The Express. — London, England, 1861-11-06 00:00:00

If WILWATIII, 47C 4WD= =DOZ. Tres DAT —Mamba 7m......Warasr" 431. IJ-stazikw —nursing, 4. U...... Mums; bk. Sues. LONDON, IVEDNESDAY, NOV. 6. TO OUR READIR& SPOWITNO INTELIJOENCE. A late edition of the Express is published every evening during the racing season, containing the results of the day's raiv4. Willi the commencement of the present legal year the Divorce Court celebrates its third anni versary. Its brief existence has certainly not been spent in inactivity. Hundreds of marriages have been dissolved, many thousand decrees affecting the rights of married persons have been made, and each successive session has witnessed a new act for enlarging or explaining its powers. Yet, strange to say, it still finds unsettled, or, rather, involved in a yearly increasing obscurity, the fundamental question, Who are entitled to sue in it ! Steady-going English coupbis, joined at tho altar of their own parish churches, never removing out of view of thei• own village elms, are almost the only parties who are entitled to resort with confidence to the new juris diction, which perhaps they are the least likely to desire to invoke. But the roving tem peraments to whom a permanent place of abode seems as intolerable as a prison, the children whoa the mother land yearly casts forth to seek their fortunes in thit uttermost parts of the earth, the , mixed races which at home fall under the sway of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, find their approach to the mournful remedies of the Divorce Court barged by the most perplexing doubts. The statute, in wide and general terms, threw open its doors to "any husband" and " any wife." But the ingenuity of lawyers has discovered that these words cannot be read in their natural sense, so as to admit Scotsmen, Irishmen, or foreigners to its benefits. This proposition, that none but an ' Englishman is meant by tho words " any " man," which to the non-legal mind seems the most startling, they account the clearest. But granting them this point, there arise the fresh questions, What is an Englishman' Is a Colonist an Englishman I Is an East Indian officer or merchant an Englishman 1 How long does it take to make a Scot or an Irishman into an English. And is the wife of an Englishman always an Englishwoman 1 Or if she is not necessarily an Englishwoman, what train of circumstances is re iquiaite to make her either English or not English? Each of these questions—and there might be put dozens like them—is the brief statement of legal difficulties which have misen in actual cases, to Impede redress when hearts were breaking and family peace was awaiting the cautery of legal remedies, scattered plentifully through the reports. They have recently been collected for our conside ration in the minutes of evidence taken before a Committee of the House of Lords appointed last Session, and certainly not an hour too soor, to Inquire into the subject_ The death of the late LORD CHANCELLOR appears to have brought the labours of the Committee to a conclusion for the session, and, reserving their re port, they have It the seentinie published the evidence of three witnesses examincd before them, the Quire's ADVOCATE, Dr. PIIILLIMORE, and Mr. Macomix, Q.C. Them learned gentlemen, no doubt thoroughly representing the legal mind, well illustrate the dubiety of the existing law. Mr. MAOCKERN hints that several of the decisions of the Divorce Court are irreconcileable with each other ; the Qrste's ADVOCATE affii-ras that he is convinced that every one of the decisions is unim peachable ; Dr. PHILLIMORE says that the grounds upon which the Court went in one of them had no more to do with the case than the colour of the plaintiffs hair ; and the Law Lords complete the confusion by reminding the witnesses that the decisions in question are still open to appeal, and may just possibly be reversed on appeal. In such a conflict we ilia indeed welcome any final decision, for no law that it can possibly establish can be worse than the uncertainty of law that at present reigns. But though wheel the time comes the House of Peers will of course relieve us from any hesitation se to what the law may be, yet we may bo allowed to hope that if it shell establish doctrines which will compel every suitor to prove that he is an Englishman, the Legislature will step In to prevent the exaction of so absurd and cruel a preliminary. For it is the belief that such is the existing law that has led to the perpetually re. carting questions to which we have adverted, and the recent decisions of Sir Casiewsu. Cartswam. which are under discussion are those in which he had begun to intimate that the doctrine was too strained, harsh, and useless to be really mound in law. He had in elms case given relief to a wife whose husband had abandoned her, settled In America, and committed bigamy there; ;n soother case be granted a similar remedy, although the husband was by birth an Irishman ; in a third case he permitted a Scotsman, long resident in Australia, and only& temporary visitor in England, to sue in his court. These cases may be, as Mr. Mailgram suggests, irreconcileable with Naas at his earlier judgments, but we must think that in the eyes of plain common sense they may defy a great deal of sutborite. %lake% er may be the way in which the House of Lords shall dept with them, they seem to us to 'Woody the correct prin ciples on which the Legislature should act. Nor is there any impeds-nent to this counts in the fact, that our somewhat sensitive neighbours in North Britain have a court of their own, to which they naturally desire that all born Scotsmen should refer their domestic troubles. It is nay too much to say, that in these days of incasement wandering every man should be compelled to return TILE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1861. 1:01). 4111711 A rio YORE EXTICACT a CALVES' FEET, rue lagralids d Cannery 1.41 is ra, and 4, m. keta. . 11 ttr • 31A-•CrAt7"2l'. A I.ll p l LE morn. t , ,eott ,W, QBOOND- HA ND PIANOFORTES. C/L4l/1111, 1:141.L. sad al Hut, Itiv. a I axe motional of aavarol.h....l I.; aankars. at greatly ra41.....11www..-2.1. It.vent.atrart. ght •xlre. 10_ ODIIIIMPONI?IlT. 16wdhillieale 1014111 " Lon lon rvezdog Caper, wad's, 21 Ur slice, 10, liouvorlo-Aroot, ay 1 o aotock oa She am of males/Iva. HA Yll At[ 6T. Tnis EVCSI74. /:. 