The Express. — London, England, 1866-11-15 00:00:00

I I Clow OPBY for the 811430 N, every night at eights HAISTY Wednesdays and Saturdays, three and eight. Hall newly and beantlfaßy decorated: company greatly increased; new mans ben, twenty performers of known excellence and ability, in cluding all the original members ; everything new for the new Demme. Fauteuils, sa. ; stalls, fa. : lAA gallery, is Tickets at Austin's office, 518-PlecadOly.-Ideente. Roofs, Crocker, and Ritter, prof:vie/tom—Manager, Mr. Yrekorie Burris I. " to have a portion o f the general fund on their " own terms." And not only do Dissenters think so, but fair-minded churchmen, by whom the question will yet be settled, whatever a narrower minded section of the priesthood may object. Sir JOlll.l PA/LIM:MON has expressed a statesmanlike view of the matter in the draft report he offered to the Select Com mittee on Education which sat last year : " A question of such magnitude as the ' Con " ' science Clause' must be boldly treated, and " either adopted as essential to the extension of " education with justice to the people, or aban " doped as inconsistent with the duties of the " National Church. It should no longer remain " a question in the Education-office whether a " particular pariah contains Dissenters enough to " make a ' Conscience Clause' desirable. If a " pariah contains no Dissenters now, it may con " tain many hereafter ; we do not legislate for " the passing year. Nor should it be a question " depending upon the more or less liberality and " charity of individual clergymen. It should be " regarded as a question whether or not we " ought to remove a great and unnecessary im " pediment to education ; and your committee " cannot hesitate as to the opinion they ought to " express. They recommend that no building " grant shall be made without requiring, as an " indispensable condition, that a Conscience Clause " shall be inserted in the trust deed. And they " further recommend that in any case in which " complaint shall be made to the Education-office, " and found, upon investigation, to be correct, " that the children of Dissenters attending a " national school have been constrained either to " submit to religious teaching to which their " parents object, or to attend the church or " Church Sunday School, the Education Minister " should be empowered at his discretion to sus " pend the payment of the annual grant to such " school." from the King, was in the following terms :—" St. Cloud, Nov. B.—To his Majesty the King of Italy, Venice.—l thank your Majesty for your kind remembrance. I share your joy in seeing Venetia free. Let your Majesty rely on my friendship." The religions journals of Paris insist that the Pope cannot, with any regard to his own safety, remain at Rome after the departure of the French troops. Should he not resolve to take his departure of his own free will, circumstances, they assert, will speedily after lead to his expulsion. In con sequence, the writers in those journals not only urge the Holy Father to depart, but they affect to look on that course as decided on. As to the ques tion, " Where will the Head of the Church go 7" the Monde speaks very discursively, without specifying any particular place. It is stated from Florence that General Fleury is about to leave on a special mission to the King of Italy in connexion with the September convention. It is reported that he will endeavour to obtain the assent of the governments of Florence and Rome to a military convention similar to that which has been concluded between Prussia and Saxony. No one seems to supposeithat if this is really his object he will succeed. The complete evacuation of the French will take place in three transport vessels, which will leave for home on the 30th of thismonth, the Bth and the 15th of December. It is said that the commander of the army has officially announced to the Roman municipality that on the 4th of next month he will hand over the premises with their contents which have been used by the corps of oc cupation. FROM PARIS. owN onasubormen.) PARIS, Wsrnmen Ar Em ma. of invitations to Compiegne is Of Marshals of France the list -,nprises Bandon, Baragusy d'Hilliers, Canrobert, Regnault de Saint Jean d'Angely, the Duke of Magenta (Marshal M‘Mahcm), Niel, and Forey. The generals are—Prince Na poleon, Count de Palikao, Lebceuf, Frossard, Bourbaki, Trochu, Lebrun, Allard, and de Failly. A great many general officers' ladies are among the invith, there are Mrs. Admiral Bruat, Mrs. Mar shal Regn,ault de Saint Jean d'Angely, the Countess de Palikao, Mrs. General Bourbaki, ikc. Such "a list, it being known that the re organisation of the army is to be discussed— it would be too much to say that it is to be settled —at Compiegne,lends especial interest to the ques tion whether this reorganisation means a great war, or whether (and I myself incline to this latter solu tion) it only signifies that the Emperor, stung by the reverses of his foreign policy, his incapacity to do anything for Poland, the failure of his congress scheme, the utter disappointment in Mexico, and the overthrow of all his hopes of annexation on the Rhine frontier by the tremendous victory of Sadowa, thinks it politic to amuse France, whose vanity is wounded, by talkee-talkee about arma ments. The Evinement dies decently to-day. The sup- prossion by judicial sentence is so managed as to give the editor plenty of time to " adjust his mantle e'er he fall." Articles announcing the approaching dissolution of the paper which had fifty thousand subscribers have prepared the public for the event, and the following notice appears in this evening's number : The Evinentent appears to-day for the last time. It was born on Nov. 5, 1865, and disappears on Nov. 15, 1866. It dies therefore at the age of 1 year and 10 days. The mourning of the Evinement's friends will be of short duration. To-morrow M. de Villemessant, the editor and proprietor, and his whole staff of contributors take possession of the Figaro, which