The Express. — London, England, 1866-01-10 00:00:00

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IT is always a ground for regret when the conduct of an important religious contest is dis figured by a display on either side of hasty and inconsiderate violence, whether in speech or action. In matters of this kind we have little sympathy with that sort of controversial feeling which can find nothing but enjoyment in seeing its opponents putting themselves in the wrong. The cause of truth is rarely furthered by human passion, and the momentary triumph which may follow from a loss of temper in an adversary is dearly pur chased by the deep-seated ill feeling which such an outburst frequently leaves behind it. We can readily imagine that the numerous friends of Bishop COLENBO in this country will have read with instinctive pleasure the description which we printed yesterday of his first Sunday in Natal. We have carefully abstained throughout the course of the proceedings in the cue from expressing any desire for the victory of either party. As politicians we have but one object, and that is that the Episcopal , Church of South Africa should be left to settle its own affairs in whatever way it may think best. There are some persona, indeed, for whose judgment we entertain a high respect, who have looked at the question from a wholly different point of view. In their eyes the success of Bishop COLENSO has been identified with the cause of free thought. Whether they are right or wrong in this conclusion does not seem to us a matter with which, as secular journalists, we have anything to do. The promotion of freedom of opinion in this or that religious body is, as it seems to us, no more a functiou of the State than the promotion of any particular set of opinions. What the community in its corporate capacity is alone concerned with, is to take care that the liberty in question is not fettered by any external restrictions. So longs& its furtherance or its limitation is secured only by conscientious sanctions the State has no right to trouble itself about the matter. Freedom of association is as much a part of true liberty as freedom of thought, and if any particular body of Christians thinks fit to make the holding of cer tain articles of belief a necessary condition of mem bership it has a right to do so, which can only be limited by its own act in claiming any peculiar privileges at the hands of the State. Regarded in this way, the truth or falsehood of Bishop COLENSO'S tenets becomes of no importance except to himself and to the Church in which he bears, or claims to bear, office. We are simply anxious that the South African Episcopalians should be left to settle for themselves the position he is for the future to hold among them. We are quite willing that the religious independence of the colonies should precede the political, and that the South African Bishops should enjoy the same freedom of action as was claimed a short time since by their brethren in New Zealand. We should have been glad, therefore, if the importers., Wine which the Bishop's return to Natal has raised had been fought out with equal courtesy and good feeling by both parties. If the account, however, in the Times of Natal is an accurate statement of what occurred on Sunday, the 19th of November, this wish has by no means been realised. Nothing, indeed, could have been in better taste and temper than the demeanour of Bishop COLENSO. His patience, foroearance, and single-minded perseverance in what he deemed his d.ity, are above all praise. We are sorry that he was not met in a similar spirit. That the Dean, who denies that Bishop COLENBO has now any jurisdiction within the diocese of Natal, should protest against what he considered an intrusion into the cathedral church, was perfectly natural ; nor are we prepared to find much fault with the original intention on the part of the cathedral officials of keeping the doors closed against the Bishop's entrance. A simple protest, to be followed in due time by appropriate legal action, would have been more dignified, and, we should think, equally effective, but in a position of so much difficulty it would be unfair to cen sure the preference of an alternative course. When, however, Bishop COLENSO had obtained an interim interdict from the Supreme Court of the colony, foroidding the closing of the cathedral, it was obviously the duty of the churchwardens to let the matter rest until they had taken the proper steps to obtain a reversal of the prohibition ; and so far as these gentlemen were concerned, they appear, at least in the morning, to have acted in this spirit. The church was opened, the protest of the churchwardens read, and the Bishop entered. tinder these circumstances, the natural course, we should have thought, for the Dean to take would have been to absent himself during the de facto presence in the cathedral of the Bishop, whose de jure claim to officiate there he denied, and THE EXPRFSS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1866. to wait until a legal decision had been obtained • as to the proper pompoms of the building. Instead of this, however, the Dean was seen kneeling with his curate in front of the communion-table ; and on the Bishop announcing to the congregation that he had come to discharge in that church and diocese the duties committed to him by her Majesty the Quasar, the Dean supplemented the declaration by a wholly unauthorised form of adju ration to "go away from this House of God." Even this amount of self-assertion did not com pletely satisfy his conscience, and be remained • i through the whole service, taking, of course, no official put in it, and remaining most of the time in his original position. As if to increase the ab surdity of the day's proceedings, the evening ser vice had to be given up in consequence of the churchwarden, who had undertaken to have the church opened and lighted, falling asleep and for getting to do so until after the Bishop had gone away in despair. It is needless, we should hope, to urge upon those persons who sympathise with the Bishop of CAPETowN that this is not the proper way of giving effect to his sentence of deposition. Bishop Comorso was but asserting what he conceives to be his right when he insisted upon officiating in the cathedral, and the proper way to dispute his claim is either to appeal to the Supreme Court of the colony to prevent him from doing so, or to close the doors against him and leave