The Express. — London, England, 1865-06-16 00:00:00

j.MATTER of the Compani Act, 1.862, and the Matter of the CITY e nd COUNTY AS BUIANCI COM PAN Y Liadted).—NOTlCE D 3 REIM OIVILN, that • PETITION for the WINDING-UP of the ibareaamed COMPANY by the Court of Chancery was oa the ISth day of June, 46, promoted to the Master of the Roth by Edwin But terworth. of Manchester, to the county of Inneeetar, timber merchant: Martin ologan, of South Parade, Manchester, la the ofmanly, ettlentag merchsot Hadfield. the inager. of No. M. Ifourdeinetrest, Manchester, in the rams county, seatlemin Jotted's& Miner, et Nos. 66sn/ tO, Abingdon street. Salford. mar Menhester, In the same Dowdy, rz eb isimi .sier lot ; Robert Turner, of Carrotherhameek e in the same county, Meter and Carey, of 'No. 4, Yoeter-Sleee. is the City d Ireland. Esq.. conbibutories of the said Compeity at ll te Mat the said petition Is directed to be heard before the Master of the Roils on the lath day of June, 1865, and any creditor or eoutrttidory of the sad tbmpaey desirous to octane the mat= of so order for the trimming-up of the said Coro paay under the above Act should appear at the time of bearing by himself, or his counsel for that purpose, and a copy of the petition will be ford/bed to any cr ed itor or contributory of the said Colo.l er= the same, by the tuxtersirpiect, on payment of the T Amp for the same. ASHUBST, MORRIS, and Co, 01 No. Old Jewry, Loodon. Bendier' Ice the Petitioner& the " six-foot way," he says that *tie. nr34 now sometimes made so wide that p(oieet eat foot or • foot and • half over Ate • reducing the clear space between two meeting tigrna to only four or three feet. Then he says that a clear apace of from four feet eight inches to five feet would be necessary to make this method of communication safe. But we must remark, in the first place, that the extra width of the carriages, which reduces this space, la • matter which we cannot admit as an element In the question. it is adopted only to enable the companies to seat four or even five passengers on the seat which otherwise would ao commodate only three, the object being to save money in their oonveyance. But we cannot allow them to save money in this way, if the effect is to make impossible the only effectual means of pre; tooting passengers from violence. Parliament, which fixes the number of passengers an omnibus or cab is allowed to carry, will have very much stronger reason for limiting the number • railway carriage is to contain, if such limitation is proved to be necessary for their safety. But, in the next place, it is hard to see why a space of five feet is amential to safety between meeting trains. A soldier in the ranks occupies only 21 inches from elbow to elbow, and a man of ordinary stoutness can very saltily paas sideways along a apace of only 16 inches wide. Of course, if the guards are ex rooted to swing themselves along from point to point by clinging with their hands, they would need a great deal more room. But there is no lesson why the pump should not be guarded by outside rods or rails at a distance of some 15 or 16 inches from the carriage aides, connected by sliding rods opposite the ends of the carriages and the doors, which would make the transit perfectly safe. It is absurd to argue that the same distance must be allowed outside such passages as is allowed outside the carriage windows, for fear the passengers should thrust forth their heads and have them dashed to pieces against another train or a bridge. The guards would not thrust their beads outside the vided for their protection. Equally groundless is the argument that such communication might, as was supposed to have happened in the case of • cele brated murder in France, enable a man to get from one compartment into another, commit a crime, and then return to that in which he was before with out being observed. There can be no difficulty in making the doors of carriages like those of boxes at the Opera, capable of being opened from the inside, but not from the outside, unless the proper attendant, having a proper key, is summoned. Such self-evident observations must convince us that Captain Tim= has too hastily furnished the companies with the plea that communication is impracticable and objectionable, and that the s t a tement that on an average one nstill per annum loam his life in Belgium through this system being in operation (but only by means of the guard clinging with his hands) is no reason against a safer plan being adopted in this country. It is no business of ours, or of the public, to invent such a plan ; that duty rests on the railway companies. But it is important that we should understand that the objections urged against it are capable of being removed by • slight modification of the conditions. And, above all, the plea of expense must not be admitted. To discard some extra wide carriages, to alter some sidings or platforms, to add a railing to the sides of each carriage, are sources of expense utterly immaterial, beside the enormous sums al ready expended, and on which fair interest is re ceived. But, having given our railways monopoly, we must, above all, insist that they shall in some way give us protection from violence and defence against insult while we are in their charge. I ATEST INTILLIGINOE. THE OVERLAND MAIL. OPERA and R&M GLASSES, by NEGRETTI and ZAILIIIM, tla and Oa, In Whet an" with reek carnal Moses. or slunUoluoi, guineas and upwards. To be =ayat their tour ostabli.hutestoa-prdou ; ; 122, nesiac-anet on. G OLD CHAINS.