The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-01 00:00:00

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COVENT GARDEN.
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31Is 'Swan rynr. and Mrs. Aynsky ,Cook : Messrs. W. H.
wci.s. H. Coml. A. St Alhyn, Moak. and W. Harrtsun.—Cou-
durtor, Mr. Allred Mallon.--CAdansence at
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GUEAMERICAN Hew, SoAhore. buckstuee ; VOL
I,,tz AwMEilliam —ADUCK HUNTING. MrAWllidna.—And JACK'S
REI1:10 FUJII CANTOS. The Leclereo.

Be
is soon succeeded by a passion of al
Loins &saw, in his " History of the ,
" lution," has shown us how the " r" we.
surpassed in horror and atrucitir b t White
" terror." Another month of garotters At large, and
Society will no longer be content to wait for the
deliberate action of regular tribunals. It will
avoid ,its pf sharper and swifter methods of
iustice, and organize " Vigilance Committees "
to • seize these reffiegs Ong
.weir lairs, and
hang them to the nearest lamp-poste. Already
the dealers in knives, andileaded.atitiksi.v.nd re-
volvers are driving a . brink . trade. By Now
Year's-day, if the Central Criminal Court ham
only scotched the evil, London after dusk
will resemble San Francisco in the flush of the
digging. We shall all be armed with pistols or
daggers, and garotter-hunting will be a popular
sport. Violence will change sides, and the
victims will become the avengers. Can
nothing be done by the Home-offfee to pre-
vent such a disgrace to a civilized com-
munity ? Mr. Baron Ramwrit's sentences
Lade given some satisfaction, but they have no
more reentered the public than repressed the
crime. One of the cases disposed of by that
learned Judge was a " robbery with " violence,"
animated under the very gallows, " while
" COOPER. was hanging." On the very after-
noon when Mr. Baron BRA-MWELL was passing
seatenoe a young lady walking out in a broad fre-
quented thoroughfare, in one of the richest quar-
ter% of the town, was dragged down a dark passage,
and only saved by the sound of wheels from a gang
of marauders who wanted her earrings and her lair.
The same evening a gentleman was attacked at
Maids-hill, and rescued by a passer-by on horse-
back.
It is almost a social war in our midst. Under-
neath this enormous capital of wealth and luxury,
teeming with immense temptations for all appe-
tites and all cupiditios, yawns an abyss of crime
and desperation. Women and children are among
the culprits and the victims alike. Fortunately
the victims are the public in its largest sense.
One of the lest to be heard of was a cabman.
There are few even of the wealthiest class who are
always out of reach of such attacks. The
HOME SIVRETARY may, therefore, be well
assured, that in any measures of repression which
he may adopt at once on his own authority, and
in any measures of prevention which he may pro-
pose to Parliament, he will be earnestly supported 1
by the (mermen sense of the country. The police,
no doubt, have special orders to be vigilant, and
Baron BRAMWELL has, in one instance, rewarded
their efficiency. But unless the Home-office is pre-
pared toadvanee to the utmost limits of the law in this
emergency, the three months which must elapse
before the meeting of Parliament will leave worse
evils than unpunished garotters behind. There is
no evil to be feared more than the public
taking the law into its own hands. Baron
BRAMWELL, indeed, warned the prisoners that if
the sentences awarded were insufficient to protect
the public from outrage, "some revision of the
" law would certainly take place." There can be
no doubt that these crimes are engaging the most
serious attention of the Government. Bat we
must beware of haste and impatience, even where
public safety is at stake. It may be that in
Continental countries the cure would be sharper
and easier. Violence would be met by violence,
and lawlessness by a suspension of all legal gua-
rantee for the accused. Very likely many of our
criticsabroad will be surprised at Baronßaaaawmx's
calmness and leniency. Thus it is that every
nation suffers from the exaggeration of its good 1
qualities. We trust that law, however lenient,
may always be preferable in English eyes to public
safety without law.
It is to save a whole community from lawless-
ness that public opinion demands a revision of the
law which turns convicts loose without supervision,
and makes the Judge's sentence a fiction.
The English nation will not relapse into barba-
rism ; we shall not again see justice vindictive ;
we shall not give up our Reformatories ;
bat we shall give up pampering irreclaimable
ruffians; we shall make prison life really penal;
the good conduct of prisoners will be re-
warded within the prison walls, and a certificate
of reformation entitling a prisoner to go free will be
earned only by a long and painful discipline of
labour without reward or enjoyment. The rest is
a question of police and gas lights.

