The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-18 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES. --During the storms o f the oast year .Istai the Natoobil Institution, by Its lifeboats mai other means, contributed to the saving of 913 "tenons from different wrecks on our coasts. The insUtutlon also expended £31,430 in the same tterh..l on Its lifeboat esta blishments, in addition to grunting t::.1731,.r rewards. T ed he Committe e of t h e liitittbm i•ornestly A I'PEAL to the public for ASSISTA NCE to chable them h. meet the r.mtimitAl heavy elemands .on the 172 Ittel,tt t. tnms the Institution. I nktributi,,na are reemyt-,1 by the London and Country }tankers: and by the Secretary. e l iI 'RU LEW IS, Esq., at the liodittition, 14. Juliii•street, Adelthi, I...mtdmy MAPPIN BROTHERS.—Established A.D.1810. CHESTS of SILVER PLATE for theCOLON LES, CIITLERY and SILVER PLATE for FURNISHING. MAPPIN BROTHERS, LONDON-BRIDGE. M'APPIN BROTHERS, 222, REGENT STREET. BENSO'NB WA TCHES. r.s anti 80, Ludgate-hill: 85, Old Bond-street. 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LONDON, FBI DAY, JANUARY 18. DEATH has been busy among the Immortals of the French Academy. Before the arm-chair of the Baron DE BARANTE has received his successor, that of V ie-ron COUSIN has become vacant, and two elections impend. The double choice which the Academy has to make will probably relieve it from the embarrassments which, in the divided state of parties, would have hung over a solitary nomination. The Count DE FALLOUX and the Bishop of ORLEANS may be inclined to compound for the election of the Kre HYACINTHE by assenting to that of M. Juees FAYRE. There is certainly no reason why the eloquence of the pulpit should not be represented as well asthat of the tribune and the bar in what Mr. MATTHEW ARNOLD calls the high court of letters in France. The original statutes founding the Academy describe its prin cipal function to be that of " working with all the " care and diligence possible, at giving sure rules " to our tongue, rendering it pure, eloquent, and " capable of treating the arta and sciences." Spoken as well as written language has always been held included within the scope of the Academy. It has recognised by its elections the claims of oratory as parallel with those of-letters ; and in doing so it has been faithful to the terms of its foundation. The most consummate literary style, though it refines upon the speech of the vulgar, can never depart far from it without be coming pedantic, and betraying the national genius. The best eloquence of the pulpit, the bar, and the parliamentary tribune, mediates anu forms the connecting link between the language of society and that of books, and, therefore, fairly comes within the recognition of a society whose function is to watch over the purity and to develop the resources of the French tongue. It is the familiar effect of a despotism, by denying to political opposition its legitimate place, to create a political opposition everywhere, in salmis, at the bar, and in learned societies. The complaint of an abuse of neutrality deserves no sym pathy when it comes from those who trample down open antagonism. But the evil is real. The necessity of indirect resistance to overwhelming power has given a party character to the elections of the French Academy, which involves, if not a positive disregard, yet an evasive interpretation of the trust committed to it. It has become the strong hold of Orleanist and Ultramontane opposition to the Empire and to democracy, and to the philo sophy which, in spite of VICTOR COUSIN'S vind:- cation of the principles of 1789, is credited with the authorship of the Revolution. M. Limes, whose great Dictionary promises, if it be com pleted, to do more for the specific object which the Academy exists to promote than any of his contemporaries has accomplished, finds himself wider ban as a positivist. M. PREVOST-PARADOL, whose intellectual title is indisputable, found him self an -Academician at an ago early beyond pre cedent, " Sure of the Fortieth spare arm-chair Ere gout and glory placed him there," not solely because of his brilliant qualities, but as the most relentless of the opponents of the Empire, wielding a pen sharper than a two edged sword, and seeing in history, philosophy, and literature little else than a testimony against Bonapartism. If M. JVLES FavitE should, as seems probable, be elected to the vacant chair of in: BARANTE, it will be because in the anta gonist of the PRINCE PRESIDENT, in the opposition Deputy, and in the advocate of ORSINI, the heresies of the Republican are pardoned. If Messieurs Guizor and TRIERS could put their hands upon a presentable Orleanist, the merits of M..frl.r:, FAVRE would probably stand him in no better stead than those of M. LITTRE. The death of M. DE BARANTE towards the close of last year has left M. Guizor the sole survivor, not only in the Academy, but in France, of the half-dozen distinguished men who were the founders, and for a time the only members, of the do,frinair, scho.4. The post (mgi& as it was called from the joke of the Count DE BEunNor, who said that he had attended a meeting of the party, and found it assembled in full force upon a single sofa, is now a purti du fuuteud, and sits in a single arm-chair. Later adherents, such as M. CHARLES I.E itrlIrSAT, remain, and M. PREVOST PARAI.or, may perhaps he reckoned among them, as a brilliant anachronism, a (hp-trinaite born out THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1867.:: .. of due season. But the /minders of the sect, with the one illustrious exception just limed, are all gone, M. TRIERS, Oriesnist Omagh he was and is, having never belonged to lllse dor trinain coterie, nor been : tinged with the doc trinaire spirit. The disappearance of the school marks the close of a period iu French history—a period of blind and fatal mistake, in which Liberty was slain in the house of her friends, and by the weapons of those who should have been her defenders. But the political errors of the doctrinaire school ought not to blind either the nation which suffered, or the foreign observers who have profited, by them, to the services and merits of