, and authorised his friends, the Prince d'Essling and Viscount Tidon, to arrange a meeting. Mr. Dillon, as the offended party, chose pistols for weapons, I but after a negotiation, which resulted in the withdrawal of the Prince d'Essling from the affair and the substitution of M. Fitzjames as one of the duke's seconds, it was agreed that the duel should be fought with swords. After a few passes Mr. Dillon was run through the body by his adversary's sword—the heart was touched and he died on the spot. The Constitutionnal contains the following ex- Planation of the Sidcle's statement relative to the expulsion from France of the Italian deputy, M. Petruccelli della Gattina : Those assertions [those of the Sieele] are entirely without foundation. M. Petruccelli della Oattina was expelled from France on the 31st December, 1819, in virtue of the laws of November 13-21, and December 3, 1849, for having taken part in political intrigues hostile to the government. On the Bth August last he entered France, and returned to Paris without having demanded authorisation ; he re mained until the 19th of the same month without being molested in any manner, the government not wishing, from consideration for the title of deputy of the Italian par liament which he holds, and from deference to the King, to remark the infractions and to exercise the right con ferred on it by Art. 8 of the law of the 3rd of Dec., 1849. On the 10th of the present month, Petruccellt again returned to Paris without authorisation. He wan then reminded of the measure of expulsion still in force, and on the 13th was invited not to prolong his stay in Paris. Upon the demand personally made by M. Petruccelli he was authorised to remain until the 24th, a period which he fixed for himself. The distinguished intervention of the Italian Minister Plenipotentiary confirmed the prefect of police in the exceptional tolerance exercised with regard to M. Petruccelli. It must be admitted, supposing the present state ment of the Constitutional to be correct, that it dots away with so much of the odium attaching to the act of the French government as was conveyed by the statement of the initpendance, that M. Petruccelli was originally ordered to leave Paris in one hour, and only obtained 24 hours' respite on the solicitation of his ambassador. It does not stand confessed that M. Nigra interfered to obtain the short delay accorded. All is fish that comes to the net of the ultramon tanista. The France and the Gazette de France joyfully hail as a recruit for their ranks the mad man Proudhon, who, as I mentioned the other day, has just delivered himself of a book against the unity of Italy. The France, mistak ing the disdainful pity of the independent journals for tremulous deference to the man whom it describes as the "greatest writer of the democratic party," taunts the Opinion Nationale, the Sit'cle, the Presme, and the Temps for their silence in regard to M. Proudhon's last work. If these serious organs of the liberal party have not hitherto bestowed a word upon the latest aberration of a litterateur whose paradoxes, whatever success they may have formerly obtained, are utterly devoid of influence at the present day, it is only because they have something better to do. But the Cliatirari, whose mission, which it often fulfils very well, is ridentem dicers scrum, gives the France as full and unexceptional an answer as any that was ever filed in Chancery. The Chari rari, after an amusing fable of legitimist nota bilities of the Faubourg St. Germain, catho lic bishops, and soldiers of Francis IL, being seen devouring a pamphlet attributed to Veuillot, Dupanloup, or Lanrentie, but which turned out to have been written by the democrat Proudhon, says, in a letter addressed to that publicist : When I reflect ou your past career, I DUI not astonished at what you are now doing. You are the same man that you ever were, both in your talent and your aberra tions. You pretend to be • democrat, and vou are the ally of every reaction. In 1848 it was your pen that indicted the heaviest blows upon the Republic by libelling successively all the men that served ita cause. After doing your best to sap the foundations of political liberty, you struck a terrible blow at liberty of conscience by proclaiming systems which from their extra vagant excess threw odium upon the free thought which they pretended to defend. Not long since you per petuated a most sinister joke in proclaiming " the right of the strongest" in your book on war and peace. Now you insult the generous movement of Italy and the sympathies of all those liberal minds which are with it. You adopt legitimist arguments and you traffic with Cardinal Auto nelli you do not love democracy; you love only yourself. You are the god Proudhon, and you are your own most fervent worshipper. You take every caprice of your fancy fur • dogma. You confound origin ality with folly. Ever in extremes, you aspire to the monopoly of intelligence. " After you the deluge," is your leading principle. But fools themselves no longer believe io you. Your egotism may deify itself in vain ; it has no more altars, unless, indeed, the pious gratitude of the ultramoutanists and legitimists should prompt them to erect one to you. Amen. The France will not, of course, agree with these arguments, but it cannot now deny that M. Proud hon has been answered. The Bourse has been decidedly firm. Rente rose 40c., both for cash and account, closing at 711 r. 50c. and 71fr. 65c. Mobiher rose 40fr., and the Italian Loan, 40c. Railways were from lfr. to 3fr. higher. The Doily News is seized. INTELLIGENCE PROM NEVADA TERRITORY.