The Sun. — London, England, 1862-02-18 00:00:00

yR. and MRS. CHARLES KERN SPECIAL NoTICE.—In consequence of a Domestic Affliction, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean wM NOT APPEAR for a few Nights at the Theatre -Ro y al Drury -lane. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, "u COVENT GARDEN. • Under the management of Miss arrison Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. H. THIS EVENING, THE LILY OF KILLARNEY. Misses Louisa Fyne, Susan Pyne, Jessie M`Lean, and Topharn; Messrs. Santley, H. Haigh, E. Dussek, C. Lyall, ratey, Wallworth, and Mr. W. Harrison. To conclude with HARLEQUIN GULLIVER; or, Giants and Dwarfs. Messrs. F., and H. Payne, H.E., and S. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri. , Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Commence at Seven. FLEA FR u- • RU YAL, HAYMARKET, Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone. THIS EVENING, to commence with OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern ; Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buckstone. After which, a Comic Christmas Pantomime, LITTLE MISS MUFFET AND LITTLE BOY BLUE ; or, Harle quin and Old Daddy Lon; , , , legs. Louise Leclercq, Charles Le clercq, Herr Cole, G. Becket, and Miss Rosine. Commence a 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, Feb. 18, the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Fal coner ; Mrs. D. P. Rowers, Miss Clara Weston. After which, a yew and original Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, The Fairies of the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrock. Principal charac ters by Mr. Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 tlll5. RoY A L PRINCE S S'S THEATRE.-- , Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, a new Mystic Drama, in four parts entitled THE ANGEL OF MIDNIGHT. Mr. Ryder, Mr. Potter, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Widdicomb, &c. ; Miss Marriott, Miss Fielding, &a. After which a Comic Christmas Pantomime, WHI'I'TIN/.?- TON AND HIS CAT ; or, Harlequin King Kollywobbol and the Genius of Good Humour. The grotesque opeuiT.o invented and written by Heniy J. Byron, Esq., author of the Princess's Pantomime of "Jack the Giant Killer. The Scenery by Mr. James Gates, Mr. H. Cuthbert, and mauerors assistants. Good Humour, Miss Helen Howard ; Princess Popsiwopsi, Miss Rose Leclercq ; Alice, Miss Pauline Le clercq ; Messrs. Garden, Cathcart, Morland, Collett, Hast ings. Raymond; Dick Whittington, Miss Maria Harris; - Robin Goodfellow and the Cat, Master John Haslem, (pupil of the celebrated Gabriel Ravel; Clown, Mr. Hildyard ; Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Colum bine, Miss Caroline Adams. NEW TH FATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.-- Sole Fruoriotor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. 355th Night of the Engagement ICAULof Mr. and Mrs. DION BOUCT. THIS EVENING, the great American Drama of THE OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion Boucicault, S. Emery, Billington, Jamison, P. Bedford, Stephenson, Eburne, Powell, Romer, g, Lewis ; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Marston, Miss Latimer, mi L ls Denali. After which (4th time), THE DUBLIN BOY. Andy, Mrs. Boucicault. To conclude with 3/lARGERY DAW. Messrs. D. Fisher, Billington, W. Smith, Miss Wool gar, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. TO-NIGHT, Feb. 18, and during tbe week, first appearance of Ramsey and Newcomb'a Double Troupe of Ethiopian Min strels, late of the Crystal Pala' e. To be 'followed by NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, by Madlie. Mazotti, Madile. Goldsmidt, Mons. G oldkctte, and Mons. Gerard Goldsmidt. Concluding with a screaming Farce. On Monday, Feb. 24, will be produced a,gorgeous Eastern Spectacle, in which Two of the finest Performing Elephants ever seen in this country will appear. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle. CANTERBURY HALL.-VICTOR JULIEN, "the FLYING MAN," at half-past Nine Continued success of "THE ENCHANTED HASH ~ by 3lr. E. Marshall, at a quarter-past Ten. Grand Selections from "La Circassienne" by Mdlle. Negri, with Band and a powerful Chorus, at Ten o'clock. Also the following combination of Comic talent, viz.: Mr. Randall, Mx. Frederick French, Mr. J. G. Forde, Miss Har ilet Coveney, and Miss Greene. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, Bd. ; Stalls and Balcony, is. THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.— " LES MERVEILLES GYMNASTIQUES" HENRI (aged Eleven years), and PFAU (aged Nine years), From the "Cirque Napoleon," Paris, Whose Double Feats on the Flying Trapeze are unsurpassed for daring, skill, and grace, EVERY EVENING. Their performances do not in any way interfere with the Musical Entertainment, which as usual consists of Two Operatic Selections alternately from "Il Trovatore," " Er flan'," "La Traviata," " Simon Boccanegra," "Macbeth," Am., by the entire Company, Full Band and Chorus—(Con ducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans)—And Varied Vocal and Instru mental Attractions, the Comic portion by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. Sam Collins, Wood and Son, M. P. Foster, and W. Randall. Hall, M. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT.—Morning, 4h. 17m.—Afternoon, 4h. 36m. To-moßaDw•-Morning, 4h. 56m.—Afternoon, sh. 12m. THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, FEBRUARY 18, 1862. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 43—highest since noon yesterday. 39—lowest this morning and during the night. 60—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.39. WIND—S. -Westerly ; light, with fine sunshiny weather now. It rained all the morning until one o'clock, with the Wind Easterly. _9e 4 • , ), : k P. I„ ) . 1 t,- 4: 4 * °' :a74 Ez..jhd4il4 6 , _ • THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 18, 1862. Yesterday the Lords certainly had enough of it. Five distinct Bills in regard to the Transfer of Land being laid upon the table in succession. The Go vernment Bill, as a matter of course, taking prece dence. But the four others following suit, imme diately after the close of the LORD CHANCELLOR'S speech, with exemplary rapidity. Four of those supplementary Bills came from the Ministerial side of the house, the product each of them of the recess - meditations of the ex-Chancellor CRAW WORTH. The two other Bills emanated, on the contrary, from the legal acumen of the Opposition —ex-Chancellor CHELMSFORD claiming the parent age. All five Bills were pro forma read a first time, and were then collectively set aside for detailed examination before a Select Committee. Even then—when that next ordeal shall have been passed —the discriminative judgment pronounced upon them by that Select Committee will be merely preliminary. That, of course. Yet—though "of course "—the fact is deserving thus, even now, of a momentary consideration. Meanwhile, at this early stage of our Parliamentary proceedings in reference to the vast and complicated legal reform now proposed, there is one, at least, of those Five Drafts or outlines of an Enactment, which has already been fairly put before the Legislature, and, through the Legislature, before the country. If the merest glimmering has necessarily been afforded as yet, both by Lord CRANWORTH and by Lord CHELMSFORD, in regard to the twin Bills each noble lord in succession took courage to lay upon the table Ot the House of Peers las' evening—the Government /ill, which had