The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1862.

reserve, and boldly asserts in linguae as strong as
any ever used by MACKINTOSH or Onsi(we mean,
of course, the real not the imitation stetenton),
that the duty of England is to synipathisewith
every nation seeking to be tree, 'whatever forme of
freedom it may prefer, but in no case to attempt
the imposition of our selfish or arrogant will upon
a neighbouring people.

He did not wish to say anything which should seem to
throw out a taunt to any foreign nation. He desired to see
happiness sad peace and prosperity prevail everywhere.
But we must feel that all the principal nations of the world
were in a state of the greatest anxiety, and, in =my re
spects, of the greatest confusion and suffering; and we
must also feel that England bed a mission towards those
countries which it was our duty and our privilege to fulliL
Constitutional government sod peace and order were in
peril in many countries throughout the world. We, by
exhibiting a friendly attitude, might be of infinite service is
pointing out the path for them to perms, and encouraging
them in their time of trial. It was not, however, by inter-
ference in their affairs, bet by holding out the hand of
friendship, and offering them advice and encouragement in
their need, that we should best enable them to attain the
same safe ground we ourselves had reached.

So, too, the path of Italy was still beset with
snares and pitfalls : be it England's part, like a
true friend, to light her steps by clear and neutral
counsel, and neither to bargain with nor to bully her
in her hour of need. America, said Sir STAFFORD,
" had been one of the great apostles of freedom ;"
WAS it, then, for England, who claimed a similar
mission, to have any hand in weakening her, or to
anticipate her humiliation or dismemberment ?
Truly, Mr. GLADSTONE seems to have made few
proselytes among the intelligent members of the
Legislature to the Confederate cause. He will
hardly point to Lord llARDwicicz as an instance
the other way.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.
(THIS DAY.)

This morning the ceremony of proroguing parlia-
ment to Nov. 13 took place in the Hose of Lords, in the
presence of those of the officials who are in tows at this
dull season of the year. The house itself presented the
dullest possible aspect. The throne was covered up so
closely that not a bit of it could be seen, while all the
benches were similarly cared for, giving the place the ap-
pearance of the large room of a gentleman's house, the
owner of which was out of town for the season.

Cbc eroun.

BRUSSELS, Ocr. 23, 9.25 A.M.

The severity of the gale still renders it impossible
for the Queen and the royal party to embark no their return
to England.
Her Majesty remains in privacy at Lacken.

The Duke of Newcastle ban arrived in London, from his
seat, Clamber Park, Notts.
The Right Hon. Sir George Grey arrived in town on
Wednesday night, from his seat, Fallodon, Northum-
berland.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer hex arrived at hie resi-
dence on Carlton•house-terrace, from Hawarden Castle,
Chester.

Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office
to the Governors of the settlements on the West Coast of
Africa.

It appears that the cabinet council summoned
for yesterday afternoon was not held.
The Prince of Wales and the Prince and Princess
of Prussia arrived at Marseilles on Tuesday evening, and
passed the night on board the yacht Osborne. Their royal
highnesses left on Wednesday morning for Palermo.
A letter from Coblentz states that the Duchess
of Hamilton was expected there in a few days on a visit to
the Queen of Prussia. The Grand Duchess Louise of Baden
and the hereditary mince are also expected w arrive at
Coblents, on a visit to the Prussian Queen. The Grand
Duke of Baden will visit England in a few days. His high-
ness will be accompanied by the court marshal (H. von
Gemminger) and M. Ungern-Sternberg, a cabinet coun-
cillor.

Hie Highness Prince Paskowitch, Count Hares-
kiss, and General Ohaneakoff have arrived at the Bruns-
wick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Paris.

His Excellency Baron Bentinek has returned to
town from Brighton.

His Excellency the Bavarian Minister and the
Barman de Cetto have arrived in town from Brighton.

The Earl and Cowlitz= of Fife are receiving
company at loam Hausa, Moray.

The Earl of Kinnoull has bought a mansion in
Be'grave-square, lately the residence of the late Mr. David
Bairns.

