The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-11 00:00:00

THE CAPE MAIL.

PLYNOUTH,_Dso. 10.
The Diamond Company's steamer Uiten hags,
from Table Bay Nov. 9; St. Helena, Nov. 17 •
and. Madeira, Dec. 4, arrived off Falmouth thii
afternoon. She brings a full cargo of Cape. produo
a mail, and 38 passengers, amongst whom is Colonel
Travers, R.A., military secretary to the Governor
of the Cape. The news from the Cape is of no great
importance, the war between the Free State and
the Basuto' having degenerated into a series of
raids, the object of which is the theft of cattle.

The African Company's steamer Diamregor laird,
Captain R. F. Lowry, arrived in the Mersey on
Saturday, from the West Coast of Africa. Her
dates are : Benin, Oct. 25 ; Cameroon, Oct. 30 ;
Fernando Po, Nov. 1 ; Brass River, Nov. 5 ;
Lagos, Nov. 8 ; Accra, Nov. 10 ; Cape Coast Castle,
Nov. 12 ; Cape Palmas, Nov. 14 ; Sierra Leone,
Nov. 19 ; Bathurst, Nov. 23 ; Tenoriffe, Nov. 29 ;
anti Madeira, Dec. 2. She brings 32 passengers and
2,1081 ounces of gold dust.
MEZITIGEI OX THE JAMAICA QUINTION.—The
Mayor of Rochdale called a public monis& is aosordenee
with a Numerously signed req ukition, sad ft was held la the
Public Hell on Friday euniog, " to take into seasideration
the dimastrous state of affairs in the island of Jammu, and
to memorialise the govarament thereon." The Mayor pre-
sided. The attended/Ts warlergo. The Rev. T. H. Smith
moved " that this =Wine wishes emphatiethly to assert the
principle that all the subjects of her Majesty are squally
entitled to the rights of [Toomey, sad that no dist/sewn of
race or religion can for a moment justify say kind el treat-
ID/Di that would not be adopted tower thou of her
Majesty's subjects who are British ben."—The Rev. B.
Bowies secooded this resolutios, whisk was yarded meat-
monaly.—The Rev. E. C. Pik. proposed, " That having
great twos for Wiwi*: that the principles saunciated in
the foregoing resolution have been violated in:Jamaica, this
meeting would urge upon her Majesty's gotisramsat the
importance of an immediate sad 11.112611i2j inset*.
ptioa *to the &Mum sad case. of the late outbreak is
the Wand, and into the sanguinary measures
adopted for suppreming it."—The Rev. R. Jones, a re-
turned iniasiceary from Jamaica, seconded the rosolutioo,
sad it wits carried. Tbs following resolution was also
serried :—" That this meeting earnestly hopes that a podia-
mastery inquiry will be made into the operation of the
existing laws, sad the admialstration of government in
Jamaica." A mooting on the mum subject has been con.
Tinted by the Mayor of Plymouth, is pursuance of • numer-
ously Spool requisitiou, and it will be bald to-morrow
evening. The Mayor of Oxford bas received • requisition,
numerously gold, requesting him to &I • public meet-
ing of the citizens to coasider the recent proceedings in the
Ward of Jamaket. His worship Ma, however, we under-
stand, declined to muds to the wishes of the requisi-
boa**, in consequence of Mr. Cardwell, the Bocratary
for the Coif/nisi, basin stated a short time dace that the
`rummest would can.. a strict and searching inquiry to
be mode of the whole ask..
TX' PERIM OT MUSIC CRITICEL—At
(whouli* Binsiegham, ea Friday, M. Jun** is now
espied is wisdnoting promenade concerts at the Prince of
Weise noire, is that town) ma Merged with assaulting
Mr. Themes Ambition, the masks wit* of the Deify Gazette.
The cams el aerie to M. Jake was a ssatimos in the
ambled hoat ono of the meats, in which his father IIE4I
Warred to, sad described as " as recentrie and braelitiah-
=saa.' The defendant west to the Mice sad um-
to the otroltritots of the paper, bat failed to obtain
latlebetlea by that course, sad subsequently meeting Mr.
Andorton at the theatre, M. Jollies strata him a slight
blow oa the bee. TM assault was admitted, and tho
magistrate Mimed the nominal Sc. of 20s. and Wolk

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afted Ihblbttlaa, socrelpealed by the shove lattealag tes.
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factory, Ne. 6, Seatiethsalreet, Cerea‘prdea. W.C. Nets-
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OVERCOATS of the BEST
WINIZARTIALLIA OVERCOATS
kept tor tamEini or ale st
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Talkies and Overcoat
106, 11211 AND, oppootto Stoke all.