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PRI.\"EESICA.
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—THE TRIPLE ALL/AItCE. Mr. C. Vieing Misses Aylmer,
M. Oliver. mn.l Mrs. B. White.—And TILE RONEYMOON.
Me:s,e. M. Vecln suck It. Roshy ; Miss M. Oliver.

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LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1.

AmoNc the gangs of garotters tried at the Central
Criminal Court last week, and sentenced on Friday
last, the last batch were quite a typical illustration
of what we may call our Criminal Zoology. The case
was common enough in its incidents. The prose-
cutor had been seized, throttled, robbed, and savagely
beaten and kicked within a few yards of his own
doorstep. There were four men concerned in the
attack ; the leader of them, MARKS, a man of 41,
who had already been sentenced to seven years'
transportation, but, "for some cause or other,"
the sentence had not been fully carried out ; and the
three others lads of 18, one of whom bad got out
of a Reformatory before the expiration of his term,
" for good conduct, to be sure," as he cheerfully
informed the inquiring Judge, and the other two
had not, as it appeared, been previously
convicted. Here then was a hardened profes-
sional criminal, and three promising students, to
whom Mum), the man of 41, was an expe-
rienced master, and young FORD, of the Reforma-
tory, a discreet monitor. Ilere was an instance of
the uncertainty and illusoriness of an experimental
system of punishments : the man transported
for seven years had been released—no
one could tell ;the Court why—before his
time was out, and had immediately returned to
his•eld pursuits. The young man from the Re-
formatory had got out before his time for " good
" conduct," and so attained, it seems, a higher
rank in his profession, and qualified himself to be
criminal instructor to others of his own age. The
sentences on these prisoners were meted out by
tho Judge with humane discrimination. Penal
servitude for life to the eldest prisoner was, as he
frankly confessed in court, "no more than he
" expected," for ho had proved himself incor-
rigible ; his =opiates, lade of eighteen, the Court
was willing to treat as not incapable of reforma-
tion, and penal servitude for four years would
give them a chance of retrieving their characters.
It teems to be the general opinion that Mr. Baron
Beau* au. has dealt with these garotting cases
with a firmness and discretion very creditable to
the administration of justice in this country. In
summing up the first case he had cautioned the
jury against being led away by the prevailing
anger and alarm in the public mind to convict on
insufficient evidence, and in passing the sentences
be took the "previous career" of the prisoners
into account, and the " degree of violence " with
which the robberies had been committed. The
caution to the jury, it .is true, was super-
fluous, since in nearly every case the prisoners
were caught in the act, and there was no defence.
In every case thu leader of the gang was a ticket-of-
leavo man, and in ono instance it was the pri-
soner's sixteenth conviction ; with such a " pro-
" *feu% career" as that the Judge might well
consider reformation as out of the question. The
degree of violence used in the perpetration
of a robbery can only be a secondary considera-
tion for the Court ; perhaps it is not a very safe
line to draw. A garotter may frighten a nervous
victim out of his life without much violence, or
stupefy him without smashing his jaw or boating his
head in.

