The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 28, 1865.

with trade. Colonel Prado, the chief mover of the
revolution and said to be possessed of great energy,
had erected batteries at Arica to oppose the
entrance of hostile vessels.
In Lima much anxiety prevailed. Vice-Presi-
dent Oausero was suspected of favouring the
movement.
The frigate Amazonas was to leave Callao for
Arica with a strong body of troops to recover that
I)l6e."Her Majesty's ship Shearwater was at Arica,
and the Leander and Naiad at Callao, the latter
was to be sold by auction. The Butlej and Colmar-
i bine were at Panama.

ving eats' fiee, lds desire foe
.rasa, companies.
.s.h.ing Ws rapt audience, he commenced en
übo.'"—Cr„. arguuient to show why he should nut
ae malt tax. At the ma/Ilion of the word
m~sir F. Kelly redouble,', his aspect of Uteri-
n,
it s: erne,' as if, with r. Dort of good.ossured
•ce sr. Gladstone ad dressed to hihimindi-
,
that crushing dein .olition of the hopes of
, tally
e ,gitators fur the rerfid of the tax, in the
uree which he illus' muted his reasoning
with a
e., of anntsing 'tat; Atha of beer-drinking which
volumes arin et any notion of • decrease in
e rooscaptior. os, that national beverage. No-
oold been more skilful than the
ode is whirl he led his argument up to the
• • t at 111.1ich he made it appear that the claim
k,) a reduction of duty in preference
rash 'sere irresistible. Of course to a section of
e horse the charm of the Budget-speech was
and probably to that section even, the
esculent made with peculiar plainness and
scarcely any embellishment, that the income
.ores to be reduced to 4d. in the pound, and
lot that was the rate at which it ought perma-
nently to stand as a peace tax, did not bringl-
much comfort. Indeed one distressed agricu
member was constrained to say
bthat
should prefer a higher income-tax to a
confluence of the malt duty. Recollecting the
circumstances of the almost personal imatest between
lir. Gladstone and Mr. Sheridan on the ques-
tion of the duty oa Fire Insurance, it was
guy perceive that the Chuneallor was
doing his boat to make it understood that
1a reducing that duty he was acting on
tie compulsion pat on him by resolutions of the
house adverse to the government rather than on
irwn individual judgment. In fact there
11111 a latent sneer beneath his manner of din-
gy:ging this part of his task, and he very dis-
tinctly repudiated any personal rasponsibility in
*matter. This completed the statement of the
scud from fiscal burdens which Mr. Gladstone has
offered to the country this year, and which amount
to nearly four millions, he being content to keep
Cu remains of lair surplus to the modest extent of
0u1y253,0001. There was absolute pathos in the
toss in which be deprecated any assault
en this little tribute to the genius
of financial providence ; but be also evinced a or-
ten resolution to struggle hard ere he parted with a
shilling of it to any claimant. As the characteristic
of the whole speech was simplicity, so its peroration
was marked by brevity and the absence of any or-
nate elaboration ; and when he concluded an address
of two hours and forty minutes, be sat down appa-
rently as little disturbed and exhausted physi-
cally as if he had been engaged in a gentle and
unexciting conversation with a familiar friend.
The change of scene which followed was pantomi-
mic in its rapidity : in three minutes there were
not fifty members in the house, and the area was
cleared for Mr. White, who opened a chorus of criti-
cism which, qualified by approval of what had been
done, rang the changes on all sorts of things that
might have been and therefore ought to have been
done. Nobody expected other than cavil, even
in general, from Mr. Bentinck ; but why
should Mr. Marsh and some other gentlemen
have complained because timber and tobacco had
been unheeded when the cornucopia. of the Chan-
cellor of the ixchequer was being tilled ? To be
sure it was hardly to have been expected that Mr.
Sheridan should have been satisfied with the half
contemptuous treatment which the duty on
fire insurance bad received ; it was reasonable
that Mr. Da Cane and Mr. Barrow, and
other advocates of the malt tax, should see
only sophistry in the arguments adduced
for its retention ; nor was it at all surprising that
Lord John Manners should have worked himself
into a passion on this subject, for that is his way
with regard to every subject, and is characteristic
of his peculiar oratory ; but it is remarkable Mr.
Bass should in one voice declare that the con-
tinuance of the malt tax would be permanently an
advantage to him, and yet threaten the govern-
ment with their hearing of their conduct
in respect to it at the general election.
But, however, it happened that as soon as the
magic influence of Mr. Gladstone's eloquence
had subsided, most of those who spoke of his
budget, while thankfully accepting what they
.had
got, asked for more. Personally, their isriticisuis
did not have any immediate effect upon him, for he
had left the house soon after they had begun and did
not return. If the conventional stranger who bas
been introduced into the beginning of this sketch
of the budget night, may be supposed to have re-
mained until half-past 10 o'clock, he would have
realised in the utmost fulness the force of a parlia-
mentary contrast ; for at that hoer a house which
was for the time entirely Scottish, plunged into the
dreary labyrinths of a Sootoh Law Bill.