henceforth becomes a daily paper, and will appear in the same form as the Evinement, and at the same low price—two sous. In this way, by the indulgent connivance of the government, the suppression of the Evenernent, instead of being the con fiscation of a large property, becomes a farce, and in fact a good advertisement for the journalists concerned. There will be a month's imprisonment to be undergone by the responsible editor of the late Eninement, and that is all. The Emperor sticks to his coup d'etat laws against the press in principle, but shrinks from their rigorous application. lie likes to frighten, annoy, control, and emasculate journalists, but does not wish to kill them. There was little change to-day in quotations at the Bourse. Rente fell 10c. for cash and 2c. for account, closing at 69fr. 27fe. in each case. Credit Foncier and Mobilier rose sfr. each. It is reported that the Emperor presses for a fusion of the Credit Foncier with the Soci6t43 Immobi li4re, but that M. Freiny - , the director of the Foncier, is strongly opposed to the scheme, which, , according to him, would give all the holders of Credit Foncier Bonds an immediate right to demand the payment of them in full, on the ground of a fundamental alteration of the statutes of the company. 2 THE . . ; EXIIESjii • THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15,, 1866. BROWN and POISON'S CORN FLOUR be but one school in a parish supported, by plias to went on toy y , the existence of those feelings would for CHILDRENS DIET. To obtain extra wont by the sale other kind Care aranstintee I money then that school most•lve alitillatle to ell s ewe seem Me inconvenience foe a time. But he shrewdly observed, in thevext generation they will have LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ____,. EXPRESS _... (ME ODE altered Instead of baowit sad POISON'S. not of grace, but of right. As Lora DERBY puts riaas win hot oeaae to be ITALY. I ...r o a n Brom^ "John MOP," Ice tinned by the makers ea . „ that wholly disa ppeared; each packet it, those who object to Church teachingf ee l Germans—" we are all Germans alike "—and they will THE EVACUATION OF ROME. T h e hiet series c, ppeared; the Hanove CIEDRISTY MINSTRELS, ST. JAMES'S HALL , :: they find that in joining Prussia they have gained in national The telegram which the Emperor Napoleon sen t to fearfully military. are coat' through the e m edium of .. .... mem re. tae MASON. every blot at richt t th e taxes levied upon all, and that they ought di gn ity en d menflnothing of national feeling. Victor Emmanuel at Venice, in . reply to a despatch comprises Valliant, : Cite erpreoo. TO COLOMPONTIENTS. Advertisements intended for "The Express,' London 1 1 :vetting Paper. most be at the Odlco, 10, Boarteie-etreet, fry Two o'clock oa the day of publication. DRURY LAP.7I. TIM ERRING, rAvii7iii Phelps. Messrs. E. Phelps. W. Thustson, H. Vandenhoff, snd J. Johnstone : Mrs. Herman Veda and Miss Poole.—And KATHERINE AND PETRUCHIO. Es. T. Ehrinbourne and Was Isabel Adams. ILAPIA*kr.T. Tins ERNINGI, OUE MABY ANNE. Mr. Howe and Mr. Clark Miss C. HEL —A DANGEROUS FRIEND. Means. C Mathews, Howe, Kendal, dm : Mesdames C. Mathews, dale, Moore, ite.—USED UP.—And A KISS IN THE Herrn- llll4Clart TN Evmmic BAciasfauDila mum a Wham, F. Vilikes, J.G. Shore, de. Mns. John Wood. Misses Augusts Thomann and Katherine BC Mrs. H. Vining, and His C. Horsinan.—To conclude with LODGINGS. LIMAL TIM Erimnre, BADTI7BIIiIiaIBAP.. Mee Hearada—And THE LONG STRIKE. Mums. Emery, WeNieuwe. Cowper, Fitz patrick. olds, and Moreland ; Ilau Hands.—ConcladLng what LKTONE TAIL GOAT. —Commons at 7. Me Vain, WEIGHYOUSS7 M. rarselle, Belford, and Murray; Mesdames limuMosoash, Johnstone, and Hughes. —MUG FRIMBCROTZ: OR, A 000 D CAST FOB A PIZCL —And BOOTS AT THE MAN. HOLBORN. TIII9 EVENDIG, at 7, LARKIN'S LOVE LETTERS. Mr. Del more and Mies C. Saunden.—Aid FLYING SCUD. Mews. Neville, Belmore, Blake, Vollare, ace. ; Mesdames P. Josephs, C. Saunders, Berrie Foote, Bidden Lennox, Raymond, &a. muTAtonA. THIS Iviorllta, WHAT 171T1 2 11r. ”Daschig Mad" Bryan MI K. Cardona ; Paul Dwain; Master Osage Puri:A.—THE OLD CHERRY TREE. Mrs. Lam.—Conclading with MARY LIVEiGSTONE. HIGH WAITS AT LONDON BRIDGE TM DAY —Morning, Ob. Whn Afternoon. 6k 89m. To-lloiaow—Morning, 711. Sim Afternoon, Bh. Tm. LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15. ARCHDEACON DErasott and the clergymen who are associated with him in opposition to the Con science Clause did a wiser thing than they were perhaps aware of when on Tuesday they carried their grievance up to Lord DERBY in Downing street. Even for Lord DERBY himself it may be an advantage that his present term of office gives him an opportunity of looking from the aide of practical statesmanship at a clan of questions on which he has been accustomed to press the claims of an exacting party. But a large number of clergy, it seems, have yet to begin their education in much that concerns their position, privileges, and duties in tho State. As long as they huddle together in Convocations and Church Congresses, no important improvement is likely to take place ; but the arguments which sound convincing when uttered in the Chapter-house at York, to an audi ence thinking of nothing but the Church, collapse terribly when questioned at Whitehall by a Minis ter who cannot be suspected of hostility to their authors. Mr. HuseARD, who was chief spokesman of the party, told Lord DERBY that the clergy were so alarmed by the terms of the Conscience Clause, that the number of grants received by the Church of England in aid of the building of schools is falling off. Inasmuch as every school built leaves one the less to be supplied, the falling off may not be wholly due to the cause assigned : but we believe it may ho taken for granted that the un willingness of the clergy to come under the Con science Clause is limiting the aid which Parliament has authoi:sed the Government to extend to popular education. The grievance, according to Archdeacon Derr• SON, is