The Express. — London, England, 1864-04-06 00:00:00

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Our first interest in India, as in our other dependencies, must always be that the people shall live, and not die. We have been assured by the very highest autho rity on such matters that it is within our own power that our soldiers in India shall live, and not die ; and the same measures which may secure the life and health of our soldiers will save the civil population also, European and native. The great mortality which we have been accustomed to attribute to the climate has been proved by ample evidence not to be owing to climate, but to causes which operate more disastrously in great heat than in cooler places, but which are within our own control. Englishmen live in good health to an European age in tho hottest parts of India, when they dwell on a dry soil and in a pure atmosphere, and are well supplied with good water. For want of these essential safeguards the natives die off as Euro peans do. For them, as for us, the curse of the country is the absence of sanitary care, by which the causes of disease abound in city and village, in camp and barrack, along the rivers and on the plains. The mismanagement began in ignorance, and it has been perpetuated, since the ignorance began to give way, by an overwhelming sense of the magnitude of the task of reform. The work to be done is indeed so wait that we cannot be surprised if some persons in authority have resorted for relief to their minds to scepti cism about the extent of the evil on the one hand, and the practicability of curing it on the other. Sir JOHN LAWRENCE is not the man to deny what is proveable because it is disagreeable, nor to acquiesce in the continued sacrifice of life and health, as if it were a smaller cost and trouble than saving both by any means at our command. We knew, by his evidence before the Indian Sanitary Commission, that any power in his hands would be diligently applied to the furtherance of the necessary reforms ; and when he went out as Viceroy there was no doubt in the minds of those who knew him well that there was a fair prospect of the removal of the curse which could not be mitigated by any of the other great enter prises which are improving the fortunes of the people of India. These expectations have been fully answered, as far as time yet allows ; and if he lives, we may reasonably hope that the great mortality of India, and the peculiar liability to disease, may become a tradition, as wonderful to a future generation as any barbarism of our ancestors is to us. The smallest item in the recent news, though a mournfully important one, is that the seat of Government is to be removed from Calcutta. It has long been certain that this was inevitable ; but the necessity has been ignored as long as pos sible, on account of the expense, inconvenience and trouble of the change. The delay is com pletely understood to have cost several lives of in estimable value ; and the thing has to be done at last. It is done. The members of the Govern ment are to meet at Simla till it is decided what city has the best claim to be the seat of counsel and administration. Calcutta is to be the military headquarters at present—the risk to so migratory a body as the Staff being much less than to the civi lien Government ; and great reforms in the drainage and cleansing of the city and neighbourhood are going forward. Other changes, of importance in their way, have been adopted with a view to the repression of disease, and the benefit of the sick. Provision has been made for summary ritishment in certain cases, to obviate such overcrowding of the gaols as has occasioned a mortality of 20 per cent. ; and little as the punish ment of flogging is liked by the natives, they see that it is more merciful than dooming so many men to death by gaol disease. The military and civil authorities together have conferred a great boon ou the European soldiers, by giving them bedding which admits of their getting good rest. Iron cots, with the proper bedclothes, are ordered for the troops, to save them from the plague of vermin, with which they were powerless to deal while they had wooden bedsteads, planked, as if to harbour the pests which turn sleep into fever. In the hospitals, the hard straw mattresses, which are fit fur none but the most robust sleepers, are being exchanged for more elastic beds. Again, the sick in hospital are to be attended by European instead of native nurses. The native ayah is to be re placed by the soldier's wife of good character, selected fur her qualifications ; and the comfort of this change to sick men so far from home may be easily imagined. All this, however, might, and no doubt would, have been done without Sir Jolts LAWRENVE. The great news that we have received as from him that the sanitary agency by which India is to be made a healthy country is already in course of formation, and in fact actually organized in regard to I.:mga], the members being admirably qualified for the work. The Report of the Indian Sani. tsry c-inniitsion pointed out, by the light of tho evidenc, presented with it, that a new department of administration was needed ; and that each of the three Presidencies must have its own sanitary council and body of administrators, because the con ditions of health vary in different parts of the country. The soil has everywhere to be drained and purified, in the neighbourhood of human THE EXPRESS, WEDNFSDAY EVENII% 7 G. APRIL 6, 1864. dwellings, from decaying vegetation. This work, and the choice of • healthy situation for bar racks and camps and other settlememta, may be pretty much the same over the whole country. But the climate, and the character of the scenery, and the types of diodes vary greatly in different regions ; and the work of reform and the business of supervision are so vast and arduous ' , that the most effective administration in each Pre aidency can be no more than adequate to its du ties. All this was thoroughly understood by Sir J. LAWRENCE long before he expected to have the power of realization in his own bands ; and it appears that the very first work he appliedhimulf to, after his arrival in India, was the constitution of the Central Board of Health, which has since been announced. This Board is to take the control of the