OATTLIC BROW.—London must have a
V IMP= sed MUSIC ROOM for Gemtlemen.—ltassteaber,
we watt for yes 44 IWO," Mtn the Coventigeritee Operk
>the Theatres.
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ENTAILLIOIANCM.

abed tikat going he appoint the
of %dr tabernallesiowlatisila
to dieipline in Load% • host of tilswedher-
ported into England with a special object, the Herald trusts
they will be grievously mistaken.
As at preset advised, the Post cannot help thinking that
the kills in the Jamaica Amembly for the subrersioa of
the existing constitution and for the registratios of dissent-
isg esseing-houses and seeds are not ally uncalled for,
bat will, if they become law, have • Widow to create
Goss very lPetle which they are intended to cheek. Not
'sly is this the es" but we are entirely without %forma-
tion to mint us in undisitandieg the reasons for each Ugh
lotion. We ere still lit in the dark as to the %test of
the insinuation, se to the number of the persons shown to
be implicated in it, as to the causes is which it originated,
and the motives which actuated thins who organised it.
The Telegraph regards the professional philanthropists
spromated by the deputation cc Saturday as men wholly
disqualified by their secsarias and onweided views from
speaking with authority in the name of the Paglish
people, though it would be in the highest degree
unwise to undervalue their strength. The ba-
lance of probability, arising from the balance of
airless*, is that Governor Eyre bed to deal with a
movement which threatened to grow into a formidable
insumection ; and that, had it not bees summarily checked,
it would have done so. If each be the ease, then be boa
established fresh claims to the gratitude of England. Os
the other hand, it is not unlikely that at such a shied
moment he may have committed mistakes, and there is, sr
fortunately, only too much reason to believe that mese of
li
his subordinates absolutely enjoyed the work of alestetter,
instead of regarding it as a terrible necessity.
The Star insists woe the wall of Governor Eyre es the
Lot step towards an independent investigation. Any Was
comes would be almost as great a burlesque of italics
almost as great an outrage upon publis °pinks, am the very
preoesdisp which have lately bees 'Sag forward in
Jamaica. If any meaning could be %traded from Mr.
Oardwas reply on this part of the subject, we might
infer that the government had sot yet made up its mind
with regard to the recall of Mr. Byre. Perhaps in that
one the demonstration made on Saturday may help the
*ablest to come to a righteous dedslea. The intelligence
latest received only shows more end mate how absolutely
neoessary it is that some conduits should be put to the
extraordinery reign of misrule now going on in the us•
tartans% idea.

THE LAST MOMENTS OF KING LEOPOLD.
The Independence Beige of yesterday evening
says :—" The following are the details which we
have been enabled to collect respecting the last
moments of the prince whose death will cause as
great sensation in Europe al it has caused profound
affliction in Belgium :
For two days the King was in each a state of feeble-
nen that the fatal termination was expected in some
degree from hour to hour. His robust constitution
alone retarded the final crisis. During the last
night it seemed to be imminent. Towards mid-
night, ministers proceeded to the Palace of Laken,
bet on their arrival the august sufferer had just fallen
asleep. Some hour were thus pined, bat there was no
possibility of deceiving oneself —it was, it could bey only a
short respite. For several days before, their Royal High-
nesses the Duke and Duchess of &gent and their childree
nod the Count of Flanders bad been staying at the palace.
The King, who often sew them, sent for them this monies,
and entreated them not to leave him soy more. His Ma-
jesty, who retained to the last moment all the &realties of
his vast and noble mind, was perfectly serene and eats ;
his loud and oppressive breathing alone indiosted the ap-
proach of the last moment. The King wee, moreover,
under no illusion as regarded the serious nature of his eon-
ditioa. Towards II o'clock the Freddie{ of the Bern*
the President of the Chamber of Representatives, end the
ministers again arrived at Latices:. M. Jules Vas Prost,
minister of the household of the King, his oldest friend in
Belgium, his most intimate confidant, his most devoted ser-
vant, was also there. When these high f anctiosicsies were ad-
mitted into the chamber of the august sufferer the
grandest, and at the Dame time most touching spectacle
met their eyes. The King was still in penman° of all
his faculties. He was surrounded by his children and
his grandchildren, in tears. end, had oho f
hie bends
between those of the Duchess of Brabant, who weekending
at the foot of his bed. The Rev. Dr. Becker, his Majesty's
chaplain, who had been for some days at the Panes of
Laskso, was likewise present. Perceiving him old friend,
M. Jules Van Prost, the King took hie band and pressed it
affectionately. He then placed his own hand again in that
of the dulness. Al ter some minutes he expired calmly,
without a groan, without a struggle, without even the per-
sona present perceiving that he had breathed his last sigh.
"The news of the King's death,"observes the inde-
pendence Beige, "spread through the city with that
rapidity of which sad news appears to possess the
privilege. Although only too surely foreseen, it
has produced an immense sensation--a sadness
which can only be accounted for by remember-
ing all that Belgium owes to the Sovereign
she has just lost, and all the gratitude,
devotion, and affection she had vowed to him in
return. Let us hasten to say, however, that deep
as is this sorrow, immense as is the general mourn-
ing, neither uneasiness nor depression are anywhere
to be observed. Judging from the attitude of the
population of Brussels, the affliction of the Belgian
nation will be that of strong minds. It weeps for
the past, but it faces the future with confidence."

