The Express. — London, England, 1867-04-26 00:00:00

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By the gracious permission of her Majesty the Queen, the Por trait. of her Majesty and their Royal Highnesses arc on sale at Mr. Disderi's Photographic Establishments in London, at 70, 71, and 72, Brook-street, Hanover-square: in Paris, 8., Boulevard des Itallens ; and at all the principal booksellers et Europe . Price: Carte de Visite, ls. ; coloured, M. Drawing-room Por traits, Pa. bd. ; coloured. bs. DI SD E R I.—Their Royal Highnesses the PRINCE sad PIUNCHBB of WALIN have honoured with a visit the studio of Mr. DIBDERI, and have authorised him the sale of all the Portraits taken by him of their Royal Highnesses, as weU as those of Prince Victor and Prince George. Price: Cute de VisiW, plain or enamel, ls : coloured, Ss. Cabinet Por- Hag" 2e 6.1. Splendid Portrait of KR H , mounted on line Hated large cardboard, 25 by ing Inches, price 1 guinea. DLLDERI.—ON SALE.—Splendid ALBUMS WINTAOR and CrallOilla, photographed by Mr. Dlsderl, under the Immediate patronage and the gracious per miseran of her Majesty the Queen. Historical text by Boyne C. Bell, rag. These Alhums—size, halt-abeet colomble, printed In new type, en extra Melt plate peeer..raterade ddrty.fve photo. =of Interiors and exteriors, mounted co extra line tinted ord. and most elegantly bound In morocco. Price : Royal edition of Windsor and tieberne, In natural phraoPhy TO guineas each coloured, 40 ;Mosta—Apply to Mr Nadrai, TO, 7), and 7t, Brook-street, Hanover-equate; and at Paris, 8 Boulevard des Hellen.. DISDERI. —ON SALE. TWENTY-FOUR STEREAkseOPIC VIEWS of the INTERIORS and EX TERIORS of WINDSOR, ead TWENTY-YOUR of OSBORNE. The collection complete, plata, 1 guinea coloured, 2 guineas saFtt set.. . . . . . . Souvenir of Windsor or Osborne. Sixteen plates, photographed by if r. Dbideri, mounted on cloth, and forming a handsome book, small Bvo, including the portraits of her Majesty the Queen and R. H. the Prince Consort. Price, plain, las. : coloured, 30$. Panoramic Views at it . poop of the Orleans family, Hs Gd. DiSDERI.—NOTICE.—By a new process of sir DISDERTM the CARTE DE VISITE PORTRAITS are ENLARGED on canvas to say she. The public can thus ob tain a photographic drawing by means of which skilful artiste attached to the Niuse can, on simple indications—such as the Colour of the complexion. the eyes and the hair—obtain a splen did end truthful oil painting. Mr. Diedkri's new process is valu able in this respect, that It avoids the tediousnem of long sit tings. and also adds to the charms of oil painting the great advantages of the truthfulness and accuracy of photography. 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GOUT and RHEUMATISM.—The excrnciatlrs Prdn lout or rhetimatitm is quickly rolleved and c 6 . ▪ ise days by that celebrated medicine, BLAIR'S GiWT and RHEUMATIC PILLS. ▪ require no roitrallit of diet or confinement during their are certain to prevent the disease attacking any vital .41 by all medicine vendors at la lipL and U. 9d. par hos, tr oltsined through any chemist. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1867. LITRE BOTTLE WINE COMPANY, Old Swan TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. Whitt London-bridge. Imp , rted In Litre and Ball Litre Bottles, containing 25 per cent more than ordinary bottles. Ordinaire Beadolals lls. 64 per dos. 18a. fa per dos. port and Sherry Rousillon and Picard& 12s. ed. 4 Litres, or 20e. ed. Litres. bench Brandy 2Bs. Od. 445. Od. PARIS, Aram 23, Zwill4ll4o. Price Lists of other Wines on application. N.B. All Use shore sold in bond U rendre!, and Dock War- The Etendard of this evening, and other of the rants Issued on single don,. cases. DepOts will be opened in Paris journals, contain articles in refutation of the every town In Great Britain. Apply as above. recent argument of the semi-official North German KIN A H A N'S LL WHISK Y. Gazette of Berlin relative to the right of Prussia to DUBLIN Ex HIBITION, lSee. occupy Luxemburg. The Etend and concludes its This celebrated old Huai WHISKY gained the DUBLIN PRTZP MEDAL—It L pure, mild, mellow, dacione, and very remarks as follows We are willing to believe wholesome. Sold In bottles, be Bd. each, at the rota boogie In London. by the agents In the principal towns in England ; or that these assertions of the North German Gazette wholesale at 8, Great Whvdentll4treet, London W. Observe the are entirely of an uno ffi cial character." The red sad. pink label, snd cork branded Ifinahsn's LL Whisky. oance demonstrates that the maintenance of the Price Gd. Prussian occupation of Luxemburg is a menace to the independence of Holland. The majority of this evening's journals consider war inevitable unless the Prussians consent to evacuate Luxem burg. T HE CHRONICLE. No. V. CONTENTS Current Events. What the Reform Bl➢ will du. The Ulster Custom. Secret History of the Italian Crisis The North German Constitution. The New Communal Law In France. American Reconstruction. Homer and the Iliad. Carlyle. Muslim Mews of Poland illuigrave lawthweJte Wsteon. Contemporary Literature. Advertisements. time.: 24. Tavistock.strest, Cor ST. PETICRSBURG, APRIL 2.% The Journal de St. Peterabuurg of to-day says it is impossible to maintain peace if one of the great Powers which have consulted Europe desire war. It asks whether France and Prussia are sincere in their protestations that they prefer peace though they do not fear war, " for," adds the Journal, "if the territory of Luxemburg be neutralised under the guarantee of Europe,would not that be for Germany equivalent to the guarantee of garrisoning a fortress which, after all, is not on German soil, since it is governed by a foreign sovereign." -LA OTICE.