The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9.

one of those volumes of ingenious speculation
with which Sir Geosos Lawn; beguiles the inter-

vale of budgets of peace and budgets of war he has
inserted a curious chapter on the worth, as evi-
dence, of visible memorials of facts. General
belief requires material attestations. Accordingly
it gets them. At Rome there is an unbroken
series of portraits of the Popes from the first
to the last. There is also in the world enough
wood of the true Cross to build a man-of-

war. Fabrications of this sort are not intended to

support and confirm the belief in a certain fact ;
they rather grow out of it, and are designed chiefly
to satisfy the curiosity which the existence of the
belief engenders. The observation may be carried
a step farther. The unreal, as well as the real,
may have its monument. The egg of LEDA,
the clay from which PROMETHEUS formed the
human race, and the ivory rib of Pxxors, have
all been severally seen by wondering mortal
eyes. The ancients, however, have been super-
seded in this line by the moderns, for
the ecclesiastics in Spain are said to show a round
of Jacoe's ladder. When men feel respecting a

thing an inward sense of certainty which can

neither be increased nor shaken, why should they
surround it with supposed proofs which only give
a handle to cavillers f We can only reply, that
such is human nature. Faith is its own evidence ;
true, but it is exorbitant, and insists on the
outward sign.
We all know that London is at this moment full
of garotters. They knock you down in the prin-
cipal streets in broad daylight. Last week they
murdered three people in the public streets. They
take all shapes and disguises, from the labourer
going late home from work, to the stout farmer
come up to see the Cattle Show. The evidence of
their existence surrounds us : it is in men's faces
and in the cutlers' and gunsmiths' shop-windows.
Why else do we all carry revolvers and bowie-knives?
The presumption is that—your private friends and
the police exoepted—every man you meet is only
looking for a chance to get you by the throat and
relieve you of your watch and chain. These facts
being so well known and universally received, it is
unaccountable, except on the general principle
just stated, that any one should be at the
trouble of supplying superfluous " facts in aid
"of faith," in the form of detailed reports of
assaults ending in murder. Three such reports ap-
peared in the newspapers last week, and whatever
the intentions of their authors, it seems certain
that the effect of them will be to trouble and con-
fuse rather than to confirm and enlighten the public
mind. It may not be generally known that there exists
in the City a set of sceptical philosophers,who from
the beginning of the prevailing excitement have made
the garotte literature of the newspapers the object
of a determined and destructive criticism. The

Coryphieus of this rationalistic school is Mr.
DAKIEL WHITTLE HARVEY, who no sooner nada a
paragraph giving an account of an assault than he
subjects it to an inquisitorial process of torture
under which some of the most prosperous stories
have been known to break down. Of late
it has been his practice to send direct to the
office of the journal most concerned one of his
myrmidons, skilled by long practice in un-
ravelling tangled skeins of evidence, and who
politely requests an interview with the reporter.
We forbear to remark upon a practice so sub-
versive of the ancient and intimate under-
standing existing between a useful section of
the profession and " the force," or to dwell
on the depressing effect which a harassing and
continuous inquisition must have upon the
modest and meritorious brotherhood who
supply us with casual news. Surely some
consideration is due to a class of men
who are second to none in the accuracy with which
they gauge the mind of the public, and whose only
fault, if it be a fault, is, that they serve it with
too much zeal. Suppose a paragraph or two out
of many to be, not " fictitious"—which is not
to be thought of—but " unhistorical," would not
a genial and appreciative criticism regard it as a
kind of crystal fairly deposited from the mind of
the day ?

