The Express. — London, England, 1865-03-03 00:00:00

jOllll BROGDEN. ORIGINAL GOLD OHAI N MANUFACTORY, u, 1101.111T1/68TAZZT. COVINT-OARDIN. JOHN BROODKN'S GOLD CHAIN& JOHN BROGDRN'S GOLD GUARD GRAM. JOHN BROODIN'S GOLD ALBERT CHAIN. JOHN BROGDENSOOLD BROOCH CHAINS. R=KM !we wait Suppe r foe you after the Pantomime. at WANDat. Ette OniVtAL TO 001.111111PONDRYIS. Avgailsentants Intendoe fog TIN Dome Loodow Knalltk Pa r, must be at the Olio*, 10, Boagodordzoof, by Two o'clock on the day of pablioalkoa. ILATILARCIT. Tuts Erna*, FISH art OF WATU. Mr. Compton. DAVID GAILICK..—LORD DIINDIUSAILY itARAIRD AND DONE FOL. Worm SoOwn, Brad. sad BookAare ; BDowdon.—And PRINCESS EIeRINGTHID. PILINOZAVS. Taw Evisuco, BRAITAITZINGS AND FIDDLY...STRINGS. —Aid THZ STUNTS OF LONDON. llama Vlaime, J. W. RAT, IL Marc D. germ, I. Deism IL taniabst, AM I. MOW Ww. R. Manks. Mom Bins@ sad (Wyss& AND M. ERIN, EINTSON CO. Nr. Emery and M 1 Eleworthy.—THE EOAD43IOII INN. YOWL Pechter, Horscaan, Wlddloomb. Maxim&lnk. Ilardam, Itaymood ; You Ekworelty. And TWO IN TIN NOZNINO. Nerna. Widdlcomb and Emery. sarzurNlA. Tun Zramurt, TWISTY STRAW& —Add LITTLE BUSY BIZ: ar, lb* Old lady at Ttavadasainalren Mesdames L 11110 aad Banat lambs : Yr. G. Blewood. Avant, Pastaandan —Cananare at lallian UM WATIZ •T lONDOLSSIXDOL MI My Mirada& Si 41r.....Aftersoos. Ob. lta. taikulacir Morsiag, 411 i. Sra. Allusoon. 7b. la. LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 3. Tutu jury which tried Gasuoino Mocuti have found him guilty of killing HUMANS HARRINGTON. Two men have thus now been convicted of that crime. Pnr.usionr., found guilty of murder, lies under sentence of death, and GRZGORIO MOGNI, found guilty of manslaughter, is condemned to penal servitude. It is evident not only that both sentences cannot be executed, but also that the two men cannot be punished for the same crime. The Judge, Mr. Justice Brim, told the jury yester day it was a mistake to suppose that the guilt or innocence of PELIZZIONE would be conclusively established by the result of that trial. That is no doubt true. The verdicts have equal legal value, but the truth of either of them excludes the truth of the other. Under these circumstances, there is no doubt that the fiscarrany of STATI will incline to that retained yesterday, as at once representing the most merciful view of the case and the results of the latest investigation. INSURANCE THE GO' REGULATIONS. The tables which were isaued last week, and of which we gave an explanation in our impression of the 22nd February, contained the rates of pay ment to be made by persons of various ages, in order to insure either a sum payable at death, or an annuity payable during life. The rules which are to guide applicants for such insurances, and the directions for the Poet-office officers by whom the arrangements are to be carried out, together with an appendix of forms, have now been issued in the shape of a paper presented to Parliament., and which may be purchased by the public for aixpenoe. We shall endeavour to explain the nature of the system which is thus to be put in operation. . . . The sum to which payments, either made at once, or extending through a limited or an un certain number of years, will amount at death is, as we have seen, on an average perfectly fixed and known. So also the amount of annuity which can be granted during the remainder of a life, in consideration either of a single payment, or of payments during the years before the annuity begins, is also on an average quite ascertained. But in both cases it is ewer tained on the average of • number of ordinary healthy lives not subject to be prematurely cut short either by disease or accident. It is in such cases only that we can fairly speak of an average, or make any calculation of probable life founded on an average, for it is at once evident that if there is any circumstance of health or avocation which makes a shorter life probable, such a life has no claim to make a bargain on the footing that it is likely to be of the usual length. Therefore, in all insurance companies, when any one proposes to insure his life, the practice is to require the proposer to answer minute questions as to his general health, both at the time, and at every previous period, as to whether he has ever had symptoms of heart disease, of consumption, or of some other generally f►tal maladies; as to what the health of his father and mother, brothers and sisters, has been, and whether any of them have died from such maladies ; as to his own habits of eating and drinking, and taking exercise. Ile is then required to furnish the name of his regular medical attendant, and of one or more intimate personal friends, and to each of these the insurance office addresses a confidential paper of written inquiries respecting the health and habits of the proposer. Finally, he is required to undergo a minute medical examination by the physician of the company. Of course, also, he is required to furnish strict evidence of his age, since, assuming that he is passed as of average health, it is his age that determines the amount of premium that he will have to pay. Precautions like these cannot be neglected by government, when it undertakes the business of life insurance, unless it is to be the butt of every species of fraud. But the regulations it has adopted are in no respect more stringent, while in some they are less rigid, than those which would be applied to a Baring or a Rothschild if be were to desire to insure his life with any ordinary office. It is important