The Express. — London, England, 1867-03-07 00:00:00

i~ _ ~ (Ott j`-t_iirtt% ~. _ . ' ''s ', ...a • 7 ' • • (- l• i- . .), ?/ j S saudX2 1-':1.1 L, 1:1'.)1)1„ NEW IoRK, and PEI ILA- TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE . .% -.1/.1\1 , 111r COMPANI".—INNIAN LINE . Stvanlell sill be despatchml a. (REUTERS TELEGRAMS.) DENMARK AND NORTHERN SCHLESWIG. ;1,..Nt I I'. 1.R13e.t. la YEW it/RX .) I : tt I 1:1I -morday, March • %, Meducelay. Mardi 13. .1 I 1:I:. ~ kturday, March Id. Nut et. r N edoeaday and Saturday. p ILe mad dcamers satiny; every Wednesday, ; • ~„! :1 eon, -as. ...Ming to the acConano.lat iota • 111.1.i.11, a Mull supply of cooked prome.ms . r .31v . ..1311.1 the United States booked throe,:h on .111 term. Vor further particulars appl:, to N R . , Iti 22. Water street, Liverpool; and to al V E I:l',c. Km, %%1111m-street. Londou. BERLIN, MARCII 6. The C o nk Grce'ff, of to-day says :—" It is not true that Denmark has again raised the question of the ph hiscition in Northern Schleswig. So far from this being the case, the matter having re cently been broached a-fresh from a third quarter, Denmark made known that she had reason to expect that a satisfactory solution of the question would shortly be arrived at, and expressed her desire that all further agitation of the question should cease." TE kM to NEW YORK.—UNITED STATE' S %IL I.IN E magniiii,nt steamer, of the Nor York IC .N , 01:t. ••iiiin.u) will leave Havre Anil Falmouth 0,1 a fortnight, as ninlvr. g• n0...0,116A rr• their passenger aceotuntiglation, nud ..0 u l thi Fr..rn Havre. From Falmouth. ffarrialay, Slim. 21 .Sptil 3 .Thursday. April ss .10 April 17 Thiirs,lay, 41,ril IS \\ Inrday , Slay 1 Thurailay, Slay 2 - _h L,r, from London. tint-elan. and £l6 se,ond forth., port!, ol trs apply to JAN ES A. Wirro,N, L' II El: ',Km K \ and Co.. Carle O. C. sot K. W. Co.. Yabouuth: or 11. S rkkut and CO., 145, CarapaKlr. i :tf t.. toIIEN RO from London direct. ..• t. • l• li. or, Thu uurivelle .1 twin lon-u. i:1 1...0 1-114. 250 horse power, hum* been sk.l t, :Ippointeit to reAume surriee, and • I " t i , K r at 111411‘ Dot im the L. • !“ 3 ill Mt r perntitthr,4 Earr4. .1+ • 1 6 , 11.. .1 I.y the steamers Gt A,A or N1,, , 1) ~1 i haphn s l'ote tread Oth, e. . o.r to • I.lt X% FS. P1111.411'1 , and Co., St. lluuatan shouse, I tt,t ,tit.t I k:11 STI 110I,M, calling at Copenhagen • " - Tnr null knitwo ,o-rt t ‘I :. , wttorts, will lw .11.1..5tt with d : port, in a few .14)16.-I.or ; e, npr.lN :.1 I %HAN'S l'uivcrsal ritlike, ..:t • ' lEi I.i. I'll ILLIPPS and Cu., :it. Dunstan . .. , .• I.thr, E r. I E I'AL. \ 11 !TY off PADSTOW. —At a %If i.11\.: the Ifillabitants of Padstow, held at the Vol. II •ni on nil it was resolved unanimously that ..hould he taken to enlist the sympathy of the Is •. •it , and generally, on BEHALF of the Al 4 ~1 .1. 1 1 of the live noble men who 'welshed I : , .-mnavottring: to save the crew of the Georgina, c01...1:ha at the entrance ut l'adstow Barbour o. SA. , • ' ' " .• • hillidryd 1.1111.1 i W, re I.llllSerilred at the meeting, and Con tr mi 0111 be tli.titk: till) received by the Kee. Richard n.tr .4 I at.,b by all the Woken In Cornwall, t. 1.11101. awl in London. by Mow., Smith. :CJ Ana Heave. 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A A CHINCBE CADDY, containing 16Ibs. of really good BLACK TEA, sent carnage free to any railway station or market town iu England, Ireland, :,cotl“nd, or Wales, on receipt of 40a, by PHIL LIN and Co.. tea merchants, 8, King Williansetreet, City, E.C. I%II:DIE'S SELECT LIBRARY. BOoK ft FOR ALL READERS. Fl lta'F CLAtoi SUBSCRIPTION. Fora 000tant succession of New Books, ONE GUINEA PER ANNUM, Commencing at any date. A Revised List of lately added to the Library is now tva,l) and will 1. f.tmnr.l•,l. postage free, on applimtl.n. NI OILS OEI,III LIBRARY NEW OXFUILD-ST. City 011iee—t, King.street, ebeapakle. CIIRPET: 4 ., 3,(s)u pieces. Best Brussels, 3s. 6d. ; V Tapestry ditto. 3s spl and all the newest dealirns. 2s. lld. 111 rated pricy.] lists of furniture, bedsteads, bedding, and upholstery, a... gratis. All iroods warranted and delivered free IhrogAtout thy' Ishoz.lom A house completely furnished tu 36 hours —WM. WAIN LS, 133 to 139, Newington-butts, TRRESHER and GLEN. NY, OUTFITTERS. Otily eatablialunent in London, nut door to Somerset. boost Strand. N. li. Lista of noosesary outfit for ovary purpose sad appointment to India, China, and She Ccloolia, will be bir. warded on application. iPt U P T U R E S.—The PATENT SELF ADJI STING GI it NI AN TRUSS, acting effectually without altY o , mplicau•a,n. is rcroto uo.iolcd by the Faculty for the cure sad rrhef rain. The heee.ury quality of a good Truas is an 6111Cielit rrni -I tr_without unneccuary prepanre 011 the Part afecte.l. wi,i. h 11..sirahle object to alone obtatuell in a truss meactlaala.lT*l with spiral springs, or pads behind.—J. kkG srolCo., So, I, Potodilly. WHITE and SOUND TEETH are indispens able to persanul attraction, and to health and longevity by the proper misstleatassa of food. ROW LAN Irs tiDON'ilt, or PE %EL DES I Is 'E, compounded of Oriental Ingmar'. ts, Is of inedinedile rnhn• In preserving and beautifying the Teeth, Mit Mithrnit,ir the gums. and In giving a pleasing fragrance to the triath It eradicates tartar from the teeth, removes spots of in, spiral decay, nil in,lisbes and preserves the enamel, to which it Samos - Tv a icartilte whiteness. Its invaluable proper. liev hare obtaiited the patronage 41 royalty and the aristocracy of novae. cirri it iv ittlivcroolly in high rejmate. Price per box Sold as zu. Ilattssingurden,aud by chemists and perfumers. As.► for kowiasars lMonto, KEATI N (:'S PA LE NEWFOUNDLAND COD LIVI:i: ol 1., I...fleetly pure, nearly tasteless, and free Isaa adultriaCen of arse land. having been analysed, reverted Affii f1,..111431,1V.i by Prafewor Taylor, of Ouy's and St. LtaLts's Or. !halt, L R.C. P., P.L.S.. fir.. and Dr h. win t'wte, hi IX. I. K.c. P , 11.K.C.5., who, in the word. 0 Vte late fir. Pereira. 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L Lid an: three time. the quantity In one, klt be sure to ask ( * tent. Bilious and Liver la. The genuine are in • *Vale greet, package, with " William Limbed" engraved ou the MISS ItgAblEN's NEW ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE. Now publishing. RIELGItAVIA, for MARCH. - " - "'•Ths Ik•t shilling Magazine which England pum,:sa,..