The Earl and Countess of Scarborough, Lord
and Lady Bloomfield, Mr. and Lady Catherine Woyland
and Mrs. Talbot Clifton have left the St. Goorge's Hotel.

The marriage of the Hon. Selina Rice Trevor,
daughter of Lord Dynevor, and the Earl of Longford, is
fixed to take place on the 12th of neat month.
A marriage will shortly take place between Sir
William Russell, Bart., M.P., and the only child and
heiress of the late Mr. R. Wilson.

The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is at Rockcorry,
county of Monaghan, on a visit to Lord Cremorne, with
whom he will remain until to-morrow (Saturday).
The Bishop of Loudon, who is still in Norfolk,
has consented to preach in St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich. on
Tuesday next, on behalf of the Home Missions of the
Church of England, in connexion with the Additional
Curates' Society, in Whitehall. The Bishop of Norwich
will preside.

Yesterday evening the mayor of Liverpool en-
tet Woad the mayor and corporation of Manchester at •
grand banquet at the Town Hall. Covers were laid for
250, and in addition to the members of the civic bodies of
Manchester and Liverpool, Lord Stanley, Sir H. Havelock,
Admiral Evans, and the mayors of Preston, Rochdale, Bel.
too, Stockport, Wigan, Blackburn, and Leeds were among
the guests.
The Lord Chancellor of Ireland has subscribed
201. to the O'Connell statue fund. The Freeman's Journal
points to the significance of this large subscription, as
coming from the head of the judicial bench, the head of
the magistracy, the highest official next to the viceroy, and
"the keeper of the Queen's conscience in Ireland." The
Daily Express comments in strong terms on the alleged
impropriety of thus honouring the memory of the greatest
sgitator on the part of a high state functionary.
Dr. Corrigan has just been elected for the fourth
time President of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland.
This election four times in succession of the same president
is unprecedented in the annals of the college.

The conservatives of Essex had another gathering
yesterday. On this occasion the meeting took place at
Colchester, and it was attended by nearly all the members
of the party within the county. The principal speakers
were Mr. Miller, Mr. Peacocks, Mr. Du Cane, and Major
Beresford. Mr. Peacocks pressed the necessity of the recog-
nition of the South, and declared that he had it on the beat
authority that there was nothing the Southern States de-
sired so much as recognition. He also stated that the Em-
peror of the French had informed Mr. Slidell of his wish to
acknowledge the Confederate States, but that be was un-
willing to act without England. Mr. Du Cane claimed Lord
Palmerston as the tory head of a radical cabinet, and re-
calling the fable of Penelope weaving her embroidery by
day and taking it to pieces by night, said Lord Palmerston's
administration was the Penelope of the day, sad Lord
Palmerston the Penelope of the night.

THE DISTRDIS IN LANCASHIRE.—Yesterday after-
woo, a meeting was held in the lower room, Easter-hall,
in 000nexion with a supplementary food which has been
established for the relief of the distress in the manufacturing
districts. Mr. Wilbraham Taylor, who presided, said that
op to the present time the amount received on account of
the fund bad been 2,6671. 4s. 2d., while only 2071. 68. had
yet been spent. A scheme was on foot which would require
1,000/. for Manchester alone, while if the scheme were ex-
tended to Blackburn, Preston, and other towns, 1,0001. or
1,2001. would be required for each, to that the money was
as good as gone although they bad more than 2,0001. in baud.
The meeting was addressed by Mr. Robert Baxter (of the
firm of Baxter, Rose. and Norton, parliamentary agents),
Mr. G. PBlllll4 of Westbourne-terrace, and other gentlemen,
end a subscription was entered into on behalf of the sup-
plementary fund, in aid of which it was announced that
Mew*. Bouverie, Ransom, and Co., the baaken, of Pall.
mall East, bad consented to receive donation,.

LekTkAT

CONSTITUTIONAL COLLISION TN
AUSTRIA.

