The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-02 00:00:00

AMERICA.

GREENCASTLE. Fa. 2.
The Canadian steamship Hibernian arrived at
3.10 a.w. to-day with 930 do's. in specie.

(Par Nu, Hibernian, yi Gramaairtla)
NEW YORK. JAI,. 23, Evizura.

(By telegraph to Portland.)

General Ito;.eCranshss been appointed to com-
mand the department of the Missouri.
The Maryland Legislature has nominated Mr.
Lincoln for the presidency.
Money tight ; gold, 56i per cent, premium. Ex-
change on London—banker's bills, 172. Stocks
tending downwards ; New York Centrals, 1361 ;
Illinois, 1301. ; Erie, 1071. Cotton—middling
upland, 84c. to 84}0.____

NEW YORK, JAx. 23, Amnon.

Money tight Gold, 561 per oent premium.
Stooks steady. New York Centrals, 137 i ; Illinois,
13011 ; Brie, 106 i. Breadstuff, quiet Crude petro-
leum, 31 to 32; refined, 40; to 471.

(acorn's arms.)
WARLIKE MOVEMENTS.
HAMBURG, JAM. 30.

Since Field Marshal Wrangers departure for
Kiel serious events are expected. The frosts which
have covered with ice the districts inundated by
the Danes in front of the Dannewerke will facilitate
invasion. The allied army expecte to be before
this position in less than a week. General de Meza
will be summoned to-morrow to evacuate Sleswig.
Should he reply in the negative, orders will no
doubt at once be issued to advance.

Meanwhile the separatists display the greatest
activity. The delegates from all the different
flleswig-Holstein Associations assembled yesterday
at Kiel and discussed the rules by which the com-
mittee charged with the conduct of the movement
are to be guided. _ _ .

Preparations for the advance into Sleewig are
carried on with energy. 2,600 carts and waggons
have been ordered at KUL The battalions sta-
tioned near that town have received orders to bold
themselves in readiness to march at any moment.
It is believed at the Prussian head-quarters that
war is inevitable. The question, it is said, is not
of a mere military promenade, but of a veritable
taking possession of Sleawig, which, with either
Holstein or Lauemburg will then be annexed to
Prussia !

Hospitals are being prepared in all directions,
but the chief will be at Kiel and at Ploen. After
te-day rations will be drawn by the army as in
time of war. lt is reported that the Gelman in-
habitants of Sleswig are ready to proclaim Duke
Frederic directly the Daces retire or are driven
out.

THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN BEUMITAL
BRUSSELS. Frs. 1.

The Journal de Bruxelles, the catholic organ, an-
nounces that M. Rogier has been received by the
King, and has had a long conference with his
Majesty. MM. De Theo' and Dechamps, being
applied to by the King, have definitively declined
the offer of power under present circumstances.
The same paper states the position of the crisis as
follows :—"MOIL do Benuckere and Firma:, repro-

1864.

sentatives of the Left, and sure of commanding a
majority, have refused the mission which was
offered them. MM. Deehamps and De Then: have
been unable to accept the task of forming a cabinet,
because they did not feel disposed to accept the re-
sponsibilityof &situation which they bad not created,
and because they had not a majority,and would there-
fore have been compelled to dissolve the Chamber,
which might still be avoided. Intermediate mi-
nisters were alone possible, owing to the parlia-
mentary situation and the state of opinion.
I These combinations have failed. After MM.
Bronckere and Pirmez, M. Notbomb, the Belgian
Minister at Berlin, has also refused. MM. Faider
and Dubois, and K Thorn have refused. The
conservative right has refused. There remains
nothing but the combination of the Prince do
Ligne and the retention of the cabinet, which has
resigned.

The Journal de Bruxelles further announces that
M. Rogier has received the grand cordon of the
Leopold order.

BANK OF FRANCE.
PARIS, FEB. 1, Erna°.

The &mount of bullion hi the Bank of France
has diminished by 3,000,030 franca since &Lurch'''.

LAN INTELLIGENCE
(TIM DAY.)

