The Express. — London, England, 1867-09-24 00:00:00

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Barnigirm TRIM Emma, ALONII IN THE TIRATRT LAIR.—The American 'Minstrels and Japanese Tommy The renowned Gymnasts. Coutellier and Med —And TIIN GRAY LADY Of EgIINLEA. Mr. Reynolds ; Rodman Ceortenay &Corona. HIGH WATIII_ AT_ reirnox Two DoiL. - kondisi, 110E36s::::AitonfJoZ nb. ma. Toogoasow—monanit. Ilb. 61re ......Aftasocs, Ob. Om. LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. TO-DAY, after a fortnight's preluding, the Pan- Anglican Synod—to call the Bishops' Conference by its grandest name—begins its sittings. The ambiguity which has from the first attached to this extraordinary gathering has not been diminished by anything that has lately taken place, and churchmen as well as the gereral Eng lish public still ask what so large an assembly of Bishops collected from all quarters of the globe will do. This natural inquiry is variously met, according to the temper of the respondent. Some point to the published order of proceed ,, igs, and to the resolutions which the Conference will be called to adopt. But this answer is found exceedingly unsatisfactory. Nobody believes that Bishops have been brought from dioceses at the antipodes merely to discuss secondar y points of order, most of which after all must be de termined by the various Colonial Churches for them selves. When the Bishop of Naw ZEALAND is tempted to suspend his apostolical labours, and journeys to England at an expenditure equal to the value of two years of his epiempal income, we must assume the existence of an inducement of value corresponding to the effort. Another line is taken by some whose faith in Bishops is not only vigorous but implicit ; it is said that we need nut trouble ourselves with the how or the why, for it is not possible that an assembly so rich in Episco pal virtue can meet without benefit to the Church. This is neither more nor less than to refer the public to the final, net result ; to forego the future advantage, realisable under certain oontingenc'es, of the plea that the Bishopsmeant well, and to make the Conference depend fur justification on success. Some such thought appears to be in the minds of the managers of the Conference. A self-reliant spirit is shown in the determination not to admit the public to a knowledge of the deliberations, through the medium of the press, but to keep the proceedings strictly private. If the Bishops have met to consider matters which merely concern themselves, or if the proceedings of the Con ference are merely of a preliminary character, this precaution is intelligible : but it is frtal to the prospect of any really authoritative deliverance of the assembled Bishops such as some Churchmen are expecting. Englishmen are accustomed to learn the reasons of the measures proposed for their acceptance. Not being invested with lawful authority to enforce their resolutions the Bishops stand the more in need of the support to be derived from an intelligent ap preciation of their views and aims. If they had met to confer with one another merely with reference to matters pertaining to their office they might properly do so with closed doors. But if they have met to discuss what may be called Church politics, and to prepare recommendations which they hope will give the relations of the Colonial Church to one another and to the mother Church a determinate character, then they have taken the best way to diminish the authority of their counsels. Perhaps it may be found in the end that the incidental advantages attending the meeting of an unusual number of Dia engaged in the same work under the most opposite social conditions, ex ceed in value any positive result that could be for mulated in the record of &Conference. We are not of those who can bring ourselves to ridicule even the mistaken efforts of men who in their own way are doing what they can to kindle or keep alive the flame of religion in heathen lands, or in coun tries where the conquest of material nature de mands an incessant battle, in which the higher claims of humanity are in danger of being forgotten. It is true that this Conference presents a great variety of Episcopal character. In the list of its members we see names which for the honour of the Church of England should have disappeared years ago from the roll of Bishops, a sinecurist who has not visited his diocese for, many a year side by side with another whose labours and character may compare with those of • HENRY Diaavvir; a pastor who is quartered by law, with a large official income, upon • people with whom he has no sympathy, and near him a scholar and gentle man, who has sacrificed family connections and ease to spend his days in civilizing the savage ; a dogged apologist for slavery sitting in council with the son of WILBERFORCE. But the presence of these baser elements need not trouble us ; they are the remains of a bad old time which is pass ing away ; their elimination is as sure as the rising of the sun, and is actually going on before our eyes, while all that is good is confirmed with increase. During the last fortnight English Churchmen have had brought home to them, more vividly than ever before, the nature and character of that colonial and missionary work which they are called to sustain, and been supplied with new motives for zeal. Especially must the essential unity of Christian work at home and abroad have been impressed on those who listened to the statements of the Colonial Bishops. The , difference between the physical and social condition of men and women in Australia and Bethnal Green is of far less conse quence to the faithful pastor than the practical community of character which he finds in each. In both places he has to wage the same warfare with indifference, selfishness, passion, and mate rialism, and in both to encounter the same obstacles to success. If we may judge from what we read in common with the public, not only a deeper feeling of community, but a quicker sense of life has re sulted from the informal intercourse of the last few weeks, and that is a gain of the highest kind. The representatives of the Church of England in the colonies, where they miss so much that sus tained religious sentiment in the mother country, deserve the consideration and