The Express. — London, England, 1866-11-23 00:00:00

1,1 i t ~', ,cl~ A. — .. _ _ _ _ 1 ' , 2 ; 1 11 . LIFEBOAT SERVICES. —During the STORMS , the pest twenty-two months the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT I INSTITUTION, by its lifeboats and other mea ns . contributed to the SAVING of 1,475 PERSONS from different WRECKS on our • period on iu Th L e if l e ns b ltuti E : t t bush aleo isztand. expended E a t d rO tion tn to th rith e sw an ; 1 . 1...1,550 for REWARDS. The Committee of the Institution ear- nestly APPEAL to the Public for AnnISTA.NC.E. to enable them to meet the continued heavy demandionthel72 Lifeboat Station/ of the instinatkm. , 1 Contributions ere remind by the London and Bankers; and by , the Secretary. RICHARD LEWIS Eau. Country , it the Institution . 14, John-Week Adoiphi, loader. VIP ENSON'S WATCHES. JLF 58 and 00, Ludgate-hill; 25, Old Bond-street. I , NVATCnaisluenCe of the DEATH E of R Z , PEARC PLA the . whole of his large and valuable STOCK is being SOLD OFF at a great 1 reduction from ita origi nal cost. In order to ensure a speedy clearance, a further reduction Is now being made on the re- nalning portion of the stock.-69, Cheapslde, corner of Bow- . r lane. BROWN and POLSON'S CORN FLOUR for CHILDREN'S DIET. To obtain entre profit by the sale other kinds are sometime offered instead of BROWN and POISON'S. t 0 "John Brown," "John Poison," is signed by the: makers on each packet. • ,4, MAPPIN BROTHERS . — Established A. o. 1810. 0 • 0 i CHESTS of SILVER PLATE for theCOLONIES. 1 i fIIITLERY and _SILVER PLATE for I MI - ; F. ; '" ; FURNISHING. 'APPIN BROTHERS, LONDON-BRIDGE. MAPPIN BROTHERS, 222, REGENT STREET. Vie enoregio. TO CORRESPONDENT'S. Advertisements intended for " The Express,* London Lwening , must be at the Office, 10, Bouveriastreet, by Two o'clock on the day of publication. DRURY LANE. Tap EYKieno, THE LADY OF LYONS. Mr. W. Montgomery; Mho Helen Fanett. —And KATHERINE AND PKIRECILIU. Mr. T. Swinbourne and Min Isabel Adams. HAYMARKET. MEM RentsMG, A DANGEROUS FRIEND. Massrs.C. Mathews, Rowe, Kendal. &c. ; Mesdames C. Mathews, Chippendale, Moore, &c. —ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. Messrs. C. Mathews, Comp ton, &c. ; Mesdames C. Mathews & HOL—OUR MARY ANNE. -•— PRINCESS& THIS 11Vanctd. BARNABY &COG& Messrs. & Cehaem, F. Villiers, J. G. Shore, &e.: Mrs. John Wood, Woes Augusta Mormon and Kuthertuo Rogers, Mrs. R. Vining and Mn. C. lionunan.—To eouelude with QUIET LODGINGS. LICRUSL TRH Encomia, BRUTUS AND CFSAR. Mal Tienrade.—And TUE LONG :trail: El Messrs. Emery, Widdicomb, Cowper, Fitz patrick. Reynolds, and Moreland Miss lienraile.--Concludimg with TWRXDLE EON'S TAIL COAT.—Commence at 7. STRAND. EVlnfran. NErGIIDOL:ki Masan nxraelle, Belford, and Murray ; Swanhorotrzli, J.ohnstone, aud Hughes. —DEF. FItkISCH LAY : OR, A UOUU CAST FUR A rixam.. —And BOOTS AT TUE SWAN. HOLBORN. nits EVENING, at 7, LAKKIN'S LOVE LETTERS. Mr. Bel mar° and Miee C. sattnlers.—And FLYINO SCUD. Masan. Belmore, 4te. : Mesdames F. JnsePbs, C. Saunders, Eidth.s, Lennox, Raymund, 6e. BRITANNIA. Tan EVVWIO. SOME [SELLS THAT RANG. Mr. J. Rey nolds.—THE Wli.tT 1.. IT "Danelug Mail" Bryan: Miss IC. (12: - ,t. , iik - ; 31.tster George l'erks.—Concluiling with TUE AD CIIL::RV TREE. Mrs. Lane. HIGH WATER AT LiNDON BRIDGE. Ta DAY —Hominy, 211. ..ut Afternoon, 2h. ?gm. TO-YOKSOW—Moruing, 211. 51ut Altornoon, 31a. Tign. LONDON, FRIO 4Y. NOVEMBER 23. THE dinner given at Willis's Rooms on Wed nesday to the lion. G. F. VEaDoN, Finance Minister of Victoria, as reported yesterday in our columns, delerves notice for reasons which go beyond its immediate occasion. Primarily a well deserved personal compliment, it has a political significance which may not have been perceived by all who took part in it. Mr. VERPON came to this country in the summer on important business ; he has accomplished the mission entrusted to him by his fellow colonists, and in so doing has gained the _ _ high esteem of all with whom he has been brought into contact. Sir July( PAKINGTON and the Earl of CARNAuvos, the two Ministers with whom he has had business to transact, vie with each other in testifying to his capacity and worth, and the Crown has been advised to send him back to Australia with marks of honour. Mr. VERnoN's tinaliticaLionS, and the manlier in which he has discharged his duty, hive reflected credit on the colonial community which sent him, and Vic toria was extolled on Wednesday by Ministers of the Crown with a freedom of praise to which its people have lung been unaccustomed in England. After all this, let us ask, who is the Hon. Mr. Vrerxix ? lie is, and long has been, one of the chief members of that administration which ad vised Sir CHARLES DARLING in the difficult crisis of 1865, when the Victoria House of Com mons had to defend the rights of the people at once against an oligarchical Council in the colony and Mr. CARDWELL in Downing-street. As Treasurer of Victoria, Mr. VERDON not only shared the responsibility of his colleagues, but—the contest turning upon ques tions of finance and revenue—sustained a principal part in the debates which took place in the Co. lonial Parliament. Our readers know what hap pened in Victoria ; the people of the colony triumphed, as they could not but do, over all their opponents, and Downing-street, unable to reach them, visited Sir CHARLES DARLING with its displeasure, recalling him in dis grace, after a long and meritorious career. It is equally well known what happened in Eng land. The principal organs of our governing classes day after day gave themselves up to viru lent abuse of the people and government of Vic toria. No charge was too bad to be brought against them ; every term of obloquy which had been employed against the Americans during the civil war was remembered and became a missile to be hurled at them. They were a reckless, tyran nical, abandoned people, the very helots of the empire, fit only to serve as a warning to the other colonies, and a permanent argument against any considerable extension of the franchise at home. We know not whether the adherents of the present or the last Imperial Ministry were loudest in their denunciations of the utter and irreclaimable pro fligacy of the Government and people of Victoria, but it is a fact that this journal stood almost alone