that under the Conscience Clause a parent may require as a right that his child shall receive only secular instruction in a Church school. But who is wronged by the exercise of such a right ? The character of the school is not affected by the exemption of a few in dividuals ; the Church school remains such ; the Catechism and Creed are still taught there to the great body of the children. The withdrawal of a child from the established order of religious in struction would take place in very few cases. Experience teaches that the unbelieving or irreli gious parent would rarely insist on the exemption. The objectors would generallybepersonsholding very positive religious views, in which they were anxious to bring up their children. The very nature of the objection would thus be a guarantee against that neglect of religious teaching which the opponents of the Conscience Clause so loudly deprecate. This is so obvious that it is impossible not to holler° that they aro apprehensive not so much of the di vorce of secular and religious education as of the separation of secular instruction from tluir religious teaching. The Conscience Clause, however, is not an expedient for separating the elementary edu cation of the country from the teaching of the Church of England, but rather for securing the combination of the two, for in the absence of some such provision fur the rights of the minority it is difficult to see how the grants hitherto made to Church Schools can be maintained. Mr. WIL SON urged upon Lord DERBY that the religious character of the Church would be ignored if the clergy were required to admit children to their schools without having unlimited rights over them as religious teachers, and there is reason to fear that very many of the clergy aro possessed by this notion. What alarms them is the prospect of having to recognise the right of the parent to fix the character of the religious education of his child as superior to that of the priest. The Earl of DERBY pointed out to the deputa tion that the matter was not nearly so simple as they supposed. " How," he asked, " would " they deal with the case of a pariah where " there were Dissenters, and where there " could be only one school ?" Such cases are very numerous. Prior to the opening of a State-aided school in a village private teachers provided, not, indeed, a sufficient, but an equal supply- of the general want. The opening of the new school, in an imposing looking building, with its certi'cated master and complete appa ratus of instruction, at once makes private comp tition impossible, and the whole population is reduced to absolute dependence on the Church school. A state of things like this puts a clergy man to the test, and reveals his quality. He can, if he likes, keep the children of Dissenters out of school altogether, except on condition of the full surrender of their parents' rights. It is only in very few cases, however, that matters proceed to this length. The more usual course is to make the dissenting parent feel his utter helplessness, and sue for a relaxation of the rules of the school in favour of his child. Now, it is just this system which Archdeacon DENISON and his friends want to sustain, and which prudent and honourable members of the Church of England, both lay and clerical, say must be put a atop to. If there can OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE KSTEOE DIEPLAT. Our oontemporarieathis morning contain a variety of communications detailing more or less minutely obser vations of the heavens made during Tuesday night and yesterday morning, and four of the journals discuss the subject in their leading article columns. The Times de scribes the spectacle in picturesque terms. Some meteors, it says, shot across the heavens, leaving long, bright, and lingering trains, the star itself seeming to explode, and in stantly disappear. Some darted as quickly and as bright but without trains. Some struck the sight, like sparks from a forge, everywhere at once. Some seemed to fall, over trees or houses, bright to the last, but with the ruddy hues of a lower atmosphere. Look where we would it was the same ; in the far west and throughout the en tire north, there was either the bright glancing speck of light, or the long train, or what seemed an actual ball of light, that illuminated the country, and was slow to die away. As the night advanced these meteors chased one another across the sky, following one another's track, or tanning aide by aide. The heavens seemed alive with this unwonted host. There were times when it seemed as if a mighty wind had caught the old stars, loosed them from their holdings, and swept them across the firmament. In the course of two or three hours there must have been many thousands of these visitor, usually so rare. Even when the sky became partially over cast, they still showed themselves at every opening, and shone through the veil of clouds. Few, indeed, who saw it had ever seen the like, or could expect ever to see it. Thrice in a century this earth has to encounter an im mense cloud of stones revolving round the sun, in an orbit of the same size as its own, but in a central/ direc tion. Will this atmosphere of ours always prove an abso lute protection, and turn off these bolts, as merit is said to do the shafts of en‘,/ and detraction? That is a ques tion at least to be thought of. LAW REFORM. The Daily News refers to the energy with which the state of New York, followed since by sixteen other of the American states, has emancipated itself from the incom prehensible system of jurisprudence which she ;^herited from ourselves, fusing law and equity into one, and dwells on our delays and timidity in the same matter. So marked is the difference that it may be that very shame will com pel our lawyers to cease the open resistance and covert obstruction with which for the most part they have hitherto met the consideration of the topic. In lsll3 Lord Chancellor Westbury propounded a large scheme for Past consolidating the whole statutes, and