The Express. — London, England, 1866-02-17 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERV ICES. —During the storms et the past year the National Lifeboat lnotitatton, by iSs We- I boat end o th er memo, contributed to the saving of WI persons tram different wrecks on our coast . The Institution also ' pended it 21,374 In the same period on Ito lifeboat eetsbliskeneato, InaddlUon Se !mating dd,olo for rewards tor suing AD saa • aterclsing the lifebeeks The committee at the lastltstion earnestly APPEAL to the ' public for AfiIiSTANCI, to enable them to meet the continued Mary demand& Wilke institution's 153 Lifeboat Stations. Contributions sic received by the Loudon and mow Bankers ; sod by Ms Searmory, Richard Lewis, RN. , Mae Bid siltation. 14, John-street, Adolph!, Landon. 25 OLD BOND-STREET (tate Call and 9 Martin's Bank L-4, W. BENSON. Watch and Clock Maker to ILLS. the Priam ol Wales, having the above magnificent Premises, invite' an R=ll ARTISTIC WORKS, consisting of CLOCKS and BRO ILMS PM the Mellen ol Ilan'. France, and Ragland. Watches of swag comdruction, Limmond and Fine Oold leveller', Wear sad Ilectro-Plata. DIAMOND and GOLD JEWELLERY of WOW Dodges at moderate prices.—Maker of the Gold Casket presented by the Clty of London to H.R. ff. the Penes of Wales. !e. OLD BOND-Silirr. MOURNING JEWELLERY for LADIES and GENTLEMEN. 211, OLD BOND-9TM= erWELLICRY Dabfor BRIDA et L PRESENTS, &Aped by = and 'm *ADCs. 25. OLD DOND4STRUT. SILVES PLATE for TESTIMONIALS, &sigma expressly for their respective objects. 26, OLD DONDaTilllti. SILVER PLATE, for RACING, FIELD, aad AQUATIC SPORT& 25, OW BOND-ATUIT. SILVER PLATE for the SIDEBOARD, Dinner and Tea Tablaa,_do. 26, OLD BOND-STRM. CLOCKS for the DRAWING, DINING, or BID ROOM. M, OLD BOND-8711.111T. CLOCKS teethe LIBRARY, Hall, Carriage, he. IS, OLD DOND-STRIST. CLOCKS for CHURCHES, Turrets, and 81 25, OLD BOND-8111ENT. IVATCHBEI, Chronometers, Duplex, Levers, Radiantsla Repeaters, Centre Beoon6, Kepis" Chro nographs, Re. 2S, OLD BONINSTDIJIT. 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Advertsers* be ded fee " The Sorer • Landes Leasing =, awn be ot the OSee„ Seaneteslasea, ke Two k on Ike day of pabikstion. HI7Y&YEIT THIS ETZNINO. A ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT. Herm W. 'anon and Compton ; Wu Ada esvendliet.—SlDlTlEß BAH. lissips. Selkiers sad Suck oleos ; Mims Nally Moon.—'llTHIUB IN TIM HANKABKBT.—And MT HUSBAND'S GHOST. PEINCISWES. T® rrunta, Qtrnsiiiiiiiiial—Mter which TT Itl DIVER TOO UTZ T$ MIND. Meows. nolo& G. Melville, I'. MMd, D. Marry, b. Oldham, It. Villiers. J. 0. Ethorts G. Wen Al. sad Z Ostessere ; Wear L. Moore tad IL Doctors. LYOIIIII. Tins ZVEsusG, THE lainitioUS STRANGER. Kr. H. Widdiconab.—THE MASTER OP RAVENSWOOD. Mum. Fecelsr. Jordan. Veda. Mary, Widdloomb, fttspialeir. Irma Masilasis Timm. Elavorthy, Laws; C. Leclareq, !MITAN/f4. Tate ZWIMMO, THY CASUAEVARD.—JoIumi De7.—Mr. J. King and °than surd von from the wreck of the Loodcm—OLD DADDY LONGLEGB AND 8111 ZIi6BST union. Itra. 8. Lae and K. and Mdme. Btertmobeeh.—Aatt Oiler. lIIGHFATER AT LONDON-BAWL till DAT /Lorain& 3h, 19...... Aliensool‘ 33A CM. 20433113013 Month& SO. 63m. ..Aflerooes, 4418 m. LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY n. Tax few words addressed to the House of Com mons by Mr. THOMAS Huouzs on the motion to read the Metropolitan and St. John's-wood Rail• way Bill a second time will, it may be hoped,lbe taken as a warning to companies proposing the wholesale destruction of small houses in London that in future their Bills will be examined in Par liament with increasing regard to the interests of the struggling poor, to whom expulsion from their homes is one of the greatest of calamities. The Railway Bill jest named doe, not threaten the public interest exactly at this point, having been questioned in the House of Commons okielly be cause it involved the sacrifice of twanti-nine acres of Hampstead-heath, at present dedicated to re creation; bat there is an acknowledged reciprocity in all the various modes in which the public is concerned in measures which abridge the secu rities for health and happiness, rod interests which have a common point of union may reckon on the same defenders. The powers which the Legislature has conferred upon railway com panies for taking possession of the land necessary for lines which it has sanc tioned are despotic and enormous. When the general Act from wnich they are derived we, passed, no such sweeping demolit'ons as we have witnessed in London during the lasi four or five years were so mar% as dreamed of. Parliament had at that time a most inadequate conception of the imperial grandeur of the ideas of oar engineers and the enterprise of our contractors. It was never imagined that a company of surveyors might be sent into a neighbourhood, and emit in a mouth afterwards a population equal to that of a small town would be served with notice to quit. Any one who wishes to see the scale upon weioh Vie destruction of house property is being carried on at the present moment has only to make a journey to King's-cross and take a five minutes' walk up the Old St. Pancras-road. He will there see hundreds of houses, lately tenanted by the poor, empty and marked for destruction, in order to make wag for a railroad with its terminal station. And this is only a specimen of what is going on in different parts of the metropolis. What is to become of the people turned out of their homes nobody knows, and it is nobody's business to inquire. Nor is any attempt made to repair the injury that is done to the expelled population. The law which secures compensation to owners, and, under certain circumstances, to occupiers of pro perty, takes no account of the residential value of the habitation of the weekly tenant, however many years he may have lived on the same spot. Hundreds of families have been turned oat of their homes, to find themselves competing with others in the same situation for lodgings in the yearly diminishing number of • .111. • • THE EIP houses in which they can afford to live these poor people followed busineesse tione