It is a carious fact. that in Austria a conflict of
the same kind as that iu Prussia kaa just arisen
between the government and the Upper Chamber
on the one side, and the Chamber of Deputies on
the other. The Chamber of Peers has maintained
the increase of salary proposed for the ambassador
of Austria at Rome, and for the president of the
Military Commission of Frankfort, without taking
any notice of the vote by which the Cham-
ber of Deputies had suppressed the demanded
augmentation. The government has taken part
with the Upper Chamber, declaring that no erasure
of an expense inscribed in the budget can acquire
a legal and obligatory character until it has
been sanctioned by both chambers and by the
crown. "It will be seen," says the Vienna Prase,
"that this new constitutional theory is precisely
the one which has been put forward by the Prussian
Chamber of Peers and by M. de Bilmark. Now
we know also, by the example of Prussia, where
this doctrine leads."

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Advice' from Vienna state that the Empress of
Austria will probably again pan the winter at Venice.

The Finland journal buometar estimates at about
530,000 souls the population which is suffering from the
effects of the bad harvest in the governments of Uleeborg,
Kuopio, Wasa, Tavastehus. and Saint Michel. Active
measures have been adopted by the Finland government to
assist the necessitous inhabitants. It has opened, as already
announced, the corn storehouses of the crown, and distributed
345,000 tons of flour in those provinces. Public works have
been increased, and a sum of 4fr. each has been specially
devoted to draining the marshes of Palate and Perche, in
order to furnish employment for the suffering villagers in
that neighbourhood. Private individuals also do their beat
to second the measures of the government.

A letter from St. Petersburg, dated the 13th
inst., gives some details respecting the reforms introduced
by the Czar into the administration of justice. The trial
by jury is to be established such as it exists in France.
The administration of justice is to be completely inde-
pendent of the government. Magistrates have been
appointed for the examination of criminal matters. AU
judicial proceedings are to be public. The judges hold their
appointments for life, and they cannot be removed from one
bench to another without their own consent. The Senate
is authorised to form itself into a Court of Cliasatioc,and it is
to be divided into several sections, of which each is to have
its particular attributes.

A. TURKISH GREAT Exumrrmx.—The example
of the International Exhibition seems not to have been
lost on the Porte. A greed show of native produce sod
industry has been decided on, and will be held in Stam-
boul during the coming Itamazan. To secure the success-
ful realisation of this idea, special local delegates are to
be at once appointed in ►ll the principal districts of the
empire.for the collection and classification of samples. These
last will be forwarded to the capital free of all custom or
other dues, and at the government expense. As in London,
mien of the articles exhibited will be slowed, and, in the
event of their not being so disposed of, the government will
engage to buy all the smaller parcels. Prize*, in money or
medals, will also be given to the succesaful exhibitors.
Wholly new though this ides is in the history of Turkish
industry, and obviously suggested also by the London ease.
prise, if intelligently and energetically carried out, it earn
hardly fail to have the best effect as a stimulant to the
agriculturist. and manufacturers of the oountry. The
initiative in the matter is, we believe, wholly due to the
Orsnd Vizier.—Lcrani Herald, Oat. 15.

=PRIM FltuM rAuts.

A FATAL DIIEL-AN EDITOR KILLED BY

A DUKE.
tisox oua owe oosaseronwrr.)
PARIS, THURSDAY EYZNINGI.
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Mr. Dillon, a member of the English bar, who
for many years past has been the editor of the
French journal the Spiwt, and wail well known as
an organiser of French races, was killed yesterday
at St. Germain in a duel with the Duke de Gra-
mma Caderousse. The cause of the quarrel which
has resulted in this fatal issue is said to be that
the duke, some time ago, on the occasion of some
races at the Chalons tamp, objected to a certain
Mr. Thomas being entitled to the qualification of a
"gentleman rider." Mr. Dillon, in his journal
the Sport espoused the cause of Mr. Tho-
mas, and wrote several paragraphs which
greatly irritated the Duke de Caderonsse.
The latter addressed several letters to the
Sport, and to the France Hippigue, and those
journals not inserting them, he got them printed
in a minor Belgian paper. Thereupon Mr. Dillon
sent a hostile message to the duke, choosing for his
friends Colonel Viscount de Nod, and another
officer named De Maury. The duke at first ob-
jected that a man of his rank was not bound to
meet Mr. Dillon, but being provoked by a strong
letter from Colonel de Nod, he waived that objection,
and authorised his friends, the Prince d'Essling and
Viscount Tidon, to arrange a meeting. Mr. Dillon, as
the offended party, chose pistols for weapons,
I but after a negotiation, which resulted in the
withdrawal of the Prince d'Essling from the affair
and the substitution of M. Fitzjames as one of
the duke's seconds, it was agreed that the duel
should be fought with swords. After a few passes
Mr. Dillon was run through the body by his
adversary's sword—the heart was touched and he
died on the spot.
The Constitutionnal contains the following ex-
Planation of the Sidcle's statement relative to the
expulsion from France of the Italian deputy, M.
Petruccelli della Gattina :

