The Express. — London, England, 1867-09-16 00:00:00

/ , /i _ . • t • - - r• 11:411111 I 1 3 I re 5 ; !1 1l 4' .• :-/ • No. 6,5',7.] LONDON, MONDAY EVENINI E, SEPTEMBER 16, 1867. [STAMPED, u. ADDMOILUad [TWOPENCE TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. INSS' teIIJEY WIGRAM and SONS' (of 1a.0.10011-yonl, Loggias) LINK of STEA3I and PACKET gi 11'4 t., At 4TRALI.t.—For lIIKLIBOURN 7: Port Phillip) Direct, to )rare th e was on SATURDAY, the :lit September calling g rlpouuth'. the splendid clipper ship 1 RUE lIRITON, 1,100 wok t. 11. lI.ItYN, Commander ; Irlug in the Fast India Dock,. o g aecoirmosations fur all dawns of passengers aro tom 1, and she will carry an experienced surgeon—leor freight to A LLPORT and MORGAN, with Yemen , iioNEY WIG RAM and SONS. 7. leadenhaliwtreet. PERNAMBUCO, SzrntragEl. Exchange on London 21i. Cotten 12.400n5. to 12.500 re. THE PROPOSED VISIT OP PRINCE ALFRED TO AUSTRALIA. Drama. BAD JUDGES. (aurom's TEJGRAKL) FRANCE. PARIS, San. 14, EMITNO. The Etendard of this evening says :—" Several journals announce as certain that the Emperor Napoleon will shortly pay a visit to Berlin, add ing that Count von der Colts, the Prussian mi nister at Paris, has gone to Biarritz to present the Emperor Napoleon with an official invitation from the Prussian Sovereign. This intelligence is inexact. The invitation from King William was received by the Emperor some time since, and Count von der Goltz has not required to renew it, but the probable period for the journey has not yet been fixed." The negotiations between the Bank of France and the Credit Mobilier Company are stated to have terminated last evening in a satisfactory result. AMERICA. (From the South Australian Be*ler, July 27.) The delightful vagueness of the official despatch, end the almost unanimous silents of the English news- Cron the aubjeot of Prince Alfred's visit to these ies, leave the public mind in a state of uncertainty as dwhen the arrival of his royal highness is likely to take ace. The despatch states that the visit is to be made "in the course of the present year," and. the nicked letter from e Admiralty, which is dated April 22, announces that e Galatea, with the royal voyager on board, " will leave about the 20th (which is two days before the was written) to visit Rio Janeiro and the Cape of Good Hope ; from thence his royal highness will proceed to the West Coast of Australia, and will Tien Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, and also Auckland and Wellington in New Zealand, and may probably proceed from thence to Tahiti, calling at Rio or St. Helens on his return to England via Cape Horn, in the year 1888." But the departure most have been much later, as we find it stated in the Austra lian Gccette of May 25, that " his Royal Highness the puke of Edinburgh left Clarence House for Paris on Thurs. day en route to Marseilles, and thane, is summand of her Majesty's ship Galatea, to the Australian colonies, via Gibraltar, Madeira, Rio de Janeiro, and the Cape of Good Hope." It appears then, that it was about the end of May that his royal highneas sailed ; that he was to touch at Gibraltar and Madeira as well as at the places mentioned in the official despatch, and that the Prince himself was "in lamegiernol f "-si linGelstereb , wkids. Aissustitai bin 81JEREY. In the new romantic three act play, called Nobody's Mild, produced at the Surrey Theatre on Setur day night, the author, Mr. Watts Phillips, has constructed • story of the thorough transpontine type, and has given it the kind of dialogue ho is fond of writing for the central theatres. Whether the steaming Masses who bang over the gallery rails, or the eager, crowd who are packed like sardines in the pit, at this theatre, have any tote for that somewhat flashy cynirdam and laboured epigrammatic dialogue which distinguish Mr. Phillips's dramas, we must leave the author and the management to decide, but we fancy a stronger caste of sharacters and more female interest would give the new play • greater chance of MOONS. Mr. Watts Phillips has left several Surrey favonrltea out of Nobody's Child, and has concentrated all his strength in two parts—an old valances postmaster, played by Mr. Vollaire, and the village mitcut—" Nobody's Child"—who is represented by Mr. Creswick. Hs has arranged one loans in a ravine which is like • dozen sensational emits that we have had at various theatres during the last five or air years, and the picturesque effect of this has been increased by the ability of Mr. William Calleott, the painter. (From the Spectator.) SOUTHAMPTON, SKIT. 15. The North German Lloyd's steamer Union, from New York on the sth, arrived at Southampton to-day, with 108 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen, 32 sacks of mails, 241,271 dots for London, and 15,000 dole. for Bremen,. (Per the Union, rio Southampton.) NEW YORK , SEPT 5. • • • _ OVERLO— AND ROUTE. —COMMUNICATION by STt:.tM to INDIA, AITSTRALIA, &c. vIA EGYPT, hoe and Marseilles . —The PENINKTLAR and ORIENTAL , IRAM NAVIGATION COMPANY BOOK PASSIM. Oggi awl receive Cargo and Pamela for Gibraltar, Malik Egypt, Ado, ce) 1.. n, Maitras, Calcutta, the Straits, Chink and Japan , by their steamers leaving Southampton on the 4th aol fah ..i every month : for Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt, A and by those of the 12th and rth of each mouth and .ige's sound, Melbourne, and Sydney, by the steamer I,. 3 sisg smthstuptunou the 20th of every mouth. The steamers kayo Marseilles tin the 6th, 12th, 20th, and ttth of the month. Nil —Extra steamer from Suez, for Aden, Ceylon, Madre; std Okuda. It o tea, e.t,ntion of the Company to despatch an extra steamer M s , xne< p. Calcutta. In cormpnndence with the vessels con is: the malls. .to., leaving Southampton on the 20th, and ', r oles °lithe . .!th of October. This snaneement will afford additional factlities for the cons wrlrwe of Ivisseseen and cargo. tor further particulars apply at the Company's Moss, Iht, feelethtdiseireet, Louden, r.c. ; or Oriental-place, South 111Rioa. The question of an amnesty was considered at • meeting of the cabinet held yesterday, and it is reported that Mr. Johnson intends to pardon all participators in the rebellion, excepting some fifty or • hundred persons against whom *nisi charges of a heinous character had been preferred. The New York He►eld says that General Grant favoured this plan. (The issue of an amnesty proclamation has since been announced by Atlantic telegraph). TheXere York Tribune positively asserts that a serious disagreement has taken place between General Grant and President Johnson relative to each other's powers under the Reconstruction Act. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Barr. 14, Evairmo. IMAN LINK—The LIVERPOOL, NEW' tors. and PHILADELPHIA BTEAM.BHIP COMPANY mod despatching their full powered Clyda-bnilt Iron screw ideublps, carrying the Udted Mates Mods, aillimg at Queens. ~ n , Ireland, on the following day, to take on hosed ogees i sg dispatches, and with bkerty to call at an inteseedlata port: CITY 01 A NTWRIIP, Wednesday, September 18. CITY OF BSTON, Wednesday September 25. CITY Or BALTIMORE. Wedaesday October Y. Ana every Wednesday and Saturday. Cobh passage by the mall deantors tWLng every Wednesday, IA Ir, and tl guineas, according la the accommodation. Forward t arra{e Includes a full supply of cooked providonu Passengers lor ailed& and the I ailed states booked through on very advan oas tend—For further particulars apply to WILLIAM dMAN, w, Waterstreet i ll l ezool ; and to LIVE= and MACZY, 11, Eine Willlemetrect. The official Evening Post says :—" Once for all we hereby give a brief and direct denial to the rumours that the government intends to confiscate the church property - in order to meet the present financial requirements." The Prase of this evening announces that the ministerial proposals made to the Austro-Hunga rian Conference are, that a capital, represented by , interest to the amount of 25 million of florins, is to figure as a separate item in the total amount of the public debt. This portion of the public , debt is to be borne by the cis-Leithan provinces only, as the capital has been employed for purposes connected exclusively with the non-Hungarian provinces. Of the in terest or the remaining state debt, amounting to 125 millions, Hungary is to bear 30 per cent. The Hungarian quota of the expenditure of the whole empire is also 30 per cent. Thus Hungary is to contribute 52 to 54 millions of florins towards the payment of the interest of the public debt ant: the general expenditure. The same paper states that the deficit cf the budget of the whole empire amounts to 48 millions, or, according to another version, to 50 or even 55 illions of florins. MUNICH, Ben. 14. The Emperor and Empress of Austria and the ex-Queen of Naples arrived here this evening. To-morrow the Emperor will meet King Louis 11. of Bavaria at Froesenhafen, and will stay there until Sunday. President Johnson has accepted an invitation to preside at the dedication of the Antietan Cemetery on the 7th. The Unitestetanal Asia 4. mow 2,558,000,000 dela., a ems auction hiving been effected during the year of 55,000,000 dole. The total amount of cash in the Treasury Is 148,000,000 dole. The Fenian Congress ia holding sittings at Cleveland with closed doors. The story of Noboques Child, though complicated end loaded with one character who never appears and several who appear vary little oa the soon, is clearly told. Its low comedy is not offensively prominent and "made to order," and its acts, if we except the first, are not much obstructed with unnecessary talk. The scene is laid in Cornwall, and the interest turns upon property. Where there in property there in generally a will, and there is a will in this case, made by an admiral just before his death by drowning, enclosed in • tin box, entrusted to • drunk= mike., dropped down • ravine, sought for by the plotting villain, found by the extremely welLepoken, well-behaved, and pnetical outcas►—" No body's Child"—who is hauled oat of the ravine by his sweetheart, and conveys the will to its rightful owner. Nally person' accustomed to the workings of fiction will imagine that this will proves the outcast to be the reel hair to the Tregarvon estates, bat each ponces will be agreeably dJaappolated. " Nobody's Child" remains no body'. child until the last—a species of male "good for nothing," with righteous instincts and great pugilistic power. The herald arerta th►t another raid on Canada is being organiaed. HATTL Intelligence received here from San Domingo (yin Havannah), to the 31st ulk, announces that several towns in Hayti had revolted against Salnave, and had offered the presidency to Cabral. &kayo was reported to be a fugitive. The movement to secure a union between San Domingo and Hayti was making progress. (BY ATLANTIC TTLIGRAPIL) NEW YORK, Sum 13, 6 P.N. The Transatlantic Company's steamship Europe arrived out to-day. Closing prices :"—Gold. 144 f. Sterling exchange on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1141. Illinois, 121*. Erie, 69. Cotten : Mid dling Upland, 25*. PHILADELPHIA, Bur. 13. Petroleum, standard white, 31*. CIWEDEN and BACK in seven days from 0 London, anowmg 56 hours In Sweden.-11iis is an oppor tunity that may be embraced by the renowned twin screw steamer M.tRY, Captain THOS. LEIGH, appointed to sail on tab Sept, Inuti the West India Dock buoys, for OGTHF—NDURO, and ever) alternate Saturday as heretofore (weather Peril:aline. Pusenews u ill likewise And this a most interesting route to Norway and Ittro.la. and should make early applications for berths. Ism to Gothenburg, A 3 3s. and At b.: return. A 4 145. 64 sad a;.3 desk. AL—Apply atCHAPLIN'S Office, Regent anus, W or to Pill LLIPPS, ORAV63I. PHILLIPPS sod Ca, lit. Dunstan's-house, Cross-hum West Tower-street. BREMEN. —Direct Route to Hanover, Bruns wick, and Central Oarmany —The North Gennut Lloyd's thst-clam screw steamer ARAM Captain BKITNIANN, will be despatched on TIICBSDAY, Bept.lo, calling at Blackwe ll (weather permitting), at 12 nom—rarest° Bremen, LI and SI; !return Wads, F 9 stud 41 Ma—Apply at CILAYLINII Universal ()Mee, Begeut-eircua, W. or to PHILLIPPS, GRAVES, PHIL LIP/I and Co., at. Unnstnalrionee. Crowlane, Onat Tower- West. B.C. tad 0 7. ins s. NEW YORK, Barr. 14, 6 P.M. The shipment of gold by the steamers leaving to-day for Europe is smalL The Inman steamship City of Washington and the North-German Lloyd's steamship Deutschland have arrived out. ROTTERDAM and the RHINE.—The favourite steamer BAT t VIER leaves Brunswick Pier, Bleckwell, every SUNDAY, at 11 am. Paseengera must, leave Yenchurch street Station by the 10.30 am. train, and walk on board.— The Eywavord leaves from off the Tower every Thursday morning at 8 am—Apply at CHAPLIN'S Universal GOlce, W., or to PHILLIPPL GRANTS, PHILLIPPB and Co., 81. Bunsimes- Bosse. tlawlsne, Great TowerotreeL LC. HUNGARY. METH, 81P?. 14, WINING. According to intelligence received here, it is con fidently expected that the Austro-Hungarian Con ference sitting in Vienna will come to a satisfactory agreement as to the portion of the State burdens to be assumed by Hungary. M. Desk is expected here to-day.• A torchlight procession will take place this even ing in honour of General Turr. Closing prices :—Gold, 144. Sterling ex on London, 1091. 6-20 United States ° 13 11 4:1 1 X 114 a. Illinois, 1211. Erie, 69. Cotton—Mid dling Upland, 251. PHILADELPHIA, Sur. 14. Petroleum, standard white, 32. QTEAM to COPENHAGEN and STOCKHOLM, 1.7 from London dlrect.—ln Ilea of the Newsky.—A Steamer will be despatched from Alderman's-Ger In a few dap, Yuan to CoPtshairo. LE 3a : Ptoekholm, de aa—Por freight. pos- Lr . apply at CHAPLIN'S Univenal Othee, or to PHIL- Croalane, Great Toweratreet, Z.C. GRAVES, PHILLIPPS and Co., St. Danatterhame, MARGATE and RAMSGATE,Cheap Fares— b. 64.—liALVON ATRAMBIL, ALBERT VICTOR, from Swan Pier, above London-brkige, TO-MORROW (Tuesday` as 11 m., and every Tuesday, Thureday, snd Saturday same boar, returning every Monday, Wednesday, end Friday ; leaving Rama ge:* at Milo a.m., and Margate at 11.1111 am., direct for Loudon. Rrand saloon, Si. : second saloon, Is. ed. ; children, Is. ed. ROYAL ALBAMBRA PALACE. (Managing Director, Mr. F. Strange.) Three Donets, MO DRUMS, 00 Instrumentalists, Singer, Acrohata, Wailes ; • WO* Telegrams, ealoona, Snppot -rooms. lavatorke. lineklog-rams, Evening Paper; 10 Beata very Minn Opm at Dalt-pea neves. Ine an Might Priceo—L.. • sad Od ; Reserved &Ma, 4 ; Private Boras, from LI la. Boz-oMee open from Emu to Your. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 21 8, ted igh Holborn.—The moat spacious and brilliantly Room,bai and the bed Band in London. ono for CONDI= and DaNul Nd 'VERY SYR/41140. Muskat Director, Mr. W. 31. Packer. Open at ball-paes ; aces at IL Adraledoa. tkroughont, la. T HE hEPRESENTATION of the PEOPLE BotTNAiri NOTICE IS HIGLEBY GIVEN, that MaJor.General BAIN. EBIGGE, P.E. and NASSAU I. 8104101 t, Esquire, Bar rier:l4la'. two of the Andidant Oomunlssioners &p -rated by the Beundap Ccennilsoloners for East l an d and slake wider the provhdons of the lteprosantatirst of the People Act, 18137, wW attend at the Town Hall, Rsokarr, oa lIONDAY, the 2itrd day of September. 1167, at lima o'clock, for the purpose of INQUIRING into the BOUNDAII.IIOI of the borough of HACKNIIT, with the view to ascertain whether the boundaries should be •nlarge.t so as to include within the limits of the Borough all premises which ought, the regard being had to situation and other local circunuitances, to be included thetein, for the purpose of conferring upon the occupiers thereof the Parliamentary Franchise for with Baroosk The Astistant Commisehmers will be prepared to ressilus, the time sad place ahovententleued, the statensfais et any =who way Ito desirous of giving luformatits sh• se or other local circumstances of the WC. W. FREUANTLI. Secretary to the O. Old Palatu-yard, Westminster, &W., Sept. 12. 1167. THE REPRESENTATION of the PEOPLE ACT, 1807. BOIJNDARIT 00101 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that oN. ElE4 Maice-General A Lof- EItIGGE, R.L., and NASSAU J. SENIOR, Esquire, B bar ristmat Law, two of the Assistant Commiadoners appointed by the Boundary Condislealoisen for Eniland and Wales under the provisioas of the Representation of the People Aet, 1867, will asked at the Seisiolu House, Newlantoq on TIIURSDAY, the 78th day of September, 1867, at Eleven o'clock, for the trrof INQUIRING Into the BOUNDARILIi of the urh of LAMBETII, with the view to' ascertain whether the boundaries should be enlarged so as to include within the limits of the Borough all premises which ought, due regard being had to situatlon and other local circumstances, to be imitated therein for the purpose of conferring upon the occupiers thereof the Parliamentary Prauchlaa for such borough. The Assistant Commissionen will be prepared to receive, at the time and place abovementloned. the statements of any persons Ilse may be desirous of giving information as to the Boundaries Or other localcircumstances of the Borough. . C. W. FRED A NTLE, Secretary to the Commisalonera. Old Palseayard Westminster, 8.W., Sept. 12, 1067. FRnTRADE WHARF.—The Commissioners storaa and the Lords of the Treasury.—Prepering for =hoe, the Correspondence on the subject of Privileges. anted end how withltekL WORMERS el GOODS who art Ishiected to eiceselve charges on goods landed on = Way ea plow apply to Z. CLAY and Co.. 133, Upper street. FARNING HAM. —LION HOTEL for fami li es and parties . delightfully situate on the banks of the deer Dareuth, and near the Pualtighem-road Mottos. Every thing of first dais quality, and heaut3ful croquet hyena carriages ce every deveriptiott —THOMAS PALMS", YroPilaSor. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXIIIBITION, MN celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY gained taw DUBLIN PRIZE lIEDAI.—It is pore, land, deilicioaa, sad very at °lame. Bold in bottle', as. ad. each, at the retail houses ta Luton: by the 'rents in the principal towns to Ragland • or atolesale at it, Great Windmill-street, London, W. Observe . the red seal, pink Wel, aud cork branded "IlashaWs LL %Malty. 1111RIISSEL8 CARPETS, 2s. 101.3. k • best quality , Ilid. per yard : Tapestry ditto, bt 601. gleAge worm sandbars. lbdatesde brim Iron, and wood), Bedding, and I V a d 4ol 7, and a large Int of Linen epode at Ivey reduced Bis. All goods warranted, and del vertd tree. illustrated Ws gratin A new reduced ea* of Turkey carpets.— wbeletale and export Uppolmerer and General nakßentaldbx Warehnoneman, 133 to 130, Newington-butts; twin -46 to en, irreacieureet PRICE'S SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE Paleute).-1 he newest and beet MUM soa p, wean we ll , Mai • rich and fragrant lather, la entirely free from cocoa oat Nor acne of MEWL sad contains Dalt its waled. at Ilia" db . ""IlTeerhie. Bold in 6d. and 6d. teblets. PRICES PATENT CANDLE COMPANY (Lbsifted), Belmont Worts, Betierem, B.W. nINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA. pan I , The of profession tor the years hav pproved el S.,lution of Magnesia as the beat remedy for Acidity of Heartburn, Headache, Omit, sad Indigestion snd I , the best aperient tor delicate constitutions, esPeotanY "olgted,,, kw Ladies, Children, sod Iotsata.—DINNICYOHD and Climaista In, New Bond-siren. Ind , " dad of 41 " hat woes*. thronglinut the world. CIOUT and RHEUMATISM.—The excruciating 'O, afe G Is 17 go that celebat or rheurated medicm:Athol is quickly relieved and .cared MAIM) OMIT and ItHICUMATIC PILLS. 111, 1 require no restraint of diet or coannentent &whin their Ilad are certain to prevent the Maws attacktag any vital Bold by all medicine vendors at la. lad. and fa. ad. nor box Amato any eliendea 7 11 NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR, OF "LADY ALTDISTS DELI T." &a. In It vole, ai ail Librariss. BIRDS of PREY.— PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Sm. 14. I The election of a President for the North- German Parliament will place on Tuesday next. To-day the King gave a farewell audience to Count Usedom, the Prussian Minister at the Italian court, who returns to his post to-night. The King presides on Monday next at a minis terial council, and leaves probably on Tuesday for Frankfort and Baden-Baden. FLORENCE, Sim. 15. Garibaldi is at present staying at Genenestrelle, in Lombardy. La Bifornta, the democratic organ, says : The initiative of an insurrectionary movement most come from the Roman people themselves. The Italian government and people will then be bound to assist their countrymen. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Sim 15. A confirmation has been given to the rumour that the re-assembly of the Danish Chambers will be deferred till December, in order that the government may have time to prepare some im portant bills to be submitted to the legislature at the commencement of the session. General Kauffman, one of the Danish officers re cently dismissed the service, is about to leave Den mark to take up his residence in Switzerland. THE HAGUE, Expr. 15. To-day the police arrested a man named Gar densier, in whose possession they found SOO forged American bank notes for 1,000 dole. each. The notes were forged here, but it is thought probable that the forgers have accomplices both in other countries in Europe and America. Several false notes have already been put in circulation. The police are actively engaged in tracing the matter. THE CRETAN INSURRECTION. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sirr. 14. The Porte has officially proclaimed a full amnesty to the Cretan insurgents, and a suspension of hos tilities throughout the island, allowing the Cretans themselves a delay of one month and • half to give up their arms, or emigrate altogether, and to the volunteers a delay until the 20th October to quit the island, and the Porte also offers means of transport to all desirous of leaving. Meanwhile the b lo ckade will be strictly continued. THE UNITED STATES SQUADRON. COPENHAGEN, Sin. 15. The United States squadron, under thecommand of Admiral Farragut, has arrived in the Copen hagen roads, having come through the Great Belt and the Cattegat. PERSIA. CONSTANTINOPLE, Ben. 14. A telegram reoeived here from Teheran, dated 10th inst., annotmoes that the violence of the cholera there has greatly diminished, and that the cases are now reduced to ten daily. The Russian Ambassador is expected to return to-day from the Crimea. THE BRAZILS. RIO DB JANEIRO, Amer 24. Intelligence received here from the seat of war announces that the Brazilian army had reached a position one mile from the fortress of Humaita, to which it was about to lay siege by land, assisted by I the fleet on the river. The .Brazilians have gained a decided victory in Matto Grosso and have re taken Coimbra. The whole Paraguayan force at that place fell into their power. The Paraguayan general in command was killed, and the Brazilians captured eight cannon and other arms, as well a. provisions. They moreover liberated 500 pri soners. The Menageries Imperiales steamer Guienne, from the Brazils, arrived here this morning with 300,000 franca in specie. The Estramadure arrived at Dakar on the 4th September, and the Leire (I) at Pernambuco on the 29th ult. Exchange on London, 21 to 21} • on Paris, 440 to 454. Coffee (good find), 6.000r5., 6.500v5. Shipments since the departure of the mail 100,671 bags, of which 7,980 are for the Channel, 16,649 for the Mediterranean, 3,073 fer the Baltic, and 22,822 for the rest of Europe. Stock 14,000 bags. BAH .L. Almon, 29. Exchange on London, 21} to 211. Sugar (whites) 2.000r5., browns 2.600r5. Cotton 12.000r5. fi - ci the DO. OM Per tag ad- Ity 00 tot er's nee TEE P4S.ANOLICAN SYNOD. The first of s series of services, under the sanction of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London on behalf of home and foreign missions, took pl ace on Saturday at the church of St. LIWMICe Jewry, Greahaimstreet, City, and it having been announced that the Bishop of London would himself inaugurate these services, and preach a ser- mon at 4 p.m., the church was thronged by a most rupee taMe congregation, including a large number of the clergy of the metropolitan diocese. The service commenced the sounds of sacred musts in the distance, which gradually became louder and louder and at last wee asimapenied by the organ, as the choir, sena, slating a of about 70 boys , priests, and acolytes, each in a white cope or uplift of the precise Roman catholic cut, over long black gowns or cassocks, entered the body of the church, and passed down the middle aitle in prooewon in twos, chanting the piece of music which had been set down for them. On reaching the front of the communion, where two priests had been previously sta tioned, they filed off right and left, the younger boys taking precedence, the more mature following, and taking up their positions on either side of the altar railings, where stalls had been provided for their accommodation. The priests followed, the last two being the Rev. Morgan Cowie, rector of St. Lawrence Jewry, and his curate ; and then, by him self in the full robes of a bishop of the Anglican church, came the substitute for the Bishop of London, the chant ing continuing till every one was in his plac e, the rector and his curate kneeling on cushions which had been placed outside the enclosure of the communion, whilst the bishop entered within and knelt down first in front, and after by the aide of the communion table. The Litany was then intoned by the curate, and the lessons and collects for the day by the rector, the Rev. Morgan Cowie, and the re spools,' chanted throughout, as wall as the Lord's Prayer, by the choristers and clergy. At the conclusion of the ser vice the Right Rev. Dr. Whipple, Bishop of Louisiana, ascended the pulpit, and preached a sermon from the 28th chapter of St. Matthew, and the 19th verse. He pointed out the advantage, which the spread of the gospel had contributed to society in America, end the regeneration it bad effected even amongst the negro races of that continent. Educa tion, he contended, unless combined with iritual instruc tion, had not that effect in producing C • ity sod morality amongst people which it had where such combi nation existed. Its effect was shown in that, the noblest and most extensive city in the world, where, since be had visited England some fifteen or sixteen years ago, upwards of 100 beautiful edition in the shape of churches, each in itself forming the nucleus for the propagation of Christianity, had been erected ; whilst in Paris, during the same period, he found that only five new churches had been erected, and those in the place of four that had been polled down for improvements. The objected the missions which it was his duty to advocate in the absence of the right rev. prelate, who would have done it so much better than him self, was to propagate that Christianity and that spiritual education not only in their own country, where it was re quired, but in foreign parts, and he considered it the duty of all good Christians to aid in so useful and desirable an object. At the conclusion of the sermon the bishop again entered within the communion railings, end another por tion of the church service was chanted whilst the offertory was being collected. At the conclusion of the benediction the procession was re-formed, and the offertory purses having been placed in a gilt dish on the communion table, it was carried by the rector before the bishop into the vent/ room, a chant being continued the whole time until every one had disappeared behind the screen leading to the vestry. The organ then played a voluntary until the church was mainly cleared of the conggarvgation, and the proceedings were brought toe close.— Yesterday morning there was &resumption of the services, and with them another mistake with regard to the preacher for the day. It had been announced that yesterday morn ing the sermon would be on matters connected with the church in Ireland, by the Very Rev. Dr. W. Alexander, late Dean of Emly, Bishop Designate of Deny and Raphoe, and there was a vast congregation. But when a procession (similar to that already de- scribed) entered the church the Bishop Designate of Dwu and Replan was absent. His place was supplied by the Right Rev. Dr. W. Walrond Jackson, Bishop of Antigua, who was attended by a considerable body of the clergy. The Bishop of Antigua preached from the the 6th chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel, verse 10, •'Thy kingdom come." At the dose of the sermon the offertory collection was made, and the Holy Communion was administered. The rector announced that the " Holy sacrifice" would be offered every day during the week, although it might be I that there would be some change in the order of bishops who would be present. A preliminary meeting of bishops will be held on an early day next week to arrange for the precise counts to be adopted at the opening of the Conform*. on the 24th inst. Tan ABYSSINIAN Erszemow.