him to seek his legal remedy in the same quarter. To create scandal and disturbance by the open exhibition of rival ecclesiastical pretensions under the same roof can but further the object of the side which is least responsible for such a proceeding ; and in this case it is certainly Bishop Coxes:3o who best answers to this description. If the clergy and laity of Natal are re solved not to recognise Dr. Coxeseo as their Bishop, they may rest assured that they cannot be compelled to do so ; and if the Bishop of CAPNTOWN chooses to follow up his sentence of deposition by the consecration of a new Bishop to the diocese, which is alleged to be vacant, we have little doubt that his recognition by the Natal Episcopalians will be rapidly followed by his induc tion into the buildings which are the property of that religious community. In that case Bishop CoxEsso will be left to "discharge the duties " committed to him by her Majesty the QUEEN." What duties, indeed, can be imposed by a void patent we are at a loss to imagine, and we find an equal difficulty in comprehending how her MAJESTY can commit any duty beyond that of allegiance to authorities, who, it has been decided, cannot " claim to be recognised by the " laws of the colony otherwise than as members "of a voluntary association." But in whatever way these questions may be determined, it must be the common wish of every well-wisher to religion that they should be discussed in a courteous and Christian manner, and we trust that the later stages of the controversy will show a clearer recog nition of this fact on the part of Dr. COLENSO'S opponents. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (TEM DAY.) of lgetiog up aumpeeted cattle at the expense of the State soda got be tolerated, whether realised directly by °pee I purchase, or indirectly by State losnmenca, Bat in other ! respects the legislation of the lug century is well deserving of consideration. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (szern's TELaoakita.) AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE DAMASCUS. (Yid Greeseartle.) KEW YORK, Dna. 29, Evarnra. General Strong, who has returned from Texas, reports a fearful destitution amongst the black and white inhabitants. Lawlessness and crime, as well as a spirit of secession and of hostility to the govern ment, prevail throughout the interior. . _ The Governor of North Carolina has assumed office, and assured Mr. Johnson of his hearty co operation in restoring harmonious relations with the Federal government. The New York Times asserts that the cor respondence with France, regarding Mexico, will be laid before Congress as soon as it assembles. It is represented that the correspon dence will show that the government has at no time had any purpose or thought of abandoning the Monroe doctrine. It has pursued the course which seemed moat likely to secure the practical establishment of that policy, and at the same time save the country from the expense of another war. " The whole matter'' concludes the New York Times, "would now be submitted for Congressional action, and if Congress sees fit to insist upon a more hasty solution of the problem at the cost of war, no obstacle will be placed in its way." NEW YORK, Mc. 30, Moaxuic. It is stated that Senator Wilson has had an interview with President Johnson, in which he in formed him that the radical republican party dis approved his reconstruction policy, and would not support him if he interfered with congressional legislation upon reconstruction. Mr. Johnson is represented to have expressed confidence in the present and future success of his reconstruction policy, and refused to give any assurance that he would refrain from interference. The New York Times, respresenting the cower_ vstive republican party, endorses the policy of the President. Mr. Seward has set out on a trip to the West Indies for the benefit of his health. The rumour is again current at Washington that the French government has assured the United States that the French will withdraw from Mexico, the Federal government giving an assurance that the United States would not interfere with the Emperor Maximilian's occupancy of the Mexican throne. NEW YORK, Dzo. 30, 2 P.M. It is semi-officially denied that General Schofield has any political mission in Europe. The Australasian and City of Washington have arrived out. NEW YORK, Dze. 30, 2 p.m. Money abundant. Gold, 145. Exchange on London, 158} ; on Paris, 3.574. Stocks firm and advancing : New York Centrals, 96f ; Illinois, 1324 ; Erie, 96} ; 5.20 Bonds, 1054. Cotton advancing : Middling Upland, 52. Flour, wheat, and corn dull. Provisions quiet. Coffee, sugar, and molasses steady. Petroleum dull : crude, 4040. ; refined 624 c The advioes by the Australasian have very favourably affected stocks. THE CANADIAN MINISTRY. QUEBEC, Dzc. 29. Mr. Hoyland supersedes the Hon. George Brown as President of the Canadian Council. MEXICO. NEW YORK, Du. 29, EVIIIINO. Advices received here from Vera Cruz to the 16th inst., via Havannah, announce that 1,200 French troops arrived on the 6th, and ware imme diately sent into the field. The defences of the city on he laud side were being strengthened, and heavier guns had been mounted on the Castle of San Juan Ulloa. The imperialists had routed Escobedo at some distance from Monterey. &oohed() escaped with an escort of 20 men. The French had re occupied Chihuahua and held Piedraa Negras. The republican judge of the Supreme Court has abandoned Juarez and protested against the „prolongation of his presidency after the expiration of his constitutional term. THE MINISTRY. —Earl Russell will return to town to-day from Pembroke-lodge, Richmond-park, in order to attend the meeting of the members of the cabinet this afternoon, at his lordship's official residence in Downing street. Earl Granville was expected to arrive at his residence in Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, last evening. The Earl of Clarendon will come to town to-day from the Grove , near Watford. The Deka, of Somerset, the First Lord of the Admiralty, arrival at his official residence in Whitehall on Monday evening, from Stover-lodge, his seat in Devonshire. The ,L Rd Chancellor (Lord Cmoworth) will arrive at his residence in Upper Brook-street, Groe venor-square, to-day, from Holwood-park, his seat in Kent. The Earl Do Grey and