THZ 00171711EZ 07 111111 LEBILIAL
Of the topics embreoed in the resolutions adopted at the
late oonteremes of the Irish liberal members, the Times sets
aside the ballot ; predicts with regard to the land queetios
that if • considerable majority of Irish members
can be persuaded to agree among themselves upon
• legislative compromise, no linglith mindless will be
allowed to studio the way ; suggest' instead of the abolition
of the Irish establishment, the appropriation of an annual
sum out of the Coesolidated Fund to the payment of the
prise* who here merited by their recent wand an
iscreased degree of public confidence ; and in tlie educational
controversy is not prepared to say that no modifications of
the mixed swam should be tolerated. Other demand'
which they made embody some erroneous ideas, but they
are an opportune protest airiest the unreasoning lawless.
Des of Fenlanism, and may pave the way to • better
understanding between the Irish members and the liberal

wrty
The Star goes cordially with the Irish representatives in
most of their claims ; bespeaks attentive oomidsration for
others ; snd expresses its conviction that the great liberal
party will cordially respond to an offer of alliance.

(azurnes munwis.)
FRANCE.
THE " MONITEUR" ON THE DEATH OF
THE KING OF THE BELGIANS.
1 PARIS, Deo. 11.

The Moniteur of this morning says : —The
death of the King of the Belgians has prodnoed a
deep and melancholy impression. The loss of a
sovereign who by his wisdom bad acquired so high
a position in the councils of Europe has excited
universal regret. The French court wishing to
manifest its participation in this feeling, the fetes
at Compiegne have been interrupted, and the dra-
matic representation arranged for this evening at
Compiegne has been countermanded.

THADI AND eiresi.
Though a period has seldom existed more discouraging
than the present to the suceessful promotion of joint-stock
enterprise, the flood of peospeetoms, observes the Daily
News, is incessant, and ems likely to continue. Bat the
public disregarding the new projects, there is no few of •
jointetock company manta. Mushroom companies have
now no chasm. Numbers of undertakings have been
advertised once or twice only, and have then quietly passed
into oblivion. Scarcely any are fairly floated except those
where the private oonnexions of the directors and pro-
enders are so well satisfied with the intrinsic merits of the
same that they subscribe the capital privately.
The higher class of professional promoters by whom
many of the best established institutions were founded, and
who cannot afford to lose their connexion for the f adher-
ent» of mere bubble companies, are biding their time ; it
is to efforts of the larger body of promoter with whom it
is a simple question of obtaining their share of the pre.
liminary expenses that the discredit which has latterly
fallen upon joint stack enterprise may be mainly ascribed.
Leaving this question aside, the desire of mercantile firms
to dispose of • declining business before it lees • mar-
ketable value must natemilly cense many of these new
companies to be introduced. Each thinks its concern will
prove the exception to the disinclination of the public to
tabs such investments ; some having for motives of per
eonsl interest, in the expectation of lucrative appoint-
manta, an additional reason for concealing from them-
selves the probability, or rather certainty, of failure.
The capricious legislation of the Committee of
the Stock Exchange in the question of new com-
panies has also imported • feeling of uncertainty
into all thee transactions that has eminently disocaraged
the public from embarking in them. A settlement may be
given to a company in which the closest approach to a
" rig" has been exercised, and, on the other hand, it may
be refused to another from • mere verbal or technical
informality. It is satisfactory to know that the whole
question is being considered by the committee, and that
some more definite octane of legislation is likely to be
adopted in future. Under present circumstances, there-
fore, we can afford to look upon the wholesale introduc-
tion-sof new companies with perfect equanimity.

