The Express. — London, England, 1865-12-06 00:00:00

'OHN BROODKN. OUR CONTEMPORARIES• (THIS DAY.) THE COTTON Fauna. The great lesson of lessons which the Times' derives from a review of the manner in which the cotton famine wee met in llogland, is the extreme importance of gentlemen giving their time and attention to local duties. We of too hear the weak complaint that the badness of the weld is in the b►nds of vulgar, self-asserting men, wholly destitute of the high qualities which we actually expect in position and power. it is everywhere the coarse and hard man of business, or the man of shallow dexterity, or some body else we would despise if we could, who carries the ves try or the corporation, or the oommittee, or the bench, or the college, or other body. Nothing can be more idle than such complaints. The people whose dominion we as object to are perfectly justified in holding their own, and occupying, possibly, the only sphere in which they an ever hope te distinguish themselves and feel their own impor tance. If the community suffers wrong and if the public interests are sacrificed, the fault is in those who with a loftier inspiration fled themselves inca pable of contending for the lead or indisposed for the effort. If a man has better light than his neighbour, be is all the more bound to act up to it and give his neighbours the benefit. He may choose to think hie present opportunity hardly worth the effort. It may be the merest trifle ; the distribution of a charity or security against a trifling fraud. Yet we see the great conservative chief and former premier devoting himself for four years to a work of the very same nature. He has been doing all this time what every gentleman will find be bee need to do in hi own neighbourhood, and what he ought to do if he ex peas to be ever a statesman. Alcorilieg to the Telegraph, the best characteristic of the effort which is now consummated was that it owed its origin and orpniaation to the people, and not to the govern ment That will always be the boast, and the just boast, of a most dangerous period. Yet the government, I though it was Dot asked to grant supplies, was able, as a sod of official contribution to the fund, to subscribe the Public Works Act of Mr.Villiers ; and while that thought ful measure spread relief over a large field of the distress, it brought the collateral and curious advantage that it made the time of famine in the cotton counties a period of sanitary and municipal improvement. Many public works have been constructed, and some remain to be completed, which cannot fail to produce a new era of health and comfort in Lancashire. The Star does not doubt that much of the success which attended the distribution of the relief fund is due to the judgment and the patience of the distributors. When Charity walks out blindfold she always makes dreadful havoc of the moat precious plants and flowers in the g►rdens of the poor. But who shall say how much is due to the independent and manly spirit of the Lancubire popu lation? Have not the men who bore up so bravely and showed in themselves such a patience, such an intelligence, such an indomitable spirit of honest independence, earned at least the spontaneous concession of their right to tyke part as free citizens in the political system of their country? been committed to prison for refusing t; .I t ma y b e , even is WSrin 1 ea* be mai& akin • th e Oaring facts no w peem,L lg =s rem. thee Governor ---------------- their task of work, two for attempting to deal from GLNAL GOLD CHAIN ALLNUFACTORY the ward, and twelve for deetroying their olotbes. *ill sated 1 ;;Z: at and idnial ananadanaa'with Saw. 0 81 16. MUNIIINITA-BTAISI 00Vilfr-GAIIDIN. a part e, promoted against him,: the fact 2-------------.---- I Every attempt to check this offense has up to this • have Idea entirely overlooked that Monett Bay time been unsuccessful. Suite of conspicuous make i was the scene of massacre and crime, for the inglement of ---.-- and material, and suite which the sitting magistrate which, though not actual participation therein, erchdon was DUN =O DEN'S GOLD In ABD GRAINS. . pronounced to be " too good," but which were again 1 triad and executed. The question then will be, ceubj gamier do otherwise than remit the prisoner ------------------------------ torn up in the same workhouse on the day the cut- 1 the Milt BROODIZMOOLD ALBERT CHAINS . / . to the jurisdiction prevailing in that district, where I prits were discharged from prison , ha ve been t ried the slaughter had been committed? If this be the 'in vain, and it is difficult to avoid the conclusion I the whole, oharge of Illegality fells to the ground. Of 1 rdon, übt. so far as th He seemse Past has seen, there have been the oh o ief an arrived at by our authorities, that the punishment the guilt of Go at present awarded is al to g ether inadequate to the ecerosly be a do to offence, co nspirator, and to have been constantlythos consulted by who actually participated in the musters at Monist We may here add that at the workhouses Ad d not • doubt where it is the custom to fumi g ate the ooanse Ba y . there i 4 ed Red tke iatens t e b f at eh h e e w w h a i s aware tor eeo 1 vagrants' clothee when vermin-ridden, there Beams, on the 26th of Decembe r next. P°P to be less clothes-tearing than elsewhere. Upon The news by the Cuban particularly mentions the eaten• inquiry yesterday evening at those of St. Martin's- Hoe of Mfr. Lawrence, overseer of Mr. Gordon's property of in-the-Fields and St. George's, Hanover-square, at the Rhine, and also the execration of Mr. Samuel Clarke. both of which the tramps' garments are baked and The Star informs us that Clatke, who wale • person of pod purified when necessary, we learnt that instances of tioe and influence, wee chairman of a meting last June, at clothes-tearing were comparatively rare. Of course "" eh°ented wers t giv w e i n . for the . Queen, and at which he wes t this fact does not bear upon the scoundrels who out i a L l t m n in tothinwai country, anopterihea gnotgvanernoPtar pastor wel t w i t . of sheer wantonness destroy the suits provided them; resolutions of the meeting. On the let of November but when the unbearable filth and discomfort of he was tied op and publicly flogged for losubordi the vagrants' rags are considered, It seems desirable nation, in other words, it is supposed, for denying that, aa fur as possible, means should be taken to the right of a court-martial to hold him in custody. prevent their clothing being a torture. Not very or to try h im i h n any m was t, I nner fTherea allegedoffence.LaThe long ago we were at the Bow-street police-OSn), when ch arge riot he " entreated . and mme even. that e on the morning of the a constable brought word that a man was lying 'dolma Dr. Major, who lives at Rhine, not to go to lament completely