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London, t , t Two of the Clock p.m., on WEDNESDA 1 , the 2d F(bruary, 1870, for the pu , pose of ruceiviny the Report of the Direetorpz. of declaring a Dividend, and of transacting the ordinary bnei nes& of tho Company. By order of tl-e Board. CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary. 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London, W.C., 17th January, 1870. LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN. 27, 1870. It PEACE or armistice—time will decide which— appears to have been tacitly concluded at the Chapel town seat of war; and a public meeting has just been held at Sheffield for the benevolent but suggestive purpose of counting the cost, and raising a fund for the relief of the sufferers. For the present this remarkable social warfare may be considered over. It remains to clear away the wreck and pro vide for the wounded. It remains also to visit the responsibility of these disgraceful riots upon those who ought to have taken precautionary m,easures, but who failed to do so. As an illustration of local administration in England, the history of these Chapeltown doings is an instructive one. Messrs. NEWTON and CHAMBERS, lessees of the Thorncliffe collieries, have lived for some years past in a :ate of chronic dispute with their workmen. The firm wished to shake off the interference of the South Yorkshire Miners' Union; the trade society was resolved to retain its power. In 1864 the Union pined a victory over the firm; but last March Messrs. NEWTON and CHAMBERS made another attempt to assert their independence by discharging all their men, with the offer of a re-engagement on the condition that no collier should seek the intervention of the trade society in the bargain between his employer and himself. There was no special dispute open at the time ; the employers resorted to the lock out simply as a means of setting themselves free from the obnoxious unionist control. The discharged colliers, however, refused to resume work on the non interference terms. The pits remained idle,. until Messrs NEWTON and CHAMBERS engaged several hundred men, who were willing to take the place of the malcontents on the masters' conditions. Fresh houses were .built for the new come rs, and the locked-out men, who refused to quit the district, lived in idleness on the funds of their Union. Then ensued a state of things which ought to have been summarily ended. The unionists determined that the " black sheep " should not work. A system of terrorism and outage was organised and unflinch ingly kept up. Nothing was • neglected that could be done to make the village of Chapel town too hot to hold the unwelcome visi tors. For months they were hooted, hustled, assaulted; assailed in church or chapel; attacked whilst going to, andreturning from, their work; out raged at funerals; and their wives and children incessantly molested. This treatment lasted, not a few clays, but during the entire summer and autumn. The employers did nothing to protect their men, and justice, which so severely punished tle London "picketers," was quite inoperative at the village of Chapeltown. At last neither the non-unionists nor their wives nor families were safe out of their houses without an escort of police. With the New Year the Unionists adopted still more vigorous measures. About three weeks ago a night attack was made on a block of thirty houses which had been built for the new hands. This raid was unsuccessful. The rioters, in no way discouraged, made greater preparations, and organised a more scientific onslaught last Friday. Large reinforcements were obtained from the neighbourhood, and different detachments, well armed, marched to the attack early in the morning. The inhabitants made no attempt at resistance. The assail ants entered the lower part of the houses; the victims helplessly took refuge in the upper rooms. Windows and doors were broken to pieces ; clothing, bedding and furniture were burned ; and money and valuables carried off. Finally, the mob vigorously attempted to set the houses on fire, whilst the inmates were yet confined within. All the force which the guardians of the peace could bring to bear against this host did not exceed twenty policemen. We hear of gal lant deeds by this formidable body. Two men valiantly guarded a number of houses; eight tried a desperate attack outside ; whilst a third body of ten made nothing of a charge upon four hundred rioters. The twenty finally succeeded in dispersing the entire mob. These achievements are highly creditable to the force ; but, unfortunately, the whole conduct of the authorities in this affair was eminently ridiculous and blameable. It is gratifying to learn that the people of Sheffield have promptly come forward with aid for the sufferers ; but it is impossible to agree with some of the speakers at this meeting that the magistrates had done all in their power to keep the peace. The talk accredited to Mr. Alderman WEBSTER, that Secretaries of State were utterly ignorant of their duties, and that a large force of constabulary or military 64 ought always to be within reach "is sheer nonsense. In the first place the employers, Messrs. NEWTON and CHAMBERS, ought to have done something more for the protection of a number of men who had come on their invitation, and to further their interests. If they could not get the efficient assistance of the police or the military they ought to have armed their wothmcn in self-defence, instead of leaving things to take their o , .vn course. There is no reason, how ever, why abundant ald the should not have been furnished. They had sufficient warning. 