-JOHN BROGDEN to call Os Woad= of thip public to the TOBY of 'VOICE which hs &divers with Gold Guard Chains purchased at 'manufactory : it. W o wt ortuusneldO of Padaa" dalabl• " "d i " " a d . • To LP carat gold, weighlut os. dwt. gra, at ig a. wt. pa olinCe, Mit PICO Total A Upon this engem the QthiLITY. WITGHT, sad VALTri ot se gold ere ',chiefly deetwl. sad susrenteed to the purchseer : John !trodden looting fora:air remuneration on the workmanship only, which is clamed according to the Intricacy or simplicity of the pattern.—JOHN BROGDILN, Ooldualth.—Manufactory, 16, liendelMatmet, Coyest-garden. London. Yelablithed a. 5.1796. N. 8., This letablisinment is closed aid to the evening, and on didn't's,' at 1 o'clock. ,EMBER you will are your friends at 0 TANS' &tar the Opws. We dual sup Owns Orprtoo. TO 00131 1 0ONDJUIT I L hereettementa blended for " The tome Loud= Evening o duet Pe, of pu an mast the dbe et the Moe, 10, Setivertealrsoi. by Two al blication. RATII Lin IT. TEO •irdinit T PTlmn ill MD LUC DAMN/1M Mews. ; Mesdames Keeley awl Wright.—itßOTHlLK al " Ileum Sahara, Madam and Compton ; Mesdames anon and Moom—And IBM GlialtN-AYID MOMITNIC ?NINON:WA. HIAEPSYNINGS AND rlDDisanuscia. —alma NA POGUL Yin. D. BoaelcatilL H. YaadenholL D. Maw, D. 3141T 1 11. Se7t o n, Muir= D. Goseicae. And Wm IL OUver.—kod AN ASIPLZ APOLOGY. &BMX NIA. TR/1 Tv= ate, Tag V WOK OP DELUSION. Mw'. lay sold', Cranford eat Drummond ; Mistimes Mites sad Yarnold. IL/LOID ISHINO CAP. Miss la. Came sad Key Lau .-And DAYNARI) DU VAL -Comma* at Italtirat S. NIGH WATTS. AT LONDON-MINI& Tim DAT Kornis& th. 4102.....Marn00n. ns. 16EL TOAtoaao, Morning, 7h. 4NL —.Afternoon, Ba. 19n. LONDON. FRIDAY, JUNE 16. Taws members of the travelling public who ob ject to being locked up for a quarter of an hour with • maniac, a murderer, or • drunken and obscene ruffian, will not derive much comfort from the correspondence just published between the Baird of Trade and the railway companies on the subject of communication between the passengers and the guards. Almost • year ago the Govern ment department addressed • circular to the companies directing their attention to the fact that in case of a carriage taking fire, or being thrown off the rails, or a criminal assault being committed, no means existed by which help could be called, or the notice of the attendants attracted. The Board of Trade further enumerated the several remedies which had been suggested—such as placing windows between the compartments, lengthening the footboards between the carriages, so as to allow the guards to pass along the train while in motion, providing bells or other means for drawing the guards' atten ti on -- a nd regoestod the companies to state what measures they had adopted for that purpose and what further powers might be required to render them effectual. But though • Committee of the Railway Clearing House was appointed to consider this communication, and boasts that in answer to its advertisements 196 different plans were submitted to it, all of which it has examined, and though, at its request, Captain Trust, of the Board of Trade, made a long and elaborate report to it on the systems at home and abroad, we regret to find that its labours have been of only the nega tive character which consists in rejecting every plan. It declares that none of the means of com munication submitted to it are such as can be re commended for general adoption, and that " in no " case would it be desirable, even if possible, to "establish • communication by means of foot " boards." It does, however, admit that "it is desirable, if practicable, to give " passengers by express or other trains " running for • considerable distance without " stopping, the means, in cases of emergency, of "•attracting the attention of the guard, and of "enabling him to stop the train at the next eta " Lion, or under the protection of the next fixed " signals ;" and they recommend that experiments should be tried for attaining this limited object, provided always, that " Parliament should pro " vide an enactment which would prevent the use " of the communication wrongfully, or upon insuf " ficient occasion." And Captain Tynan suggests, in lieu of parliamentary, a mechanical restraint, to consist in enclosing the means of communication in a glass box, which only the pressure of dire exi gency would lead a passenger to break. This grudging and insignificant concession would, however, by no means meet the require ments of the public. It would perhaps serve in the case of • carriage taking fire or going oft the line, or of a passenger being taken seriously ill. But it would not meet the case of sudden assaults on either men or women, as the terror which led to its use might be thought by the com panies "insufficient occasion" for its being called into play. It is also perfectly true, as the companies themselves insist, that every unusual stoppage of • train is a serious evil, disordering all the other traffic and endangering the train itself. The security the public requires, and which would not be attended with any such inconvenience, is the power of summoning at once an attendant to the carriage where he is required, and where he can give assistance till the next stopping place is reached. The knowledge that this power existed would deter the ill-disposed from anything but an instantaneous vault. And nothing will deter from an instantaneous assault but the knowledge that a guard maybe at the moment only a few feet off, and may be expected to pass along and look into the carriage before it reaches the next station. It is this power of summoning