The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-15 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

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THE BRAZILS.
ARRIVAL OF THE HAVANE.
(By Telegraph from Lisbon.)
RIO DE JANEIRO, JAN. 30.
Exchange on London, 23 to 23ff ; on Paris, 397 to
400. Coffee, 6.300 to 6.500. Shipments of coffee
since the departure of the last mail, 83,000 bags,
of which 40,562 are for the North of Europe, and
the Channel ; 14,142 for the Mediterranean, and
22,296 for various ports. Sales, 20,000 bags.
Stock, 30,000 bags. Freight, 365. to 375.
BAHIA, JAN. 29.
Exchange on London, 24 to 23i. Sugar,
whites, 2.900 to 3.000 reis ; browns, 2.100 to 2.300
refs. Cotton, 13.500 to 14.500 refs.
PERNAMBUCO, FEB. 1.
Exchange on London, 241 to 24. Sugar, whites,
4.200 rein ; browns, 2.050 to 2.150 eels. Cotton,
15.000 to 15.400 rein.
The Measageries Imperiales steamer Guienne
was at Dakar (Gctree) on the 4th February, and
the Rhone at Peniambuco on the 28th January.
BUENOS AYRES, JAN. 14.
Exchange on London, 601 ; dollars, 25. Wool,
50 to 90 ; tallow, 141; lumber, 34 to 37 ; sugar, IN.

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES FOR CIi7L-
SERVICES.

A supplementary estimate in the civil services,
issued this morning, states that the sum required to be
voted before the end of March for the purchase of the
Macao collection of eons and antiquities for the British
Museum is 41,7211. The sum actually paid for them to
Count Stanilaa de Blame was 48,000 f. ; but 2,279/. has
been received from a sale of certain coins which were not
required.
It appears that 101,300/. is required to be voted in the
year ending next March to enable her Majesty's govern-
ment to make good to the Chinese government the esti-
mated value of certain ships which belonged to the late
Anglo-Chinese flotilla. This estimate is for the difference
between the sum promised to the Chime governuient on
account of this property and the sum realised by the vale
of the ships. One of the vessels is still unsold, and any
sum which may hereafter be received from the sale will be
paid into the exchequer.
The sum of 165,305/. is wanted in addition to the sums
voted last session for the year ending 31st March next,
to be divided as follows :—Royal palaces, 212/. ; public
buildings, 905/. ; royal parks, &c., 11,507./. ; Houses of
Parliament, 600/. ; Holyhead and Portpatrick Hai hour,
&c.,7,1811.; Burlington House designs, 1,375/. ; Wellington
Monument, 2,600 f. ; Franklin Monument, 8171.; roads,
South Kensington, 1,286 f. ; Universal Exhibition at Paris,
50,000/. ; special minions, &c., 12,471 ff. ; telegraph van,
panics subaidies, 792/. ; miscellaneous expenses, ti.;,i;;.g. ;
experiments in drawback on sugar, 9,181/. The public
buildings vote is for the National Gallery enlarge.
went designs. The royal parks item, 3,372/., is for
the fencing of Hyde-park and for the ploplaed
widening of Park-lane ; and 7,000/. is for the purchase at
the Kew Botanic Gardens, of the late Sir Wm. Hooker's
Herbarium, books, portraits, &c. 600/. additional is to be
given to Mr. Cope, R.A. for the frescoes completed by him
in the peers' corridor. The model of the Wellington
moment, it is stated, has now been so far completed that
the execution of the monument itself may properly be
commenced. The item of special missions relates to the
expenses incurred on behalf of the Abyssinian captives.
The expense to the country caused by the cattle plague
between June and January last, was 64,312/., and 47,0261.
had already been voted. Between last August and No.
vember, 23,000/. was paid as compensation for cattle
slaughtered by order of the inspectors.

THE GOVERNMENT INQUIRY INTO TRADES'

umoWs.

The following is a copy of the bill brought into
the House of Commons by Mr. Secretary Walpole, Lord
John Manners, and Sir Stafford Northcote for facilitating
in certain cases the proceedings of the commissioners ap
pointed to make inquiry respecting trada unions and
other associations of employers or workmen :
" Whereas a commission has been issued by her Ma.
jesty to inquire into and report on the organisation and
rules of trades' unions and other associations, whether of
workmen or employers, and to inquire into and report an
the effect produced by such trades' unions and alsocia•
time on the workmen and employers respectively, and on
the relations between workmen and employers, and on
the trade and industry of the country, with power to in.
vestigate any recent acts of intimidation, outrage, or wrong
alleged to have been promoted, encouraged, or connived 4
by such trades' unions or other associations, and also to
suggest any improvements to be made in the law with
respect to the matters aforesaid, as with respect to the
relations between the workmen and their employers fortis
mutual benefit of both parties. And whereas a case at
outrage within the scope of the said conni4iou at
inquiry has been committed at Sheffield, and repro•
aentations have been made on behalf of the workmen as
well as employers of labour in that city stating that it
would be for the advantage and to the satisfaction of both
workmen and employer, that a searching inquiry on oath
should be made into the circumstances of such outrage
and the alleged complicity of the trades' unions therein:
and whereas the powers for the effectual conducting of
such inquiry cannot be conferred without the authority of
parliament : Be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords
spiritual and temporal, and commons, iu this present par-
liament assembled, and by the authority of the An", as
follows :

" 1. This act may be cited for all purposes as ' The
Trades' Union Commission Act, 1867.'

