The Express. — London, England, 1861-02-22 00:00:00

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Yearns sad Soln3ure Mimes St. Ciess.lierbat, and tourer.--Coonsesee at balf.past 7. BRITANNIA. Tins Drina, THE LIVE UY A AOLDILL.—And THE PIII:YCE AND THE WEIL ?dram PM. Parry. Joan lAnia, ltoby. and Newborn': WU'. C. alepasa. Miss A. Dowsing, lira W. talaturd. •IOS WATIA AT LONDON DRLDON TNN DAT —lloching, Mt Mr. .... Ationmoom,. Oh. Om Toilsawar—Moratag. A. Sta.— Allonses. DONDON, FRIDAY, PZB. 22. Tat arrest of Monsieur MIRIA is ono of the Pint results of the new constitutional liberties which it recently pleased the Dereitot to grant to his Chambers. Some six weeks or two months back the sinking state of M. MIEN' credit be came known, and certain irregularities and defal- cations of his by which the interests of the State wore compromised, acquired increased import ance. An order was issued by the law authori ties to place hen under arrest. But interest was employed, and the efforts of his son-in-law, espe cially, succeeded in preventing the execution of the fatal mandate. Mince the meeting of the Chambers, this lenience, and the pecuniary and financial circumstances of H. Mow, on which it was exercised, have been canvassed and warmly animadverted upon in the bureaux, or standing committees. It was proposed to make of them a paragraph of the address, or an amendment to it ; and Ministers, alarmed, have insisted 011 the arrest of M. Mitre, as the best answer to any charge of complicity or criminal indulgence. The ministers without portfolios, who would have to answer such charges, are naturally on the alert, being anxious at the first outset and exercise of their high functions not to undertake a lame and untenable cause and so incur the risk of defeat. Certain difficulties begin to be felt by ministers' not only as attaching to their temporary positions, but as inherent in the system which the late im perial concession has established. For instance, it has been found even by the experience of the committees that no ono can efficiently defend • budget, and especially sudden and abrupt objec tions to it, save the Minister himself. Appoint ing one man to form a budget, and another to defend it, is found not to facilitate but obstruct public business. - It is against the finances, or rather the financial statement of the Government, that the attacks of the new opposition are directed. Nor are these attacks confined to theories or figures. They go to impeach certain portions of the administration, and certain personage, connected with them who have lost and made groat fortune' during the pre sent reign, and whom the public voice points out as having enriched themselves at the public sponse. These animadversions, although as yet confined to the committeos, have filled numbers of the Im perialists with alarm ; not only those whose con sciences declare them obnoxious to similar accusa tions, but those who dread to see the present sys tem damaged by proofs of the corruption of its satellites. The opposition leaders have deter mined to adopt the tactics of the leaden of our Long Parliament—to aim their shafts at persons, since they are forbidden to shoot at things, and create or strengthen their own popularity whilst punishing and exposing these , r,falt.4 perdus of despotism who have been so long dealing their blows and venting their arrogance through the press, without the possibility of their being re plied to. - We now can perfectly understand why Messrs. Ttiorunso and Ittaueur evinced strong dissent and undisguised ill-humour with the Imperial conces sions. It exposes them to all the brunt of war. Fur LD foresaw the storm, and withdrew from it altogether. But the EMPILROR, if he cuts no shield over weak and peccant parties, can but gain by their exposure. However publicity was obstructed, rumours of all kinds, and against all parsons in office, circulated with the greatest degree of rapidity and obtained ready belief. The Exreaos wu considered personally implicated with his Court and t otourar, and thus wu made to bear a weight in great part of calumny and falsehood, which would have borne down a less resolute and powerful Prince. It must be a relief to him to be able to shake off this load. He indeed protected some four or five of his old and reckless followers in habits of speculation, which he seems resolved not to tolerate in other'. And it may be that one of his reasons for opening the door to Parliamentary inquiry was to rid his court and administration of a class of doers and doings whom he shrunk from exposing and proscribing himself. We shall see great and important changes. The &sesame may announce that the Parliament, to which he has restored freedom of motion and of speech, shall not direct or modify the choice of his Ministers ; but they may do so, nevertheless, by acting upon his convictions and influencing his will. Can he hope that the targets which he has placed on the Ministerial benches of the Chambers can stop the missiles fired at them, or that these will not penetrate through mock Ministers to hit and damage real ones, and even by rebound strike the Throne itself If NAPOLZON M. is to derive ease and immunity, profit and strength, from the verity of the constitutional system, he must place a real statesman between him and his Chambers. And such a politician would not accept the position of a merely talking Minister. At the same time, to open a Parliament and allow chiefs of Opposition to distinguish themselves, the Sovereign being predetermined and incapable of making use of their services, this would be merely to erect a machine for making formidable enemies without the means of silencing or conciliating them. The first dissolution of the French Chamber will certainly see Camixis Puma returned as member. Present circumstances strongly recall the great orator and statesman who bore that name. The way in which he led the opposition against M. irrxxsz.s was to confine himself exclusively to finance, and from that platform direct the unceasing fire of his breaching battery against the Minister. By this alone he destroyed VILLtL7N prestige and power, and made himself the first and most eminent politician of his tiine. His son is now THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1861. evidently bent on following his father's example. And if we may judge from his first published at tack, the Imperial finances are even more vulner able, being trebly more extravagant than those of Louts XVIII. Here will come the trial of Imperial constitu tionalism. If the existing system of revenue and expenditure be found faulty, be powerfully ex posed, and a majority obtained against it, will the EsirEitoa change that policy, or can he change it without substituting other men I His avowed system of listening to Parliamentary advice, and only taking such notice of it as he pleases, will but exasperate opposition, and turn the representative system to discredit. Should be, on the contrary, bow to the majority, reform his policy, place so Orleanist a name as that of Patna in the Government--and how can a con scientious member of Opposition refuse to servo when naturally raised to office by the action of the Constitution?