commonly regarded as beneath the tiatiCiNf the law of compensation, but which, being their livelihood, were everything to them. When the neighbourhnod in which they had gradually built up a connexion was dispersed their living was destroyed. The advent of a railroad company among such a population is a calamity as great as the cattle plague to grazing farmers, yet nobody asks compensation for them, nor is the House of Commons kept sitting till midnight to decide whether they should be in demnified at the r►te of one-half or two-thirds the value of the interest destroyed. No doubt there would be great diffioulty in assessing exactly the loss which these poor people sustain, but at present no estimate whatever is attempted. As we all know, every metropolitan extension of a railway is not • source of profit to the shareholders. Still lines of this character are made in the confident expecta tion of private profit, and Parliament in sanctioning them acknowledgesthattheiroonstructionisfor pub lic advantage. In these facts two sources are indi cated from which the means of an indemnity for the sufferers by railway invasion may be derived. The worst evil of the wholesale destruction of human habitations is that the dispossessed people are swept into cellars and hovels without the common decencies of civilized life, and suffer there in their pockets, their health, and their morals. The world, as we all know, must go on, but let our progress be accompanied with fair play. If, as one of our eminent country men testifies, we cannot be happy without • railway to orry us from a dismal life at Islington to a dismal life at Camberwell every quarter of an hoar, let us have the satisfaction of knowing on the journey that we are not rolling over dwel'- ings which we have made the living tombs of our eonntirmen. Something remedial may be dose by encourniog the multiplication of labourers' dwell ; cgs such as Alderman WA.TIRLOW has shown us how to build. And it is satisfactory to learn that Mr. CHILDERS has a bill in Parliament that sill fac"i tate this object by means of loans at low interest granted by the Government on security, and that Mr. TO/LIMNS has another of a more comprehen sive and thorough-going character. It is probable, however, that in future the House of Commons will require from railway companies proposing to carry lines through thickly populated metropolitan districts some specific provision for the conveyance of the people dis'odged ; and the prospect of having their schemes rejected on account of the absence of such an arrangement should lead the directors of companies to consider what may be done to remove the objection. The existence of societies like the ' Industrial Dwellings Company alleviates the die cul4 by reducing it to a question of funds. The territorial encroachments of our railway companies are felt by other classes besides the poor, and, as Mr. Humors has truly observed, their social tyranny is not relieved by those mitigations which reconcile us to older forms of oppression, least of sll by its picturesqueness. Another turn of the screw might unite all classes in an indignant effort in favour of what the French designate by the ugly name of reteadication. r of I OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE PROPOSED SUSPENSION OF THE HABEAS I , CORPUS LOP IN IRELAND. With great regret the Times accedes to the de mand which her Majesty's m'r'stem will make to-day for extraoreinary powers h denting with the dangerous coo *tram of FOIILIVII4III. Apart from any new and particular information which the goverment hie received there is ample reason for the strictest precautfoni In the increased activity of the movement during the past month, end the preseoceota number of persons in various districts with I the scarcely concealed purpoes,of promoting insurrection. I The object of the Irish government doubtless is to secure some of the erotism iss of American Fenlse ism who are now numerous in Ireland, and who are wcrklni with diaratrous effect upon the people. These persons ere said to be well-chosen with respect to their knowledge of the omen/ or of particular districts. Since one or two of them were convicted on the evidence of the papers they carried, they have taken care to possess nothing that might indicate in the smallest degree their mission or their coosexion with the conspiracy. An Areericiaieed Irishmen, whom the government well knows to be a Fenian moimary, end of whom it has probably bad intern geese for weeks before, appears in a country town s perhaps with • military this sod • Federal ralform ; he is manifestly expected by the peemotrr, and becomes the object of respect and the centre of information. But if he be apprehended and searched there is not the smallest documentary evidence •;ainst Wm, while his oral coin mreicatiose ere so ioardr I that it is difficult to bring home any off'sw to him. The government bas protmbly been convinced that the time hes now come to deal mrecouily with these person,. Probably, the Post says, none will be more a-t mished at it then the Irish themselves. The Fenian movement has gone on so long with comparative impunity to its promoters, and ham !Peso met with inch mild roes r-es oa the part of the government, that the display of vigour sow shown will bs as unexcected as it will be beesdcial. The most indifferent will probably now believe in the regions nature of the denser. It appears that the disaffection is by no means confined to the lowest classes. Many of the consideraale lan !owners are suspected, and some are known to be implicated in the move ment. Drilling at night, too, is carried on to a large extent; agents from America are travelling about, administering oaths and distributing arms and money throeghoet the watery ; and there have lately been large arrivals of briigeers of military appearance, and with no ostensible cocapatioo, though apparently well provided with money, who hang about in • state of expectant idleness well calculated to arouse the alarms of the scats Irish police. One of the effects of the alarm n; charmtor Pulaski= has assumed will be to strengthen considerably