wide sea glittering in the midday sun. Mr. the alp. Upon that theidefendent Leann von InrY.
Leighton sends some other smaller pictures of 1,11, sad ibetose tst ;21,,h wes a"fellmhe:biil the desk hh• •
picturesque figures. The Missy we. that the words wen sot end, but that
Mr. Hook, ILA., has varied his sea-side studies "It was II•ki we. la lower to htqleise mode by the
plaintiff, sad therefor* privileged communications. The
this year with some charming
`pictures of Breton plaintiff uks4 tudareochist wmuier kid does
fishing women, oneof which the Seaweed Gatherer" , earthing from him, and the latter replied, " No, Mit you
(567) in the north room is particularly happy
colour and truth of study. verdict for the plaiataff—Deamirs,
ia harhe jaryari=thes
,tohee:asse stolen by my men."
101.
Mr. T. Feed, R.A. elect, contributes certainly one
of his best works in, 150, "The Last of the Clans," •
large picture of an old Highlander on his pony by the
side of a wharf with hie friends, who have just bid
good bye to a party of emigrants, the sailors loosen-
ing the hawser from the post on the quay. Mr.
Ward's (R.A.) only picture this year is a highly
dramatic rendering of the seizing of Rizzio
by Ruthven in the chamber of the Queen (258),
a picture also remarkable for powerful colouring.
Mr. Millaia's (ILA.) principal picture hangs in the
corner of the middle room (294), the subject is the
parting of a Roman soldier with his British wife ;
the Roman has flung himself desperately at her
feet and clings round her, while the girl, a fine
Italian looking creature, frowns in savage grief and
anger as she gazes towards the sea, which is seen
rolling beneath the cliffs.
Mr. Ansdell, A.R.A., contributes three large
pictures, the most remarkable of which is "Corn
Threshing in the South of Spain," a large and ex-
tremely well painted picture of this most picturesque
and most characteristic scene peculiar to this part
of Spain. The corn is laid on the ground and horses
are harnessed toe sort of wooden shoe having pieces
of iron on its under surface, on which stands a man
who drives them round and round. The artist has
chosen with the happiest effect, to show one
of the horses " gibbing"—• beautiful sleek.
coated grey—and thus the whole group
is thrown into the most spirited action. This grey
horse is one of the most admirably life-like studies
we ever remember to have seen from any painter of
animals. In the background of the picture rises
the snow-clad range of the Sierra Nevada, and
some very beautiful groups of country people stand
watching and assisting in the work. The " Shrine
in the Alhambra" is a smaller picture, in which
Mr. Anadell has treated the beautiful Moresque
architecture with excellent taste. The subject of
the other work by this artist is in a more popular
vein—The poacher, seized and pulled down with
all his load of pheasants and hares by a fierce
mastiff.
Mr. H. O'Neil, A.R.A., has only one important
picture this year, which, however, does ample
credit to his talent. The subject of this is taken
from an old rhyme, to be found in some of the
histories of England :
Merrily sang the moots of Ely,
As limit King rowed by ;
alluding to the King, when passing in a boat down
the river Ouse, having heard the monks chanting,
and ordered the rowers to stay while he
listened to the music. The boat, filled with
the King and his attendants, and the
rowers resting on their oars, occupies the whole
foreground, or rather water of the picture, and be-
yond is seen the old monastery on an island. The
effect of evening light in the sky reflected upon the
calm water will be much admired in this picture, as
well as the picturesque and well studied figures.
Mr. Elmore., R.A., baa only one picture
(138, "On the brink "), but this will no doubt
be the subject of a great deal of interest,
as it is essentially what may be called a