—On Saturday the National Steamship Company's steamer Queen, under command of Captain Grogan, sailed from the Mersey for Bombay, rid the Cape of Good Hope. The Quest, is capable of carrying, with slung hammocks, 3,000 men. ()BoLax& oa TEI Tras.—Tbe collier brig Jarrow reached the Tyne on Friday, with one of her crew, Charles Knight, aged 30, ill of cholera. He was attended by Dr. Coward, of South Shields, who found him in a state of col lapse, and he died in the afternoon. Him remains were taken out to sea on Saturday and sunk in deep water. The Jarrow had discharged a cargo at London from Hel singfore, and the deceased had joined her in the Thames for the run down. He was in his usual health until Thurs day last, when he was seised jat sea with a violent attack of diarrhoea and vomiting. It is said that the Jarrow had one of her crew dead at Gravesend also. The Jarrow is one of the old collier clam. The rest of her crew remain healthy. She will be kept in quarantine until Monday (to -flay). OZZAT NORTHMAN HOSPITAL, CALIDONIAN-ZOAD Limaoros. Number of patients for the week ending Sept 14,1,028, of which 201 were new wee. royal highness, who is now nearly 23 years of age. most have risen rapidly in the service. But princes must have their privileges, and not be kept " down," as Bean Brum mere " Fat Friend " need to complain he was. because his father George LIL would not allow him," on constitutional grounds," to be anything more than a colonel of dragoons. From the dates we have given it appears that the Galatea may arrive at any moment towards the end of August, and it is therefore not too early to prepare for giving the Queen's son a right hearty welcome. Aa yet the only speech on the subject which has been made in the Assembly is the characteristic one of Mr. Strangways. who, looking upon the Admiralty as merely a marine I board on a large semis, began to criticise the ir letter as soon as the official despatch was read, and to accuse my lords of want of knowledge in Australian geography on the assumption that they looked upon Hobart Town and Van Diemen's Land as two different places. A. charitable construction of my lords' language might have inferred simply that they looked upon the city in question as so insignificent that it required is ... trovincial designation to as Identify it, just we might of "Adelaide, South Australia ;" but as it is consi derably more than ten years since tho very name of Van Diensn's land was utterly abolished, it is surely not musesonable to expect that the Admiralty should by this time have become cognizant of the fact. Be this as it may, however, we cannot suppose that this little bit of " sareastical " malls, mentary criticism could hare been intended as disloyal ; 1 for Mr. Strangways would be the last to show the least in clination for " throwing off imperial restraints." In the neighbouring colonies people are already puzzled as to the best mode of expressing their loyalty. Municipal ooun cWors in the neighbourhood of Melbourne are bent up= making a great display with lamp-posts and gas—a bright colour for the posts and an unlimited supply of light for the lamp.; whilst Mr. McCulloch, in the Assembly, states that great alterations and improvements are to be made at Tomsk, where his royal highness is expected to become • guest during the chief part of his stay in Australia. Victoria and Melbourne, in fact s will spare nothing as the time draws nigh in the assertion of their claims as the leading colony and the chief city of the antipodes. This will no doubt pot Sydney upon her mettle. But we in South Australia have nothing to do with this struggle for the highest place. All that we have to see to is that the Prince shall be loyally and hospitably wel comed. Unless we are tolunderstand from the Admi ralty despatch that he will call at Swan River, this will be the first British soil on which he will set foot in the southern hemisphere, and he must be made to feel that he is at home. The great evil generally in such cases lathst there is too much ceremony and twaddle—too many. ad dresses from corporations, Glorious Apollos, and other public bodies. Artemus Ward gives us a hint on this sub. 'set in his " Interview with the Prince of Wales." He says, " I axed him how he liked beia Prinoe as fur as he'd got?" And the reply was—" To speak plai Mister Ward, I don't much like it. I'm sisk of all this n, beano and serapin, and cmwlin and human over • boy like IBC I would rather go through the country quietly and enjoy myself in my own way. When the Inge cheer me I feel , pleased, fur I know they mean it ; but if thee' one-horse offishuls 000ld know I see threw all their moves, and understand :only what they air after, and know'd how I larft at 'em in private, they'd stop kisain my hand and fawnin over me as they now do. But you know, Mr. Ward, I can't help taro • Prince, and I must do all I ken to fit myself for the pendahnn I may some time occupy. This so pleased Artetaus that, after shaking the Prince warmly by the hand, he gave him a perpetooal fns pare" to his show, and "" also parses to take hum for the Queen and Prince Albert." If the reports published at the time spoke truly, the people of Canada were fairly open to a little stream of this kind. They bored the Prince until be was glad to escape from them. Perhaps amongst all the suggestions for making the Prince completely happy during his proposed visit the neatest is one which we find in the Hobart Town daily journal. The fates have so willed it that the Champion Races in that city are to take place at about the same time that his royal highness is expected to be in Australia and it is therefore proposed that the race committee shall communicate with the Prince in order to secure his at teadanes at the rear In fact, the editor leaves a doubt intim mind ea to whether the races are to be for the Prince or the Prince for the races, though be admits that such an event as that of the arrival of his royal highness in these colonies could not be over looked by the government They would have to invite and fate his royal highness in the event of his accepting their invitation. But after all, it is asked, "" ought not the Champion Bats Committee to make some move in the matter, so as to suture the presents" of his royal high. nee' during the Carnival week ? " It turns out, however, that the races are not to take place till January —a dream , stance that would so prolong the royal visit that perhaps the Prince would be able just to all in at South Australia again, with • view to be present at our agricultural show next Marsh ! But whatever nonsense may be spoken or written on this subject, there is no