The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENRIO, JULY 30, 1864.

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pin some fair liberties that we had holed for. The
ecclesiastical encroachment dispired in tie form
of a Bill of mere convenience--for the perform-

ance of Divine Service in Collegiate soltseb--bur
been sucoessfully resisted ; and ac has Mr. Bomas'a
Sunday Bill, and Mr. Lawsores Perzaimeve Bill.
But, on the other hand, the Test Abolition Bill
of Mr. DODSON was lost; and nothing has been
done towards relieving conscience in the matter

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(isonz's 774811111AKI.)
THE PEACE NEGOTIATION&
VIEN3fA, JULY 213.
It is considtsed probable that the armistice will
be prolonged for a short period.
No understanding relative to the basis of peaoe
has yet been arrived at.
It is said that Herr von Bismark having been
summoned by the King has left for Gsatein.

• ANKRICA.
(savrar's Tirsolux.)
(Per Me Ads. vie Orookhaves.)
NSW YORK, JULY 19, EvEars.

Secretary Feassoden has declined the terms
offered by the banks for the loan of 50,000,000 dolls.
The Atlanta journals consider Atlanta in immi-
nent danger.
Confederate despatches from Charlestown assert
that the Confederates have driven the Federals
from John and James's Island to Morris Island.
The Confederate batteries have driven the
Federal gunboats in the Stone river out of range.
One monitor has been seriously damaged.

114TELLIGENCE.

xaw YORK. JULY 19, Emma.

Money tight Gold, 262. Exchange on London,
290. Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 133.
Illinois, 1251. Erie, 1132. United States 5-20
Bonds, 104. Cotton : Middling upland, 160 c. to
163 c. Petroleum, crude, 65c. ; refined, 88c.

(By Telegraph lo Halifax.)
NEW YORK, JULY 21, Evonta.

The situation at Petersburg is unchanged. Sher.
man's cavalry is operating to cut the railway com-
munication between Atlanta and Augusta.
Several encounters have taken place between
Hunter's forces and the Confederates retreating
from Maryland. The Federal* captured four guns
and a large amount of stores.

The New York Times and Herald publish
despatches asserting that Mr. Horace Greeley and
President Lincoln's Secretary, Mr. Hay, as repre-
sentatives of the President, have had several inter-
views with Southern politicians at the Niagara
Falls in Canada relative to peace negotiations.
It is reported that Mr. Stanton will shortly
resign. Mr. Fessenden will offer a popular loan
for seven three-tenths non-legal tender Treasury
notes at par, the interest to be payable in currency
and the notes to be convertible at maturity in three
years into bonds bearing six per cent. interest, pay-
able in gold.

President Lincoln bee called for 500,000 volun-
teers ; if they are not obtained before September a
draft for the deficiency will be made for one year's
service.

General Sherman is south of Chattohoochee,
within ten miles of Atlanta. Yesterday the Confede-
rates made three attacks upon his lines, but were
repulsed each time.
Rumours of peace negotiations are current.
The Damascus, America, Edinburgh, and Europa
have arrived out..

NEW YORK, JOLT 2L

Money tight. Gold 258. Exchange on London,
281. Stocks tending downwards. New York
Centrals, 132 ; Illinois, 123 ; Erie, 1081 ; United
States 5.20 Bonds, 104. Cotton quiet ; middling
Upland, 160 to 162. Flour, wheat, corn, and
provisions declining. Coffee steady ; sugar dull ;
molasses quiet. Petroleum, crude, 54 to 55 ;
refined, 83c. to 85c.

THE YELVERTON JUDGMENT.

The following letior from the respondent ap-
pears is She Time of Ilde await :
. .