Int Court.

BELGIUM.
MINISTERIAL PROCLAMATION TO THE
BRUSSELS, D. 11.

The Council of Ministers have issued a proclama-
tion, which, after announcing the death of his
Majesty King Leopold, says : "The Belgian
people will await with confidence the approaching
day upon which the representatives of the nation
will receive the constitutional oath from the heir
to the throne. Until this oath shall have been
taken, the constitutional powers of the King wi'
be exercised in accordance with Art. 79 of the con•
stitntion, in the name of the Belgian people, by the
ministers assembled in council, and under their re-
sponsibility."

WINDSOR OARTLE, Dtc. 9.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena,
Princess Beatrice, and his Serene Highness Prince Christian of
fileswig Holstein, drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon,
and
Princess Louise, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, also
took a drive.
The Earl and Countess Granville strived at the Oastle
yesterday, and bad the honour of dining with her Nair'
and the royal family, and returned to London to-day.
Dec. 10.

The Queen, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Prisms;
Beatrice, and Prince Rohmlobe, and the Ladies and Gentle- I
men in Waiting, attended divine service this morning in
the private chapel.
The Bev. C. Kingsley, Chaplain in Ordinary to her
Majesty, preached the sermon.
Her Majesty. accompanied by the Meows Helena, drove
yesterday afternoon, and Princess 1.011i16 and Prince
Leopold also went out driving.
Her Majesty received this afternoon with pro-
found sorrow the announcement of the lose which
has fallen on her and the royal family by the death
of the King of the Belgians, her Majesty's last sur-
viving uncle, and the last of his generation of the
House of Bale Coburg. The lows, though not un-
expected, is not less felt by the Queen, who in the
King of the Belgians has lost a most affectionate
relation and a most sagacious adviser—a friend and
counsellor of the Prince Consort, to whom he was
warmly attached, and whom from early childhood
the Queen has looked upon in the light of a father,
whose interest in her welfare was unceasing, and
' , whose kindness the Queen will never forget.

Dr. Burrows (President of the General Connell of Medi-
cal Eau:Mica and Regietration of the United Kingdom),
and Dr. Francis Hawkins (Registrar), had an interview
with the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, at the Homo°See,
es Saturday, es the subjeet of the amendment of the
Medical Act of 1858.
Mr. Marla Wilson, Mr. James Thompson, and Mr. C.
L. Braithwaite, jan., introduced by Mr. Glyn, M.P., had
an interview with the Right Hoe. Edward Cantwell, at the
en Saturday.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat cm
Saturday, at the Council Chamber, Whitehall. Present—
Lord Chelmsford, Sir J. Coleridge, Sir R. V. Williams, Sir
J. Colvile, and Sir L►wnna Peel.
Desp►tehes erase seat, en Saturday, from themesial-
' °Sea to the Govereers of the Cape of Geed Hatal,
St. Helms, and the North American provinces.
The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Examiner left
town on Saturday for Haweedsa

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DENC&

(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF COMMON PLRAS.
SWORD 00IIBT.
Sittings at Priam is Loados.—(Befure Mr. Jtatios
Smith and • Deimos Stn.)
11171FDAV V. atstsOnt.
The plaintiff in Mile am was • solkdtar, aad be seed the
dstawdant, s publiosn, as indorser of • bill et acaltaMM a*
throe mouths, dated the 12th at October 18110, for IW.
Mr. D. Hem" end Mr. Butler laffb7 sr gild fat
the plaintiff ; sad Mr. Sarjeant Babineos mad . Nana
for His hdant.
The plaidastiMsa come was that had rams* talcs the
bill at Mr. Hall, s hismagar be
in the neighbourhood of
Westbecusertarraco, cm amount of • bill of es&
Mr. Hall was called, and Maid that be had discomatml
He bill for Palm, • party to aad ova Wm let for M.
He also mid that it had never bees paid.
Mr. Hawkins, tho elder tats
os the caber haad. mid
he had dismantled the bill for Mr. Mges, the sacteraor, that
he gave him 91.10 a.
items and that it was paid about this
time it was duo. W pre the bill to M.r. Mica, bus
omitted to erase his own num. He had fraquently sma
the plaintiff and bad transactions with him since that time,
but be bad rarer mentioned this
Mr. Elise gars 'hair testimony. sad said its could not
how the bill bad got into the hands of the plaintiff.
west
declined to ve
toaromattalifc the vitamins. and
after hearing their evidence, be nousuitad.
His mid to the inry—The learned counsel hie
withdrawn from the mas, forsoseing very dearly what your
verdict would be.
A Juryman-1 think he is quite right.
His lordabip—lt is one of the boldest amass 1 ores beard,
to say no more.
Upois tho anlication of Mr. Peaces, the bill was ordered
to be impounud.

