The Sun. — London, England, 1870-01-24 00:00:00

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Any article not worn or injured will be exchanged, or, if desired, the :noney-will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Cape. and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. A very large assortment of BLANKETS, from ss. 4d. the pain! Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Ilabitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Ou te tie I for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON:— L OND OT. CORNER OF MINORIES AND ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. 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Loan MILTON has done timely service by his volume on the San Juan Water Boundary. The merits of a dispute which has been on hand for nearly a quarter of a century, as the San Juan dispute ha, been, may well be forgotten, even though, as that dispute did, it may have at one time brought us to the very verge of a disastrous war, and though it ma, still be as far from a settlement as it ever was. WE. cannot afford to have any open question with a people like that of the United States. In a country where the game of politics is often played by unscrupulouL players with great recklessness, and where leading statesmen sometimes find their highest ideal in the Israelite judge who tied burning brands to the tail, of jackals, and sent them into the corn-fields of the Philistines, it is exceedingly unsafe to allow such e controversy as this to remain undetermined. For be it remembered this is not a question merely of terri tory. The amount of land involved is insignificant, is merely a few square miles. The real question at issue is, shall British America be shut out from the Pacific ? Shall that country be deprived of its share of the great carrying trade between Eastern Asia and Western Europe. In a word, shall British America cease to be British, and be forced to enter the Union against its will ? If we are prepared to cut all our colonies adrift, then cadit qucestio? But if we think that imperial, equally with private, property has its duties "as well as its rights, and that we are not justified in separating from our colonies unless they wish to be separated from us, then the San Juan boundary question i; a very important one in deed, although ninety readers out of every hundred may be iznorant where San Juan is. The modern theory that colonies are useless to us. and not only useless but sources of weakness, is at least open to question. Wars have diminished of late years and commerce has increased; therefore never did our dependencies make so few demands upon our military resources as they do now, and never was our trade with them so important. The markets of the world are overstocked, and it is our policy to open new and unex plored regions to our trade. But, as Lord MILTON remarks, "at this very period the United States are seeking to exclude our com merce, and to overshadow with their protective and selfish system those almost boundless territories which a generous and consistent policy on the part of Great Britain might cover with loyal subjects well intentioned towards their mother country. The key of the East is the key of the world, and should the United States monopolise the Eastern trade by the Pacific railroad, or the Isthmus of Panama, our power and influence as a nation must rapidly decrease. It is absolutely necessary that great Britain should make and preserve direct communication with the East through the continent of America, the passages through which continent the United States wil otherwise ere long close against us. This communica tion can be made by means of a railroad connecting our possessions on the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards, and would prove a benefit to ourselves and to the colonies." What, then, is this " San Juan question" upon which so much depends ? Where is San Juan ? some, at least, of our readers will ask. San Juan is an Island with an area of 54 square miles, lying in the Gulf of Georgia, which separates "Vancouver's Island from British Columbia and the United States Territory of Washington. The San Juan question took its rise in the unfortunate ASHBURTON treaty of 1846. That treaty was intended to settle the boundary question between British America and the United States, which had been left open since the war of 1812. At the time that the treaty was signed Lord ABERDEEN was Foreign Minister, and neither he nor the American Govern ment was accurately acquainted with the geography of the locality which has given rise to the present controversy. The treaty provided that the forty ninth parallel of latitude shoilld be the boundary line throughout the continent of America, and that on approaching the Pacific coast, it should be continued westward along the said 49th parallel to the middle of the channel which separated the continent from 'Van couver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel, and of Fuca Straits to the Pacific Ocean : Provided, however, that the navigation of the whole of the said channel and strait, south of the 49th parallel, remain free and open to both parties. After the treaty was signed, LORD ABERDEEN bethought himself that it would be as well to make a survey of the country which he had thus defined. At the same time, the American Government made a survey, which was effected by General FREMONT, who in 1860 was a candidate for the presidency. His map shewed the boundary which I our Government has always claimed to be the one intended by the Ashburton Treaty, namely, through the Rosario channel, thus giving San Juan Island to England. The maps published subsequently shewed the same boundary. In spite of this clear evidence the "Washington Territory Government (not the Federal Government at Washington capital be it noted) passed a local. Act declaring that the numerous islands called the Hare Archipelago belonged to Washington Terri tory. In other words it shifted the boundary a few miles eastwards, and shut us out from San Juan Island and the Rosario channel. This Act does not appear to have been sanctioned by Congress. In fact Mr. MAncv, who was then United States Secretary of Stat e , wro t e t o th e G overnor o f W as hington Ter ritory, c are f u ll y warning him against any collision with our Government in consequence of the uncer tainty which prevailed respecting the boundary, and a copy of the despatch was sent to Mr. (now Sir JOHN) CRAMPTON, at that time our Minister in the United States. The despatch received a suitable acknowledgment, and at length, hi 1856, it was de termined that each Government should appoint a commission to examine and define the boundary. A very long correspondence passed between the two Commissioners, and being wholly unable to agree, they drew up a report to their respective Govern ments, and numerous despatches were written by both. In 1859 the disputa assumed a vyarlike phase. 