A special set seems to have been made at the
garotte murders reported last week. Thus the
Coroners and the police persist in knowing nothing
of MICHAEL Gartrrrv, of Webber-street, St.
George's-road, and, as his body has not been
found, an attempt is made to throw doubt not
only on his decease but on the reality of his alleged
existence. Mrs. STUILEE, who was said to have
been thrown down and robbed in Stamford-place,
Lambeth, and has not since been heard of,
has in like manner been forced into the family of
myths. The gentleman at Sydenbam, alleged
to have been garotted in Whitechapel, it is
now pretended died of consumption, the last
wrong he sustained at the hands of thieves being
the picking of his pocket five years ago. En-
couraged by its successes, negative criticism essays
• bolder flight, and is now undertaking to produce
in the flesh and sound in health, the victims which
rumour had consigned to an untimely grave. This
has been attempted in the case of the pieman of
Lambeth-walk, who was robbed of his little all,
and so hurt that he died of his injuries. When

the police went into the neighbourhood, • the
murdered man—who must have owed thliisiperter
a grudge—was going about with the thwart non-
chalance selling his pies. In view et these circum-
stances, it has become a question whether society,
which must know its own condition better than the
philosophers in blue, is to have its cherished beliefs
nibbled away by petty carping at details.
Against such a misfortune perhaps the beat war-
rant is to be found in the Anti-Garotte societies,
which are forming in various parte of the town.
As every member of these will have given, by the
purchase of pistol, dirk, or other weapon, a mote-
-1 rial guarantee of the strength of his convictions,
and will have to justify an exceptional expenditure
'by the fearful state of the streets, it is to be ex-
parted that a great deal of information relating to
dangers encountered, averted, or repelled, will be
exchanged amongst their members, and that from
these centres an impulse will be given which, coun-
teracting the devices of incredulity, will brace the
public mind to vigilance and maintain its proper
tone.

be court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Ds c. 8.

The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louis
of Hew and Princess Beatrice, and attended by the Hon.
Mrs. Bruce, drove out this morning in a ea:liege and four.
Lieutenant• Colonel Hon. D. de Ras was in attendance on
horseback. _ _ .

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The Princes' Helena, amompenied by the Coniston
Blucher, drove in the pounds.
Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, left the
Castle this morning and returned to Greenwich-perk.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, Sir G. C.
Lewis, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke
of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the
Right Hon. Edwarl Cardwell, and the Right Hon.
C. P. Villiers.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town yester-
day from Hawarden Castle, Closter.
Despatches were received yesterday at the .00106 d-office
from the Governor of the Mauritius. Despatches we re sent
to the Governor of Falkland blends, and to the Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left
town yesterday afternoon for Knowsley Hall, seer Prsecott,

on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Derby.
The Earl Russell has recovered from his severe
cold. Yesterday his Excellency Baron Brunnow and his
Excellency M. Mumma had interviews with the noble earl

at the Foreign-office.
The Earl and Countess of Derby have entertained
the Earl of hialmesbury, the Earl and Countess of Tanker-
villa, the Earl and Countess Spencer, Viscount Canterbury,
Viscount and Lady Cecilia Bingham, Lord and Lady Col-
ville, and Mr. and Hrs. Baillie Cochrane, at Knowsley,
during the past week. Lord Stanley, M.P., and Colonel
the Hon. W. P. and Lady Emma Talbot are also staying at
Knowsley. The gentlemen have had good sport consider-
ing the scarcity of birds.
The Earl of Leicester came to town yesterday
Irani Holkham Hall, Norfolk. At the close of the week
his lordship returns to his country seat in order to receive
a large circle of friends for shooting over the extensive
preserves.
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have
received a numerous and distinguished party during the
past week at Bretby Park, Burton-on-Trent, comprising
I the Duke of Rutland, the Duke and Duchess of Hart-

borough, Maria Marchioness of Aileebury, the Earl and
Countess of Carnarvou, Count Strzelecki, Lord and Lady
Wharneliffe, Lord Lismore, Hon. George W. Fitzwilliarn,
Hon. and Rev. Orlando Forester, Colonel the Hon. Henry
Forester, Hon. Frederick Calthorpe, M.P., Colonel the
Hon. W. and Mrs. Curzon, Miss Anson, Mr. Saville, Mr.
Calcraft,

