The Express. — London, England, 1865-05-26 00:00:00

OPERA and RACK GLASSES, by NEGRETTI and ZAMBRA, 21s. aad lb., la leather cam with rook Moses, or in shasalehus, a dulness sad upwards. To be bad only at their tour establishments, 1, Hattemgantes ; : legratetreet and 163, Flertetreet. JOHN BROODEN. riIisiGIIKAL GOLD 01 ‘,/ impusgwal UN MANUFACTORY, F. OWINNIAIIDier. GOLD CHAINS. "ORR IiROGDFSIII GOLD GUARD CRAWS. 'Oll/1 BROCIDINGOLDALBSRT CHAIN& %MN BROGDEN'i GOLD BROOCH CHAINS. TIVIMEMBER ! you will see your friends st JAY ILVANIS after the Opera. We shall amp than. %the erprepo. TO 00/JUISPONDANTIL A tweetbestelm faterttlim ter .. The Itipreit" London Imams mot be M Übe Mos. 111, lionved•44rbot, b Two = ow the du of pabilatilos. MATIMILRIESI. Twa WWII& OUR MART ANYIL—RIATRF.R RAM Wows. Sothern, sad Coaptoa. llsolmes Saowdoa sad Ilaw•—T111 MILLIM• DAUCOURR. Mr. hUto awl Nits L. lissisi.—• o4 • HISS IN THS DAM • Imam TIES ivierio. IiZALUITILINGS AND TIDDLZATIIINO3. —ARIAN NA POGUILtosno. D. Doneleautt. 3. ercamtuim, R. Van Amber, D. Itslber. D. Marro, Seytoa. Chides: Km D. %%damn and Ma IL 0111., —And AN AM PLE APOLOGY.dp • LYCAUM. TEO ammo, A DAY ATTE& THE WEDDING.— lOW CIAAN DE MEAN. Kam Yeektar, Drier, Irttipstrkk, °snip. sod Kayabori : lifra Lee. sad Mims LATIIOII sad Car lotta Locisicq.—AA TIM UM CHILD. Mr. Widdioosub.. asnasnriA. Tars NTiolas. BAlNanu Ou AL—Tbe Templegois strek —TUE VOL. ANO OV ITALY. am S. Lew.-4ed BEAUTY AND THE ELM. Wain. Lein. sad V.ton MUM 81. Cuss and UAL —tnninkanne as halt-own L BIOS WAVLE!. AT LONDUN•B&IDGL "I ' 1 TKO DAT Wyllie& •h. gini AfterpooftllPA. 4Te. TO4IOIIIIOII MaleMi2X. 313. 7Bal ifiargioo%. IA. 475. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 26. Mr. JEFFERNON Davis has failed to make his escape. He his been surrounded and captured, and his family and staff are prisoners with him at Washington. Thus has the boasting in which, longer than any other of the leaders of the Confederate rebellion—to the misleading ;of European opinion and at a fearful sacrifice of life—Mr. DAVIS indulged, come pitifully to I nought. What, it is everywhere asked, will be his fate t Willa terrible exception be made, and his life be taken as the penalty of his acts t We can reply with only such confidence as is inspired by our estimate of the judgment and humanity of the authorities at Washington. The large class of writers and talkers who sympathised with and as sisted the Confederates while the armies were in the field, now carry on the war with misrepresen tations, injurious rumours, hypocritical regrets, and malicious counsels. If we listen to them, we shall hear that DAVIS is to be hanged ; that the North will brave the sentiment of the civilised world and spend the blind fury of its revenge upon the body of the captured Confederate. But men who have been so utterly wrong throughout the struggle have little claim to be trusted now. Impartial readers will remember the past, and bearing in mind the terms which up to this time have been allowed to prisoners of war, and the leniency—which not even the dreadful assassination of Mr. Liwroaw could disturb—exhibited to chiefs whose hostility to the North has been scarcely less effective than that of Mr. Davis, will wait the result with com parative composure. Other reasons for this atti tude are not wanting. The Abolitionists, who now possess considerable influence in the State, are unanimous in the desire that Mr. Davis may be treated with justice and clemency. The charge brought—too hurriedly, it would seem—against him of complicity in the plot against the lives of Mr. LINCOLN and Mr. SEWANU is, we are led by one portion of the telegram to think, likely to be withdrawn, and this very mistake, so serious in its injustice to Mr. Davis himself, will, so far as it has any effect, help to turn the current of the thoughts of a generous people in his favour. The other pieces of iutelligence brought by the Scotia tend to strengthen our hope that the course of President JouNsoic's government will continue to be marked by moderation, and by that calmness which is the characteristic of strength. There is a rumour of a new amnesty proclamation ; the conspiracy trial is taking place in open court, and the French Ambassador has received an assurance which, while it shows that there is a point where French ambition will be checked, will satisfy our neighbours that the foreign policy of the United States Government will be neither aggressive nor nnconciliatory. In the Catholic Directory, Ecclesiastical .Register aid Almanac, for the present year, pub lished, as the title-page informs us, "Permissa superiornm," we find a display of the strength of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England, showing the number and names of the clergy, their churches, chapels, and places of residence, as well as a de tailed list of all the convents, colleges, schools, societies, reformatories, and other religious insti tutions now existing in the kingdom By this it would appear that there are one Archbishop /3: and twelve Suffragan Bishoprics in Eng mad and Wales, the first being the see of West minster, to which Dr. biANNING has just been named, the latter taking their denominations from Newport, in South Wales, Birmingham, New castle, Sonthwark, Salford, Shrewsbury, Notting ham, Liverpool, Plymouth, Clifton, Northampton, and Beverley. At first sight this list may appear formidable enough ; the scale or framework is large, but when it comes to be looked into, we shall Snd that some of these disseees con tain fewer clergy than most rural deaneries of the Anglican Church, and that, although the machinery seems extensive, the power which • it wields is comparatively s ma ll. Th us , i n the largest diocese, that of Westminster, which include, all London north of the Thames, as well as the counties of Hertford shire and Essex, we find there are 214 priests, doing duty in 117 churches and chapels. Bat of these no less than 34 live together in community, ' namely, 19 belonging to the Oratory in Brompton, and 15 to the religious house in Bayswater of which Dr. MANNING WAS lately the superior. Of the 214 priests there are, moreover, 10 belonging to St. Edmund's College at Ware, 31 who are chap lains to convents, schools, and other institutions, 6 who do duty in domestic chapels belonging to noble men and other wealthy Roman Catholics residing near London, and 5 who are returned as " un " attached." Thus in the chief and metropolitan F gai t )rig out, bat Roman Catholic diocese of t..