been previously laid there by the hand of LordIVEsTnuRY, had been unfolded, though in itself a scheme of very ample dimensions, and, in Some respect, of wholly unavoidable involution, in a al'oeeh of singular lucidity and of masterly comprehensiveness, by the noble and learned framer of it himself, speaking in his supreme and I responsible position as the Lord High Chancellor o f England. It is true, no doubt, that almost im mediately after the completion of Lord WEST- B ußy'S brilliant and really pelucid explanation, Lord CRANWORTH remarked that he himself, though listening to it with strained attention, from its exordium to its peroration, had failed to catch the meaning of the Lord Chancellor's speech as a whole ! That in other words, looking as he h a d b ee n throughout looking, with eager so li citude to the measure as explained by his noble and learned friend, he had himself after all failed to under stand it ! Lord CRANWORTH'S remark to this effect, it should be remembered, was uttered last evening but e very few minutes after Lord WEST_ BURY had resumes: his seat upon the woolsack. The explanation had been submitted there and. then among others to Lord CRANWORTH'S judgment merely vice voce, and that, moreover, in the dull and muffled, 1. , :t still confusing echoes of the House or Peers. Certain are we, that upon consideration this morning, having "slept well on't," and having refreshed his memory of Lord WESTBURY'S speech by glancing down the record of it preserved by the skilled agency of the shorthand-writers in the gallery—certain are we that Lord CRANWORTH would hesitate now after this reconsideration of the Lord Chancellor's speech to assert once more that it was in any way incomprehensible. Sel dom has a subject so intrinsically difficult by reason of its unavoidable complication been explained with a more . delightful clearness or a more re freshing simplicity. Dealing as the laws of pro perty relating t o land necessarily do with so many and such subtle abstractions, it becomes matter for absolute astonishment that the Lord Chancellor could divest it so completely of its distracting technicalities, and so explain his scheme for the simplication of our code in this particular of vital importance, that any one, even the unprofessional reader (perhaps not " hearer," because of those very echoes that so puzzled the keen senses of Lord CRANWORTH), that any one, we say, even the unprofessional reader, can follow him, comprehend ing him, throughout. The object aimed at by the Government Bill, as explained yesterday by the Lord Chancellor, is—re member this to begin with—threefold. The measure proposes to give a good statutory, indefeasible title to the owners of landed property. It undertakes to provide the means by which that title may be clearly, as rapidly as possible, and in the fullest sense of the word, authoritatively, ascer tained. Finally, it undertakes to define the means by which its more facile transference may be effeeted. Of the principle of the Bill, even Lord CRANWORTH acknowledged yesterday that he unquestionably approved. It was merely in regard to the details of the measure that he con ceived it to be faulty. And of course it would be precisely in the revision and correction of those details, wherever it might be deemed advisable, that the labours of the Select Committee about to scru tinise it, would be, among other kindred labours, occupied. Nay, Lord ST. LEONARDS himself, the venerable and profound author of the Great Text Book of the whole law relating to " Vendors and Purchasers," even that noble lord and learned ex- Chancellor avowed last evening from his place in the front rank of the Opposition, that he deemed the principle of Lord WESTBURY'S Bill to be per fectly just and reasonable. Whatever doubts he had, and some of them were very grave doubts, in relation to the Government scheme for dealing with the whole question of the transfer of land, were restricted to the probability of the working of its machinery. Nor can it be wondered at for an instant that doubts of that grave character should be entertained by a jurisconsult so intensely alive as Lord LEONARDS must be to the difficulties threaten ing to impede any scheme of innovation into a labyrinth of such extraordinary bewilderment— that doubts of this kind should be entertained by him at this early stage of the proceedings when the Government proposition has only just been sub mitted to the consideration of Parliament. It were ludicrous, of course, to expect that even Lord WESTBURY would venture to arrogate to his pro position the attribute of perfection. The utmost any law reformer in the Legislature, even the present occupant of the woolsack, could in reason, hope to aspire .to in this par ticular would be an approximation to that , perfection all are aiming at in the shape of a law reform of this peculiar description. What appears to us especially entitled to consi deration in the measure yesterday brought before the Upper House of Parliament by the Lord Chan cellor is the fact that it is designed to be not man datory, but, as Lord ST. LEONARD'S instantly expressed it, simply permissive. It is in drawing the line there—drawing it delicately but firmly through all the maze of difficulties which the sub jects of Titles and Transference and so forth are each separately and all of them collectively involved—it is i❑ that point of view beyond all others that we cannot but recognize even now at this early period in the discussion of the Government measure, the tact and discrimination we have all of us so con fidently expected to see evidenced by the Lord Chancellor. It is here that already we can perceives as it were, at a glance, that in cherishing these same confident anticipations in his regard we have not been doomed to disappointment. The more easy definition of a Title, the more facile Transference of landed property—are boons, not by any means only theoretically attainable. Hampered though property of this kind still is in this country by all the old bewildering difficulties inherited by us through the lapse of centuries, from the remote ages when feudality as a system, as the one sole system was predominant, we have had a tolerably ample and protracted experience of what may be done in the way of getting rid of all these needless obstructions—in our colonial posses sions in all parts of the world. Nay the advantages that can so very readily be secured in this way, has, within the last few years, been brought much nearer home (than our colonies, than the nearest of our colo nies) to the national recognition. There is the work ing, during the last decade or two, upon the other side of St. George's Channel, of the now famous, and, as everyone has long since come to recognise it,benefi cent Encumbered Estates Act in Ireland. There, in Ireland, since that humane and benignant act came into operation, fully one-third of the entire area of the Green Isles has passed from one set of proprietors to another set of proprietors. And if any doubts as to the validity and security of the system thereby inaugurated, for the registration of titles to estates, should still perchance be entertained by any captious critic of Lord WESTBURY'S measure de signed to the same end—enough will surely have been said when we have remarked that one mis take, and one mistake alone, has marred the other. wise prevailing accuracy of the Registration Books in Ireland under the working of the Encumbered Estates Act. Lord ST. LEONARDS, we observe, expresses his anxiety lest the scheme of