—BELGRAVIA,forMAY,wiII be pub tlibed es BATTJADAY next MY hut.), price la. Mus bated. TOTICIC.—LETTERS from LILLIPUT, by .11 (Isogon Awacsrus MALI, will commence In the MA 121.928E1L of BYIAIRAVIA. conducted by M. E. BRADIPO3. Beady April 27. Pries Is. N OTICE. -LONDON SQUARES, b y WALTER filonlnteßV. will commence In the MAY NUMBER et BELGRAVIA, conducted by M. X BLOWN. Ready April 27. Price le. BERLIN, Aran. 25. It is announced that the government will not make any communication at the opening of the Prussian Chambers in reference to the state of political affairs, the Chambers being convoked for a session ad hoc, and the government being desirous of arriving at a speedy conclusion of the discus sions in connection with the North German Con stitution. The speech from the throne at the opening of the session is expected to treat only of the task of completing the constitution. NOT ICE.—CIRCE, the New Novel by A.l etsenowns WelT! , wr i t be eestlnoed Is the MA N UMBER o 4 BELGRAVIA, ceche/ad by M. T. Proddra. Bade Apt M. Price Is. P t tyi . L,Fl BYBTglf OF DENTIrILF. Jout inaiii;OT:priilfitiTeijKlaiTOOTo;iiiarispe, r AL ABOLITION of PAIN in DENTISTRY. r ° 74 ' Mean GABRIEL, the old established DENTLSTS, 64, LUDGATE-HILL, CITY. ILondoaL 66, RARLEY4TRENT. W., 134. DUICR.STREET. LIVERPOOL. " Latest and greatest Inneuvement In dental surgery."—TherakL The semi-official North German Gazette charac terises a recent statement of the Journal des Dibats, alleging that England had protested against the pressure put by Prussia upon Holland, as an auda cious attempt to deceive public opinion. "Prussia," it says, " has never menaced the independence of the Netherlands. The friendly relations between the cabinets of Berlin and the Hague have never for one moment been impaired." MARRIAGE OF THE COUNT OF FLANDERS. BERLIN, APRIL 25. The marriage ceremony between the Princess of Hohenzollern and the Count of Flanders took place at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The King and Queen of Prussia, with the royal princes and princesses, first entered the church, and took their places to tho right of the altar ; the bride and bridegroom then arrived, followed by the King of the Belgians, the other members of the Hohenzollern family, and the Duke of Gaze-Coburg-Gotha, who placed themselves to the left of the altar. After a brief address from the Prince Bishop, the marriage ceremony was per formed amid the ringing of the church bells and the discharge of artillery. The ceremony was over was by a quarter to four. All the ministers and the members of the diplo matic body were present. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, APRIL 25, EVENING. Count Bismarck paid a visit yesterday to the Bing of the Belgians. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, APRIL 23. An official denial is given to a statement pub lished by the Memorial Diplomotigne that the Prussian government had notified to the Danish court that the article of the treaty of Prague rela tive to the vote in Schleswig would be carried out if Denmark would engage to remain neutral in the event of war with France. No such proposition has been made. The reports published by some French papers of Danish naval armaments are also officially denied. COPENHAGEN, Assn. 2S, Ercifixa. In well-informed circles it is positively affirmed that the Danish government has made no military preparations whatever. ITALY. FLORENCE, APITL 25. A seven days' quarantine has been ordered for all arrivals in Italian ports from Dalmatia on account of the prevalence of cholera in that kingdom. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, on the motion of Baron Ricaaoli, and with the con currence of Signor Rattazzi, a new commission of investigation was appointed to inquire into the abnormal condition of the province of Palermo, and to propose measures for remedying the present state of things. The bill of Signor Semenza relative to the free cultivation of tobacco then came on for discussion. FRANCE. PARIS, APRIL 25, EVRNING. Various regulations have been published by the Minister of War for the approaching review of the troops of the reserve. This review will take place on the same day as in preceding years. THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, APR/L 25. The return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day shows the following changes as com pared with the previous account: IscßEAsz. Caah . 7 9-10 millions AMERICA. (BY ATLANTIC TILZONAPIL) NEW YORK, APRIL 24, 6 P.M. Closing prices: --Gold, 141. Sterling exchange on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds, 110; Illinois, 114 ; Erie, 57}. Cotton: Middling Up land, 25. Petroleum, refined, 26. The Borussia, City of Baltimore, and Pereire I arrived out to-day. MEXICO. NEW YORK, APRIL 24, 6 P.M. Intelligence published here from Mexico states that Porfirio Diaz has taken Puebla and executed all the officers of the garrison. He is marching on Vera Cruz. THE MEMBERS FOR MAIDSTONE AND THEIR CONSTITUENTS. • Last night a crowded meeting of electors and nomelactors was held at the Corn Eschew, Maidstone, to hear addresses from the members for the borough, Messrs. Lee and Whatman, and take into consideration the present position of the reform question. Mr. Let, M.P., who was well received, said—All parties were agreed that this country was much indebted to Mr. Gladstone for his financial measures, which had been beneficial not only to trade and commerce, but to all classes of the