The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-18 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The Inman steamship City of Boston, from New
York on the 7th inst., arrived at Queenstown at
11 p.m. on the 17th, with 46 passengers and
175,200 dole. in specie. After landing the mails
and passengers, she proceeded for Liverpool at
11.20 p.m.
(Per the City of Boston rid Queenstown.)
NEW YORK, StPT. 7.

Reports of an open rupture between President
Johnson and General Grant were revived on
Thursday, but have proved to be unfounded.
I t is announced that Mr. Johnson, after protracted
Cabinet consultations, will issue on Monday a pro-
clamation of a general amnesty, excepting only Mr.
Davis and Mr. Stephens, the members of the Con-
federate cabinet, persons who held ranks above
that of brigadier in the Confederate army and
captain in the navy, accomplices in the assassina-
tion of President Lincoln, and diplomatic agents of
the Confederacy.
On Thursday last General Sheridan handed over
the command of his district to General Griffin and
loft New Orleans for Leavenworth. The citizens
of St. Louis are preparing a public reception for him.
General Sickles has addressed a long letter to
General Grant, claiming that the laws in his dis-
trict have been administered with the least possible
military interference, and declaring that his course
was fully justified by the Reconstruction Act. It
is reported that he will demand an investigation by
a court of inquiry. General Canby, on the sth
instant, assumed the command of the district, and
endorsed all the existing orders. It has transpired
that the interference of General Sickles with the
process of the Federal Courts in the Carolinas was
contrary to the orders of General Grant.
The democrats have carried the California elec-
tions by. a majority of seven thousand, electing
Mr. Haight as governor, and also a majority of
the Legislature, as well as two out of three mem-
bers of Congress.
Forty-five deaths from yellow fever occurred at
New Orleans on the sth inst.
Advice. from Montreal state that Messrs. M'Gee
and Cartier, the conservatives, had been elected.
On the sth riots occurred at Montreal and Clarence,
which were quelled by the military. Numerous
casualties occurred, but no one was killed.
Advices from Mexico announce that Juarez had
divided the country temporarily into five military
districts. Porfirio Diaz had threatened military
interference unless the numerous death sentences
were commuted. Carlos Miramnn, at the head of
3,000 men, had shot 90 liberals to avenge the death
of his brother.

GARIBALDI AND THE REFORM BANQVIT. —lt 11
understood that General Garibaldi has definitely refused
the invitation to be present at the Reform banquet at the
Crystal Palace, fixed for the 30th twit., on the ground that
he does not know what matters may be then engaging his
attention in Italy.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 17.
The Serapie, iron screw troop ship, Captain
[toady, arrived at Spithead this morning from Quebec,
with the fourth battalion of the Rifle Brigade. She em-
barked her troops on the 6th instant, and they will dis-
embark at Portsmouth Dockyard to-morrow morning. One
division will proceed to the head-quarters at Winchester,
and the other to Chichester.

The Curium, 26, screw frigate, is to be docked for
examination, and if found fit for service she will be
brought forward for the use of the used cadets, as sea-
going instruction vesseL
A warrant Aker, named Hubbard, belonging to the
troop-ship Urgent, just returned from China, fell over-
board between the ship and the jetty at an early hour on
Sunday morning and was drowned.
The Minotaur, 26, iron screw frigate, Captain J. G.
Goodenough, is ordered to return to this port from
Ireland, where she is with the Channel squadron (bearing
the flag of Hear Admiral F. Warden), and some alteration
is to be made in her rigging.