that this should be under stood, that working men may not be startled by the application to them of inquiries which may seem curiously inquisitive, but which are necessary to prevent the practice of insurance from being a dead loss„to the body which undertakes it. The Government system is to be worked en tirely through the Post-offices. Every Money order Office and such other offices as the Post master-General may appoint, are to be entitled to transact insurance business. On presenting him self at one of these offices (as soon as the regula tions have come into operation), the applicant for insurance will be furnished with a printed form, containing the questions which he has to answer. They call for a statement of his name, occupation, place of birth, and age, the amount for which he wishes an insurance, whether he is married, whether his father and mother are dead, and, if dead, what was their age and the cause of their death, the like information respecting brothers and sisters ; bow long the applicant has followed his present occupation, and what previonsoccupation he followed ; whether he has been off work from bed health within the last two years ; whether he is a member of any friendly society, or sick or burial club, or has insured his life in any oil*, or Wen" rejected by any office ; wbetheir s laber Tto ttat been vaccinated, has ever lived hut clit the Kingdom, has suffered frosa any aMMs~rt, or small pox, palsy, disease of heart or lungs, or other organ ; who has attended him when ill, and whether any relation has suffered from snob dis cuss. The applicant is also to furnish the name of his present or late employer, and of two re spectable householders to whom he refers. The postmaster is to read over all these questions to him, and to see that he understands them, and then the applicant is to sign his proposal, contain ing the answers, and a solemn declaration that they are true, in the postmaster's presence. He is also to furnish evidence of his age, in the form, if he is a native of England or Wales, born after 30th June, 1 1837 (at which date the new system of registration of births came into play), of a certificate of his birth from the Registrar-General, or the district registrar, a document which may be procured for a few shillings. If not a native of Eagland or Wales, or born prior to the above date, he must produce, if possible, a certificate of birth or baptism from a parish register ; if he cannot, he must state what is the beet evidence of his age that he can offer, leaving to the Postmaster. General to judge whether it can be accepted as sufficient. _ _ . ----- The proposal and evidence of age is then to be transmitted by the postmaster to the authorities in London, together with a statement by the post master himself as to whether he knows the appli cant and his referees personally, end whether his apparent age and appearance of health tally with the statements made in the proposal paper. From London a letter of inquiry will next be addressed to the applicant's referees, in which they will be asked to furnish, confidentially, answers to ques tions respecting the health and habits of the appli cant similar to those which the applicant has himself answered in his proposal form, and for security against collusion the referees are re quested to sign their answer in the presence of a clergyman of any denomination or a magis trate, who will witness their signature and tes tify to their identity. For further security, a letter will also be sent to the applicant's em ployer, who will merely be asked to say whe ther such a person is or was in his employ ment, whether he has been sober, and whether he has ever been cif work from illness. It appears to be intended that, if the answers to these inquiries, and the report of the post master, are satidactory, no medical examination shall, as a rule, be required. But the Postmaster- General has power, "if he thinks lit," to direct the applicant to present himself for examination by a legally qualified medical practitioner, to be named by the Postmaster-General. In this case the medical examiner will put a further series of inquiries to the applicant, will require him to sign his answers, and will forward them, along with his own report, to the London authorities. With them rests the ultimate decision whether the appli cation for insurance shall be granted or not. If granted, it will either be, if the life appears an average one, at the ordinary rates of premium contained in the published tables, or if it appears to be attended with any cir cumstances of unwind risk, at • higher rate, to be fixed according to the particular case. In all cases, a person following the occupa tion of a miner or butcher, or innkeeper, publican, or beeraeller, or sailor, or any other occupation of special risk to life, will be required to pay an extra rate. Of course, if the applicant objects to such extra rate, he may abstain from completing the proposal. But if the contract is entered into, it will be, firstly on the express understanding that all the statements the applicant has made about himself are true, and that if any of them are found to be false be shall forfeit not only the sum in sured, but also all sums he has already paid ; and secondly,that if at any time he shall take up a trade of special risk, or go beyond the limits of Europe, or go on the high seam, except in time of peace, in passing from one part of Europe to another, or shall become a soldier, he shall give notice of his so doing, and pay such extra premiums as