—then NAPOLEON 111. will have achieved the greatest of his triumphs, and overcome the most formidable rivals of his dynasty by the adoption of their great principle. Tiis good sense of the House s of Commons triumphed last night over inveterate prejudice in the discussion of those essential clauses of the Bank ruptcy and Insolvency Bill, which are to make the property of a non-trader debtor liable to the same law of distribution among his creditors as that of the trader. Sir G. Bowvsa described the law of Bankruptcy as a tremendous engine for cutting up a debtor and dis tributing his property among his creditors, and hoped the country gentry would consider care fully before they subjected themselves to its tremendous power. Everybody, but especially their creditors, must hope so too, but this they may do by the simple expedient of paying their debts. If through misfortune or improvidence they are unable to do that, it does not seem so very hard that their property should be divided, just like that of other insolvents, amongst their creditors to whom it of right belongs. It is very incorrect to represent the Law of Bankruptcy as it is proposed to settle it by this Bill, as a law of severity not calculated for the relief of the debtor. Colonel Dvrnr repeated the " country-gentleman's " argument, until a stranger might have supposed that the class endangered instead of being rooted in the nation by fixed possessions were a mob of Montague Tigys. As the Arroszvar-GtwEasx observed, the people who will feel the inconveni ence of the proposed reform are those who go abroad, live in shameful extravagance, on means which rightfully belong to others, and laugh at their creditors. Cases of this kind are very common, and it is not because such persons are not traders that the law should not provide means by which their property may be given to those to whom it is due. Sir livtox CAIRNS and Mr. Wm.- roxa put the opposition on most tenable ground when they admitted the principle of assimilation and directed their criticism to the guarantees against im proper adjudication of bankruptcy which the cir cumstances and legitimate habits of the non-trader render necessary. In opposition to Sir G. Bow l' XX, Sir H. CAIRXS admitted that to be subject to the bankrupt law is, to a certain extent, a benefit and not a disadvantage to the non-trader. But he apprehended danger from the power which be supposed would be given to creditors to present a petition for an adjudication in bankruptcy before judgment obtained. But, as the Arroastv- CIESLIAL showed, in every such case the creditor seeking to establish an act of bankruptcy against the non-trader debtor must prove the ntal,,s animus of the debtor; and not only so, but that he had exhausted all the means in his power to give the debtor notice of his application to the Court. There were clauses which provided the mode of giving such notice, if it could be done ; and they were for the benefit and secu rity of the debtor, and to prevent his being made a bankrupt before he had received such notice. But, even if notice could not be given to the debtor, it would then be necessary for the creditor to satisfy the Court that all the means within his power had been resorted to to do so. These explanations appear to have satisfied the House. Mira arrest comes to be known there, from the' following extract of a letter, dated Feb. 13, re ceived by the mail just arrived : The news that the Bank of France has refused to dia. count Constantinople draft. on the house of Mira. ban produced a tremendous sensation. These drafts, mind, are made payable to the order of the Minister of the Interior, and are endorsed by him. As soon as this resolution of the bank wan known at Galata, several leading bankers went to Ali Pacha to entreat him to find some means to mitigate the existing embarrassment. Ali Pacha replied that he was aware of what had passed at Paris—that he would telegraph to the ambassador there to do wh►t he could to remove the difficulty. At the same time Ali Pacha solicited the favourable intervention of M. de la Vallette, the French ambassador. " What an we r said Ali Pacha, in dismissing the bankers. "We will give you our blood, if you wish it ; but as to money we have none." ,Anxiety is at its height. We await with breathless impatience the despatches from Paris, which will decide the fate of Galata. Everybody his mare or less paper drawn upon Mires. Only a few days aim:otitis paper was more inquired for than any other—it was the only paper, in fact, which inspired confidence. if the Bank of France persists in it. refusal to discount it three fourths of the houses in Galata will be compelled to stop payment. By the boat of the Menageries Imperiales, which leaves for Marseilles this evening, several Galata houses have sent specie to take up drafts ooming due. This place is drained of bullion, and this accounta for the extraordi. nary movement in the exchanges. Tho English pound is now worth 150 piastres. ebt court. The Queen and the Princess Alico walked yester• day morning is the genies d Backingham Pelmet The Duchies el Kent tusk a carriage drive. The Primer Alice, stismded by the Hon. Horatio Stop. ford, visited the Prim= Mary of Cambridge, at her red eem is St. James's !ALM The Princesses Belem and Louise rode in the ridiag•house of Buckingham Pablo& The Hoe. Flamm Stanley and the Hon. Flora Macdonald have suoceeded the Hon. Caroline Cavendish and the Hon. Mesta Stopford as the Maids of Honour in Waiting to the Queen. kfujor.General marten was presented by the Duke of Cambridge to the Queen at the Levee on Wedisteday, on his appointment to the C,olooeley of the 6th Dragoons. Colooel Burnaby/3as arrived from Syria, and had an in terview yesterday with Lord John Riai at the Foreign. dike. A deputation respecting the