The Sun. — London, England, 1865-12-08 00:00:00

THE KINGDOM OF GREECE. (From the Times' CorreApondent) ATHENS, Nov. 30. It is to be hoped that the struggles for office and the changes of Cabinets that have occupied the minds and the tongues of the Athenians for more than a month are now at an end, and that a truce has been established between the factions in the Chamber of Deputies, at least until the second legislative period of the present House of Represen tatives commences next year. It is full time that the Greeks turn from disputing about who is to be Minister, to examining seriously what ought to be done by whoever happens to be at the head of the Government. Bankruptcy and anarchy both threaten the country with a speedy visit if the pre sent lavish expenditure and administrative disorder be prolonged. Yet there is still time to escape them by honest and searching reductions. You were informed last week that the King sent for M. Bulgaris to form a Cabinet for the second time within a fortnight. But the unfortunate nomination of General Kalerges was as a mill-stone round his neck, and he declined, pleading, as his excuse, his age and the state of his health. The Court party then made a desperate attempt to revive the system of King Otho, who delighted to carry on the Government by Cabinets com posed of political dwarfs, men destitute of political influence and personal character. M. Diomedes Kyriakos, the Professor of Political Juris prudence, who is neither a deputy nor a Councillor of State, though a man of high standing and cha racter, was selected to compose a Ministry inde pendent of party and practically subservient to the Court. This attempt to revive an unwise practice awakened many unpleasant recollections and ex cited universal o pposition. M. Kyriakos abandoned the charge intrusted to him as soon as he found that his nomination was ill received by the Chamber. After the refusal of M. Diomedes Kyriakos, the King sent for M. Bulgaris and M. Deligeorgis together, and requested them to agree on the for mation of a Cabinet. Bulgaris persisted in making the state of his health a reason for declining to take i l office, and Deligeorgis has re-established his former Cabinet, with the exception of M. Kalliphronas, who makes way for M. Autonopoulos, a member of the short. lived Bulgaris Administration. Your readers are probably more curious to know what is the real difference in the political principles and administrative views between the late and pre sent Ministers than to learn their names. One ' party calls itself Conservative, and the other calls itself Constitutional. These designations, however, do not aid in discovering why a large party blames the Government of Koumoundouros, or why it ex pects much from the Government of Deligeorgis. Both these political leaders took an active part in the revolution that dethroned King Otho, and they held office together in the revolutionary Govern ment ; but Koumoundouros is a politician of the old administrative school formed during King Otho's reign, and he held the office of Finance Minister previous to 1861, when the Greek Government plunged into the career of lavish military expendi ture which demoralised the army, and is now para lysing the efforts of the nation to improve its condi tion. The following are the charges usually brought against the Conservative policy of M. Kounioun douros 1. The wasteful expenditure of his Government, and the system of concealment practised in all financial business, in order to escape the control of public opinion, and prevent the people from knowing how the revenues are employed, even after he has been compelled to admit the existence of a large de ficit. 2. The systematic hostility his Cabinet has dis played to every measure tending to develope the practice of self-government. The obstacles created to retard the election of local magistrates by the people under the municipal law passed by the National Assembly, and the manner in which he has allowed the municipal revenues to be diverted from all objects of public utility, roads, bridges, ferry boats, police, and prisons. o. The increasing expenditure of the army and navy with reference to the number of men in actual service, and the constantly increasing disorganization of every branch of the public administration. 4. The increase of brigandage, and the increased expenditure and oppressive conduct of the force em ployed to pursue, and not to destroy, the brigands. On the other hand, the following improvements are expected from the Cabinet of Deligeorgis. 1. The reduction of the public expenditure, pub licity in the public accounts, and a reform of the arbitrary changes of officials, which renders place hunting the disgrace of Greek society. _ _ _ 2. The immediate organization of the municipali ties under the existing law, and the employment of a large proportion of the local funds now wasted in paying useless placemen for purposes of public utility. 3. The reorganization of the army and navy, and indeed of every branch of the administration. 4. The reorganization of the National Guard on the Swiss model. I hear everybody around me exclaim that a great change in the manner of conducting the govern ment must take place, but from the vague nature of public opinion on the measures to be pursued, it is probable that the change, when it comes, will be effected by some unforeseen incident which will com pel the people to decide suddenly and act energeti cally. The great reforms generally regarded as in evitable do not seem likely to proceed from the counsels of Greek statesmen, or the initiative of a Greek executive. Yet the Greeks are unanimous in declaring that they want a strong Government. Ex perience proves, however, that they want it only on the condition of disobeying it whenever it seems good in their own eyes. The younger and intelligent men unconnected with the Palace and the place hunting society of Athens, have great confidence in the talents and patriotiim of Deligeorgis, and every body who wishes well to Greece and the throne of King George must desire his success. But the diffi culties he has to encounter have been greatly in creased by the frequent changes in the Government that have recently happened, even though he follow steadily the right path. A diplomatic difference with the Italian Minister has just been satisfactorily arranged. It deserves to be mentioned, as it ought to warn the Greek Court that the time is past when the acts of injustice and the diplomatic evasions which were often employed against the late Lord Lyons and M. Mussures, while they were Ministers at King Otho 's Court, can be repeated with impunity. On the2sth of October, when M. lioumoundouros was driven from office, a crowd assembled before the House of Representatives, and when the re sult of the vote was announced there was great ex ultation and loud cheering. A strong body of police bad been stationed in readiness to preserve order had the Opposition been defeated. The chief of the police, affected by that dangerous official malady, too much zeal, ordered his policemen to disperse the crowd and stop the public rejoicing. At this moment several members of th e dipl om atic body and the Vice-Consul of Italy quitted the Chamber to return home. They mingled with the crowd, and the polic e fell o n th e Vice-Consul, who, having the misfortun e to speak Greek well, was taken f or a native when he asked by why they struck hi m . They then explained ycutting him over the head with a sword, an d by beating him cruelly. Italian Minister demanded The more rational explana tions. His demands wer eeglected and j us tice evaded. At the end of three w'eeks his p a ti ence wa s exhausted, and he inforraedthe Greek Govern ment that if he could neither obtain a satisfactory explanation nor justice