community. The last budget was a spe cimen of the skill of the present Chancellor of the Etch°. I quer, who found himself with a surplus of over three millions, which resulted from the policy of Mr. Gladstone; but he dared not devote it to the reduction of taxation, as he well knew that he would have the advocates of malt tax repeal down upon him. With regard to the reform question, he had certainly always regretted that Mr. Gladstone should have thought fit to now on the partial defeat of his bill 1 last year, hereto' the bill might after all have been made acceptable. The present Reform Bill was in every respect a sham, as it was not what it professed to be. The bat of household suffrage had been held out to catch the ad vanced reformers, but the tories well knew that it was not intended to be a reality. He was himself a strong advo rate for household suffrage pure and simple, and when he went back to the house he would do his best to make the government abandon the absurd conditions and re- striations with which they had clogged the bill, in order to prevent the enfranchisement of any ommitierahle asar, ber of the working classes. The reform question was really becoming a great bugbear, and it impeded the pro- gress of useful and necessary legislation. He hoped they would be able to pass some sort of a reform bill this year, even if it was a bad one, and had to be amended another time. The present bill certainly could not pass without considerable alteration. If it did the agitation would immediately recommence with much greater force. The rating qualification was most unjust. He maintained that rates were simply a debt, and no man ought to be deprived of • vote because he owed a debt. Rates were • transaction between the householder and the parish authorities, and ought not to be considered by the imperial power in connection with the franchise. There must be a good measure of reform if the country willed it, and he believed that the liberals in the House of Com= if united, could easily carry such • measure. Hs the rumour was not correct that Mr. Gladstone would de cline the leadership of the liberal party. He was quite estiefied with Mr. Gladstone as a leader, and the liberals might easily place the government in a fix by removing the obnoxious clauses from the bill. Mr. WHATNAII, M.P., referred to his votes in parlia ment, and urged the importance of unity in the liberal ranks, in order to secure the pawing of a good reform bill. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the pro ceedings. MR. E. POTTER, M.P., AND HIS CONSTITU ENTS. On Wednesday night Mr. Potter, the liberal member for Carlisle, addressed a crowded meeting in the Athenteum in that city, on the present position of the liberal party. He said he had invited them there that night not merely for the purpose of talking about the merits of the Reform Bill now before parliament, but to consider a much larger question, namely, the present position of the liberal party in the House of Commons. He spoke at some length with reference to the object which induced him to attend the meeting which took place in the Tea-room of the house, stating he dissented very much from the views of the majority of the honourable members who attended that meeting, and that at the meeting be gave expression to the opinion that it would be a better course to send a deputation to Mr. Gladstone. He thought such a course as they pro pd was disrespectful to the great leader of their party, Mr. Gladstone, and he proposed that they should again confer with Mr. Gladstone. He moved an amendment to that effect, but only three hands were held up in favour of it. He very much regretted the course events bad since taken. He remarked on the composition of the pre sent House of Commons, which he thought had been elected by a more prolific expenditure than any previous parliament since the passing of the Reform Bil l in 1832 ; and he referred his hearers to the recent exposures of bribery and corruption by the election committees. He was of opinion that they were but a specimen of the larger towns. He read a summary which he bad taken some time ago from a tory paper, showing the enormous amount which had been spent at the last election, and he was certain that an honest measure of reform could not be obtained from a house so returned. He regretted the overthrow of Mr. Gladstone's bill last year, and thought it would have been to Mr. Gladstone's benefit if he had on the occasion of that defeat appealed to the country. He was certain that all working men were satisfied with that measure, and great credit was due to the working men of Carlisle for the sentiment which they gave expression to with respect to that measure. He very much deplored the present position of the liberal party, but be would not say one word against any one of his own party who had gone into the lobby with the tortes, because he believed they thought that they would get household suffrage. The following reso lutions were then put and carried :—" That this meeting expresses its approval of the course pursued by Mr. Potter with respect to the late division in the House of Com mons on the government Bill of Reform. That this meet ing is of Jpimon that the unanimous efforts of all liberals should be directed towards the accomplishment of a full, honest, and unequivocal measureof Parliamentary Reform, which character the present bill does not merit ; and this meeting looks with regret on the failure of Mr. Gladstone's initiatory attempt to remedy a serious defect in that bill, and on the circumstances that led to that failure. This meeting would farther earnestly request him, as the leader of the liberal party, not to relax his efforts; and at the same time would strongly urge all liberal members to rally to his support in the amendment of the government bill, or, if necessary, its rejection. That the chairman be requested to forward a copy of the foregoing resolutions to Mr. Gladstone." The tory Lord Chancellor has (says the Leeds Erpres.) been scattering his favours lavishly upon the country gentry of Lancashire. Since September about one hundred names have been added to the commission of the peace for the county palatine ; and of course they were not all " Churchward," but thaw, of substantial men, carefully selected by a feeling of gratitude for past party 'enlace. OsvErar. PALACI. ONE SittEETNO DAT.