sanitary conditions, throughoutßengal, of the army, in regard to barracks, hospitals, stations, and towns in the neighbourhood of any of these. Boards of the same character are to be formed at Madras and Bombay ; and local boards at every station are to be in correspondence with these central councils, for guidance and aid. These central boards will be thankful enough to learn from our sanitary administration at home ; and thus, the benefits which we already derive from recent reforms will be extended to India. If the decrease of mortality here, and the improvement in the character and quality of our soldiery are conspicuous already, as a consequence of sanitary care, what may we not expect in India, where the whole case is magnified, as it were? The causes of the mischief are there equally plain and equally manageable, while the disease is fiercer, and the mortality heavier ; and the function of sanitary supervision is important in proportion. The saving of life in the army alone must be each u to silence, within • very short time, all cavil about expense. While every soldier is known to have cost 1001. when he is linded in India, there can be no question of the good economy of keeping him alive and service able ; and the simple fact of his remaining alive and serviceable will make us abundantly willing to pay the salaries of his protectors. But it is of infinitely greater importance that, with his, the life and health of civilians will be saved also. The natives will follow. From towns in the neighbourhood of military stations the improve ment must spread, extinguishing misery at every step , and the moral corruption which everywhere attends a low state of the public health. In view of such a prospect, we may well say that this is amongst the best news ever received in this country from India. THE COURT. The following "communicated" article appears In this morning's Tines : "An erroneous idea seems generally to prevail, and has latterly found frequent expression in the newspapers, that the Queen is about to resume the place in society which she occupied before her great affliction ; that is, that she is about again to hold levees and drawing-rooms in person, and to appear m before at court halls, conoerts, &c. This idea cannot be too explicitly contradicted. " The Queen heartily appreciates the desire of her sub jects to see her, and whatever she con do to gratify them in this loyal and affectionate wish she will do. Whenever any real object is to be attained by her appearing on public ompsions, may national interest to be promoted, or anything to be encouraged which is for the good of her people, her Majesty will not shrink, sa she has not shrunk, from my personal samilice or exertion, however painful. "Bat there are other and higher duties than those of mere representation which are now thrown upon the Queen, alone and uneasisted—duties which she cannot neg lect without injury to the public service, which weigh un ceasingly upon her, overwhelming her with work and anxiety. "The Queen has laboured oonsaieutionsly to discharge these duties till her health and strength, already shaken by the utter and ever-abiding desolation which his taken the place of her former happiness, have been seriously im paired. " lo call upon her to undergo, in addition, the fatigue of those mere State ceremonies which can be equally well performed by other members of her family is to ask her to run the risk of entirely disabling herself for the dis charge of those other duties which cannot be neglected without serious injury to the public interests. " The Queen will, however, do what she can—in the manner least trying to her health, strength, and spirits— to meet the loyal wishes of her sublet , * to afford that support and countenance to society, and to give that encouragement to trade which is desired of her. " More the Queen cannot do ; and more the kindness and good feeling of her people will surely not exact from her." GARIBALDI IN THB ISLE OP WIGHT. A letter from Brooke, in the Isle of Wight, dated yesterday, says : " We took a private road, and avoided villages in our fifteen miles' drive from Lowe• to Brooke. Now and then a middy found us out, and rode frantically pest us and back again to catch a right of the general. The electric chain of intelligesos was snapped after leaving Gown; few people were aware of Garibaldi's promos. At three places the clergyman were watching for the carriage, and uncovered es it passed. Near Brooke, dairymaids began to scamper out and labourers to rush up, and the general always re turned the salutes of the labourers. Scarcely a dozen per sons stood at the gates at Brooke. The hour of his snivel was unknown. At every point people were drivingdown lanes, and rushing on foot, too late to see the illustrious visitor. Rieciotti amused himself on the way pointing out the prim roses and violets on the banks, and connected the Isle of Wight with Yorkshire, which he remembers. Mr. Seely's house, with its stone portico and half ivy-covered walla, looking part mansion part church, steads in a pleasant spot, bounded by chalk cliffs, and overlooking at the back the broad sea the general loves et) well. The crows rose in the midst of • great chorus when the general drove down to the park. This was the only welcome the general got. A young lady held open the gate for the carriage to pass : her pretty face was the only one visible. "The weather has been shocking today at Brooke. Menotti and Rioeiotti Garibaldi, and Basso, visited South ampton for • change ; but the weather was worse there. Mr. Grant Duff, M.P., joined the dinner party at Mr. Seely's yesterday. The Poet Laureate and MIL Tennyson arrived at Brooke House this morning. The general and Signor Guerzoni are busy to-day considering the invita tions." PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. PUBLIC LANDS AND BUILDINGS (LOCAL RAMS). Motion made, and question put, "That, in the opinion of this house, all lands and buildings used and occupied for public purposes should be assessed to local rates. and pay rates accordingly."