The Express. — London, England, 1861-06-19 00:00:00

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Never was so small a demand made by a government upon Parliament as Lord PaLesiorrus has made this scrim, but he asked too lunch for the Houses to give without pressure. The Budget has indeed been passed, and there is an end of it ; but it is still exceedingly doubtful whether the Bankruptcy Bill will become law, and the Appropriation of Seats Bill has brought its authors nothing but trouble. I'he proceedings of hest Monday night in the II .use of Commons can only be looked on with mingled wonder and pain by all who value the well working of our constitutional system or the stability of a Liberal Government. The state of the House upon the question can only be de embed as one of otter anarchy. All regard for leadership is lost, and, we are bound to say, in. itably so, when no discernible flag is held forth to which men in honest doubt may rally. As originally framed, the Redistribution of Seats Bill was founded on two broad and intelli gible principles—namely, an equal distribution of conferred power between counties and towns, and an equal consideration of metropolitan claims and those of smaller communities. These were fair principles to build on. Ministers having discarded all thoughts of a general reconstruction of the representation, wisely took these principles for their basis in the minimum measure they pro posed to carry. The public could not be ex pected to feel much interest in a proposal so swell ; but they were told that in the minuteness of its size lay its certainty of passing, and that as there was so little else to do, this act of obvious justice was sure to be done. But this is a maxim which has never yet held good in Parliamentary business, and principles and predictions have alike vanished together. The fundamental grounds on which the HOME SECRETARY rested his appeal for support in March last have been wholly aban doned. There is no longer • semblance of equity about the Bill as it stands. Two seats have already been voted for counties ; and the only practical question that remains to be decided is whether one of the remaining seats, or both, shall be given to the counties. Government no longer encourages the hopes of either English or Scotch Univer sities. By its support of Mr. KNIGHTLEY'S motion to give a third member to Middlesex it threw overboard the right of tho towns to an equal share in the redistribution. Instead of regarding the unwarrantable concession as • peace-offering, a majority of the House contumeliously spurned it by 236 to 186 votes. Drifting ever further and further out of their true course, Ministers eagerly offered new terms of compromise, and agreed to surrender • third county seat to the landed interest of Yorkshire in the delusive expectation that they might thereby be permitted to keep one seat out of the four for Birkenhead. But no sooner was the unwise and unwarrantable offer made than the leader of the Opposition flung it back with scorn, and declared that he would be satisfied with no thing less than the bestowal of both the third and fourth seat on another county. A half-emptied Mouse sevi content to allow the clause respecting Birkenhead to pane pro foreid, it being understood on all hands that no decisive battle could then take place, and that the final struggle must be deferred to a further stage of the Bill. But what a coudition of things is this ? Point after point has been given up in the vain attempt to purchase an unworthy permission to pass a measure of some kind ; and when everything which its authors themselves laid down as essential in point of justice and policy has been cut away, the chance of any proposal whatever n earing this year the statutable impress of legislation is less than ever. We cannot, in deed, permit ourselves to believe that the members who sat for the great cities and boroughs of the kingdom will tolerate any further trilling with what has hitherto been held sacred by their con stituents—we mean the just power of the really iudependent towns to return an adequate number of representatives to Parliament. When the nomination boroughs are added, as they must be in any fair computation, to the agricultural interest, the balance between town and county is toleredy fair. But if the representation of every borough disfranchised for corruption is to be transferred to • county, or if three out of four of forfeited seats are to be so transferred, then we shall have made • stride towards a state of things in which • Lower House is • mockery, and shall allow the Lords to do henceforth in their own name, instead of by deputy, whatever may seem to them good with our properties and taxes. All equipoise is gone if this perversion of acknowledged right and principle be sanctioned by the House of Commons. While there is time let the Borough Members look to it. They must know in their hearts that they have no right to give away three out of four boroughs to the class against whose preponderance in the Ligislature they have been specifically set as a counterpoise. As the mutilated Bill now stands, but one seat out of the four that espe n tly belonged to the boroughs of Sud bury and St. Albans is even professedly n u n a t .,' fur a town, while two have issen actually allotted to counties, and another has been promised them by the Treasury Bench. Supposing Mr. Dibasem's menace, there- I fore, never realised, of rescinding what leis been nominally done about Lancabhire and Birkenhead, in order that two additional representatives should be given to Middlesex, the measure will still remain one that no true or enlightened representative of any city or borough in the kingilini can support on the third reading ; and there is no way of escape now left from the difficulty into which Ministers have been uuhappily betrayed but to withdraw the Bill. Other cousideratious there are which we have not prer.ed, Omagh full of weight and importance. if the West Biding were to have the two seats forfeited by Sudbury, and Lancashire and Birkenhead the two but by St. .