then digesting the reports so as t i reduce them to order and symmetry ; but since his lordship's fall it does not appear that anyone of the law officers of the crown has thought it worth his while to prosecute a subject on which, as we have seen, parliament has so often expressed its anxious wishes, and for which it actually two years ago voted a sum of money to make a commencement. Perhaps, since Lord Westbury has now returned to judicial work, he may be able to enforce the undertaking of the far more im portant task with which he seemed to wish to connect his name. The digest ought to be prepared with a distinct understanding that when it has received for a year or so careful and general consideration, it is to bo enacted and to become cur written code. For nothing less than a code will ever meet the wants of the intelligent public. FOREIGN AFFAIRS. The Times, treating of Ita'ian deficiencies, says that the first aim of the government should bete inquire by what means the people above the must absolute want may be made to give up doing nothing. Government in Italy bas become a mere manufactory of places and placemen, Italian bureaucracy in many branches of administration mustering far stronger than even the French. The Bala. ries are paltry, but the leisure is unbounded, and to be made to do nothing under pretence of doing something is precisely what constitutes the Italian's paradise. To burden the state with this vast host of official sluggards is in itself a great evil ; but by no means the greatest evil. The real mischief lies in the influence this organised, legalised, and, as it were, hallowed idleness has on the c ommunity at large. A beginning, it is said, of financial reform is to be made in a reduction of the army to a force not exceeding 150,000 men, and it is unfortunate that it should not be equally practicable to proceed to the imme- diate dismissal of two-thirds of the civil army of anyloyie. The Daily News observes that the accounts froni Madrid depict a state of relations between the rulers and the ruled which amounts to a complete dissolution of the political order of society. The acts of the government are the result of a mixture of abject superstition and ser vile personal fear. Though the treasury is empty and public taxes are being paid in advance, new convents are being established and other ones enlarged. Every indi. vidual for whom the priesthood will not vouch is in danger. There is no protection but in and through the confessional, and in one country of Europe at least it may be said with truth that the church is the only ark of safety. It would be the merest folly to undertake any revolution in Spain which did not contemplate the complete and &nal removal its incorrigible sovereigo, who might well spend her remaining days with the ghostly counsellors to whom she has sacrificed the nation. One of the political envoys despatched by the King o' Hanover to Berlin just before the formal annexation of the little kingdom, has lately published an account of his interviews with Count von Bismarck, and of the appeals and arguments by which he vainly endeavoured to dissuade the latter from declaring the dethronement of King George's dynasty. One point, says the Star, which he pressed strongly was, that the Hanoverians in general were attached to the House of Guelph, and would be sorry to lose their King and their independent existence. To which the count candidly and calmly replied that doubtless many of the Hanoverian people loved their King, and would be nom to pea him dethroned ; sod he added that he, the count, honoured them for such sentiments. Doubtless, MI&ICZLLANS.OIIB TOPICS. Reminding its readers of the general admission in par liament, during last session, that a considerable in crease in the cost of the materials of manufacture would paralyse our most important trades, the Times point' to the dangers which have arisen from the obstacles opposed by miners, by ironworkers, and by colliers, who, by their strikes, are lessening the yield, and are helping to transfer the trade of England to countries in which manufactures are more economically conducted. That the power of trades' unions can be extended all over the Continent, the Tiwe does not believe; but it thinks that the strong interests of rival nations would be sufficient to prevent any such general conspiracy. The Herald denounces with its usual violence the Jamaica Committee for daring to proceed with their pro- secution of Mr. Byre, who it inserts has been exonerated from all blame beyond that of ► partial error of judgment —one of those errors, perhaps, by which nations and empires have occasionally been saved. It thinks it impossible, however, that the grand jury can find a true bill. If the trial does take place it ought to suggest an immediate change in our system of jurispru. dance so far as the rights of individuals to institute pro serrations for public and state offences are concerned. The Star points out that the grand jury which threw out the bill for murder against Ramsay consisted of the very men whose tool he had been in the outrages he committed, and who themselves had been present and consenting parties to most of the atrocities enacted in the name of authority. After mentioning their names it says that if the whole country bad been swept to get a grand jury certain to refuse to return a tine bill, what ever the crime may bare been, if it were one committed by a white against a black during the rebellion, the jury assembled at the late circuit at Bt. Thomas-in-the-East fulfilled the description. The Star commends the ruling of the learned judge to the especial consideration of his brother-in-kw, Mr. Tennyson. the Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 14. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon with Princess Louise, and her Majesty, accompanied by her royal highness, drove out this morning, attended by the Hon. Mary Lescelles. The Princess of Wales, with Prince Albert Victor and Prince George, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Stonor and General Knollys, arrived at the Castle last evening, on • visit to her Majesty. The Princess of Wales and Princess Christian drove out this morning. The Duke of Edinburgh, with Prince Christian, and attended by the gentlemen in waiting, went out shooting. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The ministers pre sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chan cellor, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Malmesbury,; the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, Lord Stanley, the Earl of Carnarvon, General Peel, Viscount Cranborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, Lord John Manners, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and Lord Naas. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Ho nourable Privy Council sat on Tuesday, at Whitehall, on matters relating to the cattle plague. The lords present were—The Lord President and the Right Hon. S. H. Wal pole. A Committee of the Lords of the Council also sat yesterday, at Whitehall, on the same subject. Present — the Lord President and the Right Hon. H. Con i. Mr. Harrison and Colonel Harness attended the committee on both days. A deputation from the vestry of Islington, introduced by Mr. W. T. M. Torrens, and Mr. Alderman Lusk, M.P., and consisting of Mr. J. C. Hillman, Mr. James Miles, and Mr. It. Wiltshire (churchwardens), Mr. R. S. Caitlin, Mr. Samuel Smith, Mr. T. H. Bolton, and Mr. J. F. Bontems (overseen and vestrymen), Mr. John Savage and Mr. C. H. Et (vestrymen and members of the Metro politan Board of Works), and Mr. John Langton (vestry clerk), had an interview with the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, at the liome-office yesterday, upon the subject of the gas inquiry. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester. day. The lord* present were Lord Westbury, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Laurence Peel. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Canada. VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO THE METROPOLIS.-(THIS DAY.) THE ALBERT MEMORIAL, HYDE-PARK. This morning at ten minutes to 11 her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Louise, and attended by Lord Alfred Paget, the Countess of Caledon, kc., left Windsor Castle on a visit to the metro. For the conveyance of her Majesty, the Princess, and suite a special train, consisting of two royal saloons and two other carringes,waa despatched under the supervision of Mr. Tyrrell (the soperinteldent of the line), and Mr. Alfred Higgins (div:sional superintendent of the Great Western Railway to Windsor), to the Windsor Terminus, where it awaited the departure of the Queen. At the station itself due preparations were made, and a number of ladies and spectators gathered on the platform, opposite the royal waiting room and by the side of the special train. Her Majesty and the Princess drove from the Castle in a close carriage, down the hill, and through High-street to the Windsor station of the Great Western line. The illustrious party alighted opposite the private entrance, and passed through the waiting-room to the platform, where they were received by Messrs. Tyrrell, Higgins, and Dawson, and conducted to the saloon, the train imme diately afterwards leaving Windsor. The special proceeded tin Slough, West Drayton, Southall, and Ealing Station to Paddington, where it arrived at 11.25 a.m. Here there was a large number of spectators, who gathered thickly around the temporary barricades, waiting patiently for a view of the sovereign, while among the officials on the platform were Mr. Fred. Saunders, the secretary. Mr. Williams, and Messrs. Tyrrell, Sprtgnoletti, Higgins, &c. The Queen and Princess on leaving the train at once drove from the station. The object of her Majesty's visit to London to-day was, it is understood, to ;sit and inspect the Albert National Memorial in Hyde-park, which is progressiug somewhat slowly. Her Majesty was expected to return to Windsor shortly before 1 o'clock. MR. GLADSTONE AT ROME. In the Jour-Iyd de Rome of the 10th we read : " Mr. Gladstone has sent us the following : " To the Editor of the Journal de Rome. " Sir,—The Corriere Delia no has published a pretended account of the interview which his Holiness deigned to grant to me on the 22nd of last month. I extremely regret that the kindness and the extraordinary condescension of his Holiness, which determined him to accord the favour of an audience to a person so little worthy of it, should have been the occasion of such a narrative. The editor of the journal in question was doubtless led unwittingly into error. Scarcely had I read the report than I sent to some friends at Florence and London the most complete dir avowal of it. Informed some hours since that it has also reached Rome, I take the liberty to send you these lines with the object of assuring anyone who has read the ac. count that it is without foundation of any kind whatever. " Believe me, &c., your obedient servant, " Nov. 9, 1866." "W. E. GLADSTONE. His Highness the Prince de Teck and her Royal Highness Princeu Mary Adelaide have taken Lady Marian Alford's residence at Prince's-gate for six months. The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle and family, on their return to town from Clamber, will inhabit their new mansion on Carlton House-terrace. His Excellency Count Apponyi quits London this month for Austria, in order to be present at the mar riage of his daughter, the Countess Helen Apponyi, with the Prince Borgbese. HUNGARY. One of the chiefs of the radical party in Hun gary, M. Sakay, has just published an article in the journal called the Hon which has produced a great sensation in the country. Hungary, he says, does not wish to subordinate herself to the in terests of other countries, whether they be near or remote ; she is resolved to preserve the autonomy of her interests in strategy, in commerce, in economics, and in the work of civilisation. She is not indifferent in the