naked on the pavement of the dark Bey ; and after the doctor's departure he wrote later in the arches in the Adelphi , a nd that he (the constable) day, and in all probability after he had heard something had humanely but unavoidably " giv' him leave to of what had been enacted, to Mrs. Major, stating that the lie there" until some rude coverieg could be sent Doctor would be quite safe, bet he was afraid that Bares motion /dr.: eh his e l ll etten to d w oomed o for and the shivering wretch be taken to the nearest " d Orden . on ta th l e as lin in derbill workhouse. Further, the description recently meetings, wee held to be conclusive evidence. His desire given us, by Mr. Superintendent Durkin, of the to prevent Dr. Major from going to a place where it was condition of the clothes torn up, went far to rob known the people were excited, and rioting was likely to malignity ; and as one of the take place, and his subsequent endeavours to cu the fears the offence of its of a lady, were, in the e y es of the mar t- m artial, diabolical gre at grievances of the St. James's-park keepers is that the vagran ts fre q uenting their domain crimes' swarm with insects which creep from their bodies to the grass, the apparent madness for clothes -tearing has perhaps more method in it than clean and well-dressed readers might sup pose. Still it is essential that it should be put down, and if it be found necessary to alter the form of punishment awarded it, care should be taken to discriminate bet ween the blitz kguard whode stroys out of sheer spite and the poor wretch who has been driven half mad by the unceasing worry of his unwelcome parasites. The variation in the number of applicants at the different workhouses is as great as ever. The num bers at Marylebone we have already given. While St. Martin's was all but full on the night of our visit, St. George's had more than 50 per cent. of its beds for males vacant ; and while—and this anomaly is as striking to us as ever—during last week 93 men were housed at Bermondsey, but eight men were sheltered at St. Olave's, a couple of streets off. It is by the way somewhat singular, after the severe strictures which were necessarily passed upon the Bermondsey board, that their casual wards should now be quoted as favourable specimens of their class. Yet so much is this the case that a country board of guardians have within the last few days applied for particulars, that they may frame their tramp wards on the model of the new one at Bermondsey. IRILLND. The Times criticises the arrangements at Richmond &kiwi'', in Dublin, which it says is believed to be a nest of Fenian'. It yea high time that the prisoners should be removed from it. The scheme found in the pocket of the patriotic young lawyer's clerk, Mr. Alfred Aylward, being draws up in • moment of convivial excitement, may not express the real purposes of the Fenian loaders ; but it is at List not more absurd than others which have been made k n own, or than that which is being carried into practice at the Fenian Capitol in New York. Thee atima all seem men of pretty much the came stamp. are O'llahonys, Labys, and Aylwards multiplied indefioitely. Each is very paltry in himself, but, unfortunately, Ireland possesses so many thousand specimens of the race that their combine. Lion may be exceedingly troublesome to the cause of peace and order. The Herald is gratified to see that few of the well-to-do climes would have anything to do with this movement, but clung to the aide of the government even when the government seemed to have deserted them. The rebellious principle in Ireland remains a mere residuum at the bottom of Irish society. Thu Herald expects little from Mr. Fartescue, whom it describes as belonging to the milk-and-water school in polities, but thinks that from the plethora of Irish legal advice now at the command of the governmeot, some good ought to come. When was it before that the Attorney-General. the Solicitor-General and tbs law adviser to the castle, were all able to take their seats together on the Treasury bench There can be no excuse for the retention of bad or unsuitable laws on the statute book,'with so;many legal heads laid together to mend them. The Post has Donis recount of the treatmoct of Fenian ism by the Canadian press and Canadian politicians like Mr. McGhee. It is confident that the movement will soon cease to trouble the people of Canada. It may, indeed, have one good effect, namely, that of urging forward the confedera tion project. A great reaction ham taken place in New Brunswick in regard to that question, and there is now every reason to expect that before the close of the next session of the Imperial Parliament an act will be passed consolidating into one powerful confederacy the whole of British North America. 1118CSLLANZOOS Toms. The Times invites attention to the extraordinary demands for money for productive or unproductive expenditure which within a day or two of one another have been made upon English capital. Apart also from our numberless projects at home, which have the redeeming merit that they are de signed to be reproductive, we Sod Austria just *egotist. ing a loan of 10,077,0001. ; a loan in Italy is regarded as inevitable ; the Pope is about to raise 2,000,000/. sterling upon a mortgage of eoslosiasticsl property ; Spain will doubtless attempt to obtain indirectly what cannot be got at directly Sweden has borrowed 1,350.0001., it is pleasant to believe, for the par. pose of completing her system of railways; and Turkey an. Deana* a fresh loan of 6,000,0001. contracted with the Credit Mobilise on terms more excessive than any which the Sublime but unfortunate Porte has yet been forced to wept. Probably Russia will soon reappear, sad M. Fould mast soon have to borrow money for the imperial protege in Mexico. These borrower, scattering the produce they have not amassed, keep up the rate of interest, embarrass the operations of trade, retard the progress of manufactures, and depress the (condition of the labourer. The capital which would have been devoted to fresh production and the improvement of the state of the industrial classes is wasted in military shows abroad, or is wore than wasted in the maintenance of injustice and oppression. We suffer, but the effects on the nations themselves are far more de. plorabie. The Daily News fiods gloomy symptoms for the Emperor Maximilian in the continued resistance of bands of na tionalier, and in the fact that where his empire touches on the frontier of the United States it can hardly call a town its own for one week after another. If it were tru e that the Emperor bad resolved to withdraw his troops from the outlying portions of his territory, and that the Em prams Charlotte, to whose ambition the acceptance of the Mexican throne was chiefly due, intended to return to Europe, this could only signify that Maximilian was pre. paring to retire with all the honours of war. The French people will one of these days wake up to find that President Johnson's government, though it has no desire to precipitate events, iofiexibly adheres to the doctrine that European in. terventioo ill the affairs of any independent American nitre is au attack upon the security and independence of the United States. The Times fears that the preliminary report of the com mittee appointed to investigate the affairs of the Great Eastern Railway Company is little calculated to restore the confidence of the shareholders. It is impossible that such disclosures should not involve changes in the direction. The Times presumes that the report will be discussed at the special meeting of the Great Eastern Railway Company which has been convened for the 13th of December, to authorise the two measures recommended by the com mittee. THE MELTING OF PARLIAMENT. —The following royal pro:lamed appears en lest evening's Gazette :—By the Quems.