— THUS/MAT, APRIL 25. — Admissions on payment, 3,930; ditto by season tickets, 1,784 ; total visitors, 5,714. Commercial Dills . . . 9i Advances . . . . Current accounts . . . DICREASZ. 1-5 „ Notes -5 „ Treasury balance . . INDIA. BOMBAY, APRIL 23, 5.47 P.M. Cotton quiet : Dhollerah, 225 r. Exchange on London, ls. llid. Four per Cent. Government securities, 87; Five per Cent. ditto, 1041; Five and-a-Half per Cent, ditto, loq. Freights to Liverpool, 60s. to 655. The latest London date is April 20. Fautourw, Aran. 25. —The New York and Havre Company's United States stantniship Ango, from New York on the 13th inst., arrived here this morning, with 112 miNiengers, 9 sacks of mails, a full general cargo, and 41,300 dole. in specie for Franoe. After embarking the mails and 12 passengers she proceeded for H*vre. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office from the Governor-General of Canada. Despatches were sent to the Governor-General of Canada. THE WAR IN CRETE. (►som °us erecter. COERISPOIMENT.) RUINS OF ARKADI, Arm 11. This is a gloomy place from which to date • letter. You have heard in England of the tragedy ' of Arkadi, and you can well imagine that the ruited monastery must present a desolate appear :a& But I defy you to realise the scene of hor ror to its full extent. We, who came hither an hour ago eager for sightseeing, have stepped out into the sunshine, sad and sickened. On the north western slope of Mount Ida is a small, but fertile, patch of tableland, surrounded by rocks and gorse bushes. There is some fine timber scattered over the tableland, and its meadows are bright with flowers. The monks chose well their site for build ing. They chose an excellent site, and they built a solid, substantial monastery. Arkadi was the largest and richest of the religious establishments in Crete. It owned immense flocks of sheep, which pastured on the neighbouring mountains, and it' was well stored with provisions of all kinds. I will make no attempt to sketch its history or to distinguish particular dates. The great monastery was founded in the middle ages, and continued rich and prosperous until last November. Then the Turks besieged Arkadi, and the Christians defended it, and all was ripe for the tragedy which followed. We descended to the fertile tableland, with our straggling force of Cretan mountaineers marching gaily before and behind us. I noticed that the men hushed their songs and laughter as we ad vanced across the meadows. They were not awe stricken ; that would be saying too much, for they are rough, hardened fellows ; but they became grave and silent. Yes, that was Arkadi. The old lady who had escaped the slaughter, and was here as our guide, shuddered when she saw it. That was Arkadi. There, yonder, in the middle of the tableland, where the flowers were brightest and the meadows greenest, stood a pile of masonry bearing little outward sign of ruin ; but we must see the inside. Our guide lowered her voice when she spoke of that dreadful inside. There is only one corner completely destroyed ; the rest of the monastery, though battered, burnt, and plundered, has resisted the explosion of gun powder, and remains almost as it was. Arkadi was built on a simple plan, which makes it easy to describe. A square courtyard was formed by the dwelling houses and storerooms, a courtyard which may contain about an acre of ground, and in this central space is the church. We entered through a gateway partly blocked with stones, and found ourselves at once amid traces of what had happened last November. Here was a dead horse lying straight in our path ; there some fragments of shell from rifled guns. This blackened, shri velled form, a few paces further on, was a man when the siege began. Perhaps he was blown hither by the explosion ; how otherwise could he have been so terribly shattered 1 But we cannot stop to think of one man. There are scores of bodies, unburied, half buried, sun-dried and ' mangled, to be seen within the monastery. It brings the siege vividly before us, this ' dismal spectacle of those who fell. We can see Ar ' lubdi crowded with womenand children, with priests and soldiers. There was room enough for 900 souls to shelter within those solid walls, and food enough to support them during many months. We can well imagine how some of these shrivelled bodies defended the windows, and others heaped stones in the gateway. Women must have wrung their hands when the Turks surrounded Arkadi, and men have looked anxiously to the mountains for some sign of a rescue. But the tableland was occupied by regular troops, and cannon were planted so as to breach the monastery walls. Those lofty peaks, which the garrison could see not many miles away, were yet too far for Cretan rifle men to approach the doomed stronghold. There was a stubborn but hopeless defence. We can trace upon the