The Express. — London, England, 1862-12-19 00:00:00

CIIAMPAGNE, DRY and DELICATE. Pests !41., Quarts tils, per dozen, railway carriage paid. liseumonended with oonelenoe.—HENßY BMW and Co., Importers, Old Menton's Distillery, Holborn. E.C., and 30, Resent-street, waterloo-place, S.W. 010. SMITH AND 00.1. PURE EXiliAdt - cibiCvics , FEET, For Invalid' e Culinary Use. Sold in Id., la, U., Wa d 41. packets, nd Valla rr emlsts, racers, &e. WASTINACTOLY. ta, 1.1 Mit Regent-A, W. OFFICES, lia, BUIIIi•LANK, Cannonai;eet, E.C. N.B.—Prim Medal enearded for excellence of quality. BOX-HIS-BARB.—PIESSE and LIJBIN'S new I'ILIiFUSIE for the festivities, the sequel to Stolen Mises, also Sir Roger de Coverlet' bye Savour, they bottles, in a pretty cas t s, ;or single bottlq, Ys. ed. ione genuine without oar e writing.—PLiME aid LUBIN, Boad-dradt, London. SICIOND-HAND PIANOPORTZEI. CIIAMJIR, BIAI.L sad MOOD baw a large ea telasset of saved-baa 4 Pbundoebr, by the most asBaras4 swans, at pokily mimed yekes.-101. lbegestsinet. the erarreoo. Allwartbiesaft tatiidee for - fit - e — iiir - e - ab" London BEM •TlMmeat be at the office, 10, Bouverie-street, by Two ic ow Woo day at wabboatlas. COYIN7 GARDEN. Tam Maserso, 5it 7 11724. Missiisra Dobson. M Thine - aft. and Madams Lam Baxter ; Mears. Smiley. H. 'Patch 1.5a1L and -reorge Perren.—Canctseter, Mr. Meßon.—Counmenes , at 0. Ten ERINTNO, A DAIIGITKII TOiLtRItY. Mita E. Ramer. aMISRICAN MUM. Mrs. Bother% Ihtekstoo• Mrs. IL Moak= —TURNIMS THI TABLES. Mr. Contpteet.— And Mt VI:SBA/WS GM(MT. Mr. Girt—Commence at Z. marianua. nes Snottok SOME BELLS TRAT RANG AN OLD YEAR OUT AIM A Taw ONE IN.—llWing by the Neapolitan Mina,lna% and M. Bombll.—Dmeas by Mate. ailepban --CART ON TMS MERCY OF TILL WORLD—AM DLYID HUNT. HIGH WATZSAT LONDON BRIDGIL Tam DAT 2 ll.3e;;;47,Ob7o7•77.Aiilineos. — Ob. 6m. tobioasoir—Mossim O. 1130.....Aberbass. 14 On. LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19. l'or..garotte panic is now on the decline, and is furnishing food for farce writers and arrangers of pantomimes. We are so essentially a humorous people, with such a passion for reducing everything to an absurdity, that mur der, arson, or any other desperate crime, is hardly considered too serious to be spun into amusement. As for diseases, there are very-few, however painful and fatal they may be in the main, which, in some of their aspects, are not•considered fair game for the comic writer. The gout has long been an eatabliahed favourite in farces, comedies, and caricatures ; its agonies have been played upon with an unmistakeable relish, and delighted audiences have approved of mock torture as a highly humorous representation. Toothache, for some unexplained reason, has never been very popular on the stage, probably because it has never been rightly or wrongly asso ciated with over-eating and drinking. Paralysis has been left alone, though it once gave a richness of tone to a celebrated actor ;t but we are not aware that any attempt has been ever made to extract fun from the ague. St. Vitus's dance was at one time the most attractive feature of a smart and bustling ballet, and various kinds of deformity, from a limp to a dislocated leg, give a fantastic spirit to our popular music-hall dancing. Even in a higher walk of the drama—in modern comedy—the moat idolised comedian of the day has invented an elaborate stutter which he has talked with every night for more than a twelve month. The cholera, except in its mildest forms, has not been used as an agent to excite laughter ; but sea-sickness, influenza, and a variety of simi lar complaints, are hardly ever off the stage at one theatre or another. A wooden leg, and the physical discomfort it leads to, can always be relied on for provoking mirth ; while a broken head, if treated judiciously, can be made vastly amusing. Hanging is an operation that has its ludicrous side, which writers like CHARLES LAMB and dramatists like Punch and Judy show workers have not been slow to discover. No audience, however staid and logical it may be, is proof against the contagious merriment of seeing a man knocked down with a warming-pan, crushed with a load of vegetables, or smothered in a bin of flour. The keenest wit, the most refined humour, can produce no effect so broad and unmistakeable as the smashing of a tray of crockery, or the de struction of a conservatory skylight by a clumsy climber. Those who remember the rather over rated sketches of SEYMOUR, the caricaturist, will also recollect how large a proportion of their fun was got out of practical, not to say cruel incidents. The biting teeth of a man-trap, a bursting blunder buss, the threatening sh►dow of a gipsy's bludgeon,' the spikes and broken bottles of a garden wall, a runaway horse, a broken-down chaise, a savage bull-dog, and a dozen other instruments of torture, were pressed into the service of the rollicking hu mourist. The prosperity of the jest was secured if the hospital was suggested, and stretchers and bandages were pointed at as logical consequences. In a few days we shall open our great annual feast of theatrical absurdities. The Cattle Show has come and gone, and the pantomimes are preparing to follow. After the fairy openings, the punning dialogues, the dances, the spangles, and the gorgeous transformation scenes, we shall be introduced to the usual "comic " business" prepared for the clowns and their subordinates. The topics of the day will be hit off with more or less skill in all these productions, and garotting, we may rest assured, will be honoured with a prominent place. The quiet citizen will be introduced half covered with spiked armour, and loaded with defensive weapons, like Will Watch, the bold smuggler, or the dramatic monster known as Three-fingered Jack. A cutlass in the mouth, a pair of knuckle-dusters on the hands, a pair of revokers in the waist belt, a collar like a dog's, and boots furnished with game-cock spurs, will form a costume in which the model father of a family will be shown to a laughing public. The burglar or garotter will be introduced to justify the ap pearance of this fortified citizen, and that Lynch law which was invented by clowns and pantaloons will be seen in full and riotous operation. What will make the pantomimes of 1863 more remark• able than any former pantomimes will be the faithful pictures which they will give of the ga rotte panic and its