" 2. The commissioners or such one or more of them as
they may with the concurrence of the chairman for that
purpose appoint may, in pursuance of this act, inquire into
any acts of intimidation, outrage, or wrong alleged to have
been promoted, encouraged, or connived at by trades'
unions or associations, whether of workmen or employer,
and as to the causes of such sets and the complicity thenin
of such trades' unions or associations, subject to the fol•
lowing restrictions :—(l.) That no inquiry in exercise of
the powers of this act shall be held elsewhere than at
Sheffield without the sanction of one of her Majesty's
principal Secretaries of State. (2) That no inquiry is
exercise of the powers of this act shall be made into any
case of intimidation, outrage, or wrong which has occurred
more than five years before the passing of this act.
" :3. The commissioners or such one or more of them as
they may appoint shall for the purposes of an inquiry
under this act have all such powers, rights, and privileges
es arts vested in any of her Majesty's superior courts, or is
any judge thereof, on the occasion of any action or suit fa
respect of the following matters :—The enforcing the
attendance of witnesses and examining thew on oath,
affirmation, or otherwise, as they or he may think lit;
(2.) The compelling the production of docunients. 13. i The
punishing perilous, guilty of contempt. Awl a surenione
under the hand or Minds of one or inure of the Leos
tnisioners may be substituted for laud such be equivalent
to any form of process capable of being issued at law in
any action or suit for enforcing the attenalanceof 'AMMOs
or compelling the production of documents.
" 4. The commissioners. or any two of them. may from
time to tin e, by order under their hands, r..ier the conduct
of the whole or any part of an inquiry in exercise of the
powers of this act to any one or MO, pereans named is
such order (and hettafter referred to as a specnal exeminer
or examiners), and may direct the mode in a hell such
quirt' is to be conducted, anal in which the moth thereat
is to be reported to the commissioners ; and any parson to
whom such inquiry or part thereof may he referred shall
have iu the matters referred to him all the None
relation to the enforcing the attendance anal examination
of witnesses, anal of compelling the production of done
melds (including the power to sign any such 1•111111/1011, se
aforesaid), and of punishing defat Its lay wittleves aid Per'
sons guilty of contempt, as are lay this act given to the
said commissioners or say one or more of them ; but no
order of reference under this act shall be valid males+ the
concurrence of the cheirnuw of the commis.ion therein be
testified by his signature thereto.
"e. Any person examined as a witness hefore any cone
missioner or special examiner under this act, who in the
opinion of such commissioner or examiner wakcs.l full
and true disclosure touching all the mantes in revel
of which he is examined, shall mccive a certificate
under the hand of inch commissioner or examiner. stating
that the witness has upon his exutninatien mole a fell
and true disclosure as aforesaid ; that if any civil or
criminal proceeding be at any time thereafter instituted
against such witness in respect of may mutter touching
which he has been so examined, the tribunal befere which
such proceeding is instituted shall, on the pentane. and
proof of the certificate, stay the proceeding. ant may in
its discretion award to such witness :my costs be may
have been put to by the institution of the reading :
Provided, firstly, that this section shall toe eat. 1. I ts in-
demnify from criminal proceedings the 3C.11.al lereetrator
of any act of outrage or other crime ; eeenallY•
that no person shall be compelled in pal...armee of
this act to answer any questions tenaling te a minus's
himself as the actual perpetrator of any :act of outrage
other crime. Thirdly, that no evidence taken coder this
act shall be admissible against any person in acv end or
criminal proceeding whatever.
"G. Every person who, upon exionimitien amen call or
affirmation before any commissioner or special exeaainer
tinder rhea act, wilfully gives false re. iciace, shall b°
liable to the penalties of perjury.
" 7. The reasonable expenses incurred by any Per.a in
appearing to give evidence beton, any commissioner Or
special examiner under this act, aceoralang taa e a,,. to he
hamanydb:f allowedth eidteicosmuinc
commissioner
approved by the Commissioners of her Treasury,
rsuneru obry
it such person by the said mo a the
Treasury, end shall be deemed to be exi. last- int 1.11
the commissioners for the purposes of tioii eon...edam.
" S. The co siioners anal the special a vainiiii"
shall
have such and the like protection anal pi it deg, e caw' of
any action brought agent them for :ray act dame ~r
thebe
omitted to be done in the execution of 'leer dairy: as is
now by law given by any act or acts nos an hereafter to
be in force to justices acting in execution of their office.
"9. No action shall be brought against any commie.
loner or special examiner under this act. or aey other
person whomsoever, for anything dame in the a xeet.e.
tion of his duty under this act, online eel .erion
brought within six calendar months next after the doing
of such thing."

A dinner about to be given to Mr. Brand, at
which Mr. Gladstone will preside, by the stdtsenhers to the
testimonial announoed at the close of hist se.sion, the sub
acriptions to which amount to upwards of