Ripon, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, M.P., the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P., Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Kght Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, M.P., have ahealy arrived is town, expressly to to be present at the cabinet council this afternoon. THE EX-ROYAL FAMILY OF FRANCE. —Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess. d'Aumale are expected to arrive on a visit to Frances Countess Weide grave, and the Chief Secretary for Ireland on the 17th inst., and on the 19th the countess will give ► grand ball at the Chief Secretary's lodge. His Royal Highness the Count de Paris, arrived on Saturday at the Chief Secretary's lodge, Dublin, from visiting Count and Counter de Jarnao, at Thomastown, and on Monday left the Right Hon. Chiches ter Forams, M.P., and the Countess (Frances) Weide grave'. residence for York-house, Twickenham. Lord and Lady Londesborough arrived at their new residence in Grasvenor•equare on Monday evening from Grimston, near Tadoster. Lord overstone is entertaining a shooting party at Orersteee Park, Northamptonshire. A few days ago M. Henry AnschUtz, the first of i the German actors, died in Viennaatthe advanced age of 81. i The deceased was for more than 40 years a member of the Burg Theatre, and it was not until four or five years ago t his powers of body and mind began to fail him. The statement put forth by more than one of our contemporaries, to the effect that Mr. Gfiehen " has been offered and has accepted • seat in the cabinet, with tt • office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster," is now denied. Various arrangements in reference to the vac int office have, it is said, been under consideration, and the right hosonrable gentleman's name been mentioned with others for the particular vacancy, with every probability that his will turn out Jobe the one selected for the approval of her Majesty. The cabinet was to have assembled yester day, but its meeting was deferred for a day. A subordinate functionary of the French govern ment to whom the proprietor of the Independence Beige was »fermi by the Minister of the Interior for the CILIUM of the exclusion of that paper from French territory, is said to have alleged the good feeling of the Indipcndence to the Orleanist family as the real cense. It is remarked as curious that few of those who have joined the Imperial government, sad who hold office under it, owe more to the Orleanist family than the present Minister of the Interior. It was under their auspices that he was first introduced into public life. He wss appointed out of special favour, Secretary of Embassy at Stockholm in 1837; Cossul•Ceoe»l at Alex andria in 1841; and Minister Plenipotentiary to Hesse Cassel in. 1848. "And lam not quite ware" write. the Paris correspondent of the Timm " that it was not he who was selected in 1860 to communicate to the Duke d'Aumale the wishes of those who desired that prince to present himself as candidate for the presidency of the republic on the expiration of the powers of Prime Louis Napoleon." DEATH OF ELI SYKES*. --4.-- INQUEST YESTERDAY. Yesterday, the inquest took place at Leeds Gaol, before Mr. G. A. Emsley, coroner, on the body of Eli Sykes, who at the Leeds gaol delivery wee convicted of the murder of his sweetheart, Hannah Brooke, at Batley, and sentenced to death. He also caused the death of the girl's mother. Emmett Mum), deputy-governor of the gaol. said the de. Milled was received on the Bth December, charged with murder, and on the 19th December he was tried, found ;salty, and mot/wed to death. He was brought back to the gaol to await the time of his execution. He was placed in charge of Charles Hampshire, a warder, in a cell on the bottom landing. It was one of those known as the "condemned cell. " in the 0 wing ; another cell above it was specially set apart for the same purpoee. In three or four days Sykes was removed because he appeared so resigned after sentence, and Welsh, mother condemned prisoner, appeared so suspicious and likely to make as attempt to destroy himself. His whole demeanour was surly and dogged, and witness thought he might attempt to throw himself over the rails. On the 23rd, when Welsh had been sentenced to death, Sykes was removed to the cell on the ant landing (which the jury bad seen), and Welsh was taken to the cell on the ground floor. At 6.40 that evening, witness was in his office, and heard a crash like guns firing. A warder, named Kershaw, saw the deceased fall, and on going there he saw Sykes lying on the floor, and his head working as if in coovulaive fits. He immediately sent foe the chaplain and surgeon. When the chaplain ca in s few minutes, he was taken back to his cell: was bleeding very mush from the left leg, and there was blood on the forehead, He was not sensible, I but rambling and talking "Oh, she's before me for God's sake, take her away." He used other talk, which witness could not conceit together. In about an hour after the fall, Mr. Price, the surgeon, came. Before that. it took four to hold him, he was so convulsed. When Mr. Price came an operation was performed. After that Dr. Wheel house came. Sykes complained of the pain the operation gave him, but made no statement then in reference to what be had done. John Shillito and Charles Moore had charge of him after the accident. Next day after the fall, witness told him be had done a silly thing, and he replied, " It's all the best." He then asked when !nosing day was, but witness told him he knew nothing about It, and the best thing he could do was to make his peace with Ood. Ever since this fall he appeared to be sensible, and of per fectly sane mind. Witness saw him fin cc di times every day. He spoke a good deal on religion. After being sen tenced, primmer took his own clothes off, and he said he should like them to be sent to his parents. He had a suit of plain prison uniform put upon him, and be said, " Here goes for twenty yam" Witness said, "Na?, Sykes ; I think you'll wear them till you depa rt this life ;" and Sykes replied, " While there's life there 's hope ;my case is not as Sad as Townley's ; Townley's case was worse than mine ; and if I get o ff with twenty yaws I shall be thankful" A% another time he said he hoped the Queen would take his case into consideration, and let him off with penal servi tude. Witness told hint his case was a very bad ens, and there was no hope for him. Everything was dons to save life. Witnsu once saw him trying to take the band ages off his wounded ankle, and the warders