11.111 if , awl A. VaretA . Mrs. e. Voltam awl MIA Urairmle. —L/N I. AII. 11 E $1111.1.1:11;• I:oark•4Ao. —.Ur/ i. 11111 IL , T MV 1.11 t 7. ►RI SC t:, rate ET I, F. N ETT Fr. N 1:111)1 Ora ¢t In. llnan. Vniver, 11).ter. Jor.Luo. sh••rr. and Calbcsi. ML..rs C. Ltarrc.i. autl LITY.I* M. Ti rVIENIVI. c.N. • • I,ve against the Weeld. N. La 5t.bh...14 eihi. hTabaT • ths. &losers, a • rittuu. AUN t oIIUIWUCe it J. UILITANNIA. Tim Ernlsu, TIIE TIIE TOWER. —TA,. Troupe "1 Inv. slo.l Thud.. yt—M. Lthales Wonderful rn.ro. 61,41, •• ill fr. DE% U. IN MIS. Mrn. Mt lit; NII 1,1 LEK. Mn.. m. 11..oner.—Cumneuun at hall-Wit 0. to the court of his nativity when be desires relief from a burden of dishonour. The question in such a case for Englishmen and Scotsmen alike is not where they were born, but where they can best prove the facts which have rendered thorn desirous to sever or to adjust more lightly the matrimonial chain. In both parts of the kingdom the relief sought is now administered in almost precisely the same manner, and the slight surviving differences are more in theory than in practice. Both courts should, therefore, act as auxiliaries of each other. To both it ought to be immaterial whether the suitor was born in England or in Scotland. The sole object of both ought to be to ascertain the real facts and to apply the duo remedy ; and each court ought only to send to the other those cases in which the investigation can be more thoroughly Pursued in its jurisdiction. Such mutual recogni tion would at once abate national jealousy and advance the interests of justice. The inquiries of the House of Lords can do no better service than to expose the radical confusion and practical wrong-doing to which a maintenance of national distinctions conduces, and we trust that ere next session closes, the wrangling of lawyers will have made the fact so indisputable u to silence all oppo sition to the evident remedy. LATEST INTELLICIWCE. THE MEXICAN EXPEDITION. CONVENTION OF THE ALLIES. The Mats of to-day gives the following 03 the particulars, of the convention which, as has been stated by the Mositcur, has been signed by Eng land, France, and Spain, relative to a common action in Mexico. The convention is, it is said, composed of five or six articles at the utmost. The first stipulates the common action of the three powers. The succeed ing ones regulate the mode of intervention. The three powers are to send an equal naval force. Two-thirds of the land forces are to be furnished by the Spanish army of the Antilles. The united forces will occupy Vora Cruz, and all the points of the coast which they deem advisable. This done, they will address their complaints to the constituted authorities of Mexico. If the government yields the claim, the chiefs of the expeditionary corps will submit the convention for the ratification of their governments, maintain ing the occupation until the final settlement. The occupation will take place in the name of the three powers, whatever may be the amount of the occupying force. At the commencement they will endeavour to impose a suspension of arms upon the belligerent parties in Mexico. The three powers undertake not to occupy per manently any part of the territory, and to obtain no exclusive advantage from Mexico. Tbey engage to leave Mexico entirely free to choose its own form of government. England has given up a con dition which she wished to insert in the treaty, namely, that the three nations should pledge them selves not to accept the throne of Mexico for any of the princes of their reigning families. If the monarchical form prevails, the three powers pledge themselves not to use their intervention to the profit of any prince in particular. The Patric adds to the above :—" The conven tion will bo notified to the cabinet at Wash ington, which will be invited to join the intervening powers. It will be left optional to the government of President Lincoln to send such number of ships and troops as he may deem advisable under the loss of GOO men, including General Baker, killed. The Confederate loss was unknown. The Federal troops were subsequently reinforced, and marched upon Leesburg, but on the approach of two strong columns of Confederates again retreated into Mary land. Some alarm is felt at Washington with regard to the supplies of forage, &e., which were formerly brought up the Potomac. The Pacific Telegraph line to San Francisco was completed on the 25th inst. The City of Washington passed Cape Race on the eveuing of the With inst. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT. NEW YORK, OCT. N, Evorntu. A naval expedition composed of 80 vessels, carry ing 500 guns and between 30,000 and 40,000 men, will sail from Hampton to-morrow. It is reported that Messrs. Mason and Sadden, the Confederate Commissioners to England and France, have arrived at Cardenus. The Confederate account of the engagement at New Orleans was exaggerated. The Federals sustained no loss either in ships or men. The Confederates retreated to Santa Rosa after having suffered heavy loss. General Price is reported to be still retreating. QUEENSTOWN, Nov. G. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Com pany's screw steamer Etna, from New York un the 26th ult., has arrived. She brings the United States mails and 266 passengers. Her news has been generally anticipated by the arrival of the North American at Londonderry. NEW AGRICULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON. Yesterday the ceremony of laying the foundation atom of the New Agricultural Hall, which is in future to take the place of the Baker-street Bazaar for the Christmas exhibition of the Smithfield Cattle Club, and for meetings and other purposes connected with the promotion of agricul tural improvement, took place. The locality of the new building is probably the most convenient that could well have been selected. It is in close proximity to one of the stations of the all round the town railway, which communi cafes with all the main lures of railway to the north and north-western grazing districts, and will shortly, when the projected branches now in progress MS completed, oorneauoi mte with all the lines to the east, south-east. south, south west, and west, It is also but a short remove from the new Cattle Market, and though somewhat more remote from the West-end than linker-street, it is within an easy distance of all parts of the City and the great business centres of the metropolis. The building will occupy an extensive area at the City end of the