assistance, and this possibility that inspection is close at band, that gives us security in a hotel, in en omnibus, in a steamboat. It is the absence of either that makes us insecure in a railway train. But it will be very difficult to satisfy the public that it is unattainable there u well as elsewhere. Captain Tyne; whose report on this head the companies accept and endorse, declares that there is not room on our railways to allow a guard to paw with safety from sad to end of a train. Bet it is difficult to follow the reasoning on which he rests this conclusion. Takiog, first, the space between the two lines of railway commonly Galled (arcrris's TZLZGRIAB. • - TXPI EXPRESS, FRIDAY ETEVINGF, JUNE 16, 1 The Costa Rica Compass was opened on the let May. Wet weather at Trinidad had interrupted the sugar making. Tonnage was plentiful, and freights were low. About one-third of the crop had been shipped. Sugar making was proceeding rapidly at Barbs does, and the quality was good. Provisions were scarce, and the island was healthy. Exchange, 90 days, 4.75. Business was dull at Jamaica, and rain was fall ing all over the island. The sugar crop, owing to the long drought, was short of the average. Coffee, 54e. to 565. Ruin, 24d. to 250. per gallon, 18 proof, in bond. Sugar, ordinary, 13s. tu 14s. ; middling, 15s. to 16s. ; fair, 171. per 100 lbs. Ex : change, 60 days, 2 per cent. INDIA. Bombay journals of May 23 report the great event of the fortnight to be the failure (already known in this country) of Mr. Byramjee Hormusjee Came, whose house has branches in Calcutta and London, as well as in China and Singapora. The liabilities are estimated at 3,300,0001. and the meta at 2,800,0001. Some delay has ensnared in the signing of the deed owing to the wish of Mr. Came that one of his brothers should be one of the trustees. This has been acceded to, and it is understood that the deed of assignment goes to England by the present mail. The Bombay Times says :—" Mr. Coma is one of the largest original shareholders of the Elphin stone Company, and has been a large purchaser of Back Bay and Port Canning shores at very high premiums to be delivered on July 1. It is owing to these latter obligations that his credit became damaged, and the regular mercantile bills of his firm were dishonoured. This great failure has not yet produced any other embarrassments, though it has for the moment increased the feeling of depression in Bom bay. Several of the newer financial asseeiations and their leading promoters are in great diffi culty ; but the creditors generally have had the good sense not to press their de mands hastily, so that the community has had breathing time. There are indications of a rising determination to grapple with the difficulties of the financial situation ; but much unnecessary discouragement is still kept up by the obstructive policy of the larger exchange banks, who refuse to grant the usual facilities for business." The Viceroy has decided that the force shall occupy only two of the hill posts in Bhootan, those of Dalimkote and Buz& ; the police will de fend the villages in the Terai or plains. Many rumours come from Bhootan with regard to the dis position of the various chiefs. The official correspondence relating to the late fatal march of the B battery, Bombay Artillery, from Mow to the Deccan, has been published. The commander in-chief of the Bombay army blames General Green, commanding at Mhow, for not preventing the march ; but the general alleges that he had no discretionary power. Mr. Sandys, the judge of Dinagepore, while out shooting in the jungle, was almost torn to pieces by a tiger. He is, however, expected to recover, al though in a most precarious state. CHINA AND JAPAN. We have Hong Kong advices to April 27. At Pekin the absorbing topic is the degradation, as it is called, of Prince Kung, who in 1861 was the prime mover in the coup d'etat which overturned the old anti-foreign party. It was Prince Lung who signed the treaties at Pekin, when the Allies entered the capital and found that the late Emperor bad fled to his winter palace on the Yehol. " The Prince," says the China Mail, " was intelligent and enlightened, perhaps in advance of his fellow statesmen. It is believed that he would have favoured the Lay-Osborne scheme all through, had he been allowed. This he would have done partly to get the Chinese troubles off his hands as easily as possible, and partly because he has faith in foreign superiority. The administratton of the government is putted as now in the bands of Wansiang and other members of the foreign board. Prince Lung is said by other accounts to have been reinstated, but no official intimation of the same has appeared. The members of the foreign board are probably not quite impractical, but they are not known to be inimical to foreigners. The general opinion is that Kung's degradation has no political significance." From Japan we learn that the Japanese minis ters have addressed the foreign representatives on the subject of foreigners belonging to non-treaty powers frequenting the porta or residing therein. The reply has been a proposal to try subjects of non-treaty powers for offences they may commit by means of a mixed court of native and foreign officers. BOURBON DEMONSTRATION IN NAPLES. NAPLES, Jim 11 Daring the procession in celebration of the Corpus Clariati fife to-day, about 400 Bourbon and clerical partisans, including some priests, as sembled in the streets adjoining the cathedral, shouting "Long live religion. Long live Christ." The people attacked them with sticks and put them to flight. Several arrests were made. The journals, in discussing the event, urge the necessity of abolishing processions, except within the churches. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Ran 16. AMERICA. (=Flies litamirs.) The Royal Mail steamship Chins, from Boston on the 7th, and Halifax on the Bth inst., sxrived at Queenstown at 12 . 15 a. m. to-day with 282 passengers, 488,770 dollars and 8,000/. sterling in specie. She landed 89 sacks of mails and 40 passengers, and proceeded at 1150. All well. She made the passage in eight days 1113 a a half from Boston. IMPERIAL P. HOTIBI OF 00111[9N3.-(THIS DAY.) iioiSizioas took tie Max at • (eater ask 12 &Meek PRIVATE BUSINESS. The fallowing bills were read a thud time ad pared : Masefield sad Warimop Heed. Metropolitan m u t* land Great Widens Railway of Ireland (No. 21. Nara et Baglaad Union Railway, Ornate Valley aad Ely Va. Fatorio. Railway °amnesia. Swansea bad Abetrno4 Assam Railway, and Vaasa flatboat. SOUTH KE3TIMNOTON NEW ROAD BILL. Mr. H. SEYMOUR mowed that this bill reek bs re conamitted to the former committee, sod th object w ee is make a broad road is the vicinity of Relgraregnere eke gemsperred, me the South Keesiagtou Mom % the fee& bias about half a stile, and the minima *Mg B) for That would require about 18 acres, but the eon. missionses reposed that it should be 158 feet wide, sad for that roger 30 Wes would be wasted. ra e estimate for the road simply was 220,0001., bat the ere to be takes for Use whole of the improvements w ag 4000,0001. uteri W& with debenture power t ors i The saddest which cromuyed at the time of the Oar 3 4 . oorequer epos the amount of bra& fro* the preset sorrow thoughts's., mule it oely merprieleg that the toad had sta le earlier made, and tree sea no Me from the iri d eses before the committee that im traffic stool that time readsred the carrying ant of tbe ice. pyrometer eciatenepleted by the bill a vse7 desirable Mist In the tan of Vietorientere, the oretractiou d elmi was undertaken by a pirate company, the public vet fared, and the company became ba n kr u_ pt milry is @Prognoses of treadmill laud boiN eit letri it the car of the Thum Fothankmeat the ee Wail were empowered to schedule • larger quantity ct hat g ee was absolutely required, la order that they might reap themselves for the relay. The directors of the for making tide road included the =Me ei M ir/ Wortley, ILP., Mr. Warner, IL P., Mr. Eight gee firm of frith, Knight, sad Cu{, Mr. ge e Mars b sad Mr. Array, of Eaton-Ors, and the r its completion comprised the Credit Fore eet Mobilise et Eaglend, with its capital of 2,000.000 seri Moen. Smith red Knight. with • paid-up capital el me same amount. The value of the property to be effected ors 800,0001., and the opponents only represented mem Is the amount of 20.00 W. The opponents were priocipsily Om. keepers in the Brompteneand, who thought that the sale of their goods would be injured by mo l ls leaving the high road, sad gMg by the wide west. There wen some dwellings of the _ OWNS when would be displaced, bat if the poor desired to life I. tbe midst of the risk they antet be corer to live OS .is Pub, on floors of tall bream The vestriss of Obelersed Bra. Newton supported the comenre, tea mamba of Pedlimiel bad signed petitions in its favour and be believed it ves cleared by the inhabitants of Beliravia generelly. Mr. H. BAILLIE moored the neer& Lord GALWAY said it was very unmet rereelegs unanimous decision of • constaitem. Bad the evidence rat to show that the worlds. Is and thetesseholdom, wies bad spent large mune of mos improving their moony, would be girt raffeem by the passer of the bill. The Earl of Orogen, or of the chid laiedowsers is the dig er? had petitioned against the bill. Mr. J. PEEL said, se • member of the semmittee, ease to the reclusion that the making al a rod woad be a public benefit ; but there wereothr grounds en Mr ths enematae decided greet the bill ; and be believed so amount of evidence would base altered their diction. Colonel W. PATTEN said this being an appeal from a decision of the committee, he would submit to the mow whether at that period at the session it SY desirable le press the bill. Mr. SCOURFIELD opened the bill. smog other mss, because it wee iotroduosd by the Credit Fonder Comm,. He oonsidered the interference of such compare m net my dangerous to existing ietareste. (Hear, bor.) lir. H. SEYMOUR said. in crompliam with the sage. time jure made he would withdraw the motors. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Colonel Warr', a new writ was abed to be issued for the election of • mother for Drooped, the room of Sir Arthur Buller, who bad soosptid the Bea ardship of the Chiltern Hundreds. SALMON FISHERY ACT (1861) AMENDMENT BILL The rune then west bee ocumant a ree on this bill. (Left Mag (pee the Chiaa, via Creekhavea.) NEW YORK, Jolla 6, Emma. The Federal debt amounted on the Ist inst. to 2,635 millions of dollars, the annual interest thereon payable in coin to 644 millions, and the interest payable in currency to 60 millions. The legal tender notes afloat amount to 659 millions. The suppressed testimony at the conspiracy trial has now been published. Connover, a correspondent of the New York Tribune, Merritt, a physician of Montgomery, and a government detective, testified that they were intimately acquainted with the Con federate agents in Canada, and feigned to act in complicity with them in order to learn their secrete. They frequently saw Saunders, Thompson, and Clay in intercourse with Booth. Connover testi fied that he