‘"— Staaded e—Warwit.k-linuse. Paternoster-row. London. REREN f..r ST. MARY REDCLIFF, ILDER of this week. 4d...r by is , st nu. V I y:%% .1 MERRIAM and SEDILIA proposed VT t.„.lh n• . t •.l ill Zelt. dchtf t'llurch—View of the new Supreme slund—On Proportion in Gothic and ~ : v An hp, tun: •1 ho Revue Ofokrale"—Royal Scottish ^. .. 1 Linl. Izo union thc Ancient Aqueducts of R4vnie— tlit..li onu. ntid o : and various other Interesting papers. t. W C : and all Newsmen. 5'"1.11.% 4 111 DN, MA UCH 6.—The North German .teime i I . :lion, Captain Von Santen, sailed hence ic" for York direct, with 86 cabin and a full com- Pleo , nt ,• rage missengers, and a large cargo, includ , y froto Ilavre, value 129,000 francs. The American Company's steamship Hammonia, Iry an Elh.r sailed hence today for New York, with a oaoplen o lit of steerage and cabin passengers and a Ise ne wan. The Hanoonotda is a new steamer and during rinp from Hamburg she averageel o g e s t reed of fourteen per h.... • f lie tigents here the ship to the Part on prg board to t. tday, end in the evening entertained a select t a dinner it hi Hume. ROME. ROME, MARCH G. The rumour that the Pope, in an audience with M. Langrand-Dumonceau, had neither approved nor disapproved of the scheme for the liquidation of the church property in Italy, is officially denied. No uncertainty was shown with regard to the sub. ject, the Pope having at once expressed his disap probation of the project. THE PARIS BOURSE. • PARIS, MARCH 11, 3.30 P.M. • The Bourse has been heavy. Routes closed at 70.0'2, or Bc. lower than yesterday. AMERICA. (Per the Hermann.) NEW YORK, FEB. 2:1, 31,11INING. General Sherman's substitute for the bill pro posing the military government of the South has been finally passed in both houses by a two-thirds vote, with an amendment providing that, until the rebel States are admitted to representation, civil governments in the South shall be provisional only, and subject in all respects to the paramount national authority. The radicals have again nomi nated Parson Brownlow as governor of Tennessee. MEXICO. NEW YORK, F. 2.3.. Intelligence published here from Mexico states that, on the evacuation of the capital by the French, General Marquez proclaimed martial law. Corona had notified all persons supporting Maxi milian to leave the State of Jalesco within four days. It was reported that Romero had received confirmation of the defeat of Miramon, and of the safety of Juarez. The Emperor Maximilian was in the capital on the sth. DEATH OF ARTEMUS WARD. (raw( OUR OWN CORRENPONOENT.) SOUTHAMPTON, 1%-zoszsrmv. Mr. Brown, well known as a writer and lecturer in the United States and in this country under the cognomen of " Arteums Ward," died in this town at 4 o'clock this afternoon. He was about years of age, and was a native of Maine, in the United States. While lecturing in London he was taken ill, and went to Jersey. Find in; that he did not get better be came here for the par. pose of returning to America. About three weeks since. l'.iptain Britton, the American consul at this port, re ceived a telegram from the United States embassy in London, stating that Mr. Brown was in Southampton, very ill, and desiring the °ottani to see him. Captain Britton found him very ill at Radley's hotel, attended by his man of business and his servant boy, an in telligent Canadian youth, both of whom seemed deeply attached to him, and waited on him with the most affectionate solicitude. Dr. Hearne, a phy sician of eminence in the town, was sent for, and although it was not anticipated that Mr. Brown would ever be a strong man again, it was thought that he might partially recover and be enabled to return to America; and it was intended that he should leave Southampton for New York on Wednesday last. Captain Britton took great interest in his countryman, and has not left him for more than a few hours ►t a time since he first saw him. About ten days since Mr. Brown was convinced that be should not recover, and he settled his worldly affairs. He made his will, dictated a simple epitaph for his tomb, and prepared for the event which he was conscious was approaching. He expressed his firm belief in the great truths of the Christian religion, and humbly said that he was not afraid to die. From his last understood words his thoughts appeared to be dwelling on his native country. He was unconscious for some time before death, and was therefore spared much suffering. Although he had been only a short time in England he appeared to have gained many friends, who esteemed and admired him• He was gentle and kind to all who approached him in his illness, and every one seemed to love him. His only relative is an aged mother in the L'nited States, of whom he spoke with reverence and affection. His remains will be conveyed to London for interment. Mr. Robertson, the dramatist, was with him to-day, and was the last of his London literary friends who saw him alive. The towns people have shown much sympathy. THE BISHOP:4 AND DR. COLENSO.—The Arch bishop of Canterbury has written the following letter to the Dean of York:—"Lambeth Palace, February 2s, D467.—Dear Mr. Desn,—l did not fail to lay before the archbishops and bishops of the united church of Eng land and Ireland assembled at Lambeth in the earlier part of this month, the address of ' the undersigned clergy and laity of that church, praying us to take steps to remove the grievous scandal now attaching to our church from the apparently permitted continuance of Dr. 1 1 Coleus° amongst it. bishops.' The prayer of the petition was carefully considered, and the following resolution was ummiuwusly agreed to :—Resolved,—•That it is desirable to take an opinion on the question whether there be any, and if so what, mode of bringing before the courts at home the scandal alleged in the prayer of the petition.' A sue will accordingly be prepared, and counsel's opinion taken in the matter.—l have the honour to be, dear Mr. Dean, your faithful friend and brother, C. T. CANTUAIL" SECESSION TO Kumg.