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E.isT SL'ITuLK ELEITIoN. LAW INTELLIGENTHECE. EXPRESS, FRIDAY EV
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in his hand some distance from the 'tall. The prisoner
1 said he was very sorry for talon she book, rind offered to
NI ):11IN.tTION.-(THIS DAY.) (THIS DAY.) pay for it. The prisoner also implored him not to give
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
-_-..... him in charge
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James Alfred Smith, messenger at' the railway station,
IPSWICII, Partial'.
.1 1.7 DIC lAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY stated that he saw the prisoner in the passage leading
i , .11iitiati.m of candidates for the representa- C01T!.1C11... from the platform. and go to the book-stall, while the Last
. , !.• ~i sutfolk took place this morning. The email' (Before Sir .1. Coleile, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir lt. I witness was attending to a gentleman. The prisoner took
.. .• Mr. Cori:ince (conxervative) and Col. Adair 1 Kindersley, and Sir L. Peel). tolvantage of Aburn's back being turned towards him, took
. The show of hatols was in fa. our of blr. 11C.1.00R Br oE Em r. sui.m..,,ONUISILL—"TIIAORI,INAGC a book entitled " Lady Flavia" from the stall, and put it
CASE. in his outside coat.pocket. The prisoner walked back to
.
• This was the fourth day of an extmonlinavy cue. the passage. He followed him to the end of
The parties are husband and wife, married according to the pasaage• and the prisoner turned round and
I'uI..CHANTER ELECTION. the Mahomedan law. and there were three appeals by him asked the way to Shorediteh, to which he replied.
---.-- from the High Court of .Judicature, Bengal, fur a "You don't want Shoreglitch, you have stolen a book."
Pt n.Lim;.—crilis DAY.) restitution of conjugal rights, and as to the right The prisoner iuttuasliately took the book from his pocket
to ptoperty. The respondent was a wealtly and of
to pay
nous, for
it.i iii, 1111 C TE14:01t.11.u.) young widow. an.l married the appellant in 1,41, . Joseph W police-constable 427 K, said that since
-ii I 1. ,-1 111/: I, .1.1. Al' N, No% and ono of [lie allegations was that he had lost caste by the last examination be had made inquiries and &seer-
: ...,:ake ,cotiseisaiive)... . . ..... 7,71, i Weirton', a freeniasou. There was another appeal tarred that his repreaentations were correct, that he hail
s,i Mils rah)
"Jorlon:th Bose v. Shumsoonuipeia," which was a claim by been a shepherd in South Australia, sod had paid his pas-
the coheirs of the appellant in the other rase as to property. sage money for Australia on the very day he was captured.
TllO , l'Cloy K. The four appeals were commenced on Tuesday. Mr. l'artridgo asked if it was intended to press the case
The Attorney• General, Mr. Leith. and Mr. C Fontifex against the prisoner.
i:. ~,, (instructed by Mr. T. L. Wilson) attended for the appel- Mr. J. H. H. Taylor, from the establishment of W. H.
lant, who appeared in person ; Sir Roundell Palmer and Smith and Son, 188, Strand, replied in the affirmative.
_
Mr. Care (instructed by Messrs. Graham and Lyde) sip- The young men at the railway-station book-stalls through-
' ii•E O. I:EFoR.II AND TIIE WORKING Feared for the lady, out the kingdom were responsible for all the property
11. ASSES., The case was opened by the Attorney-General on Tues- intrusted to them by the tin,.. and in justice to them he
day. Mr. Leith followed on the same side, and yesterday felt bound to ask for a conviction.
11- Lone, M. l'.. has repulolishetl all his Mi. Pontifet, who appeared for Judonath Bose, coin- The prisoner said he was very sorry for what he had
.. , leer ion addresses. and public letters bearing on otenced the address and resumed at the sitting of the done. He would elect to be tried by the magistrate.
committee this morning. Mr. Partridge had nu doubt the prisoner stole the
. • !,.. with a preface, ill which he reeks to justify the It was alleged that the husband had ill-treated his wife hook, that he knew what he was about, and that he in-
,.. :,.., he has taken. lie rq,eats that the proper mode of I and reparation was denied on the ground of natural jus- tended to take the book away. He had nothing to do
:. ~_ with 'wl' a -abject is, not the meta- lice. She siso alleged that Freemasonry was contrary to with klepboinania. and should treat the prisoner like any
i.: , :, .1. but the inducti, e or experimental-mit I the 'Malioinedan law. On the other hand the appellant other person charged with the crime. He aenteneed the
ri ertion of abstract rights. but the coolie alleged that the decision of the courts below was contrary risoner to one mouth's imprisonment and hard labour.
• I. , ..,..n ..f practicalcons..spteuos ; and that any descent to law, and i.e prayed a restitution of conjugal rights, He thought Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son had acted
i as. a IN. suffrage is objectionable. because there is no and also to the right of property which she chihniah quite right in this matter and ought to protect their 5ee-
,....t ins pier IwtWOCII that and household suffrage. At the The mew must necessarily occupy two or three days longer. rants.
s onetime he does not think the problem is insoluble " tofind _ _. _ ___
"...me franchiw which shall take in those above 10/. as well
as those below, arid which, inateiel of leading on, by in- COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. WEATHER REPORT.—(THIS DAY.)
..it.,1.1...e.,,,,,,,.,,,,,,e, to household suffrage. contains in 3ittinzs at Nisi Prim' in Middlesex.-(Before Lord Chief ....—.._
Farrar, FEBRUARY 15, 8 A.M.
its. If a moe-ilde of limitation which may enable it by its Justice Bovill and a Special Jury.)
wie :tott...“ re,- tic four to resist thedownwcol pressurewhich HASP T. ROBINSON. I F. Isinsms. gas,
1,11 k., iii the very nature of a money qualification for a This was the eighth day of the hearing of this cue. 18. T. Tr. 'lto ~----,----...„! 11.1 Z. Ito
s.a.. ' Ile does not think that sufficient attention has Mr. EdwanlJames,Q.C., Mr. Field . 9.
1 --..a.-
Is . ii gi, en to the question how far the Hre
(louse of Commons and Mr. Cleave appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Coleridge, — _ -- --
n,. !. oforin, all how far a more democratic legislature Q.C., Mr. Giffanl, Q.C. and Mr. H. James for the de- N„,___,•l" 2006 42 S.S.W. I 1 1 i &W. i b 1 - 1
s ..!.I Is more likely to do what is required for the good fondant ; and Mr. Archibald appeared to watch the case on aim... l3O 11 41 B.s, W, I 1 2 . 8, ,i eh :eft 2
20.12 at 8. I 1 I KN.& iobl - 1
ef ih.• . ountry. Mr. Low.• thus millets to the attacks behalf of the trustees under the will.
which base lumen made on him fur lii= description of the The Lord Chief Justice this morning summed up, and, ClArdr°UanT44llOl4llo. 3211.21 sib
1.2.1i.1. I b.l 1.81..i.Z. ;et' I, -- b
sorioug ..I.eises :
1 . after complinienting the jury upon the great attention iialentia 1 - -
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,ay be expected to say a word on the attacks to
argutiwnt in the second of these speeches has
ht. n xposed. By what I did any, as opposed to what I
I: 1% it misrepresented as saying. I abide. Did candour
.nv element in such controversy, it might have been
sleeted th It attention would not have been 1. 'tea to a
f, a .ententes in speeches which occupy so many pages. Of
p Aetna, of what I said I leaveothera to judge, not eon-
(tont myselftha t t he verdict I nts,genemlly on that issue
, ItUt I would Voila out that the working
under the modest claim to share in electoral power
ar, ',any asking for the whole of it. Their claim is to
pas ft the position of non.electors to the position of
s..srreigit rbiters in the last resort of the destinies of the
n,:iun. T1,,,y who set up such a claim must show that
v at.- wasters of themselves before they can hope
in le in ~ters of others. One of the first qualifications
f..y power should be the willingness to hear both sides-
-00, slot say what is unpleasiug, as well as those who my
a bat smooth. They must not seek to limit the field of
di.mts-ion by their ovrn susceptibilities. They must expect
to le critically surveyed and canvassed before they can
twr,i.ole the present depositaries of power to ulslicate in
:lair favour. If it is competent to me to argue that with
a little self denial the franchise is already within the
n•ach of many of them ; that they will swamp the less
numemtsi classes ; that the expenses of elections will be
inrreated, and the character of the House of Commons int-
-10,1 ; it is also competent for me to urge that, since cor-
ruption and the other electoral vices prevail most in the
lower ranks of the present constituencies, it is unwise and
ulnae to go lower in search of electoral virtue. It is
ro, answer to such an argument to abuse it. author.
Either the statement is false, in which case it can
be refuted, and will only recoil upon him who made it,
or it is true, in which case it is worthy of the most serious
consideration, not only by the upper classes, but by the
very class which is instructed to resent it, because that
class inure than any other will suffer if parliament should,
through any ill-considered change, become lea fit for the
discharge of its duties. I beg those who have been
induced to think that I overstepped the fair limits of
discussion to peruse the following extract from a speech
made by Mr. Bright at Rochdale in January, 18:141,
which contains some things which I should be very
sorry to have said of the poor, to compare it with the
tuna-censored passage in toy second speech, and then to
reflect on a homely mulish proverb, which describes the
punishment awarded to venial, anti the impunity that was
on grave offences I put it to every man, I don't care
what his theoretical notions are, whether he believes that
throughout the boroughs of the United Kingdom it would
he advantageous or beneficial to the constituency as a
whole, to include some scores in very small condi-
tuencies, some hundretle in others, a few thousands
wrings, in the larger, of a clam of which there
ate, unfortunately, too many among us, namely, the ex-
cessively poor—many of them intemperate, some of them
profligate, some of them, it may be, only unfortunate,
some of them naturally incapable ; but all of them in a
condition of dependence such as to give no reasonable ex-
pectation that they would be able to resist the many
temptations which rich and onset upulous men would offer
them at periods of election —to give their votes in a
manner not only not consistent with their own opinions
and consciences, if they have any, but not consistent with
the representation of the town or city in which they
live.'"

