The Express. — London, England, 1865-12-21 00:00:00

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Tnrs Evangel, THE OVEELAND WITTIG Meurs. Bnow ook- stone C. Mathews. and Compton ; Mesdames Mathews, S don. 11.16 and wright— ll SED CY. Mr. C. Mathswa—And MY MUSD Di GDOS.T.—Commenee at 7. PRINCESS'S. TM, Mama, QUIET LODGINGS.—After which IT IS PliV/LR TOO LATE 1 BLEND. Mews. Vining. G. MeMlle, T. head, D. Murray, b. Wham. F. VlMoen J. G. Shore, G. Mur ray, and R. Cathml . hisses L. Moore and K. Rodgers. HIGH WATIR AT LONDON-AZIDOL TO DAT Manias, Ta. 61m.....Atiernoon, 4b. 10s. To-Kouww-• Mango& 4b. MillilbOOSl, 414. 6045. LONDON. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 21. THE case "Re NEWBERY," which came before Vice-Chancellor STUART on Tuesday, presents one feature which calls for a passing remark. The facts are in the main of a type which has become of late years by no means uncommon. A father dies, leaving his children to the care of their mother. After his death the latter changes her religion and proceeds to educate her children in her new faith. By-and-bye some of the father's relations—in this instance the joint testamentary guardian—object to the change, and the matter is brought before the Court of Chancery. D urin g the interval, how ever, the mother has used her influence to some purpose, and the children are, or profess to be, converts to her way of thinking. Is the Court to carry out the intentions, expressed or inferred, of the father, at the risk of interfering with the infant's conscientious convictions ? Or is it to re gard the present welfare of the child, at the sacrifice, if need be, of the father's known inten tions 1 Whichever way these questions are an swered, there are some difficulties to be encoun tered. If the general rule of English law is observed, and the absolute authority of the father over the child maintained as far as possible even after his death, the sudden revulsion which is pro duced in the child's mind may bring about a com plete and disastrous unsettlement of his rel!gious and moral convictions. To secure this result it is not even necessary that these convictions should have a satisfactory intellectual basis. A child who has been led to believe firmly that such a religious act or such a religious tenet is right or wrong, true or false, may be quite unable to give any intelligent reason for his belief, and yet have his whole theory of conduct upset by an attempt on the part of those in authority over him to put him back into his former religious position. "It was urged at the Bar," said Lord Justice TURNER, in the case of " Stourton v. Stourton," " that the opinions of a child cannot " be fixed, and that the impressions which he has " received may be removed by a different course "of instruction and different associations. It may "be so ; but, ou the other hand, may it not "be that the impressions which have been " formed may lead to the instruction which " would be given being received with carelessness " or indifference, or, which would certainly not "be less dangerous or less destructive to the " character, with affected acquiescence 1" Of course, there are objections to this view. It seems, for one thing, very much like offering a premium to the proselytising zeal of the persona who have the child under their care in the first instance. They have only to secure so much start as will suffice to make an impression on a child's un informed conscience, to secure having their efforts sanctioned, and their success, so far as may be, guaranteed by the authority of the High Court of Chancery. Nor is it at all inconceivable that an unscrupulous child might be induced, by a desire to live with relations whom he liked better than his actual guardians, to feign a conversion to the religious creed professed by them. Still, notwith standing these possibilities, the tendency of the Court has been to adopt the former course, and to test, if need be, for itself the strength of an in fant's theological impressions. On the whole, we think that the judges have exercised a wise discre tion in taking this view of their duty ; but to make the operation of the rule perfectly satisfactory, its application must be perfectly impartial, and in this respect Vice-Chancellor STI ART'S judgment en Tuesday seems to be open to some criticism. The late Mr. NEWBERY was a clergyman of the Church of England, and he appointed his wife and a brother clergyman joint guardians of his children. Not long since the widow joined the sect of Dis senters called the Plymouth Brethren, and there upon a difference arose between her and the other guardian as to the religious bringing up of the infants. The eldest child, a boy of fifteen, made an affidavit that he had attended the religious services of the Plymouth Brethren, and conscientiously approved of their opinions, but the Vice- Chancellor, without, so far as appears by the report of the case, testing the truth of this allegation by a private conference with the boy, decided that both he and his sister must be brought up in the religion of their father. Now if this were a cue of first instance we should not be inclined to quarrel with the result. But looking at the general tenor of the decisions on similar questions, it certainly seems as though cir cumstances had unfortunately combined to give them a perhaps undeserved colour of unfairness. In the cue before quoted of " Stourton and Stourton," and in the parallel case of "Alicia Race,"the fattier, were Roman Catholics and the mothers Protestants. In both these cases, though the children were of very tender years, the court ruled that their re cent religious impressions must not be disturbed, that their fathers' creed must be left out of consi deration, and the children brought up in the creed of their mothers. In a later cue, however, in which the positions were reversed, and the living mother was a Roman Catholic, and the dead father a Protestant, the infant was educated in the latter faith. And now we have another THE op.XPlpt3B, MUMMY EVE case, in which the alleged convictions of the mild are not in conformity with the Church of Knednd, and yet his religious education is intrusted by the court to a clergymen of that church, in ceder to counteract the theological influence of a Dissent ing mother. We do not at all say that in both these lut-mentioned cases there were not peculiar circumstances which justified the decision of the court, and made it consistent with those which had preceded it. We only wish to point out how sen sitive people naturally are to anything which looks, however untruly, like a judicial pre ference for one religions body over another, and to urge the judges who have to tio ns to pronounce on these thorny and delicate ques be very careful in stating with the utmost fulness the reasons which induce them on this or that occasion to deviate even in appearanoe from the general principle which has been laid down. A little addi tional minuteness in pointing out the distinctions of circumstance between one case and another may make all the difference between a satisfactory and an unsatisfactory judgment. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) Tlir NEW PUBS. There is nothing, says the Post, like an organised party—it is never destroyed. When it is thought to be dead it rises again with plvanio impulse into new life. Such is the true whi=vl73 Nen years of Palmerstadan rule have led mea to forget the old traditional principle of promoting and ennobling men simply on account of family and political COOOOllOO ; but a change has taken place. In Load Northbrook (Sir F. Raring) we recognise one whose belief in, and fidelity to, the whig party eves in spite of a long and adverse reign, have gained the distinct tion that such belief and fidelity deserved ; and the Master of the Rolls is well known to be connected with the First Minister by closer ties than throe of mere judicial capacity. Although it may be possibly true that more of Sir John Romilly's decisions—if we may use such a term—have been reversed either by the Lords Justice' or in the House of Lords than those of any other judge in equity, we ought hardly to forget that Sir John is a whig to the backbone. In the meantime it may be observed that Lord Russell, by 'entering a few peeraps among his pawns] friends, is not helping Mr. Gladstone to lead the House of Oommons on his behalf. At present no additio nal strength has been conferred but by whatever advantage the appointments of Mr. Gosohen and Mr. Forster m a y be supposed to convey. CONI'LYINTAL Amu& The Times fears that a "Belgian question" will now be added to those which exercise the speculations of European statesmen, and calls attention to the tone of those Prussian journals which are supposed to indicate the pur poses or the wishes of Count Bismarck, who it is said would not be unwilling to allow France to aggrandise herself to the north-east If Prussia were allowed free mope in Germany. It is sot likely, however, that either Frenchmen or Germans will venture on any scheme of spoliation without pannier support. The educated clam is Belgium, the Times believes, prize the institutions they have pined, and the ultramontaaes are probably sincerely attached to them. Bak the brillisnoy of the French nationality cannot but dazzle a large portion of the people. The working clasim, and especially the younger men among them, might perhaps be led without difficulty to acquiesce in annexation. There are commercial interests which would be benefited by such a union ; the traveller, wherever he goes, receives substantial benefit from the respect and protection which a French passport insures : and there is the intellectual influence which France exerts more and more every year. French is now the real lan guage of Belgium, and language in such a case must influence nationality. With such opposite forces at work, it cannot but be that the partisans both of independence and incorpo -1 ration will have reason to hope for stIOCIIII. The question i is for the nation to determine as it shall judge best for its own interests. The expulsion from the Academy of Arta of the acres French students who were present last October at the Conference at Li4e, and the stop to their professional studies at Pantos regarded by the Times as a very severe punishment, for its probable effect will be the entire destruction of the students' plan of life. Deplorable as wan the language in which these fiery young spirits indulged, it is not easily seen how the utterance of it at Li4o or Brussels can be construed as an academic offence, the allegiance of a student to kis university being strictly local and professional, and there can be no doubt about the inexpediency of taking such judicial notice of the escapades. The revolutionary ardour which ones set ell France on fire might be left to smoulder in the Qoartier Latin without exciting alarm. Only when an attempt is made to repress it does it burst into flames. History is full of examples of young republicans who became in after life discreet supporters of existing systems. Dr. Southey and Mr. Wordsworth, two of the soundest of conservatives in their later years, were in their hot youth projected of Pantleocracy, " • scheme less moral than 'twu clever." Mr. Dis raeli once wrote the "Revolutionary Epic," containing a passage very much like an approval of assassination. And, not to travel out of France, are there not among the ad visers of the Emperor, in the Senate, the Legislative Body, and on the bench, men who began life as revolutionists'. Are they afraid of the memories of their youth? Or must they, by their obsequious eagerness in seconding the punish ment of half a dozen hotbrained enthusiasts of eighteen and twenty, inspire • suspicion whether they were ever sincere believers in republicanism or imperialism, or in any thing except the strong hand of power It was the First Napoleon who, after reorganising the Hotel des Invalides, founded branch establishmenta in the country, where the veteran might live on the produce of • small allotment in a cottage of kis owe. It is now pro posed to carry this principle farther by a substitution of out-pensions for in-pensions, very similar to that which has lately been effected at Greenwich Hospital. This time, the Times remarks, we have taken the initiative in administra tive reform, for it is impossible to doubt that the French scheme owes its immediate origin to the marked success of our own experiment. Commenting upon the marriage, last Monday, of the Princess Anna Murat to the Duo de Mouchy, the Tdeg rapt assumes that the position of the bridegroom mast have been a powerful recommendation in the eyes of a sovereign anxious by every means to consolidate has dynasty. The Duo de Mouchy, belonging as he does to one of the oldest of French families, represents the legitimist party, and pro bably the French Emperor values the adhesion given to his dynasty in the marriage of his cousin to one of the first amongst the old nobles of France, chiefly as an open