‘lbans, the Southern half of the king ! dole would be despoiled, without any justification l , or show of mason, to swell the already overgrown pretensions of one limited region of the North. We should be berry to stimulate feelings of jea lousy in the other portions of the kingdom towards that favoured locality ; but for the sake of the general peace and contentment wo must deprecate favouritism so flagrant as this would be. Our tirni pm-suasion is—and we already see good grounds far our belief that what has already occurred regarding Chelsea and Ken sington will awaken • spirit throughout the metropolis and the other great cities of the empire which has long lain dormant, but which, when awakened, will assuredly not be appeased by any temporizing expedients like that origins.Uy pro pounded in this Bill. We have no wish to see the sense of injustice inflamed into resentful ex asperatiou by an obstinate attempt to carry the measure further ; and if unhappily the attempt be made, we trust there is sufficient self-respect among the Boron:J.li Members of the House to interpose their veto. It is not a question of party or creed; it is, as the division lists painfully show, one of class against clam THE 'EXPRESS, • WEDNESDA'U EVENING, JUNE 19, 1881. LATFZT - INTELLIGENCE. PRUSSIA. A morning paper publishes the following tele gram "BERLIN. Jun B. "The Berlin Ministry has resigned. The ground on which they have refused to continue in office is the revival of the unpopular Ruldigung, or paying of personal homage to the Sovereign. The Kira: Zeitung party insist that the cere mony shall be performed ; the ministry, supported by the liberals, have postpone,' its taking place for four mouth*, but now, seeing the King resolved to enforce it, observance, have tendered their resigna tion. The custom is a relic of the old feudal times, and was last performed at Konigsberg on the accession of Frederick William in 1840." fbt Com The Queen, :teeritriptinieil by the Princess Alice, Mill attended by the Duchew of Athol°, drove out yesterday afternoon in a carriage nod four, and called on the Dowager Heehaw of Northumberland mod the Duchene d'Antnale, at Twreireehara. Colonel the 11,e. A. N. Hood attended. The Priem Consort, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Louis of Heels, attended by Major Du Plat, Colonel the Hos. A. Hardinge, Captaiu Grey, and Baron Weaterweller. left Buckingham Palate at a quarter before nine yesterday mamma to.. Cue eamp at Alder Mott, and were present at • review of the divisive ender the commend of Lieut.• General Kis J. Peneetatber. Their !loyal Iligharem returned at half•lrst six o'clock. Prises Arthur is convalescent from the measles. Primes= Beatrice took a carriage drive yesterday. The Count of Flanders, attended by Major Buroell, re torted to Buckingham Palace. at 20 minutes before 7 o'clock last evening, from a tour in Ireland. The Duchess of Wellington, Mistress of the Robes, tad the Earl of Malmeelsary, had the honour of dining with her Majesty at Buckingham Palace last evening. Tits Viscountess Jocelyn has succeeded the Duchess of Athol@ as the Lady In Waiting to the Queen. Sir J. Palmer bad as interview with the Duke of New castle yesterday at the Colrainl-office. Her Ifejestz's Comainioeen for the International Ex hibition of Dna have received an intimation that the fol lowing members of the &WWI government have been appointed as • commission to represent that country at the forthcoming exhibition :—Le tkinseiller Pelee Leweehine, presid ;le Committer du Minietere (he Attains Etrangiree et Coaaeiller d'Etat Action Evers ; le Consealer Acting du Minister* ibis FloMiCes Scherer ; le Cooseiller Actuel des Domain* trEt.it Lode ; to Conseiller d'Etat Petersolm ; FAinswieur de C.,llege Tscherniagen ; le Oonsailler d'Etat Actual de bepartement des Aponsiree Hemet. Notice has also been received that the following gentle mee have been appointed at Malta to serves commissioners for the hotereational Exhibition, 1862:—The Hon. Victor Hodges, K.C.M.0., Chief Secretary to Government ; Sir Adrian Diana ILOILO., (LB., Crown Advocate ; Filippo Punka°, LLD. ,• Itaa IL Toweggiani, LLD. ; Haven liclieniliri, Eng., ILD. Her Majesty's Commissioners held • meeting at their of in the Strand yesterday. The Building Committee held a meeting it South Ken sington yesterday. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. An appeal from Bengal, " Moonshee Bust ul Bohemia v. Luterfutoonues," ',art beard, was concluded. An appeal from the Cape of Good Hope, **The Trustees of Commercial Fire Assurance Company v. the Trustees of Narnagua laicise Company " was heard. r t. i d. ileal from the Isle of m v. Moore " was wit h. The "Corith. The Loris present were rd Kiepdown, the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner, Sir E. Ryan, and Sir L Peel. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-oaks to the Lord High Commissioonr of the lonian Islands tad the Goveruor of Malta. Hu Mucus's DRAWING-ROOM MIX ailAbON. llsr).—Her Majesty, accompanied by his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, left Buckingham Palace this afternoon, and proceeded to St. James's Palace, where her Majesty held her brat drawing-room this season. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, secom psisisd by the Princess Alice and the youthful mem bers of the Royal Family, leave Buckingham Palace on Os 4th proximo, according to present arrangement, for 011boroo for the season. His Majesty the King of the Belgians and Ow Ovoid of Flanders will close their visit to the Queen on the let of neat mouth, when his Majesty departs for Ostend, on his return to Brussels. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary honoured the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton by their company ►t dinner on Monday evening at Hamilton House. Captain Cuat wea is attendance on their royal highnesses. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Earl and Countess of Derby, and a distinguished circle were invited to meet the royal guests. Her Royal Highness the Duchess Ll'Aurnale was prematurely confined on Sunday last at Orleans House, Twickenham, of • daughter. Her royal highness is pro per ing u favourably as era be derived. The Duebeses of Somerset has binned cards for two parties on the rith of JUDO sod the lst of July. The Earl of Pembroke has arrived in London from Paris. A marriage M arranged to take place between Lady Cwdlia Conyughare, youngest daughter of the Marquis Onwroglmni, a.ld Capt. Bnockuutn, eldest sot of Sir Theo dore Briackman, Bart. . - - The marriage of bliss Florence Rowley, daughter of tie We Major Rowley, of the Bombay Cavalry, and si ire of the Countess of Hinson], with Capt. the Hon. J. W. C. Vivian, was solemnised yesterday morning at St. Faure Church, Knightsbridge. The bridal presents were very numerous. They included a magnificent diamond brawl's, from the Ertl of Kinuoul; ► silver breakfast nu vice, from the Earl of Cardigan ; • golidinounted dreaming. ass, from the Countess of Kinnoul ; • gold bracelet set with diamonds, from the Countess of Fife ; a bracelet set with pearls, from Lord Royston ; • bracelet, from Sir Richard King ; • bracelet, from Sir Charles Rowley ; • est of Disease vases, from the Earl and Counter de Grey ; • Dresden cbioa•framed lodsing.glass, from the fail of Fife, •ad ee•ey others. The marriage of Lord Pelham, eldest son of the Earl of Chialteeter, with Miss Bligh, daughter of the Hoe. Bur John Dustin BINA, K.C.8., took plate yesterday at St. Georgia Church, Hanover-egu•rs, in the preemos of • ounterom circle of On Monday, at the Chapel Royal, Dublin, Major George Begot. comptroller of the houetoki of his Excel keg the Lori•Liesteeast of inland, sod sou of the late Bishop°, Beth esd Wells, end the Lady Harriet Begot, was marred to the Hon. Maty Browse, daughter of Lord sad L►dy Kilmaine. The ilaste de Paris and the Dun de Chartres ►oeoered Lady Melmerarti with tbeireompeay Met evening M • theatrical cwt in ratan-place. A small uncle were meant. no followier pieces were performed, soma Cl the artistes It; wind from Paris for the ooca. MOB: One Curia. by Yale. Dilemma, Mall.. Stella Cobs, end N. Tedder ; La Neer de Jeannette, 14 Madame Sliolen.Cermillso, TZ Jules Wart, Mr. A. Herne, end mi.. Y. Herrin It is bet ladyship's intention to giro a second repremedimics. WURTEMBURG. The friends of the concordat in Germany are un fortunate. It may be remembered that, in compliance with the wishes of his chambers, the Grand Duke of Baden some time back declared the concordat con cluded with the Holy Soe under the inspiration of Austria null and of no effect, and he made his go vernment propose a series of bills destined to re gulate the civil and legal position of the catholic church in the country. The mine thing has just occurred in Wurtemborg. In consequence of a very categorical refusal of the Chamber of Deputies to approve of the concordat and discuss the bills for carrying it into execution, the government of Wur temburg has declared that it considers that COl/ - tion of no effect, and that the rights of the catho lic church in the kingdom shall for the future be regulated by civil laws. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, Jeta 19. The Mumifeur of this morning announces that the session of the Corps Legislatif is prolonged until the 27th inst. Iu yesterday's sitting of the Corps Legislatif the new law on the pre's; was dis cussed. M. Jules Favre dem.inded the suppression of the administrative regime of the press, and the re-es tablishment of the law of 1819. M. Billault, minister without portfolio, refuted the arguments of M. Favre, and the government bill was adopted. News haft been received here from Beyrout to the 7th inst., stating that Fuad Paella was proceed ing through the Druse districts and engaging the inhabitants to preserve tranquillity. The destruction which the Druses had committed was confined to the demolition of the roofs of the houses in • village. TOULON, Jots 19. Admiral Chappart ham arrived here, in order to form a new naval divimion. SPAIN. MADRID, Jeri 19. Spain will preserve a strict neutrality in the civil war in America. The Bank of Madrid has afforded assistance to several mercantile houses whose affairs were embarrassed. The Foudre has quitted Cadiz. MADRID, Jazz 17. The Correspondeuria Autograja of today says : " Spain demands the solemn promise of Mexico to execute the treaties before she entertains her pro position with regard to reparation on account of the late differences with the Spanish ambassador in Mexico." HUNGARY. PESTH, Jura 17, Etter.;. The diminution cm the address was continued to day in the Upper House. The Primate of Hungary in his speech laid stress on the necessity for a reconciliation between Hun gary and the Emperor, and for a revision of the laws of 1848. All the members who spoke were in favour of sending au wicks'' to the Emperor, in the form proposed by M. Desk in the Lower House. PRAGUE, Jun 19. The Emperor has promised to grant an amnesty to those person"; committed for political crimes in Bohemia who should request his Majesty's pardon. POLA ND. THORN, iC7fi 18. It is stated that a courier arrived yesterday at Warsaw, bearer of the Imperial decrees granting reforms to Poland. These reforms are said to make satisfactory concessions to the country. Their pub lication is expected very shortly. BERN, Juni 18. The English Minister Las protested before the Federal Council against the assertion of France that the opposition offered by England to the an nexation of Savoy and Nice was the principal reason why France had not ceded the neutral ter ritory of Savoy to Switzerland. Count Waleweki and the countess, as well as Prince Crartoriaki, sod the Prince and Princess de Metter nich, are at present on a visit to the Emperor and Empress of the French at Fontainebleau. On Monday eeveral personagei belonging to the Siamese Embassy were seen driving out in open carriages in the Avenue of the Chanipa•ElyMea and in the Buis de Boulogne, Paris. They were drafted in green or licac figured silk, with a red turban or black cap. A pretty little theatre, al fresco, ban been opened at the lake in the Bois de Boulogne, where the spectator may sip his coffee or take hie ice, sod gratify both ears rad appetite at the same time. The inauguration has been cele brated by au operetta called Les dsewairs des ScAalt, a little musical prologue. This sew rival to If ward's and the Coo emu of the Champs Elysies is rolled the ?bistro da Chalet des isles. Wu read in Galignaiii :—" The now opera of M. Berlioz, Lae Troyes', the subject of many paragraphs, hae this week, we learn, been definitively accepted