for the Vice-Consul, be should quit Athens at the expiry of three d ays Then began a running to and fro of (Add s : Everything became clear to the understanding o f the 16 Hellenic Ministers who held office during the affair. The policemen are to be punished, and Count Della Minerva received becoming apologies and remains in Greece. _ _ The discussion ccncerning the abolition of the Council of State, in virtue of the provision in the 108th Article of the Constitution, commenced to day, and is to proceed to-morrow in presence of all the Ministers. The abolition can only take place at the demand of three-quarters of the members, which supposes almost complete national unanimity out of the Chamber. Court of Common Council. Yesterday a meeting of the Court of Common Council was held at Guildhall, for the despatch of business ; the Lord Mayor (Alderman Phillips) pre siding. OLD SMITTIFIELD. The Town Clerk (Mr. Woodthorpe) read a letter addressed to the Lord Mayor by Sir George Grey, transmitting a copy of a memorial which had been addressed to the Home Secretary by the church- wardens of the parish of St. Sepulchre on the sub ject of the state of the site of Smithfield Market. The Home Secretary requested the favour of his lordship's observations on the memorial, and to in form him what steps are being taken by the Corpo ration of London for the establishment of a dead meat market at Smithfield. The letter and memorial were referred to the Markets Improvement Committee, for them to con sider and report forthwith. THE SHEFFIELD INUNDATION FUND. Mr. Aldermon LAWRENCE, M.P., stated that he had paid into the Chamber £250, being a return of 50 per cent. on £5OO subscribed by the Court of Common Council in his mayoralty towards the Sheffield Inundation Fund. SUPPLY OF GAS TO THE CITY. Mr. BoNTEms, chairman of a special committee appointed in October last to consider the whole question of the supply of gas to the city, which has long caused general dissatisfaction, brought up a report upon the subject. The committee now certi fied that as it became requisite to fix upon a site previous to giving the necessary notices to Parlia ment for a bill, and having ascertained from scien tific evidence that the works might be erected at a distance of from six to seven miles without any loss of illuminating power of the gas, provided it were in the first instance properly made, they had in spected a number of sites in the eastern and north eastern vicinity of the metropolis, and after due consideration had selected one on the banks of the Thames, about six miles from the city, and for the purchase of which they intend taking com pulsory powers in the proposed bill. They also stated that after duly considering the subject, and consulting with scientific men well versed in it, they had directed the necessary notices to be given for the introduction of a bill in Parliament to enable the Corporation to erect works and engage for the supply of gas to the citizens, and such notices had been duly given and the necessary plans deposited. Their attention had also been necessarily given to the question of the probable expense to be incurred for the supply of the whole city, and they found upon inquiry, it would be about £425,000. They now re commended that they should be authorised to intro duce a bill to effect the objects in view, to promote it in Parliament, and to negotiate for and obtain a conditional contract for the purchase of a site, and also that they should have authority to consult with the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee relative to raising the requisite funds. Mr. Bontems stated in cidentally, in moving the adoption of the report, that the profit last year of the Great Central Gas Com pany, one of the three companies who now supply the city with gas, amounted to £26,000. Adverting to an intimation given by the companies that they would reduce the price of their gas 6d. per 1,000 cubic feet by Christmas, and possibly another 6d. by the spring of next year, he ridiculed it as a mere afterthought' to stave off legislation ; and he said the object of the proposed application to Parliament was to enable the citizens in future to obtain gas good in quality and cheap. After an unavailing opposition by Mr. Rowe, who contended that the citizens were now receiving from the Great Central Company gas higher both in illu minating power and in quality than that contracted for by the Corporation, the motion for adopting the report of the committee was carried by a large ma jority. TIIE HOLBORN VALLEY IMPROVEMENT. Mr. R. N. PIIILIPPS asked the Chairman of the Holborn Valley Improvement Committee if the rumour was true that Mr. Cubitt, the engineer of Blackfriars'-bridge, had been called in by them to advise in reference .0 th propoQoa. worlto for up the valley, and if so, in what capacity. Mr. Deputy Fitv, the chairman of the Committee, explained that the tenders which they had invited for the execution of the llolborn Valley viaduct and works had all been so greatly in excess of the Par liamentary estimates that the committee had not thought it desirable to accept any of them, though they had been prepared for some excess in the ten ders over the estimates, in consideration of the in creased cost of materials and labours. They had held a conference on the subject with Mr. Horace Jones, the city architect, and Mr. Haywood, the en gineer to the Commissioners of Sewers; but those gentlemen differed so much as to the necessary works to be executed and the cost of them, that the committee had thought it best, under all the circum stances, before they accepted any tender, to place the plans in the hands of an eminent engineer, alto gether separate from what had already taken place in the matter, and for that purpose they had selected Mr. Cubitt, with the view to the advantage of his Practical experience and advice. THE CATTI,E PLAGUE. Mr. GIBBINS, the chairman of the Markets Com mittee, replying to a question of Mr. Harris, said there could be no doubt that in London the cattle disease was rapidly decreasing, though it was other wise in the provinces. During the last week the Metropolitan Cattle-market had been particularly free from the prevailing disease. The inspector, Mr. Tegg, had reported to them that he thought he could safely say there had not been a single case on either market day of the last week. The foot and mouth complaint, however, had been very prevalent, and chiefly so on Monday. Mr. Gibbins read from the newspapers of Tuesday the statement of the sec retary of the Cattle Plague Commission, correcting two inaccuracies which appeared in the Commis sioners' published report. The tabular statement there given, be explained, was framed from returns issued by the Veterinary Department of the Privy Council, but was not, in its actual form prepared by that department, and the figures in the first three co lumns represented the numbers which in the three weeks were reported as attacked, and not the numbers actually attacked in those weeks. From an expla nation furnished by the secretary of the Veterinary Department it appeared that animals attacked in one week were sometimes reported in a subsequent week. The weekly returns did not, therefore, precisely re present the weekly progress of the disease. MANSI ON-HOUSE. Mr. RAMS, chairman of the General Purposes Committee, brought up a report in reference to the progress made in the restoration of the foundations of the Mansion-house, and for authority to expend a further sum of £l,OOO in continuation of the work. The report was agreed to Without a dissentient. WORKING CLASSES' INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. Deputy FRY presented a petition from the Com mittee of the City of London Working Classes' In dustrial Exhibition for the use of the G u il