—A Proclamation—Vietoria, Whereu our parliament stands prorogued to Thursday, the 28th day of December instant, we, with the advice of our privy council, do hereby publish and declare that the said parliament shall be further prorogued on the said 28th day of Decem ber instant, to Thursday, the Ist day of February next ; and we have given order to oar Chancellor of that part of our United Kingdom called Great Britain to prepare a writ patent for proroguing the same accordingly ; and we do hereby further, with the advice aforesaid, declare our royal will and ple mire that the sad parliament shall, on the said Thursday, the lot day of February next, assemble and be holds° for the despatch of divers urgent and important affairs ; and the lords spiritual and temporal, and the knights, citizens, and burgewes, and the commissioners for shires and burghs of the House of Commoos, aro hereby re quired and commanded to give their attendance accordingly at Weetminiter, oe the said Thursday, the lit day of Feb emery next. Gives at our court at Windsor this sth day of December, is the year of oar Lord 1865, and in the , 29th year of our reign. God save the Quiet. Tai RZPRZEILNTAT lON or Lzom IoNSTEIL. —Mr. °Aherne Hardy, who at she last electioe was returned both for the Usiversity of Oxford and the borough of Leo mauler, has elected to sit for the university, and Mr. &shard drkwright, a gentleman of some local intimate, him been introdueed as the conservative candidate for Lee mineter. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EN'NG• DECEMBER 6, 1865 LATZIOX INTICIALIGENUE. UTTER OF ARMiIt*AL PAEJA TO THE ENGLISH MINISTER A T CHILI. The Madrid Epoca of Saturday publishes a note addressed on the 12th of October by Admiral Pareja to the English minister at Chili, relative to the bombardment of Valparaiso. The minister ap pears to have written to him that he could not believe that Valparaiso, where the greater part of the property belongs to foreigners, and whose warehouses contain almost exclusively merchan dise belonging to Eng lish subjects, would be b o mbarded. The Spanish admiral replies that it is for him to interpret the instructions of his go vernment, and that if a proper warning is given to neutrals to remove their eflecta, it is an incontes table right of belligerents to resort to bombard ment. He cautions the foreign merchants, there fore, to take needful precautions for their own pro tection, mit may be that under his instructions he may be called upon to attack everything belon g in g to the republic. (mwrsa's miasma.) AMERICA. ARRIVAL SH OFINGTON. THE CITY OF W (Via t ßoolto's Point.) NEW YORK, Nov. 25, Moasmo. The New York Times says that the Federal government have no ground for demanding the surrender of the crew of the Shenandoah. The American consul's acceptance of the surrender of the Shenandoah as a war vessel precludes the Federal government from complaining against the British authorities for discharging the crew. The recruiting superintendent of Pennsylvania has been ordered to despatch 450 cavalry recruits to the department of the Gulf. The Governor of Alabam a, in his message to the Legislature, urges the adoption of the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, and the passage of a clause for the protection of negroes. President Johnson has informed the Governor of Mississippi that the Federal troops will be with drawn as soon as it is manifest that peace and order can be maintained without them. Measures should be adopted to give freedmen the necessary protec tion to enable them to assume all their constitu tional rights. The Governor of Mississippi, in his message to the Legislature, recommends that negro testimony be received in the Courts of Justice, and that measures be passed for the protection of negroes, and for the taxation of negroaa, to support vagrant blacks. Re approyed the adoption of a special code for their government. The Governor of Louisiana has called a special session of the Legislature to elect members to Con- SPAIN. by which the decree oi the Sib of September last, prohibiting the importation of such domestic saimals as might cause the introduction of conta gious typhus into France is extended to all quadru peds, with the exception of horses, asses, mules, and dogs. MADRID, Dec. 6. Reductions in the expenditure for the (*Nation of the indirect taxes and for the administration of justice have been decided uvon by the government. The post of Director-General of the Lotteries, with the staff attached thereto, is suppressed. The Patric and the Correspondencia state that the Queen will only return to Madrid sifter her oonfinement, and therefore will not be present at the opening of the Cortes. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL (Adore Lord Chelmsford. Sir J. Coleridge , Sir F., Nr o e ia Williams, sad Sir J. Colville.) Slra Qumni O. DALLDIO3Z. --1112 " GOLD FTILDS" Or AUSTILAILL. This ease, whioh was sr:Witted to isvolve au imp ostsm qs . itica t o the righte of tbe erown in the 'ruts lash of Australia, was renamed this zooruing. Q.C., for the respondents, addressed that lordships, sad oostended that the mown had no poet: t o m o pesos to whom a lore hod been promised, Toobject of the legislature was to ipvt encoursgmot to the parties to cohost* the mote bode sod to t oo them In possessioof N ewc a stle " 711147 Indeed the lump of the Duke of in his despatch was to that effect. Lord Chelmsford said they bad to decide on the leo question, and not on the words ci the Duke of Newcastle. Mr. Bovill said be bad only used the despatch Woos. firm his point. The learned counsel urged that the teal legislature could only deal with " waste lands," mg with legal rights. will Th e Attosser General reply, aid the rase will as espy the day, if not longer. oes fee the orirstetzsa :Zoe nes s i o v•d • great desl of so. nosived —.0,48 daring the eighteen innT 10 11111 ' OS wee the plaintiff's Ceir Theo baring addreasad B ertmint Bellantine less b boor $ e rid it wee • lennint•bl kae. defende o esnts bad anti . wee dltty to no . eugger 108 0 ,,Lbs imin. • oo T otgat= "4 . bad wtth candour and •76,- aa abe or" end it WU to 01 Oro elt9l adopted in es obi aed sasor.