—(Mr. Alderman Salomon' :) The house divided ; Ayes, all ; Noss, 52. •YEB, Angerstein, W. Greene, J. Morrison. W. Ayrton, A. S. Jerroise, Mr J. C. Nicol, W. Bagwell, J. Kinglake, J. A. CYLoghlen, 81r C. W. lionham•Carter, J. Laird. J. Rothschild.karon.M. Buller, Sir A. W. Langton, W. H. Scholetleid, W. Cox, W. Lee, W. Vansittart, W. Dunlop, A. M. Lewis. H. Vyse, Cot. Dutton, IL H. Locke, J. White, J. Ewart, J. C. M.Cann, J. TELLERS. Ferran& W. Martin. P. W. Salmons, Ald. French, Col. Moor. B. Elphinstooe, Sir J. - NOD. Baring, SD F. T. Hankey, T. Paget, Lord C. Bailey, T. Harlington, Marg. of Palmer, 81,r B. Black, A. liodgkinson, 0. Palmerston, Vlach Bromley-Moore, J. Hutt, W. Peel. lf. Bruce, I Briscoe, L A. Kers J.IL Ingh haw, am. B. J. puib llildiston, J. Bury, Visa.. Kingscote, Col. Boheetam D. Chapman, J. ILisatclibull-Huges- Smith, J. B. Clive, G. lien, Z. Smith. Augustus Cobbett, J. M. Lessee, 0. I. Villiers, C. P. Cowper, W. P. Leighton, Btr B. Redhead. J. P. Crawford, H. W. Itacdonogli, F. Whitbread, 8. Gibson, T. IL Martin, J. White, L. Gilpin, C. Mildmay, H. F. Williams, W. Gladstone, W. Moffatt, 0. Yorke, J. B. Glynn, 0. 0. Montagu, Lord B. Greason• 14 * Morris, D. TILLER& Grey, Sir G. (Maw, T. Brand, H. B. Hadfield, G. Onslow, G. Duatrar, du R. Or Coun. WINDSOR CASTLE, Amu, 5. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Au gustus of Saxe Coburg, drove out yesterday afternoon. Prisms" Helena and Princess Louise, and Prime= Clotakie and Prisons dmilie of Saxe Coburg, accompanied her Majesty in a second carriage. Lieutenant-Colonel Du Plat attended on horseback. Palace Leopold and Primer Boatel°, took a carriage drive. Mr. Tsley had the honour of submitting to ber Majesty the Queen his picture in water colours of " The Night of the Betrayal." A deputatioa from the board of management of the Central London District School, °matting of Mr. Dalton (chairman), Mr. Sewell (vierehairman), Mr. Long, Mr. Pardon, Dr. Shea, Mr. Gale (architect), and Mr. Heath, (clerk) had an interview with the Right Hoe. 0. P. Villiers yesterday at the office of the Poordaw Board, Whitehall Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Lord High Commies'/ear of the lonian Wanda Despetc.bee were pent to the governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and St. Helena. We are authorised to state that the Queen has postponed the court appointed to be held at Buck ingham-palace this day at 3 o'clock until Saturday next the 9th inst., at the same hour. The Earl and Countess of Zetland will return to town early next week, from lake Hall, Yorkshire, for the season. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond and family will return to Belarave-sqnsee early next week from Good wood, where they have been paw* the ream. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDO& &Pen 5. INTENDED VISIT OP Mint ROYAL HIGIINIMMI TIM PIONCI LTD Prance-se Or WALLS TO CAMBIUDWL— The Vice-Chancellor has received ae official intimation to the effect that it will be the pleasure of their royal high nesses to visit the University of Cambridge in the month of June next. The fact of the intended visit was also an nounced by the mayor, at a meeting of the Town Council on Tuesday (yesterday), We bad the pleaeure of announc ing several weeks ago that this matter was in contempla tion. The following is a oopy of the Vice-Chancellor's no tice issued this morning :—" St, Peter's College Lodge, April 5, 1864.—The Vice-Chancellor has the high gratifi cation of announcing to the members of the university that it is the intention of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and ' Princess of Wales to honour the university with a visit in the week ending the Pith June next. The Vice-Chancellor will take the earliest opportunity of announcing to the member. of the university the arrangements made for the reception of their royal highnesses upon the occasion of this gracious mark of their royal highnesses' favour.* LIFEBOATS AND THE ROYAL FAMILY. The Rev. E. Hewlett, of St. Paul's, Manchester, and R. Whitworth, Esq., hare collected nearly the cost of four lifeboats which are to be placed under the management of the National Lifeboat Institution. An application was made by Mr. Hewlett to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales that one of the lifeboAta, which was to be sent to Ber wick-on-Tweed, might be named after the infant prince, the "Albert Victor." To that application the following anti. tying reply has been received " Sandringham, King's Lynn, April 2. "Sir,-1 em directed by the Prince of Wales to inform you that his royal highness is much gratified by the pro uosal of the South Manchester branch of the Royal Na tional Lifeboat lostitution that their new boat should be associated in name with the infant prince, and that he wishes her all encores. —I have, " The Rev. E. Hewlett." " HERBERT FISREIL With the special permission of the late Prince Consort, the Padstow lifeboat of the institution was named the "Albert Edward," after the Prince of Wales, who is also the Duke of Cornwall. By • singular and happy coinci dence that lifeboat was the means of saving four poor c.a./Ames from an inevitable' death on the very day that thp prince attained him majority. PZOBAIILL THIMIDAY. 011 NORTIIII.3I num.. LE. to B.W. and N. W., COAne. &W. to N. W. and eartable, moderate, back, moderate to with some rain. fresh. As above. WWFMUI. As above. B.W. to N.W.and to florriuma. W. to N. and back to places to N Z., earl. B. W., moderate te able, moderate, with fresh, generally tine. some rain in places. &L to &W. and N. W., IAMB& 8.8. W. to N.N.W., fresh to moderate, moderate, One. generally flue. kartheramßoatlaatt Weetern=lrelantl. Woks, and ad faceacko. Bouthora=BasUmh Channel and Biscay Bay. Sagami I=Kaatward Ragland sad Rellgoland. A letter from the German camp says :—" I hew that three of the officers wounded on the Mb are dead, and that another is dying. There are with this army six servitor-brothers of the Raabe Haus, at Hamburg, a chari table institution, who go on the field under fire to bear away the wounded. The Prince of Plea and Count Stolberg (President of the Presairn Upper Chamber), who have been here in connexion with the establishment of the hospitals of Bt. John, accompanied them, and led the way on the first occasion on which they performed this dangerous service." THE EMPEROR'.ltia.v.