The Earl and Countess Spencer have returned
to Aithorp Hall, Northamptonshire, from visiting the Earl
and Countess of Derby, at Knowsley, Lancashire. At the
end of the week the e►rl and countess intend to join the
circle invited to meet at Tottenham Park, on a visit to the
Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury.
The Earl and Countess of Cardigan have been
entertaining a select circle at Deane Park during the past
week, including the Counter of Glengall, Mr. and Lady
Evelyn Bruce, the Earl of Wilton, the Earl of Dudley,
Admiral and the Hon. Mrs. Rous, Captain and the Hoe.
Mrs. Vivian, Hon. George Fittwilliam, and Mr. Gilmore.
The noble earl aid c mantes' will continue to receive a sue.
cession of visitors until the meeting of parliament.
Lord and Lady Burners have arrived in town
from visiting Lord and Lady Dahmer*, at Vale Royal,
and Mr. and Mrs. Tollemache, at Peckforton Castle,
Cheshire.
The Sackville-street Club, one of the principal
conservative clubs in Dublin, if not the principal, at the
fullest meeting of members ever held, have elected Sir
Robert Peel unanimously ; there was not a single black
beau. This is au honour which no liberal chief secretary
ever received before in Ireland.

In consequence of the near approach of the
Bishop of London's examinations of candidates for his
general ordination at Christmas next, his lordship does not
propose to hold further Tuesday leves at London Home,
St. James's-square, until the commencement of the new
year.
Charles Hugo's dramatic version of his father's
novel of the " Mithables" is to be produced, It is an-
nounced, at the Victoria Theatre in Berlin.
At the Friedrich-\Vilhelmstadt Theatre, Berlin,
they are now performing the Orphan of Lotoood,
founded on Miss Bront2e famous romance. Madame
Niemann-Seebach takes the part, of Jane Eyre, and (which
monde rather odd to English ears) the principal male cha-
racter has been raised to the peerage by the title of Lord
Rochester.
Certain persons, belonging to that political party
which has lately lifted up its bead so much in Prussia,
propose, it is said, to present to the ex-King of Naples a
silver shield, commemorative of his exploits and miefor-
tunes, and for which the design is already sketched. It
represents Francis IL on a rock, defending himself against
the attacks of a troop of demons, two among which are
considered unmistakeably to resemble Victor Emmanuel
and Garibaldi.
The Cologne Gazette speaks of a court of inquiry
which is to be instituted against two naval officers of the
East Asiatic expedition on rather a singular charge. While
the Prussian frigate Thetis lay before Jeddo her com-
mander, a lieutenant, and a commissary, went on shore to
look about them, in uniform, but unarmed. In a remote
suburb of the city they were pursued by an armed Japanese
officer, who was apparently drunk. Anxious to avoid col-
lisions with the natives, which might have led to cense-
' quencee fatal to the treaty it was one of the object& of the
expedition to negotiate, seeing also neither honour nor I
profit to be gained by a quarrel with a tipsy Japanese,
they took refuge in a n►tive house until he had gone his
way. Nobody attached any importance to the matter at
the time, nor thought of imputing any fault to the officers,
the principal of whom is considered ono of the best in the
Prussian service. After the lapse of a year and a half it ie
proposed to institute an investigation, which has excited
no little astonishment among the comrades of the persons
thus tardily inculpated.
Up to the 27th ult. very nearly four millions of
francs had been subscribed in Russia for the benefit of
families rendered destitute by the late fires at St.
Petersburg.
A letter from Munich of the 4th says that the
ex-Queen of Greece is seen every day at noon on horseback,
In the suburbs, with a lady of honour and some personages
Cl the court.
A Cassel letter in the Hamburg Nelos says :
"The Princess Hohenlohe, daughter of the Prince Elector,
whose husband has gone to America without paying his
debts, which amount to very considerable sums, her been
summoned to ►ppear before the tribunal of the free city
of Frankfort ; as wells* her brother, the second eon of the
Elector. The princess signed bills for 800,000 florins which
her husband put in circulation, and the princess's brother
gave his guarantee by attaching his signature to 80,000
florins' worth of thine bills."