may be required, or else forfeit his interest. So, too, if he dies by his own hands or the hands of justice the insurance shall be absolutely forfeited. Subject to these conditions, the contract will be completed by the issuing to the applicant of • document stating them, and signed by an officer appointed by the Postursater-General. This will be handed to the applicant (whom we shall now call the insured) by the local postmaster to whom he applied, and on receiving it he must pay the first premium due. And if he has selected the form of insurance in which the premiums are to be paid either annually or at more frequent intervals, be will receive a book in which the receipt of eaah successive premium will be marked by the post master to whom it is paid. He can have the transaction of this business transferred to any other office on giving notice, in a form to be ob tained at the office. The premiums must in all cases be paid in the course of the week in which the day falls when they are due; and if default is made beyond the end of that week the insurance is forfeited, but it may be renewed if within four weeks application is made, and the Postmaster- General thinks fit to grant the request, with or without a further medical examination, and on payment of • fine of 4s. to Ba. If the insured after payment of premiums for five years desires to renounce the contract, a return will be made him of not less than one-third of the premiums he has paid, but it may be a larger sum, as the regula tions on this head are not yet determined. And be may after the same lope° of time assign the benefit of the insurance to any other person. On the death of the insured, his representatives, or, if he had assigned the insurance, his assignee, will transmit to the Postmaster-General probate of the will, or letters of administration, or the assignment, together with a certificate of the death, and • declaration made before a justice of the peace, by some one not interested in the insurance, statingthat the person whose death is proved was the insured person. On being satisfied with this evi dence the Postmaster-General will send a war rant for payment of the amount at the local post office, on production of the contract and the receipt book. The steps which we have thus detailed as news aary to be gone through in the case of an insu rance payable on death, are in a great measure similar to those which must be taken in order to obtain an annuity payable during life. There must be a proposal (in a form to be obtained at a money order office) stating the age and trade of the applicant, and of the person for whom it is desired, the amount desired, the time at which it is to commeoce, whether it is to be an annuity paid half•yearly, or an allowance paid weekly, fortnightly, or monthly, and a referenoe to two householders and to the employer. The same evidence of age must also be furnished as in the cue of an insurance on the life. Bat ' there is this material difference in the cue of the purchase of an annuity, that no evidence of health or habits is required, since evidently whatever may shorten the life is in this =MI productive of a THF. EXPRESS, FRIDAY E drpfit Ite the Oovt•rment which pays Abe liamcity. The annually more frequent parrots by which the annuity secured will be made in ikas AO why as too) life Insurance. But an annuity for a woman, a person under age, or of unsound mind, or other infirmity, bodily or mental, may be granted to other persons to be held in trust , for him or her, and transferred when necessary to new trustees. But an annuity will not be assign able, though in case of bankruptcy it will become the property of the creditors. The annuities or allowances will be paid by means of warrants sent to the party from London, and presented at such local *Aloe as he may select. It will be kept in mind that an insurance on life may be for any sum from 201. to 100!., and an annuity for any sum between 4/. and 50/. But either description may be obtained for the party's wife, in addition to himself, to the full amount. And if in either case a smaller sum than the maximum is first selected, it may be increased to larger amounts at rates according to age, with less trouble than in effecting the original transaction, as new evidence of age will not be required. And the officers of Government de• partments, directors of railways, manufacturers, or other large employers of labour, may, if per sons in their employment who have effected in surances or contracted for annuities desire it, undertake the payment of the premiums by de ductions of the amount from the wages, and will be authorised by the Postmaster-General to make such deductions, a course which will save trouble, and prevent any possibility of loss by making de fault of payment at the proper dates. No fees or expense of any kind, not even for postage, will be incurred by persons insuring their lives or oontractiog for annuities payable more fre quently than half-yearly, except what is required for the procuring of evidence of age. But in the case of annuities payable half-yearly a fee of Is. on every 1!. of the annuity will be charged once for all to clover coats, as the costs are not included in the payments for this class of annuities. It will be kept in view that though the pro posal forms are issued, and filled up at the local post-offices, none of the inquiries respecting the applicant, made of other persons than the postmaster, pass through his hands, but are trans mitted directly to the London office. Thus no disclosure of any