The Express. — London, England, 1865-02-04 00:00:00

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But a case which was heard at great length in the Queen's Bench last week, and on which the Court yesterday delivered its judgment, carries us back to the days before the Protectorate, and to the arguments which were then pressed by COKE and Szter.l4 for and against monopolies. The argument may be interesting to the legal antiquary, but the consequences of the judgment are of novel and serious interest to the publiz. And it has taken even the law officers of the Crown almost by surprise. tinder the statutes authori• sing the Crown to grant patents for meritorious I inventions, it has never till now been conceived that the Crown could claim exemption for itself. The statutes give it, indeed, a right to obtain sup plies of a manufactured article at • fair price ; but this provision would seem by analogy to imply that it must pay for the use of a patented process, if used in its own manufactures. Sometimes, in deed, it has endeavoured, when a renewal of • patent was sought from the Privy Council, to have a condition inserted that it should be at liberty to use the invention. The law offi cers made an application to this effect in regard to the patent for the screw propeller, and again in the case of the Lancaster rifle, but the Privy Council refused the demand. That it was made, sad refused, shows how entirely the legal advisers of the Crown were then convinced that without such express restriction the Crown had no right, and how unwilling the learned Judges who presided in the Privy Council were to concede such a right, even in an individual case. But the Ad miralty have been more astute than the ATTORNEY GENERAL, and more constitutionally learned than the Privy Council. By the hands of Mr. RELD they have used Mr. FEATHER'S patent in the En terprise, and they have refused to pay him for his idea. Sued for the infringement, they have ad mitted that the idea is valuable, for they have allowed judgment to go against them for 10,000/. of damages, if they were found liable to pay anything in point of law. Nor does it even seem that the law officers sanctioned the legal plea after it was first suggested. The Arrosinar-GessaLL distinctly stated that it was not of his moving, but that the course was forced upon him by the " pressure of the Departments." They have complained that they were hampered by the multiplicity of patents, and they have taken this very summary method of freeing themselves completely from embarrassment. But it scarcely appears that their immediate success will be a permanent benefit to the public. Most of the patents which government officers will wish to use have little application except to govern ment productions. No other subject of the QUEEN will employ Mr. FEarneit's patent If not the Admiralty. No private manatee turer has such a demand for guns, shed, tents, or other warlike stores as is sufficient to make a patent pay, if it is not adopted by Govern ment. But if Government insists on using all inventions without paying for them, the result will be that nobody but its own officers will any longer TEE be at the pains to devise and perfect ag for the public use. Now, considering" bow many of the really valuable discoveries pew *pled in the Royal service have been made by outsiders, and how extremely few by officials, it is obvious that if we dry up the former source of invention, we shall find very Mile equiva lent in the efforts of the latter. But while these are the probable pradical results of the new system, there is in it an objection of principle, which is conclusive. Patents at present oonfer a right of property. The theory may be sound, or it may be mischievous ; but while the laws stand on the statute-book the fact is undeniable. Now the recent decision is virtually a permission to the Crown to seize this property. True, the benefit is supposed to be that of the public ; but the public is indisposed to take benefit by theft. And while we assure inventors that their property shall be respected by all the world, it is an anomaly of an evil kind that it should be infringed by the powers which profess to guard it. Of course, during the argument all idea of appropriation without payment was disclaimed. The Crown, it was declared, will always be disposed to deal liberally with deserving inventors. But who is to judge what is desert and what liberality t Here it appears that Mr. Run judged Mr. FiLTHIAII ideas to be deserving of adoption ; but we do not hear that he made any offer to pay for them to Mr. FSATHZIL'S astir faction. It is clear that an arrangement which gives all the power and all the right to one of the parties is unfair. Nor can the Crown take credit for liberality in any of its past dealings with inven tors. One or two, who were lucky, it has richly rewarded ; but the majority it has in every official way frowned at, discouraged, and starved. It is plain that they must have some protection against the mere arbitrary capita of subordinates, and the entire ignorance of their superiors. Nothing can be more reasonable than the principle