„ . 128 priests doing what may • 4 • a better word, parochial d these we deduct five . labour among their • , courefereen,nilikro' b utoo Italian Church in Hatton-garden; one Polish priesh, who hes a small chapel for the Poles ; two Germans, who are attached to the German mob in Whitechapel ; and four French priests, - - Bing to the French Chapel in George-street, Portman-square, we find that the actual spiritual wants of the English Roman Catholics in and about London north of the Thames are supplied by little more than a hundred priests. It is true that the clergy of the Oratory, and of Bayswater, as well as of the Jesuit Church in Farm-street, help their brethren by preaching and other admi nistrations when required, but the actual number of effective working priests in the diocese of the late Cardinal WISEMAN is what we have stated. Nor should it be overlooked that in the Roman Church, what with the n umber of different services, confessions, and visiting of the sick, it takes at least two priests to get through the work which one Protestant clergyman could accomplish in a congregation of the same size, and therefore we may safely say that the Roman Catholic priests of the West minster diocese do not exceed in effective power fifty Anglican clergymen. It is not necessary to go through all the thirteen Roman Catholic dioceses in England in detaiL We have selected that of West minster as an example, because it has more clergymen on its list than any other, the next in point of number being that of Liver pool, where there are 193 priests. Here, again, however, we find that there are only 100 clergy men "on the mission," as it is termed, the rest being attached to various colleges, communities, religious houses, schools, and other institutions ; so that even this part of Lancashire, which has not only been always considered the stronghold of Romanism in England, but in which there are many thousands of Irish living, can only num ber somewhere about fifty ordinary congrega tions—such congregations as in any Protestant denomination would be entrusted to the charge of a single clergyman. The diocese of Birmingham has 141 priests, of whom 113 only are "in mis -1 ' miens," the rest being in communities, or in colleges. In the diocese of Southwark—which includes all London south of the Thames, as well as Surrey, Berkshire, Hampshire, Kent, 1 Sumex, and the Channel Islands—there are also 147 priests, but of these 37 belong to commu nities, and nine are " unattached." Under the Bishop of Beverly there are 116 priests, of whom only nine belong to a college, and three are " no " attached," leaving 104 for parish duty ; but of these 19 are chaplains to as many different con vents. In the Newcastle diocese there are 99 priests, of which only 66 are attached to congre gations, the rest belonging to colleges and other communities. The statistics of the Shrewsbury diocese give 71 priests, but of these nearly one half are in communities, or private chaplains to convents. The Bishop of Clifton, who has under his spiritual jurisdiction the Roman Catholics of Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, and Wilts, has 62 priests in his diocese, and of these but 40 are " on " the mission." In the list of the Nottingham diocese we find 59 clergy, of which 40 appear 'to be attached to congregations ; whilst under the Bishop of Newport, in South Wales, there are 47 priests, and in the dioceses of Plymouth and Northampton there are respectively 34 and 31 clergymen. This completes the list, being a grand total of 1,316 priests, of whom at least one-third are either attached to college; or living in com munities, or acting as private chaplains at con vents, or in the houses of noblemen or country gentlemen. Thus it will be seen that there are little more than 800 Roman Catholic priests doing duty with congregations in England and Wales. IE from clerical we turn to secular statistics, the little influence which the Roman Catholics can have in England becomes still more apparent. Of Eng lish peers there are thirteen who belong to this denomination ; and yet there is but one single English Roman Catholic—Lord EDWARD HOWARD —who represents an English constituency in the House of Commons, the place for ishich he ie mem ber being Arundel, a family pocket borough, having but 192 electors. it is true that, beelike Lord EDWARD, there are 32 Roman Catholics who are members of Parliament, but these all represent Irish constituencies, and, with two exceptions, Sir JOHN ACTON, member for Carlow, and Sir GEORGE BOWYRR, who sits for Dundalk, they are all Irishmen. We question whether there is any other religious denomination in England which has so few representatives in the House of Commons as the English Roman Catholics. The danger of the Anglican Church, so far as Roman Catholicism is concerned, is within and not without the limits of its own camp. If Protes tantism is in danger from Romanism in England, it is from that Romanian) which is within the Church, and which sate of her substance whilst betraying her citadel. If Roma' Catholics are increasing in numbers and in influence in England, it is clergymen paid by the State who are doing their best to cause the reinforcement of the ranks of the enemy. 