. -
" tesagalskag with pailtode the vary able and
jig statement of my an in year article of the morning,
will you allow me a alert spas to correct an error, which
mod Englishmen, together with yoarself, would naturally
fall into—namely, that the decision of the three Isar Lords
is final ? Such is mat, however, the case. A Scotch de.
carats( of manage is proved by ' writ or oath,' and the
one may follow upon the other. The next legal step, there-
fore, to be taken in Sootlaod is a reference to oath of parties,
until which gnome shall have teen goes through the
opinion' of their lordships in this country will not be rati-
fied. In other words, the High Court of Session in Scot-
land will not extract judgmeut.'
"Had the Haase of Lords, at the request of my asuneal,
the Lord Advocate, granted the judicial exantimatioe, then
the judgment, ea you truly state, would have been final,
bemuse both method' of proving marriage would have been
exhaustr d. As it is, the reference to oath is eonspateot.
" Perfectly agreeing with you that it can be no aatisfac-,
Hon to be the wife of-Major Yelverton, yet the nature of
the action brought against a sod the defame est up in
I answer to mine are such as to dam's,e me of honour and
fair fame, unless I wowed in establishing my wifehood.
The very petition of the action is such as to indelibly
brand any women aplast whom it should be ganted.
Against such a sentence I have struggled for six years,
laud probably may for six more, if life by litigation is not
stunted. You will also allow me to remind you and the
public that the verdict of • jury confirmed by four judges is
still unmanned in Inland, and that by the laws of my
church I ant Major Yelverton's wife, and during his life as
never be mother'• Such, I beg to submit, ia my actual
position, and to do what is right and beet in it is my sole
and earnest prayer.—l Tema, sir mtly_
lIILTERTON.
"29, Cambridge-terra*, July 29."
In • letter addressed to another contemporary, after inti-
mating her intention with regard to examimatioa on oath,
the respondent says :—" I believe its the fleet principle of
English justice, on which we pride ourselves over all other
mattoma, that • man should not la condemned unheard, and
that he should be allowed to question face to face his ac-
cusers. Yet this is erectly whet I have been deprived of,
bet which, at this rage of the ease, I can and do demand.
The reason why the Scotch smut did not have recourse to the
examination of potties was simply that the Scotch lords, being
so much more familiar with their own law than Englishmen
can be supposed to be, were at no loss to discern • marriage
on the written evidence before them ; and the Scotch horror
of perjury ever induces them to defer to the last extremity
the examination of the parties themselves. The practical
result of this reference to oaths would be, that should one
party prove sufficient to establish • marriage—or the other
fail to show that none bad taken place—the Court of
Session would refuse to endorse the opinion given
in the House of Lords, and the whole ma
might be again brought before them. Hence, I appeal
to the public through your medium to suspend their
judgment until this last ordeal shall have been tried,
and that the more especially as the Irish verdict of a jury
ad four judges, declaring me the wife of Major Yelverton,
still stands unanotalled. Had the action raised against me
bees one of nullity, or an action to prove that the mar-
riages, Scotch or Irish, were neither of them legal, I should
not assuredly have wasted six years of my life, my health,
sod fortune in the contention to be the wife • man who
refused to recognise me in that capacity. But the form of
action raked up from obscure barbarian, and held forth as
• means of escape to an unfortunate and desperate
man, is such u to load me with infamy, and drag
me down to the depths whence there is no degrada-
tion deeper for • woman. A hundred years ago there was
such an action in England, called jactitation, resorted to by
men to rid themselves of the claims of those they had dim-
honoured. No woman with a soul above a slave's would
submit in silence to nob contumely. By this action they
have left me but the alternative which the noble Wallace
gave to his men—' To do, or die.' I hold my honour as a
precious gem, which it is my duty to defend with my life,
and by every power it
strength of mind that Cod bas
given me : and as lam an honest woman in the sight of
Heaven, I will so defend it till the last pulsation of the
heart, and never desist until I have cat the foul slander
from my hitherto untarnished fame."
(From the Saturday Review.)