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
HALL V. HALL.—JUDGIIEST.
This was a case heard a new days ago, and very fully re.
ported. It was a suit for dissolution on the ground et
cruelty and adultery ; but It had appeared in the 0001‘t of
the trial that the respondent had had a keeper in the house
to protect the petitioner from his violence. Sir J. Wilde bed
therefore reserved the point whether be should not call for
further evidence as to the state of the respondent's min,L
Thu morning the learned judge decided that he would re-
quire the additional evident »; and directed the further
bearing of the case to be postponed for that pui pose.

HARRISON V. ILLIMISON.—JUDOMIDIT.
This case merely stood over for the court to consider
whether meant explanation bad beau given of tLe delay
that had occurred in the institution of the suit, the Mille of
sake having occurred thirty years ago.
Sir J. Wilde thought that as the wife had been shown to
have been without means herself till quite lately, and as the
hatband was evidently a vagabond without property, it
would be a denial of justice to refuse the decree.
Decree nisi accordingly.
O'KANE V. O'KANE AND PALMERSTON.

This ease was set down for hearing this morning, sod
aceardingly at noon, when the Judge commenced sitting,
the court was crowded by the bar and the public, and great
anxiety was manifested to witness the proceedings, al•lraigh
from what occurred last Tuesday it was not likely
that they would be of much more than a formal
character. In consequence, however, of the case being at
the bottom of a very long list the hearing ol it had not
begun when we were preparing to go to press. The follow-
ing affidavits, embracing the principal features in the pro-
ceedinp, will be found interesting
"an MAJZSTT'S COURT YOR DIVORCE AND
MATRIMONIAL. CAUsEN.

"Between Timothy Joseph O'Sarie, petitioner, and Ilene re•
Matilda Augusta OlEaae, reepoodeet, Henry Jobn
Temple Viscount Palmerston, co-respondent.
"I, Thos. Wells, of 47, Moorgate-street, in the City of
London, solicitor, mike oath and ay:
" 1. That I sin the solicitor to the petitioner on the record ;
that the ;articulate required by the order of the 00-respon•
dent on the 17th day of November, 1933, were immediately
prepared and ready for delivery, but were delayed being
filed solely because negotiations for • settlement of the
moue were aeon after commenced, and which were only
completed on Saturday, the 13th day of January, 1864, and
when my meta were paid.
"2. That I am ‘ntormed and veiny believe the petitioner
and the respondent were married at • house in St. George's.
in-the-East, in the county of Middlesex, on the 2nd day of
October, 1851, by scatholic priest regulsrly orlained, and
acting with fel jurisdiction for celebrating the marriage
with all the rites and esentiel formalities of the catholic
church; and that they livcd and cohabited together se
man and wife up to about the 19th day of October, 18Gb
and were known and respected as such by good society.
" 3. That! it is wholly untrue that the petition was pre-
sented sod filed sad served for the purposes of ex.
tuition, and that a :cording with my instructions, and to
the beet of my knowledge and belief, the petitioner
had a good case upon the merits, and there ore
to the best of my knowledge no facts in existence from
which the said Charles Horsley could believe as he has
sworn in the last paragraph of his affidavit filed in this mo.
Hen.