ADMIRALTY, SEPTEMBER 17.—PROMOTIONS AND
APPOINTMENTB.—The following commander have been
mmoted to captains :—W. H. Blake, A. J. Inns, T. A.
de Wahl, M. 9. L Peile, T. B. H. Suliven, and J. 0.
Hopkins. The following lieutenant, to be commanders:—
B. H. Wilkinson, P. S. Lumnoore A. It. Tinklar, A.
Eaton, E. St. J. Gerforth, B. W. eat, T. H. Hastings,
and the Hon. Victor Montagu. The following appoint.
mente were made yesterday:—Commander Arthur P.
Tinklar, to the Ocean ; Lieutenant Vincent J. English aad
Lieutenant Wm. F. E. Freeland, to the Rattlesnake ;
Oeo. Bolster, assistant-surgeon. to the Dee ; Jeremiah
Donovan, assistant-surgeon, to Plymouth Hospital ; Dr.
Alexander Goodall, assistant-surgeon, to the Bellerophon ;
Edward W. Doyle, assistant.suzgeon, to the Gladiator;
Peter Bowes, assistant-surgeon, to the Rattlesnake, addl.
tional, for dispose' ; Thos. C. Hickey and Dr. Thos. St. J.
Clerke, acting aaeistant-surgeons to the Flora ; Win. Stone,
engineer, to the Nelson • Wm. Inglis 0)), engineer, to the
Orontes ; Jas. Frazer, find class assistant-engineer, to the
, Minotaur; and Wm. Hawkinson, tint clams aseiatant engi.
I neer, to the Lord Clyde.

THE STAR OF INDIA.—INDIA-OFFICE, SEPT. 16.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to make the fol-
lowing appointments to the first, second, and third classes
of the most exalted Order of the Star of India : —To be •
Knight Grand Commander— Lieutenant-General Sir Robert
Napier, K.C.B. Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay
Army. To be 'Knights Commanders--The Maharajah
Maim Sing, of Oude •, Colonel Edward Robert Wetherell,
C. 8., late chief of the staff of the Central India Field
Force; Colonel William West Turner, C. 8., late 97th
Regiment, sometime Brigadier Commanding the
Second Column of the Bundlecund Field Forte.
To be Companions—Henry Philip Archibald Buchanan
Riddell, Esq., Bengal Civil Service (retired), late Director-
General of the Poet-office in India; Lewin Bentham Bow-
ring, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Mysore
and Coorg ; Colonel James Maurice Primrose late 43rd
Regiment, Adjutant-General of the Madras Army ; Colonel
George William Hamilton, Bengal staff corps, Commis-
sioner of Meehan ; Matthew Stovell, Esq., M.D., late
principal inspector-general Bombay Medical Depattruent ;
Edward Hare, Esq late deputy inspector-general of hos-
pitalat Lahore, Bengal establishment. —Gaulle.
RIIVIEW AT ALDRRAHOT.—Yesterday the
at Aldershot were reviewed by Lieutenant-General the
Hon. Sir James Yorke Searlett, K.C.B. The various
brigades of cavalry, artillery, and infantry were formed on
Cove Common, at 11 a.m., in line of contiguous columns.
Boon after the formation of the troops, Sir James Scarlett,
attended by a numerous staff, arrived on the ground, when
the whole of the troops presented arms. After the line
was inspected, the regiments marched past. The cavalry
and royal artillery walked past inopen column of squadron
and batteries, and released in the same order at a trot.
The infantry marched past in grand divisions in quick time.
As soon as the marching past was concluded, the troops
took up a position on the Common for the purpose of at-
tacking an enemy supposed to be advancing from the south
west. The evolutions executed during the manreuvres
were most instructive and highly interesting. The infantry
regiments were furnished with fifteen rounds of blank am-
munition per man, and the artillery with an unlimited
quantity. The evolutions were not concluded until
1.30 p.m.
EXTRAORDINARY CITARORB.—The commissioners
crintedges prefty the Bi
rred shop of of
y.Exeterri to. iiranuire into the
the incumbent of Bast Teignmouth, assembled at the
Dean and Chapter-house, in the Cathedral-yard, Exeter,
on Monday last. The defendant was charged with having
been drunk in the public streets in Teignmouth on the
18th of August, 1866, and the 3rd of November, 1866, and
in addition to the specific charges of intemperance, the
defendant was charged with habitual drunkenness, to the
scandal of the church end to the injury of the souls com-
mitted to hie care. Several witnesses having deposed