consequences. No exaggera tion that the most fanciful pantomime author can indulge in will caricature the armed coneition of our citizens. Revolvers and bowie-knives are simple weapons compared with the arms which some self-defenders carry. Elaborate knuckle dusters have been made to order, spiked all over the knuckles, and containing one short sharp stiletto protruding from the side. Bludgeons that shoot out bayonets, and sticks that contain daggers and swords, are now sold more openly in the City streets than oranges or chestnuts. One belt at least has been seen the buckle of which is loaded like a pistol, and which, when a string is pulled under the coat of the wearer, will shoot anybody in front in the stomach. Life-preservers and thick sticks are now more com mon than toothpicks, and spiked collars are worn very generally with patriotic pleasure. Meetings have been held and anti-garotte societies formed for mutual protection, and a bullet flying into a drawing-room, and bringing cornice, has brought home the to the horrified householder. In any other country advanced in civilization, sTakate would give rise to a ge'eral mood; feeling of disoontent. Here, however, owing to our peculiar constitutions and our peculiar taate for peculiar jokes, wetting is far from being an unpopular crime. The same fun is made of it that was made of the pitch-plastering forty years ago. The very children play at wetting in the streets, and comic songs on the same interesting subject are already appearing in the music-shop windows. Who can wonder after this that we are problems to our foreign neighbours ? Vicaria prison. They filed Bome 'lron bars of window looking upon the street and got out. A sentry whose duty it was to have given the alarm let them go unmolested ; but he was a member of the old Bourbon army and is supposed to have been in connivance with them. He is arrested, as is also the second turnkey. The men who have escaped were all robbers or murderers, sad the most dangerous characters in the prison. A hundred other prisoners might have followed them out of the window had they pleased, but they were afraid to run the risk. The hand of the Camorrs is too plainly visible in this unfortunate event. TEE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN THE DUTCH COLONIES. A few week ago, as we learn from the Surinam papers, some of the slaves waited upon his Excel lency the Governor, and, in their own name as well as on behalf of their fellow-slaves, returned thanks for the great boon bestowed upon them by his Majesty, by the abolition of slavery on the Ist of July, 1863, as had been announced, and also for the kind language addressed to them by his excel lency in his proclamation. They were kindly received by the Governor, who impressed upon them the necessity of being calm and contented, of awaiting the period of their liberation, and of proving by their industry, obedience, and faithful discharge of their duty, that they were worthy of the boon assured to them. THE LATE DISTURBANCES AT ST. VINCENT. In consequence of the disturbenoes at St. Vin cent, West Indies, the legislature have met. The Lieutenant-Governor, in his address to that body, says : Without prejudging the questions, whether the demand state of the produce market leading to a prudent economy in conducting sugar estates, or whether grievances real or intagiaary may partly have led in the first instant* to the ill-feeling to which these outrages may be traced—the fact remains that serious outrages have been committed, severe personal injuries have been inflicted, and much property destroyed by large bodies of the agricultural population, headed and led away, as the Lieutenant-Governor believes, by strangers, assembled with the view and avowed inten tion of combination to force the peaceable and wall disposed to cease from labour except on terms dictated by the dis affected, and to exact those terms by intimidation and violence. (iruria's TZLIGIL FRANCE. PARIS, D. 19. The Moniker of to-day says The Emperor will, on the Lt January next, receive the diplo matic corps, the great bodies of the state, the civil authorities, and the officers of the National Guard and the army." DECEMBER no, ROM ,P4 1 .1:Z .12. HE NAT! ooaassrosnzirr.)„ 4 ", i . %RIB, THIIRSDA7 EVElreilk iumphantly that the news, from Mexico in yesterday's Moniteur does " com plete justice" upon the malevolent rumours pro pagated by foreign journals. The only instance which the Pays condescends to specify is that a brilliant achievement of the French cavalry chits genre had been transformed into a " sort of check." , It does appear from the 2lfonitetw that in a skir mishing affair 100 French regular cavalry beat 200 Mexican volunteers belonging to a corps called the Red Lancers. The Mexicans bad fifty men hors de combat and the French seven, among whom was the lieutenant-colonel in command. Without quibbling about these precise figures, although all military men notoriously exaggerate the losses of an enemy, it may be admitted to the fullest extent that the victory mentioned by the Moniteur was gained, and the only wonder is that the Mexican volunteers should have got off so well. But let us examine the state ment of the Moniteur a little more closely than it suits the Pays to do, and we shall find that so far front the Moniteur doing "complete justice" upon the malicious foreign journals, it does little more than paraphrase some, at least, of the most im portant statements which they made long ago. The foreign journals, as I remember, said that, although the destructive ootnito had, as was ex pected, disappeared with the intensely hot weather, it had been succeeded by other fevers caused by pestilential exhalations from the heavy rains. What says the Moniteur now I Why, that the men attacked by fever, who lingered behind Ge neral Forey on his march, have almost all arrived in Orizaba. The word "almost" of course refers only to so many as were left alive, and the Moisiteur abstains from giving the number of the dead. Again, the Moniteur admits that there are even now "fevers " (using the plural number to indicate different kinds of fevers) at Vera Cruz ; but the se rims nature of them "diminishes" as the north winds become more prevalent. The foreign journals informed the public many days ago that the bad roads in Mexico were so soaked by heavy rains as to be almost impassable. The Moniteur says