—The Secretary of Nevada Territory writes to the Commissioner of the general Land Office, order date of July 28, that I'M quartz mills are now in operation there, 'sod 20 are in process of construction. There are many warm springs iu the territory, and some boiling ones, whose waters rise two and three feet from the surface. There is little umber in the territory, except a belt of pine in close proximity to the Sierra Nevada. The surface is generally composed of sandy or alkali plains, covered with sage bushes. Commu nication is bad daily with California, and the capital in vested in transportation acmes the mountain amounts to Sr. million of dollars.—Noss York Herald. THE COLLISION AT WINCHDURGH.—We (Edin burgh Courant) are glad to report that the sufferers in the infirmary. for the meet part, continue to show a marked improvement, and that in the more lierioua eases there is no change for the worse. Mr. lame Man who died in th e infirmary on Monday morning , was in terred yesterday in the pariah churchyard, Falkirk. His remains were followed to the grave by a large concourse of friends and acquaint. ROOM Ma. COBDEN, M.P., AND THE MANCHESTER CHAMBER OP COMMERCE.—(THIS DAY.) (Irl UNIT= =WON ILWTVC 111211 GRAPH.) MANCHESTER, FRIDAY, Two o'Ciocc. To-day, in the Manchester Chamber of Com merce, Mr. Cobden, M.P., delivered an important speech, pointing out the enormous evil to this country occasioned by the existing state of Interna tional and Maritime Law, which he declared was mainly maintained by the government of Great Britain, and urging, from the exempla of the success of the Corn Law League, the formation of some emaciation to place pres sure on the government to procure the abolition of the blockade of all commercial ports by belligerents, and the exemption from capture of all vessels of commerce not actually engaged in the conveyance of munitions or contraband of war. MI. Cobden spoke for an hour and twenty minutes. GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was held at noon at the London Tavern ; Mr. W. J. Haan:rex in the chair. The report, which had been previously published, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re port and accounts, said they ware so satiatsetery that he had little to do beyond congratulating the meeting on the progress which had been made, He could not help expressing his deep regret at the loss which the company had sustained in the death of its chief engineer, Mr. Berkley, who had had the superintendence of the works from the outset.. He then adverted to the delay in the opening of the line to the Ghauta, owing to causes over which the board had no control. The working expenses bad ' during the put half-year been reduced to 63 per cent. ; whereas in the previous half year they were upwards of 78 per cent. When this line was completed the expense of carry log the line over the Ghauts would lead to scarcely any increase in the average expenditure. There were now 430 miles which were constructed at an ex pense of 9,000/. per mile, or an aggregate of about 4,000,0001. The working expenses as shown in the balance sheet amounted to 103,7141. 13s. 3d., leaving 6.3,4301_ 18s. 6d. as net profit. He calculated that when the line MRS fairly opened the net receipt. would amount to 130,000/. per half-year, which would yield the satisfactory dividend of 6 per cent . (Cheers.) Mr. J. G. Farm (deputy chairman) seconded the motion. Mr. Trim, M.P., would like to see something substantial done for the family of Mr. Berkley, who had no doubt lost his life through the climate of India. It was not enough to erect a stone tablet to his memory, IPA was proposed in the report. Mr. Berkley had died comparatively young in I the company's service, leaving a widow and five young dren, and his services deserved a substantial recognition. 'The hon. member concluded by proposing a resolution em bodying a recommendation to the board to hand over to the executors of Mr. Berkley the sum of 1,0004 (Cheers.) Alderman DARIN seconded the motion. Sir PHILIP MILLVILL bore strong personal testimony to the merits of the deceased ecgineer, and supperted Tile's motion. The CHAIRMAN regretted that be could not, as a matter of form, put the motion which had been proposed. Such a payment couldnot barnacle without theconsentof the govern. meet ; but the directors entirely approved of the object, and what had been said would strengthen their hands in seeking to carry it out. (Cheers.) Mr. PARKER suggested that the amount should be 2,000 f. Mr. Tire then withdrew his motion, and the report wee adopted. . . Oa the motion of the CuAremAN, the secretary's salary wan aulvauced from 900/. to I,OM. per annum. Thanks were then voted to the chairman and his col. tonnes in the direction, after which the meeting separated. ADMISSION OF THE PUBLIC TO VIEW THE HOTH3I or LORDS.