The Sun. — London, England, 1869-01-26 00:00:00

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Special Morning PerformanCes 'of the Grand Pantomime on every Wednesuay and Saturday during the Christmas Holida3 s THIS KVENING, will b. performed MY WIFE'S OUT. To be followed by the Great Christmas Pantomime. entitled GRIMALKIN THE GREAT; OR, HARLEQUIN PUSS IN BOOTS, IND THE MILLER'S SONS, with new and magnificent Scenery by Mr. Wm. Beverley. Characters in the Opening by the entire strength of the company. In the Harlequinade a Double Troupe of Pantomimists; and combining the grandest stage effects of any Pantomime ever produced at this theatre. Doors open at half-past 5. commence at 7. Box-office open from In till 5 daily. rHEATRE ROYAL, H A YMARKET. Sole Lessee. Afr. l3uckstone. THIS EVENING, INTRIGUE Clark, and Miss Fanny Wright. After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chrnpendale, Comp ton. A stley, ke,; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, Hill, kc. Meser3. Howe, Kenlel, Coneluding With THE FRIGHTFUL HAIR. essrs. Comp ton. Kendal, Weaihershy, Buckstone, jun., fie. ; Mesdames Wright. Burke, Gwynn, fie. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. IYreetress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CA MBE ft WELL. Mr. G. delmore, Mrs. L. Murray. Kt it quarter to S. MONTE CRISTO. Mr. Fechter, Mr. Benja min Webster, Mr. G Belmore, Mr. Arthur Stirling, Mr. Ashley, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Stuart, Mr. C H. Stephenson, Mr. C. J. smith, Mr. 'Romer. Mr. W. H. Ehurne, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Carlotta Leelereq,M.rs. Leigh Murray, and Miss Nelly Harris. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. List 12 Nights. THIS EVENING, THE SEC'RET. After which (at 8 o'clock) Dion Boucicault's new drama. in f-ur acts, entitled AFTER DARK. a Tale of London Life. Messrs. Vining, Walter Lacy, Dominick Murray. C. Harcourt, J. 13. Shore; Miss Emma Barnet. end Miss Rose Leclercq. Entirely new Scenery by Ur. F. Lloyds an 4 ass stunts. To conclude with 11 ASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. %ors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daliy from 10 till 5. CW" On "Monday. Feb. 8, a new Drama. entitled MARIE ANTOINETTE, in which Mdlle. Beatrice will appear. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Vessce and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30. THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Jlirke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Bui An and Maitland. After which. THE FIELD OF TLI CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thorne, James. and Robson Mesdames M. Long more, F. Hughes. L. Maitland. &c. To conclude Rlth HUE AND DYE. GLOBE THEATRE -ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. M 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9. 0, BROWN AAD THE BRAHMI NS : Messrs. Marshall, Warner, David fisher, Andrews, Huriston, and J. Clarke: Mesdames C. Thorne, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Arnoll, Henrade, Be rend, Hughes, and Stephens. %.,IT. GEORGE'S THEATRE (ST. GEORGE'S AJ HALL).—Great Sucaess of SABDANAPALUS. 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Thorns, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Ar told, and Stephens. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborongh. Tins ii.ViNING. at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. ,Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke ; Miss Baton. THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; v esdames Maria ..ongmore, B. Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To h onclude with HUE AND DYE. QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston. Tills EVENING, DOT. Messrs. J. L. Toole, S. Emery, W. H Stephens, C. Wyndham. and L. Brongh; M esdames Montague, Rignold, Miae, and Everard. And THE GNOME KING Toole. With A RACE FOR A DINNER THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. Tars EVENING, at 7, SL A SHER & CRASHER : Messrs Atkins, Vaughan, G. Vincent, &c.: Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield. After which at 7.45, THE YELLOW PASSPORT Messrs. H Neville, G. Vincent, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and H. Wigan; Mesdaroaa Furtado, Lennox Grey, and Caulfield ROYALTY ThIEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M. 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Admission, Is.; on Mondays, 6d.; Children under twelve, M. r - (11 vfilt L0AD02, 7 , TUESDAY, JWV 26, 18G9. The great experiment in Manchester is over, and it may be said that the Ballot test has been success ful. As regards personal feeling and political senti ment, no doubt many are disappointed at the rejec tion of Mr. MILNER GIBSO/T, but the question of in terest to the public is the result of the working of the Ballot itself. So far, then, its supporters may well consider that their cause has had a decisive triumph, and fully borne out their assertions in the midst of a great constituency. It is true that the affair was not attended with all the attri butes of a general election, but it is important to notice the difference that existed between the order which prevailed at Manchester on the oce.:sion re ferred to, and the riot and confusion which seem to be the inseparable attendants of a regular election. It is not necessary to cross the Irish Channel to find misrule in the ascendant, and sober-minded people, well nigh distracted with conflicting claims and divided interests, many a quiet hamlet and many a monotonous country town of England are transformed on the eve of an election, and only recover when the desperate game has been played out. Then the chief actors in the scene have to fight the battle over again in another place, and the pains and penalties of petitions go far to take the zest out of Parliamentary honours, and to compel the unfortu nate aspirant to Senatorial dignity to declare that it is all vanity and vexation of spirit. If Manchester has not pointed out a royal road to voting, it has at least shown one of a most advantageous kind, and at this especial juncture the lesson should not be lost. We cannot any longer shut our eyes to the convic tion that bribery is most extensively practised, and that few are so immaculate as they might be. The manner in which elections are generally carried on affords so much scope for party tactics to be displrtyed, and offers so many temptations to the unwary, to say nothing of the unscrupulous, that if a candidate is not personally guilty of exercising undue influence it is next to impossible that be is not compromised through his agents. Zhe public at large are not likely to be much edified by this knowledge, and it is indeed a mortifying reflection that those who are to make cur new laws and alter our