the heeds of the government in the Houle of Commons. As M. Ward-Hunt observed on Thursday, the fiel of any admioistrition is slweys followed by chaos, and the worst enemies of the cabinet would scarcely renmre to promote • chase In the face of so immiceot • per"' es the present. The Herald does not Wawa the goveroment for the course they have now de ided to take, but, having nursed the wretched treas.n now disturbing the country, they moot be considered to a arra: degree responsible for the' present critical position of aff Ars. It is understood that some Irish members will oppose the application of the go vernment but they will meet with no support. The Star waits for the rpm ins which the government must give for so startling • rneasnr•, premising that cagy the mo.t urgent necessity ought t p be allowed to huny the WI through in one day. Ireland has thus far been governed only by a policy coediting of periodica l . suspensions of the Habies Corpus Act. The last " awn don" was effected in • coup dad is 1848 ; and it lcd at mice to the outbreak of the insurrection. The Telegraph *Wks if any complaint should be made against the government, it in that they have been neither vigoroua nor Prompt eecegb. It is curtain, at least, that liberals and tortes, Orangemen fed catholic, landlords and fameste, sad all the people who have held aloof from thislast ebullition of Irish dieoutent, would loudly complain if they were ace effectively protected. Though there is so reason to believe that the people themselves wish to over ture British rule in Ireland, it would be the height of folly to ignore the manifestations both of treason and of sym pathy with it which are to be sem throughout the country, or to wait until sedition has blossomed into actual revolt. TITS CATTLI PLMIIII ZELL Th. Times represents the vacillatioe of the government se °mediating one of the principal difficultly' with which the bill on the settle disease has ha 4 to emcee, s o d daolls if, up to the present time, the Home Secretory can QE IFEBRUk ~:~ .ar , s t r is ti e e t y g p g roesess n otthe foe -7-----r iFfit 4 THE MUSS OF COMMONS. his Adthe' has deal . de0ha....4 orb* ,'Yt be ion ha SpecectOr )101 *at the members of 4 of • compensation for (settle already slaughendt by ant House of Commons are sop, brothers, uncles, nepisews, the government would have materially de a n& t h e progress of the WI, the Times rejoices that it has sons-in-law or brothers-in-law of the present heads of the 31 houses known in tie mimeos as the great governing been mewed ter fuether oosesieratioa ; but it deeply re- families of England, exclusive of members standing in pets that g wernmeat did net feel the esoemity of relation to the great botch and Irish families. At ceding the clauses which, superseding the perplexing l eas t ano th er 30 might b e a dded were the agency of load authorities, were intended to plops the relationships extended to first sad second amine. The prohibition of traffics and its excsptimas in the body of the lauded and county family interests are farther represented act of parliament. These Mr. Haat has seen fit to with- by 170 near relatives of peers, 15 of them heirs apparent draw on au agreement with Sir George Grey that he or presumptive, not included in the St families' shall be allowed to in•roduce them in a bill to be brought and 60 baronets. In short, but little under 300 forward by himself. What may be the ultimate effect i oat of 656 members of the House of Commons of this armagercest we know not ; the immediate result are more or less closely identified with Use great Is that his measure for the prevention of the movement land-owning caste of the country, exclusive of of tattle is, foe the moment, put aside, to be reremel I the scores of many-acrd squires who appear with the with we know not what opportaoides or under what die- plain " J.P., D.L.," in their respective eouaty ffiseeteries advantages. The bill has virtually passed the Commons. There is no fear, during the present imam at least, of and the result, in few words, may be said to be that, while cows being lost without compeosation, or of Mr. Bright the prohibition of transit remains as it is now, very suffi soaking a false quantity in the name of a bunt without Giant provision has beers male for slaughtermg and giving esatigation in the shape of ironical cheers. One hundred oompensation foe diseased and exposed animals, and for and four members ether have served or are now serving the creation of looal authorities whose duties are to be in the army, and a hundred and fifty are alarm in the Maul M a bill introduced by a private member. militia, yeomanry, or voinatema, while nine only have In the sharp skirmish last night, observes the Daily held naval rank. Ninety-five barristers, of whom about News, between Mr. Lowe and Mr. John Stuart Mill, the ene-fif th are in actual practice, have seats. Ninety-three right hoe. member for Oaloe, who undertook to teach members were educated at Cambridge, while a hundred political economy to the writer whose works are text and twenty-seven of his constituents have the privilege of books throughout Europa, fairly bit the pound. The sitting under Mr. Gathosne Hardy. Slightly under one Impertinences which have characterised some of his later hundred members appear ostensibly as merchants, menu speeches are in a measure probably due to defects of tem. facturers, beakers, brewers, or shipowners. The 'Spectator psrameot scarcely remediable. The tinge of insolenee farther gives a siagular table showing the form and extent which runs through most of his spe Ashes is common of business enterprise in the house A hundred and twenty to him and to most men, who being folly aware members are more or less ornmereed in the management of of their own superiority to the majority of their audience, railways, while 115 are directors of insurance, banking, do not equally realise their inferiority to the best among discount and financial joint-stock companies, sad 104 them. The member for Caine, who in his opening sea- directors of miscellaneous companies, including nearly all two girded at