that no patent shall exclude the public from right to use it on just terms. But these terms ought to be settled by fair arbitration, not left to be fixed by pre jud;oed partiality. There could be no difficulty in establishing such • provision. An arbiter named by the Crown, and another by the patentee, with an umpire in case of need, would speedily decide what an invention was good for, and what the public ought to pay for it. This proviso ought to satisfy the " Departments," for it will remove all real impediment from their way. But nothing WI will satisfy inventors, nor ought to satisfy the SERAFINA POLIGNI., the Italian, has been found guilty of the murder of MrcnAv. HARRINGTON, who was fatally stabbed last Boxing-day at a public house on Saffron-bill. This is the third time within a few months that a foreigner has been con victed of murder at the Old Bailey. The Germans, MULLER and Kost, were incited by cupidity to crimes varying in the degree in which they were premeditated ; PouoNl appears to have acted solely upon an impulse of passion. A number of his countrymen, of whom many reside in the neighbourhood of Saffron-hill, fancied that they had been insulted at the Golden Anchor publik.- house on the Saturday before Christmas-day, and appear to have harboured their ill-will, which grew into a determination to be revenged. Two days afterwards, on the 26th of December, in the evening. a number of Italians went to the Golden Anchor, and the primmer told the landlord that "he could kill six such as he." POLIO2II then left, and in his absence & row ensued and the landlord was struck. In the midst of the dis turbance the prisoner returned and, at the head of several of the foreigners, rushed into the bagatelle room, where the deceased man was sitting with others, and made a general attack upon them, in the course of which the prisoner stabbed the de ceased with a knife. The prisoner was almost immediately seized, and was recognised by the dying man as the person who had stabbed him : the fact was also sworn to by as many as six wit nesses. The prisoner's defence was well cared for. As in the case of Alcu.za, a number of his countrymen, firmly convinced of his innocence, exerted themselves on his behalf, and at the trial an attempt was made to show that the fatal blow had been struck by another Italian, who was proved to have been in the brawl, and who had suddenly disappeared. The jury, however, were perfectly satisfied of the sufficiency of the evident*. which Baron MARTIN declared " could not be " clearer, and was the most direct and conclusive "he had ever heard in the whole course of his "experience." Those, however, who have cul tivated a distrust of circumstantial evidence, and are unable to feel the force of proof result- ing from the convergence of a number of inde pendent facts towards one result, may learn from this ease that direct testimony is not without dif ficulties of its own. The counsel for the defence struggled ably with the evidence by which the pri soner was identified, arguing from the resemblance of the prisoner to other Italians, as to the features by which the witnesses for the Crown recognised him, and dwelling on the confusion and excite ment, which made it difficult for them to preserve a clear recollection of what bad occurred. But he argued in vain, and POLIONIN crime is to be ex piated by his death. The sentence is just. CU Court. OSBORNE. Fee. lk The Queen, the Princess of Wales, and Princes Helms drove out yesterday aftermath Io the monies Primer Hides' rode on horseback, attaaded by the Hos. Rama Lamellae. The Priam of Wiles also rode se bombe*. The Priem sad Princess of Wales sod Priem Albert Victor left Osborn this attest:me for Malbonstigh-boase, Weeded by the Coantar of Markle, Major Teesdale, add Dr. Hohmann. Msjor.Oenerel the Hoe. A. Hood sod the Hoe. D. de Res have succeeded as Fgareies-io•Waitlog. The PrioNs and Princess of Wales and Prima Albert arrived at. Marlboroogb.boeae yesterday welds'. from a visit to the (leen at Osborne. Their royal bight:ergo wore attended by the Nantes" of Morton and Major Teesdale. A Cabinet Council was held yesterda► at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, is Downing-street. The ministers present were— Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Right Hon. Edward Csrdwell, Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor 'of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley ot Alderley, the Earl of Clarendon, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. We William Soap bad an interview with Übe Bight Hon. Edward Cardwell, at the Oolonial-office, yemberday. The Lord Provost of Edinburgh bad sa interview ea Thursday with the Right Hon. the Secretary of Mete foe War, at the War-office. on the subject of the stomp of put powder in Ed'Oros& Chwths. The Judicial Oornithines of the Privy Conseil sat yet*. day. Present—Lord Cranworth. Lord Chelmsford, and the Lads Justices Knight Braes mid Turner... . Despatches were received yesterday at the Coksial-odles from the Governor of °amide. Despatches mere met to the (meson of Gibraltar, Mahe, Cerlow, Hong Roes, sad Imbues. • -.44 age, FEBRUK 1 0 p o , , p. MAY MT ga - i i*OfF l4 " . 