CHURCH RATES ABOLITION. —The following IS
the short bill for the abolition of church rates introduced
in the House of Commons by Mr. Harslcutle, Mr. Baines,
and Mr. Trevelyan :—" Whereas church rates have for
some years ceased to be made or collected in many
)wishes by reason of the opposition thereto, and in many
other parishes where church rates have been made the
levying thereof has given rise to litigation and ill feeling :
and whereas it is expedient that the power to
make church rates should be abolished : Be it
therefore enacted by the queen's most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
loofa spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this
present parliament assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows :—l. From and after the pass-
ing of this act no church rate shall be made or levied in
any parish in England or Wales. 2. Provided always, that
in any parish where a sum of money is at the time of the
pawing of this act due on the security of church rates to
be made or levied in such parish under the provisions of
any act of parliament, such rates may still be made and
levied pursuant to such provisions for the purpose of pay-
ing off the money so due, but not otherwise, until the
same shall have been liquidated. 3. Any church rate
made at any time before the passing of this act may be
collected and recovered in the same way as if this act had
not been passed. 4. This act may be cited ea' The Church
Rate Abolition Act, P.C.' ^
At a crowded meeting of the Cork Farmers Club,
yesterday, Mr. M'Carthy Downing was all but unani-
mously chosen as candidate in the coming election for the
county. Both Mr. Downing and Mr. Scully addressed the
club. Mr. Smith Barry was not present.
The question of the education of the children of
tLe poorer classes is being taken up with spirit at Bir-
mingham. At an influentially attended meeting, held on
Wednesday night, at the residence of the Mayor, a resolu-
tion was passed declaring that increased powers were
ateeriary for the extension of the means of education, and
that municipal corporations should be empowered to levy
rates for educational purpose,. Another meeting is sum-
moned for Friday next, to consider the expediency of
asking the legislature to make attendance at school coin-
palmry.

Mr. Brown (Artentua Ward) arrived at South-
ampton from Jersey on Monday night,and he is now under
rne!ied treatment in the former town. The United States
Consul has visited him and has shown him every atten-
tion. Mr. Brown is cheerful, and full of hope that the
Npiin.; will restore him to health. As soon as he is euffl-
e"ntlr recovered he will leave England fur the United
Stu,.

THE. GOVERNMENT AND REFORM.—The Man-
r%•c.f. r asorvlian of to-day styli :—" It can no longer be
doubted that Mr. Disraeli has blundered awfully with the
Herm question. All men concur not only that his treat-
ment will not do, but that it is even worse than might
b.ve been expected. Of course this is not saying that
metlusl of procedure by resolution is neoesisarily
As little is it saying that the resolutions which
the Chancellor of the Exchequer has propounded are in
themselves inadmissible. It means merely that all the
;civinte.te which could possibly have been gained through
this method of procedure has been lost. The resolutionsare
t what was wanted. By means of this machinery a
weak government iu a minority might have elicited the
opinion of pirliament on each separate feature essential
gaol reform bill without pledging themselves to any
Proposition as a whole. But it could
h-....n.Lb1y supposed that they might evade taking distinct
ground of their own on each point of primary importance.
Though they might escape the extreme penalty of failure
6n a single detail, they must still undertake to lead the
dvliherations of the House of Commons and show
tm-laselves to have a general policy in accordance with its
This they have not done. The resolutions are
01.vimisly doomel to rejection, as in the case of that
recommending a plurality of votes, or they convey nothing
but the assertion of abstract principles, together with
Propootiona which have, over and over again, received
ti full loved of parliamentary approval."