4 ...., _gtivit . • BATJAORAL, Hu Is. Tit ii dro' itilegemi Hely" in , Lod , -ir tooi lr agi :11111i 60 Pii attostlea I:4 the Dottiest al Athole. Prises Arthur, attended by Major arrived from a tour la the Lot. The Primo and Manse d Wake, witk Prince Albert Vesta,. left Marlboroash.hosas yesterday afternoon for tits WWI. Lodge, Richmond Park. The Otwantow of Kowtow aad LteuteeaatZelonei Lapps •ere in attendance. A deputation from the Association of Northern Basks of emaisting of Mr. Job. Jamie Smith, of Sheffield ; Admiral Duociorobe, M.P. ; Mr. Clay, M.P. ; Mr. Itoebeeh; j Y.P. ; sad Lieutenant-Colonel Edwards, M.P., had an interview with Viscount Pa'mutates, at Oembridge.bottse, yesterday A Committee of Lords of her Majesty's Most Hoe. Privy Conned met yesterday at the Privy Osaacil-ollos, Witha -1 ban. Preeest :--The Lord headset, Lord Cmaworth, the Right How. Sir George Grey, the Right Hos. R. Leers, sad the Right Hon. Sir Edward Ryan. Despatches were rushed yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Gomm= of Canada and Malta. Despatches were seat to the Caveman of Canada and St. Hams. .-(11I73 DAY.) ~LS. ;SE EXPRESS, FRIDAY \-41TVENING, MAY WEATHER REPORT. FZIDAY, MAT ..a T. W. Nairn . 299669 N.Z. Aberdeen 29.17 601 1A.5.13. Leith DV OW N. ardromaa lfl.M MI Z. Ormorsatle 40.99 IS, Z. eslway Valenti* 1 —I Cape Clear 29.77 16 B.E. t a .spool 60.0162 LL licAlbeed ... 29.93 63 ELBA. Pembroke.... —1 Pensaime 11. E. Greet 29.4 61. 1 11.13. L'Orleat 19.68 6A I. , r °chafers Ptmeout). %Vermouth 96 01 AO X. Porlamsoath 50.06 56 6.8. E. Laudon ..... 9e.07 el a. (rover Itsrmootb 16.08 61 . LW. +carborough slot 01 E 1616166 1..06 60 B.W. Hell6nbuel — N.L K.W. N.W. w. &8. W. v.w. LLa &SA ILL saw. LW. RAW. LILL N.W. L sit • 1 b —I i• b 1 i. 1 re OA I 040 I —lt a 3 co — :4 so 1 4 • 3 • i I 61-13 I—II b bC:—!! DIORAMA. SATURDAY. OM NORTIUMPAI PURDAY. Easterly to S., variable., WARM. EEL to ws.W., fresh moderate to fresh. to strong, some showers. E.S.E. to S S.W.. fresh Wsinwsra. 15. E to S.W., strong, to strollg. With some squally to moderato. rats. s and a tv., 'cantina. As next above. fresh to strong, show ers In places. 'astable. moderate to Lana. fresh, Sae generally. Shona- to above. Northern ...iconand. Westin= Ireland. Wales. isd ad}- swam enathens=lantids Channel and Bar d Bann). iiriasianliamtward Ragland and Dart @la Tan Avermum Commintant, Clommisaicnr.—Thir PIMITIMISDO d thie corevaiseies provides for aa itivettigatkos 'Gemming all articles hieladed is the tariff, oust the your tips of intomatiosal ossantairatioas, oepootelly savisatios sod peet-oillae arraageiseste is eassexioe with Wonky sad prodoctioe. The commission will direct Its Mira** M eeessiortial law seder the foliontag important bre:— nit. goo law esd wadies mutts ret•renew to b et a*the of pattern mad trade mutts is Austria sad eseesd, the aziathog patoot laws of the two ossittion ; third, to. laws radio( to amid& B.&L 9.3.7. BALL AT ORLEANS ROUSE. Yesterday evening the Duke and Duchess d'Aussals were honoured by the premiere of the Prises sod Princess of Wales at a dinner party at Orleans House. Twickeuham. The party invited to meet the Prince end hisses consisted of the Priors and Priories Edward of Bye-Weimar, the Priam of Condi, the Duke aid Duchess of Sutherlmed, Earl Graaville, the End sod Countess of Clarendon and Lady Emily Villiers, the Earl of Sefton, Viseount and Visountese Depots; Lord Frederick Paulet, Lord ►od Lady Foley, the Marquis of Bonnie, Hon. F. Byes/. Sir Robert sod Lady Emily Peel, the Countess of Coiffier, sod M. Langel. A small select party were after wards invited to meat their royal highnesses. The Ducthes of Cambriase and the Prisons Mary arrived about half past 10. The Duke of Brassie arrived shortly afterwards. The Owlet sad Countess de Paris and the Duke and Duchess de Chartres were also present. NEW TORE, Mar 17, lloairnia. Wilson's cavalry surprised and captured Jefferson Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam- Davis, his wife, sister, and brother, and Postmaster bridge and the Prima. Mary have left their residenos in Regan, at Trameville, Georgia, 75 miles south the Ambansadore Court, St. James's, for Cambridge-cottage, east of Mason, on the 10th inst. The Federal& also Kew. This easing the duchess end princess dine with captured Colonels Harrison, Johnson, Morris, and the Duchess of Inverness at Kensington Palace, and a Lybbuck, and Lieutenant Halken a y , formin g the numerous and distingniabed party will meet tbs M s/ staff of Mr. Davis. gotta The cavalry, pursuing Davis from oppo site direc- His Royal Highness the Duke of Ca mbrid g e will An en h r the Earl and Countess of Wilton with his company tions, mistook each other for the enemy. at dinner on the 9th of Vane. A distinguished circle is In- gagement ensued, and two men were killed and five iraTo mat his royal Wilma'. wounded before the mistake was discovered. His Royal Highness the Duke de Brabant Wilson's despatch says that his men assert that visited Viscount Palmerston yesterday afternoon at Cam- Davis, when surprised, put on one of his wife's bridge House, tad had • long interview with t he *QM * dresses and fled to the woods, where he was pur viscount. sued and captured. He threatened his captors The Connteas of Derby will give her third with the bowie knife, but surrendered on the pre assembly to-night at the family mansion is St. James's sentation of a revolver. All the persons captured square. ard. Viscountess Palmerston will have an assembly have been seut North under a stro n g g u Wilson has made dispositions for ca p turing to-rnorrow,eight at Ounbridge Home, Piocedilly. The Count and Countess d'Aquila and suite have the other Confederate leaders, none of whom have left the Clarendon Rats' for Paris. yet got through. Breckeuridge'a son Las been Sir Edward ,Grogan inteude on Monday to ask captured. the Secretary of State for the Colonies, if any, and what The Nets York Times states that Davis will be steps have been taken by the government, aim* the report of the select committee was pretested to this hoses, for conflued iu Fort Lafayette , and sa y s his deliverance to the gallows will only help to consign the rebel 'of up the Red River districts and the valley of the lio n to . ........ Sukatohaan to settlement under the crows, and mating `‘' In "`"u• aa end to the exclusive p r i vi l e ges h ere t o f o re c l a i me d by th e The Deraid regards Lim as an accessory to Mr. Hudson's Bay Company in these districts. And, if the Lincoln's murder, and says there is no human posta l' claim of ownership, put forward by the Hudson's Bay bility that he can escape the full penalty of the law. Company is the territory lying between Canada and The Tribune trusts that Davis will Le treated as British America, being about two-thirds of our poesentioss a prisoner under the protection of the dignity and on that cantiaent, be admitted by the government as well honour of a self-respecting people. founded ; and if an, oe what grenade. Press On Monday Mr. William Ewell will ask the reporters are admitted to the conspiracy tri usdersleoretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the al , and since Saturday the p rooeedings of the acconots of the Foreignoedoe are audited every year . ; when court have been published daily. The evidence they were last audited ; and who is remossible, in the Milos given on Friday—the opening day of the trial— ' sad out of the cmos, for such audit. previously suppressed, has new been published. The next examination for direct commissions will Witnesses testified to having seen Booth in Canada take place on the 31st of July, and the camber of ma- conversing with George Saunders. Booth was also didatee limited to 100. present at secret conferences of the rebel officers at On Wednesday last the Rev. John &mites Mules, Sta n to n, y,.....„..., clerk, was instituted to the rectory of Great Moulton, in ' s 'a' - ' - ' Norfolk, on the rovosetatien of William Lytle Wigged All the prisoners present in co urt were heavil y Chute, Fag.. at the Type, in the pariah of Sharborne St. ironed. The specification charges them with con- John. in the county of Southampton. spiriug with John Surratt, Wilkes Booth, Jefferson The annual meeting of the Aborigines Protection Davis, George Saunders, Beverly Tucker, Jacob Society was held at Exeter Hall last night. Lord Alfred Thompson, Win. Cleary, C. C. Clay, Geo. Young, Churchill, IL P., presided. He devoted the major portion and others unknown, to murder President Lincoln, of his speech to an exposition of the New Zealand question, Joh nso n, Sewa r d, and Grant, in aid of the rebel and after reprobating the war be sketched aa outline of policy which he thought might be successfully adopted. lion. Harrold is charged with aidi n g Booth to commit Other speakers touched upon the condition of the Indians of the British province' of North America, and a resolution murder, and assisting his escape ; Payne with was passed authorising the committee to present • memorial attempting the assassination of Mr. Seward, and e° the Quests requesting her Ma j est y tw "P itch • ' Ms ' Alzerot with lying in wait to murder President sloe of inquiry to New Zealand. Johnson and General Grant The Roman Catholic Archbishop Elect of Mudd, Arnold, and Mrs. Surratt are charged Westminster, Dr. Manning, presided yesterday at a large the c rime. meeting of his eo-religionate at the Hanover-square Rooms • as accessory to crime. The object of the meeting was to determine en some form Mr. Reverdy Johnson has been admitted as a memorial of the late Cardinal Wiseman. Several re- counsel for Mrs. Surratt. solutions were unanimously pasted, to the effect that the The evidence produced since Friday implicates memorial should consist of a post cathedral church ;that all over the Roman m appeals should be ade to catholic!' all the prisoners. One witness testified that Sur. ' raft visited Richmond last March, accompanied by world to enbecribs, and that a committee should take the work in hand st once. Subscriptions to the extent of over a lady, and on his return to Washin g ton had about 15,0001. were announced in the room. 200 dole. in gold. He stated that he had seen Jeffer - The report of the Irish Commissioners of Na- son Davie and Benjamin, and that Richmond would timid Education for 1864, which has just appeared not be evacuated. On his return from Richmond amens the parliamentary papers, states that the Surratt left for Montreal, and returned to Washing average number of chi dreg in daily attendance at all the National schools was 315,108, and their education ton the day before Lincoln's assas sination. A special despatch to the Express asserts that sot 11. 2s. 6d. each, of which the patrons of tchools paid only 2s. 6d. About 57,000 of the pupils belong to the Johnson was misled by the Jud g e-Advocate stablished March, of which more than half are in the pro. regarding the evidence upon which he issued the rime of Ulster. In Leinster the number is 4,462, and in proclamation attributing complicity in Lincoln's Umtata 2,943. During the year 1864 the sum of 284,467/. assassination to Mr. Davis and others. was paid to teachers, and 18,8751. to monitors. The in 'Patios cost more than 23,2:01.; the cost of the official Johnson, it is said, now finds that the Jud g e d Advocate has no foundation for the evidence he establishment at Tyrone-bona was 15,2281. in salaries, or exist. about 21. 