in vindicating the character of the colony. Immediately following this excitement, and before Sir CHARLES DARLING'S successor had arrived out, Mr. V 'ninon visits this country and puts the real opinion of England concerning his colleagues and fellow-countrymen to a very prac tical test. He asks the British public to lend the colony 850,0001. for reproductive public works, chiefly railways and aqueducts, and the public at once offer 3,075,000/. Such is the answer of the sober, thinking, and responsible portion of the home public to writers who have vituperated Vic toria by the column without having taken even the trouble to read the laws and constitution of the colony. If half of that which was written in English newspapers in the spring of the present year had been true, Mr. VERDON ought to have been received—or rather avoided—here as a poli tical leper, and his financial proposals should have been met with an nhao!nte non possum's. Instead of that, he is heartily welcomed by the Government, and the City opens its money bags to him. The reason is plain. In practical matters the people of this country do not hold their common sense at the service of political prejudice. They may not like universal suffrage, but when they learn 1 i t l 1 i:1. *1 11 • ~'i~~l~ l THE EXPR t FiSS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1866. that a colony has a revenue whielaas always been sufficient for its expenditure i thisi a l4sge portion of it is annually devoted to iirvelopingthe natural resources of the country ; that its expenditure on public works have been so wisely administered as to become a source of profit; and that the colonial legislature grants every year for purposes of edu cation a sum much larger in propo-tion to the population than the mother ooantry devotes to the same purpose, they perceive at once that Victoria cannot be a badly governed colony. Mr. VERDUN spoke a proud word on Wednesday. He said he had approached the home Government as the representative of "a colony which had never " coat the Imperial Government one shilling." As lorg , as the Victorians can take such good care of themselves they will be sure to command the respect of the world, although party writers may take the liberty of traducing them for the tem porary purposes of home politics. Tar "new Admiralty, my friend l" have not respected, any more than Mr. Camtxts BUXTON e:d, the privacy claimed by Lieutenant BRAND for the two scandalous letters which we printed on Wednesday. Nor are they as ready as he expected them to be to enter into a moral partnership with a gentleman who runs up liabilities just as if there was no day of account. Lieutenant BRAND'S re ference to the change at Whitehall betrays a slight confusion of ideas. Ministries come and go, and First Lords are changed, but the character and in terests of the services remain, and must be upheld whether the head of a department call himself Whig or Tory. Lieutenant BRAND is to have an opportunity of denying the authenticity of the letters imputed to him, and should he be unable to do so he is to be sent to England by his superior officer as having been guilty of conduct inconsistent with the character of an officer and a gentleman. In tang this course the Admiralty certainly does no more than jus tice to itself and the brave and honourable men whose reputation as a class is under its care. We are glad to find that the rumour to which we referred on Wednesday, and which, after the prb lication of Lieutenant BRAND'S letters, we could hardly avoid noticing, to the effect that that officer bad been promoted by the present Board of Ad miralty, is incorrect. Poe. Is the responsibility legal or moral which is here spoken of, and'ars the peons addressed to be made amenable* the laws or simply referred to their own Goa. sciences ! At we understand the constitutiON the ministry are responsible for the preservation of the public peace, and they cannot shift that responsibility on other people's shoulders. The Telegraph protests in inci , gnant and emphatic tones against the late rejection, on sectarian grounds, of Professor James Martineau, from the vacant profes sorship in University College, London, of mental phi losophy and logic. Every enlightened sad liberal man in the land, the Telegraph says, condemns the conduct of the council, and the patrons of the college are about to take the extreme step of protesting against the decision, and asking the council to reconsider it. The college is a public institution, which received a charter from the crown on certain conditions, and if the public remonstrance prove to be vain, then an appeal must be made to parliament for the protection of those , uterests wl•ich the council have betrayed. Sint Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. V. The Queen drove out this morning attended by the Duchess of Roxburgh° ; and Prince Leopold went out walking. The Princess of Wales, Prince Albert Victor, and Prince George left the Castle this morning for London, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Stoner and General Knollys. Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington and the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West, also went to London. - _ _ . Yesterday being the birthday of the Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess R.Jyall, a party of children, residing at the Castle and in the neighbourhood, were, by her Majesty's commands, invited to a dance, which took place in the Red Drawing-room. The Princess of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prin cess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice were present. Refreshments were afterwards served in the White Drawing-room. The Duke of Edinburgh went out shooting, attended by Major-General Sir T. M. Biddulph, Lord Alfred Paget, ' and Lieut. Haig. His royal highness afterwards went to London, attended by Lieutenant Haig. The Lord Chancellor, the Duke and Duchess of Rom burghe, and Lord Stanley, arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the hocour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. The Lord Chancellor and Lord Stanley left the Castle to-day. The lion. Caroline C'avendiab and the Hon. Flora Mac donald have succeeded the lion. Lucy Kerr and the Hon, Mary Lascelles as Maids of Honour in We 'fing. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. • TITIARIAC STORY. Arthur Leeson, 9, and Benjamin Charles ?„„.., were charged before Mr. Knox with begglq — "Mil, Sergeant Bunee, 5 C said — Yesterday the two boys in Piocaciilly follow seve rs ) / 4: 00 . 11611 1 them having two or three boxes of flumes in Ig s i t. 4 They then went and stood in di ff er en t ph s . `nt, and preeenting a pitiable appearance, and toes bg t to the station. I afterwards went to Ic k May's-buildings, St. Martin's-lane, tend 4411 quiries, and was told Leeson lived thane mother, who occupied a wretched garret, then des of furniture in the place b eim . i t at i. old table and • mattress on the L a corner, upon which two children were hi,. Via The poor woman, who had only one arm, I fOrra t ."‘ i , much afflicted, and in such • bad state o f liwi t cOile did not expect to find her here this morni ng , gi n `tl ever, was present . I asked her if she h a d any 0,4-;-,;••, 14 dren b esi des those I saw asleep, and b ow shs living. She said that she bad two boys, . list selling fumes, and that the only means .t V at was by what they brought b rew o il! she -"' cou ld g et herself, when she was he . do the same thing, which was not ve r y A u. stated that the children were illegitimate, lain * father bad deserted her. I then went to the pisat Tempest lived, but found both his seven wi re lit ", has • father and mother, who, with seven chi me one room. I further ascertained that LEIO3II )144.72 out of the hospital a few weeks, haring injured6Wi. a . falling downstairs. Mr. Knox—lt is such &pitiable case that I hanki_ what to do. It would be better for the pew mif at once to the poorhouse. Mr. Bowman, relieving officer of St. Hanitit come into court, Mr. Knox desired the sergessp is his evidence, and having done so, Mr. Bowman said—lf the poor woman gm $l , family to the workhouse they shall be at oncesa n we Sergeant Bane—There was scarcely grate at Lesson's, and the only covering children was an old rug. Mr. Knox—ln this inclement weather frightful to think of the condition of * There cannot be the slightest sham about looks really very ill. Mr. Bowman (to the woman)—Why to the workhouse before' The woman—l had an objection. be separated from my child. (She had . rums.) Mr. Bowman —You will not be separatedl With regard to the other children, they the school at Hanwell, but you will have seeing them. Mr. Knox—The best thing I can do woman and children at once to the house will take them there. Subsequently Tempest's father, a attended, and having promised that the beg again, he was given up to him. SOUTHWARK. IMPORTANT TO OMNIBUS Si Major Frederick Ditma, of Merton-vi summoned before Mr. Burcham by Josef ductor of omnibus No. 6,753, running 6 and Gmcechurcb-street, for refusing to proper and legal fare, justly due to him. The complainant said that on the afte instant, on his return journey to Noma bailed him at the Karl( William Statue Gracechurch-street, asking him if he London Bridge Railway Terminus. that be did, and the gentlemen the arrival of the omnibus as the incline near the Clock Tower the up, and witness called out to the def bridge station." Instead of getting our taken up the incline to the door, Witness told him he could not do that private property, and they were not fender* thereupon got out, and said doctor) had not fulfilled his contract him the fare. Witness then took In, and the defendant walked away. The defendant said that he had . by the conductor. When he hailed particularly asked him if he went to Lind, as he wished to catch a certain trail,. plied that it was all right, and he got his surprise when he got over London - bridge, to flit instead of going to the station as he expected, then* stopped by the Clock Tower, and he was told tnt al station. Being satisfied in his own wind that he kiln deceived, Le refused to pay the fare. Mr. Burcham told the defendant that the iodise ea the doors of the railway was private property, sib conductor of the omnibus had uo right to go *yeast the sanction of the company. He stopped at the OM of the company's premises, which way fulfill*** tract, therefore, the defendant must pay the fanni t costs. WANDSWOItTH. KINGULAIL CRAB(.' : 01 FRAUD. Nell!, Hill Pinxnt was broaght up in custody with obtaining money by fmud. The Honourable Mrs. Norton, whose name Wm mentioned, was present to give evidence. It appeared that the ptisoner's husband, eh les butler, took lodging,' at the house of Mrs. Dm.** Villa, Roehampton ,in Aug ast last for his wifend dab prisoner went to the lodgings about a fortnight &hawk In September she represented to 111ra. Dean tlutield a crossed cheque for a large amount, but that she nos able to obtain change for it in the village. Thelma asked her to lend her 31,, and she did so. She bhp rented several times betore that the Hos. lln ton had been a great friend to her and had bitegglie up from a child, and also that she had msaile longing to her. Two slays afterwards she salted Ma DO to lend her 2/. more, stating at the same time haul not been able to obtain change for the ebeletil that she would be able when she went to town. HS • band living in a gentleman's family, and Wag &WO able man as a servant, Mrs. Dean lent her the Wan. The Hon. Ws. Norton said she never saw the peas before. Mrs. Dean was questioned as to the motin induced her to part with her money. and berm:new , on the faith of her having the cheque and being d par her when she obtained change. It was oe theketd her being able to pay her, and not because she Nil thing about the Hon. Mrs. Norton. Mr. Ingham then wshed to know whether Males was able to prove that the prisoner never had Wasik and on an answer being given in the negative, kelia l must be discharged. THE BIAS RACE. There were only two charge; arising out of Shebat's,' one being an attempt to commit a robbely at Pat ' ! .! tion during the rush of people, and another forpeill wi h cards in a public thoroughfare at Barns The prisoners were remanded. THE CHARGE AGAINST THE HANGI DIRECTOR OF THE Jo/NT STO CK D CoAIPANY.