• ira ooN'ation fo •riWwr ssa winp when I I tbs claim was sr rishrar. °miaowed it t` , to have itinvestigstad Milos did not dad mar did rem strange to the delft te mike 800. a yes; and it t got is estimating that return there sot, they bad merely to it was f ben that a man of the aloft& Add° is UN and if be t mit rim gemerally fell to otliL of obscurity Th siusonadil l eis e y 6.l. istirs 6int sod no=oredirmation Ws soy easily obtained if true. lots or Mr. William= had r. ybot were the net pro fi ts on the Ises bad with them. 0110 of ga y eampealss had toft deal with w dot ears winds lip than. Mei goo without Imitation they ntati g a i speasation ; but there ggidtarsy to have invatigetal lC rasa* was one of them. the Lord Mid Julio* slid the bendak°!_alt inquiry offios. and elms rota not tallow it to eel tfor thorn, but whet we e of the sooident, and diva receive for the ice of by a Joshed been put to in cow The *Miter about tweats • based a verdict for the plaintiff COURT SAND! C Swags at Nisi Prise in Midi Dyke aad • Con lasi.upat o This was interpleader isms t s ow property belonged to the ky whom they had been seized Kr. Earns appeared for the Eladel Atkinson for the doled d This plaintiff wee • widow. 1 bee ma wee a cab proprietor mews. ger cam wee that In 1 ia three cams, 2001., at guestkm, and afterwards eut nristens was that plait ii Mot it wee extremely immol the 2301., sad an alleged eon effect that the plaintiff's auditors. ail lordship maid that he dl se to this anirerestion was re that the plaintiff had to pay f lease, that her takings was ma that she had six children heeds; upon the probable to The jury fogad for the deg COURT OF PROBK (Before the Ji ealamst AND ONININT Kersleke, and tiffs ; I[r. lidlestoe, Q.( isfeadeets. The dadendente propoondi sf Deessabff, 1863. by Karl Wllleakell, Staffordshire, timber, 1864. Probate was &lOW of the de =seof nudes execuVot The lesdater La his yonti *ewes, sad such like artu some a manufacturer of h left property worth about maa, sad given to drink. sad the female plaintiff sosiesetion. In 1863 1 eassad wife, who accepted break himself of his intern do so, but be did not kat p log ho went to Birmiughsi rtam tremens, and was 20 days. After this he real will dividing his propsair bat in the year followist, I named Grinffey. It was &II the testator say ia 1863 the Grinder' de.% pretence that his dsoBt attempted to make him si glided that this made 111 , n mite the will before the wagger shoat 3W. a ysar (The case bed not made Pim) COURT 01 (Baton pti iU irrsviste.— The bankrupt, Janne Cit GoatTelt-rcad, !Chu was one of the ,4 Company (Limited). Minos and the caste " oonsequence of a director of the (Limited), now in pr the Court of Chan , sampany being of '' unless at a sacrifice, s' emitters of the compan prolimioary statement . IS ecommt of the temp about 20,0001. The ler American Finsnelal Cor shames the 84rend Ms mine of 30,000/. blew of Houndediteb, are cri motes of the bankrapt /4, This was the Ent si tads, and Kr. WWI esSimae, Mr. Riau] VIS promedfuti. (Before ld 131 ILZ J. C. SHACILLIT The bankrupt, John unrehant of BotolDb directors of the Strand mitred the mum of lit 'l%4lSi:rand Idualeal• hem induced to =eke Puy to upwards of lh Me said company hay till the Strand Yawl realise more than thc Bible." The liabilit , Steveos's cam. Ti.• riain Company is ate , eorepaoy to the auto. This was the &Wiwi nem The earns men Mr. Saffery, the • sPPoinied the solicit MIDDL Henry Parker, 1 i indicted for Stealing id Silvio Davie. levity of the mirth,. Guilty ; wed the ot. Fir* him the bow led wish your ler& Hodgkimou The Foreman of Yr. Payne wan Parker. Mter the two pr The Foreman ea had what we OA about the irmoconc &en him the bet etrougly to reprimi The prisoners aosir . Payne (BAdr tbongh they have lave a very strong Irish to vire you at the same time. yrryetrong swirl to give you a cell bring yea here ibit. Preßllolll upon it. ? 0 , robbed 0(11 - - Wu, womb, troy may redeem year 11110 Spa, yen will taa*wk sad beh i 1,1 i . i. ii i i • , , • , }. JAMAICA. No further evidence of the rebellion in Jamaica having bean brought by the West India steamer which arrived yesterday at Liverpool, the Daily News, in further con sidering the subject, has to content itself with such evi dence as in furnished by Governor Eyre in his own de. [matches or speeches, elucidated by compariog it with the evidence which he himself hod invited from other quarters. The Daily News then proceeds to give some extracts from the unquestionable colonial authorities which Dr. Under hill adduces, to enable its readers to form a judgment on Governor Eyre's assertion that "no reasonable and intel ligent came has been easigaed " for the existence of discontent and misery. A governor, it concludes, who, with such minute and authentic information of ma imed wretchedness, of unjust laws, of oppremive acts, of want of employment for even those who would go thirty miles to seek for it, of grinding taxation on the corn. room mossmuies of existence, could assure his sovereign and his countrymen the peasantry he was sent to rule over have no grievance to complain of, and are bet'er off than any peamotry in the world, ought not to be allowed to remain as hour longer in the position of trust he has thus abroad. Whether, beside., be is guilty of slaughtering some thou sands of this happy peasantry in a fit of wild and cavaelese panic, is a further quation, which the public will not after wards lose sight of. MTh. Post asks for a suspension of judgment, adding that if there has been illcgality in the trial and executioe of the rebels, it could not offer a defence of any official therein engaged, even though the guilt of the permits executed rOHN BROGDENB GOLD CHAINS. " -------- OHNBROGDENSGO LDBROOOIIOHAINS. iIY------ -- WINTER OVERCOATS of the Bun MATERIALS an kept for Inspection or sale at, HAMILTON sad OLIMPTON'S, Tailors and Overcoat Makers. 106, STRAND, opposite Exeter Hal. LONDON must have a Supper and Mu sic Room tor Gentlereen.—ltemember we welt tor you at SWAM'S aster the Covent Garden Opera sod the Theatres. the e'eoo• TO commie munats. ertisements Wooded toe .The 11 si+ " lowdep Beeping Adv 94, mad be at %be 001%14 aavegibelwea. by Two es ibe doe ot pablbiblees. YMAREET. THIS WHIM TER O RAVERLAND ROUTE Wawa Mathews. and Oompiaai Mesdames Mathews. Rum done C. den, HUI. et Wright —WHO KILLED OOCK WHIN KM= C. Mathews eadChippeadate , Mrs. C. Nathan& —And the BALLET. PRINCIONS. Tno Ovonoto, vim LODGING-9,4 Am. which RIB NIVICE TOO L&Ta Ti MIND. Worn Vining, O. *thins. T. Mead. A Murray, b. Wham. F. VIMom J. G. Monk G. Our my, and R. Catkort Mims L Moore and K. Rodgers. LYCEUM. THIS fflrldriNO, THR DRY ATTIR THE WEDDING. MI. and Mrs. lioranian.