The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVgNING, DECEMBER 25, 1865.

There are, indeed, sollitiess cases ta witich
this operation of the principle 4eght to be disre-
garded. When • man hasisllltsratelY twilled with
• woman's affectionse--wbsis under odour of an
engagement he has dilfgnedly wronged her—when
for mere slightness and fickleness he casts her off,
or when he alleges false reasons that aggravate
the injury, every good man must desire to see
him punished, and if he cannot be touched in per
it is well that be should beinpooket. Nay, if in
these owes the law should refit'e ample punish.
meat, public opinion would probably soon come
to authorise an extension of that at which already
it half winks, the infliction of corporal chastisement
on the poor sneak who has disgraced his sex and
humanity. But, on the other hand, we are bound
to remember that neither men nor women are at
all times masters of their affections. Both may
sometimes be led to think themselves truly and for
ever in love, when in fact • little time proves to
them that they are really not in love at all. And
even a sincere love may sometimes be unantanbleto
stand the influence of better acquaintance
and nearer perception of the defects of character.
In such instances, what is the right and ho-
nourable course to pursue f Clearly it is to
state the alteration of feeling In time
to prevent the marriage. Bitter may be
the suffering in such case of the party whose
affections have not wavered ; blighted may be the
life which is thus severed from its stay and prop.
But better that it should be than that the same
discovery should be made after marriage has sealed
and heightened the misery of both. Now, as the
law stands at present, it is between these two classes
of cases that juries have the difficult but important
duty of discriminating. They must punish as
heavily as possible real heartlessness, for by so
doing they may deter it from its reckless designs.
But they ought not to punish that honest and in-
voluntary, however lamentable, change of feeling,
whose timely revelation at least restricts the misery
of future life. And we shall not be sorry if in
such oases their verdicts act as • check upon that
natural impulse in the friends of the forsaken one
to make her sorrows public. For by so doing they
may indulge their inevitable annoyance, and what
seems to them their just resentment, but they do
it at the coat of somewhat tarnishing the grace
and modesty of womanhood in her whom they
champion.

TT is so unusual an occurrence that in actions
for breach of promise of marriage • jury should
rause damages altogether, that for this reason
alone a case which was tried with that result on
Friday last would raise some curiosity. But a
better reason for alluding to it is, that it serves to
show with remarkable clearness the peculiar defects
which belong to that way of enforcing so tender
and delicate a contract. The parties in this
instance moved in good society : the gentleman, •
Mr. NrcsorsoN, was an officer in the army ; the
lady, a Miss Rumnatow, the daughter of a medical
man. They had, it was stated, known each other
from childhood, and the acquaintance bad ripened
into a feeling which they thought love, and finally
into an engagement. This took place two years ego,
and then Mr. NICHOISON went with his regiment
to India. He returned in the beginning of April
last, and renewed his position as accepted lover.
But, unfortunately, a quarrel took place. Its
origin seems to have been an expression of disap-
proval by the gentleman of the lady's dress—a suffi-
ciently delicate matter certainly for an affianced
lover to criticise. Then there were some letters of
coolness on his part, of expostulatory affection on
hers. Then there was a private interview of an
hour's duration on the 2Gth of April, and the gen-
tleman rushed in agitation out of the house, de-
claring he was free. He had, in fact, obtained
during the interview an acknowledgment in the
lady's hand that she released him from his engage-
ment. And • suspicious legal formality in the
style of this document, combined with the fact
that he had excused himself the day before from
calling on her by saying that he had business with
his solicitor, seems to indicate that he had taken
the precaution of legal advice as to the safest way
of breaking the chains of love. Of Miss 'tinier-
Low we only learn that she was in bitter grief,
and that when be left her she called after him
to stop, but he would not. But Mrs. RUMBELOW
was more impetuous. She told him she would show
his letters to her friends, and see whether he could
not be punished. And being asked in court whether
an action for damages was what she meant, she de-
clared that that was not the punishment she would
have inflicted if she could. But whatever she
might have preferred, she was not long in resort-
ing to an action. It was, in fact, commenced on
the 27th of May ; and it was on this ground that
the jury, with the Judge's approval, rested
their verdict. His lordship directed them that
the written release was no bar to the action if it
was not deliberately intended as a release from the
engagement ; and they found that it had not
been—meaning, we presume, that it was signed in
the natural excitement and anger of a quarrel.