—The Rev. W. H. H. Kelke was received into the Roman catholic church last week at the Oratory, Edgbanton, by Father Newman. Mr. Kelke was a graduate of Brasenese College, Oxford, from whence he proceeded to the Theological College, Wells. Latterly he was a member of the English Church Union. ENGINE DRIVERS A 74 D FIREMEN ILND THEIR Gal E V ANC V 4. —The agitation which has been going on since the beginning of the year for a redress of the grievances of the engine drivers and firemen of the various lines in the kingdom, who are estimated to number upwards of 20,000, has now assumed such importance that it is feared, and in fact it is openly expressed. that unless their requirements are complied with there will be a general strike throughout the country. As in most other trades these men assist and stand by one another through their societies, which have been established in most large towns and cities. During the last few days memorials have been addressed to the j boards of directors of all the large railway companies, stating the grievances of which the engine drivers and fire : men complain, and others are about being sent in. It ap pears that at present the men are frequently required on many lines to work 17, 18, and 10 hours without extra pay ment, and many advantages they at one time possessed have been taken from them. It is said, in fact, that they complain that they are overworked, and badly paid. What is asked for now in the memorials is that 10 hours should constitute a day's work ; all over 10 to be paid at the rate of two hours for a quarter, and all Sunday duty to be paid as time and a half ; that a " sped day" be allowed in each week, and if required to work on that day to be paid at the rate of time and a half ; that drivers' wager' be as follows :—First six months, 6s. per day ; second six months, 6s. GL ; after 12 month., 7s. 6.1. ; that firemen's wages be, first six months, ; second, 4s. ; after 12 months, 4s. Cal. That any engineman or fireman being sent on duty rendering it necessary for him to re side away from his home shall be allowed 2s. fa per night : and that as a rule there should be nine hours clear off duty before tieing called on to go out again. It is also suggested that, if possible, they shall not work wore than every alternate Sunday. There are other grievances re lating to individual companies too numerous to mention Deputations are about to wait on the directors of all the companies. ORYETAL PALACE. ONE SEIMLING DAY.— WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6.—Admissions on payment, 742 ; ditto, by season tickets, 931. Total visi.or., 1,673. ;,.~ LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1867. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. TRIAL OF M. GIRARDIN. (FROM ova OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. On this Ash-Wednesday and day of the eclipse of the sun coincidences which have not failed to strike Parisian quidatnics— M. Emile de Cirardin appeared in the Sixth Chamber of Correctional Police to take his trial for a political libel. From an early hour the avenues of the court were besieged by people anxious to get in. The few provided with tickets were admitted ; all others found great difficulty in piercing through the outer lines of circwnvallation, and if, by means of adroit representations, they penetrated further and reached the stairs leading to the court, or even the ante-room adjoining it, they were in few instances better off. To the demand, often proffered in an angry tone, "Is it not a public court (" the imperturbable answer of one simple-minded official, who looked only to the substance of his instructions and troubled not his head about the theory that all trials in France are public, although press trials must not be reported, was, "Not to-day." And yet it must in justice be said that the court was ulti mately as full as it could well have been con sistently with the orderly conduct of the trial. Nearly a third of the sitting and standing room in the not very large chamber in which the court sits was occupied by advocates in their robes. All other persona fortunate enough to obtain admii sion did so only by favour of the presiding judge, but it cannot be said that he distributed his favours in an exclusive spirit, for a very large proportion of the closely packed audience consisted of persons notoriously not sympathisers with the prosecution. M. de Girardin obtained admission for Madame de Girardin, his son, M. de Girardin, jun., Monsieur Clement Duvernois, and two other redartears of La Liberti ; and 1 observed in court three opposi tion deputies, MM. Pelletan, Picard, and Glais- Bizoin. M. Emile de Girardin appeared at the bar alone as he had undertaken to do. M. Serriere, his printer, was assisted by M. Allow, the bdtonnier. The judges, four in number, did not take their seats till half-past 11, and then, to the great disappointment of the expectant audience, the president, M. Delesvaux, addressing M. de Girardin, said he had better retire and come back at 1 o'clock, as there were several cases to be disposed of before his. M. de Girardin, M. Serriere, and M. Allow, who, of course, had no fear of losing their places, took ad vantage of this hint to pass an hour and a half in a better atmosphere than that of the crowded court ; but nobody else budged from their sitting or standing room, as the case might be, for fear of not being able to get back to it. The whole audience, therefore, remained patient but unwilling listeners to a number of ordinary police cases— cases of drunken assaults on the police for the most part, which were disposed of with extraordi nary rapidity. When, after these light farces, the real play which the audience had come to see began it was half-past 1 o'clock. In answer to the usual preliminary questions, M. Emile de Girardin, after giving his name and surname, said he was sixty-one years of age. The president then said :—You are accused of having excited to hatred and contempt of the Emperor's government, in an article of the Liberte, headed "Les Meilleures Destinies." Do you admit being the author of the article 2*—l do. Do you desire now to offer any explanation con cerning that article am in the hands of the court. But you have the choice either to speak now or presently after the Advocate-General shall have made his requisitoile. Perhaps asyou are unassisted by counsel you would do better to wait.