—This moruing, by command of Lord Willoughby D'Eresby, the Lord Great Chamberlain, notice was mimed that, after Saturday, the Ist of November, the public would only be admitted to view the House of Lords on the Saturday in each week between the hours of ten and four. THE CHURCH AND MANUFACTURING DISTRESS.— An important movement is under the consideration of the Episcopal Bench, and will probably be carried out in the course of three or four weeks. It has been proposed that., on a day to be named, the whole of the churches through out England and Wales shall be opened for service, either special or otherwise, when offertory collections will be made for the relief of the distress in Lancashire during the forth coming winter. It is not yet decided whether the service shall be held on a week day or on a Sunday. MISS MARTINEAU AND LANCASHIRE DISTREIEL —What au extraordinary woman Harriet Martineau is ! Novelist, politician. essayist, traveller, agriculturist, sanitary reformer, and P hilanthropist ! All these character, I have been assumed by her in turn, and with abundant sue ' oess. How healthy, too, and wonderfully fresh, is her in . tercet in the concerns of a world which, in the very nature of things, she must soon leave ! Instead of realigning I her last days to memoir writing, and to the making of those stilted maxims which are considered the peculiar pro ductions of old age, she watches the course of current events with a keen eye, submits them to the test of sound sense, and seeks to direct them to good and wholesome ends. This week she has spoken and acted in the matter of Lancashire distress. At a meeting of the Salford Relief Committee, on Monday, a letter was read from Miss Martineau, apprising the committee that she bad sent off from Ambleside • parcel of clothing material for the Salford Sewing School. The letter concluded :—'• I enclose a list of the articles which are cut out ready for the needle :—Nine cloaks. 17 gown.. 10 (recite, 5 petticoats, 9 pinafores 5 shifta, and 8 reels of cotton.' Well done, Ha rriet Mar tineau! Here's true greatness. A high literary reputation shown to be quite compatible with cloaks, gowns, and reels of cotton for poor famishing mill-workers. How refresh ingly this contrasts with the attenuated horror of the Saturday Review at the cotton umbrella of the late primate. Of course hundreds of worthy but unknown ladies are doing as much for Lancashire as ]ties Martineau is doing. We call attention to her efforts first, because they form s remarkable instance of intellectual eminence going hand in head with quiet serviceable benevolence ; and, in the second place, because her example, if speedily followed by other English ladies, will largely contribute to the success of the exertions which are now being made to feed and I clothe our starving and half-naked fellow-creatures in the cotton districts.—Leeds Times. A CLERGYMAN CONVICTED OF POACHING. —At the weekly petty sesame at Chorley, the Rev. John Williams, incumbent of Euxton, was charged with trespassing in pursuit of game on land belonging to Mr. T. B. Crosse, in the township of Whittlele-Woods. Mr. Wilson, who appeared for the complainant, stated that his client felt it incumbent upon him to notice this offence on the part of the rev. defendant, inasmuch as it was not the first offence of which he had had to complain. The defendant had often hail the privilege of going upon Mr. Crosses land with others, and be had frequently taken the opportunity q poaching thereon. On one occasion he was seen in a tree with a gun in his hand, on another he was secreted in a pit, and on s third he was found hidden in a hut which he had erected to carry on these prac tices. Edward Seger, gamekeeper to Mr. Crowe deposed that on the 18th of October be saw the defendant on a cop of land belonging to Mr. Crosse, but close to land in the occupation of one Peter Smith. There was also a ditch and • hedge near, but ditch, cop, and hedge were all on Mr. Crosses land. The defendant was looking in the direction of the wood, and be had a gun in his hand. Game occasionally came through the hedge near which be was standing. Corroborative evidence having been given by Mr. Crosse, Mr. Williams admitted the facts as stated by the gamekeeper, but contended that the hedge was the boundary of the land. Mr. Crane evidently enter tamed an erroneous idea as to the boundary. The defendant mid be did not profess to be • eporteman, but sedentary habit& did not agree with him, and he went out occasionally. The bench informed defendant that the law provided him with a remedy, if the boundary, as stated. was not correct, but the ditch would have to be considered the line. After a short consultation, their worships inflicted • fine of 3Us. and coots. Another case of a similar character was then preferred, the offence having been committed on the 15th instant. The rev. gentleman admitted that he was guilty of the second offence if guilty of the first, and he was again fined 20s. 1 DE4PRRATIS AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—On Wed nesday night a most desperate encounter with poaches took place at the Home's Castle publichouse. Hollow Stone, Nottingham, in the heart of the town. About a quarter ! past six a keeper of the Earl of Chesterfield, named I