Mr. Mill as too clever for the house, soon kinds and forme( joint-stock amodatimas before the public. lamed that Mr. Mill het ben to, clever for him, Fourteen legislations °map, their leisure is attending to sad one of the find muses, if we may say so, of the affairs of hotels, from the Star and Garter downwards. Mr. M•ll's preseoos ie the house is to expose Ooe worthy baronet is concerned in the management of a plausible sophisms such as those which he yesterday de- fishery company, a ooffes company, a brewery company, a moieties!. The compensation theory will not hold water. fresh provision company, a library company, and a gun- Diseased cattle are slain, no doubt in the interest of the powder company. One or two patient's are directors of community, bat ea, for the benefit, first. of their owner, necropolis companies, but do not apparently relieve their that Ms healthy cattle may be saved, ant, seesodly, of his gloomy duties by uniting with them directorships of more adglibears and of the proprietors of stook papally, that convivial amociaticos. their bards nay remain unaffected. What is offered by the government in the name of compsuiation is provided simply to tasks the man's own Interests clear to him, and to lads'', him to act on his pelospto nof them. On these points and many others Mr. Lowe 'apron led and Mr. Mill exploded sophism after sophism. The Telegraph greats that farmers es a body will not be sufferers. Some, it is true, will be brought to the verge of rain by the drain on their stook ; but others, who have not bees visite ! by the disease, will grow rich on the enhanced prices that th it rail s will Mill argon that those who are thus lucky should make good the losses of their less fort - nests brethren, and not apped to the coustry for alms. That megame at M-. Lowe did sot refute, and bet foe sae fact it would be unanswerable ; that feet is that we sintibt sr the cattle far the good of the country, not of a ease ; and we must therefore pay the owner of beasts for what we v'n badly take away from him. The ultimate easing will be immensely greater than the immediate outlay. If we insist that toe stockoweers shall reimburse each other far the losses they sustain from as, would isolation be so loom plots, or the pole ixe wielded with such promptness, as we may expest it to bs mw that the duty of reimburse ment has been taken in hand by tie nation itself' It is difilmlt to believe that it would ; it is hard to see how the policy suggestel by Mr. Mill would sad in anything bat disastrous f else,. Che Court. OSBORNE, Fat 16. Her Majesty walked out yesterday morning, and drove in the afkrnoon with Princess Louise, attended by the Duchess of Bo:burets _ _ The Queen held a &anon to-day, which was attended by the Earl De Grey and Ripon, the Earl of Bemboraosh, and the Bight Hon. Sir C. Wood. Previous to the clamed, Sir C. Wood had an audience of her Majesty and resigned the Deals u Secretary of State for lodic Earl De Grey had also se audience and resigned the seals u Secretary of State for War. _ _ _ The Marquis of Hartiogton was introduced and sworn in a member of the Privy Council. Her Majesty they delivered the seals of the India Depart ment to Earl De Grey and Ripon, and the seals of the War Department to the itlerqu's of Hattioston. Lord Hartiegton had so audienoe of the Queen. Mr. Help was clerk of the mural. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The ministers pre sent were—Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, and the Right Hon. C. P.Villiers. The Herald, after enlarging; npoa the hnmiliation to which Mr. Gladstone sabmits in yielding to the dicta tion of Mr. Bright, aids that it is sat:stied a measure will be pawed shron‘h the L tire which wiU give us all the means legislation as give far °opine with this tes.ible disease. If this bill skonld fail In its effect then lOU be nothing left us but to avow the impotence of all hen= agencies to stay the course of this mysterious scourge, and to appeal in all humility to that D vine Prot/Joao° whose interposition her Majesty's ministms evidently think it is vaM to ask. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. Present—The Lards Jartioes Knight Bruce and Turner. Sir E. V. Williams, Sir J. Oolvile, and Sir Laurence Peel. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and St. Helena. The Star menses the government of consenting to berry through the House of Commons a bill which involves prin. alpha hitherto uoknowo to English law and practice, with oat allowiog the great bu'k of the ootuntunity time even to know wh at it is a'l abaci.. Last niiht t►ey allowed Mr. Lows ani his new el'iss to drive them Into imposing the whole berth= of the comoeniation to cattle-owners apon the peddle rater of the country. What old the consrmer my when the rate-collector knock, at his door to levy a new oentribution ea him for the benefit of the 0W.26111 of stock, who, u he Well knows, must all this time have been receiving in the shape of enhanced price, some compensa tion at least for the ravaxes of the murrs l a among their herds ? Despatches wave sent to the governoi.; of the West Ind 'viands, British Columbia, and Vancouver's Is'and. THE Cotrm—According to the latest arrange meek, her Midway, with their Royal Highnesses Priocesses Hakes, Louise, and Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, attended by the 'dies and geotlemeu of the court, will return either on Tuesday or Wednesday from Osborne to Windsor Castle. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will next week honour the Duke of Rutland by their company at Belvoir Castle for • few days. Early in the ensuing mouth their royal highnesses are expected to confer a similar honour on the Bari and Countess Spencer, at Althorp, Northamptonshire. Tau PRINC3 AND PRINCIIIB or Warm,—Unless coloration obstacles should arise, the Prince and Princess of Wales will honour ►be next musical festival et Norwich with their presence. Although they have now made fre quent sojourns io Norfolk, their royal highnesses have Dever yet visited the capital of the county. Great prepara tions will be made at Norwich for thew reoeptioo. Panics or WaLss's THEATRI. —Theperformances at this theatre were last eveolog honoured by the presence of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Crunbridge, who way attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and Lord William Pauli& The Archbishop of Dublin hm left Maurigy's Hotel for t►e Pilate, Dublin. Lord Overstone and Colonel Loyd-Lindsay, /LP., and Hon. Hrs. Loyd-Lindsay, have arrived at their residence in Carlton•gardens from Lord Overdose's sett is Berkshire. Colonel Patten, on Monday, will ask the Secre tary of State for the Home Department, if the governmeat has advised her Majesty to confer a charter oa the catholic university of Ireland ; and if so, whether such chart: r will r Mate the catholic university to the Queen's University, and oo what terms. Mr. Bruce brings forward a bill to consolidate and amend the laws relating to vaccination, on Tuesday swat. Mr. Aytoun intends, on Friday next, to auk the Seorstary of State for the Colonies whether he has any objection to ley upon the table papers connected with the alleged illegal procccdiogs of the Governor of Victoria and his micisters, consequent upon the refusal of the Legislative Council tomes the Appropriation Bill ; and when such papers will be ready. The Spectator publishes to-day two replies to Lord Shaftesbury written by hammers is Donstshim, and printed as they wrote then. "We have their names, and can vouch that they ars common day-labourers, in no re aped different from those around them." The substance of their evidence is that Lord Shaftesbury knows little or nothing about his own people, that he has uederstated the hours of work, and overstated its prelim by cee•half. We (Post) understand that within a few days the HO4llO ci 00/110100$ will be moved to pant a sum of motley for the erection of a monument to Lord Palmerston over his tomb In Westminster Abbey. This motion will undoubtedly meet with the resiy 'section of an sasembly which most desply feel his lose, and be anxious to do honour to his great enscoory. At the weekly meeting of the members of the Royal Inatitation yesterday eveciog, re lecture was de livered by Oolostel Sir Fleury Jams " On the Ordeanee Survey of Jerusalem,' on which occasion his Royal High ness Priooe Arthur was in the chair. Admiral Sir William Fanohawe Martin, Bark, 1C.0.8., will, we (Amy and Navy Gaulle) believe. asper sed. Sir Charles Howe Fremantle, K. 0.8., cosmatider-is chief at Devosport. The iron-elad ship Northumberland will be lannebed from 14Swan ea the 17th of Mara. She will then be taken Into the Vlotorie Dooks Ito be prepared for ese. She will proceed to Deamport t 3 be finally equipped aad prepared for entessissios. Mr. Horace Wigan, the manager of the Olympic Theatre, ancataces his benefit for next !!sturdily. The entertainment mamma with A Sheep le Wolfe Clothing. followed by Cleft Stick end Box and Cu. in the letter Mr. Backdate end Mr. Oomptat perform. Anornaz ROYAL Arrzon.—The Crown Prices of Piesde is aimed en initial( a ittstery of the Blectoral of Breebarg. THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Saturday Revi:lo observes that the prepara tions of the Fenian% though they are unexpectedly con siderable, bear no prapoitiom to the demands of even the rimiest insorrection. The pieces could only be formidable to • force ;amyl led w;th Grams, and even the rifles and earl:id/es which have bees seized would be useless in the bands of a rabble. The Fenian, would probably fail to attain their objcet even if the government and the army stood aloof from the struggle ; for the loyal population would outnumber the enemy, and in the no.t 1 they =oral be as well armed an.' more efilc'ently organiscl. WO, however, of the me t urgent rem ins for preventing armed rebellion is founded on the occessity of hincheing the Orangemen from taking a part in the struggle. Although the Roman ciathorc clergy and the respectable lab are opposed 13 the plot, the pro testant§ consider themselves especially marked oat for the vengeance of the rebels. if they were furor Ito unite for self-de'euce, they wield probably confound their habitual antagonists •ith the members of the conspiracy, and • feul might be r - al which would be more pernicious than lb. treason of the Fenian,. The Pets contends that the sudden dere: nination of the ' cabinet mu t be either the result of emirs or of negligence. If the farm-r, it is but one of the many slight but not un important signs of the wesinee of the govertuneot ; and if the latter, it w:11 be • matter of inquiry why so obvious a step as the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act was left for so estee sitting, and not considered, es its importance demanded, with the regular badness of the session. The Army mad Nary Oramite has great satisfaction in being able I. annonoce that the approschieg reductions is the army will be effected without anything like the hard ship to indiviluals which was at first anticipatsd when it became known that the strength of each battalion upon home service was to be diminished by two oompsoies. For indium% no close will be plami upon half-pay ; all those who from being supernumerary would fell into this unfor tunate position will be retained on the establishment until they become absorbed in • moaner which oar contemporary proceeds to isdiosts. The Economist fears that the goveenment bill, is its prompt shape, will diminish the motive to discover • cure, and diminish the motive to spare the life of sound cattle, where there is so excessive ground far apprehension. Mr. Enst's foolish amendment provides that no cattle shall be moved on any railway before the 25th March ; after that time, am be sees that it will be necessary to move them far pesters, he does not propose to interdict it. Now, between the passing of this set and the 25th Month, from four b five weeks at moat can elapse, • period almost all of which will be needful to organise the new supply of the great towns by • deed meat trade. The arrangement he proposes is, therefore, to take effect before the new dead mrtt trade for the supply of great