private matters will be made in the neighbourhood. It would, perhaps, be better, in order to prevent any jealousy, or the indul gence of any ill-feeling on the part of the local postmaster, in the matter of filling up the pro posal form, and making his personal report, to allow any magistrate or clergyman to perform these duties, for which they would certainly be as well qualified. But this is a regulation which, if it is found desirable, can be easily added. bt gettrt. WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH t The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena, want out welkin this mousing, attended by the Duchess of Rexburglie. Mr. J. A. Pinter had the honour of submitting to her Majesty his portraits of the PI/D6O sad Printer of Wales, after Winterhalter, lithographed for Messrs. Oolnaghi, Scott, and Co. as Prinoe of Wales, &Waded by Lientanoult•Colonel Keppelorkrited the South London Working Classes' Indus fella Eshibition yesterday. The Priliftffil of Wales took a carriage drive, attended by the Hos. Mrs. Braes. The Prince and PAWNS of Wake went in the evening to a Forty gives by the Earl and Ooanteee of Fife, at their resi dence in Oroeeenor•plaoe. Vitoottot &nabsßas, Mr. Brown Weethead, M.P., sad Mr. F. Boileau Elliot, had an interview with the Right Haw. Edward Cardwell, at the Colonial-odic% yesterday, co the affairs of the Natal Coates' Railway. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Comma sat yester day. The Lords present wore—Lord Kiegedown, the Lords Juetices Knight Brace and Turner, Sir James Colada, and Sir Lawman Peel. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales honoured the Earl and Counter of Fife with their presence last night at a ems'l dame, previously to which the noble earl and °minter eaterteined at dinner ►is Excellency the Frisch Ambassador, the Doke of Bt. Albans, the Duchess of St. Albans and lady Diana Been clerk, Viscount Falkland, the Marchioness of Ely, Viscount Ada" Mr. sad Lady Charlotte Rued', Hoe. Evelyn Ashley, Captain Fox, Miss Moncreiffs, Mr. Augustus Lumley, dm. The Countess Russell had a select evening party yesterday *Tenth", at the family residence In Chesham place, Belgravougnare. Previonely the noble earl and mantas entertained his Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Countess Berneiceff, his Excellency the Hansa Towne Miaister, Lard and lady William Compton, Lord and Lady Stuart Wortley, and a select party at dicier. The Earl de Grey entertained a large party at dinner last evades at his house in Carlton•prdena. The Countess of Derby will give a series of evening parties after the Bata melee at the family resi dence In St. James's-square. The Earl and Countess of Mints" have arrived at Parranoe's Hotel from Paris. The Earl and Countess Percy have left town on a visit to the Duke of Noethumberlead and Lady Louisa Percy at Torqu►y, Devon, for a few days. Lord Redeedale and the Earl Grosvenor are, we usderstend, appointed executon to the will of the late Duke of Northambesland, which is dated se far back u 1848. The Dowager Duke= Eleanor is to have Stanek* Park, Yorkshire, and the late dokee house in Whitehall. gudens for life, and the ample provision under her marriage settlement Lord and L►dy Stanley of Alderley entertained a large party at dinner ea Wednesday evening, at the family residence in Doveretreet, Piccadilly. Lady Egerton of Tatton will have assemblies on the 9th and 16th inst., and balls ea the tat sad Bth of May, whoa Lord Egerton of Tatter' and the }fort. Bontrko Egerton will have returned from Cannes, where they are prolonging their stay in oomequence of the severe weather is Eugisad. On: Monday Mr. M. Gibson will move, in com mittee of the whose hones, that the chairman be directed to move the bowie, that leave be given to bring in a bill to amend the law el puteerellip. On the 21st, Sir Lawrence Palk proposes to move that this house will, to-morrow resolve itself into a com mittee to 000 sider of an humbl; address to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to give directions foe placing staff commanders and masters of the royal navy upon an equality in pay and position with officers of similar rant in the army. In Committee of Supply, on army estimates, ,it. 1. OW. North jailed' to move that the preempt allow ance of le. per diem, increase of pay to lieutenants of seven years' (tending, be extended to all subalterns of seven years' service in the army. FIINZBAL OF Loan COMBEILIMILZ.--When the bi da tll .su asigere d aloes the telegraphie wires that the above sehlessaa bed died at Bristol. cm Tuesday week last, the meet profound regret wee felt by all, sad arreagemeets were at own suggested for a grand 'ebbe funeral by the Freemason of Cheshire and other bodies with whom demised had Masa intimately identified ; but es his lordship had expressed a wish to Colossi Cott** that the iatenneat should be private, of Dowse the mange meets were warred, and yesterday the funeral took plea% which was of a private character. At the Abbey • large number of the leading Debility mad frieeds of the deceased had assembled, sad shortly after 12 mos they formed into and marched to the station. Oo arririag at the station the tematry juiced in large members. The church was crowded, sad the funeral ser mon wee meet impreedve. The dammed was Mewed in the family!rault, amid frequent expressions of yrisf. At Ibises, Whitehareh. lisetwiek, sad other twine ip Cheshire, the belle pealed marled tolls, pm. .1 bpi use wen, either whelly er pertiilly aired, end window blinds sane dawn awn. ttell 1 4 4TEEIT INTELLlGkaprapt. • z ,.