In taking leave of this remarkable cove, it will be quite
enough to recall the significant fact of the gradual change in
public opinion which has taken pleas Uwe March, 1861.
The more the cue has been sifted, the more its merits have
become known. For Major Yelverton but little can be said.
He was subjected, on the Irish trial, to a grossly unfair crow
examination. In the coarse of the bullying, or, as in Ire-
land they cell it, the ballyragging, which be met with in
the witness-box, he delivered himself of some very
mane, unfeeling, nod indecent theories on the non.
marital intercourse of the sexes. He also seems,
in one of his letters, to have hinted at something
' very like abortion • and all that is connected with his
wartime with Mn Forbes shows a cold, unfeeling, worldly,
heart. But in his previous intercourse with Miss Long.
worth it seems to us that be was much more the pursued
than the pursuer. At any rats, be gave the lady fair
wan clog. He pointed out that her "ruin" could be the
only result of a renewal of their acquaintance, and he gave
her the choice of receiving it or not. That renewal was
her act, not his. Of course, a man of the highest prin-
ciples would Dever' place this perilous alternative before a
susceptible. passionate woman. Bat Major Velverton did
not pretend to be this. He described himself all along,
sod truly enough, as cold, selfish, secanal, self.iodulgeot,
and wider of anybody's interests when brought into col.
Haim with his own pleasure. He was certainly not quite the
hoy.victim which at one time his nowise, foiled it convenient to
represent him. He was a man of the world. The tempta-
tion was rather a bore than otherwise ; bat as he could not
get rid of the temptation without taking sours trouble' be
let the tempter have her own way, perfectly resolved that
the temptatioo, however it might end, should not get him
into more serious trouble than must unavoidably come of
say liaison. He felt it to be of no use straggling against
the strong will of Theresa Loogworth ; but he all sloeg
made up his mind that, as he was to be the lady's victim, it
should he en his own terms, not hen No doubt this is a
very low standard of morality ; bat it is, we fear,
not an uncommon one ; and it certainly is that
upon which, and upon which aloes, the case
as • whole can be cousistently interpreted. As to Miss
Longworth, we would now say AS little 111 we can. When
all the world was on her side—when she was the triam-
haat object of what are called Irish ovations, when all
made her virtues as much an article of faith as
Queen Mary's inooceoes and when nearly the whole of
England echoed their ealutatiosse—we expressed ourselves
intelligibly on this lady's life and character. The highest
English tribunal his now fully accepted that view which four
years ago was both uncommon and unpopular. It wine un-

generous to prom heavily on anyone' who is doers ;
doubly engeserous is the case of • W01:11102 of very remarkable
powers, great intellectual aorecoplishmente, and now labour-
rug noder the heavy burthen of failure and humiliation.
To say that, is our judgment, she fully deserves her fate,
may sound harsh ; but to say much less were to com-
promise the interests of truth and morality. She has
thorny bed to lie on, but she has made it for herself Aod
if we express ourselves strongly, it is chiefly because the
Lord High Chancellor of England has thought proper. in
his judicial capacity, not only to pronounce a high eulogiurn
on the intellectual capeeity displayed in Miss Lour worth's
letters, but to declare that their tone is coexistent with
" hosourable courtship." The interests of morality would,
we think, be seriously compromised were this judgaseat
to rest on any higher grounds than Lord Westbury's
opinion of what may be the proper style of correspoodeime
between numarried—ar, far the matter of that, between
married—persona. To right-thisking persons, than is
much is these terrible letters which ts simply loathsome.
We have no notion of making a heroine of such a person
as Miss Longworth.
(From the Spertator.)
It would seem that the reasoning of the majority of
the judges was souod, and that Miss Longwortb com-
pletely failed in establishing her case. We rejoice at
this conclusion, first for the sake of the children, who at
least are free from blame. and secondly for the sake of the
public. The extraordinary laxity of the Scotch law renders
it of the gravest importance that the facts from which con-
mot may be inferred should be proved beyond the shadow
of doubt. If questionable evidence, if a mere balance of
probabilities., is to establish those facts, Scotland will be
one large • trap in which unweary strangers will
be caught without eves a chance of escape. The
forms of marriage to which we have had to refer
are by no means the only irregular modes in which the rela-
tion may be crested, and as the Irish Chief Justice wittily
romerked, the only wonder is that there is a human beieg
in Scotland still unmarried. Bat whatever may be our
judgment as to the truth of Miss Loogwarth's rase, there
is very much to be said is palliation of her conduct. We
do not are to characterise the allegation of Major Yel-
tartan that she was scheming to become his mistress.
Did it need, forsooth, any scheming to effect that?
Does be wish us to take him for a Joseph ? The
most the letters prove is a somewhat indelicate attempt
to allure or excite him into marriage, and she may at least
plead in her excuse as ardent and unselfish love. When
she failed to warm the heart of en avowed mosey-hunter, she
It least stipulated for • valid by the rules of the
catholic hierarchy, and such as always been held to have
redeemed the fame of Mrs. Fitzherbert. We ass far from
ussitoics to compare the two women, but the errors of Miss
Lowman!' are at least attributable to her unbounded trust
In Major Yelverton. Re certainly promised to take no other
wife, even if he denied her the legal status which alone
could justify her conduct in the eyes of the world. When
after a few short months the most sacred obligations we
wo
coldly broken through, when she found herself dishonoured.
deserted. sod betrayed, what wonder is ft if in her despair
she tried to convert moral claims into legal rights. and what
man among us will have the courage or Q. heart to insist as
the unscrupulousness of one who had certaisly bean taught
no better lesson by men?