1 r . IMO* . bee committed tire go vernment to the Maimla ' 1"1 11 o'clucx. *icy of the Emperor Napoleon. • I 111. ream is savived DWl"weed gees as adobes' .es galialaut.) A resolution beg 'been introduced int. is of Mabee* lies /stead its "" tie °*4l. Washington tam of Representatives dee Gramm became ilhe forme re fused to meson the AMERICA. that the S p anish seizure of the Chinas Islands its charge of " treason" against Mown and —w-- was part of a Franco-Austrian scheme to subverts e urerbin. ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA. the Spanish American republics. Gem Sherman writes that every point in South Cue- The House has pissed a bill reducing the duty Ms Ise at his mercy. The Royal Mail steamship China, from New York One thousand Wes of metes from Mobile, in exchange ow printing paper to 3 per cent. ad valorem. on the 25th ult., arrived at Queenstown at 8.30 for clothing, meshed New York, yesterday. The Savannah The Canada has arrived out. a.m. to-day (Feb . 4). She brings 78 passengers, sums le expected daily. 00KMER0IAL INTELLIGENCE. Ousesedere Edema, seamanffing the 'quadrat al and 708,340 dole, in specie. She landed 89 sacks NEW YORK, JAI. 25, Nowt. Mgt* has retuned to New Odium of mails, and proceeded for Liverpool at 7a. m. All Money easy. Gold has fluctuated since Monday Geeeral Granger made a reconnaissance up East Now well. betwee4 197 and 908, and is now quoted 205 t. Ex- goals River, but, Gunn too sissy toepsdoes, returned. (VA Crookhaves.) change on London, 228* ;on Paris, 2.10 to 2.13 i. A Wavily armed fluting battery sad trawled lies off NEW YORK, Jut. 25. Noon. Stocks declining. New York Centrals, 105 ; mi. " 110 . General Grant reports that despatches from nom 113 Erie, 631 ; 340 united sums Bondi. General Terry announce that the Confederates have ' 107 e. Cotton declining. Middling Upland, 82c. blown up and abandoned Forts Caswell and Camp to 850. Flour very dull. Wheat declining. bell, and the works on Smith's Island, Smithville, Corn heavy. Provisions declining. Coffee, sugar, and Reeve's Point. The marines ha v e occu p ied and molasses quiet. petroleum heavy muds, thou places. The total number of guns captured 46c.. refined, 630. is 182. A despatch from Admiral Porter, dated 17th inst., states that the gunboats had some difficulty in crossing the bar into the Cape Fear River. The Confederate. blew up two steamers, believed to be the Chickamauga and the Tallahassee. Admiral Porter thinks the Confederates are burning everything in Wilmington, and getting away as fast as possible. A large force of gunboats occupies the river between Fort Caswell and Wilmington. The greater portion of the larger vessels have returned to Hampton Roads. Admiral Porter states that be will move carefully along, and believes he will I be in Wilmington before long. He announces that the remainder of the rifled guns in the fleet have burst, and that the reputation of these guns is ruined. It is rumoured that Mr. Seward will be appointed minister to London. Five blockade runners were captured on the 18th Is Old Inlet, Wilmington. Their names are un known. A proclamation has been issued by the com mender of Wilmington, requesting absent citizens not to return. He says that if governed by his own inclination and judgment he will sooner burn Wil =instep than let Butler's countrymen occupy it. The Richmond Inquirer of the 20th announces that notwithstanding the rumours of the capture of Wilmington, communication between that city and Richmond is intact. The latest advices from Sherman state that the I Confederates, after retreating from Pocataligo, crossed and took up a position on the Combabee river. General Sherman is concentrating his forces at Meephersouville, a few miles from the Combabee river. The Richmond Despatch of the 20th asserts that Sherman has been checked, and will probably be delayed a long time at that river. According to Southern &mantas two monitors have sunk off Charleston. At a meeting of citizens held at Columbia reso lutions were passed urging the citizens to rally in their defence, and declaring that the evacuation of Charleston would be disastrous to the Confederacy. The government is also urged to send an adequate foree to prevent so great a calamity. Thomas is erecting winter quarters on the Ten nessee River. The indications are that he will not move from his present position. The Richawnd &Wine/ asserts that Hood's army is is good spirits, and that recruits are compensating for the losses in the late campaign. A formidable expedition has left Fort Gaines. Morgan has proceeded up the East Pascagoula River to within 15 miles in the rear of Mobile. General Forrest is concentrating at Houston for an attack on Memphis. Grant has visited Washington to testify to Butler's failure at Wilmington. The question of an exchange of prisoners has been placed in General Grant's hands. It is be lieved that a general exchange will shortly be effected. The Confederate Senate has passed resolutions, creating the rank of Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate Armies, and recommending that General Johnston be reinstated. The House of Representatives confirmed the resolutions in secret session, and General Johnston has since been re appointed to the command of the Army of the West. The Richmond Examiner states that these resolu tions make Lee Commander-in-Chief. No further reliable information has transpired as' to the result of Mr. Blair's mission. The New York Times places no confidence in the moms of Mr. Blair's efforts. The Richmond press deprecate idle peace discus sions, and recommend undivided attention to the war. The Richmond Sentinel has assumed a warlike ; r CANADA. OONVERCIAL NEWS Oottoa deallaol 15 oasts. ; madam, 85. Coda us &Lased ; 810, 43. Indigo sigletUad. Iron tuaietilid. Node pig, 56 dodos. Wised all. 180. Patrallaum flat auk, 45 ; voilsad, 82. Baps thalised halkaut. alt dull Saltpetre quiet. Tea dapresead. Totem advasasd. All Ell Rostlaa heap bas boas bought up by the gown , mast Freights firm. ______ QUEBEC, JAL 24. The conduct of the Southern refugees in Canada has been denounced in the Canadian parliament, and a determination has been expressed to stop the alms of asylum. A commission has been ap pointed to inquire into the release of the St. Alban's raiders and the conduct of Judge Coursol, who has been suspended by the government. The Fiume, Minister has preaented estimates, including It sum of 50,000 dollars to make good the money returned to the St. Alban's raiders, which has been claimed by the United States. The Toronto Leader mania that the British go vernment has ordered thirty gunboats to be sent from England to the Lakes as soon as navigation is open. [ The Toronto Globe, however, denies the truth of this statement i Burleigh's counsel has moved for a writ of - habeas corpus at Toronto. Weshington, .Ti*. 23. Certain information has been remind of the aura et the north-western prosiness of Mexico to Frame. The armagemant gm escrefly eossladed with Cie Empire Napoleon several months ago. It is regarded as a Nape. limb move in Wow of the South. The Smithsonian Institute ism burnt yesterday. General Terry demanded the surrender of Wilmington as Use 19th. Ramon= prevail of the probable revocation el the pumped lidera. LATEST FINANCIAL. Orm o'CLocc. MEXICO. NEW YORK. JAN. SS. Unreliable reports reoeived here, vitt, San Fran cisco, state that the Mexican government has ceded Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Dorango, and Lower California to the Emperor Napoleon. Ex-Senator Givin of California has been ap pointed Viceroy, with the title of duke. The steamer Golden City sailed from San Fran cisco on the 23rd with 600,000 dollars in specie for England and 260,063 dollars for New York. Gold 204. Nosey nnelisaged, but eorodisq;bie distrust prevails. Sterlieg 52n), 94. Stooks Am 81xes of 'Bl, 110. PlurTisenty, 1074. Illinois, 115. New York, 106. Erie, 69. The Chios has 700.000 dole. specie on board. The foreign malls per Clans& will arrive to.night. (vii TBa TTLEGILLISICI EZWIS AISOCIATION.) (Per China, vla Orookhaves.) NEW YORK, Jut. 25. Grant televaphe the destruction and evacuation of Forte Caswell sad Campbell, and the walks os Smith's laud, Smithvills, ad Reeve's Point, also the rupture of lilt goes. It is rimmered that the Confederates have do steer& all the blockade MOWN Weide the bar, also the Tallahassee and Chiskaumup, and set fire to 30,000,000 of cotton. The two latter rumen are sot credited. A large force of gunboats is stationed between Fort Cas well sad Wilmington. Five large-sized blockade runners were farmed is Caps Fear River last week. They were not aware et the Federal oimuritios. oaten are on the way to fall into the same trap. Most of Porter's heavy meals have retina to Fortress Bourse. Communication between Richmond and Wilmington wee still open on Thursday, but the Faints were reported ad vancing os the clay. The Zonatiner mays the Coafederates are there is force. Ostend Hoke drove is the Federal pickets os Bonday, bat the feeling in Richmond in that Wilmington will fall. Richmond advice. report Sherman sheeked at the Com . bales Riser, hie forces were sasoestratiog sear WPM,- asiv"le. The Confederates were out of the Cetsbahee. Heidi reinformiusele hare arrived is Chariest.., sad son-combat seta were leaving. All busisesioss suspended, and govern ment property, user arms, was removed. The rear of the city is reported planted with tetras's. A public meeting at Columbia opposed the evaimatioe of the shy. An Alabama paper reports Hood's army in ezeelleut spirit., sod larger than when it sotered Middle Tennessee. Cerra Joe Jot:o'ton has been reinstated I. commend. The WAip says Hood was relieved at his own mead. Boom prd is at Tupel. The sultans of prisoners has been iotrusted to Gnat. Butler has mat a sort of challenging note to the rspreseo. lathes Smoke, asking him what he meant by call* t'in a " gold robber., Brooks broesht the matter up in Coegress and reiterated the epithet. The republican members de fesded Bailie. The louse decided to rodeos the paper duty to 3 per mat. ad «dorm. It also cocooned I. the Senate mole tint opposing the Emperor Maximilian 's