A ridiculous story, apropos of garotters, is now
being told in London. A very timid man, resident in the
suburbs, always carries a loaded stack, and is constantly on
the look-out. The other night, as he was walking home,
near his house a man pushed rudely against him. The
timid gentleman, with great presence of mind, immediately
struck bim a severe blow with the loaded stick, and the
man ran off, leaving his bat behind him. The timid man,
greatly elated, picked up the hat, and read on the lining the
name of one of his intimate friends. Dreadfully shocked,
be at once hastened to his friend's house to explain matters.
lie was received at the door by his friend's wife, who, in a
voice inarticulate with sobs, said, " Oh, PO glad to see
you! Poor Edward!—in bed upstairs!—oovered with
blood !—he's been garotted!" sAfal
Mr. Stephen, as ono of the inspectors, and acting
for Allsopp's brewery, Burton-upon-Trent, protests against
the memorandum sent to the lion. F. Cadoso.o by the other
inspectors of N. Veillard's estate. Mr. Stephen holds that
a public inquiry ought to have been afforded to Mr. Cade-
gen, and that it was no part of the duty of the inspectors to
express any opinion publicly upon those transactions until
this had been granted.
THE MiNisrnr.—A cabinet council will be held
on Tuesday next (to-morrow) at Lord Palnierston'a official
residence, in Downing-street. Viscount Palmerston is in
town. Sir George Grey is expected to arrive In London to-
morrow (this day) from his seat Fallodea, Northumberland.
Earl Rowell atterded yesterday (Saturday) at the Foreign-
office. Mr. Milner Gibson is in town, but is suffering from
indiapositien. Sir George C. Lewis, the Duke of Newcastle,
the herd Chancellor, Mr. Gladstone. and other members of
the cabinet are staying in Loudon, and will be present at
the meeting.—Observer.
M. DU CHAILLUN DEFENCE. du Chaillu,
writing in reply to the letter from Mr. Winwood
says:—" Mr. Reade has spent five months in the gorilla
country. What are flee months to traverse and explore the
immense tracts of country I visited, to ascend rivers, scale
mountains, become intimate with numerous tribes, learn to
uoderstand their various dialects, occupy many days in
palaver with each in succeasioe, make the stay with each
which in necesaary to acquire their confidence, and pass on
to others ; nod how can anyone with such a limited ex-
perience only venture to contradict such experiences as
miner M. Cheillu further adds, " I brought home 21
skeletons and skins of the gorilla, among other novelties,
when there had been no perfect skin of the beast seen in
Europe before. It was suggested that I bought them of
the natives, whence more would be forthcoming
sod yet, with every museum sod showman ready
to purchase, not one gorilla or gorilla skin fit
for 'dueling has reached Europe in the eighteen months
since this controversy arose. Dow comes it that I alone
obtained perfect specimens, and such a number of them, and
that no one has bought, shot, or seen a gorilla iu the mesa-
time—not even Mr. Reed. or the famous Indian hunter, his
companion, after five active months in the gorilla coun-
try? I will prove how I got my specimens. by the simple
expedient of hunting sad shooting others as I hunted
and shot these, under certain conditions, which involve
a fair offer. If Dr. Gray and hie friends will mime
among them and deposit in a lank 2,0110 f., I will
deposit 1,0001. on my side. I will start for the gorilla
country, and if I do not kill five or six gorillas in the course
of two years (I allow so long for fevers and other amain-
' genciea), and bring their skins and skeletons home preserved
with a preparatioa which these gentlemen shall give me
(provided it is ascertained to be suitable for the purpose),
I will forfeit to them my 1,0001. Ou the other hand I shall
claim their 2,0001. to repay my Wisesex if I succeed, and I
shall be very happy of the compan he bravest of them
in making the venture. This is all the answer I shall make
for the future to any of my assailants, and I trust that all
' England will deem it sufficient."
•

Society cannot afford to bargain for the
cothparative immunity of its skull. Still we be-
lieve Baron Busiawrix's discretion on the point
to be sound. For the specialty of these
garotters is, that they use savage violence before
and after the robbery ; and English justice,
at 'least in police courts, has been too apt to
treat property as something infinitely more sacred
than life. Mr. Baron BIWIWELL, we are thank-
ful to find, deems life more sacred than property ;
and in this sense he seems to have exercised a dis-
crimination which may have a good effect upon public
morality as well as upon public safety. Brutal
violence is quite a taste, a luxury with our crimi-
nal classes ; it is the rude energy of the national
temperament diseased. The social consequences
of this sudden and startling growth of crimes are
far•more serious than the results of any amount of
;arotter's reign of terror, which
ig a jungle of a city, ends by
ion of tigers. A passion of fear

TH4 EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENIM
,DECEMBER 1, 1862. *-

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The Queettf sooompanied by P
Hesse and Prince.' Beatrice, drove out yeste
Lieutenant-Colonel the lion. 1). de Roe attended on
horseback.

&MAT, Nov. 30.
The Queen and Princess Louis of Hesse walked and drove
in the grounds yesterday.
Her Majesty and the Prince and Prince= Louis of Hesse,
Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold,
attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel.
The ladies and gentlemen of the court anal the domeetie
household were also present. • •
The Hon. and Very Rev: the Dean of-Windsor officiated.
The Duke of Newcutle arrived at the Castle yesterday,
and had an audience of her Majesty.