to particular instances of insobriety, the court decided'
on proceeding with the charge of habitual drunkenness
in the public streets, and the first witness called in
support of the charge was Miss Bellairs, daughter of the
Rev. A. Bellaire, canon of Worcester, who stated that she
attended Mr. Sirupson's church on the 18th of August, and
the defendant not only walked up the aisle unsteadily, but
she could not distinguish a word in the whole service except
the name of the Almighty. What occurred she should not
like to describe, but it was disgusting. To the best of her
judgment he was unmistakably drunk. She had seen him
on several occasions within the last two years in a similar
state, not quite so bad, but still quite unfit to do his duty.
This state arose, she fully believed, from his being drunk.
She had seen him enter the church unsteadily several times.
Augustus Dunn, who was formerly a polioe-constable,
stationed at Teignmouth, said he left there in May, 1866.
While he was there on several occasions he saw Mr. Simp-
son the wane for liquor in the public streets. The witness,
in cross-examination, confessed that he had been himself
charged with drunkenness, and been reduced while a con-
stable for coming off duty before the proper time. Edward
Gulson, • poor-law inspector and a justice of the peace for
the county of Devon, deposed that when he first went to
Teignmouth he was on intimate terms with Mr. Simpson.
Since then that intimacy had ceased. Within the last two
years he had seen him decidedly drunk on five or six
occasions. The inquiry was then adjourned until the fol-
lowing morning, the court having been engaged in hearing
the case for upwards of eight hours.
Are M.P. FINED FOR ANSAULT.—At the Burton-
on-Trent police-court yesterday, the magistrates were
occupied some time in hearing • charge against Mr. John
Hardy, M.P. for Dartmouth, for assaulting • man named
Hipwell, at Tatenhill, on the 12th instant. Mr. Leech,
of Derby, appeared for the prosecution, and the defendant
conducted his own ease in person. The evidence went
to show that Mr. Hardy has the right of shooting over
land adjoining the estate of Mr. Robinson at Taten-
hill; and that on the date named the complainant, who la
servant to the last named gentlemen, was out shooting
upon his master's land by his authority. When near
to a plantation he observed a wood pigeon settle in a
tree, and lie shot at it, and believing that it had fallen
into the ditch of the adjoining field, which, with the fence,
belongs to Mr. Robinson. he went over and sought for it ;
he failed to find it, and he returned to his master's land.
After he reloaded his gun, and had been in Mr. Robinson's
field again for about five minutes, Mr. Hardy come up to
him and inquired what be had been shooting. Complainant
explained how that he had shot at the wood pigeon, and
went to seek for it in the other field; but this statement
defendantdeclined to believe, alleging that complainant was
after game. Mr. Hardy demanded the gun, but it was refused.
He then seized hold of it, and a struggle ensued, during
which complainant was struck upon the breast with the
gun. Fearing lest the gun should go off, he eventually let
Mr. Hardy talcs it. Mr. Hardy dashed the gun into a pit
and said it might remain there until Mr. Robinson fetched
it out. Defendant also stated that complainant and his
master were scamps, and that Mr. Robinson was as big •
poacher as anybody if he allowed his man to shoot over
his land. Mr. Hardy. cross-examined the witnesses, and
afterwards made a brief statement to the court, in which
he admitted that he had rendered himself amenable to the
law by taking the gun from the man. The bench—of
which Mr. Hardy is a member—regretted that it was their
duty to convict ose of their fellow magistrates, but they
must act impartially in the case, and the sentence of the
court was that defendant pay • fine of 51. and 15e. 6cl.
eosta.
It is stated by a contemporary that Mr. Gathorne
Hardy has consented to ask her Malady to grant an entire
remission of the sentence recently passed upon Augusta
Mitchell by Mr. Payne.