doubt that the colonists as a whole will act both sessibly and loyally in the reception of their royal visitor. They may not attach much political importance to the event; but socially , it is one of considerable interest. The times have, indeed, changed when the people of these distant possessions of the crown can enjoy the honour of entertaining on their own shores • member of the royal family. At one time the shortest sea voyage was too much for a prince. That Solomon of the British throne —King James the First—was many weeks making up his mind as to whether he should let his son, " baby Charles," venture all the way to Madrid ; and when at lest the sweet youth was allowed to go, great wee the anxiety of the royal father about the woollen hose that were requisite for keeping the princely feet warm during so long and stormy a voyage. Since that time, it is true, royal same have not been uncommon. But, after all, it is reserved for ourselves to see print's; starting upon transatlantic and antipodean voyages as though they were merely about to take an ordinary continental tour. TEE OAKS COLLIERY SEARCH.—Four shifts of men, in air dresses, were kept at work till four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, but without any satidwory result. Th hay* dug completely round the body discovered on Friday, but owing to its being so wedged in with debris of wood, Iron, and rope, they are unable to extricate it. The officials would have employed a fifth shift, but the sudden lowering of the barometer, which always canoes • corres ponding income of pa, prevented them doing so. Opera tions will be resumed this morning. Fine IN Ozeonn-eraser.—Between seven and eight o'clock last night • fire which at one time threat ened serious consequences took places in Hanvray-street. Oxford-strert. At the time mentioned lames were ob served issuing from the house numbered 27, occupied by Mr. O'Gorman, baby-linen warehouseman. The engines soon arrived, and by half-past eight succeeded in extin guishing the fire—the house wherein it originated bein g completely gutted, and those on either side being damaged by water. Then was no one in the house es the time of the outbreak, the family being at church ; and as to the origin of the fire, which commenced in the lower part of the building, nothing could be gleaned. LIBRARY ComrANT (Liserren).—The seventh or dinary general meetieg of the above-named company was held on Saturday at the Loehr= Hotel, Portland-place, to receive the report of the directors, to elect directors and auditors, and to transact other business. Mr. Rendle was in the chair. The repose stated that the revolt of the business of the past six months was mast satisfactory, es. ciallyefter the late very severe financial crisis ; and that the business bad not suffered so much as might have been expected, the receipts, he., for the past half-year having been very nearly equal to those for the correeponding period of 1866, and the directors reported that there woe • sum of 4,7271. 6s. 6d. to be dealt with. Instead of pay ing the shareholders in cash the directors have resolved to carry out the suggestion of several members of the com pany to pay all the 74 and 6 per cent. shareholders • divi dend in books, preference shares, or debenture bonds ; and they further propose that • bonus shall be given equal to the amount of one year's dividend to be handed over to all the 7i and 6 per cent. shareholders representing the rums due for the year ending October 30,1868, the ameeet of bonus to be paid at the option of the sharelsoLlers in books, preference shares, or debenture bonds. The chair men moved the adoption of the repori,whials was seconded by Major Farrell, R.A. The acting of this piece is broad and effective. Mr. Creswicic represents • very conventional part—an outcast in peplum pointed trimmers, who loves nature and dis courses upon the wo-ders of light and heat, the birds of the air and the fishes of the sea, sometimes in the style of the furnace-man in the " Old Curiosity Shop," some times in the style of Gaga. Mr. Creswick is too good and experienced an actor to make any part ridiculous, but we have men him to better advantage than in Nobody's Child. Mr. Voltaire is an excellent comedian, with considerable passional force, who knows bow to lay the colours en thick fora large and not over discriminating audience. It would be as foolish and un just to blame the author, the esters, Lea the managers for supplying this kind of eabadoinsasat at the Surrey, as it would to blame the newmendors of the neighbourhood for selling low clam periodicals, and the brokers for selling ill designed and showy furniture, or pictures of the tea board style of painting. Tradesmen must be tradesmen. Mr. Watts Phillips's dialogue, whatever we may think of 'Sic cynicism and his habit of pasting little Boohefoucauld and Talleyrand-ismillinto the mouthaof villagers and other people anhltely to' utter them. is better literature than Barmy audiences usually get, end so tar we are thankful The managers, Mesas. Shepherd and Ottawa*, have a large' sties, and they show • laudable desire to mount their dramas with all that pictorLd and realistic cromplete ness that is now the fashion at the cautrallhousee. True to die Ceas owed as mesh to the essatopeintses and dress makers as to the author, sad -11se present drama has real horses, • real coach, and a real pig, to say nothing of tl e little pasteboard representations of these things, which Mr. Boucicault, we believe, was the first to discover the value of. These little panorainle effects, during the display of which the chief actors generally stead listlessly on the stage, like lecturers before • dissolving view at the Polytechnic, appear to make the whole world kin. At the Princess's, the Holborn, or the Surrey, there moms to be no surer way of arousing the enthusiasm of en audience than by exhibiting poop-show figures, who gradually in crease in size as they slide down the scenery at the beak of the stage, until they am at bet replaced by the real horse and the real cart, drawn on as sear as possible to the footlights. Mr. William CAlloott, and his brother, Mr. Albert Coll ect*, have painted and oonetructed some excellent massive scenes for Nobody's Child, the principal one being • built_ up ravine by Mr. William Calloott. After ma/ring due allowance for the heavy character of the scenery, and the delays inseparable from • tint night, we think nearly had an hour consumed between each set is a little exciseeive. A new low oomedbui from the country, named Mr. lid ward Terry, made a favourable fast impearance in a new faros, by Mr. T. J. Williams, called A Cure for the Fidijetr, and also in the new drama. Miss G. Pauncefort played the aid female character in Nobody's Child—a village girt who loves and is repeatedly saving the life of the mama— in her usual creditable manner. Mr. Holster. Alm de serves a strong word of praise for his fruity performance of the small part of a drunken sailor. The house was crowded to suffocation, and the enthusiasm of the audi awe was as boundless as the sea. SADLIERS WELLS. Mr. Edgar re-opened this theatre on Saturday night