sensation picture. It shows us the brilliant interior
of the Kursaal, the great public gambling house at
Homburg, with a lady who has lost all but her
good name, seated outside in the moonlight of the
balcony, enduing the proposals of strong man who
talks to her from the room.
Mr. F. Lewis, R.A. elect, has two pictures, one
of which (234) is a most astonishing example of minute
painting of a lady in brilliant dress gathering
flowers in the Bey's garden. The other is a Turkish
school (121), and is equally surprising as a painting
of an interior with figures.
Among many other pictures we noticed particu-
larly Mr. Armitage's " Eather's banquet" (422),
Mr. Mark's " Hark, hark, the dogs do bark "
(331), a group of beggars in the middle-age costume,
and his " Francis Feeble, woman tailor" (591),
from Henry IV., a picture of great humour. 406,
"The Flight of Jane Shore," by Mr. V. Prinsep
162, "A Suburb in Pompeii during the Eruption,"
by Mr. Poole, R.A. ; 304, " Bravo, Toro !" a party
of Spaniards at a bull fight, by J. B. Bur-
gess ; 367, " Arming the Knight," by Mr. Yeames ;
442, "After Work," a gipay tent, by A. Rankley ;
431, Habet : The Condemnation of the Gladi-
ator, by Mr. Solomon ; 514," " A Deputation
He to the
Squire," by E. Nicol ; 560, The Strayed r,"
by H. B. Davis ; 559, " Whitfield Preaching," by
IL Crowe ; 610, " Snowballing," by T. Morgan ;
603, "Hamlet and Ophelia," by Mr. Orchardson ;
and 616, "The Defence of Latham House," by
G. D. Leslie.
The exhibition will generally be pronounced a
very interesting one, and remarkable for the great
variety of talent displayed, as well as the high
technical skill to be observed in most of thepictures.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Setae the Judge Ordinary.)
CLINTON V. CLINTON.
The Quen'e Advocate and Dr. Tristram for the petitioner-
Lady Thomas Pelham Clinics seed for a judicial sepals-
Ow caw the ground of her husband's adultery. The rupee-
dent denied the charge, bet he did not appear. Mismarriage
was in 1842, at which time the petitioner was Kim
Mary Anne Lewis Gritton, with whom the re-
I spoodent had formed • casual acquaintance. The
\union was rerognind by the respondent's brother, the late
Duke of Newcastle and other members of the family, and
it was proved a perfectly happy one till 1858, when Lord
Thomas was induced by pecuniary embarramment to
I leave his wife. At first he resided at Brighton,
when he became manacled with an improper woman,
and he afterwards took her with him to Dieppe.
He continued, however, to correspond with the
petitioner in the most affectionate terms, and when her sue.
picions had become aroused, be informed her that the per-
son residing with him wee his illegitimate daughter, by a
women he had met in Regent's-park. Re also induced
the girl herself to write to Lady Thomas, as
his daughter. This stratagem wee so far suecessful
that it imposed upon the respondent's sable mother sad
upon his solicitors ; and the petitioner wee reproached for
refusing to return to her husband. After she had been de.
sorted she had fallen into great distress, and the means by
which she had been enabled to bring the emit bad been
supplied by her friends. There had been no children.
The case was satisfactorily proved by Richard }tames,
the Inspector of Police at Brighton, who stated that the
person with whom the respondent wee living at Dieppe was
• notorious prostitute at Brighter, the daughter of a
labourer at Lancing, in Sussex.
Separation an prayed.
OTRAT/011D O. STRATFORD AND RICE.
Dr. Bpinks for the petitioner.
The marriage was in 1863, red the parties cohabited in
Norwich, where the petitioner was a commercial traveller
end the eo.reepoodsut a professor of music. The evidence
left no doubt that the rrepondests were in the habit of com-
mitting adultery while the husband was absent on his
journey%
Dome nisi with cats.