Hull Wert Docks, consisting a Lord Hotham, M.P., Admiral Dunoumbe, IL P., Mr. Clay, M.P., Mr. H. S. Thompson, M.P., Mr. Some', M.P., Yr. Norwood, chairman, Mr. Bannister, deputy chairman, Mr. ILimpase, Mr. Pennon, Mr. Middleton, and Mr. T. E. Manaus, C.E. ; Directors : Mr. T. Holden and Mr. Darn ford, had sn interview with the Bight Hon. T. IL Gibson, and the 114C • Hon. W. Hutt, ynnterday, at the Gabe al the Board el The for the Exhibition of 18G2 met on Wednesday, at the Conseil-office. Present: Earl Gran ville, the Manlius of Chandoe, Mr. T. Baring. iLP., Mr. C. W. Dilke, and Mr. Thomas Fairbaim. A deputation from the Manchester Chamber of Com merce, consisting 'of Mr. Thomas aulsy, M.P., Mr. J. A. Turner, M.P., and Mr. }Alward Putter, president, Mr. Henry Ashworth, Mr. John Peel, Mr. E. Ashworth, Mr. John Peuder, Mr. A. Camels, Mr. J. Cheetham, Mr. Y. Gladstone, and Mr. Hugh timing, secretary, and Mr. Henry Dunlop, president of the Glasgow Chamber of Com merce, had an interview yesterday with Lord John Russell, at the Fureigmoffice. The Prince Joecph Windischgratz has arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Viers's, on his way to Madeira. /tie Excellency the Swedish Minister and the Countess Platen will return to town early next moth from Sweden. The Earl and Counteea of Hardwicke have loft town for Sydney Lodge, seer Southampton. Lord and Lady Colchester entertained at dinner het evening, at their residence in Berkeleyaquare, Lord mad lady George Quin, Lord and Lady Egerton sad tbs Hoe. Min Evrton, Mr. Hastings Rummell, M.P., and Lady Elisabeth Rases% Sir Roderick Murchison, the Hoe. Mies Harding*, Mr. Rochfort, LRdy Frederick Bentinok and Lady Ana Beckett bare arrived in town from Brighton. Sir Charles and the Heti. Lady and Mine Rush oat have left Fenton's Hotel for Seisisi' cot, Gloucestershire. Sir Thomas and Lady Arabella Healtath have left Claridge's Hotel for Raffonl Hall, near Ormskirk. Miss Coutta had a party last evening at her re.si asses ia Stratton street. lady Stanley of Alderley held MI assembly at leer residence in Dover-street, last evening. Previously to the assembly. Lord and Lady Stanley entertained at dinner kis Excellency the Sardinian Minister, the Duke of Somer set, the Marchioness of Chiericarde, the Earl Granville, the Bari and Countess Grey, Viscountess Palmerston, Vis cosatou Jocelyn, Count Janoourt, the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, M.P., Mr. Wane, L.c. The company separated shartJy after twelve o'clock. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. The Italian Senate and Chamber ol Deputies held their first preliminary sitting on the 19th. In the former the President opened the proceedings with a speech suitable to the occasion, and then appointed the four youngest Senators to be Secretaries. In the Chamber of Depu ties, which met in the old hall, some curiosity was excited by the presence of Col. Musolini, of Garibaldi's corps, who was dressed in his picturesque red shirt. He took his seat on the extreme left, as one of the deputies for Cala bria. M. Crispi took his seat beside him. M. Lorenzo Valerio, late Royal Commissioner for the Marches, entered soon afterwards, and also took his seat on the left. The President consulted the chamber as to whether the 253 elections of which the minutes had been received, were to be ex amined on that day or the following. The cham ber decided that they should be proceeded with at once, after which the sitting terminated. A Turin letter of the 19th says : Last evening there was a grand illumin►tion. The open space in front of the palace was transformed into a kind of artificial garden. Some fifty fountains were erected, in which jets of water and gas were blended together. Turin does the honours of the capital with great spirit. There were also fireworks and other popular amusements. This day a great concert is to be given by the city to all the members of the parliament. Yesterday morning the majority of the depu• ties from Southern Italy arrived, and also a battalion of the mobilised National Guard of Naples. This is the first time the National Guard of that country has aver been mobilised. Thaw young men are very well dressed and smart in ►ppearance. Indeed, they seem to look down with an air of superiority on their fellow citizens of the North, who asvcathalaus received them with great cordiality. It unmeasary to say that tho royal speech produced a very satidaetory impression, and that the Bourse hailed it with a rise on all descriptions of securities, although the King pretty plainly announced that a loan would soon be wanted. (ftecrces TURIN, Ft& 22. The inauguration of the Italian parliament has been celebrated in several towns of Venetia. The Opinione says :—" Three oolonels, a major, and two captains, have deserted from the citadel of Messina." TURIN, THURSDAY. Government has presented to the Senate a pro ject of law, according the title of King of Italy io Victor Emmanuel and his successors. The project was received with loud cheers. HUNGARY. PESTH, Fn. U. A royal reecript convokes the diet at Buda for the 2nd April, in order to make arrangements for the coronation of the Emperor an King of Hungary, to receive communication of the inaugural diploma, and to elect the Palatine of Hungary. PARIS, THURSDAY Eviecnio. The Patrie publishes a telegram from Vienna announcing that the state of affairs in Hungary is becoming very serious, and that several districts, among which are Raab, Bomogy, Peterwardeu, and Buda, will be declared in a stage of siege. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom °Era owi coaszeroarmorr.) PARIS. TIEURSDAT EMIIIING. The result of the first meeting of the conference on the affairs of Syria is thus stated by the Coasts tutionnel : After ► abort deliberation, the proposition for prolonging the European occupation of S)ria was admitted in prin ciple. As to its duration, the commissioners have to wait fur the instructions of their respective governments, and consequently it is not expectod that another meeting will be held until nest week. The above is probably an unfair way of stating what I believe to be the fact, that the only pro longation agreed upon "in principle" was a very short one necessitated by the state of the weather, which would make it extremely difficult for the French troops to come away just now. I hear that the renewed period for the occupation agreed upon ml referendum is three months instead of six weeks, which bad been spoken of. If this be so, and if the French undertake bona fide to clear out within three months, I look upon the result as a great victory for English policy. Nothing but the great est firmness on the part of Lord John Russell would have frustrated the settled design to make the occupation permanent. In corroboration of my statement yesterday that the diplomatic relations between France and Rome Were worse than ever, I may now mention an accredited rumour of the recall of the Duke de Grammont by way of an answer to the alight im plied by the prolonged absence from Paris of Monaignore Sacconi. In that hypothesis, K Dela cour would be sent to Rome on a temporary mis sion without any official title. It is said that General de Goyon complains that he cannot get so much as a civil answer from the papal authorities when he has occasion to apply to them in the ordinary course of his duties. There does not, however, seem to be any near prospect l of the evacuation of Rome by the French ; on the contrary, I hear that the commissariat there has just been ordered to prepare 6,000 additional beds. The proverb, beret is liters keret is eortice, should especially be borne in mind by the govern ment journals which servilely advocate a literal construction of the Guerronniere pamphlet. The Presse says on this subject : Th. Pair* and Comtiestionnel make great, but we are bound to any, useless efforts, to extenuate the importance which people of all claims attach to M. de la Gueronnire's pamphlet. Every day public opinion on this subject is more and more distinctly pronounced, and all Europe obstinately persists in considering the pamphlet as the pre cursor of the downfall of the Pope's temporal power. The Bourse continues to be very dull, with a falling market. The Bente fell 15c. for cash, and 20c. for account, closing at the lowest prices of the day, 67fr. 95c. and 67fr. 90c. Mobilier suffered the further decline of 12fr. 50e., and closed at 662 fr. 50c., being a fall of 25fr. in two days. The run upon this establishment continues. The Caisse Mires fell 21fr., and is now down at 120 fr., against 205/r., which was the quotation immediately before Mires' arrest. The " Ports of Marseilles" fell 40fr. The Orleans and Eastern railways fell Ur. each, Ncrthern and Southern 3fr. 75c. each, and Lyons and Western, lfr. 25c. The Beziers and Grid/mess= Railway, which has been an especial hotbed of jobbery from the beginning, fell 221 r. 50c., in consequence of the company having been made bankrupts. The Princess de Polignac, Mires' daughter, who is far advanced in pregnancy, was with her father at the moment of his arrest, and it was feared that the shuck had done her serious injury. She, how ever, bore up wonderfully, and within the last two days has paid many visits on her father's behalf. She obtained an interview with him at Maras, but only in the presence of witnesses, M. Mires being en secret. Some idea may be fanned of the effect likely to be produced in Constantinople when the news of SUCCOUR FOR THE WOUNDED OF GAETA. The Central Committee of Ladies for succouring the wounded of Gaeta bail sent to General Cialdini the sum of 4,000 lire, together with the following address : Turin, Feb. 17. The Central Committee of Indies of the National Society for succouring the wounded in the Italian war while sharing in the joy diffused throughout Italy at the news of the capture of Gaeta, a capture due to your bold undertaking and to the gallantry of the army commanded by you, have thought it better than celebrating this new triumph of the national arms in festivities to send off immediately the sumour tadlected by the charity of citizens to your brave soldiers who have received wounds during the hard and fatiguing labours of the siege. Therefore, havingassembled at a meeting extraordinary on the Pith instant they resolved to send to your excellency the sum of 4,000 lire, begging you to distribute them to wounded individuals in such manner as you shall judge most fitting, and according to the necessities t f each case. This sum will be transmitted to you through the medium of the Minister of War. General,—The ladies of the Central Committee of Turin deem themselves fortunate in having this solemn occasion presented them of showing how they admire the mag nanimity, and how cordially they prise the welfare, of the valiant soldiers of Italy ; at the same time, how rejoiced they feel st your own glory, both for your own sake and for the greatness of the oountry. Accept, illustrious general, ac. IL DE PEASIGNY AR D THE PRESS M. Veuillot, the former editor of the Miners, having applied to his Excellency for the authorisation to start a journal, If. de. Persigny said in reply he had no ob jection to grant it., provided M. Veuillot would draw up a prospectus of his political feelings, and of the line he meant to pursue. M. Veuillot complied, drew up his programme, and forwarded it to the Minister of the Interior. He has received the following reply : " Monsieur,-1 see, with the deepest regret, that in your appreciation of the acts and intentions of the government of the Emperor' you imitate political partial, which, hiding beneath the cloak of religion, and regardless of the Pope's interest, endeavour to use his Holiness as an instrument of hostility against the empire. Instead of trying to reconcile the two ideas which the Emperor, both as a sovereign issued from universal suffrage, and as eldest son of the church, is bound to respect, you profess to be unable to see in the imperial government anything but an anxious desire for the independence of Italy, the order to assume the part of an I exclusive defender of the Papacy against the prime whose army protects the Supreme Pontiff at Rome. The Em peror's government could not, consistently with its respect for truth, or its regard for public interests, sanction efforts, the only object of which is to create dangerous mis understandings. Had it been your wish to devote your unquestionable talents to a work of conciliation, I should not have hesitated to grant you the authorisation you have applied for ; but it is the duty of the government to pre veut discussion on all subjects which daub' not but keep up in the public mind a sterile agitation, and disturb con sciences. These motives, which are the rule of my adminis tration, do not permit me to reply as I would have wished to the request you have made.