dhall for the purpose of holding the exhibition. The prayer was granted on the condition that the time of holding the exhibition be limited to six weeks. THE CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS. A motion was propounded by Mr. RUDKIN, the object of which was to enable every member of the Common Council to sit on the Commission of Sewers, instead of the Commission being, as at pre sent, a representative body of the Common Council. The motion gave rise to an animated discussion, which at timesibccame acrimonious, and in which the alleged shortcomings of the Commission were strongly urged, particularly in reference to the cleansing and widening the streets, and one of the speakers, Mr. M'George twitted them with the state ment made by the Lord Chief Baron at the recent presentation of the Lord Mayor to the Barons of the E xchequer, to the eff ec t th a t more acc id en t s t o lifeLonadnocin limby b in a occurred ear in the streets of the City of than upon all the rail w ays i n th e kingdom p u t together. On the other hand, it was contended that the Commission had always worked THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1865. harmoniously in the public interest with the Common Council, and that to enlarge its numbers in the manner proposed would go to impair its efficiency by rendering it unwieldy. The debate was eventually adjourned, the Lord Mayor undertaking to convene a special meeting on an early day for its continuance. borough to that noble lord. He did not acknow ledge the right of the Sunday League to summon him, but as he felt the great importance of the ques tion at issue, he had come there that evening. He must however remark, at the outset, that the autho rities of the Sunday League had done a strange thing and one which he thought unjustifiable, in adver tisinglhispromise to attend:as though he were coming by his own desire, and to their support. Such a statement could only be misleading. He was come there on a summonsto substantiate a statement made by him, and that he was now preparedto do. (Hear, hear, and some interruption.) He must, however, first express his own regret at the spirit in which both the League and their opponents carried on this struggle. Here was a grave question on which the working people of London differed strongly. That was all fair enough, as the question of opening the Museum and other public collections on Sundays had two sides, each of which may be honestly held by reasonable men. But it would seem that they could not differ without making bitterly personal attacks on each other, and bandying about accusa tions of lying and trickery, which could only exas perate opponents without forwarding their own cause. One side seemed to him just as bad as the other in this respect. He was going to tax the working people themselves with it, but he found others at the head of this agitation in a higher sta tion of life, and really they ought to see that the contest was carried on with decent courtesy. Strong words don't make a strong case. (Hear.) And now as to the matter in contest. He would say at once that he was not a Sabbatarian. He believed that the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. But he was equally sure :that Sunday should be a day of rest. (Loud cheers.) In this great city nine-tenths of us are overworked, and we want rest, lawyers and states men as much as working men. What is rest, then? Well, he himself found the only real rest in worship and in family life. But he had no wish to bind others—some men might find rest in walking in the country, in botanising, or geologising, or reading books unconnected with their regular work, or in looking at pictures. He had no objection to any of these, or to any other occupation not immoral, though he had his own strong conviction that those who went altogether without worship would get no true rest for mind, body, or spirit. (Hear, hear.) He came, therefore, to the consideration of the question quite unbiassed. All he wanted was that Sunday should be a day of rest to our overworked people. He had tried to look at the question from the working man's point of view, and he had done his best to find out what the real feelings and wishes of the majority were in this matter. After inclin ing some years ago to the view taken by the Sunday League, he had come round to the belief that the majority of the working classes in London do not wish for the opening of the British Museum and other national collections on Sundays—that they are very anxious for the opening of them on the evenings of week days, and for some shortening of the hours of labour (cheers) —that they believe that the agitation for opening on Sundays dimi nishes the chance of getting work-day openings— that if Government sets the example by opening public institutions, employers will cite and act on the example, and the end will be seven days a week work instead of six days. (Loud cheers.) He was not saying whether these beliefs were right or wrong, but only that to the best of his judgment these were their beliefs. This was the statement he made to Lord Granville, and he would now give the evidence on which he grounded it. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Hughes then proceeded to state the experience of his canvass in Lam beth, where at every meeting the question was raised, and invariably decided against opening on Sundays. He had presided in August at a great an nual meeting of cabmen, in November at a large meeting of signalmen and switchmen ; both these bodies were vehement opponents of the Sunday opening as leading to Sunday work. The Early Closing Association were also unanimously in favour of week-day openings, and against the movement for opening on Sunday. Lastly, he had talked with many working men, whom he knew well and could depend upon, and had received letters from others, all leading to the same conclusion, and thus he sub- stantiated the statement made to Lord Granvillo He was quite ready to admit, however, that there was a respectable minority amongst the working people of the other way of thinking, and they had a right to be heard. All he hoped was that in future both sides would carry on the contest (unless indeed they could learn to agree, which would be far the best plan) without calling names or imputing mo tives, or charging each other Kith lying and forgery. (Cheers and dissent.) Mr. WRIGHT, chairman of delegates, confirmed Mr. Langley's statements as to the representative character of the Sunday League. (The conduct of the meeting here became almost riotous, knots were formed in various corners, many persons left the room, and shouts were giien for various names.) We gathered from AL-. Wright's observations that the trade societies represented the working men of Lon don, and that the trade societies supported the Sun day League. He concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that the metropolitan members be requested to move in Parliament for a committee to ascertain the real feeling of the working men on the Sunday question. Mr. UPSHAW seconded the resolution. Mr. G. M. MURPHY rose to move an amendment, but the demonstrations in the body of the hall be came so noisy that his observations were not heard. Mr. Newman Hall and several of the more re spectable occupants of the platform beat a hasty re treat. The Chairman appealed in vain for a hearing for Mr. Murphy, who was at last obliged to resume his seat, The meeting now began to disperse ra pidly, but it was understood that the original reso lution was carried. this city. On the evening of Sunday the 15th Oc- • tober, about 11 o'clock, he was passing along George Leigh-street, when he saw the prisoner and five or six others standing on the opposite side of the street. The prisoner was ill-using a woman, and prosecutor : spoke to him on that subject. Prisoner knocked him down, and a struggle ensued between them, in the course of which Foster was kicked on the back and the head and his watch torn from his pocket by the prisoner. All the men then ran away. The prisoner was apprehended, and the watch was found on him. The prosecutor said the watch had been sent to him as a present from America ; it could not have fallen from his pocket. The prisoner, who denied the robbery, was found guilty, and sen tenced to penal servitude for twenty years, the Judge remarking that this was an offence which must be put down. John Smith, 20, was indicted for garotte rob bery. Mr. Watson prosecuted; Mr. Torr defended. The prosecutor, Mr. Jacob Sneidman, was, about half-past eleven o'clock on the night of the 6th of October, going home along Deansgate. At the corner of Cumberland-street he passed four men. He had proceeded only a few yards when he felt himself seized from behind ; an arm was passed round his neck, a hand put over his mouth, and his arms and legs were held. While he was held in that way a hand was thrust into his pocket, and he was robbed of all the money he had in his posses sion. That being done the prosecutor was knocked down, and his assailants ran away. He kept sight of the prisoner whom he followed, and who was apprehended in Jackson's-row. Mr. Torr, in defence, raised a question as to the identity. The jury found the prisoner guilty. Sentence was post poned. Zachariah Logworth, 25, and Ann Gleeson, 25, were indicted for a street robbery. Mr. Torr pro secuted ; the prisoners were defended by Mr. S. Pope and Mr. Halsall. The prosecutor, Richard Woods, lives at Wigan, and on the 31st of August he went to a testimonial festivity at Bolton. About midnight he stopped to speak to the woman Glee son ; the man came up, assaulted him and robbed him of several articles of apparel, a knife, and a shilling. The defence was a denial of the identity, and witnesses were called to the character of Log worth.—The jury convicted both the prisoners.— Sentence was postponed. William Green, 23, was indicted for having violently assaulted Patrick Kilgarry, and robbed him of 7s. 6d. in money.—Mr. Ashworth prose cuted.—This robbery was committed between ten and eleven in the day. The prosecutor was on his way to market when he met the prisoner and three other men. They offered to treat him, but he re fused to accompany them. They, however, pulled him through a public-house called the Market Vaults, in Manchester, into the yard at the rear, where they robbed him.—The jury convicted the prisoner, who pleaded guilty to a previous convic tion, and the Judge said he had been convicted six times.—Sentence was postponed. Arthur Pattison, 19, a lad of respectable appear ance, and described in the calendar as well educated, pleaded guilty to having, at Manchester, on the night of the 18th of October, committed a burglary at the dwelling-house of James Sorbie, and stolen therefrom 12 forks, 18 spoons, and other articles.— Mr. Jordan addressed the Court in mitigation of punishment.—The prisoner was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Simon Hogan, 31, and Michael Comer, 19, were indicted far burglary.—Mr. Hopwood prosecuted ; Mr. Torr defended the prisoner Comer.—The pro secutor, Matthew Martin, is a tin-plate worker, living in Ashley-lane. About two o'clock on the morning of the 2d of October, he was sitting in the kitchen with his son-in-law, when he heard a knock at his door. He went up stairs, looked out of the window, and saw about fourteen men. He refused to open the door, which they forced open. A number of the men, including the pri soners, rushed in, seized the prosecutor, searched him, and took from him what little money he had. Martin's daughter, hearing the noise, came down stairs ; she was also seized. Hogan held her by the throat while she was robbed. When the men left the house Martin went to look for the police. He overtook the men, who again held him and searched his pockets. The defence was that the men went to Martin's house to play cards with him.—Mr. Torr submitted to the Jury that Corner's identity was not satisfactorily established, and called wit nesses as to his character.----The jury acquitted them of the burglary, but found them guilty of larceny. They recommended the younger prisoner to mercy. Sentence was postponed. The Court was occupied during the remainder of the day in disposing of cases of criminal assault. Arthur Peel, charged with the offence at Rochdale, on the 4th of September, was acquitted. Thomas Scragg, charged with the offence at Stalybridge, on the 28th of August, was acquitted of the felony, but pleaded guilty to the attempt, and was sen tenced to six months' imprisonment. 17 3 atiE3 COCTIIT. (Befog Mr. Baron Pigott.) ACCIDENT AT THE VICTORIA RAILWAY STATION. Mr. Pope, with Mr. Edwards, appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Aspinal, with Mr. Littler, for the defendants.—This was a special jury case.—The action was brought to recover compensation for in jury done to the plaintiff on the Gth of June, while the plaintiff was working at the Victoria Railway Station, Manchester. On the day named a number of Messrs. Fairbairn's workmen were erecting an iron bridge in the place of the old Dude bridge, across the Lancashire and Yorkshire end of the sta tion, and by which the traffic would pass from Cheetham Hill to the city, through Corporation street. The plaintiff was one of these workmen, his earnings at that time being about 255. or 265. a week, but ordinarily only 18s. About half-past 8 o'clock in the morning he was standing between one of the lines of rail and a temporary platform, when he was struck by one of the London and North- Western trains coming down the incline from York shire. _One of the buffers struck him on the side, he was carried about 40 yards and the engine was brought to a standstill about 60 or 70 yards from the bridge. The plaintiff was taken to the Royal Infirmary, and he had not been able to work since. His loins were lacerated and his left hand was so seriously injured that it was found necessary to amputate three fingers. It was alleged for the plain tiff that the defendants' engine was going at the rate of 15 miles an hour, which was said to be much too rapid for a crowded station with a number of workmen employed at its . entrance. It was also stated that when the works were commenced, the engines were in the •habit of stopping before they reached the bridge, and when the workmen had got off the road the train proceeded slowly into the station. A number of the plaintiff's fellow workmen were also in danger when the train which caused the accident approached them, but they heard it and were able to get out of danger. The plaintiff did not, hear it, nor did he hear any whistle ; and further, when he was struck by the engine he was in the act of lifting a plank, which greatly hampered his movements. The strongest evidence for the plaintiff as to the conduct of the de fendants' engine driver was the testimony of a plate layer, who was working on the main line, a short distance beyond the bridge, and nearer Miles Plat ting. He said that the driver did not whistle, nor slacen his speed ; witness therefore shouted to the workmen at the bridge, but they would not have time to get out of the way before the engine was upon them. Several other witnesses stated that the train was going unusually rapid, but one of them estimated its speed at about six miles an hour.—Mr. Walker, the senior house-surgeon at the Royal In firmary, stated that the wound in the plaintiff's loins was large enough to admit one's hand, and that when the plaintiff was admitted to the infirmary, witness thought he would not recover.