existing statutes agents sitatute to respectscannotcon- con trive through themselves and their them. There are, however, graver considerations than these, for the dignity and decorum of the national charac!er are compromised by the scenes which take place at contested elections. The after contest over the petitions that flock in so numerously serves to add bitterness to the existing prejudices, and from the first feeble efforts at can vassing to the wearisome close of the vexed affair of the petition, anger, strife, and hatred arc the ruling spirits of the controversy. If we compare these stormy scenes with the calm which reigned at Manchester during the two days in which the Ballot experiment was tried, it may be THE SUN, LONDON, '1 UESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 169. urged, and very likely will be by the opponents of the measure, that thiS was not a regular affair, and that we cannot judge from this fancy undertaking, but the principle is the same, and the experience of Friday and Saturday can be cited as an illustration of the expediency of the matter. When we find that more than eleven thousand persons took an active part in the affair, and that so great an undertaking was accomplished with no noise, disturbance or ob struction, surely we have a lesson before us that he who runs may read. Those who have no faith in the lower orders, and those who look upon the arena of political strife with a cynical air, or a scornful in terpretation, may understand that it is not the fault of the voters themselves, if elements of dis order are rife during the election contests ; but of those who interfere with them for their own purpose, and draw into the struggle the unruly spirits who have really no call to mix in the affairs at all. These disturbing elements were not visible at Manchester, nor need their sinister influences pre vail in any election where the ballot is tried. Men will then find their attention directed to the real object before them, and instead of wondering which side will come down most handsomely, or worrying over the probable cost of an independent vote, will only have to dwell upon the merits of the rival can didates, and thus think of the substance instead of the shadow. It has been the last argument that the opponents of the Ballot could find to employ against it that it was un-English ; but really if it were an importation from another land that should be no reason against employing it if it answered our purpose and served to rectify our errors. Are we, then, to conclude that rioting, bribery, and false-swearing are particularly our pos sessions ? Are they indigenous to our soil, because if so our political harvest is not likely to be a pleasant or a profitable one. At any rate, it is a satisfaction to know that the Ballot has been tried to a certain extent, and that it has not been found wanting. Man chester may lay claim to the merit of appreciating its advantages and of having inaugurated its career. The working of the new Bribery Act has already gone far to disenchant many votaries of the old system, and when a Conservative Government has introduced so sweeping a measure of reform to remedy old abuses, the least that the Liberal majority can do on their part is to complete the work by giving the electors the Ballot. If they hesitate much longer they will find that they have lost the chance of being famous, and that the country will owe this great electoral change like the repeal of the Corn Laws and the Re form Bill itself to the foresight and determination of their opponents. Meanwhile both sides may learn a lesson from Manchester, where the Ballot has come safely through the ordeal that was prepared for it. Fon some time past the managers of election mat ters at the Reform Club have been casting about for a seat in which to place the new Postmaster-General, the Marquis of HARTINGTON, who was defeated in North Lancashire at the general election. At last Mr. RICHARD GREEN PRICE, the unknown successor of a very distinguished man, has been induced to re sign his seat for Radnor boroughs. Mr. PRICE was first elected in April 1803, on the death of Sir G. C. LEWIS, but has not, we believe, ever opened his mouth in Parliament. Resignation can scarcely, therefore, be a very serious sacrifice to him, and though he may miss the " Rich Men's Club," he will no doubt get the usual reward for his self-abnegation, the reward which was given to Mr. RICH when he left Richmond in order to make room for Sir ROUNDELL PALMER, and which was given to Mr. HUMPHREY when he left Andover to make room for Sir JOHN KARSLAXE—a baronetcy, to wit. Radnor district has before now been an asylum for a rejected statesman, for when Sir GEORGE LEWIS was defeated in Herefordshire, he crossed the border and got returned for the Welsh constituency. Lord HARTINGTON will be the first Postmaster - General who has sat in the House of Commons. He is enabled to do this by reason of Mr. DARBY GRIFFITH'S Act. Lamentable to relate, that hon. gentleman will not be present to witness the practical results of this his sole achievement in legislation. We ought to add that Lord HARTINGTON is threatened with oppo sition. Mr. G. PHILLIPS, a Conservative, is announced as a candidate. We imagine that the opposition is scarcely more serious than that which was offered to Mr. PRICE in November by Mr. Ham, who did not go to the poll. THE sovereigns of Europe would do the British nation a real kindness if they were to seize every English paper published yesterday. Our reputation as a commercial people had already fallen low enough, but the proceedings before the LORD MAYOR on Saturday, in the case of OVEREND, GURNEY, and Co., shew that there is a lower depth of disgrace, and that this depth has been sounded. Concerning the defendants in this case we have nothing to say to-day. Their conduct is still sub judwe. A few hours will reveal if the chief magistrate of the City takes the • same view of the proceedings which have been revealed to him that is taken by the world generally. There is no need to withhold our comments upon the conduct of another actor in this miserable drama. He is not under prosecution. His transactions are recorded by himself. They are some of the most extraordinary ever revealed in a court of justice. Mr. EDWARD WATKIN EDWARDS is an official assignee in the Court of Bankruptcy, and has held that post for many years. While holding it (in November 1862) he entered into an agreement with Messrs. OVEREND, GURNEY, and Co., by which he was to give them advice and assistance for five years, at a salary of £5,000 a year. In other words, Mr. EDWARDS, being a public officer, paid for looking after the public interests, engaged himself as confi dential adviser to a commercial firm at a very large salary. It is obvious that Mr. EDWARDS, being paid by the