that the rains have ceased, and the roads are much better, but that it still takes twelve days to get from Vera Cruz to Orizaba. A glance at the map will show how much this time is out of all propor tion to the distance. The foreign journals were also guilty of saying that owing to the hostility of the 'country, which had not been calculated upon, General Forey was destitute of the most essential requirements of an army on a long march, and that he would not go forward so soon as had been announced. The Moniteur acknowledges that the general has not yet been able to commence hie movement because he has "not received all his means of transport and necessary alimentation." It mentions as a con solatory circumstance that the Minister of War in Paris has received advioes that 1,200 mules and 250 carriages were shipped from New York to Vera Cruz on Nov. 14. These must be the very mules which the Pays pretended some days ago had already arrived at Vera Cruz, whereas all that is known is that they wereshipped. Finally, the Mou tonr does not say whether, when General Ber thier entered Jalapa, the inhabitants had fled, carrying with them all their goods, chattels, and provisions, according to the system of warfare which so much embarrassed . that general on his march. This, and not the mere fact of the entry of the troops into an unfortified watering-place, was tbo interesting point, and the silence of the Afoni teur is very strong to raise an unfavourable infer ence. The Debate (not a " foreign journal") says that a long and serious war has been undertaken, and they must be " blind " who do not see it to be so. The Temps observes, as one of the most curious things it has seen for a long time, the various con jectures of the European press as to the motives of England for giving up the lonian Islands. But inasmuch as those who will not admit any genero sity in the matter admit that the measure is a clever one, the Temps thinks it confessed in sub stance that the policy is good. The Patric goes so far as to " applaud" the act, but is quite shocked at the Opinion Nationale for going as far as enthusiasm. The France blames the Opinion Nationale, and in its wonderment and vexation withholds even cold approbation. The France, without making any reference to the serious doubt whether King Ferdinand can be brought to accept the throne of Greece under any circumstances, announces that the offer has been made on the understanding that he will be at liberty to remain a Roman catholic, and would only be required to recognise the Greek religion as that of the state. The Bourse has again been very weak. Bente, after a temporary upward movement, closed, with a decline of 20c. for cash, and 15c. for account, at 69fr. 75c. and 69fr. 90c. Mobilier fell 7fr. 50a t and the Italian Loan 35c. In railways there was very little change. ST. PAUL'S fiCHOOL. Yesterday the winter speeches and the distribu tion of the Thornton Memorial Prize took place at St. Paul's School, in the presence of Dr. Kynaston, the Head Master, the Master of the Mercers' Company, the Rev. Charlton Lane, the Rev. Markland Barnard, Master of the Mercers' School, &c. There was not so large an attendance as has been usual on similar previous commions, for which, however, the state of the weather was sufficieot to account. The prize theme was, „ the Spartan's March," from Mn. Hemline "Songs of Greece," to be rendered in Latin Alcuics. The prize was won by Mr. Black, the captain of the school, to whom Dr. Kynaston, in bestow ing the prize, addressed some kind and encouraging words. After reciting this ode, as well as • short prefatory one usually composed for theseoccasions by the Head Master,the delivery of the " speeches " commenced. Though entitled speeches, these recitations mostly consist of representations of scenes from dramatic writers, ancient and modern. On the present occasion Aristophanes, Sophocles, Terence, Shakespeare, Sheridan, and Moli4e, were brought upon the school boards. The following youths took part in the representations, and their acting was meth tMe :—C. Smith, Semple, Peck, Black, E. W. Kemp*, Taverner, Fenton, Daldy, Tew, J. A. Kempe, Knox, Dicker, and Taylor ; Mr. C. Smith, in particular, displaying • considerable amount of histrionic talent. In consequence of the illness of Mr. Upton, who was to have takes • principal part in the French scene, it was not so ileseat &alit usually is, but Mr. Smith, who took the part of Upton at • short notice, came off with considerable suc cess. On the whole, the speeches were very well executed. We regret to learn of the death yesterday morn ing of Mr. John Wade, the well•knows publisher of High Holborn. Das= or SIR G. L Honors, K.C.B.—We have to record the death of Colonel Sir George Lloyd Hodges, K.C.8., formerly her Majesty's chsrgi-d'offskia for the Haase Towns. He was the son of Mr. George Thomas Hodges, of Limerick, and commanded the British sad Foreign Legion in Portugal, under Dom Pedro. He was consul in Servia from 1837 to 1839. consul jeneral in Egypt from 1839 to 1841, and cbared'affairee and oonsulleneval at Hamburg from 1841 to 1860. in which year he received hi. K.C.B, and retired on a pension. The gallant colonel served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo. He was 73 years 44 gyms -HALL. —The usual Christmas performance of the Id essiaA by the Sacred Harmonic Society, conducted by Mr. Costs, t a t / Bobo, thin (Friday) evening, commencing at half put &even o'clock. lat. , • . 10114 L PROVIDENT INSTITUTION. The report Of the above institution for the past year stases that the plunbar of proposals, for assurance iluit have lama melee& is 1,188 ; of widish 1,006 have been . and peados limed accordingly, assuring the sum 743:1 6 ,6 1 911. 18s. 6d., and producing annual premiums remounting to 16,0911. 3a. Bd. • besides 1,7791. 19e. Id. in Opals *tuns. The smiler of deaths which hive ciocerred in the year ending the 20th November LA is 210, and the amount paid and in course of payment on these claims, including bonuses added thereto, is 134,8551. 95., making a total amount peid since the establishment of the institution of 1,291,0621. 18s. 4d. Five policies in Class X., amounting to 1,7081. la., have become doe, end have been paid to the members themselves . The b alance of receipts over payments is 152,7751. making the capital of the institution 2,900,0661. 