The Lod Chief Justice this morning summed up, and,
after coniplinienting the jury upon the greet attention
which they had bestowed upon the case, said that it was
undoubtedly a most remarkable one, and it was easy to
understand that the Master of the Rolls should be of opi-
nion that it was one that was peculiarly desirable to have
decided by a jury ; for the decision slid not depend upon
any matter of law, but on a review of all the facts coupled
with the objects and motives by which the various parties
were influenced. It would be the duty of the jury to weigh
well the whole matter, but he believed that they would have
great difficulty in mew upon what part of the evidence
they could place reliance, for wherever there was a fact
or suggestion upon one side, it was met by a counter-sug-
gestion or fact upon the other, and he I thl not in his ex-
perience remember a case where there were so many points
of contradiction. The question in the cause was simple
enough ; whether the infant plaintiff was the son of
John emp, and the first matter which be would
call attention to was the law upon the subject. Upon the
law there was no doubt, and it had been well laid down in
a case in the House of Lords, " That in every ease where
a child is born in lawful wedlock, the husband not being
separated from the wife by a sentence of divorce,
sexual intercourse shall be presumed to have taken
place until that presumption is encountered by
such evidence as proves to the satisfaction of
theft who have to decide the question that sexual inter-
course did not take place within such time as that by the
law of nature the husband could be the father of the
child ;" and in another case it was said that the court or
jury, before they found that the child was illegitimate,
must he satisfied of that, not on a mere balance of pro-
babilities, but by such evidence as shall exclude
all doubt—that is, all reasonable doubt." This
being so, the question which the jury would have to
determine was whether the circumstances were such as
satisfied them that sexual intercourse did not take
place between the husband and wife during the
period in question. It was no doubt unfortu-
nate that the parties who knew most of the
matter were excluded from giving evidence upon it,
but such was the law, and therefore no evidence
was allowed to be given of declarations by Mr. John Hemp,
nor was his wife allowed to speak in reference to the cir-
cumstances connected with the question of legitimacy.
On the other hand it was said that the reason for this law
was that parties so deeply interested as the husband and
wife could not be relied on to speak the truth on a ques-
tion like this, and it would be for the legislature to consider
whether any alteration should be made in the law.
It was difficult to understand why the husband and wife
hail lived apart so long; the plaintiff said it was from
poverty, but during a large portion of the time Mr. Hamp
was living at the Swan Inn, he frequently went out
hunting, and it was difficult to find that there was such
poverty as to account fur the separation. Then there was
the sort of stolen intercourse which was said to have taken
place, and the fact that Mrs. Hemp went to *lodging- house in
Birmingham with the pains of labour then on her, and was
confined a few hours afterwards. Another circumstance
was that the existence of the child seemed to have been
kept secret. The plaintiff said that the reason was that
Mr. John Hemp was sot fond of children, and further that
if the existence of the child were known it might preveut
Mr. Hemp from raising money upon the estate. It
would be important for the jury to consider whether
those theories put forward by the plaintiff were true.
His lordship, in continuation, said that considering the
great length to which the trial had extended, it was idle
to suppose that the jury could have carried all the details
in their heads, and it would therefore be his duty to read
a good portion of his notes of the evidence, and the jury
would apply to that evidence their general recollection of
the witnesses who gave it, and thus endeavour to ascertain
what weight should be given to the different parte of it.
A juryman said what they particularly wished to hear
was the evidence of disinterested witnesses.

His lonlship agreed that this waa most important, but he
must read to them the evidence of the Turners, and
of some other persons who were not disinterested, lest it
should be said thereafter that they had not paid proper at-
tention to any [articular part of the case.
[The case was proceeding when our report left.]

COURT OF RAINKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
IN RE J. 8. COLLINS.

This was a sitting for examination and discharge. The
bankrupt, James Scott Collins, was a merchant, formerly
of Calcutta and now of Southampton. The debts are re-
turned at 5,011 W., the sum of 3,21 W. being due to unse-
cured creditors ; the assets are very considerable, a divi-
dend of 17s. 6d. in the ppooand having already been paid.
ru Mr. Sargood ( • y retained) supported the bank-
Mr. Bagley, on behalf of the assignee, who was the bank-
rupt's brother, said the circumstances of the case were pecu-
liar. The bankrupt had been before the court since May,
1863,but in conaequenoeof failinstoappearat the sittingfor
examination, he was adjourned sine die. It appeared that
he had gone to Calcutta for the purpose of realising his
estate there, which he succeeded in doing, and in
December, 1868, he obtained leave to surrender. Al-
though the meets were large, the assignee telt it
was his duty to refluire the bankrupt to Me
further accounts as from his knowledge of the bankrupt's
affairs he was satisfied that a proper disclosure had not
been made. There was also reason for believing that there
were other creditors whose names did not appear in the
account., and the claim of the assignee arising out of com-
plicated transactions with the bankrupt had not yet been
adjusted.
Mr. Sargood, who supported, contended that this•was
an attempt on the part of the assignee to make use of this
court for private purposes, which had no reference to the
interests of the creditors generally. Not only bad the
creditors received 17s. 6d. in the pound, but there was
sufficient in hand to pay the other 2s. 6.1.
His Honour said that having regard to the favourable
circumstances under which the bankrupt came before the
court, it would be unjust to subject him to any delay, and
an immediate order of discharge would be granted.

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

THAMES.
ALL CI lummox ANNA.