resapitica. The ram nenicon have suddenly dropped. The radical senators istrodoood resolution. diseanchig all attempts at negotiation until the rebels sue for mercy. The Daily New says Lineolo close not expect pew% got is preparing for a vigorous campaig.i. The Riolunsed papers us very warlike. The Whig mays there is so thought of yielding or falba& but it demands that Congress pus the neossemy only bills without delay. The Inquirer says let pesos slide, but should the South be Orally (immured, Europe will be respoceible. It then threatens to march with the North at Canada, capture from ltexko. Cubs, aid drive the Emperor Maximilian . The article is highly sensational. The Examiner severely condemns all peace projecia, and says war, not peace, is the bounce of the Confederacy, and all talk shoat plea is irrelevant and neralem. The South is able at this hoar to put half a million fighting men in the field and still leave enough for anticline-or and manufactures. If Congress maned do its duty and drop its pesos imposture it should be aperesiled by • con auras of states. The same paper marts positively that Secretary Seddon has resigned. The ham authorised, by a vote of 43 to 31, the introduc tion of a bill impressing all cotton and tobacco in the Confederacy on government aeooant. It has also, in secret make, endorsed by a vote of 62 to 14, the Senate resolu tions making Lee Commander.io•Chief. Mr. Foote re appeared in the hoses, defined his position, and withdrew. He said be endeavoured to go to Washington to make poem The latest soirees from Richmond report an ad dress from Congress assuring the people of its unalterable determination to rations with all its energy the struggle for independence and of the final triumph which mat crown its efforts. Captain Semmes has reached Richmond after a tour through the South. At a speech in Charlotte he said that despite the reverses Confederate proapecta were still bright. General Thomas, with moat of his army, will remain in the wed to watch Confederate movement'. The Golden City, from Sea Francine of the 23rd, took 865,000 dollars In gold to Panama for England. The sager crop of Honduras is Gamow, The Ridiniond Enquirer argues that blockade running has wasted the resources of the South to benefit speculators in Ragleo4 and the United States. The port el Galina" it says, should be closed to blockade rennin at woe, and not soother bale of cotton permitted to leave the South. The Macon reivrapli avant.. Mae abandonment of all the seaports el the Confedereny, aid seereentrstion of all forces in the interior. It is doubted whether Lee will accept the proposed The Richmond Examiner says that if the South app ointment of oommaader.iu.shisf is conquered she would find consolation in assisting Seventy-two lives were lost by the hlowing.up of the Iron to vindicate the Monroe doctrine, and build up a dad Faunal' off Charleston. colossal power on the American continent. This The Injury to the Downie Railroad by the freshet is object might now be obtained if the North recog- el %SOO bales el government cotton were recently burred at nised Southern independence, with an offensive and A agseta „g Ham b urg . defensive treaty, customs unions of free trade, nn- A . conter sdeng mods 40,000 "contraband...fa ma. interrupted travel between the States, and the free Ingle., many without food or fuel, and is a pesishlng essi. navigation of the Mississippi. This would give the I ditios. • people the advantages of the old Union without its 'Atom from the Sh""dc" repressor law* is evils. The policy of both nations would be the onsequesur of Sheridan 's devastation. Grain wee not only soiree, but there were no mills to grind it. Monroe doctrine. The British man-of-war °elates arrived at Fortress Min , The New York Tribune asserts that the impres- tee on Thursday. aion prevails in diplomatic circles that Mr. Seward General YoClellan is a passenger in the China. tone. Resolutions have been introduced in the Wash ington Senate to the effect that no negotiation, con cession, or compromise can be entered into with rebels until they manifest unconditional submission to Federal authority. War must continue notil their submiseion is secured, and the constitution established over the whole of the United States territory. The Confederate House of Representatives ha s unanimously confirmed the resolution to issue an address to the Southern people announcing the determination of Congress to continue the war. Senator Foote has resumed his seat in the Con federate Congress, and annonnced that when ar rested he was proceeding to Washington to see if pacification could not be effected consistently with the Southern claim to independence. A motion to expel him was referred to the committee on elec tions. General butler has written a letter to Mr. James Brookes, a member of Congress, demanding an ex planation of a speech made by the latter asserting that a gold robber, in the person of a major-general, had been sent to New York to control the elections. Mr. Brookes read General Butler's letter to the House of Representatives, reafiirming that Butler was a gold robber, and