for repro. sentation at the Orand Opera. Our readers know the subject is from the Iliad the libretto ea well ss the music being from the pen of Berlioz. We are curious to know whence tho singers are to come from. Without efficient additions to the present troupe, we seriously believe that snoozes would be impossible to the pains of Mozart himself." The last &dykes from Poland are• that Priuce Waldemar Csetwertynaki has been arrested ►od sent to the fortrim of Mania. Count Tyukeiwics lum been suspended from his function. of Murshal of the Nobility of Wilo►, ►nd the countess, his wife, exiled for having made a collection fat the purpose of giving en Easter banquet to the working slaw. COUNT CAVOUN ON REARMING OFTICE. —As everything counected with the greet Italian 'Uremia who has just died is peculiarly isteresting at present, we here traescribe the following passages of a letter adilressad by bun on the 24th July, l&iO to M. de Csloone, and published in the new number of the Reree Conteasporai n , Count Cavour, it will be remembered, had just resigned o fu" i n consequence of the peace of yillafraues :—" This course," he says in his letter, " has neither been dictated to me by anger nor by discouragement. lam hdl of faith in the future success of the cause for which I have hitherto contended, and I am still ready to devote to it the life and strength I still possess ; but I feel a deep coo. victims that my participation in polities at this moment, to nay degree, would be detrimental to my country. It fate has been given into the hands of diplomacy. Now, lam In bad odour with diplomatists; my demise is so agreeable to them, that its effect will be to render them more favourable to those unhappy populations of Central Italy who se d a m s , they are to Itz. . . . . There are circumstasees in übi.• %. statesman cannot bring himself too moth in view; there are others in which the intend of the cause he serves requires that he should retire into the shade. The p „ m s , rtnatmetencre require this of me. A man of action, I con. I sign myself to repose for the welfare of my country.. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (/71,011 001 OWN -; PARIS, TUESDAY EVEMNO. It is stated that M. Andral, M. Trousseau, and another eminent French physician, have been re quested by Vely Pacha to go to Constantinople with all speed, to sec the Sultan, and that they start this evening. There are strong reasons for believing that the Sultan's malady is beyond the aid of medicine. The Monifenr, with that inexplicable capricious ness in which it often indulges, shrinks from re cording the marked fact that the French govern ment was represented at the Cavour mass 3-ester day, and merely mentions in three lines of the " Faits divers " that the Abb4 Deguerry performed a mass at the Madeleine for Count Cavour. This curt description of a ceremony at which not only the household officers of the Emperor and of the imperial family (with the exception of the Empress) attended by command, but also the leading minis ters and the presidents of the Senate and Corps Legialatif, is quite out of keeping with the importance of the news. I suppose the officials who manage the Monitritr must have some reason for their mode of proceeding ; but I cannot guess what that rea son is. The Patric repudiates a recent article of the Con stitutiounel reproaching other French journals for their sympathy with Poland. The government journals crow like Chanticleer at the success of the " administrative " candidates at the elections of the Councils-General. Out of 1,000 seats it teems that the government has only lost 12. This is the wonderful unanimity which I led you to expect. I was mistaken (owing to a misprint in au evening paper) when I said that M. Havin, of the Mete, had been elected; he is thrown out. The clerical candidates have come worse off than the democratic owe—a fact quite accounted for by the nature of the orders given to the pre fects. M. Keller's friends are for the moment in less favour than those of M. Emile 011ivier. Several members of the Corps Legislatif, who were the elect of the people when patronised by the government, bud themselves everywhere " no where " when they presumed to go on their own hook. The machinery of universal suffrage may be reported to be as perfect as ever. The Bourse gave way to-day, but without any particular reason. The Rente fell 20c. for cash and 15c. for account, closing at 67fr. 75c. awl 67fr. 85c. Mobilier fell 2fr. 50c., and the railways from lfr. 25c. to 2fr. 50c. In a cause of " Harding v. Muriel," the Imperial Court, presided over by the Chief Judge I)evienuo, yesterday delivered a judgment of great import ance to foreigners. Harding, the plaintiff, an Englishman, had obtained in an English court a judgment against Muriel, a Spaniard, ordering him to pay, at the rate of ID. ss. per share, the value of a certain number of shares in a mining concern in Mexico and South America. The defendant Muriel, being a resident in Paris, Harding brought an action against him here "upon the judgment " of the English court, and the Tri bunal of Commerce, acting upon what has been for a long time the generally understood notion of French law, pronounced a decision in his favour. The grounds upon which the Tribunal of Commerce proceeded were that, according to Art. 546 of the Code Napoleon (de procedure), foreign judgments wore capable of being made executory in France when approved of by a French court. But the Imperial Court has reversed this decision, declaring that the Article 546 referred to was merely intended to apply to foreign judgments obtained against Frenchmen, and not to judgments between one foreigner and another. Tho following is the substance of the reasons given by the court of appeal Considering that ma a general principle the French courts are only bound to render justice to their own countrymen : Considering that this principle of law is drawn from two main reseals :-1. The judge belongs exclusively to his own people. 