155., which, by the addition of the balance of profit and loss account for the five years, is increased to 2,200,4261. 3s. 4d., including, among other in vestmenta, the following:—One million six hundred and seventy-six thousand pounds advanced on ; 735,000/. on government securities 68,6001. on East India government loan and railway de bentures; 148,7001. ad vanced to members on the security of their policies. The annual income arising from 17,130 existing policies is 282,5971. 16s. 11d. ; deduct the annual abatement made at the division of 1857, of 50,1121.-232,4851. 16e. 11d. ; add interest on invested capital, 92.2451. 12a 2d. ; net annual income, :124.7311. 9s. Id. The number of mem bers is 14,056. The new offices will be opened for public business on the 15th of the present month, which is the twenty-a/Leath anniversary of the institution. Theactuary is now engaged in assoertaining the amount of the surplus pro- Ste for the five yams ending 20th November Let, and in the course of a few months the directors expect to be prepared to inform each member the amount of bonus, or its Gwyn lent reduction in premium, apportioned to his policy. The directors have also to announce that the actuary hia just completed a further periodical investigation, being the third since the establishment of the institution, of the rate of i mortality experienced amongst the members com prised n Classes LX. and X. The result of this important inquiry continues to be most favourable. The following statement shows the progress of the institu tion since the last quinquennial dine= made in 1857 : Number of policies 31•0114, 1857, 20,626; 1662, 25,532 ; in crease in 5 years eading 20th Nov.. 1862, 4,906. Amount of income, 1857, 275,3311. 17s. ; 1862, 321.731/. 91. ld. ; in creme in 5 yearn sadism 20111 Nov. 1862, 49,3991. 12s. ld. Amount of capital, 1867, 1,500 , 3671. 17s. lid. ; 1862, 2,200,426/. 3e. 4d. ; Menem in 5 years man 20th Nov., 1862, 700,0681.55. sd. TRANSFER OF LICENSES.—Dec. 18. ST. PANORAB. (Preeent—Francis Healey, Fag, chairman ; J. P. Pierce, Es q.. George Summers, Eaq., W. IL Wyatt, Fag., and E. U. Waderson, Esq.) Catters' Anne, Acton-place, George Johnson Sllcock, John Richard', and Rhodes Mould, executors of Simon Silcook, the late occupier, to John Frederick Sayer. Victory, Albanystreet, to Sarah Mary Newson, widow and sole exe cutrix of Benjamin Newson, the late occupier. George the Fourth, Edwardsrtreet, Regent's-park, George David Hell to Thome' Waylett. Cock, Chaltonetreet, Sarah Howland to Joseph William Gray. Abbey Tavern, Bartholomew road, Robert Thurston to Richard Matthews. Star and Garter,Kentith-town, John Dumbrill to James Samuel Bell. Victory, Clarence-mad, Clara Falcher and William Berry, executors of William Fulcher, the late occupier, to Joseph George Stoten. Apollo, Tottenham-court-road, Christopher Jolson to Richard Frost Hodges. Northumberland Arms, Tottenhamsoort-road, Sarah Butcher to James Ashley. Carlton Tavern, Carlton-road, George Hell Parkins to Ceo. Charles Garrett. Camden Head, Hidi-dreet, Camden town, John Thomas Percy to George Took Ifin a llit Wellesley, Cromeretreet, to John Many Grove, e son and sole executor of John Dove Grove, the late &soupier. Southampton Arms, Whittleburysirest, Georp Russell to Elisa Holloway. Black Cap, High-street, Otmdm-town, William Cross to John Williams. Duke of Clerenes, Cla rence-paseage, Old St. Papaws-road, Edith Horley, execu trix of George William Hodey, the late occupier, to Charles Somers. Pembroke Castle, Gloucester-read North, Camden-town. This was an application that a Hoens should be granted under the 14th section of the Licensing Act to Arianism Hancock, the new tenant, in the stead of Richard Hewitt, the late occupier, who had quitted and yielded up pos session. The solicitor who attended referred to the terms of the statute, and submitted that the present cue clearly came within the enactment. Is answer to the magistrates it was stated that at the last general licensing meetin g, Mr. Roberta, who bad previously occupied the premium. had died, and that a license was granted to Mr. Hewitt upon the understanding that he should within a short time transfer. Before long, how ever, he closed the house and left it, and from that time it remained closed for several months. The owner of the pro perty obtained possession under the statute of Geo. 11. The magistrates, after considering the matter for a short time, determined to grant the application. License granted. The Chairman, after making the usual inquiries as to the respectability and competency of the in-coming tenants, and having been satisfied upon those points, observed that the licensed victuallers of this district were a very respectable body of men, and he hoped that those who were now coming ' amongst them would do nothing to the detriment of this character. There was one thing to which he wished speci ally to direct attention, and that was, that in the event of any victualler wishing to make any material alteration in his house, he must first give notice of that fact to Mr. Geo. Bradshaw, the high constable, so that the bench might have an opportunity of inspecting the premises, and seeing whether there was any objection to the alteration being car ried out. In one other case there was an application for a truster, but there was a special report by the police that the out going tenant, who had been in the house for ten years, had for several months past conducted it very badly, and the report set out in detail the various complaints which had reached the police during this time. After some time spent in investigating the matter, the bench ordered the room to be cleared, that they might con eider it in private. The Chairman afterwards said that the circumstances complained of were so numerous and flagrant that it must have been apparent that there was no likelihood of the license being renewed to the out-going tenant at the next general limning meeting, and therefore be attempted to get out of the dilemma by obtaining a transfer. The bench, however, were not inclined to acquiesce in any such ar rangement, and they must therefore refuse to permit the transfer. A gentleman who represented the brewers said that it having come to the knowledge of the firm that the out going tenant was coodnctiog the hones badly, they had de sired him to leave, and the new tenant was a moat respec table man. He had embarked a very large sum of money in taking the house, and it would be his ruin if the transfer were not granted. The in-coming tenant said that he bad invested nearly 3,0001. in the property. The Chairman, however, said that the onus must not be out upon the beech, and if the in-coming tenant had been induced to part with his money improperly he had his remedy. The trander was refused. RE-APPOINTMENT Or OrrICERR. Mr. Healy (the chairman), Mr. Sodding (the clerk), and Mr. Bradshaw (the high constable), were re-appointed to their respective offices for the year issuing. MR. Lax AND MR. BUXTON, AND THEIR CON- I evirurarra.