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The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-08

Cl. prices.

INDIA!, COILS.

MaOs
boilers

White .
Yellow

PIAS.

3' to 40
I% to MI

37 to 10
3b to SI

35 to 40
35 to 33

lhous.

Preach, per sack.... 4.' to 62
Spanish .. 47 to 62
American, Pst RTC.. 27 to 3i
Canadian „ to
, INTO LONDON, BY WATER
TO IEI3. 7, 130TII INCLIAI VE.
rley.l Walt Oats I flour.
rs. qrs. qrs. ROLL accts
410 Ml O 900 .. 970

840 1 4500

sno I 1830 I 4:40 1911

LIVERPOOL COTTON AND CORN MARKETS.

(THIS DAY.)
(By ELECTING AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH.)

(FROIII OUR OWN
.CORRISPONIW24I%)

Corrox.—The market quiet, but steady. Sales about
8,000 bales.
. . . . . .

.l'oaN.—Molerate attendance at market. Wheat and
flour sell slowly at Tuesday'■ rates. Beans la. lower.
Oata and oatmeal firm. Indian corn retail demand at 40s.
for mixed.

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
(BY ILECTIUO AND LTMINATIONAL YILEGRAPH.)
(FROX OUR OWN COURBBPONDBIIT.)
Rather more doing in wheat at last Friday's rates.
Good malt and barley in fair request, sail beans and oats
the turn chcaper.
MINCING-LANE.—(THIS DAY.)

&mak.— The market continues extremely firm, with a
more active demand. The private sales include Jamaica
and Barbadoes at 345. Cal. to re. 6d. ; Demerara, 33e.
to 345. ; Dominica, 325. to 33a. • Penang, to
345. ; grainy Mauritius, 365. ; unclayed Manilla, %a.
to 3ls. 3d. Refined : The demand for dried goods is
not active, but as the quality offering is limited, prices are
well supported.
COPFKE. —The parcels of Ceylon offered by suction have
consisted of grey qualities, which sold at previous prices ;
plantation Ceylon, triage, 53e. to 545. 6d. ; fine ordinary
to low middling, 745. Gd. to Ms. &L ; peaberry, 71e. to 79e.
TEA. —Only a moderate amount of business has been
transacted, at steady prices.
Rea.—About 100 puncheons of Demerara sold at Is. 61d.
to le. 7d. ; fine at Is. 91.
SPlClLY.—Business has been done in cassia lignea, at
107 s. 6d. ; and Penang black pepper, good west mast, at
2 15-16 d.

Ritz.:-3,700 bag' of Rangoon sold at lls. 3d.; 5,000
bags of Necranzie, sound, at 11 43d.; chiefly damaged at
the relative value, and a small parcel of white Bengal at
17s. 6d.
filAurrrnir continues dull of sale.
Corruu.- The market has again become dull, and prices
show a slight decline.
Jurr.-3,000 bales sold at steady prices.
Herr.-A small parcel of St. Petersburg clean sold at
the reduced price of 311. 11.. to 321. 10s.
London, England, 1867-02-08

[TWOPENCE

THE JAMAICA PROSECUTIONS.

Mr. J. Fitziames Stephen, one of the counsel
for the prosecution in the above case, thus explains in the
columns of the Time', the propositions upon which he
affirms :

"1:11te legality of the proceedings depend upon the
meaning of the Jamaica Acts.
The Jamaica Acts do no define martial law.

" a. The common law prevails in Jamaica, except in so
far as it is altered by the Wand legislation.
" 4. Therefore, we must resort to the common law to
ascertain the meaning of the expression ' martial law' in
the Jamaica Acts.

" 5. Martial law may mean one of two things:
" (A.) It may mean a system of rules enforced by sanc-
tions of their own which can be substituted for the common
law by proclamation when anything happens which the
government chooses to call rebellion, the common pew
being for the time altogether abolished.
" (R.) It may mean the exercise of military powerfor the
purpose of suppressing armed resistance, such exercise of
power being authorised and limited by the common law.
"6. If the first meaning is the true une, those who ex-
ecute martial law are not responsible for any excess which
they may commit, except to their own officers, because the
common law being suspended, no offence against it can be
cominitte.L

" If the second meaning is the true one, then those who
execute inarti.d law are responsible for any omen which
they may commit, for they are acting as ministers of the
common law, and in the discharge of a duty imposed upon
them by it, and (mesas in the disebarge of such a duty is •
crime.

" 7. Martial law is legal in England only in the second,
and not in the first sense, and therefore, by propositions
I to 4, it is legal in Jamaica, also, in the second sense
only, and not in the find.
"8. Therefore, the proposition that those who put Mr.
°onion to death haves right to rely simply on the fact that
they listed under martial law without proving before a jury
that what they did was necessary in fact, involves the pro-
position that the crown may suspend the common Is. at
pleasure, and substitute fur it a different system, called
martial law, in cases of rebellion.
" 9. But if this be true, the Sovereign is above the law,
and is able to suspend it when he thinks such a step neces-
sary for his own safety ; and this is absurd.
Apart from this I argued that if the Jamaica Legisla-
ture used the words ' martial law' in any other sense
than that explained above, they acted slim rives, because
they acted in direct opposition to the petition of right ;
but these arguments were quite independent."
London, England, 1867-02-08

TUN GoVERNMENT BILL UPON INMOLVENT RAILWAIN.