Liverpool-road, but • few hundred yards from the Angel, at Islington. Its capacity will be very much greater than that of the Baker-street Bazaar, end will contain the matt ample accommodation for the exhibit ion of cattle, sheep, hogs, agricultural implements, and roots. The building will be 110 feet long by 236 broad, and when con structed will afford more than double the accommodation of the Baker-street Bazaar. There will be an ap.ortineut 100 feet square, devoted entirely to pigs. The ordinary show room will be 384 feet long by 217 broad ; and round this room, at a height of 20 feet, will run a gallery, 36 feet wide, intended for the display of implements and roots. The main area will be divded into the great hall and side aisles. There are also to be first and second-class refresh ment rooms, cloak rooms, telegraph, police, and post-offices. Thecost of the entire structure is contracted for at 23,0001. The hood has been purchased, and the hall will be erected by a joint stock company, whose objects, establishment, and progress are fully ex killed in the speech which the chairman of directors addre sd to Lord Deniers, the Pre sident of the Smithfield Club, who, in order to mark the intimate union between the hall company and the club, consented to lay the tint stone. The very unfavourable state of the weather prevented a very numerous attendance, but there were besides the directors of the company several members of .the club, and many eminent agriculturist present. The company having assembled, Mr. JONAS WZB73, the eminent agriculturist, and chairman of the board of directors, addressed Lord Berner. as follows :—" As chairman of the Agricultural Hall Company, it is my pleasing duty to request your lordship, es Prudent of the Smithfield Club, to honour us by laying the first stone of our hall. Not quite three years have elapsed since • com mittee, including all the most active members of the Smith field Club, came to the three following conclusions :—That the Christmas show bad outgrow,: the space and accornmo. dation of the Baker-street Bazaar. That the plot of land on which we now stand was the only suitable and available site. That the club itself ought not to enter into any build ing 'peculation. This report was approved and adopted at ono of the largest meetings the club ever held. Its adoption prepared the way for the formation of the Agricultural Hall Company by • number of gentlemen, who either as breeders, or exhibitors, or salesmen of stock, or manufacturers of agricultural implements, were deeply interested in the pro. 'parity of the Smithfield Club. The company was provision ally formed in April, 1860 ; but it was not until the 17th July, 1360, that the terms of what might be called the part nership between the Smithfield Club and the Agricultural Hall Company were finally settled. The board of the company held their first meeting on the 17th October of the same year, and issued a prospectus, in which they explained their plans, and invited subscrip tions for a capital of 30,0001. Barely thirteen months have elapsed since that prospectus was laud. The capital required has been fully subscribed, sod subscribed, I am happy to say. as to by far the largest portion, by members of the Smithfield Club. The site ap proved has beau acquired and improved by additional land at a cost of several thousand pounds, With respect to the progress toward obtaining a building worthy of one of the oldest and most successful agricultural associations in the kingdom, I need not say anything: I think the bricks, timber, and iron on the ground, and the small army of labourers at work, are more eloquent witnesses of the pro gress of the undertaking than any words I could use. I will not detain you and the friends who have honoured m by their attendance this November day by a leegtbssed address. Within less than twelve months I hope to spit call you together, when this building completed will be ready to receive and conveniently accommodate a greater multitude of visitors, a larger collection of live stock and of machinery and implements than has ever yet been attempted in any country at a Christmas show. And I shall be am bled to ask—with perfect confidence of • hearty assent from all present—whether we have not redeemed our pledges both to the Smithfield Club by the extent of the accommodation. and to our shareholders for the economy of our operations." Lord Beimme replied, that as president of the Smithfield Cattle Club he felt great pleasure in accepting the ievi:sa tion to take part in the interesting ceremony, and begged to offer his congratulations to the directors and managers of the company upon the successful issue which, up to the present time, had attended their efforts. The great deve lopment of science, and the rapid improvements in the practice of agriculture, Rol the continually increasing num ber of stock, of roots, and of implements exhibited at the annual shows of the club, as well as the great interest which bad been excited in the kingdom at large by the Smithfield Cattle Club, had rendered it imperative that a larger building should be provided. He trusted that the Almighty architect of the world might bless and prosper the undertaking—{hear, hear)—and, as he saw many of the working men who were engaged in erecting the building before him, be hoped that the same interference would pre serve them from accident during their labours. He prayed further that the counsels of the directors might be so guided that they might he enabled in this, which he believed he was justfied in characterising as • national work, to assist in carrying out that which was the special object of the Smithfield Club, viz., to provide the greatest amount of food of the best quality and at the cheapest possible rate ' for the people of this country. The stone was then lowered into its place, and the noble lord performed with the ordinary formalities the masonic duties which devolved upon the task he had undertaken. In the evening the shareholders sod visitorsdined together at the Loudon Tavern in celebration of the event of the day, Mr. JONAS Wins presiding. The usual loyal and constitutional touts having been duly honoured, Lord Biasses gave " Prosperity to the Agricultural Hell Company." No one hiul felt more strongly than he bad the necessity of increasing the accommodation for the annual exhibition of the Smithfield Club, and he rejoiced that that necessity was now about to be met by the ercetiou