—(THIS DAY.) At the Mansion-house, this morning, Mr• Treeling Wilkinson, the late n:anagisg cords the Joint Stock Discount Company, attended the Lord Mayor, in diszharge of tbe , nisances he had entered into, for further upon the charge of having misappropriated 4,biw+ property of the above company. Mr. Poland again attended on behalf of the and Mr. ills gh for tho defence ; and the cam ss former occasions, appeared to create a good deslal dd The evidence adduced on the formers occasions. remembered, went to show that the prisoner bed lo• cheques—one for 4,0001., and the other for Sao if Capper and Co., stock and share broken, is ment of an account for shares of the Joist Discount Company, that he had purchased Joist t tl The answer that was attempted to be made oaj. charge was th at the money had merely been maw ° loan, and that it had been taken into account Woo parties. .nart Some further evidence was adduced in s u m -- charge, and the inquiry was again adjourned. AN UNLUCKY HUNT. —A few (lava ago, farmers were crossing the beautiful I , _ A anie front of Girvanmains, a yeroB Frey y followed one of them, ran alter a horei, had risen at a distance. The hare was tams , • she could reach the top of the tbild, ands fth with many winding"' followed, until the pair wore down the field to the side o f the railway Bs" pressed the hare bounded throueli the railway tit'• sma dog.—Ayr caight infro A n dm t of: isc t r ra . train which passed or , er i llig next moment—the engine wheel taking t h e poor TIIE FATAL POACHING AFFRAY IN MO. "'nine.—From further particular, received reapttlie poaching affray on Lord Troderat's procert , 'SI al port it appears that George Kelly, the keePs , shot, died at 8 o'clock on Weilneaday evening. ATO to • statement he made before hie death there r,••• two poachers who had dogs with thew, and 107 0 . was armed. As be approached, the Wan trisj i ki deliberately shot him without sa y in g a word. titt_ada the charge entering the lowe r p art of bis fr j a Neither Kelly nor the two keepers who h Irts.riel could give any description of the poacers,. deed 1700 their escape, and information of the fatal p o si given to the police till middle day. f atal surgeon performed an operation on the unfatr7,46l on Werfneedxy, and at 8 o'clock in the e vening 7 0 •7 0 0 Lord Tredegar bas offered • reward of WI. heusion of the perpetrator of the foul dee °, Jig el mice that efforts will bo made for a free accomplice. The inquest is fixed to is Tredegar Anna Inn, Bassaley, a t won Oil &I' say Car ' 61 4 to ths legi t her it J. pity the plat ' N Z Dour 0,.. 4 r did Tot not,„, I do Ns a. Li one gilt "Ned kis nu ilk hrr will h a " re an opAgg i i" is to send the use ; Serseath e hard.wo&g,.. the boy a l ai; menu. Csoo m mph lake, N g og between Swegi tw Po 7 Wit It, iin. afternoon dig rwood, the due at the hewn u. he del , * He tid y r men got is et the bottom d N the means p l / 4 defendant "lais eit he detookiei rs of the NeeN at, as the iserrew allowed thee l that as be lisle t he should it p! is name NA Ain been grossly Ng led the omaal, London•bnces, 6. The coNes of 1 / 1 ; bat wig • OUR CONTEMPORARIES. his DAY.) THE COMMERCI.L HONOUR OF ENGLAND: Commenting upon the facility with which the Russians have obtained from us a new loan, the Tim ob serves that all this time we see undertakings of our own abandoned ; unfinished works suspended and schemes not carried out to that full development upon which the cal. culations of profit were made. Old governments, and even nlw governments, can get our money, but we have now es one to that pass that few names are more suspected than tto Englishmen's. The lower atmosphere of the con. mcrcial world is all confusion and distrust, and the world seems to be waiting for some sk,a by which they may die tittgu;At the good and true men. Men of business know too well how few people, even in the simplest private trusts, can be safely left is:th the unfettered control of money, and still less is the chance of a high standard of feeling with the large and various staff of a company and an unknown body [of shareholders, many of them orly the last {purchasers of the stock at a specrlative or depreciated rate. All experi ence proves that wen of great ability who, for slight considerations, w.ll bestow as much attention on a very large business as if it were entirely their own, arc very rare, and another class of men, who have the requisite abilities and information, have got into the habit of regard ing things as they bear upon themselves and their friends. Either they give very little attention to the business of the d;rection end become dangerous ciphers, or they give their ft '1 attention, but with a game of they• own. Parliament has been too absorbed in other questions to look after the enforcement of commercial morality and the proper discharge of trusts, iu the management of our railway and other companies. It has even permitted the evasion and eventual abandon ment of the seer- :ties framed to guard the solvency of companies, and the safe ratio of their debts to their capi tal. In fact, it has let things go by the run. We have gone a headlong course, and we now see, and feel, what we have come to. If the existing House of Commons will not attempt to mend matters, what hope have we of another? 7HE LAW APF)t%TMEITS OF THE GOVERNMENT. S'oce Ids accession to office Lord Derby has given away in England and behind five of the highest judicial dig-Ms tics. A harvest of vice-chancellorships is confidently reckoned on, and the creation of three ',Mane judges is said to he in contemplation. The had y News allows that his lorl.hip, on the whole, has exercised his patronage with fairness and discretioi, but condemns tho system which unites law and politics, and which has made Sir F. Kelly a Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Whiteside a Lord Chief Justice. It is not desirable that politicians should be judges, or that judges should be politicians, and that the discharge of the highest judicial functions in the most doubtful and difficult cases—and such necessaxlly constitute the business of the supreme Court of Appeal—should be a mere incident of other obli gations. On the contrsry, it should be in the handset' men chosen exclusively on account of their special qualifications for the work. The proposal which has been thrown out for making the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Firsts, the Lord Chief Baron, the Lords *Testicles of Appeal, and the Master of the Rolls, official life-peers, is open of course to the general objection of blending the judicial with the poll. tical character ; for the holders of these offices would as politicians vote upon questions, and it may be particular cases which they might have to decide as judges. The principle laid dos a and remorselessly acted on in the care of Mr. Beales, of the separation of political and judicial duties, applies even more strictly to higher offices. If a better court of appeal is wanted than the House of Lords now offers, it may be constituted out of the high func tionaries just named without making them peers ; while for aid in legislation the legal element in the House of • Lords, as it is now formed and recruited, is sufficiently strong. 