acknowledgment that, even in the Noe Grenelle St. Germain, the empire is now recognised as an accomplished fact. The Star reminds those who show • disposition to fix the responsibility of the brigand nuisance in Greece upon the government there, how long it took to hunt down outlaws in the Highlands, although the differ ence of climate was decidedly against the Scotch offenders, and " the vigour" which the Eeglish government was able to impart to its measures was infinitely greeter than one of the poorest states in Europe can hope to employ. Even the precious Maroons, entrenched in the swamps of Jamaica, were able to laugh Eoglish troopers la the feu for more than half • century ; and although the Fedora authority is aow restored throughout the Southern States, yet for some time to come we should he sorry to recom mend any of our countrymen who have • great desire to see the New World to make a pleasure jaunt through Mimi+. sippi or South Carolina. wee sitraf• on, tile pant eel* "". Ire shall net Gal b Yr. Fithgerehre letelh • to snipes th at the * sari is a salt wise has oily tumid upon ws aft* roceiv- In nothing but favallib or that lib not amenable to just and Upon° is eat. His eylissoe is just is the oppo site direction, sidle it leads uo to expect, from it allltia9- &11C0 of the noble policy of the Weld edministrifilles, the early return of paw. The Post thinks there is reason to fear that the war be tween the Boers and the Banta may prodnoe salons con sequences in regard to Natal, where the greatly prepon derating population counts of Kaffir refugees. Under such circumstances, no valid reason can be adduced for the perpetuation of the office of High Commissioner, an officer who resides 1,000 miles distant from the colony, yet without whose special sanction the government of Natal are prohibited, even in extraordinary instances, from deal. log with the native tribes in the adjoining country. The bordering native tribes have recently executed a successful raid upon a portion of that colony, and by the accounts just received were contemplating a second attempt. The colo nists are well able to protect themselves if allowed to do so, and the Post hopes the imperial government will render • favourable reply to the petition of the Legielative Council, asking for more freedom of action in their own affairs. The Herald °oedemas the conduct of the Lower Chamber in Victoria, describing it as the mouthpiece of a fierce and turbulent democracy. The constitution is openly defied ; the fundamental laws of the state are trodden under foot ; the whole fabric of government is dissolved. Yet there are those in England who can excuse and palliate sub intolerable anarchy, and who, doubtless, would justify the House of Assembly in its several successive tyrannies. The Telegraph surveys the recent proceedings at Ma bourne in • friendly spirit, not giving up its faith in the ea balsa, simply because troublesome questions which hue often perplexed ourselves are repeated on a smaller soale at the antipodes. As to the character of the present diapute, Sir Charles Darling, who ought to keep himself clear from even the suspicion of partiality or faction, has virtually identified himself with the assembly. It matters not that, for the moment, the crowd axe with him ; it matters not that the cry of toryism has been raised against the council. Ilia Wa nes' is to carry out the provisions of the constitution. If be has not sufficient daring or self reliance to dismiss the ministers, aed appeal again to the people, that may be a venial fault—a defect of temperament, a deficiency of character. But it be aids and abets the collection of illegal taxes, if he joins one branch of the legislature in ignoring the constitutional rights of the other, he is most gravely and heinously to blame, and if be cannot interpret the constitution aright, he must be removed for some one who can. VISCILLANIOUS Torres. The Times bee been gravely assured that the waters of the Thames are being drained off is such enormous volumes for the supply of the metropolis that the ancient river is feat disappearing, and that at low tide there is now some difficulty in getting by boat from Twickenham to Rich mond. Commissioners are inquiring into the portent, and with a double object, for while the natural volume of the stream is decreasing its impurities are becoming greater than ever. The Daily News points out how he effect of the Pre sident's message will dear up the public mind about his own views and sea in regard to the management of the late Confederate States. Tracing out the chief features of that policy, it shows how it has made all ready for the Congress, with which the decision of every essential point in regard to the reconstruction of the union rests, to proceed in amending the constitution so ea to render the abolition of slavery complete and final, in amply defining the offence of treason, and by settling beyond dispute the qua tion of the right of secession. The hope of negro suffrage lies in the requirement of the Constitution that each state shall have the management of its electoral affairs under the condition that the system shall be republican, and therefore not solcnowledging a qualification of colour, The first obligation of Congress will be to see that whites and negroes are established and maintained in an equality before the law. The message also foreshadows great fiscal changes, one of the most conspicuous being free trade, which is a necessity both for the Southern states and for the West. The message is in feet the preface to the most remiukable of all sessions of Congress—that which will have expressly or virtually retracted the two grist national mistakes, and acknowledged in their place the blessing of free labour in the South and free trade in the North. The fact that Cork, the foremost county in Munster, cannot produce a single Fenian juror is regarded by the Post as a proof that in the south, as in the east, the Irish middle climes have declared that Fenisnism is a sham. The stupid child's play of the Fenian/ in America is not worth consideration. The Star takes Mr. Ruskin to task for an extraordinary letter which he bas written on the subject of the Jamaica massacre, and which it desuibes as wild and senseless rhodomontade. Cu Court. OSBORNE, DEC! The Queen, with Princess Helena and Princess Louise,drove yesterday morning in a carriage and four, Ltd visited Princess Leiningen at West Cowes. Major• General the Hon. A. Hood was in attendance. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by his Majesty the L King of Portugal, arrived at Marlborough House but evening from the Continent. The suite in attendance consisted of Lord Allred Hervey, Lientenant-Colonel Koppel, the Marquis de Ficalbo, and the Viscount Adolphe de Pella. On Friday and Saturday in the past week her Most Gracious Majesty's Royal Bounty and Gale Alms, to aged blind and other meritorious poor people, who had been recommended by the clergy of the various parishes and districts in or round the metropolis, were distributed at the Alma:ay-office in Scotland-yard ; and on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in the current week the distributions were resumed, in anticipation' of Christmas. These distributions were made sunder the direction of the Lord Bishop of Orford, Lord High Almoner, and the Rev. Dr. Jell, D.D., Sub - Almoner ) b y Joseph Hanby, Esq., Secretary and Yeoman of the Almonry in Ordinary. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat veeter• day. Present—Lord Chelmsford, the Lord. Justices Knight Bruce and Turner, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Laurence PeeL L Despatches were reeeived yesterday at the Colonieloffice I from the Governor of Malta. COLONIAL POLITIC& The Doily Netts quotes the letter addressed to Mr. Adderley by Mr. James Edmund Fitzgerald, wbo has just resigned the ministry of native affairs m New Zealand, to ' how how completely the war p o l i ey of 1863 has failed. Our policy of supplying the colonists with men and money for the prosecution of a war which bad the acquisition of land for He object was one that might have been expected to debauch the most virtuous community in existence. 'The colony has now resolved to follow an independent course, and this is likely to be better both for settlers and for the natives. Probably thee' who oppose our arms will be handled moo severely by colonial than they have I been by imperial troops; nor if this should make their re siatauce lees freqeent is it a consequence to be regretted ; but the Daily Nein does not believe that only the presence of the Queen's Army has stood between the Maori and ex , termination, but the contrary. The tejoietage et the Tieta .„DECEMBER 211 LATSSI3 INAILLIGENOR B.OKE AND THE IWIJAN GOVERNMENT. The Nord of 7eleilWl says A f r om Rome b r i ng ititalligence which is alt e r:- credible, so inconsistent is it with the o bstinacy displayed by the Roman government up to this time in reference to the stipulations of the conven tion of the 15th of December, 1864. According to this telegram the Holy See has at length consented to the payment by the Italian Treasury of the in terest of the portion of the pontifical debts which be longed to the former Roman provinces now annexed to the kingdom of Italy. It is not necessary to point out the consequences which this transfer would have as regards the relations of the court of Rome with the government of Florence, one of the first being an implicit recognition of the kingdom of Italy by the Holy See. But we repeat that this view is too surprising to be accepted without more ample information. The telegraph signals another movement which belongs to the same order of ideas —the probable nomination of M. Vegezzi as Minister of the King's household, in place of Count Nigra, who has just died. The reconcilia tion with Rome would thus obtain a defender at once satisfied and competent in the bosom of the Italian government." (arum% Tasmuit.) THE BELGIAN MINISTRY. BRUSSELS, Dsc. 21. ......___ , The Ministry have tendered their resignation, but the King desiring them to continue in the exercise of their functions, they have reassumed the direction of their various departments. The King presided yesterday at a Council of Ministers. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nox out owx ow PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Moniker only now notices, and that in a brief and summary way, the repudiation by France of the extradition treaty with England of Feb. 13, 1843. It states that the treaty not having produced any of the results anticipated from it is useless, and that notice was given on Dec. 4 that the French government would cease to be bound by it six months after that date. It observes that various journals have been mis taken in supposing that the treaty applied to poli tical offences, and that it related only to individuals accused of ordinary crimes. The rather fearful consequence follows from this announcement that any murderer or forger in England who can escape to Boulogne will be in a place of refuge. A sort of mild seizure of the Ecaement was made last night. It is not, I believe, to be prosecuted, but the police took away all the numbers for sale on the stalls in the Boulevards. It is announced to day that the back number can only be had at the office. The reason for this act of " administrative authority " was, as I tun given to understand, that the Ethitnient had said Prince Napoleon " pre ferred" going to Birio's funeral rather than Princess Anna Murat's wedding. The disturbance at the schools which I men tioned yesterday was occasioned in this wise:—When Dr. Tardieu, the doyen of the academy, who in that character signed the decree of expulsion of the five students, made his appearance in the theatre of the Ecole de Medicine, he was loudly applauded. When silence was restored, a student, making himself the spokesman of the rest, said the marked applause was meant for the professor and not for the doyen. Dr. Tardieu said he could not interfere on behalf of the expelled students. He was then mobbed and compelled to leave the theatre. At the Ecole de Droit a similar scene took place. There, however, M. Pellat, the lecturer, called the police to his aid and the students were turned out. A great many more arrests have been made this morning. Both the schools are closed for the present. The Temps says that several people have called at its office to ask the address of Mr. Stephens, the "Head Centre" of Fenianiam, now reported to be in Paris. The Temps does not know where he lives ; but should he choose to send the infor mation, it will be happy to give the benefit of it to its correspondents, who Bay they have important communications to make to Stephens. A Paris journal which scarcely enjoyed the ful ness of life long enough to make itself a name, and has been for many months in a state of suspended animation, seems likely now to make some figure, for it is about to reappear with the support of both money and talent. The