asserting that his letter was an infraction of the privileges of a member of Con gress. The Speaker decided that the letter was not an infringement of privilege. General Butler has addressed a letter to the Speaker asking a committee to investigate his official acts. MEXICO. CESSION OF PROVINCES TO FRANCE. The Emperor klailiallina has seated Yr. Gioia =- Senator of California, Vieeroy of the provisoes of Sonora, Chihuahua, Stook, Durango, and terror California—which pontoon have been ceded to the Emperor Napolooa, Mani for the aid rendered by his troop to tha eetabhab meat of the aew Ifeziems empire. The French troops are rationally gaining new successes to their operations on the Pacific coast. The Viceroy Gioia is to have a meleiect form of troops to support him in the antis' of his functions. Emigration, to work the mixes sod develop the reeonroms of the pro- Timor oiled to Fran* is to be acoonged from the Om. Mende Stater and from southern radiate in California. The sew State extends from the Gulf of Mexico to the Palk. CANADA. The Canadian parliament is taking high ground on t h e raiding question; .ad the abase of the privilege of asylum. Ooeuniseionsze its authorised to investigate the relines of the raiders, the melioration of the money, and the essdnet of Judge Conrail sad Imuothe. The Otwerner•General asks for an appropriation of 50.000 dollars is gold, to Iry Wiens the St. Albea'a banks. A habeas corpus is nibs argued in Barley's ems. (zrolties Tsuigaim) .---- - ARRIVAL OF THE KING OF ITALY AT FLORENCE. FLORENCE. Frs.3, 11. F.M. King Victor Emmanuel arrived here at 10 o'clock this evening. The city is illuminated and decorated with flags. A very large number of persons thronged the King's line of route to the palace, and enthusiasti cally cheered his Majesty. The National Guard alone are under arms. Shouts were raised of " Viva it Rd Galantuomo !" On reaching the palace the King came out on the balcony in re sponse to the socialisation of the people. WZLTHER REPORT. .-(THIS DAY.) r 4 I &11. EITORDAT, FIII'WUXI A L I /Ll_ 41.11 11 It • !MX a dion —I ~:~ - i o ruala aca° llB .....l C 4=la Cass Clai; out MI ILL 19.311 441 KIX Emasimm 111.39 44' Z. V 0114•11 29.45 43 LW. Wochefort 29.6715 W. Plymouth 29.t1 4$ LILL Weymouth 29.47 4$ Portamoulh 19.4.5 41 L.E.. tondos 20.41 IS E. Dora Tomos* Scarborough 29.61 IN 65. E. IWO lUa al's. W.N.W. I s.s ▪ SAW. • ' L 2 $. 1 ' SAW. ' mr.s. - SCUMS. ocitosrmsai Moir nil. E. to N., 'Moog to ODAIM. N.E. to Mame( to places, • gale. moderate, with some MOIL SAW. to W.N.W. Wllfrialf. N. to K., drool to and to N., moderato troth, soar tom to Won, some rain. &K. to S. W. and N.W., fitotWasi. N.lt. to LL, frodt, moderate, variable. assettled, sews rubs ii. L. to N.E. and N. W.. 141121211. E;islerty. fresh to fresh to strong, with strong, with vow lk)Me RIOW. snow or roan. Northern =Scotland. Westarnwlreired, Walla, and adise newton Southern= English amend and Bay al Meng. Eastern =lest wird England and North Sea. Tut Nice; JUDGL—Wo have good reason for liming that Mr. Montague Stalk, Q.C., is to sawed to the soigne judgeship vacated by Kr. Jules WWlw in the Court of Cowes Pleas. Mr. Smith was calla to the bar la 1835, and Waisted a ilk pwn ia 1847. He haa loag been in extenaive practice, both in London and on the Western Omit. His appointment will be very acceptable to the profession gessrally, mad the ewe eo as be has ob tained it solely on the reputation is bears is his profemion as a sand lawyer. He in a conservative In polities, end el s in the Hones of Oommoss for Trarm—Tussee. CARDINAL Wm, :max.—The following bulletin was ;weed at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon :—" The Cardinal hal passed a very restless night, sad is weaker to-day." The calls from protestant' es well as Roman catholic' at York-plies have been very numerous. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll have taken up their maws for the season at their villa is Osemrion hill. Kensingtos. The Marquis and Marchioness of Alleabury have Mee estertaieing the following distleguishal party at Savereake Pareit, Wilts :—Maria Marebioneen of Alas bury, the Marquis and Marehlosses of Bath, the Earl Owen* the Earl el Dimmers, the Ooentees of Dumas* and Lady Victoria Murray, Viscount Enfield, Visemat and Vieeountem Powerecoart, Viscount and Viseonateme Somertee, Lord Stanley of Ablerlay, Lord aid Lady Charles Brum Laid Riehard Dreamer, the Hos. Osissal Fielding and Ledy Louie" Field*, Colossi the Hoe. Hwy sad Mrs. Byag, the Hoe. F. Leveson.oower, Coisesi the lies. damn Macdonald, the Hoe. R. Meade, and Mr. Wendt. Lord Lyons will return to town on Monday next from staying with the Eml sad Muster Bussed at Pembroke Lodge. Riehmead. Lord Stanley, M.P., has arrived in town from Ksoweley Park, Leseaskins, ter the seasoa. Yesterday evening, at the ordinary meeting of the members of the Itsyal lastitstioa. Profanes" OdUag de livered a leder. "ea almelaiess, stkide,aud seeable" Mr. Campbell Clarke succeed' Mr. Hogarth as ermetary to the Pdflartnesie fieriety. Six new members elected during the recess will snake their appearame is the hones seat week—be wit, Lord Courtesay. for Exeter, vise liweed Welt, deasesei ; the Hos. Geo. Waage:am Labs for Hestia^ vMe Lord Bony Irma sew Doke of (Amelia ; Wtlllam lon* foe Ofinmerthen, We David Myrrh. Weasel ; Lard Angled= Che Alas Itemm, for West SOW Ws East Jniya, new Meespda ef &Mei ; WWie>i Dememet t foe ikemlay. Mee IWeiser! Spews ; sad Mr. Boyle for Dateidre. There Ns two vernmeiss. Trak* and Salford. IFOTS pal IS Mil r -11 i i i; •••• 1 2 ... 