—lteceive, " F. DI PERSIGNY." The Mereure de &aim informs us that there has just been set up a Frauenfeld machine for hot.pressing, folding, and stitching sheet■ of the octavo form with great precision and rapidity. With this machine they can send out a thousand sheets per hour, after having undergone nil the operations which usually occupy two hours and a half of hand labour. The well-known publisher of Leipsic, Bernhard Tancboitr, has jest received from the Duke of Saxe- Cobourg, as a reward for his English publications, the title of baron for himself and his direct descendants. The directors of the theatres of the suburbs of Vienna have received orders that, before producing any new piece, they must have a general dress rehearsal of it before •commimary of police, so that the costumes may be modi fied in the event of their appearing objectionable either on moral or political grounds. MELANCHOLY LOAN OF THE SHIP ToNorrx.—Tut CAPTAIN, cots WIPE, AND TWELVE HANDS DIOWNID. Tbe following are the particulars of this sad catastrophe elicited from one of the two pole survivors of the wreck : The Tooquin was a ship of 500 tons, and sailed from Greenock for Brazils, with a cargo of railway iron for railway works at Santos, on the 3rd inst. On the same night about nine o'clock when in St. George's Channel they encountered heavy winds from the F..N.E., in the course of which the ship broached to, shifting the cargo, and at the same time she sprung adeak. The wind afterwards increased to a gale— ship under double-reefed topsails, foresail, and jib, which were all blows away during the night, the leak increasing hourly. At 4 p.m. the next day, 'Wicklow Heed Light wee in sight. The captain then wore ship to the south, in order to clear the banks. One of the pumps now became useless, and soon afterwards the ship, which was two-thirds full of water, was thrown on her beam ends, from which she sever righted, the heavy portions of her cargo, which was adrift, going over with her. About 12 o'clock (midnight) Cap tain Batchelder seeing that the ship was fast sinking, gave orders for the boats to be got ready sod launched. As soon as one beat woe launched three seamen and the second mate got in to keep her off from being stove. Captain Batchelder got his wife in his arms, and she was told to wing into the boat as it came alongside, which she did, lariptain Batchelder jumping at the muss moment. She however jumped short, and fell into the sea. Those in the boat and Captain Batchelder attempted to grasp her, but failed ; however, almost immediately afterwards, the ship rolled over on to the boat and sunk, sod they all perished, male) the remainder of the crew except Henry Smith and Frederick Peterson. Smith, who went down in the boat, on coming up got on to the bottom of the boat. The ship by that time had foundered, and the sea was strewed with spars and her wreck. The cook of the ship also got to the boat, but left it to go to a spar, and he was sot seen again. Smith afterwards swam to the fore castle round-hones, which had parted from the wreck, and was Boating past. He was afterwards joined by another seaman (Fred eric k Peterson). They continued to cling to the round-house for two days and nights, when they at length drifted ashore about three miles north of Arklow. The crew consisted of the master, two mates, nine seamen, steward, cabin boy, and captain's wife. The cargo is insuml for 9,0001. Maximo OF THE SHIP MAIDSTONE, OrTWARD SOUND TO INDIA.—By the arrival of the schooner Nuodeeps at Scilly, on the 15th inst., we hear of the loss of the ship Maidstone, Captain Duncan, of and from London and Ply mouth for Calcutta, with a general and valuable cargo. It appears that the Maidstone sprang a leak on 4th instant., and on the 6th, a gals springing up, the leak increased to • serious extent—about 15 inches per hour. The pumps, which had been going since the leak was discovered, soon became useless, and as a last resort, in order to keep the ship afloat, as secs ea possible they commenced to throw the cargo overboard, signals of distress were kept flying in the hope of attracting notice. About 8 a.m. of the 7th the schooner Nuotleeps, Capt. Bickford. from Cephalonia, bore down to her assistance. Owing to the state of the weather and heavy sea it was impossible to launch the boats at that time, but in about six hours the wind changed, marbling the crew and the passengers of the Maidstone to answer her, and all (26 in number) were wifely got oo board the Nundeeps, which being • small vessel of 126 tom became almost in cooveniently crowded, and fur several days they encountered vary bad weather. Subsequently the Nundeeps fell is with the ship Statement, of Plymouth, from Alexander to Fal mouth, and Captain Beckford fearing his provisions and water would be exhausted before he could reach a port, transferred 12 of the Maidstone crew and two of the pas sengers to that ship. The Maidstone. before she was abandoned, was set on fire by Captain Duncan both fore and aft, to destroy her as quickly as possible, in order that she might not he in the track or way of other ships after dark. Her crew saved nearly all their effects, but the certain, his officer., and passengers, lost nearly all that belonged to them. The ship and cargo were insured for nearly 20,0001. I nu COUNTY AND THR BOROUGH FRANCHISE: NIL LOCKE KING'S AND NB. BAINES'S BILLS. The following is the bill brought into the House of Commons by Mr. Locke King and Mr. Hastings Russell, to extend the franchise in counties in England and Wales : " Whereas it is expedient to extend the elective fran chise to many of her Majesty's subject' who have not heretofore en joyed the same: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : "1. From and after the passing of this act, every male person, of full age and not subject to any legal disability, who oezupies, as owner or tenant, any land or tenement situate without the limits of any city or borough entitled to return a burgess or burgesses to parliament of the clear yearly value, or for which he is liable to a clear yearly not, of not lees t han ten pounds. and comprising a house of the clear yearly value of not less than six pounds, shall be entitled to vote in the election of a knight or knight' of the shire to serve in any future parliament for the county, riding, part, or division of the county, in which such 'land' or! tenement' is situate : . _ " But no such occupier shall be so entitled to vote unless he be duly registered as such voter, nor shall be entitled to be so registered in any year, unless he have occupied such land' or tenement of such value or at such rent as afore said for six calendar