and produced Mr. Fitskalre spectacular drama of Azoil--• play founded upon Anber's opera of L'Eafang Prodigre, which was first performed at Drury-lane Theatre in 1861 when that house was under the menage. meat of Mr. James Anderson. The chief characters, Awl and Reuben, originally represented by Mr. Anderson and the late Mr. Vandenhuff, are now played bT Miss Marriott and Mr. H. Loraine, who have every qualification to give them breadth of effect. It was the ' dagger-dance" in this play, with the original music by Amber, copied in an Indian Wlet produced at the Alhambra in 1864, which gave rise to those legal proceedings that have led to an investigation into the whole question of dramatic licenses. A lively and well-written dramatic address, by Mr. G. Linnaeus Banks, was spoken by the manageress, Miss Mar riott and the chief member of her company. Euteriow or LOAD Maxon. —The election of Lard Mayor will take place on Saturday, 28th ineX, Miahaaimas-day falling on th.nday. All the aldermen who have filled the office of sheriff are eligible, but it is not at all likely that the usual custom of electing the next in ro tation will be departed from, consequently the civic mantle will fall upon Mr. Alderman Allen, of the ward of Cheep.— Clip Press. COUNTY OF MIDDLE/MX RZOISTRATION. —MT. J. N. Goren, the barrister appointed to revise the list of voters for the county of Middlesex, has intimated his in tention of holding courts for that purpose, wording to the following arrangement i—Oct. 1, the Chequers los, Ur i bridge ; Oat. 3, the Black Dog, t ; Oet. 4, the Enfield Arnie, Enfield ; Oot. 7, the Court-house. Edgware ; Oct. 8, the Vestry-hall, Bancroft-road, Mile-end-road ; Oct. 10, Jack Straw's Curti*, Hampetead ; Oct. 14, Lord Justices' Court, Westminster-hall ; Oct. 15, the Town-hall, Church. few, Bethnal-green; Oct. 17, the Windsor Castle, Hammer- smith ; Oct. 18, the Oastle Inn, Brantford ; Oct. 20, the Vcstry.bsll,King's-road,Pancraoread; Oct. 22, the Vestry hall, ; Oct. 24, Baclley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Biackfriars. NEGRO JorftitALTEIN IN AMERICA. —The Elevator, published at San Francisco, is edited by a coloured man. sad eironlates 2,300 owl/la—The Pee* Appeal is published by coloured mm—The Now Orleans l'erbunr, published daily and weekly, is managed and edited by men of colour, and circulates about 10,000 of each isuus.—The True Coin senniesSor recently suspended, but to be revived, was pub lished at Baltimore, and had for its editor George T. Cook, • coloured man.—Sion's Standard sad Weekly Review, published at New York, edited by William Howard Day (coloured), circulates 4,000 copies, has all its literary and mechanical work done by coloured people. —The Christian Recorder. Philadelphia, published by the African Metho diet Episcopal Church, and edited by Rev . Jams Lyash, a man of colour, circulates 5,OOO.—TAe People's Journal, Brook 46 , edited and printed by • sobered man, Otsubo Lion 2, , and The Freedman's Toreidruk, are both pub- Belied by the African Colonisadon Society .— TAe Coloured Chews,Umed at Cincinnati, Ohio, sireulates 2,400 copies,' and is under the satire eadrol of coloured rimu.—Triiereses Record. llogirrrAL son Dews= or via CREST, Vicrouk. PANZ.—The number of patients relievol at this instillation during het week was 1,097, of which 266 were new Cam" - - The qualifications of a good judge are so high ihat we cannot be surprised at th eir rarity, and when we remember the way in which many judges are selected, we sea hardly **opiate' that there are such flagrant examples of unfitness. Is we observed last week, the borough re oordsra are some times jobbed into their places, and even whe fairly chosen they an nut appointed by those who can test their capacity. In the superior courts • seat on the bench is the reward of political service. The bar he. had too good an opportunity of judging the wisdom of rapid promotions from advocacy in opposition to the cushion of • chief justice. But though such extreme instances are rare, the general course of ad vancement hag been faulty, and if instead of fifteen judges we ale to have twenty, it is to be feared that an increase in the number of appointments will cause the multiplica tion of jobberies. When people talk of the higher stan dard of judicial capacity which prevailed in their youth, they forget that while the work was not so multifarious the judges were fewer. The government had not so many places to give away, and of course the claims of the real chiefs of the profession could not be disregarded. Add • junior judge to each court, and you have posts which are not so oonspicuous, but which are extremely , serviceable. • man must have done something for the I= to be made • chief justice. Two or three con elections are enough for • potpie. Yea, while the chances are in favour of the first being a man of ominous, and great lawyers are often keen politicians, _ ' the Mar Iran acidly steads for places is apt to be a" mediocrity. One can point to judges of this kind niece , tunately, sad it is not right that judges should be nude to be pointed at. There is no reason why • man should not be • good lawyer beams* be has strong *pinions on reform. But we have no right to aisume that he is • good lawyer booms* he has such opinions, and, of the two, his legal qualifications are more import ant: than his political oboe. The assumption to which we object is quite different, and does not follow logically from that we have been considering. Bain if • man's politics enable you to judge of his law, end the streogth of his mind as it is displayed on some points is • promise et general capacity, there is nothing to show that one who is willing to spend money for his party is either • political thicker or a fit subject for prof's-, sional advancement. We know something about a man, who has borne the burden and hat of the day. One who. comes in at the eleventh hour with • cheque-book in his pocket, or after beginning to wort has been put out into the market-place, as only fit to stand there and idle, doe not deigns the penn7. It would, however, be unjust to' attribute judiehd failures exclusively to political appoint emote. Them is no sufficient previous test of • man's fitness for the poet' of judge in his mucus as an advocate. The talents by which he rums to the absolute monopoly of business on his oiroeit are, perhaps, thrown away on th e bench. In erne. - examination , for instance, the object of • counsel is to confuse the witness and make him talk nonsense. Whenever you bear • ernes-examine may, " Now, let us understand this clearly," you know that he wants to throw dust in the eyes of the jury, and to prevent that clear understanding which he professes to be promoting. But the duty of a judge is to un derstand the case himself, and to most the jury to a oen.prehenaion. Some leading counsel always bully the witnesses. A judge who did so would be unworthy of his robes. Some counsel are so accustomed to mug mate that they cannot make • speech without moving heaven and earth. The first requisite in a judge I. calm ness. It is not always easy for • counsel, on rising to the bench, to abandon all