aid of their friends at home ; but the latter may usefully ask themselves whether they are not leaning too much on props that may fall from under them, and be led to seek a deeper foundation for their faith than educa tional prejudice and social preference. All Chris tian churches are now passing through an ordeal of uncommon severity, but the Church of Eng land has trials such as we believe vex no other church in the world. Her Bishops have actually had to complain that men seek her ministry who not only reject doctrines which she considers im portant, but deny the fundamental historical facts of Christianity. Formerly members of the Church disputed as to the amount of liberality with which certain doctrinal propositions, accepted alike by all, should be interpreted; but the question now is whether any bond of common belief shall re main. This is the great difficulty of the day, and Episcopal courts, the Privy Council, Convocation, are powerless to meet it. The Bishops, by leaving it unnoticed in the programme of their meeting, confess themselves equally powerless. The remedy can only come from a revival and purification of genuine Church life, and an exten sion of that freedom which it requires and will inevitably seek and obtain. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) COURT BISMARCK'S CIRCCLAR. The Times finds it easy to understand the irrita tion which the above circular has created in Paris, where the people have assumed it as settled that finality was established in Germany at the very point whence Count Bismarck now contemplates development, and where the Prussians have for the last 50 years been objects of enmity. But if the French resent the circular as a denunciation of the Treaty of Prague, it should be observed that Prussia bad received a certain provocation ; for it was only reason. able to suppose that in the l►te conference between Austria and France, designs which were hostile to Prussia formed the subject of debate. In assuming that Germany may form a single state without giving any other power the least title to complain, the circular really does override the Treaty of P.ague, or, at all events, that what France expected from the treaty may not be forthcoming. The weak point in the French view of the case is in the idea that France has a certain vested right in the relative weakness of her neighbours, while we in this country cannot but hold that the German people have the right to constitute themselves as they think best. The Daly News asks what it is that so severely exercises French susceptibilities at this moment. If there is any shade of irony in Count Bismarck's tone, it must be charged to the responsible authors of the rumours from Salzburg to which the circular alludes. French public writers insist that they do not object to the unity of Germany provided it is not a military monarchy under Prussian leadership. But is not France herself a great military monarchy, and that in a more Merl sense than Prussia ? The only effect of the French sympathy which is extended to the South Germans has been to rally to the Prussian standards every German who owns a fatherland. 1 It would be contrary to all experience, and to nature itself, if in the hour of trial the eight millions of German Aus trians should gravitate to an empire in which they are a minority among races and nationality, rather then to an empire in which they would be Germans among Germans. The Telegraph thinks its French contemporaries put an erroneous construction upon the circular, and that when read in the light of the semi-official comment which has since been made every sh►dow of alarm disappears, and the circular will help to assure Europe that the desire for peace is shared by the most influential statesmen in Europe —by Baron von Beast, Count Bismarck, and the Emperor Napoleon. )11 TOPICS.. The Times regards the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to the Cape as an event which will contribute to rouse, and to render still more vigorous, the feel ing which binds this and other colonies to the crown and to the people of England. In another article the Times sketches the great internal revolution which is going on in Austria, where • lumber of reforms are being encouraged for which the empire needs repose. A fourth subject dealt with by our contempormy is the retirement of Sir T. Bateson from the Social Science Congress on ac count of Lord Dufferin's references to the Irish church. The Times thinks that the hon. baronet was in the wrong, and that the facts justify the inquiring tone of his lord ship's address. The Deily New gives a satisfactory account of the working of the Patent Law Amendment Act of 1852, and states that by its operation, and without any cost to the state, the poor inventor can now secure to himself the profit due to his ingenuity, instead of being condemned, am Ne once was, to sell to his wealthier brother, for • small sum, the secret for which the latter would first obtain • patent, and then reap from it honour and fortune. The commissioners complain that they are debarred from applying their large earldom in erecting • suitable office, the ipso* now at their disposal being wholly inadequate. The Daily News mopeds to condemn some of the com pensations which are paid, and which are attached, not to persons, but to Aloes, namely, the law offices of Scotland and Ireland. The Attorney-General for Ireland receives 1,2001., the Solicitor-General 8001., and the Lord Advocate for Scotland 8501. The clerks of the Attorney-General and Lord Advocate receive 3001. each. None of these gentlemen do, or have dons, any service to the Patent-offiee in return for these sums. The Star thinks that in the Alabama controversy we are within sight of land, and that the proposal of Lord Stanley as to the oonstitntion of the court of arbitration is in every sense a just one. Whether Mr. Seward ultimately gives way or Lord Stanley makes another suggestion, it is at all events not a point about which the negotiation can be broken off. Waiting the decision of the Treasury as to the new postal contrast, the Telegraph points, to the good services of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, and condemns as short-sighted and mischievous the policy of trans !ening any portion of our mail service to the subsidised