public for his services, had no right to offer them to any private persons. It is also obvious that a man holding such a position as that of official assignee would acquire an amount and a kind of infor mation very valuable to a house like OVEREND and GURNEY's. It is equally obvious that to impart such information would be a gross breach of confidence. It does not appear if this information was given. Whether it was given or not, Mr. EDWARDS is not the less open to the severest censure for having placed himself in a posi tion so compromising and so suspicious. At the time that he made the arrangements with OVEREND and GURNEY he was secretly advancing money to one of the partners, Mr. CHAPMAN, in whose hand writing, by the way, the agreement was drawn up. That is to say, this official assignee was lending money privatelyto a member of the firm to whom he had. hired himself, the amount of the loan, significantly enough, being one year's salary. What Mr. CHAPMAN'S partners would have said to this arrangement if they had known it we will not undertake to say. We scarcely think that they would have been content to give Mr. EDWARDS £5,000 a year on the tacit under standing that one year's salary should be " advanced" to one of the firm. At present the transaction looks as though this were the commission paid to Mr. CHAPMAN by Mr. EDWARDS for getting him the post of confidential adviser. If we misinter pret the arrangement the fault is not ours, but theirs who placed themselves in a posi tion so equivocal. The matter becomes worse when we examine into the amount actually paid. The agreement was to commence on January 1863; at the end of 1864 Mr. EDWARDS received his eonge. having been already paid for the first year. Never theless, f.:20,000 was placed to his credit in the books of the firm, and this amount was transferred to the unfortunate limited liability company, and was paid by them. It must be admitted that Mr. EDWARDS was amply requited for his generosity in " lending " £5,000 to his "very intimate " friend of ten years standing. It is interesting co examine the services rendered by Mr. EDWARDS for this handsome salary. He " advised " them vith regard to the Milwall Iron Works, and that company ran into debt to the amount of £570.000, whereof nothing has been recovered. He " idvised " them with regard to the Atlantic Mail Company. He was well qualified to give advice—in the interests of the Company—for he was a director, and bang, of course, unable to serve two masters, made his choice, the result of which was that tie Atlantic Company became indebted to OVEREND and GURNEY to the modest sum of £839,000, of which the liquidators have some hope of recovering £B,OOO. It is not astonishing that Mr. BIRKBECK, finding the retainer of £5,000 a year had led to this unprofitable transaction, scolded Mr. EDWARDS in " rather coarse" terms. Mr. EDWARDS further " advised" his employers with respect to STEPHANOS XENOS and the Greek and Oriental Steam Shipping Company, with a resulting loss of £144,000, after crediting Mr. XENOS with the "nominal" value of his ships. Mr. EDWARDS also "ad vised" OVEREND and GURNEY respecting the follow ing very hopeful firns :—ZACHARY PEARSON, of Hull, whose bankruptcy was at the time one of the events of the day—it would be thought a small matter in these more rapid times ; the Austrian Bank, in which Mr. ROEBUCK burnt his fingers; Mr. JOHN SCOTT RUSSELL, the shipbuilder, concerning whom his brother engineers have expressed an opinion not altogether favourable ; Mr. C. J. MARE, the bank rupt shipbuilder and unseated member for Ply mouth ; Mr. HOWARD, who had to be " discharged" from his debt of £321,000 ; the East India and London Shipping Company, whose debt, only a bagatelle of £27,000, had to be "written off." Finally, there were all those concerns in which Mr. JouN °EMELT.. LEVER, once M.P., lately bankrupt, was concerned, and of which it is sufficient to say that he /vas concerned in them. In these last matters Mr. EDWARDS shewed himself a man of many parts. He was acting, as we have seen, for OVEREND and GURNEY; he was also a partner in the firm of accountants which inspected Mr. LEVER'S accounts; he was also umpire in an arbi tration arising out of those accounts. But the crowning feat of all was that Mr . . EnwAnns, while receiving £5,000 a year to " advise " and act in the interests of OVEREND, GURNEY, and Co., received £2,000 from Mr. ZACHARY PEARSON for selling his ships to that firm ; and there is reason to believe— at least Mr. EDWARDS will not deny it—that he received £5,000 from the Milwall Iron Works for inducing his employers to advance £510,000, which they were never to get back. Comment upon such a case as this is needless. We can only condole with the defend ants, in that having made an agreement with a public official of a very questionable kind, it should have turned out so disastrous to them. As for Mr. EDWARDS, we presume that his achievements will shortly receive the attention of the LORD CHAN CELLOR. LATEST INTELL MENU. (REUTEP.'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, Jan. 26. A report of Marshal Niel, dated the 23d inst., has been addressed to the Emperor, proposing that measures should be taken for granting facilities to re-enlisted non-commissioned officers to pass from the military into the civil service of the State. The report concludes by saying that such mea sures would give to the lower military grades a greater attraction, and serve as a stimulant which could not fail to produce an excellent effect through out the army, and realise within a short time the benevolent intentions of the Emperor. The above report has been approved by the Em- peror. BOURSE, Jan. 25.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows 44 per Ceut. End of month... Ital'an Loan 3 per Cent End of month 7O 371 Mexican Loan ... 24 50 Credit Mobilier '273 75 Do. Bonds End of month... 275 Spanish Threes 33 50 Credit Foncier ...1555 Home Debt — Ead of month... Deferred Cash_ Orleans ...... Northern ............................. Lyons and Mediterranean Southern...• • 590 Western Eastern ............ Sardinian Austrian ............... ............. Lombard North of Spain 6l Saragossa Roman RAILWATII. SPAIN. MADRID, Jan. 26. Further details of the assassination of the Gover nor of Mtrgos has been received. The crime aroused profound ibdignation. The Volunteers of Liberty immediately ranged themselves on the side of the Governmenf, and the civic authorities bad resigned their powers to the military. An investigation had commenced, and several arrests had been made. PORTUGAL. LISBON, Jan. 25. The King has assigned to the Tre asur y 8 per cent. of the annual income of the Royal Family, in consequence of the financial difficulties of the country. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Jan. 26. The Presse of to-day says that the Turkish Go vernment has instructed its foreign representatives to state that the rumours of extensive warlike pre parations in Turkey are exaggerated. The Otto man Government was certainly compelled to take some precautionary steps in view of the serious events which might occur, but no measures of an extraordinary character have been adopted. The Porte has no fears that peace will be disturbed. AMERICA• QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 26. The royal mail steamer Aleppo, from New York, arrived here to-day at 8.50 a .m., with forty passen gers and $7,000 in specie. She landed passengers, &c., and proceeded at 9 a.m. All well. Victor Hugo, on being asked by M. Alfred Serven if the report were true that he was going to start a news paper, replied—" A false report, my dear friend. I have, as you know, pledged myself never to co-operate with any French political paper until American, or, at least English, liberty prevails in France." Great preparations are being made by Mr. Ash bury to enable .the Cambria to meet the yachts of New York next summer. Sbe has been hauled into dock to have three tons of lead attached to her keel, and her masts lengthened three feet. Other alterations, to bring out every quality of sailing she possesses, will be made, and if she is beaten no Britisher can deny that she fairly repre sents the yachts of England. An attaché of th 3 American Legation at Paris had to knock the heads together of two French policemen who insolently refused him permission to enter the French Chambers, about to be opened, to witness the ceremony, last Monday. On his card being produced, however, the officers of the law changed their tone, and the misun derstanding, perhaps, grew out of the Attache's ignor ance of French. A Paris correspondent says:—The sudden death of the young Countess do niece of M. Ferdinand de Lessops, has excited much sympathy in the great world. The countess went out as usual to drive in the Buis, on Tuesday, and a fly bit her nose. Before returning home, inflammation had set in. Nelaton was summoned; he decided that amputation of the nose was necessary. The operation took place ; gangrene set in, the poison hav ing already spread through the whole system, and within twelve hours the young countess expired. POLITICAL NOTES. The London correspondent of the Birmingham Post gives eome interesting items of political news. He mentions a rumour that Mr. Childers is about to show that ho is really in earnest as to the reductions, by an act of self-sacrifice that will sate the country some thousands a year. The First Lord has an officsal residence at the Admiralty. The situation is central, and handy to the other Government offices and the Houses of Parliament. This residence, it is stated, he is about to give up. Should Mr. Childers give up his official residence there will be nothing to prevent the concentration of all the Admiralty Civil Service Departments—many of which are now at Somerset House—at Whitehall. Every successive First Lord has admitted the importance of transferrine the offices and clerks of the Accountant-General of the Navy from Somerset House to the Admiralty, but no ono has had the self-denial to give up the officitl residence. The evening receptions will, of course, be at an end, but no one can pretend they were necessary to the performance of the First Lord': official duties. For the morning lcvdes there is a good deal :.tore to They were turn to good ac count bAlt by the Duke of Somerset and Sir J. Packington, whoby this tnearsl:ept up a knowledge of the personnel of the navy.—The same correspondent confirms the announcement that the Government does not intend to build a new House of Commons, but the Peers are to be tut ned out to make room for the "representatives of the pople."— Mr. Lowe is not quite over his troubles about the Abyssinian bills. It will be remembered that twice one evening, when every one who took the trouble to consider the matter, was satisfied that Mr. Hunt's estimates would be exceeded, Mr. i)israeli got up, and (Lclared that he had no reason to supposo that such an event would take place. Tho estimate was five millions, if the war ended in May. The war ended on the 17th of April, when Magdala was burnt, and the army immediately afterwards started on its return home. The expedition has already cost eight millions, and there are some bills still to come in. It is also rumoured that the late Government spent a million of money in 1868 in excess of the sum voted by Parliament. No reduction of the income tax seems to be possible for another year yet to come. The petitions against Mr. Denis O'Conor, M.P. (L.), and Sir R. G. Booth, M.P. (C.), the sitting members for the county of Sligo, have both been withdrawn. Sir Bernard Burke tells us, in his " Vicissitudes of Families," that of the twenty-five barons who were appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Charta, there is not now in the House of Peers a single male descendant. Le Figaro of Monday says that " the Siamese twins are in correspondence with tLe famous Paris surgeon, Nelaton, who, contrary to tho opinion of their Edinburgh advisers, regards an operation for their severance as very possible." A committee, of which Lord Northbrook is president and Generals Lefroy and Simmons and Colonel Jervois are members, has been appointed, and is now engaged at the War Office considering various points con nected with the proposed adoption of the Moncrieff system of working heavy artillery. ECLIPSE OF THE Moon.—The only lunar eclipse visible in this country in the present year will occur during this night (Wednesday). The moon will enter the earth's dark shadow, at a point 50 deg. from the northern most paint of her limb towards the east, twenty-nine minutes after midnight. The middle of the eclipse will occur at I'3B a.m. on Thursday, and the last contact with the shadow at 2'47 a.m. At greatest eclipse 45-100ths of the moon's diameter will be immersed in the shadow on the upper part of her disc. On Saturday morning the Royal Mail steamer Prince Alfred, of the North Lancashire Steam Company, was totally wrecked off the Isle of Man. She left Fleet wood on Friday night, and on the next morning, owing to the dense fog, she came violently into collision with a rock on Manghold Head, fifteen miles out of her course. All on board were saved, and that part of the cargo which was on the upper decks was secured. The rest went down with the steamer in twenty fathoms of water. The vessel was insured, but not the cargo. The curd of Labroze, in the department of the Pas•de-Calais, France, has just been tried for vagabondage and mendicity. He abandoned his flock, and ran off with hie servant, a woman of 36, and the two, after various vicissitudes, were compelled to beg for bread. The