The Deily NMI describes the bill which Sir S. North-
cote introduced last night as a bungle. What is provided
is mere►y • new machinery for constructing bills,
and every case is to be dealt with by parlia-
ment in the way of special legislation. Any such
plan must fail to satisfy the public, even if the
facilities proposed to be given for assailing the credit of
railway lines do not shake public confidence in the sta•
bility of • class of property in which ISA bulk of the
savings of the economical classes of the country have been
invested for the last thirty years. As to the debenture
creditors of railway lines, they seem to have been forgotten
altogether in the preparation of this bill, although the
protection of their interests is that object which is at
the present time most urgently demanded by justice and
sound policy.

Everyone in the debate, according to the Hrrald, except
Sir S. Northeute, overlooked the rights of the public. The
bill no doubt will be severely handled. Nevertheless the
Herald believes a sense of the necessisy of doing some-
thing, and that promptly, to correct intolerable abuses
will dispose the house to regard favourably a measure
which at all events promises to amend the worst evils of
the present state of the law, and if it be not theoretically
the best mode in which the object might be attained, is to
all appearance a practical and workable one.
The condemnation pronounced on the scheme by Sir R.
Palmer was so sweeping and severe that the Stu• will be
surpriaed if the bill ever recovers from the effects of it-
All that is proposed is that when a railway company is
bankrupt, the Board of Trade should send three inspectors
to examine its state and suggest a scheme for its renova-
tion and re-establishment. The only check upon the in-
spectors and the Board of Trade is a joint com-
mittee of lords and M.P.'s, who, on the repre-
sentations of the Board of Trade, are to pass a
special bill in each special case to retrieve disasters which
the greatest railway financiers in the country will probably
have acknowledged to be irreparable. To the Star the
measure appears falsely based, carelessly framed, igno.
tautly lacking in the prime essentials of legislation on such
a subject, and altogether a sorry example of the vaunted
administrative powers of Lord Derby's government.
The Telepraph condemns the scheme with similar hearti-
ness. The bill is not only dilatory and uncertain, but
London, England, 1867-02-08

On the mltir ter atlioartutrnt—

Mr. C. YoarriiitToeiivvTeiaiiaiiiate for the Home
Department whether it is his intention to Introduce a measure
for the abolition of the law of forfeiture on convictions of felony,
founded on the provisions of the bill which obtained the assent
of this house an the last samica.

THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL AT ANDOVER.—Sir
John Kerslake arrived at Andover on Wednesday evening,
and is staying at the Star and Garter Hotel. On has
arrival he was met by the conservative committee, and
arrangements were made for the corning campaign.
Yesterday morning his addrea, to the electors was issued,
and he commences en inimediate canvass. The address
states that he is in favour of a well-considered scheme for
the extension of the franchise, but while desiring to admit
the better portion of the working classes, be will only
support such a measure as will settle the question on a fair
and equitable basis, without disturbing the balance of
political power. He will give his attention and considera-
tion to various measures about to be brought forward for
the amendment of different branches of law. He is an
advocate for maintaining the army and navy in a state of
efficiency, being convinced that the best way to maintain
peace is to be prepared for war, and, if elected, will support
local interests.

REPRESENTATION Or EAST SOPPOLK.—Yesterday
Colonel Shaft* Adair issued an address to the electors of
East Suffolk. " I told you in July," observes the gallant
colonel, " that I did not then propose to call on the
liberal party for action, which might be premature under
the existing franchise. Bet the impolicy of delay in bring.
in the question of further reform to settlement is so
evident that I now counsel reformers not to pass over this
legitimate opportunity of making their opinions known.
But I did not even then conceive myself precluded from
reviewing the position of the question of parliamentary
reform as it then stood ; the feeling of the ccuntry has
received large illustrations thereon since the prorogation
of parliament, and while the general desire of the people
to obtain an extended franchise and well adjusted repre-
sentation has received no apparent check, it is encouraging
to remark that the general demeanour of the classes whom
a wider franchise will associate with those already the
depositaries of political power has been self-respecting and
observant of events."

----
REPRESENTATION OF THE COUNTY CORK.—The
Co,* Herald of yesterday announces that Colonel the 800.
Luke White, eldest son of Lord Anally, the late Irish
Lord of the Treasury, will address the electors of the
county aa a candidate on liberal principles.
BRADFOP.D NEw EXCHANGE. —TIIIS building, the
foundation atone of which was laid by Lord Palmerston in
Ang.od, 113e4, is to be inaugurated by a public dinner on
Wedueeciay, March 13.
London, England, 1867-08-06

hoche vpioomonidenceto.
wnievigetar,anthde boadilifr dtao.not"deaemmattr oadf
declare a dividend at present.
The traffic receipts on the Atlantic and Great
Western Railway for the second week in July
amounted to 95,888 dole., against 101,886 dots. in
the corresponding period last year, showing a de-
crease of 5,998 dots.
The directors of the London and South-Western
Railway Company have resolved to recommend to
the proprietors at the half-yearly general meeting
on the 15',1 inst., that the dividend for the half
year ending 30th of June, should be at the rate of
31 per cent. per annum on the ordinary capital
stook of the company.
The frauds on insurance offices by scuttling ships
are not confined to England. We have before us
the full report of the trial at Singapore of tin
owner, master, and mate of the Erin, for sinking
the vessel on a voyage from Hong Kong to
Bangkok. The vessel had been very heavily in-
sured in the local offices, and carried but a small
cargo, and the evidence showed that she could
not have stowed the goods named in the manifest.
Alter five days' trial the jury convicted all three
prisoners—the captain (Stewart) and owner (Scott)
were sentenced to penal servitude for life, and the
chief officer to five years imprisonment. The
severity of the sentence created a deep sensation.
A few copies of the report can be had at Street's
Indian Newspaper Office, 30, Cornhill.
The following are the returns of the hush banks
of issue for the four weeks ending the 20th ult. :
London, England, 1867-08-06

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1867.

I TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(aarnea's rzutosime.)
FRANCE.
PARIS, Aoauerr 5, Evinnzio.

The elections for the Councils-Gentural have ter-
minated with the following resttlis. Out of 600
elections 464 were secured by government candi-
dates, and 21 only by those of the opposition. In
the remainder the administration remained neutral.
The King and Queen of Portugal will leave on the
11th inst. for Bordeaux and Madrid. The £tewlurd
of this evening denies a rumour which had been
current that the Emperor and Empress of the
French would not go to Salzburg to have an inter-
view with the Emperor and Empress of Austria.
Count do Moltke, the Danish Minister in this city,
leaves on Wednesday next for Copenhagen, but it
is stated that his journey has no political object.
The Dunderberg arrived at Cherbourg on Saturday
from New York. She made a good passage.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, AUGUST 5, EVIWIMO.
' The Federal Council will meet about the mime
of this month. The date of the assembling of the
parliament will depend upon the time by which
the Federal Council is able to conclude its labours.
All the North German governments are believed to
have appointed their representatives in the Federal
Council. Prussia has already appointed seven, in-
cluding Herr Pape, Councillor of the Ministryi of
Justice, and the directors of the principal depart.
ments of the different ministries. Saxony has ap-
pointed four members, who are said to be Baron
von Friesen and Privy Councillors Weenbeck and
Thununel and Colonel Brandenstein.

Prince Frederick Charles left to-day for Ostend.
Herr von Schleinitz has left Baden for Frankfort.-
on-the-Maine. It is expected that negotiations
will shortly be opened with a view to the conclu-
sion of a treaty of commerce between Rnsaia and
Prussia. At the recent conferences between the
Hanoverian notables and the government it was
agreed that the former administrative arrange-
ments in Hanover should still remain in force.
London, England, 1867-08-06

INDIA.

BOMBAY, AUGUST 2, 5.5 rat.
7lbs. shirting', sr. 12s. ; Vbs. ditto, 7r. ;
40's mule twist, 13a. Cotton quiet, and 2r. lower ;
shipments of the week, 26,865 bales. Exchange
on London, ls. 114 d. Government securities :
Four per Cent., 894 ; Five per Cent., looti
Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 111 i. Freights to
Liverpool, 375. 6d. The latest London date is
July 29.

CALCUTTA, Auoust 1.
shirtings, 7r. 2a. ; 40's mule twist, 6/a.
Cotton, 17g. Exchange on London, ls.
Government securities : Five-and-a-Half per Cent.,
1111. Freights to England, 655. to 70s.
The Bank of Bengal has reduced the rate of dia-
, count 1 per cent.
London, England, 1867-08-06

(Before Mr. Peyne.)

Henry Johnson, 18, alias Candle;' w;is indicted for steal-
ing a watch, value 201. the property of Mr. Stanley Dent,
a wine merchant, from his person.
In this case the prosecutor, on the night of the 9th of
July, was waiting for hie carriage to come up to the door
of Her Majesty's Theatre when the prisoner snatched his
watch and ran off with it. He did what is called the
" double "—he first ran one way and then another—into
the arms of • police constable, who asked him what he
was running for, and be said he did not know. The pro-
secutor's watch was picked up and given to the constable,
who took the prisoner into custody.

The jury foiind the prisoner thrifty.
Mr. John Shore, a detective of of Scotland-yard,
proved several ounvictions against the prisoner; one
being for picking the pocket of Mr. Clay, M.P., while in
the lobby of the House of Commons, when he was sen-
tenced to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour.
The Judge said the court well determined to put a stop
to these street outrages. Sentence—seven years' penal
servitude.

PRESIDENT SALNAVE or HAYTl.—GellOral Turin
Secure, the new President of Hayti, is a man of whose
former history but little is known. The first that was
heard of him in this country was his alleged participation,
in July, 1864, in an attempt to assassinate one of President
Geffrard's ministers. lie was condemned to death by a
court-martial, but escaped to San Domingo. In May,
1865, he placed himself at the head of an insurrectionary
movement in the northern part of the republic. On the
sth of May be organised a provisional government, and on
the next day he took possession of Cape Haytien. The
insurrection was unsuccessful. The insurgents, at the be-
ginning of June, were shut up in Cape Haytien, where
Salnave maintained himself until November, when a die-
culty which he had with the English consul led to the
bombardment of Cape Haytien by English vessels. When
his position became hopeless, &hums took refuge on board
of the American steamer De Soto, which conveyed him to
the Dominican port of Monte Christi. After the success
of the insurrection in the earlier part of the present year,
public opinion seemed to be unanimous in designating
Salnave as the ablest man for the presidency. He accord-
ingly assumed the government as provisional president,
and, as our latest despatches from Hayti indicate, hat just
been elected president by a unanimous vote.—New York
Trthune, July 20.
DISPENSARY FOE Sax DISEASES 56, GREAT
MARLBOZODGIDIFFREIT, REGENT-STREET, W.—Two hun-
dred and twenty-one patients were relieved at this dis-
peassry dozing the work ending August 3.
London, England, 1867-08-01

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-- - -
(THIS DAY.)