Brookes, accompanied by Superintendent Home, of the Bingham division, and P. C. Ituilkio, of the county police, I went to the above publichouse, • noted resort for poachers, 1 for the purpose of apprehending two poachers named j Walker and Worthington, who were ommected with the late poaching case near Nottingham. When the keeper entered the I house he perceived a dozen well-known poachers playing at cards, and immediately singled out Walker, telling him that he wanted him. At this moment policemen Home and Rud kin came up, and the landlonl of the house, whorie name is Maltby (himself an old poacher), stepped between the offi cers and the men, saying, • I'll he if yon shall take him in my house ; show me your warrant." The whole of the poeclien then rose, and Maltby immediately arming himself with • powerful life-preserver, made • furious on slaught on the keeper, inflicting two tremendous blows on hi. bead, which felled the keeper to the ground and rendered him insensible. The affray then became general, the policemen striving to capture Walker, but upon seeing the dangerous state the keeper was in they went to his assistance. In the meantime, messengers were sent to the county pnlice.station for chore officers, but before they arrived the whole of the men, with the excep tion of one named Smith (who was implicated in the late affray at Thrumpton, where a poacher was drowned in the Trent), effected their escape. After a violent stimuli, Maltby was captured sod taken to the police-staUes, the injured keeper being taken to the dispensary. Yester day (Thursday) morning Smith sod Maltby were brought before the borough bench of magistrates, but the ease wen remanded until Saturday, in consequence of Brooks not being able to appear through the injuries he received in the affray. Bail was refused for Maltby, the magistrates rit• marking that it was too serious • case to admit of bail. PRUSSIA. The King of Prussia continues to receive depu tations and to complain to them of the comments of the seditious press, of the invasion of democracy, and of the ingratitude which his beet intentions encounter. In the last address which has been published his Majesty persists in representing the re-organisation of the army as the real point of the conflict. His Majesty determinedly closes his eyes to the constitutional question. The depu ties, on the other hand, receive ovations and ad dresses, not only from their constituents, but from all parts of Germany. (IXOTZeII TILLZGRIII3.) BERLIN, Om 24. The semi-official Allgemeine Preussische (Stern) Zeitung of to-day publishes a leading article on the last session of the Chambers, which concludes as follows :—" All the proposals of the govern ment, aiming at a conciliatory solution of the question of the military budget, hay. ing been rejected by the Chamber of De puties, the government has been placed in a new position. The country may be con vinced by its former conduct and by its present disposition to effect a constitutional solution of the question that the government will take care to narrow the conflict within the smallest possible grounds, that is to say to the maintenance of the unavoidable military expenditure of 1862, and which will be defrayed under the constitutional responsibility of the ministers. " But very shortly the means prescribed by public duty and conscience will be employed in order, at the beginning of the next session, to bring about a definitive constitutional solution of the question at issue, to restore to the country entire peace in the interior, and to ensure the undisturbed develop ment of our constitutional institutions. " May the people fully trust in the constitution and in the faithful intentions and endeavours of the government. May they not be misled by party agitation, but aid the government in zestoring and cementing peace." MEXICO. CADIZ, OCT. 23. Advice. have been received here from Mexico to the 11th of September, according to which the conservative party proposed to replace the presi dent by a triumvirate. for which they put forward Generals Comonfort, Viduauro, and Dobbido. IiADILLD, Ocr. 23. It is asserted that the Spanish government has signified to President Juarez that they will sign no treaty whatever with him. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.: FRIDAY. OCTOBER 24.8 A.V. THE LATE MURDERS OP AMERICAN MISSIONA RIES. We feel lively satisfaction in reporting that the 11116•116iDS of the Rev. Mews. Coning and Mariam, the cu. cumatauces of whose murders will be fresh in the recoil*, tion of our readers, have, one of them paid the penalty of his mime, and three others been condemned to death. Ile former, Achmet, the murderer of Mr. Coffing, uear andretta, was decapitated at Adana on the Zith ult., iu the pewee° of nearly 5,0t10 spectators, including the American, French, Russian, and Italian consular agents. Perfect tranquillity prevailed on the occasion, and many of the Mnseulmans present even shouted " Padiabah sagh olsun (May the Sultan live for ever After the executiom how ever some of the followers of the notorious M u , tap h a Pacl;a, one of whose relatives, /UM, had been a confederate with Achmet in hia mime, attempted to waylay and murder Mr. J. S. Johnson, American consul•generaf at Reyrout, and