curd addressed himself to a Dutch Protestant, stating his intention of embracing the Protestant faith, and of thus enabling himself to marry his companion. Priests cannot marry under the Catholic law. The Dutchman's suspicions were aroused, and he gave information. The two were apprehended, and sentenced to seven days' imprisonment, at the end of which time they will be placed at the disposition of Government. At the County Police Court, Congleton, Joseph C. Washington, late manager of the Congleton branch of the Manchester and Liverpool Banking Company, has been charged with embezzling divers sums of money belonging to his masters, the trustees of the said bank. It appears that the defendant's duties were to discount bills at a certain rate. entering the amounts charged into the books of the bank. The case was that ho had charged customers certain sums for discount, but accounted in the books foi sums consider ably less than the amounts actually paid to him. Evidence in support of the charges having been given, the bonch committed the defendant to the Chos:er assizes for trial. The New York papers report a case as to authors, which has just been decided in the Supreme Court. In that case the court holds that the author of an un published manuscript has at common law an exclusive right of property therein, the violation of which may be justly protected by injunction. But this exclusive right pertains only to the unpublished manuscript, without copyright protection. After unrestricted publication to the world, neither the author nor his assignee, whether a foreign or domestic writer, can assert an exclusive right to property in the future use and publication of the compo sition. Unrestricted representation upon the stage is a pub lication ; and if spectators carry away in their memory the whole or any part of the play, they cannot be restricted by an injustion frcm panting it. The insurrection in Cuba continues to gain ground. If the insurgents receive the arms they are expecting it is likely they will give battle, if not they will maintain a guerilla warfare. Advices received from Havana, Jan. 7, report that General Cespedes, the provisional President of the Republican Government, and Senor Aguilera have pro claimed the emancipation of the slaves. Tho Spaniards profess to believe this a despemto measure, and the Spanish authorities, on their part, are mak ing concessions. They have proclaimed the liberty of the press and the abolition of militsry commissions for the trial of civil cases. A commission of influential citizens of Havana left that city on the 11th to meet the revolutionary leaders and try to effect a compromise. It is said they are empowered to concede pardon and political rights on the basis that Cuba shall continue under the flag of Spain. The Dean of Carlisle has published a protest against the letter written by the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie upon the decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the St. Alban's case. Dr. Close says the letter is a " criminal document " " couched in lan guage of intolerable arrogance and indecency," and asks if there is no remedy against such a libel upon her Majesty, the archbishops of the Church, and the chief judges of the land. He expresses a hope that " this convicted offender," whose spirit is chafed by defeat, will on reflection perceive that " he has published words which every gcod man of every sect and every party mustblush to read." Observing that M r. Mackonochie avows that he remains in the Church in order to "move every power to obtain a dissolution of this ungodly alliance " between Church and State, the Dean says : If these are his principles, and this the spirit of the men who are to stand at the helm of our beloved Church when divorced from the State, if the English Church Union and the Ritualist faction can have their way in these matters, it is time that all true-hearted members of the Reformed Church should rouse them- selves, and determine whether such seditious slanders as these are to be tolerated within the Church." TUE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES IN DENMARK. -- A correspondent at Copenhagen writes that the greater part of the time passed in Denmark by the Prince and Princess of Wales was spent in the Castle of Fredensbor-g, in the neighbourhood of Elsinore. The Princess particularly enjoyed her rambles in the company of her brothers and her sister through the fine woods, or along the shores of the magnificent lake of Fredensborg, and the Prince was so pleased with his stay in Denmark that be remained considerably longer than had been intended. A short time before their Royal Highnesses' departure the Court left Fredensborg for Copenhagen. All the festivities in honour of the Prince and Princess of \Vales had, therefore, to be crowded into a few days. The first was the ball given by her Majesty's envoy, Six C. Lennox Wyke. The King and Queen of Denmark, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Crown Prince of Denmark, and Prince John of Glucksburg were amongst the first arrivals at the ball. The Mar. Odorless of Carmarthen, Lord Carrington, General Fir W. Knollys, Hon. Oliver Montague, and Colonel Keppel were amongst the guests. Sir Charlei Wyke being unmarried, the company was received by Mrs. Strachey, wife of the First Secretary of Legation. The Prince and Princess of Wales remained till the close of the ball, which was not till four o'clock in the morning. On the following night there was a State ball at the Palace of Christiansborg, and two nights later a brilliant ball at the house of Baron de Mannheim, the Russian Minister, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times, in commenting upon the tendency of Irish statistics to deal with a shadowy and melancholy past, instead of with a hopeful and practical future, is at a loss to discover in what respect Ireland and the Irish are at a disadvantage as compared with this country. Every Irishman on coming to maturity has all England, and everything made y England, or belonging to England, before him. Indeed, England is much more open to him than his own country is, for England is the most open and hospitable country in the world, and Ireland, without exception, the most close and inhospitable. There is no country pretending to be civilised more jealous of strangers, more exclusive in its manners and code, and more ready for any extremities that can be excused by the maxim of " Ireland for the Irish." No Englishman can venture to enter the Irish labour market, to bid for an Irish farm, or to risk his money in Irish enterprise, except under rare and exceptional circum stances.. Exclusiveness, and consequent non-improve ment, are the incurable vice of the tribal system and the n`yinze of families and factions into which it developes. The