Those assertions [those of the Sieele] are entirely without
foundation. M. Petruccelli della Oattina was expelled from
France on the 31st December, 1819, in virtue of the laws of
November 13-21, and December 3, 1849, for having
taken part in political intrigues hostile to the government.
On the Bth August last he entered France, and returned to
Paris without having demanded authorisation ; he re-
mained until the 19th of the same month without being
molested in any manner, the government not wishing, from
consideration for the title of deputy of the Italian par-
liament which he holds, and from deference to the King,
to remark the infractions and to exercise the right con-
ferred on it by Art. 8 of the law of the 3rd of Dec.,
1849. On the 10th of the present month, Petruccellt
again returned to Paris without authorisation. He wan
then reminded of the measure of expulsion still in force,
and on the 13th was invited not to prolong his stay in Paris.
Upon the demand personally made by M. Petruccelli he
was authorised to remain until the 24th, a period which he
fixed for himself. The distinguished intervention of the
Italian Minister Plenipotentiary confirmed the prefect of
police in the exceptional tolerance exercised with regard to
M. Petruccelli.

It must be admitted, supposing the present state-
ment of the Constitutional to be correct, that it
dots away with so much of the odium attaching to
the act of the French government as was conveyed
by the statement of the initpendance, that M.
Petruccelli was originally ordered to leave Paris in
one hour, and only obtained 24 hours' respite on
the solicitation of his ambassador. It does not
stand confessed that M. Nigra interfered to obtain
the short delay accorded.

All is fish that comes to the net of the ultramon-
tanista. The France and the Gazette de France
joyfully hail as a recruit for their ranks the mad-
man Proudhon, who, as I mentioned the other day,
has just delivered himself of a book against
the unity of Italy. The France, mistak-
ing the disdainful pity of the independent
journals for tremulous deference to the man whom it
describes as the "greatest writer of the democratic
party," taunts the Opinion Nationale, the Sit'cle,
the Presme, and the Temps for their silence in regard
to M. Proudhon's last work. If these serious organs
of the liberal party have not hitherto bestowed a
word upon the latest aberration of a litterateur
whose paradoxes, whatever success they may have
formerly obtained, are utterly devoid of influence
at the present day, it is only because they have
something better to do. But the Cliatirari,
whose mission, which it often fulfils very well,
is ridentem dicers scrum, gives the France as
full and unexceptional an answer as any that
was ever filed in Chancery. The Chari-
rari, after an amusing fable of legitimist nota-
bilities of the Faubourg St. Germain, catho-
lic bishops, and soldiers of Francis IL, being
seen devouring a pamphlet attributed to Veuillot,
Dupanloup, or Lanrentie, but which turned out to
have been written by the democrat Proudhon,
says, in a letter addressed to that publicist :