LATE
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IT lATT:IAGENCIS4. '
GREECE.
, .
r The hitnipsisithati of yesterday evening •ttaches
credit to a statement that the three protecting
powers are about to renew the understanding of the
triple exclusion from the throne of Greece which
was provided for by the treaty of 1832. Frio* it,
is said, has addressed simultaneously a despatch to
the cabinets •of St. Petersburg and St. James's,
asking them to renounce the patronage of the can-.
I diditure—one of Prince Alfred, and the other of
the Duke of Louchtenberg—and from both cabi-
nets a favourable reply is expected.

WEATHER REPORT.

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The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on
Saturday. A petition for a prolongation of Clarkson's
patent for waterproof articles was commenced.
Di:apaches were received on Saturday at the
Colonial-
oßice from the Governors of- the West India Islands, the
Cape of Good Hope, FA—Helena, end Itridsh Columbia•
Despatches were nut on Saturday to the Governors of the
North Ainericin. Provinces, Bermuda, and to the Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian Ulan&

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THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF HINSE.—The
following communication bas been received by Lieutenant-
Colonel Gladdisb, commandant of the let Kent (Gravesend)
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Vo Artillery :—" have received the commands
of her Royal Highness the Princerat Lords of Hesse ternbanr
the Kent Volunteer Artillery, which under your comufand
turnsti out on the 14th inst. to do honour to her Royal
Highness and Prince Louis. on tboii royal highnesses' first
visit to Gravesend since their marriage. Will you be gtiod
enough to communicate the above to the officers, non-
commissioned officers, and privates of the brigade. The'
duty appeared to me to be moat efficiently performed:—
I have the honour to remain, your obedient servant,
SYDS EY."

THE PRANCE OF WALES AND THE EX-KING OF
Nartirs.-7-The correspondent of the Post at Rome, writing
on the 22nd ult., say sz—" The ex-King of Naples, availing
himself of a previously existing acquaintance with the
Hereditary Prince of Prusain, went: to call upon him at'the
Caffarelli Palace soon after his arrival in Rome, a polite
attention acknowledged by the prince, who, • few days ago,
went to Me Freese Palace to return this king's visit. His
Majesty subsequently expressed • desire to make
the acquaintance of the Prince of Wales, and his
wish was consequently made known to the prince. lam
net aware of the precise channel male use of for the con-
veyance of the king's request and the prince's answer, but
the result of this little coed manoeuvre was, that his
royal • highness declined, firmly and immediately, the ho-
nour of au interview with King Francis U. Some of the
Neapolitans complain of the prinixes conduct as leak-
ing courtesy, whilst others affirm that the interview
really did take place, but quite secretly. It is super-
fluous to state that this rumour is entirely unfounded, and
it is useless to put forward opinions respecting the amount
of courtesy shown by the prince on the occasion ; for as be
is usually so very pleasing and courteous in his manners, it
is evident that he had some strong motive for not acquies-
cing to the king's request, and as he is of age and has
right to decide on such questions according to his personal
feelings, there is no necessity for criticising his determin-
sties."

The Duchess of Somersot has returned to the
Admiralty, from Buistrode Park, Bucks.
Maria Marchioness of Aileabury loft Longleaf°,
on Saturday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Chester-
field, at Bretby Park, Burton-on-Trent.
The Countess Frances of Albemarle and Colonel
the Hoe. Peregrine Cust have left town for Brighton.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston received
at dinner, on Saturday evening, at Cambridge House, the
Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and Lady Victoria Ashley,
I Lord and Lady Lyveden, the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper,
M.P., and Mrs. Cowper, Hon. Charles Murray, Sir William
Bowles, Sir Roderick Murchison, Mr. 0. Eastland De
Michele, and Mr. Delano. Later in the evening her lady-
ship had an evening party, at which several members of the
diplomatic corps sad aristocracy at present in town as-
sembled.