10s. for each school, there being some 6,200 in operation. The model and school farms cost 8,7931., and The determination of K irb y Smith to continue alleged to the receipts from them were 5,4491., so that ibis portion the contest is confirmed. of the system is maintained at • loos of about 3,4001. a year. War meeting* have been held at Shrieveport, In the ass of the filseeeeht ferns the asst was 3 ' 1096 . sod Louisiana, and Marshall, Texas. the receipts for produce 1,8761" the loss being esssegstatlY An ex p edition for Texas is being organised at about 1,2001. New Orleans. We ( Reader) learn with deep regret that melan choly tidings ham just seethed this omstry from the cep- It ts * said that the misunderstanding between' Oyes in Alimanis They are sinking fast, sad it is probable Sherman and Stanton may prevent the contem that we shall soon bear of their deaths. plated review at Washington. The National Gazette of Berlin, 22nd, says : A sharp correspondence has passed between "The Emperor and Empress of Russia arrived hare this Halieck and Sherman concerning Halleck's order morning at half-peat 10, from Darmstadt, mid shortly otter. in re ference to Sherman. wards sot out again for St Peanburg. The King and the Governors Brown of Georgia and Vance of North Prints Royal, who had been in wads( to pay their respects C a roli na hav e been arrested. 1 to the Emperor and Empties at Pot s dam, sooompa accompanied 1 thew to Berlin, and coy left thew at the &leek, railwaylt is reported that President Johnson will shortl y station. The Prisms and Primula Charles, Count de Bis- issue a new amnesty proclamation. march, and the Staff of the Russian Embassy west to the M. de Montholon, on his reception by President Potsdam railway ration to solute their Rossiya Majesties. Johnson on Saturday, was introduced by Acting lse King and the Prime Royal wore the Russia" uniform? , The Governor-General of Netherland India re- Secretary Hunter. On presenting his credentials, M. de Montholon expressed the wishes of the solved last year that • telegraphic oommnoiestion should , Emperor Napoleon for the complete restoration of be tablished between A jar (west of Jaya), and Jelong i • Beto es n ( Su matra). The a . 1 .,„ ; ,, . 0 " „ t u b e eeee l epe a ; peace on the American continent " France," he w ith threads of itootootty (Indian Gag). It is rumoured i said, "will always view with satisfaction the con that it is the intention of the Netherlands government to solidation of the prosperity and greatness of the extend this lies lain to Palembang. with a view to rata I United States. Animated by sentiments of deep Mnatok or itteht and to en°e In nearer rektioa to BM' I sympathy for the American Union, their Majesties Mom I and France share with other nations the grief into EARL RUM= —Fad Russell WU present last • . • night is the Peers' o f th e H ouse of Commons , w h en which a most atrocious crime has plunged the • smatter a his old i r l iert% soccemirely convened with him, I government and people of the United States." seam waist were air Dads Le Marcbast (who occupies a the table), and Mr. seat at the Crawford, his etsßeagne Is re- ' President Johnson replied :—" Your intimacy *Rh the head of your own government cannot presentaties of the city of Loaders. ROYAL HORTICITLTrRAL 8001117.—There is an fail to impart perhaps universal confidence imemdisely bemtiful exhibition of rbododrndroos b• represen tati ons his Maws. Waterer and Godfrey now rag co at the societirs to your gasket, South Kensiegtoe. A mast test 300 feet keg sad posed policy iu reference to the United ems Hass of odour ls a sight that the meet vivid ITeilhte - States. The people of the United States Sisw ow hardly realise. It will probably lave reached its pests* beauty about Salerday aszt, the rel leek have a traditional regard for Franca, universally • (awns% Tusazate.) , • L • ► AMERICA. NW It. CAPTURE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. ARRIVAL OF THE SCOTIA. (Via Orookhavia.) The Royal Mail steamship Soot* from New ' York on the 17th inst., arrived at Queenstown at 6 ►m. to-day (26th Met.) with 268 pamengers and 936,260 dollars in specie. She landed 116 sacks of mail and 443 paseengers, and proceeded for Liver pool at 6.30 a.m. All well. The Scotia made the pamage in eight and a half days. The following are the beads of the news brought by the Scotia. : NEW YORK, MAT 17. Mounm. Jefferson Davis, with his family and staff, have I. been captured near Macon, and forwarded to Washington under a strong guard. 1 The conspiracy trial is progressing. Reporters are admitted, and the proceedings are published! daily. No positive evidence has yet been given implicating Davis. 