the illus trious leaders of the party. They organized a noble reaction against the materialistic philosophy, the moral scepticism, and the literary frivolity which the Empire bequeathed to the restored monarchy of the elder Bourbons. But when the revolution of 18:10 placed them in office, they themselves fell into reaction from their own prin ciples—principles to which they still adhered in the abstract, reverencing them, however, rather as political counsels of perfection too lofty for realization in this vulgar world, than as guides of conduct. The truth is thal. the French doctrin«ill, never fully understood their own country, and therefore failed to govern it. Their reaction from the Empire, and from the Revolution, which they made accountable for the Empire, the literary in tercourse which they cultivated in exile or corre spondence with the men of letters of other lands, and their studies in foreign literature, widened their own sympathies and enlarged their know ledge, and tended to counteract the national egotism and narrow self-glorification of their countrymen. But the 'lo trueloe system had not its root inFrench soil. It wasan aggregate of foreign influences working for goof on the French mind, at a critical period of their history, but as a cor rective acting from without, rather than as a na tive force working from within. The ductriowires borrowed their politics from England through M. Gurzor ; their philosophy from Scotland through Itovea-CottAfto ; their principles of criticism aid literature from Germany through M. DE BARANTE. English constitutionalism, Scotch metaphysics, and German romanticism are good things both apart and in combination, but they do not form the basis on which the French people can re-organize itself. In consequence, the doctrinaires have never been more than a sect of illuminati, vainly striving to become a national party, adorning literature and speculation, but conspicuously and disastrously failing in politics. Their place was always ;n the Academy rather than in the Chamber and the Cabinet. Even in the Academy they belong to the past ; and M. PREVOST-PA RADOL'S brilliant perversity will not afford them any future. The signs of their decadence, though slight, are signifi cant. The probable election of M. dotes FAVRE too the chair of M. nz BARANTE, and the alliance of the more liberal Orleanista with the moderate democratic party, indicated in the rumoured sub stitution of M. Tli I ERB' house for that of M. MARIE as the meeting-place of the opposition Deputies, are symptoms of that reconciliation between the principles of 1789 and 1830, of which VICTOR Cot•SIN was the eloquent advocate, and which is one of the first necessities of French politica, but which the dvdrinaires fatally resisted. The Standard rejoices in the judgment, while it mays that the worldig dames by joining In the indent, have itegerilbd their property to the amount of millions ster ling. finch nasociatkma, it is sow decided, cannot being civil adieus ; they are outlawed, their members are at the anew of irregioneible mistime ; their eantracte, agreements, and engagements are thaty null and void, and it is quite as well that this formidable truth should be told peremptorily to the working man. When he enters • society which professes to unite the prie g oiplee of a friendly club with that of • trades' union, tire money he subscribes may, without remedy, be made of no more worth to him than a handful of chips. And it might be rash to compute how many of our provident artisans are in such a situation. • LATEST INTELLIGENCE. • (REUTER'S TEL EG RA MS.) ITALY. THE MINISTERIAL FINANCIAL, . STATEMENT. 4 FLORENCE, JAN. 17, NVIMING. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies Signor Scialoja resumed his financial statement. With reference to the means of covering the deficit of 185 millions the Minister proposed to effect a saving of 85 millions by various financial modifi cations and a re-organisation of the system of taxation. One of these measures of financial reform would be to entrust the payment of state pensions to the Bank of Deposits, which would result in a saving to the Treasury of 17 millions, while a reform of the Registry Tax will effect a reduction of 10 millions lire. The Minister would propose a scheme of reforming the tax on landed and moveable property, and would shortly intro duce a bill for taxing certain manufactures which will yield a revenue of from 15 to 20 millions lire. Another 30 millions would be produced by taxing Signor Scialoja then adverted to the progressive increase of the public revenue and the gradual de- I crease of the expenditure, which decrease will amount to 60 millions in 1880, at which period he showed that the revenue and expenditure of the l state will be in equilibrium. At present the minister declared it to be necessary to have re eourse to extraordinary means to make up the de ficit of 100 millions still remaining after covering 85 millions bytheabove-mentioned financial reform. He pointed out that a loan would be impossible under present circumstances, and that the govern ment must therefore have recourse to the ecclesias tical property. Respecting the relations between the state and the church, Signor Scialoja stated that they would be modified in such a manner as to restore full liberty to the church and settle the question of the ecclesiastical property. A bill would be brought forward taxing the ecclesiastical property to the amount of 600 millions lire, which would suffice to cover the annual deficit until the period at which a financial equilibrium should be established. The minister trusted that the clergy would receive this scheme favourably, and that in entering within the pale of common law all pending questions between church and state would be terminated. In conclusion Signor Scialoja entered into some considerations relative to the public credit of Italy. After some observations respecting the order to be followed in discussing the different financial mea sures, the minister stated that he accepted the mo tion of Signor Crispi, that the chamber should de clare the discussion of the bill upon religious liberty and for the liquidation of ecclesiastical pro perty to be of an urgent character. FRANCE. MARSEILLES, J. IR. The railway communication between Marseilles and Paris is completely re-established. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIB DAY.) ARCHBISHOP MANNINO AND RELIGIOUS TOLF.RATION. _ _ Dr. Manning, says the Times, has given us most excellent advice in his exhortation at Birmingham on the benefits of religious toleration and of treating all denomi- nations with fairness and equity. Will he allow us in return, to invite him to consider whether the same good advice might not be usefully addressed to other people besides protestant& ! The Pope would save the world • great deal of trouble if he would consistently act upon the principles of his lieutenant ; and, as the latter holds • high position in Rome, will be not write to his friends there and urge the duty of fairness and equity towards that handful of presbyterians who were threatened the other day with imprisonment if they continued to meet in private for religious worship ! We are aware, indeed, that there are some Roman catholics who regard this matter from a very different point of view according as it is their own religion or protestantism which appeals for consideration. Roman catholicism is truth, whereas proteetantism is error; and it is one thing to repress error, another thing to stifle truth. But Dr. Manning's view is much too decided and generous to admit of such an exception. Wherever the golden ago of unity is disturbed, there he exhorts to the silver alter native of perfect toleration. If, therefore, there are any dissentients from the true faith either in Route or Spain, or in any other catholic country, Dr. Manning will doubtless exert his influence to insure them perfect freedom for the exercise of their religion. Though protestant& have been greatly to blame, history informs us that they were not the first to offend against Dr. Manning's silver rule, and we are disposed to think they are not the greatest offenders at the present day. We shall have great pleasure in obeying Dr. Manning's advice, but we should have still greater satisfaction in fol lowing his example. Though the Herold has known Archbishop Man ning anything but reckless and inconsequent, even in his displays it has never met with such presumption, joined to fatal admissions against his own cause, as is to be found, scattered broadcast, in his speech delivered to his co-reli gionists at Birmingham on Tuesday evening last. Dr. Man ning is constantly in Rome ; will he repeat there some of the deliberate assertions which he made on Tuesday night? Will he suggest to the Pope that " if justice is to be done, the religion of men must be respected ?" If he does he a ill lay himself open to the penalties of the Holy Inquisition, and will he forthwith unfrocked. But he will do nothing of the kind. And what is more, the next time he gets upon his legs be will be found extolling the government which will allow a protestant neither to pray nor to be buried within the walls of its capital. He will defend with sophistry a government which treats Jews with venomous contumely, which kidnaps their children, abuts them up in the Ghetto, and leaves them to misery in the narrow precincts of the Piazza del Pianto, or Place of Weeping. It is absurd enough, remarks the Star, for an advocate of persecution as obvious policy and undoubted Christian duty to point to America, Australia, and Canada as ex amples of n►tiona which earn the Divine favour by the perfect equality and equity with which they respect all religions ; but what are we to say when we find the Pope quoted in the same connexion with an artful hiatus in the reasoning which leaves us to believe that he too owes the stability of his government, forsooth, to the same cause! Is Dr. Manning content to accept from protestant., and even to praise as Christian and wise, a liberty which he would deem himself an-Christian and a fool to grant to protestant' were he in absolute pewee THE STATUS Or TRADE UNION SOCIETIES. The Telegraph describes the decision of the Court of Queen's Dench on Wednesday, by which it was unani mously declared that trades' unions are not en titled to certain of the benefits, privileged, and forms of protection accorded by law to friendly societies, as by far the most important decision which has fora long time been pronounced by that court. It is held that some of the objects of such unions are in restraint of trade, are contrary to the policy of law, and in that sense are un lawful. The tendency of the judicature, the Telegraph adds, has always been to construe narrowly and jealously all pretensions in derogation of the common right of English subjects to sell and buy without the interference of mere bystanders. That right, except so far as it was taken away by special laws, extended to every kind of saleable commodity, including labour ; the principle being applied indifferently in checking contracts of workmen to raise wages and of capitalists to depress them. THE ENITED STATES. It is observed by the Dail y New..., that of late President Johnson has contrived to make it unmistakeably clear that those who had put the worst construction on his motives had moat wisely interpreted them. It is well known that it is due to his encouragement that Southern legislatures have so contemptuously rejected the proposed constitu tional amendment. In withdrawing some provisions of the Civil Rights Bill he has practically permitted the legislation of Congress to be nullified by the hostile legislation of the excluded states, and it is generally believed that he contemplates further action against Congress in this direction. A case is in prepare- Lion which will submit to the decision of the Supreme Court, which is to a great extent a political body, the question as to the legal status of Alabama, and therefore of the other excluded states. Mr. Johnson hopes that the Supreme Court will sustain him on this appeal by decid ing that all the states are in the union, and have the rights of states. The effect of such a decision would be to nullify the whole of the recent legislation of Congress. and to justify Mr. Johnson's description of it as a " Con gress of only part of the states." What step be would take to enforce the decision of the Supreme Court it is impossible to say. Meanwhile, whether it may be need ful to remove him or not, the great interests of freedom are in the bands and are involved in the action of Con gress, and Congress is quite secure in the iocressing sym pathy of an instructed and liberty-loving people. UN Court. OSBORNE, JAM. 17. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, WPM ponied by Princess Louise and Prince Arthur, and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athol. Princess Louise and Prince Arthur skated in the grounds this morning, her royal highness being attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart. Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Prussia went out walking. The Duke of Buckingham arrived at Osborne yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. Sir Thomas and the Hon. Lady Biddulph had the honour of being invited. The Duke of Buckingham left for London to-day. Mr. G. D. Engleheal t has also left. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Ho. nourable Privy Council sat yesterday, at Whitehall, on the subject of quarantine. The lords present were the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, the Right Hon. E Hammond, and the Right Hon. H. Waddington. Mr. Harrison attended the committee. A Committee of the Lords 'of her Majesty's Most Ho- nourable Privy Council sat on Wednesday at Whitehall, on matters relating to the cattle plague. The lords pre sent were the Lord President and the Right Hon. H. Corry. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams at tended the committee. A deputation, consisting of the Hon. C. W. G. Howard, M.P., Mr.W. N. Hodgson, M.P., and Mr. Edmund Potter, had an interview with the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, at the office of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall, yesterday. Yesterday the wedding of the Earl of Craven to Miss Barrington, daughter of the Hon. George Barrington, ALP. for Eye, was solemnised in Shrivenham Church, Berkshire. The service, which was a choral one, was per formed by the Lord Bishop of Oxford, assisted by the Rev. G. W. Murray, vicar of Shrivenham. The bride was attended by five bridesmaids, and was dressed in white corded silk, trimmed with Brussels lace. She wore a Brussels veil and a wreath of orange blossoms. The bridegroom is the third earl, who succeeded to the title on the 2iith of August last. He was born in 1841. On Wednesday night a fancy dress ball, given on a scale of unusual splendour, took place at East hampstead Park, the seat of the Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire. Invitations were sent to the principal families in Berkshire and the neighbouring counties, and although there was a heavy snow storm throughout the evening the arrivals at the mansion numbered 300. Some of the costumes worn were copied from those fashionable several centuries ago, and the dresses of =ay foreign countries were observable ; while the gay uniforms of the British army were very conspicuous, there being a nume rous attendance of officers from Aldershot camp. _ _ The Hon. Mrs. Poulett Somerset is progressing favourably from the effects of the accident she met With by a fall from her horse at Melton on Friday last. _ Lady Constance Stanley gave birth yesterday to a son, at 20, Lowndea-square. Yesterday, at No.l, Hill-street, Berkeley-square, the wife of Major-General SiziHenry Rawlineon, gays birth to a ion. The Treasurership of the Household, which Lord Burghley will vacate on succeeding to the peerage, will, it is rumoured, be offered by the Bari of Derby to a member of the Adullamite section—viz., Major the Hon. Augustus Anson, V.C., one of the members for Lichfield. A correspondent of a contemporary asks if Sir John Rolt, the Attorney-General, is the same person as Mr. John Rolt, Q.C., who in 1847 contested the borough of Stamford on the liberal aide against the nominees of the Marquis of Exeter ; and if so, whether the piece of plate given him by the liberals of Stamford in gratitude for his effort to vindicate their electoral freedom is produced at dinners given by the Attorney-General to his supporters amongst the conservative squirearchy of West Gloucester. A dinner under the auspices of the Bradford Branch of the Reform League took place last night in St. George's Hall, and subsequently • public meeting was held at the same plats. Mr. A. fllingworth presided, and • series of resolutions in favour of manhood suffrage,urging the necessity of unity of action, and thank ing the leaders of the reform party for their labour, were adopted. The second resolution was supported by Mr. Goklwin Smith, who made • speech in favour of a wide ex tension of the franchise. The meeting was well attended, and the resolutions were carried unanimously. Mr. W. H. Le Feuvre, C.E., F.G.i., F.R.G.S., the President of the Society of Engineers, will deliver his inaugural address on Monday evening, the 21st instant, at Exeter-hall. The Star understands that there is no intention on the part of the authorities to try Lieutenant] Brand by court-martial, so that " official displeasure will assume the by no means unsubstantial form of retirement from active service on a pension of 12.11. a year." The first instalment of 5,000 of the converted Seller breech-loading rifles, for naval service, has arrived at the armoury, Chatham, from the Royal Small Arms Factory, for issue to the ships in commission. About 20,000 stands of the Enfield rifles for land service are undergoing the process of conversion to breech-loaders on the Snider principle, the first supply of which will shortly be shipped for issue to the troops at Ch a th am . . _ The following appears in the obituary announce ments advertised in the Times :—" On Sunday, the 6th inst , at his residence, Canonbury-park, Islington, Mr. B. W. Hughes, in his 73rd ye►r ; and, on Wednesday, the 9th inst., Maria, for 49 years hts beloved and affectionate wife, in her 79th year. Interred together in the (*Wombs at Highgate Cemetery, on the 16th inst.