property—for the charily accorded right to found a journal is a property — has been purchased by M. Bravay, the wealthy deputy for the Gard, whose return, after being repeatedly quashed for reasons never yet fully explained, the Corps Legialatif was at last obliged to accept. M. Bravay is now in Egypt, where he made his fortune, and it is from that country that the negotiations for the purchase of the Nation have been conducted. M. Forcade, of the Reeue des Deuce Mondcs, is to be the re.dacteur-en-chef. The Bourse remains heavy, but with very little change. Rents fell fic. for cash and 15c. for ac count. Mobilier fell 12fr. 50c. Italian stock was affected by rumours that the La Msrmora ministry has threatened a dissolution, and was 15c. lower. -- The Duke of Somerset left his official residence at the Admiralty yesterday for Bestrode Park, Bucks. The Earl and Countess ranville are the visitors staying at &remake G Lodge, near Mar amon lboro g ugh, "The late King of the Belgians," says the Vi Maa, Opinion Nationale, "has divided his fortune, estimated at The Earl and Countess of Cardigan, who are something about 80 millions, into four parte. The three first entertaining a select party at Deems Park, have been are reserved for the three children, the Duke de Brabant, joined by the folbswing company :—General Parker, the Empress Charlotte, and the ac Count de Madre. Out General Cotton, General Hagart, Colonel Douglea, Colonel of the fourth part will be paid the legies and pensions Cathcart, Colonel Francis Baring, and Mrs. Glyn Vivian. which the King grants to all the members of his boushold, Lord and Lady Chelmsford received at dinner from the highest to the lowest. The surplus will revert to the Count de Flandre, who has already a pension from the lut evening, at their residence, in Eaton-square, the Lord nation of 150,00 0 f r., and wh ich will p robably be augmented Chancellor and Lady Cranworth, the Lord Chief Justice of England, Sir Hope and Lady Grant , and Mi le Shakespeare, before bag." Mr. Justice Montague Smith, Lady m e w., yd r ., ydrr., sad The enthusiasm of the people of Sweden, says miss Walpole, Sir James Coln* Sir Lawrence Peel, Sir the Nord, in relation to the adoption of the project, of Thomas Henry, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Thesiger, and Mr. and reform, manifests itself in daily ovations towards the King. Ifrs. Higgins. We have to record the death of the Hon. John Some days ago, when his Majesty was leaving the theatre, wished to detach the horses, and draw the Oliphant Murray, second son of Alexander, eighth Lord Elibank, who died lut week at Dresden. He had been 1 royal carriage themselves. The King refused, and exclaimed, the crowd for some time attached to the court of the King of "So long as lam king my people shall wear no bridles." A law of police against blasphemers has just been Bavaria. He was Chamberlain and Knight Greed Cross promulgated by the Turkish authorities in Bosnia and of the Order of St. Michael of Merit of Banns. Th e d e . Herzegovina. Every o ff set* of that nature is punish ceased gentleman was born July 3, 1808. The Paris correspondent of the Independence able by a fine of two dories and twenty-four hours' a Turk who speaks blasphemy Beige, writing on the 19th, says:—" As might ugly have been foreseen, the premises of Prince Napoleon at the funs- against the Cross is to be fined twenty florins, whilat imprisonment. But • Christian reviling the religion of the Crescent is only ral of Alexander Bum at the very hour when themarri age of the PIiDOSINS Ansa Murat was taking place at the Toile. I becoming exacni" of public worship, el the wine-shops in ! liable to an indemaity of five. With a view to the more ries, appears to have produced • deep impression i n hi g h . the immediate neighbourhood of mosques or churches are quarters. People talk ef nothing lees than an exile being ins- ,to be closed. Lastly. All hangings °glaciated to wound posed on the Prince by the Emperor, like that which the honour of other pers.)°, renders the o ff ending party inflicted on the princes of the imperial family p ia the t" i liable te fine and imprisonment. of Napoleon I. I believe this rumour is completely en . 1 A letter from Homburg says that a duel, agierated, but it is certain that a reconciliation between • resulting from a violent altercatioe, took eau two days Napoleon 111. and his cousin is farther off than ever. It back between 31. Aug. F—, a native of that town, and Is probable that r ed Prin s is going to quit Paris again • t he Balm Tan der Smiacee ' a Belgian, a relative a th e it is eves rumoured that be has already set cat today. ' commander of the Belgian expeditionary corps in Mexico. Algorism Euterzeff Permow, —A petition will The two say/amiss fought with swords le the neighbour. h e preeee e e d against th e re h ire e y Sir E. L eren . yi . p .. .d hood of Frankfort. After a few puma the Baron was Mr. J. Goodsoe, M. P., the sitting member, for Greet wounded in the hand ; the seconds then declared "ho nour Yarmouth. Thee, gent are both conservatives. Mr. to be satisfied," and • reoonaliation ensued. Goodson is the present chairman of the Great Eastern Railway. It is etiated that the oteri of the petition Mr. Eyre, the governor of Jamaica (says the are is pommies ol abundant ' establishing bribery Bath Chrouck), lived many yeah in Bath, with his father, ea a Imp male. , the Bev. Mr. Eyre, who resided la Itiversunmst. THE DRICADFUL =PLOSION AT GETHIN, i LAW INTELLIGENCE. MUTH f & (THIS DAY.) --4,--- 1866. THIRTY LIY/M LOST. Just after our tater= yesterday was despatched, one Mere body was brought to bank, making 30 killed, sad the dread total by the calamity is now ascertained to be 30 killed and 22 injured, four very severely. Gethin Pit No. 2 is 200 yards deep. The seam worked here is the " 9 foot seam," and this is 60 yards lower than the let of vein, which is worked in Lower Gethin some 400 yards lower down the valley. The pit is a most extensive one, but the measures are known to be very dangerous, end the use of the safety lamp is strictly enjoined. How this is followed may be imagined from the fact that last week two colliers from this pit were charged with opening their lamps. They were tried before • magistrate and acquitted. Some of the men had strange misgivings as to working this pit. On the morning of the accident one el the colliers was seen to look moodily into the fire. His wife spoke to him, and he answered, after a while, "You don't know what lam thinking