EQUITY COURT.
(Flefore N'ice-Chancellor Sir I. StailUS.)
WILICINV.N r. THE ;NEAT E-41TLRN ItAILW ( t,
Mr. Cotton and Dlr. Hatton! oo behalf of Kr.,
non, a preference shareholder in the company,
an injunction to restrain the defendants from ap orb
plyibit:
portion of the receipts of the railway, after
working expenses and interest upon the mortgage Thd
bentuce debt. otherwise than to the payment of
upoh the preference stock. _

'Sir R. Palmer represented the company.
After some conversation it was arranged that the ribrd,
should be postponed till the second motion day oft
mae
term, when it will be argued upon a motion for
cree, the company undertaking in the meantime tat%
pay away without Doti°. to the any lost% ci
the net revenue remaining after them
pmt of • •
sera.
expenses and the interest upon themongage and 414
tare debt. Leave was also given to Mrs. Wain.), tt.
in
tervene in another suit, in which a receiver km leo
pointed over the company.

ROLLS CHAMBERS.
(Before Mr. Church, Chief Clerk.)
THE (I)NTRACT CORPORATION.—AN EXEC:II.IO
This nutter came before the Chief Clerk in rait-..
the large claims of the National Discount Company
300,000/. A tart was admitted and a part was divut•i.
About 150,010. it was understood was adulated. and
complaint was made that there lead been htigatiso
dividend paid to the creditors.
The Chief Clerk regretted that the claims of the clidi
tors had not been going on. He did not think th .1 v
bad been much litigation, and at the pneent period, s
the long vacation was commencing, be would adii, ty.
the official liquidator should pay a dividend on the dvL:
admitted, and the other claims could stand over.
Mr. Kemp, the official liquidator, expres,(4 his
to act on the suggestion. He had done all he could is
matter.

Mr. Thomas, for the National Discount Column. :„4,.
that a dividend might be paid on 1:10,(100/. which
mitted or he might be thrown over the long vocstiot.
wished such a declaration now to be made it. th 4 roan.
The Chief Clerk did not see how Mt. Kemp coal ade
such a declaration. He was sure that he w.oid
was right in the matter.
A summons was directed to be taken out by Mr. K.
for a dividend before the long vacation. and the et,if
said he would sanction its payment on the admitted hit,
the others would stand over.

BARNED.B BANK.-APPLICATION FOR FURTHER TI4E.
Mr. Willoughby, on the part of Mr. Royce, who va
sought to be made ra contributory, and who denial that 4
had been allotted shares., asked for further time. Her
was. a awe on the same question before the Lot ds
Mr. Handson, for the official liquidators, had no ob,ei
tion, if the evidence was considered cloacd.

Chief Clerk—Then, it !unit stand over until aka ti
long vacation.
Both parties agreed, and the matter stood orer asi
after the long vacation which would begin in a fee
when there would he a little rest for the swami:,
of matters.
London, England, 1867-08-01

HUNGARY.

MTH, JULY 31.

The Sultan arrived here to-day. To-morrow his
Majesty will receive a deputation of Honveds, who
will express to him their thanks for the asylum
offered by Turkey in 1849 to the Hungarian
refugees.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, JILT 31, Emma.

In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
the bill on the royal civil list was passed, and the
amount fixed at 124 millions of lire annually.

SPAIN.

MADRID. JULY 31.
Great preparations are being made at la Granja
for the reception of the King of Portugal.
The Chihan vessel Abe! Ward and her cargo
have been declared lawful prize.

WEATHER. REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

TIICISDAT, Arm-ST 1, 8 A.X.
London, England, 1867-08-01

REPRESENTATION OF MINORITIES.

LETTER FROM MIL BRIGHT, M.P.
The following letter from Mr. Bright, M P.,
addressed to • leading member of the liberal party in Bir-
mingham, was received (says the Birmingham Poo) yester-
day afternoon :

" Manchester, July 31, 1867.
"My dear air,—You see the vote in the Lords. It
partially disfranchises Birmingham. Instead of your
having three voices, or two, in a great division on • great
principle, you are now to have only one. Your future Tory
member will pair with me or with Mr. Dixon, and there
will be left only one vote for your great community. Bir-
mingham is now to he reduced to the position and weight
of Arundel or Caine in a great Parliamentary division, and
this in the year of Reform and extension of popular power!
You will see that certain of the Whig Pevrs have joined
this childish or nefarious scheme. It is not the lees
dangerous on that account. I hope you will take some
steps to counteract this proposition. The great towns
should send deputations up to London to urge the go-
vernment to maintain the integrity of the bill. Ido not
think Mr. Disraeli wishes to injure the bill. lie spoke
earnestly against this scheme in the house, and I hope he
will adhere to his own view on so grave • matter. You
should not for • moment dream of consenting to the
audacious proposal to destroy the political weight and
force of your borough.—l am, sincerely yours,
"JOHN BRIGHT."
The Birmingham Post understands that. recognising the
vital importance of the question to Birmingham, and the
necessity for vigorous and prompt action, certiiu members
of the Reform Lengue will confer with the chairman and
secretary of the Birmingham Liberal Association this
morning, with • view to appointing a deputation to wait
upon the Chanoellor of the Exchequer.