had to keep his hands tied with a strap to prevent his doing ao. Witten had also seen him putting his finger up his noes as far as he oould, to try to make it bleed. He did so several times. He was not violent in witness's presence after the 23rd, when he was hurt. He never made any other state ment from which witness could gather that he expected • reprieve. Other witnesses corroborated this evidence, and the medial testimony showed that Sykes had died from the injuries be had received in his fall. The chaplain, who was examined, said that on one occasion the deceased spoke of Townley's suicide, and said he thought such • death would be more dreadful than death upon a scaffold. The chaplain further said that Sykes spoke to him always quite ratiocally, and appeared to be of sotted.roind. The jury returned a verdict of felo de se. THE TREATY OP COMMERCE WITH AUSTRIA. The commercial form which the new conviction of Austria that greatness, wealth, and honour are to be found in • liberal policy, has taken is seen, the Tines observes, in its advance towards free trade, now signally proved by its treaty with Great Britain. Although there is undoubtedly some thing theoretically unsound in these international agree ments, yet in the present phase of political development on the Continent they have their uses, the principal of which is that they give an advanced commercial nation like ours the opportunity of pressing on its neighbours the adoption of reforms which are for their benefit as well as ours, and of hulding them to the mutually profitable bargain when ever the counsels of mercantile timidity or selfishness seem likely to regain influence. This is especially the case with the Austrian treaty, which in a few years must have momentous consequences. The Austrian empire will probably make a more rapid advance than any other state which has adopted free trade, simply because there is so much room for advance. In proportion to its population and resources the Austrian empire is one of the most backward in Europe. In a year hence extreme pro- tection will have ceased on all but a limited class of article, ; the Austrian trade with the British dominions will be enlarged by the entrance of all our manufactures at a maximum rate of 25 percent. on value ; and furthermore, in four years from this time, this rate will be reduced to a maximum of 20 per cut., which it is expected will give a mean rate of duty of not more than 15 per cent when ap portioned by the commissioners on all the articles imported into Austria from this country. Though even under a maximum 23 per cut duty it is possible to keep up a protectionist system, this concession most be considered one of the greatest victories which free tra le has yet achieved. The details of the work have, however, still to be completed. A mixed British and Austrian commission are to meet not later than the month of March in the present year for the purpose of ascertaining and determining the values of the various articles of British produce and the rate of duty which will attach to them. In the final protocol Austria undertakes to reduce the duty on the export of rags, as well as on salted herrings, and her Britannic Majesty engages to recommend to parliament the abolition of the duties payable on the importation of wood and timber into the United Kingdom, and also the reduction of the duties payable on wine in bottle to the amount of those payable on nine in wood upon importation into the United Kingdom. This iut article will be inter esting to those who are desirous of obtaining the wines of Hungary. THE CATTLE PLAGUE. Mr. Gladstone's letter is regarded by the Herald as a coafessica of the incapacity of the government to meet with the smallest measure of relief the sufferings of the com munity from the cattle plague. Every one of his five sug gestions contains a fallacy. The rinderpest is making its way constantly into new districts, and now, as a final resource, the sessional authorities in the provinces, after Mr. Gladstone's argumentative " snub " of the proposal of • state assentor*, modestly ask that, on the responsibility of ministers, a uniform and stringent system with regard to the transit of cattle should be proclaimed. The respon sibility of ministers has been proved an absurdity so often since this epidemic appeared that the Herald almost hes& tate, to believe that it can be exercised in relation to the cattle plague even now, although the disaster becomes more galling every day. The Telegraph reviews the policy of the British govern. meat on the occasion of the two visitations of the cattle plague in the last century. For eleven years subsequently to 1746 this distemper continued to rage, sad year by year there were fresh legislative attempt. to resist its diffusion. Continuance Acts and amendments were annually passed, apparently with but little effect. In the following reign, after some twelve or thirteen years' intermiesion, the dis temper suddenly reappeared. Breaking out in the " county of Southampton," it spread so rapidly that, without await pig the action of the legislature, the government issued stringent orders of council with respect to the treat ment of cattle. The lords-lieutenant of counties were directed to prevent the removal of stock from in. fected places, and to cause animals coming from such localities to be killed and buried. One important provision was that the Lords of the Treasury would make compensation for such suspected cattle as should be slaughtered by order of the authorities. In the same year the crown was authorised to prohibit the exportation of stock or hides from infected places, and to make orders in council for bringing up and killing suspected animals. The quarter sessions also received • general power to prohibit cattle fairs and markets. No persons ware allowed to pur chase dick without a cortillmt; exmpt butchers baying fat beasts for immediate slaughter. And the provisions of the analogous statutes of the preceding reign were re. peated, with the ad lift an of several new and stringent re. gelation; which murk have had the effect of almost en tirely stoppirg the cattle trade. In our ewe day, Ike plan INTROPOLITAN IMPROVEIiMITH. The risk and delay peculiar to the traffic in London, and the pecuniary exigencies of our Board of Works, are con trasted by the Times with the condition of Paris, when after a Series of magnificent improvements, the municipality finds itself with • surplus on the budget of 