agency of 'a foreign government. If • money oaring in the several branches of our adminis tration were the be-all end end-all of executive supervi sion, the principle logically carried out would go far beyond mail service. The military organisation of the French is perfect, and certainly much cheaper than our own. Let us throw open our national defences to public tender. It would be • subject of profound regret if by any chance the Peninsulas and Oriental Company should become the victim of a tremendous ministerial blunder ; for of all our great mercantile associations none has been so important a link in connecting England and her Eastern Empire, or has, in did:knit crimes, done so much to deserve well of the country. It is understood that the Queon will prolong her ♦isit to the Highlands till the Gth of October, a week later than was originally intended. It has been stated that the Queen of Holland would take her departure from our shores on the Roth. Her Majesty goes to-day to visit the Earl of Clarendon at the Grove, near Watford, and will remain there till Saturday; proceeding on the 28th, not to the Continent, bat to Knowsley, on her visit to the Earl of Derby. A statement by an evening paper that parliament will re-assemble in November, to consider the question of supplies for the Abyssinian expedition, is an anticipation which the Herald venttuve to say is as great a surprias to the government es to the opposition. General Menabres, dike Italian army, is at the present moment in Paris. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1867. LATEST INTELLIGENCtfr AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. A telegram from Vienna, dated last night, says : " The Financial Convention, in an altered form, has been accepted by both deputations. Hungary pays for 1868 36,000,000 florins, and after that year 32,000,000 florins per annum. Each country to have the benefit of what it pays off of its share of the debt." (Rzuraa's TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, Sim Z 3, Evantwo. Several chests containing 300 rifles and directed to Perugia were seized at the Florence railway station to-day. Some arrests were made in Florence last night. A letter from Rome asserts that all the officers of the Antibes Legion sent in their resignations on the 21st inst. The Italic of this evening announces that the Minister of War has sent orders to the commanders of militarydivisions to despatch troops to the Papal frontiers. ROME ROME, Sm. 23. Yesterday the Papal police made several arrests at Narni. RUSSIA. ST. PSTERSBITRG, Scrr. Z 3. The Russian journals declare the account pub- lished by the New Free Press of a conversation b3tween the Emperor of Russia and Fuad Pacha to be entirely false. THE BOMBAY MAIL. SUEZ, Sm. 23. • The Baroda, from Bombay 9th Mat., arrived at 5 p.m. to-day. ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICAN MAIL. CROOKHAVEN, Sm. 24, 7 A.N. _ _ The Imnan steamer City of Baltimore, from New York, is now passing Browhead signal station She will probably arrive at Queenstown about noon. Letters in London at 6.25 p.m. to-morrow (Wednesday). EXPRESS FROM PARIS. 0110111 005 Owl 0011/211POIDIXT.) PARIS, MosoarErma. There is great uncertainty about Garibaldi's movements. Letters and newspapers from Italy contain contradictory accounts, some saying he has been persuaded to renounce his projects, others that he is more determined than ever to go on with them. According to several accounts, four volun teer regiments, the nucleus of his army, have already crossed the frontiers, one, two, or three at a time, as private individuals, and are only await: ing a signal soon to be given to assemble in arms. M. Rattazsi's new promise to execute the maven_ tion of Sept. 15 does not meet this case, because by that convention Italy promises to protect the frontier but not to cross it to put down a revo lutionary movement breaking out in the Roman States. There are rumours of a new convention to be entered into between France and Italy, by virtue of which Italian troops will at once march upon Rome for the purpose of protecting the Holy See and the rights of the Roman people. The Gazette de France, a favourite organ of the Bishop of Orleans, sees a snake in the grass in the word " rights." It apprehends a plebiscite directed by Italian bayonets to put down the tem poral power. If the King of Italy is really going to take possession of Rome with French conni vance Garibaldi will doubtless be satisfied with • great first step made in consequence of his initia tive. But the Preset and the Epoque speak of orders having been sent to Toulon to hold ships in readi ness to transport 20,000 French troops to Civita Vecchia. That would be a most serious step, and I cannot believe it will be taken. Prince Napoleon has returned to Paris from a long stay at his Swiss estate, Prangins. On passing through Lyons he paid visits to M. Arlie Dufour and M. de Meta The Libert4 publishes the following letter from M. Arles Dufour : My dear Girardin,—You are a hundred, a thousand timer right when you oppose those idiots, depraved of memory, who would make war on Germany because she has succeeded, after fifty-two years' endeavours, in constituting her unity. Do they then forget that it war foreign intervention which produced intestine quarrels and bloody struggles in France, and that it wee only then that the nation rose as one man and marched to the frontiers ? Are they not aware that on the slightest threat of intervention, even a friendly intervention, in the affairs of Germany, seven or eight millions of Germans, almost all proteetante, now subjects of Austria, would join the great Germania oonfederation ? I speak of Germany, knowing something about it, for when a young man I posted five years in the oountry, and I have always kept up intimate relations with it. Having said this much I beg you to pnt my name down for 300 francs in the sub. scription for a statue to the great Turgot. Ansa Porous. The subscription for a statue to Turgot was set on foot by M. Emile Girardin, who headed it with I,ooofr. It has gone on but slowly, the total amount announced to-day, including M. Aries Du four's 300 fr., being only 1,565 fr. The function aries who were compelled to subscribe for a statue to M. Billault are not likely to figure on the