cities can possibly be organised, lied to come to have effect directly it has been effectually organised. Was there ever a regulation adopted in more senseless panic' The complex and expensive ma• chinery for enabling the great cities to do without living I cattle will not be completed before it becomes use:ass and the old arritegement is restored. Omni= Com/cm—Late last evening summonses wee issued fora Cabinet Cosecil on Wednesday next, M the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury. is Downing-street. The House of Lords will not receive any petition fora private bill after March 22, unites null private bill shall have been approved by the Coen of Ottanosty ; nor say petitioe for a private bill approved by the Court of Chancery after May 8. The house will sot receive say report from the judges upon petitions presented so them for private bills after the latter day. Y 7 Jr( LirELLIGFSCE. TEST I PA (tea ter.) ((PAIN AND THE ROMAN QUESTION. MADRID, rp_. It is semi-officially stated that the cabinet will reply to General La Marmora's recent note on the Roman question, that Spain will respect the rights of Italy as much as those of the Pope, on behalf of which she will constantly act as becomes a catholic power. LAW INTELLIGENCE. DAY.) EQUITY COURT. (Before Vice-Chanoellor Sir B. T. Kindlesley.) ROAM O. OBBOINI.—VALTDITY 01 • ?SQUIB?. This wee • petition by the executors of • will for the purpose of taking the opinion of the court as to the validity of • legacy given for the maietenenes of • tomb in • church. The testatrix bequeathed • sum of 6(4 to be investt - i in Three per Cant. Consolidated An nuities, for keeping in repair an ornamental painted win dow, placed in Hungarian Church, as • memorial of her mother, • monument of her mother in the church, sad • vault, end in case any surplus remained it was to be applied in keeping in repair and ornamenting the °biracial. Mr. liszeigette, Mr. Toiler, end Mr. Schwaben, appeared for the executor and heir-at-law, and it was contended that the bequest was void on the grounds of perpetuity end anoert.inty. Mr. W. Pearson for the lay proprietor of the church, contended that inasmuch as the objects to which the money was to be applied formed part of the fabric of the church, the gift was good se a charitable bequest. Him Honour held that the reparation of the vault was not a charity, but that the repair of the window and monument most be regarded in that light, it being foe the benefit of the pablio that mural tablets or monu ments of any other description within the chetah should • not be snowed to fall into dilapidation. The gift was therefore valid as regarded the window end monument, but invalid as regarded the vault, and is the ha possibility of deciding what was the due properties of out lay krsesign to seek object. the sum would divided into three equal parte, the income of two-tLirds being paid Leer to the minister and chorchwardena, and the remaining one third falling foto the residue of the estate. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) ware= e. ran arroltirar-ogagam, (cow= arraavgingo). Mr. Me:IIMT, Q.C., Mr. T. Jams. and Mr. Harrison for the petitioner ; Mr. Bourke, for the Attorney-General ; Mr. - Temple, Q.C., Mr. Monk, Q.C., Dr. Bpinks, and Mr. Qualm for the intervener. This very simpler case has already bees twit s On the first occasion a jury at Omit& in an potion of ejectment had found in favour of the intervener ; in the second a Lancaster jury, nee nosed under the Legitimacy Declaration Act, bad decided in favour of the petitioner and the case now came on upon an order for a new trial `rged by Sir James Wilde. The facts were bristly these : Is 1823 Km Wiwi, a lady of property at Dalton, near Longtowo, in Cumber land, had three sons, and a servant, whom mew was Betty Bell, the daughter of a weaver at Longtown. The youngest nos, Aither, fell in love with Betty, and seduced her. When this was discovered she was sent home to her father's ; and on the 13th of March, 1824, she wee delivered of a eon. Arthur Watson came over, took her la a chains to Gretnagreen, sad mauled her; and the whole question in the cause was whether he had dove this a few days before or after his wife's einfleenseat. After the marriap she remained at home foe a short tinm sad then her husband took her to Blennerhesset, where he opened a school. In the November of the same year the child was taken to Longtown and alaristened Arthur. In the following year the father's health giving way, he went home to his mother's and died. widow returned to se.vice and ultimately married a balder named Graham. They then west to Newcastle, and kept a public-house there for about 13 ycars. They bad no family, and at length separated. The petitioner's motherthen came up to Loadoo, where she was now a ',Andrei*. la the meantime both the petitioner's uncles had died, and the property—the amount of which was not stated—had come into the possession of Yes. Cowes), their sister. A great deal of very conflicting as UMW* was gives, and the case was proceeding when we went to press. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Oommistiouer Winslow.) II RN FLOWZIIB.-SENTILIICII OF 110BISOMIINT. The bankrupt, • firmer, at Witsbliegdos, Cambridge shire, recently applied far his order of discharge, His Honour now gave judgment. The bankrupt, being indebted 2321. to a Mr. Mutton who held a bill of sale, bad, without Mutton's knowledge,i given up possession of his farm, sold off his stock, and removed We furniture. Afterwards, being called on for the money, he gave Mr. Mutton a cheque for 2321. on • bank at March, obtained a receipt, and induced Mr. Mattes is give up hie securitiei, which the bankrupt at own home. He even induced the confiding creditor to lead him another 604, for which be gave a fresh bill of sale. On the cheque being precasted it turned out that the bankrupt had only 201 in the beak, and Mr. Mutton th en disLovered that al l his property had t3en removed from the farm. Under the bankruptey the furniture bad ban seined and sold f0r431. The conduct of the bankrupt amounted to a clear fraud. The sentence of the court Tr .1 that be should be imprisoned for four mouths; bat al the punishments set forth in the 159th section were not *emulative, the bankrupt mast take his order of dis charge. The warrant would not issue for thirty days, in order that the bankrupt might appeal if so advised. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DIY.) CLERKENWELL THE JILTID LOVER AID ala TALMITLIIBIL —AIIBMILT BT IWO 8187188. A young man applied for sunimosuree against two einem under the following eircumstason. The applicant stated that shortly before Christmas he met the two sisters in question at s sonar', introduced himself to their notice, and at his suggestion was allowed to see them home. He me le an appointment with one to walk out with her on the following Idanday, and that being kept he became her accepted lover, and such he considered himself. A few days eines he saw his young woman out with a young man, and feeling annoyed, he asked her what she meant by it, when she only laughed in his face, and said that she had him for a walking stick. The magistrate—A welk:ngotick I What did she mean by that? The applicant—She meant that @heady had me to walk out with when she could get no one else—that she bad me for a convenience. (A laugh.) On Wedoesday last be received two Valentines of a most annoying character, and feeling certain that they had been seat to him by the yourg women in question, he endeavoured to see them, mid yesterday he met them in the street. He no sooner began to accuse them than they assaulted him with their umbrellas, broke his hat, scratched his face, and bad he not run away would have otherwise maltreated him. He spoke to a constable about the matter, but he refund to take the young ladies into custody, and in consequence he had reported the man to his superior officer, end he would be punished. He hoped the anis trate would grant him .110101012081, as he wished to show the young ladles that they could not do se they pleased with him. . . The magistrate raid the applicant could have the sum. mouses, but he thought that he bad better leave the mattes Moue or elm commit some mutual friesidL WORSHIP-STREET. MI 4 /I/TIUTZD" 3U LL .. _ Henry Thorn,a. thick-einmaill 53, described as an engineer, without any home, was charged with and entering the dwelling-house of Mr. James Hay a l l resident at 42, Pownall-rood, Holston, with intent to eon. mit • felony. This charge was heard • fortnight sines, at which emend. nation it was shown that prisoner had made a hole through the roof of the house, thence through the inning, fastened a rope to the joists, and swung himself down on to • bed just as lir. Thomas Haywood entered the apartment ; that a formidable " jemmy was found on the lath bed plaster, and the candle with matches by the side et the bed. He made no defence, and only remarked, "I am betrayed." A stroeg opinion was expressed by the gaoler that this man was a returned convict, and now en excellent photogra phic likeness of him, neared to • former onnetion, wan prodeoad. Sergesnt Ham, of the P division, deposed to having had him in custody for receiving property stolen off Pielstord's VIVA, for which he hid been sentenced toting@ years'impri soument ; this conviction was at the alurreyllsesloas in Dec., 1862; he served the whole period under the cognomen of "Henry Helves/et." On his liberation reported himself at King-street station-house, in Westminster where he stated (on the 19th Dec. 1865) that he w as goi ng to remove out of the metropolitan district and pr to Glasgow, aided by the " Discharged Passions' Aid fiesiety" Masa whisk dots lao bad sot been heard of. . . . The pessoser, who it was mestiosed had. previous to the impriorameet noticed, bees "away" far tea years. tersely repliad that Imhof 04:Shift to y 7 sad was folly oeouaitted for trial at the Kiddies,: MARLBOROUGH-STREIT. 2CI= PEON _ lIIIIMIL O• the 26th ult. twoboliT,A;&;;;13;;• sod Juts Ryas, aged respectively 17 arid 1 , mare apprekeeded far teats. in Ooventry-street, by Tamer, Dee of the gasses of the Nasality Society, sad brought to this overt, +hes been Mr. Ban both bye expressed a wish fee sew *monk sad II tamed ost that the bet sawed boy bed sired is Lesbos live by. from Malfordokiro, red the ether bed be.. be • dare weeks. At the suggestion et the society's &let ease, the magi- ...,- 1113111 DAT. MM. W.N.W. to lir.N.L, 011 NORTH= Varisble, m(14101.11 moderato to straw, 03a1111 arm. some ssow or MIL N.N.W. .to LN.L, Mims As 'bon. _ ..... moderato to strong, equally. N.W. to NAL, mods- 1101/rantit. Betimes N.L nl nits to strong, 'gust- .N.W.. anisitaid. ati Ku" nods* n eepbt As next above. Least. Aaert .bore NortiosesedkoUead. Wootere.lrelsea. were 011 Mr model. teelleessllegibth Channel mad Maf d No/F Neoloramileoierard ledird sod North Sr. Dgas ow TM HON. J. C. DI7NDI/1, We.. We regret to have to 'commie the death of the Hon.J.ol Dundee, LP., the only brother of Lord &tilted, whose pied at she Villa Cessole, at Nice, oa the Itlit lett Duodas had formerly repreeented itichmeed during mod parliaments, bet bad for lame time retired from pclilielh He was re-elected for that borough at the het pad election. He leaves a large family, the eldest el Alai heir presumptive to the earldom of Zetlasid. THt GRZAT WILL CABS IN IIttLAND:4 I3 I. Eresnm.)—ln the will ease, "Fitsgersslde.Hillud i r Judge Kindle( charged the jury today. They M.! ti 5 o'clock, and returned in ten toiontes with a Mid riP log the will invalid, owing to incapacity end imam* II mince. Writing on the 6th of January to Mr. Cuddle Mr. Eyre empresses his confident belief that the *mkt of beiog instituted " will show that when on the swwWW. - of the recent atrocious insurrection it became of Pill duty to adopt the suet prompt and severs malMeel Is W preen and prevent the spread of as outbreak Ai* 1 1 1 111 :, wed the selety of the entire col my, those dem WI P P and noonseary under the eironinstanws, sad that hedlted, rated to adopt them and acospt the personal turod hal l and risk which they entailed, I should hare bow room of she high position I occupied, and of the Went Moo" It appears from the report of the keeper of National Gallery for the year ended D3renter M, lth famed thin morning that the number of visitors du* year to the National Gallery in Trafalgar-Nacre 894,354, and to South Kensington 692.900. Zed P 102° ..