The Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-30 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE-3xxiiAny 23. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) THOMAS V. THOMAS, Dr. Spinks and Mr. Prideaus were counsel for the petitioner. Mrs. Thomas charged her husband, Charles Frederick Thomas,. with adultery and _cruelty, and prayed for a dissolution of her marriage. They were married in November, 1847, and lived together at Bristol, where Mr. Thomas was then in business as a ship broker. In 1851 he became bankrupt and went to Havre, and MrS. 'Thomas joined him there in . 1852. Mrs. Thomas stated . that while they were at Bristol he was in the ,habit of coming home intoxicated late at night; and that he fre quently used bad langUage to her and struck her. During their stay at Havre his conduct was still more violent, and, after remaining with him for four months, she was unable to endure it any lon7er and went to Paris, taking.her daughter with her. She .obtained a situation in a private family, and supported herself and the child. In November, 1853, . her mother, Mrs.. Meredith, went to Havre, paid Mr. Thomas's debts, and brought him back to Bristol. He then lived at settle ale and porter stores, and became intithate with a woman named Hill. Mrs. Thomas returned to Bristol in 1854, and he was thsn living in adultery with Hill. He made several attempts to force his way into Mrs. 'Meredith's house to sec Mrs. Thomas, and on one oecasion effected. an entrance, behaved with great 's-ielente, and struck Mrs. Thomas with a poker. His Lordship granted, dvcree nisi, with costs, and gaga the "custody Of 'the 'child to the petitioner. NORitTS V. *Otitts AND LAWSON AND MASON, SPin)cs ttipipeared for the petitioner. • , MartinNeris, a fa rmer , li v i ng i n th e par i s h Of Kirk ((ale, in Yorkshire, was married to Ann Rav in March, 118 lb. 'hey lived tozether until 1851;anci Mr, Norris • . then discovered that she was carrying on an nailterons intercourse with a farm servant, named lohn Lawson. l lte separated from her and dismissed Lawson. Afew ! months 'afterwards he consented to allow her to return to the house, and they lived together until 1857. In that year she went to Australia with a labouring map named Mason, and is still living in that colony. Ibis Lordship granted a decree nisi, on the ground of the respondents' adultery ; but thought there was net sufficient evidence against Mason to justify the Court in including him in the decree Dr. Spinks asked for costs against Lawson. His Lordship said that the petitioner had condoned Lawson's adultery. The usual course was to grant costs against the adulterer because he had rendered. the suit 'necessary. As far as Lawson's conduct was concerned, the husbna. had waived his right to the suit. It was 'the wife's subsequent conduct which had rendered the suit ttettisary. He therefore refused to condemn Law 'Ron `ii. costs. CUELEY V. CUBLEY AND SMITH. The petitioner charged his wife with adultery, and prayed for a dissolution of his marriage. - Both the respondent and the co-respondent 'bad filed answers, charging the petitioner with cruelty. Dr. Phillimore, Q.C., and Dr. Tristram appeared for the petitioner; Mr. Best and Mr. Pater for the respon dent; Mr. Lloyd for the co-respondent. The petitioner was the landlord of the Tankard Tavern, in Walcot-place, Lambeth, and he married the respondent Susannah Cubley, in Septeinber, ,1816. They lived together until September, 1859, and had four 'children- In December, 1857, the co-respondent, Christopher Smith, went to live at the Tankard as barman. In September, 1859, Mrs. Cubley left her husband's house, and, as the petitioner alleged, had vinez, been living in adultery with Smith, at Sutton stroet, Lambeth. Several witnesses were called who had visited Mr. and Mrs. Gubley while they were living together, and who said that they seemed on very good terms, and that he behaved kindly to her. There was a defect in the evidence as to adultery and identity, and Hit Lordship illowed the case to stand over in order that It might be supplied. ROSE V. ROSE AND COKELEY, Dr. Tristram appeared for the petitioner. The marriage in this case took place in December, 1855, at a village in Staffordshire. The petitioner was described as a widower, aged 36, and the respondent, then Jane Hughes, was aged 27. It was proved that a few months after the marriage the . respondent was living with the correspondent. • His Lordship said he should like some further infor mation about the parties, and adjourned the hearing. BOYNTON V. BOYNTON. The petitioner in this case, Mrs. Boynton, had obtained a verdict that her husband, the respondent, lad been guilty of adultery and cruelty, and, the Court had thereupon decreed a dissolution of the marriage. A petition had since been presented for an order respect. ing the settlement of the property, and another for the custody of the child. • Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., appeared in support of Mrs. Boynton, to petition for an order as to the property. Dr. Spinks, for Mr. Boynton, suggested that it would be expedient to postpone the hearing of this petition until the other petition as to the custody of the child was ready for hearing. Mr. Macaulay said that if the hearing were postponed the Court might make an interim order as to the property. Before the marriage the wife had property, which pro duced an income of £575 a-year. By a post-nuptial settlement, two-thirds of the sum was settled to the separate use of the respondent, and one-third was settled capon Captain Boynton • for life. Upon the death of either the survivor was to have the whole for life. If, therefore, the lady died before an order was made, Captain Boynton would take the whole for life. The trustees of the •fund had, since the suit was instituted, transferred it to the Accountant -General of the Court of Chancery. The Judge O r dinary.—The Court o f Chancery has much greater facilities than I have for dealing with questions of this kind. Hawever, as the jurisdiction is' given to me, I must exercise it. If the Legislature find out that it is badly executed, they must transfer it. His lordship asked what the petitioner had called herself: , since the decree ? Mr. Macaulay said he did not know what nail? e she ought to tak e . The Judge OrclitiaryL-There is a diffi cu l ty about her resuming her maiden name ; for if a lady named "Miss" were to be seen walking about with a son, it !wild be rather awkward. the pet i t ion case was ulti mately ordered to stand over until petition aa-to-the custody of the child - was - ready for hearin g. ELLIOTT V. MLLIOTT. Mr. Collier, Q.C., and Mr. Hume Wi lliams 'app for the petiti oner . red Marian Elliott, the petitioner, was married 'to th respondent, Thomas William Elliott, in 1829. She the respondent, a teacher of music, and he was a chyrnist and druggi s t at Bristol. He was unsuccessful in business, and about removed to a year and a half after the marriag e th ey London. They both went .on the st,agte,elafansdt, wore engaged at the theatres of Edinburgh other places. They afterwards occupied a tavern at Bristol, called the Hole-in-the-Wall, and stayed there for five or six years. About 1840 they again came to London, and took a cigar-shop in Drury-lane. 111 rs. Elliott was also engaged as an actress at various minor theatres. Mrs. Elliott said that he,had lived a very pro- Iligata life during the whole period of `their cohabitation, and had Veen in' the hallit pf,,treating_.her with great unkindness, and had sometimes used violence. He had shaken her with such force that bruises were left upon 'her arms; he had threatened to cut her throat with a razor, and on one occasion he had pulled all the clothes off her bed just after her confinement. In the , early part of 1845, when she was acting at the Albert Saloon, he stood up by the orchestra, called out, " Ladies and gentlemen, look at that beauty; she is clever, isn't she ?" and called her a foul name. She fainted, the curtain was lowered, and she was , carried to her dress ing -room. Soon afterwards they agreed to separate, and have not since lived together. She has supported herself and her three children by managing the business of a hatter. He has been engaged at Astley's and at other theatres, and has for several years cohabited with a woman named Reed, by whom he has had children. The Judge Ordinary said the husband was no doubt a drunken profligate man, but he should take time to consider whether there was sufficient proof of cruelty to to justify him in granting a decree. RUMPIIRAT V. ILIYMPTIRAIr AND ABRAHAM. Dr. Tristram appeired for the petitioner, and Dr. Spinks for the respondents. The petitioner was a publican in the Vauxhall-bridge road. He became acquainted with the respondent in 1850, and cohabited with her until 185 G. They were then married, and continued to live together until March, 1858. They then separated, in cohsequence.of her intemperate habits, but he made her an allowance. About a year and a half after the separation he received information that she had been misconducting herself, he had her watched, and discovered the co-respdndent in her bedroom. The respondent pleaded .a denial of the adultery, aad recriminated, but no evidence was called on her behalf. De cree nisi granted, dissolving the marriage. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco, before liesticc Wightman, Crompton, Rill, and Blackburn.) r`c PARTE THE REV. MR. IlacniAw. Mr. Coleridge (with whom was Mr. Charles Russell) moved, on behalf of the Rev. Mr. Bagshaw, Roman Catholic clergyman, for a rule nisi directed to the guar dians of St. Luke's, Chelsea, calling upon . them to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue, com manding them, after due request once made, from time to time, and at reasonable times in the day, - tO allow the appli can t t o a ff ord instruction to the Roman Catholic inmates ofthe•workhouse, and to preach On one Or more days i n t h e week, their assembling at s ome convene i ent time and place within the workhouse, where the rev. i gentleman might be able to impart to th em due religious nst ruction. The applicant contended that the frequency of imparting religious instruction was a matter within the reasonable discretion of the minister, and what the applicant claimed was, that when a regular and formal _ _ request had been made to him in accordance with the la; by any inmate of the workhouse' for his spiritual instruction, that he (the applicant) might do so at any time under the reasonable restrictions fixed by the guar .dians, subject to the discipline of the workhouse, and not be required to wait for a Written request from the inmate to be sent through the master of the workhouse. Mr. Justice Wightman—A.s I understand, there has never been any refusal when a request .has been so made ? • Mr. Coleridge--Na. But on a specific occasion the applicant was refused. Mr. Justice Wightman--Then what he contends is, that at all reasonable times after the request has been made, he' may go to the workhouse and give religious instruction generally ? . Mr. Coleridge said the number of Roman Catholic inmates in Chelsea Workhouse varies from thirteen in the summer to sixty in the winter, and it Was found impossible to deal with them separately. The applicant therefore wished to deaf with. them together, abd he - requested that the hall, *bleb Was used by the clergy- Man of the Church 'of England, might be placed at his disposal, at least one night a week, where he might collect those belonging to the Roman Catholic com munion, and give them religious instruction and assistance. Mr. Justice Crompton: I think we have no right to say what shall be done, or what had better be done. The words of the statute apply to a partienlar and in dividual inmate. Is it to be said that every member of a religions denomination has a right - to . go to it Week_ house and hold a meeting of the hictlthetg of his per sAasion Mr. Coleridge Said toter was given to the guardians to adMit to the Workhouse the ministers of the religious persuastoOf the inmates. Mr.-Justice Wightman: What authority have we to grant a miaiedamus for the use of a particular room in the workhouse' on a partidular night, and thereby inter fere with the:regulation's for the control and ifianage ment of the workhoase? Mr. Coleridge said A long Correspondence had passed with the hoot-law neard, and that all parties had been informed of this application. Mr. Justice Crompton asked if the old Conventicle Act had been repealed, and what would be its effect, if 'not repealed, in this case ? Mr. Coleridge said that both Lord Cranworth and Lord Campbell, when Attorney and Solicitor-General, were of opinion that ministers of religious deiromina lions"dould'give ceilettiVe religious instrnetiotr in hottses, • Mr. Justice Crompten---1 won't soWse we should hear of convictions under the t nnventicle Act. I have heard of them in my ti., h, but I hope I shall never hear of them again. Mr. Cel s ridge said it could not be said, on the part of the authorities, that this would be an interference with the internal arrangements of the workhouse. It was, permitted to the members of the Church tof ngland, and it was allowed to the Thernaa ei'...tholies two years ago—the use of the hall for orrt flight a week. In this workhouse the Ron ran Catholics were not permitted to have the use of 'a single religious book belonging to their:• faith;. They were all stopped at the gate. Yustice Wightman : Was any reason given for its discontinuance ? Mr. Coleridge----No. Mr. Justice Crompton: What authority have they . for withholding these religious books? Surely the Poor laW Board ha's made no such order? . Mr. Coleridge said he did no t knot. 'tie Poor-law Board had /decided in . the applicant's favour; but the guardians contended that the roor-law Board had no right to interfere with their discretion, They . said that when a.m(nister was requested by any of the inmates he was sent for, and that was. in -compliance with - the Act. The .applicant Was attached to the Roman Catholic 'chapel outside the parish,•and that there was one within the parish. • The Roman Catholic bishop bad allocated this work to the applicant, and the guardians, 1.4 if to personally exclude this gentleman, had passed O. Itsoltt tion, in August, 1860, that no minister' of h congregation without the parish .shOuld he Arratted. • . Justice Wightman. said that was no ground for the interference of the court: Mr. Coleridge said the applicant asked for two things —first, to be allowed to attend the children in instructing them in the catechism, , &c., of the Church of Rome, and, secondly, to give religious assistance to the adults the same as was 'permitted to the Church of t nglatid clergymen. After some further dimeusinn, Mr. JusticeWig,hinnn said the learned cognsel might take a rule calling upon the guardians to show cause why they should not admit him, but not upon the points of their setting apart a room for him and for collective instruction of.the inmates. Rule granted accordingly. M.Y PARTS ST. AUBYN V. Tit BISHOr Or METER. Mr. Bullar moved for a rale, nisi, .calling upon the Bishop of Exeter to render: au account of his receipts of the applicant's living, which was '.under seluestrati6n, rendered necess ar y i n co nsequence of Certain Wiens hu this c'ourt.' Rule granted. EQUITY COURT.—YESTERDAY. Before Vice-ChancellOr Wood. . , 'THAYER V. LISTER.-- , --TILE JUDGMENT. . This suit, our readers will recollect, was instituted fot the purpose of obtaining a decree of the court that the defendatzt'Liiter, as public officer _of tire: Union Bank of Liverpool, might make good to the plaintiffs the amount: received nit respect of" taro bills of exchange ; of £5,000 and a,OOO, in order that the same minlit be aiinhed r, • t repayment to the plaintiffs of the amount 15aid by them n taking up'acceptances of Train and . Co., of Liverpool. The Tice-Chancellor, in giving judgment; 'said he considered that the bills gi'ven by plaintiffs were specifi cally appropriated to Meet the .£7,9.79 acceptances of Trairpand Co., and that they were taken' by the Union Rank with the knowledge that s,uch r - wasrthn fact. There win& conseutiently be a declaration in the terms now .asked for. The question of costs must &pond iiPon the question whether anything upon the ulti mate taking of accounts and imoiries, would be found due to . theAilaintilfs.; 3.t hag been said thAt t i he :arrangement • operated to.the disadvantage pt . trediterS. That, however; was a questien' which 'could only be con sidered in a suit by the assignees:et the two firms of Train & Co. ' .and. L. Train Co.; and, inasmuch as the assignees h a d shown no ir.tt , ntion of setting up that claim.; . there was no 'riht on the part o f any particular creditor to. avail_ himself ...Of it._ - - , . kILITARY IMPROVEMENTS IN FRANCE.—The.Minis ter' of War, among other improvements in the baggage train attached to an army on cempaign, proposes to add a company of muleteers, such as have •beea employed in Algeria since the conquest of that colony. Mules are remarkable for being sure-footed. They will conse quently render great' service in following the artily through footpaths •impracticable for carts. The mule teers, although wearing the uniform , of the waggon 'train, are to be armed as infantry wieners, and not, as is generally the . custom, like cavalry. The militag.com rnissioners appointedlo assist at the trial which is being made at Vincennes with several newly-invented rifled cannon are constant in their attendance. A report is to be made to the Emperor on the subject.. It is said that the commissioners find some difficulty in deciding on the relative mer it s o f cannon loaded at the mouth and those loaded at the breech. The last' system is preferable in theory, but the French engineers find that in . practice it presents serious difficulties. .FRIGHTrUL SUICIDE ON TRH SOISTIt-WtSTERN RAILWAY. —On Monday evening Mn 3*. H. Todd, county coroner for Hampshire, and a respectable jury, assembled at the hoUse of Air D ett the Red Lion Inn, at Totte n , near Southampton Y to investigate ' the circumstances. atte . riding the death of Wm. Bound,, whose remains had been found on Setu day fearfully mangled by the wheels of a train,on the i line of the Bentham ptop. and Dorchester deuce of the 'London and -Western Railway. E showed that 'deceased had thrown himself on the rails Bound was 64 or 65 years of age. Ile was formerly .a.farmer at Dibden, in be wife,a rt ._ v i n g . t p i nrioble:r. ut n a n tt i e e rl t y i le had obtained the New Forest • much upon his ' i l' i b e t m alit ar e rled a a li t v h in iA . noticed that he a This h l ad u o preyed ed a drunken and dissipated woman. mind. His family bad. Saturday moreinple.ored iquite brokenhearted ; and on drink, and to reque s t 'his one of his sons not to He was erring when he brothe r to be temperate also. coroner, having summed left his son ploughing. • The' melancholy case, the _ ti ll') the evidence adduced in this deceased hmi destroy 3d ry returned a• verdict that the . e himself • • state of mind. while in an unsound RAILWAY TRAVELLING, Th tent condition, in order tat e first and most impor rendered as approximately safe travelling may be nearest possible approach toperfection as sible, is that the and preserved in the permanent Wa hould be attained necessary since the speed of train. This is essential and since the development of co s became hassledineae to the employment of heavier rniomeercial traffic motives, and the more frequent passage of trains 04 of railway. It is a condition difficuloturoprions lines not only from the necessity of adapting the form and weight of the rails to • tha very corm lea andf varying services which they may be called on to also because; from the very nature of the caPseer a orm, but cannot be constructed , with equally good Curv r e a s ilwaY gradients throughout it s ent i re length. Therefore,and I even supposing the mere j o i nts and rails to be equally trustworthy .at every pl ace , th e roadway may, and necessarily_does, , admit of various degrees :if excellence according to the physical, character of t h e country through whichit passes. Hence it arises. tbata velocity of travelling which would be perfectly safe over one portion of a line may be very dangerous over another. But it may generally be assumed ,that time-tables are arranged