—On the contrary, M. le President, I would prefer to make a statement now. M. de Girardin then said (so far as I can report his words from memory) : The statute under which lam indicted sanctions in the most absolute manner the right of discussion and cen sure of the acts of government. It is for hav ing exercised that right that I am now here before you, sitting on the same bench where have sat before me two members of the French Aim. demy, the Count de Montalembert and M. Provost Paradol ; a member of the Corps Legislatif, M. EugiMe Pelletan ; a great thinker, M. Proudhon ; and an emi nent historian, N. Vscherot. I wish to say, upon my honour, that I am not guilty of the offence imputed to me. Even if the result of my article should be to excite to hatred and contempt of the government, I did not write it with that intention. Not only my solemn asseveration but my antecedents negative the accusation. For I took so large a part in accelerating the movement which founded the Emperor's government that I should incur an immense responsibility if I were to contribute to its fall. The Advocate-General Lepelletier then rose to support the accusation. He is a rather young man gifted with no oratorical power, and opened his case in an unimpassioned and off-hand manner just as if it were of no more importance than the small misdemeanour affairs which he is daily in the habit of pleading. He began by regretting that M. de Girardin had not given before M. Genet, the judge of instruction, the assurance ho now made, that he had no intention to excite to hatred and contempt of go vernment. He had declined to make any state ment whatever in answer to the question of that magistrate. At the same time he had great difficulty in believing that M. de Girardin, who was one of the most accomplished journalists in the world, and knew better than most men the exact value of words, could have written the article in question without being aware of its manifest tendency. Tho Advocate-General, then, in a monotonous, indistinct voice, read the 'incriminated article through. He admitted in the fullest degree the right of discussion and censure which M. de Girardin claimed to exercise ; but he denied that the article now before the court was in any rational sense confined within the widest limits of " discussion and cen sure." It was an "attack" of the most violent, ' and, he must add, the moat unjust description upon the whole course of the Emperor's govern ment from 1851 to 1867. Its clear intention was I to represent to the public that the Emperor's go vernment was the worst that could be, both as re gards foreign and home policy. It gave the go vernment credit for no one good thing, and its unfairness was such that it did not even allude to that great and manifest benefit the treaty of commerce and the establishment of free trade. Under these circumstances he felt it unnecessary to enter upon any long arguments, • A trthelation of this article appeared in the Express of March 2. and could only call upon the court to act upon the law. The printer, too, had manifestly neglected the most obvious of his duties in allowing such an article to pass, and must be included in the con demnation. M. de Girardin, in reply, commenced by thank ing the Advocate-General for the compliments he had paid him as a writer, which he said he did not deserve. He explained his reticence before the judge of instruction on the ground that he was asked no specific question, and did not think it necessary to volunteer any statement. The Advo cate-General had contented himself with the gene ral assertion that his whole article was an excita tion to hatred and contempt of the government, but he had not put his finger upon a single passage which bore out that assertion. He could therefore only oppose a general denial. He denied that there was in any part of the article, or in the article considered as a whole, anything like an " attack." If, indeed, the article were to be con sidered critically, it was liable to the reproach that it did not even contain the " discussion and cen sure" in which it was admitted he had a right to indulge. It was scarcely a newspaper article at all, but was a simple page of history. With regard to the Advocate-General's taunt that he had been so uncandid as not even to give the Emperor credit for his free trade measures, if he were to say that that was an oversight, it would be a plausible defence for those who knew the hurried way in which a journal was composed. But he was always frank, and would not say so. He had deliberately omitted to speak of the treaty of com merce, for the reason that the promises which ac companied it in 1860 had none of them been fulfilled, and consequently the country had not reaped the benefit of the measure. By reason of the neglect of those promises, French trade stood at this moment in the same position towards English trade as the Austrians did before the needle-pn at the battle of Wows. France was made to fight the battle of industry with unequal weapons. He would now, with equal frankness, admit that his article was, perhaps, in opportune at a moment when reforms were promised. There were unfortunate articles as there were unfortunate circulars and unfortunate expe ditions. (Laughter and applause, amidst which the President threatened to clear the court.) M. de Girardin—l do not wish to speak warmly. The President—This is no fault of yours, M. de Girardin. He concluded a short but very effective speech by saying that he was in the gallery when M. Rouher made the speech which bad provoked him, and which be answered in his journal on the spur of the moment. Bad he not heard it with his owu ears ho would probably have written less vehemently. M. de Girardin, though long absent from the Legislative Assembly, delivers himself with all the grace and ease of a practised orator. Every syllable of what he said was heard in every part of the court. M. Serriere, the printer, read a short defence, in which ho said that, printing as he did for differ ent journals, as many as 350,000 copies a day, it was impossible for him to ex erciae a surveillance, and he had trusted all the more confidently to M. de Girardin, now that a law rendering printers irresponsible was said to be coming. He hoped the court would dismiss him, as he could not attend to his business while he was there. This remark produced laughter, in which the court joined. The arguments of the case only occupied three quarters of an hour. The court remained two hours in consultation, and then announced that it would give judgment at 11 to-morrow. COMMITTAL FOR LlBEL.