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Begin at S. le, Bux-office open fromll to 4. c 5,7 ' O P /1% ,- -.6 • lilt filE StTN, LONDON, VitritBDA, EitEMNG, imitrAnv 27, 1870. The spectator this week, expressing an undoubtedly growing opinion, denounces the law. It ridiculesthe idea of injury to affections being paid for by money, points to the unseemliness of the usual trial ; and argues that these marriage promises are often such that it is expedient they should be broken. It is better by far that a girl should not marry a man who has not an income to support her, and, better still, that she should not be bound to him for an indefinite time. The Spectator especially dwells upon the amazing want of delicacy which is shown by a "young lady" who will consent to tell—her eyes the while stream ing with tears—the story of her love to a crowded court. Much that our contemporary urges may be freely admitted. Such 'a scene as that which Mr. Justice BLACKBURN denounced last week, at West minster is unseemly. A lady weeping before the jury in such a case, "See what my heart suffers, and pay me for my pain," by no means reaches one's ideal of the right state of things. And it may be allowed, too, that it is better for both parties that many matches should be broken off. No adequate com pensation, moreover, can be given to a girl who has learnt to love and to hope she is loved, only to find herself rejected. Indeed, looking at it from the point of view of the injured, it is a subject of wonder that many of the actions are ever brought, seeing that the plaintiff has to tell so very much which women are wont to keep secret; and for all her self-exposure she gets next to nothing, the damages being swallowed up in costs. And yet we do not think a case has been made out for a repeal of the law. For though, as it stands, the Act is so framed that it involves compensation to the person injured, that is not its only principle : it also provides punishment for-•the breaker of the contract. And he is punished tot merely for not fulfilling his promise ; but for making it, and repeat ing it. A young man thoughtlessly, to wile his hours away in pleasure, proposes marriage to some young lady, and, after he has bad some months of pleasant spooning, he begins to think seriously, and finds he has made a mistake. Why should he not pay for the pleasure of flirting as well as for his other pleasures? Why should he not be punished, if he can be conveniently, for heedlessly inflicting pain in the search of own enjoy ment? If the lady he has injured will consent to make her case public, she will do a general good by obtaining a punishment. It is, in fact, mostly on the ground of general good that we think these actions should be allowed to continue. They help to keep alive a healthful opinion. Recent expe rience has shewn how much the punishment of wrongdoing helps to prevent it. Many sins, which, if they go unpunished, are regarded as venial ones, so soon as they bring retribution become really wicked in the sight of the world. Thoughtlessness must needs become thoughtful when indulgence in folly brings such hardships with it. The giddy, seeing the condemnation of frivolity, are stayed by a sense of responsibility. Thus a real good is done. No injustice is perpetrated by condemning in damages a man who has obtained pleasure by paining another ; and many of the young are warned that "the great step in life " is one which they should not unthinkingly take. While the fear of damages does not much prevent the breach of promises, it, by the opinion it creates, does much to lessen the number of thoughtless promises; and it especially discredits that miserable kind of love-making which, though done under a form of promise, is meant for nothing at all. In their own way-these actions in the general courts help to diminish those in the court of Lord PENZANCE. THE BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS. The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian understands that arrangements are being made for intro ducing a greater number of bills this year in the Upper House, so as to equalise more nearly the press of business between the two branches of the Legislature, and to avoid the old scandal of the Lords having nothing to do till Whitsuntide, and then too much. Ambng the measures which perhaps may be. introduced into the Upper House is that in reference to national education. There are likewise the bills regarding naturali sation and the extradition of criminals, which naturally will fall to the lot of the Foreign Secretary to explain; and, if the rumours in clerical regions be true, there is a proposition in shape which one must presume must first see the light under the auspices of the spiritual peers, as it has for its scope the making provision for the appointment and payment of suffragan bishops. LAW EVTELLIGENCE—:(This Day). COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. This morning an application was male to the Chief Judge in the matter of Charts henry Gamblin, of Winchester, teacher of rrusic, Vl° was adjudicated about three years, and received from the late Mr. Commissioner Gm'burn an order of discharge, on the condition that he should furnish a periodical statement d his earn ings, and pay one-fifth of them at the end of every six months to the official assigree until the whole of his liabilities, which amounzed to about £BOO, had been paid in full. Mr. Tuner, onbehalf of the assignee, asked for an order t. rescind the discharge on the ground that the conditions had not been complied with. His lordship suggested that it would be better to put the application in the;form of a motion, and give the bankrupt time to answer. This was assented to. EMIGRATION. MESSRS. TENNYSON, CARLYLE, EXTBKIN, FROUDE, AND MILL ON THE COLONIES. Two veryimportant meetings on emigraton were held iv London, on Wednesday—the one in the yptian Hall of the Mansion House, and the other at Lambeth Baths. The first-named was the most important, the latter, the most interesting; for while at the one the speakers were men of eminence, to the other Mr. Thomas Carlyle, Mr. Tennyson, the Poet-Laureate, Mr. Ruskin, Mr. Froude ; the historian, and Mr. John Stuart Mill vrote letters.. THE MANSION 1101731.1 MEETI.M. At the Mansion House the Lord Mayor presided. In introducing the subject, Mr. BESLEY sail: "We are mot together to-day for the purpose of devising the best moans to remove labour from fields where labour is not wanted and where the labourers are abundant, to fields where labour is wanted, and where labourers aro scarce. We want to devise the best course to carry out that plain and simple principle. None of us are anxious to see our fellow-countrymen depart. We all like to see plenty 61 bees around the mother hive; but the time is come when some united effort to relieve the popu lation must be made. The question of political economy must be set aside for the present. The benevolence of the English people will never be found wanting if appealed to in a proper manner, and I have no doubt the aid of Government will be afforried when they soo that this movement will be conducted by men who mean