7.)I_,LLAt. Juan had alwitiLltasist ME SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1870. GUILDHALL, 13th January, 18 70. ___ Th , Committee for LETTING the CITY LANDS will MEET at GUILDHALL, on WEDNESDAY, the 26th day of January inst., at Half-past One o'clock precisely, to receive PROPOSALS fcr a LEASE of a HOUSE, No. 222, Tottenham-court-road. in the count,y of Middlesex. Also to receive Proposals for a Building Lease for Eighty years, of the site of the premises, No. 48, London-wall, in City of Londog. I'lans of the pr,prty may be seen, and further particu lars and forms of tender ol,ta ned, upon application at the Architect's Office, Guildtr:ll. FERDD. BRAND, (I,mptroller THE UN I FED LAND COMPANY (UMITED). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a GENER MEETING of the COMPANY will be held at the Offices, No. 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London, at Two of the Crock p.m., on WEDNESDAY, the 2d February, 1870, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, of declaring a Dividend, and of transacting the ordinary busi ness of the Company. By order of the Board. CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary. 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London, W.C., 17th Jannary,,lB7o. T HE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN at J. SMITH'S. s& Bow-street, Covent-garden. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY- L ANL dole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, I'M NOT MYSELF AT ALL. At 7.45, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Messrs. Fred. Vokea, Brittain Wright, Harry Boleno, &c.; Misses Vokes, Harriet Coveney, Kate Santley, &c. sidered to lie within the jurisdiction 6r the Government of Vancouver 4 s Island; but certain Ametican squatters had recently settled there, was siipposed, by the connivance of the Washingto: Territory Government, in order to bring matters to a crisis. One of these squatters shot a hog belonging to the: Hudson's Bay Company, encroached on land belonging to that company, and threatened to shoot any other of the company's stock which should inter fere with. him. A. few days later General HARNEY, commanding the United States troops in that dis trict, landed a military force in San Juan, and a peti tion was- presented to him by twenty-two persons signing‘themselves American citizens on the island of San Juan," and asking for American protection against: the IndianS. .This act of the General's led to a correspondence with tlie British' Governor of VancoUver's Island, Mr. DOUGLAS, and the com mander of the British ships of war on the station, Captain lionNBY. In spite of urgent but very temperate remonstrances, General HARNEY continued to take the high hand, and threatened to fire upon any soldiers or sailors that attempted to eject him from the island. General SCOTT, commander-in-chieg. of the United States army, was more " 'conciliatory, but in vain attempted to restrain his subordinate, who knew that in what he was doing he would have the approval and support of Congress. Th&-two nations were now on the very verge of war. Pre viously to this Lord JOHN RUSSELL, then Secretory for Foreign affairs, had suggested a compromise. It appeared that during the survey a third channel had been discovered between the Rosario on the west and the llaro on the east, and his lordship suggested that this channel should be accepted by both Governments. But General HARNEY'S violent proceedings now once more complicated the matter,and it seemed as if it would be solved only in Gordian fashion. At length mode ration prevailed. General HARNEY was displaced, and the dispute once more passed into the region of diplo macy. By this time the year 1860 was far advanced. A few months later the first shot was fired at Fort Sumter of that terrible war which was to deluge the United States with blood. During the whole of that war our Government magnanimously refrained from pressing for a settlement of the boundary, although then capable of enforcing its own line of demarcation. The civil war over, the discussion was resumed, and it was provided by the CLARENDON-JOHNSON con yention of last year, that the question should be referred to the arbitration of the President of the Swiss Republic. The convention was rejected by the Senate, and the controveriy remains where it was two dozen years ago. Surely it is time that this long dispute were brought to an end. All Ministers were present at the Cabinet Counel; held on Friday. Mr. Cardwell, the Broad Arrow believes, will pro- bably adhere to his proposals as to a new scheme for the volunteer service, in the main. Dr. Robert Chambers, the veteran author and pub lisher, has met with an accident. Ile slipped his foot in coming down stairs and broke his ankle. It is not certain, says the Army and Navy Gazette, that Sir W. Mansfield, although he retires from the Com mand-in-Chief in India, will return to this country. It is possible that he may bo offered a responsible position in the Executive Government at Calcutta. Mr. Sothern, the well-known actor, was seriously injured while hunting with Baron Rothschild's hounds on Thursday. Ho was convoyed to Leighton Buzzard, at tended by Sir Henry Thompson, much cut about the face and shaken. A crazy fellow gave himself up to the Wigan po lice on Thursday night, stating that he had murdered his wife and five children at Blackburn. It was subsequently discovered that the story was entirely without foundation, and he was liberated. In opening a new school in his diocese yesterday, the Bishop of Bath and Wells earnestly urged all lovers of the Bible to resist, as a matter of life and death, all attempts to exclude religious instruction from the schools of the country. Mere secular education must inevitably produce wide-spread infidelity and indifference to religion. The Standard says information has reached it to the effect that a movement for the reform of the Church from within, with special reference to the exercise of the functions of the Episcopate and to the administration and division of dioceses, has been set on foot E some of the Bioad Churel] leaders in London. The Echo declares that the Church 7 lines is prema turn in stating that Mr. Gladsiono has conferred the Bishopric of St. Asaph upon Archdeacon Jones. He may bo the now bishop, but no appointment has yet been made to the See. The Archdeacon is said to be not a High Churchman, but a moderate though decided "Evangelical." A Volume of Essays, the London Scotsman states, is