When I reflect ou your past career, I DUI not astonished
at what you are now doing. You are the same man that
you ever were, both in your talent and your aberra-
tions. You pretend to be • democrat, and vou
are the ally of every reaction. In 1848 it was
your pen that indicted the heaviest blows upon the
Republic by libelling successively all the men that served
ita cause. After doing your best to sap the foundations of
political liberty, you struck a terrible blow at liberty of
conscience by proclaiming systems which from their extra-
vagant excess threw odium upon the free thought
which they pretended to defend. Not long since you per-
petuated a most sinister joke in proclaiming " the right of
the strongest" in your book on war and peace. Now you
insult the generous movement of Italy and the sympathies
of all those liberal minds which are with it. You adopt
legitimist arguments and you traffic with Cardinal Auto-
nelli you do not love democracy; you love
only yourself. You are the god Proudhon, and you
are your own most fervent worshipper. You take every
caprice of your fancy fur • dogma. You confound origin-
ality with folly. Ever in extremes, you aspire to the
monopoly of intelligence. " After you the deluge," is your
leading principle. But fools themselves no longer believe
io you. Your egotism may deify itself in vain ; it has no
more altars, unless, indeed, the pious gratitude of the
ultramoutanists and legitimists should prompt them to erect
one to you. Amen.

The France will not, of course, agree with these
arguments, but it cannot now deny that M. Proud-
hon has been answered.

The Bourse has been decidedly firm. Rente
rose 40c., both for cash and account, closing at
711 r. 50c. and 71fr. 65c. Mobiher rose 40fr., and
the Italian Loan, 40c. Railways were from lfr.
to 3fr. higher.
The Doily News is seized.

INTELLIGENCE PROM NEVADA TERRITORY.—The
Secretary of Nevada Territory writes to the Commissioner
of the general Land Office, order date of July 28, that
I'M quartz mills are now in operation there, 'sod 20 are in
process of construction. There are many warm springs iu
the territory, and some boiling ones, whose waters rise two
and three feet from the surface. There is little umber in
the territory, except a belt of pine in close proximity to
the Sierra Nevada. The surface is generally composed of
sandy or alkali plains, covered with sage bushes. Commu-
nication is bad daily with California, and the capital in-
vested in transportation acmes the mountain amounts to
Sr. million of dollars.—Noss York Herald.
THE COLLISION AT WINCHDURGH.—We (Edin-
burgh Courant) are glad to report that the sufferers in the
infirmary. for the meet part, continue to show a marked
improvement, and that in the more lierioua eases there is
no change for the worse. Mr. lame Man who died in the
infirmary on Monday morning, was interred yesterday in
the pariah churchyard, Falkirk. His remains were followed
to the grave by a large concourse of friends and acquaint.
ROOM

Ma. COBDEN, M.P., AND THE MANCHESTER
CHAMBER OP COMMERCE.—(THIS DAY.)

(Irl UNIT= =WON ILWTVC 111211 GRAPH.)
MANCHESTER, FRIDAY, Two o'Ciocc.

To-day, in the Manchester Chamber of Com-
merce, Mr. Cobden, M.P., delivered an important speech,
pointing out the enormous evil to this country
occasioned by the existing state of Interna-
tional and Maritime Law, which he declared was
mainly maintained by the government of Great Britain, and
urging, from the exempla of the success of the Corn Law
League, the formation of some emaciation to place pres-
sure on the government to procure the abolition of
the blockade of all commercial ports by belligerents,
and the exemption from capture of all vessels of commerce
not actually engaged in the conveyance of munitions or
contraband of war.

MI. Cobden spoke for an hour and twenty minutes.

GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY.
(THIS DAY.)

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was
held at noon at the London Tavern ; Mr. W. J. Haan:rex
in the chair.

The report, which had been previously published, was
taken as read.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re-
port and accounts, said they ware so satiatsetery
that he had little to do beyond congratulating
the meeting on the progress which had been made,
He could not help expressing his deep regret at the loss
which the company had sustained in the death of its chief
engineer, Mr. Berkley, who had had the superintendence of
the works from the outset.. He then adverted to the delay
in the opening of the line to the Ghauta, owing to causes over
which the board had no control. The working expenses bad
' during the put half-year been reduced to 63 per cent. ;
whereas in the previous half year they were upwards of 78
per cent. When this line was completed the expense of carry-
log the line over the Ghauts would lead to scarcely any
increase in the average expenditure. There were
now 430 miles which were constructed at an ex-
pense of 9,000/. per mile, or an aggregate of about
4,000,0001. The working expenses as shown in the balance-
sheet amounted to 103,7141. 13s. 3d., leaving 6.3,4301_
18s. 6d. as net profit. He calculated that when the
line MRS fairly opened the net receipt. would amount to
130,000/. per half-year, which would yield the satisfactory
dividend of 6 per cent. (Cheers.)
Mr. J. G. Farm (deputy chairman) seconded the motion.
Mr. Trim, M.P., would like to see something substantial
done for the family of Mr. Berkley, who had no
doubt lost his life through the climate of India. It was not
enough to erect a stone tablet to his memory, IPA was proposed
in the report. Mr. Berkley had died comparatively young in
I the company's service, leaving a widow and five young
dren, and his services deserved a substantial recognition.
'The hon. member concluded by proposing a resolution em-
bodying a recommendation to the board to hand over to the
executors of Mr. Berkley the sum of 1,0004 (Cheers.)
Alderman DARIN seconded the motion.