But be also directed them that it seemed to him that
both parties still remained attached to each other,
that all the quarrels might hare ended in a
"renewing of love " but for the precipitancy of
the legal proceedings, and that they must judge
whether there had been sufficient time given for
the performance of the contract ; and they found
that there had not.
We may, perhaps, doubt whether there would
but for the action have been a renewal of the
engagement, for to us Mr. NICHOLSON seems to
have been determined to break it off, and, after
the quarrel, he declared it was well, for he had
ceased to love his late fiancee. And we need not II
conceal that in the whole circumstances the sym-
pathies of the public will naturally rest rather
with Miss RCMBELOW, against whose conduct and
disposition not a word of disparagement was
whispered, and who seems to have been nude-
niably very warmly, indeed passionately, in love,
rather than with her colder or more fickle swain.
But still the question will rise, Is it well to en-
courage the forcing on of marriages in such cir-
cumstances at the point of an action at law ! The
misery of unions without love, the worse misery of
unions where the love is on one side only, is the
oldest theme of story, and still a sad feature of
daily life. The mournful records of the Divorce
Court bring perpetually before our eyes but one of
the possible consequences of such unhappy alli-
ances. And it is strangely pitiful to see in how
large a proportion of the cases that come before
that tribunal the marriage that is so rudely broken
had been one of such strong, though ill-considered
affection, that it had been entered into in opposi- I
tion to the wish of the friends of the parties, in
secret, or by elopement. If, then, even when II
such ardour has mutually existed, it happens so I
often that better acquaintance puts love irrevocably
to flight, is it wise to compel a marriage where love
has once existed, but has already been at least on
one side dispelled I For it is vain to deny that the
operation of actions for breach of promise is to tend
to enforce areluctant marriage. It is not only a penalty
on the wrong that has been done, but a very
potent motive to prevent the like legal wrong
from being done hereafter. Now the law forbids
a suit for specific performance of a contract of
marriage, on the plain ground that it is contrary
to public policy that such a contract should be
enforced, if one of the parties has become already
desirous of breaking it. But is it consistent
with public policy to permit a means of doing
that indirectly which is admittedly objectionable
if done directly Y In short, is it prudent, moral,
or kind to either of the parties to force a couple to
the altar after the affection of one of them has
been estranged, by the knowledge that an inde-
finitely large sum of damages and the certainly
large costa of an action will be the penalty for
recusancy

States;' and that atter the antoweed escape of the Ala-
hses• me evasion d ear law leek Owe whir& soda by any
elostliational means have been prevented. To thusse of
the Shenandoah, which is the lintoodiete eubfeetof last
'wised despatches, this remark mnphetically wiles. The
Fines observes with regret that Kr. Adonis speaks
doubtfully as to the future iiielleation of the United
States to enforce their own Fiveign Enlistment Act
with the same loyalty as before, but notwith-
standing, 10:464 forward to • time when source of
difference shall have blown over, and • joint commission,
perhaps not limited to England and America, shall be SP.
pointed to recast the whole chapter of international law
which treats of neutral rights and duties.
The Telegraph blames the American government for the
" pertinacity" with which it repeats its claim, and denies
that we have anything wherewith to reproach ourselves. A
nation might just as well attempt to stop the tides or the
wind as to prevent even one of its subjects from all inter-
ference with foreign wars. The demand that we shonklre-
;plate our legislation with • view to protect the interests of
other States, is ono that, after our past experience, canno
be listened to. The Telegraph does not assert that England
may not properly revise her Foreign Enlistment Act, or
any other statute having an external operation ; but she
must do it, if at all, at her own time, and in her own way.

THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN ITALY.

YISCII.LANZOOB TOPICO.