righteously to discharge that which they have in view. Emigration is not what it was twenty-five years ago. It does not mean banishment. It wants to be known and to be understood that the people emigrating are not going away from us, but will still form part of the people of England. —Among the speakers who followed the Lord Mayor was Sir George Groy. He moved the first resolution to the effect that emigration affords one of the best means of removing the existing distress. Sir Geore-o said he thought that unless emigration was resumed there was very little chance of England becoming again pros perous. The resolution was supported by Mr. Samuel Morley, M.P. No one connected with manufactures could, he said, doubt the existence of great distress. Nor was this confined to London, or even to England. Throughout the Continent there was the same lamentable state of things. This had a deteriorating effect on wages, and therefore, although a manu facturer himself, lie believed it was necessary to relieve the labour market. It was a fact that money had been for the last two or three years an absolute drug, and yet during no similar period had there .been so large a number of willing workers idle. They were told there were millions of unoccupied acres in Canada. He was among those who believed that there were millions of unoccupied acres in England. Mean while there was a n e normous amount of suffering that could not wait, and therefore ho had arrived at the opinion that it was his duty to urge his fellow citizens to unite to carry out a substantial emigration movement. The work was, however, too large to be done by private efforts, and if anything material was to effect it they should work on a larger scale. There should be clear proof that the working people desired to emigrate, and that families desired to go ; he said "-families " because he thought all means should be used to make emigration take this form. Then there should be perfect security that there would be work for them when they got out to the new country. Mr. Morley was followed by a Mr. JoirNsoN. That gentleman moved an amendment to the effect that the committee was not worthy "of confidence, and that the only effectual panacea for destitution was the government of the people by the people, and calling on the Queen, Lords, and Commons to resign. This motion was received with hisses and derisive laughter, and failed to find a seconder in the meeting. Mr. Johnson, in the course of a rambling speech, which was listened to with great impatience, suggested, amid laughter and hisses, that " Royalty and the aristocracy should emigrate to the colo nies," adding that nothing would satisfy the people until all the professions were thrown open. To enter any of them at present required money.—The resolution was carried. Mr. TORRENS made the seconl motion, calling upon the Legislature to interfere to organise emigration. He said he would not for a moment approve of an emigration rate —a tax on householders—while the great owners of the property around them, who were drawing their £50,000 or £60,000 a year, were no; rated a farthing. If emigration was a right thing, let all contribute to it. Let the money come from the means aad substance of the whole State. It was not necessary to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer to lay an additions tax upon any one article of consumption, or to add an additional penny to the income-tax, in order to do what the League wanted. What he proposed was that money should be lent to the working man to emigrate—what the President should demand from the Government was, an advance of one er two millions— not in money, but in kind—giving the peopla a free passage, six months' subsistence and tools, and frau £l5 to £2O a head would be ample to clench the bargaii. The foreign trade of the country was worth 30s. a heat of the popula tion, while the colonial trade was vvortl 1:6 a head, and this sheaved how advantageous colonisation was to our home trade."—That resolution, having heal seconded, was also passed. Mr. Beaks was one of tlx sveakers to it. The distressed people, he said, could notw a it. W or ki ng men desired emigration, therefore he supported it. A resolution asking for subscriptions was also carried. It was *seconded by Mr. Charley, who promised to support the League in his place in Parliament. MR. STANSFELD ON THE LICENSING SYSTEM. On 'Wednesday Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., Financial Secretary to the Treasury, was waited upon by a deputation from the Halifax Sunday Closing League, on the subject of Sunday closing of public houses. An interesting conversation took place, after which Mr. Stansfeld stated his views at length. He elicited from the deputation that they did not seek to prevent Sunday travelling, or to prevent a man obtaining refreshment on the first day of the week; but a traveller out for amusement would not be able to obtain liquor. The memorial stated that no law would be effectual unless it suppressed the dram shop and gin palace. Mr. Stansfeld thought it impossible to distinguish between these establishments and the regular public-house. In summing up his opinion, Mr. Stansfeld could only say on behalf of the . Goveinment that a measure was under consideration. It had not yet received its finishing touches so far as he knew. His own views he would impress as much as possible upon the Home Secretary. They did not in their end differ much from those of the department, but perhaps in detail. Mr. Edmondson, in one of ohe departments, had addressed himself to the question of total suppression. He did not agree with him in all he had argued. The primary view was that the ordinary liquor traffic was not one that ought to be specially regulated, but that it was vicious in its inception-- that drunkenness was the great cause of vice and crime, and that the best conclusion that could be arrived at with regard to it would be not merely to regulate and restrict, but to suppress it altogether. Consequently with that view Mr. Edmondson addressed ninaself to the question of vested rights, and concluded by expressing his willingness to grant compensation. Mr. Stansfeld regarded that willingness with great satisfaction, because he did not think if they took away vested rights that they could do so without giving compensation for them. Yet Mr. Edmondson began by saying the law recognised no vested rights. That was an