1 or, has M. de Moutholon, the French Ambassad presented his credentials to President Johnson, lon which occasion reciprocal expressions of friend ! ship took place. The emigration excitement has somewhat sub sided. The subscription to the Seven-Thirties amounted on Saturday to 30,000,000 dollars. Mr. M'Culloch has commenced the issue of the balance of the loan, amounting to 230,000,000 dollars. The Stonewall left Havaunah on the 11th, osten sibly for Galveston. Gold, 129 j. ', and warmly cherished. This regard must ..:ontinue to flourish and expand unless checked by events 'most uncommon nod not to be anticipated by :ordinary foresight." In conclusion, Johnson es plumed the hope that M. de Montholon's mission ,would strengthen and perpetuate the good under standing that exiate between the two governments. The Mexican emigration excitement hes some what subsided. The enlistmente, however, con tinue. The Herald is informed that none of the pro teased emigration agents would receive any I I authority from Ortega. The subscriptions to the Seven-Thirty Loan on Saturday exceeded 30,000,000 dole. The second series of 300,000,000 dole. has been all subscribed I fur. Mr. M'Culloch has commenced issuing the balance of the loan authorised by Congress, amount ing to 230,000,000 dole., in seven-thirties, the government reserving the option to pay intermit at the rate of 6 per cent. in gold instead of 7 3-10ths in currency. The subscriptions on Monday and Tuesday amounted to 5,000,000 dole. The Stonewall left Savannah on the 11th inst., I ostensibly fur Galveston. The steamers City of Boston. Saxonia, Etna, Virginia, Cuba, and Europe have arrived out commulacza, INTELLIOINCE. NEW YORK, Mae 17, Romeo. Gold, 129 j. Exchange on London, 1434 ; on Paris, 3.90. Stocks dull. New York Central, 91; Erie, 764 ; Illinois, 116 ; 5.20 Bonds. 104. Cotton dull ; middling upland, 50c. Flour and wheat de cliuiog. Corn quiet. Provisions good inquiry. Coffee and molasses steady. Sugar firmer. Petro leum quiet ; crude, 36c. ; refined, 52c. MEXICO. NEW YOBS, MAY 17: It is reported, vial Cairo, that the Liberals de manded the eurrender of Matamoras ou the 29th ult., and that the Imperialist troops refused to march out and meet them. Subsequent reports say that on the 4th May the liberals were in full retreat. FRANCE AND AMERICA. PARIS, Mar 26. The Constitution/set of this morning says :—" We learn that the government of the United States have taken measures to repress any attempts to effect illegal enlistments, and to put a stop to any pro ceedings undertaken with the object of preparing emigrant expeditions against Mexico in violation of the federal laws. Instructions to this effect have been forwarded to the United States Attorney at New York, who at once took the necessary measures for the Prgtepz execution of the same." COLOMBIAN OOVERNMENT LOAN. (THIS DAY.) To-day a meeting was hold at the London Tavern of the bondholders of this lath, to consider ommanications received from Mr. O'Leary, the spot of the hoed holders, and Mr. Mosques, the mistletoe planipotas nary of the Colombian goveromet, on the sub ject of the proposed csastoo of tb• reversiosery rights of the Colombian governmeet to the Panama railway, which rights, sr. ht pothreated to the boodholders as secs. my for the 200,0001. loss of 1d63. The ommnaicatioss were to the effect t►at in esterieg into ansagr meets for the cession of the rights, pros-takes had bees made to secure the bondholders by making over a patios of the profits(24o,oool.) which thegovernment of Colombia sorpseted to derive from its shares. After some conversation !gaols time were 'greed to expressive of the highest confidence in the Colombian goverment. sod that the mosey paid by the Panama layaway would be appropriated to the redemp tion of the hoods at par so far as it went, while the dividends on the shares to be allotted to that government would be appropriated to the formation of a sinking fond for the pay ment of the loan. Mr. Moroni= occupied the chair, and a vote of thuds was panned to him and Mr. O'Leary. A committee was slim formed to oommunicate with the Colombian gomenmest if necessary. SPANISH CERTIFICATES.-(THIS DAY.) A meeting of holders of Spanish certificates, con veyed by the committee. was held at 1 o'clock, at the Lee. don Tavern ; Mr. J. D. PowLsei is Use chair. The CHAIRMAN stated that the committee bad two object. in °novelties the meeting. The first object was to clear the air of certain report' which had lately bees abort bated, the main report being that the committee bad re ceived some proposition which they did sot like to lay before the shareholders. This notion was entirely a mistake. The committee wee indeed merely • Torments tie, body, and would eat feel at hberty to set is Ws manner supposed. There wee, in fact, so proposition before the committee, and the mooed object of the committee was to consult the holders as to what should be done under thee, circumstimees. (Hear, bear.) He hoped no one pretest would say anythiag that could wooed the self-love of the Spanish nation. (Hear, bear.) No one who bad not been to Madrid could imagine how difficult it was to make the Spaniards understand this question. A Spanish Finance Minister had admitted the justice of the claim, but he said that be could do nothicg because the people pjeae rally did not understand it. When he (the chairman) was last at Madrid he obtained the opinion of eight Spanish lawyers to the effect that the claim was perfectly just. I• the last 10 veers the revenue of Spain had increased from 13,000,0001, to 21,000,000/., and there wee no pretext fur withholding payment. What the committee wanted was to arrive at some means of getting the debt liquidated. Every day there was an increasing pressure on the Spanish goverment to get the debt settled, and repent Intel licence @bowed that the Spanish Finance Minister felt the necessity of some action to the matter. The chairman added that the committee bad agreed be inbuilt three resolutious to the meeting. He t h e read them. The first expressed approval of t h e course takes by the committee in urciog the claims of the baklers oe the Spanish Finance Minister ; the seemed expressed a hope that the Spanish government would accede to the claim made, and thus restore to Spain the interchange of monetary relations with the other countries ; and the third suggested to the Spanish government that it would teed to prevent further delay is arriving at • eettlement of the matter if the Spanish government would either despatch to Laudon commis sinters empowered to deal with the holders, or signify its readiness to receive COCARIiaIiCOSIS from London, at Madrid, with the same object. [The meeting was proceeding MIMI GUI repeat left.) EASTBBN BENGAL RAILWAY.