The Daily News tells the story of the war and recently
concluded peso, with Bhootan es far as it can be made ont
by the reports and correspondence of the list he'f.dosen
mails. The =Met in lamest that the campaign did not
proceed when the means were ma iy, and prophesy that war
will be renewed in • year or two. Nothing, it is true, eau
now repair the damage of this vexatious little war ; nothing
can oempensate for the lives lost, and the mischief of a
maid so unworthy of our honour and our arms ;
bet it is too late to dwell on each facts, except m
warning in the next am that arises. We ought never
to have gone into this war, bat itarna not follow that we
ought not to end it, bemuse oar lases an irreparable. We
do not want new territory ; we do not mean to take any ;
and we most therefore endeavour to make peace otherwise
than by conquest. The honour of England is likely to be
as well guarded by Sir John Lawrence as by any man to
whom it can be confided; and there can be no rational
doubt of his having taken the best security for it that
the case admits.
The constitutional exaggeration of American language
and the temporary majority possessed in Congress by the
most violent of American parties, may prevent us, the
Times thinks, from attributing • very serious importance to
what is bong mid and dons there as to Mario°. It is cer-
tainly the interest of Frame to withdraw as eon as possible
from a perilous positioo, but it is the interest of the Unikd
States to reader that withdrawal as far as possible spoon-
mom, instead of having to enforce it.
The ex months' notice given by France of the expire'
tins of the extradition treaty is supposed by the Times to
mean that the French government, by denouncing the
present treaty, are paving the way for some.
thing better. It is certainly true that the treaty
admits of much improvement. It would be quite
possible to provide in the treaty the erect mune to
be pursued by the country required to deliver up an accused
person, instead of consuming, es seems to have been done in
the present treaty, that there existed some power to England
which wu capable of giving up • person living under our laws,
merely on the demand of a foreign government. It might
also be desirable to include a great many °Seneca, such, for
instance, es larceny, embezzlement, fraudulent breach of
trust, arson, aggravated ',sauna, perjury, receiving stolen
goods knowing them to be stoles, within the provisions of a
future treaty.
The Daily News notion the great and growing discontent
in the medical department of the army and navy, sod sup-
ports the proposition that in place of the regimental
system a royal medical staff should be instituted which
should bold • position as regards the army situating
akin to that occupied by the Engineers and Artillery,
Let the health of the army be anti dated to this body, just
as the management of gnus and the preparation of defences,
to., is allotted to the Artillery and Engineers.
The Herald is surprised and apparently disappointed at
the small amount of dal:Drees obtained the other day by
Sir It. Clifton from the proprietors of the Patriot.
The Tones notes an ominous analogy between the story of
the cattle plague at its last appearance, and the eurrent air
counts of its course at this moment, and hers the rate of
progress shown by the last report aal be still further Noce.
lented. As to a remedy, at present nothing promise% any
success except the interception of the contagion by the
interception of traffic. if the powers given to the
local authorities in each district by the last Order
in Council, are judiciously used, it will pot a very strict
limit to the chances of contagion, but it will not extinguish
them. If the other course of action which has been
proposed, viz., that by which all traffic in live
cattle would be stopped absolutely by Order in Council,
so absolutely that even the removal of animals
from one part of a farm to soother might be forbidden if
any public road had to be traversed in the pump., were
pursued, the dissemination of the disease would be at
lowly stepped, except in so far ss it might be commuoi-
cable by the butcher in his visite to the farm.

to persuade the President of the Council that the
crisis might be met by the resignation of two of the
present ministry, and that the difficulties which
would arias from the resignation en mane of the
whole ministry—difficulties which no section in the
Chamber desires to confront—may yet be avoided.
Of course, Sella must resign. He has become
utterly impossible. And it is suggested that the
Minister of War, General Petitti, might as well
take the opportunity of retiring also ; and thus
avoiding the other storm which is brewing with re-
ference to his celebrated circular, recommending
the army in general to make it their duty to shoot
down impertinent journalists.