—The de fence was that the company should not be held re sponsible if the plaintiff contributed to the danger, and that the plaintiff, working in a dangerousplace, ought to have kept a look-out. The driver of the engine stated that he came down the incline slower than usual, without steam, at not more than six miles an hour. He saw the plaintiff when he was about 40 yards off, and he blew his engine whistle, turned on the brake, reversed the engine, and put off the steam, in order the sooner to bring the train to a standstill. He admitted, in cross-examination by Mr. Pope, that though the train was not going more than six miles an hour, the train was not brought to a stand still till it had got 60 yards below the bridge, or about 100 yards from the point were lie reversed the engine. Other witnesses confirmed the driver's statements as to the speed and the slackening of the train, and as to the use of the whistle. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for £2OO. THE LONDON AND NORTHERN BANK V. POGSON AND ANOTHER. Mr. Temple, Q.C., with Mr. Holker, appeared for the plaintiffs ; and Mr Pickering, Q.C., for the defendants ; and the case was tried by a special jury. The action was brought to recover £BO 9s. on a four months' bill of exchange, drawn and en dorsed in December, 1863, by the defendants, who were machine makers at Hohnsfirth, and accepted by Mr. P. H. Moorhouse, of Thurlstone, near Hud dersfield. The case was very unimportant ; and the only point in it was whether, when the bill be came due, the acceptor, who shortly afterwards made an assignment, renewed it in blank. The ar gument for the defendants was that the bill had been renewed, and that the plaintiffs, who dis counted the first bill at their Huddersfield branch, had possession of the renewing document, which Moorhouse's insolvency had since rendered worth less. The plaintiffs' reply to this was, that though they had the renewed bill, their manager only got it into his possession when he beard that Moorhouse was trying to cash it, the managers' object being to prevent two bills running at the same time for the same transaction. The manager showed by his books that he never entered the re newed bill to Moorhouse's account, or sent the docu ment to London, and that when it became due he never gave notice about it, because it was a worth less document. He held the defendants liable for the first bill, and brought the present action to re cover upon it. The evidence of one of the defend ants, in support of the point urged by the counsel, as to the renewal of the bill by Moorhouse, was so strong, that on the Judge suggesting an adjourn ment of the hearing till to-day, they stated that their minds were made up, and on each side con senting to their verdict without going further into the case, the Jury found for the defendants. The jury accompanied their verdict with the opinion that the way the bank manager dealt with the renewed bill was not business-like. The Court rose shortly before six o'clock, and will sit to-day at ten. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The most virtuous of Judges feels his severity relaxed when a criminal pleads guilty al most before he is arraigned. At times, indeed, the thorough-going English lawyer experiences a tran sient annoyance to think that the battle should be given up before it is begun ; but this sentiment generally gives way to pity for the unfortunate wretch who could be guilty of such a weakness as to give it at once. He might have made a good fight ; and, at all events, he had all the chances in his favour which intricate procedure and the neces sary rigidity of rules of evidence give every prisoner; but, instead of that, he comes into court crying out his guilt, and begging that his fate may be swiftly decided by sentence. It is evident that the man's nerve is gone, his spirit is broken, his heart is cowed, and the only thing to be done with him is to send him back as quickly as possible to his cell and the chaplain. We feel like a disappointed Judge in receiving the annual Report of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. They are, doubtless, ex 7 cellent people in private life, these Commissioners, beloved by their friends and hated by a proper number of enemies, but in their public and official capacity they have somehow a bad name. Something more than a suspicion of jobbery and extravagance hangs over their administration of the land revenues of the Crown. All sorts of queer stories of leases hastily granted at nominal rentals have been charged against them at one time or another, and people are apt to suspect that where there is so much smoke there must be some fire. The Commissioners them selves are painfully conscious of the accusations that have been made against them. They have issued a report which is absolutely plaintive in its character. They begin by describing the circumstances of their origin. This is a matter of course ; every unhappy criminal has some unhappier parents on whose bad training he may throw the responsibility of his mis spent life. The present Commissioners acquired an independent existence in 1851. Before that time they formed a part of a larger body, which super intended the Public Works as well as the Woods and Forests, and the First Commissioner of this composite Board was always a political personage, who went in and out of office with the Ministers of the Crown. The united Commission failed, how ever, to give satisfaction to the public. It managed a large property, and was in receipt of a considerable income, but a very small balance found its way into the Exchequer. It was impossible to prevent the First Commissioner from obliging his friends, and the money which flowed in from land revenues on the one hand was spent so easily on Public Works with the other, that at last a Committee of the House of Commons plucked up courage to recommend a severance of the functions which were so unprofit ably united. A new Commission of Woods and Forests was appointed, having for its sole duty the charge of the landed estates of the Crown, and this is the Commission which now comes into court. But who can escape at once from the taint of his origin ? Hereditary propensities will break out, and the new Commission did not find it easy to discontinue immediately the pleasant practices of its predecessor. The Commissioners had scarcely been in office a year when the Montagu House scandal showed how easy it was to. relapse from the paths of virtue, and divers other little arrangements which have since been effected prove their continued peccability. But the Commissioners, though deploring the frailty of Commissions, and pleading by way of extenuation the bad example they had in their preeecessors, claim the merit of some good deeds for themselves. In the year which ended on the 31st of March, 1851, the last complete financial year before the separa- ' Woods tion of the Departments of Works and of and Forests, the gross income of the latter Department was £341,025 9s. 6d., and in the year ended the 31st of March, 1865, the gross income had grown to £441,620 3s. 9d. There has, therefore, been an in crease of more than a hundred thousand pounds in' fniirteen yearn, or nowt:tiling like 29 per cent. The Commissioners claim credit for even more than this. In the year 1850, they say, more than one-third of the gross revenue under their charge arose from quit and free-farm rents, and from ground-rents reserved under building leases having long terms to run, and this part of their income has, therefore, not yet been susceptible of increase. The actual in crease has taken place in the rack-rents of Crown property, and, instead of being 29 per cent., may perhaps amount to 40 per cent. It is notorious, however, that the increase in value of landed pro perty in the fourteen years from 1851 to 1865 has been enormous, and in the