list. This letter of M. Arne Dufour, coupled with Prince Napoleon's recent visit to him, is a confir mation scarcely required of the contradiction of the rumour that a recent warlike article in the Siècle was prompted by the Prince. The Bourse was calm with a downward tendency. Rents fell 15c. for cash and 2ic. for account, closing at 69fr. 20c. in each case. Mobilier fell 2fr. 50e. ; Comptoir d'Escompte, 2fr. 50c. ; Credit Foncier, sfr.; and Italian, 25c. Mobilier Espagnol, which is for the moment a favourite speculative security, rose Ilfr. 25fr. The hidepenclanee Belge,CologneGazette,Augsbeurg Gazette, and Italian Dieato were seized to-day. The Queen of Denmark, the Grand-Duke, heir to the throne of Russia, and the Grand Duchess the Prince. Dagmar, embarked on the 17th in the Schleswig at Copenhagen for Lubeck, whence they will proceed to Wiesbaden to visit the Prince, of Wales. Wt Sunday the Empress Eugenie will preside at the distribution of prise, of the Society for the Protec tion of Apprentices and the Children of Workmen. The ceremony will take place in the great nave of the Pakis dlndustrie, Champs Elysees. There will be present all the principal manufacturers and heads of commercial houses in Paris, as well am s large number of master work men, who, executing their trade in their own homes, employ one, or perhaps two apprentices. Invitations to this ceremony are sent out in the names of the president, Senator Dumas, and the Duo de Mouchy. The first prises will be portraits of the Empress, bearing an autographic inscription in her Majesty's writing, recording the circum stances under which the prize has been given; likewise portraits of the Prince Imperial, bearing in his hand writing a similar record; gold, silver, and browse medals, A very heavy storn3 of wind and rain visited Paris on Friday afternoon, and the lower parts of the city were flooded to such an extent that walking wu impossible excepting knee-deep in water. The rain, which fell in torrents from about 3 till 8, and did not oevs until 9, wu a groat trial and a more vexation to the thousands of visi tors on leaving the Exhibition. AN EITIL4ORDINARY WILL CASE IN THE UNITED STATES. (From the New York Tribune, Sept. IL) One of the most remarkable cases on record, destined to rank high among the causes Wares, is now the talk of Boston. The evidence, taken before examiners some months since, but only just published, fills • large volume of a thousand pages. The amount involved ex ceeds • million of dollars. The arguments in the case before the United States Circuit Court, Justice Clifford presiding, commenced last Friday. It is • snit in equity, brought by Hetty H. Robinson against Thomas Mandell and others. Miss Robinson (now Mrs. Green) was, previous to her marriage, one of the richest, if not the richest, spinster in the United States ; her pro perty, which she inherited from her father, was commonly reputed to be worths,ooo,ooo dole. It appearsthat heraunt, Miss Sylvia Ann Howland, who died in 1865, left • will bearing date September, 1863, and a codicil executed in 1864. 13y this will and codicil Miss Homeland disposed of about 700,000 dole. in private legacies, the largest, of 200,000 dole., to Thomas Mandell, her lawyer, we be lieve ; 115,000 dole. to her physician, Dr. Gordon, and from 4,063 dole. to 15,000 dole. to each person in her em ployment. She left also 340,003 dole. for public and charitable purposes, of which the city of New Bedford, where she resided, was to receive 320,000 dole. The residue of her estate, amounting, it is said, to about a million ' was to be placed in trust, the income to be paid to Miss Robinson dining her life ; the principal, on her decease, to go to some of the testator's relatives. Miss Robinson contests her aunt's will. This is, in itself, remarkable enough, seeing that the young lady, already the possessor of millions , is entitled, under it, to an annuity that would add some 60,000 or 70,000 dole. to her annual income. What she contends for is the whole of her aunt's estate, in fee, supposed to be worth about two millions. The ground upon which she contests the above will and codicil is noteworthy. It seems that Mias Howland had quarrelled with her brother-in-law the father of Mies Robinson, and being resolved, if possible, to exclude him from all share not only of her own property, but of his daughter's also, she proposed, about September 1860, to her niece ' then about 23 years old, that if she (Hiss Robinson) would make a will so that her father should inherit no part of her property, she (Miss Howland) would, in return, make • will leaving everything to her niece ; the will of each to be deposited with the other, and neither to make any other will without notice to the other, and returning to that other her will. Miss Robinson agre ed to this, sad the wills ,- 7ere executed accordingly. But the subsequent will and codicil made by the aunt in 1863 and 1864 were executed without notice to the niece. Thus arose • question of law, • novel question in the courts of this count' J r, namely, whether a contract for mutual wills, if proved, can be enforced as being without consideration and against puVe policy and good morals. But the most singular feature in this awe still remains to be stated. To the will originally made by Miss Howland lin favour of her niece there is an addition, sewed on with fine thread to the first page, not changing any provision of the will, but a sort of protest by the testator against the ve'dity of any subsequent wall which she, under undue influence from those around her, might be induced to make. Part of the text is : " I implore the judge to decide in favour of this will, as nothing could induce me to make • will unfavourable to my niece ; but being ill, and afraid, if any of my caretakers in sisted on my making • will, to refuse, as they might leave Imeor he angry. • . . I give Oil will to my niece to show, if absolutely necessary to have it appear against another will found after my death." Miss Robinson tes tifies, under oath, that she wrote this appendage to the will at the suggestion of her aunt, and that her aunt signed it in duplicate in her presence. The defence to this is nothing lees than a charge of forgery. WILTS= RKPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TITUDAY, SIPTIXIIRS U. II LL r.l Its6erBs. 6•A T. W. lio • ~, W. B. Ito 11 lt. D. I 1 9 . : 41ra .. Lit N.N.W. 6 WAR. or, :7.41 : WU Arizonan- 81 1 N.N.W. 9 N.N.W. ob 0.10 4 Groemmotlo .31 N.N.W. 7 W.N.W. re 0.43' I - oi l va•ntia.. Rocheo Point 3368 N. 6 N. e - 4 livorpool .12 118, N.W. I W. o 0.14 7 Holyhead - - Pussosoo .3067 N.N.W. 7 N.N.W. c 0. 