the noble and learned lord on the woolsack may, perchance, degenerate into what he calls a registration of assurances. Yet he himself is the very one to ac knowledge—and in connection with his avowed so licitude but just now mentioned, he ought certainly to bear his own candid admission to this effect in remembrance—that under Lord WESTBURY'S Bill the registration will be optional—that no one I will be compelled to register his property unless he himself so pleases—that, as already intimated, in two words, the Bill, as a Bill authorising regis tration In tnls way, is not mandatory, but simply permissive. Besides which, the registry of titles now proposed by Lord WESTBURY a tO be opened, is, by a most judicious forethought of the Chancel lor's, to be divided into two distinct parts — one part giving titles that are guaranteed, and the other part titles that, though in process of being guaranteed, are not yet guaranteed. An arrange ment of this rational kind in regard to the registry of titles under the proposed act would secure, among `otherles obvious advantages, these very obvious adv antages --first of all, a good title ; secondly, a record easily t o b e turned to, a distinct an d re li a bl e r fo e r c m oradtoiofnelicited previousin through gh investigations, those iaopypelsytiinggattiohnes to in ' the simplificatio n of any dealings that might arise subsequently, Finally, and crown all the provi sions of an universally a pp lic able method more db r y o which all dealings of ii 11: alaplie kind might be readily entered into, and land at once more easily, more rapidly, and more securely transferred. The only serious matter of bewilderment to ourselves in regard to Lord WESTBURY'S proposed measure, now that he has"thrown upon the every crevice and cranny of that measure the light of his clear intel ligence, through the medium of his singularly lucid explanation—the one only serious matter for bewil derment to ourselves in regard to it may be ex pressed at once by the unaffected wonder with which we take note of the Lord Chancellor's ' exposition of his scheme when he avows that, unlike Sir HUGH CAIRNS' Bill of a session or two back, the bill now submitted to the Legislature by the Government proposes no new courts for the working of the enactment ! If this really and truly be possible, of course so much the better. But how it can by any chance be possible is at the present moment utterly beyond our comprehen sion. However, this and all other problematic parts of the question may now be left confidingly, and we will say even hopefully, to the calm judg ment of the Law Lords in Select Committee. The most generous view of Mr. BRIGHT'S speech last night is, that on such questions he is hardly responsible. There have been other members of the Society of Friends in the House before, but they were distinguished amongst their fellow members as much by their plain speech, almost the taciturnity, of their body, as Mr. BRIGHT is distinguished by unusual powers of oratory. Other Quakers in Par liament have doubtless felt very much as Mr. BRIGHT feels, but they had neither the boldness, nor the powers of speech to utter their non-resist ance sentiments. Mr. BRIGHT has both. He pro bably hardly knows what it is to doubt his own con clusions, and he certainly does not lack the power to put them forth with the most effective illustra tion. Like the rest of his body, however, we should think that on questions of war and peace, his views were as fixed a part of him as the cut of his coat or the shape of his hat. All that had been settled for every quaker from the days of GEORGE FOX. Mr. BRIGHT inherited his dress and his notions, on this subject, together. He persuades himself that he de scends to the low ground of worldly politicians, and that while he has transcendental grounds for his convictions, his arguments are taken from common , and earthly sources. This is his illusion. He in herits the amiable Quaker crotchet, and uncon sciously it stimulates his genius to search in every quarter for appropriate aliment. We venture these remarks as the best apology we can offer for the singular aberration of one of our most popular orators. He found himself, last night, that not only Lord PALMERSTON, but one who, like himself, is an advanced Liberal and advo cate of economy, Mr. BAXTER, differed from him entirely. Indeed, it has not been our lot to meet with the individual who did not thoroughly ap prove the policy which Mr. BRIGHT reprobates. We all knew that the preparations for war—to pre vent war—with America, would be heavily felt in our Income-tax this year, yet we all felt, that if not a cheap, it was the least costly policy. The hazard of war, and prolonged angry negotiations, would, in their effect on commerce alone, have cost vastly more than the one or two millions which it has cost us to show that we were in earnest. If any injurious feeling of bitterness and hostility remain in the North—which, with Mr. BAXTER, we do not be lieve—the blame of it must lie with the party who committed the inexcusable outrage, and who did cause the news of the outrage and the announce ment of spontaneous redress to come over together. Looking back coolly, now, on the whole affair, who can doubt that the purpose of the American Government was the meanest conceivable. It was the low-bred determination to squeeze out of this intolerable wrong as much advantage to them. selves, and wrong to us, as we would put up with. We know that it ended with the surrender of the prisoners ; but it ought, as Lord DERBY, with the feelings of an English gentleman, pointed out, to have begun with that. The disgrace of Bull's Run was, in our judgment, not to be compared with the infamy of detaining the prisoners from the Trent. A panic has seized, before now, better troops than those of M`DOWELL. But the illegal detention of the prisoners was a deliberate act. A hot-brained device of an officer placed stolen goods in the pos session of the Washington Cabinet; and the Cabinet, knowing them to be stolen, and knowing to whom they belonged, instead of returning them to their owners, kept them for their own profit. They only gave them up when they received a very civil demand for them, backed by a police force which they dare not encounter. How Mr. BRIGHT could be so foolish—for he is not ordinarily that—as to talk in the face of the notorious facts of the case, of his being certain from the beginning that, as the law was against the Ame ricans, so they would be certain to obey it—does indeed surprise us. He talks of them as a law loving people. We think them just the reverse— they are a physical force and political fraud-loving people. They will take where they can, let Texas and Mexico, let the wronged negroes and Indians bear - witness; and they will glory in frauds for the sake of territory, like that practised by Mr. WEB STER on Lord ASHBITRTON, to deprive us of what is now Maine, but which, on the authority of BEN JAMIN FRANKLIN, belonged to New Brunswick. Whatever can be obtained by political bullying and sharping they will have. We are sorry to write thus of them, but it is because they have first written it themselves in numberless acts. And even among themselves, lawless violence and intimidation drives the better class of men from public life ; and, were Mr. BRIGHT a native American, and did he differ from the vast majority of his countrymen as much as he now does from Englishmen, he would assuredly be in danger of Judge LYNCH, and would be com pelled to keep his oratory to himself. Few