some officers of the United States corvette Constellation on their return from Adana. The party, however, Is..dly faced their assailants, and drove them off. The correspondent who reports to us these facts star* that Khurchid Pacha, governor of Adana, displayed most praiseworthy energy in carrying out the order of his High ness Auld Nobs to bring the now-executed murderer to justice. Mr. Johnson, above named, ia also said to have displayed indefatigable zeal in she same effort, and to have very largely contributed to the result. Our correspondent adds : —"This execution will have no little influence in rendering the lives of Christian travellers more lava, in the dangerous neighbourhood of Alexandretta. The next step for the purging of the high road between that place and Aleppo and Adana of robbers is to remove Mustaph a Pasha, the protector of brigands, from his post of aumacan of Playas." We have reason to believe that Mr. Joy Morris, the American minister, is earnestly urging this latter step on the Porte, and in the best interests of the government itself—which bears the blame of all such outrages iu the public opinion of Europe —we hope his efforts will be suc oessfuL To this brief record of accomplished justice we are glad to be able to add that three of the principal murderers of Mr. Meriam between Adrianople and Philippopoli have also been condemned to death at the former place, and will be similarly executed in a few days. Their accomplice% lees brutally guilty, have been sentenced to various other punishments, proportioned to their shares in the outrage. The gang to which the whole of these ruffians belonged has kept the whole country between Refloat° and Philippopoli in terror for more than two years, and is known to have committed at least 20 murders. That justice has now for the first time overtaken them is very greatly to the credit of Mehemet Kihriali Pula, governor of Adriiumplo ; Nou.Tet Bey, specially sent on this service by the Porte, Mr. 4. E. Blunt, H.M. vice consul ; and Mr. Trowbridge ; the speci a l agent of the Auserican legation, who have all earned well of the province and of the Porte for their exertions on this occasion.—Levant Herold of October 15. CATHERINE WILSON, THE POISONER. It will be remembered that Catherine Wilson " ao some years ago housekeeper to a person named Peter blaster, at Boston, who died under most simpiciom circumstances, shortly after he bad made a will, leaving his property, which was worth about 50/. a year, to Wilson, thus set. ting aside the will be bad previously made in favour of his brother. John Newer, • bricklayer. It was suspected that he had been poisoned by Wilson. end immediately after his death John Hewer consulted a solicitor. with reference to taking steps to set aside the will ; bat as it was properly drawn up and attested, the matter was allowed to drop. After the conviction of Wilms, how. ever, John Hewer stated these facts to his employer (Mr. Ward), and the bitter, thinking it possible to obtain as admiasion from the condemned murderess that coercion and undue influence was used to indoor Peter Mawer to sign the last will, endeavoured to obtain an interview with her. He accordingly wrote to the sheriff for permis sion to visit the condemned, at the same time stating his object. In reply he received a letter stating that Catherine Wilson refused to see him. Mr. Ward then advised John Hewer to write to Wilson with reference to the will. A letter was accordingly written by Hawer's wife, and the following reply, in the handwriting of the prisoner, was "Gad of Nei/gate, 13th day of October, 1862. " Sir,—l received your letter this morning. I must de cline your visit, with thanks. You say you sincerely forgive the peat. You never had anything to forgive me of. I al. ways treated you well, sod should hive treated you the same bad you of come to my house II years the 17th of this mouth. Then your visit might have been beneficial to us both. Yon know the advice of a friend in need is a friend indeed seldom to be found. I never had any malice towards you, and now I have none towards those that has falsely aware my life sway, for I most solemnly declare lam innocent of those dreadful charges. There has not been any poison ever traced to my posesioii, or satisfactory proved that anyone bad died by poisoo. At the same time how much better to die innocent than guilty. I have been in prison 6 month, my time has been spent in seeking that Saviour who alone can save my soul. It matters little what way the poor body is de posed of, as long as the soul is all Wright with its Maker. Next Monday by this time I shall be in eternity there to give account of deeds done. lam not afraid to die. Inn not what man say of me or what they think, I will only ask mercy of a offended God, and there sue for pardon. I shall die in peace with all. I have had a few lines from George Kent re young man who resides in Lincolni but I was too ill to write and of course I declined to see him if he came. I will not see any of my own relations who have beged for a interview. I saw all the friends that wisd to see me before my trial, then I never asked any to come to speak for me, and since my trial I have refused to see any. I have been very kindly treated by all since I havebeeo in prison. I have plenty of sympytbea from Ladays who visit the prison, and all my wants rupplyed here. I know this letter I received is not written by you. I hope you have these sentiments that I read in it is my earnest prayer, and believe me to be your wel-wisher. Written by " CATIZARINE WILSON." Enclosed in the letter was a copy of verses, headed "The Question of Questions," and "What think ye of Christy' on which the following words were writteu by the on. damned :—" To the writer of the letter, from Catharine Wilson, 1862." It will be seen from the letter that Wilson entirely shirked the question put to her. DR. LANEEsTER ON INFANTICIDE.