*lollllllell MAGIAN/4 • AMERICA. CHARLESTON OCCUPIED BY THE FEDERALS. CAPTURE OF FORT ANDERSON AND EXPECTED FALL OF WIL MINGTON. ARRIVAL OF THE AUSTRALASIAN. The following are the heads of the news brought by the Australasian : NEW YORK, Fla. V., Nom. Since Sherman's occupation of Columbia, Charleston has been evacuated, and is now occupied by the Feder*ls. The greater part of the city has been burned. The Con federates are fleeing northwards. General Schofield and Admiral Porter captured Fort Anderson on Sunday. The fall of Wilmington is shortly expected. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Pas. 22, Nom. To-day being the anniversary of Washington's birthday, the Exchange was closed. Unofficial prices :—Gold, 2011. Exchange, 2191. 5-20 United States Bonds, 111. Illinois, 119. Cotton, 83. MEXICO. CAPTURE OF A FRENCH DETACHMENT. PAR B, litica.3. A despatch from Admiral Mazer's, Published to day, announces that a small detachment of fusi liers, marines, and Algerian sharpshooters, under the command of the captain of the frigate Gazelle, having been abandoned by 200 Mexican troops, by whom they were escorted, were captured at Ban Puebla by the Juarists after an heroic defence. FRANCE. EMBELLISHMENT OF LYONS. PARIS, liaion 3. The Emperor has addressed a letter to the Mi nister of the Interior recommending the following measures of public utility at Lyons : The abolition of bridge tolls over the Saone, the demolition of the wall surrounding the suburb of Croise Rousse, the widening of the approaches to the archiepisco pal palace, and the establishment of a square in the suburb of La Guillotiere, and of another near the Grand Seminary of Lyons. SPAIN. XADIUD, MAI= 2. Marshal Narvaez has laid before the Congress the treaty of peace with Peru, the bases of which agree with the intelligence already received via, Southampton. The Finance Committee of the Congress have made their report, which approves the bill intro duced by the Minister of Finance. THE PORTUGUESE MINISTRY. LISBON, MAsca 2.. The Marquis of Sada Bandies has signified his inability to form a new ministry. At this hour it is supposed that the Duke de Louhi will be re called by the King. TURKEY. (Vii. Trieste.) CONSTANTINOPLE, FM 25. Mr. Laing's project for the conversion of the floating debt has been accepted by the Porte in principle, and the negotiations concerning the de tails are progressing satisfactorily. The prices of the local securities have greatly risen in consequence. A disastrous fire has occurred at Galata ; 150 lives were lost. The difficulty between the Porte and the Persian government is becoming more serious. The general interruption of telegraphic commu nication continues. THE WAR IN THE BRAZILS. (By To(*graph from Lisboa.) MONTE VIDEO, JAN. 29. Great alarm prevails in this city. The attack of the Brazilian army, under Flores, is momentarily expected. Active preparations are being made for defence. Business is stopped. Exchange on London, 481 (Irma's arum.) THE BANK OF FRANCE. PAWS. lIIAwe 2. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : March 2. Feb. fa. Diarroa. Fr. e. - lir. e. Capital of the Bank Profits In addition to capital (Art. 8, law of June 0, 1867) 7,010,101 DO 7, 016 , 822 ss Reserve of the Bank and Its branches 2!,106.760 14 12,105,760 14 Reserve In landed property Notes In decal Won Bank notes to orderandnceipta payable at sight. Treasury accounts — clean! Cre ditor Current accounts, Paris 130,244,004 62 124.867, 5 78 75 Ditto branch banks Dividends payeple Discounts and sundry interests 0,167,774 80 6.627,212 81 Re-discounted the last six months 2,70,414 0 2,710,448 6 Sundries 1,164880,14 Id 1.1413,167,923 Much. 2. Fr. e. lob. U. Yr. CROWSOn. banks in band and in breach banks Commercial bills overdue Commercial bills discounted, not yet due Ditto branch banks Advances on deposits of bullion 14,212,831 66 1e.067,491 66 Ditto branch banks 1,409,J00 0 3,3,6,100 0 Advances on French public se caritles 13,979,600 0 14,102,000 0 Ditto branch banks Advances on railway shares and debentures Ditto branch banks 16,631,300 0 16,764,340 0 Advances on Credit Fonder Bonds Ditto branch banks ....... Advances to the State (conven tion 10th June, 13671 Government stock reserve 12,9E10,760 14 12,900,760 14 Ditto disposable Nantes immobiligen (law Did June, 1857) Rotel and furniture of the bank* landed property, branches . 4417,776 0 3,406,666 0 Expenses of management Sundries 1,26 , ,760.14. 6! 1,263,187,025 60 (MOW) YoutAND, Senator. Governer of the Book of France. " It may be remembered," says the Temps, a pro testant organ, "that last summer the presbyterial soused of the reformed church at Pans refused its palishe to the Roe. A. Neville, !Meister at Itettertlam. TWA assware at latelerease has last with a decided disevosrelfrose the other protestant coogregatioes is Fraso► The Rae. A. Bimini" has mince preached is the alturchas of Strasburg. and has alsoreceived invitetioos from the principal protertant point. latioos of the South of Franca, in Luger sumbere than he ciao steed to. He has already been heard at Nimes, Moot peffier, Uses, and the Cevennes, and has always bass re ceived with marks of the 11104 maw& sympathy. Ho is sow Ant to reach also at Mostaubsa. Claes, Tsnosbas. sad other pleas is Owe districts." EXPRESS FROM FARIS• 172011 OUR OWN PARIS. THMISDAT Evwla. The Phase de la Loire, in the following terms. mottoes the preface of the Emperor's " Life of Julius Canar .." This work contains in two pages three