Englishmen can doubt that but for our pre parations for the defence of Canada, and the noble spirit of the Canadians themselves—and, but for the certainty that the blockade of the South would be exchanged for a blockade of the North, and the complete and instant triumph of Secession—that but for this Mr. SEWARD would never have parted with his ill-gotten prisoners. The American press all said they should never be parted with; the arch-pirate was feted and praised by governors and judges for his defiance of law and England-1t was lauded as heroism that the cap tain of a frigate should defy not so much the gun less packet-ship as the law of nations, seeing the defiance was against Britishers. The Naval Board and Congress itself praised the pirate; and the PRESIDENT, not daring to praise the violation of law, held his tongue while he kept the men in his dungeons! As bad as anything, Mr. SEWARD wrote over to Mr. ADAMS here, told him that the American Government had not ordered the act, and yet said not one word of restitution ! ! That infa mous despatch was proof sufficient that they meant, if England would stand it, to keep the men, and fully justified our Government in pushing on their preparations. We have indeed a heavy bill to pay for American fraud and violence. Mr. BRIGHT professes to feel for the tax•payers of Britain ; if so, instead of ex tenuating American crimes against the law o f should denounce the mingled auda c ity tio ns TtIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1862. and sharp practice, which compelled us, for the honour of the nation, to incur the enormous expense which Mr. BRIGHT ani every one else will have to pay this year for the outrage of his pets. It is we, not Americans, who have cause for heartburning, if at least a gratuitous raid ipon our pockets should pro duce such a feeling. Of one thing, however, the Government feels assured, that there is no man of any party in England, be he Radical, Whig, or Tory, who does net feel indebted to the Government for both its diplomacy and its naval and military measures in the case of the Trent. The American telegrams continue to try our patience. They come from the North, yet they have nothing to tell of successful movements either military or financial. The success in Kentucky is not followed up, or, if it be, we hear nothing of it. And, as to money, we hear of nothing what ever done to get it : the actual finance measures appear to be summed up in the issue of irredeem able paper. We do learn that at last the New York merchants and bankers are losing faith in the plans and calculations of Mr. CHASE-but Congress takes no steps to replenish the trea sury. One statement is, that after the 10th of this month there would not be a dollar in the Treasury. Another, that the contractors and army jobbers were deserting Washington, and run ning away from payment in inconvertible paper. It seems the people of Maine are displeased with Mr. SEWARD for permitting the British troops to use the railroad to Canada which British capital constructed through their province. Mr. SEWARD replies by pointing to the habitual magnanimity of the American Government. The accounts from the South show the Seces sionists to be as determined as ever, come what may, to fight for independence as long as the North chooses to fight them. They deny that their privations are severe in the more im portant comforts of life. A few luxuries which they can well do without are dear—coffee, for instance, three shillings a pound. But beef, mutton, ham, flour, and poultry • are said to be plentiful and cheap. On such fare the Southerners are not likely to suffer much ; and they tell us, incredible as it may seem, that their own manufacturers are supplying them rapidly, not only with arms and munitions of war, but with textile fabrics also. They own that their expenses are great, but they calculate on the sale of their accumulation of cotton, tobacco, sugar, and rice, when the war is over, to reinstate them in a better pecuniary position ; and as to patriotism, they assure us that never were the negroes more content, and that If 100,000 men are sacrificed in the war, a second 100,000 will promptly supply their place. All will depend on the feeling of the South. If it can hold out, by simply standing on the defen sive, if it can endure privation of luxuries, for some years, all the efforts of the North will be in ♦ain. The country, its extent and character Will defend itself. Nothing can be done by the military occupa tion of swamps and wildernesses, and forests ; and not much by the possession of a few towns, sur rounded by a hostile country. The small unforti fied towns of the South will not be like those of the Quadrilateral; while, if the accounts of the Southerners be correct, their hatred will be as bitter towards the Northern armies as that of the Venetians towards the Austrians. If want of money do not bring the North to terms there seems to be no reason why we should not be destined to witness, as the Messrs. NEILL predict, a weary and barbarous struggle for years, between love of independence on one side, and of supremacy on the other. THE OXFORD MUSIC HALL. We were yesterday highly gratified by what we may term a " morning rehearsal" of a performance by two youths, who we doubt not will, for many a night, prove an immense attraction to this favourite place of evening entertainment. To the well-known proprietor of the Cirque Napoleon of Paris, M. De jean, the London public owes the introduction of Henri Maitrejean, aged 13, and Joseph Pfau, aged 11, whose skill, strength, presence of mind, activity, grace, and courage, are something mar vellous to behold. We will presume that the reader has a mind's-eye idea of the immense length of the Oxford Music-hall. Suspended from its moulded ceiling, at unequal interspaces, are cords, each supporting the apparatus by which the suc cessive flying leaps are effected. The nature of these leaps, made with squirrel-like agility, will, perhaps, be more easily appreciated by those who have not yet witnessed them, by the simple state ment that the first is 13 feet 6 inches, the second 23 feet, the third 23 feet 3 inches, and the fourth 37 feet 10 inches. These were traversed by the juvenile acrobats with a cleverness and confidence that, un • like many allied displays of daring and agility, pro duced no tremor cordis in the spectator. At a few feet below, running the entire length of the hall, is a padded platform, which ensures safety,were there even a chance of a mistake in the hand, the foot hold, or the gyration of the performers. As a whole, we look upon these youths as an aceession to the attractions of the Oxford, and an interesting display of what marvels trained activity can achieve. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary have arrived at St. James's Palace from Kew. The Duke of Newcastle has taken the Countess of Caleion's mansion on Carlton-house-terrace for the sea son. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort intend to leave Gibraltar early in the ensuing month on their return home. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and family purpose to leave Blenheim Palace, near Woodstock, to-day, for town, for the season. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn have left Chesterfield House for Brocket Hall, Herts. Frances Countess Waldegrave arrrived at her residence in Carlton-gardens, yesterday, from Dudbrook House, Essex. Lord Lyndhurst has quite recovered from his resent ttud le Duly ourNa/uis hum fa slight weakness consequent on his indisposition. _ _ The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury left town on Saturday for Paris, on a visit to the Earl and Countess Cowley. The noble marquis and marchioness are expected in town at the latter end of the week. The Earl and Countess of Bective have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from the Lodge, Vir ginia Water. A marriage is arranged to take place shortly between the Lady Mary Acheson, second daughter of the Earl and Countess of Gosford, and the Hon. Leopold W. H. Powys, second son of the late Lord Lilford. Sir Charles and Lady Wake and family have arrived at their residence in Great Cumberland-street, Hyde-park, for the season. MR. AND MRS. CHARLES KEAN.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, we regret to say, will not appear during the remainder of this week, in consequence of the death of Mrs. Bradshaw, sister of Mrs. Kean. Mrs. Bradshaw was the original Clari at Covent Garden, and in that character sang for the first time the celebrated " Home, sweet home." She married Mr. Bradshaw, M.P. for Canterbury, who died 13 years ago. Of this marriage one daughter was the result, and that young lady is married to Mr. Langley, late of the 2d Life Guards. THE TUSCARORA AND THE SUMTER AT GIBRAL TAIL-SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 17.—A telegram has been. re ceived here to-day from Gibraltar, dated Thursday,7 stating that the Federal steam corvette Tuscarora had arrived at that port; that the Confederate steamer Sumter was still there, and unable to get coal, in consequence of having no money to pay for it ; and that the Tuscarora was exercising the same watchful care over the Sumter as she did for Ernie time over the Nashville in these watere. THE INCOME OE THE COURT OF CHAN9ERY* — Yesterday a return was issued showing that the income of the Suitors' Fee Fund in the year ending November, was £158,777. The fees by stamps amounted to no less, 4 sum than. X 69,219128, 6cl, THE FORGERIES BY A DERBY SOLICITOR.—At the Derby Police-court, yesterday, Joseph Shaw, solicitor, Derby, and until recently the high bailiff of the Derby County Court, was brought up on remand on a charge of forging a deed by which he obtained £B5O from Mr. John Adsetts, of Duffield. some further evidence was taken in support of this charge, when the bench adjourned the in quiry until Saturday next, on which occasion a second charge of a similar nature will be gone into. THE FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE WATERLOO ROAD. —Yesterday afternoon, at half-past 2 o'clock, Mr. Sergeant Payne resumed the inquiry at St. Thomas's Hospital on the body of Edwin James Robbins, who lost his life by the ac cident in the Waterloo-read. The inquiry was adjourned for the purpose of the jury viewing the spot, and for the attendance of Mr. Jones. At the conclusion of the evidence of several witnesses the coroner summed up and the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death," and at the same time desired to state that the conduct of Mr. Jones when he received the notice from the Lambeth vestry in October, 1859, to arch the landing, was most reprehensible. The coroner refused to insert the latter, as an opinion only, and recorded a verdict of" Accidental death." AN M.P. IN JEOPARDY.—Yesterday afternoon, on the assembling of the House of Commons, and as seve ral members were about to cross the dangerous corner that connects Bridge-street, Westminster, with Parliament street, a spring-cart came quickly round the corner, and would inevitably have run over Mr. Ingham, M.P., who was crossing at the moment, had not one of the officers of the A division adroitly interposed himself between the hon. member and the horse, which he succeeded at his own personal peril in reining in on the instant. Tho occurrence would be scarcely worth recording were it not to point out to the public the danger that exists at this particular spot, and the necessity that exists for some better regulation of the traffic here, similar to that adopted by the City Police authorities at London-bridge and elsewhere. Occasionally, owing to there being no break in the line of vehicles, the passage of the public is impeded for five and ten minutes at a time, to say nothing of the danger they are exposed to in crossing for want of so,:ae intermediate halt ing-place. THE MURDER AT WESTON zoYLAND.—Yesterday the prisoner, W. Chard, jun., was brought up on remand, at the Town- hall, Brid gwater, on the charge of wilfully murder ing his servant, Parnell Howe, as reported in this journal of Tuesday last. The prisoner appeared to take the proceedings very complacently, and sat in the dock with perfect non chalance. Several witnesses were called, but their evi dence did not materially differ from that previously given. The prisoner was committed for trial for wilful murder at next assizes. REVOLTING AND INHUMAN MURDER AND MU TILATION or A CHILD.---Yesterday morning, at an early hour, as Mr. J. Shepherd, residing in Greville-street, Holborn, was passing through Baldwin's••place, Hatton garden, he discovered a paper parcel lying on a door step, on opening which it was found to contain the body of a full-grown male child, which could not have been dead more than two hours. It was ascertained that death had been occasioned by foul means, the stomach having been ripped up with a knife, so that part of the entrails dropped out, and the head and upper part of the body had the ap pearance of having been subjected to considerable pressure, being a perfect mass of contusions. The body was con veyed to the dead house of St. Andrew's, Holborn, and in formation of the revolting deed forwarded to the coroner or the district. DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN.—Mr. James Cowan, who presented an extraordinary instance of longevity, died on the sth inst., at Drumore, parish of Lochrutton. He had reached the extreme age of 103 years, and was th© last of a family of five, whose united ages amount to fully 450. He well remembered Burns, having often seen him when a farmer at Ellisland ; and his reminiscences of Dumfries in his boyish days, 90 years ago, were fresh and interesting. As showing how one age is sometimes linked with another that seems remote, we may mention that Mr. Cowan's father, who lived to be threescore, had a distinct recollec tion of Grierson of Lag, and often described to his son the big, burley, and bloated personal aspect of the notorious persecutor. Mr. Cowan was never married.—Edin burgh Witness. THE DISTRESS IN BLACKBURN.--The distress in this town and district is very great, upwards of 7,000 of the factory operatives of Blackburn alone being wholly un employed, while a decided change for the worse is taking place in the adjoining townships of Darwen, Accrington, Church, Enfield, and Great Harwood. The relief fund amounts to nearly £l,BOO, out of which the committee are providing bread and meal for necessitous families. During last week nearly 30 loads of oatmeal and upwards of 4,000 loaves were thus distributed. The parochial relief returns for the week ended last Saturday show that 7,959 persons, of whom 2,586 were able-bodied, had been relieved at a cost of £445 10s. 9d. ; of this number 6,096 belonged to Blackburn alone, at a cost of £352 45., the remainder be longing to the Darwen and Oswald twistle districts. In the corresponding week of last year the number relieved in the union was 2,571, at a cost of £137 25., or not quite half the number of Blackburn poor at present in receipt of re lief. On Friday a poor rate of 3s. in the pound was signed by the magistrates, and it is estimated to realise £18,743 18s. a It is anticipated that a further rate will be re quired to meet the present distress.