THE POLIO& COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

LAMP INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Sittings at C
Hs s in MieliLtssex.—(Bahrs Mr. Justine
g and • Common Jury.)

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MAIM V. BUSH.
This wee an action to recover damages for slander.
Mr. Radon and Mr. Thomas appeared for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Serjeant Ballantine and Mr. Pbilbrick for the
defendant.
The plaintiff was • cowkeeper at Hackney-wick ; and the
defendant was the marsh-keeper, rang not far off. The
plaintiff's owe was that, in November last, his wife and •
went to fetch • pony which had been impounded for
trespassing ; and en this occasion the defendant sail that the
plaintiff was • liar, • thief, and • swindler. He
used similar words to • person who was in.
mining for the plaintiff ; and in • public-house
at Hackney, when he rid that the plaintiff was •
swindler. Al attempt was made to prove special damage by
roman of a Mr. Burrows declining to have further business
trammetions with the plaintiff. It appeared, however, that
what had occurred lappeaed from artain rumours Mr.
Burrows. heard, and sot from anything he heard the
defendant say.
For the defence it was said that the words imputed had
not bees spoken ; aid it was contended that even if the
jiffy should think that some words of the kind bad been
uttered, they ware to be regarded as mere terms of abuse,
and not as imputing an indictable offence.
The jury found for the plaintiff—damages, is.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
SECOND COURT.
Sittings at Niji Prias.—(Before Yr. Baron Ciminoll and
a Common Jary.)
sans.. MrIMIT.-BLMIDB.
This wu an action brought by the plaintiff, a marine store
dealer carrying on business at Bermorkey-wall, against the
defendaat who was a partner
in the firm of Knight and
Mills, ship repairers and owners, of the Fore and Mt Docks, I
Bermondeery, to recover uttered
ia damages for
slander alleged to have been uttered by the elefendAct.
defendant pleaded not cSu
Mr. Ribton and Mr. et were emu& for the plata.
tig ; pieneries, Q. 0., Mr. Boyle for the defendant.
It appeared from the evidence of the plaintiff that ha
wm in the habit of buying old metal. rope. matting. kn.,
that came cat of vessels daring repairs: and that his
.bee was situated exactly opposite the defendants
d
In the early part of September the defendant
warped him net of the dodo and some few days
anemias, finding him ea board one of the ships
that were
wha
wedergabes repairs in the dock, the defendant
asked him t right be had there. The plaintiff replied
tbst be bad the captain's co* to slog Ow rdu 90 Of

quiry in my felony, but could sot find out how it hop-
lifted. It was altogether quite a mystery.
Mr. Selfe—What time wee it that it conned?
Prosecutor—ls the middle el the day, about two o'clock.
Mr. Belle—Was thins fin is the grate in the room?
Prosecutor—No, sir, there had not bees for some time.
I suede many inquiries bet nobody could give me any idea
how it occurred.
Mr. Salle—Wes she the oily servant?
Proseettior-8M weft Her room was at the bottom of
the house. Sbe had no business in that room and she sub-
sequently admitted that she had been there, and bad wil-
fully set the room on lire. It was four days eller that she
made the admission. She said she dad it from feelings of
M&
rs Poole sworn—Prisoner entered my service on the
Ilth of March. The fire took place on Wednesday, the 19th
inst., at ten minutia peat 2 ill the afternoon. It was first
discovered by Police-sergeant Brooker, who told me smoke
was coming from my house, which was on fire. I wee
very mesh alarmed who I first heard of it. I was afraid
my child we in the room, but it happily was not. The
bed, bedding, and a great many tiless were consumed to
seise. There were five engines came, and it had not
been for the intrepidity of the police I have no doubt
that the house would Lave been consumed. The prisoner
has admitted theft as well as having set fire to the house.
She did it beanies she was not permitted to go out. Her
family is very respectable.
Mr. Sells—Prisoner is remanded natal Tuesday.