—Till WATCR CRY. Messrs. Wielder, Wlddicomb S. Emery, C. HIXIMAN ayeaood. fl=k, nd Clifford, N l n Thworthy.ed NW•SYY CRICK TRI9 Evianne, Till SKELETON 1102.3111 AN OE, THE SHADOW OF F D —The D'Asbeaa.— °hoar, the Eing of Ottonasta. —WM BASALTS YOZTlldig FATE AND ITS werna. Mom Beynokla and Cranford ; Yrs. S. Tama SIGH Wall AT icurnagasnocui. TAM DST Korkkok. 414. lba.....Aftensoon. 41. Ms. To-nossow .... iternikg. 4h. 5444 ..... Afterpook SA. 17a.. LONDON. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 6, We have been furnished from a source upon which we can rely, with some interesting statistics respecting the recent working of the imsual poor act in the parish of St. Marylebone. It appears that during the month of November just passed 1,853 men, 1,723 women, and 459 children, making a total of 4,035, were admitted into its casual wards. The only people refused shelter during the same period were 2 men and 26 women, who were intoxicated, and who would have caused annoyance to the other inmates. The cost of maintaining this large number of wanderers was :—For provisions, 17/. 19s. 3d. ; clothing, 121. 17s. ; lighting, warming, and keeping up the wards, 161. 16e. 3d. ; superintendence, W. Bs. 4d. ; making a total of 59/. Os. 101 From this sum must be deducted 51. 45., the sum earned by the able-bodied who have worked at the unpro fitable occupations of stone -breaking and oakum picking, which makes the net cost of the 4,035 wanderers who have been sheltered and fed to be 53/. 16a. 10d., or an average of threepence a head. When any of the homeless complain of being ill, they are examined by the medical officer of the workhouse, and 9 men and 11 women out of the above numbers were transferred to the infirmary ; while 15 children under 16 years of age were first detained, and subsequently restored to their rela tives. During a recent visit to this workhouse, and while the casuals were being admitted, we noticed a bright intelligent lad, who, on being questioned by Mr. Douglas, the master, confessed that he had run away from home, giving tke unkindness of a stepmother as his excuse. He had tramped from Hull, and his ingenuous manner and open, honest face made us hope that he might be sent back to his father before he became contaminated by association with the vagrants with whom he was necessarily brought in contact when we saw him. Upon ascertaining that this was the lad's first night in London, the master persuaded him to remain in the workhouse until his father could be communicated with, and a letter from Hull re ceived. It is unsatisfactory to add that the reply was disappointing, that the boy had frequently run away before, and that his father refused to pay his fare down to Hull ; adding that as he had made his way up to London on foot, and sleeping at work houses on the road, so must he make his way back again. What became of this child, whether he is I developing into the full-blown shameless tramp, or whether he has been absorbed into the regular channels of labour, it is impossible to say ; but his case fairly illustrates the difficulties besetting all efforts to restore vagrant children to their homes, and the fifteen so sent back from Marylebone in a single month probably represent many times that number in which attempts have been fruitlessly made. Unlike most workhouses in the metropolitan dis trict, some attempt is made here to classify the people who apply, and the spirit which laudably endeavours to send children from the streets to their parents is traceable in the division made in the male tramps. The sturdy, able-bodied va grants who are perhaps known as casuals of many years' standing, form class 1. They have a hard bed, but with sufficient covering, and are required to break a prescribed measure of stones before leaving in the morning. Class 2 is composed of the decent looking, well behaved, and orderly wanderers, who are placed in a more comfortable ward, and have lighter employ ment, such as oakum-picking. Both classes are bathed, if in health, before going to bed ; and the dietary is in each case the same, consisting of bread at night, and bread and gruel in the morning. The effect of this judicious arrangement is, that the decent pauper is spared the contamination of associating with roughs, whose obscene language and disgusting conduct are so bad at Marylebone, that the officers of the workhouse frequently find it impossible to maintain order in the ward. Not the least curious feature in class 2, is the vast number of poor helpless creatures who have tramped to London from the country without the faintest prospect of employment, but with the firm conviction, if not that its streets are paved with gold, at least that their troubles would be over when its magic radius was gained. A short time back two Lancashire lasses of 16 spent their first night in London in the Maryleboue casual ward, and gave as a reason for coming to town that they were told " people chucked money out of window at country folks ;" while a youth of the same age from Cheshire thought " bread and butter, watercresses, and coffee," were at the corner of every street, free for those who wanted them. In the ward appropriated to class 2 no offence has been committed during the month, a fact which speaks favourably kr the discrimination exercised in selecting its occupants. The people who sleep here are, it should be mentioned, of a better and more reputable class than were formerly applicants for temporary shelter at all ; their treatment is not of a character to tempt them into permanent va grancy, and they are warned that in the event of their appearing a third time at the workhouse it will be made leas luxurious still Out of the men housed in No. 1 ward during November four have Ut ann• WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 5. The Queen, with Prince= Helena, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. P r i n ce Christian of Sliniric-Holstein, a ttended by the Gentlemen in Waiting, went shooting. Her ifajesty held a council to-day, at 1 o'clock, at which were premot Fed Granville, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, and the Right Hon. W. Gladstone. Kr. Chichester Fodor= was presented to the Queen, at an audios= by Sir Gems* Grey, on being appointed Chia Secretary for Ireland. Earl Granville, Lord Clar endon, and she Right Boa. W. Gladstone, bad audiences of the Queen. - • rt..10...1 IC imeNiDt• COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. After Term NW Prim sittings at Weatminster.