months at least next before the last day of July in such year. " 2. Tho act passed in the second year of King William the Fourth, to amend the representation of the people in England and Wales, and the act passed in the sixth year of her present Majesty's reign, to amend the law for the regin tration of persons entitled to vote, and to define certain rights of voting, and to regulate certain proceedings in the election of members to serve in parliament for England and Wales, and the present act shall be construed as one act." Mr. Baines's bill (which is backed by Mr. Barley, Mr. Scholefield, and Mr. Digby Seymour) is u follows : " Whereas it is expedient to extend the right of voting for members of parliament in cities and boroughs in England and Wales : Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritu al and Tem poral,and Commons, in this pre sent parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : " 1. The occupation of premises within • city or borough which returns a member or members to serve in parliament, or within a place sharing in the election for such city or borough, of the clear yearly value of not less than six pouWii, shall confer • right to vote in the election of such member or members, in like manner as such right is now con ferred in respect of the occupation of premises of the clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds ; and all provisions now in force concerning such right in respect of such occu pation shall, save u herein otherwise provided, be applicable to the right hereby conferred, uif six pounds were men tioned in section 27 of the act of the session holden in the 2nd and '3rd years of King William I V., chap : 45, and were mentioned or referred to an all other the provisions concern ing such right instead of 101. "2. No person shall be entitled under this act to vote in an election in respect of his occupation, jointly with any land, of any building other than a dwelling-house in which he himself resides, unless such building separately be of the clear yearly value of not less than 3!. " This act may be cited as The Borough Franchise Act, HSU.' " COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. -4.- A Court of Common Council wan held yesterday is the Council Chamber, Guildhall; the Right Hai. the LORD MAtoa presided. The MENEMBRANcER called the attention of the court to certain railway and other bills that were now before parlia ment, that were likely to affect the interests of the City, and also to the motion by Mr. Ayrton for the appointment of a select committee of the house to consider the subct of the local management of the metropolis, its taxation, he., and also the propriety of making the whole metropolis a cionnty of itself. It was proposed that the latter question should be referred to the Corporation Inquiry Committee. A long discussion took place, and ultimately the propo sition was agreed to. Upon the motion that two lay members of the church of England should be appointed by the court as members of the commission issued by the Lord Bishop of London to consider the propriety of the union of certain benefices in the City of London, The LORD MATOR mid that the committee appointed to consider this subject had recently submitted to the Bishop of London a comprehensive scheme for uniting the whole of the City parishes in groups. The matter was now under consideration by his lordship, and he thought that for the present it would be better for the court to refrain from taking any further proceedings. The subject was accordingly postponed. Mr. HARRIS moved that notice be given to the short hand writers employed to take minutes of the evidence of the Centml Criminal Court, that the same would be discontinued. He said that the notes and the printing of the reports cost the corporation 'AO. a year, and he believed they were perfectly useless, that no one read them, and that therefore it was • waste of money to continue the present system. Deputy COOK seconded the motion. Mr. LAWLKY moved as an amendment the previous question, and he said it appeared to him that this court ought not to act in such • matter without consulting the Recorder and their other law officers. (Hear, hear.) A long discussion took place on the question, and Mr. Harris eventually consented to withdraw his motion, and the proposition of Mr. Taylor for referring the matter to the General Purposes Committeemieunanimounlyagreed to. Upon the motion of Mr. C. USED, a petition for pecu nisry assistance in aid of the Syrian Relief Fund was re ferred to the Coal, Coin, and Finance Committee, as was also a similar application from the Western City Dispen sari, ups the motion of Deputy Lott. Mr. W. CONNELL brought forward a motion of which he had gives notice for some time past, that it be referred to the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee, to examine and report whether the fees received by and forming part of the emoluments of the Lord Mayor may not be com muted into a money payment out of the City's cash and, also, further to report whether some of the said fees should not be abolished, thereby conferring great advan tage upon the public, and increasing the popularity and dignity of the Lord Meyer. He said it was unnecessary for him, he was sure, to state that he in no wise desired to interfere with the rights and privileges of the important office of Lord Mayor, but he thought the time had arrived when he should no longer derive a portion of his Wary from fees, and that it would conduce to his dignity and be more satisfactory to the public that they should be abolished. Mr.Hunereu. seconded the motion. Hr. H. L. TAYLOR said he could hardly understand what was proposed to be dope if this motion was carried, and he thought they ought to have had some more information before they were asked to agree to it. As to the idea that anything this court could do would add to the popularity al the present Lord Mayor, it was out of the question. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) He thought that it would be quite sufficient if the motion stopped at that point which suggested for consideration whether the foes payable to the Lord Mayor might not be commuted into a money payment out of the City's cash, and ho should therefore propose an amendment to that effect. Mr. C. YOUNG seconded the amendment. This motion and the amendment gave rise to a very ani mateddiscussion, in which Deputy Harrison, Mr. Hartridge, Deputy Fry, and several other members, took a part, and eventually the amendment of Mr. Taylor was declared to be carried. Dr. ABRAHAM, upon the amendment being then put se an original motion, moved as an amendment that the consi deration of the subject be adjourned sine die. Alderman DACIN seconded the amendment. . The original motion and the amendment were then put to the court, and the latter was declared to be earned. A division was, however, demanded, when the numbers ap peared to be— For the original motion GI For the amendment. 