—Samuel DrOWII, for merly a clerk in the office of Messrs. Nicholson and Saun. dens, of Wath.upon-Dearne, was committed for trial at Rotherham, on Monday, for libels exhibited in his window at Wath. One of the libels, which was posted on a board, ran as follows:—" The great money lending firm have lent 50,000/. to Lord Derby and ro,poor. to Mr. Disraeli, the money of the great Melton millionaire, and you will soon see him get a title." There was, of course, not the slightest ground for this statement. The money was lent to the eminent conservatives mentioned as trustees of the Junior Carlton on the freehold of the club. THE PROPOSED DISFRANCHISEMENT OF GREAT YA RMOUT H.—A special meeting of the town council of Great Yarmouth was held on Tuesday for the purpose of petitioning against the threatened disfranchisement of the borough. The mayor (Mr. E. Youell) presided, and ob served that the subject was one of much importance, both present and future. Yarmouth bad had the privilege of sending members to parliament for upwards of 600 years. The council had not met to defeud the proceedings which hail recently come to light ; on the contrary, all present were heartily ashamed of them ; but they were justified in protesting in as strong a manner as possible against the severity of the punishment threatened, and to endeavour' to prevent it. He expressed a hope that they would enlist the sympathy of a large body of the members of the house, who liked to see fair play, and that they would thus avert the calamity which threatened their political existence. Mr. W. Worship, solicitor, deprecated the severity of the punishment threatened, and said they could not shut their eyes to the fact that borough After borough had been as guilty as their own and had not been exposed, while among the members who applauded the Chancellor of the Exchequer's proposition there must be found many who obtained their seats by questionable 111C,U111. Mr. At ()fillip proposed the adoption of a petition to the llouae of Com mons, which was seconded by Mr. C. E. Bartram, fish merchant, and agreed to unanimously. ROYAL GENERAL THEATRICAL FUND. —The an nual meeting of the members of the Royal General Theatrical Fund was held yesterday in the saloon of the Theatre Royal Lyceum, and was numerously attended. Mr. Cuilenford, the secretlry, said he had received a letter from Mr. Buckstone, their respected treasurer, conveying the painful intelligence of the death of his youngest son, and as that day was appointed for the funeral, he would be unable to preside at their meeting as chairman. Upon this Mr. Swinbourne, of the Theatre Royal Drury-Line, was asked to take the chair, to which he assented. Mr. Cullenford then made his financial statement for the past year, ending February 28, and from this it ap peared that the admission fees produced 13/. re. ; the member" sub•criptions, 731/. Is. 10,1., being an leen:sae of 40/. over last year ; interest on stock, 3971. 6e. 10d. ; freehold ground rests, 51. 18a. ; profit on a cricket match, between theatres and music -halls, 4AI. Is., which was got up and carried out by Mr. Gaston Murray, and to whom great credit was due. The annual dinner bad produced Sill/. Bs., which was also an increase on the former year ; arrears, ei. 9s. ; and the reserve fund, 306/. 15e. 41d. ; making a total of 1,9001. Is. 91 The fueled property last year was 12,9721. 90., but this year there was added to it 5061. 45.9it1., making a total capital of 13,178/.180.7d. The expenditure for the year had been 1,400/., leaving a balance of 800/. in favour of the fund for the year. The report was received and adopted, and the several officers and members of the committee were reappointed. PROSECUTION FOR RITUALISTIC PRACTICES. —A formal complaint has just been lodged with the Bishop of London against the practices of the Rev. A. H. 111ackono chie, M.A., incumbent of St. Alban's, Holborn, in refe rence to the ritualistic practices which prevail there. This complaint, so lodged, takes the matter into the Canis tory Court of the diocese of London, from which it will of course be removed by letters of request to the Court of Arches. It is well known that the bishop was very diain. dined to adopt legal proceedings, hut, as the matter is now forced upon him, he is compelled to proceed with the judicial investigation. ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRUROICAL SOCIETY. Mr. Samuel Holly, of St. Thomas's Hospital, and a mem ber of the Council of the Royal College of Sumons , has just been elected president of the : i ,bove society, n the vacancy occasioned by the retirement of Dr. Alderson. [STAMPED, Id. ADDMONdi• ] THE FENIAN RISING. TIPPERARY, TUINDAY. Considerable apprehensions are entertained by the authorities in many parts of the county Tipperary of • Fenian outbreak. Information had been re ceived by the sub-inspectors of police that led them to be lieve that an organised insurrection would be attempted. every precaution has been taken by the authorities to have both the military and the police in readiness. One company of soldiers was despatched from Tamplemore to Tipperary. A belief is very prevalent that the notorious General Gleeson is now in the town of Borrisoleigh, where he was resident when be came over from America last year. Somegentlemen in this neighbourhood are arming their tenantry. A number of farmers and others are also withdrawing their money from the beaks. (From the Freeman's Journal of yesterday.) For some days past rumours of a serious character have been freely circulated through the city that an effort would be made by some misguided men connected with the Fenian conspiracy to make a hostile demonstration in the city, but, on making minute inquiries, we were glad to learn, from the most authentic morass, that there did not appear in any of the police distrisis of the city and suburbs anything to justify the repotts which were widely circulated. But we regret to my that the authorities have received information that efforts would be made to create disturbances in the south, and, for the purpose of preventing any insane attempt on the part of Fenian raiders to interfere with the public poem, a large detachment