—Several members of par liament have visited Paris this Easter, amongst whom may be named Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald. Mr. Pope Hennessy, Sir R. Clifton, Re., B:4—Paris Correspondent of Post. Certain gobenowAt correspoodeote ware from Paris their respec tive journals in the provinces that all preliminaries have hese fully arranged for the coming change of ministry by two distinguished visitors now io this capital, the hoes member for Horsham and Mr. Disraeli's devoted hench man, 11.1 . for King's County ; the latter has again been in attendance yesterday at the Tuileries, as wo are told by these court chroniclers.—Paris correspondent of Ririe. STRANDING or HER MAJ/DITY'S SHIP MAGPIE.— A telegram from Galway states that her Majesty's ship Magpie went ashore on Crab Island on Monday morning during the fog. The steamer Rover has gone down to her assiatanee. She was expected to be got off that sight, having been stripped of everything moveable to lighten her, es the see via running high. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. 0111~1 TILIGIAISO THE BOMBARDMENT OF SONDERBORO. COPENHAGEN, Aram 5, 9.25 sal. The bombardment of Sonderborg was recom menced yesterday at 2 p.m. The Thippel works have sustained no injury whatever. A pontoon train has been seen near Ballesgaard. General Fassard is expected in Copenhagen from Stockholm. BOMBARDMENT OF DUPPEL. COPENHAGEN, Ann 5, 10.10 a.m. A lively artillery fight took place at Duppel yes terday. The bombardment of Sonderborg has ceased. The enemy has erected batteries in Stegewig for the purpose of bombarding men-of-war. AUSTRIA, PRUSSIA, AND THE CONFERENCE. VLENNA, Aran 5, EvrnrG. . . The semi-official Wiener Abend post of to-day says :—" The allied powers will demand at the conference ample security for the complete inde pendence of the Duchies, as well as for an uncon ditional equality with the remaiuder of Denmark. They will further demand the political union of Sleswig and Holstein with Germany, by which they are permanently to be protected." THE CONFERENCE. COPENHAGEN, APRIL 4, 10.10 P.Y. . . _ . The Padre land of to-day says :—"We learn that Denmark will be represented at the conference by M. de Bilk, the Danish Minister in London, M. de Quaade, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and M. Krieger, Member of the High Court. The two latter are expected to leave for London on the 7th inst." PORTUGAL LISBON, APRIL 6. Two Austrian frigates and a gunboat have sailed for the Baltic. It is expected that the bill abolishing the tobacco monopoly will meet with opposition in the Chamber of Peers. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (rsou ova OWN 001111.7.8PONDENT.) PARIS, TCENDLT EVENING. The prorogation, as it is called, of the session of the Corps Ldgislatif to May 4 appears in the Monikur to-day, but it is already said that a further extension will be necessary. M. O'Quin'a report on the budget is so voluminous that it will take a week to print it, and there is no chance of r the debate on the budget beginning before the 20th instant. Among the important bills which, as too usual, are only ready towards the end of the ses sion, the Sugar Bill and that on coalitions are likely to give rise to long debates. The Temps hears from Berlin that Prussia is dis posed to accept the French proposal for an appeal to universal suffrage in the duchies, but that M. de Bismark prefers a suffrage of two degrees—that is, the election by the people of an assembly whose vote would be taken to be the expression of the wishes of the nation. The France, in answer to the paragraph of the ifoniteur, refuting its statement that the anniver sary of the battle of Waterloo was still celebrated in England, says it will not dispute about words ; but that what it particularly referred to was the banquet at the Mansion House on June la, 1863, at which Baron Gros, the French ambassador, was present and sat next to Lord Palmerston. The Pays, however, quotes a passage from Lord Pal merston's speech on that occasion in favour of the French alliance, which makes no allusion to the anniversary, and I have no doubt at all that the fixing of the banquet for that day was quite acci dental. The Bourse is weak. Quotations in Bente have scarcely changed, but Mobilier fell 6fr. 25c., and the Orleans Railway lOfr. Letters from Montpellier state that the agitation continues there, and that considerable bands of people throng the streets in the evening, which are dispersed by strong detachments of infantry and cavalry, supported by gendarmes and policemen. Arrests continue to be made. WEATHER REPORT. -(THIS DAY.) WI:DWI/DAY. inn. 6, 6 LX. B. Ai Nairn - /30.1440 f Aberdeen 140.32 Leith '40.21 43. Antromen. ... 13019 43 , lireesceetle 130.15 411 Galway Valencia 1 30.1754 Cape Clear , 40.19 52 Queenstown 1M0.21 40 66 Liverpoel '3o Robleed 46 Pembroke Brun : .20.24'52 L'Orient 130 16 92 Rochefort ' 80.20 05, !teal Weymouth Portsmouth London :4O 27 40 Dover .. . 130.26 44 INEINCRIth 40.22 401 Scarborough 30.27 119 OM. 40.2244 1 I 8.9.8 2 , B. 2I N.W. 2 ! 8. 1 &S.& o , 8.8. W. 0 1 W.B.W. 1 I B.W. 1 ! 0 1 B.S.E. 0 ! 8.5.8. I I N.W. 0' N.W. ▪ N.W. 1 1 X. 1 I LS.Z. 1 B.E. 1 B.Z. 1 SL 1 Z. 2: ZAK. • R. 2 W.S.W. 2 ! N. ro 16.461 ro / 0.11 To . — 0.17 i ro I of 0.14 rf ;las' rf cktrl f •co.srl a 0.30, re 0.41 oc 1 0.57; Im 'O.SV THE SUGAR DUTIES. The following are copies of a memorial addressed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce on this subject, and the reply thereto, which wu received yesterday : "To the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., die., Chan. Geller of her Majesty's Exchequer. " The Memorial of the Board of Directors of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, I;irtheiicilirma7: ..-- " Respectfully showeth, —That your memorialists have in peat years on many occasions addressed her Majesty's government and the legislature on the subject of the sugar duties. That they have been at all times anxious to obtain a considerable reduction in the rate of those duties. That, in common with all free traders, your memorialists have consistently advocated the abolition of all import duties, except those absolutely necessary for purpose. of revenue. That the duties on sugar are of the latter description, and your memorialists are most desirous that they should be fixed at u low • rate as possible ; and that in the interest of the consumer no impediments be opposed to the impor tation of any class of sugar from the very lowest quality to the finest loaf smut. In order that no one class of persons shall be protected at the expense of another, it is, in the opinion of your memorialists, needful that the duties be assessed upon the article in proportion to the amount of crystallissWe saccharine matter which it contains. Your me morialist., therefore, hope that you will take the matter into your early and favourable consideration, and that you will make as large • reduction in the duties now levied upon sugar as may be consistent with the exigencies of the public service.