^ The Exeter Flying Post says that some curious remaios of the ancient inhabitants of Dartmoor. in Devon shire, have just been discovered there, consisting of hut and sacred circles, &c. Near the river Yealm are the re mains of an aboriginal village, which consisted of nearly 50 huts. Along the banks of the river there is evidence that the ground has been worked for tin. These disco veries have been made by Mr. Kelly, of Yealmpton. Severe frost continues at Dublin, and the snow is deep in the streets. Forty persons were brought up by the police yesterday morning for snowballing. There is great distress among the poor. SPAIN. MADRID, Jug. 17. The Governors of Seville, Valencia, Valladolid, and other capitals of provinces, have arrived in this city. THE WAR IN THE BRAZILS. LISBON, JAN. 15. Acoounta received here from Brazilian sources assert that great discontent exists in the army of Lopez, and that the allied army, greatly inspirited by the presence of Marshal Caxiss, will reassume the offensive. (Ey Telegraph from Lisboa.) RIO DE JANEIRO, DEC. 25. Shipments of coffee during the fortnight, 52,401, including 20,000 for the Channel, 11,437 for the North of Europe, 3,324 for the Mediterranean, and 880 for the Baltic. Sales, 54,688 bags ; stock, 90,000 ; freight, 455. BAHIA, DEC. 29. Exchange on London, 24i to 241. Sugar, white, 2.200 to 2.000 r. Cotton, 8.500 to 12.500. PERNAMBUCO, JAN. 1. Exchange on London, 24f. Sugar, white, 4.300 to 4.400. Cotton, 15,300 bags. The Oneida arrived here on the 28th December. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. Is. Tho Peninsular and Oriental Company's steame r Delta, with the above mails, pawed the Needles at 11.35 a.m. to-day. WRECKS ON THE NORFOLK COAST. CAISTOB, GREAT YARMOUTH, JAN. 17. During very stonily winds with snow storms yesterday afternoon (states the Rev. G. W. Steward) a vessel was observed coming up Hemsley Hole with colours of distress in the rigging. She was making for the shore at Scratby, but was signalled to keep away, and to take the land at Caistor, which was the only place where it was practicable for her to come ashore. The Birmingham No. 2 lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution, stationed at Candor, was then got ready. The ship as she neared the land appe..red to have sprung a leak, as the crew were observed pumping. She came ashore nearly opposite this place in the midst of a moat terrific sea, and the lifeboat was at once launched, and, w,tL tLe assistance of a large number of persona on the beach, she was hauled off in spite of the terrible wind and weather, and the ship wrecked orew of five men were rescued from their perilous position by the lifeboat in • comparatively short time. The sea was breaking 20 feet high alongside the vessel. The imasbguard had fired two rockets with the view of effecting • communication with the ship, but had missed her. She was the schooner Clyde, of Yarmouth, and was bound to that port from the North with • cargo of coals, and she will most likely become a total wreck.. The weather was ter rible. This morning a coastguardman arrived from Yarmouth with a message to the effect that a large ship was lying at anchor in the breakers, off the South Danes, requiring immediate assistance, and asking that the Caistor lifeboat might he at once taken to her aid. The coastguard had fired several rockets, which had failed to reach the vessel. It was blowing a very heavy gale of wind at the time with thick squalls of snow. The beachmen at once mustered, and with the assistance of the Scratby men, who had come over to Caistor at daylight, the lifeboat was launched after very hard work, and then proceeded in the direction of the stranded vessel. Meantime it appeared that the Yarmouth surf lifeboat, the Duff, which also belongs to the National Lifeboat Institution, had gone out to the ship, and with the assistance of • steam tug had got her clear of the beach, and had safely taken her into Yarmouth Harbour. After going through the breakers of the Inner Barber Sand on her way, the Calder lifeboat, on reaching Yarmouth, saw that the ship was in tow of a steam tug, and therefore returned to windward in the midst of the heavy gale and snowstorm. Mr. Matthew Butcher also reports that the Yarmouth large lifeboat, The Brave Robert Shedden, of the National Institution, was also launched yesterday to • vessel on the Seratby Sand, but it proved to he a wreck, with all the crew lost. On returning she fell in with a vessel in distress that had lost her mainmast, and was happily successful in taking her into Lowestoft Harbour. An American telegraph company is about to establish a telegraphic communication between Canton and Pekin, and the Russian government will establish • telegraphic communication between Pekin and Irtuak, in Siberia, and the mouth of the Amoor river in connexion with the telegraph line between America and Russia. Some idea of the importance of the line between Canton and Pekin may be gathered from the population of some of the places it will serve. The population of Canton is 1,000,000, of Hong-Kong 200,000, of Amoy 210,000, of Foochow 1,200,000, of Ningpo 300,000, of Shanghai 2,000,000, of Nankin 400,000, and of Pekin 2,000,000. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings is Hansa.—(Before the Lori Chief Baron and Barons Channel! and Pigott.) CHURCHWARDRNR OP ROCNFoRIi r. BROWN. This was an action against the defendant Henry Brown, for interfering with a pump in the town of Rockford, in Essex, which was under the control of the churchwardens. He had used the pump, and withdrawn water from a certain brook or stream on the bank of which it stood. The action had resulted in an injunction restraining him from resorting to the pump, and having disobeyed the injunction, Mr. Lumley Smith, on behalf of the churchwardens, now moved for an attachment against the defendant. The court granted a rule nisi. COURT FOR DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSM. (Before the Judge-Ordinary, Mr. Justice Willes, and Mr. Justice Blackburn.) MARCH r. MARCH AND PALUMBO.