6 Drool Lodes( - .20 67 N.W. 6 . W.N.W. o -I 11 loolsolort .16 68 W. 11 W. tr OM 2 Plymouth Weymouth . 2.156 N.N.W. 8 W. elt &IV 6 Portmooatb 10.12 54 N.N.W. 8 W. re 0.04 4 [oedema _ 1.110.07 111 N.W. 7 - R.B. W. re 0.01 - Tormoutl 20 90 62 N. W. 6 && W. r 6.33 3 Darboroub DM lit N.N.W. 8 B.R. oe 0.04 5 81te1ds 80.03 U N.W. I I BR eb , 8 RILMAIULS. be atmospherical pressure hasph Impaled in the north and wed, but has slightly decreased to the south and east, ac companied by a fresh northwesterly wind at nearly all our stations, which amounted to a tones Sat Ardroman. It Is now blowing at Liverpool with the same force. Shields reports a pie having blown from the southeast. Rain has fallen gene. raly—er oat at Greencastle and Ardrussati. The Correspondence of Vienna says :—" News has been received at Vienna from Tervueren of the health of the Empress Charlotte, which continues to improve. Each day the Empress receives the visits of her relatives, takes short walks in the garden, writes letters, paints, and nothing indicates any trace of mental derangement. In a physical point of view, the state of the patient leaves nothing to be desired ; her Majesty takes her meals regularly and looks well. Everything shows that her stay in her native oountty is contributing to the complete re-establishment of the unfortunate Prin. cem, wbo besides has not yet been informed of the tragical end of ber noble husband." The Marquis de Mouetier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, received on Saturday, at a special audience, the new Ambassador of the Taiwan of Japan, who arrived in Paris about a week since. The mission of this Envoy is chiefly to explain the liberal p3lier which the Japane ruler has lately adopted, and to extend the commercial re lations of France with that country. The works of the new opera at Paris are pro- ceeding as actively as before. The boarding, which was entirely removed from the elegant facade on the day of the Emperor's fête, in order to throw open to public view this magnificent structure, so far as it had been completed, has in places been put up again, ant workmen are engaged under the shelter of this covering in finishing the delicate sculptures and other ornamentation still remaining to be done. For a long period 860 workmen, without reckoning the artists, have been employed upon this gorgeous build. log, but the number is now reduced to 400. The new edifice will contain 40 busts, 20 largo statues, and four groups ; and will be adorned with SOO marble ooleunns, all monoliths. Some seditious placards in manuscript relative to the dearness of bread have Mae lately, the Prose states, posted up by night in various iptaters of Paris. The police have torn down several of them. A letter from Carleruhe says:—" A new ecclesi astics.' ocedlict is seen in the boriz mi. A recent ministerial decree requires that young catholio and protestant theolo gians shall undergo,before officers appointed by the autho rities, an examination respecting their general education. The Archbishop of Friburg protests against this order, and forbids his theologians to submit to it. On the other hand the government seems to intend to have it strictly c..rried out. A mendicant living alone in a wretched hut at Courbevoie, near Paris, in the midst of the most abject misery and intolerable privations, was lately found dead on the floor of his filthy hovel, through an aperture in which he would occasionally protrude his arm to receive the food charitably offered to him by some neighbours who commiserated his forlorn condition. A medical ex amination proved that the man had died of starvation. A sum of 30fr. in copper coin having been accidentally found in this abode of human misery a further search was made, and immediately under the roof was discovered, carefully wrapped up in many folds of dirty rags, no lest than 18,000 fr. in gold (72J14 _ • . In answer to a general appeal for means to pro vide a tender for the Chichester school ship, the Bev. C. Harington, rector of Bromyard, has presented to the institution the Dolphin, a strong, well-built sea-going yacht of 93 tons, with all her stores complete. The cathedral of Winchester was founded in the second century. The uninterrupted succession of bishops of Winchester dates from the seventh century. In the ninth century a guild of merchants was established in the city, and the latter became the capital of England. This was in the reign of Alfred the Great. In 1067 William the Conqueror erected a castle, and in 1089 he established the curfew in that city. Winchester was for more than 500 years the residence of the kings at England ; many parliaments were held there, and it has been a flourishing city for more than a thousand years. In 1667 the plague raged in Winchester, and it caused such distress that the inhabitants formed a " charitable society of natives and citizens" to mist the poor. This week the society will celebrate its 198th anniversary. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIB DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Bator. Mr. Oommiwdoiter HoiroycL) IN RE ROBERT PAMIR. The bankrupt wu described as a commercial traveller for the sale of woollen goods, in Biahopegate-street. Debts, 218 f. Mr. Reed opposed his application for release, on the ground of misdeacription. The bankrupt was in reality • milliner, as appeared from a bill of axle executed by him in August last, in favour of his sister. The bankrupt, examined, stated that he had been bankrupt in 1861, and again in 1863, he supposed. He had also compounded with his creditors twine, and been insolvent 12 years since. Mr. Padfield got • judgment against him in July last, and in August he gave • bill of sale to his slater. He was not • milliner ; that was his wife's business, and h e was no t liable for the debts. He bad assigned all the stock-in-trade to his sister, as security for move, lent at dif ferent times during the last 18 months. He had not been