with due reference to the demands of public safety; and it may be taken for granted that, except when engine -drivers disobey orders, or attempt to make up for lost time at unsuitable and unsafe places, the permanent way is everywhere sufficient for local maxima of speeds, and perfect within those maxima for all prac tical purposes. Very f ew ra il way accidents arise now adays from defects in the roadway. Some years ago, Captain Iluish, a railway manager of long experience, stated his belief that "fewer accidents to, life and pro perty arise from the road than from any other. cause:; and were casualties confined to those attributable to the ;way, the annals of railway accidents would be scanty in ,the extreme." But the freedom from accidents of this class should be taken rather as evidence of the safe support afforded to locomotives and carriages in rapid motion by twO,parallel lines of iron, than as proof that the best possible form and weight of rails for the services - required have been ascertained, or that the best possible modes of supporting them and of rendering them con tinuous have been'. arrived at. And without referring here to the increased dangers of collision introduced by . • passenger and commercrnl traffic over the carrying on. same roadway, •it - may, 'I , think, ' be "Stated • that the reqiiirements of the two services are different, and might.be advantageously met, whenpier practicable ? by the establishment of separate roadWays,fos the convey ance of . goods and passengeks.:=-FrOm " Temple Bar". for February. . ~y~~----- -., ~~,, -- IMPORTANT - MEE! ING OF TiiE - CITY OF LONDON CLERGY. A general meeting 'of the beneficed elt!rg's or the City and Archdeatottry of London, was held on Friday last in the great hall of Sion College, London-wall, in con sequence of the following requisition addressed to the president :—"Dear Mr. President,—We, the undet signed-felloiVs of Sion College; alarmed At the public profession of infidel ministers of the Church of England, request a meeting of the fellows to . consider the best course to be adopted by the clergy in reference to this matter. (Signed) Aletander M'Caul, tech* of St. Magnus ;" and by most of the principal "clergy. The meeting, Whith Was Very ntlineroWly attended, was presided oVer'hy the Rev. J. V. Pevah, M.A., rector of St. Anne's, Aldersgate. Before . the commencement of the day'S business, the Rev. T. J. Rowse% who has recently been nominated by the Bishop of London to the rectory of St. Margaret's, Lothbury, pro tested against the word "infidel" being applied to a body of ministers Of the Chiiroh Of Etiglaiid, and shortly after Wards left thb Vribetiiig, in botiipaliy with one or two other clergymen holding similar views. The Rev. Dr.-MiCaul, after pointing out the dangerous ten dency of the "Essays and Reviews," of which certain clergymen - of Oxford are the .principal authors, moved an address to the Bishop of London, calling his atten tion to the, subject, and to the necessity of some steps being adopted by the rulers' of the Church of England to stem the tide of infidelity setting in, .and which Was all the .more dangetotis trdeeeditig tioni enemies front 'ge'ntlemen helding high spiritual and edneatiokl odices in connection with the E=tablishal dhilrch of the country. The motion having been se conded, an amendment was moved which differed only. in unimportant matters from the triginal resolution.: It was carried ; the result being an address to the Bishop of London unanimously. condemning the "Essays and Reviews." It was agreed that his lordship should be requested to fix a day for receiving the clergy, With a view to the presentation of the midterm'. RECORDER OF LONDON ON INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. In addressing the grand jury on Monday last, the Recorder of London said he could not help remarking that it was a most gratifying fact that there should be so .few prisoners committed for trial at the present session. Ile thought there,mas ith doubt that this dtate f things was chiefly attribkitahle fti the pi-ekviiae measures that had ita6t4 been adoOtedy gild that these measures Were ii'ok 'beginning to have their effect, and that tills "More particularly applied to the cases of juvenile offenders, the number of which class of crimi nals had. most materially decreased. It appeared by returns that had recently been made from the city of London that down to recent period the number of pri sonerS brought to the Mansion tiouse, tinder Sitteen years of age, NVIIO YVtrd Ch7k,ro 'Nfitit felony, had been steadily and three years back, during a 'Period of one year no fewer than ISO prisoners of that class were taken into custody upon charges of felony. Since that period the number of prisoners of this descrip tion had gone on regularly decreasing, and, during the last year, they only amounted to between siktY and seventy; and this fatty it appeared to him ; 'contd onl4r be accounted for 1) - ,7 the remedial infitience of the refortiiatol•ies and industrial wheel's thitt hlitt recently been brought into THE PRINCE OF WALES IN THE HUNTING .PIELD. Hii Royal Highness the Prince of Wales joined the field of the Cambridgeshire hunt on Monday s attended by his equerry, Captain Grey, The 'tlicet . Was at Childerley ; in the Viemity of i‘tad,ingleV, Mid it boiige tinence of a iiimotir tot abroad that tbe Prince *as littelY o be Vesent, the held was a very numerous tme. The Lord-Lieutenant (the Earl of Hardwicke) and his son were present, and the University supplied a goodly. quota .of attendants. A find was made at .Honey-hill. Reynard made straight for Madingley, but turned .at the pleastire ground, - and went batk throigh tira, - ton. to Knapwelb.gtove• 'hint tlieike to liok worth. Itere the htiifcd fbi as left in some firm buildings, the hounds getting on the line of a fresh one, which, however, bad been gone some time, and went in a circuitous course towards Childerley, in the neighbourhood of which they were called off without a kill. In the fore patt of .thb day the pace was tremoid6s, Coiisidering the heaviness of "o entry ;of both some idea play be formed from the fact that two horses were.killed. Altogether it was a very fair day. His Royal Highness rode *ell ap, and took his.fencea gallattlY And Well: VeGITIVE SLAVE, ANDERSON. On the 10th instant, says the Toronto Globe, the fugi tive slave Anderson was given into the custody of Sheriff Smith, for the purpose of being conveyed to Brantford Gaol to await the action of the courts. Sheriff Jarvis has hid the to hand Anderson over to the Brantford authorities in-his poss'essioli for gouge three Weeks bast, but delayed potting it in foiCe iii Vikl AElrtttsoit Might reqn?ed tO,getend t+cibre the courts in Toront o . A eb\ - reslibniMit ot the Times writes :—" t have read a 'letter addressed to You by Mr. Joseph Nelson, stathig that it would be impoSsible to bring the negro John Anderson through the British provinces until the open ing of the navigation in the St. Lawrence, except on snow shoes through a wilderness of 400 miles in extent This statement is entirely crrontoliS.. 'th'ere is ftii excellent post . rod all the ray rr - aii Al. Sohn, New Brunswick, touelicc, and there would not be the least dfillekilty in bringing John Anderson from the latter to the former place in four or five days, even at this season of the year; and when at St. John, which harbour is never frozen, he could he put on board,a ship for Liverpool, there being constant communication be tween those ports. Your correspondent is 'also quite wrong as to the dense wilderness ) as there nit several flourishing towns growing IT arih beautiful settlements . nearly the whole i&tance,, besides telegraphic 'wires, and e. letter pest is established bet Ween the aboYe men , tioned places twice n week. In 'corroboration 'of this statement I beg to say that the lith, 4d , and several other regiments of infantry tOtit 'float wattled to Quebec by that retire in 18E, and even should it be desirable to save time, Sohn Anderson could be forwarded from St. .tohn to Halifax (part of the way by railway), and from Halifax by steamer to Liverpool. MR. AND MRS.. CHARLES KEAN AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE: ( Rom. tYle TiWies There is no expression of atithlisiatill with respect to matters theatAeal that tan equal the thunders emanating froth an Wince filling one of those old "large houses" that were once associated with all . the triumphs of legitimate_ acting. Last night, when Mr. Charlei Lan commenced his engagement at Drury-lane, the theatre 'bore an aspect that really reminded one .of old times. It is long since we have seen that apparently boundless pit, those swifts boxes, those ti-6 galleries all burst forth into enthusiastic life at the patfotmance of a Shalsperean :tragedy. Itr, i harles Lan, whose nine years' managrernttit of the Princess's Theatre must have acenstoMed him to see approbation confined within a comparatively small space, must himself have been astonished at the vast mass of humanity he moved into boisterous applause. Pit, boxes, galleries alla those Modern innovations called "stalls" Were tramrne: l ) and all joined , in such a welcome of Mr, end Mrs. keen when, after their long absence, they made their first entrance on the stage, that a novice in the piofe.ssion, would have been utterly swept away by the too favour able, gale of approbation. Indeed, with Mr. Charles 'Kean himself it seemed a question whether the play would be allowed to proceed or not. There he stood, "in the trappings and the suit of woe," ready to manner forth his discontent at being "too much i'tha situ," but the audience held him fast till ha haLreceived his full measure of greeting. hamlet would do very well in ten minutes or so ; the public insisted . on welcoming • Charles Kean himself. which held him down, Mr. K ean se t a b ou t hi s repre sentation fairly r e l ease d f rom th e b ur d en o f a ppl ause , -of Hanzlet with a degree of freshness and vigour whieh must have astonished even those who were most familiar with his pouttrayal of that great and peculiar character. That Mr. Charles Kean is the Hamlet of his time, that having identified himself with the part at the commencement of his career, in 1838, he has gone on imprOving it till he has brought it to an elaborate ideal not to be found on the modern stage, is Well known to the many persons who, during his manage ment of th e Princess's Theatre, contrived, if possible, to see his frontlet o nce i' year as a matter of duty. But the su r p r i s i ng matter last night was the thorough youth fulness----we may almost say alacrity—of his manner. Mr. Kean's influence on his audience was of a kind that i s not, o ften witness e d now. H ence i t i s not at all improbable th at many adults in the gallery witnessed "Hamlet"- for 'th e ' first time, and this opinion is eon firmed by the circumstance that many exclamations of pleasant surprise followed speeches and incidents which" have long ceased t o arrest the attention of the more sophisticated portion of the public. By taking the part of Gertrude, usually avoided by actresses of the highest class, Mrs. Charles Kean gives great' weight to the cast, and her fine delineation of terror and contrition in the closet scene is alone suffi cient to constitute an attraction. Miss Chapman is a graceful'and ladylike Ophelia. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kcan arc engaged to play every evening without respite. LEEDS MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—There is a little un pleasantness arising from the question whether Bradford choral singers should be engaged by the Leeds committee for the festival to be held in that town in the autumn. It is asked, if the Leeds choral body are sufficient in number, why seek elsewhere r Perhaps that is a very fair and rational question ; but if additional voices arg, required, where are th e y s o li kely to ' be found as Bradford ? 7.7 ' IRELANITi. TitE balijitE MURDER AT .110*A611414: The adjourned inquest in reference to the murder of the brothers Shaw 'has been resumed. NO further evidence was forthcoming against the parties arrested on suspicion, and they hake been, daciirdinglyi discharged front Custody, A.,reward is now offered for the diseokery of the iiitirdeteit. , ILLICIT DISTILLATION IN DONEGAL • 'the Aroi•therri Whig says i— "iristaneles are dailj , dectirririO dt the increase of illicit distillation, owing to the high price of spirits but, thanks to the vigilance and activiTof the police, the attempts of the smugglers. to defraud the revenue arc generally unsuccessful. On the. 23rd of each month there is a fair held in Milford, at which the police of the surrounding stations always, attend, and thus the smugglers are secure for at least 24 hours; but on last fair day constable M l Donagh, in charge of Iterrykeel station, only went halt way to Milford; and thus, the cotiritrY People; be, with Sub-OonStables Marloir and fionatici iiroieeded by a eircUitOns route to Knockalla Mountain, where they succeeded iii dis covering an extensive illegal distillery artfully concealed, and at full work, in a cliff overhanging Lough Swilly; and before many minutes these dreaded officers of justice had committed at least £lO worth to the flames." ATTEMPTED:IIIIS4MR . ANij ARSON BY iiitickAiAktii, Another most diabolical attempt was made on the part of turn-out brickmakers, to take away the life of a - master brickmaker, and set fire to his house, because of a refusal to comply with the demands ;of the turn-out brickmakers in the Ashton district. Sergeant Bamford, of.the Ashton-under-Lyne borough police, reports that about fifteen minutes vast two o'clock on Saturday Morning, he reteiVed infortriation front Mr: John kirk, bric:it.maket, 4e§slcy Road; that, lie was. awoke about half-past. One the tiatiie Morning, by hearing a reliert as if some fire-arms had been discharged into his bUtise. He immediately arose and ran into his front bedroom. The room was full of smoke, and on searching he found the fragments of two glass bottles which had contained naphtha, the floor being considerably stained by naphtha. He also found,a pint stone bottle full of coarse gun powder, and a fusee •on the top, fastened with a cork. These Implements of Intended destruction had been throtth thtbligli, th,t front phattlbet *,iticlo*: About fifteth stiiiares of glass are broken in the front and bedroom, but most fortunately no other damage was done. The watchman had not seen- anyone lurkiiig • about, and the policeman on that beat had only left just previously to this most diabolical attempt. These continued outrages are causing great consternation in the locality. THE DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1861. FRANCE. THE GREAT BONAPARTE CASE. M. Alton cominendeci ,his repll to M. gerryer as follows i "I think that even after the brilliant and impassioned speech which has just been delivered, I am juttified in stating that the action brought against my client by the Paterson family must appear hopeless even to my learned opponent: There are adtions brought forward, pot with any hope of redress ; hut with a view of ereating; a sen- Sittilin- - --to gi+enn opportunity to a brilliant and powerful adboeate to diag Intd the light matters xithicl may be thought disagreeable to his Political adieisaries: The present is one of these cases. So be it. Prin&.llapjolcon, Is willing to, appeal to public opinion, and avails him: self of the opportunity offered him to refute the. many rumours connected with the union of his father with Miss Paterson." After describing the commencement of the late Prince feroine f s ndlal career ; the learned advocate proceeded as follows i— " lle (the Prinee) arrived in Baltimore in 18d8. Nov Baltimere; the eaPital of Maryland, has no affinity with New England 4 the austere cdonY founded by the Pilgrim Fathers. On the smiling bas of the Potomaa; fanned by the tepid breezes of the South, Maryland, which the fierce Puritans of the North called a Sodom of impurity, was more relaxed, more fascinating in its manners and customs. It was in this province, amidst all ihb secliiCtiOns Of a refined but somewhat dissipated society, that the yotifig taint lletitendrit; then only 19 years of age, and the more ready to suc;ciiniV id those seductions which his naval career had long deprived him of, met with Miss Paterson. Nor did he meet her naturally, in society. ' No, he was introduced to the Patersons by one Mr. Burney, at whose house he lodged, notwithstanding the caution of the French Minister, M. Pichou, who wrote to inform him of the unfavour able reports affecting the character of his host. It was this Mr. BuriiOY who inttodticed Jerome Bonaparte to the Patcrions." • •• M. Alion then brie'ffy,rel4cd the h iStork of die marriage, &Veiling On the efforts of M:Piehon to prevent it. His version does lid differ from that of M. Berryer. He then went on "The first transports of the lovers over, they disco vered the very serious position in which they had placed themselves. Notwithstanding the negotiations com menced by Jerome for the recognition of his wife by his family, notwithstanding his prayers and supplica tions; fir:ll6o and brother remained • inflexible. Every mail-from France broilgtt Nett thregtsand fresh menaces. The First Consul, having assumed the frupe rial purple, at length sent an - officer to the States to order M. Jerome Bonaparte to return immediately to France, and leave his wife behind him." M. Allou described how, notwithstanding this order, le M: ,Ter6ttie!' killed for Lisbon with his Wife, but she was not allowed to cr:+itig to the following letter from the Emperor to the Mi nister of Marine : "M. Jerome has arrived at Lisbon. Mdlle. Paterson, his mistress, is to proceed to Bordeaux by sea. Send orders that she is net to get pratique. She must not be allowed to land, and iiitiarate that at whatever point of France or Holland she ieeitS to disembark, she tfill riot be admitted to 2iratique, as it is expedient she should return to America: As for that officer (i. e. Serome), have ordered hini .to join travelling Barce lona, Toulouse, Grenoble, and Milan; lie is to be arrestedif he does not keep that route.; M. Allou then went on— • "In the Texel 111dme. Paterson found the same orders—thus the young woman, as a modern Latona, was driven from land to land, with the burthen 'Aker davhing ffidttrnity,i pursued by the imPlaeable anger_of a terrible deity. She foiind ati ds3htttl frt England!' He next described the accouchment of Mciriie: Bonaparte, and proceeded to refer to the decree annulling the marriage (quoted by M. Berryer) and the interview between Jerome and the Empe ror ; he quotes the letter (read by M. Berryer) ordering him to disavow his wife, dated the 16th Floreal. ft itmiki. Jerome held out a little, but twelve days later—l quote from tfie giieeett of M. Allow "On the 28th the reconciliation was complete ; the Emperor wrote to Decres— " 'Monsieur Dccres,—M. Jerome has arrived. Mdme. Patersop,, his wife j has returned to America ; he has acknowiedgbd , his ei•ioi.; dige(l4lV thal person for his wife ;he promises wonders. I have sea En/ to Genoa,' &c. " The words Madame Paterson,' and disowned that per i son for his wife,' are in red ink in the original, and written in in Emperor's pint hand. The Emperor stated in this letter that he had seiit Screrne to Genoa— in fact, desirous to provide, by active employment, best remedy for his brother as ambassador to the Day of Algiers. Jerome fulfilled his mission with success ; he brought back 2.50 captives, and passed on his return to Genoa under an arch of flowers inscribed to the youngaud . ViddyiditS sun of Neptune," • M. slliiu filch 6cirihnehted u the correspon dence of Prince Jerome with. his wife, Mtidaittb Paterson, quoted by M. Berryer ; he says nothing of Prince' Napoleon's unlucky note, and simply denies tint Prince Jerome ever had the idea, •in inviting her to Westphalia, to place her in the position of his mistress: He describes the letters as a aireCtioisale and, /internal!' Tattching the legitimady of M. iitiriciParte l That . the marriage was effectually quashed by the Imperial decree, and by the sentence of the Vficia/W—the fact of the second marriage with the Princess of Wurtemberg shows that the first marriage was null and void in the eyes of religion. 