ar e „.cent for a lawyer rather than for a statesman or a public man It was true that in point of law a licence was granted from year to year, but it was also true that licenses were renewable almost as a matter of course unless there was some complaint of misconduct. In point of fact, the enewal of a licence was never discussed and reviewed by a bench of magistrates in the same way that they would discuss the first application. Therefore, in his opinion, it was impossible practically to deal with so many thousands of persons who had embarked all their capital or a great part of it, in this business.without recognising that they had a moral right not to be ruined by any measure which might be thought necessary for the public good. An analogy had been suggested by the Act which was passed some years ago for the suppression of immoral prints. He would not admit that the analogy could stand good, because he could not conceive that there could be a shadow of right, either legal or moral, in a trade which served solely to corrupt and debase the people. The sale of drinks, under a proper restriction, could not be regarded in that sense, and could not be treated in-the same manner. It had been said that it was desirable to prevent the sale of wines in shops other than those which were open for the sale and con sumption on the premises of intoxicating liquors. He had always been of opinion that it was desirable to draw a broad line of distinction between tho sale for consumption on the premises in a public-house, and the sale in the ordinary mercantile sense of fermented liquors to be taken home. Now, he did not believe that they could interfere with the sale or purchase of fermented liquors which had to be consumed at a man's own resi dence. They might interfere to restrict the sale in the public-house. Many reasons had been urged against the evil influences of the dram-shop and the gin-palace : but if they objected to the purchase and consumption of in toxicating liquors in that way, on the other hand it would be desirable to admit that there should be facilities for the purchase of these things when their purchase would not be open to the same objection. He believed that it was partly Mr. Gladstone's object, in introducing cheap wines, to reduce the consumption of spirits and beer, and also that the persons who wished to consume such articles in their own dwellings should be able to purchase them otherwise than in a public-house. He was much surprised that in the town of Halifax many of his friends for whom he had the utmost respect entertained another view. He would, however, undertake that all their suggestions, and everything that had been said should be faithfully reported, and should receive Mr. Bruce's most attentive consideration. _ . _ Some conversation followed on the subject of grocers being allowed to sell wine. Mr. Stansfeld said the ques tion in his mind was whether the increased sale for home consumption tended on the whole to sobriety, or the re verse. His own impression, taking a broad view, was that it was better for the working man to do as the middle class man did, drink his own wino and beer at home rather than go to the public-house for it.—Mr. Edmondson said he was enabled to state from experience that many women now obtained drink at grocers' shops who never drank before, and whtt would not bo seen in a public house. POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE—This Day. SIAIILBOROUGH- STREET. OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT TO LADIES IN REGENT -STREET.—William Ufer, a tailor, 4, Pollen-street, llanover-Fguare, was charged before Mr. Knox with being drunk and behaving in an indecent manner to female passengers in Regent-street. Mr. Henry Watkins, Manchester warehouseman, 133, Regent-street, said that on the previous after noon he was walking up Regent-street when he saw the prisoner, who was drunk, push against and indecently assault every lady he passed. He fol lowed the prisoner with the intention of giving him into custody, and while doing so he saw the prisoner place his arms round a lady's neck, and one lady in running away from the prisoner, Cm e conduct was of the most flagra , t c'iaraeter, was nearly run over. Not being able to find a eon stable he c ught hold of the prisoner and held him, and sent for a constable ; and on one arriving gave the prisoner into custody. In answer to Mr. Knox the witne33 said the pri soner was drunk and re , ling about. Marshall, 188 C, said the prisoner was given into his custody by the last witness for indecently assaulting several ladies in Regent-street, and several other gentlemen said the prisoner's conduct was very disgraceful. Mr. Knox asked whether any of the ladies were present ? The constable replied in the negative. Mr. Knox said, as the case was then before him, he could only deal with the prisoner for drunk and disorderly conduct, and fine him 40s. ; but in order to give any of the ladies an opportunity, if they choose to do so, of coming forward to prefer other charges against him, he would remand him till Saturday, and he was much obliged to Mr. Watkins for attending. AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS. The 31 - ark Lane Express, speaking of the corn trade, re marks :—" We have had another more winterly but season able week, closing with a sharp frost ; though so many fluctuations have lately prevailed, that few have confi dence in its permanency. The frost is, however, wel comed, as still keeping vegetation in check, giving a good opportunity to farmers to get on the land, and serving to mellow the soil for the seed time. The young wheat is too much in its infancy to indicate prospects, but no harm as yet can be reported. Potatoes, on the whole, have kept rather better than expected, though but a small propor tion have proved really fine and in condition to hold out their full term." The ~lfaynet observes :—So far as the prospects of the wheat plant are concerned the weather during the past few clays has been favourable. Its previous rather rapid growth, promoted by the extreme mildness of the season, has been checked by the slight frost, a short continuance of which would be of great service in regu lating its development. Up to the present moment the accounts from most districts represent the progress of agricultural affairs as satisfactory Several prosecutions for breaches of the Vaccina tion Act were conducted