meantime to the fate of the other countries of the monarchy, and while defending her own inde pendence will lend her aid to the other provinces if it becomes necessary to defend their constitutional liberties. On the 11th a deputation presented to M. Deak an album containing 7,000 signatures. The cele brated Hungarian leader spoke to the deputation as follows: I accept with emotion the mark of sympathy which I I have received from the brave inhabitants of the free city of Sezgedin. I accept it as a proof that they recognise my good intentions and my efforts, while expressing regret that they have not produced the fruits which we had a right to expect. We approach grave discussions, but be convinced, gentlemen, that I shall remain invariably in the faith upon which I have entered, and that it is not upon us alone that the success of our efforts depends. Our duty is not to abandon hope, and to labour unceasingly for the good of the country. (RECITE'S TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. VIENNA, Nov. 15. The semi-official Vienna Journal of this morn ing confirms the commencement of negotiations for a new customs and commercial treaty between Austria and Prussia, and says : " Should the negotiations be seriously proceeded with and carried to an end, they may materially contribute to remove the tension that has hitherto stood in the way of the slowly advancing pacifica tion of Europe." All the Vienna papers of this morning consider the appointment of Baron Beust to the ministry of the imperial household as strengthening his position. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Nov. 14, EVENING. The semi official Abouipost of today, referring to the current rumours relative to certain diffe rences alleged to have arisen between Prince Metternich and the Marquis de Moustier, declares most positively that the excellent relations subsist ing between Prince Metternich and the French Minister for Foreign Affairs have never been for a moment interrupted or disturbed. THE ELECTIONS IN ROUMANIA. BUCHAREST, Nov. 15. The elections in this capital to the Chamber of Deputies have resulted in the return of all the radical candidates ; those in the rural districts, on the other hand, show a majority of conservatives. THE PAPAL STATES. ROME, Nov. 14, EVENING. An encounter has taken place between the Papal gendarmes and a band of brigands on the Ponte Marolo, in the province of Frosinone. The brigand chief was seriously wounded, and seven persons held captive by the brigands were restored to liberty by the gendarmes. The Ourrratore .Rvmmu) qualifies as a forgery the circular alleged to have been issued under the au thority of the ex-King Francis 11., from the Palazzo Farnese, for the purpose of exciting a re actionary movement in Southern Italy. Quarantine for travellers coming from France and Upper Italy has been abolished in the Roman States. THE SPANISH FLEET. MADRID, Nov. 15, EVEXING. The Spanish Fleet, which was to have gone to Malta, will not leave Spanish waters. AMERICA. (sr ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, Nov. 14. It is reported that the sentence of death passed upon the Fenian prisoners in Canada will be com muted. NEW YORK, Nov. 13, Evn-nto. Cold, 144 k. Exchange on London, 151. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1011. Cotton : Middling Upland, 36. The subscription being raised in Denmark to purchase a wedding present for the Princess Dagmar, now the Grand Duchess Maria Feodorowna, has already reached a sum of SB,ooofr. One-half will be devoted to the pur chase of an ebony bookcase, ornamented with silver and mother-of-pearl, and filled with Danish works. With the remainder will be executed a rich album, containing views of the most remarkable landscapes in Denmark. The Municipal Council of Toulon, in its last sitting, decided by a large majority in favour of the erec- tion of a protestant church on a piece of ground outside the city, granted to the Consistorial Council of that worship some time back. It also voted a sum of 50,000 fr., payable in five yearly instalments, towards the cost of the building. _ _ . An American paper states that George Franci s Train will hold an important auras in the Fenian govern ment " that will rule Ireland under Mr. Stephens." „t, , 1 4 PRINCESS'S DOWRY. A letter from Copenhagen, in the Moniteur, soya :—"The Princess Dimmer, the bride of the Grand Duke Alexander, receives a rich dowry, not from her father, as is usual in ordinary families, but from her hus band and her father-in-law, Alexander 11. By Art. 3 of the treaty signed on the sth October, the Grand Duke assures to his consort-1. A sum of 50,000 silver roubles (4fr. each) as a morgengobe or wedding present. 2. A sum of 100,000 silver roubles given by the Emperor. The capital of the above 150,000 roubles is to be invested in the Russian Funds, and the interest to be paid to the princess 3. An annual allowance of 50,000 roubles as pin money. The maintenance of the new grand dacha's's household will besides be supported by the imperial treasury. Should the princess become a widow, her jointure is fixed at 85,00 roubles a year, with a residence suitable to her rank, and her court to be continued at the charge of the state. Should, however, she then quit Russia, the sum would be reduced by one-half. The jointure would likewise cease in case of a second marriage. Even in that eventuality the princess would maintain possession of whatever property she may have acquired pet sonally and independently of her husband, as well as the morgengabe and the interest of the 100,000 roubles pre sented by the Emperor. Lastly, the princess can only dis pose by will of the morgengee in the event of there exist ing no children by her first husband. By a note delivered before the signing of the contract, and which is annexed to that document, the Danish plenipotentiary engages in the name of his sovereign to tako the necessary steps to obtain from the parliament of Copenhagen a sum of 00,000 rix dollars (sfr. 50e. each) for the dowry and trous seau of the princess. That was the form adopted on the marriage of the Princess Alexandra with the Prince of Wales." ALEXANDRA ORPHANAGE.