On Saturday last the number of visitors to the
Universal Exhibition was only 31,=0, and on Sunday
59,881. To the reserved garden the entries were 2,325,
and to the exhibition of Lineman 3,840, being a larger
number in the last-mentioned ease than at any preceding
period. It will be seen that the visitors to the Exhibition
have permanently f►llen off, and those who now visit the
Exhibition are of the bumbler classes.
London, England, 1867-08-01

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1567.

THE SULTAN.
VIENNA, JULY 31.
The Sultan left this mo ' for Pesth, pro-
ceeding down the Danube on the steamer
Szechenyi.

RUSSIA.
ST. PETER.SSUR.9, JULY 31.

An imperial ukase has been published to-day
authorising the Minister of Finance to lease the
Nicolai Railway to a public company for 75 years.
In order to facilitate the operation the government
issues for the new company 600,000 bonds of 125
roubles each, bearing interest at 4 per cent., and
redeemable in 64 years ; the bonds to be exempt
from all taxation. The redemption of the capital
of the loan and the payment of interest is to be
made by the company under the guarantee of the
state. The purpose of the loan is to establish a
fund for the continuance of the railway limes. The
subscription is to be opened by Messrs. Baring,
Hope, and Hottinger, and the Canoe d'Eacompte of
Paris.

HAMBURG.

11A3IBUItO JULY 31.

The Council of Burghers held a sitting to-day to
deliberate upon the proposed military convention
with Prussia. No decision on the question was
arrived at, but it was determined to send commis-
sioners to the special sitting of the Senate, which is
to be held to-morrow on the subject.
London, England, 1867-08-01

THE MECOND EXPIRE.

Treating M. de Persigny as enjoying an exceptional pos
tion as a Bonapartist pure and simple in the councils of
the Second Empire, the Daily News examines and criti-
cises his recent harangue in the Senate, showing that his
present doctrine reduces the responsibility of the Emperor
to a vain shadow without transferring it to his council of
ministers. He is only deluding the Senate and himself if
he forgets that the want of control, and the absence of
responsibility from which the legislature and the states
men of the Second Empire are suffering, is an evil which
the most ingenious doctrinal thesis cannot touch. How is
a Chamber, containing sours live-and-twenty independent
or unofficial members, to act as a check upon the power to
which it owes its existence ? How can the Emperor divide
his responsibility with his own nominees, or with ministers
who have to answer for their acts to a parliamentary
majority without a will of its own? Let H. do l'ersigny
succeed in giving to France the elementary liberties of
public speaking, public writing, public meeting, and the
choice of candidates at elections—let him obtain equality
before the law between functionaries of the government
and private citizens—and France will be in a condition to
divide the responsibility for the conduct of her destinies
with the sovereign who knows and respects her will.
London, England, 1867-08-01

THE CHADWELL-HEtTH WEIDER.

The public will remember that at the last mires for the
county of Essex a labouring man, named James Bacon, was
convicted of the murder of his wife, under very distress-
ing circumstances, the deceased having grossly neglected
his children and squandered away his earnings. The act
appeared to have been committed in a moment of excite-
ment, ►nd the jury strongly recommended the prisoner to
mercy, and the learned judge who tried him said he should
give his support to the recommendation. The result has
been that yesterday her Majesty's pardon for the crime was
transmitted to the High Sheriff of Essex, but upon the
condition that the prisoner shall undergo the punishment
of penal servitude for the space of ten years.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.-HUNTINGDON, JULY 31.

(Before Mr. Juatioe Bylea and a Special Jury.)

NORTON AND WIPE T. THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN

RAILWAY COMPANY.

Mr. 011 alley, Q.C., and Mr. Abdy appeared for the
plaintiffs; Mr. Keane, Q.C., and Mr. Palmer for the de-
fendants.

This was an action to recover compensation for per-
sonal injuries sustained by the plaintiff's wife in
a collision that took place in the Easton Station
on the 11th April last. It appeared that Mr. Norton is a
gentleman who has several patents for machinery in wool
combing, and has establishments in Manchester, London,
and Paris, and as he was much away from home he was
greatly assisted by his wife, who opened all his business
letters, and often answered them for him. On the day in
question he and his wife travelled from Manchester to
Ewen, and when the train got to the Euston
station it was not stopped as usual, but came
into violent collision with something on the line,
and Mrs. Norton was thrown forward, and had her
eye cut and much Injured, and she was then thrown back
with great violence, one of the arms of the carriage strik-
ing her in the lower part of the spine. She lost her con-
sciousneu, and was not aware of the injury she had sus-
tained, but while going home in a cab she was seized with
violent sickness, and at the end of the day she had an at-
tack of diarrhea, and during all the night she suf-
fered the most intense pain, and the vomiting and
purging continued. She was confined to her bed fur
a fortnight, and at the end of that time she was
unable to walk. She afterwards went to Paris, but
her health was so bad that she was obliged to re-
turn, and the doctors who attended her gave it as their
opinion that her eyesight and nervous system were permit•
oently affected. In consequence of his wife's illness, Mr.
Norton was obliged to employ a secretary, at a cost of
• week, and his expenses out of pocket consequent upon
the accident amounted to about 1814 _ _

At the conclusion of the address of the learned counsel
for the plaintiffs, the parties consented to a verdict for the
plaintiffs—damages :100f.
This we concluded the business of the assizes.
London, England, 1867-08-23

LATEST PARTICULARS.-(TMS DAY.)