-(BRAUMONT AND BEAUMONT INTERVENING.) This was an appeal on the part of the respondent, Mrs. March, against an order respecting the custody of her child ; but Mr. Searle, intimating that an application was about to be made to the Judge• Ordinary upon new evi dence to vary his order, submitted to have the appeal dismissed. Mr. Hymen, on behalf of the petitioner, moved that the respondent and the interveners (Mr. Wentworth Beau mont and Mr. Somerset Beaumont, the uncles of the child) be condemned in the costs. The court made an order accordingly. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) GPILDHALL. 8AI) THF:rTsBY BOYS. Henry Hooper, anenvaid boy , and Ceorge Scott, 14, also an errand boy, were placed at the bar on remand before Alderman Lusk, charged, the former with stealing two gross of glace braid, one and a half dozen of fancy braid, and some buckles, the property of his master, and the latter with receiving the same, well knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. Arthur Shippy, a warehouseman, at 3, Wood-street, said that Hooper was in his employ as an errand boy, and Scott had been in the same capacity for about five weeks, but had been discharged about two months ago. He identified the goods produced as his property, and said he was indebted for the discovery of the thefts to the sister of Hooper, who, upon seeing some goods in her brother's possession which she knew must belong to witness, at once brought them, and led to the detection of the two boys. . . Louisa Ma' ylis said Hooper was her brother, and lived with her. On the evening of Tuesday week she went to Mr. Shippy's warehouse about half-past 6 o'clock, and saw Scott wal k ing up and down outside. He asked her to buy a buckle, but she refused, saying she did not want one. Her brother came out about 10 minutes afterwards with two parcels in his hand to deliver. He also had a third parcel which he took from under his coat and gave to Scott. Witness went up and took it away from Scott and gave information to Mr. Shippy the next morning. Potts, 135, said the boys were very respectably connected, and their friends bore an irreproachable cha racter. Scott'. father said he was ► watchmaker, and worked for some of the first houses in London. He had eleven children, and this was the only one he had let go out in the world to earn his own living. He believed the boy was now truly penitent, and would never do so again. Mr. Shippy appealed to the Alderman to be as merciful as he could with them. Alderman Lusk said if the father of Scott and the slater of Hooper would take care of the prisoners when they came out, he would treat the charge aa one of unlawful poorssion instead of one of theft. The promise having been given, they were sentenced to one month's hard labour e►ch. MARLBOROUGH STREET. AN OMNIBUR THIEF. Catherine Skinner, a well-dressed middle-aged woman, who gave a false address, was charged before Mr. Knox with picking the pocket of a young woman, named Char lotte Hoole, a servant, while in an omnibus in Oxford street. Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared for the prisoner. The presecutrix, who is in service at No. 45, Gloucester-square, Paddington, stated that she got into an omnibus in Oxford-street, nearly oppo site the Pantheon, and • few minutes after she felt her pocket jerk, and on putting her hand into it she found that it had been out, and that her purse was gone. The prisoner, who sat next to her, was about to get out. She (prosecutrix) sahl that her pocket had been cut. The prisoner abused her, and ealled her • wicked woman. She told the conductor, and her purse, which contained about four shillings in different coin, was picked up in the omnibus. In answer to Mr. Knox, the prosecutris said the prisoner sat on her right side, the side on which she had her pocket. Mr. Frederick Wirtz, of 92, Norfolk-terrace, stated that he prevented the prisoner leaving the omnibus. At the same time another woman who was with the prisoner said., " You had better be careful." He afterwards saw the purse and money on the floor of the omnibus. He went and fetched a constable, and saw the prisoner, when the constable arrived, swallow something, notwithstanding the constable tried to prevent her doing so. In answer to Mr. Lewis, the witness stated that when the prosecutrix spoke about her lose, the prisoner took money out of her pocket, and, after remarking that she had money as well as the prosecutrix, dropped some of it. Charles limmerson, the conductor, said that the prisoner wished to leave the omnibus, but he prevented her, stating that he would allow no one to do so till a constable ar rived. The purse was picked up at the prisoner's feet, and the constable picked up the money. He (witness) also found a knife at the bottom of the omnibus, near where the prisoner sat. M'Cormack, 180 D, proved seeing the prisoner put some thing in her mouth and swallow it before be could prevent her. Prisoner threw some money on the floor of the omni bus, saying she had plenty of money. He picked up the pun* empty on the floor between where the prosecutrix and prisoner had been sitting. The prisoner gave a false address. Sergeant litsveety, N division, said the prisoner bad been twice convicted. Mr. Knoxoommitted her for trial. BARNED'S BANK. IMPORTANT CHANCERY PROCEEDINGS. (THIS DAY.) To-day an application was made to Mr. Church, the chief clerk in Chancery. of an important character in this matter, namely, to remove Major Henry Jervis and other shareholders on the list, and to substitute the Con tract Corporation, whom, it was alleged, were the actual contributories, and Major Jervis and others in the same category had been the nominees. The aunt involved in the question exceeded 100,000/. Messrs. Edwards, for Major Jervis and the other representa. ive alleged contributories who wished to raise the point, ap plied on the present occasion that a day might be fixed to go into court and get a decision. Sir Roundell Palmer and nearly all the bar of the Rolls Court were engaged in the case. Messrs. Linklater appeared on the part of the Contract Corporation, and admitted that it was a question of considerable importance. The Chief Clerk said the application was to substitute the Contract Cor poration for Major Jervis and others on the ground that they merely represented that body. He wished to know whether the official liquidators were willing to close the evidence as given. Mr. Handson (Freshfield