at the Leeds Police Court, yester day. in one case it was objected that a certificate, stating that the child was not in a fit state to be operated on, was by the editor of a journal opposed to vaccination, and the case was adjourned, pending the receipt of a certificate by Mr. Scattergood, surgeon. Another case was dismissed in con sequence of an informality; and in a third a fine of ss. and coats was imposed. Another man was taken into custody yesterday for the Thorneliffa riots. Up to last evening there had been no further ourbreak, but another company of military has been sent to the spot as a precautionary measure. A meet ing was held in Sheffield yesterday, the Mayor presiding, to protest against the proceedings at Thorncliffo, and to open a subscription for the sufferers. About £5OO was promised, and a strong feeling was expressed that the authorities ought to take more vigorous steps to prevent outrage. A circular has just been issued to the commanding officers of Volunteer Artillery Corps throughout the king dom, in which their opinion is desired on several proposi tions framed by the Council of the National Artillery Asso ciation. The chief of them are that the necessary head quarters should be maintained at the public expense, and that ss. a head, or a sum equivalent to the maximum strength of any corps providing itself with head-quarters to the satisfaction of the Government, should be accorded, in addition to the present grant. The evening meeting of the Welsh Conference yesterday was a crowded and excited one. Great efforts were made to alter the resolutions in accordance with the principles of the League. A long dispute occurred on secular education and Bible reading. The Conference was taunted with wishing to exclude the Bible, which the Welsh people would never submit to. This sentiment was loudly cheered. After four hours' dis cussion only two resolutions were passed by persistent effort. It was affirmed that the second resolution did not mean the imposition or exclusion of Bible reading. The Manchester Courier gives the brief history of a swindler who is a genius in his way. Last summer this man, a young Russian, was supposed to be found in a fit at II gher Tranmere. Re gained the sympathy and assistance of some kind women by a plausible tale and ended by robbing them. The fellow had played the same trick at other places. Ho was tried and sentenced to imprisonment. Since then he La: , turned up in CheAire and victimisA the people there. consth talon has survived any shock to Lis system brought on by his fits as well as the implisouruent, and ho is still at large after practicing his last known piece of knavery on Saturday. The Mayor of Drogheda has determined to dis c urage the singing of seditious street ballads. Two girls having been bought before Ling, ho stated that singing and selling songs of that description in the public streets should be put down, and that the constable acted very properly in taking the parties into custody. A very groat deal of mis chief had already been created by the circulation of inflam matory ballads amongst ignorant persons. The constable stated that the parties represented themselves as having come from Voscommon, and that they earned their bread by ballad singing. The Mayor ordered that the ballads should be burned. He desired the constable to see that the pri soners left the town at once. . . TUB LAMBETH BATHS MEMING. The Lambeth Baths meeting, held in the evening, was presidid over by Sir George Grey. To it Mr. Mr. Carlyle wrote—" With great readiness I send ysu my signature to your petition about the colonies; competely agreeing (for the last forty years or so) with everything set forth therein."—The Poet Laureate said :—"Your tables do but confirm my own very strong convictionregarding the value of the colonies to Great Britain, eves in the matter of national wealth. I cannot believe thatMinistors entertain for a moment the suioidal policy attributed to them. Rather would I think that they ire occupied, even amongst other weighty affairs now especially pressing, with the vital question how to snake Englsnd and her colonies one, body and soul. After that I nee( not say that I shall sign your petition not only with hard, but heart."—Mr. Froude's epistle ran Your figures add demonstration to what is already as clear as mathematics. lam pleased to hear that you think my poor artieb [the article on the Colonies, in Eraser's Magartne] has benn of service, But I greatly fear that anything that any ol us can do will not arrest the course upon which the so-culled Liberal party in this country have so determinedly entered. If they carry it out, 'Return est de Anglia' But wo are governed just now by the great moneyed classes, whose first idea is cheap labour, and they dread ant shrink from any thing which threatens to pr . omote emigration. They are blind as Elymas, for no emigration coild be carried so far as to decrease the price of labour to adegree which would not be compensated by the increase d t ra de. Hundreds of thousands of children who now di, of want of proper nourishment would live to take the place of those who go if the pressing poverty was oar a little relieved ; but they cannot go beyond the position of their noses, and their happiest notior I,s to go to the devil, that their bustnpss may n.t be in danger by being curtailed. The history of England can produce no parallel to such preposterous conduct. You are welcome to put my name to your petitionif you think I can be called with propriety a working man Perhaps, however, I may be more useful standing aline and fighting the battle in reason and prudently as losg as there is anything loft to fight for." The DO° of Manchester also agreed with the objects of the meeting Mr. J. S. Mill was of opinion tint it would be a great mistake to do anything which would have the effect of destroying the existing connection between England and her colonies. lice oonsidered that inch a separation would be to the disadvantage of the world in general, and to England in particular. He, at the same time, was not suPrised at the people of England objecting to the main tenance of colonitits who ought to be well able to support themselves, and to object to the oast of wars with the origin of which they had nothing to do. He agreed with the prayer, of the emigration petitien.