Matthew Wilson, aliasCA;;;;;;„;;;;1 4G, was brought
up on remand, before Mr. Partridge, charged with stealing
one book, " Lady limits," valued at 2n., the property of
Messrs. W. IL Smith and Son, the publishers, booksellers,
and newspaper agent.), from their stall at the Bow station
on the North London Railway.
The case was a very singular one. The prisoner is a very
respectable steady-looking nun.] He hex been a shepherd in
Australia, and it was represented by Mr. Stoddart,
solicitor, on the first examination that the prisoner had
amassed some riches in the colony, and that he came to
the old country in May last, and had been living much
respected in Bromley, and paid for his passage back to
Australia on the very day he took the book from Smith
and Son's book-stall, that he was partially intoxicated at
the time, and that he was a man in good circum-
stances, not likely to steal • novel. It was a decided
case of kleptomania under the influence of inebriation.
Mr. Partridge could not look upon the case as anything
else than one of theft. A felony bad been committed,and
he should remand the prisoner. Mr. Stoddart then asked
that bail should be taken, and said the prisoner was very
respectable, and had lived for five months in one house in
Bromley. Mr. Partridge said he should treat the prisoner
as he would the poorest individual, and refused to aczept
bail. Mr. Stoddart said the prisoner intended to pay fur
the book. Mr. Partridge did not believe anything of the
kind, and remanded the prisoner.
This day the evidence given on the last occasion was
rauL In consequence of information Joshua Ahura, book-
stall keeper, went to the prisoner, who was holding a hook

Nairn '80.0642 8.8. W.
Aberdeen '3o 1141. 8.8. W.
Leith 40.12 42 8.
Ardrossan 30.96 42, E.
Greencastle 29.98 49 & W.E.
GIP* Clear 29.74 46 E. N. &
Use rpool 97 46 &B. N.
nolybead 41 E.B. E.
Penzance 29.81 60, 8.
Brag
Lorlout 29.71 49 E.
Rochefort 29.84 50' B.E.
Plymouth
Weymouth
Portanzonth 29.97 46 6.12.
London
Yarmouth 30.19 41 8.8.1.
Scarborough 30.21 41 B.E.
now 45 B.E.
Helder —

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THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15, 1867.

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

(sr =craw rzzanarz.)
WINDSOR MEETING.—(THIS DAY.)

MILITARY SWILEPSTAKEfI.

Ilontpoliei7
Violet

a roa.
Comberton BOROUGH MEMBERS.
Vindicator
Cutler

7 rm.
SELLING STEEPLECHASE. Two mile&

Bishopton (Zia fO7IOO/.)7He;o, Gonel;a;vir, King,
Young Aladdin (sold for W. each), Stiff, Monitor, Sir
Roger, Maud, Little Cossack, Mae (sold for 501. each).
All are here.
HUNTERS' STAKES. Three miles.

Pantomime, WeedilyTier, Willieihe Bear, Elor. Ar-
mower (sold for 100/. each), Brown Charlie, Monitor,
Thimble Rig (sold for each), Hungerford, Newcastle
(not to be sold). All are here.

BETTING IN LONDON.-(THIS DAY.)

HALT•PART Two O'CLOCK.

A very good minder, and business brisk, the
Lincoln Handicap giving employment for the pencil the
whole of the morning. '.Several horses were backed for
this event, Mn. Allen and Beadle leaving off first fa-
vourites. Christmas Carol has again been sent to the
right-about, and Baccharometer also had • very un-
healthy appearance. Quotations as follows :

LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP.
9to 1 apt Mrs. Allen (t and w)
9 to 1 The Beadle (off, tloto 1)
10 to 1 Bismarck (t and off)
100 to 6 Problem (t)
100 to 6 Copenlingen (off)
100 to 6 Leases (off. t 100 to 5)
20 to 1 Vigorous (t)
20 to 1 Lady Pam (t)
*3 to 1 Violet (t)
:13 to 1 Treasure Trove (t)
100 to 2 Christmas Carol (t)
100 to 2 Troublesome (t and off )
100 to 2 John Halifax (t)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
04 to 1 apt Julius (t)

OATS. I. 74
Danish and Swedish 24 to 29
Russian
BEANS.

Ewe= •

SS to 42
.. 99 to 40

36 to 38
Sollars
IBMS

White 36 10 113
Yellow .. Ile So 37
_ _ROOL

Breach, 45 to 62
Spanish 4B to 63
America, per bat .. 53 to 32
Canadian 27 to 32
INTO LONDON. BY WATiI
FEB. la, BOTH INCURSIVE.

TrlisaLl Barley. • Malt. oars Maar.
tra. qrs. tala. leeks.
English and/Sonia 'la
I 4M
1420 100 .. 420
Maki
loroltps 4OO 1170 .. 1000 .. 1010
Total

LIVERPOOL COTTON AND CORN MARKETS.
(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH.)
limos' OUR OWN ociastrar(imErr.)

CorroN.—The market continues rather quiet, and some-
what easier in prices. Sales about 7,000 or 8.000 bales.
Coax.—The market fairly attended. Wheat in mode-
rate demand at full prices. Flour dull and rather easier.
Barley, oats, and oatmeal quiet. Corn, :3d. lower.

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
(BT ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH.)
(raw' OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
We have a fair consumptive demand for wheat and
barley, at last Friday's prices. Beans and oats ste►dy ;
value unaltered.
MINCING-LANE.—(THIS DAY.)
_ .

81'13AR.—The market has becomse very quiet, there being
no buyers at the previous currency and no sellers at any
decline. Refined also quiet.
Corms.— The parcels of Ceylon brought to public sale
continue to go off ',readily at full rates. Plantation triage
51s. ; fine tine ordinary to low middling, 745. 6d. to
78a. fal. ; middling to good oiddlinc, 795. to 655. ; fine, 90s.
Tsa.—The market continues quiet.
Rict.-41,000 bsgsof Rangoon sold at lls. 4iiL, and 600
bags of white Bengal at 16s. 3d. to 17s. 3d.
&too nors..-200 bags sold at lle. Gd. to 161. 6d.
Buy.-40 puncheons of Jamaica sold at 2s. 9.1. to2s. 10d.,
60 puncheons of fine Demerara at ls. 9d., and 40 Mids. of
Penang at Is. 3d.
INntoo.—The sale continues to go off with spirit ; ordi-
nary and good ordinary Kurpahs show a slight advanoe ;
other qualities sell at fully previous rates.
SALTP6TRIL —5OO bags sold for cash at 193. Gd. for refrac-
tion 31.
Corms.—A fair amount of business has been transacted
at hteruly prices. •

mow MARIET.-(THIS DAY.)