Whether any such modification of the crisis may
be attempted, we shall see to-morrow. One very
favourable circumstanoe is that the exciting agita-
tion of the Chamber has as yet in no,wiee commu-
nicated itself to the country. " Out of doors" the
country, and easy going Florence herself, is as
quiet as though the parliament and its noisy orators
and its passions were at the Antipodes.

(Mu ova owx counilo9ll9lm)
FLORSNOE, Duo. 19.
We are, since the closing of the Chamber today
at half-past 6, in the midst of a ministerial crisis.
The discussion has been above measure stormy, and
the result such as is probably unparalleled in the
annals of parliamentary government. On the qua-
tiou being put, whether the ministry should be
directed to suspend the execution of a royal decree
issued by the Minister of Finance, the number of
voters was 197, of which one voted for the negative,
and 196 for the affirmative. The ministers them-
selves declined to vote. The manner in which this
crushing censure was provoked was as strange and
as unprecedented as the all but unanimity of it.
It has been a pet scheme of Signor Sella—and to
my thinking a vary rational one—to eahav the new
Italian national bank constituted (but fares
the sanction of the legislature goes not yet consti-
tuted) to actas treasurer of the finances. The begin-
ning of its functions of this kind was fixed for the
Ist of January, 1866 ; and it was empowered by a
royal decree, in anticipation of the due legislative
authority of the chamber, to act in this capacity
(involving of course a variety of financial and bank-
ing operations) from that date. But the bank, and
Signor Nisco, a deputy of the Right Centre, and I
believe a director of the bank, as spokesman for it,
were not content with this position of things, and
wished their position to be legalised and placed on
a better and more constitutional footing. Hence
Signor Nisco gave notice of a question to be asked
this day of the Minister of Finance on the subject
of the decree. It was the more necessary for the
bank to put itself clearly right in the matter,
as it was well known that the majority of the
chamber disapprove of the plan of making the
bank act as treasurer to the kingdom.
Signor Nisco, it will be observed, is, as I said, a
member of the Right Centre, and therefore a politi-
cal friend of the government. But he is, it would
seem, still more a friend of the financial institution
of which he is a director. Unwilling, however, to
harm the ministers, if it could be avoided, Signor
Niacoand his friends,to the number of sixty members
of the Right Centre, held a meeting yesterday even-
ing, at which Signor Sella was requested to be pre-
sent, the object of which was to see if some means
could be found for getting the minister out of the
scrape that threatened him without sacrificing
Signor Nisco's other object. It was evidently the
best plan for the minister to avow at once the un-
constitutional nature of the step he had taken, to
plead the urgency of the case in question, to say
that at all events, if wrong, he had acted for the
beat, and to ask for a vote of indemnity. .And there
is every reason to believe that if be had so acted
the chamber would not have persisted in censuring
him, for the Right Centre were, of course, anxious
to avoid hurting hint, and the Left was,
as I am assured, by no means anxious
for such a result as should destroy the
ministry at the present conjuncture. But Signor
Sells was immovably obstinate in his determination
to maintain the legality of the royal decree. In
vain his friends of the Right Centre told him that if
this was to be the question before the chamber
they could not support him. He was determined
Ito meet his fate. It is true that when the question
1 came on to-day he strove hard to obtain delay. But
when that was denied by a vote of 130 to 115, he un-
flinchingly upheld the legality and constitutionality
of the course he bad pursued ; and was of course
I supported by the other ministers.
The line taken by the Cabinet was specially
calculated to irritate the Chamber. Sella, arguing in
favour of the legality of royal decrees issued
during the period when parliament is not sitting,
observed that the large increase in the num-
ber of electors by the new income-tax law, bad
been added to the electoral lists by royal
decree ; and that if that was illegal, the
first chamber was an illegally assembled
body. This the Chamber did not like.
Then La Marmora, the President of the Council,
I in answer to Mancini, who had sneeringly observed
I that perhaps the observations of Signor Sella pointed
to a desire on the part of the Ministry to dissolve
a Chamber which was not the legal representative
of the country, said, "I wish to reject an insinua-
-1 tion of the Hon. Signor Mancini, which would
persuade the Chamber that the Government has
the intention of dissolving the Chamber. I so-
lemnly declare that the Government has hitherto—
observe, gentlemen, I say hitherto—never enter-
tained any such intention. Should it, however,
appear that such a measure was expedient, it
would have the courage to resort to it."