—And your memorialists will ever pray, Sic." The following is the reply : " 11, Downingetreet, Whitehall, April 4, 1864. " am desired by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to acknowledge the receipt, through you, of a memorial from the Chamber of Commerce at Manchester, on the subject of the sugar duties ; and I am to assure you that it shall receive the full consideration of her Majesty's go vernment.-1 remain, air, your obedient servant. . ' "J•s. F. STUART WORTLIT. " Hugh Fleming, Esq." Mr. W. Evart has deferred his motion for the repeal 44 the punishment of death till Tneeder, the 3rd of May. Mr. John Benjamin Smith intends, on the 3rd of next month, to call the attention of the Hones of Com mons to the expediency of adopting • gold currency in India. . - On going into committee of supply on Friday week, Mr. William Fonder will call the attention of the house to the arrangement between the Foreign-oftioe and the Board of Trade is reference to communications between her Majesty's government and foreign governments upon foreign tariffs, and will nova for a select committee thereon, To-morrow Sir Harry Verney will ask the'First Lord of the Treasury whether, at the conference about to erasable on the affairs of Germany and Denmark, "there will be anyone who will protect the interests of the Jahn bitents of Holatelo and Sleswig." To-morrow Mr. Osborne will ask the Under- Secretary of State for War whether it is intended to build the fort recommended by the Defence Commissioners upon the Stourbddge Shoal at f3pithead ; and howfar the original plan for the defence of the harbour of Portsmouth, as laid down by the royal commissioners and sanctioned by par liament, bas been departed from. Mr. Ormsby Gore has the following notice on the House of Common paper, for' Friday :—" The govern ment having increased the allowance towards the mainte nance in county and borough rola of convicts sentenced to penal servitude from a maximum of 4e. per bead per week to a m►ximnm of Se. for such • period as they may be detained in prison, beyond two calendar months from the time of conviction, to ask the Secretary of Siete for the Home Department, whether it is intended to keep such convicts in county gaols for any time longer than at pre sent, as it will in Shropshire necessitate an increase of accommodation and in staff, there being no means of giving hard labour for any greater number than at preterit.'• . . On going into committee of supply, on Friday, Sir Lawrence Palk will call the attention of Mr. Attorney- General to a rule obtained for a commission to examine the Nobs of Egypt and other witnesses at Cairo to obtain evi dence spinet the steam reins detained at Birkenhead ; and to ask how long this investigation is likely to take, and the probable expense of it ; whether the trial of the Birken head ironclad' will be postponed from May next, until this information be obtained ; and, why this role was not applied for when the vessels were first detained. On going into committee of supply, Mr. Peacocks will call attention to the cue of the Tuscaloosa ; end move the following resolutions :—" I. That the instrneticias coo tamed in the despatch of the Duke of Newcastle to Sir P. Wodehouae, dated the 4th of November. 1863, and which remain still unrevoked, are at variance with the principles of international law. 2. That the opinion of the law oaken of the crown, being a ooa6dential document intended for the guidance of the government, upon which they can act or not, as they see 6t in the exercise of their discretion, and on their own responsiblity, ought not to have been trans. mitted by any minister of the crown to Admiral Sir B. Walker for his guidance." The annexect notice was issued by the Bank of England yesterday :—" Bank of England, April 5, 1864. In consequence of the great number of letters returned by the Post-office from being insufficiently addressed, the Bank will require for the future in all new accounts which are proposed to be raised in the boots kept for the public funds, that the number of the house, as well as the name of the street in which the stock proprietor resides, shall be stated. C. E. ORLY, Chief Accountant, Beak of England." PRINCE ALFRED.—His Royal Highnees Prince Alfred returned to Holyrood on Monday rooming Iran Wishaw House, where he had been on a visit to Lord sod Lady Heller's. His royal highness has signified his inten tion of honouring the let /did•Lothian Rifle Volunteers with his presence at their co.,cert in the Corn Exchange, Leith, on Wednesday evening. . RZYLL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—A meeting of this society was held yesterday in the council-room at South Kenaisgton, when a number of new fellows were elected, among whom were Mr. Win. Nicol, hf.P., Mr. George Plunkett, FAH of Sheffield, Madame R. de Valineney, Mrs. Crawford, Mrs. Plankton, &c. After the election an in teresting lecture on the hyacinth was given by Mr. W. Paul, of Manhunt, and was profusely illustrated by a perfect show of the plant. A paper by Mr. dames Bate man, FALB., of Biddulph Grange, on the culti vation of the dwarf banana, Musa Cavendishii, was next read. A large bunch of the fruit was ex hibited, and was afterwards broken up and distri buted among the andletice. Mr. Bateman had also sent a magnifinnt specimen of dartdrobitun nobile to be alio wt ; it wu nofortunately late in arriving, but was liberally pre sented by him to the society, to be balloted for among those present, which was done on the spot Mime Nicoll. of Hyde Park-gardens. proved the fortunais winner. Some curious specimens lately sent from New Grenada by the society's collector, Mr. Weir, were exhibited to the meeting. The power of the penny is well illustrated in the soecuste of the Birkenhead ferries. In the year ending Marsh 31, their returns were nearly 38,0004 and their profits above 13,0001. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE IN PESTONY IL LE PRISON. An inquiry of a melancholy character waa insti tuted by Dr. Lakeside Let evening at the Pentonville Model Prism, relative to the death of a pneoox Valen tine 13anibrick, aged 28 yews, who wee found dead and hanging in his cell on Friday evening last. Last week a similar inquest was held. Mr. Charles Lawrence Bradley, medical officer of the prison, said he had been told that he Iprieoner) fretted, as he was being unjustly punished for a crime of which be was not guilty. His mind was no doubt impaired, sod he had suffered from delirium tremens. A letter was written on • slate by deceased, which might be worth the attention of the jury. On the production of the slate the Coroner read the fol lowing letter : My dear dear Friend . and Family,—Becoming quite tired of my ;rule miserable existence, I am about to rash into the praise°, of my Maker uncalled and awaked. To you I appeal for forgiveness and pardon for all the unhap piness I have ever caused you. I dare not ask for mercy of God. lam doing that which admits of no pardon, but if He will hear my prayer, I pray to Him to grant you conso lation in your hour of affliction, for I know that, notwith standing all my faults, that love which you always mani fested towards me is not withheld yet, and therefore the news of my unfortunate fate will make time sorrowful. Pray for your unfortunate see. " Vat. Bausuce." " P.B.—Before I die, I protest solemnly my entire inno cence of the charge for which I was punished, all but the Result, and that was due under the circumstances before mentioned to you in my letter. "God bless you all. Love to all my relatioes. Pity even while you condemn • Pooa Vat." John Potter, a prisoner, said he was in the next cell to the deceased. He did not know until that afternoon that he was dead, when the deputy -governor sent for him and told him. He only knew deceased by his number. C 21. De aseesd bad spoken to him twios. The first time he said, " I have sent out alspecial letter, and I expect to be dis charged." The second time he said he was an innocent man. The Coroner—Have you any complaint to make of the diety have riven to you ? ri:oter—Mo, sir ; I have meat every day. A juror —When the dspirty•governor called you down, did he instruct you as to what you were to my here? Primmer—No, sir.. _ _ The foreman: referring to the statement made by the prisoner they bad just examined, wished to keow whether that 'postal letter had been forwaredtothe friends Captain Craig (the governor who had been sent for) in. formed the jury that on the 26th of February . the crimper applied to him for permimion to write • spe cial letter. and as he was a well-behaved man he granted the application. Prisoners were only allowed to write • letter on their entry, and then one every three months. The deceased was not entitled to writs until this :moth. That special letter was forwarded to his family directly. A petition followed, and there was no doubt that if • certain woman bad been found the deceased would have obtained his release. The deceased mine from Winchester Gaol • the governor there, feeling highly inte rested in the pri soner endeavoured to get a commutation of sentence. Hii . cousidered be was perfectly innocent, as did also he (Captain Craig). The deceased was charged with stealing a Victoria Cross and several medals from • soldier who had created a disturbance in • brothel at Aldershott with • prostitute. The woman screamed "Murder," and the dewed (who was also • soldier) went to protect her. He thrashed the other soldier, during which his medals fell off. Deeemed picked them up and put them on the mantelcimlf. They were, bower, lost, and the demeaned wm accused of the robbery. The deceased also had • Victoria Crow sod medals, and • pension of 101. a year for life ; the latter was, however, forfeited by the conviction. While the deceased was in that prison an order from the Secretary of State arrived, direct ing that the Victoria Cross which had bees obtained by the dewed should be also forfeited, and this also affected the dewed. _ _ _ A juror willed to know if= of Qs letter on tho slate would be forwarded to tbe Captain Cm* replied that so tranowipt would be made, but the original became their , acid would be forwarded to them with the decision of miaow's jury. The body could either be buried by them or otherwise. After some remarks on the very inalsnaholy chanter of the ease, The under u juryns ound retume mind d a verdict of "Suicide, wh il e labouring AN EXECUTIONER MALTREATED BY A MOB. The Northern Whig thus describes a scene which occurred after the execution at Gwen as Monday :—" About 12 o'clock, an extraordinary some occurred, which, by the indiscretion ofleconie one connected with the pol, might have developed itself into the execution of the elem. timer. The train starts about that hour from Gavin, and the individual who iu the moss* performed the last dread function of the law wee observed shortly be fore that time walking coolly along the street to the railway station with no companion except • turnkey. Instautly a shout was made of ' The hangman ! the hangman !" Murder the ruffian Kill him l' The groan and booing were terrific. Some polio* who were in thera ilway station rushed out, sod it was with the greatest difficulty and exertions on their part that the crowd were prevented from tearing the executioner to pieces. He trembled violently, and hi knees shook together. Women cursed him, &area pelted him, and men endeavoured, if partible, to get even an blow at him. He is a pro fessional executioner, having now put seven or eight through his hands, and be never yet _ placed • man on the scaffold in a state of such abject fear as he exhibited in the streets of Given. Pale and livid with terror at the awful yells and groans which met him on every side, he crouched into the dance in the midst of • file of policemen. Here he was to encounter, if pos sible, • still worse reception. The platform and train were crowded with between 200 and 300 seen and women, some of them emigrants for America, and the other their friends waiting to see them off. There wen • truly Irish and affectionate parting going on. Some were weep ing