—On Wednesday evening Mr. W. Lee and Mr. C. Buxton, the liberal members for the borough of Maid stone, addressed a meeting of their constituents in the Corn Exchange of that borough, on the business of the last session in parliament. Mr. Alderman Ellis presided, and most of the leading members of the party were on the plat form. At the close of the speeches of the hoc. members, a resolution was unanimously passed to the e ff ect that the conduct of the hon. representativesin the last session of parliament was such an to entitle them to the continued confidence arid support of the constituency. ROYAL AORICULTFRAL COLLEGE CIRENCESTER.— The winter amnion at thin college closed yesterday by the award of diplomas and distribution of prises by Mr. Hol land, M.P.. chairman of the committee of management. From observations made by Mr. Holland, we learn that ' L or i Elude, lord•lieutenant of the county, and Captain Bathurst, 31. P., have signified their williogneen to become active members of the committee of management, and that the close of the session was marked by great cordiality of feeling between the principal and students. THE LORD-LIEUTENANT IN BELFAST. —His Ex cellency the Lord Lieutenant and suite arrived in Belfast on Tuesday, between 11 and 12 o'clock , from the Abbey, I the seat of Charles Lanyon, Eq., ex-mayor, where they aped overnight : . The places on the card which hie ex- I eency was to visit were the Town-hall, the Queen's Col lege. sod Model Schools. The reception which his I excellency reoeived from the inhabitants generally, , and the public authorities in particular, was cos , dial in the extreme. On arriving at the Town•hall an address was presented to his excellency, in the course of his reply to which he laid he had good grounds for believing that the linen trade of Ulster, under the impulse of recent commercial treaties, had in some degree mania compensation to the national finances for the fearful deficiency in the cotton manufacture of Lrycashire. His excellency, after leaving the Town•hall, proceeded to the Model School, Falls-road. After the examinations which then took place, and the distribution of medals, prim, and certificates of merit, his excellency briefly addressed the assembly. He thee visited the Queen's College, where be was received by the president, vice.preeident, and professore. He declined Ito rooms an address. A gentleman named Meesum has presented to the Hartley Indira* Southarnptou. a couple of eggs of that almost extinct bird the New Rolland cassowary, or amen. These eggs are rather larger than swans eggs. rather rougher than ordinary birds' eggs, and of a clasp green colour. Cardinal Wiseman is announced to lecture on Friday, Jan. 30, at the Royal Institution, on the points of mews between science and art. STATISTICAL SOCIETY OT LONDON.—Mr. Lewis Farley, author of " The Remoras of Turkey," hie been sleeted a fellow of this society. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURT. (Before the Lords Justine of Appeal.) IN LONACT-lE_ PLACINCIIIE. ... This was a p;ition pinsimeTed by Walter Blackmon:, of Wandsworth, a boltin cloth manufacturer, praying that a oomir.ission of lunacy directed against him might be super. ceded. The petitioner was at his own request examined before the court, and addnoed in his favour the affidavit* of Doe. Sutherland sod Forbes Winslow, in which they swore that in their opinion he had entirely recovered from hi-, de lusions. . The ppedtirtion was supported by Mr. W. M. James and 31r. and was opposed on behalf of the conimittee, Mr. Martin Blackmore, the petitioner's brother, by Mr. Fischer. Lord Justice Turner delivered the judgment of the court— The present application is one to which a remark of Lord Eldon especially applies—that there is no more painful duty entrusted to those who preside in lunacy than to decade whether persons against whom a Collllllilololl de lunatic.) inquireudo has been issued are so far recovered as to justify superseding the commiesion.l It may be that the recovery ia apparently perfect so long as the restraint is continuous, but that the moment the restraint is removed the diocese appears again. It must be a subject of anxious care whether the recovery will continue when the restraint is removed. Although we place implicit reliance on the medical reports brought before us, and have been favourably impressed with the personal interviews we have had with the petitioner, I am of opinion that we ought not Ito go so far as to supersede the mm. mimics, but that it is our duty to see what will be the effect of removing the restraint, and whether the re. moval will be attended with a recurrence of the &imam. This is a course which is borne out by abundant authority, as is evident from the judgment of Lord King in Lord Ferran' as in 1730 ; Lord Hardwick. in Sir William Brooke's case, 1737 ; Lord Loughborough in Errington's ease, 1798 ; Lord Eldon in Stock's case, 1413 ; Lords Lynd• hurst and Cottenham in D►oe Bombre's cam, 1444 and 1847. After much consideration we have COMO to the same conclusion as arrived at in the above oases, and are of opi. nion that we ought not to supersede the commiesion, but to make au order to suspend proceedings under it until further orders, and that Mr. Blackmon be at liberty to apply for further relief in Trinity Term next, sal that in the mean. time be have the management and control of his Mishima, without the control of the committee of his person and estate. • MEE EXPRESS, FRIDAY E • WOCKEit *IT ELLIOIIIQOIi • FR MTALY.' , • OWN CO _ - t ( 1, 1 2 5 NAIL/11. Dokl3. Eight prisoners escaped last from the The Pods proclaims triu I Y and settled Vicaria prison. They filed some iron bars of a t REMOVAL OF THE PRINCE CONSORTS REMAIN& W124 7 1830R CASTLE, Dec. 18. The mortal remains of the beloved and revered Prises Ceesert way privately removed early this morning tram the entrance of the royal vault in St. George's Chapel, w►ere they had been temporarily deposited, and conveyed to the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore. At seven o'clock precisely their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Primo Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Prince LOWS of Reese proceeded to the chapel, where were 111118111- bled the Roo. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor, the Rev. Lord Wriotbealey Russell, canon in residence; Vis count Sydney, Lord Chamberlain ; Lieut.-General thellos. C. Grey, Colonel the Roo. Sir C. B. Phipps, and Colons Riddulph. Mr. Lolein and Mr. Mayot, the valets to the Prince Consort, also ►ttended. - - The prowesion left the chapel, for Frogmore, shortly alter, and on arriving at the Royal Mausoleum the coffin was placed in a sarcophagus, and covered with • massive stone, in the presence of the Prince and the gentlemen who had the privilege of being present on this sad occasion, when the earthly remains of the best of fathers and masters were oonsigoed to their final resting place. His Royal Highness and the gentlemen then returned to the Culls. The plaster cut of the recumbent 'status of the Prince Consort, now being executed by Baron Marochetti, in marble, was then placed on the sarcophagus. At 1 o'clock this afternoon her Majesty the Queen, acoom parried by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princes, Helena, Prin ce= Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, walked from Frogmore-house without any atten dants to the Royal Mausoleum, near to which were same. bled the member' of the royal household immediately in attendance on the Queen and royal family, ands few persons who bad been honoured with invitations to be present. The Den of Windsor, when her Majesty, the royal family, and others had taken their places, read a selection from the Holy Scriptures, and offered a short prayer appro priate to the melancholy musk°. The Queen and Royal Family, after placing wreaths of Bowers on the foot of the tomb, retired. Her Majesty, though much overwhelmed with grief, has been enabled to bear the trying events of these last days without any additional injury to her health. The whole of the household were afterwards permitted by her Majesty to vidt the mausoleum. Besides the members of the royal family, there were pre sent—Earl Granville, the Dowager Duchene of Sutherland, Countess Blucher, the Rev. Dr. Stanley, Mr. Arthur Helps, and (in waiting) the Dunham of Athole, Lady C. Barring. ton, Lady A. Bruce, the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, the Hon. Horatio Stopford, the Hon. Harriet Phipps, Baroness von Schenck, Baroness von Grapey, Miss Hildyard, Madame Hocide, Mademoiselle Bauer, Viscount Sydney, Lord Camoye, the Hon. Mortimer SachetDe Wert, Ilajor.Geseral Seymour, Lieut.•Colooel Du Plat, Lieut.-General the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel the Hon. Sir C. B. Phipps, Colonel Bid dulph, Major Elphinstone, Mr. Roland, Mr. Buff, Mr. Woodward, Lieut.-General Knollys, Captain Grey, Captain Westerweller, Dr. Becker, and Mr. Meyer. Among those present at the coosemation of the Royal Mausoleum yesterday were Professor Gruner, Mr. Hum bert, the architect, and Mr. Dines, the contrantor. A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 was held yes terday at the Privy Couneil-office. There were present the Right Hon. R. Lowe, 31. P., Sir C. W. Dilke, Bert., Mr. T. Baring, M.P., Mr. T. F. Gibson, and Mr. Edgar Bowring, C.B. (secretary). Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo nial-office from the Governors of Malta and Bermuda. Despatches were sent to the Governor el Canada. THE BISHOP OP ROCHESTER AND BISHOP OOLEN3O. The following letter has been addressed by the Bishop of Rochester to the Bishop of Natal : " Daoebury Palace, Chelmsford, Dee. 9. "My dear Bishop of Natal, —I am led to address you with real sorrow and under a painful sense of duty, to make the request that you will not, under any circumstances, be in duced to take part in the religious services of the church within the limits of my diocese. I have read and con sidered carefully your recent publication, with intense regret thatyou have been sogrievously misled from the truths which you professed to hold at your ordination and subsequent con secration ; and I see no other course to be pursued for the pro tection of the coogregatioas and parishes entrusted to my are than to submit this remonstrance against your officiating in any ehurch of my diocese. Neither the intimation given in the preface of your book (p. xxvii.), that you cannot com ply with invitations to preach, &c., nor the confidence I feel that no clergyman with whom I am officially connected who bad read your book would invite you to minister in his pariah, supersedes the necessity I feel for this letter. " In so other manner can I divest myself of the respon sibility I should incur if I heard of your officiating in these parts, than by • knowledge that I had emphatically pro. tested against your doing so. I ought to add that it will not be possible to avoid some measure of publicity attending this communication, because it will be my duty to send a copy of it to my archdesooris for the information of the clergy.—l remain, &c., "J. C. ROCHESTER." The St. George English line-of-battle ship, with Prises Alfred out board, hr arrived in the Bay of Naples. _. _ _ . . Hia Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived at Apthorpe Hall on Wednesday evening on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland. The noble earl and countess have recently returned from a visit to the Emperor and Emmen of the French, at Compiegne. The Earl and Countess of Craven and family have returned to Ashdown Park, Barka, where they intend to pass the Christmas holidays. The Earl and Countess of Verullm have been receiving a sucoeniou of visitors at Csosimornury. The Earl of Wilton'is entertaining a select party at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray. Viscount and Viscountess Castlerosse arrived at their residence in Eaton-place, last evening. from Paris. Lady Harriet St. Clair has left Claridge's Hotel for Paris, on her way to Nice. Sir Frederick Johnstone has taken a residence at Melton Mowbray for the hinting