(From the London Review.)
The cam kas now been so many years is litigatice,
that we should thisk it mast be • relief even to Mrs.
Yelverton to have it neatly disposed of. Whether
the was married legally or not, we presume there as.
be no doubt that she thought she was ; and it is
at all events • viadicatiou of her character that in the oaly
trial is which her as.. was investigated by the sole satis-
factory test—the collocation of doeomeet•ry and oral avi-
deice —she MOO oat deer from the stain which Major
Yokota' would have And upon kit utter ibe most

searching cross•examination, while the petits:lan certainly
presented himself in a most pitiable upect. It is also a
emulation to hear that two Scotch judges, with the Lord
Chancellor of England and Lord Brougham, hold that she
was ',ally married. That she acted Prudently or boom.
tatty is more than we can say ; that she loses a bad bargain
in losiog the major we think everyone but the major him.
self will be dispceed to admit.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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SUNDAE.
OM NOCIlltiN IOThAY.
W. to N. and back, Masts. W.S.W. to N.N,w.,
fresh to strong. fresh to moderate,
showers on west some rain westward.
coast
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W. N.W. to N.N.K., SOUTHERN. N. N. W to EN. E,
fresh to moderate, moderate, fine.
generally floe.
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rate to fresh, fine. rate, toe.
Ncethern=Scotland. Wartersmlreland, Wales, and ad-
!smooths. Soatbent=Enallsla Chum& and Bit of Biscay. healers
saltastward inglsnd and North Sea.

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES AT SOUTH KV:SING-
TON.—The distribution of prizes to the students of the
schools of art at South Kessington took place yesterday.
Owing to the unavoidable absence of Earl Granville the
prizes were distributed by Mr. Burchett, the head-muter,
who, previous to heading the prizes to the successful
students, expressed the great pleasure he felt in having so
many recipients of prises before him, knowing, as he did,
the efforts made by the students in both schools. sn-i the
high honours obtimied. The past year bad been the most
successful of any since the opening of the dames. The
following is a list of male students who have passed their
examination and received books and local medals:—
M. Butterfield, W. Carter, J. L. Chapman, R. Dyer, R.
W. Gaudy, W. W. Morrison. J. R. Nicholson, R. P.
Notley, J. cliff, F. A. Slooombe, G. Robson, J. Appleton,
T. Bodle, A. Calmest, H. H. Canty, C. Useropioa, C. P.
Clarke, C. V. Hunter, G. W. Joy, H. R. Payee, C. G.
Piednue, W. Smith, and L. Thom's'. The female stades%
who have passed the seine stags were :—A. M .Abbott, A. J.
Challice, M. It. David, F. E Hall, S. Hull, C. Hull, J. K.
Humphreys, I. Laing, M. Mama. A. L Poring. L. Hodges,
W. A. Walker, F. Westbrook, E. A. Schutze, E. Arm.
strong, M. Backbones, A. Bradley, M. A. Gantry, C. 8.
Goldsmith, K. Green, C. Halliwell, E. M. Jackson, F. A.
. Pollee E. L. Renton, M. Snell, and M. T. Villiers.