CLERK EN WELL.
AN APIMENTICI CHARD= WITH ATIMIP7IIIO TO MURDER
BM MAST=
George Henn, Nixon, aged 20, described as an apprentice,
was charged before Mr. D'Eymourt, with attempting to
shoot and murder his master, Mr. W. F. Fuller, carpenter
and cabinet maker, of 424, Essex-road, Langton.
Toe complainant said he was a cabinet maker, and the
prisoner wu his indoor apprentice, and would be out of his
time in about eight or Mae mouths. In coossquence of the
prisoner not obeying his lawful commands, and absenting
himself from his work, he had obtained a summons against
hits from this court, and this was served ou him the pre-
vious evening. No sooner was that done than the prisoner
left the home, and as be did not return at the proper
hour for retiring to rest he locked the doors and gave
directions that he should not be admitted, as he bad been
in the frequent habit of returning home at unseemly hours
and annoying him (complainant) and his family. At an
early hour the following morning he was aroused, and told
ththe prisoner had got to the back doer, aad because
e female domestic had told him he must not enter, he
became very violent, and chased her up the stain ; but
what he intended to do to her, of course, he could not
say. The prisoner packed up his clothes, and took down hie
gun, and was attempting to leave by getting over the wall,
but was foiled in his endeavour. On his (the complainant)
ooming downstairs he found the prisoner in the front shop, I
and seeing him fully dressed, told him that he should not
leave as he wanted him to go to work. The prisoner
muttered something to himself, stepped back a paoe or so,
and took up his gun and pointed it at him. The
prisoner was in the act of taking a deliberate aim at
him and would have fired at him had he not rushed in
and held the muds of the gm down with one hand, and
with the other wreathed the gun from him.
Mr. D'Eyncourt—Was there a cep on the gun?
The complainant—Yes, and it was fully loaded, and had
the gun been fired the contents must have gone through
my skull. My wife also would have been Majored, as she
was standing close behind me.
Kr. D'Eynoonrt—Do you really think that be intended
to shoot you, or only held up the gun to frighten you and
your wife ?
The complainant said he_had so hesitation in vying that
the primmer intended to Fill him or to do him grievous
bodily harm. He was afraid that the prise R[ not
restrained, would do him some injury.
The prisoner, who had takeo off hie out, and had several
times turned his back to the magistrate, was asked if he
wished to ask his master any questions.
The pricioner—Y es. I should liketo know by what right either
you or him can. deprive me of life, aye, even of my liberty.
Mark ma, at present I sun the rightful hair to the mown of
England. There has been a trial, there has been an investi-
gation, there has been a conspiracy between and before the
What nobles in the land, to use and to prove that I am
not fit to take charge of this great kingdom • but it all
failed, and I am now the rightful heir to the crown of
Ragland.
Mr. D'Eynoourt (to the complainant)—You hear what the
prisoner his said. Have you ever noticed anything peculiar
in his mauler before this?
The complainant—Never, until he came into this mat.
He threatened me yesterday and said that if I took him to
the poliomeourt, and he was locked up he would make a
noise and a hole in my house.
Mr. D'Eynoourt asked the complaint if he knew the
prisoner bad the gun in the home, and also inquired if the
prisoner gave way to drink.
The complainant said he was aware the prisoner had the
gun, mid he aged to shout small birds and stray pigmies.
The prisoner was not a drunkard. He had seen him the
worse for liquor twice, but then he said nothing like be had
to-d
Theay. prisoner—lf you investigate the will of the late Mr.
Smith, of Manchester, you will find something to do with
this came. You will there find that all I say is correct.
Mr. D'Eynoourt, to the complainant—Do you know snob
a person ?
Witness—No, dr.
Police-constable James Nuns, 75 N, said be took the
prisoner into custody, and he then appeared all right, sad
seemed to know what be was about. It was not until be
was put into the dock that he west oa as be had done. He
received a gun at the time he took the prisoner into custody;
it was capped mad loaded. He had drawn the charge, sod
found that pervasion ceps had been used in the place of
shot.
Mr. IYEyneourt remanded the prisoner for a few days,
and directed that his friends should be communicated with.
The 'primmer, after he had entered the jailor's room,
rushed back and in an excited state wished to harangue the
court, but he was prevented and conveyed to the cella,
when he immediately became quiet and subdued.
An application to admit the primmer to bail was refused.
WORSHIP-SI'RJERT.
fiIiAKITUL OPTIMOIS.

William Jones, George Rea, and Alfred Barrett, were
charged with emptying the contents of • cesspool through
• skeet grating.
A few days since, a constable of the IE division. on duty
in Old Ford, Bow, was at an early hour surprised
by a most horrible stench, and on reachieg &monde.
street, perceived the three defendants emptying buckets of
filth down the grating there ; unperceived he afterwards
followed them to • house in Elannorwroad, not far distant,
from which it was apparent they were nmoying
the soil. Of coerce the work was stopped, and
on the constable's representation, it was rubes-
quently resolved by the pariah authorities to Nor
mons Mr. Thome James, the occupier of the house in ques-
tion ; but on that gentleman satisfactorily proving he bad
not known the mode of proceeding adopted by the mew,
whom he employed in the ordinary way, the proems was
abandoned, and the defendants were held answerable.
Mr. Bainbridge, surveyor od worke in the parish of Beth-
nal-green, said - that he had examined and found at least
3 feet 6 inches of soil is the gully, front whit& • most pesti-
lential effluvia was continually risieg, until it had been
" dumbed," the cost of which work was 11. 7a. 6d. There
was not any desire to pram for severe pomade; if that
amount was paid.
Mr. Ellison remarked that this was an offence of most
serious character, and bat for the recommendation of
leniency he would assuredly inflict the fall penalty al 51.
Defendants must each pay a fine of 10e. and Ile.
making in all 31.3.., mantles in default en imptiroomilit
14 days.

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Mary Ann Pailister, a ..noel 1, betimes 15 and 16
been of sae, was placed at the bar el=arawith unlawfully
and maliciously settise are to some sad bed twat
tom, at 65, WarMok-etreet. Modica,
with lark
11r. G. Tyler Poole, 65, Wareriokwthet-1 am
by Yr. bindle, is Oztord.etreet. The prisoner at tie-7
woe my mootOn Wedaesday, the 19th, Mem was a
Lire is my home, he the bedroom at the top al IL I
came home at about balt-paot 7 deka ia the •••••
sad found tit* bed, bed-turnitem, and cow
lily of wearing apparel had bees burst. The paper en dm
us QC tops wom Oust is phases, maii is!