-(THIS DAY.) The half-yearly general meeting of the governors and subscribers of this charity was held at noon at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill; Alderman Lose, M.P., in the chair. . . . . . . The committee in their report acknowledged the sup port given to the charity by their friends and the publ.o generally, and state that 48 infants will, after the present election, have been admitted within the short space of two years from the commencement of the charity. The present season of distress and suffering, arising from the cholera, led to a proposal being made to the committee to admit an extra number of infants at a special election, for such orphans only as those whose parents or father only may have died of that disease. This proposal was accompanied by noble offers of contributions, and of two more houses, rent free, for the reception of infants ; hut the committee were obliged reluctantly to decline the generous offers made to them for this special object as they did not feel justified in in curring the additional expense that would have been necessary. The attention of the committee has been much occupied of late in reference to a suitable site upon which to erect houses for extending the operations of the charity but hitherto without success. ---.-- The CHAIRMAN, after expatiating on the benefits con ferred by the charity, announced that the committee had nearly completed the purchase of four acres of land at Horivey-rise, upon which it was proposed to erect pre mises which would be adapted to the growing usefulness of the charity. The purchase money was 3,3001., and a benevolent gentleman had promised to give them 1,000/. for building purposes if the friends of the charity esta blished the necessary funds. . . _ A resolution expressing the assent of the meeting to the proposed purchase of land was unanimously adopted. The polling for the election of 12 infanta then com menced. The Dublin Court of Queen's Bench on Tuesday decided in the case of " lei'Grath r. Geraghty" that a beneficed clergyman attending a visitation in the diocese to which he belonged is exempted from arrest under an execution. The defendant was at the same time arrested under a ca. sa. issued out of the Court of Common Pleas ; but that court, to whom the first application for discharge was made, has not yet arrived at a decision on the case. Should the judges of that court not arrive at the same conclusion as the Queen's Bench, a singular state of things would arise. A grand service was held yesterday at St. Mark's Church, Woointone, in Hants, to celebrate the completion of an addition to the church. About 20 clergymen offi ciated. The church is beautifully situated, close to Southampton-eater, on the eastern bank of the River Rehm, and in the midst of a thriving village, consisting of an immense number of elegant villas. ' 'l.! "I t : 4 i ! I I i i'Mi LAW INTELLIGENON. (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURTS. . _ _ (Before Vice -Chancellor Sir R. T;Rbridei N Mr. Belly said this matter, which stood ern could not then be taken, as the tteesay.o...l unable to attend. He asked, therefore that 16. - 17% over till the next seal, on the same undend...*,,s Mr. Roxburgh sad be appeared fo r th e tore, and they were extremely anxious th a7lll at ta..M l should be disposed of, because it delayed*. ~e.l application ot the funds of the company . t o t irtult of a dividend to the creditors. Hans( Cte magnitude of the cue, the amount of mea l y 1.1 01 and its importance to a vast number of 1 770 these motions to be fixed for next Tu y, T pi r e on the paper for that morning. The Vice-Chancellor quite recognised taw and propriety of the motions being heard as n e w... mil poe4ble, but thought it would be better not to claQ t cause list. The matter was fixed for Thursday next. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Sittings in Banco.—(Before the Lord Cif Jai% Juetioes Mellor, Shoe, and Lush). eustwmve r. acwnra. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., said this w as as awn in the Bail Court, before Mr. Justice • Bilka us,: l l the jury returned a verdict for the *mita was for a warranty of a horse sold at Aldridge/2.2 The learned counsel moved to set aside the vmeg i ll; new trial on the ground that the verdict v al evidence. The question in dispute was whethe,ll4 a private sale, the plaintiff had purchased the Me n .. ing to the conditions laid down for the panf uls of bones in the repository. The court maid they would consult Iffc, ben' before giving their decision. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings in Banco.—(Before the Lord Chid b ut Barons Bramwell, Channell, and Pliek) row= 5. CHANCZ.--SAVAGI e. CRAWL These wee, plaints in the County Curl el ham to recover in each instance • sum of 41. damage sustained by the meal* of clitoris acid gob % chemical works of Messrs. Chance, in a small i z zi that town. During thepresent term aridelud • by Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., on the part of the ad, 66 for • certiorari to remove the plaint' to this Neel • ground that they were cues which involved iam scientific questions as to the apparatus used by eh ants, and the effects of the gas evolved, and mid cely properly tried by • special jury in one of tt, e aapm q courts. Mr. J. Powell, Q.C., now showed cause spied th inli contending that it would be a denial el paten pt h plaintiffs, the humble shopkeepers in the *ely. were driven into the superior courts to recover tier IQ sums. It appeared that an action spinet the defug a yi. rolling the same question had been tried at the Gim e , * suites before Mr. Baron Channell, and that the M a k, * had since adopted some improvements in their em u .