1 2 au' a am" iwisi &SI 5 *All I .•- I LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAT.) COURT OF QUZEN'B RUCH. After Term Nil Prim Sitiage at Weetasimegio.—.oa.._ Lord Chief Julies Coekbans and • goo** y Imo MEV V. lIVIOLII.--11111 0.4211 Of VIZ OLif ) The farther bearing el thin ammo was remised Mole wo * , lug, by &Ilse Titaness for the dolma. The stem Imo g ig omegas's' this day es on the provisos_ lin. lb. Torsos, swilled by Mr. Het I was y • bags 'hive's's , el Hull, with Coln and Co. of Loadms. The g:yr at Flatboat Visitor ersa premed by them, end I raimegmg tleammition for them. Kr. Colseasa lay terms r l i r ar I Ind the priesipal raperintimidesee of whet err restdred for labs for eat. The vessel wr said by gig ems to • dna le nesse, eabjset to her exambagoa go s plena ma yUna* making her seaworthy. It wm a absolute mle te w e toms In Trams, and the his of male wes rime te re modem ; there wee • eseleast made with the go*, Mu lti, to fie Its vase tr . is 1 111:41 . -raft ft o de write • latter to Kr. gandilm7which was signed 1 1 : 16 ' Oeienems, irides him se andertake the mosamemoot doddig and repairs of the Victor, we netleriekieg all the memo emeriszy, be. I bad hem lir. ge o lf, for moms yams I wrote a letter to Mr. Ramble le ge Ohl that ehe wee beetled far • voyage to Ohlelgt* Thome hoses. I told Hr. Ramble it wee y to *moo trial tot no (mum G. D. Fl sad Os netemar , el !took who wigged Mr. Banmem. ordered her away. I had mks% to de with him. I was at board myself too the trig * repreesekag Mina It wee always used, sod instance it was asesemary there should be • trig *MA** as beard warty the whole of the day, aid several hoe Ware db. Marta Them was ao secret My her starting. We started as soma es we wog het away. Somme mows got abroad gm ops bed rommethiag oe board beloaglog to th, and boardthe willemema as to lo o k she o l kafter it. t g e e M goy —oee +Mks amid the detesdeat, who wme la mime 1 with kls edtmn. They all seambed the skip vim imiemk . He wee on board shoat a hoer. After that the Mahal did sot sons oa board the ship again mita she vas Calais barboer. Hr. Greathead was me cd a.oaken who mate as board with the delendmat. thought the boilers were in good order before 'helmet Ohs* sea. There bad hese is esaminatioe of the bodes, l eg Nr. Itainthe, as goveramet impactor of machinery dish bed made • tarots/ebb ripest, but the ugly matialmemy al testing boilers MY by trying them iu the trill trip fi weld me havebees safe to send herb sea witheat m told trip. She was way to leak ap, and it would hemmed Am mash imp repair her es to bends sew ship. I Mew go had been said two _ Tool, sad we boogie hem es make • prod& at • brealdeg-a prim. W. pm ow* where amid 9,0001. ta p her. The HO ago lof opal were safilelent for emeamptiom, lo g ballet for • tell trip. Scsae of theboilms would vote* and we had to bear up at the Nom became we meld smog the alma sp. In the owning we got two of the _ work, mid &rift the day we got fear el them la amt, After I left the ship I beard some of the team lee le, • • I harem doubt I told Kr. Ramble she would ham hip* a trial trip. We arrived Wain Ito the doe dthesemeim sod we bad • river pilot on board. 1 west on stare madam back by kale unmegisiely to Lemke. It em sot limas& site should go tat"the harbour. Then* wanted to know hew hag they would be maid. d what they *weld be mild. said • mesacesedem te that dm* was signed by Yr. Itanmay, that the trip ma ally ea pasted to he for • few dais, bat the men wadi hells memoranda= that it abeeld not exceed 14 daye. The were no sailers es beard, sod she was only is a meikkals mai • Wel trip der h maimbinety. The gal lld m mle, Moat the tw o or the Ossfetimale hg bails beta halted was ays after my IMITh • Loadoe. No Sag was halted whilst Ima on limed, md the,. Wife re materials with which to mats ass The pre. chasers pet the provides , oe board. I leaded in s yid beat, whilst she was eider way, to come back. I leek he kola. amid was in London by half-peat 7 the fell* maning. As tar as I know the defeadaat wee alma, that she was amities& for fir Omifederate swim By the Lad CUM Jaskol—Were you. You amine aim yes Wm. l it tle--I decline to answer, my lord. By the liolioiteramosral—Did I understand yea to es yes limew 'nothing about her being a Coefedsrate We? The Lewd Chief Jos le--No. The gosition was es time* pet sad cautiously aaswered about ths dig. Orememmeimid by the Solititor•Geesral--Tbe AIM agleam were very good. It is true that I sold her for 4 "Ceto Odom liolicitor.Geseral—Did you really believe the me mum to Chine Witeses-1 have told you that I sold her, and Mei* of the reatrest ow that she should go to Mies. The Lard Chief