of a building which would afford ample convenience for every claw of exhibitors, and at the same time • place of reunion for exhibitors and agriculturists generally. Be gave great credit to Mr. Giblett, to whose zeal and perseve rance they were mainly indebted for the success of the scheme. He was happy to learn that the shares in the Hall Company had been all taken up, and that two thirds of them in number, and four-fifths of the capital in amount, were held by members of the Smithfield Club. (Hear.) He was happy to see at the head of the company so distinguished an agriculturist as Mr. Jonas Webb, and when he observedin combination with that gentleman's name those of some of the most eminent farmers, stock herders, and agricultural implement makers io the kingdom, be could not doubt of its ultimate susses. In conjunction with the tout he bulged to propose the health of the chairman, Mr. Jonas Webb. Mr. Writs acknowledged the compliment ins brief speech, and concluded by proposing the health of Lord Berner; which his lordship acknowledged. Mr. GieLerr gave the "Royal Agricultural Society of England," andobserved that he believed the new hall at Islington would enable them to have an exhibition worthy of the country and of the advance which agricultural science bad made. lie proposed, in connection with the toast, the health of Mr. C. Barnett, which Mr. Barnett acknow ledged, and in doing so expressed • wish that before the opening of the Great Industrial Exhibition, in 1862, the civil war in the United States would be at an end, so the: our transatlantic brethren might take • prominent part in it, and suggested that the Smithfield Club would do well, especially in the next, which would be an exceptional year, to offer a prize for hunters. Mr. SaurnxwoßTll,!ice-cairman of the directors. gave the "Health of the Visitors," which was responded to by Mr. Stokes ; and after the viee-theiees and directors, Mr. Peck (of the firm of Stephens and Peek), the architect ; Messrs. Hill, the contractors ; Mr. Sidney, the semetary of the company ; the solicitor, and the dinner committee, had been similarly oomplimented, the company separated. BOARD OE THAD; WHITEHALL, Nov. s.—Tbe Right Hon. the Lards of she Committee of Privy Council for Trado have »calved, frau the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of • despatch from her Majesty's Consul at San Domingo, reporting that the port of Romen• will he closed to foreign and iatercolonial trade after the Ist January next. —Gazette. VISIT OF THE CHIEF SECRITART OF IRELAND TO CONERMARA.—We underetand (Rya the Prtenlati JOY rtud) that it is the intention of the Chief Secretary and Lady Emily Peel, accompanied by Sir Henry J. Brownriss, C. 8., to proceed on • tour through Connemara. After having seen as much of the natural scenes of Connemara as the pre sent ioelement weather will permit, it is the intention of Sir Robert Peel to extend his tour to the adjacent musty of Mayo doubtless with the object of observing with his own eyes the condition to which the poor fermate and in habitants of that county have been reduced by the failure of the potato emit. It is understood that the towns of Sligo and Belfast will also be honoured with • visit from Sir Robert before his Mons to Dublin. Sir Robert and Lady Peel are expected at Parttime& Castle oc Thursday, ea • vale to the Most Nob .» the Marquis of Clanricarde. Nnw PARSING= AND LUGGAGE BOATS TOR THE KERREY Swat TIATFIC.—The Birkenhead commissioners, anxious to soionunodate the daily increasing tra ffi c across the Money, and render it as useful, safe, and expeditious as that between Brooklyn sad New York, are about advert's i tog for models of passenger indiums. boats. Premiums of lOU. will be given for the best drip, and of BS& for the second best, the competition being thrown open to all the ' builders of the United Kingdom. MR. JOHN LOCKE, M.P., AND HIS coysrb TUENTS. Last night a public meeting of the elector; and non-electors of the Borough of Southwark was held at the Bridge-house Hotel, to hear from Mr. Locke, M.P., one of their representatives, an explanation of his parliamentary coutluct. Dr. CHALICE occupied the chair. There were upon the platform Mr. D. E. B. Jones, Mr. Hawkins, lir. Walker, Mr. Rogers, kc. Mr. Loom, M.P., in reviewing the events of the session, said he considered the working classes ought to be ad. witted to the franchise, for in that clew there were men as respectable, as high in morals, and as trust worthy as any peer in the realm. He would, how. ever, never allow that every man should have a vote. (Dissent.) He could not consent that every fellow who went skulking about without a local habitation, and almost without a name, should be admitted to the suffra.e. Leaving that a moot question, he would merely observe that the difficulties which that infiuitesimal measure en countered ought to show them how hard it would le to pass a larger one. Each one had his own ua.trutu, and among others the late Sir J. Graham, when., however they might differ from him in opinion, they would all admit to have been certainly one of the greatest statesmen who ever addressed the House of Commons. (Hear, bear.) He united to the highest order of iutelli e ence, great in. dustry and great honesty of puipose. Ile judged of him by the brief period of his career which had come under his own notice. lie was a man in whom he had always placed the greatest confidence, awl whose opiniou ho hal always been most happy to ask, for he was ono who never failed to give it in a free and frank manner. Another measure of public importance was the continuation of the coal and wine duties for ten years. to be expended upon the embankment of the Thames. It was for them to con sider if they would have an embankment upon the south side of the river, and upon that imitiou their views should 'be his. Of the Bankruptcy Act they bad beard usquc ad nauseam. They saw the effects of it in every day's papers, and be supposed that making • great number of persons bankrupts benefited some body. Another measure paned last session was one which he himself introduced, and which extended to wit nesses in criminal owes the same indulgence aal was enjoyed by these in civil suite, namely, that of an affirmation when they bad conscientious scruples to taking an oath. It wasa measure based upon the great principle of respecting the re ligious and conscientious opinions of every man, no matter what might be his