The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-29 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

OUR CONTEMPOI
(THIS. DAT.)

secondly, the outbreak of the Sepoy mutiny ; and
thirdly, a severe commercial crisis lb New York.
The occurrence of the latter event rippers to have
produced the chief distrust. To the great con-
sternation of the mercantile community, the diffi-
culties of the times proved the rottenness of a
greeklerfief our trade ; a panic ensued, houses
suspended by scores, and the abrogation of the
Bank Charter Act alone saved the country from
commercial rain.
Now in both these cases we have good grounds
for accounting for the undue depression in secu-
rities and their subsequent recovery. In 1847
the middle classes, who constitute the great ma-
jority of investors, had embarked all, and more
than all, their superfluous means in railway un-
dertakings, good, bad, or indifferent, mid there-
fore when the crisis came, and merchants were
compelled to offer their securities for sale, for a
time there were no buyers. By degrees this righted
itself. Savings began again to accumulate, and
the public, especially the small public, were ready
to purchase any good investments offered at low
prices. The European convulsions of 1848
strengthened this movement, first by discouraging
the employment of money abroad, and secondly by
causing large amounts of capital to be remitted
from the Continent to England fur safety. In
1857 the cane was somewhat different. Merchants
were, it is true, again compelled to sell their
securities, and the public were this time not
unable, but hesitating to buy. Everybody was
waiting to purchase at the lowest price. The
tide soon turned. When the reaction took place
and the quotations began to improve, it was im-
mediately proved that there was no want of
money nor any disinclination to invest it on favour-
able terms. The severity of the crisis once got
over, people commenced to buy and sell as freely
as before.
The year 1866 affords a marked contrast to the
experience of both nine and nineteen years ago. The
late panic has not arisen from distrust in indivi-
duals, but distrust in companies. Banks, railways,
discount or financial institutions, all have met
with more or less discredit. As regards mercan-
tile failures, the number, notwithstanding the un-
precedented maintenance of the Bank rate at 10
per cent. for over three months, has been below
the average even in prosperous years. We have
passed through the singular contradiction of a com-
mercial crisis, in which hardly a commercial house
has stopped payment. The contrast is most strik-
ing, if we look back to 1847 and 1857, when day
after day, for weeks together, the newspapers
chronicled the stoppage of three or more additional
houses. The panic has this time been shifted from
individual to corporate credit. In the height of
the crisis people would neither lead nor buy. Now
they are inclined to lend, but generally refuse to
buy. Securities, which but a short time ago were
eagerly sought, are now shunned as completely as
the shares of Overend, Gurney, and Co. Money
becomes every day more and more a drug in the
discount market; yet but little of it finds its way
to the Stock Exchange, except for temporary em-
ployment in short loans at nominal rates.
It is impossible not to concede that this feeling
is natural. The commencement of the year was
heralded by the sudden collapse of a joint stock
discount company, the shares of which at one
period commanded a high premium, and was itself
based upon a private business purchased at a
heavy sum. The fall was caused by such reckless
mismanagement that it is hard to find anywhere
a parallel. Next came general distrust and
pressure, the stoppage of Overend, Gurney, and
Co., reputed the first monetary house in the king-
dom, the trusted holder of bankers' balances, and
a business front which generations of partners had
retired with ample fortunes. A financial institu-
tion follows, then a joint stock bank. One great
railway company has already shaken the confi-
dence of the public in these undertakings by con-
fessing to an over issue of debentures, a second caps
it by becoming bankrupt, since of their debentures
falling due they can pay neither interest nor
principal. The upshot revolves itself into special
meetings of shareholders, committees of investi-
gation, reports, allegations, counter allegations,
disclosures, avowals, and so forth, which reveal a
continued system of sharp practice, in the midst
of which all the guarantees in which the investor
trusts break down. It is no wonder that the
public became disgusted. As one example
succeeded another they lost confidence in'
everything. They found that high names,
commercial and social standing, wealth, and a
world-wide reputation for enterprise, are insuffi-
cient to keep a great undertaking untainted from
dishonesty. The obvious conclusion was deduced
that where trust has been so abused, the best
thing is to have nothing to do with any one of
them.
Of course this sort of feeling may cagily be
carried too far. All railways have not been ma-
naged in the style of the London, Chatham, and
Dover, or even in that of the Great Eastern.
Neither are joint-stock banks likely to prove a
bad investment simply because one of their num-
ber was obliged to succumb at a period when
financial credit was at an end. It is, however, of
little use to point out the unreasonableness of the
indiscriminate judgments which the public are so
apt to pronounce. The evil will work itself out
in time. There are, in fact, already signs that a
healthy reaction is beginning to take place.
While all other investments are comparatively neg-
lected, a growing demand has been experienced
for Indian railway stocks, and especially
the debentures. These last securities being issued
under the authority and guarantee of the Swag-
TARY for INDIA cannot be multiplied beyond the
legal limit without the direct collusion of a Go-
vernment Department. The public may have,
and rightly, little admiration for the ability of
public offices, but at any rate they feel safe as to
their integrity. By degrees the public will
also begin to understand that honesty is not con-
fined to the Government alone; but this conviction
will want time to fructify.