case of town property and property in what are called " residential neigh bourhoods " has very much exceeded even 40 per cent. Something has been done, but it does not follow that more could not have been achieved ; and, in truth, satisfactory as the increase which has been made in the revenue of the Woods and Forests is in itself, there is not wanting evidence that it has been rather forced upon the Commis sioners than accomplished by any excessive vigi lance. It is more distinctly to their credit that with an augmented revenue the expenses of manage ment have been but slightly increased. These were, indeed, large enough before. In the year ending the 31st of March, 1851, a sum of £8,816 was spent on the 4rainage, planting, and improving the Crown propert, and £78,580 on what are somewhat vaguely called " other items of expenditure." In the year ended the 31st of March, 1865, no less than £38,807 was spent on improvements, which we are assured are reproductive, but the " other items" had only risen to £83,241. The net revenue of the Crown lands has, therefore, risen from £253,628 to £319,571, or 26.4 per cent. The Com missioners are very earnest in -protesting that only a small portion of the £83,241 spent on the " other items " of expenditure is under their control. They complain with pathos that observations are fre quently made on this head of their accounts, and that an extravagance is imputed to them of which they are not guilty. Part of the sum consists, they say, of annual payments imposed by Acts of Par liament, by ancient grants, and by former owners of estates now vested in the Crown, and these out goings are therefore compulsory; part of the re mainder is the property tax on the rental of the Crown lands, which is in truth deducted by . the tenants from their rent, but is entered on both sides of the balance sheet as a matter of account ; and a third part is due to that zealous reclamation of the rights of the Crown to the foreshores of the king dom which provoked the resentment of a member of the late Parliament, but only with the result that he was thrice counted out upon it. It would be very easy to point out the weak points in the apology in the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, but we are not disposed to exhibit a virulent virtue in judg ing of their shortcomings. We all know their faults. They are not stern enough in refusing to do kind actions. They parted with forestal rights over Epp ing Forest for a song, and never thought of asking what the value of the rights they were selling was to the purchasers as well as to themselves. They made very easy terms in granting leases of the new houses in Carlton-house Gardens, which must have been bettered had the transactions taken place in open market. In the Appendices to the present Report there are recorded one or two instances of apparent kindliness to lessees. But it is very hard • that in this utilitarian age there should be no place left where a pleasant thing can now and then be arranged; and the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests doubtless feel the force of the maxim nobleEse oblige. They are the representatives of the Crown, and they may not haggle with tenants or put up their estates to public auction. They must be liberal, and even generous in their dealings.• The force of this apology is, however, somewhat lessened by the eagerness which the Commissioners occasion ally display in very small matters ; and perhaps the true moral as to the management of the Crown property would be to convert as much as possible of it into money and invest the proceeds in the funds, thereby escaping the opportunities and the danger of benevolence. HEIZALD.—The unhappy lady whose sufferings have been so long before the public has finished her career in the courts by " pursuing" our contempo rary, the. Saturday Review. Ordinary readers are well aware that the weekly journal which Thackeray delighted to call " The Superfine Review" is not so superfine but that it can hit hard, and use upon occasion the strongest language. Now and then, indeed, it breaks a butterfly upon the wheel, or slays the slain in mere wantonness of spirit ; and no doubt had not the motto of Pubhus Syrus—" Judex dant natur cum nocens absolvztur"—been already appro priated, the Saturday Review would have told us on its title-page that the absolution of the guilty is the condemnation of the judge. At any rate the Satur day Review is not at all open to the charge of too THE LATE LORD PALMERSTON. From its position on the paper of business the Court did not reach the motion of Mr. Rudkin for referring it to the City Lands Committee to consider what mark of respect should be paid by the Cor poration to the memory of the late Viscount Pal merston. The Court then adjourned. Sunday Opening of Museums and Galleries A meeting of working men was held yesterday evening in St. Martin's Hall, to advocate the open ing of the British Museum and public galleries to the people on Sundays. The hall was quite filled. The chair was taken by Sir J. Walmsley, who re ceived a most enthusiastic greeting, mixed with some dissent. Sir J. WALIISLEY, in opening the proceedings, said that although announced as chairman on the placard, he should be most willing to give way to any one else they might select. (A universal accla mation at once confirmed his chairmanship.) He remindedthem how longhe had beenknown to work ing men, and he appealed to them whether he had ever acted otherwise than impartially in the chair. (Cheers.) He was informed that the meeting con sisted mainly of friends of the working classes. (Hear, hear, No, no, and confusion.) He under stood it included delegates from all the trades of London (Tremendous cheers, No, no, and confusion). The meeting had been called in consequence of asser tions which had been made in other places, to ascer tain whether or no the working men were in favour of opening our public galleries and museums in the afternoon of Sunday, the only day—(great cheering, hissing, exclamations, cries of " Turn him out,"&c.) —whether the working men--(order)—whether the working men of this metropolis were in favour of —(order, cheers, question, hisses, no, no). The first thing they wanted to know was whether the work ing men were in favour of a religious moral oppor tunity to enjoy the Sabbath, or whether they were willing to submit to a small section of the commu nity. (Tremendous cheers, and cries of " Turn out the city missionaries.") He believed that the objects of the Sunday League were in unison with the feelings of the great mass of the community. (The uproar here became so general that nothing reached the reporters from the platform for several minutes. After a lull Sir Joshua resumed.) He believed that the principles of the league were con sistent with the true tenents of Christianity. (More uproar, during which the chairman resumed his seat), and Mr. T. HUGHES, M.P., came forward to implore a hearing for both sides of the question. The meet ing, he thought, seemed inclined to hear neither side. (That's it.) He suggested that they should hear what the Sunday League had to say, and then he had no doubt he and others would in their turn get a fair hearing. The CHAIRMAN resumed. He had been saying that the objects of the Sunday League were consis tent with the pure tenets of Christianity. (No, no.) He did not ask them to believe—he believed it. He believed that the opening of the British Museum would be a boon to the artisan. (A scuffle at the lower end of the room here turned all attention from the platform.) He understood that persons were present who differed from him, and he trusted they would come forward and show him his errors. He knew there were men who would make the Sabbath what it was in days of old, namely, an oppression. (Cheers.) A