creed. The Post-office Savings Bank Act, another measure of last session, would prove of the greatest convenience to the working classes, giving them a government security for their deposits, per. feet secrecy, and every facility. Leaving the catalogue of the measures they bad passed, he had now to call attention to one or two of those they had rejected. Chief of thee, was a bill promoted by the Metropolitan Board of Works—(hear, hear)—in which they sought to unjustly tax his constituents, and to par it by a trick. If the board could take anything in good wt,, he would remind them of the proverb honesty is the best, policy, and not to overreach others lest in the attempt to do so they themselves might go to the wall. Another b" he had succeeded in defeating was one which would have con tinued the turnpike on the Dover-road. He would now ask them to consider what were their prospects for the future. We were at this moment at peace. They were, however, told by the conservatives that a reaction was going on. Did they mean that there was • change is the opinions of the people in regard to the foreign policy of the government—that they sided with Austria, and not with Italy—that they sympathised with Russia, and not with Poland? (Hear, hear.) Did theyi wish to see Italy again dismembered among petty princee (Cheers.) If they did, they acted upon the principles of the tories, if they had any principle different from tbat of the present govern ment. Should the thrice obtain power they would sympathise with despotism. But was this great nation to take no interest in the future of other states—(bear, bear)—and where was there • man more capable that the present Prime Minister of giving effect to the high feelingsof English. men ? He had maintained the honour of the British flag, which the people would never see tarnished. It was an exultation by the tones that because of the civil war in America liberal institutions had failed, but they forgot history when they did so. They forgot that wags had been waged in the interests of families and of individuals, whereas each section of the States con sidered its own interests at stake in the quarrel. It was not for them, because they wanted cotton, to break through the law of maims, bat to hope that there are in store for that great section of the Anglo-Saxon race days of prosperity and happiness. On the motion of Mr. Walsall, seconded by Mr. Maws, the thanks and confidence of the meeting were voted to tho hon. gentleman, and the proceedings terminated. ebt Court. WINDSOR CANTLE, Nov. 5. The Royal dinner party yesterday include(' the Princess Alice, the Princess of Hohenlolie, the Prince of I lohenlohe, Lady Augusta Bruce, the Dean of Windsor and the lion. Mn.. Wellesley, and C4ptain 'loss. 11cr 3l■juty's private bau.l played after dinner in the I krawiag.n.m. 11,. nun% "GuillaumeTcll" Rusin'. 1)1°F Wanderer Fr w.• A tolantr. Sllmeetto, and 'Ti4o rilateeda No. 9 Haydn. A.1.1g10 and Allegro NI arch The Prince Conned, accompanied by the Prince of Hohen lobe, went out shooting this morning, attended by Lord Methuen, Lieut.-Colonel Kingscote, and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardiege. The Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louise rode in the Riding•house. Her Majesty's Corninisaioners for the Internatioeal Exhibition of leti2 held a meeting at their offices in the .Strand yesterday. The Finance Committee bchl a meeting at the offices of her Majesty's Commi+mosers in the Strand yesterday. It boa been intimated to her Majesty's Commissioners that Mr. H. Drummond Wolff, C.M.G., his been ap pointed commisamer to represent the interests of exhi bitor' from the lesiva liked' at the coming Exhibition, and will proceed to London for that purpose. Her Majesty's Commissioners have also received an inti mation that Turkey will be represented in the International Exhibition. Dorpatebet were gent yeeterdey from the Golonial•offlcs to the .overnurs of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and St. Heleua. Since our last, observes the Brighton Guardian., her Royal I fishmeal, the Duchess et Clusbridge, accompanied by the Princess Mary of Cambridge, and attended by Colonel Purees sod various members at their royal highnesses suite, have daily takes carries airing, extending their drives a short distance into the emery. We are happy to add that the health of the august personages continues satis factory. The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon returned to their minims, Cantle Higbelere, near Newbury. a few days since, from their we Ong tmr on the Continent. The Hun. Sydney and Mrs. Pierrepont have left Claridge's Hotel for ft. Lecioanra-os-ties. Lioatenaat-General Sir James Chatterton, Bast, sad Lady Chattertoa have arrived at their residence is Dover-street, from Yoreasa Hall, Cheshire. The gallaat darer is not I. his venal health. They will leave tows shortly foeßrightoa. Sir CuMai; Eanlley has arrived at Claridge'. Hotel from 113dwall Park, Haat& The bathing season in Hyde Park has now tenni sated. It appors, from the returns at the Reselvieg boom, that t►e somber of bathers io the &spoutlee from the onememesemeet of the year to the 3nl bet. via njes in the aiwasse and 7.16 - ,A3 is the ~whip. Of this amiable 41 wen in danger of lasing their Hese, bet were named by the *Ramie of the Ann .1 the Royal Haman Society. The weber of anointed winds was eight, of whom live was mend, and the remainder were sot disco►ered a time to be saved. It appears from a statement published in the Dobbs Deily Erprea, that the convicted cabman, John Conan, suffered two years' imprisonment for a similar offence committed about six years ago ;n the county of Kildare. He was found gAilty at the Naas amine of the forcible abduction of a young woman, with whom disap peared the rum of 601. Had this fact been known to the court at the late trial the puoiahmant would, no doubt, have been heavier, and the jury you'd have had lass hesi tation is Goefieg him gu;lty. The Rev. Phre Situdroau, Prior of the Domini can Convent at Toulon, has been elected provincial of the ceder in Francs, in place of the leer. Pen lacorda're, whose state of health has forccd him to resign that position. Te malady of Km lemordaire, which comes him intense suffering, leaves no hope of his recovery. . _ A Manuscript of Galileo and a play of Metes tasio have been disoovered is the archive. of Lucca. The. two works are shortly to be published. The late