was present when Burratt delivered despatches to Thompson from Davis and Benjamin, indicating Lincoln, Johnson, Stanton, Grant, Seward, and Chase for a mma in ation, and that Thompson commissioned Booth for this purpose. He also testified that the Confederates in Canada had organised a plan to poison the reservoirs and the stock of cotton in New York. The Times says "That the government depends upon the evidence of Connover, Merritt, and Mont gomery, for the implication of Mr. Davis. General Kirby Smith has surrendered or the same terms as Generals Lee and Johnston, and all the cotton in the trans-Mississippi department belonging to the Confederate government has been delivered over to the Federal*. Confusion and anarchy are reported to be reign ing at Galveston, the Confederate leaders having lost all authority over their troops. The steamer Lark has returned to Havana from Galveston, having been robbed of her cargo. Governor Msgrath, of South Carolina, has sur rendered. General Grant has issued an address to the 'Federal armies, acknowledging their services and lachievementa. Telegraphic communication between New York and Charleston is now re-established. The north and south Atlantic squadron is to be reduced to 40, and the Gulf River squadron to 60 vessels. Williams and other leaders of the Mexican I emigration at San Francisco have been held to an swer before the grand jury for a breach of the neutrality laws. The charter of the barque Brontes has been revoked. The North American, City of Washington, and the New York have arrived out. The blockade-runner Denbigh has been burned. CONNENCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Jess 6, Emilio. Money easy. Gold, 13711. Exchange on Paris, 3.73 k. Stocks dull. New York Centrals, 89g. Illinois, 114. Erie, 74} 6.20 Bends, 10:itt. NEW YORK, Jess 8, Arrzasoos. A denial has been given to the statement that Mr. Stanton intends to resign his office of Secretary of War. President Johnson has discharged from imprison ment all enlisted men of the Confederate army not above the rank of captain, and those of the navy not above the grade of lieutenant, upon taking the oath of allegiance, except those who were excluded by the amnesty proclamation. General Grant has arrived at New York, and was received with great popular enthusiasm. He was present at a meeting of citizens in the Cooper In stitution to signify their adherence to Mr. John son's administration. Resolutions were passed urging the government to demand indemnity from the neutral powers for the depredations caused by Confederate pirates, predicting the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine and favouring negro suffrage. It is reported that Mr. Davis will not be tried until September. The New York Times confirms I the statement that he was manacled for three days. A revised report of the recent speech made by Mr. Wendell Phillips says he advocated the repu diation of the Confederate, and not the Federal debt. It is stated that the government has demanded the surrender of the Confederate ram Stonewall by Spain. It is asserted that the government has refused to send a vessel to accompany the Atlantic cable ex pedition because no official information has been received of the repeal of the regulation requiring Federal vessels to quit British ports within 24 hours of their arrival. Judge Underwood has informed the grand jury of Norfolk that the parole of Lee's army was a mere military arrangement, not influencing the civil rights or status of the persons parolled. Mr. Garrett Smith will lecture to-night, denying the right of the government to try the Confederates for treason. The Africa has arrived at Halifax. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Jun 13. Arrsavoox. Money abundant. Gold, 1371. Exchange on Loudon, 151 i. Exchange on Paris, 3.711. Stocks slightly firmer. New York Centrals, 9L Illinois, 118 i. Erie, 75i. 5-20 Bonds, 103 g. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 43c. Flour, wheat, and corn dull. Provisions declining. Coffee quiet. Sugar good inquiry. Molasses steady. Petroleum dull ; crude, 25c. ; refined, 50c. Large quantities of cotton are arriving at Wil mington. FINANCE GOV E RNrNs ACCOUNTS OT Ttil MENT OIP INDIA. This morning the above accounts for the yee 18834 were issued, together with the estimate of WNW, ezporditare, and orh bakers for 18644. The total revises aid reports of all the presidensies sad provinces of Isti la the year 1883-4 smonsted to 44,613,032 1 . The eft revenues sad receipts for the year 1364-5 le 46,264,1011., sod of mcpenditur, 46,547,4831., thus showing cm aim of expenditure over Ma me of 263,3771. QUEEN no WN, Jam 16. The Inman steamship Edinburgh, from New York on the 3rd inst., arrived here at 2 am. to day, with 369,466 dole. in specie and 251 passen gers. She landed 45 passengers and proceeded for Liverpool at 2.15 am. Her news has been anti cipated. Zig court. BALMORAL, Joan 14. The Queen, accompanied b 3 Princess Helens, drove out yesterday morale'. In the afternooe, her Majesty drove out, accompanied by Prioress Beatrios. Princess Helena and Primes' Louise drove out, attended by the Duchess Dowager of Athol' end Nos. Banos. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Doke and Dacha' de Brabant, went to. Ascot yesterday. In the evening the Prince of Wales, accompanied by tbe Duke and Duchess de Brabant, went to Her Majesty's Theatre. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were —Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon.T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Earl of Clarendon, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. • A deputation from the hamlet of Mile-end Old Town, competing of Mr. *Spencer Chan ington (chairman), Mr. John Cannon, and Mr. E. J. Bouthvell (clerk), had an interview with the Bight Hoe. 0. P. Villiers, at the office of the Poor. law Board, Whitehall, yesterday. Despatches were sent yesterday from the ColonieLofflee to the Governor of Canada. Their Royal Highnesses the Count and Countess a de Paris reoei►ed at dinner at York Hors, Twickenham, co Wednesday evening, the Marquis sad Marchioness of Clanricarde, the Earl Granville, the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl and Countess Grey, the Earl and Countess of Carnar von, the Right Hon. Chichester Parterre and Frances Countess Waidegrave, the Counter Cowper, Lord Stanley, Lord Clarence Paget, M.P., and Lay Clarence Paget, Mr. Layard, M.P., Mr. d'Haussonville, Mr. Abel, Mr. Da law, The Earl and Countess de Grey have dinner parties to-morrow, ►nd on Wednesday next, the 21st jut. The Earl and Countess Spencer intend to give a write of parties at %mew House. St. James's, in the early part of next month. The Countess Apponyi will give a dancing party at Chandos House on Monday night to a large party, to close the hospitalities of the ~on at the limitary. The mortal remains of Viscount Craubourne will be removed to Hatfield. Herta, in a day or two, for inter ment in the family vault at Hatfield Church. Mr. and Mrs. John Marion Thornton, from Paris, have arrived at the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn•strest ; also Mies Gregor and suite, Monsieur Vaadenbussche, and Monsieur W. de Barran ; Madame Toliertkoff, nee Conn. ter Czernichew Krouglikoff, and family and suite, have left the earns hotel for Brighton; and Main and Mrs. Beet, ; Sir William Jardine, of Jardine Hall. Lockable, have h also left. . The Musical Education Committee are now meeting once or oftener in the week. They have taken evidence from llir George Clerk. Bert., Hr. B. F. Chorley. Mr. Otto Goklachmidt, and Mr. Lads, the Principal of the Royal Academy of Need Daarn or VIZ BISHOP or Camerza.—Universal regret was expressed in Liverpool yesterday at the death of the Bishop of Cheater, and the lags on the public. baildinp were hoisted ball mart in honour to his memory. The deceased prelate was the sou of Mr. John Graham, of Dar bad He was ham is 1794 ; was appointed prebendary of Liecoln in 1854, sad made Clerk of the Closet in 1849. He was formerly deter of Williogbant, in Cambridgeshire. and also chaplain to the late Prince Consort. He was °Dese crated in 1818. He was patron of 47 livid" ; and the ee eeei value of the as, et Chaise Mahout 4,8801. Hewes • newel in polities. HANDIL PrsiivAx.—The last rehearsal of the metropolitan choir of the Handel Fortivel t o es ak Owe this , evening at laster-hall, under the &sedan Oasta. R „• EXPRESS FROM PARIS. The Royal Mail steamer Atrato has arrived here with 212 passengers, 967,490 doh. in specie, and 2,074 packages of cargo, consisting chiefly of cotton, coffee, cochineal, and cocoa. She left St. Thomas on the 29th ult., and on the following day her port engine became disabled, and she made the voyage with one engine only. The Spanish fleet in Chili had been heavily reinforced by further arrivals, and coal and store depots had been established for their use. Much anxiety existed in Chili as to the position of affairs in regard to the claims made by Spain. No official information of the question at issue had been made public, but one of the demands on Chili was that they should salute the Spanish fleet, which it was said the afflatus would not do. The new customs tariffs met with strong opposi tion from the merchants of Valparaiso, and a com mittee which had been formed had framed an amended tariff and offered it to the ministry as superior to that coming into operation on the Ist May. Business at Valparaiso was quiet. Exchange, 46 to 467 per dollar. The revolution occupied public attention in Peru, and the speedy crushing of the rebellion was anti cipated. On the Bth ultimo a simultaneous attack by sea and land was made by the government forces on the revolutionists at Arica. After a short struggle the revolutionists abandoned the defences in con fusion and Arica was re-taken by the government troops. The Spanish steam-ram NUMERIC* 6,000 tons, had arrived at Callao to reinforce the Spanish squadron. Business was depressed. Exchange, 361 d. to 37d. In Guatemala, Congress assembled on the Ist May, and General Cerny was elected President by a large majority. The republic was quiet. The revolutionary rising in the department of Olanoho, Honduras, continued. In Salvador uneasiness prevailed on account of an attempt made by the friends of Barrios to over throw the present administration. Trade and agri 'culture were flourishing. Nicaragua a plague of locusts had done great damage to the cotton plantation. Congress bad ad journed till next year. • A CAB STRIKE. (rum one OWN comaronozirx.) PARIS, Tistizani.! Evinnio. A great and unprecedented event has occurred to-day. There is not a single hackney coach (Aim) upon any stand in Paris. The cabmen have struck for wages. The new law, for reporting upon which M. Emile 011ivier first lost the confidence of his old friends, mitigated in terms the old severe statutes against strikes, which are here called in differently "grdues," or "coalitions," and made simultaneous cessation from labour possible without committing a penal offence. But the government little suspected that such a serious thing as the present cab strike