„ were purchased during the year at a eat d U, Mdlle. Bonheurh " Horse Fair" and Mr. Friths" DaV Day," bequeathed by Mr. Jacob 8011, have b° 6l ' *I4 O the gallery at South Kensington. The traders tart mind that no copies or studies in toy method ate made hem the works of living artists without Mir 1,80. amaset having been prey:00111y submitted to tbs 110 0 Thirteen pictures have been protected with OA dor k ",, lll Year. There are now 108 exhibited works d 011°.; schools protected with glass, indudiog three atriscal• one broke. Of the British school fortyasmn Ow °d so protected with 202 frames of drawing sod sketehil. The Our will celebrate the 25th anuirereitY• hie marriese as the 28th of April, when the Grand Dat i l Home. Qom Olga of Wartemberg, Prince Friehisk et Prussia, sad some other German highnesses mad NO highersees, are expected to grace the festivities by kal l presume. The Peninsular and Oriental Compasl Oita polies of their intention to diroontime the sad WO Moe to Maritime la June pest, unless an incremed Alt awe he wade tar it, the merchants and beaters ster, in the Wade have seerearielited the goveremot. son the greet Menamoissos that wooled remit. It woo the Mauritius govanmeot already pey 38,0004 prawns sag that the additional meant required is only 1 1 10 01 %. A balloon train, to ply between th e Plies 4 18 • Omer& sad the Cheeses de Mn'., is spoken 1 the ealmeass to be tried during the great Milton next yaw. 4T800101713 MURDER OP 4 MLA etrate delivered the boys to Timer and math, who took them to the s oc i e ty' s oiles in it oi mss, where they were put to work choppag woad at w mill. In the meantime the fast-noned b o y ern communicate with ha friends in the colony, wh o f i , 4 1, 11 ! him with the address o f hi s b rother at • - ot an inspector of semen—who be e or with respectable elothlog gad found hi The boy has shies hem to the °Soo and er in particularly grateful terms for the ' - The other boy is still ereaged by the himself to fi nd 1101/10 of his relative' is x. misery and degredatioe. that both these boys he,. been reseed freeeeghi THAY/fa DDIOILDIA ft • THUM Hamad Mills, a well-dressed s uedoed inse le i sad described on the police sheet cipz a u k, it _ Deresealreet, Si. Georp's.in.the-East was beceoer ds 4 Yr. -Parteidire, charged with disorderly medial Iftleghana Theatre, in the Whiteolispel. roe g , ilacenel Dameeell, pMicercoastible No. 140 11. The polioemaa stated that last nightthe primmeedi oompanioas found their way int o th e Elopes' len,. which was a well conducted Pam of enitiseam • distarbanoe. The audience loudly %i re_ p h loem, which wee immediately carried s e t swage/rand aasisteate,aad the perfornamestl without farther interruption. The prisoner micas were oonducted to the manure hall by ClZ i r and others. They mimed to leave and wen vary eh, derly. He directed them to leave the place p p ea Th e rumor mid be would not, aed mg ki t to lark at hie instruction book ved that mil tell him how to do his duty. s He teti party he knew his duty well and wa sok to he edge th em The prisoner said, "I am a patlseise sad a me honour," sad at the same time spat is his hoc fi teen prisoner into custody, and conveyed him tem* the; tam-hones. He demanded why he was made a vie w , uk be told him it was for spitting io his face. Th. became extremely violent and tried to get away. needed at last in eeoartog him. The preonses mom % retired and gave_no Pon _ Para.— loid 7, _ awed, i 6 H, confirmed t Damen/41. sad said the prisoner celled oat • _ _ my money sod I bare a right to remain is the thrift Partridge—lf he reads s dietorbsass then lr very properly turned oat. The primmer mid be bad been need like a Ise police. and made a long address. He declared hs sr sober, and oily bad a glass of porter with his lams Mr. Partridge mad the prisoner bad alibi ba and his own oacapinions were not present to roo li zg r ial t behaviour. The conduct of the primmer wee 'ma im fig indeed. To spit in a man's Taos was the act of tulle blear/nerd, not that of a gentionan. The Oar very properly Waned oat of the theatre. 0 4 , Misr 40s. for the smolt on flounce% ndQUESE—(THIS DAY.) This morning Mr. Richards, deputy m at held an inquiry at the Green Nan tavern, Popin,liki i to the murder of a male child uoksows, aged Ouvw _ Acting InapeetorParkar, ThameePolioe, maid thi s - a nn day al tempos be was on duty in • polies galley g d stairs, Alillwall, when he notand • brave pow p o i floating in the water. He got it into the by o f upon loosening the string he found it le Wit the body of a very fine child, about 14 maths ell, 3 • Anne were tied flat behind the back, sad the he doubled up on the body under the ohir . and nide ha at least eight or ten convolutioce of Ming. 3 Yle was 1/611. There were no clothes of any bag, le i brown paper bore no nark which could laid to gie dation of the guilty patty. No clue wham. Imi Its obtained in the matter. the body had bar two deli k the water. 16.4.Brownfield, police surgeon, said that b. Ws" mined the body, and found that it was that el 4 Mel male child of tea months or a year old. All his 'pe— wees perfectly healthy. The stomach wee easy, thigif right aide of the head between the scalp aid the s&d, el , ale° betimes the brain and the skull, there wee speam tity of blood effused cawing death. The injury hiht caused by &violent blow or by several blows oaths libel head. The child'. tongue yrotruded, sad the lam" toes ware lured eouvuthively. The lege, amii,l4l l 4 were bound up in a math by a great quality at Met evidently with a view to diminishing the balk dis leg to facilitate it. disposal witboat exciting obrithetheie the murder had been perpetrated. The Cloroner heviag remarked upon the atmeisetain of the crime which bad been oommitted, The Joey returned a verdict of " mud" epil some person or persons unknown." 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