CARS OF HYDROPHOBIA IN STOCKPORT.—A ca,e
of hydrophobia was sent to the union workhouse on Wed.
nearly night. It was that of a youth, named Job Wol.
stencroft, aged 16, sow of Mr. Wolstesicroft, keeper of the
Heaton Chapel tollbar, Heaton Norris. It appears that on
the 4th of June a strange dog ran into the house, biting
not only the lad slightly on the thumb, but also his father
and his younger brother, aged 14 (deaf and dumb), in-
flicting wounds of a more serious character. The wouads
were cauterised and attended to regularly by a surgeon,
but the bite on Job's thumb caused no apprehen-
Millis on account of its superficiality, and there being no
mtpicion about the dog's madness. During the week, how.
ever, the father became alarmed at the symptoms of his
nom Jobs sad by the advice of a surroo be seat for a cab
to take the boy to the infirmary. This was a work of some
difficulty, ae he became excited on the appearance of
strangers, and manifested the greatest repugnance to quit-
ting his bed, He bit one or two of the assistants in a very
savage manner. By 8 o'clock in the evening of Wednesday,
48 hours from the first symptoms of the attack, he was
raving mad. Efforts were made at the infirmary to mill.
gate his sufferings by draughts, but he refused everything,
and at midnight it became oeceseary to remove him to the
paUed room at the Union Workhouse. Here he was with
difficulty put under restraint, but hie agonies increased,
and he died at 7 o'clock is the more*