could occur. Very stringent clauses were inserted against concert and intimidation, and it was on account of these clauses that Emile 011ivier was accused of lending himself to the government to bamboozle the working - classes by keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope. However, the result has been that the Paris ope ratives look upon the new act allowing strikes as a privilege of which they are disposed to make large use. There are few trades in which strikes have not occurred within the last year, and there have been scarcely any prosecutions under the penal clauses of the 011ivier law. There was a strike of London cab men some years ago, and the accounts which I re member reading in the papers of the time give a good idea of the immense amount of inconvenience experienced by the Paris public this day. The passengers by the early morning trains from all parts of France were thrown upon the pavement with their luggage, and there were no cabs to transport them to their destination. In this city, where there is ao much less individual initiative than in England, and where people in difficulty helplessly rely upon the police and authoritative regulations, the effects of the strike must have been much worse than in London. I must, however, explain that there is a class of carriages called voitures de remise, which does not exist in your metropolis. These carriages are dearer than the fiaeres, and better horsed. They are not allowed to ply or to stand upon the stations ; but are to be found under sheds and in doorways, called remises. They cannot carry much luggage. The insufficiency of the entire hackney-carriage ac commodation for Paris being notorious, these "allures de remises only mitigated in a slight degree the unparalleled inconvenience which this population has been subjected to. I understand that the eoitures de remises mean to strike to-morrow. It is difficult to conceive that the French people and the French government, reciprocally accustomed to the regulation of com mercial transactions by authority, can let this sort of thing go on many hours without some sort of coup d'etot. I hope the public, which has suffered enormously by the disgraceful management of the public car riages of Paris, under the present monopoly, I may be compensated for the present mishap Iby free scope for competition which would ensure better service. The number of hackney carriages es suddenly stopped is about 2,600. The demand of the drivers is that their pay shall be raised from 3fr. to Mr. per day. They allege that Mien& charges reduce their nominal pay of 3fr. to Ifr. 90c., and that the gratuity called pourboire, which they cannot exact but are allowed to receive, has been in practice diminished by the raising of the fares. The public they say give two sons where they used to give five. The men therefore, have made up their minds that it would be better for them to have good fixed wages and abolish the gratuity altogether. As one l of the public, I should second their demand, were it not for the fear that when they got the wages they would, from the force of habit, expect the pourboire as welL The unanimity of the strike is really wonderful. Public meetings are not allowed ; intimidation is punishable ; and yet so perfect is the understanding that 1 have not seen a single Aare in the streets to-day. I have heard a report of one man having braved his comrades, and that he received an ovation at the Bourse. If so, his Bourse friends had better find him some other trade. The Bourse was very heavy. Rente fell 10c. both for cash and account, and Mobilier Bfr. 75c. The railways were all 2fr. or 3fr. lower. Mexican con tinues dull at 441. The Petites Voitures fell sfr. The return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-dry shows the following changes as compared with the previous account :—Decrease: Cash, 13 millions ; current accounts, 17 millions. Increase : Commercial bills, 38 3-sth millions ; ad vances, million ; notes, 213} millions ; Treasury balance, 16/ million'. PLY - sours, Joss 16. —Her Majesty's ship Gras arrived here to day from the West Coast of Africa, having en board Yr. Dart, British Consul at Faysi, sad his family. The Prose states that on Saturday, when the Emcees went to Fontainebleau to meet the Emperor on his return from lager* her If sjeety, desiring to sive Willa Rosa Bonham an exceptional mark of favour, pro ceeded incognito to the Chateau de By, and decorated the artist. " A topic of conversation in Paris sporting oinks during the last few days," says a Paris letter in the Journal de Rouen, " has been a duel at Ls Marche be testes two gentlemen well known on the turf in France. The origin of the quarrel was the manner in which • bet of io.ooofr. on the French Darby had been settled. The I winner having left some previous bets unpaid, had been I posted, and the loser on this occasion consequently paid the money into the hands of the secretary of the betting club. The winner claimed the payment to himself, and high words ensued, followed by a hostile meeting, in which one of the parties was seriously wounded. The other received some slight seretehse only." " An interesting incident in the great race of Sunday." says the Preece, "is mations& Oladiateur sad Le Mandarin had, as is known, run together to the last turning, allowing themselves to be preceded by the other four hones. At that place °Amebae, the jockey, felt he had no more time to lose, so be gave Gladiateur a touch of the whip. The bone, however. cootinned to gallop on but without mending his pees, for being accustomed