Tllt MUNICIPAL ILLSCTIONIL

The municipal elections, which begin. every year
on the lit day of November, are not always, the Dolly
News observes, creditable to our institutions ; and we, mar
expect that the enemies of Reform, who are diligently Fla
siarch of every possible weapon against it, will find some
such weapons in the incidents of the approaching contests.
The area of the operation of our municipal institutions is
circumscribed, and their value is often not appreciated—
an injurious social fashion causing a large part of the more
cultivated persons in every municipality to withdraw their
influence from local affairs. Yet if such persona will not
take their proper lead, they cannot complain if men with
more public spirit, or if sometimes even men with a smaller
ambition, supersede them in municipal offices and then
oust them from the lead of public opinion and action in
imperial politics. Public life must degenerate when the
best men shrink from contact with the people ; but the
degeneracy begins with those who will not serve the public
because some sacrifice of ease or complacency is involved in
the service. For it must be remembered that our muni-
cipal institutions lie at the foundation of public life in this
country. An unhealthy condition of municipal life must
inevitably tell on political life generally. The unsatisfac-
tory character of muchof our municipal government cannot
be urged as an argument against the exteusion of the
suffrage, for it possesses all the circumstances favour-
able to electoral corruption, such as small consti-
tuencies, the absence of great subjects, and the reduction
of the choice of candidates to the level of a merely personal
preference. These circumstances, which produce corrup-
tion in parliamentary as well as in municipal constituen-
cies, would be removed in the case of parliamentary elec-
tions by any acceptable reform bill. The municipal fran-
chise, moreover, may be quoted in illustration of the work•
ing of a lowered qualification—the household democracy
always exhibiting great readiness to accept the leadership
of the most cultivated classes when they will only come
forward. With all their democracy our municipalities are
essentially middle class ; and the Daily News commends to
the consideration of that great class whether their muni-
cipal experience does not convincingly prove that a large
infusion of the working class element into mu parliamen-
tary constituencies would result in a great atmugthening
of the middle class element in parliament itself.

VENETJA.

THE IRONWORKERS OP THE NORTH.
It appears that at a meeting cf ironworkers, held last
Saturday at Wednesbury, it was unanimously agreed to
unite the trades unions of the northern and midland dia.
trice, and convene a national assembly of delegates for the
purpose of establishing a grand central directory. Barge
subsidies have already been remitted from Staffordshire to
the Northern Unions, and it is hoped that when the two
" executives" shall have been combiner: the funds in hand
will allow of 10s. a week being paid to each ironworker on
strike for some weeks to come. Contributions have also been
sent to their assistance from an independent association at
West Bromwich,andthis,too,is tobe invited to join the new
confederacy. It is but one step f urther, exclaims the Timed,
to extend the same principle to other brunches of industry,
so as to counteract the economical law whereby skill, as
well as capital, seeks the most remunerative investments•
Why should we not have a General Trade Executive regu.
lating the whole industrial machinery of the country, pre
scribing a maximum number of workpeople and a minimum
of wages for each department of manufactures, if not for
each operation of agriculture, and thus finally crushing
the hydra-headed tyranny of capital? The simplest
of the manifold answers to the question is, that
capital is more easily transferable from one country to
another than labour. At this moment orders are being
executed for English firms at Belgium and Prussia, and
the inevitable result of these repeated strikes will be to
drive more and more of English capital abroad. Here is a
consideration which seems to have been almost overlooked
by the leaders of trades' unions, but which deserves their
most careful attention. Free trade, which has done so
much for the workman, has done something for the
capitalist, and so many investments have been opened out
in our colonies and abroad as to raise very considerably
the normal rate of interest. Even if the existing proprie-
tors of ironworks could be coerced into giving higher wages
than they can afford in the present state of the market,
others will avoid the iron trade and carry their money else-
where.

ICS TOPICS.