walls the effect of shot and shell, and can judge that there was a heavy fuellede by the almost countless bullet marks. After two days' fighting the Turks broke through every barrier, and a bloody struggle followed in the courtyard and cloisters. It was then that some desperate hand fired the magazine in the north-east corner of Arkadi. We can distin guish among the ruins of that portion a number of dead Turks who were dashed to pieces in the mo ment of victory. This was the great event of the , siege, the crowning act of self-devotion. But it , was not the end of the slaughter. Enraged at their losses, the Turkish soldiery put to death per sons of both sexes and every age who had survived in other quarters of the monastery. We find one room full of such victims, and they are terribly human still as they lie stiffly where they fell. It is a pity that there are no wild animals in Crete which can profit by such scenes. Anything would be better than to shrivel and blacken in this ghastly fashion. Our guide, with more than a hundred other women, was spared at the time, and soon after wards sot at liberty; but thirty of her kinsfolk , perished around her, and she relates with tears how one little grandchild, six years old, was cut down before her eyes. We come outside with a feeling of relief, and are presently joined by a hearty looking priest, who escaped from Arkadi just as it was stormed. He and a few others, see ing all hope to be over, dropped from a window and ran for their lives. What a breathless run it must have been, since they had some distance to traverse without any sort of cover! Howbeit in the confusion which prevailed they managed to get away. To speak of matters present and future, rather than any further of these famous ruins. The pre sent position of Crete is one of anxious expectation. Much has been done, much blood shed and trea sure expended, to free the island from the Turks. A war of eight months has been waged by a few irregulars against many disciplined troops. More [EITAMPID, 14. ADDITIOIIAL.] than this the Christians have proved their sincerity by suffering, in no common degree, for what they deem a holy cause. Yet after all that has been done the fortresses are held by the Turks, and might be held for years to come, so far as the insur rection is concerned, the Cretans having no siege artillery and no fleet with which to raise the blockade. Thus they are driven to look abroad for help. Sooner or later it must end in some kind of an intervention, unless Europe will leave the Cretans to be slowly crushed by the weight and wealth of a large empire like Turkey. These poor people seem resolved to struggle on single-handed against their enemies, but their future depends upon what the great Powers shall determine to do in their behalf. We suppose that something is being done, and some pressure exercised, because the Turkish authorities have lately sought to ob tain signatures to a declaration to the effect that no insurrection now exists in Crete. A party of villagers came to the insurgent head-quarters this I very morning and told how they had been threat ened with fire and sword if they would not sign within three days. Now, whatever may be the case at some indefinite time hence, the required declaration would at present be completely falla cious. The Turks occupy only their sea-coast forts, and the insarreatilie hall pomemion et more then half the island. SHOCKING ATTEMPT TO MURDER 4 YOUNG WOMAN. A dreadful occurrence an taken place at Duch buret-hill, near Woodford, Emu. At five o'clock on Wednesday morning, a young man of fair complexion, and of about 5 feet 6 inches in height, entered the Epping Police-station, and told the inspector that he had stabbed • young woman at Buckhurst-hill with a dagger, and that he had left it in the field lying by her side. He said his name was Frederick Alexander Watkins, and thathewas the son of Mr. Watkins, a watch maker, who had for several years carried on business in the Strand, near the Adel phi Theatre, and that he now heed with his father, at No. 36, Henrietta-street, Covent garden. His father had lately purchased a freehold estate at Buokhurst-hill A. constable was sent with him to the field in question, which forms part of the property of a Freehold Land society, and they have lately made • road through it fur building purposes. Under • fence the constable found • large pool of blood,ond the grass about it was torn up, cad the ground showed marks of a scuffle. On the ground a dagger wee lying, the blade of which was about fi ve inches in length. It had apparently been the top of a bayonet. It was encased in a leather sheath, the protector of which, a brass point two inches in length, was afterwards ex tracted by a surgeon from a wound in the young woman's body. Neer the dagger was found a round piece of lead, weighing nearly a pound. It had • hole in the centre, through which was pained • piece of rope. The lead had four indentations upon it, which appeared to have been caused by blows inflicted upon the young woman's skull. A policeman named Benue stated to the sergeant that at 4 o'clock that morning he saw • young girl named Matilda Griggs, the daughter of • well sinker, living in Princes road, Buckhurst-hill, saturated with blood and leaning up against the fence of the field, and she appeared to be in great agony. He asked her what was the matter, and for a time she could not speak. She then said, " I have been stabbed by a young man that I have been keeping company with for two years." Her clothes were drenched with blood, and the policeman helped her along the road to her father's