about. lam going to work in • very dangerous place." He was one of the killed. One man wee killed also who has left • wife and six children— ooe s week old. The wife is not expected to recover. Three brothers were amongst the slain, a fourth broke his leg last week and oboe escaped. Amongst the bodies brought to bank we noticed one poor lad with • wooden leg, one of the most dieting sights of the whole. Many were men in the prime of life, naked to the waist, their hardy arms yet nerved en if at labour. A few were burnt fright fully, but the most of them seemed as if asleep. One died just as he had reached the top, and in no case did the medical men succeed in resuscitation, for the majority of the men sod boys had been three hours in the pit before they could be reached. The some of the calamity is several miles below Merthyr, Do that few comparatively were at the pit's month. When the dead bodies were all °oilseed they were placed in trams and attached to an engine, which speedily bore the awful freight to Oyfarthfa. On arriving at the upper iyard, Cyferthfa, with Mr. Crawshay, the managers, medical gentleman, and others, the mese was distressing in the extrema There stood a large and ex pectant crowd waiting to recognise the d ead, and ea body after body was handed from the trams the wailing and heavy moaning were terrible. Then the long lines of mourners passed down from the railway to the town. and inured as many are to throe things, not the most stolid could look unaffected at that procession of death. THE JAMAICA INSURRECTION. The following memorial has been forwarded to the Right Ron. E. Cardwell, M. P. : " Sir,—We the undersigned, being justices of the peace, clergymen, and others resident io and Dear Huddersfield, having regard to the excitement caused by the recent me lancholy intelligence from Jamaica, and to the meetings that have been held on the subj subm it Hudersfield and other towns, bog respectfully to to you the fol lowing brief statement of our views and feelings on this unfortunate question :—l. We deeply regret the late f ea rful and sang uinary revolt at Moist Bay, Ja maica, and most heartily sympathise with the be roved families of the gallant volunteers and others who so nobly fell fighting for their country and its laws. 2. We believe that this revolt did not arise from any mere trifling and local discontent, but wee the premature dot of a deeply laid and widely spread conspiracy, having for its object the overthrow of her Majesty's authority in the island, the massacre or expulsion of the white inhabit ants, and the establishment of a black republic similar to that in the neighbouring island of Hayti. 3. We rejoice to learn that the revolt has been suppressed by the prompt efforts of Governor Eyre and the local authorities, aided by the loyal exertions of the wintery, the white inhabitant; the Maroons, and a considerable portion of the Degrees. 4. We hear with regret that Governor Eyre and the kcal authorities have been charged with using meoures of undue and excessive severity in the suppression of the re volt. The information which has reached us on the point being as yet obviously very imperfect, we do not wish to commit ourselves to any opinion ea to whether there has or has not been any such undue and excessive severity. 6. We would respectfully submit that it is most desirable for the interests of all parties concerned, end especially of the authorities who lie under so serious a charge, that her Majesty's government should cause 'strict investigation to bo made into all the circumstances connected with the revolt and its suppression. 6. Until such investigation has been made we would most earnestly depreciate, as unjust sod pre mature, any condemnation of Governor Eyre, and the other local authorities, by whose efforts the revolt ham been sup. pressed. We have the honour to remain, Or, your obedient ser rants, " RICHABD COLLIES, ILA., Vicar of lAnkburton ; Lawns Joins, LA., Vicar of Almoadbury ; J. C. FRAPKII,_B.D., late Vicar of Huddersfield ; T. A. Jogs. A.. Incumbent of Trinity, Huddersfield ; S. S. LAWRENCE, M.A.. Incumbent of St. Paul's, Huddersfield; E. SNOWDEN, LA., Incumbent of St. Thomas's, Huddersfield ; W. 0. E. OWEN, M.A., Incumbent of St. John's, Haddonfield GEORGE ARMITAGE, J.P., J. T. ARMITAGE. J.P., onAaura BROOK, jun., J.P., THOMAS BROOKE, J.P., J. 1100REOUSE, J.P., L. E. STARKLY, J.P. ;" and 260 others. Tat /4 mato lastraaacrloa.—Last night, at a public meeting which was held at the Metropolitan Taber nacle, the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon delivered an address upon the life of William Knibb, the Baptist missionary in Jamaica; after which Dr. Underhill, who was present, referred to the recent outbreak. Without wishing to pre jadioe the question, he detailed several matters which he alleged oppressively affected the negro population. He characterised the House of Assembly as the most venal and corrupt assembly calling itself • parliament in the world. It was to be hoped that the commission which had been sent oat would act in an impartial manner, and, at all eve nts, her Majesty's go vernment deserved c;edit, and the premier had acted in • way which became the honoured name of Russell. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL COLLRG —On Wednesday afternoon last the Duke of Marlborough presented the prizes to the students at the Agricultural College. In doing so his lordship paid • high compliment to the principal, his staff, and the students for the great efficisocy which the had attained, thanked them for the position to which they had called him as patron of the colleige. Earl Ducie, Mr. Sotheron Eatoonri, the Hon. W. H. Bathurst, Mr. Edward Holland. M.P., and the B.ev. Dr. Barry also ad dressed the students. MR. W. F. WINDHAM.—This eccentric indi vidual has this week enlisted in the Inniskillen Dragoons. The magic shilling was duly handed to him ' - but it was stated yesterday that Mr. Wiadham ' s military ardour had cooled, and that he had paid what is commonly termed " smart money."—Post. STEAMBOATS ON MISTY ND: vars.