M. Scribe is said to have left a libretto which is in the hands of M. Auber, who has nearly finished the musk The title is "La FiaucCe du Rol de Garbs." The Charirari publishes a woodcut in which an old men, with a long white beard, • warm Astrecan cap, • thick wadded dress, • pair of bellows by his side, Mates on his feet, and marked " Winter," is holding back by their robes • young man and • young woman rushing forward headlong ►od representing the Hungarian question sad the Roman one. Undersunth the pi - int is written, "Old Winter stopping everythioy for the moment." - • VISIT O► TH6 GRAND Dritz CONsTANTIHE TO gaz Barnes Bommus. —At 11 o'clock yesterday morning the Grand Duke Coastantioe at Russia. accompanied by the Greed Duchess, and attended by a small suite, visital the British Musenw. The royal party were conducted through the various galleries of the buikhog by the brids of the differest dopes tratste, sad attended by Mr. Yenisei, the principal librarian, who described miuutely the arrange smuts connected with the new rwdioj•room, and the regu/stions for supplying the raiders with books of re ferees*. The royal visitors baring expressed their &dainties of the =nasal collection, and more especially of the library sod reeding.recm, took their departure at 2 o'clock. CAELINLE Etscrlos. —The Speaker of the House CA Commons gives notice in yesterday's Gazette that he will issue his warrant for a new writ for the election of a mem ber for Carlisle in the room of the late Sir James Graham at the god of 14 days. SIR J. SAM AND rte TR:RANT/Y.-0U Mon day the ishabiteota of Huddendiekl famished fa the con test which has for some time bees 1101•1 w• betimes the grorand.laadlord, flir John Wm. Sandra, Bart„ wed the teeent-right occupiers on his estate, were supplied with • subject UT ouveriation and speculation. The text of the tetra talkers being that of • •• Dottie to quit." which had been mind apes numbers of their neighbours during the fewenees, by ma emissary of the baroeet of Byrom HaD. We have own several of the notion bat observed so reaps av the justification of the step taken—nothing =bout the rests not baviog bean paid ; ao opest respire* the resiiiiies in which the property was nor yet any domed hr • higher rental—possession of the property is emoted, and that oily is demeadsd. The following is the bean of the paper, omitting mese of weans, description of property, its stnatioa, and the date ea whisk the 'many is to be quitted :—" I. the under rlie Jahn Maim Ramiro, Baroset, do here e 'L yon notate end moire you to quit sad deliver up t by o unquiet and pose- elde pomersion of the and here ditament" with the 041111111AMAins, situate mod being is Huddersfield. In the essay a York, which you sow bold and rest of me, es the day of Dow sext ensuing. providing jef Mang eagiselly comneeneed at that time ; or eeeerww as or yam such *am dal or time, or several days es times es tic esr el your tenamy thanks shall ea, sent after the expi ration of half- year teem she swam a this safes ; • do hereby demand tamest sessedlisly. —Dated this 2nd day of teve sig. : lBll bm, 11111 L —Jam WILLIAM RAramor.—Te Tic e=ssibig is Ingesded es eawhich is Maly to Met the is &pegs by *deg it in a position while will admit of ite diewasioe in a wart of law, and la viewed by seam as a salsas token cf the approaching geld a a state of things which has been the cense of mach uneseinees to tboite who owe the erectiow, of their property on Sir Jokes estate to their own provident Mercury. POLAND. A letter from Warsaw of the 2nd, in the Cis, says : " Numerous patrols traverse the city, arresting passers-by and entering the houses at night. Yesterday 118 people, men and women, were arrested without cause and taken to the Hotel de Vine. In the provinces, the violence of the soldiers is more terrible than ever. At Lencyca the troops entered the church and arrested a great number of the faithful. Several persona were wounded, the church was profaned, and conse quently a seal has been put on its doors. The Rabbis Jastrow and Kramszbyk have been imprisoned. The clergy of all religions are, in fact, represented at the citadel." (utrrnes Trucamis.) FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND. PARIS, Nov. 6. Ihe Menikur, in its bulletin of to-day, says : "The foreign press having made numerous oqm meats on the subject of the appearance of a few French gendarmes and soldiers in the village of Cressonieres, belonging to the Valley of Dappes, it is of importance to reduce the facts to their real value. We have as yet no exact information with regard to the incident, but we are able to affirm that the government of the Emperor has never had the idea of determining by force, by means of a military occupation, the territorial question pending between France and Switzerland. Since 1815 there has existed a kind of neutralisa tion of the contested territory, against which the canton of Vaud recently made an attempt by pro ceeding to arrest some persons. Thu government of the Emperor protested against this alteration of the stabs qiw, intimating that if the gendarmes of Vaud recommenced such proceedings, we should be compelled to oppose them. The tribunal of Nyon having pronounced sentence against • Frenchman residing in this territory, we simply wished to prevent his arrest. The affair, therefore, has not the importance that some would attribute to it. We do not doubt that frank explanations with the Federal Council will reduce the affair to its real proportions, and perhaps lead to the con clusion of an arrangement destined to put an end to the conflicts which could not fail to arise from an ill-defined state of things." PRIIBBLL BERLIN, Nov. & The National Zeitung of to-day says :—" We learn that the prospects of a favourable toncluaion of a treaty of commerce between Frnnce and Prus sia have diminished to such an extent that the French commissioner will return to Paris in the course of this week. It is said that France does not appear inclined to agree to the new programme sub mitted by Prussia." RUSSIA AND POLAND. KT. PETKRABURG, Nov. 5. An imperial order of the day, dated the 2ud instant, grants Count Lambert, Governor of Poland, leave of absence to travel in foreign countries until his health shall be restored. He is replaced by General Lilders. ITALY. TURIN, Nov. 5. A royal decree will be published to-morrow con vening the Italian parliament for the 20th inst. NAPLES, Nov. 5. To-day General della