This morning at an early hour numbers of per
visited the house, for the purpose of trying to get a
look at the rooms, but orders had been given to the
police to admit no one until Mr. Coroner Carter opens the
inquest. The crowd divided into small groups, and every
item of intelligence was eagerly sought after and discussed
but it is needless to say that statements made under such

circumstances are not of the most reliable character.
It is asserted, however, by • neighbour, that when the
mother, intent upon committing • third murder, found
her eldest son leaping over some flowers, and getting out
of her way by taking a bound over the fence, she
threw the knife which she had in her right
hand after him, and it narrowly missed striking him in
the back. About half-past 9 o'clock this morning this
boy was in so weak a condition from the shock which his
system had received that when he was leaving • neigh-
bour's house to walk through the crowd in Chester-street,
he had to be supported aa he proceeded down the street,
He is • very intelligent-looking lad, but to-day
he was very pale, and seemed like • person
who had suddenly awakened out of a horrid dream.
His mother, yesterday afternoon, when she caught hold of
him by the shirt, which fortunately tore, said, " You are
very unwell." She then tried to plunge the knife into his
abdomen. The boy struggled, his clothes were torn, he
eluded her grasp a second time, and then the race be-
tween the mother and the son took place.

It is stated that Mrs. Roberta has for some time past
been brooding over some imaginary wrong, and that
although the conduct of the deceased woman did not
give rise to uneasiness in her husband's mind, she had
latterly been morbidly jealous of him.
The mother of the wretched woman died raving mad.
The crime, it is now thought, was premeditated, for the
deceased waited until all the lodgers in the house had
left before she killed her two children or sent for her eon
Charles.
London, England, 1867-08-23

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(arum's Txxsoaaats.)
THE RISING IN SPAIN.
MADRID, Acci.wr 21.
The official reports from Catalonia announce
that the insurrectionary bands in that province had
been beaten and dispersed, many prisoners being
made. Other insurgents had availed themselves
of the amnesty which had been offered. The band
under Contreras had been beaten in the province
of Lerida, and Contreras himself, with the rest of
his partizans, was endeavouring to gain the fron-
tier. The insurrection in Catalonia was consi-
dered to be suppressed. In the province of Valen-
cia Castellon's band had been beaten and dispersed.
The ox-General Pirrad had committed great ex-
cesses in Arragon during his retreat to the French
frontier. The rest of the peninsula was tranquil.
None of the soldiers had joined the movement.

MADRID, Auccer 22.
The Official Gazette of to-day publishes reassuring
intelligence in reference to the insurrectionary
movement in Catalonia and Arragon.
The military authorities in Madrid have pub-
lished this morning an edict proclaiming a state of
siege in Castilla.

BAYONNE, Arcurr 22.
Advice" from Madrid announce that that city has
been declared in a state of siege. No insurrec-
tionary movement has taken place either in the
city or its environs. Five regiments of infantry
and three squadrons cavalry have been sent
from Madrid to Catalonia and Arragon. A rumour
is current that General Prim has arrived in
Catalonia.

PARIS, Amore 22.
The Frame of this evening publishes a telegram
from Madrid, according to which the greater por-
tion of Spain has been proclaimed in a state of
siege, but simply as a precautionary measure, since
the insurrection has not extended beyond Catalonia
and Arragon. The number of insurgents has not
exceeded 700 or 800.

THE IMPERIAL MEETING.
SALZBURG, AUGURT 22.
It is positively stated that the understanding
arrived at between the two Emperors is moat
favourable to the interests of peace.

VIENNA. Aravorr 22.

The Nem Free Press of to-day asserts that the
definitive formation of an Austro-French alliance
has fallen to the ground, in consequence of Bavaria
and Wurtemberg having declined acceding to the
formation of a South German Confederation under
the leadership of Austria.

SWEDEN.
STOCKHOLM, Auoufrr 22.
A splendid banquet has been given to-day in
honour of the French journalists. Baron Raab
pro
posed "The Health of the King of Sweden," and
Ragelius that of " The Emperor Napoleon." M.
Richard also proposed " Free Sweden where tho
principles of 1789 are in force." M. Hierta pro-
posed " The French Press."
London, England, 1867-08-23

by the selfish tyranny of other..

The resumption of picketing after the pledge given at
the last sessions of the Central Criminal Court must be con-
demned most strongly ; but the principles which Serjesnt
Ballantine urged, and which Baron Bramwell adopted and
pressed upon the jury, seem to the Star so novel, ■o un-
stable, so alien to the established maxims of English
tine, that to inflict anything more than a nominal penalty
on the prisoners would be universally regarded as an un-
wise stretch of the law. The Star points out the danger
of the principle enunciated by Baron Bramwell that
I the "liberty of the mind and will was as much •
subject of the law's protection as that of the body."
By that principle, in fact, nobody would be allowed to use
in print language denunciatory of any occupation not for-
bidden by law. Mr. Bright might be punished for speaking
to resolutions on the land question. The Peace Society
and the Anti-Corn-Law League would have been illegal
conspiracies to coerce men's wills. These strained inter-
pretations of the law of conspiracy—never resorted to
except in cases like this—these unstable refininp about
mental coercion and similar metaphysical stuff, tend to
lower the character of English law for impartiality and

The Herald and Standard both oontain articles approving
of the verdict.