MANCHESTER, seer. 17.
This morning the court opened at the uswal hour, when
Richard Beasley was again placed in the witness-box.
He had met Thomas Rigby about five yearn ago, and slept
in the same bed with him at Runcorn. Slept with him
only one night, and the man was drunk and behaved more
like a lunatic. Never told him that witness and James
Kay made the shell which was dawn' at Greens, or that
be was the first man that brought needles from Sheffield.
Did not fill the office of auditor to the accounts of the
club at Oldham that he could recollect, but might have
done so on an emergency. A memorandum book being
handed to him with the words, " Audited and found cor-
net, James Egan' Richard Beesley," he said that wax his
signature, but he had forgotten. He could not say what
the entry, " cash 201." was for. There might have been
20 men on strike and 11. each for the week would account
. for it, but the book did not say what year it was in, and
though it might have been explained at the thin his
memory did not serve him now.
Mr. Pickering, looking at the book said he found the
entry was in September 1862.
The witness said his honour must allow for the ignorance
of the class be belonged to. If he remembered what the
entry was for he would say what it was, but ho did not
know much of book-keeping.
' Mr. Pickering said he thought the books seemed to have
been well kept. Peeple seemed to have a habit of losing
their memory when they got into that box (witness box).
Witness said that was not the case.

Thomas Rigby sworn—Was cautioned and told if he
made a full contention he would have a certificate. Wit-
ness end he was • member of the Oldham union six or
seven years ago. In 1559 he joined in the only motive he
had been connected with. He went with William Birchall,
Wm. Smith, and John Su there, to fire a shed. They put
naphtha in • tin, but it did no execution at all. He was
stationed at the door of the shed with a pistol, and had no
doubt he should have shot any one that came, he was so
ignorant then. He knew no better. He remembered
sleeping with Richd. Beasley, at Runcorn, for about a
' week, and Beasley asking him if be remembered the affair
of Old Cobbold. And he went on to say he was one who
made the shell to throw at Gnomes, but it was not done to
kill but to " fear" him. Never beard the outrages brought
before the counciL Remember Kay bringing
Oldham, and it was to support a strike. Had heard of
Kay receiving as much as 251. for an outrage, but could
not remember what it was for, though be thought it was
for Blocksaye'a affair at Ashton. Had heard of Kay being
paid for many a job at Oldham, but it was not that he
knew anything about them.
James Wrigley deposed to a strike at his brick-croft in
18.i7, at Oldham, in consequence of his employing a non-
union burner, and to the spoiling of his bricks and other
property subsequently, through employing non-onion men.
In May, 1558, had both union and non-union men in his
employ. Discharged his non-union men, and had not
been disturbed since.
Samuel Smith bad been burner to the last witness, but
said the damage was done to his property before the union
men were discharged. Knew of no reason why his pro-
perty was destroyed but that he (witness) was a non-union
man. He had since then become a union man. Was
fixed last week by the Ashton union a pound for doing
another man's work, and charging 4s. instead of Os. for it.
lie did it because the man had done him a good turn.
John Clay Johnson said he had been a wooden-shovel
maker 20 years, such as were used by brickmaken.
Had been • member of the Manchester Brickinakers'
Union, but bad not attended much for the last 17 years.
They called him " Shovel Jack." Never beard of the
outrage on the last witness. Might have heard of Ron-
' shaw's machine being blown up, but did not remember it.
Had been in custody for harbouring Burke and Ward,
who committed the murder of Jump. Was tried and
sentenced to it months' imprisonment. Was in the
lock-up at Ashton, but never asked Constable Rogers
if he remembered six men passing him in Hyde-road,
and stated that he (witness) was the third man. Did
'not say they had been blowing up Reirthaw's machine.
Never said anything of the kind. Had heard of a machine
I being broken up at Cheatham-hill, but never had anything
Ito do with it. Never said there were eight of them en-
, gaged, and they received 25/. amongst theta for it. Nothing
of the kind ever came from his lips. The prisoner, at the
close of his examination, said be craved no certificate. lie
had lived thirty years.
Constable Rogers said in 1862 he and another man ap-
prehended Burke and Ward at the prisoner's house. Re-
membered being in Hyde-road on the night Renshaw's
machine was destroyed. It was in June, 1862, a week
before Jump was shot. Johnson was taken for harbour-
ing Burke and Ward, and said in the lock-up he had been
in several jobs ; but this was the worst. He said he had
been engaged in blowing up Renshaw's machine and •
' machine at Cheatham-hill, and that they received 25/. He
told them they must not tell the brickmakers, or they
would buy no more shovels from him, and that if they got
to know, they (the police) most say he was not right in
his head. He referred to the Cheatham-hill affair again
before another constable, either Barlow or Anderson.