propositions which we =not accept, and a fourth in flagrant contradio tke with them. In his preface the Emperor says that geniuses mat to UM peoples may act iadepesdestly of the moral standard of ordinary men--a proposition whisk, in oar eyes. is the negative of morality itself. The legitimacy of • thing, he adds, is tested by the time it has lasted. This assertion, if well founded, would be the fullest justification that has bees yet given of slavery, now the oldest of human Lodi- Cations. Then we are told that the existing institutions of • country are the adequate iv:prow/los of social sod politi cal right. Here is the amplest apology we over came mum of absolutism. The oentradiction to which we refer consists is the assertion that the state of things established by Augustus preload Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero. And yet the Emperor eulogises Augustus, which he has no right to do if his suocessors were the woomary coneequessie of a system he established. It may be interesting to know that the foregoing paragraph is from the pen of a writer whose works on logic and the different systems of philosophy which have since Plato most influenced the civi lised world, have obtained for him a high standing among French authors. . It will probably strike many readers as curious that in the denomination given by the Monitsur of the sixteen powers which have consented to take part in the International Telegraph Congress now sitting in Paris the name of England is not in cluded. The reason is that in England alone, of all the nations of Europe, the telegraphic lines are in private hands. It is not with Lord Cowley, but with the telegraphic companies, that the French government must treat if England is to adopt the proposed uniform WM The chapter of the cathedral church of Orleans has thrown upon Canon Pelletier alone the respon sibility of the letter which he published, objecting that the Bishop of Orleans falsely stated that he had taken the advice of the chapter before publish ing his niandenient. The rectification does not say that in point of fact the bishop did consult them ; but it leaves it to be inferred that they think it bad manners to question any use which their bishop may please to make of their name. - - Prince Napoleon took a run to Havre yesterday, accompanied by Admiral La Roncibre de Honey and an aide-de-camp. He took up his quarters at his father's favourite old place, the Hotel Frascati. The Bourse opened with great animation, and Rente, for account, was run up to 68fr. 50. ; but later in the day a heavy fall in Mobilier dragged down everything else, and the closing prices of Rents were 67fr. 75c., for cask, and 67fr. 85c., for account, being a rise of 15c. and 10c. Mobilier fell upwards of 30fr. upon a rumour that the Corps Legislatif would be applied to for leave to prosecute M. R. Pereire. Mexican was very heavy, the private letters to which I alluded yesterday having produced an effect on the market ; the fall to-day was fully 1 per cent. ; within the last few days this security has declined 5 per cent. Ctita, MARCH 3,/1114k11 DISASTROUS !FIRE AT CONSTANTINOPLIL UPWARDO OF ONE HUNDRED LIVE LOP. (From the Levant Herald, Feb. 22.) By far the most terrible calamity which has shocked the public mind of Coastantinople for 30 yean past happened at Galata, on Monday night. Shortly after U o'clock on the night in question, • fire broke out in one of the wings of the Boman catholic nave= of St. Benoit, and, sotwithetandi•g the utter abases of vied, the flames rapidly spread to the adjoining apartments, sad thence to the thickly cloistering hours outside the *anent enclosure. Shortly alter midaight • body of sours sixty tolounibojets, with four engines, had stationed themselves along the outside wall of the high stone banditti in the corner of the wave= qua irangle considering themeless sheltered by the wall from the flame within, and being well placed from that point for playing on the wood= buildings •lrsdy 'gaited on the other side. The aware= safety of the spot bad also col noted ea and around it several of the polleeasen and spec tators, of whom, as is usual, • large *toed had by this time gathered from all parts of Pen and Galata. Suddenly. and without even a warning amok, the eastern and southern walls of this lofty building toppled outwards, literally meet ing over the doomed crowd below lila that earn of • bean ie( wave, and burying ruder their &brie all four at the engine mentioned, with the whole of their crews, and • lame numbs, of the police and on-looking crowd. Not • man who had stood within the fatal shadow of the fallen walls escaped. Almost simultaneously, • portico of the WIISSOCO wall fell over on a small, densely inhabited house outside the convent limit., and, crushing through its root, killed, it is said, eight of ite inmates, who were engaged in endeavouring to teems their effects. Foe a time this terrible disaster paralysed all efforta to check the conflagration outside the convent, and as the remaining wall threatened momentarily to give way too, no attempt was made to reach the mama= and dying, whom the rune of the other walls had only part hid from sight. Of them mug were sees to make agonising bat ineffectual acne to extricate themselves from the charred mama of brisk and wood which only half-entombed them, sad then gradually to oases the vain straggle as suflocatio• or other cause of death did its work. This part of the same was harrowing beyond any power of description. The vigorous play of the ships' engine from the