house. Mr. Home, a surgeon. vnuisent for, and found thirteen separate wounds on her body. Her clothes were cut through in several places. There were four wounds on her head and three on her beast, one on her hand, and five on her back. Nine of them had been inflicted by • dagger. She had bled a great deaL In a dagger wound on her back, thr ee inches in depth, Mr. Home found the brae. sheath pro tector referred to above. The young woman is seventeen years of age, and the accused is tweaty-three. Yesterday Dr. Home gave a certificate that the young girl was in a more terous state than she had been in on 'Wednesday, and a bench of magistrates was convened at Walt ham A , for the purpose of taring her dying dosi tion. The magistrates present, Captain Edinburgh and Mr. Williams, proceeded to the house in which the young woman was lying, and the prisoner was brought up before them. After • short examination all present went to the bedside of the dying girl, who was raised up in the bed while she spoke to the maeietrates. She is good-looking, end of dark complexion. She said—" On the night of the occurrence I met the prisoner outside m fa th er's house, and said that I was going on the Freeho ld, to Mrs. Graf ton's. He asked me if I would walk with him, and I said yes. When we got to the house he persuaded roe to go • little further down, and I went towards a back lane away from all the houses. While we were walking aloe( he charged 030 with speaking to other young men, and I said that I did not. He then asked me to get into the field over • paling, and I did so. He struck rue on the head two or three times with something. He then took out • dagger and struck me on the back, breast, head, and hand with it several times. I saw the dagger in his hand, and I had seen it before. I know that he was in the habit of carrying • dagger about with him. I then fell on the grass, and he ran away. I was lying on the ground for a long time, and I heard the clock of Buck. hurthhill strike ten. I tried to get up, bat I could not. I lay them for a long time, and then I felt strength re turning, and I crawled along the grass through a fence into another field, and there I was lying for some time. I got up then, and I was making my way home when the policeman found me." While the girl was speaking the prisoner remained silent, but when she had concluded he said, " May I shake hands with her?" The magistrates gave their consent, and he walked over to the bed and kissed the girl. He said, " Good bye, Tilly, good bye ;" but the girl made no reply. He then burst out crying. It appears from the statements made by the prisoner, that he had made preparations for the commission of the crime. Police-sergeant Fry said to him, "The charge against you is cutting and wounding with the intent to murder." And the prisoner replied, "It is quite right," and said, " What time did she get home ?" And he was told that she was brought to her home between 4 and 5 o'clock on Wednesday morning. "Not before that, from half-past 8 o'clock in the evening?" said the prisoner. He also said, " When I was leaving the field I heard her coy 'Freddy, Freddy, Freddy,' but as I thought that she could not last long I did not return to her. I ran across the fields and down the road until I got to Epping Forest. When I met • policeman or anybody on the road I thought he was pointinghis finger at me. I had a packageof poison in my pocket. It wasoxalicacid, and I took itoutand chewed it. It was in a powder, and it only burned my tongue and mouth. I then thought of going to the police station at Boughton, but I thought they might be asleep. When I got to Epping I walked about the town from 2 o'clock until 5 in the morning, not wishing to disturb the police." The prisoner was yesterday remanded by the magistrates. It is stated that he met the young girl at Buckhurst-hill two years ago, and after keeping company with her for twelve months be seduced he". He wished to keep the fact concealed from his friends, who are stated to be wealthy, and lie allowed her H. 10s. • week when • child was born four months ago. He has lately been very jealous of her, and it is also said that he bad some quarrel with her about his family. Last evening she was in a very dangerous state. The affair, as meth be expected, has created painful excitement throughout the district in which it occurred. SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE FINE Airns.—Last evening, Mr. James Edineston in the chair, an interestingg lecture was delivered by Mr. W. Cave Thomas on " painting." After drawing a com parative estimate of oil and frescoe painting the lecturer intoned the superior advantage of the latter for mural purposes, and therefore as the appropriate decorative accessory to architecture. He described the process in considerable detail, and pointed out the conditions of wall surface and atmosphere which were ersiential to the permanent effect of the performance. The lecture was illustrated byseveral examples from theold Italian masters. PROPOSED REFORM DEMONSTRATION IN MANCHES TER.—The executive committeeof the northern department of the Reform League decided some time ago to hold emceed I great meeting during the present session of parliament, similar in point of organisation to the one held at Knott Mill on the 24th September last, to afford the mews of this district an opportunity of expressing an opinion on the tory measure of reform. The demonstration is to take place on a Saturday afternoon, and, it is to be hoped, will Ibe of sufficient magnitude and in fl uence to convince Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli how unfounded was the aseurup tion of the constitutional delegates at their recent inter view with the government, and also what little favour their measure meets with amongst the working classes of South Lancashire. —Mune/later Examiner. (Advertisement. ]—HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND Pitts.