These words, which, it must be admitted, were
sufficiently ill-judged, caused instantly such a tem-
pest in the Chamber as has been seldom seen there.
Crispi shouted aloud some words of answer to the
President of the Council, but they were drowned in
the raging tumult of other cries. The members left
their seata,and began talking inviolently gesticulating
groups in the body of the balL In vain the President
put on his hat and rang his bell. Nobody for a while
paid any attention to him. At length the tumult
lulled a little ; some voices were heard crying, "To
your seats ! to your seats !" and something like
order was at last once more established. The
President of the Council said a few words, disclaim-
ing the intention of exciting such a storm, and
protesting his own perfect loyalty to constitutional
liberty and free institutions.
But the mischief was done, and La Porta, with
far more of parliamentary tact than the ministry
had shown, rose immediately, and said that after
the incident ,which had just arisen, he would not
add one single word on the merits of the question,
but demanded that "the vote—the simple vote"
of the Chamber should be taken.
But before that could be done there ensued a
very brisk passage at arms between La Marmora
and Crispi.
" The Minister of Finance," said Crispi, "has
told us that he sits on that bench for the defence of
constitutional rights. And the President of the
Council with greater audacity has declared that be
would have the courage to and you to your homes.
(Noise and denials.) Yes, gentlemen, to send you
to your homes !"
La Marmora—" It is not true."
Crispi—" It is true."
La Marmora—" I protest."
Crispi proceeded to tell the President of the
Council that he bad forgotten that to dissolve the
Chamber is a prerogative of the Crown, and not
of any minister. He then proceeded to go into the
merits of the question, mixing up, somewhat
illogically, the question of the legality of the
royal decree with that of the expediency of
making the bank serve as the national treasurer,—
a system, he concluded by saying, which no nation
save England had thought fit to adopt.
At last the question was put on the motion of
Signor Valerie', to the effect explained above, and
with the result above stated, of a ministry declared
to have acted illegally by the entire Chamber save
One.
Of course the general feeling is that the ministry
must resign en mass. But efforts are being made

THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA'S VISIT TO
HUNGARY.

(nos cam smut. coaszszoinuer.)
PPISTH, DEC. 19.
The building where the Assembly was held yes-
terday is really magnificent. The vestibule and
staircase are of noble proportions, and the large
ball itself is superb. The whole place was literally
a flood of light. Ido not remember ever to have
seen any place so lighted up before. The edifice
without, as within, has something Baracenic about it,
aad this style was employed with skill and to great
advantage in the arrangements and decoration of
that lofty ball. It is so high that, in spite of the
endless lights and the hundreds of persons present,
the atmosphere was not overheated. The Emperor
and his suite were in the loggia, as they may be
called, which run round three sides of the hall ; but
later his Majesty came down and walked among
the citizens who were the givers of the festival.
To-day is another of the great dinners which have
been given daily since the Emperor's arrival here-
About ninety guests are invited each tune.
In the Chamber of the Magnates a resolution
was passed with loud and long acclamations to
send a deputation to Vienna to wait on the Em-
press on the 24th of the month, her Majesty's
birthday, to present the congratulations of the
assembled members, and also to invite her Majesty
to Pesti- I believe in the Lower House the same
proposition will be decided on, and Desk is to take
the invitation up to Vienna.
I feer much time will be lost with the examine
tion of the validity of certain elections. A great
number are found not to be valid, corruption of all
sorts having been carried on. The first step, when
the Diet is constituted, will be the debate on the
address. This Deak will compose. It is the next great
subject of interest now the royal speech has been
heard, and all are looking forward with intense
I eagerness to learn the spirit in which it will be con-
ceived ; for, as the key note to a piece of music, so
will that be to the succeeding discussions. I have
been told by a member of the Upper Chamber that
should it be too uncompromising, which would of
course tend to make an atljuatment of differences
the more difficult, the magnates would reject it,
and send it back again for revision.