3IISCELLANEOUS TOPICS. The dinner to Mr. Version, the finance minister of Vic toria, is treated as a subject well worthy of notice by seve ral of our contemporaries. The Herald, bowever,is anxious that this courtesy to Mr. Verdun should not be understood in the colony al signifying in any degree a change in the opinion of our Colonial-office with regard to the late proceedings of the Victoria m'nistry of which Mr. Verdon is a member. It cannot be intended, it says, that Mr. Verdon should be lilted and honoured, and Sir Charles Darling scolded and punished for one and the same policy. if Mr. Verdon has been made a Commander or the Bath, the Victorian public should understand that it is not because the ministry of which he was a member violated the Queen's laws and nearly bred a revolution. The Daily News gives an outline of the scheme of Mr. Henwood, a naval architect, by which the hulls of all our wooden ships that are still in good order may be converted into effective iron-clads. The plan, it appears, has been considered by very distinguished practical shipbuilders among others by Mr. Watts, the late chief constructor of the navy, and by Messrs. Napier, of Glasgow, who agree in regarding it as perfectly practicable and useful, but the Admiralty has rejected it. The Post continues to maintain that public meet ings which are so largely attended as to render discussion impossible, are illegal and unoonsti. tutional, and it demurs to the uncertain language used by Lord John Manners in reply to the t application addressed to him for permission for the mem bers of the several trades' unions to assemble in the mall I of St. James's-park. After a warning against the inex petUency of holding their monster meeting, the applicants are told that they must accept the responsibility for what . ever may take place. What does this mean? asks the The Princes. of Wales, with Prince Albert Victor and Prince George, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Stonor and General Knollys, arrived at Marlborough-house, yesterday morning, from Windsor Castle. A deputation from the Associated Chambers of Com merce of the United Kingdom, consisting of Mr. Sampson S. Lloyd, of Birmingham, the chairman ; Messrs. Jacob Bhreus, of Bradford ; H. J. Atkinson (ca-mayor), of Hull, Joseph Wrigley, jun., and Wright Mellor, of Hudders field ; William Hirst, of Leeds ; C. Alhusen, of Newcastle upon-Tyne ; H. J. Harding, of Birmingham ; Charles At kinson, of Sheffield ; William Morris, of Halifax George Maunder and L. Ash, of Wakefield ; and T. B. Simpson; parliamentary agent, had an interview yesterday at the Foreign-office with Lord Stanley and the Right Hon. Sir I Stafford Northcote, on the following subjects :—The cora mereal intercourse of this country with Russia ; the pro posed incorporation of the Hance Towns with Prussia ; I the laws regulating commerce and banking ; and the com pulsory registration of partnerships. The deputation was introduced by Mr. Norwood, M.P. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat yester day. The lords present were Lord Westbury, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir J. Cols :le, and Sir Laurence Peel. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Malta. Despatches were sent Ito the Governor of Canada. TIfE QCF.EN'S VISIT TO WOLVERIIAMPTON.—The Queen will go to Wolverhampton in seiudstate, accom panied not only by the Princess and Prince Christian and Princess Louise, but also the Prime Minister or the Home Secretary, or both. The arrangements of the journey will be made by the Lord Steward, including the luncheon for her Majesty at the Great Western ltailway Station. A guard of honour will be sent from the War-office, and the royal equerries and two maids of honour will attend upon the Queen and the members of her family mentioned. It is her Majesty's wish that as many of her subjects as desire to do so may have an opportunity of see fine her ; and she has expressed her readiness to enter Wolverhampton by one route from the railway station and la ave it by another, so that such a wish on the j art of her subjects may be gratified. Yesterday, the town council met twice, and the Earl of Lichfield was present on both occasions. His lordship will take the management of the military, who will be aided by the yeomanry and the volunteers of Staffordshire and the adjoining counties. The people are all enthusialm, and have already arranged to illuminate in the evening. Two long lines of streets have been determined upo : for the route of procession on the entering and leaving of the royal party r :pectively The mayor will give a (I: ner immediately after the in. iniguration ; and the council were arranging for the erec tion of seats near the statue to accommodate 3,300 per sons and for popular amusements in the after part of the day as this was written. . . . . . The Princess of \Vales, with Prince Albert Victor and Prince George, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Stonor and General Knollvs, arrived at Marlborough House yesterday morning fr m, Windsor Castle. The Princess Mary of Cambridge and the Prince de Teck were visited by his Majesty the King of the Bel gians immediately on their sa.ival at the Hotel de Belle Vue, Brussels. His Excellency the Prusaian Ambassador and the Countess Berzistortf and family have not arrived at the Pi assian Embassy on Carlton House-terrace as stated, but will leave St. Leonards-on-Sea on Tuesday next for the einha t•Fy. The Earl and Countess of Derby entertained Lord Strathnairn, Lord and Lady IC.as, Lord and Lady Cecilia Bingham, Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. S;.