1865, and this not from taxation, but solely by the development of existing and established resources. The Times wishes our authorities would take a leaf out of the French book and give us our metropolitan improvements on these pleasant terms. We want to be able to go from one part of London to another without the risk of being stopped for half an hone on the way. We want to cross the streets without danger to life or limb, and we should like to find our eyes gratified and our senses charmed by handsome edifices and splendid thoroughfares. We pay for a very moderate instalment of these objects a pretty round sum every year, Can no system be devised by which we should get them all accomplished without paying, or, at any rata, without feeling, any more taxes than we pay now' The Star consider, the cue of the demolition of the dwellings of the poor of the metropolis, which is rendered necessary by railway extensions and other improvements, to be one entirely for the ordinary voluntary and private agencies which provide food and olothing and dwellings for all classes. We must admit, to begin with, that a migra tion outwards of the working classes is in every re spect desirable, and this the stations of the Metropolitan Railway render practicable. Just in proportion to the inquiries, in the suburbs traversed by railway lines, for working class house accommodation, so will the provision be made. The law, however, ought to be so far amended as to provide compensation for the tenante at will who are turned out by the companies, and often—as in the ease of small shopkeepen—with great injustice. TB AMERICAN TRADZ. Pre-eminently is it the case, reflects the Times, that with our great commercial development individuality is almost destroyed. The greater fore, of the vast aggregate pre -1 veils, and in the fatal race men seem as powerless as sheep in a flock, or worms in a coral reef. Ask anyone why he takes such trouble to victimise himself, and he will tell you that the course of trade compels him to run the risk, and he cannot help himself. As well advise • shoal of herrings as commerce and manufactures. The City folks old enough to remember one, or two, or three catastrophes in the American trade, are shaking their heads and pointing at the signs of another coming before long. The Americans are eroding ns unlimited orders, and we are sending them unlimited supplies,. They send us less and leas money, and, what is worse, less and lees of any material equivalent. They see that we are "sweet upon them," and they encourage the tender sentiment- The real profits of this hazardous speculation are se cured in good time by such dealers in money as are not themselves carried away in the stnam far out of their depth and beyond the power to stem the tide. Somebody or other must pay, and if the predicted crash do come, it wills, much exceed that of 1837 as the loss of life and property by the American war exceeded that by the great fire of New York. MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS. The Daily Pews suspects that the Hon. George Brown has resigned his seat in the Canadian Cabinet owing to differences of opinion on questions of policy which have arisen out of the probable expiration of the reciprocity treaty without renewal. Notwithstanding the benefits which the people of the states undeniably derive from the treaty, Mr. Seward's resolution appears to be to make the commercial policy subservient to irritated feelings—Canada expiating by vicarious suffering the offences of the inac cessible Mr. Laird. It is not doing the Americans in justice, moreover, to say that a settled—though perhaps unconscious-desire to let the Cinadians feel in every possible way that the United Stites are more to them than any other country in the world is or can be, is at the bottom of their whole policy towards that provisos. The list of oaken who have just passed their final ex amination at the Staff College seems to the Daily Rem to justify the hope that military education I. not standing still in the English army. But the Hone Guards has still to be met and fought inch by inch, aides-de-amp and military secretaries being even to this day selected, despite the expressions of public opinion, from the mass of officers who have not passed through the college. It is the fact, too, that the officers who have lately distinguished themselves in the examination, will have to wait at least two years until they are called upon to fulfil the duties for which they have qualified themselves. If not favoured by fortune or circumstances, the officer who bas graduated at the staff college has very little more to congratulate himself upon than Ipa comrade who has simply done hie best to lead a jolly life. There is but one remedy foe this state of things, and that is the formation of staff corm into which none but those who have qualified themes Ives at the staff college can enter, and amongst the officers of which all staff appointments, without any exception whatever, should be distributed. This is the system of the French army, and it is one which we should do wall to follow. The Post defends Captain Semmes, of the Alabama, from the charge on which he is to be tried of violating the usages of war. His offense, it contends, is after all only a technical ooe. If he is convicted and subjected to pains and penal. ties, it will be another illustration of the illogical, but not uncommon, practice of formally trying a man for one offence and puoishing him for another. In the North, Captain Semmes is looked upon as a pirate—the Alabama has always been called a British pirate—and now it seems to be thought that by reoogoising the status of the captain as that of a lawful enemy, and trying him on a charge of violating the laws of war, there it; a chance of meting out to him, at least, an instalment of the punishment which the law awards to piracy. The Telegraph suggest' that the Progresrista ineurrectica in Spain may be a protest against the reign of the second Isabella. Wilful without firmness, pessionate without dignity, narrow-minded without energy, she bats been the tool of the courtiers and confessors, who have carried cut their own base ends under the Faoctim of her royal name. As a queen she has failed to w.n the respect of her people, and the disloyalty of the Spanish nation towards the wearer of the crown is intelligible enough. It hes long been declared by honest sad thoughtful men in Spain that no regeneration is possible fer the country while the coal.: remains what it is. gbr Court. OSBORNE. JAN. 9. Her Majesty and Princess Louise walked in the grounds io the morning, and in the afteraooo her Majesty drove out with Princess Beatrice and Princess Hermann of Holtenlobe. Prince Arthur rode on horseback. Primates Leittiogen arrived at Osborne and dinel with 'he Queen and Royal Family. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday to the Govereors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and Sk Bekaa. The Right Hoo. the Chromellor of the Etthequer arrived in town yeaterd .y from Hawarden Cada& THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.—Yest terdav his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales commenced shooting on the preserves of the floe Holkham estate, having arrived with the Priam at the hall on Monday afternoon. The visit of the Prince and Princess to Holkham is not quite of so public • character as that paid by them last year, in fact even • meeting of the East Norfolk hounds which had been arranged to take place has been postponed. The weather yesterday was cold but floe, and the Prince and the shooting party had pretty good sport. Among the party invited to Holkliam to meet the Prince and Princess, are the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe (with whom it will be remembered the Prince and Princess resee d a week in September), the Marquis of Boarmont, Earl and Countess Spencer, the Earl of Dunmore, Viscount end Visoountees Powersoourt, Sir E. C. Benison, M.P., and Lady Caroline Kerr s'n, the mom, Edward sad Mn, Coke, Mr. Trederoft, the Hon. W. Coke, ke. The visit of the Prince and Princess to Holkham (which was postponed for • week in 000 sequence of the death of the Ring of the Belgians) is expected to last till Friday or Saturday. Holkham is the most stately aristoeratiomaosion in Norfolk, and well worthy to receive even the future king end queen of &Weed. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset arrived at the Admiralty. Whitehall, on Monday evening, from Stover Pea, their seal is Devonshire. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A HEREFORD TRADESMAN. On Monday the city magistrates were occupied for several hour, in investigating a charge against Robert Atkinson, a young man who Ilse for some time past carried on business se • grocer and provision dealer, in Broad-street, of having, daring the night of the 29th ult., wilfully set fire to the premises in his occupatioe. An elderly woman named Atkinson (the widow of Robert Atkinson's father), was also included in the charge, es she was the only other person in the house at the time of the fire. Owing to the prompt arrival of the esgines, and the judicious course taken by the superintendent of police, the fire was extin guished without doing much damage. Had it been other wise, it is fearful to contemplate the destruction of property that must have occurred, with probably the Ices of life, as the cellar—in which the fire broke out—of Atkinson's house rues partly under the premises of Meemt. Duggan and Chave, chemists and druggists, much of whose stock is of course of an inflammable nature. After the fire had been extinguished, the superintendent thought it prudent to take possession of Atkinson's cellar, and on Rubes quently making a careful examination he discovered • condition of things which raised a strong presumption that the fire was not accidental. The contents of the cellar were of a kind that would readily burn, viz., faggots, boxes of wood, Inciter matches, candles, &c.; but the strangest part of the matter was that these articles, with various others, formed a succession of tiers, into which Inciter matches, grbased strips of wood, candles, a bottle containing pertain oil, &c., seemed to have been systematically introduced. The su perinteudeot gave evidence at length in support of the prow cution, and produced a model of the contents of the cellar in the condition in which he had found them ; and he was supported by • man named Mend, who has had great experience at London fires, and who expressed a Strong opinion that the contents of the cellar had been wilfully fired in two or three separate placer. It was also proved that some few months ago the prisoner, Robert Atkinson, had applied to the local agent for the Scottish Union Firs. office to insure his stock and furniture for 1,0091. ; that the order was taken, and the policy actually made out ; bat that subsequently the agent doubted the propriety of the insurance being carried out, upon which • district in spector of the office, who had formerly been in the grocery trade, was rent to examine Atkinson's stock. His opinion was that the value of the stock did not much exceed 100 f., and the policy which had been made out was therefore cancelled. After this Atkinson applied to the agent of the Westminster Fire-office, with whom he had an existing policy for 100/., to increase the amount to 500!., and this order wee executed and the policy in force at the time of the fire. It was further proved that the value of the stock was much the isms now as at the time of its in spection by the district officer of the Scottish Union, the only notable change being some addition to the stock of bacon. At the close of the inquiry the magistrates com mitted both prisoners for trial at the next IllSiZllll, but consented to take bail for the female, for whom much commiseration is felt, as she is believed to be wholly innocent. Mr. Gwynne James appeared for the prosecu tion, and Mr. G within for the defence, the court and its precincts being crowded throughout the day, the excite. meat at the atrocious act charged against the mole prisoner being very great. A child murder case was tried yesterday at the lammed Leeds assizes, before Mr. Justice Shoe. The primmer was a woman named Janet Carrie, aged 30. She had been cook at an eating-hones in Halifax, and on the morning of the 9th of December she was delivered of a child, left the house the same morning with her infant folded to her bosom, wandered about during the day, slept at an eating-house the same night, and next day was seen on the banks of the canal, into which she wee observed to throw a bundle. The body of the child was discovered near the place on the following day. The evidence appeared to be direct, but the jury, after an hour's cossideratioe, recorded a verdict of Not Guilty. The defense was, first, th►t the child bad not been identified as Currie'.; and next, thtt