pharisaical hypocrisy had fenced the Sabbath about until it looked like a religion, but was with them, in reality, a vice and an oppression. He was bound to say, on behalf of the Sunday League, that the working men of London were the first to commence the league. (" No such thing.") Yes, and they were the first to announce their grievance, and their announcement led to the peti tion to the House of Commons. (Much interrup tion and cheering.) Mr. LANGLEY rose, and was received with mingled cheers and disapprobation. After considerable con tusion ana interruption, Mr. Langley was allowed to defend himself from the imputation of having misrepresented the working classes to Earl Gran ville. The question was whether lie was to be charged with deliberate lying, or whether Mr. Murphy and his friends had misrepresented him. Mr. Murphy and his friends had asserted that the Sunday League did not, in asking for the opening of public places on the Sabbath, fairly represent the working men. Now, what were the facts? In 1864 the Sunday League invited all the trades to send delegates to meet them at the Whittington Club. About 60 came, and many more were prevented at tending by unavoidable circumstances. (Interruption and cheers, the Rev. Newman Hall having appeared on the platform.) The delegates present were una nimous in pronouncing in favour of the principles of the Sunday League. (Cheers and dissent.) There were represented at the meeting carpenters, tailors, turners, watchmakers ; in short, every one of the working trades. The way in which Mr. Murphy and his friends met this was to put up a single tailor or carpenter, who said, " I know nothing of that deputation ; I'm not represented." It was, then, Mr. Murphy and his friends who were guilty of mis representation. (Cheers and hisses.) Mr. Langley continued, amid incessant interruption, to defend the Sunday League, and was proceeding to quote some observations which had been made by Mr. Whitmore, when that gentleman suddenly appeared in front of a gallery and received a tremendous ova tion from his friends. For some moments the question with the meeting seemed to be, " Whitmore or no Whitmore," and the noise reached its climax when Mr. Whitmore descended from the gallery, and, accompanied by some friends, made his appearance on the platform. Mr. LANGLEY_ continued—The Rev. Newman Hall condemned the way in which he (Mr. Langley) had been treated at Lambeth Baths. Rev. NEWMAN HALL—What he had said was— (hear, hear, cheers, question, hisses, knocking of sticks against the floor, &c.) He wanted to hear both sides. Mr. Langley had misunderstood him. What he said was that the meeting at the Baths should have given him (Mr. Langley) a hearing. If any one in that meeting was his friend, let them keep good order. If there were costermongers from the New-cut, let them be quiet ; if they were Chris tians, let them keep quiet. A sudden expression of opinion was justifiable, but this continued interrup tion was irrational. Mr. LANGLEY proceeded to defend himself and the Sunday League. Mr. Whitmore had accused him of being opposed to the half-holiday movement, but he emphatically denied the accusation. He had always been an advocate for shortening the hoursof labour, and was not going to " rat" then ; what he had said was that if the Saturday half-holiday movement prevented the opening of the museums on Sundays, the Sunday League could not support it. The petitions against the opening of public galleries on Sundays to the House of Commons were thus described in the report of the petitions committee. They were signed first by Sunday school children. (Great interruption and cheers.) Secondly, Sunday school teachers. Were these working men ? (" Yes," " No," cheers, hisses.) But the worst was yet to come. The committee sin reportedatnresthwaetre nin in ge a n llth e e , se petitions the first ten were in the sa me h andwri a t i n n d g , all (G r t e h a a t t co f o n ll f s w i o e n d chapel accommodati on of L and cries of Time.") " T o n h d e n c h w u r a c s h o a n n l y d population,enou g h for 30 p and theer cent, question o ti f which church-going League asked was what was to be done on Sundays with the remainder. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Langley concluded with a short recapitulation of his argu ments, and contended that he had defended the Sunday League triumphantly against all the charges which had been made against it. Mr. Langley re sumed his se mid great cheering. Mr. HUGHES, M.P., who was much cheered, said he had been summoned to this meeting to eubstan- tiate a statement made by him to Lord Granville, when introducing a deputation from his own ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH LANCASHIRE, DEC. 6. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) John Shackleton, 27, was indicted for having, at Bolton, on the 30th September, stabbed Richard Fairhurst with a knife with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.—Mr. Torr prosecuted ; Mr. Higgin defended.—The prosecutor, who is a labourer, has not for some time been living with his wife. She was employed as domestic servant by the prisoner's father, and afterwards went to live at a beerhouse. On the evening of the 30th of September Fairhurst went to that beerhouse, where he met the prisoner. Later on that evening the prosecutor overtook the prisoner on the road near Bolton. The prisoner was walking with the prosecutor's wife, and Fair hurst told her that that was not her road. Prisoner said he was game, and prosecutor replied that he would give him game if he had hold of him. Pri soner then ran at Fairhurst, kicked him on the thigh, and afterwards inflicted on him a frightful gash, which was 64in. in length and extended from the nose, across the right cheek, to the end of the jawbone. The wounded man was taken to a sur geon ; the wound was not dangerous, and it healed in a fortnight. Prisoner surrendered him self at the Bolton police station the same even ing, and when charged he denied having a knife.—The defence was an admission of the act, but a denial of the intent to do bodily harm. —The jury found the prisoner guilty of unlaw ful wounding.—Mr. Hallett, surgeon, Bolton, said he had known the prisoner from a child, and considered his mind of a very low order, owing to cerebral disease.—The judged remarked that it seemed there ware very rough people at Bolton, and he sentences the prisoner to six months' imprisonment. Edward M'Guire, 17, and John Watson, 20, were indicted for having, on the 7th October, violently assaulted James Berry vith intent to rob him.— Mr. Torr prosecuted.—The prosecutor, who is a carter, was going along Zara-street on the night in question, when he was set upon by four men. A violent blow on the head wised him to fall, and some of the men threatened :o knock his brains out. Berry had his money in his hand ' • he felt a hand in his pocket, but was not robbed of anything. The prisoners were seen by a policeman ; they ran away, and he followed them and apprehended them.—The jury found the prisoners guilty. Watson pleaded guilty to a previous conliction, and it was stated by the Judge that in Decenber, 1861, he was sen tenced to three years' penal servitude, and since the expiration of that sentence he had been convicted of assaulting the police.—Oentence was postponed. William Allen, 30, was indicted for an assault and watch robbery.—Mr Gilmour prosecuted.— The prosecutor, Thomas Foster, is a greengrocer in K.