Marmon) received the staff of the National Guard, and addressed them in • speech in which he maid he had reason to hope that the Bourbons would soon leave Rome. SPAIN. MADRID. Nov. 4, EIMITNO. A sham fight will take place to-morrow in honour d the Moorish ambassador. TURKEY. RAGUSA, Nov. 5. Five hundred Montenegrins, with five pieces of artillery, are at Zubzi. Their vanguard, composed of insurgents from the Herzegovina, is posted in the direction of Trebigne. They are being supplied with ammunition from Cettigne. Omir Pacha is at Mostar. SWITZERLAND. BERNE, Nov. 5. The Federal Commissioners have returned from the Valley of Dappea. They have othcially announced the violation of the neutral territory by the French troops. AMERICA. NEW TOM Ocr. 25. (Per North American, via Lowdondsrry.) At the battle which was fought near Leesburg, oa the 21st instant, between the advance column of the Federal troops under General Stone and a body of Confederates under General Evans, the former were eventually compelled to abandon the field and fall back across the Potomac, with the CANADA. iIUEBEC, Orr. 2G. Lord Monck was sworn in here yesterday all Administrator of Canada, his full powers not having arrived. Sir E. Head and family will leave for England by next Wednesday's steamer. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Oar. 26, EVENING. Exchange—Bankers' bills, Ho. Stocks steady. New York Central, 77i. Illinois, 651. Erie, 31k. Cotton firm. Breadstuffs firm, and in good de mand. Provisions quiet. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova OWN 001 PARIS, TUZBDAY EU:NINO. There is nothing new on the Swiss question. Whether the French troops are still in possession of the Valley of Dapped; is yet a matter of doubt here, so great is the care taken to suppress facts as far as possible. While some journals say that the oocupa • tion only lasted for a few hours, the Petrie (" in spired" by M. do la Guerronnihre) states that no less than five points in the valley have been and are occupied by French troops. Dr. Kern was not able to get a sight of M. Thauvenel yesterday, but he left the note of the Federal Council at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The Opinions Nationals announces that the Prince Napoleon and Princess Clothilde have gone to Compiegne, and that they w;11 remain there for a week. Ratazzi, whose stay in Paris is protracted, will have a second interview with the Emperor be fore his departure. The Bourse, after opening very heavily, became firmer towards the close, in consequence of a few, but only a few, purchases. Bente rose 15c. for cash and account, closing at 68fr. 30c. and 68fr. 35c. Mobilier rose 2fr. 50c. The Italian Loan fell 10c. The Orleans Railway fell 7fr. 50c., Northern sfr., and Southern 2fr. 50c. In the other lines there was little change. M. Fraisse, the late mayor of Florensac (Hdrault), who, as I mentioned in a letter last week, was guilty of standing against a government candidate for the municipal council, with the aggravating circumstance that, in consequence of his popularity with the constituency, he was very near being elected, is now to be prosecuted at the bar of the correctional police on a charge of " exciting citizens to hatred and contempt of each other." Vise le suffrage red! A linenlraper on the boulevard near the Porte St. Denis has resorted to a new method of drawing custom, which does credit to his ingenuity, and I am told answers very well. While his greater rivals are spending 100/. a day in advertising Eng lish goods—not always, if we may credit current repor:s, of the moat genuine character—he, with glowing patriotism, seta free-trade at defiance, and attracts a crowd round his shop by the exhibition of enormous placards proclaiming—" No English goods sold here ; all our stuffs are made of unmixed wool." The Gazette Musieale announces a Ringer, Ben hors Rosario Zapater, who will not come out yet for awhile, though she is now, when only 17 years of age, an accom p,ished mistress of her ait, with a remarkable voice. _ _ . _ At Naples the management of the Teatro San Carlo bas engaged for its winter alum Madame de Vries am " leading lady." The Entr'acte has the following :—" A dancer of Vienna, of the name of Groll, lately demanded in mar- Hoge Mlle. Winkler, daughter of another dancer; but her father fitly refused. The lover then resolved on a violent dep. A few days back he went into • forest in the neigh bourhood of Badeo, accompanied by the young female, and them whether with or without her consent, shot her dead with a pistol, after which he blew out his own brains." A letter from Biarrits, in Galiyaani, states that the 'ember of visitors to that pleas, down to the 30th Sept., when the imperial family left, amounted to 8,411. Siam that date, a goad number of families have arrived, sad 300 or 400 Faighett will pane the winter at Biarritz. Lodgings are now very &imp there ; hooves, which in the same let at I,ooofr. per month, may be had at present for Mfr. The net profit of the baths amounted to 40,9561 r. ' A Turin letter of the 2ud says :—" A solemn wow was celebrated a few days since at Barletta by Canon dell' Aquila, sedated by a priest named Gaetano Leone, who belongs to the liberal party. After the masa the latter suggested the propriety of singing the ' Orem% pro rage metro Vittorio,' but the canon paid no attention to the hint. When they had retired to the vestry, an argument ensued between them, and high words were soon followed by blows, for the canon seized • heavy candlestick and broke Leone's bead with it. L - one fell, and fainted away. The other canons present at the time re mained indifferent spectators of this shameful scene. This incident will give some idea of the state of men's minds sod manners in the inland districts." A letter to the Times from a nephew of Admiral Nelson, touching upon various statements in the journal lately edited by Dean Trench, respecting ow naval hero, says :—" Lord Nelson In private life was remarkable for • demeanour quiet, sedate, and unobtrusive, anxious to give pleasure to everyone about him, distinguishing each in his turn by some act of kindnew, and chiefly those who seemed to require it most. During his few interval' of leisure, in • little knot of relation' or friends, he delighted in quiet conversation, through which occasionally inn an undercut.