inside of the convent quadrangle, aided by the calmness of the night, bad in the sometime cheek= the spread of flames to the western wing of the building; not, however, before the small circular dome and roof of the chapel on the one side, and the donnikeies of the female pupils and storerooms on the other, had been seriously damaged. Outside, the fire was virtually =opposed, the disasters to their fellows adder the convent wall having apparently unnerved the other Wow:skims oa the ground. There was, besides, an almost complete want of water. It was not, there fore, till the dam had burned themselves out on all sides to the gape made in their path by the pulling down of distant houses, that the conlegration may be said to have been got under. This was about 7 a.m., by which time, besides the damage done to the convent, in all forty. two houses and four shops bad been destroyed. Bet for the providential =mace of wind, however, this would have been but a trifling instalment of the wideepread devuta tioa that must have occurred, for, had the flames spread down on the one side towards Toph•seh, or on the other atoned the old dyke higher up, the conflagration must have spread is the ow direction to far beyond the Teal tottani, and in the case from the Teke to the Bawl= Palace. The total number of victims to this great calamity le believed to exceed a towelled. Up till yesterday at 4 p. 01., 42 had been dog out of the debris, whoa the work wag dis continued in rweeequasce of the bricks and broke, reel timber bearer the bar of the fake walle, being too hot to permit of further exhumations. Ageoept the killed is Ibrahim Bey, the thief of the Galata Local charity, we ere glad to be able to'report, bee already bestirred itself actively es beard( el the suawiviag suffocate ; and a special appeal will be Mall le the easuabere of ear owe comernueity is the Embsoey Chapel, after ecersheg service is Sunday next. The International and Electric Telegraph Com pany have padded their aril far mewsges by the Indo- European line. To Begins the charge for 20 words, iodate' address and sigeatare, is 21. 10a. ed.; to Miffs slum 41.10166 d.; to Cent en, 51. Bs.; le British Bersah, 51. 54.; and to the three Prediasise, Esehey, Calcutta, , and Madras, 51. la. For sash &Mideast 1L words or I fraistios of 10 words owe-half of than rates mast be Woad. A Brunswick letter says :—" The duke has awed nothing whatnot flew the ire by which his palms bps been destroyed, not snow a bat ; be had to pendesse see we I the fallowieg racist. with sews bail Urn awl a east. All the clothe asid 'relates fir pawed is. presemsl by We data in ha sperhiteng was hareit.. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCX (Mon the Judge Ordinary.) VIA= V. iIIADIN AID puma. Mr. Price, Q.C., sad Mr. Murphy for the *Wm ?. M. Fradio, the cook of Lard Bylea, maid the rase ) dist at Room in 1848, and two years afterwudeheamoi her inFarglesd, trims he had sacs oceupri thelisesie s. due is venom whimsies's tamillea Ice the isseetheisli reepoeitsst had a sitsaidoo at s milliner's la Mew Rea. lesarat ; sad is 1861 she was hand to have fonasai illicit oessula with arrespoodeat, s comarreill km* in the service al a wise merchant. Th e aree was. howear,,,rationm Ha ed ler luta, aidome identity ; bee the jay a . dumps d mum oo•respoetisst. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, (Wore Mr. CannWeser Holroyd,) DI II L. The bankrupt was a unwebsat at 9, /furolog-I nge , was a mitt* for exandwalice sad dierearp. D o u g . ;j ig miaow and property held, about 2,1001. Mr. Bayer appeared (Cr the 'Owes. Th e b i l l i o n's woad his examination ; the tibias kg di charge was ad}oaraed. _ 111 BE A. F. FOSTER. The bankrupt was described m an editor sad_ writer, formerly of Edinburo *another planes i n s thee of anera l places in London, than of buinn eta Aeadend, assistant adneatienel conunia ist WAR the We Dubs of New dtrn of 6 4‘ , toy and Holloway, and aims a prim. The debts are 1,316/. ; many hi d .; security stated at 6601. The bankrupt slid Waft the Don-reosipt of remuneration due totals keen then," oftlot from YeeirtOlimmbina, booinellart sod from them& Lad Bulging Co ( 1 A 11081 ). ben% Houb..oess. is balance d bis many as anistwasulusa n g ofnunamiosse, but mums it se a bed debt. Hs aim Ma n to be penesmed of 20 shares in the Midisad Beak* d im , perry (Limited). Mr. /tangoed appeared to the ansignese, sad Hr. alma for the bankrupt Thin um no opposition, and his Honour mend p a eider. IX U TM INV. WM. WILSON MO. The bankrapt was described as of Pativinst, bkh g , ham-court-road, sad rector of ametniseetca, oar bury.~ This was the sitting for szanunatios sad Wets 2,2311., sigma 40141. of which RetriM valuedst IMO& Mr. Reed shied that the bmikrapt kid admisimida his father's estate, sad in that capacity had mom Ishlr pommies ad shoat 6,0001. Ma wirers whist Mu secoust showing the owed of the maw, Wait* rapt kad bees &meta to ilk soak an accoant b,t dose am A farther adjournment was therefore lila the bankrupt's patieman li arappiared for the baskrapiemead to era adjourn:neat for two smooths , sad NM that au would be taken m the meantime fa soparasdiag Mani miry. Adjourned aooordingly. (Were Mr: Goaltem.) The beakrujit was & journeyman hatter, of Isesusi m [is debts wars only 404 ; but no amounts bad ben lb( His Honour asked how he cams to be bankrupt, mk t small a auto. . . . — Tits ediaisl grips* stated that time had Imo a NNW court Pdpaget spigot him for 301. Hie Boom said be ouppoesd the baskropt had yid il l attorney about 151. to befog him before the welt, otio would bare gowo • good way towards &char* Ig deste. 