sentiment of such a system is always retrospective, always recurring to some presumed original, some imaginary inheritance, and traditional wrongs. If it has no hope, it is because it refuses to share the hopes of all the world around, and prefers ever to brood over a buried and misrepresented past. The Englishman, particularly, has long since renounced all dreams and all birthrights except the use of the powers and opportunities Heaven has given him. He also has to leave his borne, and seek a livelihood and friends in ..... towns, cities, and distant colonies. Our two million Australian colonists are chiefly English. But whether the Englishman goes or stays at home he offers a welcome to the Irishman, and gives him free access to the soil, the wages, and all the employments of this country. The English have gone through disabilities which happened to be serious in their case, because they often could have done what the law denied them. But our social and statistical societies don't meet and solemnly advise the Englishman to sit down and howl, just because his great-great-grandfather was not the member of a corporation or a privileged company, or was hit by the Corporation and Test Act, or was not allowed to send a ship to India or China, or could not, with any money, obtain a freehold or even a lease within twenty miles of his home. We don't think of the past here, with its interminable grudges. We look to the future, and we believe in a Providence that will befriend any body who makes the best use he can of his lot, whatever it is, and of his openings and opportunities, whatever he he may find in that future which is the common property of t.s all. The Post remarks that the Manchester experiment deserves attention as an attempt to give a practical illus tration to two political ideas quite new to this country. The first is that of the preliminary selection by a poli tical party of a candidate who shall be thenceforth adopted as the only representative to be supported by that party. The second idea of which the Manchester Liberals have given us an illustration is that of the Ballot, and in this respect they must be held to have done a good service from whatever point of view the matter is regarded. So much interest attaches at the present moment to the subject of secret voting, and it is so important to gain as clear an idea as possible of its pro bable working in this country, that a few real facts on which a hold can be laid are very acceptable, and some such facts the proceedings at Manchester cer tainly furnish. The choice between Mr. Milner Gibson and Mr. Ernest Jones was taken by means of the Ballot, carried out upon the Australian principle ; that is to say, each voter was required to strike off from a list containing the names of the two quasi candidates the name of that one for whom he did not intend to vote, and then to place the list in an envelope and to drop it into n ballot-box. The provision of numbering, to which we have previously alluded as in force in the colony of Victoria to snake a subsequent scrutiny, to be taken if required, was omitted, and there was, therefore, no possible means of connecting the voter with his vote. Thus the choice was conducted by ballot pure and simple, and the result has been that, although there was a good deal of feeling on both sides, and although as many as 11,415 electors recorded their opinions, every thing was carried out with the most perfect order and decorum. To that extent, therefore, the experiment must be taken to be in favour of the system of secret voting ; but of course, in this instance, there were not the same probabilities of bribery or of corruption of other sorts as exist in ordinary elections, and therefore it is not conclusive. This much, however, at least, the experi ment has shewn, that secret voting is not incapable of being understood and carried out in an English consti tuency, and that is no small matter to have clearly esta blished with regard to a subject which is at once so novel and so important. The Daily News remarks upon the difficulties of the Opposition in choosing a leader in the Upper House. Who can lead? The Marquis of Salisbury and Lord Carnarvon are out of the question. Mr. Disraeli's three dukes. shadows of great names, are not to be thought of for a different reason. Nowadays dukes do not lead. Dux a non doecndo is the true political etymology of the title. Unless the House of Lor,ls is to receive recruits from the Commons, Lord Cairns is the only possible man. Mr. Disraeli is not likely just now to alter his mind on the subject of a peerage. Mr. G athorne Hardy could not be spared from the House of Commons. There remain Lord Stanley and Lord John Manners, whose elevation now to the Upper Chamber would only anticipate the course of events. Lord Stanley's leadership would do something to restore the intellectual balance between the two parties in the House of Lords. But under his guidance the Conservative party would be very doubtfully Con servative. Lord John Manners, though without force of character or intellect, is personally amiable ; he is fluent in speech, and not without readiness in reply ; He would do well enough. If Lord Stanley and Lord John Manners both elect to remain in the Commons, the choice will lie between some duke's coronet and Lord Cairns's brains. The Conservatives do not like parvenus in the House of Lords, though they are obliged to put up with them in the House of Commons. If this feeling has way, a ducal rOi fain(ant—Marlborough will do as well as Buckingham, and Richmond as well as either, with Lord Cairns as Mayor of the Palace—may be the form taken by a compromise between blood and brains. The Telegraph comments upon the unsatisfactory state of the volunteer arrangements, in consequence of the re fusal of Mr. Cardwell to increase the capitation grant. A mutiny amongst the volunteers would be a most serious affair, and should a rage for unreasoning reduction lead the War Office to be penny wise as regards our citizen army, while it remains pound foolish as regards our regu lar troops, we may witness in a few months the dissolu tion of our volunteer army. But we cannot, without fur ther inquiry, believe it possible that Mr. Cardwell has not something to say for a decision which at first sight ap pears indefensible. The great majority of the experienced and able colonels of volunteers have declared that the pre sent capitation grant is not sufficient to pay the neces sary expenses of each corps ; Mr. Cardwell, relying on some anonymous authority, asserts that it is. Lord Elcho, in the name of the volunteers, demands full inquiry ; and full inquiry is their due. We require some thing more than the ipse dixit of any War Secretary before we refuse to our favourite and cheapest force any thing which its best men declare absolutely