2nd: That want of consent of the parents invali dated the Marriage a Bath Prince . Jerome and Miss Paterson were well aware of what they were doing, the French Consul having proved to them that they were flying in' the teeth of the law. M. Allots said : " For hi. Bonaparte there was this .excuse—he was ardent, desperately' in loi;e, i;eik Unreflecting, and only nineteen! Miss Paterson was twenty-three. She v4t.'4' perfectly Self-possessed. She belonged to a society, where the mind, even that of women, is firmly knit, amid the bracing, atmosphere of constant liberty and independence. Tocqueville te'ls us that .we must net expect to find among American maidens that candour and ingcnuousuesl that accompany In Europe the dawn of ii;oMarihobd, is tliat they are tonStantly self-possessed, and never allow the-reins-of , to escape their grasp, however loosely they may seem to be held. Was she seduced, fascinated ? Was she ignorant of the.dangors she was exposed to. No such thing.. It is reported that she exclaimed, So that I am his wife fur twenty-four honri I will run the risk. '" Mr. Allow then quoted the following letter which M. Pichou wrote to Mrs Paterscui (her father) :• - •4 " Georgetown, October 28, 180. " Sru,-111. .ThrOme Bonaparte having informed me that he was on the point of contracting a marriage with your daughter, I think it my duty to inform you that I am assured by the present law of France, such a mar riage cannot be validly contracted without the formal consent of the mother of M. Bonaparte, who is living ; a Frenchman cannot marry without the Consent of his father and mother, and in default of them without that of a family council before he is 26, arid eteti after that age he must prove • that he has applied for such consent. There are also other formali ties required by the. French law as to marriages of Frenchmen abroad which cannot be performed by 1 1 / 4 1. Bonaparte, and the *Edit of which may cause the validity of the marriage to be disputed ; but I shall dispense with them, the conditions of age opposing to that of M. Bonaparte an insurmountable obstacle. I thought,, monsieur, that I ought to formally make this known to you, as'l do by this letter, in order that you may not be in ignorance of those conditions which may have a very Considerable influence on your relations, as well as on the projected union." On the 4th of January; 1804; in a letter to M. de Talleyrand, M. Pichou, alluding to his conduct in this affair, said— " Everyone regarded the marriage as broken off, when it was conchided, M. de Maupertuis, a relative of Mdme. Bonaparte, whom he (Jerome) met at New York, and whom he brought with him, not having had any influ ence over his determination. The relations of the young lady are, I think, reprehensible. I felt uneasy when I saw that after having made her quit Baltimore at the moment when the first project was broken off, she was allowed to come back just at the very moment when M: Jerome Bonaparte arrived there. This arrangement was certainly brought about by their mutual correspondence, and the relatives, particularly Mr. Paterson, who were opposed to the marriage, ought to have prevented it. It is said that the young lady was as decided as M. Jerome, and that it•was necessary to consent to the marriage to avoid a scandal. I think those circumstances are very probable, but it is not the less true that Mr. Paterson, and all the relatives of the young lady, among whom Were Mr. Smith "and Mr. Nicholas, a senator, were informed by me of the state of the French laws, and they ought from that considera tion alone to have opposed a decisive and effectual resistance." M. Allou then went on to say : " You see, gentlemen, in contempt of what warnings the 'marriage was celebrated. It took place with the most profound secresy ; it was accomplished in the "Shade, after the promise made to M. Pichou that it should not take place after a sudden return succeeding to a precipitate departure, which appeared to show that a rupture had taken place." The learned advocate then. quoted the example of the Duke de Berry, who, married a Mrs. Brown in England, lived with her for ten years, and during whose life—he having afterwards disowned the marriage —was united to the mother (""" t . _ ---_-~ • • - Or 1 enri Cinti—as a case in point. tie thtelt at great length on the "'reelarnatinri" . of Madame Letitia, which, lie contended; rendered the mar iiage void- «b initio. He then rifeeeeded to de ; scribe the litigation before the 6onsed cue ftintille, arid tthreh l ided " eir r htoe now the whole case before you, But, repeat, it is it'd :!•tiyir justice that is appealed tol I: is Public opinion it is wished to' rid 'npon. I have. understood it so, out endeavoured to lay the case plainly before you: ,I hope 1 have not in any way misrepresented the attitude of the illustrious person I represent in this case. Prince Napoleon has never, in this case, evinced any bitterness, any irritation, still less any anget. He preserves in his • inmost heart, pure,-in ',notate, respected; the hallowed memory of his mother: He repeis . As insult to his mother the pretentions brought forWurd in ih'e *Uri% of another' wife, and it is a sacred duty for him to cld so. Th'a'tis the motive which aottuite.s him. And if I 'readily AcknoWithe that ptctrniary questions have nothing to do with the claim I air now opposing; I wish it to be known that they are equally remote from influencing our opposition. Let equitable mint pronounce. It is impossible not to remain con vinced that if tire form in which the nullity of the 'marriage Was pronounced derive a somewhat exceptional character from the position of fire yeting naval officer, *ho receiied sortie portion -of his brother's gleriti the great prineiples of morality, justice, and local laws have in no way been Infritured i and, to express all in one word, if there has been any change in V. 10.: jurisdiction, nothing has taken place which clashed in any way With the dietatei of justice.." The Course rose at the conclusion of the learned gentieriiaree address, and adjourned till Friday next, on which day i is supposed judgment will be given. ATT6IPTED AIbRhER iN LUDLOW. At Ludlow, on Saturday evening, a murderous attack was made upon a man named Joseph Phillips. It appears that PhillipS cohabited with one Caroline Breakwell, their place of abode being in St. Mary's lane, Cloire•sttetit: Abed tWelfe o ; clotit oti Satifday night, a *aim named Preece, a neighbour, heard cries of murder issuing froth the Cottage occupied by sh'e sajr tbe girl lireakiVell and a mail nathed John Gittins through the doorway, and hastily decamp. Preece entered the premises, observed Phillips lying in a pool of blood by the fire-place, and at once,raised an alarm. :Medical assistance being obtained, it was found that the poor fellOw had received several severe wounds on his face and neck, presenting a frightful spectacle. There was a tretnelidntls gash attoss his cheek; ari incision just beneath Eliefelt ej , e, a eerioila cut Veto* thb jaW, and other minor injuries. The police were communicated with, and they commenced an active search for Break well and Gittins. The former they speedily captured, but the latter is still at large, notwithstanding that every effort has been made to discover his retreat. The woman was taken before the borough magistrates on Mon4ay, dtid,teniatidedi iio etideride then being Uttered. Phillip§ lies it a precarious Ake, hilt , iheie are hopes of his ultimate recovery. At present he has not been able to give any, account of the matter ; but the female in custody asserts that he struck her directly he entered the house, and that that was the cause of the attack which was made upon 'him. Throughout Sunday crowds of people tisityd the place where, the rounded man lay, antioits to glean particUlars of the fa affair. THE RECENT OUTBREAK BY CONVICTS AT *CHATHAM. Since thb investk;ktipti. held lid Captain Gtimbier, at the Chatham Convict Prison, and the punishment and removal from that establishment to .111illbank and Pen tonville of several of the ringleaders in the late mutinous 'outbreak, not the slightest symptom of any fresh dis turbance by the convicts has presented itself, the severe punishment inflicted on the leaders in the late mutinous dornittet, having had the effect of tilting the inmates of the establishment into order ntid oliedienee: • Thb Pre taiitieti of hating the guards doubled day and night, which was taken by Captain Powell, the governor, is no longer required, and last Sunday, instead of the whole of the warders and guards being required to be on duty; as on the previous Sunday, a certain number were permitted to have their accumstomed holiday. In . addition to the three notorious eon , viets, noyle, 'Durant, and White, who *pit last Week reeleed . td relitoraiil6 and Milbank by other of Captain Gambier, 14 other convicts • were also sent. from Chatham to London last Week. The punish ment to which the leaders in the late disgraceful out breaks will be subjected will be most severe. Each convict before being sent to Chatham has to gd through a certain probation, varying in time, at either Penton vine or Milbank. At both these establishments the discipline :,is most rittd, tire ititaeSt sit'e'ae being nkaletained, and the human voice 'Scarcely ever heard by the convicts, excepting during Divine service. The separate system. is also carried out in all its - inte grity. This punishment bas been found to be the one most dreaded by the convicts; many of there having been heard to deiilate tlie,ttheir 47Otild gtsidl firef'er death itseit to their term of probation at Pentonville and Millbank. The convicts ordered to be sent back to • those establishments • will be required to go through their probation once more, in addition to which they will be reduced to the lowest class and forfeit all their privileges. There aro still several other notorious characters who were mixed tip iti the lath dis orders waiting- the order to ttitik ip.tittattO iibstitiation and •PhtiiThiKe4, Aftlithigh the disturbances by the . deinVicts have altogether ceased, yet individual attacks on the warders still occasionally occur. On Sunday Morning last, just before the time for attending divine service; a eonviet named Ledger made a murderous assault on one