• Hugh Cairns, Hon. Geo. Barrington, and Colonel Hon. Welling ton P. Talbot at dinner last evening at their residence in St. James's-square. A marriage has been arranged (says the Stant- ford Mercurp) between Lady Victoria Cecil (youngest daughter of the Marquis of Exeter) and the lion. W. C. Evans Freke, of Glaston Hall, Rutland, and a brother of Lord Carbery. It is said the wedding Rill take place in the second week in De-ember. Mr. Freke is a widower, having married in I RIO Sophia, sister of the last Earl of Harborough, and widow of Sir Thomas Wnichcote, sixth baronet. She died in The lion. F. J. Evans Freke, an elder broth-r, married a sister of Lady Burghley. Tho Count de Flahault is considerably better, and will shortly leave town for Paris. We (Tiers) have reason to believe that there is no foundation for the rnmonr that it is intended to raise Sir Fitzroy Kelly and Sir Hugh Cairns to the peerage. At the beginning of next year the Patriot at the Britixh Standard will be merged into the English In d•prndrnl. The Emperor went out the day before yesterday with a shooting party. The number of pieces killed were 1,033, of which the Emperor brought down 193, the Duke I of Magenta 161, the Prince de la Moskowa 160, Marshal Niel 115, M. Fould and M. de Warn 92 each, M. Jamin 91, General Bourbaki 62, the Marquis de Chaaseloup- Laubat 33, and M. Abatucci 31. A Moscow letter says :—" In the streets elegant equipages rise high over the bustle of national droekies, while on the pavement ladies whose toilettes would be pronounced unexceptionable on the futi. dious banks of the Seine, jostle against creatures in uncouth dresses, out after some Siberian pattern. Smith's bridge is the point where the double character of this strange metropolis is most patent to the eye. There Europe and Asia meet bodily. The funniest display of this contact of two quarters of the world I have seen was in the person of an old bearded boor, a savage in appearance, but engaged in no less civilised trade than the hawking of newspapers I should not be astonished to lean that this Caliban in the service of the press was a Tartar from the Crimea, honestly earning his crust in circulating the news of the day." LATEST INTELLIGENCE., (REUTER'S TILIOR.L118.) PRUSSIA. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittings in Banco.—{Before the Lord Chief Justice, and Justices Mellor and Shee). Lord Cranborne, Secretary of State for India , too k the oath of allegiance, 6., this morning. Ex PARTE WILD'. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., moved on behalf of Mr. Wilds for a rule to show cause why a writ of quo warranto should not issue calling upon Mr. Francis Russell, the present acting clerk of the pesos for the county of Kent, to show his qualification and right to the office. The case had already been before this court and the Court of Common Pleas. The former application to this court was for a certiorari to bring up the order of quarter sessions, dismissing or removing Mr. Wilde from the office of clerk of the peace, when it was suggested by the late Mr. Justice Crompton that the better course would be for Mr. Wilds to bring an action against Mr. Russell for the fees he had received as clerk of the peace. The action was brought, and when it came before Lord Chief Justice Erle, it was turned into a special case. It was argued in the Court of Common Pleas, when the court decided that Mr. Wilds could not claim the fees in the form of an action of money and received. In consequence of that he was instructed by Mr. Wilds to move for a quo warranto. The learned counsel read various documents in support of his motion. The ground TURKEY AND GREECE. on which Mr. Wilds had been removed was of an alleged (Via Marseilles.) refusal to record an order of the justice' in quarter sessions for the payment of a bill due to Mr. Scudamore, CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 15. the county solicitor. Mr. Wilds in his a ffi davit sets out The Greek Minister in this capital has, it is every thiog that had been done in reference to this matter, and proceeded to show that if he had recorded the order stated, demanded that the Greek soldiers captured it would have been contrary to law and the practice of in Candia should be given up to him. The Porte the justices in wiring the quarterly bills. Mr. Wilds has refused compliance with this request, and the denied that he had ever acted contumaciously, or that he ever intended to do so, but merely fur the purpose of pro foreign consuls also have declined t o enter into the , tecting the magistrate:from aninformality and the interest q uestion. The Greek plenipotentiary , however, ' of the ratepayers of the county generally. how persisted in his demand. The Court said they would grant a rule. They, . ever, n wceereweclreearalyconoifpeotepninti their n riat t i h w a ti t on tlr justices, andtha rn this News received here from Candia states that arsepe right to dismiss their officer if he had acted con Ismail Paths, general of the Egyptian contingent tumacionsly. They, however granted this rule, on the in that island, was killed in the last en g a g ement ground that, according to the ' facts as set forward in the with the insurgents. affidavit, it did not appear that there was such a refusal on I the part of Mr. Wilds. Rule granted. BERLIN, Nov. 21, Evaignro. The general discussion on the budget was closed to-day. The motion of Herr L u ker, censuring the I government on account of the sale of the Cologne- 1 Minden Railway, without the sanction of the Chambers, was agreed to by 126 to 122 votes. The Minister of the Interior has introduced a bill for the regulation of the Prusso-Bavarian frontier. THE RUSSIANS IN CENTRAL ASIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 22. The inwelide of to-day contradicts the statement recently published, that a concentration of Russian troops had been effected at Samarcand. The same journal announces that the fortress of Djusak, the last stronghold of the Emir of Bokbara, was taken by assault after an eight days' siege. SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. 