essential for its efficiency. But the question goes much farther. We have to inquire, not merely whether the capitation grant suffices for the volunteer force as it is, but whether it suffices for the force as it ought to be. Are there no improvements in the condition and circumstances of the volunteers, which are possible with an increased grant, and impossible with the present allow ance ? We want genuine, not mock soldiers —men who can, if called upon, march out and camp out if ordered against the foe. We want a real, serviceable sword and shield— then gild them if you like at the hilt, and engrave the blade if you please with verses from the Bible, pretty national mottoes, and filagree work of dainty device. But if you expect your volunteers to be all this, to sacrifice the time needful for such perfection in drill, you must not put your bands in their pockets. No officer or private should be forced to give anything beyond his time ; and that is in itself a large donation, quite sufficient for our needs. The Govern ment, not the officers or privates, should defray all the expenses required to make the whole body a well-drilled army of fighti ng men . If t h e presen t capitation grant can do that, well and good ; if, as experienced and patriotic volunteer leaders affirm, it cannot, then let it be increased. The Star thinks that Scotland did well for the Liberal cause at the general election, and that the Government have recognised her claims to consideration. Respecting the work that lies immediately before the Home Secre tary, the Star observes : As . Mr. Bruce, however, has pledged himself to bring in a bill to deal with the criminal classes, he might find something worth imitation in the Scotch mode of administering the criminal law. Much of the con f us i on an d uncer t a i n ty which prevails at present results from the want of a public prosecutor. If there was an officer charged with the duty of investigating all charges of a criminal nature, and of prosecuting the accused before the p ro p e r tribun a ls, a certainty and accu racy would be imparted to the administration of justice which nothing else can give. , The recent imp rove . ments in the cri m i na l coc k h a v e defined with great accu racy the various offences ; but the application of the law is left very much to chance in the case of those graver crimes which cannot be disposed of before a magistrate. It is too frequently found that a criminal escapes simply because the prosecutor has failed to get up the evidence in the manner which the law very properly requires. He has employed sonic solicitor who has more profitable work to attend to, and who in his turn at the eleventh hour seizes on a counsel at haphazard, and the case is bungled amongst them. A public prosecutor, while enjoying all the advantage o f th e ass i stance of the police force in getting up evidence, would still be a functionary entirely apart from that body, using them as servants, but not permitting them to acquire the mastery either over the cases to be pushed to a conclusion, or over the evidence to be submitted. That observation of habitual criminals to which the Home Secretary refers is in every-day prac tice in the great towns of Scotland, without any other legal provision than the employthent of judicious detectives, and having a public prosecutor ready to begin his researches within half an hour after a crime is reported at his office. _ , t•-•,..J': • 04.0 HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Jan. 25.'" Her Majesty walked in the grounds this morn ing, accompanied by Princess Beatrice. Princess Louise, attended by Lady Churchill, walked in the grounds. Prince Leopold also walked out. The Right llon. William and Mrs. Gladstone left oAorne to-day. POLICE IN TEL T,IGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROT T GII-STREET. A DISORDERLY TAVERN.---A CURIOUS SCESE. -31r. Jahn Hutchins, of the White Lion, Hemmings-row, 3. 1 ) " peered before Mr. Tyrwhitt, to answer the complaint Of Inspector Steel, of the C division, of unlawfully end knowingly p-rmitting prostitutes to assemble in his house• Sergeant Leech, 17 0, sail that on the 13th inst. he visited the defendant's house, and in a room up stairs he saw nine soldiers, four of them drunk, and two of them pulling about two prostitutes. There were eight other prostitutes In the room, two of them drunk, .and there were four couples dancing, and a man that was drunk 1 05 also dancing on a table. On another table a man was sitting playing on a concertina. On his leaving the house the prostitutes were got out, but on his visiting the house again he - found three prostitutes there, and a soldier bathing the head of a man who had been fighting. On first entering the house he told the defendant that he had ten or a dozen prostitutes in front of the bar, and thought he had better get them out of the house, but they remained for nearly an hour afterwards , and on getting outside the house there was very great dis order caused by them. Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the defendant £5 for permitting prostitutes to assemble in his house, and the other sum mons against the defendant for permitting drunkenness in his house would stand over three weeks, that the poli Co might report how the house was conducted in the mean time. CAUTION TO CABMEN AND CABOWNERS.—AIfred Vine, cabdriver, was charged with working a horse in an unfit condition. The defendant was seen to put his horse on the cab stand in the Haymarket, and it being observed that the horse was very weary it was examined, and found to have two broken knees and several bad sores about it, and in very bad condition. George Young, an officer of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said that the horse We° totally unfit for working. The defendant said that the horse had been in the stable ten days through its knees, and the veterinary surgeon advised that it should bo taken out to reduce the swelling in its legs. A veterinary surgeon said ho advised the horse should be taken out for light work, as he considered it would do him good. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he had heard all sorts of evidence from " vets," as they were called, and it certainly had not tended to increase his respect for them. The defendant would have to pay 40s. or a month, and if he worked the horse again he would be sent to prison, and the society's officer could take out a summons against the owner. THAMES. A JUVENILE GANG.