of the warders named Haylar. The warder in the course of his duty had to speak to Ledger respecting something, when the latter turned upon him .a4d....dealt. him a formidable blow in, the. face; -which irlstantlY. bionglit hitil to the ground. He then Con , tinned Ills attaek by savagely kicking him about the hdad and body with his heavy boots. Two or three warders were, immediately on the spot, when the con vict was seized and placed in irons. It is a remarkable circumstance, as showing the change which has taken place in the demeanour of the convicts, that although there were about 900 walking About taking their exer cise at the time, net do Of thein participated in the outrage _ . . SERIOS AMDF,NT ON THE LONDON AND 'SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY: 'On gotiday evening an accident of an alarming character, resulting in the death of one passenger and frightful injuries to others, occurred on the London and South-Western Railway between Wimbledon and Malden Stations. It appears that the train leaving Waterloo bridge \ Station at 6.10 on the Pirebt rottsdio'dth started at its usual time t ill bieVen carriages, first and second elats, and after passing the Waterloo Station and before arriving at Malden, the tender and four car riages suddenly an off the lino and went down the em bankment, which is there about nine feet high. The carriage.of course were a complete Wreck, the upper parts being knocked off the wheels, and one totripletely upset. Assistance having been *eared, the passengers whose shrieks and consternation were most harrowing, were attended to, and upon one of the carriages' being removed, the body of a passenger was found underneath. The poor fellow was quite dead, and from his counten ance it seemed that death was doubtless instantaneous. Information was at once telegraphed to the Waterloo station, and Mr. Liddell, assistant traffic utanager, at once proceeded to the scene of the catastrophe, with labourers and the necessary appliances for removin g the debris. Three of the passengers were found to be so much injured that they were at once forwarded to London and attended by Mr. Solinson, surgeon, of 88, York-road, Lambeth, and other medical gentlemen ; but the inju ries were found to be of so serious a character that they were quickly removed to' St. Bartholomew's Hospital; where every attention was paid' to them._ One of the injured persons is a clerk in the employ of the company. The down line, of course,.was blocked up for some time, and the traffic had to pass on the up-line, but all was clear about half-past nine, at which time the traffic was resumed. The most careful examination has failed, as yet, to elucidate the cause of this disaster. The rails are in perfect gauge. The other' injured persons in the train received the most careful attention, and those at the hospital are progressing favourably. INTERESTING ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVERY.—The exca vations now in progress in the streets of Malton for drainage, have exposed a section of the Roman road leading from Derventio to Ehoracum (Molten to York). The road has been traced a distance of 150 yards, and is at an uniform depth of three feet below the present surface, and lies close upon the oolite rock. It does not appear to have been paved, but seems more like the modern system of Macadam, and is formed of water rounded gravel or shingle of the secondary rocks, appa rently obtained at some point of the coast. Except a small fragment resembling the Samian ware, no pottery has yet been found. At two feet below the present surface an upper and more recent road was also cut through. On this the soil was nearly black, and some beds of ashes were found, and the stones bore traces of fire. It is supposed that this marks the level of the street previous to destruction of the town by the Scots, in Archbishop Thurston's time, when it was burnt 'down. As the excavations progress it is thought other evidences of the past may be met with. - .~~~. THE TUNNEL THROUGH MONT CENIS. This work, the most gigantic among the railway achievements hitherto undertaken, has lost much of its econoitiied and commercial interest, but it is still of the very greatest iinpottance in a technical point of view, as it Will tioli , e the pl i otteni of thepossibility of a direct tajlway Communication across any other po-Int of the diipitie eta& • The main motive which induced the Sardinian Govertitheiii Bide this line the preference over the St. Gothard's oriittairdinffer, .which might have brought Genoa into communletifion with the Swiss and German Rhine, the object most immediately conducive to the development of the Italian trade, was a desire to establish a speedy intercourse between the capital of the Sardinian monaray, arid Its transalpine possession of Savoy. The treaty of the 24th 1f March last, by making over those hereditary domains of tite: to fining house to France, rendered the Mont Cenis tunnel a wait of only secondary usefulness. As, however, the Italians now trust &ft by Opening railway lines from Susa to Ancona, Brindisi, and Taranto, they can open the shortest route for the Overland 1?1al! through their country, it is evident that they would be labouring hi vain till they have . also facilitated by all physical means the itittreourse between their country and the great capitals, Paiii and _London. The tunnel across Mont Cenis possesses, therefore, as much a European as an Italian importance, and nothing Ccmterning the progress of the work can be matters of indifference td the tenders of the Tinzcs. • The tunnel to be °Petted throngh Mont Cenis from Bardonneche in the Upper Val sad; a Val di Dora, above Oulx, and Modane, on the Ave, in Savoy, on the old carriage road, is to be 12,600 metres (about 7; English triad) in length. The Sardinian Parliament voted a yearly outlay of 8;900,000f. out of the budgets of 1857-8-9 ; the actual expendit7te t however, does not exceed one-half of the money assigried for the purpose-- - The fears entertained by those who showed disincli nation to fainur the enterprise were grounded on the fact that d bole dt..± in the earth - beyond a depth of 2,000 Metres becomes imfitattfc/ble on account of the foul air and high temperature. The fat-alms engaged in this present tunnel would, if only ordinary means Were employed, be suffocated before they had achieved one third of their labours, as it was impossible to supply fresh air from Ver tical shafts or windows, as is done in other tiiniteis; res the shafts would have to be made several thousand metreg dt. , l ; and the same difficulty of the mephitic-air would have id b'e eittotenteted. There aro people who still think that the phenoinened observed in verticle holes would not reproduce itself in au tiorizon tal tunnel, as the whole work would in the present in stance be accomplished on a level with the earth's sur- . fdEe; hot the engineers at the-,head of this achievement flatter thenisefiee they have found the means of doing away with the obstacle at CAC fephitie air altogether. • These gentlemen, Messrs. Grattoni Ssommeiller, have invented boring machines which are set to Crork by air compressed by hydraulic power, whereby they not Orly have found the Means of hastening the process of excavation', bait' din of 'supplying . the labourers with an inexhaustible Current of flesh wholesome air. The experiment with these ma6lrints only began at Bardonneche, on the eastern side of the Wild,* on the 14th of this present month. One of the boring machines, worked by compressed air supplied by five hyOrenlio compressors, established outside the tunnel, has shown di& teseilt of 49 centimetres (about one foot and a third English), limited to the boring of the holes for the mines, in five•minutes. Prom Chat time to the present day the excavation upon this new plan has been proceeding favourably, both as .to the effect of the hydraulic compressors and of the boring machines. There has been a delay in the commencement of the far the engineers had intended to begin their operations towards the end of October last, and a day had even been appointed for C r Otint Caroer and the Minister for Public Works to view the novel eiperiment at the outset. The delay was occasioned by the giving! Way pf two of the compressed air pipes during a pre liminary trial, and• the breaking of a piece connected with one of the water pipes and the valve of one of the air Coinpfessors: The mishap of the aft pipes arose from some flaw in the casting, and as, as yet, orgy et font atmosphere pressure had been applied, it was instantiy remedied; but the accident resulting from the breaking of the valve. of the compressor was of a more serious nature, and depended on some defect in the system of the valves. 'he *hole of the month of - November and December was spent ill pfertiding a remedy for this defect. llp to the 14th of January, as I said, die Wolk Was carried on with the usual means of excavation. I At . the above period the tunnel on this side by these means had been opened to the length of 721 metres; of these I.l° Metres were completely finished, the remaining 193 metres were oral' rdttlally bored through. At the west, or French did; at Modane the work is less advanced, as a deal of time was taken tip with the building of huts, workshops, &c., necessary for the application of the air compressors ; the excavation on that side has only been effected by the ordinary means. At the close of December last the tunnel opened at Modane by these usual means was 511 metres 60 cen timetis, aid there were besides 23 metres 50 centimetres not yet thoroughly finished. You are aware, I have no donbtj that, besides the difficulty of the mephitic air which the engineers trust they have successfully Obviated, fears are entertained that the works of excavation may be interfered with and even utterly prostrated by the breaking in of the water from the almost unfathomable little lakes which are to be met with on the summit of this mountain, as on almost all the other Alpine passes and summits. But the engi neers work on with good strong faith, prepared to meet evil whenever and from wheresoever it may arise.— Times' Correspondent. TILE BRADFORD BANQUET TO MESSRS. GLADSTONE, COBDEN', AND GIBSON.