-(TBM DAY.) The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was held at aeon at the London Teems ; Mr. JOHN FAILIT Liars in the chair. The report, which was published some time before, having bees taken as reed, The CHATILMAII moved its adoption. He said be trusted the shareboiders were satisfied with the gradual pee -1 peas which bad been made daring the last half gear. In India it was more difficult than in Eagles& to divert traffic from an existing lies. but the force of habit was being broken down sad the traffic finding its way into its natural cliental. At the last ogees( he modulated the less from the cyclone at 14,0001. He wee happy tow it was limited to 12.6001., and they might welleesgratulate themselves that their loss was so omen compared with that of some other companies. The number of pasemgere is the half. ear ending December. 1864. wee 5M,700 Driblet 514,000 in the last half of 1863. That was an asto= aime's*, and when the amommodatioe was then would no doubt be • °octennial's addition of traf fi c. The increase in the goods traffic was still seers reresikable. The total goods traffic) of 1863 aseinated he 13,6791. ; is the halfear oodles on the 30th of Jaw, 1864, to A 3921. ; an d is the half-year eadhig on the 31.5 of December, 1864, to 31,6631. In the first 13 weeks of the present year the passenger sod merchaeffises traffic showed an Lenses of 8,0001 over that of the eorrespeediag parted of 1464, sad 19,0001. over taut of the erwrespoedieg period of 1861. Taking the out of the Use, 110 mile, is lug*, el WOOL a mils, it was estimated by the manager in India that the teak of the first 13 weeks of this year yielded, oiler allowing for, workieg espouses, • profit at the rate of 5.74 per asst. Attire some diseemlea the report was adopted, and the proceedings terminated to the area muses. Dana or UN C'eunee.-11:0 death of this popular elm& &or tie rime ltat evrain of Jams =draft freak disemaile bear. The ••hell etteried te lie beam at idlarbewareta was waked as mewl—a beeellejadluderaremeed. sad ogee beets(' tabs meta; Woo* aufw the eeitieel elate el the proprietor it wee desisat prebee he %quire whether the meets atoll be *weeded Tb reply eves b tie safer. teld b alma Ina " es." bat tea attester afterwards hie &Dab wee eseeeseed. oboe the pleat wok at wane, dewed sad the doers deed. The donweed wee la lie 39tb year. LAW INTELLIGENCE (Tills DAY.) SITTLN . GB . 12.1 ?.REOR. This =melee t1;efollowlag dem won appoictm ft sitriap IL ILIOI : For errors from the Quash Beech, Friday led Miuk t Jose 16 sad 17. For omen from the Coronae Flew, Yoelariam i k Jam 19 sad 20. Yoe mom from*, Breherfuo; Wanly* od Tkem n Jam 21 ee4 23. 00IIRT OF QUEEN 8 BEI OH. litgap is Bum. —(Before Lord OW Judos Cody Jestkes Oromptes. Hincebers, end This was the emend day of tam, Ina shreefe to ley la WWI. only was mole this mereisg. The mart, m a w._ after sours daisy, proceeded with the user g m 7_ , trial paper. The motiou was made by It r. Higby Q.C., in the sem of " Heywood v. Sallima." ...coo of alleged isles imprison:neat. tried st goy' Middlesex in teem sittings, before Hr. Javan Criesp lk when the jury retained a verdict for the phintif 251., sod the loathed evened moved for • ray nog; wow trial, on the grenade that the verdict wee epa g g*. doses sod ales that the damps were exesedve, The court granted the rah on both plats BALL COURT. swap g Nid Firs.—(B4l 4 “ Mr. J " i " X iast els Cameos Jury.) moral; Or TIM COCRT. This was the first B.y of tits is tom sittimp. 'mai m Woe th• entries of 84 ouss, of lbw 67 us tossis ol i 17 new causes ; 5 sr* marked ssisfiseisel. COURT OF ZZORRQUIR. • p Sittings io Basco.—(Redere Lord Chief baron Pak , 4 Berme Martin, Brenewell, god Channel.) ZUDICHOII o. 110E160E. This teatime was beteeitht to r•°°•" 5671 . IQ , ices lest by • !olive mosey leader is WM te fesdene, who wasan officer in • dregoos "so ft .tabooed in that country. At the trial. which Intik at the last Affairs in Middlesex before Mr. Buse lbes, a verdict was Worse& for the defendant, the lonsel4 expressiag his entire approval of the verdict, aid ea iag in severe terms the conduct of the plaiatiff. Mr. G. Francis now moved for • rule to set rib% verdict, and for a new trial, on the grated d Milbidu and of the verdict being against the evidenta mosey was lent to the defendant, whoa be ne Poosak with his regiment, 5641 the phase la sem of his claim relied entirely upon two deduseete %di were admitted to be signed be the eishodest. cam for the dation was that ie February. l€6l, amb settlement of the account oar mole at Best*, esibr all that remained dee was a small Wanes Olt hi beea paid into court. The plainti ff ms sit aid at the trill, bet the daimedaat and his wife, who mmi in the box, gave a very intelligible sweet ef tionem, tions with the plaintiff. and the judge and jury Nor, believe that they bad spoken the truth The Lord Chief Baron observed that it was muss,Vais • Poosah money lender should endeavour to recoorl twice over than that an E.glish officer and his Mb Mil swear that they bad paid mosey whoa they hid set. Mr. Francis said his lordship was dealing with the pa. blithe of the cene. The Lord Chief Beroe—lt is quite imp:66We Mt Pm Can have boss say mistake n one side or the other, Mrs must have base se attempt to elate a deliberate ustreil Mr. Frames submitted that under the dreamily**. OMAR( was entitled to a sew trial M enter theist's 's., ties might be given of the real purport and aateeell lie documente. The Lord Chief Baron was of opinion thet then wi t be no rail There was abundant evidence te is jury that the defendant's story was true, and Is ail oonsider that • remark by • judge upon a milord hag the trial could be treated as misdirection, sad SO dig pinta of misdirecting boa been stated. Barone Martin aed Chappell were of the same Mr. Berm Martin said he thought that the eootaiped internal evidence of the truth of the CAPS. At the trial be observed that if the jury fig defendant and his wife, smote meeideloue bud 101 been attempted, and he still entertained the awhile int more deliberate ease of Irani had never lime tridi him. Rule refused. SECOND COURT. Sittings at Nisi Prina.