and Newman) said he was not pre. pared to answer the question. There was so much pre judice out of doors in the case that he moat consult counsel. The chief clerk smiled at the term "prejudice," and thought the question was one which might go before the judge, as the party applying was willing to take the case on the evidence now given. He would, however, adjourn the matter till Wednesday, when it would be settled. The point was certainly an important one. A Court of Common Council was held pester. day at Guildhall, at which the Loan Ktrott presided. This was the first court since the annual elections on St. Thomas's Day, and several new members took the usual oath proscribed for such occasions. An action for slander has, it is said, been com menced by Mr. De la Poer against Major Wombwell, for calling him a Fenian in the hotel at Dun au during the election. The damages are laid at 5,000/. THE DESTRUCTION Or CROYDO): CHURcH,—A vestry meeting was held at the Town-ball, Croydon. yes tseurdb:riY'pwtihonensihtowurdre*beoelvnedteriTtianinitirufoslrtyhtaittha, voluntary d un t tary hat the amount to be so raised, together with the sum of 9,200/. which bad been received by the churchwardens from the insurance offices, should be applied to the resto ration of the church. The vic►r, on the part of himself, his father, and family, began the subscription with 5001., followed in the same amount by Mr. Heath and Mr. Lewis Loyd. Upwards of 6,0001. was raised at the meeting, to wards which several handsome donations were made by nonconformists, including one of 1001. by Mr. Sargood. The greatest good feeling was manifested by the most numerous meeting ever held in the building. AN UNLUCKY FARMEIL—A few weeks ago Mr. Kirby, nephew of Mr. Kirby. farmer, Welham, Mahon, was run down by a Math-Eastern train end narrowly escaped being killed. He had only just recovered from the injuries then received, and again got to attend to business. On Wednesday his arm became entangled in some of the farm machinery, and was so injured that amputation was necessary. LATEST FROM REGENT S•PARK.—(TRI.s Up to one o'clock this day eighteen names ir t given of persons who are still missing, tpe my portion of whom were seen on the ice when it Moa t . ' " The mother of the Bluemoat boy is dangs rotis i - 7 Eight months ago abs lest a fine boy, who was dr oned j a canal. One body recovered from the water is mid to be 11 looking lad named Frank Olanfield, aged IT, th, of a butcher, at IS, Francia-street, Tottenham-cQum r He was found in a place where the water is not more four feet deep. A sever watch in his pocket had g m/ at 4.25. Another body just brought to the dead-house is th at James Jobson, :15, a painter, living at 30, Freeling. 4 " Tottenbam-court-road. The following persons are believed to be still culi.m t4 the ice :—Fredk. Kaye'. $, of 2, Harland-road,Kuip4 . Mr. Box, gentleman, of 96, Upper Ebury-street, Benjamin Isaacs, 22, of 24, Francis-street, Tottesik: court-toad; John Ilford, 21, of Clatemd, street, Euston-square ; George Maker, marin er , e 15, Clarence-street, Waterloo-town, Mile-end , Anderson, of 20, Ring's-place, Commercial-road ; 4. 6 rick Powell, of 21, Stanley-buildings, St. Nom Charles Masking, 11, of 31, Gloucester-street, t well ; and (supposed) the Marquis de Boissy, of H. ( . 4: lotte-street, Fitzroy-square. There were comparatively very few spectator is park this morning. LATER. HALF-eArr Two o•CLg c. The following bodies have been just recovered • .William Robertson, aged 40, 124, Stanhope d n , Regent's-park. . Samuel 011ey, wood turner, aged 20, 98, Boleuver.itw THE WEATHER.-(THIS DA Y.l TRAINS STOPPED ON THE KENTISH Co .T . STOPPAGE OF TELEGRAPHIC COMMYNIC: TION. Snow fell in the metropolis this mount and with the glass at 2 degrees below tree soon because perfectly hardened on the pavement, • dangerous for pedestrian'. The effects of the frost are too apparent in the streets. Here a gang are met ea a board on which is read " Water-side men out work," and there is a group of stalwart singing the words " Poor working men, got no to do." The works at Blackfriars-bridge have been atom during the week, and also the works at the They Embankment and other large undertakings. 1 - r] little navigation can be effected on the river. The traffic to Dover was resumed last nige I on the South-Eastern Railway, but no boats han arrived from Calais since Tuesday, owing to tiv! heavy fall of snow in France having blocked up tigl lines there. The traffic between Canterbury snl Ramsgate on the South Eastern is entirely suspended account of the snow ; and on the same line yesterday Mt snow was lying nearly six feet deep between the Saltwed tunnel and Shorneliffe. The trains from Dover mind safely, however, at Cannon-street this morning, the* a little behind time. The snow on the Kenna coast has been very heavy, and the passage from Fare sham to Ramsgate on the London, Chatham. and Dover line is completely blocked. The company Lae, however, obtained the sanction of the Wu office to allow all available men from the press at Chatham to assist in removing the snow. A train with left Ludgate-hill on Wednesday night now lies buried tn the snow between Bekesbourne and Adishain ; and luggage train, consisting of the engine anti forty-te trucks, is in the name predicament on the Raman!. branch. The telegraph wires between Faversham, Hers Bay, Margate, Broadstairs, and Ramsgate are broke down and all communications stopped. THE CONTINENTAL .MAILS. We have received no letter from our Paris cone. spondeut for the last two days. In fact the only poml 11thied which have come to hand from any part of the Com ncnt during that time is a solitary copy of the ladle , dame Befge of Brumes which reached us shortly betel going to press. THE CHARGE OP CHILD MURDER ACAINST I YOUNG WOMAN IN THE CITY. INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) This forenoon Mr. John Humphreys, the %a dlesex Coroner, resumed, at the Greer:Gate Tavern.la road, the inquiry respecting the death of the illegititar: male child of a young woman named Rose Fruen. The accused, Rose Fruen, was brought up before th court in the custody of Inspector 31askell, of the division. She is a young