--Soveral speakers-- Mr. Auberon Herbert, gr. Beales, and Mr, M'Clullarh Torrens—addressed the meetinz. The Dublin Evening Mail says it was reported in the Hall of the Four Courts that Dr. Battersby, Q.C., had received a threatening letter for having appeared in a land lord and tenant case as counsel for the landlord. The Austrian authorities - at Cracow have called upon the abbess of the Carmelite Convent to pay the ex pense of the treatment of Barbara Übryk in the Lunatic Asylum, where she is now confined. The Pall Mall Gazette states that Admiral Sir H. J. Codrington, the Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth (who is now on a tour cf inspection), is to relieve Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, the Commander-in-Chief of the Medi terranean squadron. Her Majesty the Queen, with their Royal High nesses Princesses Louise and Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, is ex pected to leave Osborne about the 13th of February, and return to Windsor Castle. What appears likely to turn out a case of murder has occurred near Coventry. On Monday night the body of A mrin, name unknown, was found in the Coventry canal, , waring marks of foul play. Wounds and bruises were kind on the neck, and the medical men who examined the body aro of opinion that death must have taken place before immcrs!cn. The third annual conference of the Yorkshire Church Association was opened at Wakefield yesterday. There was a large attendarcc, of clergy and laity. Lord Teignmouth took the chair, and, in an opening address, pointed out that the mission of the association is to oppose superstition and infldolity, as caused by the efforts of 119manism on the ono hand, and the influence of heretical works on the other. The noble lord regarded the ritua movement as the result of the sensational tendencies of the age, and (lid not think it was liitoly to last long. fie also vindicated the course pursued by the association In Drotiecuting Mr. Voy. Boy. TIIKMES. THE EMPRESS OF THE DISORDERLIES IN TROUBLE. —Julia Mahoney, who has been convicted fifty times for drunkenness, assaults, disorderly conduct, petty felonies, and other assaults, and who in spite of the Habitual Criminals Act is allowed to run riot, was once more charged with being drunk, dis orderly, and making a disturbance at the Angel public-house in Cable-street, near King David-lane, Shadwe]l. Mr. Alexander Stephenson, the landlord of the Angel, was aroused at seven o'clock this morning by the prisoner demanding liquors and making a great disturbance. The landlord's brother-in-law with some difficulty put her out of the house, and she then raved, swore, and made a good deal of noise. She declared she would break every - window in the house, and was making preparations to carry out her vile intentions. Fortunately a constable, Henry Slingsby, No. 39 K, made his ap pearance and took her into custody, but not before she had made a violent resistance, kicked, plunged, and swore terribly. She threw herself on the ground, and several policemen were called to remove her. She kept up a continual clamour, and declared that when she had an opportunity she would break every window and pull down the beer machine in the publican's house. She would be hung for him, and with an imprecation involving the perdition of his eyes and limbs, would never be easy until she tore him to pieces. Mr. Stephenson could assure the magistrate the prisoner had not a grain of liquor in his house, and was a continual plague there. Slingsby said the prisoner was the most noisy and most disagreeable woman in Shadwell, and was called the Empress. _ . Mr. Lushington sentenced her to seven days' im prisonment and hard labour. SOMETHING WORTH KNOWING.—The public ought to be nigh bewildered with the various descriptions of breakfast beverages that have of late sprung into existence, every one of them claiming to be of superior excellence. No commodity has been more turned to account in this particular than cocoa, because, no doubt, of its original invaluable properties. But the number of cocoas iu exist ence are so great —some of them wo know to be highly re comm,ndable —that the general run of persons must feel puzzled which to patronise and which to avoid. What Messrs. Mercer, Unsworth, and Bevan, of Bilnond , ey, Lave just succeeded in doing will relieve the public of this Fe: ple ing difficulty. We understand that this firm have devoted 11:1 ch time to the study of the p•culit:r propertied (if l'ef'o3 io its origiu,d state, that they have submitted to a careful apaysis all the best cocoas in use, and that, guided by tie information they thus acquired, they have hit upon a mixture comb:ning all the most valuable, nom ishing, and invigorating Fr pertks claimed for the bust encoas in use, and simplifying to a great extent what before so perplexing. Sennoliae and Manzanil lo are the "fn" which Messr.:. Meice , and C.o. have given to the now e"coas they have brought into existence. They have secured to themselves the exclusive , sale of the now cocoas, and are, we understand, making extensive nrrangenTnts for its consumption throughout the whole United King dom. From our own knowledge of drinks—and we have been obliged, in our journalistic capacity, to put to the test a good many front time to time—Messrs. Mercer and Co.'S discovery cannot fail to secure much popular favour. In deed we should not be surFised to find Sentolme and Man zanillo, terms now so novel, becoming before very long, to use a hackneyed expression, as familiar to the public as household words. The good qualities of all cocoas seem to be combined in Semoline and Xanzanillo. OFFICIAL REPORT-THE LOSS OF THE IRONSIDES SCREE' ST.7AMER. CARDIFF, Jan. 21. To the Lords Committee of Privy Council for India. My Lords,—l have held au Official Inquiry into the total loss of the screw steamship Ironsides, which occurred early on the morning of the 23d of December last, on La Banche Reef, in the vicinity of St. Nazaire, on the coast of France. In this in quiry I have been assisted by Captain Harris and Lieut. Elton, the Inspecting Officer of Coast guard at Swansea, and I have now the honour to forward my report. The Ironsides was built of iron at Middlesborough in the year 18(35, in which year she was registered at Liverpool, but subse quently registered at Cardiff in 1868. She was of the burthen of 699 gross and 395 tons net, and was owned by Mr. George Sully Stowe and Messrs. Par fitt and Jenkins, all of this port, subject to