and others were embracing those they loved nearest and dearest. However, all this was given up in an instant, onus they heard there was a hangman among them. If the people outside would have torn the fellow to pieces, those inside would have pulled the rope to bang him. He was groaned and yelled at most dreadfully. In the midst of the police be was jostled from one platform to another. The crowd would not permit him to enter any of the car riage*, and he was about to be left behind, when a happy thought occurred. Eight or tea policemen ran down - the line about half a mile, dragging him along, so that the train might pick him up on the way. This course wee adopted, and he was accommodated in • luggage waggon with about , half a dozen police as protection. When the train arrive at Clouse the passengers change carriages, and here the unfor tunate law finulier was in another tx. There were no carriages to change to except than in which there were passengers, and no one would allow him to ride with them. He pitifully implored' for God's sake' to be ' stuck in na l luggage,' for he would be killed. He got into a truck as luggage—the policemen being still with him, and he left the train at Armagh, of which place he lea resident. There was an amount of indiscretion approaching to lunacy in the opal manner the executioner was brought to the train, sod it was very fortunate that a serious riot wee not the result." Fivg‘ttitte ELserrote.—Before the standing com mittee of the liberal party at Markineh on Monday, Sir K. Aostruther made s brief statement of bin political opinions. and on the motion of Mr. Steobouse, seconded by Sir David Baxter, it was unanimously resolved that he was a fit and proper permit to represent the county in parliament ; and a second resolution. moved by Admiral Bethune, and seconded by Mr. R. Ilutchioaon, pledged the meeting to use every exertion to promote his return. Sir Robert Ananutber stated that be would not issue Ilia address until after the funeral of Mr. Wernyes, which takes place this day (Wed nesday). At a meeting of 000ssrvatives held yesterday at Cupar-Fife, it was unanimously resolved to present a requi sition to Captain Anstruther Thomson, of Charletoo, Lord Loughborough having spin declined to stand. LAW INTELLIGENCE (THIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Corozoirsioner Goa Morn.) IL COLONIL WAUGH. This was a reneweclapplicidoniorrilicautrge from custody by the bankrupt, whose cam has been so repeatedly before the court. ____ Mr. Sergood, in an eloquent speech, called attention to the painful character of the one. For one year and twelve days had the bankrupt been laid up in a darkened room of the infirmary of the prison, with blinds drawn down to protect his eyes. The Commissioner said he had beard that the colonel was on the point of death. Mr. Lewis said that the official liquidators of the London and Eastern Banking Corporation were willing that the amount of bail originally fixed should be reduced by one half. via., to 2,0001. The COMMill•ioDer refused to interfere, but said that he would give his decision to-morrow (Thursday) morning. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DIY.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ♦ WARDER OE THE ROUtii OF Dermnox CHAR , IFD Wj?❑ ATTEMPTING TO COMPOUND • MINDEMIANOCR, Frefkrtek Tipataj, foe fifteen years • warder at the House of Detention, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt oar warrant "for that well knowing • misdemeanour to hav e been committed, and to cause the escape with im punity of Thomas Howard (the person charged with the misdemeanour) he did unlawfully endeavour and atter - cpt to compound each misdemeanour." Mr. E. Dillon Lewis ((rum the offioe of Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street) prosecuted, and Mr. Moues' : from the office of Mr. Beard defended. Mr. Lewis, in opniog the case, said the prisoner r charged with compounding a misdemeanour, • *emus charge against anyone, bat much more so against • person holding • responsible situation at • prison like the prisoner, who was • warder at the House of Detention. lie should call some witnesses, and be felt little doubt that after bie worship had heard them, he would have no hesitation in committing the prisoner for trial. He might, however, state that • man named Howard was charged at this court with abduction, and that the prisoner had offered the girl Minnie Wilson 501. or 1001. to keep out of the way. Mr. Lewis then called Minnie Wilson, a good-looking well-dressed girl, about 17 years of age, who said--About .; in the afternoon of Tuesday last the prisoner asked me if knew Mr. Howard. I said, " Yes." He then said he (pri sms') had been looking for me all the day before to per. suede me not to appear against Mr. Howard, who keeps a refreshment hones in the Haymarket, stating that it " would blast Mr. Howard's prospects for life . He said he would give me 501. or 100/. if I would go into Hereford, where I believe Howard's relatives reside, and that Howard should marry me. The prisoner did not say what he was, but that he was sent by Howard. I declined the offer. He asked me to go and roe Howard at the House of Detention. I did not consent to go. lie then asked me to meet him at 9 that night, and he would give me the money. I was to go to the house in the Haymarket and he would give me the :la or 1001. He met me again in Coventry-street, and asked me Dot to appear against Howard, having a person with him. He said I could have any money I wanted, to go to Here ford, and not to appear against him. I received no money. Mr. Tyrwhitt—You had got • warrant against Howard for abduction ! Prosecutor—Yes, sir. Mr. Hayford having cross-examined the young woman at some length, Sergeant George Appleton, 26 C, said-1 know the pri soner as • warder at the House of Detention, and have seen him in the uniform of • warder. _ _ In answer to Mr. Lewis , the sergeant said—On Thursday night last I saw the prisoner in Howard's kitchen and took him into custody, but he was only detained there a short time, and subsequently taken on the warrant. He said that Howard had given him the keys of his box and told him to take the many in it and take charge of his affairs. Mr. Tyrwhitt—l shall remand the prisoner till to-morrow, when Howard will be brought