Mr. Robert Wilson is en engineer, and acting partner at
Naamyth's, at Patriaroft. They were using bncka which
were very inferior, and the maker, whose name
was Burton, said we must take them or have
no other. They applied to another brickmaker, but he
I supplied bricks that were too small. They then deter-
' mined to make tricks themselves, having excellent clay,
and set men to work. Early in February last two men
i came from the onion in Manchester, and asked if be would
I give them the job. He told them he was employing his
I own men. They said he had better give them the job, or
he might be subject to annoyance from the union. Asked
if this was intended as • threat, and they said " No, but
he would find great difficulties, and Ledbetter give them
I the job." He purchased 200,000 bricks at Swinton, having
engaged bricksetters Why the bricks. After the bricks
were brought the union men got at the bricksetters, and
they refused to work. He got three men afterwards to set
the bricks, but after working for a time they were told
they would be fined, end they left. He had since obtained
six non-union men, who continued to work steadily. In
June he had 500 or 600 bricks spoiled in their own yard,
he supposed by union men.
Robert Ellerton sworn—ls • bricklayer, and was build-
ing some houses in Radnor-street, Manchester, in the
spring of 1:46:1. Was using common bricks for the backs and
machine bricks for the fronts. Saw James Kay, who told
him if he used machine-made be could not have hand made
bricks, and he had to give up the contract. Wes building
nine houses in Crowther-street in 1863, and the walls were
pushed down. It was a wet night, and they made such a
wreck of the buildings he should think a dozen men must
have been engaged. The damage would be about VV. He
was using machine-made bricks. Machine-made bricks
were better and cheaper than hand made, and would super-
sede them in an open market. He hail been stopped build-
ing with them in consequence of these interferences.
Mr, John Ashworth said ho was a bricirmaker off Regent-
road, Salford. In June, 1544, found more than 60,000
bricks destroyed. Employed 30 men, all union men. He
had a son in the croft who was not a union man. He had
been carrying slack for the burner. He attributed it to
that. Four men were apprehended but discharged. After
that Patrick Cullum was apprehended. Jonathan Ed.
wards and another man came from the union and called
the men away. James Mannering and George Kershaw
came, end said he must pay 501. for the expense of taking
Cullum up. Said be would not, and they said he would have
to rue it. He and his eons and two men then did the work,
and he got a machiue and made bricks by machinery.
At first be found a market for his bricks but
afterwards, when the hand-made brickmakers and brick-
layers had amalgamated, the market was stopped. In
August, P(65, received • threatening letter (which was
read) telling him at a meeting of brickmakers it had been
agreed to shoot him or put an end to him if he continued
making by machine. It was signed by a wellwisher, who
desired him to advertise that he bad received it, and he
did. In consequence of the spoiling his and other bricks
to the extent of 150,000, the masters offered • reward of
260 f., of which he offered 50/. Remembered ten days after
he got this letter William Parks, who dressed like his (wit-
ness's) son, being found 50 yards from the hones of wit-
ness' badly beaten and nearly killed. In the pool of
blood in which he ley were found bottles, with which they
had beaten him. One bottle was filled with blasting pow-
der. In consequence of this be feared some outrage being
attempted on himself, and had to keep home • good deaL
Knew of no reason for this but that be made bricks by
machine. After Parks was hurt some masters came and
went through his works, and said they thought
the men had had enough, and offered a sum of
money for the machine, but he refused. Had been
at great loss through the giving up his machine
and resumed handmaking. A few slays after the
anonymous letter • man came to him and told him
two men were to take his life, and a house had been pre-
pared to harbour them in at Gedee, the house of a roan
named John Mosley. After that employed Ryder, a non-
union brisk maker, to do some house painting, and in
August a man came from the union and told him be must
discharge Ryder. He was obliged to do it. His son was
admitted to the union now, and employing union men he
(Mr. Ashworth) was making bricks without interruption
DOW.
Thomas Ashworth, son of the last witness, corroborated
the evidence of hie father as to the bricks being spoiled,
and the visite of the union men offering terms.

OVERCROWDING STe.►x PACKET:4.—The magis-
trates at Liverpool are taking measures to pnt down the
dangerous and illegal practice of overcrowding. Under
the :119th section of the Merchant Shipping Act, steam
shipowners carrying more passengers than they are licensed
for are liable to a hue of AL and de. for each passenger iu
excess. Under this act the owners of the Isle of Man
steamer Snaefell were yesterday fined 70/. and coats for
h►ving on the 7th inst. carried 821 passengers, the legal
number being 654.