- ' rent of pleasantry not unmixed with caustic wit. At hie table he was the least heard among the company, and, so far from being the hero of his own tale, I never heard him voluntarily refer to any of the groat ►ctions of his life. It would have formed as amusement to the circle at Norton ' if intemperance were set down to the charge of the master of the house, who always so prematurely cut abort the *miming of the gentlemen after dinner. A man of more temperate habit, could not, I am persuaded, have been found." CITY SEWERS COMMISSION. At the weekly meeting of the Commissioners of Sewers held yesterday at Guildhall, Mr. Deputy CREME in the chair, Dr. Letheby, the medical officer of health, re ported the state of 189 homes that had been inspected during the week, and he submitted a list of 43 places that required eanitary improvement. He likewise certified the overeruwdiag of a house in Crown-court, Fleet-street, which required the necessary proceedings for its registration as a common lodgingltoune. He also reported that the markets and slaughter•houtes had been duly inspected during the week, and that the officers bad seized 1,2081b5. of meat, 1 deer, 13 hares, and 2i head of game and poultry as unfit for human foal. , 996 lhe. of the meat were diseased. and 210Ibs. were from animals that had died from natural causes. All the game was putrid. Sizty-four births ware registered during the week, and 33 deaths. The number of deaths is greatly below the ave rages (49) for the corresponding taroks of the last siz years. Half of the deaths were among children of lees than five years old, and there were 7 among old persons of 60 and upwards. The principal causes of death were as follows : phthinis, 3 ; mesenteric disease, 4; bronchitis, 4 ; pneu. mouis, 3 ; continued fever, 3 ; scarlet fever, whooping cough, and croup, each 1 ; making together 7 deaths from tubercular diseases, 7 from acute affections, and 6 from zymotic. HEALTH OP LOWDOW.—The weekly return issued by authority of the Registrar -General states :—The deaths in London to the week that ended last Saturday were 1,078 : the last three returns have shown very slight fluctuation. The deaths returned for last week were less by more than a hundred than they would have been if the average rate of mortality in the same week of ten previous years had pre vailed. The mortality from scarlatina continues high. The number of fatal cases of this complaint was 94, and of diphtheria 18 ; whilst the corrected average in correspond ing weeks of the two diseases combined is 83. There were 4 deaths from scarlatina in the north-west sub-district of Chelsea, 4 in Mayfair, 7 in Somers-town and Camden town, 8 in Islington, and 7 in the Waterloo-road sub-dis tricts of Lambeth. Mr. Mears, registrar of the lirst Waterloo-road sub-district, who recorded five deaths from this disease, mentions • house (70, King-street) in which it prevails, and where each room contains • family, and the kitchen holds eight persons who " live and sleep" in it. The mortality by smallpox and measles is low, 3 deaths having been registered from the former, and 7 from the latter. There were 16 from croup, 35 from whooping cough, 47 from typhus. Six infants died from syphilitic disease. There were five deaths by murder or manslaughter, 3of which occurred to infante. Last week the births of 947 boys and 889 girls, in all 1,836 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the peals 1861.60 the average number was 1,652. ETON Coulson Ace:lariat —The fine weather this year has prolonged the aquatic season at Eton College some time beyond the usual period. The Eton watermen posted at different sta.ions on the river to assist and protect the boys in their sports of boating and swimming were not dis charged for the winter unti l Saturday last. Foothill, it which Prince Arthur joined the boys a few days ego, 0 the game in the ascendant this " ball," and few of the Etoniass care for river pastime ; the authorities of the schools, never theless, deem it prudent to continue the services of the watermen so long as the least disposition is evinced for the pleasures of the stream. The breaking up of the raft at Searles last week was another unmistakeable proof that summer's glorious reign is over. Mr. ]awes, who, by his successful efforts in many rowing contests this season, has provcd himself worthy of the aquatic crown, has succiedel Mr. Blake Humfrey as captain of the boats. 00-OPERATIVE INDUSTRIAL Swig - fir, HALIFAX...-. Yesterday, the opening of the new premises in Northgate, erected by this society,was oelebrated by a monster teamed ieg in the British schools, followed by a public meeting in the Odd Fellows' Hell, presided over by P. Crossley, FAO-, M.P. The building consists of two handsome shops, wah large and commodious warehouses behind, erected at a Lost of 3,5001. The society was started io 1830, and made but ve r y sliht progress up to November, 1859, when it numbered 221) members, with • capital of 7741., and had done ba. l * nese to the extent of about 2,000/. during the previous six months. But • revision of the rules, then carried out d the suggestion of some of the directors, had the effect et making the undertaking more popular, and, from that time to the present, the society's operations have been attended with a large measure of success, exceeding the most satmulte expectations of its; original promoters. In November. 18W, the number of members had increased to Ist . o. with a capital of 4,8641. ; and in November, l'k a • to 2,403, with • capital of 11,531/. ; whilst the hosiers had extended from 2,0001. for the latter six moods in 1859, to 18,7101. for the same period in lieo, ant to 22,9431. for the same_ period in 1861. The society Mt two establishments at Halifax and seven coun try branch.. at Greetland, Northowram, Ovenden, Booth Town, lag Cross, Siddall, end Illingworth. Yesturday, upwards of eM thousand of the members took tea together at two sager down, in the British schools ,• and afterwards an adett' meat took place to the Odd Fellows Hall, trho soy densely crowded. The report was reed by 11r. Ssei 11 °Ideti, the secreUrc; and the meeting was addressed h? Mr. Crossley, M.P. the chairman), Mr. Hooson, of No' pa ts:e t : oo, 7:z cheater; Mr. Lloyd ones, of Glasgow, Ac. and Children, Edwards-street, Portnian.muare, daring"' eases. week ending; Nov. 2, was 738, of which 219 were "" at Fi th j e ll aunariHeranlTFAreet..—The I I the fu certif altho, peteo the le tdgn CLIO • 1,11411 (lain Wbo 1 COD ■ mound aho leer loci lie i 'We pita tioa try t judg