22, Evrmso. The Queen of Spain has resolved to pay a visit to the King of Portugal, at Lisbon, at the com mencement of December next. THE TYROL. INNSPRUCK, Nov. 21. In yesterday's sitting of the T) rolean Diet, a ' deputy demanded whether the rumours current in the Italian districts of the Tyrol of an intention to I cede them to Italy were correct, and, if not, whether the government was resolved to prosecute with energy tho persons spreading such rumours 1 The government commissioners replied that the rumours in question were absolutely without foundation, and that the government was firmly determined nut to cede the Southern Tyrol, and to take vigorous measures against any agitation in the Italian districts for annexation to Italy. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) MARCHANT T. MARCHANT—BM:TERM. This morning Sir J. Wilde gave judgment in this singular suit, which was a petition for a judicial separation on the ground of cruelty, and which was heard yesterday. The learned judge professed himself to have been utterly staggered by the case as presented on the one side and on the other. Under the circumstances he could only look at the uncontroverted facts, and at the correspondence. Applying that test to the rest of the evidence, the conclu sion at which he ar,ived was, that the respondent and his mother were not to be believed. There must, therefore, be a decree as prayed. BRADBURY V. BRADBURY. Mr. Bsyford appeared for the petitioner, Angelina Augusta Bradbuv, who sought a dissolution of her marriage on the ground of adultery and craelty. The merrigge took place in 1860, the respondent • beng a member of the firm of Jervis, Lees, and Bradbury, china manufacturers ' at Longton, in Stafford shire. - He represented himself to be a member of the Wesleyan Society, and a man of substance; but he turned out to bo neither. He lived with the petitioner with his mother-in-law, at Trent Vale ; but he soon became bankrupt. He then became a grocer, and afterwards a billiard-marker, but he practically lived up on a small property belonging to his w:fe. He treated his wife very ill, and there was a separation in the early part of 186.1 Me afterwards went to assist his brother, who kept an hotel at Luton, and here he cote , mitted adultery with Fanny Clay, a servant in the house, by whom be had had a child. Decree nisi with costs, and custody of the two children of the marriage. POCOCK r. POCOCK AND BARTON. I , Mr. Kerslake, Q.C., and Mr. Patchett for the peti tioner, Captain Alfred George Duke Pocock, a son •of the late Sir George Pocock, of Christchurch, Hants. The marriage was in 1663, and there had been one child. The parties lived for a short time at the Priory, with Sir George, but they afterwards took a house in the neighbourhood, called lioscombe Cottage. They made the acquaintance of Lieutenant Henry Augmitu. I Dorton, an officer in the army, who was invited to , the Priory and also to the house of the petitioner. An adulterous intimacy thus sprang up between the re spondents and an elopement ultimately took place. Evi , deuce of the unlawful cohabitation having been given, ! I The court made a decree nisi with costa. PLYMOUTH, Nov. Z. The steamer Cambrian, with the Cape mails, arrived here this morning. She left Natal on the 16th October, Cape Town the 20th, St. Helena th e 29th, and Ascension the 2nd November. Sho brings 60 passengers, including the Bishop of Zan zibar and his suite, the Rev. Messrs. Baldwin, Jenkins, Macnamara, Lewis, and Edwards. Lady Wodehouse, the wife of his excellency the Governor-General, died at Cape Town on the night of October 6, after several months illness, aged 48. Deceased was very generally beloved by the colonial public, from her having silos warm and constant interest in the affairs of the colony. Her funeral was arranged as a private one, but a large number of colonists attended to express their sympathy. Over 50 private carriages formed the funeral cortege. Both Houses of Parliament presented addresses of condolence. The business which had been transacted in parliament had been chiefly of a routine character. The Colonial Secretary made his annual budget speech on the 25th September. A long discussion followed, mainly upon the necessity of economising the public expenditure. Ultimately the estimates were referred to a select committee, whose repo' has not yet been presented. A bill authorising a loan of 360,000/. has been brought in, of which 120,090 r. is for the comple tion of the line between Wellington and Tulbagh Klotf, and the rest for the Graham's Town Rail way. An active opposition was organised against the bill, and the debate was adjourned until Oct. 22. Meanwhile the various government measures bear ing upon finances made but little progress. Two railway bills were before the House of Assembly, the first repeals the acts of 1862, and the second authorises the government to raise money by means of debentures. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE V. C. NAURU:. Toe bankrupt was described as a sherry-shipper, of Gi,ait Tower-street and of Xeres, in Spain. This was the Bitting for examination and discharge. The liabilities are stated at the large amount of 73,0421., of which 511,0351. is due to unsecured creditors, and 2,735/. represents liabili ties on biils. Property given up, 20,360 f. ; ditto held as security, 20,0811., consisting ;principally of wines. Mr. Reed, on behalf of the assignees, stated that the hankt upt had been in his father's service at a salary of faiof. or 7001. a year, until 1803, when he married a Spanish Lady of fortune, and commenced business on his own ac , count in London and Xeres. That business had not been successful. Of the bankrupt's liabilities upwards of 40,000/. was due to his father-in-law and other relatives, who made large consignments to him. He was bankrupt both in Spain and this country. His father-in law had agreed to take the property and discharge the debts in Spain, which would get rid of 52,0001. of the amount. Some of the property held by the creditors in this country had been given up on the ground that ' the wines were not equal to sample; the assignees had collected 1,1001. ; and it was expected that I there would be enough to pay the English creditors in full. With a view to carry out the arrangement made by the bankrupt's father-in-law in Spain, which would be advantageous to all pai.ies, the presence of the bankrupt there was necessary and the assignees did not object to his passing his examination and receiving his order of discharge. Mr. R. Griffiths appeared for the bankrupt. His Honour said he would ;Lass the bankrupt's examina tion, but it would be better not to grant the order of dis charge until the airangeinent said to be in progress in PAINFUL SUFFERINGS OF THE CREW. Spain was completed. ARRIVAL AT SOUTHAMPTON.