—Lord Alfred Paget writes to the Times :—"I notice in your impression of to-day that the coroner's jury at Dover have brought in • verdict to the effect that the drowning of the three us fortunate passengers in the Samphire, off Dover, was acci dental, and that the collision might have been avoided if the barque had shown a better light. The evidence of the seamen on board the steamboat went to prove that the night was dark and misty, aid that the steamboat was going at she usual steed during such weather, viz., 12 miles an hour. Having had ems practical experience at sea on dark and misty nights, and having been myself run down and my yacht sunk miler me nine years ago, within • mile of the same spot, by a mail steamboat ironing the Channel in the middle of the night, I venture to remark that as long as steamboats are obliged, or allowed, to ewes the narrows of the Channel on dark and misty nights at high speed, the I wonder is that such secidents do not occur more fre qnently. I have conversed often with the captains of , steam packets who traverse both the English and Irish ' Channels, and they have told me that they are obliged to drive their vessels so as to keep their I time, and save their credit, while they have trembled to do so, and would willingly ha v e gi ven a da y 's p a y to have g one let half the usual speed, The greater number of the pas -1 longer , go below. They know no more of the sea than the sea knows of them, and they think that they are as safe on a dark night, running the gauntlet among large stripe in the narrowest part of the Chanel, am if they were on • road, whe re, where, at all events, the engine-drivers have the chance of being warned by the semaphore that there was danger ahead." Tax THAMES MESABI:MK:VT.—At the Sheriffs' Court, Red Lion-square. yesterday, a special jury, nader the presidency of Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell, assembledto , mesaseocommeatiou in the ease, " Sant and others v. the ' Metropolitan Board of Works," for property required for the Thames Embeakmoot. The claim as made wae 12,493/. • for land and building, and, as • notice from the Board of • orks as to their requirement', a sum of 10,0481. was de manded for the deprivation of the waterway and the property in the ease. Mr. Hawkire,Q.C, was insitmeted on the part of the claimant. avid Mr. Lloyd for the Metropoli• tan Board of Works ; Mr. Prentice and Mr. Mellor also ap peared in the ease. The claimants in the case were the executors of Mr. James Sant, and the question was the amount to be awarded. The property had bean takes under the Thames Embankment Aet sad under the Lands Clauses Act. A special jury was demanded to ascertain the can ! palmation to be given. The parties made an arrangement, , and the jury was saved a long investigation. Ceder the direction of the learned Under-Sheriff 9,2371. wm given for the property, and 8111. for injuriously eliciting other pro- i Fy —making the verdict 10,04 81 . IRE AT Uszwz.—Yeeterday a fire broke out at the Crewe Railway weeks, and the whole of the oil sad engine deputmeet of the Loaf= sad North Western Railway was totally destroyed. There was no water to be bad, and the property best to the works wee eipeated to be Si.) bast. JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL (Present, Lord Clashnotord, Sir E. V. Pes Williams,l Sir J. Col. villa, sad Sir 1.60101101 t ) QDUW V. DALLIIOIZ.-411111 GOLD MELDS 01 LOSTILLLIA.—IMPOZTAN T Sir E. V. Williams this morning delivered the judgraopt o f them kaaahips is this importhat cam, whisk is I so appeal from the *okay of Victoria involviag she question as to the rights of the crown to 13,000 acres of wade lends in Australia. The crown e o l n tli te.d.d engh th. othsr a th" leese theY -b.na.lalirdbeetootims.de P ;ro w m er iewi tut io "Passul T tb il tesposdlo cio s : " : d ja, no such power—that the object of the legislature was to give meouregement to la n ds an d the cultivate the wade lands and keep pow of the " runs," sad they alas contended that the local legislature could may deal with " waste lamb: , an d not vim sly ts. His lordship, after micaml commentieg apes guments pro end coo, said that the court were unanimously of opinion that the judgment of the court below must be remind, with oasts. ZQUTrT COURT. (Before the Lord Chasmlior.) BLACIMIS V. 111,02111.—JUD 0 MINT. This wen an appeal from Vice-Clancallor Wood. With. out entering into the facts. it may edam to state that the point involved was whether the circumstance that a plain tiff by tuanooseshilly sadearonred to set aside en sward embodying so agisement between the parties, sondes rule of • soot of common law, is disentitled to mak sprifis performance of the award in • court of equity. The erga meet against such • right was that the 17th seethe of the Common Law Proetre Act enacted, " that whoa in any cam a document authorising a rotenone* is or has been made • rule or order of any one of tio• superior courts, so other of such courts shall have any jutiodiction to entertain any motion respecting an arbitration or award." and operated to prevent an application in °Mmmy for sperifis perform ance. The Vico-Chaneellor hold that when an award van finally made en action might be brought on it in any of the other superior courts of common law, and the Coast of Chancery had jurisdiction to entertain • bill for specific pp ormance ; the object of tha 17th motion of the Common Law Procedure Aot being only to confine to the court In which an award was mad, a rule, •11 prooesdinp involving the guidon as to what the award was. Hems the present ap eWOOOOk and Mr. Faber supported the dame ; Mr. Bolt mid kfr. Batten were for the appeal. The Lord Ohamellor now delivered judgment, and mid that the award had laid down that the defendant should, within • given Shoo, execute a lama for 2l years to the plaintiff of commis road or weggon.way, the defesdaat to have it lerve.way over the road, and to "apply argine. power for waggons and to keep the raid in repair. It wne clear that both parties on the execution of an sword had optimally a right to specific performano• of it, jest m if It lad bees an agreement botulism them. But he was of opinion that the present was not • cane for specific per. (=lance, because specific pmformance could never be granted unless the court could give relief to both part* which should be mutual sad complete. This was not the cane here, because althoigh the phntiff could get his Lava the rights of the defendant turned on the doing of • coati. noon, duty which there were no means of enforcing. Os this plain ground he pens of opinion that the decision of the Vioe.Chaocellor was erroneous and must be remised. &also, although it was not necessary to take that ground, as the award hadi been made in 1863 and the bill was not filed until duly, 1864, each a delay would in bin opinion, have been fatal to the ease of the plainti ff . Appeal allowed. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. After Term NW Prism sittings at Guildltsll.--illdare the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury.) BILL V. TIMMT. This was the fifth day of the hearing of this remarkable cue. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., Dr. T ristram, and Mr. Mauls. were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Karslake, Q.C., and Mr. Watkin Williams were counsel for the defendant. Dr. Steele was re-callsd and produced his books contain. ing the preseriptious written by himself, from which the medicine supplied to Mr. Hill was made up by Dr. Steele's assistent. Mr. Wm. Collins, the assistant, prod Mr. Godston the chemist's book. with the FreeeriPtion uced for the wolkiee prescribed by Dr. Bleak Lye for Mrs. Hill. DT. Fisher who ined Mrs. Hill, Ws goes to New Zealand, but , his book am was in court. No prescription we entered, but the book was not produced as it could sot be made evidence. Martha Greener deposed-1n 1859 and 1860 wee in Mr. Wood's service. 1 remember Mr. Hill corning there in the beginning of 1860. He appeared to be in good health. I knew then that be wee es to Miss Clarks. He remained about tea days. gamed d eocilleot his coming Co a second visit in March, and after wards in May. I thought he was very well in May. I did not hear him complain. After his return from the Mumbles, after the marriage,Mr. Hill asked me for 'poultice. and I supplied him with ore ; I often made them for him. He appeared to be suffering very mods, and said he we. in great agony and pain ; be said he bad had jangle fever, and many other complaint' which had knocked up his constitution ; he swore at the women sometimes, and aside they were the root of all evil ; he was talking about the Indian mutiny and said a woman was at the bottom of all the destruction there and other places. Mra. Hill appeared ill at the same time. This witness was not cross-examined. By the Lord Chief Justice-1 never saw Mx. 110.1 come out of Yrs. Hill's bedroom before marriage. Mr. Mum (the defendant) was then ermined. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commisnocer Hobsyd.) RT U J. P. GITICHAILD. The bankrupt wu described at an advocate, of Stamford. street, Blackfriars. This was an adjourned diking for examination and discharge. The liabilities are 10,3951. • s wats stated at upwards of 30,0001., bat de: psodent on the malt of some Chancery mita. At the last sitting an adjournment was ordered at the in. stance of the bankrupt, with a view to annulling the bank. raptcy, but he did not now appear, nor wan any reason marfor his demos. . e poria appeared for the assignees, and Mr. B. Grit. fithe tor the bankrupt. His Honour directed an adjournment sine die, and, in answer to an application by Mr. Griffiths for protection. said that the benkrupt might have it when he came to apply for it. (Before Mr. Commissoner Goulburo.) M RE WILLIAMS. The bankrupt was a cheesemonger. of Battersea. formerly of James-street, Haymarket. Debts, 1,0214 This wan the sitting for examination and discharge. Mr. R. Griffith., on the bankrupt's behalf, urged that he had already paid composition of se. in the pound. The failure was attributable to the extreme heat of last summer, which spoilt large quantities of goodo. His Honour expressed an opinion that the bankrinit was on. of • class now too common, who incurred all the debt. they could, and then came here to pay them. Mr. Griffiths said he could show that it was otherwise, bat he faired that farther argument would be like " pour. iag water on a duck's hack." (Laughter.) His Honour suspended the order for three months, but gave protection. IN RE JOIGII STEWART. The bankrupt wan en engineer and ironfounder, of Black. wall. This was an adjoutned sitting for examination sod diecharge. The amended accounts as prepared by Mr. F. B. Smart, exhibit the following large items : Dr.—To creditors unsecured, 29,8561. 9s. Bd. ; to cm. ditore bolding security, 29.3331.6 a. 10d. ; to creditors to be paid in fall, 557/. Ba. 544. ; to liability auditors holding esenutty, 3,1701.111.4 d. ; to liabilities on bills receivable, discounted. 17,4381. ss. ; to liabilities disputed, se , per statement, 14,4601. ; total, 80.3561. la. 3d. Or.—By debtors, good, 1,6641. lld ;by debtors„ doubtful. 2,8861. 3s. 7d. ; by debtors. bad 13,7811. Es. 9d. ; by eon. tracts in band. 7331. 13s. loa. ; by property in the binds of creditors, 40.0001. ; by property in the hoods of liability I creditors, 3,700/. ; by property given up to my amigo's% 2,1771.-51.1611.4 a. 4d. Deficiency, 29,1941. 16s. lid. ; total, 80,3561. 3d. Mr. Lowrance appeared for the assignees ; Mr. Linklater and Mr. Reed for creditors: and Mr. &rico& for the bankrupt. Mum ease was proceeding when our report WO (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) IN BE SIR ZARDLET GIDEON CULLING BAULKY. HAW. The bankrupt has been before the meant dined the 20th of October, 1864. He is described se labs of Frogoall, Tunbridge Wells, since of the All:nay. Piccadilly, and of Florence. He wan adjudicated while abroad on the petition of Messrs. Eglese and Tholliag; jewellers, of Oxford.stmet. At the first sitting debts of &boat 8,0001. wer t ureved, and the petitioning creditors , were appointed The aggregate liabilities are said to be about 15,74 ° Th. ere have since been several adjouramentr, the accounts not being filed, and the cam is still in the same petition. Mr. Flews, for the ugliness, rid he bad been informe d by Messrs. Pul sod Co., that they were making some arrangement'. on behalf of the bankrupt, to satisfy the meatus. He would, therefore, oak for an adjournment for two or three months The Commimicciew—The assignees think that that will be the beet Wog for the creditors? Mr. Flews said they did; tootherwise he should hays asked for an adjuremeat use die. The Commiesioser—Do you think that there is any VW' bability of the arrangement being ultimately doodiedll l Mr. Plsird—l think so • sad if they do Dot soon raise the money, we Mall get hi:sailing the property, which will yield a large dividend. An adjourament for three months was ordered. 11 NI 11111111.— TIM CATTLE The baukxupli was a dairyman, of Paddington. Debt' about 8001. ; assets, 3001. Mr. R. Griffith., for the bankrapt, stated that the ease wan of pest inidertune. The poor coin had lest 80 sows by the pervalnst disease. ' His Hamer vested the order. Tib• W . : age d " P i r s ,;ii. %AN ilso for 4 . 1 • Wi llsg.. ./ ; 11 ',71 1181" " 0 10111/66". 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