By some it is said that the revision of the law
of 1848 will prove the chief difficulty : others look
upon the financial question as the reef on which it
is feared they will run aground. The settlement of
what are "common questions," and which are spe-
cially Hungarian, will, in my opinion, be the great
difficulty of all. Without for a moment gain-
saying the arduousness of the undertaking
which the Diet has before it, I can only repeat
that all—and I speak here of the leading men
whose opinion is everything—are very hopeful,
and, as yet, no one entertains a doubt of matters
being settled welL Of course, much may happen
to mar these expectations ; but the necessity—the
absolute necessity—for an arrangement has made
itself so sensibly felt, and is, moreover, so fully
appreciated by both parties, that it is this which
gives me and others confidence. Self-interest is a
strong motive-power, and here happily it plays a
considerable part. Real, tangible gains will now
not be given up for things many of which had
mere fancy value, and for which a fancy price was
hitherto paid.
The Vienna Morning Post observes that there is no
ground for supposing that Deak and his party sym-
pathise with the Venetians. A letter just received
from Venice says—" And so you (the Hungarians)
have left us in the lurch. You have left us and
gone over to the enemy. There is no hope for us
now."
What has been going on here has been followed
throughout Venetia with the liveliest interest. This
alone, and the view which the words just quoted
exhibit, would make the present crisis in the mu-
tual relations of Austria and Hungary of European
importance. Europe is intimately concerned in the
matter ; and though England has grown tired with
hearing of the changes in Austrian systems and of
her mismanagement, and the complaints of
Hungary, the problem which is now being
worked out will be sure to awakes her attention.
And for this reason. If it is solved well—and it
can only be so if anything deserving the name of a
solution be obtained—a solid liberal, political
system will be established in the heart of Europe ;
s strong bulwark which no reaction will be able to
batter down. And thus it may be said that the
vast results depending on the resolves of the
Senate-house at Pesth are quite incalculable.
There are 377 members in the Diet—when the
Transylvanian contingent arrives there will be 430.
Of this number it is calculated—my authority is a
Magnate--there are not more than 100 ultras, or
" war to the knife" Hungarians. You see, there-
fore, how large is the majority of those who are not
so desperately inclined.
In the evening edition of the Pester Lloyd just
received, there is a long article from the pen of
Baron Bards, taken from the Hetilap. He, too,
speaks of the time it will take to do what has to be
done, but " the difficulties are not to be combated
with the arms of material and moral oompalsion,
but solely and alone on terms of mutual under-
standing, arising from a feeling of necessity." And
it goes on to say that a result is to be obtained
only after much labour, "and possibly after
many sacrifices." Such language is new in Hun.

pry-
At some of the elections, at TorontAl for instance,
disgraceful scenes have occurred. Organised bands,
armed with knives and daggers, waited at the rail-
way station for the rival candidate, and when the
train arrived threw themselves on their opponents.
One man died of the many stabs received. But on
the day of election it was almost worse-, perfect
pandemonium.
' At 10 to-morrow night the Emperor leaves for
Vienna. He has expressed the wish that share
should be no ceremony. The citizens, however, in-
tend to illumine in the streets throe& which be
passes to the station.

BRIOANDAHE 115 THE PAPAL STATESL-The FAH
of Clarendon her Majesty's Secretary of State for
Foreign Mesas, has received the following infer- •
=don from her Majesty's consul at Rome, dated
November 28, 1865 :-" Various bands of brigands
have now descended from the Neapolitan ternary .
into the Papal States in such numbers that the •
small amount of Papal troops (in the absence of tlis
French) is evidently unable to contend successfully
with them. These organised bands now extol
from Viterbo to Froeinone so that most of the fro°.
tier towns are without protection,: and three nib
viduala are prisoners until they can be ransomed."
A correspondent of the Star says of the ear
sided murderer Southey, "Notoriety at soy price sedate
have been his guiding principle. He was prepario
ously vain of what he imagined to be his litenry
talent, and was constantly in the habit of seeding 313 i
to the office of All the Year Round. These contrite.