—Dangerous Inseases.—How many We-long maladies spring from neglecting trilling symptoms. The pimple so readily curable In the nursery. through carelessness, the Remedial torment of after life. With a knowledge of the curative powers of Holloway's Ointment and Pills, those who fall to use teem for extirpating the first seeds of hereditary ailments will have to bear the punishment resulting from their folly. Holloway's remedies will remove eruptions of the skin. scorbutic diseases, and scrofula. and heal every description of ulcer, sore, mead, or sprain. By the use of Holloway's excellent. speedy, and safe medicaments. much pain and great expense will be saved, and a great benefit be conferred on the present aud succeeding gene rations. [TWOPENCE THE TAILORS' STRIKE. Up to the present there seems but little proba bility that this movement will be amicably terminated. Since the aggregate meeting of the trade, held in the Al hambra on Monday, a committee of the men on strike sits daily at the Green Dragon King-street, Regent-street, to whom everything concerning the action of the masters and the attitude of the men is regularly reported. Com munications have been received from several parts of the Continent expressing intense sympathy with their fellow workmen in London, and promising all possible assist. ante, both moral and material. On Wednesday a tele gram was received from Paris couched in the following words :—" The funds are coming in from all quarters — from every town in France, and even from abroad. The painters have sent a large sum. People cannot make out where we get all our money from. All the papers are in our favour, and are pronging our calm demeanour. The co operative association began working yesterday in an empty warehouse (their late premises being too small since the strike) till their new premises on the Boulevard Sevastopol be ready. We will ail take our savings there as soon as we resume work. We are very sanguine of encase. You can form no idea of the effect produced in Paris by the closing of the tailoring establishments on the Boulevards." The association alluded to in the telegram is one founded upon the principle of co-operation or associated labour, of which, it may be added, Mr. John Stuart Mill is a strenuous ad vocate. The MOD in London have struck at about 90 sh o p in all, and only three of the masters (Messrs. Creed, Ball, and Brine) seem satisfied to accept the demandso vigorously urged by the men on . strike. The following instrir ti=a ereg-21stfetig=4: report themselves to the shop committee as soon as their trade is finished to be put at once on the roll. All men on strike to report themselves at the calling of the roll three times • day, viz., 9 a.m., noon, and 4 p.m. All men failing to attend picket duty, or to answer their names on the roll, to be reported to the central committee. Secretaries must send in a report to the central each evening at 6 o'clock." Men appointed on pickets are required to watch the several places of busi ness of which the masters refuel to accede to the claims of the men, and their conduct is characterised by most un mistakable assiduity and vigilance. livery exertion is being put forward to prevent local journeymen in the country from making up goods sent to them from the metropolis, and so injuring the efficiency of the Loudon Association. Each man will receive • guinea • week, and the committee will be enabled, owing to the pros perous condition of their funds, to make this payment fdr some time at least. When their own resource. are exhausted, the tailors expect that their treasury for the time being will be restored, partially or entirely, by the other different trades throughout the kingdom. It may be interesting to many to know bow the con cession of the demands •f the men would affect the masters. With regard to the Erst-class firma " the time log" would increase the wages of the rmplopis by only about 2s. a week, while something like 20 or 24 - , per cent. would be added to the present rate in the lesser establish ments. Nominally, the dispute is • question of time; practically, it is simply one of wages. Women who have not hitherto been received into the asexiation have now applied for admission, and the committee have consented to grant their itition. The " slop trade," as it is termed, is not a ff ected the present agitation, but the men pro poweto make • de termined attack on what they all the ' iniquity of the system" as soon as they anointed in their present objects. Certainly some reform in this direction is absolutely necessary, for many of the unfortunate men and women engaged in " slop work" in the most wretched districts in the east of London have to struggle day and night for • most miserable pittance. So stands the move ment at present as regards the labourers. The masters propose holding a meeting at the Hanover-square Rooms to-morrow, when their mode of action will be explicitly announced. —Tenor. THE NORTH EASTERN DRIVERS' STRIKE. Inquiries made e rierasy among tilt loftily; enene-driven thew that they are mo, bent on re m"' Lino,. They have received letters from colleagues in the movement at Gateshead, Middlesborough, and other sections, which describe the men, with very trifling exceptions, air being still determined to stand out. At