DROWN= WHILIE BATIIINO.--0a Wednesday
morning the Rev. William Arnot Stirling, minister of
Cludreen's Free Territorial Church, Dundee, was drowned
while bathing at Broughty Ferry. Mr. Stirling had been
living along with his family at the Ferry Meson's weeks past
for the ma bathing, and on Wednesday rooming went down
to the water about 8 o'clock, as usual. He went is at the back
of the Castle, when the water soon becomes very deep and
whores strong tide runs. After swimming about for a short
time he was heard to utters cry, and seen to throw up his
arms, and almost immediately sank. Mr. Hynd, greater,
wbo was walking on the beach at the time, heard the cry, and
ran towards the rock, casting off his clothes as be went. He
sprang into the water and swam towards Mr. Stirling, who
was sinking for the third time. As Mr. lined neared him,
however, the unfortunate gentleman moved his arms faintly,
and sank in deep water. A salmon noble coming up at this
moment, Hr. Byad got into it and dived for the body, but
the current carried him away from it. The fishermen then
got out their boat-hooks, and after some trouble succeeded
in raising the body into the boat, which they rowed rapidly
to the shore. The body was immediately taken to the
baths, and medical assistance promptly obtained, but all
efforts to restore animation proved unavailing. Mr. Stir-
ling was ordained in 1854. He leaves • widow and three
young children to lament his untimely end.—Scoternan.
REEDER IN STAFFORD:OHRE. —On Thursday
evening the dead body of an eged man, named George
Walker, formerly a fanner, WAS found lying at the door of
his hut at Audley, Staffordshire, by a labouring man,
named John Noreop, a friend who bed been in the habit of
visiting him, and had spent the previous evening them.
The poor man's skull was completely beaten in, his nose
broken, and other injuries had bees inflicted--apparently by
some blunt instrument. Norcop had left him in his usual
good health on the previous night. Walker was some 20
years ago the occupier of the Bignell-hill Tavern, in the parish
of Audley. Since that time he has followed no regular
°emptier', but has lived a somewhat solitary life, and wu
eccentric in his habits. Three years since he built himself
a rude but of rough stones on a piece of waste land—a sort
of drumble covered with briars—contiguous to the farm
he once occupied, and bad lived there ever since,:ruttl
a small piece of ground by which the hut was s
Part of the wall of this hut, near the door, has been palled
down, so that the door might be opened end an antrum
gained ; and the dammed appears to have been struck as he
lay on hie bed, which consists of a beech and as oil bag,
os which blood was found, sod afterwards dragged to the
door of the hut, where the body was found. Tne object
seems to have been plunder, the old man being knowa to
have had money own, if not lately, and a tiller watch and
half-a-crown he had being misaiag. Inquiries are still being
pursued.
THE DERRYVRAOH MURDER IN TRILLAND.ThO
ry have been discharged • second time in the trial of
Francis Bradley, for what is called the Darragh murder.
Adam Crimson, the steward to • gentleman mused Adair,
living at Denymegh, was mortally wounded in April, 1863.
Before his death be identified Bradley as his murderer, but
the evidence otherwise against him was slight, if not coo-
tradictory. Two juries, at successive amines, have, how-
ever, been unable to agree in a verdict, still the judge de-
dim the " responsibility" of admitting the prisoner to
bail. He leaves him to make an application to the Court of
queen's Bench.
ANOTHER GAROTTER TO BE ]?LOGGED.—Edward
Birch, 17, was tried on Thursday, at the MancliesterAmizes,
before Mr. Baron Pigott, for having at Manchester on
the 6th of April, together with three other peewee.
assaulted Samuel Antonia, and with violence robbed him
of a pair of spectacles. Mr. Jordan prosecuted. The
prosecutor is • warehouseman hying in Hodge-lane, Bel-
ford. At midnight on the Bth of April. he was going up
Liverpool-road, when • man jumped on his back, put
his arms round his neck and threw him into the gutter.
The principal winless sgainst the penalise was a police-
officer named John Taylor, who, on the night in ques-
Roo, was in Liverpool-road in plain clothes. He saw the
prosecutor walking down the street, and also sew four
young men following him. The young men were talking
together Man undertone. This excited his suspicion, and he
followed on the opposite side of the road. He saw one of the
men jump on the prosecutor's back. The prosecutor fell, and
then all the rest fell upon him. The prisoner had his knee
on the prosecutor's chest, and his hand to hie throat. Wit-
WINS seized the prisoner, sad the other three can away. The
prosecutor, not knowing the witness was • policoolffeer, ran
away crying out " Murder " and " Police." The pram-Moe
missed his spectacles duriug the struggle. When in cus-
tody, the prisoner said if witness would go back to the spot
they would dad the spectacles. The 'pentacles were not found.
The prisoner, in his defence, said the prosecutor was in com-
pany with two females, and was aas•ultd by four other men
with whom he bad no coonexion whatever. The prosecutor, at
the polioeoffice, mid he did not know who threw him
down, and he was only persuaded to come against him by
the police. The prisoner was found guilty. His lordship,
is sentencing the primmer said his cam was one of those
which were rather upon the increase, and which it was
highly desirable, if possible, to prevent by punishment, if
it could not be done by any other means. He had no
doubt that the prisoner was in the act of strangling the
proseentor, in order to make him incapable of resistance;
and although he bad only Pest begun to carry out his is-
tsatbs he was prevented, the ioteatios was equally
wicked es if he had completed the set The MIS wee aet
one to apply a modem act of parliament, and be should
asetemes the primmer to be imprisoned for 12 mouths, and
within a week to be whipped with an hestrumeet called
" the eat," or perhaps a birch-rod would be better, sad to
rimare 26 hobos.