Sir PHILIP MILLVILL bore strong personal testimony to
the merits of the deceased ecgineer, and supperted
Tile's motion.

The CHAIRMAN regretted that be could not, as a matter
of form, put the motion which had been proposed. Such a
payment couldnot barnacle without theconsentof the govern.
meet ; but the directors entirely approved of the object,
and what had been said would strengthen their hands in
seeking to carry it out. (Cheers.)
Mr. PARKER suggested that the amount should be 2,000 f.
Mr. Tire then withdrew his motion, and the report wee
adopted.
. .

Oa the motion of the CuAremAN, the secretary's salary
wan aulvauced from 900/. to I,OM. per annum.
Thanks were then voted to the chairman and his col.
tonnes in the direction, after which the meeting separated.

ADMISSION OF THE PUBLIC TO VIEW THE HOTH3I
or LORDS.—This moruing, by command of Lord Willoughby
D'Eresby, the Lord Great Chamberlain, notice was mimed
that, after Saturday, the Ist of November, the public
would only be admitted to view the House of Lords on the
Saturday in each week between the hours of ten and four.
THE CHURCH AND MANUFACTURING DISTRESS.—
An important movement is under the consideration of the
Episcopal Bench, and will probably be carried out in the
course of three or four weeks. It has been proposed that.,
on a day to be named, the whole of the churches through-
out England and Wales shall be opened for service, either
special or otherwise, when offertory collections will be made
for the relief of the distress in Lancashire during the forth-
coming winter. It is not yet decided whether the service
shall be held on a week day or on a Sunday.
MISS MARTINEAU AND LANCASHIRE DISTREIEL
—What au extraordinary woman Harriet Martineau
is ! Novelist, politician. essayist, traveller, agriculturist,
sanitary reformer, and Philanthropist ! All these character,
I have been assumed by her in turn, and with abundant sue-
' oess. How healthy, too, and wonderfully fresh, is her in-
. tercet in the concerns of a world which, in the very nature
of things, she must soon leave ! Instead of realigning
I her last days to memoir writing, and to the making of
those stilted maxims which are considered the peculiar pro-
ductions of old age, she watches the course of current events
with a keen eye, submits them to the test of sound sense,
and seeks to direct them to good and wholesome ends. This
week she has spoken and acted in the matter of Lancashire
distress. At a meeting of the Salford Relief Committee, on
Monday, a letter was read from Miss Martineau, apprising
the committee that she bad sent off from Ambleside •
parcel of clothing material for the Salford Sewing School.
The letter concluded :—'• I enclose a list of the articles
which are cut out ready for the needle :—Nine cloaks. 17
gown.. 10 (recite, 5 petticoats, 9 pinafores 5 shifta,
and 8 reels of cotton.' Well done, Harriet Mar-
tineau! Here's true greatness. A high literary reputation
shown to be quite compatible with cloaks, gowns, and reels
of cotton for poor famishing mill-workers. How refresh-
ingly this contrasts with the attenuated horror of the
Saturday Review at the cotton umbrella of the late primate.
Of course hundreds of worthy but unknown ladies are
doing as much for Lancashire as ]ties Martineau is doing.
We call attention to her efforts first, because they form s
remarkable instance of intellectual eminence going hand in
head with quiet serviceable benevolence ; and, in the
second place, because her example, if speedily followed by
other English ladies, will largely contribute to the success
of the exertions which are now being made to feed and
I clothe our starving and half-naked fellow-creatures in the
cotton districts.—Leeds Times.