—.Manehester Guardian. LIBERATION OF WILLIAM MILLER, THE PRISONER POR DEBT FOR FIFTY YEARS.—Within the last few days Mr. William Miller, whose extraordinary case has recently been so much before the public, has received his liberty, of which he had been deprived since July, 1824. The aged prisoner, however, had been so long without the blessings of freedom that he had lost all desire, if not remembrance, of them, and he, therefore, opposed the most obstinate re sistance to the proceedings of Mr. Registrar Flazlitt, in his case last month, and refused to sign his examination, which was an essential preliminary to his immediate discharge. The commissioner at the Bankruptcy Court, nevertheless, decreed him a bankrupt, and sent him an order for his re lease. Captain Hudson, the governor of the Queen's Pri son, with kind consideration allowed his old captive to re main for some time in the place, so that he might become gradually accustomed to the idea of going forth into a world to which he has been a stranger for half a century. The day fixed for his departure, however, at last came, and Mr. Miller was told that a cab was in waiting to convey him to . the house of a relative in Greenwich. He received the news with evident regret, and after taking a lingering fare well of the prison authorities, he was assisted to the vehicle, in which he was driven straight:to his destination. The sub scription raised in his behalf has reached a considerable sum. A FRIGHTFUL DEATH.—A few nights ago a man named William Berrick, otherwise well known by the sobriquet of " His Majesty," came to a fearful death under the following circumstances :—On the night of Sunday he had been with others at the house of Mr. Bradnock, the White Hart, at Tile Cross. He remained there until about 11 o'clock, when they left, and the house was closed. Ber rick, who was a single man, about 50 years of age, of un settled habits, generally slept at his sister's, but from some cause he had expressed his determination not to go there that night, and on his leaving the White Hart nothing more was seen of him until the next morning. Mr. Bradnock, in addition to being a licensed victualler, carries on an exten sive baking business, and has a large oven on his premises. Early on the Monday morning he had prepared wood for heating the oven, and on his proceeding to place it in the flue or stove he was startled at seeing the body of a man therein, and on his gaining assistance and making a nearer inspection he was horrified at finding the dead body of Ber • rick. From the body having been found stuck fast in the flue of the oven, it was supposed that on his leaving the house the unhappy man had gone to the flue—which had been used on the previous day—for warmth, and on his en deavouring to get into i t had got fast, and, being unable to extricate himself, was literally suffocated. Mr. Poole subse quently held an inquest on the body, and evidence being given bearing out the above particulars, the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death from suffocation in the flue," no blame being attached to anyono.—Birmingham Post. RUNNING THE BLOCKADE—Since the with drawal of her Majesty's prohibition order against the ex portation of warlike stores to America, several vessels, in cluding a fast screw steamer (which ran the Charleston blockade some months since with a oars° of o.f.ton) have commenced taking on board at Liverpool immense quanti ties of guns, ammunition, blankets, &c., for the use of the Confederate army, the soldiers of which will be supplied with many luxuries should any of these vessels succeed in running the blockade of any of the Southern ports. Many, if not all these vessels, are loaded by different parties--one gentleman going in for his share in guns, another in blankets, a third in ammunition, while a fourth or fifth ventures in drugs, saltpetre, &c., and so on until each vessel is loaded. As nothing can be "done" in these vessels at the insurance offices, the whole risk of loss falls on those who venture in the speculation. The following advertise.. ment, which appeared in a Liverpool contemporary yester day, will show how these partnership ventures are arranged: "Cargo to run the blockade.—Wanted, a party to provide a portion of the cargo for a fast sailing vessel of 300 tons, to run to one of the blockaded ports.—Address, box —, Manchester," ANOTHER ACCIDENT BY MACHINERY.—A most shocking accident occurred on Friday afternoon at Birdsall, a wold village a few miles from Malton. Except in its hor rible termination, the accident is precisely similar to the re cent one at Sunderland. It seems that Mrs. Hudson, the wife of Mr. Hudson, a shopkeeper at Burythorpe, a neigh bouring village, was at Mr. Watson's farm, at Birdsall, where a corn thrashing machine was in use. Mrs. Hudson, it is stated, attempted to step over the tumbling shaft, which revolves rapidly, and has a connection in the centre present ing sharp angles, which are likely to catch and retain hold of a dress if brought in proximity. It is thought Mrs. Hud son's dress was caught in this way, and was instantaneously wrapped several times round the shaft, the wearer being brought down with it, and, to the horror of all present, whirled round and round with every revolution. The machinery waa stopped as quickly as possible, and when the unfortunate woman was extricated it was found that her knees were dislocated, and that she had received many wounds and very serious injuries. On Saturday she was s Wed to be in a precarious state. The accident is doubtless owing to a want of proper fencing over the shaft, a precau tion very rarely adopted in thrashing machines. LATEST NEWS. PARIS, FEB. 18. The debate on the address will commence in the Senatb on Thursday next. _ LISBON, FEB. 17 (Evening). In the Upper House to-day, the proposition to re establish the censorship of books and other publica tions was rejected by 36 against 34 votes. MADRID, FEB. 17. Senor Mon is expected to arrive in Madrid this evening. PARIS, FEB. 17. The reading of the address took place to-day in the Senate. The following is a summary of ♦hose paragraphs of it relating to foreign affairs : The address congratulates the Emperor on the amicable relations of his Majesty's Government with foreign Powers, and continues—" We hope that the expedition to Mexico will procure entire satis faction for the interests of our countrymen. The documents recently communicated to the house prove how greatly the Senate was justified in placing confidence in your Majesty as regards the Italian question. Your Majesty's Government, while taking into consideration international exi gencies, has not lost sight of the interests of Catho licism. You will continue, Sire, in your policy of protection and conciliation,.as we shall continue to place confidence in that policy. You will doubtless experience theregret that we earnestly feel at meet ing sometimes with ardour and immoderate preten sions, and sometimes with resistance and torpidity. But your counsels are those of wisdom, and in the name of this wisdom we must not tire of stating that the greatest works cannot be carried out with out calm and moderation, in order to become well established, and that causes the most just are some times endangered by extreme refusals, which are incompatible with a good direction