—William Chamberlain, a boy about 16 years of age, was brought before Mr. Benson charged with being concerned with two other boys in breaking into the office of Mr. Saunders, clerk and money-taker at the Limehouse station of the London and Blackwall Rail way, and stealing £2lls. therefrom. Inspector Russel, of the Great Eastern Railway Com pany's police, and Police-sergeant Bride; 4 K, said the railway station had been robbed throe times in the tempo rary absence of Mr. Saunders, who was now an inmate of the London Hospital, and that these robberies were com mitted by a'gang of juvenile thieves, of whom Chamberlain and his brother were the principals. The brothers were both engaged in the last robbery on Thursday, the 14th inst. The prisoner, William Chamberlain, has been in prison 18 months on his last conviction, and his sentence expired a fortnight ago. George Durrant, of the shoe-black brigade, repeated the evidence he gave last Saturday against William Rea, nog under remand, that he had seen the three boys secure the outer doors of the station, and while Rea was robbing the offiee the two Chamberlains were preventing any egresS or ingress to the station. Mr. Benson remanded the prisoner. A DESTRUCTIVE WOMAN.—Elizabeth Saho, aged 80 years, was brought up on remand before Mr. Benson charged with breaking a large sheet of plate glass in the window of the Little Tower beerhouse in Postern-row Tower-hill. The prisoner, who is a very disorderly and drunken woman, demanded come beer a few nights age, and owing to her having made disturbances in the house before it was refused, on which she pulled off her boot and broke a largo sheet of plate-glass. Its value was estimated at seven pounds. When the prisoner was first brought up, 1 .1. L.. Benson slid if that was so he should commit the prisoner for trial. Ho remanded the rase for attendance of a person from the office of the Plate Glass Insurance Company to prove the real value of the glass. No one attended, at which Mr. Benson 0" pressed his disappointment, and said ill-conditioned and mischievous people, who destroyed property, ought to be , more severely punished than magistrates were empowered to punish. The landlady of the Little Tower said ths t the sheet of glass did not exceed in value £5. Mr. Benson —That comes within my summary juris: diction. I sentence the prisoner to two months' sonment and hard labour. WESTMINSTER. EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF SUPPOSED STOLEN PROPERTY , " Abel Watson and John Wilkinson, two rough-looking men, were charged with stealing and receiving a quantity of wearing apparel, table linen, towels, and sheeting. Philip Hond, 169 F, said that he was in the Windsor Castle in Great Chapel-street, Westminster, last evening , when he overheat() a conversation between the two Pri soners, another man, and a woman, which induced hitut o think something wrong was going on. One of the women was sent away to "lock a door," and another of the party said "that as they had not time to buy the things the/ had better go to the theatre," and they went to the Surrey. The woman sent to "lock the door" had been watched to 7, Perkin's-rents, Great Peter-street, and within view of it witness and another officer took their station. . 0 one in the morning Wilkinson and his wife came in' Watson had a conversation with them and then there was a look out. Witness went to Wilkinson's door, and having gained admission, found two sacks under the bed contain ing 12 linen sheets, 8 table cloths, 41 diapers, 52 towels , 16 bed gowns, and a great quantity of other linen, some o marked "Youngman," some "Y.," and some "S. A. W. besides children and women's underclothing. Wilkinson said the things had been brought them at seven that morning and left in his care. He afterwards pointed out Watson as one who had brought them. Watson, when taken, said to Wilkinson, " You area - fine sort to round on a man." Watson said—l am the guilty man. Wilkinson Wl° nothing to do with it. Mr. Arnold—They are both remanded for a week. THE " BROCKBANK" CONCER7. The concert given last night at the Vestry Hall of St. Pancras, in aid of the sufferers by the fire that destroyed the premises of Messrs. Brockbank, the pianoforte manu facturer, has resulted in a very great success. Tho which is capable of sitting over 1,000 persons, was crowded to excess at the commencement of the concert, and con tinued so until the very last song was sung; and as the offers of assistance from the musical profession were particularly numerous, a very delightful enter tainment was brought to a triumphant close. The first part of the concert commenced with a ballad, by Miss Leaford, "Nightingale, sing to me," and then without the slightest hitch the entertainment went rapidly forward. Miss Pratt sang a new ballad, entitled " My Soul is Dark," very effectively, which eli cited loud applause, and then Mr. Theodore Distin fol lowed with Rossini's " Largo al Factotum," which pleased the audience so much as to elicit a rapturous encore' Miss Fanny Haldane sang Horn's delightful ballad " Cherry Ripe" with taste and sweetness ; and Madame Cherer gave Mr Davenport Chatterton's song, " The Pretty Rose Tree" with the greatest effect ; she also sang Bishop's " Tell me, my Heart," remarkably well. Madame Harrison selected Hatton's song "Sing, pretty bird," whic h she executed with the utmost taste and expression. The instrumental portion of the concert was of first-rate excel lance. Mr. Chatterton, harpist to the Queen, performed ono of his own brilliant fantasias with remarkable skill; 11 ' was a succession of the most enchanting strains, and fairly , enraptured the audience. M r . B. W e ll s gave a s pl e ndid flute flute solo, .and Miss Coleman (one of Benedict's pupils) performed a b r illi an t se l ec ti on f rom M eyor b eer ' s "Robert to Diable," that b roug ht ou t t h e power an d volume o f tht , magnificent instrument which Messrs. Collard generous'," placed at the use of the committee. This lady's execution is , parkling, firm, and precise, and she also s h owe d such e perfect command over the instrument that her performau ce of the piece elicited a rapturous encore. Sho then ga pe Benedict's difficult compositi on , "E r i n, " i n a manner that did honour to her accomplished instructor. Mr. Hayd n Harrison, also a pianist of great ability, performed a selec tion from " Traviata ;" i n a ddi t i on to which he conducted the concert, and accompanied nearly the whole of the vocal" ists with so much skill that we have to congratulate hi re on the successful result of his exertions. The executive committee were assiduous in their attendance on the coin" party, and Mr. Turner deserves special praise for the lf earnest and energ e ti c manner in which he exerted him to bring about a success f ul termination. The eonce r" without doubt, i s th e b est that has ever been given ~ this part of the metropolis, and no doubt the ultimate result will be highly satisfactory. We mainfi deman Cot eount, New Stock, Ind, ditto , Cent., per CI active Conti] as fo' 1867, Swedi 82 to 62 to per ce ditto Gre Cent. 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