it might have been stifled ander the mother's shawl ; and, as her learned counsel said, with "trouble upon trouble," she might then have thrown the body into the beck. A. Parisian journal, speaking of French life at the chateaux and in the city, says :—" Many ladies and gentlemen still linger in their chateaux. The other day, in a retired party of Normandy, were noticed 10 or 12 entre. breaks, landaus. chars.a.bancs, and other vehicles. The horses were decked with ribbons, little bells, and foxes' tails ; the postilions wore shining hate with broad bnms, high boots, sad jackets trimmed with lace. The Mimi, charmingly attired (everything must be luxurious). wore coquettish round hat, and feathers, with ample pelisses and fere. The gentlemen sported long beards and long hair ; they smoked cigar, and carried game-bags, destined, no doubt, to be Mad with some sort of game. Everybody as usual appeired to be suffering from ennui—we don't like the country. People dress as we see them in the pictures of the thirteenth or fourteenth century—in a long and narrow robe of black velvet embroidered with flowers, or in brocaded silk with tassels and gold ornaments. Bracelets and necklaces of cameos or in lapis koalas and precious stones of various colours are much worn. The female hair is kept up by bands studded with pearls, edged with ermine; and prett y feet are enveloped in marvellously white shoes, with very high red heels." The Gazette of last evening contains the text of the treaty of commerce between England sad Austria. The ratifications were exchanged at Vienna on January 4. The treaty is to rennin in foto, ten years from Jwasazy 1, 1867. The via' of textile manufactures having been deranged by the American war, the duties may be revised on January 1868. Great Britain engages to recommend to parliament the abolition of the duties on wood and timber, and to re. duce the duties on wines in bottle to the same rate as if imported in wood. There are clauses reheat to export duties on rep and import duties on herriep. The issistaat Judge said evidence of thin CENT) (More Kr. Jostles Moline.) THE FOROMII2B ON THE BAIT OP ' Phillip Breun, a Genoa& Jew, desert was charged with feloniously engraving • Sve-rouble bank note of the empire t lawful exams. Serjeant Beßutin* and Hr. Gifford, Q. retained with Mr. Sleigh to conduct the prisoner defended himself. It will be remembered that the prisoner was t. last session with several other foreigners apt% exactly the ume character as the present eas Lints will be fresh in the reoolleotioe r' - • long investigation, the trial of two days, the prisons, wee were convicted. The speedo was that be had engraved • portion note, and this foot did not by him, but his ex use guilty intention, bat that his Lion to the police, and at the names of several constable given information. The only fore, was whether the prisoner transaction or not. The principal witness So sae a man named Lilian, who had the instance of the Russian goy. jutted to a severe croseexamir Several polies-officers were, appeared that the primmer bad as to the proceedings of persons to them but ale to the Russian The learned judge remarked the evidence adduoed it wu wreak prisoner kept up his is who have already been convicted, the reward for the isformation which those offewleve bad been 1- _ Kr. Oifferd. Q. 0., meld that the pert of the prosecution would the prisonor. The jury tb.•, under th. direction •'what of Not Guilty. DDLI ,ESEX (Mon W. H. Bodkin, ♦ SZIUOUF Henry John Wright, 20, collars, and other articles, George Morris, his master. The Mr. Pater, who was instructed cute, said the prosecutor was a nem in High-street. Islington, been for some mouths ia piteous estertaised by all his young men that he boxes, to which all readily and on that, believing him t polies-constable and gave him the prisoner's box a large property was found, besides piety that had been pawned. broken were visited by Stem amongst them Mr. Walters, two handkerchiefs had been said the prosecutor could turning over the handlif found the prosecutor's and he desirel that that mark When the handkerchiefs • aloe, the part where the , torn off, and that wu done b) Francis Spray, assist:est called, and be said he stood l foreman to Mr. Walters, tore from the handkerchiefs. The! oonstable on the former occasi4 The Assistant Judge said tt be attended to, ►nl directed down the evidence of the wit he would imasider what was Charles Cole, police sergeant vices convictions of four months prisoner, for robbing his muter, jeweller, of Regent-street. He into these sets of dishonest? reading " Jack Sheppard," of that description. The Assistant-Judge sentenced labour for two years. SECOND (Before Mr. BOBBING A Frederick Wilson, 20, a Nt for stealing several articles of mate, named Alfred Smith. The prisoner was a Norwegian. terpreted by Mr. Francis Igelo It appeared that the prism sailors in the same ship, and prosecutor's cabin and stole boots, stockings, &c. The jury found the prisoner Mr. Payne sentenced him • hard labour for six months. WILLING BOOTS 5. Bridget Colwell, 30, olsarw , leg two boots, value 6s. 9d. r Mr. Gent prosecuted ; Mr. L. The prisoner pleaded not guilt The Kumar was seen to mentor's shop and cut down in the doorway. There was I acne. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. A police-constable said that the prisoner se t of a respectable labourer. She was an indaMinir working woman. Mr. Payne sentenced her to be imprisoesd sal * ll l' hard labour for four calendar months. ,106 1,1 r THE POLICE COURT& * 2 - (THIS DAY.) BOW-STREET. KEEPING OP THE SCOTCH CHRISTIAN. Donald Macgregor, traveller and clerk, 6, Ho Clarkin well, was charged with being drunk sodden in the Strand, Police-constable F 44 deposed that he saw a Wit assembled in the Strand last evening, about kill o'clock, and he found the pri.oner was very dank el, s , cause of the assemblage. The prisoner said he was very sorry for 1,11,1 Wit tarred, but that he was only keeping up WO' Christina.. He had been abroad, suffered from sum l and the least drink affected his head. He oily it holiday time. He had lost his bat and the sampled' with which he bad been entrusted. Mr. Vaughan uid—This has been a very 0 114 Christmas for you. You had better give up all if it has such an effect upon you. Upon I shall discharge you, hoping it may act ai s • you for the future. CLERKEN WELL. THE Mitt DENS OF ISLINGTON. Mr. Robert cook, of 18, Werwick.street. Onla oo It