Gateshead, where 360 men left their work, it is said that only four or five have gone beck into the company's service. At Leeds only three have applied for re-engagements. The offers of but two of them have been wanted. The rejected man was John Eines, who, a fortnight ago, was convicted by the Leeds magis trats for leaving the company's service without notice. The letters before mentioned also assure their Leeds brethren that the men in those districts are resolved to gain the victory. Yesterday morning a communication was received, showing that at the head-quarters of the union it was considered expedient to resort to the "united action" movement, by which the drivers on the Midland and Great Northern Railways will be pledged not to work on those portions of their lines which are used by North }intern trams. A document to this effect is now circulating among the men, and they are signing it. If its intention is earned out the men will give the usual notice to leave their situations. One of the grounds on which the men on strike refuse to compromise is, that they believe the newly engaged drivers have accepted lower wages than were formerly paid. At the Carlisle City Pal.-court yesterday (Wednesday) six engine drivers—namely, George Scott, Isaac Pegg, Robert Cockburn, Joseph Smith, John Haney, and Joh n Mason, appeared, under summons, to answer a charge of leaving their work as engine-drivers on the Newcastle and Carlisle section of the North-Eastern Railway, without giving a month's notice, according to the agreement the had entered into and signed. The magistrates on the bench were the Mayor and Mr. Thomas Nelson. Messrs. Neilson and Clutterbuck, solicitors, appeared for the com pany; the men were defended by Mr. Roberta, the "Colliers' Attorney-General." Mr. Hanson said the men were sum moned for leaving their employment without notice—some of them, indeed, while they had their engines with steam up and ready to go out. This was part of a concerted action which took place over the whole of the North- Eastern system, and engine-drivers in other parts of the sentry had been summoned and prosecuted, and it was a matter of public notoriety that in many cases they had been convicted. In these cases now before the beach, however, he had last night received a letter with the fol lowing instructions from the North Eastern Company : " If necessary, you should kindly explain to the magis trate, that as the illegality of the men's proceedings has been fully established by the decision of the niamstrates in other places, and as the railway is now nearly at full work again, the directors have no wish to act in any other than the most lenient manner towards the men in fault ; mote especially as the most of them will be severe suf ferers through the loss of their employment, and that no doubt many of those who acted as they did wore insti gated to take so unwarrantable a course by the leaders of the unfortunate combination." 1 hider these circumstances the company did not wish to press for convictions, and, indeed, he believed that in two of the cases the men had made application to be restored to their employment, and one or both of them lad been re-engaged. If the bench thought proper, therefore, he should allow the proceedings to drop. Mr. Roberts dis puted the accuracy of the statement contained in the letter read by Mr. Mason that " the illega lity of the men's pro ceedings had been fully establised . " All the magistrates had granted cases to be carried before men of superior position, higher intellect, and more legal knowledge, and until thew' cases were fully decided by the judges' of the land the legality of the proceedings could not be con sidered as decided. He was there to defend the men, but was ready to withdraw if the railway company withdrew, or to goon if they went on. He caressed a hope that by the manifestation of an amicable spirit a settlement of tha dispute would be brought about. The summonses were then withdrawn. ROYAL COLLEGE OF RCROEONS OF ENGLAND, The following gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma were admitted members of the college at a meeting of the Court of Examiners an the 25th lasi. viz.:—Mears. James Wood Cooke, Barnstaple; Joshua William Morison, Pembroke; William Calvert Totilmin, Lower Clapton ; Arthur Bowes Elliott, Rich mond, Yorkshire; Benjamin Duke, Kennington-park. road; Charles Munden, Ilminster; Edward Sunderland, Thornton, Yorkshire; William Jebson Stothanl, Mill. cheater, and Charles John Watford Meadows, LS.A., Otley, near Ipswich, students of Guy's hospital ; Alfred H. Newth, Albert-street, Newington •, Nelson Congreve Dob son, LS . A., Holbeach ; Alfred Pero, Winchester, and William Anderson, L.S.A., Stockwell, of St. Thomas's Hospital ; Frederick A. A. Smith, Cheltenhion ; William Henry Common, Woodbridge, Suffon. and Richard Cam ino Saunders, LS.A., Moulton, Northampton, of the London Hospital ; George Percival Hadley, Birmingham; Henry ramank Marshall, Birmingham ; and John Orion, Foleahl , near Coventry, of the Birmingham School; Walter Smith, Hampton Court ; and Detrains Twine Moleoey, Stamford, of King's College ; Richard Augmtus Rouse, Great Torrington, North De eon, of University Col lege; Christopher William Calthrop, Withern Alton'. Lincolnshire, of the Charing-cross - Hospital ; Frederiok William Newcombe, Neweastle-omTyne ; John George Hewitt, Leeds ; and Thomas Bartholomew Tracey, M.D. Queen's University, Canada, Kingston, Canada. HEALTH RESTORED BY Du BAUM'S FOOD TO THB DronsCa, serves, holm and Bier, curing dyspepda (Ind**. 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