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Viscount and Viscountess Olifden have arrived
at Dover House, from a tour of visite. The noble lord and
her ladyship leave town on Wednesday for Ireland.
Viscount Canterbury left Longleate, Wilts, on
Saturday, for Brotby Hall, Burton-on-Trent, on a visit to
the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield.
Viscount Chelsea and the Hon. Miss Cadogan
arrived in town on Saturday from a tour of visits.
Lord and Lady Lyvedeu will leave Saville-row,
on Wednesday, for their seat, Farming Woods, Northamp-
tonshire.
The lion. Octavius Duncombe, M.P., and Lady
Caroline Duneombe have been entertaining the following
company at Waresley Park, Cambridgeshire, during the
put week :—Lord de Lisle and Dudley, Lord and Lady
Hantingfiold, Lord and Lady Colville, General Hall, dtc.
Lady Edith Abney Hastings, accompanied by
Miss Eden, the lion. E. Munson, Colonel Clifton, and Mr.
German, visited the collieries belonging to tks Marquis of
Hastings at Moira, near Ashby-de-la-Zoach, on Thursday
last. Her ladyship and party went down the shaft of the
Hastings and Grey Newfield, which is about 1,000 feet
deep. They remained underground nearly two hours.
The Hon. and Rev. W. J. Brodrick, canon of
Wells and chaplain in ordinary to her Majesty, has been
appointed to the deanery of Exeter.
A, judgment of considerable importance to landed
proprietors has been delivered at Dublin by Mr. O'Dowd,
the government commissioner, upon claims to wreck of the
sea. The claimants were the Duke of Devonshire, Lord
Clinton, and others having property in the county Cork,
who relied upon a charter given by Charles 11., in which
the right was expressly granted. Mr. O'Dowd decided that
as no evidence of user had been given, the rights given
tinder the charter were forfeited, and became vested in the
crown. Several other properties will be affected by the
judgment.
The Arab chiefs who were invited to participate
in the featiNities of Cempiigne have left Paris for that
purpose. A• 'there is a hnnting party to be given in their
honour, the Emperor bas provided them with Arab horse.
selected from the regiment of Chaeseura of the Guard.
The moat remarkable among these chiefs is the Cherif Abou-
Aziz, who rendered important service to the French troops
in Algeria on several occasions.
A Vancouver's Island paper says :—" The fifty
damsels who cameout in the Tynernouth Were received by
the clergy and some ladies, escorted to and housed in one
of the government buildings, and a guard put over to pro-
tect them from the prying inquisitiveness of certain amorous
swains.. The whole hare übtaiued situations of one kind or
the other. It would have been better had fewer gover-
nesses been sent, there being too many of those already.
At least 100 more lasses will, it is said, arrive shortly. It
is to be hoped that they may be from the rural districts,
able to make batter and cheese, and thus, in more ways
than one, encourage home production."
Among the posthumous remains of the lamented
bland are • considerable number of poems that hitherto
have not been published. They, like the other literary re-
mains of the great poet, are now in the hands of his intimate
friend, Karl Mayer, the lyric poet, who will shortly give
them to the world.
The inventive powers of the Patric must bo run-
ning tow. It now informs us that the Greeks in London
are about to give • grand banquet to Lords Palmerton and
Bona, and that even "le Lord Maire" will be present I
The French government has determined to ac-
complish a reform in the dwellings of the operative alma*
in Paris, sod is about to commence by the construction of
• cite nod& Gs the Boulevard Masao for unmarried work-
men. The situation is well chosen, being in the centre of
the manufacturing quarter of Paris. The proposed building
is to be five stories high, and each floor is to be divided
Into small rooms completely separated, and to be approached
by a spacious staircase. The ground floor is to be appro-
riated toe reception room or common hall, open to all thelodgers, to • restaurant or dining room, an office for the
director, and an apartment for the house-porter.
The inauguration of the Boulevard Prince Eugene
promisee to offer a day of ffte to the Parisians, who crowd
daily to the Place du Trdne to witness the architectural
preparations, Which are on a scale of great magnitude-
Curiosity eosins much excited, and the promanads of
visitors during the day is somewhat remarkable at this
smarm of the year.

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love tely been victimised by persons who have
off as sovereign some, worthless gilt counters,
the inscriptipia M. M. Queen Vic-
toria, and ou the reverse a figure of Prince Albert
ofitorseback, with the words, "To Hanover, 1861."

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