a mort gage of the whole ship to the Liverpool, Brazil, and River Plate Steam Navigation Company (Limited) of Liverpool. The Ironsides left Penarth Roads on the 21st Dec. last, under the command of Mr. Alex. Neill, who holds a certificate of competency as master, and manned by a crew of 18 hattds, all told. She was laden with a cargo of about 830 tons of coals, consigned to St. Nazaire. After pass ing Ushant on the 22d, she proceeded through the Straits of Belle Isle, and at 30 minutes after mid night Haedic Lighthouse bore N.E. From this position a course is stated to have been shaped S.E. S. for the entrance of the Loire. The speed of the ship was computed at eight knots an hour, and the distance to be run from this position would be about 18 or 19 miles to La Banche Light. At 2 10 a.m., or when sbe had run about 16 miles, the en gines were put to half speed. At this time a dense fog prevailed. In 10 or 15 minutes the engines were stopped, as no object could be seen at half the ship's length. The master ordered the mate to take a cast of the lead. Before this could be done (as there was no lead on deck) the master had discovered his dan ger, and ordered the helm hard a-port, but too late, for the ship struck before the order could be obeyed. The master seems to have discovered the La Banche Light at the same time. The vessel struck within a quarter of a mile of it. The loss of this ship is mainly attributable to a neglect of the lead At 30 minutes past midnight a good bearing was obtained of the Haedic Light. When the fog came on at 2 15 a.m. they had approached within a short distance of the La Bauche Reef. The light not being visible owing to the density of the fog, as described by all the witnesses, the lead should have been hove, which would have at once indicated the approach to danger, and a prudent man would, under the circumstances, have put her head seaward until the fog lifted, which it appears to have done very shortly after the ship struck. For this default the master was alone responsible, and the Court adjudged, after taking into consideration his antecedents, and the high character given to him by his owner, that a sus pension of his certificate for six calendar months from the date of this inquiry would meet the merits of the case.—The certificate is forwarded herewith. —I have, &c, R. 0. JONES, Stipendiary Magistrate. We concur in this report. H. HAunts,} Nautical Assessors. W. ELTON, MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the London-road Station, Man chester ; Sir Edward Watkiu in the chair. An abstract of the report and statement of ac counts has already appeared. The CHAIRMAN, in moving their adoption. re marked that since the time, some years ago, when he recommended a lease of this concern to the Great Northern and' London and North- Wes' ern, they had steadily pursued what was ihe only re maining policy for the company, of so enlarging their system as to render it practically inilepen dent, and in the course of a year or two he hoped their whole system would be compLtted at Liverpool, Birkenhead, and Chester. Their capi tal account would then be in reality clo. , ed, it would remain for them simply to niax'truz) the earnings of the r district. In i:e cow. eof the past Lair year 110 new crt. , a,. , ,iie w s '.al b en entered into, the charge of which h a ".' capi , al; everything n ew h a d been elar,,edtioi' to re venue. As to the revenue account, he wished to cor rect a common error of calculators. This company performed every half-year about 500,000 locolue tive wiles for other companies, int very oft,to, in dealing with the earnings and expenses, instead of dividing these by the company's own mileage, people made the mistake of throwing in this extra million of miles per annum, and thus obtained re sults which were startling and absurd. He did nut regard either the dividend or the traffic of the half year as satisfactory, but every item of traffic had par ticipated in the increase actually realized. As re garded the current half-year he must remind them that they could nob expect to have results that would compare very satisfactorily with the first half of last year, because then the traffic took one of those sudden bounds which were observ- I able in railway traffic from time to time. A time of auch increase was usually succeeded by a stationary period, or one of some retrocession ; but in this country the tendency had been always towards increase. After giving particulars gof the increase of working expenses during the half year, he noticed the opening of the new North Eastern line to Hull, which would enable this company to work its traffic to that port by the alternative route of Doncaster and Thorne, without crossing the Humber ferry; and they hoped that their route, being now the quickest and the best, would carry the bulk of 'the traffic hereafter between the Manchester and Sheffield district and Hull. He then entered into explanations of the advantages of the proposed permanent structure of creosoted tim ber (to cost £5,400) to replace the pontoon at New Holland, which was destroyed in one of the severest gales ever known on that coast ; and he pointed out that all the materials of the old pontoon could be made use of in other necessary the lossrks. Aupshtho the other misfortune of the half-year, h estate of Mr. Pepper, he frankly admitted that they had been deceived in their trust, and that security should have been exacted from him, could the di rectors have been so wise as people proverbially were after the event. They hoped, fortified by the best legal opinion, to make good their hold upon the money uncollected by Mr. Pepper, which was due on the company's account, but to which the assignee , of the estate had also laid claim. Assutning—at the worst—that the divi dend of the estate should ultimately yield only ss. (instead of 10s., the latest estimate) in the pound, the company's loss was being written off at the rate of £lOO a week till the whole should be obliterated. They had already written off £l,BOO in this way, wbich left £5,500 still to meet, or—if the dividend should really be IW. under £3,000. _ The report was adopted, after a short discus sion, in which Mr. S. J. Roberts and Mr. Wyles animadverted upon the neghgence which they held the directors to have. lown iu regar , l to \lr. I ), •pper, and also complained of the loss upon the South Yorkshire lease and the new capital engagements. The CHAIRMAN pointed out, in reply, that whil e a loss might be made out on a narrow calcula tion of the separate working of each of the engagements comilained of, it was unfair to take this view of them, because they all swelled the total urofits of the cornpany'.i tnain line by acces sions of trdflie that could not have been obtained otherwise. The guaranteed dividends were declared, also a dividend of per cent, on the ordinary stock ; the retiring directors and auditors were re- cleetcd; and a proposal, opposed by Mr. Roberts and a few other gentlemen, was approved to vote £3OO a year to the sick fund of thc.company's servants. Thanks were voted to the chairman and directors, and the proceedings terminated. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) Sales probably 12,000 bales. The market was firm. v COT tit HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Jan. 26. The Queen was able to go out yesterday for a short time. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Christian, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice went out this morning. LATEST INTELL MENU' (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, Jan. 26. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1211 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 122 ; the lowest, 121 k. Sterling Exchange on London lo9f. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 ll6. 66 " 1885 llsk. 14 " 1867 ll4g. 10-40 LI Illinois Erie 23. Cotton —Mini. upland 2sjc. Petroleum —Standard 1V bite 3llc. Flour, extra state, $5.10c. to $5.70c. Corn, old mixed, sl.6e. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. President Grant has signed the Bill which ad mits Virginia to representation in Congress. Salnave, President of the Republic of Hayti, has been shot. PORTLAND, Jan. 26. Several Municipal delegations visited the Monarch iu the harbour to-day. The remains of the late Mr. Peabody will be transferred to the City Hall on Thursday. TORONTO, Jan. 26. Copies of the New Nation, the organ of the Red River insurgents, have been received here. They confirm the telegraphic accounts as regards their avowed political' purpose, being, in the first in stance, the establishment of independence, with a view of ultimate annexation to the United States. The New Nation says in reference to Canada :-- "We form a separate colony. People with diffe rent interest, and necessities have nothing in com mon with that people or its Government." The editor adds his opinion that the formation of a railroad communication with Canada would be almost irnpracticab!e, since capitalists would not undertake it. in conclusion, he quotes Colyer's alleged apocryphal memorial from British Columbia to President Grant as also applicable to the Red River settlements. BOMBAY MAILS. MESSINA, Jan. 27. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Delhi passed Messina at 9.30 p.m. yesterday en routs for Marseilles. MALTA, Jan. 26. The Bangalore leaves at 8 this evening for South ampton, where she may be expected about the 4th proxuno. Th , Syria, from Soutnamptou on the 15th inst., arrived at 3 and left at 7 p.m. on the 24th for Alex andria. ITA [.Y. ROME, Jan. 26. Nrgy, the Color:4 of the Antibes Legion; ,I to-diiy of oongedion of tilt: lung. Before he t•ipirthl he suiuinoned around him the oilleT,ri of the Legion, arid urged them to remain faithful to France and the Pope. FRANCE. PARIS, Jan. 27. The Official Journal of this morning publishes It circular of M. 011ivier, Minister of Justice, ad dressed to the magistrates throughout the country, wherein he states that any magistrate who shall offer himself for election to the Conseil General or the Municipal Council will be liable to be remoTed from his post. Advices from Creuzot state that M. Schneider has resolved not to dismiss any of the men from the works who have been concerned in the late strike. BOURSE, Jan. 26.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : Bank Shares ...., 2925 Italian Fives 56 10 Austrian Fives 65 50 Ottoman Loan 320 Do. Debt 44 20 Spanish Threes - Home Debt 23 Deferred — ...... Orleans ..... , Cash.97s Western ... Northern ll3O Strasburg ......... . 595 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6oB} Sardinian Austrian 7BO Lombard so6} North of Spain 6O Saragossa Roman —. 4i per Cent. lO3 50 3 per Cent End of month 73 60 Credit Mobilier ~ 2lO Transatlantic 2OO ( )redi t Foncier 1770 Paris Gas 1665 Suez Canal 337 50 RAILWA A report is current in Woolwich to the effect that the authorities have resolved upon doing away with the depot brigade Royal Home Artillery at Maid stone, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel G. V. Johnson, and consisting of two batteries, with the usual complement of officers and staff, comprising adjutant, paymaster, quartermaster, and surgeon. Should the report turn out correct, the batteries will most probably be removed to Woolwich. A committee, composed of the following officers Colonel HenryC. Fletcher, Scots Fusilier Guards, Lieutenant-Colouel H. Heyman, Royal Artillery, Department of Director-General of Ordnance; Captain tt. W. Haig, 7th Brigade, Royal Artillery; and Captain V. D. Majendie. Royal Artillery, Su perintendent, pro tem., Royal Laboratory Depart ment, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, are carrying on experiments in the small arms range, Royal Arsenal), to determine a suitable ammunition for long and short chambered Henry-Martini breech-loading fhe following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Lieutenaht John W. F. , ArVey, to the Resiscanee ;Lieuteua n t Th omas P. Net - slim'', to the Wivern ; Lieutenant Frederick Ed wards, to the Penelope ; Sub-Lieutenant Arthur C. Clarke, to the Pert; Navigating Lieutenant a nd Pilot Thomas Warr, to the Aboukir; Navigating Sub-Lieutenant Thomas M. Moffat, to the Pert; James N. Stanton, paymaster, to the Egmont; Francis I). B. Broughton, assistant paymaster in charge, to the Pert; and Edwin Theakston, assistant paymaster, to the Royal Alfred. The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent hnprovemeuts for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Messts. DUN VILLE & Co., who have gained a world-wide celebrity for their flna old Irish whisky, is to be called " The Royal Irish Distillery." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGZ. Morning. Evening. 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