59-5 Dr. ABRAHAM said he wished t inquire of the Recorder whether the fees in question were legally commutable. The Recorder said that in one sense they were not. The mmoratiou, undoubtedly. had the power if they pleased to make an amingement with the existing Lord Mayor to pay him a certain sum in lieu of fees, but be could not bind his successor,, and • fresh arrangement must be made from year to year. The subject then dropped. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe will move in the House of Lonle on Monday, for correspondence connected with "certain events in Syria." Sir Henry Stracey on Tuesday next will move that " in the opinion of this house, the establishment of sailors' homes has been so conducive to the benefit of sea men, and, consequently, of so great national importance, as to be deserving of the support and encouragement of the legislature." _ _ _ On the second reading of the County Franchise Bill, Sir Lawrence Palk will move the previous question. The following members have been selected to serve as chairmen of election committees for the present evasion:—Henri Austin Bruce, Edward C. Egerton (Mac clesfield), Thomas William Evans, James Milnes Gaskell, John George, Right Hon. Sir William Meredith Somerville, Bart. Nolmo/wormer Bunuan.—The bill on tine subject, prepared and brought in by Sir M. Peto, Mr. Crcesley,and Mr. Kinnaird, is called "The Nonconformists Burial Act." It provides that the burial service of the °dumb of England may be dispensed with at the burial in the churchyard of any parish church, of a nonconformist, and that the service may be celebrated by a person ap pointed by the representatives of the deceased. Notice mast be given to the clergyman of the parish to appoint time for such burial, and the right to fees is not to be affected. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) BOWATREET. THE CORPORALS' FRIFILEOZ OF WRARING AIDE AIMS. - - COMltilli Ford, a corporal in the Ist battalion of the Scots Fusilier Guards, was charged with stabbing with his bayonet a woman named Elizabeth Smith, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm. The complainant, who is an unfortunate woman, stated that about one o'clock this morning she was standing with another woman i n Gardner's-lane when the prisoner came up and asked her the address of some girl whose name he mentioned, though she bad now =ea it. She replied that she did no t kn ow the , girl's . The prisoner said, " Y ou li e , you — ' and struck her a violent blow, which felled her to the (?'round. He then drew his bayonet and stabbed her in the temple, immediately over the right eye. She became in. sensible, and was removed by some person to the h os pi ta l . Emil; Harrington, another young woman of the same class with the prosecutrix, corroborated her evidenoe. Th e prisoner appeared quite sober. The prosecutrix fainted, and was removed to the hospital. The prisoner was taken to the station-house, where witness charged him. Police Sergeant Aitchinson, A 1, said that at about five minutes to 1 he was passing through Gardner's-lane when he saw the prisoner talking to the two women, and they seemed to be quarrelling. He advised the prisoner not to squabble with them but to go to his barracks. When witness had get about 15 yards away he heard a cry of " murder," and immediately returned. Prisoner was standing on the footway and pro. sexutrix in the road, and the prisoner had his bayonet in his band and was pointing it at her face, at about 18 Indus from her. She had her hands before her face, and was crying out "Oh, dear me:" Witness took the bayonet from the prisoner's hand, and returned it to the scabbard. The prosecntrix, who was bleeding from a wound in the right temple, fainted in the street. Witness,after taking the pri soner to the station-house, removed the woman with the assistance of other constables to the Westminster Hospital, where the wound was dressed. She was then brought to the station-house, where she again fainted twice. The woundwas about a quar ter of an inch in depth. The prisoner and the witness Smith were quite sober, and so was the prosecutaix as far as he could judge, but it was difficult to tell, owing to the effect of the fainting and loss of blood. Mr. Henry—Did you examine the point of the bayonet ? Sergeant Aitchison—Yes, and I found no signs of bland on it. I bad not seen any blow or attempt to stab. The prisoner said he had not drawn his bayonet. Mr. Henry said the sergeant could not be mistaken about that. The prisoner mid the prosecutrix attempted to robhim of his watch, and on his preventing her she ran into a public house in Gardner's•laoe and fetched a quart pot, which she was about to throw at him. He took it from her and threw it away. She fell by accident and cut her temple on the stones. He denied having stabbed her at all. Sergeant Parsons, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, said the prisoner bore an excellent character. He was a sober quiet man. He was on leave till 1 oclock. Corporals were allowed to wear their bayonets. He had been two years and seven months in the service, and one year and seven months a corporal. Mr. Henry—This is one of the dangers of letting them wear their bayonets. There is no doubt that he used the bayonet, and he appears to have done so without cause, though he was sober. It must go before a jury. However, he must be put back till the sur. geon attends. Subsequently Mr. William Hater, house surgeon at the hospital, attended and deposed that the wound was about half an inch deep and a quarter of an inch wide. It was such a wound as might have been inflicted by a bayonet or any pointed instrument, but not by a fall on the kerb stone. His impression was that she was not quite sober. Prosecutrix and the witness Smith said they had both had exactly the same quantity of drink, and Smith was declared by the police to have been quite sober. Mr. Henry committed him for trial for the amault. GREENWICH. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ALLEGED MISTAKEN TDENTITY. William Spencer, James Hoare, and James M'Donabi, three young men in the employ of Mr. Turner. leather dresser, St. James's road, Old Kent-read, were brought up on remand, before Mr. Maude, charged with burglanously entering the premium of Mr. Junes Summers, North-road, Forest-hill, Sydeuham, and stealing • gold brooch, • gold locket, 'several silver spoons, and other articles. Mr. Cockle attended for the prisoners. The evidence against the prisoners, which wu given by two respectable and intelligent youths, was of a very remarkable character. It appeared that about seven o'clock on Monday evening they were playing by firing off a pistol with cape in the road leadin; to the prosecutor's house, when the prisoners Spencer and Hoare passed them, Hears at the same time pretending that be was wounded. The lads then ran to them, it being moonlight at the tirir., and told them there was no danger, as they were only firing off percussion cape, and the prisoners passed on. About five minutes afterwards one of the lads, who lived with his sister in the adjoining house to the prosecutor's, again saw Spencer and Hoare walking up and down in front of that house, and subsequently seeing a light in the bedroom, and knowing the prosecutor and his wife had left home, and did not intend to return until Wednesday evening, he went and communicated with his sister, who told him to knock at the door and ascertain if Mn. Sommers WAS at home. He did so, when be watanswend at the back door, and there saw three men, two of whom he and the second lad identified u those they had seen before, Spencer, who wore a peculiarlyehaped wide-awake hat, replying to his inquiry that Mrs. Summers was not at home, and telling the lads to go away and not knock at the door. Information was subsequently given to the police. and it was then discovered that the house had been entered by persons getting in at the window from the porch of ilia door. Sergeant Best, 21 It, then proceeded on bombs.: in pursuit of the thieves, and having ascertained from s police-constable at Hinckley, • short distance from prosecutor's house, that three men, two of whom answend the description given, had been directed the way to the Kent-road, Sergeant Best proceeded in that direction and overtook the prisoners in the New-cross-road. They were then conveyed to the police-station, end having been mined with several other men the lads were introduced to them separately, when they each picked out Spencer and Hoare as two of the three men whom they had seen in the prosecutor's house, mad also in the road previously. None of the stolen propu . :y had been discovered. Mr. Cockle, for the prisoners, alleged that the lads were entirely mistaken in their identification, and called three witnesses to show that they (the prisoners) were at the Castle Tavern, Brockley (shout ten minutes' walk from the proseentor's heave), at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of Monday, and did not leave the house until after 7 in the evening, when they remained outside that house until $ o'clock. and consequently could not have been the persons the bo'r had seen. The prisoners' employer wee idao.called, sal gave them a good character. Mr. Mande said it wan a most remarkable ease, but std the identity of the prisoners Mid been spoken to, under particular circumstances, by the two lads. To afford the police, however, an opportunity for further inquiry, be should again remand the prisoners, but would accept bail, in two sureties of 501. each, for their appearance. The required bail was immediately tendered and acceptel, and the prisoners were liberated. Mr. Cockle complained that, while under reamed, the prisoner had been treated as though they were convicted of one of them having been subjected to the indignity of having his hair "cropped." Mr. Maude said any complaint as to such treatment woubl have to be made to the visiting justices of Maidstone Gaol. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF BREACH OF PRONIse OF MARRIAOI.-1.11 the Glasgow Sheriff Court on Tue.lay an action wu tried at the instance of a saddler in Catlic,rt, waned Andrew Turnbull, against Agnes Barr, fur breach of promise of marriage, concluding for 200!. of damages. The pursuer stated that he had always beep eutertained in a kind and cordial manner by the defender, and that in June, Pick, in presence of ' a nephew and others, an offer and acceptance of marriage were concluded between them, iu consequence of which hs bad made extensive alterations on his dwelling house, and otherwise incurred considerable expense, while the de fender refused to fulfil her promise. Not only so. but she had taken up with another man, and been cried in the parish church, in order to marriage with s him. The pursuer put in the following document :— " Promise of marriage between Andrew Turnbull sod Agnes Barr:—Busby, June 18, 1860.-1, Andrew Turn bull, before God, do take Agues Barr to be my beloved wife, and to the party that rues they must pay 100/. to the other party.—Signed by AGNEN BAIR. AND. Tritest:Li: The defence was a denial that any mutual affec tion had sprung up between the parties, or that any offer or acceptance of marriage was concluded between them ; and an averment that the signing of the document called the " Promise of Marriage" was purely a joke. John Thomson, the defender's nephew, deponed—in June last, in the kitchen of Busby farmhouse, I wrote out the document produced. The pursuer asked me to write it. We had been joking about lads and busies. It was as a joke that the pursuer asked me to write said document. I wrote in addition the writing above the weeds "signed by, and the pursuer wrote after them the words, " James Todd," but he afterwards scored them out. I believe the pursuer at that time put his own signature to it, and that the defender then signed it also. They were laughing at the time. The whole thing was considered a joke by all parties. Some weeks afterwards the pursuer spoke about the line, and said he mnatiget money from the defender if she did not marry him. The defender's interest in her brother's succession does not exceed 1001., as far as I know. After some other evidence had been led, the sheriff pronounced judgment in favour ci the defender; but she would have to bear the expense of defending the action, as a punishment for her imprudence in signing the "promise ;" and Raid that lovers could not be too cautious in avoiding anything like a joke avant marriage. 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