about to be published, to be edited by Sir Alexander Grant, Principal of the Edinburgh University. He is to write on "University Reform;'' Sir David Wedderburn, M.P., on "Hypothec ;" and Dr. Wallace, of Greyfriars, on "Church Tendencies in Scotland" It is said that Dean Stanley will also be a contributor. Mr. Baron Hughes yesterday resumed the hearing of the petition against Sir IL Barron, M.P. for Waterford. Several voters deposed to having received sums of money horn his agents after the general election. A canvasser for the sitting member deposed that a certain voter refused to vote unless his name was put down on the list for pay ment. News from Australia, telegraphed from Brindis in advance of the mail, states that the Parliament of New South Wales was dissolved on the 15th of November, 1869, and the elections immediately followed. A meat-preserving company has been established at Goulburn. Judgment has been given in the Daphne slavery case, and the ship has been formally released. The season has been a very fine one, and the crops look remarkably well. The valuable Rectory of Wonston having fallen to the Crown, owing to the Bishop of Winchester's translation not having been completed when it fell vacant, has been conferred, to the credit (says the John Bull) of the Prime Minister, on the Bev. Prebendary Owen, a staunch Conser vative, as well as a sound Churchman, promoted by Mr. Disraeli when he was in office. Mr. Owen had, as private pupils, sons of the Bishop of Winchester and Sir Stafford Northcote. Lord Howard, of Glossop, writes a lengthy letter to the Weekly Register upon education. He urges Catholics everywhere to bestir themselves in favour of the denomina tional plan. His lordships says that for the Catholic poor the importance of the immediate future can hardly be over rated, and he urges upon all classes of Catholics to strengthen as much as they possibly can the hands of the Poor School Committee. " This can only be done by organisation, and the best foundation for such organisation is the already existing system of diocesan combination." Mr. Handel Cossham, who unsuccessfully con tested Dewsbury at the recent Parliamentary election, last night delivered a political address to a large audience in that town. Ho dealt with the more important measures that had occupied the attention of the Legislature during the last session, and in mentioning those which were likely to engross their immediate attention, stated that an English land bill must come after the Irish bill. He stated that no pledge which the Liberal party had made to the country had not been fulfilled, and they had made no promise which they had not endeavoured to carry out. At the monthly meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Archdeacon Denison gave, as he announced his intention of doing, formal notice, in writing, of his intention to oppose the election of the Bishop of Exeter as a vice-president of the so ciety. It was explained that Bishop Temple would be proposed for election, together with all the bishops of the English Church (who are re-elected annually) in accordance with the general usage of the socioty. The stand ing committee wish it to be understood that the nomina tion does not proceed from them—though, on the other hand, they aro not prepared to recommend gas in Bishop Colenso's case) that Dr. Temple should not ba elected to the office of vice-president. A Friendly Society case came before the Court of Criminal Appeal to-day. The prisoner, named French, secretary to a Foresters Society, had been convicted at Leeds for forging an acquittance or receipt for money. It appeared that in one of those societies a member could not be received into another branch of the society unless he had a " clearance "or certificate under the hand and seal of certain officers to chew that he had discharged his obligations to the society. One of the memuers who had paid all his fees to the prisoner was entitled to a clearance. The prisoner, instead of paying over the money to the society, embezzled it, and forged the names of the other officers to the "clearance," in order that the embezzlement might be concealed. The Court held that the clearance was simply a certificate, and did not represent an acquittance or receipt for money under the statute. The prisoner must, therefore, have the benefit of tie pNection, and the conviction tanst . be ce.18244.e ALARMING FIRE AT 7HE NAG'S-HEAD TAVERN, TOWER-BILL. This morning, shortly after the family had retired to bed, a policeman discovered that the above tavern in Postern-row, Tower-hill, was on fire. The officer at once made the inmates awaro of the outbreak, and although the smoke was almost overpowering they all happily managed to escape. The engines having arrived the firemen went to work, and suc ceeded in preventing the flames from reaching the main spirit stores, but not until considerabledamage was done to the bar and its contents and the upper part of the house. The origin of the fire is un known, and the proprietor, it is supposed, was in sured. THE ANGLO-FRENCH COMMERCIAL TREATY. A Paris correspondent writes on Friday:—The Free Traders of France and England will read with satisfaction the vigorous defence of their policy made by Jules Simon, which occupied nearly the whole of yester day's sitting in the Senate. He opened his address, indeed, the day before, but contented himself with some preliminary observations, more especially with regard to the dispute about tee exactitude of official figures. Yesterday M. Simon came vigorously to the attack, and his speech was a powerful , and eloquent assertion of the cause he pleaded. He would, he said, be very chary in his use of figures,. Every interest furnished its own figures, and claimed to have them quoted, and the only conclusion to be drawn from the arithmetical conflict was that a parliamentary inquiry, which should afford a hearing to all alike, was imperatively necessary. The great question was, had the Commercial Treaties injured France ? "In 1806, the special trade, that is im ports taken for consumption, and experts of French productions, amounted to £238,960,000; in 1859, to X 140,120,000 ; the increase was thus in the proportion of from 3to 5. Now take the trade with England alone; according to the English returns, the exports from France into England amounted, in 1859, to £13,810,000, and, in 1563, to £33,830,000. Thus, the trade was more than doubled. The exports from England into France, in 1838, amounted to £23,180,000, consequently there was a balance of £10,400,000 on the side of France. Next, let us take the particular classes of goods. Of raw material, England sends to France £14,440,000, and receives £3,760,000; of manufactures, we export to England £20,400,000, and receive only £13,160,000." It would be objected that if the exports of France had doubled, those of England had more than doubled. "I reply," said M. Simon, "that if England prospers more than we do, that does not prevent us from prosper ing. The English exports, moreover, are chiefly of raw material which shews the development of our wealth and our industry, for such material is only purchased to be manufactured. The increase of our imports of raw material must in fact be accepted as an additional proof of our prosperity. (That is true.) From these figures I con clude that the ruin of France is not quite so manifest as is asserted. Some industries are suffering, and I have no intention of denying their sufferings, but they are by no moans unanimous. Many wool manufacturers deny that their trade is failing, while many shipowners of Bordeaux and Havre contradict the assertion that the mercantile marine has a right to complain. It is certain, however, that some manufactures are suffering. Eighty-eight iron founding establishments have been closed ; but the real question is the cause of these sufferings, and are they due to the Commercial Treaty ?" Beginning with the ship builders, M. Simon then proceeded to examine into the various complaints. The cause of their distress was, he averred, not the Treaty, but the mercantile marine law of 1866, which permitted the nationalisation of foreign vessels. Shipbuilders had bought ships in England instead of having them built in France. He admitted that the law of 1866 was part of the free trade system, and he would not shrink from acknowledging it. It had pressed more hardly on the mercantile marine than the Treaty had on the other interests, because treaties of commerce were but steps towards free trade, whereas the law of 1866 was in some respects free trade itself. They must ascertain if there were no other remedies for the evil than a return to a protective system which no longer existed. Several remedies had been suggested, and ho hoped that the removal of the old fetters of excessive regulations, of the suppression of the Maritime Inscription Law, would relieve the mercantile marine ; but the real remedy was to be found in commercial liberty.' "Are we mistaken," cried M. Simon, "in saying in philosophy, in politics, in finance, nothing is more fruitful than liberty. No, no ;it is the great means of development, and by it we shall develope metallurgical industry, we shall create a powerful industry in our country, and we shall give the mercantile marine the outward freight which it requires." (Tres Bien) The trade in manufactured iron, he believed, was suffering not from the effects of the treaty, but from the effects of the Bessemer process, which he himself had been one of the first to see tried at Sheffield. That process would revolutionise the iron trade. The silk trade had also suffered neither from a discovery nor from the Treaty, but from the disease among the silk worms. The native production had fallen from Bto 4 millions in the year. - The wool trade had suffered in consequence of the arrivals from Australia and La Plata. Cotton had suffered in all branches of the trade but from an internal cause. There had been excessive production and con sequent panic. Then come wars, for which the Treaty was not responsible, and the outlets for sale were restricted at the very time of surplus production. The absorption of small traders by large was to be seen everywhere; it had no reference to the treaty. The Chambers themselves recognised the social change, and said to the workmen, " Associate." " From all this," continued M. Simon, " I conclude, first, that we are not ruined; second, that we are prospering ; third, that certain trades have suffered from scientific or industrial revolutions and others by causes which have been often re ferred to, such as the American war, the vagaries of speculation, the pressure of military armaments on nations and similar reasons." The question now to con sider was whether France, after the experience of ten years, was able to compete successfully with foreigners. The real point was not to compare the imports and exports for ton years which, however long to the the suffering trades was a short space in national history, but to know whether the engines of Crensot roll on Eng lish railways, whether French produce was sold in London." Several members here suggested that M. Simon, who had been speaking for a considerable time, should rest for a few minutes, and, while he was pausing, the Marquis de Piro asked him if the debate was to be prolonged indefinitely. The speech of M. Simon, he thought, exhausted the subject. The President (M. Mege), allowed, how ever, no reply, and M. Simon proceeded. He denied that the cost of production was, as had been stated, 40 per cent. less in England than in France. The land was cheaper in France, labour was cheaper, while the workmen were more able and intelligent than in England. In England machinery was cheaper, and iron and coal plentiful. There might be a difference. but it was certainly not 40 per cent. France was under a disadvantage in the means of transport. But this diffi culty did not arise from treaties of commerce, and the reform most needed was to lessen the cost of conveyance. The exhibitions of late years had shewn the superiority of France, and it would be ridiculous on the morrow of victory to return to protective duties. M. Simon went on to express his belief that France was rather an agricultural than a manufacturing country, and as such required foreign markets. He shewed the increase of the exports from the wine districts, and reminded the Chamber that the consumer must be protected as well as the pro ducer. Articles of primary necessity were imported, and in enriching llouen and Mulhouse they would impoverish the labouring population of the country. In an elo quent peroration, M. Simon declared that Government could not take the place of Providence and distribute health by factitious laws. All the liberties were sisters,and if they had freedom of commerce they would have other free doms under favourable conditions, for the man who laboured was the apprentice of true liberty, of liberty inseparable from order. With liberty they would have peace. An army of douaniers on the frontiers prevented the fraternity of the nations. By freedom of labour and of commerce they would found the liberty of the future, and annihilate war. (Loud and prolonged applause.) CABINET COUNCIL.