—(B./.0 the Lord Chid Justice and • Special Jury.) LAI(D01711 e. TER SOUTII UMW RAILWAY COMPANY— wrerthottlam ACCIDENT. This was • writ of inqaci _to moon the duns.; a n defendants admitting the ir natality. Stich an inquiry is of rare occurrence in the superior courts, the untruth& being to area the damages upon a writ of inquiry w on the sheriff& Mr. Hawk*, Q.C., and Mr. Murphy, were mute lot the plaintiff ; Mr. Serkaat Saluting and Mr. Poland sees counsel for the defentkate. The plaintiff, who is a Frenchmen, about 55 yens of ege, had resided in the orandry about 25 years, sad he eeet o i d himself Wore 1862 as a teacher of langusace. In 18M is was appoiated by the English commingling over. seer said - manager of the French department of the Great Exhibition, and after the Exhibition be el.. tamed the agencies of several merchants residing abroad, and he had autos then serried on the bases of • commission monk sad aloe that of • MT"te inquiry office in Agaretroet, Snead, on which no stigma soak in attached, and he was employed by the Freon Cassel. General here and other payees of respectability, in tow solvency and other makes of persons residing here. Se me earning up to the time of the sodded about 8001. pa annum. He had a wife and three children, ens of than being • clerk in • bank. It appeared that tin plaintiff had been amino in Paris on basins tad ce the 9th of June last he left for Leadia by what m known as the tidal train. He arrived at Falk stone in the aftersoins, and left by the ezprin t sin. es travelled safely until about two mike this side of Sean bunt station, when he felt as oscillation of the maw sod he suddenly found himself precipitated ova tie bridge down • depth of 15 feet into • brook or sera of water. After considerable difficulty the phi. tiff, who wan cut and bruised, sad binding key much, part of the flesh of one of his legs beng tail adhering to the woodwork al the carriage, hiss able mean can himself from kin perilous pointer+, and after ins* some of his felloweimgers he fainted. On none* he found himself bring attended by a medical Fallen& residing in the neighbourhood, and afterwards he weeded by other medical gentlemen from London. It was nodes to thiuk of removing him that night to Leedom, gad In remained that eight tat the Cm" 1 • 2 1 1 , Bialto hunt. On the following m ornin g tenni home, and immediately he was attended by Ws own indica man, Mr. Eastman. It was then fund tin he had received several wounds on the head, his rye on cut and had to be sews up. There was • large wood* the left leg, and several operations had to be perform'. He had not since been able to attend to his naken, tad he had been put to considerable expense in gong abed for change of air. It was tot coutanud that the plaintiff had received permanent iajruy, hut was of such a character as would incapnitats him for some time from conducting his busmen as usual, and consequently damages were claimed for the loss that would &rine in consequence. Whoa spoken& was made to the company for compenntice, ha was rated by Mr. Adams and. Mr. Clapton, medical gentlemen, a behalf of the company, and they, with Mr. Eastman, tin plaintiff's medical man, and Mr. Lawson, who was milled Ma his behalf, aped • cresificate to the following effect : ' , We, the undersigned..after careful examination of the phiatirs case, are of opinion that he has not sustained any prow nest injury to any pad of his body Having, how and that negtusily he will entiray recovehowever, due regard to the severity of the accident and the mode et ita occurrence. a n entire reoovery gamut be expected nail after 12 months' from the time of the accident. The plaintiff also claimed besides compeoration for the loos of his business and personal suffering between 4001. sad 5001. upon he had been put to in consequence of the accident. The plaintiff was called, and detailed the circumstance of the accident and his sufferings and the enema be ea been put to in ceneequenee. He also 'tend that his igeme from his business was about 8001. per annum, gad his per' moat expos* Wile between 4001. and 500/. per annum. In erceumandaation by Mr. Serkant Ballantiee, plaudit said he had 3 guineas per week during the exhibition. RI MANSION-HOO3II.—(TEILS DAY.) duty was to stand at the estrum of the for nt eign dm:u il tmost George Cole, a young fellow havin g the a p pearance and see that the*proper persons only eered. e of • tramp, was brought before the Lord Mayor for further before that engaged in business with a gentleman in th e examination upon the chug* of having unlawfully decoyed City. a girl only nine years of age, named Mary Anne Humphreys, Mr. Salient Ballantim—What is his name. from the custody of her parents, without their mutant, for Plaintiff he would not like it to be known. an immoral pupae& Mr. flerjeant Wendt's—We must know. The circumstance , under which this charge was Plaintiff—His same k Smith. (Laughter.) • Be "Ol d orignally preferred, it will be remembered, were plaintiff to become his partner, but he declined beam of a very singular character. The little • 1 Smith had no bungee. (Laughter.) It was lucky in question was the daughter of e office. Plaintiff paid 13a. 6d. per week for his office k perents, who carry on the business of a grocer Apretreet. He lived at one time in apartments at Ms in St. Mary-axe, md on Monday morning, the 10th of liewanatoos 'treat, hut he did sot leave Mrs. Gent November, she was sent to school but did not Mare. Her without paying her rent. (At first plaintiff had so parents were, of course, in • state of great alarm and recollection of having lived there.) Hr. Smith tig consternation at her absence, but notwithataadiog not turn him away on account of his ocioduct at Jersey. Be the inquiries made by themselvem, and also those loath heft Smith because he did not pay him regularly. Be bed toted by the polim, nothing was heard of her paid the landlord's bill at Jersey. He paid . him 41. es se until about • week afterwards, when the prisoner count before legv*, and he had since paid the tam& with the child in his arms made his appearance The accident took place oft • Friday, one on the Meal/ at • low lodging-house in Flower and Deanstreet, %Mal. follow* he went in • cab to Mr. Williamson's 411, fields, and asked to be acoommodated with • double bed. The Lime-street, and told him he had not been killed, la manager of the house, an Irishwoman named Lee, who that he wag too to give him any mond seemed to have acted very properly in tha matter, had • sus of the badness he had transacted for him in Perte. gems picion that something was "from and e told the primer air weeks in Paris, and during that time he had tie cm to that she would not allow him to campy sh ee game bed with attend to his business in Agar street. Mr. Williamson the child, and if they stopped there they mud have asps. paid him three guineas a day and hie expense& He rate bed& Some