Boos being utterly worthies, were declined, and on scar.
Mg notice to this effect Southey wrote a series of iosolol
personal letters to Mr. Charles Dickens. informing his,
amoog other things, that as them articles were suppress'
through jealousy, he, Soutbey, would make a public dm
sure of Mr. Dickens's oondnet in the transaction in a pub
limbed letter, to be addressed to ' David Coppetfield, Erg.,
Murderers' Dee, Rottenborergh.' "
Anus or Pursue Mor.-The oldest duke is the
Doke of Northumberland, aged 87 ; the youngest, the
Duke of Norfolk, aged 18. The oldest merge", the Ilto
guts of Westmeath, aged 80; the youngest. the Mem"
of Ely, aged 16. The oldest earl, the Esti of Oaks,
aged 88 ; the youngest, the Earl of Charleville, aged 13.
The oldest viscount, Viscount Gough, aged 86 ; the
youngest, Viscount Dowse, aged 2L The eldest USA
Lord Brougham, aged 87 ; the 'cogged, Lord PAM!:
sled 8. The eldest member of the Privy Council is UM
Brougham. aged 87 ; the rummest, Hie Royal Highness Is
Prime of Wass, seed 24. The oldest member of
House of Commoes Is Sir William Vernm, Bart., :nemler
for the county of Arousgb, aged 83 ; the youspet, the Ed
of Tyree.. member for Waterford. seed 21. The °Mel
Judge is finked is the Right Hoe. Stephen Lade/
ton, aged 83; the youogest, Sir James P. Wilde, aged 41
The oldest Judge in Ireland. the Right Hoe. Thomas Ie
trey, Chief dustier of the Queen's Beech, aged 82
youngest, Justice Keogh, aged 48. The oldest Scotch Lot
of Seaton. the Right Hoe. Duncan McNeill, Lord Jude
Gomel, aged 72 ; the youngest, David Mum, Lord AIM
aged H. The oldest archbishop, the Archbishop of CIS
Serbari, 71 •, the youngest, Archbishop of York. eel
46. The oldest Bishop, the Bishop of Exeter, eked 88 ;
youngest, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, aged a
The oldest barred, Sir Stephen L. Hammick, 13•58;
youngest, Sir Hoary Hays; Lawrence, aged one year. Ik
oldest civil sad military height is Gamest Sin Arthur 1
Clifton, aged 93 : yosopest. Sir Chloride T. Bright, aged
-From Who's Who. for IW.
THE Lanus MARY= IN NEW ZEAL TD.-Ma
Alpenn7 lOWAs that the labour market his suffers&
&proem es well as other markets from the state of
employes sot feeling »slimed to give each lid
wages for the present as formerly, sad sensate still bola
out ter tM weal mtge. Good general servants rata fes
peer to 354, 40t. beteg the very Wort wipe given
vate famine& Roeseaseldet 301. ; oereoweids, 201.
261. ; women molls is hotels. 11. per week to 21. 10s. ; oe
rooks, ditto, from 50e. to X 10s. ; housenial* for hash
15s. to 11. per week ; kitelien.maide, 11. par se* ; scuba
maids. 301. ; barmaids in Dunedin. pee week; ditto, •
amnia% 2/. to 31. pee weak ; ditto to west ones,, from 59
trmteirer weak. Male eervanta-Grooms, 22: pee vat;
esuples„ from 751. to 1001. per annum • riosolind
21. per weski, miasma. U. to 50s. pee wailiehaphesk
from 501. to 701. per annum ; bullock drivers. . per wit;
skaerers, 25e. par hundred sad resets ; nnlitiMes, 30a Pr
week ; bey! frees 10s. to 11. per week. Goven?lmess, ltd
?Ism DW. 90. 50i. to 1001. per WINS
firm dressmakers. 4s. phr, doy,
Ton will, I think, agree with ms in ending the bse,""nekgge,:ors,ipporlits'week.rigapoiL Deily genes. geilw.v.ak