woman of about 18 years of q and during the reading of the depositions she was secet modated with a seat. She appeared to be very ill, emit feel her position acutely. When the Coroner had concluded reading the deposing. of Miss Frome, he asked the accused if she desired to as that witness any question. She remained silent, and Mr. Webb, on behalf of some friends interested in the case, said—My advice to you is to leave it as it is. The evidence of Dr. Wallford was then rend over to him, and he was asked to state the cause of death, sad he said—l am afraid, air, strangulation. Mr. Webb—Will you undertake to swear that the calico was placed round the child's neck before or after death. Dr. Wallford—l cannot. Police-oonstable John Wisbart, 122 said that a j consequence of information he had received be went to the new residence of Miss Frome, in the . Goswell-road. He found a black box in one of the MOW. In it he discovered the body of a male child. It ms wrapped in a blanket. There was nothing pressing 05 tie child. He also found a portion of a baby's frock is the box. That was all the clothing that he had foun,L A juror said that it had not been proved that the chili found in the box was that of Rose Fruen's. The Coroner said that he must leave that question te the jury. It had not been proved that Rove Pram hal been delivered of • child, but notwithstanding that fE the case was clear. The jury after • consultation returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against Rose Fruen, for with radio aforethought destroying the life of the deceased oak chiliL" The Coroner then issued his warrant for the cominitni of the accused to Newgate, there to await her trial at at ensuing sessions of the Central 1 'riminal Court. The accused was removed in the custody of the police. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of the Right Hon. William, Earl Craven, of Combs Abbey, Warwickshire ; Aandown 04 Hanistead Park, Berks ; and of Charleostreet, Berkelev square, was proved in London, on the 4th inst., by Right Hon. James Walter, Earl of Verulam,and the Hr. Robert Grimaton, the joint executors. The persoco:n was sworn under 180,0001. His lordship died Auc. 1866, at Scarborough, at the age of 57, having executell l will 1865, and a codicil April 2.1, 11(4)6. His 10nh.L , 7 appoints his wife, Countess Craven, guardian of his el' &en who are in their minority ; and bequeaths to be ladyship all the furniture, horses, carriages, and the 1 41 which was hie late mother's, and leaves her ladysbi7. legacy of 6,0001. and an annuity of 1,100/. To 13 daughter Lady Emily Georgina Craven he leaves of 10,0001., and an annuity of 6001. (her sisters, hi , :" 01 " ship states, being already well provided for). T. , b 3 son, the Hon. Osbert William Craven, 40,1)10/. aa d settlement. To Cecil Brook ltootbby, Esq., he annuity of 200/. The residue of his property. re.. l personal, he leaves to his son, the present Earl of Croft absolutely.—The will of William Fisher.llobb , . E-b formerly of Marks Hall, Essex, and late of Boated in the same county, was proved in Loudon, on the . 4 1 ult., by John Thomas Loy Helium, Esq., of mngford, Essex, and Henry Trethewy. ' 4 Silsoe, Beds, the executors and trustees. 1 111 personalty was sworn under IS.lxs)(. A n p.ngst the bequests are the following:-10tH. to Henry 11..11 Paw. Esq., secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society ; " T. B. Gibbs, Esq., secretary of the sinitlitall club ; Itoilieu de la Trebonnais, of Bickley Palk, Rent. any twr tiou of his agricultural library he may choose to wlcet : to the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution, of winch he was chairman, 500/.; to the Colchester 11....pital and the Essex Idiot Asylum, Colchester, lOW. h. The residue of his property, real and pet-spud. be leaves to his cousin, William Hobbs, of sellinge. hold. The late Miss Sarah Browne, of Highlolre, h.. l ft the lowing charitable bequests:- To the Itrftitth tad and Church Missionary Societies. earl, :usu. ; the 1n.h00,1 Tract, the Colonial Church and School, and the (•...n Pastoral Aid Societies, and the Society for P r onleu.si Christianity among the Jews, each :MIA ; the s.loel for Assisting Poor Pious tlergymen, Self. ; the Price Book and Homily Society, the Society for Teaching 11.4 and I)umb, London Orphan Asylum (Claptoto. 1 , r1. 1 " 1 Asylum (Wanstead), Church of the United 14. 11 .'% 1 among the Heathen, London Missionary Society). Fes. , Penitentiary (Pentonville), and the Idiot Asyh in. hill), each the sum of 501.—Illustratol bontlot MAII.B FOR NEW ZEALAND. —At the ropiest the Poet-office of New Zealand, the correspondence 10 , all parts of that colony, without distinction. " in future, be forwarded in the mail despatched from 0 0 country ou the 2nd of each nmonth, by the route of l'Anws , unless specially directed to be sent by another route. SETTL AS The held et in the e The fa "The duly atu. The aco loss of known I It is pro for the b per new carried f an ineret to proviL sure on 1 Peet Ye nation of bank wit and Co., ganuitiot nation of impossibl one of y vide the liability the arnah 3,200,000/ would hol stanoes, amalgams Kii come to tl The CH had baen In all the the adr debtor ha what wou lose ariiin but the di In reply The et able wan present in would be of the non In reply • bill intn needed in The CH, natter wl Mr. 61i ral bill ha ing for iti nominal a pa rt( the pa After ea were adop of 3s. 341 iwge term Yester others wail the propor dent Relief should be is about 2 in favour trustees n viding reli There is al Relief Fun might app meeting de eliffe, and Hartley eu definitely c MR. T. evening 1.1 in the Pul eon) pre.. Mr. Putter, before present in the corner tinguished drove thrr messed sucl the lie have been Mr. John present on would pre judge with and then i Or not. AI Mr. Potter and was BANQI has writte rag.), Ida' leneytoae the :4(lth i be given Rooms, So fle4 sever vernor-Ger b orough, tl and tai ration of i sairo. and Preheat. - - --- REPon.• evening the held that t own i rthenoe, were Mr. Jvnee, Mr il h s wl3, 141 0 84 ifferltE atio nn i EVoN 1 ties terms fifth and I ;borrow, b h•h area 1 I At a it was r 2d. in tl given m there in will ran LOND(