of the other lodgers also, who were Sc- was paid 2501. by Mr. Walkman. Be was paid by quainted with the prisoner and were aware that the child cheques. He never bad • banker's account. He hid spent was not his, were very indignant at his 000 duct and were between 4001. and sow. tout expanse 'atributable to this about to inflict summary punishment upon him, but accident were about 2001. out of that sum. He kept use he ran out of the house, leaving toe child bathed books, but they auto a very imperfect account his him. At this time she appeared to be in • semi. monetary trepanned's. unconscious condition, and it was found necessary to remove Re examined by Mr. Murphy—He was in Greece in 18114. her to the London Hospital, where she was discovered about two months. A large proprietor of marble quarries by her parents, and at the next examination • untie. there employed him to endeavour to get up a marks was can from one of the house dirgeons waa put in paoy i n this country. He received 2001. and expellees heat stating that she was too ill to attend and give Mr. Rogers for what he did in Greece ; that was in Anne her evidence. When the prisoner was taken Into custody, 1864. Sochi°, of Paris, had paid him 10 per neat. os the he appeared to have admitted that be Ind acted iodocently gale 1,0001. worth of brandy and wines. to the child, but said that all they could do with him waa Mr. fierjeant Salentine submitted that this saddle to give himd, six months. should have boon given in tbe plaintiff's evidence in chief. The following additional *adonis was this morning ad. The Lord Chief Justioe —Or rather in the crier examiner diced. Boa. It ought not to be left for the judge to do what ins Mr. Dove, one of the rumens of the Lon d on Hospital, the duty of the counsel. Had I not pointed out the now deposed that the child was brought to the hospital about shy of showing these facts the jury would have been left to 2 o'clock in the morning of the 26th November. She en. the dark about it. peered in an unnaturally sleepy _ixedition and it was di c e s Plaintiff then went en to say that Mr. Edward Lorin ot cult to arouse her. He cmld not dig:ever any traes Marlborough-street, bad paid him 30!. or 60/. for businsil of violence upon her person. On the following morning transacted for him in Park. Mr. Nlcholsoo, • ooliciteri he administered an emetic, and the contents of the had employed him to go to Paris on behalf stomach had been ed for the purpose of analysis. an English noblenna relative to earns decal d ay s a g o. was 4" from the hospital about three that had bean purchased by • • lady. The cond. days ago. general of France had paid hien about 50/. ; that pads The Lord Mayor inquired how long the child wag under ai ran had introdooed him to others for whom he had his charge. one burins's. Those were inquiries for a father about bur The witness replied about ten days. inn who had left him, or a wife who had rum away from his In answer to further questions, the whom said he had husband. so reason to believe that any violence had bees offered to Dr. Eastman said be was called in to see the plaintiff au the child. He also said that he could not swear that any the 10th, at his residence in Ms rylebone-road. His systole noxious drug had been administered to her, but the date of was much shacked, and be was suffering free , • 11111. stupor she was in induced him to believe there Wiesen lacerated wound in the metre of the forehead, sad fear A polke-constabie of the H division mid that he found five aupsrfieial wounds on the top of Unlaced ;he an s the child in the charge of a man mined Brewster, es the lacerated wound on the outer side of the right eye, io whin thhitethapel.road, and the woman Loss was also posses& two stitches had been placed before he saw him, the WO The child appeared to be dead. He could not discover say around the wound were much bruised. On the order gas pulse, and be took the child to the hospital. of the left leg, a little below the knee, there wu rat The poor little girl was then placed in the witnese box. walla, extending downwards, about 24 inches from She is • very pretty child, and gave her evidence in a very portion of skin and flesh bad been toga. On the lower artless and straightforward manner. , part of the same leg, a little above the auk, wee 11 The e ff ect of her statement was that she was sent ; slighter laceration and the left log was also much brand's to school an the 20th of November about 9 o'clock, and I the neighbourhood of the wound. Be attended him dab' stopped at school until 12, and was going home when 1 for three or four weeks. The wounds in the head healed le she meta may who told her he would bey her a doll if ' about a fortnight, and also the wound near the eye. no she went with'him. wounds ea the leg progressed satisfactorily for the lord two The Lord Mayor asked her if she knew the man. or three stages, when they beam* much more inflamed The poor little girl at once pointed to the prisoner. and painful ; the infiansatioa extended , and in a few dais She went on to say that they walked shoat all day, acid 1 it became evident that matter formed under the timid she wanted to go home, and the prisoner said be would 1 man the thin felt uneasy about it, and 110_0 Ms 2 °2 buy her a doll, Late at night they went to • public. lin Dr. Luken. of Middlesex Hospital. He visit ed house and slept than, but she did not sleep with the plaintiff with witness on the 22nd, and they were of opiate prisoner, but with a female belonging to the house. The it wag neeeneary to make • free opening so as to text day they again walked about all day. but the prisoner allow the matter to escape ; that was door , and a geed did not give her myth* to eat till th e afternoon deal of matter win discharged ; the progress of the lower when he lave her soma bread aid butter, gni wooed after that was satisfactory, end it healed in • week because she mimed to eat it, he opened her !or 10 days ; the upper wound was relieved for • time. he mouth and pushed it down. The prisoner ;it Weems unhealthy and li e ot heal. He probed the wand told her that her father sae dead, and her mother wee is , and knoll there were sin, and it became necerwarf. the workhouse. They slept that night and the fol. to ky the woond freely open to allow of tho emir a I low* night at • ooffoshouse, but they did not • queetity of deed tisane which existed under the skin to sleep in the num bed. She had nothing to eat al wooed after that slowly belled and was well about tde PARIS, Dec . c gave her some 10th August. Plaintiff's general heath was much reduced. toast so in ma th tea. e im Th n ey ing afte th rw e s stayed all night at the and he could get DO rest without opiates. The Pleb," DL Behic, the Minister of Agriculture, has ad- same mffilinhousa, but she slept with a little girt. The was