--' much leniency when dealing with• the peccant and the faulty. The daily paper may chastise with whips, but the weekly periodical, with more leisure in most cases, lays on the punishment with scor pions. It did this in reviewing the story of the Hon. Mrs. Yelverton ; and we can quite believe that when that lady read the article headed "The Yel verton Case" in the Saturday Review of July 30, 1864, it gave her, as she says, " more pain than any thing that had occurred to her since she was deserted by Major Yelverton." The tone of this undoubtedly painful article was not so much of stern censure as of playful savagery. The lightness of the treatment contrasted strongly with the grave deductions sought to be established, and the writer suggested a great deal more than he thought fit plainly to advance. He did not say that Miss Longworth was a Phryne or a Helen, but the association was neatly hinted at, and the sting must have been deeply felt by the woman for whom it was barbed, supposing her to have the merest leanings towards virtue's side. Now, against Miss Longworth there was no charge that could give a colour to such keenly conceived sarcasms. Her one error was, that " she loved not wisely, but too well," and if, from certain doubtful circumstances in the history of her con nection with Major Yelverton, we could not award her our unqualified respect, we could at least sym pathise with her as . one infinitely more sinned against than sinning. As the Lord Advocate said the other day, the Saturday Review might have let this stricken deer go weep, or, in any case, have been merciful to an unhappy woman paying the penalty of one early error by a life of litigation and remorse. " Use every man according to his deserts, and who shall 'scape whipping !" But to go deeper than this,' and use a woman worse than she deserves, is Draconic severity pushed to the bounds of cruelty and harshness. Still, we cannot help thinking that Miss Longworth was ill-advised in resorting to law for the vindication of her cha racter. The criticism of the Saturday Review was painful, no doubt, to her, as it was, indeed, to many charitably-inclined persons who read it. But the public is just enough in cases like this, and is apt to take strong and sarcastic language of the kind with a grain of salt. " Clever, but cruel"—that was the verdict of those who read the article and had mastered the facts of Miss Longworth's history. It was evident to all right-thinking persons that the lady who wished be acknowledged as the Hon. Mrs. Yelverton was in no sense a Helen or a Phryne, and that the classical proclivities of the Saturday Review had led the writer of the article into a vein of sarcasm palpably unjust. 'The sug gested picture of Miss Longworth appearing before the woolsack " like Helen among the Trojan grey beards" was a play of fancy rather too wild for the public taste to appreciate. Indeed, the whole com ment was calculated (not by the writer) to enlist the sympathy of the public on the side of the lady thus freely treated. It was not as though the case of Miss Longworth were patent only to the critic, for never was the inner life of a sentimental woman laid I more bare to the world than hers had been. The confessions of Rousseau were scarcely more ex haustive of his peculiar idiosyncrasy than the letters of Theresa Longworth. Though the laW went against her, she was pitied by many, and even championed. as a " martyr to circumstances" by many more. The world knew her miserable story by heart, and was competent to judge fairly between her and a writer who has indulged in odious com parisons to her discredit. She might have known and trusted to this fact, and let the free comments of the Saturday Review pass and be forgotten. And then comes the question of prudence—the cui bone of the matter. That might have weighed with her before she commenced her action for libel against an English paper. Rightly enough, the freedom of comment, so often exercised for good, of the press, is prized by the country ; and, except upon very strong grounds indeed, a jury will not hamper this freedom by a verdict for the plaintiff. The Edin burgh jury have proved this, although by their divi sion of opinion, they have proved also that the pur suer was not without some cause of grievance. Their first statement, after a deliberation of three hours, was that they could " not agree." There were six for the pursuer, and six for the defender. Upon this they were ordered to retire again, and in the meantime three of the hostile jurors were reasoned or won over to the side of the defender. According to the Scotch law the majority of nine thus made up can give a sufficient verdict ; and so I again Miss Longworth finds herself vanquished in her protracted endeavour to establish her fair fame and to fortify her position as a deeply injured woman. A Scotch jury has pronounced the com ments of the Saturday Review on " The Yelver ton Case" to be within the bounds of fair cri ticism, though the verdict is undoubtedly qualified by the circumstances under which it was given. We repeat that we consider Miss Longworth to have been ill-advised in her action against the Saturday Review. A position such as hers, with all its sad pnblioity, ix, Heaven knows, hard to bear. But it will not be rendered less hard by appeals to the law, they tire out the patience of the public, and only end in the retirement from court of an unhappy lady with a newer sorrow. 'There is a season at which the most persistent plaintiffs with a grievance should wash their hands of litigation, and settle down to accept facts, however sad they maY be, and despite the individual suffering they cause. That season arrived when Miss Longworth's appeal to the English and Scotch courts resulted in a final decision against her and her claims. She cannot by law be Mrs. YelTerton ; and it is very like a descent from lofty matters to little ones when she seeks another quarry and makes the polished sarcasm of a trenchant review the grcund for an action which unearthens again the whole dreary history of her wrongs for more discussion and "more last words.'' It would be better for her not to wear her heart upon her sleeve in this way, but to leave her case to the quiet judgment of a generous people. If it is any satisfaction to her to know that the general verdict of those who are acquainted with her story is not the verdict of the Saturday Review, we are glad to assure her of the fact. But at the same time, it is impossible to avoid accepting the grave deci sions against her as a fatal settlement of her case, and one that cannot be modified by attempted vin dications such as that which has just failed in the Scotch Court of Session. It would have been much better had the article in the Saturday Review been unwritten—it would have been judicious to have spared the " iron rod," even at the expense of miss ing the chance for delighting the cynical with a smart exercise. It would have been decent and charitable. But the chance was eagerly taken ad vantage of ; and as the article does not appear to be a libel in the legal sense of the word it has had the effect of raking up the old and well-worn sub ject, at the cost of another defeat of Miss Long worth and another infliction of a painful story upon the public. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton.. —Deo. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 13. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British pao.et Jan. 4. Ditto, by French packet Dec. 2l'. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Dee. 22. China, Penang. and Singapore, via Sowhampton Dec. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Deo. 13. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Deo. 12. - - . _ India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.— Dec. 19 Ditto, via Marbeilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Dec. 12. Ditto, via ilarsebles Dec. 21. Mauritius, via Southampton Deo. 12 Ditto, via Mandl es Deo. 12. Newfoundland ... , Dec 20 Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. 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