ON' O'CLuCI.

The Fenian disturbances in Ireland and the
uncertainty respecting the reform question pre-
vent any important increase of business in the stock
markets, but the tendency to-day is somewhat better,
owing partly to the favourable character of the
returns of the Banks of England and France. Con-
sols are inquired for, and show a rise of per cent.
Some of the British railway stocks have also
improved k to g, but foreign securities, includ-
ing Egyptian, Turkish, and Spanish, rmuain dull.
Some .4 the speculators who recently bought Spa-
nish Passive and Certificates, upon rumours of a
propn.e.l settlement of these claims, are now sell-
ing. there not being the slightest confirmation .4
such statements. Banking, financial, and miscel-
laneous shares are inactive.

There is a rather good demand for money to-day,
and the rate for the best paper is fractionally
higher, at 22 to 2; per cent. The charge in the
Stoek Exchange for short loans is 2i to 3 per cent.
Consuls are now quoted 901 to for money, and
901 for the amount (March 7).
In the foreign stock market Turkish of 1885,
Spanish Passive, the Committee's Certi!',..ttes, and
Mexican are offered, and have declined 1 to 1 per
cent., hut Italian of 1861 have advanced I.
Turkish Bonds of 1862 are quoted 56 to 57 ;
ditto of 1865, 31 to 1 ; Greek, 141 to 15 ;
Spanish Passive, 224 to 1; ditto Certificates, 141
to 4 ; Italian of 1861, 531 to 54 ; Mexican, m
to i; Russian Scrip, 2/ to 1 prem. ; and Chilian
Scrip, II to !prem.
United States 5-20 Bonds have advanced 1 per
cent., the present price being 731 to p. Erie
Railway shares are quoted 381 to 39, being 1 pet
cent. lower, and Illinois Central, 78 to 1, ex div.,
showing no change.
Anglo-American and Atlantic Telegraph Bight
per Cent. Preference shares are quiet, at 15; to 4,
and 21 to respectively.

International Financial shares are quoted 20
to 21 dim. ; London Financial, 18 to 17 dia. ;
General Credit, to 21 ; Credit Fonder,
5 to 51 dis. ; National Discount, 81 to 9 prem.,
ex div.; and Hudson's Bay, 151 to 16.
A general court of the London Assurance Corpo-
ration will be held on the 20th of March, " to
consider of a dividend on the consolidated capital
stock for the half-year ending at Lady-day next."
The annual meeting of the North British and
Mercantile Insurance Company is convened for the
4th of March.

liALr-PAST MIZE tiCiocit.
Consols have improved to 90/ for money, and
91 for the account.

No gold has been sent into or withdrawn from
the Bank to-day.
At Paris this morning the Three per Cent. Rentes
opened at 69fr. Cc., being 1-16 per cent. lower.
About 10,000 sovereigns were withdrawn from
the Bank yesterday for Egypt.
is imagined by some that a misapprehension
on the part of foreigners of the scope of the Fenian
agitation in the United Kingdom may muse them
to withdraw balances at present employed here,
but such transactions are not likely to Have any
appreciable effect upon our money market.

Advice. ro f in Bradford announce the failure of
Messrs. Edward Craven and Co., stuff merchants,
with liabilities amounting to about 60,0001.
__ _ _

At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. \V. Had-
field and Co. hold at Manchester on Wednesday,
the liabilities were stated at 9,1111., and the assets
at 18,6071. It was resolved to accept payment of
the debts in full in instalments at three, six, and
nine months' date, with 5 per cent. interest.

The South Devon Railway Company propose to
pay a dividend for the half year at the rate of 31
per cent. per annum, against 31 for the curry-
spondin,g period of 1865. The company's stud:
rose 1 per cent. yesterday upon this announcement.
At a meeting yesterday of the shareholders of the
Anglo-Egyptian Bank (Limited) resolutions were
passed in favour of the reconstruction of the
undertaking and the reduction of the liability on
the shares.

The directors of the Credit Foncier of England
(Limited) have issued their report, to be presented
at the general meeting on the 18th inst. It ex-
presses the directors' satisfaction at the completion
of tho reconstruction of the undertaking, and at
the favourable progress of the liquidation of the
old company, but announces that, owing to the
continued depression in juint.stock enterprise and
depreciation of securities, as well as from the de-
sirability of avoiding new liabilities, the profit and
loss account does not admit of the declaration of
any dividend on the present occasion. It is ex-
pressly stated, however, that the capital remains
intact, including the 21. per share (making
400,0001.) recently written up to capital. The
information given with regard to the nature
of the company's investment. is fuller than
hitherto, and in every instance confidence is
expressed by the board in their ultimate develop-
ment. The company's interest in the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway stands at 301,881/.,
and an early profit on this account is anticipated
by the directors. With reference to the City of
Milan Improvements Company the report states
that "if only a portion of the anticipated results
take place, an increase in this one asset may be
obtained upon the valuation at which the shares
have been taken of more than 100,900/." The
report concludes with the expression of the
directors' belief that " a great improvement will
have taken place in the company s affairs when
they meet again the next half year."
. .