of human affairs," TURIN, FEB. 17. To-day, in the Chamber of Deputies, the postal conventions between the Italian Government and Switzerland and Greece were approved of. Signor La Farini expressed a wish that a similar convention should be concluded with Prussia, To this Baron Ricasoli replied that he had always sought that the Italian cause should not become isolated in its relations with other nations. Among those who have displayed towards Italy the greatest sympathy, said Baron Ricasoli, is the Prussian Government, which has likewise mani fested sentiments favourable to our cause. The Prussian representative has always remained at Turin, as our representative remains at Berlin. The Italian envoy was received with sympathies and honours during the coronation of the King of Prussia. In conclusion Baron Ricasoli eulogised the mag nanimity of the Prussian Government and people. BERNE, FEB. 17. England has notified to the Swiss Government that she is disposed to negotiate for the reciprocal suppression of the passport visa: THE BRAZILS. LISBON, FEB. 16, The Messageries Imperiales Company's steamer Guienne, from the Brazils, arrived here yesterday at 4 p.m. RIO JANEIRO, Jan. 25.—Exchange on London, 258 ; Paris, 380. Coffee, 7,500 to 8,500 reis ; ship ments since the departure of the last steamer, 77,050 bags ; stock, 250,000 bags. BAUTA, Jan. 29.—Exchange, 251, Sugar, 2,200 to 2,400 reis. PERNAMBUCO, Jan. 31.—Exchange, 251. Sugar, 2,200 to 2,800 reis ; brown, 2,100 reis. Cotton, 12,200 dole. The royal mail steamer Oneida, with the outward mail of the 9th ult., arrived at Bahia on the evening of the 28th. CALCUTTA, CHINA AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 18. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived. She brings 74 passengers, and 2,076 packages of cargo. On the 17th inst. she spoke the British barque Lord Seaton off Ushant, and the British barque Melbourne, from Table Bay, off the Eddystone. The Tuscarora left Gibraltar on the 13th inst. for the Spanish waters of Algeciras. The Sumter was still in harbour. From Alexandria to Malta the Ceylon encoun tered strong north-westerly gales and a head sea; thence to Finnisterre and up the Channel southerly winds, with heavy rain; Her Majesty's storeship Supply arrived out at Gibraltar on the 11th. Intelligence from Tangiers state that disturb• ances had taken place in the interior of the country near Rabat. A provincial governor and all his family had been assassinated by the insurgents. The brother of the Emperor had proceeded with a strong force to crush the revolt against the Sultan's authority. At Gibraltar Exchange on London, 90 days, was quoted 491 ; Paris, 5.24; Marseilles, 5.25; Madrid, I prem. Freights unaltered; The Ceylon struck the cliff at Portland last night, and sustained considerable damage. Her bowsprit, figure-head, and cutwater were carried away. FRANCE. PARIS, FEB. 17. The Tribunal of Commerce of the Seine has re cently given a decision of interest to the commercial world, as showing the danger of paying second bills of exchange without requiring the presenta tion of the first. In July last, two bills of ex change, at three months' date, each for 7,200 f., in firsts and seconds, were drawn on MM. de Roths child, of Paris, by the Bank of St. Petersburg, to the order of General Nikita de Vsevolojski. On the 30th July, the General presented the seconds of these bills at Rothschild's, and requested to have them paid beforehand, deducting discount. He declared that the firsts had been lost, and MM. de Rothschild handed him the amount. However, when tho bills fell due, the firsts were also pre sented by M. Valentin Marx, to whom they had been regularly passed by the General's son Vsevolod de Osevoloksi on the 25th July. MM. de Roths child refused to pay them, on the ground that Marx was not their legal holder. The latter, therefore, sued MM. de Rothschild for the amount, and, having proved that they had been negotiated to him by the General's son, who held his father's power of attorney, the Tribunal condemned MM. Rothschild to pay the amount claimed, with interest and costs. BOURSE, Feb. 17.—Stock has been rather offered, and the business done has been at a decline on the closing rates of Saturday. Threes, for the Ac count, are now at 70f. 95c. Railway Shares quiet, but pretty firm. The following are the last quotationi:- 41 per per Cents ... 100 60 Credit Foncier Do, end month.... 101 05 Belgian 42 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 95 Roman Bank Shares 3060 Austrian Spanish Threes 5O 25 CreTit Mobilier.... 770 Do. Account 772 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1385 .. 1387 50 Northern New ditto .. .. .. ...... , Lyons and Mediterranean 1090 .. 1693 75 Geneva 357 50 .. 362 50 Southern ........ Western Eastern •... 598 75 .. 600 Sardinian 532 50 .. 330 Austrian Lombard 650 .. 650 LA JJT IZi TELLIG.ENCE.—(This Day.) COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) RE ROBERT WILCOCKS. Dr. Phillimore applied for probate of the will of Robert Wilcocks, who was supposed to have died in Australia in 1854. The relatives of the deceased had made affidavits, but their brother had been employed as a store .keeper in Australia, and that he had since died, but the exact time and place was not known. Probate granted. RE AROOKBANK. Dr. Phillimore also applied for probate of the will of Joseph Brookbank, who died in South America in Octo ber, 1860. He left the whole of his property to his wife and children, but there was also a creditor who had given notice to the parties concerned that he should apply for letters of administration to the said will. No answer to that citation had been returned, and therefore the present motion was made. DYKE ♦. WALLIS AND OTHERS. Probate granted. In this case Dr. Griffith Jones propounded an instrament which purported to be the last will of Sophia Bellis, of Woburn-place, Middlesex, by which the whole of the pro perty was bequeathed to him. In the course of the trial he admitted that he had been guilty of perjury, and he was sentenced tol2 months imprisonment. The defendants claimed to be second cousins and next of kin to Sophia Bellis; while the Queen's Proctor alleged that she was illegitimate, and died intestate. The object of the present motion was to direct them to amend their plea by setting forth their pedigree more fully. The Court deferred making any order for the present. BORROUGHS V. BORROUGHS AND BILCOCK. Dr. Swabey made an application on the part of Mrs B rroughs, for leave to amend her answer to the petition of her husband to this court praying for divorce on the ground of adultery. Dr. Spinks, for the petitioner, opposed the application, on the ground that there had already been sufficient delay in hearing the case. The application was granted on special conditions as to costs . It was afterwards arranged that the trial should be taken to-morrow fortnight. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Registrar Higgins.) IN RE KADIR RUKSCIT-TUE RESULT OF AN ACTION POE FALSE IMPRISONMENT. This bankrupt was an assistant in the Turkish Baths in Finsbury, and this was a meeting for first examination, but no creditor appeared to prove, and therefore no assignee was chosen. It appeared from the account presented by the bank rupt that he had been arrested for costs in an action for false imprisonment. The bankrupt and his wife had been in the service of Moolize Mussheeoodd, the proprietor of the baths, who gave the plaintiff in custody on a charge of stealing various articles from the establishment, but on an examination being taken at the Marylebone police-court, the bankrupt was discharged, and an action was brought and heard before a special jury, but as it was proved that the bankrupt's wife had taken away some trifling articles unknowing to the bankrupt, the jury gave a verdict for the defendant, and the costs amounted to £ll5, for which the defendant was taken in execution. The other debts, however, were insignificant, except the costs of Mr. Sorrell, the defendant's solicitor, for £l2O, also for costs in the action. Mr. Sorrell appeared to support the petition, but did not prove his debt, and supported the bankrupt, and asked for a day to be named and protection for the bankrupt.—Granted. IN RE HICKFORD. This bankrupt was described as of Gallingay, grocer, and this was a first meeting. Messrs. Hart Brothers and Hayles are the accountants, but as the accounts had not been filed, an adjournment was ordered. POLICE .INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A GUNNER OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY CHARGED WITS ROBBERY.—BAD CASE.—George Taylor, of Leith Fort, a gunner of the 9th Battery of Royal Artillery, was charged with the following robbery : John Ormond, of 49, North-row, a letter-carrier, said the prisoner, who was distantly related to him, had lodged with him since Friday last, when he arrived from Leith, being on his way to Walmer with a prisoner. On his return from Walmer he made the prisoner up a bed, and he had lodged and boarded with him since. Yesterday morning, when he went out he left the prisoner in bed, and on his return to breakfast his wife asked him the time, and on his look ing at his watch stand, he found his silver watch and chain of the value of £8 were gone, and the pri soner also. The prisoner, previous to going out, had told his wife that he was going to the bombardier, in Union street, to get some clean things, and thinking he might be there he went there, but he had not been seen. He then went to Wandsworth, where the prisoner had a relation, but he was not there. He then gave information to the police, and at night the prisoner was brought to him by the bombardier, when he said be had pledged the watch and chain, and a coat also, in the neighbourhood of Petticoat lane, but that he had lost the ticket, and all the money he had left was 4d. He (prosecutor) however found a sovereign on him. Tho bombardier told biro ho had been spending money in a reckless manner, treating every one and enjoy ing himself by cab-riding. W. Burns, 68 C, said on taking the pritymur into custody he said he had taken the things and pledged them, but he did not know where, and that he had lost the daplicate. Prisoner had nothing to say to his base conduct, and was remanded for a week. PREVENTION BETTER TRAN CURE.—TWO lads, named Weatherall and Hopkins, were charged with loiterinz with intent to commit a felony. Mr. Tyrwhitt, in discharging them, said they were yell/ properly brought before him, and that the officer Gordon? 336 A, was a most useful officer in preventing this class of persons from committing depredations. THAMES. ASSAULT UPON A WlFE.—Samuel Tina!, a ship's steward, was brought before Mr. Woolrych charged with assaulting his wife. The complainant said she was coming out of the Ming — ham Saloon Theatre last night, in company with a f e male acquaintance, when her husband accosted her and said she was laughing at him. She denied having done so, and he then swore at her 'and attempted to strike her. She raft away from him, and he pursued her and overtook her dose to the London Hospital, when ha deliberately took her hat from her head, struck her and knocked her down, and while she was down kicked her on the back. Her screaniS brought a police-constable to her assistance, and her husband was taken into custody. He had frequently ill-used her before, and she applied for a warrant against him a f o rt- , night ago, but, not knowing his address, the magistrate could not grant her request. Isabella Hoxton, dressmaker, confirmed the statement of her friend. The prisoner in defence, said he received considerabl e provocation from his wife when he last came home frosty sea. After a nine months' absence, he found his house broken up, everything sold or pawned, and his wife leading a very indifferent life. He asked her for the duplicates of the goods she had pawned, which she refused to give hint and she caused him to be turned out of the house he 132 1 d taken for him. Mrs. Tinan retorted upon her husband that, although they had not been married two years until the 25th of ne% t March, he had only kept her for two months of that tiraet and that he proposed to her before he went to sea to lead LI gay and profligate life, and support him on the wages of her iniquitous life. She refused to do this, and he th e y ill-used her. Before she was married she was in good employment/ earning fair wages, and did not want her husband's cool' pany or his wages. Mr. Woolrych called upon the defendant to enter int° his own recognisances to keep the peace towards his wif e and all her Majesty's subjects for the next 12 months. THE MISSING LADY AT LEEDS.—Just before going to press (says the Leeds Mercury of yesterday), w e , learn that the particulars given by a London daily p a per es the manner in which Mrs. Buxton was discovered are wholly incorrect. The lady is now in Leeds, with her hue' band and friends. She states that she was taken on the 22d of January to Barnsbury when in a state of insenei bility, arising, she believes, from severe sea sickness an cl i the fatigue of a lon g j ourney. H ow t h e di amond ring a n the article of baby's clothing got to the place where thei were found she has no knowledge. At Barnsbury sh e remained for many days in a state of unconsciousness from a severe attack of fever, and on examining her luggage on her recovery she missed her watch, jewellery, and other valuables, but had no knowledge when and how they wer e abstracted from her boxes. As soon as she recovered, letter was sent to Leeds to inform her friends where Sh e was located, but the letter, from misdirection or some othe r cause, never reached its destination, and hence the m yeteri in which the case has been involved. FATAL ACCIDENT AT AN EXHIBITION.—SHIELD Saturday Night.—On Saturday, Mr. Favell, the corone r for North Durham, opened an inquest at South Shield* on the body of George Forsyth, a boy between twelve and fourteen years of age, who lost his life at an exhibition given by that Mr. Duvalli, who calls himself the the Eng' lish Blondin, in the Cricket Ground of that town, o n Frida night. Duvalli had to ascend and descend o n w hat 1 described as the electric telegraph wire, a tight rope abou t 160 feet in length, extended by means of wooden sheers of scaffolding poles 35 feet from the ground. He had 6 IS ° to let fireworks off, and a great mob of people were gathered, who shortly after the proceedings commenced became T er t c unruly. Duvalli first commenced to let fireworks off; an while doing so some blackguard appears to have cut tbg Manilla rope, which secured the sheer legs and the NV' rope to the ground, and the result was that the sheer 140 fell over amongst the mob, killing the boy Forsyth 1 2 1 )°13 the spot, and seriously, if not fatally injuring another ba na med Richard Dobson. Of course, after th i s t h e greates t confusion arose, and the proceedings were put a stop t ° . : and as the miscreant w h o cu t th e rope h as no t beep disco' vered, the inquest was adjourned.