The Times, after paying a tribute to the character and
abilities of the late Attorney-General, proceeds to remark
that the able lawyer who succeeds him has neither sat so
long in the house nor succeeded in making for himself any
considerable parliamentary reputation ; and occasions will
speedily present themselves when the clear good sense and
the ready debating power and the pointed argument of
Sir H. Cairns will be looked for in vain. The fact that
such a man has left the government does not tend to
strengthen confidence in their durability, and they can ill
afford a loss which a stronger administration might well
contemplate with dismay.
The progress of Roman catholicism intheUnited States
suggests to the Daily News some speculations as to the in-
fluence which this fact may exercise on the f uture tortures of
the Roman catholic church. The possession of four out of
thirty-one millions shows that the foreign element in the
States must have stuck pretty generally to its old faith.
When the time comes to which the American observer
looks forward when the population of the United States will
exceed 100,000,000, including more Roman eatholics than
any other single country, the change can hardly fail to
modify in many ways the action of the church. The un-
popularity of the Roman church throughout most coun-
tries of Europe at this moment is rather due to the political
associations with which she has chosen to surround her-
self, than to any dislike to her doctrines or practices.
From all this in the United States she is free, and the
theological character which is formed in the democratic
atmosphere of America must be sufficiently distinct to
gradually leaven the church in which it grows up. All the
accessories with which the body of Roman doctrine is sur-
rounded will necessarily feel the influence of this change.
The Telegraph says that the issues between the very
high church party and their opponents all relate to the
sacramental system—to the question whether the ordained
priest has a power which is nearly the same as that involved
in the doctrine of transubstantiation. Manifestly the sole
method of terminating the controversy is by reference to a
court of justice. The pending quarrel between Ritualism
and Protestantism is clearly one of those numerous crises
in which peace is to be obtained only by a decisive battle.

lEht wart.

BALDIORAL, Om 2G.

The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess
Christian and Princess Louise, drove to the Donside by
Tarland, Molly Musk, and Castle Forbes, returning by
Kildrummy Castle and Ballater.
Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice drove in the
afternoon.

ocr. 27.
The Queen went out, accompanied by Princess Louise,
and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe.
Prince Leopold drove to Gairnshiel.

MR.% LINCOLN IN SCOTLAND.—AIong with other
distinguished visitors at present residing at the Clyde
Hotel, Bothwell, are the widow and daughter of the late
Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of
America.—Scotinan.
ST. ALBAN'S, FIOLBORN.—YestA)Tday morning, as
might have been expected from the discussion on ritualism
which has taken place during the past week, there was an
immense congregation at St. Alban's, Holborn. Every
corner of the Church was filled, many of the persons present
being, of course, attracted simply by curiosity. As it was
the Festival of St. Simon and St. Jude, the officiating
clergy wore red stoles. In a surplice and red stole the
sermon was preached by the Rev. Henry Aston Walker,
M.A., of Oriel College, Oxford, who selected for his text
the words from the Epistle of the day—" I will, therefore,
put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how
that the Lord, having owed the people out of the land of
Egypt, afterwards destroyed them that believed not." He
spoke of the duty of contending earnestly for the faith
once delivered to the Saints, inasmuch as it was
faithfai that
Laved men, standingthe perfection and principle of o
This was th point of the Christian religion, and
should be the rule of life of all Christian men. Three
priests then proceeded with the Communion office. The
celebrant was the Rev. Arthur Henry Stanton, M.A., of
Trinity College, Oxford, who had changed his surplice for
rich red vestments, embroidered with gold, a large cross
=woven into the hack. The other priests wore
vestments without the cross. Nearly the whole of
the congregation remained during the celebration, but com-
paratively few went up to the altar.

Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial.
office from the Governors of Malta and Gibraltar. Des-
patches were sent to the Governors of the North American
Provinces and Bermuda.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh
arrived in town yesterday meming from Scotland.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge,
attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and Colonel Home
Purees, left Cambridge Cottage, Kew, on Saturday, for
Sandringham, on a visit to their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Wales. The duchess will stay at
Sandringham for some days.
Lord and Lady Houghton have returned to
London from the Continent.
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Lord Ashburton is still very unwell. It is ex-
pected that his lordship will be removed to-day to the
suburbs near Hampstead, in order to have change of air
and retirement.

Dr. Russell arrived in town on Saturday night
from Vienna, after a lengthened absence.
Count Bismarck, who is doing very well, has
left Carleburg for Putbna, on the Isle of Rugen.

Eighty thousand square metres of glass are want-
ing for the Universal Exhibition buildings, sufficient to
cover a sree of eight hectares—equal to 19i English acres.

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1866.