travelling for the last 12 months, the firm he was employed by having failed. All his debts had been con tracted in the last 12 months. He had only earned about 101. in that time. His wife's business had been carried on 12 )earl. " Parker and Co." was over the door. His Honour held that the description was not sufficient. In the bill of sale he described himself as • milliner, and now swore that he was not • milliner. Independently of that be could not be released. The petition must be dis missed. (Before Mr. Registrar Spring Rim) IN RI Wll. EMIL The bankrupt was a licensed victualler, of the Duke of York public-hone*, Munster-street, Regent's-park. He came to the court on his own petition, awnibing his failure to losses sustained by taking the above house, the vane of which bad been over-stated. The debts are 5,7621. This was the find sitting. Mr. Reid, of the firm of Neville, Reid, and Co., wine merchanta, Suffolk - lane, was chosenassignee. The solicitors under the proceedings are Maws. Nash, Field, and Lnyton. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (TM DAY.) (Before the Common Se ''rant.) Jacob Henry Cohen, 32, a gentlemanly-looking man, wbe had been admitted to bail, wee indicted for feloniously forging and uttering an order for the payment of 41. le., with intent to defraud the Photographic and Stereoscopic Company, carrying on business in Cheapside. Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Straight prosecuted ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Ribton. The charge was preferred under rather novel eircum starless. The prisoner was employed by the prosecutors as • photographer and frame-maker, and it was the custom, when he had any pecuniary claim upon them, for him to hand his bill to Mr. Reed, the manager, who put his initials " H. R." to the bill, and the prisoner then took his bill to the cashier, and received the money. On the sth of July the prisoner appeared to have gone to the cashier and presented a bill for 41. ls. for work supposed ter have been done by him, and which bore the letters " H. R.," and the cashier, supposing this to be a genuine signature, paid the prisoner the money. Mr. Reed cause to the office shortly afterwards, and the fraud was imme diately detected, and it turned out that on the very same day this pretended bill was presented, the prisoner bad dined with Mr. Reed and another gentleman, and that he asked the prisoner to pay his share of the reckoning and said that he was going to receive some money and he would pay him, and also the sum of 21. 101. which he was indebted to the company. In addition to this it was proved that another order for 2/. 18s. ed. had been presented and paid • few days before the sth of July under similar circumstances, and when the prisoner was told that he would be given into custody be began to cry, and said that he should commit suicide if the charge was persevered in. Subsequently, however, when the prisoner was under examination before the Lord Mayor, he told Mr. Reed that he might have looked over the matter if he chose, and that if he persevered in making the charge, he would do all he could to ruin him. After the prisoner received the 41. ls., it appeared that he paid the 2/. 10a. that he owed to the company. Mr. Reed, who was the principal whams, of course, in support of the prosecution, was cress-examined at conside rable length, with • view, apparently, to show that he had, in tome way, authorised the conduct of the prisoner. He, however, declared most positively that there was not the slighted foundation for such a suggestion. The trial is not over, and is likely to last some wander able time. TH2 FONORAY UPON THE BANK OP =GLAND. The grand jury have returned seven true bills against William Henry Hodgson, the surgeon, for forging transfers of Consols stook, with intent to defraud the Bank of England. TN' WIEDER IN THE LINT-LOAD. The trial of the Frenchman, Louis Bordier, will some on to-morrow, and the case of John Wiggins for the murder at Limehouse, will also be in the list. Both prosecutions will be conducted by the Treseluy solicitor, and Mr. Rib ton has been retained to defend Wiggins. No learned counsel his yet been instructed on the part of the prisoner Bordier and there appear to be ground. for believing that hisintention is to plead guilty to the charge, if he is permitted to do so. A prisoner placed in his position is generally advised by the court to plead not gtulty in order that all the facts may be legally proved, but if the prisoner should insist upon confessing judgment, as it is termed, he cannot be prevented from doing so. (Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.) John Owen, 39, labourer, was charged with burglary in the dwelling-house of John Scott, and stealing therein six bottles of cordials and two bo ties of brandy. Mr. Daly conducted the prosecution. The prisoner wee undefended. _ _ John Scott said be kept the King's Arms, Bethnal and on the morning of the 6th September be was awakens . by h • a noise in the cellar. On going down stain he found six stone bottles of cordials removed from the wine to the beer cellar. Two bottle,' of brandy were like wise removed. On the previous evening he had secured the doors, but they bad been foreib'y broken open. Polio" mutable Eastwood sew the prisoner come up the trap, and he was then appreFended. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and a previous conviction and sentence of five years' penal servitude was proved against the prisoner. The learned commissioner sentenced him to tan years' penal Ben Ands. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Payne and other Justices.) THE CASE OF AUGUSTA MITCHELL AGAIIL-THE JUDGE'S The learned Judge, in reference to this came, said—l wish to lay before she court • letter which I received last evening from the Home-office. But • few words win be required to show how it came to be written. As soon as I found the peculiar view taken by some of the papers of the case of Anne Mitchell I immediately forwarded to the Home Secretary • verbatim copy of the evidence taken at the time of the trial and requested him to do me the favour to institute any inquiry which might suggest itself to him, without any regard to my opinion on the subject. Owing to his absence at Balmoral some little time elapsed, and before I had received any answer a juryman communicated to me an offer made by Mr. Thomas, the Secretary of the London Preventive and Reformatory Institution, to take her under their care for the purpose of reforming her. It was ao companied by • request that I would forward it to the Home-office. This I gladly did, for, however I may differ with others with respect to the propriety of the sentence at the time when it wee pared, there can be no difference of opinion with respect to the desirableness of placing her under good influence. I therefore testified to my knowledge of the respectability of the person who made the offer, and of the fitness of the society to accomplish its object. This led to the letter which lam about to read. Those who hear it will judge whether in the ordinary acceptation of the word Mr. Secretary Hardy can be said to have revoked the sentence. The letter was then read by the judge, and was as follows : "Immediate. " Whitehall, Sept. 23, 1867. "Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the 21st inst. I a m directed by Mr. Secretary Hardy to acquaint you that he proposes advising her Majesty to grant Augusta Anne Mitchell a pardon upon condition of her being received into the London Female Preventive and Reformatory Institution, and of her remaining therein and being sub ject to all the rules and regulations thereof until duly discharged therefrom. Her one month's preliminary im prisonment will date from the day on which the sentence Was passed, and she will therefore be removed to the Re formatory on the 2nd October next.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, " ADOLPHUS F. 0. LIDDIELL. " To J. Payne, Esq., Waitill", The judge, in continuation, said to that letter he had sent a reply in the following terms : " Sir,—l have to acknowlege the receipt of your letter on the subject of the release of Augusta Anne Mitchell ; and to thank Mr. Secretes? Hardy for the judicious ar rangement by which he proposes to make her admission to the institution available for her reformation, and not de pendent upon the suggestions of others or any change of purpose in horselL—l hays the honour to be, ke. "J. PAIN& " To the Hon. Adolphus F. 0. Liddell, lke." The Judge, in maeleziew, mid : It may perhaps be desirable to let it be blown at ti n first opportunity I hem, that it is my firm convict ion th 4 however immorally the prosecutor setel, there was n• pretence upon the evidases for believing that be bag seduced the prisoner. This ended the matter. (Before Mr. Payne.) • SCOTCH FOAM or TAKING THS OATH. Thomas Dear love, 35, described as a tailor, was indicted for stealing a watch, the property of Charles Hunt, at th e Farringdonertreet station of the Metropolitan Railway, Mr. Brindley prosecuted ; Mr. Pater defended the prisoner. When the prosecutor MS called into the box, and the Testament presented to him by the officer of the court, he objected to be sworn upon it. Mr. Payne wanted to know what objection he had to he Mr. Hurst said he did not object to be sworn ; but he Sleeted to be sworn on the book. Mr. Payne—What are you ? K. Hurst—l am an Irishman, and a Scotch presky. rise Dir.Payne—Then in what way do you want to be worn? Mr. Hunt—l want to be sworn by holding up my ri g ht hand, and the book lying before me. That u our custom in Ireland. After some farther discussion the witness then raised his right hand to its utmost extent, the Testament lyin g i n the box open before him, and the oath was administered in the usual way, with the exception of holding and after wards kissing the book. The jury returned a verdict of Gall* against tha A previous conviction was proved against him. Mr. George Lookyer, sessions °Meer, proved other me. viaticum against the prisoner. Mr. Payne sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude for seven years. THE POLICE COURTS, (THIS DAY.) PHi LAPS CHAZGE OP CAUSING Till MUTE OP A MAL James Gibbs, aged 36, of 48, Oliftonatrest, Finsbury, carman, was charged on remand, before Mr. Barker, wigt causing the death of a man named Gill by driving a horse and van over him in Pratt-street, Somers-town. The facts of this awe have already been reported, and it will be remembered that the witnesses proved that the defendant was not to blame in the matter. Since then an inqueat had been held, and a verdict returned of ac l• dental death. Ur. Barker maid his opinion was that there was no Maas attached to the defendant, and ►t once disoh►rged him ♦ BCC( I IX TEM ►ORICCLTCtAL•HALL.-2ttetNfl,O • PISTOL AT OZZ OP THZ OFFICIALS. maws. iii,;; N :43riii, of la, New North-rood, Roston, described in the chsrt se en accountant, was charged with being drunk, fidy, and presenting a pistol at the head of Kr. William Rose, a hat band maker, of 4, Prebend-place, Camden-town, In the Agricultural-hall, Islington. The complainant stated that he is employed in the lam, tory at the Agrioultursl-hall, and lest evening about • quarter to 8 the defendant left the hall, walked down into the room in which he was, and holding up his head, said, "That is what you want." He said that the do. fondant had in hie hand a pinta that bad a cap on It, and it was cocked. The defendant had his finger on the trigger. He was almost paralysed by his presenting the pistol et him, it was at close to his face that he did nee know what to do. The defendant then put down the pistol, sad walked out of the room into the hall. He fol. lowed him andve him into custody. Mr. Barker— ga yorati the defendant drunk or sober? Witnar—He hid bum drinking , but LewW(7f what b. was about, and was quits sensible. Mr. Barker—Had you any altercation or disturbance with him? Witness—Nothing of the sort. I had never seen his or spoken to him before be presented the pistol. Mr. Barker—How close did the defendant place the pistol to your face Witness—He placed the plaid just between my eyes, and it was not more than half en inch from my face. Police-constable Williams, 102 N, said lest evening the defendant was given into his custody,and an asking him far the pistol he took took it from his pocket and gave it to him. The pistol was capped, but at the police-statics the sergeant put his pen down the barrel and found it was net eOn the way to the police-station the defendant mid. " You think o n are very clover. You think