of dragoons were conveyed by train from Mallow on Monday night to the town of Tipperary, ' where they arrived in due time. Yesterday a strong force of infantry was despatched . by special train from Butte want to the same destination, and another detachment was forwarded also by train to the Limerick junction of the Great Southern and Western Railway, where they are to remain until further orders. The 48th Regiment, which returned to the Curragh Camp a few days since from Kil larney, have received orders to be in readiness to proceed to the south at a moment's notice, and the executive have taken measures to concentrate troops at any given point with as little delay as possible, should occasion arise. A man whose capture was eagerly sought for by the police was brought to town on Monday night by the constabulary and lodged in Chancery-lane station-house. He was arrested at the Limerick junction, on his way to Dublin, and turns out to be no less a person than the function ary known as General Godfrey Massy, who, it is stated, was invested with great authority, and h a d been tinkly engaged for some weeks past in the work of organization in the western districts of Cork and in Kerry. He had been in the Federal army, and returned to this country from America about two months since. He was forwarded yesterday, under the Lord Lieutenant's warrant, to Mountjoy Prison. It will be remembered that two men, who gave their names as Jackson and Phillips, were arrested by Mr. Superintendent Corr on board the collier New Draper on the 'Cad ult., on their arrival from Whitehaven. Jackson turns out to be ll'Afferty, who was tried at the special commission at Cork, and was acquitted, and Phillips is now identified as "Smuggler Flood," in consequence of hie having succeeded some time since in landing a large quantity of arms and ammunition on the northern coast. Henry Quinn, arrested at Bal. linasloe on the 28th of February, and Thomas Barr, cap tured in Stephen's-lane on the same day, with American bills of exchange for a large amount in his possession, are rewarded as most important arm* as it is stated that APAfferty, Flood, Massy, Quinn, and Barr were dis trict Fenian organisers, and if permitted to remain at large would do Immense mischief. Thegovernmeut, it is said, are kept " well pos ted," and all the intended moves of " the Brotherhood are made known by persons who pretend to be most active and sincere in the movement, and who in reality are only trading on the folly and credulity of their dupes. Some excitement pervaded the city last evening, and it was currently stated that" • rising" would take place during last night. Whether this feeling was participated in by the police authorities or not we cannot say, but the constables en duty were on bait in patrols consisting of five or six men, instead of the usual couple. The military authorities also took unusual precuutions ; and two special trains, consisting of ten empty carriages to each, proceeded from the King's. bridge Station to the Curragh, it was understood, to con vey troops to the scene of the anticipated disturbances. The Hon. Major Wellesley superintended the departure of the trains, which left at about half 'past 11 u'clock. In the meantime, as we are informed by our special correspon dent, at the Limerick junction, which was to be the scene of the "outbreak,' "all was perfectly quiet," if we except the excitement caused by the presence of fifty men of the 62nd Regiment, for whom accommodation was provided in the goods store at the junction. Their luggage was lying about in charge of sentries, and every precaution was taken that no surprise should occur. We earom Cork that in the course of the day the 12th Lancers marched out, and crowds assembled who hooted and shouted at them, crying " Dungarvan • where is Wombwell!" No fu r ther ' manifestation of feeling, however, took place, and the troops soon after wards returned to their quarters. The activity of the detective force in Dublin was unabated last night in the presence of what was exaggerated into " a crisis." In the course of the day • party of the G division proceeded to the house 21, Wicklow-street, and arrested a man named James Fitzpatrick, boot-maker, in whose possession were found five dozen rifle cartridges, 182 rifle bullets, 'Vb. of gunpowder, one bayonet, two bullet moulds, and two rifle belts. AU these articles were, it isalleged, concealed in a basket in a hack room in the house. The prisoner was conveyed to College-street police-station, and will be brought up at the Head Police-office this I lay. At a later hour in the evening a man named O'Reardon ' who, it was stated, was " head centre" for the city of Cork, was arrested in a public-house in Capel-street, and con. veyed to Green-street station, whence he will be brought to-day, it is said, to Mountjoy prison. It would seem to give some colour to the various rumours afloat that all telegraphic communications with the south have been suddenly interrupted at about the hour we go to press. Yesterday a large number of arm-chests, sufficient to load ten large floats, arrived at the North-wall by steamer. The chests contained breech-loading guns, which are intended, we understand, for distribution to the military quartered in the north. A party of the Soots Greys received the chests at the North-wall, and escorted them through the city to the Amiens-street terminus, for transmission to their destination in the north. A squadron of dragoons, under the command of Cap tain Turner, proceeded to- d ay from Longford to Athlone, on account of a report of a threatened attack on the powder magazine. _ . _ . • The seamen and marines of the Royal George, at Kingstown, were prohibited from going ashore on Tuesday evening, and the coastguards at that and other coast sta tions were under arms the entire night. The police au thorities were also on the alert. During the night the city of Dublin was not only patrolled by companies of the police force, bet at two o'clock this (Wednesday) morning the military were to be met in several parts of the city. A troop of Lancer• and a detachment of foot artillery paraded Dame-street, Parlia mentotrcet, &c. Several mounted orderlies were to be observed passing rapidly through the streets, probably bearing communications between the several barracks. The men of the division of the Metropolitan Police also were on duty all night. THE "IRISH REPUBLIC." We have received at our office, " with the com pliments of the government of the Irish Republic," a largo placard, containing the following proclamation : I. R.