—At the Cabinet Council held on Saturday the Ministers present were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chancellor, Earl de Grey, the Earl of Kimberley, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, the Earl of Clarendon, Eall Granville, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Duke of Argyll, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Hugh Childers, the Right Hon. J. Bright, the Right Hon. G. J.Goschen, the Marquis of Hartington, and the Right Hon. C. Fortescue. CELIBACY.—An unusual event, says the City .Press, has just occurred at the Charterhouse, viz., the expulsion of a brother of the foundation for contracting marriage in defiance of the rule made by the founder prohibiting the officials and brotherhood from entering into the state cf matrimony. It is presumed the governing authorities of the hospital have repudiated this regulation in the case of the former recipients of the charity, as they are, without exception, married men. "PRIVILEGE " IN NAPLES.—A. young man of promise, Enrico Marziani, hat just died in Naples from the effec*s of a allot from a revolver, fired at him while en gaged in prayer in a church in that city by Deputy Matina. The assassin, in virtuo of his privilege as a mem ber of the Chamber, was enabled to leave the Italian ter ritory without being arrested. The Opinione remarks that privileges which can be interpreted in this way are not likely to last. THE KING OF THE BELGIANS' OASICET.—Tho Queen, having expressed a wish to see the casket contain ing the address presented to the King of the Belgians on the occasion of his Majesty's recent visit to this country, before it is forwarded to its destination, Thursday next has been appointed for her Majesty to receive a deputa sion from the committee by whom the arrangements for the King's reception were made. The Lord Mayor, pre sident of the committee, Alderman Sir James Lawrei co, M.P., and three other gentl^men will constitute the deputation. The casket is of silver, and was manufactured ta sekm,ll,l34 jigagii 9o_o :.,911.„01,..;,A5a PANIC IN A LIVERPOOL CHURCH. Last night, about 8 o'clock, a drunken man created a disturhar.ce in St. Joseph's Roman Catho lic Chapel, Liverpool. During the excitement a person cried " Fire !" The crowded congregation rushed en masse to the doors. After the crush had passed 15 dead bodies, all grown up, were found, and a number were badly hurt. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day). VICE-CHANCERY. INTERNATIONAL AND HFRCULES INSIIRANCF. COMPANIES. A summons came before Vice-Chancellor Malins to-day in respect to claims made upon both these companies by a gentleman who bad been assigned a policy of insurance effected by Mr. 'William Jones in the first of these companies, which at the time was carrying on business under ;the title of the International Law Association. The policy was for £7OO. It was arranged that the business and assets of the International Company should be transferred to the Hercules. His Honour said be supposed no one would assert that it was not competent to a policy-bolder to object to his policy being transferred to any par ticular company, in the event of his not consider ing it quite solvent. At the same time he thought the objection should have been made when the notice announcing the transfer of the business to the Her cules had been received, and not to have been delayed until the present time. He a,ked if it was intended to appeal from the decision of the Lords Justices lately in the case of the Family Endowment to the House of Lords. Counsel stated that he understood it was not, although some of the parties interested were very much dissatisfied with the judgment. Ilis Honour was not surprised at such dissatiAae Lion, for the more the case of that society was con sidered the more difficult it appeared to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion in respect to the question which had been raised before Vice-Chancellor James and before the Lord Chancellor and Lord Justice Giffard. The summonses were ordered to stand over for further hearing until Friday. THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE'S BANKRUPTCY. Judgment was declared to-day in the bankruptcy of the Duke of Newcastle. The judge decided that by absenting himself from this country an act of bankruptcy had been committed. POLICE INIELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. UNLICENSED CABDRIVERS.—John Grant was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being drunk and incapable of driving a Hansom cab. Sergeant Burke, 2 E R, said that at 12 o'clock last night he was on duty in the Regent-circus, and while trying to get a tipsy unfortunate away the prisoner drove his cab on the crossing. Seeing that the prisoner was drunk and incapable of driv ing his cab he, after getting the female away, took him into custody. At the station the prisoner said he had not got a license, and that the badge he was wearing was given to him by a gentleman who said he picked it up. The prisoner, who admitted he had no license, said he was asked by Mr. Tillett, the owner of the cab, to take it out for a couple of hours, and he did so. Mr. Tyrwhitt said the practice of driving with out a license, which was now becoming common, must be checked, and that with something like severity. The prisoner might not be aware of it, but he was liable to a penalty of £lO for driving without a license. If a stop was not put to it a parcel of scamps would be driving about without there being any check on them whatever. The pri soner would have to pay 20s. or 14 days, and he thought Mr. Tillett ought to pay the money. WESTMINSTER. DESPERATE ASSAULT BY A WOMAN.—Elizabeth Miles, a woman about 30 years of age, residing at 51, Flood-street, Chelsea, was charged with assault ing Jane Bank, a married woman, by striking her on the head with a jug• Prosecutor said that she had occasion to appear as a witness against the prisoner and her mother in August last, but they were strangers to her. On Saturday night they came into the Coopers' Arms, iu Flood-street, Chelsea, where she was with her husband, and, without any words, dashed a jug of beer in her face, as well as the jug, inflicting a frightful series of wounds and contusing both eyes. Two witnesses corroborated. Prisoner said the proseeutrix called her sister a --, and repeated it. She threw the beer at her, and the jug slipped out of her band. A woman named Davis corroborated this story, as also a man named Thomas Marnan, a general dealer, of Flood-street, whose story, however, dif fered materially from that of the previous witness, and evidently bore the complexion of untruth. Dennis, the gaoler, said the prisoner had been there before, and bad been in an asylum. The mother was a fearful drunkard, and had often been there. Mr. Selfe remanded the case for further evidence till Saturday, and refused to take bail. THAMES. A TROUBLESOME PAUPER,—`Lary Ann Stage man, aged 17 years, a pauper who