to run with Ls Mandarin, his stable compteice, sad seen( that the other did not advance more rapidly, he seamed unwilling to part company. For a moment Grimahaw felt anew Do gen ►is hones seemed and more severe eat of the whip. Gladiatear then at last seemed to comprehend the neces sity of quitting the other home, and so bounding &men% Ise pored, like an snow, all his rivals." VIZ FATAL FIRE IS LEADENHALL•3 III Urn - - The City authorities have taken possession of ths rains of the LW fire in Lsedenhall-market, and ma lis wells are shored up of the adjoining house the march fm the remains of the two unfortunate females who perished camel be resumed. The question as to their havieg last thalami is now beyond all doubt. They wore seem by es occupiers of the houses is Limeetreet, banging h the window sill of the second AGM beck Maim of the Poulterers' Arms, and heard theta u piteously call out, " Oh, for mere sake, ems us." afterwardsthe poor creams mmt have dropped into Is yard, and the rubes of the blazing building toppled over, Si buried them. It is very probable that the bodies will sit be recovered for two or three days. THE GREAT MBES OP YESTERDAY. OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE DAMAGE. The loss of property at the serious fire last eess• log which cossumed the extensive establishmeut of NOM Collett and Dodds, oil sad colour merchants, ie Hislethal% at wilt Phoreditch, is estimated at tittle short of 20,0001., 6,000 i. will fall on the Phoenix Fire Insurance Compost 3,0001. on the Royal Exchange, 3,0001 on the Globs sei Royal, and 3,0001. on two other offices. The besvial explosion took place about 6 o'clock and affettel the whole neighbourhood for some dines°, ma and indeed in the City. It is believed to have arises has the ignition of • stock of gunpowder is the appareled ess of the warehouse overlooking Flough-yard. It wee st juncture that the warehouse of Mears. Waptaff, rag nu chant, situate Nome distance from Mears. Collets's puska and on the other side of the North Load= Eating WA caught fire. The official report of the outbreak coolants the folk , * additional particulars se to the amount of people? a. troysd in the mislabel:slued : 5 p.m. Called to a large fire in Highatrest Shccedilt the warehouses of Messrs. Ocillett, Dodd., sad Ca, al coloutmanufactarees, 3 is Lumber, 4 stories is beitkfi in Plough-yard and another is Three Cappeosrt--lisret down ; front premises, 222, High-etrast, beck Fart 1 1 414 ,, shop destroyed aid root off ; Are embed by drawer paraffin oil ; firm insured in the Globe, Built Bald Exchange, Royal, and other offices. 221, High.street, Shoreditch.—Mr. Mooris abig ssf coffee-rooms, roof damaged end contents d ,bee Men dththrod•- 219 , IL A. Hatch, tobacconist, Ise et how damaged ; Mewed. Three Cops-court—Four house*, tenanted by Oui regi families, front scorched and furniture damaged. George-street—The house of Mr. Bed iojared. Plough-murk—Houses Nos. 1,2, and 3, onaPIII W families, front seriously scorched and damaged. The warehouse of Mr. Wsptaff, rag merchant PI" roof off and contents partly burnt. On inquiry at the London Hospital, respecting WI. of the man who is supposed to have been the cars el tio fire in drawing off the paraffin oil and who was al sheik. iogly burnt, we found that he was still alive, bat W set &ion is very sad. Lord St. Leonardo' bill for the better seetwill railway paissegms is very brief. cousiatins the foUsesi clause :—" From sad after the 18th of July nest it low a ypimmer is within lawful to lock both the it doors of eel nilenl whilst owild. A oloeely printed volume of 567 pages WI. this morning as a sa supplement to the 25th avoid 1004 • the regialrariessral of births. death', ood marf il l e is Ragland. Th e volume has bean compil to s hor t ' e nr . frog the easseedivs moods of 10 years (18M .60), h Tna 1.1212 SIR Joeurn Porrow.—Yesterday Sir of death, and the comparative salubrity of eve r y M S Joseph Paxton was buried at Meant. star Chatswolih, Zagisad wed Wol" close to the scene of his earliest achievements. Among the ' shire, Lord Riehard, Lord GOMM end Lord Fradmiek h e ld " s u g g A p t .' th a lgyptiairhall, Idassioo-h"" *. its f lf ßu rku rlir wim eo m J:ones, "4" Gro :M4. 4l ;:::....... l : l ; : z D A ; a t t .:::, . n l cF " l7 : . Cavendish, Mr. Jai:dram LP., Yr. Brassav, Mr. Wyttiss, ILA ", th , - ( e m i r . abase prilelet in" it. Loodse,p /OZ ailispeArre 7 l4, ll 7 ::: Roeboner: rlo ta rr esti i ,th o ßi rr :vo o :o : oo , T Bo 7 o : Phfll.,....l :7! eartiagen followed to the chamkvard , and the whole neigh- Doan of Perth, si r J a hn Awe, and Sir R. boorbood had sinsiablad to pay the last tribute of ra sped . p .m.. 'um* ban opened with rar e ' and affectionate regret. I astary read the report. whieb stand that the redo sop CITWfAL PaLac•—lrbe Saturday concert to- ab s otwistel to 102.9171. i PS; =wow win be supported by Madams liszeisra-Wlaiegere. pima with the pooolows Teas. " 5 . 8 ;00° Signor aerated, sad other pa-Insipid artistes of gar K r t= 14s. 10d., which might be anstibsd nail? pir Theatre, Madame Arabella Goddard being the solo rat the country. but appeal relay to the o• • special display of all the groat freak*. will take plain , in wa y gu id o n t o th o of the Ws"' ; sae themeow% bishop. MEXICO. NEW YORK. Jun 6. Intelligence received here from Mexico, vii Havannah, announces that the French had routed and dispersed the liberals under Regales. General Aymard had occupied Chihuhua, and Juarez had fled towards New Mexico. DOlll g. 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