The return of the Bank of England for the week
ending Wednesday, Feb. 13, compared with that for
the previous weak, shows the following changes :
Circulation issue Ct3,218,0e0 Inman £123,D111
Carl/dation active 22,630,785 Decrease 393,311
Public deposits 6,870,680 Increase 873,110
Other deposits
Government securities in

---
basking der Artmant 13,111,068 No change.
Other securities in banking
department
Coin and bullion iu both
departments
Seven day and othet bills— 510,397 Increase 69,941
The Rest 3,664,866 Increase 5,842
Notes In reserve ...... 10,687,295 Increase 516,526
Total reserve (notes & coin)
in banking department 11.516,597 Increase 646,674
Notwithstanding the large withdrawals of private
deposits the total deposits show an increase,
owing partly to the payment into the Bank to
the credit of the Indian government of b 0; ,000(.
by the Great In,l Liu Peninsula Railway Company,
as mentioned yesterday. 398,8761. of the Bank's
advances on private securities having at the same
time been ref .aid to it, the reserve exhibits a treat
increase of :44i,574/.. During the week the Bank
parted with SI ,0001. in gold for export, and, is
face of this, eh. increase of 153,1891. in the coia
and bullion shows that the reflux of coin from the
provinces is coo sid.,mble.

ENGLAND.
7th sad Bth Vle., e. 31, for Se
• the lath day of Feb., WV.
li.o%•erument debt L11,016,11M1
other *erudite* Litwin
°old coin and bul-
lion
Silver bath = ni3OS,6ll

RAMC OF 1
Aa .lzeouut the At.t
week enthai

WU' DEIN
Nctea Jutted ,C,13.21b..00

a133,fig,0030
11/iNIIIIO DI
rttprietOtie Capital 4.14.563,000
Rest
Public Rep...3a 'ln-
cluding Ecke•i.,
gay. Beings. Com-
mis. of
Debt, and Ins

C:13,2111AN

IPARTIO3I7.
1 Government Secu-
rities (including
Dead Weight An-
nuity;
Other Securities
Notes
Gold and Silver
i Coin

1.870.613
ntber Deposita 17,476.%5
den day and other

1117

In their report, just issued, the directors of the
San Paulo (Brazilian) Railway Company (Limited)
express their regret at being unable on the present
occasion to announce the opening of the railway for
traffic. The directors also "regret that they have
not yet succeeded in getting the company's deben-
tures taken up to an extent sufficient to enable
them to pay the overdue interest to the share-
holders," but say they "hope and believe that
when the line is opened, and the guarantee of the
government in full operation, their present difficulty
will be considerably lessened, and that at no very
distant period they will be able to obtain the
further sum required (about 300,0001.) to meet all
the liabilities of the company."
A petition for the winding up of the Marseilles
Extension Railway and Land Company (Limited),
is to be heard before Vice-Chancellor Maims on the
22nd inst.

Feb. 14. 1947.

Subjoined is Messrs. Culrerwell, Brooks, and
Co.'s report of yesterday's hide sales :

510,3A7

At the third series of hide sales for the year there was
good demand, a large proportion of the quantity brought
forward being sold at fully late rates. Bast India.—Ox
and Cow—Calcutta were in good request, and for bides of
good to prime quality, full to occasionally advanced rates
were obtained, other descriptions also sold well at about
previous rates. Madras brought full prices. Bombay
nearly all bought in. Of 164,394 hides offered. 150,9.14
were sold. Buffalo.—For the few sold lower prices were
occaaionaU7 accepted. Leather.—East Indian brought
about previous rates; Australian sold at extreme prices.
Salted Hides.—Australian—For light and socond class
there was much competition, while beery hides were
neglected and mostly bought in. ('ape sold w.ll. Gib-
raltar all sold. Drysalted.—Brazil sold fairly. Bark was
in good request at about late rates.
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L42,975,8:17

A. 42.970.111,
F. MAY. Deputy Cushier.

TM URMPAT EVZNIIIO.

Consols, which cl.med yesterday at 91 fur the 7th
of March, opened this morning at 90/ to 91, and,
after declining to 90E, to 1, closest at 94, or
90 11-16 to 1:1.16. For money the lest price was
90g. The official business report is as follows:
Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 901, I, ;
ditto, fur account. 901, Three per Celts.
Reduced. 90, 4, 614 • New per Cents., 90,
991, 90, 991, : Beni Stock, 2M4, 21 ; India Stock,
216, 14 ; ditto Five per Cents., lan, 7,1: ditto
Five per Cent. '• enfaced" rupee paper, 1021
2,
Th 1 : ditto Bonds, 325. prem.
ere was no alteration in Indian government
securities, except that the Five per Cent. rupee
paper was perlia:A a little more offered.
Exchequer Bill, were firm at lls. to lbs. prem.
The foreign ~:ock market wan flat, and the
general course of prices unfavourable. Egyptian
and Turkish Bonds showed chief depression, and
experienced a fall of 1, to 1 per cent. upon the
announcement that the Viceroy has demanded of
the Porte additi .n.a rights. Italian of 1861 and
1865 declined !.,! t., I, owing to the intelligence
from Florence that tie parliament has been dis-
solved. Russ,an Bonds of 1866, all paid, also re-
ceded 4 per cent.: ditto scrip, ; Spanish Passive
and Certificates, y ; and Mexican, 1. On the other
hand, Moorish improved 1 per cent. ; Greek
Coupons, 4 to ; the Bonds, 1 ; and Russian of
lb:A./ and Chiliatt Li, 1.

MINE&-(THIS DAY.)

.. .
The weekly return of the Bank of France shows 1,
the following changes:
Coin and bullion lncrease g 400,000
Bills discounted Decrease 500,000
Government deposit' lncrease 106,500
Notes in circulation
Private deposits
Advances lncrease 13,000
The extraordinary accumulation in the French
Bank is still going on, while the continued falling
off in the discounts indicates great stagnation of
trade.

Chi o'CLoca.

The mining market is rather active to-day, witk
a good demand for Prince of Wales, West Chi-
verton, Great Vor, North Crofty, Prosper United,
Great South Tolgus, and West Seton shares. Great
North Downs, however, have declined. Some of
the present quotations are as follows :—West
Chiverton, 60 to 62 ; Prince of Wales, 365. to 385.;
North Crofty, 5} to i; Great South Tolgus, 12s. 6d.
to 15s. ; Great North Downs, 31 to ; Wheal
Chiverton, Bto i; Bryn Gwiog, 16 to 18 ; Tin-
croft, 13j to 14 ; and Great Vor, 174 to f.