—Proclamation !—The Irish People to the World. —We have *uttered centuries of outrage, enforced poverty, and bitter misery. Our rights and liberties have been trampled on by an alien aristociacy, who, treating us as foes, usurped our lands and drew away from our enter. tunate country all material riches. The real owners of the soil were removed to make room fur cattle, and driven acmes the ocean to seek the means of living, and the poli tical rights denied to them at home. While our men of thought and action were condemned to lass of life and liberty. But we never loot the memory and hope of a ' national existence. We appealed in vain to the reason and sense of justice of the dominant powers. Our mildest rentonatranoes were met with sneers and contempt. Our appeals to arms were always unsuccessful. To-day, having no honourable alternative left, we again appeal to force as our last resource. We accept the conditions.of appeal, manfully deeming it better to die in the struggle fur freedom than to continue an existence of utter serfdom. All men are born with equal rights, and in associating together to protect one another and share public burthens, justice demands that such associations should rest upon a basis which niaintains equally instead of destroying it. We therefore declare that, unable longer to endure the curse of monarchical government, we Rini at founding • republic bused on universal suffra^e, which shall secure to all the intrinsic value of their labour. The soil of Ireland, at present in the possession of an oli garchy, belongs to us, the Irish people, and to us it must be restored. \We declare also in favour of absolute liberty of conscience, and the complete separation of church and state. We appeal to the Highest Tbunal for evidence of the justice of our cause. History bears testimony to the intensity of our sufferings, and we declare, in the face of our brethren, that we intend no war against the people of England--our war is against the aristocratic locusts, whe ther English or Irish, who have eaten the verdure of our fields—against the aristocratic leeches who drain alike our blood and theirs. Republicans of the entire world, our cause is your cause. Our enemy is your enemy. Let your hearts be with us. As f o r you, workmen of England, it is not only your hearts we wish, but your arms. Remember the starvation and degradation brought to your firesides by the oppression of labour. Remember the past, look well to the future, and avenge yourselves by giving liberty to your children in the coming straggle for human freedom. Herewith we proclaim the Irish Republic. (A harp) THE PROV/nIONAL GOVERNMINT. (PwOPENCE THE METROPOLITAN POOR BILL. A deputation from the St. James's Vestry waited upon the President of the Poor-law Board, at the office, Nnitehall, yesterda , to confer with him res p ec ti ng his bill for the ea ent in the metropolis of asylums and dispensaries for the sick, insane, and other classes of the poor. Mr. HARDT said he could not promise to delay bringing on his bill, as there were so many didiculties in the way that if he did not being it before the house to-night hs did not know when he should have another opportunity. He sincerely hoped that noneof the gentlemen present would attribute language to him he had never used. If be had acted upon the suggestion of some, he should have super seded local boards altogether, but his desire had been that the primary action should come from below, and that the Poor-law Board should never interfere, except ou • IDA ramet4. At present be ohm lama Islarelf •• • dud look because be had no power to enforce what was necessary. That power would now be given, to be used only when absolutely necessary. With respect to minor details, he would pay every attention to the suggestions that had been made, as far as possible. (Cheers. ) A meeting of the London Workhouse Infirm aries Association was held under the presidency of Earl Grosvenor, M.P., on Tuesday evening, at 69, Wim pole-street, Cavendish-square. Mr. Ernest Hart read a communication from Mr. Gathorne Hardy, the President of the Poor-law Board, commenting upon recommendations from this association, and published a few weeks since in this paper. After a discussion it was resolved that the following recommendation be adhered to —" That the coat of the infirmary buildings should be thrown upon the common fund ; that Lock and cancer . patients should be admitted into the asylums ; that the ratal qualifications be omitted in respect to the nominees of the Poor-law Board to the list of guardians ; and that the medical officers of the infirmaries and dispensaries should have a seat at the guardian board, without a vote." It was moved by Mr. Oliphant, M.P., seconded by Mr. J. A. Shaw Stewart, and carried "that these resolutions be embodied in amendments to be moved in committee of the House of Commons on the bilL" It was then moved by Mr. Julian Goldsmid. M.P., and seconded by Lord Charles Bruce, M.P., that Earl Grosvenor be requested to move these 'amendments. This was carried, and the noble lord under took to perform the duty. RAILWAY PASSENOERS' ASSUP.ANCE COMPANY. The annual general meeting was held yesterday at the offices in Cornhill ; Mr. J. CLAY, M.P., in the chair. The report of the directors congratulates the shareholders upon the results of the past year's business, although the number of railway policies, renewals, and ticketa issued shows a falling off ; and the progressive increase of the meows has received a check. Of the general accident policies, too, a much larger proportion than usual has not been renewed, from the same cause. Nevertheless the income of the company from premiums increased from 84,543!. 9s. 3d. in 1865, to 91,6811. lls. s€l. in 1866, or at the rate of 8.44 pet cent. The amount received for interest on invest manta and discount on claims paid in advance was 2.4091. 6a. 2d. against 1,755/. lls. 3d. in the previous year. The total income front all sources was 94,090!. 