2. He cannot be called upon to judge of matters depending on a legislation of which he is ignorant : That thine two reasons are applicable in • case where a foreign plaintiff relies upon a judgment pronounced in his own tonntry in a cause not involving any French interest : Con sidering that when the execution of a judgment in which a Frenchman is interested is demanded, it becomes the duty of the judge to decide clerequatur, and this duty is easy because he has only to grant execution, conformably to the general principle of French legislation. But when the discussion arises between foreigners the caw is dif ferent ; their engagements can only be executed in ac cordite°e with their own national laws, and it is against reason that an Englishman should be entitled to ask for a judgment against his countryman modified according to a French law. Considering, that if it ware so, the French judge would have to appreciate the merits of the English judgment, both in form and substance—in other words, he would be bound to know both the law and practice of a foreign country : Considering, moreover, that although the execution of a foreign judgment may appear • very simple thing in tho case of a mere ordinary debt, the principle, if once admitted, would apply to every possible judicial deci sion of • foreign court, and foreigners would have • right to discuss questions of personal strati., and rights of all sorts before the French courts which would be manifestly inad missible. It is important to observe that the circumstance of the defendant being a Spaniard and not an Englishman had no influence upon the decision of the court. The judgment would have been the same had both parties been English. The marginal note of the case in the Gazette des Tribenau.c is— " The French courts are incompetent to declare a foreign judgment executory in France when the come concerns two foreigners, whether they be of the same or different nations." LA GLOIRIL —A Paris letter says :—"Tho rhino ceros scales of La Gloire have not hung so heavy about that frigate as to prevent her distancing by tea home the quickest steamers on the station between Toulon mid Algiers, she having just accomplished the paaserptin sixty-six hours." PUBLIC "Frit:JAL Lill AT AIIJIL—A Naples letter says .—" What shall I say to you of acity where the enervating influence of the summer is so severely felt? Nsplesat the present moment is all asleep. A day or two since, about 9 o clock in the morning, Count de San Martino went to the office of Public Instruction, but found no 000 there, all the odioes being empty. After some time be met a man, from whom be inquired what had become dell the clerks. ' The clerks' replied the man, ' they will be Isere lin an hour or two. came here before my time because I was tired with loitering at the café. This was the answer given with a laugh to the Count de San Martino, who at such an hour of the rooming certainly expected to see a Neapolitan administration at work. He then left, saying to the man. ' lie kind enough to announce to the Secretary- Geoeral, when be shall have risen, that Count de Han Mar tino, the King. lieutenant, has called to pay hint a visit.' The surprise of the man may be conceived. Tea INDIA —A strong opposition to the Civil Service Bill has been organised. The objec tions lie exclusively against the second clause of the bilL The ostenaible object of the bill, it is contended, is attained by the first and third clauses ; but the second is resisted as containing an entirely new principle. The sum mary of the objections in given the following presage with which the statement of the opponents to the measure concludes:- To sum up: The tendency of the second clause of the bill is injurious, because 1. It is unjust to the members of the existing ser vice, and especially to those who have entered it by competition. 2. It is detrimental to the public service, as tending to deter the beat men from competing in future examinations. 3. It opens the door to abuses in the dig. pemstiou of patronage. 4. It confers a power which ora lorssdly requires restrictions, yet does not incorporate thine restrictions in the bal.—Grind/me/Home News for India. ' CIIYsTAL rautcr.. Ozea Ellimurro DAT. H TUFADAT, JONI. 18.—Firrn Aim? Of IL BLONDEL— Adminsions op payment, 12,860 ; ditto by LOMA tickets. 2,199 ; total, 15,068. W. Bloadla wal make his sixth , ascent to-morrow (Thursday). INSPECTION OF THE NORTH MIDDLESEX RIFLES. 1 The first official inspection of the 29th Mic]!ems Volunteer Corps, commonly known as the North Middlesex Rifles, took place yesterday evening in Regeut's-park, oppo. I site Holford House, in the presence of about 20,000 spec talon. The regiment assembled at 6 o'clock on the parade ' ground of Albany.street whence they marched at about leafiest 6to the ground Barracks ,hosen for the inspection. The officers present were the commanding officer, Lieut• Colonel Viscount Enfield, M.P., Major ROW Captain and • Adjutant It. Walden Jones, Captains Cameron, Goode, lb ' betson, Lemnion, Porter, Hopkinson, Boosey, and West; Lieutenants Stoneham, Ahsolon, Cowhand, Buser ' and Boyd; ; Ensigns Oughton, Upward, Findou, and Browne . . Lieutenant and Quartermaster Greene was also on duty, being assisted by yew - Sergeant Dixon. The Rev. C. Williams, . the regimental chaplain, and Dr. Sutherin, the assistant ' surgeon, were likewise present. The ground was kept by a ' detachment of the 2nd administrative battalion, under the • command of Major Wilkinson , Captain Whines, and Lieutenant Mulford, aided by the Kensington Company of the '.Doh Middlesex and a number of recruits. This ' duty was admirably performed, the task being rendered comparatively easy by the excellent temper and demeanour *of the congregated multitude. Amongst the company as sembled at the saluting flag were observed Earl Grosvenor, Lord Fermoy, M.P., Sir J. V. Shelley, M.P., Mr. Harvey Lewis, M.P., Sir T. F. Buxton, Colonel Buxton, and many other persons of distinction. About half-post 7 o'clock Colonel li•kfurdo, C. 8., the • Inspector-General of the Volunteer Force, arrived on the grimed, and was received with a general salute. The gal taut colonel immediately commenced examining the 'Me . with great care. To show the minuteness of his inspection of the anus 'a accoutrements, &c., it may be observed that ' Colonel .'Homordo singled out at random a man in the ranks and demanded his rifle. It was at once presented, and was found to be in admirable order. The series of evolutions