108 TOPICS.

The Times says it must not be supposed that govern-
ment is acting precipitately if the enterprise against Abys-
ands should be shortly proclaimed. We must need' begin
London, England, 1867-08-23

Estimated to produce
By amount due on certain
shares, the subject of proceed-
ings in Chancery
By overdue bills In hark

Estimated. with motions.
manta, to produce
By Erith Estate (since realized)
By bank premiss*. 2s. Liswienes-
lam. cost

Annexed is an extract from the report of the di-
rectors of the London and Glasgow Engineering
and Iron Shipbuilding Company (Limited), to be
presented at the meeting called for the 28th
instant :

Your directors have to submit for the information of
the shareholders the annexed statement of accounts,
showing the result of the working for the past year. The
directors believe that when the unprecedented depression
that has so long weighed on the shipbuilding trade is taken
into consideration, the shareholders will concur with them
in opinion ths the statements submitted must be viewed
with satisfaction. It will be seen from the accounts that
after payment of all current expenses and charges, includ-
ing interest on the balance of purchase-money,
4,970/. for depreciation of building, plant, tools, reserving6c'
writing off 1,000/. from preliminary expenses, there
remains a net balance of profit amounting to 9,098!.
10s. 7d. This balance the directors recommend should be
appropriated as follows:—Dividend of I/. per share, being
at the rate of 44 per cent. for the put year, free of income
tax, on the paid-up capital of the company, 4,48:1/.; income
tax, 741.145. 4d.; balance of profit carried forward, 4,5401.
Ilia. :id.; total, 9,0987. 10s. id. In recommending that
this amount should be carried forward, the directors have
tocellthe abareholders'attention to the present conditional
the trade, which they consider likely to continue depressed
for some time to come, and therefore it would be impru-
dent to pay a higher rate of dividend; the balance remain-
ing with the present available capital will be sufficient to
enable the directors satisfactorily to conduct the business
of the company.
The annexed communication refers to the affairs
of Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited). It ap-
pears clear that the shareholders on accepting their
shares in the new undertaking also became liable
for the debts of the business transferred by the old
firm. Whether they have a remedy against the
directors is another question :
London, England, 1867-08-23

THE CRAYFORD TRAGEDY.

CRAYFORD, TnniOXDAT Ktoirr.
An inquiry was held this evening at the Duke of
Wellington Hotel. Crayford, before Mr. J. O. Carttar,
' coroner for West Kent, into the circumstances attending
the death of the unfortunate young woman Eliza Millis,
who was shot by a young man named Frederick Skinner,
as described in the report of Wednesday last. The
witnesses examined at the 'Woolwich police-court
recapitulated their evidence, nearly all of them
expressing an opinion that the shooting was accidental, a
sentiment shared in by the inhabitants of the neighourbood
who had Hocked in largo numbers to be present at the in-
quest, the shocking tragedy having caused the utmost ex-
citement in this usually peaceful locality. After a length-
ened investigation the Jury were unanimous in returning a
verdict of Accidental Death."

Smell-pox (says the Lancet) is very prevalent at
the proseaS time among the civil population at Aldershot
and its neighbourhood, calling for increased vigilanoe on
the part of the medical officers of that camp. There are
many cases of measles among the children of the camp, and
lieeohools have been temporarily closed.
London, England, 1867-08-23

STRAND.

When the quicksilver in the thermometer has a
constant tendency to rim to blood heat, and there is a
tropical thunderstorm every other night, and every unfor-
tunate dog that has had the ill name of hydrophobia given
to hint is an object of suspicion, and the mere idea of hot
velvet seats in stuffy theatres is almost suffocating, the
regular dramatic companies of some of the metropolitan
houses carry their most sumestful dramas into the country
fora brief season, and find tenants to supply their places
in London in the persons of more hardy " entertainers."
Last night the Strand Theatre was opened by Mr.
Elliot Geier and Miss Fanny Reeves—two well known
singers and performers of operettas, whose entertainments
are very popular in various parts of the country.
The pieces represented by this lady and gentleman are
of the kind introduced at the Gallery of Illustration by
Mr. and Mrs. German Reed—little dramas containing two
characters, many songs and duets, and a little dialogue.
Represented with nothing more than a pianoforte accom-
paniment, it may be fairly doubted whether a theatre,
with its gaping empty orchestra, is exactly the place in
which to produce them with the most effect. They are
strong enough for concert halls and entertainment galle-
ries, but hardly strong enough for a regular playhouse,
with its boxes, pit, and gallery, its stage and proscenium
and all the appliances which suggest a more dramatic per-
formance. Mr. Elliot Galee is an accomplished tenet
singer, and Kiss /rainy Reeves is a good soprano singer,
and a lively and self-possessed actress. The pieces in
which they appear—Cousin Nate, The daunted Mill, Tke
Ring and the Keeper, &a.—ere constructed so as to admit
of being presented on the smallest platform, and the
songs introduced are selected from the most popular
composers.
London, England, 1867-08-23

14,000 0 0
10,00.0 0 0

Amine.
By cash. and undue bills at Beak
of England £17,379 6 0
By cult In hand 42 0 9

By debts uncollected goad,
doubtful, and usd 2156,600 18 6

Estimated to produce
By debts on call account—good,
doubtful, and bad f11,130 7 0

mess • r
London, England, 1867-08-23

!SAVE DEPARTMENT.