—At an inquest held is the Marytabooe workhouse yesterday, touching the death of • newly-born infant, Dr. Laukester, the coroner, took occasion to explain some observations made by him on a former occasion with reference to infanticide in the metro. polio. He said it seemed to be supposed be had intended to convey the impression that the average number of ia• quests held in the central division of Middlesex concerning whets found dead was nearly one a day for the whole year. Now, he was not prepared to say that it was even as high as one every other day, from year's end to year's end ; though there were times when he held an inquest of this kind nearly every day. He Lad held • very large number of them within a period of three months, and he feared that the return for the year raid be very high. He was informed that no lea than tof those cases had been brought under the notice of the roe& cal officers of the Marylebooe workhouse alone within a period of 27 months. He did not mean to say that there was • greater disposition towards the crime of infanticide io Looda than was to be found in other capitals, but it had been stated to him, by persons who had made some inquiry into the subject, that this crime was of proportionately more frequent occurrence in Loudon the in continental cities. A deputation of working men who had waited upon him expressed their opinion that this state of things was owing to our bastardy laws ' • which, in their opinion, enabled the father of illegitimate children to maps from much of that respounhihty which ought to attach to them. If the mothers of these children were of that 9pici..n some of them might think that, as the fathers were allowed to shrink from the performance of their duty, the getting rid of the burden placed upon them was not so great a crime as it otherwise would be. Such reasoning was false of course, acid could afford no justification of crime ; but it was desirable to remove all incentives to infanticide and concealing the birth as far as that object could with justice to the community be accomplished. It must be borne mind that the crime of infanticide was likely to be attended with even a worse result than the death of the infant. It could not be doubted that after a woman killed her infant she would be less likely to look with abhorrence upon the crime of murder, and the blunting of her eensibility co th 3 t point was dangerous to society at large. In the particular PM before Dr. Lankester the dead body of the infant had been found, but there was no evidence to show that it had died from violent*. A verdict in accordance with that state of fate was returned by the jury. Two STRANGE CASES OF CONCEALMENT Or BUHR NEAR SALTON.—The Malton magistrates were engaged upon a long investigation of eircumstaces coocerniog two strange cases of concealment of birth, on Weduesday. The first was the case of Mary Golding. the daughter of a hichl - respectable farmer, residing at Swinton Field, near Shaw°. Miss Golding was confined some weeks since, and secreted the body of the child between • bed and matters in so unused bedroom. She stated she killed the child by What; upon it, and, on finding it dead, placed it as stated till opportunity offered of confiding in a married sister: Ike Cause of secrecy being the fear of arousing her father s anger. The child was fouod in • state of putrescence some days after birth. A coroner's jury returned • verdict ' 4 " Accidental death," and the magistrates remanded the case till Saturday. The next case woo • more serious oar. The mother, • young girl owned Sarah Barker, seventee years of age, hart resided in a cottage at Whited!, with so old man named Hayes and his wife. The cirl wr'' 1 "; portal of having been in the funilyway, but all knowledg e ' . a childbirth was denied by the mother nod the old people. The girl underwent medical examination (at her ow° request) by • surgeon, and anhec i nently by a The police some days after found the body of a child secreted io • field in the parish, and the mother stated ie confession that she had got up during the night and ch ild into the fields, and was there confined. and that the was dead. The body showed marks of violeoca, sero ol ' alY about the head, and • coronets jury in this case retuned an open verdict. The bench committed the girl for trial id the next York assizes. DEATH OF • COUNTY COURT JUI - lg.—We I 'll 4 ' to state that J. G. Stapylton South. Esq.. judge, °'..'— liw'olfrobiro county courts, was attacked with parslYri!': i Wednesday sight, and died peatarday afternoon. — S to " .l " )(cream. i i