"4. That I have been instructed to stay all proceedings
in this mit by • letter received from my client, the peti-
War, of which the following s • ti as copy :
" 47, Moorptestreet, City, Jan. 16, 1661.
" /ITSELF r. PALVILILSTON AND O.IANN.
"Dear sir,—yielding to the advice of my friends, I have
&aided to drop the above suit ; and I hereby beetroot you
to stay all further proceedings. I adopt this course solely
for the sake of my young children, and not from any
inability to establish the allegations contained in my peti-
tion, or to prosecute the suit to a successful conclusion,
as
the letters which I submitted to you, and the evidence
laid before you, offer: I prima facie every probability
of enesens. On the letters and correspondence,
testified by the opinion of counsel, you undertook the
mit by my insatiotions, and I feel perfectly 'ratified with
YOU professional conduct as well as that of your managing
dirk, Mr. Weston, who was not deterred from undertaking
the just came by the frantic bowl of • venial and can apt
pram—the cause of right against might. I beg you
to give the most complete contradiction to the sasertioa
made by some of the London and other papers, that
I we. in the employment of either of you—my own re-
sources and those of my friends having enabled me to live
independent of inch aid. I was lawfully married to my
wife, the respondent in this suit, by • catholic
priest regularly ordained, and acting with full juris-
diction, and celebrating the marriage with all the
rites and eordesiartical formalities of the catholic
church. This could have been satisfactorily proved bad the
ease gone into court. As to the alleged acts of adultery the
oomespoodence and other evidence would leave no doubt
had the ease gone I.tea jury. —I am, yours truly,
(liiittod) "T. J. O'Kusu.
" Mr. Thomas Wells, solicitor, 47, Moorgaterst., City.
" Sworn at No. 19, Coleman-street, is the City of Landon,
Ihis Ist day of February, 1864, before me,
PHILIP Seim Cou."
The following is the affidavit of Mr. Horsley in reply :
"I Marks Hooter, of No. 2, Staples-ino, solicitor far
the respondent, make oath and sty—
" 1. That I wee as the morning of the 27th day of Jo-
mazy last (the day after the rule ail for the dismiseal of
We petition was obtained) served with • notice from Mr.
Thome Wells, the petitioner's solicitor, stating that {hie
nail bad been eemprounised.
"2. I thereupon, on the mid 27th day of Jan., wrote
and swat to Mr. Wells s letter, of which the following is a
tea espy :

" ' 2, SlapUs lon. 27th January, 1864.

DIVO/101 PiTITION.

" oompegoense of the reosipt this moment of a
unties from yes, that this suit hula; been compromised
(and of which you must be fully aware) I am hi-
stmoted by the petitioner to withdraw from it, se his
solicitor, find thirst we refuse sod decline to nether, any
Two* notices or letters from you is it,' I beg at coos to
inform yes, that neither directly nor indirectly have I
heard • NOW* of the suit (by which I presume you meat
the petition for ativoree) having been oompromised.l And
I further beg to inquire from you when, where,
by whom ft was, ea you allege. se compromised I
Uaisee yea prove to me that the petition has been eem-
retailed by the respondent I shall on Tuesday next pre.
reed exactly as if your whom had not beat reesived.
And I beg further to give you notice that I shall use this
letter in evitlesee before the court.—Tours, he., Cesium
HoiraLev, solicitor for the rsepoodent.'
"'To Yr. Thos. Wells, solicitor to the petitioner, 47,
Noorgebiotreet, (Sty.'
"3. No answer of any kind has been retuned by the
aid Nr. Thos. Wells to my said letter.
" 4. Up to this time no further step has bun taken by.
or o• behalf of, the petitioner in the prosecution of the said
petition', as I have asurtained by inquiry at the proper
office of this honoerable court in making this my affidavit.
"b. Up= requisition of the solicitors of the co-reeve.
deal an the 30th of January last, whether they had heard or
kww.f say compromise of the mid petition by or on beb'lt
of their client, I was smug that no such oompromiss wee
kaolin to or had been heard of by them on the part of the
oe.respoodeat
"oompromies of this petition, aired or indirect,
has emanated from, been sanctioned by, or known to ma, as
solicitor to the respondent ; and I em informed by the ro-
spoedist, and verily believe, that no such oompromies his
been siNgeeted, sanctioned, or hued of by bar, sad that me
puma has seen ber upon the subject of • compromise
thereof.—Ocuu.ss Homm."

COURT OP BANX.RUPTCY.
Melees yr. Registrer
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me wee the k sitter coder the baslorspeol of Jews
Crawler, seershent. Cl 43. X isoing-leafa andel Old Cherliss.
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os the 12th Jemmy. He seated as the asses cd bin
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sod de., of Oast's. 3.4911.; Oriental Bask. 1,1031.;
J. lidnensiii awl Sos. Welshed-ewe, 3,0001.
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Brothers sad Barka They fad that the Jetta. seemed
sad snse=sisonoll 90.1211.: large oessignsiests et
goods wheld the eionsed creditors, but the moans is at
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