has been charge able to the parish of St. George's-in-the-East from her infancy, and has cost £2OO at least, was charged with wilfully and maliciously breaking a pane of glass in the casual ward. She was misconducting herself in the workhouse; making a disturbance and bawling out maledictions against every one in authority, and as a punishment was sent to the female nurses' department of the casual ward, to be confined there until the next day, on which sne made a great disturbance and broke a pane of glass. She was about to demolish another, and had made preparations for a general smash up of every thing in the ward, when she was seized, and made to exchange the comfortable accommodation in the workhouse for the small, dark, and comfortless cell of the King David's-lane Station-house in Shadwell. Mr. Samuel James, snperintendent of the casual ward, said the prisoner had been repeatedly eon victed for refractory conduct, and sentenced to 7 days, 14 days, and 21 days' imprisonment; situa tions had been procured for her, and she would not stay in them. _ _ _ The prisoner, a strong, hale-looking girl, asked if that was all that could be said against her, and put on a debonair air. Mr. Paget said the prisoner was an incorrigible and mischievous person, and ought to be support ing herself, not living at the expense of the rate payers. lie sentenc,d her to one month's impri sonment and hard labour for wilful damage. Sh e would be compelled to work in prison and to be have herself in a proper manner. THOUSANDS OF PRESENTS AT PARKINS AND LOTTO'S. —Portrait albums, dispatch boxes, writing cases, dressing cases, dressing bags, envelope cases, blotting books, inkstands, desks, stationery cabinets, bookslides, work boxes, tea caddies, hand bags and reticules, card cases, purses, scent bottles, cigar cases, card trays, pocket books, ornamental articles in china, bronze gilt, and elegantly mounted for mantel shelf, drawing and library tables ; bagatelleboards. indoor croquet and indoor games of all kinds; Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Services in every type. Thousands of the above articles, all perfectly new and fresh. Small articles carefully selected and sent post paid upon pre payment. Cataloses free. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times thinks that the result of M. Rochefort's trial by the Correctional Court of the Police at Paris, on Saturday, does not materially differ from what had been very generally anticipated, and it is by no means probable that it will affect the opinion of those who denounced the prosecution as a blunder of the new French Constitutional Government. We cannot say to what extent the plea of necessity will be admitted in extenuation of M. 011ivier's policy in this tranaction. But, even admitting that the prosecution, however contrary, in all its forms, to M. 011ivier's deepest convictions, was imposed by 'the force of irresistible circumstances, there will always remain, in many men's minds, grave doubts as to its real political results. The remedy was, to say no worse, questionable; but will it at least prove effectual? One press offence has been brought to justice; but will that be a restraint on press abuses? Will it either extinguish or moderate the Marseille - rise, or any of the other organs which vie with it in audacity without attaining its notoriety? Will the sentence pronounced on Saturday wear out the violence of anti-Imperialist writers, or the curiosity of anti- Imperialist readers? Did not the Empire exhaust all possible means of repression, and did it not in the end acknowledge itsolf defeated? Did it not deem it good policy to pass from excessive severity to a laxity which tolerated and almost encouraged the most unbridled licence ? Will an imprisonment of six months, and a fine of a few hundred francs, with the alternative of a trip to Brussels or Geneva, more efficiently put down the editor of the .41Tarseillaise at this moment than similar and even graver measures disposed of the editor of the Lanterne two years ago? If M. Rochefort was at all guilty, it will be said, surely he was the laat man entitled to the benefit of extenuating circum stances. He is an old offender, whose audacity has grown with the well-experienced inefficacy of the measures adopted towards its chastisement. The mild sentence which has struck him will only work as a fillip to stimu late such energies and strengthen such courage as may be in him, and it will have a no less emboldening effect on other men of a stronger and more dangerous stamp. The Post thinks the handsome compliments which M Thiers, in his great speech on free trade and commercial treaties, delivered in the French Chamber on Saturday, paid to this country, ought not to blind us to his econo mical heresies and delusions. All these fallacies and sophisms are but so many variations on one and the same indefensible assumption, that the consumer—in other words, the community at large—is to be sacri ficed and taxed for the sake of a narrow class of monopolists. Manchester, says M. Thiers in effect, can produce cotton goods cheaper, superior, and more plentifully than French manufacturers, and there fore forty millions of French people must be taxed to keep up their monopoly; whereas the just conclusion he ought to come to is, that as the latter cannot compete with the former, they should transfer their capital and energies to some industry for which France is better suited than England, and in which she can therefore beat England in the race of competition, so that the great French nation of consumers may be left free to satisfy their needs by buying in the best and cheapest markets. That there are industries in which France beats England, because she is better adapted for them than England, everybody knows, and 'AI. Thiers himself asserts in this very speech. He thinks, too, that "Franco is destined to produce, not cheap goods, but goods of a superior quality" compared with English. But how, then, can free trade be injurious to France? It cannot be injuri ous, because her "superior goods" would not only be in request in her own markets among wealthy customers, but also in British markets, among the corresponding class ; while the inferior articles of British manufac ture would only be purchased by the inferior class of cus tomers. The Telegraph recommends the policy of extending the spirit of the Ulster usage to the rest of Ireland. No doubt in the three other provinces the needful reform would demand a larger element of positive legislation, but the principles of the measure are sufficiently indicated by the practice of the North, and by the very complaints of the South, especially as illustrated by the custom which prevails on some of the largest