the characteristics he has so long been acquiring. At the bar, too, • man nattu ally comes I. for the largest share of that/11MM which he has made his study. One excels in mercantile oases, and is left to them by the common consent of the attorneys ; snake him • judge, and he has to try criminals, as well as every de seription of civil MUM. Yet not only is such a man iDtlx. , portaged in criminal law, but by the regular practice of the wises the seniors never show themselves on the crown side. The practice • man gains in criminal law . depends on the length of time that it takes him to nee from two guineas to five or ten. Except in his capacity as recorder, or in the oocaidocal conduct of • heavy prose cution or cidmice, • Queen's counsel never sees • pri soner. Such as are not recorders, and have special branches of civil practice, have not even that opportu nity, and when they become judges, they electrify the. bar by their summing* up and sentences. Anything we may have said last week against the unpaid chairmen of quarter sessions is mild compared with the judgment+, which have been gassed deservedly on incompetent sti pendiaries. But it is an easy and ungracious task to condemn. What we wish to do is to touch on the awes of failure and to suggest a remedy. We have already pointed out the waste of power and resources caused by the excessive subdivision of counties and boroughs, and by the capricious allotment of sessions. Would it not be an easy change to remodel the legal boundaries, and apportion sessions and recorders to • certain number of tion ? Let the appointments be in any reopen sibr E that may be selected, and let the payment be on such • scale as to attract merit end distinction. When we suffer from now in our minor appointments is the want of really good men, of men whose names are some guaran tee of capacity.and whose faults might be discussed without an apology. If • chairman of Quarter Session, or a recorder, or • bench of magistrates passes an unjust ma tenos, who wonders and who cares? If Mr. Payne at the Middlesex Sessions allows the keeper of a brothel to go free on entering into his own recognizances, and gives • poor girl eight months' hard labour for acting as the wife of • men who had treated her as his wife, again who wonders and who cares? A deputy-assistant judge, who is appointed by an assistsetjudge, who is ap pointed by ratepayers, may feel himself above all respona bility, as it is alwas his endeavour to place himself be neath contempt But it fe essential that those who have the power of vindicating the majesty of the law should be in • position where they may be mached by public opinion, and should not be trusted to kee' up the dignity of the law if they have none of their own to forego. It seems scarcely worthy of anything but a local press to criticise the judgments of such a man as Mr. I'ayne, and one would rather hope that it was the dearth of subjects during the vacation that has led to his being brought forward foe yearly censure. It is just twelve months ago since he was captivated by • ballet girl, and wee com plimented on his impressionable nature. We believe he made some answer to the charge of susceptibility, but unless thecharge of cruelty brought against pus treatment of Augusta Mitchell ia met by • second defence, the first will have been rendered unnecessary. The case of Augusta Mitchell is not one about which we would excite any sym pathy. We are willing to take • purely legal view of it, and to appeal in support of our remarks to the severest of her Majesty's judges. A girl, of respectable family, is seduced by • groom, end lives with him for souse weeks, He leaves money with her, and she spends sonic of it on necessaries. Being prosecuted by him for theft, she tells her story, which is co - ifirmed by the inquirlea of the ses sions' officer, and which lea& us to infer that she had no {Memnon of stealing. Still, she had no right to take the money, and she was found guilty, with a strong recom mendation to mercy. Mr. Payne, however, was in • virtuous mood. While the girl told her story he kept up • running comment on her having bettered her virtue, and then robbed her paramour ; on her having no right to claim respectability when she had lived with • groom, and had been renounced by her own grandfather. In passing sen tence, he told her that she bad committed an offence foe which, within his recollection, she would have been hanged, an he evidently thought that he was treating her mildly_ in giving her eight months' hard labour. As at the same sessions two other cues of larceny were punished with three and four months, an indecent assault on • child with six months, and gouging out an eye with three, it is not quite clear what is Mr. Payne's criterion. But the severity of the sentence seems to us the least part of his offence. A judge has no right to be a common scold. Occa sionally, when the law ousoot punish, two or three words of mor ay reproof are not misplaced, and we have heard them used with much effect. But what is the use of lec turing a victim on the sinfulness of the conduct which she has so bitterly repented? If any one deserved the reproof it was the groom. Yet he seems to have left Mr. Payne's court without a stain on his character. Fortunately for him, the case was not defended, and any one who has watched the course of undefended cases, either at motions or assizes, will know the full meaning of this phrase when the judge does not take part with the prisoner. Whether it would be well to adopt Mr. Fitsjanies Stephen's hint, end assign young counsel to defend those prisoners who cannot afford the guinea, is • question that must often ooeur to the frequenters of the courts, especiolly if they dislike to see justice 'camped and the rules of evidence violated. But in Mr. Payne's coart the choice seems to lie between a quarrel with the judge and an assault on the prisoner. Young barristers would not be equal to the wor of bandying personalities with the deputy-sasistant. The only remedy is to expose such judgments as often as they recur, and to call on the Middlesex rate payera to move for • better legal representative. We ma hardly hope that anything will be done till there is some change in the system. It is almost impossible to get at Mr. Payne, and at any other Mr. Payees that may be scatte red over the country, except through the newspaper.. When the newspaper. write on such a subject, they are either warned not to attack the administration of justice, or accused of personal prejudices. That such exposures do cause harm to the administration of justice, and lower the regard felt by the public for judicial dignity, is only too certain. The tone whit* we were compelled to take in drowsing the Toomer case most have been obnoxious to one of the judges, and may have seemed irreverent to others. But if amass exist in say pert of our , the scandal which results from their exposure is to s• L ' lni at their door, and the longer the controversy lasts, and the wore embittered it grows, the worse for thees who refused • proper is quiry, and would take no steps to alter peacefully what they had to yield to clamour.