which followed the preliminary survey occupied about an hour, and elicited frequent applause from the spectators. There was much cheering as the successive companies mi med in the evolutions—six in number—marched past the saluting flag, and the volley firing manifestly won the admiration of all present. At the termination of the inspection the regiment funned square, and Colonel M'Munlo, being with the other officer* iu the centre, spoke as follows :—" Lord Enfield, have watched with great interest the movements you have made to-day. The military precision of the corps under your command, and the steadiness of their movements, have struck me more and more as you have proceeded with your drill. When this movement first began the utmost that the government expected from the scattered compiwies which were formed was ordinary company drill ; it was not imagined that the volunteer movement would at tain the efficiency that it has done. The more I inspect the volunteer corps the more I am struck with the cohesion of their movements, and the intelligence of the commanding officers who lead them ; and, supported as the commandants are by the officers, non-commissiouers, and those who form the rank and file, the movement must flourish. I can only say I have watched your evolutions with the greatest admiration, and I have to thank you, Lord Enfield, for the zeal and efficiency with which you have disciplined the corps under your lordship's command, without which it could not have attained the high state of proficiency which, I am happy to say, it has exhibited. Considering the way in which this corps is brought together, under officers who have taken great pains, and under your lordship, who has evidently a perfect rapacity for command iug, I cannot express in too high terms my approbation of what I have seen, and I shallows great pleasure in making my report of the condition of the North Middlesex Ride Corps to the Secretary at War." The gallant colonel, after some remarks as to the necessity of an alteration in the pouches of the effective', complimented the men upon their attendance, which was, he said, numerically the strongest compared with the entire roll of members that he (Colonel MMurdo) had yet witnessed. The regiment loudly and repeatedly cheered the gallant colonel before be left the ground. . . . ii;;;;;;Pan were Wrormed, and marched back to Albanystreet Barracks. Before the dismissal, Viscount Enfield expressed him high satisfaction with the inspection, and his gratification at the compliment paid to the regiment by Colonel hi 'Menlo. He also acknowledged the valuable services of the adjutant, Captain R. W. Jones, to whose ability and assiduity he ascribed, in a great degree, the high date of efficiency to which the regiment had been brought— a tribute which was responded to by several rounds of cheers from tho electives. The number of men of all ranks assembled on this occa sion was about 500 in addition to whom there were 70 or 80 cadets. The regunentsl brass band and two drum aad fife bands were present. DUTY PAID BY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. A parliamentary return Lae just been inued showing the amount of duty paid by the fire insurance companies of the United K' m. From this document it appears that the sums paid by the London offices stand as follows when arranged in the order of their re spective totals : DUTY PAID DT THE LONDON OFFICES DURING THE YEAR 1860. _ _ Sun . . Phynna 138,678 , Royal Exchange ... 86,682 County 70,473 Inipenal 61,897 General ... Unity Royal Farwell Hand-in-Hand Law Union ... ... 51,849 ... 45,858 ..; 4,?:7F 5,93 s Gu:udiac ... ... 34:172 Louduu Assurance 33,620 Westminster ... 33,053 Union ... 32,190 DUTY PAID BY Tun Cou p Scows ANDUBII, D Norwich Union ... £4!1,300 Liverpool and Lon. don ... 60,952 West of England ... 59,866 Royal ... 59,534 Manchester ... 41,791 Leeds and Yorkshire 27,588 Yorkshire 22,870 Birmingham ... 15,925 Kent... 15,601 Birmingham District 8,998 Essex and Suffolk ... 7,120 Provincial 6,504 1 queen . Midland 6,251 Counties ... 5,5(01 Nottingham and Derbyshire ... 4,996 From the above it appears contributed 964,9701. ; the Scotch, 110,6471. ; and Irish, 1 gregate the sum of 1,556,5851. the total sum insured in the (which is exempt from duty) 65,963,0731. ; in Scotland, 6, 1,046,0631. ; making a total of ... £17,013 ... 16,280 ... 12,302 ... 10,490 ... 7,196 State... .. 5,697 Chu!cl?of England . 5,310 Alliance (Aube Atlas Law ;.q9i". bla Uilit•d Provident . Emperor Preserver i,ii6 1,398 LT O►IICES, INCLUDE S° HUNG THI YiAR 18d0. Salop ... £4,088 Newaatle•upoo•Tyne 3,7882 Sheffield ... ... 3,635 Norwich Equitable... 3,140 kLsota, Suasex, and Dorset . ... 2,464 Shropohireand North Wales ... 2,061 SCOTCH. 1 6cottish Union ... 32,001 North British ... 26,879 Northern 21,1441 Wedonian 12,900 Scottish Provincial... 10,001 National ... 6,096 National ... 0.948 Patriotic ... 8,364 that the London offices have country offices, 468,758/. ; 13,2124, making iu the ag . The same return shows that • 'sae 1860 on fanning stock England and Wales was 6,300,772/. ; and in Ireland, 73,309,8961. HEALTH OP LONDON. The return of births and deaths in London, issued by the Registrar-General, states that the deaths in London registered in the week that ended last Saturday were 1,121 ; they exhibit an increase of no great amount on the returns of the two previous weeks. They are less than the number of birth, registered in the same period by 822. The average number of deaths, derived from the returns of corresponding weeks in ten years 1851-60, and corrected for increase of population, is 1,899. Bence it appears that the rate of mortality that prevailed last week was slightly la IMMO of the average. Mori fatal cases of small-pox are recorded ; 17 of diarrheas 22 of measles ;28 of scarlatina ; 30 of typhus ; 88 f L tuzing-cough. The deaths that are classed under the head of " typhus," in the tables are returned as f ollows :-7 from typhus • 7 from gastric fever ; 10 from " fever ; " 2 from l ' ow fever ' • 1 from bilious fever, and one from boon fever. Eight children died from whooping-cough in Westminster. Six infants sank under syphilitic disease. One death was referred to intemperance, betides 5 caused by delirium tremens. Eleven were caused by nephria (Bright's disease); 3 by eczema. Twenty-three infants died who had been born prematurely. Bronchitis was farad in 85 cases, considembly exceeding the corrected average, which is 59. Zymotic diseases in the aggregate appear to he neither more nor less prevalent than is usual at this season. The son of a journeyman carpenter, aged 4 years, died on the 7th inst. at 3, Wood-street, La mbeth, of cholera" after 38 hours illness. A man was poisoned by an overdose of colchicum; another by an overdose of laudanum. Lad week the births of 1,017 boys and 926 girls—in all 1,943 Andrea—were reiterated is Leaden. In the ton oor respeadiog weeks of the years 160141) the average 'lumber N 44 1,544. SOCIETY POE THE PROPAGATION OP THE GOSPEL IN FOILLION PAATlL—Yesterday the 160th anniversary festival of the friends and supporters of this society took place at St. Paul's Cathedral. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, and Common Councilmen of the City were among those present. The object of the society is to propagate the Christian religion among our countrymen and heathens abroad. From North America its operations have gradually extended to the West Indies, A South Africa, New Zeal a nd, C e yl on , Borneo, sod Briti s h Columbia. When the society was first established there were probabl not more th an twenty clergymen of the church of Eng land in these lauds. There are now congre gations under the pstoral care of upwards of 3,000 clergy men, four hundred of whom are supported by the society. The income for the past year animated to 91,237/. An ex cellent sermon was preached in aid of the charity by the Lord Bishop of Ripon from the Psalms 72, v. 1,. The choirs from Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal assisted the Stt. Paul's choir, and }induced a most beautiful musical effect. After the webs a collection was made. SAILAHITAN ROYAL Fins 1106PITAL.—The num bar of patients treated at the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women and Children, Edwards-street, Fortnithequare, during the week eudiug June lb, was 767, of which SW WON new C 4444. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIB DAY.) COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) LOME r. LUCKIII.-JUDOISAL • - In thr CAM Sir C. Croswell made a decree nisi on the pe tition of the wife. fur en udiuus crime on the part of the re spondent. He also directed Mrs. Imam to have the ctietod of her child. MILLS r. MILL& In this cue the court I.ruaounc:l for a judicial sepiratiou. CRANii V. CRANK--JCIMAIENT. The court in this case, too pronounced for the petitiotrr, and made a decree nisi, declining to make au order fur the maintenance of the divonme. LEWIS_ Mr. Happen, on behalf of the petitioner, moved that the decree nisi might be made absolute. Mr. Hopewood, for the husband, banded in an affidavit by the husband, alleging that his offence had, since the decree nisi, been condoned. Sir C. Cresswell said the case must stand over. He sus pected that there had been some trick, and if be found that the court or the parties had been imposed upon, he would do his best to have the offenders severely punished. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner &onlbw's.) IN RE GEORGE TODD, JEN. The bankrupt was a builder, of Clique-walk, Chelsea. This was the examination meeting. The accounts, prepared by Mr. Maynard, show a sum of 3,1 W. due to unsecured creditors, with assets of about 460/. Further debts of 5,3811. are partially secured by pro. party valural at 4,310/. Ou a tniding of two years and a half there had been no profits, while the losses and expenses were upwards of 3,:fiag. Mr. M. Abrahams, for the assignees, stated that the bankrupt's books had been badly kept, and the accounts were in consequence unsatisfactory ; but it was proposed to allow the bankrupt to pass, without prejudice to any ques tion that might be raised at the certificate meeting. Passed accordingly. . IN RE GARNON. The bankrupt was a coal merchant of Hornaey. This was the examination sitting. Against debts and liabilities of 3,6001. there are assets returned at 1.80111. The te mente being only recently filed, an adjournment for a mouth was taken by consent. IN RE FRENCH. The bankrupt, a jeweller, of Holton, who was committed the Aber day for not satisfactorily accounting for his pro. party, and was ordered to be prosecuted, was usain brought up. Mr. Lawrence, for the assignees, said they were of opinion that the justice of the case might be met if the bankrupt were now discharged, on the understanding that in the in. tonal between now and his last examination he should exert himself to give the best account of his property he was able. _ _ The bankrupt was again examined. He persisted in affirming that the account he had given the other day, as to being robbed of 80f. when he was drunk and insensible, wan a true account. He was willing to render an account of the property he had disposed of at New York, and to give all the assistance in his power to his assignees. Mr. lAISTIIICS said that, looking at the family relations between the assignee and the bankrupt, it would be a cane of great hardship if it went before a criminal court. He hoped that the bankrupt, warned by what had taken place, would do all in his power to render a true account of hi, estate. _ . Hu Honour said it was with great reluctance that he yielded to the request of the assignees, seeing how touch eases of this kind were on the increase. He would, how. ever, not recommit the bankrupt, and the order for prosecu• tion would not be made. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) qIIILDHALL : Jose Coelho, described as • traveller in the employ of Messrs. Crawford, Lindsay, and Faithfull, of 3, Lawrence. lane, and of Banbridge, near Belfast, was brought up be fore Alderman Rose, on the charge of obtaining 2351. by false pretence, with intent to defraud Mr. Edward Lazard, a banker, of Moorgate-street. In this case it appeared that the accused had been for many years in the service of the firm, and although it was known that he had been trading on bin own account his employers did not openly sanction it. As the London representative of the firm he asked Mr. Lusted if he would discount their bills, and referred him to Main. Glyn, Mills, and Halifax, their beakers. After due inquiry Mr. I.azard consented to take the bills, and during six months he discounted to the amount of nearly 4,000/., the whole of the bills being drawn in the name of Messrs. Crawford, Lindsay, and Faithfull, by the prisoner, who signed the bills per procuration. About half of these bills had been duly honoured on arriving at maturity, and the remainder had not yet fallen due, notwithstanding which Mr. Lazard, determined to repudiate all participation in such non-genuine bill transactions, at once laid an in formation at this court, and obtained a warrant for the apprehension of the accused, who was then staying at Paris, from which place he was brought to London by Brett, a city detective sergeant. As soon u defendant heard the charge against him lie gave • cheque upon his banker for GOO/. to cover the two bills upon which the warrant was issued ; but in the mean time the prosecutor placed au attachment upon defendant's balance, which was a most substantial one, at his honker's. Mr. Abrahams, for the prosecution, now said that, how ever indiscreet the defendant had been, all parties were per. fectly satisfied that he had no fraudulent intention, with. out which it would be impossible to prove the charge. lie did not, therefore, intend to Mier any more evidence for the P r ?r e 'A i°°. . . Mr. Humphreys said there was no doubt the defendant had acted wrongly in making use of his employers' names in the manner he bad, but the whole of the circumstances tended to show an entire absence of anything even approach ing to fraud in the conduct of his client. Alderman Hose said it was a very serious offence to make use of another's name without authority for the purpose of obtaining money, and if evidence had been forthcoming to show that the defendant's conduct had not been pcihetly straightforward in other respecta, he should have sent the case for trial. There did not appear to be any evidence of a fraudulent intention on the part of the accused, and he therefore dismissed the charge. The defendant, who wan on bail, was then discharged, and left the court with his friends, among whom were hie employers, who, it was understood, intend continuing Lim in their service. WORSHIP-STREET. ♦ CONFLICT OF CHARCW. William Brown, 36, a tool maker, living in the Faut•rnatl, Heaton, wee charged before Mr. Knox with violently *vaulting Rebecca Brown, his wife, and police-constable Lewis, 326 N, also with attempting to commit suicide. From the evidence of William Short and William Butler, apprentices to the prisoner, it appeared that between 1 and 2 o'clock a.m. this day, he returned home. and bad some words with his wife, whom he glumly abused, that be afterwards struck her for the purpose with his fists, and was finally given into custody. The wife, whose faro was shockingly disfigured with contusions, corroborated all this, arid Lewis, the police-constable, stated that about the time in question a gentleman came to him in the City-sad, and begged him to follow to No. 10, East-road. Whin. , did so, and found the two apprentices lislding the pri soner's wife outside. She was bleeding freely from the face. He accompanied her indoors, on being in formed that her husband who had committed the assaults was upstairs, and while in the shop prisoner mile down, drank the contents of a bottle he held in his hand, threw it from him, and rushed upstairs again. Witness picked up the bottle, which was labelled "Poison," and in stantly pursued the prisoner, burst open the door of an uppe r bedroom, and found the prisoner there, partatty dressed ; he refused to clothe himself more. and was with difficulty removed. While going downstairs ho contrived to disengage himself, struck witness repeatedly ia the breast, and ran off into the atritet. Overtaken there he became most desperate; this time kicking as well as striking, and be could not be secured without assistance. Lanibeimrnbe, 36 G, spoke to the assaults upon the last witness, and the terrible state which the prisoner's wife was in. Prisoner declared that he bad received great pmvoration, and yet only struck his wife inadvertently in a scuttle that ensued within doors, while taking measures to protect hinv 'elf against his wife's fury. As regarded the bottle, he war unaware that the contents were poison. Prisoner was remanded for the attendance of Dr. Griffiths. to give testimony of the liquid in question. • Hama--(Tms DAY.)—Thismorning, nhortly before 3 o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. R. Tansy, tea dealer and grocer, carrying on business at No. 24, Commerce•place, Britton-road. An officer ficced his way through the flames, and fortunately fount the whole of the residents in the back garden, they having managed to get out of the windows in safety. Shortly after the firemen set to work the whole striar tuns, or nearly so, foil blazing to the ground. The pre. mixes of Mr. Sti ff en, the pawnbroker, are also slightly damaged by fire, and the coutanta by water. Consider.Ms damage is likewise done to the premises of Mr. Alvey, the shop front being nearly burned out, and the remainder of the building severely damaged by beat 14.1 smoke. The sufferers were insured in the Chun+ a England, the Sun, and Phmnix fire offices. Another fire, which it is feared will be attended with a lose of life. t...k place in the premises of Mrs. Hodges, situate at No. 0, Hurrietstreet, New•cut, Lambeth. The fire mminieur ,4 in the second-door front. The Iteyal Society's moues ,uni the engines of tho brigade from Waterloo-road were uuA on the spot, and the inmates, with the aid of the firemen, soon extinguished the tire, but Mrs. Hodges was so hunted that she was taken to the hospital, and remains without hope of recovery. CLEBRIIN:K, JUNE 18 . The undermentioned have been elected Minor Scholars of Trinity College: George Samuel Brown City of London School ; nerd Edward Hammond, Rugby School ; John Maxwell Image, Brighton College ; Henry Charles Watson, University Col. lege, London ; James Westland, Wimbledon Scholl ; Robert Whitelaw, Lancaster School. ei) RI be Cu fn Tr. - 7 lath why obj! ngh ea was 1,00 Pen wou tioo wu MON Lc bill t, and r Purp in! - b. •TL Scotch night ai gu