and most peacefully managed estates in Ireland. Those principles are, compen sation for actual improvements, with an allowance for the beneficial occupancy, but with no trace of infringement on the landlord's perfect right of ownership, including the clearance of his land, alienation, or any other exercise of proprietary title. Thus the most formidable difficulties diminish to the view when we come close and grapple with them resolutely ; and there can be no doubt that, while even the publication of the long-desired reform will go far to quiet agitation, excited as much by doubt and uncertainty as by extravagant theories—even a brief glance at the practical character of the measure will remove baseless apprehensions. Thus, with those who have the best opportunity of judging the situation a it now presents itself to the view, we fully expect that the mere promulgation of the measure will rally the genuine statesmanship in Parliament to lend all the force which frank and hearty help can afford, in order to abate the difficulties and anxieties of the transition period. By the same spirit, the common sense and good feeling both of England and Ireland will be enlisted on the side of a Government which has for the first time brought to the momentous problem of the day the requisite labour and sense of responsibility. The Pall Mall Ga:ette complains that there is still a comic atmosphere about all bribery investigations. A mention of the Man in the Moon simply causes a laugh ; though the joke must be tolerably threadbare at Bridgwater. -A gentleman who would kick out of his house anybody who should offer him a bag of sove reigns continues to look at the wholesale corrup tion of a town from a humorous point of view Mr. Anstey and his colleagues have been guilty of turning a broad farce into a serious performance They have talked as if they seriously believed that bribery was morally as well as legally wrong, and that a respectablk solicitor really ought not to distribute £1,500 at a critical period of an election. This severity has rather shocked the moral sense of the inhabitants of Bridgwater, and seems to be an unaccountable eccentricity oven to th , British public at large. Some people sympathise with Mr. Lovibond, not only as the victim of an overstraine(l sense of justice, but as a man suffering persecution for a ve nial if not a creditable action. Of course, the censure passed upon Mr. Anstey by the judges gives really no sor of sanction to this feeling. They would have said the same if Mr. Lovibond had had been a swindler or a thief but it is to be feared that the defeat of the investigator: may be taken by ignorant constituents as more or less a palliation of the crime, which is an additional cause L. regretting Mr. Anstey's. intemperance, but also for acknov. ledging that, in spite of his errors, he was really doin i good service. If to be forewarned were always to be forarmed, say! the Daily News, the disgraceful rioting and violence whit; took place in South Yorkshire on Friday last would new. have occurred. For some time past the parish of Chapel town, an outlying suburb of the great bolough of Sheffleh: has been in a condition of the greatest anarchy. A fort night before the late riot public attention had been calle. to the state of the parish by a smaller outbreak, and fa: a day or two before the riot the lawless condition of the neighbourhood had been made the subject of publi, comment. The first feeling of the public on hearing o. such an outrage as this is one of indignation. The firs: impulse is to call for strong measures. But why were not strong measur:s adopted earlier ? Where were the local authorities, that disturbances such as have disgrace( Chapel-town for months past were allowed to go on all! gather to a head? Tne public do not wish to interfere in trade disputes; what they wish is to see fair play on both, sides, and to see law and order respected, and the peace kept between them both. This has no. been the case at Chapelstown. There a number of working men have had to fight for the right to work, and the authorities have thrown on their employers the duty of protecting them. This is not law, but lawless ness; not order, but anarchy; not respect for the liberty of trade combination, but failure to protect the common rights and liberties of the subject. We are, of course, quite ready to accept any legitimate apology for the mis guided rioters themselves. These men might ali have been employed if they would have given ul. their Union. But giving up their Union means, in their view, giving up their bond of mutual hell. and brotherhood. It is this feeling which is the strength, of the unions, and which, alas! under the misguidance of ignorance, becomes hostility to others. It is useless to fight against it ; all that can be done, all that ought to be done, is to repress its hostile manifestations, and mean, while to elevate and enlighten it. Has not society some thing to answer for in this eipeet ? Has it altogether done its duty by these men? Has it not left them in that ignorance which is the parent of disorder? The Standard declares that nothing could be more dis astrous to trade than such an outrage as is reported from the neighbourhood of Sheffield. It not merely puts work ing men in the wrong; it distorts their claim and cause it a mannsr to create even a worse prejudice than is excitee , by the offence itself. Every one is aware that the labour ing population of the cutlery capital have endured great suffering of late ; but, enheppriy, the town and its vicinity have a character in these affairs for lawlessness and violence which its own journals confess. But in the present instance the breach of peace was committed, not by a:tisans, it was the work of a colliery mob. They had made an attempt, several week ago, to provoke a riot, and failed; yet they held to their purpose, which was plainly to be avenged upon the independence of the non-unionist men. And in the result only a wonderful good fortune saved us from a spectacle of murder and bloodshed. As it was, swords were drawn, barricades erected, accumulations of clothing and domestic provision annihilated, and in the end, while many have been bitterly injured, not one solitary individual has been benefited, or is likely to benefit, in the slightest degree. The non-unionists will not join the union ; their earnings will remain as before ; punishment will visit the rioters ; and the industrial interest of the great county will not be tallenC9.4.in RAY SicVll ) whaql.St, • - A , • ,-„'" ) I'l 4 l I Lif,l/11 HER MAJESTY, OSBORNE, Jan. 23. Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Beatrice, drove in the grounds yes terday afternoon. LATEST INTELL MEN OEA (REUTEn's TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEw ToRK„Tan. 22. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 12011 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1204 ; the lowest, 1204. Sterling Exchange on London • 1081. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 ll5l. 64 " 1885 ll5l. 1867 ll 4 l. 10-40 " lllinois 139. Erie 931. Cotton—MO. upland 2slc. Petroleum—Standard White Flour, extra state,.ss.loc. to $5.70c. Corn, old mixed, sl.2c. INDIA AND CHINA MAIL. SUEZ, Jan. 24. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamers Rangoon left at 11 a.m. and the Simla at 1 p.m. yesterday for Bombay and Calcutta respectively. FRANCE. BOURSE, Jan. 22.—Three o'clock—The mark. - t closed as follows : II per Cent. 3 per Cent End of mouth 73 55 Credit Mobilier ~ 207 50 Transatlantic 2OO )redit Foncier 1770 Paris Gas 1665 Suez Canal 345 RAILWA' _ _ Bank Shares 2920 itaFan Elves 55 15 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan 317 50 Do. Debt 43 95 Spanish Threes 26 75 Home Debt 22 50 Deferred . .YS. Cast, __ Orleans ... 9711 Western .i 625 Northern ... ll3O Strasburg • . 5934 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6o Bt Sardinian Austrian BOO Lombard 5lO . North of Spain SaragosEtt Roman 4ll LYCEUM THEATRE. On Saturday evening this theatre opened under the management of the Brothers Mansell. The house has been thoroughly redecorated itt the most elegant and tasteful manner; altogether such a spirited opening gives the best promise for the future, and the new managers have our best wishes for their success. 'The two pieces selected for re presentation were bath new, the first being a " comedy- drama" by Mr. Marshall, and the second, " Chilperic," an opera bouffe by H rva. The comedy-drama opened very favourably, but after it had proceeded a short time it became apparent that the author was over elaborating his subject, and the result was anything but a success. The plot turned as usual upon an unprincipled scamp (Sir Victor Pearlstoce) endeavouring to re cover a squandered fortune by marriage with a girl who he has accidentally discovered to be an heiress. The two acts lasted nearly three hours, but the audience, by way of encouragement to the young author, sat it out quietly, but their verdict at the conclusion was not a favour ibis one. The weariness produced by the irst piece, however, instantly gave • way on the appearance of Mrs. Keeley to speak the opening address. The reception of this great public favourite was of the warmest. description, and her task having been admirably performed site retired amidst enthusiastic appiause. The opera bouffe then commenced and resulted in a triumph- Ant success. Chilperic, King of the Gauls, accom panied by his brother Sigebert and his suite, while anuting in the forest, consults the Druids as to the chances of the war about to take place in the king's domains. When they have finished these transactions they come across a beautiful sliep tterdess, Fredegoudt-, with whom be falls desp,r ttely in love. Ile persuades her to accompany him to his Royal palace, and there she causes a great scandal. But when he has be come somewhat tired of her, a Spanish princess is introduced, to whom the king is about to be married, and thereupon the country beauty is turned out. A war then takes place ouzaLte the town, and through the fidelity of a f age the king is not only able to subdue his enemies, but to dis • cover an act of treachery which would have caused the death of his new princess. In consideration of the victory, however, all parties are forgiven, and a joyful termination is the result. The entire music A the opera is of the Offenbach style, and remark dale, for its sparkling brilliancy and melody. The tuthor, M. Herve, supported the character of .he ping, and made a must successful debut both as a singer and actor. Miss Fitzluman, ,s the country girl, was particularly good, and tliss Delano as the Princess 6-alsninda made a most :avourable impression on the audience. Her voice is clear, fresh, and remarkable for sweetness, and it ,s evident she has all the intelligence and taste to make the best use of it. Miss Roinanelli also is de serving of high compliment, and, iu fact, all who took part in the opera deserve great commendation. the scenery, dresses, and entire mounting of the piece was superb, and the enthusiastic ayplause which followed the descent of the curtain was well merited. Space prevents us entering at Largth into the many beauties of the opera as a musical composition, but certainly it is of the highest order, and we congratulate M. Hera on his well deserved success. The house was crowded in every cart. QUEEN'S THEATRE. On Saturday a new and original five act drama, eutialtd " Twixt Axe and Crown, or the Lady Elizabeth," was produced h e r e w i t h t h e most coin ii The subject i s th e riva l ry o f Q ueen Mary leitzea ues an tc d hc,e'' the ss Lady Elizabeth, her half-sister (after wards Queen Elizabeth, not yet 20 when the play opens), in the affections of Edward Courteuay, Earl of Devon, popularly known as the White Rose, great grand so n o f Ed war d IV., and l ast de scendant of the R oya l H ouse o f York, wh ose lif e, from 12 to 27, h a d b een s p en t as a prisoner i n th e Tower, where he was confined, with his father, by Henry VIII., and whence he was released by Mary at her accession. The play was a perfect success. The principal parts were sustained by Mr. and Mrs. Rousby, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Henry Marston, and Miss Pauncefort, and it was placed on the stage with re maikable splendour. It will without doubt become one of the great attractions of the present theatrical season. The house was brilliantly attended. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKEZ-(TIIIS DAY.) Sales probably 10,000 bales. quiet. The market was The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Meads. DUNVILLE & Co., who hare gained a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to be called " The Royal Irish Distillery." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. Evening. MONDAY 58 min past 6 24 min past 7 TUESDAY. 52 min past 7 0 min last 8 WEDNESDAY 56 min past 8 33 min past 9 THURSDAY... ..............10 min past 10 50 min parn:i 0 FRIDAY,,. 30 mit) pact 11.,.,,, 0 lain past 12 LYL The were I Saturd, and alt quartet given ii the prii sustain Securit but for the pri( Saturd uoni ditto, 1 dueed v Exchec June, par ; 4 i per India litto t: ent., Oi pei Illinoi are lE Fre Britis Amer; prem. Teleg Ito 3 3i tc At. mode, With() Wheat at abc a qui( of las' a Had both i Satur CW It is notic twee trath th e c th e , Rail £3O E 43 Bu t , flex gral coin verE rau E Reis be I the Fet Tel for rest to i Bri Fe' dec cal pa col