season. The remains of the late Lord Monson reached Lincoln yesterday afternoon, for interment at South Carlton. The Archbishop of Canterbury has been elected President of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel ja Foreign Parts. The council have adopted the following resolution :—" That the society is bound by every principle of duty and respect to place on record the large debt of gratitude which it owes to its late president for the kindly interest which he uniformly evinced in its welfare, his liberal contribution to its funds, his ever reedy co•operatioo in the great designs of the society, his frequent public testimony to the vast importance of its missionary operations, and to the consequent claims for support upon all, the members of the church." _ . . The Post etatee that the court of inquiry which has now for some time been occupied with the investigation of the turf scandals thst have recently become the subject of public notoriety, has concluded its labours. " After a minute inquiry, in which every charge and insinuation that could affect the fair fame of the gentlemen implicated was thoroughly searched into, the court have given it as their opinion that Colonel Burnaby and Captain Aunesley have 'thoroughly vindicated their honour.' It hu been found that there were no grounds whatever for the reports at eertain clubs and the inferences of arisen journals. The Duke of Cambridge, betore whom the prowsedinp sad Boding of the court were laid, gave to them his ' cower. ream' sod 'approvoL''' MEXICO. CADIZ, Dsc. 18. Intelligence received here from Ilavannah an nounces that the French have occupied Tampico without resistance. SPAIN. MADRID, Dec. 18, Emma. Senor Bermudez Castro continued his speech in the Senate this afternoon. He approved the expul sion of General Miramon, and blamed the conduct of General Prim towards Almonte. He maintained that the rupture between the plenipotentiaries was caused by General Prim, and concluded by saying that the position of Spain in regard to Mexico was now worse than it had been before the expedition. General Concha said he would not reply to the arguments brought forward by Senor Bermudez and Senor Calderon Collautes. He regretted that the former had not read all the documents which had been published. He considered his speech was a mere repetition of that delivered by IL Billault in the French Chambers. He would prove by diplomatic documents that Spain had never deviated from the policy set forth iu the treaty of London. PORTUGAL. FEARFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. LISBON, Dsc. IS (vii Flung). A terrific accident has occurred on the Eastern Railway. A train, with materials and about 200 workmen, was passing over the Bridge of Sor, when it suddenly gave way, and the whole were precipitated into the river. It is reported that about 100 people were killed, and many wounded. The ministry have dismissed several more Cus tom-house employis. The proceedings of the Duke de Loul6, who wishes to have his marriage with the Infanta Donna Anna officially legalised by the government, thus making his son heir to the throne, in case of de fault, have caused much angry discussion in Lis bon, and given rise to bitter animadversions in the provincial newspapers. A change or modification of the ministry is al most certain to take place. Her Majesty's ships Warrior, Black Prince, Defence, and Trinculo are in harbour. The Revenge and Resistance have gone down the river to prac tise their artillery. The American corvette St. Louis is also here. Senor Salamanca has presented a proposal to the government for the construction of a railway from Oporto to Vigo. Exchange on London, 90 days, 531 ; Paris, 528 ; Hamburg, 48k ; Amsterdam, 42.50 ; Genoa, 526 ; Henke, 47} ; Bank of Portugal shares, 550 to 552 milreis. .-(THIS DAY.) 19.• A.IL WEATHER REPORT. FRIDAY, IL 6. D. W. 1. 1 X. 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N.N.W. to L 1 .E. 6t Eseturo. moderato. As next above. It. to E., tresb. E. Ooese. Norkbeagerly. mode- The Zeman of Florence announces that Gari baldi now 'wives his bed, and ma walk about on crutches is his room. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. ' at Nit Priam after Theat at Oluldhall.—(Balan ford Mid Jostles Cookbaza awl a Spacial Jury.) HUDSON S. 1113 P. ARAD; 5a5r.,114.c., AND OTHIRS. ASSAULT AND PALS! IMPRISONMENT. - • - - . • This was en action for en assault and false imprison. meet nailed the defendants, four of whom are benches, and Queen's Counsel, the sub-treasurer of the Temple, end the bead porter. The defendants pleaded not guilt , and, further, that the benchers were inns. into • charge made against Mr. Digby Sep smear, and Q.C. ; that the plaintiff was • odium,. end fraudulently obtained pomession of • book, from the contents of which he was being examined , an d that they used no more violence than was necessary in endeavouring to regain possession of the book ; and as the plaintiff would not give up the book, they gave him into custody. From the position of the defendants, and the cirenm. stances oat of which the salon arose, great interest was manifested in the proceedings, especially by the members of the bar, who assembled in large numbers during the progress of the trial. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., Mr. Collier, Q.C., and Mr. H. Lloyd were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Serjeaut Shoe, Mr. Serjeant Pigott, and Mr. Field were counsel for the de fendants. Mr. M. Chambers having opened the case to the jury, called the following evidence. Mr. Edward Hudson-1 managed the common law department some years since for Messrs. Maples. Sines then I have had nothing to do with law. I have lived seven years In Hereford-equare, Brampton. I promoted the Railway Passenger Assurance Company and the Waller Gold Mining Company. I was not originally • director of the latter company or • member of the board. Mr. Digby Seymour was chairman of the first board. In cemeequeoce of the dissatisfaction of the share hoblem the first board retired. That was in April, 1863. I wan then elected • member of the board. I at. tended almost constantly at the company's offices. In 1834 1 had • private letter book at that time. Finding it ne w/eery to write many letters at the office, I in. strutted a clerk, now dead, to procure me some tisane paper, for which I paid, which was made up