A CLERGYMAN CONVICTED OF POACHING. —At
the weekly petty sesame at Chorley, the Rev. John
Williams, incumbent of Euxton, was charged with
trespassing in pursuit of game on land belonging to Mr.
T. B. Crosse, in the township of Whittlele-Woods. Mr.
Wilson, who appeared for the complainant, stated that
his client felt it incumbent upon him to notice this offence
on the part of the rev. defendant, inasmuch as it was not
the first offence of which he had had to complain. The
defendant had often hail the privilege of going upon Mr.
Crosses land with others, and be had frequently taken the
opportunity q poaching thereon. On one occasion he was
seen in a tree with a gun in his hand, on another he was
secreted in a pit, and on s third he was found hidden
in a hut which he had erected to carry on these prac-
tices. Edward Seger, gamekeeper to Mr. Crowe deposed
that on the 18th of October be saw the defendant on
a cop of land belonging to Mr. Crosse, but close to land
in the occupation of one Peter Smith. There was also a
ditch and • hedge near, but ditch, cop, and hedge were
all on Mr. Crosses land. The defendant was looking in the
direction of the wood, and be had a gun in his hand.
Game occasionally came through the hedge near which be
was standing. Corroborative evidence having been given
by Mr. Crosse, Mr. Williams admitted the facts as stated
by the gamekeeper, but contended that the hedge was
the boundary of the land. Mr. Crane evidently enter-
tamed an erroneous idea as to the boundary. The
defendant mid be did not profess to be • eporteman, but
sedentary habit& did not agree with him, and he went out
occasionally. The bench informed defendant that the law
provided him with a remedy, if the boundary, as stated.
was not correct, but the ditch would have to be considered
the line. After a short consultation, their worships inflicted
• fine of 3Us. and coots. Another case of a similar character
was then preferred, the offence having been committed on
the 15th instant. The rev. gentleman admitted that he
was guilty of the second offence if guilty of the first, and
he was again fined 20s.
1 DE4PRRATIS AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—On Wed-
nesday night a most desperate encounter with poaches took
place at the Home's Castle publichouse. Hollow Stone,
Nottingham, in the heart of the town. About a quarter-
! past six a keeper of the Earl of Chesterfield, named
I Brookes, accompanied by Superintendent Home, of the
Bingham division, and P. C. Ituilkio, of the county police,
I went to the above publichouse, • noted resort for poachers,
1 for the purpose of apprehending two poachers named
j Walker and Worthington, who were ommected with the late
poaching case near Nottingham. When the keeper entered the
I house he perceived a dozen well-known poachers playing at
cards, and immediately singled out Walker, telling him that he
wanted him. At this moment policemen Home and Rud-
kin came up, and the landlonl of the house, whorie name is
Maltby (himself an old poacher), stepped between the offi-
cers and the men, saying, • I'll he if yon shall take
him in my house ; show me your warrant." The whole of
the poeclien then rose, and Maltby immediately arming
himself with • powerful life-preserver, made • furious on-
slaught on the keeper, inflicting two tremendous blows on
hi. bead, which felled the keeper to the ground and
rendered him insensible. The affray then became
general, the policemen striving to capture Walker,
but upon seeing the dangerous state the keeper was
in they went to his assistance. In the meantime, messengers
were sent to the county pnlice.station for chore officers, but
before they arrived the whole of the men, with the excep-
tion of one named Smith (who was implicated in the late
affray at Thrumpton, where a poacher was drowned in the
Trent), effected their escape. After a violent stimuli,
Maltby was captured sod taken to the police-staUes,
the injured keeper being taken to the dispensary. Yester-
day (Thursday) morning Smith sod Maltby were brought
before the borough bench of magistrates, but the ease wen
remanded until Saturday, in consequence of Brooks not
being able to appear through the injuries he received in the
affray. Bail was refused for Maltby, the magistrates rit•
marking that it was too serious • case to admit of bail.