yes have got a Fenian, but you are mistaken. (A laugh.) I have only done it for a lark." Mr. Barker—Was the defendant drunk or sober ? The witness—He warn drunk, but he knew what he was about. _ _ _ The defendant, in reply to the charge, said he had no recollection of presenting the pistol to the complainant. He had been drinking pretty hardly and freely all day, and be was certainly not aware of what he was about Ha could only have done it, if he did do it, merely out al s drunken frolic. Mr. Barker—For what purpose did you carry a pistol? The defendant said that yesterday morning he took the pistol, intending to play at map-cap with it in the cellar m which be was employed. At night he got a Mikan given to him for the Apicultaral-hall, and being drunk be went there. As it was only done for a lark he hoped the magistrate would look over the little affair this time. 11r. Barker said he would assure the defendant that be was not going to look over the case, for it was as pleasant lark for the complainant to have a pistol pre. seated to his face. He should doall he could to put an sad to such larks, and should order the defendant to pay • fine of 404., or, in default, he would be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for 21 days. The fine was at once paid. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. PLUCKING 'WIRES IN HYDI,PAINI. Alia Si;i11::;io;uTi ITonsii,;4lcire;; — ;:efused, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with plucking Bowen in Hyde-park, the property of the Commissioners of Put& Works. Police-constable Wm. Cowell, 226 A, said that lasi night be saw the prisoner in one of the dower-beds nerve the east end of the Serpentine, Hyde-park. She was busily engaged in plucking flowers, and as soon as he air him she dropped them. On taking her into custody, she asked him what he was going to do with her. He told her that he was going to take her to the station, and she then begged of him not to do so, offering to give him what ever he liked if he would let her go. The prisoner bad nothing to Kay in answer to the churl. Mr. Tyrwhitt said the prisoner was one of those we. cbievous persons who must be restrained. The business cl of that court was much increased by persons who did mire chief in the park. The prisoner would have to psi 5e., or four days ; and he wished to give notice, that for the future the fine for the offence would be 405., or a month. ATITATTLNO TO ROB RAILWAY VAII3. Geo►ge Vial, 17 ; Frederick William", 15 ; and Josef Brougham, 14 ; were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt as our pected persons, loitering in Piccadilly, supposed for the purpose of oommitting felony. The prisoners were seen by Philip Shrives, a plain clothes officer of the 0 divisioo, following railway TIM, evidently for the purpose of robbing, and be then took them into custody. Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoners for three monde each with hard labour. inque -..) tt Thl lam! K ited c o inl I 'atate to rod to 'ln in g " dew soar ppaaroe , I tee 0, • es p o lies r mo tma Bich we F r annie plum d wow b a d b 'Ana on I /dr. Be Mr. C at the im log two 'L'hs de his seal lir. DI of the stl The so new set law, by I A quo b a wd in Kr. D h e yes h The ec trees in 1 inneedis Kr. D the date Kr. J 4 Kin the boac sew two icemen e had In we stated tl time of act aemi licenee a at the Mr. II minis Kr. T yenslty own of The the defy Inland dill fur Mr. 1 Q the hoe No w Reveal NITA This sex Co Range Steven Mrs t 1 lame thee vo 6s. per yeer nn twice. AIM from Bain wits" veepes know owed rays" medial deem Mr. deans Be Its nation empty diem been t M the WY 111 Mr. WILS swim the m Cot Wii Cot farnii Wi Mona ms tt You BOUTHWAXIL ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OP A DIhCRARGED SOLDIER. William' Edward Williams 27, dressed in the uniform of a private of the 19th Regiment; of Foot, whose left arm was m a sling, wag placed at the bar before Mr. Putrid, on remand charged with attempting to commit suicide by dividing the arteries of the left ann. It appeared from the evidence of Henry Morton, 63 L, that on Monday morning, the 16th, be was called to 43, Woottometreet, Cromwell-road, where he saw the prisoner sitting in a back room, leaning over an utensil bleeding profusely from a deep cut across the lower part of the arm. He was extremely faint from loss of blood and ready to drop. A knife was lying by his side, and as soon as witness took it up he said "Let me have it to cut my throat and finish it.' Witness at once called in a doctor, and bad the cut strapped up, and afterwards he conveyed him to Gny's HospitaL He told witness that be had no money and was I tired oil& life. Since the last examination he could gain no tidings as to whether he bad friends or not. The prisoner here said be had served in the 19th Foot some years, and six months ago was discharged with pension of sixpence a day for twelve month'. He was in deep distress when be attempted to destroy himself, having nothing to do and no money. Mr. Partridge asked him if he had any friends. The prisoner replied that be had not. While in the army be lost both hie father and mother. If be could get work be should be happy. Morton informed his worship that he understood that the prisoner had injured his head with gunpowder. Scars were visible on his forehead. His hands were likewise injured. The prisoner smeared his worship that he would never attempt to commit suicide again. All he wanted was to get vett. Mr. Partridge asked him what be meant to do if be din , charged him. He replied that he did not know. On the Ist of next month he would receive his pension. Mr. Partridge thought it better to detain him for another week, and therefore he was remanded to Hares monger-lane Gaol. THAMES. A PICKPOCKET AT A ILAILWAT STATIOW. Wm. Ball, Nred 21, who is also known as John Manning and William thuTed, was brought before Mr. Ikmson, on remand, charged with stealing a gold ring, value 30s. and Ils. in money from the person of Fii,owtb Con, a servant, of Snaresbrook, in Ewer. The promentrix was at the Stepney Railway station • f ew day■ ago, waiting for a train, and felt a band in her pocket on the right side. She put her hand in her and missed her purse. It contained Hs. and a gar: flit by w C< see 1 This Mrs. boCi vrii the fuse