in the teem d• book with • paper cover. Its endorsed " Private letter book." I kept it in my private drawer in the board room table. The drawer wee always locked, and I kept the key. No one had access to the book without my permis ' doe. The book was brought before the notice of the board. There was an official letter book regularly bound and lettered. In my book I bad certain letters copied by the machine. There are copies of letters in it written by others with my knowledge affecting me. Three pmn port to have been written by Mr. Gowan, the secretary, and forwarded to me in America, but I never received them. Ftevions to my leaving for America, and being desirous of being informed of what was occurring daily, the circum stances being peculiar, I requested him to write me each mail fully, in the form of • diary, and to have them copied into my private letter book. The secretary's letters were never intended for coy other eye than mine. He was my friend, and he wrote me more in that capacity than as the secretary. The letters in the book were never intended for the board, or to be made use of in any . public manner. I r es igned the directorship in Oct., 1855, in con sequence of some differences I had with Mr. Digby Sey mour. In March, 1836, Mr. Seymour resigeed the chairmanship of the board, and I shortly after resumed my office as director. I finally ceased to be • director in September, 1856, being dissatisfied with the management of the company. From that time I have taken no part in the management, but I still hold 1.200 share. I resigned under peculiar circumstances in consequence of an unpleasantness at the board table, and I left the room suddenly, leaving my papers behind me. It did not occur to me thou to take away the contents of my private drawer. I next saw it in July last year in the parliament chamber of the Middle Temple. There are persons mentioned in the book I should not like to bare named. I have no objection to the matter being made known. I went to India and returned in 1858. I first heard of the inquiry before the touchers in March, 1861, when I was dining with a friend at the Reform Club. I beard a bencLer name it. Subsequently to that, in June, I met Mr. Seymour on • steam-boat coming from Chelsea. I bad not been in frequent com munication with Mr. Seymour in the interim. We spoke on the subject of the inquiry, sod, in consequence of what be said, I attended before the trenchers 211 • witness, on Thursday, the 27th of June. I was examined about Mr. Parker's case, of which I knew nothing. The parliament chamber is an oblong room, with a long table in it. The treasurer eat at one end of the table, and Mr. D. Seymour and the short-hand writer at the other. I eat at the right of the treasurer. The beechen who generally conducted the inquiry sat about the middle of the table. Mr. Rodwell, Mr. Barium*, and Mr. Green conducted the examinations with others. There was • candelabra on the table which cast • gloomy effect over the chamber. Refreshmente were provided near the door. (Laughter.) Os my third visit, the Bth July , the \Valler business was examined into. Mr. Ag Seymour commenced by examining me in chief, Sad was subsequently areesemamioed by the benches. In fact there was no regular examioation and crose-examits- Moe. I was croes-exammed intermittently whilst the ex amination in chief wee proceeding. I have no complaint to make of Mr. Coleridge, who croes-examined me. After Mr. Seymour had finished my examination, Mr. Green and Mr. Rodwell cross-examined me on matters not before the beach on the inquiry, and I suppose to test my credit. At times I considered the tone exceedingly offensive to me, because the questions were not put to me as they had been on the two former amnions. There was • manifest change. The benchers remarked from time to time to each other on my examination. On reference to one letter that I explained, one said, " Why it's a breach of trust, and another, " Is it not • fraudulent 000cealment?" As the cross-examination proceeded, it became more offensive. I objected to it on that ground, and then it became more offensive still. In the course of the examination I dis covered the bencbers were examining me from a book. Im mediately before it was banded to me I had several rapid questions addressed to in., suggesting untruth on my part. They were addreesed chiefly by Mr. Rodwell, who wee prompted by Mr. Green. They also talked audibly to interrupt me. When the book was hauded to me, I was ex cited by what bad occurred. It was thrown over to me. and I was 'eked if I peosisted In an answer I had given, and if the letter referred to was not in my handwriting. I said it was. I was told to read the last paragraph in the letter. I de. alined. I would not read part without the whole. I read the whole aloud. I was questioned rapidly. Before I could give an answer to one question others were interpolated. Looking at the letter, I was about asking Mr. Rod well where be got the book ? upou which he re plied, "Go on, and answer the questions." I did so for a short time. I was asked the question whether • particular report bad been received from the engineer of the mine referred to in one of the letters and where it was. I mid it had been received and was doubtless with the archives of the company. On that, the beoeher on my right believed to be Sir William Alexander) pointing to the book said " This appears to be part of them. I replied," No, this f is ro m m y me b priv ets y of the company." I then requested Mr. Rodwell to inform so l in et e ter one bor ho an hu d has been be tre custody of books me bow be had become possessed of the book. He declined to tell me. I then mid My examination closes here. will answer no more questions until I have that reply. • Mr. Rodwell and Mr. Green consulted together, and Or. Green said .-" We think it right to intone you. Mr. Hudson, that it has been banded to us by Hr. Brown, the solicitor to the company." My esemisation then proceeded. There was much coa -1 him thee in the chamber from • desire of some of the beechen to adjourn, which took place at • quarter to twelve o'clock at night. At the moment of adjournment I was abruptly interrupted M Owing as explanation of a paragraph in • letter in the beeL I was asked to attend the next day. I mid I could, bat i had &dieser eagagement kw that day, and I would attend before or after dinner. \ 11 ~.~.