—On Monday a meeting of the committee appointed fur the worsted and woollen dis tricts to invita Messrs. Gladstone, Cobden, and Milner Gibson to an entertainment, held a meeting at . Bradfold ; Mr. W.H. Ripley in the chair. Letters had been received from Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Gibson, in which the tight hon. gentlemen intimated their willingness to receive a deputation on Thursday week, in London. The deputa tion will consist of the riding and borough members of Bradford, Leeds, Halifax, and Huddersfield; and of six gentlemen from each large town in the united district, viz., Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Dewsbury, and Wakefield. BRADFORD CHAMBER ,or COMMERCE.—A meeting of the council of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce was .Monday. at Bradford; --H. -W. Ripley, Estil ! cccupied the chair. This being the first meeting after the annual meeting,.offieers were elected and commit- tees appointed. H. W. Ripley, Esq., was re-elected president; and John, Whitworth, Esq., a nd W. E. Foster, were re-elected vice-presidents or the ensuing year. The president and vice-presidents were appointed a deputation to . represent the chamber at a meeting to be held in Manchester to-morrow (Thursday), to discus 4 the political and commercial condition of India. —Mr: Foster also introduced a proposal oil the 1011 - t of the African Aid Society for the establishment of a consul at Abbeokuta, on the, Western Coast of Africa, and the result was that the council adopted a memorial to the government, requesting the appointment of consul at Abbeokuta, as a means of protecting settlers on the coast, in connection w ith the efforts being made for the cultivation and export of cotton there. NAPOLEON'S TOMB ,AT ST. HELENA.—TIM Union Company's 'Royal Mail steamship Cambrian, Captain' W. Strutt, Which arrived at .Southamp,ton on Saturday, brought. from St: Helena Captai4. Masselin, and' two soldierS, of the 3rd Regiment of French l'igineers.. They have been - employed in repairing the tomb of Napoleon at St. Helena, by direction of the French authorities, and with the: permission of the English Government. The tomb has been completely restored to the condition in which it was at the period of the deposed Emperor's interment, and Longwood, the house in which he died, has been put into a state of substan tial repair.- Longwood is unoccupied and unfurnished, and . the premises had been allowed, prior to Captain Masselin's visit to the island, to fall into decay ; hut the walls and roof have now been restored, and will in all probability stand, for many years. Captain Masselii!, and his engineers were despatched to St. Helena, 5? Southampton, two years ago, and they have beenoeeeßTt ' pied with the work of restoration-ever since. Havre, .f the sout Southampton h_ly e s a t e t r u midnight Company's steamerl r d for Paris. enroulticl 3tT'IP) MR. JOHN BRIGHT, M.P., BEFORE HIS CONSTITUENTS. (BY BRITIBIr A 1517 /RIM MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) . _ _ Last evening, at the Birmingham Town-hall, Messrs. Stholefield and Bright met their constituents. The lame and beautiful ball was crowded.toexcess, and consider ing that the' only seats in the building were those in the side and end galleries, where were several ladies, not fewer than 6,000 perspire were present. His Worship the Mayor, Thomas Arthur Rowland, Esq., presided,' and on the platform were several of the borough magis trates, anti most of the members of the Town Council. As the . honoirrabfe members entered, preceded by the Mayor, they were loudly cheered, the cheers being several times . repeated. The chair was taken at half-past sclen o'clock. Mr. Scholefield, in addressing the incethig, said he would never earn popularity by voting . lot economy which he believed would impair our national defences. He was not in favour of the circular which sonic) members of Parliament bad addressed to Lord Palmerston ; for he felt that the attitude of Europe was never &ore' threatening than it was at this very moment. Speaking of. the French treaty, he said no amount of public honour that the Queen could la v ish upon Mr. Cobden could be 'too great. For all she could do for him was well deserved. He (Mr. Scholfield) thought that great saving might be effected in the enormous expenditure upon the army and navy'. He then went on to'Speak of a new reform bill, which ltesakl mast, to be satisfactory, give,,a larger extension of the suffrage, vote by ballot, and a redistribution of seats. Whether a bill would be introduced this-session be could not sue, but he could sal that if one was not brought in, govern ment would find that they had neglected a treat oppor tunity. If Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell wished to retain the good opinion of their countrymen, they nittst bring in a reform bill this session , and see that it was passed into law. Mr. Bright, on rising, was loudly cheered. He began by saying that it was a good and wholesome custom for representatives in parliament to annually, at least, meet their constituents, to discuss the great questions of public policy of . the day, and their influence for good or evil. A week this Teri night parliament would assemble, and we looked to its assembling wall more than ordinary interest. He feared the same reckless and profligate expenditure would, as of late years; be its chief charac teristic, rather than attending to internal affairs, which._ were for the welfare of the people. ludging from what he saw around him, the public mind was opposed to the extravagant expenditure of late years. The past year had been one of great prosperity ; but he was sorry to say that the present year was not at all promising in that respect, but quite the contrary. This being so. everybody Was asking with some degree of wonder, at least in Lancashire, how long the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be able to raise £70,000,000 in taxes. He charged the governing classes of this country with being guilty of a wasteful expenditure of the resources of this contitry ; because of the amount they spent upon keeping the people quiet when there was no fear of their revolting. Every parish and town governed itself - at a cost of something like £17,000,0000r £18,000,000 in local taxes, and then Government called upon the people for £43,000,000 more for the same purpose. He asked them to go back to 1830, when the expenditure of the Government was, including the cost of collection. £43,000,000 sterling, of which sum X 28,000,000 was as now to pay the interest of the debt contracted by the vile intet'rneddling of their forefathers. After the Re form Bill had passed—viz., in 1834—the expenditure was £49,000,000 only, and remained so till 1837. But, eleven years after the Reform Bill had passed, the Tories took office, and then the' expenditure again began to rise, and in 1842, 1843, arid 1544 it luid ,risen to £55 3 000,000, and remained at that till IR4B-and 1849, when the revolutions on the Continent were seized upon by the Government us a pretence for' agkin , ► the people of this country to pay . rnore taxes. They:then came to 1854, when the Russian War , broke out: Broke out! Why, they talked of war breaking cart as they talked of the scarlatina, the smallpox, or ,the cholera breaking out. Well, in 1854 the expenditure was £65,000,000, in 1856 it was £88,500,000, and in 1856 £75,500,000. ! In the three' years named the expenditure of the income from all sources was £30,000,000, and that sum had to be raised on Government loans. Coming to 1857, the expenditure was £68,000,000. In 1869 £69,000,000, and in 1860 he believed it would be found. to have been £76,000,000, including the estimate for the China war. Mr. Bright then contrasted the difference as between the expenditure of 1834 and ISM which, he said, wag not as £49,000,000 to £71,000,000, Why, we were the same people, and, if anything, more', orderly and peaceful than they were in 1834 ; and yet the expenditure was £22,000,000 more: This state of things made a prodigious difference to the working classes _of. this...country,: who had to—live-on -their own earnings; and if it did ., not exist, we should see not so much poverty as *e now saw. It appeared to him diet the House of Commons eared not whether the expendi ture was 50, 60, or 80 million's , a-year. Somebody had once said that he (Mr. Bright) was never in the house when the money was voted : but he asked whether for years he did not back up the late Mr. Hume for economy. but never did they succeed in getting off the estimates one penny. How beautifully all England. and. Wales were cultivated by our agri cultural labourers, and that, too, at a cost of only some £25,00,060' sterling. He believed so that the expenditure of the Go' ernment was three times more than the whole cost of cultivating the country; and if they took in the cost of cultivating Reiland and "Scotland, the expenditure was more by ' one-half than it cost to cultivate the soil. If every member of the House of Co'mntons were responsible to his constituents, this extravagant expenditure would • not be allowed to go on on as it did—unquestioned. If agriculture had to bear this heavy amount of taxation, it would be its ruin. The towns were the chief contributors . , and they itwas to whom we mint look for redress of thegrierairee. At present there were going on in Atinrica transactions which struck every thoughtful man with feelings of alarm, and it was fearful to contemplate the consequences if the result was the stoppage of 'cotton being- sent to this country, where many hundreds of thousands depended upon it-for sub sistence. Mr. 11right then went on to speak of the House of Lords, and said ft was principally com posed of peers, who were the offspring of the slime of the rotten boroughs; therefure they never need expect such peers to be on the side of the :people. The peers that were on the side" - of the people were more frequently those who were the descendants of the atistovraey as old as the Monarchy itself. The House of Commons as it existed was only a show of representation, and three-quarters of its mem bers owed allegiance to no constituency