17adjouramsat was wawa Ii PS R. WILIIOII. The baskrupt, as egedress, nes dentilia Is a Ad Crof the royal 'my, reeidlag is epaereint aw He sen6l his &chat= frau al if 316 i. It vas stated Ast he ha a pea= of 8a 8d e lf, ose•tkird of al= wee set ads saw an order of thr solvent Oeset. Hi Bosom granted the order. DI U The bankrupt ;Li deeeribed Y ;*iikadidos_avel el Lass dealer, of Nolaretreet, Obeapnia The der as 45374 ; rare were no reels, but the bad and rebid debts wre retuned at 3,103/. llr. Dore, for the emigres, did sot oppose.. 01 lb bankrapt's deb+. only between 3004 and 4004 was dub reds aradaore, the net wee owing to mob= al II Ilia Honour, observing that the case was a and sua granted the order. IN RR alumna The haakrupt formerly kept tha Foutaia Iss, fah wreath. His certificate was wholly Wand by the tyre lic Oosamiseloaer Evan; in 1860, ea the gross& of orecsdra of praperq, sad he now applied for an order of dieing under the 163 th 'action of the act of 1861, holm ma three years' clause. Mr. Harrowell, for the aseigneee, eumicad the bailout ea to whether he had Uwe acquired up property, ei finding that he had pet, offered no oppositioa to the 'Rik , cation. His Honour, observing that the power to peat an ada of discharge under thou circumstances we. daasfroerf • the wart, said he saw no reason for refusing it, sad gold the order acoordingly. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) NARLBOHOUGH.STREET. COWARDLY AJRACLT ON • COACHMAN. Wass litaly, • sorvent out of place, wee breoglithifin Yr. Knox by Bseekilly, ore of the warrant otlken, dm* with violently ersultang Agnes 00•0110161 to Lf Hoaghtcw. From the complainant's evidence it appealed that ha sw lad& the Crown Tavern, rarkwtreet, Greersearepolt talking to • friend, whoa the defendant came is awl owl him as the shook& Oa the complainant tarsi's well th& dalsedent immediately struck him • violin; IS having • key or some inetrament m his hand, the mad the blow being that the contelaiseat's forehead woe out, be lest • great deal of blood, became inseinitkl was obliged to ln taken to • a Miss WO" the barmaid at u ttvera, corrobocallsi IY nom t. Mr. Knox remanded the defendant that the model lb aempligmat's injury might be ascertained. WESTILINSTRift. NOINICLAR APPLICATION. A very respeoiable looking maa solicited the magidwiii waistlines sad whim under the following cirommtamw: t that he had reluctantly bsm compiLia l co ' n?et a ix c e the magistrate through the miscoodast 1 1Y wife, who suddenly left her home on the 4th wt., OK with her the whole of his furniture, mid his sow, 1 boy. Mr. fialfe—Wolf, wbst do you want of me! Applictit—A warrant to toil' my wile into custody. ler:Selfe—What for f Applicaut—Robbing me. She has taken my preNdl Mr. Selfe—A woman ain't be charged with robbing 10 husband. Were you married in a church! Appliesat—No ; we were married at the registries Mr. Selfo—That's a pity. because you probably add go through so full a ceremony u at a church. Re a r been married in the letter, you would clearly have say, " With all ley wordly geode I thee endow," sod Wel dope that all your goods necessarily byelaw hi" nod a 0111110 t in taking them away steal them, although thee be to you may be Mooeveeiest. Applicant—Bat the took the child aced it is not 6eno-1 1 is only her stegreop. Grant me a warrant for him. Mr. Selfe—Re is cob recoverable by habeas oorpoi Appleant.Then grant me a habeas wpm. Kr. Stalfe-1 cannot; this iv not the place, and to oblis use yea man go to a superior court. We don't vist 8 ban. SOUTHWARK. DARING ROBBNIT. Richard Parish, a well-known thief, wee china steeling a purse containing 13 from Jane Church. midi . the Blsokfriare.reed station of the eberiouorms Itodwefi The emnplehmant said she lived in thanberlsolobedi CB=rowosi the previous f Wimp she was leaving station, when she felt a tag at sad an imuniag round sharply she caught the head Irwin it with her mum She eimikevon 010 ... held of him, bat he kicked her and numbed bet cl"" tasstely a hackney carriage attendaat came up, Sad al misty le was *scored. 14 ' 1k Baci=eutitilt attendant said be ins as diV SOW the sab la the 13lackfriare.roed, whoa bent the primmer knock the peeseeatrix down. She caled that she bed been robhsd, when witches' preessded ee 0 2., essistawna A mob surrounded them, sad 'items violently attacked. with the view to a rescue, bat 1112 tabbed hold of the poisoner until a constable came he was secured. • poliee-esestable a L division said he ...gag polies agar the oshatand, and cm proceeding there with last witness. A mob d rz.,,T= him ad attacked him. The resided very um* bat he was ultimately talisn to the elatirec.honsa The mogistrees asked if the prisoner was lowee. The constable replied that he was a companies! ( . 01.111 1: but be was sot certain whether he had bees Ovando" .1 The primmer pleated guilty, declaring that it was *IP. offense. The imegistrate Inquired whether any of the 1 11 . 11 .1 eaaaab nor pa bed been tam The essmAtW replied in the nsgailve. They had swillit to as to snore him. 101 MI mensal* eheirumi that it so el klbse . :o6 o p hen brew& beim him he y hove sevewiy. se mei a set of Miens wens digit"' 110 7 • As fur the rheas', se itosbi he wit tieen ill =ani he shield asileaShis duty ear_ punished iewerely. He seeklaistd six moths, bud Weer is Wends Seem el *O P tier. fella war to i Olt Or I al ti ( • 1. 111 Bit 4140 trift . lIM a- :‘ V. .60 :I oa — i. the *let Poi COE the S r ow