the owner of the premises situate and being Nu f, 3 ' l , s j 4, Goodwin-street, Islington, was summoned bits Barket under the Nuirances Removal Ad lot Eagiwkb for allowing Übe following nuisances to Guist mine, viz., three foul and offensive privies 1•1 6 1 . which were injurious to health. Mr. Layton, solicitor and vestry clerk of MI 'illogic°, attended to support the oomplaist, Cook, barrister, for the defeat,. The evidence of Mr. William Mayes, tonal Wl ° was to the effect that on the Ist lessens the premises, No. 3 and 4, Goodwin-Welk the property of the defendant, and found at I ° 3 drain in the yard open and very defective, sal tbe without water supply. The water from the 011 its way under the boards of the floor of the kept fr and the premises are Without a dust-bin, sad s state. At No. 4, the privy is without yews, the treat yard ie defective and untrapped ; the water butt ilott *over, and there was so dust-bin. Previous to th". he bad visited No. Rand found the drain very 'kw' the soil flowing from it under the floor of she hulk The privy is without water, and the premiss ow a dust bin. The tenant left this house in cousessot; bad smells and the landlord refusing to repair tke The soil oozes through the wall of No. 1, s eder s . coven the basement sad causes a very bid 'awl „, time aloes a pennon wee removed from No. 2 W 81 0" hur l. Levies asked for an immediate order fer l l. l l to be dose. The Sanitary Committee were dita_M do all is th eir power top t fever in Ow r"" Islington. Mr. Barker made an order for the mooing weds • dose within 14 days. Mr. Luton asked for 51. 30. coals. Mr. Barker said he considered the applicant's PIO and made an order for that amount. 4 01 '. Mr. Cook asked themagistrate to grant a superior courts, bat the application was untied. WORSHIP-STREET. PAUP GIRLS AND SHEA CAM Slim Heydrick, 18 ; Enna Sheen, 18; aba ig" ingkam, 16, good-looking girls, were charged Hayden, sapsristnednit of labour at the Hoke, go with bong disorderly paupsrs, sad losl lai rd= said—This moroiog, at 8 o'clock, IWO quell a di/turban, with then girls, who wen eat above stain aoudad* themeless moil fally, sod tittering vary bad words. I told two of go to the cells, bat they would aot, sad esid 114 1 tenoned to ban a lark, so I brought than lam Aube Samar, as sztramely aged and so serge 'RAL CRIMINAL COtritt • (THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Julies Milks.) • FORUM= ON THE BAIN OP IHREgi . 'reun, • Garman Jew, described 44 agi• with feloniously engraving oataia • s bank sae of the empire of es. 11 1 Ballade* and Mr. Gifford, th Mr. Sleigh to conduct the pr !ended himself. remembered that the prisoner was Msg. with several other foreigners Epee g ‘s' same character as the present 0441 ▪ fresh is the recollection of the pa % itigatioe, the trial occupying the grid. the prisoner ass acquitted a n d hi s - :ted. The spade sat imputed to ligg had engraved portion of a fraud this fact did not appear to h but his ex--use was that he ition, bat that his object was to (leg: - police, and at the lest trial he o min i6., wend eastables to whom he si3 maim. The only question in the fi lN bather the prisoner had a guilty ali si or not. ripal witness So support of the pree n * id Liben, who had come over to this s of the Reran government, sea he severe crais.examinstioa by the prie st oliosalicers were Galled, from w at the primmer had continually (N s uudinp of persons already coalsts4 t also to the Russian consul. led judge remarked that it seemed *ai adduced it wu extremely probe* A s loner kept up his intercourse with {hi' [ready bees convicted, in the bops re • for the information he had give, it offse•len bad been brought toils**, ,rd, Q.C., said that on this istinalite the prosecution would not pram the wo e% r. thee, under the direction of the meek Not Guilty. ims lIDDLESEX SESSIONS. f ee • (THIS DAY.) A. 4.. e . * re W. H. Bodkin, Esq., Assisting...ledge) A SERIOUS CHAROL olin Wright., 20, was indicted Ice ag e of other articles, value 10/., the iris, his master. The prisoner pleads( e, who was instructed by Mr. Liam is the prosecutor was a hosier, our*. figh-steest. Islington, and the Pass some months is his employ. Ay, etertaised by the prosecutor i s mg men that he should Ilk' to mule which all readily consented but the • it, believing him to be the thief, he.. table and gave him into custody. Os er's box a large quantity of the sea found, besides 29 duplicates fa had been pawned. The whets of W . r. re visited by Stammers, a hem Mr. Walters, of hlderepeeene s t kerchiefs had been parsed. The gale prosecutor could not identify his, hit mar the handkerchiefs the priseep • prosecutor's private mark spas 1. sired that that mark should not le sus''' handkerchiefs were produced at the pi' part where the private mark had ha ad that was done by the foreman of *AA' retard Judge said he should like to haws I this. Spray, Lastest to Mr. Wallas, is he said he stood by while Edward Bea Mr. Walters, tore the prosecutor'. Fillet .andkerchiels. They had been seen by the in the former occasion. atsot Judge said this was a matter the s , d to, and directed the comity solicitor hi • videnos of the witness Spray airy cent*. : *wider what was to be dome. Cole, police sergeant 23 C division, prowl lotion of four months' imprisonment or robbing his master, Mr. Charles Regent-street . He believed that be Yay see acts of dishonesty on account of Wank ' Jack Sheppard," "Blueskin," ads*, cription. Leant-Judge sentenced him to be kept liitaua two years. It. SECOND COI.IIT. (Before Mr. Payne.) uses BOBBING • SHIPMATE. 6 1 Wilson,*2o, a Norwegian sailor, tram iii i 4 g several ticles of clothing from a fella s fiat ad Alfred Smith. oar was a Norwegian, and the video a e try Mr. Francis Igeistrom. c. raid that the prisoner and the prewar , • the same ship, and that the prisoner OM 41, 'a cabin and stole several under eI de 4., :kings, la. r found the prisoner Guilty. ee sentenced him to be imprisoud 1. for six months. triZALI2fG BOOTS FROM • SHOP DOOR Connell, 30, charwoman, was indietalss rote, value 6s. 9d., the property of Haute t prosecuted ; Mr. Harris defended So pis oner pleaded not guilty. oner was sea to go up to the don at al hop and cut down the boots that was be. rway. There was no money found spa found the prisoner Guilty. .constable said that the prisoner we :table labourer. She was an indultam) omen. ne sentenced her to be imprisoned mid ki Lr for (ones oalArohr month._ 1 f I I