NEW

PRUSSIA.

S.W. to N.W., mode-
rate to strum.

IGENOE.

PROILBLE.

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING,

A GRIER REPUBLIC.
Tba Sick of to-day expresses. its conviction that
if Greece becomes a federal republic with a
Greek President, all the more serious difficulties
will disappear. "Suppose a King of Greece," says
the Seek "be chosen from a family which go-
verns a state of the second or third
order. That family would infallibly gravi-
tate into the orbit of one of the three
great powers, and the equilibrium of influences be
more or less altered. It is not solely from
our preference for that sort of government that
we have addressed this advice to Greece—it is
because we desire French influence to remain
intact, and not be weakened by a choice which
might not have our sympathies."

The Breslau Gazette expresses ita disgust of the

(nor on owl

language used at the interviews of the feudalist
deputations with the King—" language," it nays,
" unworthy of a citizen, of a Prussian, of a man
of honour, and which can only be compared to
the abject crawling of a spaniel. God keep us
from such patriotism ! If the Prussian people
contains only a dozen or two men faithful to the
King, and if the 340 representatives are but
' perjurers,' traitors," revolutionists,' elected,
neverthelesa, by a law which classes the electors
according to their social position and wealth, this
people must be corrupt through all stages of its
society, and neither addresses nor deputations
will save them."

WIDNISDAY. THURSDAY.
8.8.8. to W.S.W., fresh 8001LLID. W. to N., fresh, with
to strong, rainy. some rain.
As above. 'ARLAND. As above, unsettled.
8. to W., unsettled. W. CataltAL. W.S.W. to
sho . wery i N. N.W.,
Train,
8.8. W. to W.N.W., &Winn:HAND. As next above.
strong, some rain.
As next above. B.E. EXOLAND. W.N.W. to N.N.E.,
fresh, some rain.
E. MAST. N.W. to N.A., fresh.

The Brussels indfpendanot of yelterclay evening

. _
announces the death of a distinguished Belgian politician
Y. Verhaegen, formerly president of the Chamber of Re'.
presentative', and of the Brussels Liberal Association, also
grand-master of the Belgian Freemason'.
RICHARD LRNOIR. —This personage, who has just
obtained the posthumous honour of giving his name to one
of the great thoroughfares of Faris, was a celebrated manu-
facturer, born in 1765 of a peasant family at TrOat (Cal-
vados). Be left his native village at the age of 17 to seek
hie fortune, and came to Paris, where, after commencing as
simple port:fr, he engaged in business as a dealer in cotton
goods, and in the course of time became one of the richest
merchants of the period. Wishing to free trade in his own
country from its dependence upon England, he created in
Francs, for the first time, factories for spinning and weaving
cotton. As a manufacturer he was very successful, and re-
ceived great encouragement from Napoleon I, who deca-
-1 rated him with hie own hand. The suppression of the
; import duties in 1814, however, brought oo his ruin, and he
passed his latter days in straitened circumataocea. The real
I same of this remarkable loan was Francois Richard, but
having taken • partner named Lenoir, the two names
became indissolubly associated, and are applied only to
Richard. He died in 1339.
1 A FEDERAL Coss zrrz AT FALMOUTH. The
Federal corvette Onward, Captain Nickels, put into Fel-
' mouth on Saturday last from Fayal to repair some slight
damages and to revictuaL She is about 900 tons, has nine
• guns, and 114 hands, midis one of the ships on the look out
1
for the Alabama.
A bottle was thrown overboard in let. 15 8.,
long 34.30 W., on the 4th of August last, and was picked
up near Bahia on the 27th of that month. It had been
carried by wind and current 273 mike in the M days.