in bed foe about tan days. The 'Oise ba for d escsa to ssoi! dressed a report to the Emperor , in whic h he an primmer gave her Dotting to eat all day. All she had wan pima shock, aad it would lee him nounces that two gazellee brought over from Eng- geese toast sad tea in the morn*. On the Saturday under medial gam for some time; It was mpossiblo 11 the became quite senseless, sod did sot remember anything • time for his reervery, but he eventually might rumor lo land had infected with the contagious typhus that occurred till she found herself in the heoplimal. las te resume his busker about another nix manias. di van an i m a s i n t h e J u di e d. Ae di met i nn. An After eons further middies the prisoner was vemeadee. ; The Cffianeallor of the Oonsulate-Gesord of France ha to afford aa opportunity for the anteritad the donna to this sena* proved that they had a high minion of the imperial decree has consequently been published, be amilyeed. plaiatiff. earl that be tree employed to raske rink ir The Earl of Caithness sod Ltssatenans•uoml2o4 were the Lord and Groom in Waiting. Mr. Helps was Clerk of the ConneiL The Berl of Osithnem sad Liestenant-Colonel Eingscote have succeeded Lord Methuen =lithe Bon. Mortimer Back ' villa West as Lord and Groom in Waiting. - At the °ethical held by the Queen at Wiedeor Castle yesterday afternoon, her fifejeety declared her °meet to the marriage of the Princess Helm Anoints Victoria, Primers of the United Kingdom, to the Prince Frederic Christian Charles Auguste(' of Slat wig-Holstein Sander burg Augustesbarg. At the Queen's Council held yesterday at Windsor Castle parliament war ordered to be further prorogued from Thursday, the 28th instant, to Thursday, the Ist of Fe bruary next, then to meet for " the despatch of beelines." The final proclamation was at them time ordered to be made for Gatlin the parliament together on that day. Sir Richard Graves MacDonell, C. 8., Governor of Hong Koog, had an inter v i ew with the Bight Hon. Edward Cardwell at the Colonial-office yesterday. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day at the Council Chamber, WhitebalL Present—Lord Chelmsford, Sir Coleridge, Six KV. Willisnui, and Sir J. Colvile. The Earl and Countess of Dudley have arrived at Dudley House, Fark-Isne, from Paris. Ina day or two they leave London for Willey Court, Worcestershire. The Earl and Countess of Stamford and War rington's shooting party assembled at Ermine Hall, Std• fordshire, one of the family residences, and not at Greville Hall, as stated yesterday in error. His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer have arrived at their residence in Arlington street, from their seat near Windsor. The Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., the newly-appointed Secretary for Ireland, will leave town on Saturday, accompanied by Frances Countess Weldegrays, for Dublin, to enter upon his official duties. The Right Hon. Sir Rober t Peel, Bart., M.P. is expected to arrive from Ireland on Saturday next. Lady Emily Peel is in town. Lord Brougham left Brougham-hall, Cumber land, on Monday, for his &Mean at Canoes, in the south of France, where the noble lord purposes, as usual, to spend the winter. Dersaruuk or QWEEN EMIILL—Her Majesty Queen Emma, of the Sandwich Islands, attended by Major Hopkins, left Claridge's Hotel yesterday for the south of France, where her Majesty will pass the winter. gnu. General Fisk has made a speech, stating that President Johnson had informed him that he intended to carry out the late Mr. Lincoln's views, and see the freedom of negroes guaranteed. He might not believe in their ultimate attainment, but he meant that they should have a fair chance. The Freedmen's Bureau would be continued until the Southern States were resolved to deal honestly and justly by freedmen. A radical republican meeting has been held at Dr. Cheever's church, New York, at which speeches were made denouncing President John son's reconstruction policy, and declaring him to be the counsel for the rebel States and the upholder of the Secession doctrine. _ Mr. Seddon and ex. Governors Magrath and Lub beck have been released on parole. The United States Circuit Court of Maryland has decided that the government tax cannot be de ducted from the interest due to foreign stock holders of American railroads. Mr. Mackenna, the Chilian Envoy to the United States, has made a speech at Panama, denouncing the conduct of Spain as a pretext for obtaining a foothold on American soil. A cargo of slaves has lately been landed on the north-western coast of Cuba. The steamer Gambia left New Orleans on the 24th inst., with 1,700 bales of cotton for Liver pool. • A steamer has arrived at New York with 3,000 bales of cotton from Apalachicola, Florida. The British ship Mariannus has been wrecked off the coast of Georgia. The crew were saved. A British barque, coal laden, name unknown, has been driven ashore and abandoned off Savannah. OOKYFitcLIL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Nov. 25, MORNING. Money abundant ; gold, 147 ; Exchange on Lon don, 160 ; ditto on Paris, 3.524 ; Stocks steady ; New York Central, 97 ; Illinois, 133 ; Erie, 921 ; 5-20 Bonds, 1011. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 53. Flour firmer ; wheat heavy. Corn quiet. Provisions declining. Coffee steady. Sugar good inquiry. Molasses t'ulL Petroleum, very firm ; crude, 41 ; refined, 66. NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 23. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, b2c. to 53c. Sales to-day, 2,200 bales. Cotton, limited demand. 50c. To-day's sales, 800 bales. MEXICO. THE EXTRAORDINARY CASS OF ABDUCTION. MOBILE. Nov. 23. 3liddling IJplands, NEW YORK, Nov. 25, Mointan. The New York Herattl publishes advice , from El PASO to the 20th October, which state that the imperialists were advancing on that city. It is believed that Juarez will shortly go, via Cali fornia, to the southern provinces of Mexico. Juarezlhad levied heavy compulsory loans on the surrounding population. Advices from Rio Grande, to the 13th of No vember, via New Orleans, state that the Repub licans were encamped eight miles from Matamoros. Matamoros papers of the 10th November state that no further attack on the city was appre hended. From Vera Cruz, on the 13th November, it is announced that the imperialists bad combined successfully against the guerillas. There is no con firmation of the reported withdrawal of the im perialists from the interior of Mexico. The Empress, with a large suite, left for Yuca tan on the 6th. THE KING OF THE BELGIANS. BRIMELS. Mao. & The Mottiteur Beige of this morning publishes the following bulletin respecting the King's health : "The abdominal symptoms are unaltered. His Majesty recovers his strength but very slowly. (Signed) " Wimmta. "Ds ROVBALL " Palace of Luken, Dec. 5." FRANCE.