whatever. John Milton, speaking of the condition of the Church in a metaphor, said it was like the wen which, growing on a man e s hand, deanded that, when it became bigger than ' the head, 'it should not be cut off, but the head should. That metaphor was applicable to the present position of England ated its military services. After speaking of the, military.ifien,;_arallini they were.to be found everywhere upholding their profession as the only right one, Mr. Bright went on to speak of the present. state of affairs in Europe, and demanded that England should not meddle until we were interfered with. They might depend upon it that the Emperor of the French bad o*et manytenemies upon the continent to interfere with list l'i'lt. Night vrarned.ihem that if our expenditure was this year* tis extravagant as it was last year, there was some party in England that meant war.' The Emperor has always been friendly .to us, and he (Mr. Bright) would undertakil to say—and he spoke not without authority—that if Mr. Cobden were deputed to do so, an arrangement would readily be come to' with the . French Government that their fleet shoUld not be increastd ttcycrud what it now' was, provided we did not • increase ours. From one end of the nation to the other, the French people were trying for peace'. Mr. Bright then went on to.say that Our navy numbered 84,000 men and boys, while that of .France was only 30,000. Mr. Bright having then alluded to the French treaty concluded a speech of an hour and twenty minutes by one of those stirring perorations for which lie is so noted. Throughout his speech Mr. Bright was loudly cheered.. . Resolutions viewing with alarm the increasing expen diture of the State, and thanking both the members for thei,r services having been carried, the meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to the Mayor for presiding. r.‘,‘. 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Wales, 7, St. A,nng-street; Thomson and Capper, 43. Bold-street J. Hamilton, 4.J , Mill-street; B. (Adds, t. , , LATEST NEWS. (BY BRITISIS AND IRISii MAGNETIC TELEGRAPII.) TIIE NEAPOLITAN PROVINCES. NAPLES (an Marseilles), Jan. 26. The district surrounding Chieti has been tran- Yighting continues in other parts of the Appenines. The city of Naples is more tranquil. The police have prohibited political demonstrations. THE SIEGE OF GAETA. BERNE, Jim. 29. The Federal Council has received official infor mation stating that the siege of Gaeta is proceed ing favourably for the Sardinians. The Italian fleet has suffered but little damage from the fir© of the besieged. The insurrection in the Abruzzi has been sup pressed. RUMOURED SURRENDER OF GAETA. NAPLES, Jan. 28. A flag of truce was yesterday sent from Gaeta, to the fleet. An Italian steamer immediately proceeded to the fortress, and the firing was after wards suspended on both sides. Deserters from the Bourbon. army speak of a project to surrender Gaeta. The fire of the Cavalli cannons has been marvelloug.: The elections in the Provinces are favourable for the Ministry. ROME. l'omElpicz Marseilles), Jan. 25. The official Giorpaledißoma menti ons severa l villages near Asedi, which it states have been destroyed. ROME, lan. 26. The Pontifical Zouaves, favoured by the night, attacked the Sardinian_ Volunteers at Correse. Two' Sardinians ' were killed and six wounded. Fifty were made prisoners, and were conveyed to-day to Rome. The Piedmontese at Correa& have been since reinforced. The Sardinians are also threatening the pro vince of Frosinone. The reactionary bands 011 the frontiers arc in consequence greatly dis couraged, and are being pursued, betrayed, and, left entirely destitute of money and arms. PRUSSIA AND ITALY. In the Commission appointed by the Prussian Chamber of Representatives to indite the address in reply to the royal speech, a proposition to insert a paragraph, declaring that the consolida tion of Italy was in the interest of Europe, was lost by a majority of 1 only -10 against, and 9 for. The Independance says Gene ra l del la Marmora's mission to Berlin is to reassure Prussia as to the intentions of Piedmont with regard to Germany. to induce her to recognise the possession of Venetia as a necessity for Italy and a danger for Austria and the Germanic Confederation ; to Make it clear that the two Powers which—the one in Germany and the other in Italy —repre sent the principles of constitution a l liberty are the soul of the nationalities to which they belong, and have every reason for maintaining the most intimate relation of friendship; also to show that if these overtures arc rejected Italy will be forced more than ever to unite herself to France, and to accept all the consequences of that alliance, and the obligationa it may entail. T:3'3 DENMARK. .4 ": • COPENITAGEN, Jan. 28. announces that m en The Berlingstc Tidcnde and horses belonging to the dragoon regiments stationed at Itzetroe, as well as two batteries, have been called out. The inspection of the whole war materiel will be immediately pro, ceeded with. UNIFICATION OF GERMANY. At a great meeting of the National Association, held at Berlin, resolutions were passed in favour of the military unification of Germany as th e only means of resisti n g aggression on the part of France, also for the convocation of a Germ an Parliathent, and a vote of sympathy for th e Danish Duchies. One resolution was against taking part in a war with Austria on account of 'Venetia unless German interests were threatened. A simultaneous meeting was held at Bromb erg, attended by 300 mem bers, and greetings by tele graph passed between the two. At the Berlin meeting 200 members joined the association. One of the speakers said i the associ ation was no w too strong to fear any interferen ce on the part of the police., HUNGARY. The Boersenhalle, an. Austrian organ, admits that the Cabinet of Vienna expects outbreaks in Hungary, and has made preparations to suppress them... Flying corps are ready, and may b e . immediately concentrated in sufficient force on any threatened point. On the frontiers, between Presburg and Olden_ burg, there is a reserve of 10,000 men, composed ,chietly,of the very best of the German troops. At Vienna there are several Italian regiment, ready to support this corps tranntle. . . THE FRENCH FUNDS. PARIS, Jan. 29, 3.25 p.m. The Bourse has again been buoyant and ani mated. Rentes closed at 68 5, or 15 centimes higher than yesterday. GAZETTE NEWS. Major-General Cameron, C. 8., is gazetted as Lieut.-General in the army, local rank, while in command of troops in New Zealand. Donald Mackenzie, Esq., Advocate, is gazetted Sheriff of Fife, Scotland. THE NEAPOLITAN TARIFF. A notice from the Board of Trade ann ounces certain alterations in the Neapolitan tariff. The l export duty on rags is reduced from eight t o s i x ducats ; oil reduced from two ducats twenty francs' to one ducat ninety francs ; stamp duty on certain foreign merchandise, and some other changes are made. TURKEY. - . . .., :77 . ,infilwaTi_ll,lllll Ikla - - - A weekly steamer, under the English flag, has commenced running from Consta n ti nop l e to Tene dos, calling at Kodosto, Gallipoli, the intervening villages on the coast, and the Darda ne ll es , and re turning by the same route to Constantinople. FRANCE AND PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Jan. 29. The report that France had demanded explana tions on account of the speeches delivered by the King since his accession to the throne, is denied in ministerial and diplomatic quarters. RUSSIA."P ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 29. It is asserted that the Grand Russian Railway conipany is about to contract a loan abroad of 25,000,000 roubles, in bonds of 4 per cent. Tho price at which these b on d s are to b e i s sued is not et known. No doubt i s enterta i ne d here as to the success of the loan. AUSTRIA. l ,Jg Francis an. 29. Prince Pet ru ll a , Ambassador.Fjsiosfi4i. in 11. at Vienna, has received an autograph letter from Gaeta, in which the King declares that he intends fighting to the last. It is stated that on Prince Pctrulla demanding at St. Petersburg for what reason M. de Wolkon sky, the Russian Minister, had left Gaeta, Prince Cortsc•hakoff replied that the representative of Russia was more useful to Francis 11. at Rome than at Gaeta.. The following appeareci in our later editions of yesterday GAETA. A fresh circular has been addressed from Gaeta to, the.:Ministers of Francis 11. at the different courts. It states that , the King . is resolved to meet to the end all the perils of his position. ------ FRANCE. . PARIS, Jar. 29. The Moniteur . contains a decree ordering the. creation of a medal in commemoration of the expedition to China, w;lich will be bestowed on, all those who have taken part in the expedition_ • ..------ Mr. Roebuck, M.P., left Vie nna on Frida y for London. The news is folly confirmed that Miramon has been completely defeated, and the capital of Mexico occupied by the Liberal forces. The Post says that the Bankruptcy Bill of the Government will be introduced into the House of Commons on the first night of the session. Advices from France state the trade is confined within the narrowest limits, and this state of things will continue as long as the present 'icer .tainty prevails as to the peace of Europe being maintained. - - Her Majesty has just communicated the pattern of- a riband of Chinese ta s t e and manufacture, found in the summer palace a t P ekin , and ordered some pieces to be woven at Coventry for her own especial use. The Herald says it is very ff g under stood that the shipping question levnilelrablely brought before Parliament by tii, c Government in the early part of the cominge •g session, both with the view, of cementing more closely the Frenc h alliance by noA. propitiatory British sacrifices , givingand of effect to some of the recommenda tions of the late Shipping Committee. THE COURT. The Queen, on horseback this moriiiiig,-altkded V.Lady Macdonald - 'WINDSOR CAST' E, Jan. 28. • accompanied by Princess Alice, • rode oat and Colonel thellon. A. N. Rood. The Prince Consort went out shooting, attended by Lord Rivers, the lion. Colonel Sir C. rbipps, an d Colonel Pousonby. Ai - . - •~":`}.