COURT OF RXORRQUIIR.
flittmge at Nisi Prins at G 9
lidisalL—(ll•fore Lord Chid
Berm Pollock sad $ Special Jury.)
WARD o. 4HI GAB-LIORT LID 0083 CORSAIR.
The trial of this or
es WOO rooamsd ogoie this mcesing.
copied an action•
by an ery dash maker, who foreamly oc-
the lower part of Sarinolscome. loiessteroquare, to
recover on his own behalf, as well as en that of the Cam-
menial Bake Insurance Compeay,damere for the loss of
his propert by the fire at that building, in consequent,. of
the allegedy negligent redact of the defendant's pervade in
taking down a aster.
The prindpat fade proved were that after the defendants'
SeTVIAIIII had removed the meter they stopped the idet
before oommunicating with the main with a bong, hawse(
previously turned the pa off ; that at night a servant or
Bloom, who rented a sawn end billiard-rocos in the Wane,
turned ea the gas without aseertaising what had tom
done, and that anotheref his serrants went with candle
to examine the metre, end canoed the erplodon, which
resulted is the destrastioe of Saville-how&
When the case was called on at the sitting of the court.
The Lord Chief Baron said the to
plaintiff had misstated in
his declaration the 01,2•11 of the fire, as he attributed it
the negligence of the defendants, shwas whether they were
guilty of negligence or not in the mode in which they left
the gas the immediate caws wee the conduct of Bloom's two
men Hie lordship added that if the plaintiff had slated
the real facts in the declaration, the defendants would. an
doubt, havedemurred to it
After considerable discussion between the bench and the
comma engaged in the case,
His Lesilahip nonsuited the plaintiff.
Nonwait scooslinglY•

ARCHES COURT.
(Before the Bight Hon. Dr. lowlaington).
ILIUM V. 011.13 T.—cam 'ATM
This was church-rate owe (commenced as Saturday and
continued today) by the churchwarden of Kettleburgh,
Suffolk, spinet the defendant, James Great. nee of the
hioaers, to compel payment of the rate.
Time
wrate
7d. in the pound, sad the defendant was assessed at
Dl3e r. Dune, Q. C., and Dr. Swabey appeared for the church-
warden ; and Dr. Tristram (Kr. E. C. Clarkson with him)
for the defendant.
In this cue the rate was oppoud on the ground that
it was unequal, and therefore unjust. Mr. Barnes
stated that the defendant was the only pariah-
loner who had ounplained. There had been
great expense incurred in the proceeding. Several
witnesses on both sides bad attended from the country,
sad were examined viva you, which wan a novel mode of
calling evidence in a church-rate case. There had
the been two
valuations of the impiety in the perish, sad main
question was which wanthe correct valuation The rate
had been made under the valuation of 1838, which had
been raised. The new anuesment wee in 1862, and
the defendant alleged that he should have been rated under
that eassestaent. He farther alleged that there were cer-
tain properties tuider-rated. Among the wanes's' exa-
mined was the rotor of the perish, the Rey. Mr. Turner,
who had sided an rector
of the Areenment Committee:
Be bed been assmansd it his own request to the church
rates on his tithes, and also at his desire to the full extent
of hie
hproperty in the parish.
On Om part of the plaintiff Dr. Deane contended that the
este wee a proper one and should be enforced. Be retied
on the evidence of Mr. Berate and on that of the Rev. Mr.
Tuner, who had been bemoaned in his tithes. which he need
not have been, in order to relieve the perishioners.
Dr. Tristram was head oon6dien length on the part
of the defendant, urgingt thereto on the old seessonent
yes bad in law. He admitted that Mr. Turner had acted
with great fainter throughout this natter.
His Lordship took time to consider the cue.
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FENMMI