17s. 7d. in 1866 as against 86,299/40s. lid. in 1865. The number of new policies against general accidents issued during the year was 7,491, in respect of which 19,702!. Bs. Oil. was received as premiums. The total number of general accident policies on the books current during the year was 3;1,957, and of railway acci dent policies and tickets 471,252 ; total, 505,219. The working expenses have, from temporary causes, in creased to 29.81 against 29.76 per cent. in the previous year. Including the sum brought forward the revenue account shows after all disbursements, a balance of 45,890/. 12s. 61. From this sum the directors propose to pay interest on the paid-up capital it the rate of 3 per cent for the half-year ending December 31, making—with the like amount paid for the half-year to June as interim dividend in September last—six per cent. for the year and a bonus of 10s. per share, one moiety to be paid in cash and the other to be applied in augmentation of the share capital. The residue to be retained to meet all out standing charges and claims on current policies. 24 claims for fatal accidents have been paid during the year, amounting to 14,600/. and 2,584 claims for personal injury, amounting to 35 ,077!. sa. 4.1. • together, 49,6771. ss. 441. Arrangements have been made for issuing short term policies for one or three months to cover the risk of accidents of all kinds during the Paris Exhibition. The CHAIRMAN accounted fur the falling off in one de. pirtmens of their business by reference to the crisis, the badness of trade, the cattle plague, and other well-known retarding circumstances, but he congratulated the meeting on the position of the new general insurances, which had increased by 2,200 policies since the previous year. The number of agents had been increased by 690, the total I number being now 4,000 ; and although the agents were so numerous, and the premium income of the company was 91 000/ a year, the losses by defalcations did not exceed 2001. (Hear, hear.) The usual motions adopting the report and is recom mendatious were put and carried, and the formal re elections having been carried, . . A PRopiuml, taking up a resolution of which an ab- sent shareholder had given notice, moved that the 400 shares in the hands of the directors unallotted and in trust for the benefit of the company, should be off, red to the proprietors by tender, a minimum preiniu:ii being fixed. This was carried ; and a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors, whose remuneration wus, on the motion of Mr. Bramstone Baker, increased front 1,000/. to 1,500/. a year, concluded the proceedings. THE TRADES' UNION CONFERENCE. —On the mo tion of Mr. John Kane it was declared desirable that the several trade councils and other associations of working men throughout the kingdom should appoint local com mittees for the purpose of assisting the conference com mittee. The secretary then stated that the messenger had returned from the Hume-office with the message that Mr. Walpole would send a reply as to receiving the deputation from the conference. The conference committee was next empowered to operate with all other con tttt ince' formed, and have full powers to call for such evidence as they might deem necessary. Mr. Kane desired that the inquiry into the alleged out. rages at Sheffield should he kept altogether also t from thus conference. The Sheffield inquiry would be made on the spot, and the committee appointed by the conference ' Monad only be empowered to deal with the general in. quiry. The inquiry at Sheffield would be attended to by • special committee appointed for that pui piste by the Sheffield trades. He thought it very discreditable to the go vernment that they had mixed up the Sheffield outrages with a general inquiry into trades unions. Mr. Austin (Sheffield) defended the trades unions of that town. They were well able to take care of themselves, and be had no doubt they would come out of the most searching inquiry with honour. (Cheers.) It was next decided that the deputation to wait upon Mr. Walpole should consist of 15 delegates from the more influential societies represented at the conference. The accrete:7 read letters from several trades in the province* regretting their in ability, from various causes, to send delegates. but pledging their moral and pecuniary support. These letters repre sented upwards of 30,000 men. The conference then ad journed until this day. RITTZSENTATION OF WORCESTER CITY. --Wog- CESTER, WEI)NE,DAY--it was mated last week that Mr. Sheriff Lycett had issued an address to the electors of Worcester as a candidate for that city in the liberal in terest in anticipation of the retirement of Mr. Padniore, one of the sitting members. This has led to a meeting this week of the council of the branch of the National Re form League established at Worcester, at which it was resolved to nominate Alderman T. R. Hill es the League candidate at the next election, and the members present at the meeting pledged themselves to support that gentle. man. No conservative candidate has yet been actually announced, but it is said that Mr. betick, the unsuccem ful citudidate at the last election, will again offer himself. THE POPE'S HEALTH RESTORED BY Dr BARRY'S Toon. THE REYAIXXTA AIRAIIICA.—Cure No. dlial3.—" Rona, July 21. lend. The health of the Holy tether he eem iko n t, en , e , dolly since. abandonins all other remedies, be bee lived vatirely upon De Barry's rood, and his Holiness cannot praise this cova lent food too hlahly."—Cazette Au M kll.--1 Advert iornient HEALTH RESTORED SY DU BARRY'S Fool, To THE STOMACIE, penes, twigs, and liver, curing dyatepela indiges tion wristipation, diarrhoea, acidity, palpitatin. aleopleancw, debility, wasting, cough, asthma, fevers, ronatimtion. low c strt, g llo47 .. 77gl i tt: i ii i e , s e. wh t le v sla t r n i . So. 1.771 tg-t Stuart de Deafen, of many years of dyspepsia ; N... GL3I.; —The Marchioness of lirthau, of seven years' indieveriluilde Nanny from dyspepsia. nervousness, low spirits, liver divonler. and seating away.—flea, at la ; lib., ta. : 121 b., cos —Ds Bain and Co., 77, Regentatruet, ; also at rortnum and Mason'.; and at 11, Oraceehurch.strect ; 4, t lienpabk ; ICS and 150, Ozford-street. Important Caution.—lke aro of the m a ny unsarmiry and more than sloppy imitations to whit h. without authority. Baron Liebig's mune is poet audariaus4 atLiclicil.— (Adverthaunenti