up. Mr. Maynard—Will you take moderate bail as the pri• sonar is to to found I raritiieliiew this asMIN whether the charge is proved against the primmer or not, ea one of the most im portent that could be brought before the court, as there are so many opportunities for such persons in the situation of the prisoner. dealing between prisoners end other per sons, and the temptation is so greet that they ought to be watched. A warder can do almost what he pleases with prisoners, and for one ease that is brought forward one hun dred may peas unnoticed and unknown. I do not wish to prejudge the case, but I most have two bail is 501. each. The prisoner was then remanded, Mr. Lewis asking that notice might be given as to the bail. WOlit3H IP-SrItICET. An extremely looki ng 16 yearn o i fz as and who gave her name Mary Norris, charged Esther Mow with stealing a beadle containing wearing apparel. Complainant stated, in the most artless manner and tones, that she came from Posey, in Wiltshire, by rail the previous day, at the request of her cousin, who lived in the neighbourhood of Bhareditoh, to take a servant's situation, and that being unable to discover the address of her relative she asked the prisoner, whom she met in the street, to direct her to some decent house where she could got a night's lodging ; instead of doing which the woman took her I. a place where, having accompanied her up one flight of stairs, she snatched her bundle of clothes from her, and nu away with them. On spin getting into the street she told • police-constable of what had happened, and he kindly ao companied her in search of the primmer, whom they very soon met -- ;;;;;;ree 412 corroborated the latter part of the girl's statiunent, sod added that be had also ecoeseded in finding her combs, an appanintly hard•working person. but unable to moist her. The bundle had Dot been recovered, and it contaiaed all the girl was worth, wording to her account, in value about 25.. Mr. Leigh sympathised with the complainant under cir cumstances apparently showing a cruel robbery had been perpetrated on her, find directed that she should mars 15s. from the poor-box. . . . . TiePriVoMrMTisestly and repeatedly asserted that she had never seen the girl before being given into matedy by her in the stmt., consequently that she was wispily innossat. A oonetable said sbe was a bad character, and had been convicted, bits some doubts wars entertained by him of her guilt in this matter. A remand was ordered far gip to be made, and now it was clearly shown that tbe had falsely represented much of what appeared truthf ; and Weed it was impossible to con clude any robbery bad been committed. Mr. Leigh withdrew his promiesd bounty, and discharged the prisoner. THE TOWNLEY CASIA.—.PILOPOSED DIEHILWAL or THY GAOL itersosoa.—At the Derbyshire sessious yedm. day, the visiting justices promoted a report, in which they refer to a subject connected with the affair of Townley. They state that " the conduct of the surgeoa of the gaol in raspier* to that prisoner's mere wee so much impugned. ad excited such general animadversion, that the visiting justices thought it seminary Co discuss the question se to whether he ought not to be dismissed from his office, but as they were unable to arrive at a unanimous decision, they determined to make no recommendation oo the point, but to leave it to the court to decide." Colonel Wilmot moved a resolatios to the effect that Yr. (Mcrae, the airman of the gaol, be relieved from hie &diem. A discussion, mainly on a point of form, followed, and it wee ultimately resolved that the question be referred back to the visiting justices. and that they be requested to make a recommendation ups the subject at the next quarter sessions. It wu stated t ha t seven of the visiting justices were for a dismissal and three for the retention of Kr. Globous's servioes.—Manchester Courier. The RECENT OUTRAOII UPON A SURGEON AT LIVERPOOL.- -Tim health of Mr. Rowe, the Liverpool Bur gems who was so seriously maltreated by Brice sod Soott on Saturday night, is • little improved, but the medical men who ere attending him state that the injury to the leg mums such general irritability and restlessness, as materially to aggravate the danger from congestion of the lungs. It is understood that Mr. Rows would have given up the locket sod letter demanded by Brim, had proper representatioes been made upon the subject, but that Brie. was personally unknown to him, and that he naturally refused to restore the articles under threats of violence. Ax OLD FOXIIIINTE3L IN • FI X. —A singular eocounter took place • few days since on the footpath lead. ing across Ballachulish Glen to Glencrevex. The old vete ran, Dan M `Coll, a few days after giving in his maignation as foxbuster, was returning home one evening from the Balla. chnlish Stone, when be came op to an unusually large deer, which bad evidently been chased and scared by shepherds' dogs. The animal manifested signs of a pugnacious dirpo sitiom and as Dan bad no weapon of defence save a small decider cane, he, with a prudent tepril for his own safety, took to his heels, followed by the deer. DAL made for • tree close by him, and speedily made his way up with wooderful agility. The deer, however, was not to be so so euily loaned. Setting to work in right earnest. he dug all around the tree with his feet and antlers, smelling and snuffing at his prisoner, endeavouring with much sagacity and perseverance, to reach him, provoking thereby the most grievous apprehension in the mind of the perplexed object of his fury. Dan's anxiety wee protracted nearly two bourn, when at length he spied • port of wayfaring travellers wring down the ridge of the hill, to whom he shouted desperately for assistance. His eii, • were beard, and the party immediately repaired to his aid, when the deer wee beaten off towards Benvaar.hill, .Lud poor Dan delivered from the perilous plight. Snove u.. HARBOURING • POLICE CONSTA Robert Carter, police-constable Na 117, Edivinmon. of the Metro politan police force, writes to us to contradict in the most positive terms the statement that he was the constable found drinking is the Black Bull public house during part of the time appointed for his being on duty, and for hare bouring whom lb* landlord was fined at the Clerkonwell Moline-ooart on Monday. ~- Mb