:totes Word
07,358,310 Government debt.. 411,015,140
4 ether securities.... 3,464,110
i:,.1,1 coin and bul-
lion 244,8,310
Sliver bullion —

137.1158,310
11/111LING 1,1
=store' Capital 114,661,000
3,346,1%14
Public Deposita ; in-
&iv. banks, Cum.
Ids. of National
Debt, and Div
Acesunta
Other Deposits
Boren day sod otber
Dills

£37,3:43,310

PLITSINT.
Government Bete-
titles L12.‘12.373
Other decurdies 17,P62,011
Notes
Gold and Weer
Cola

£4,186,80.1

644.46,1401
F. MAY, Deputy Caguas.

August 22. 1967.

THUIVIDAY RVZWINCL

Consols, which closed yesterday at 34} for the
10th of September, opened this morning at 944 to I,
and so closed. For money the last price was 944.
The Three per Cents. Reduced and New Three
.LeCents. were quoted at 3 o'clock 940 to
The official business report is as follows :
per Cont. Consols, for money, 940, Z,
ditto, fur account, 944 ; Three per Cents. Re-
duced, 944, d ; New Three per Cents., 944, 0, ;
ditto Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 774 ; 1
Five per Cent. " enfaced" rupee paper, 1034, 3, 4 ;
ditto Five-and-s-Half per Cents., 108 ; ditto Five
per Cent. Debentures, 1054, ; ditto Bonds, 70a,
665. prem.
The government broker bought to-day 17,000 i.
New Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 771, and
7,0001. Reduced at 944, for the sinking fund.
The Indian Five per Cent. Stock and Es-
chequer Rills were unaltered ; the latter closed
at Zs. to 30s. prem.
Foreign securities were in somewhat better de-
mand, and, with the exception of a decline of 4 to
per cent. in Greek and Italian of 1861, the
changes in prices were favourable. Egyptian et
1864 and the Railway debentures rose 1 per cent.;
Portuguese, b ; Turkish of 1858, ; and Turkish at
1865, Spanish Passive, and the Committee's Certi-
ficates, 4.
London, England, 1867-08-23

GUILDHALL.

♦ CABMAN HOISIWHIPTED ST A VOLUNTUR DICSWEIL
Frederick Haley, a gas engineer, living at Zi, blab-
street, Great Cambridge-street, was summoned before Sir
John Musgrove for assaulting James Gardner, a cabman,
and breaking his h►t and whip.
James Gardner said that he was a cabman, and on the
6th of July about 11 o'clock ►t night he was driving down
the Farringdon-road when he fancied the defendant
called him. The defendant was • drummer in
the 3rd City of London Rifle Corps, and at the
time in question was with another man carrying
the big drum ; complainant not having heard die.
tinctly what was said, asked the defendant to repeat it,
when he made use of very bad lanfuage. Complainant
told him he ought to be ashamed of lumrelf and was • din.
grace to the cloth he wore. When they came opposite the
head-quarters of the 3rd London Corps the defendant
put down the drum, got up behind the cab, took {the whip
out of the socket, and horsewhipped him with it, break-
ing his hat and the handle of the whip. The damage done
was 15s.

Mr. Roe, the chief officer of the court, informed Sir John
that the cause of the delay between the offence and the
hearing of the summons was that the defendant rninvde:
false addrem, and there had been great difhculty in
him.

Two witnestee proved the Gestalt, bat did not lee the
commencement of it.

The defendant called a witness, who was assisting him to
carry the drum, and he gave a very different version of the
&Hair. He said they were returning to headquarters from
a " march out " when the complainant overtook them in
Farringdon•road and followed them to headquarters in Far-
ringdon-street so closely that they were in danger of being
trodden on by the home and were several times afraid the
animal would put his foot through the drum. They crossed
and re-crossed the road to avoid him but be
followed them until they came to their head.
quarters. They spoke to him about his bed conduct and
then he commenced a volley of abuse. Among other things
he said, " You're a fine drummer ; you would Imit
well in a field to be shot at. Who shot the cat!" WINE
they came to headquarters they put the drum down, and
then the defendant took the whip and chastised the cow
plainant.
Sir John Mangrove dismissed the summons.
London, England, 1867-08-23

TRADE. 9 UNIONS AND PICISTING.

It may be expected, the Daily News observe., that the
conviction of Mr. Druitt and two other members of the
Operative Tailors' Association will settle for all practical
purposes the convictions of trades' unionists as to the sup-
posed legality of picketing. Men haver right to combine
against the masters, to strike, and to persuade as many
others as they can to join them in so doing. But the com-
bination must be voluntary, for, as Baron Bramwell ob-
served, the public has an interest in the way in which a
man disposes of his industry and his capital ; and "if
two or more persons conspire, by threats, molestation, or
intimidation, to deter or influence him in the way in which
he should employ his industry, talents, or capital, they are
guilty of an indictable offence." These words mark out the
limits within which associations of aggrieved workmen
may lawfully act, and those limits are such as the interests
of the whole community prescribe.
Had the tailors' union confined themselves to holding
meetings, to speaking, to legitimate influence by means of
persuasion, argument, and convincing their brethren in
the trade that it was necemeary for the good of all to join
in a general strike, they would, says the Post, only have
been doing what by law they would be justified in. It is
when, for this legitimate and justifiable agitation, the
physical pressure of threats of personal violence, and the
hardly less unwarrantable use of abuse and insult, are
substituted, that it become. the duty of the law to inter-
fere, and to take care that the liberty every man has to
work when and where, and at what price he likes, is not
. _