* view to abate the nuisance. The present plaintiff A i d on their afildavits that the nuisance complained o il; owing not so much to any defect in the "pow, o f y e defendants as to the negligence of their innate g seemed that the defendants had for some lane Powell, who kept a draper's shop, and other tertian% town, small sums of money for injury done to dm pie by the noxious vapours. Mr. Huddleston having been beard on the eiber The Court thought that those cues involving vA claims were peculiarly ones to be tried in the and refused to make the rule absolute ; they, boves,i, timated that if, after two or three of the cue bei tried in the Birmingham County Court the &fake found it was absolutely necessary for the pep s justice to have the questions determined by true court, another application could easily be nada •le court. Rule discharged. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORa (Before the Judge Ordinary.l MUEBELL V. MUREMLL AND /UM, Dr. Spinks, for the petitioner, a fish deafen Cr Grimsby. The marriage was in 1R52, and the pvoal4 together till last year. They had three ebfdrm ra petitionerwas obliged in the way of bunter tetrarch.' deal, and the respondent took advantage of linens, contract an adulterous intimacy with Fuller, the surveyor at Grimsby. Decree nisi with wets. teem NOTT. Dr. Spinke and Mr. Searle for the petitioner, Mem the wife of a physician in Glouceetwntrest, Tat They were married in 1852, and they lived monk about nine years. In 1861, when Mrs. Non me lop ing with her mother at Boulogne. the respoodese rile his furniture and disapptated. He had since bin Maidstone, and had made many applications to kiwi for money. She bad had a fortune of 10,000/. eettke me her ; but he had never offered to return to al. tion. On the oontrasy, when she asked da " come back be declined to do so. A deed of Itpl/1011111 drawn up, and was actually signed by the putie,aie which the petitioner would have given the reepesisis allowance of V. a week, but it was not completed, tars it was found that he had forged her name mind money upon it. Evidence of adultery at Maidstone hat* spa im given, The court made a decree nisi. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN Se RILET.—CASIS OF A BETTING The bankrupt, described as a boot and shouoikLal professional pedestrian, of Wilson-street, Finsbury, II been engaged in transactions on the turf, arid stein the principal race meetings, and being a nwoberil tte public rooms at Newmarket. He came before to ai with debts of 2211/. only, and was opposed on hir Oct tion for discharge by a publican in Colemsnetreemon Davis, who had obtained judgment against tki kaki for a debt arising out of a betting transaction. His Honour observed that this case had bees 10 before the court through a squabble between tweimf men ; for the bankrupt had only four debts, and WI II the opposing creditor was above 100/. The Inaknetel begun by winning 1,1001., and his accounts shored had got rid of it. Formerly to be a member of showed Newmarket was a guarantee of a man's respectibilie; 2l ., a boot and shoemaker, or professional p e deitria. owl not have had much chance of admission there. Ilia However, all that might be altered now. 11:9 0 , 1 course in this case would have been to dime di petition, but as there was a judgment 1 1 01 the bankrupt, he would have been liable taken on it. It had been asked that the banks 11 0 furnish a detailed account giving the names of 1111a 1 PP tons from whom he had won money ; but this vs • reasonable, looking at the two apologie4 for book the bankrupt had produced. The cwirt would, *vile pass the examination ; the order of discharge to Wahl at another sitting. Mr. Sargood and Mr. E. Reed appeared MO csa THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) '0 low id so id MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THZ MASQUIS TOWNSHLND AND Thk. ItL4GARS.--.00316 STATE or A 1:01. be Mary Jukes, 9, was charged before Mr. Da ige M arquisdoh Townshend said that abou t 11 o night he saw the littlegirl leading about& blind matiovr public-house in King-street, liury-street, and the sss bourhood, and saw her beg and receive money fro, if rent persons, and being anxious to stop the pre* children leading about persons for the purpow of beffa he had caused her to be brought to the court. Tim father was also begging, and he (the marquis) eligki charged him with begging also, but his object ess s r ; which he had stated. At the station the ferat„, mitted that about a fortnight ago he was ; to the Westminster Police court and informed thst d was brought there again his daughter would be tares ° from him. Campbell, 209 C, proved taking the girl into earris! t :, Mr. Knox remanded the girl, and told the couoi make inquiries into her history. In the um:tangs iller would be sent to the is orkhome. Jahn Cranny, 11 and Th , onas Crnonr,,,B, were charged with begging, both being in s meer plorable state. Sergeant Bunee, 5 C, said that yesterby aft/raise} *Si saw the two bo y s and some others 1x ;gtn g in St. fro m place, and having seen them recei ve money from to gentlemen he took them into custody. Al stated that they lived in l'a-ilfonlbury he ward Ts• — j.i. made inquiries viti ascertained that their father irse`74 - and that their mother was crossing sweeper. • all1;011_,. a brother iu the reformatory at Walthamstow. bad scarcely any home, the place being io condition. father etilY A man, who said he was the boy's WI). ' could do nothing with thm. In answer to M r. Knox, e it was stated that the loir placeH e undWelsh , erstood w where eyi that :o uk rF to the fact that the toes of one of the boys were ow—. they appeared to be rotting oil. Mr. Knox said he would remand the bele for L i the oris sent, and he would try and see whether the y °° t b o tle sent to Feltham. He thought that the best arit e ..ji l could adopt, as it would give the boy an lop having his foot attended to. The gaoler of would give them a good meal. • 141 1111 John Alarander, another boy, was charged wi til in Tottenham-court-road. The case was proved by Stoker, 744 A. apehebirri:iwtdnreCt Christmas there w tit 'lt t, I, i ' 'A •1