—(fiefore Mr. BAND Piggott ?pi Common Jury.) Martina Or THE COURT. This was also the first day of the term situ* d court at Westminster. The list contains the entree d 3 cams. Of these 31 are new eases mid 7 are remade. Fuel are marked undefended, and 1 for special juries. Nothing of general interest had come before effher ors when our despatch left. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE Melon 1310 Jody' Ordissry.) The court commeseed its lattices for Trinity tem morsisg. There aro 105 mstrimosiel Winter kIA au increase of five epos this lista( last term. STAINS AND &TIMIS O. HANDIER AND ornie This was • testamentary suit of vary sisgeluebrieds The testator was • Mr. Riog, wbo lived in tie head of Portsmouth, bat who died is 1850. He bad bum perms of penurious sad iresentrio habits, and led coasidarable wealth. He left a will whirl was d* upon, bat is 1852 • codicil was ramived el Os G ators in an anonymous letter. It disposed of swill* mad pounds ; it purported to be • *loin)* Wiwi sad °mislead • clause stipulating that it Amid lab* secret for twelve yaws. TM car bad made vary little progress when we emir press. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) WORSHIMITREET. 11CLIMAL0118 WOLTZ? AT £ MOCK Arena. sad lmill Williams Sykes was charged with smashing Sarah Vaughan. Complainant, a respectable and young assist wawa stated that on Friday evening list, while pessig she the Whitechapd-road, her attention was draws to semis parsecs round a shoo in which she woo aserteind sk sr Son ems g oing as. Requiring a parlour rug ohs Aged t the door-way for the purpose, of townie* mow wish hanging there, but was almost immediately hustled stet to the interior where pers..ms were bidding sad Woad • calling out their offers. A piece of cloth was pat* a woman at her elbow pronouncing it very gritt i vr her to bid for it, at the same time r emarking, think he win let von have it though, for W ail • • trade himself." Cltimately, however, it wee down to her (Complaisant) for 255. Bbo *id* • and then it was enuotioced that the auction was the day. When she showed the cloth to her tailor he told bee that it was eat worth wess Ti. Subsequently she suomeded in seeing at the tale rooms " and mildly told kW she had been sadly deceived in ber gods% the same time requesting her money might be less 55., which sum she wee wilting to fortgl L . sacrihas es a self-inilicted and well.deasmal= 4 ” folly. The reply to this offer wee •d ber oat followed by the assault complainedof ; be tol would not give bar • halfpeani," sad 01, should like to have the " striogiog of her as*. pinched her . , pushed her. sad bolted W sott"wmoielypoltsihmieceeg.oootiunbsateetkhbleleess!:isoosic: one e o f f °a ra. l . ti aooom pig a rtet ed the shop ; bat the door was closed in their lee* Conatable 411, divi said that 04 th e 131 k plainest came to him while on dot! and mid 41 sessulted under the ciecutustaaoss bow tees by het. Her arms were Dearly covered. with bruises. He west with her to the • auction. was denied by one of his Demist*, who most grae11 4 1 .1.4 him (witness). Os following o 7 be interview with defendant, who gave his addreis . 7 l d where the disturbance occurred, which is 86s, reed. . COok• W asked--Whet Is really going Nee ? Coeu r Mr table—Anmock wets*" car ; the complaiew respecting Ware very mace ; people may the Wad s are sot worth a quarter of t ee mosey they pal tar Two respectable tradesmen are now present foe the of oomplsieleg about defeedaat's s ho p . Defesdasst—lt is not my Pr called meshop—it belongs to Mr. fibe (complainant) a Bendier sad muses ; my goys/rear gave her 18s. back. That was to ms. I oily put my bands on bar der see " Now that you have got your massy go sway." Witiosse—She used OD abuse is my proposal. Oomplaisaat—l did not do so at all. Mr. Cooke (to defendant}—Save you soy witassom! Deteodaat—No, sir. Mr. Daubs promised to mak P be masa attend. lam *Meg as commissits. Mr. Safford (the alerls)—Have you a liceess Defendant—Yes, air (ptodnaieg Gael. Mr. Elafford— This li nage' you to sell dearibia• a sel the W bits:bap+ road. [A penalty is ettee b e d MOW _ Mr. Cooke—This owe of &smolt involves as *" isr ! Immodest than is the charge it self. It is is reibso! fore me that the premises are weed to carry eel wajt e ; tics, sad, by the complaisant s testimony, that 2 are hadoesl—itideod bustled ioto the Ow* a ; prompted to patches , of you, for (to defeedu t ) yea entirely with the piss. It is • most detrasilisgln the fret lestanee, and abase sea vas e when delving restitntios end regime for the car listed. 1 heroevery diepositioe to read you to MOW eat the allowapor d esybeg hoe. I WWI • Si. or in default ea imprisonment of ow eseet h. iY A burst of epprebatioe f rem a crowded woe Of d ec ision being Weird was with some lids diM pre A med. ty geatlentes living adjutant to the premiets then eempisissed et the entire biedresto 116...„ s o from the crowd and isoossant disturbers* 11 1 seetiee. 11:. 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