—(THIS DAY.) j Mr. Griffiths said there was reason to believe that the completiou of that arrangement was &pendent on the (nv ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) fact of the bankrupt getting los discharge here. Captain Forney, of the British brig Meg, has His Honour said he understood that the Spanish ba ro nk bught here the second mate and two coloured seamen ruptcy took precedence of the English one, and it ought to be completed first. Ile could not grant the order of dis belonging to the American brig E. M. Dyer. He picked charge unless he hail an intimation from the whole of the them from the wreck of that brig on the 22nd of last English creditors that they consented to its being granted, month, off Cape Hatteras, on the South Carolina coast. notwithstanding the procee:ings in Spain were still They bad been ten days without food. The captain and pending. bankrupt Fumed ; the sitting for discharge was ad &bother seaman were picked off the wreck, but they died The joerued for three months. on board the Meg. The captain died mad. The two IN BF. P 15001). coloured seamen were slaves before the American revo - The bankrupt was a pianoforte maker, of theFlampstead lution. road. This was the sitting for examination and discharge. Debts, 2,34-If. ; assets returned at 5507. SEIZURE OF FENIAN' STORES AT CORK. Mr. R. Griffiths, for the assignees, asked for cash, goods, and deficiency accounts. CORK, THURSDAY. Au adjournment was ordered for that purpose. This morning two cases brought by the Liverpool steamer, which arrived here yesterday, were opened by the police, and eec of them was found to contain 50 Enfield rifles, perfectly new, with bayonets attached, also a number of bullet moulds. The whole were seized by the • WRECK OF AN AMERICAN BRIG. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) —.— —.--_. police. A number of persons arrived, by the City of Paris, i at Cork, on Monday night, from New York , and it w as GUILDHALL. coticed that many of them left in parties of three or four by ' BrIIIILARY IN THE CITY. y of carpet, w it knowing earls: trains on Tuesday, for different parts of the country. E'lizatrth James, alias Elizedath Smith, was placed at the The naval authorities have seized the schooner Titania, bar on remand . be u f - or i Al u 'lerl i n tt an Sidney, charged e. with from Cardiff, laden with coal, on suspicion of hating arms h t.h ei e 'L l , n ie P t : s L gB ,:b e L a st : Q l l;,'" n. concealed among her cargo, and have taken her to Haul. Mr. Humphreys, of the firm of Humphreys and Morgan, bowline, where she underwent a strict search, but it is of Newgate-street, prosecuted. reported that no arms were found. The Cork Examiner Onth o e f p;vio r sz a s e x a m m es inatn li i i t p ms es pro an yr f t n at s. the pre t: says that a man named Tracey, in the employment of John m i ens nianufacturer., of Skinner-street, Snow-hill, were I=en Daly and Co., of this city, was arrested here into and robbed to a considerable extent on the night of to-day. The two miles of rifles seized by the police were consigned to the 73rd of October. the address of the above-named firm. 1 Howland, a deteetiveoflicer, having had the ease plaoed in hie hands, traced the propertyto the prisoner'sledgings,No. 9, Wharf-road, Caledonian-road, and in company with a M. Mazzini says that the letter to the Romans brother officer and Mr. Edwards, an employe of the pro s!cuto rs, found in ats r ut 9.5. worth of the property of apartment, together with a dark which appeared in the Patric two or three days ago, and to which his name was appended, is a complete forgery. rne. prosec u tors being partially broken had left a mark corresponding with tern and some housebreaking implements, one of which "What my advice to the Romans," he writes, "would or shall be in the approaching crisis it is now needless to it on the jamb of the door of the proeeeutors. The property express ; but I would certainly be the last to brand as im. was fully identified as being part of that which had been p r udent the glorious deeds of Rome in 1649." stolen from Messrs. Humphries' premises on the night of th h e i b r urg H l ul ry np . breys said the case had been remanded f rom According to the tables of the Prussian Budget for 1867, the general staff of the army will in future be time to time to enable them to apprehend the man who composed in the following manner :—One chief of the lowed by the name of James, and was believed to be the time. He did not think any goal woul d r lt Fr r o e r a general staff, 13 sub-chiefs of the staff, 313 superior o ffi cers, e v f e w o h f e l i te sann.72ys Prisoner's e hu u s i bT e i d n , i but y e a t t lioml l i ed every i t tfor t t e had been further remand, and he therefore proposed to call 24 es will be officers. 24,222 non-commissioned officers, and 6,654 one more witness, and then ask for the prisoner's corn bandsmen, with 47,911 horses. estimated in I th nd e 3 bu il i eu lge te t nan is ta. 296.ffi T 4 e m eff en ecti , rnittal on the charge of receiving the goods, well knowing have The death of a centenarian who took part in them to Mrs. Ann been stolen. Wiltshire said she was a warder in the House the capture of the Bastille is announced by the Etoile de of Correction, at Westminster. She knew the prisoner by rAeUge, which states that M. jean Jalabert, who served the name of Elizabeth James, and also by the name of in the armies of the First Republic, has just died at Elizabeth Smith. She was present at the Clerkenwell • sessions on the 3rd of June, 1863, when the prisoner was Besset, at the age of 107 years. . tried in the name of Elizabeth S m ith, an d conv i c t e d o f A New Orleans paper advises planters to Km- stealing a watch from the person, and was sentenced to divide their plantations into small farms to enoonrage twelve calendar menthe imprisonment with herd labour, immigration. . The prisoner had been to the Rouse of Correction several Vines on summary convictions in the nai necht i. Smith. The prisoner, who declined to say anythi s c et fence, wee fully committed for triaL ait ~' ~