ladies—Answer the quietism Did ym believe else was going to China? Witnem—l wet speak positively. The Lord Chief Justioe—You are not asked that. lii Whim le Wlteem--1 am not sere what I thought about it st sh time. - The Lard Chief Justice—You have plated young! *maims to have the iuestiou out to Tom, mad yea mil sweet it. Did yoo believe she was Foul to Ohba KIM Whom ilmesitatiog some timM—Yes, I lad imma I believe the intestioa of the yardman was that mks deli go to Chime. The Lord Obis! Jastiee—You ititige your eta OM is believed she was gob* to Chim Witame—Le the drat lilac* you Do doubt ef k. Thm Lard Chief Jastiee—Did elieve it whoa de idt libeereem. I you are swearing by the wade, Ilse terms of the centred, but do you believe she ems pr• drool to go So Obi's? Vitamin—l caret swear as to my belief at the kma I wasftled to get a customer and sill ber to the t.d 11. vestige. The Lad Chief Justiers—Do you really think tb.t I a eiwww to the with grimace ea! ? Ara your not osessioeps ail 1a trifling itarws—lt is sow 18 mouths ego or Ready no. • The Solicitor-General—Do I understood yea to ay list you don't know what yam did believe! Witness—As first I believed she was to be a Cambia end, bet are woo to be ani mit s a voyage wain. 2..ehaans bought her to re-eidl a , sad they tai Isa ia view, either to sell her to the Coefsdereinsw Is seed los era some to China. In my °mina as as le be seat to China. TM EloiioitorGeoend—Wal you explain why & Oaf& rate ship should go to China! Aritasse-1 win explain it. Coatederste wailers go ewer the saes. I MOM that I sold this sand to thew Mr Vaasa. Their ieteetioa was to make a large per& ort . ‘ it tans the Osofedershis, and I was to equip her toe s ravage. tile Solicitor-Geoeral—tpoo the tnal hip did ra kaat she waa to be a Confederate cruiser? Witmem—l bad ors knowledge of it. The Soliciter•Genend—Did you believe it at the lima! Witless—l did sot, bemuse she was in each s looks down date at the time. The evidence for the defame closed with the snowba lls of this witness, and of Nis Bumble and two at tit* be I others. Tu Aogsic•lr Was.—On the whole, the site ties of the Confederates has become rapidly owl within the lad throe months. The selnnsiwws Gasses' Joseph Murton to the eommeed of gas army out seem restore the Confidantes whet Of have lost in the west, and it is , if actual, • "W it of erne en the part of • t Do* +Wm= the Moog* of the apparition to his rids by the recent misfortunes of the Booth. JO cannot be everywhere, and cannot do li the Northern papers can be trusted, tI:=LIWW• Lave at last abandoned ends end print•9 l a▪ a to arm • portion of their *WNW ; 4 4 4 Oi those table auxiliaries as. mid to be se&tVog 9 WWW Lion just at the very moment that the North 41(14 4 w patience the utmost difficulty in obteini nersio We ! the clouds, over all the tumult of the e.g . , arms, end the din of battles, ate heard ortesplue Taoism ing of peace end good will ; and gold goes sped dews IO mercury in a barometer se the news of minor miff* failure, agitate the stock exchanges of the North. hi dent Davis marmot commit to reunion ; !Nankin IMO cannot offer him any other condition ; but a toes nil W patched up on the base of oommon eggronine. posed foreign seemies, with the undeninin•i•g.,_„_„,e - w " great domains di ff erence may be left for feel sillm••• - ' to a victorious future.—Arety mad Navy Oro& RAILWAY T RA FFIC RZCZWILE —The talk 10 ' taro of railways In the United Kingdom. OWl6bwitirli° week ending the 28th of January, emanated 44 miles to 568,7354, and fee the ootrespoidiag 1,9 W d ea 11,400 miles, to 569,6201., ehowmg as 332 miles, end a decrease of 8847. is the receipts. ••• Pow reosipts on 14 of the princip al railways Is Of Coiled Kingdom amounted for the week cia to 465,6991, sad for the corresponding wok ea 'swa g Year, es 8,045 mßes, to 464,4861 . ; showing in the mileage of 248 miles, and of 1,1431. ie the The increase on the Odedoeien the to I es the Great &dun to 1,0481. ; oe the God ONO/ and Welters to 268/. ; on the Greet Westin texposilli the Les/whin and Yorkehire to 2101. • ea the 2,3441.• en the North British to 9221. ; es the radols; to 1.5501.; total, 7,8531.; bat from BO , dusted 1,0391, the diereses on the Greet NerMowo on the lonise and North Western, 331. is O• don end Brigid's, 9471. op the Lembo asf 111j= uro rt. the ffistichester , Whowilm , • asd 1, os 3ool. on the Soutle•Restsni, the hereto ea shove, 1.1431. The MOO ether Uses th e yaw Kingaw• on 3,499 ;Kilos to 103.1071.; sad for the week of lest year, en 3,415 mike , to 106.1341.. an tsereeoe 0484 nelles owl decrease of Zan 18 eelpte. The goods traffic on the 14 lines sheer antettsbal for the week to 281.1881. Whist • fag In iseresse el 10,3101. The piesetersuln •••+ .,„ ka.. traffic on these lines smennted tO 144, 4 • 14 193,6181. for the correspoodier period of Itekshnet 4 l mess id 11,1771. Iles total receipts 01_,741 6 , chew • domes elf 14,6191. se oomOnn• the onsedieg week madiag the 21st Jesus* r+~ ..~ te • - Ili , 01.44! Via as s'N ii• trii ••• 01 • _ y ile r 1." In/ wens :41 0 diei h roe AI 1 OM tbi I to AM b a~ H se I. : i i 1 • 1 k