POLAND.
IMPORTANT PROPOSALS OF RIIIIEJA.
The Posen Journizl of the 26th publishes in large
type a piece of news which, if found to be correct,
may lead to most serious consequences. It
appears from information which the Posen Jour-
nal has received from Vienna, and which it says
is entitled to all confidence, that the cabinet of St.
Petersburg, feeling uneasy at the recent attitude of
Austria in Galicia, has within the last few days
proposed to the government of Berlin to give up
to Prussia the left bank of the Vistula, pro-
vided Prussia consented to the annexation
of Eastern Galicia by Russia, and allowed the
cabinet of St. Petersburg freedom of action in the
East. The Posen Journal calls on the lnralide
Bum' and the North German Gazette to deny the
news, of which it itself asserts the perfect correct-
ness.

THE CLERGY AND THE PLEBISCITUM IN

The Nazionc of Oct. 26 contains the following
remarks on the conduct of the Venetian clergy in
connexion with the recent vote :
One of the most remarkable circumstances connected
with the plebiscituru in Venetia has been the ardour with
which the clergy have participated in this final act of the
popular widl. They came in crowds to vote " yes" them-
selves, and by their example and influence they stimulated
the patriotism of others. In some instances they headed
their flocks like good pastors, and led them to the voting
urn. The bishops exhorted by pastoral letters their
diocesans to vote, and the patriarch of Venice,
in the enthusiasm of these memorable days, demanded
oblivion for the past, pardon for his many and
grave mistakes, and declared he wished to be in future a
good Italian and a faithful subject. Monsignor Zinelli, of
Treviso, a prelate famous for his reactionary fanaticism,
andfor the wantonness of his attacks, who emulated the
most violent champions of ultramontanism in France, not
being able on account of illness to go personally to vote,
deputed, by special license, another to perform this
duty for him, and wrote to the mayor a letter full
of patriotic sentiments. Finally the monks, over
whom the sword of Damocles is suspended in the
measure for the abolition of religious corporations,
wore on their breasts tricolor ribbons, and placed their
" yes" in the urns. These facts are worthy of serious at-
tention. We do not believe that we are maliciously dis-
posed because we hesitate to trust in the sincerity and cor-
diality o' certain singularly strange conversions. Without
wishing to search with inquisitorial indiscretion into the
inward thoughts of the Venetian Monsignori, we may be
allowed, however, to suppose that a reason, which is not
yet known, but of the existence of which we cannot doubt
from the effects produced, has guided their conduct and
led them unanimously into the new path.

B. IT. W.

DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF div OFFICER.

INQI7EBT.—(THIS DAY.)
This morning Mr. John Humphreys, the Mid-
Le —ses coroner, hel4 an Inquiry at the London Hospital,
peeog the deadrceNijor Thomas Clark, aged 43 yaws.
rilirr. John Clark, 3, Dunstan-court,Mnoing-lane,
breaer of the deceased, said that he was a ship-
broker. The deceased was a major in the 24th Regiment
of Foot. He had been 22 years in tropical climates.
Last June 12 months he returned to this country.
About three weeks ago he bc...ame depressed. He then
heard of the sudden death of a major in his own
regiment, and that a captain had returned to hill
country in a state of insanity. He then became apprehen-
sive that he should die if he returned to India. He told
witness that he was not responsible for his acts. No
pecuniary or family matters were preying upon his mind.
On the 13th instant witness took him to Dr. Allingham's,
at Finsbury-square. Witness afterwards saw him in the
LondemHospitaL The deceased had onlyheard of the sudden
death of the major and of the insanity of the captain
about three weeks RI". i tress had heard that those
circumstances bad h...t gre..t effect upon his mind, and
witness believed that he was of unsound mind at the time
he was at Dr. Allingham's.
Coroner—Was he under the impression that his mind
would break down if he returned to India ?
Witness—Yes.
Mr. Wm. Allingham, a medical gentleman, in practice
at No. 36, Finsbury-square, said that on Saturday, 13th
inst., the dethsaad, with his brother, called at his
residence to consult hint. Witness at once perceived that
the deceased was not in a et state to be left alone, and he
requested the brother to take the major up into the draw-
ing-room, while he sent for a man to stop with him.
Shortly afterwards Mr. Clark came to witness and
said, "My brother is very anxious that I should
go and stop his relatives who are coming up
by the train." Witness then said that he would
remain in the room with the deceased while he went to the
railway-station. Witne. t hes sat in the room and he tried
to get the major into eon. ersation, but while the deceased
was talking to witness he a °aid not sit down. While he
was walking up and down the room he suddenly rushed to
the window and leaped ote.. Witness ran and caught hold
of his legs and held them, and he would have been
able to retain his hold of them only that the deceased kept
kicking. Witness then thought that if the deceased fell
into the street while he was holding his legs he would fall
upon his head. He, therefore, let go his hold of the de-
ceased's legs and caught hold of the tail of
his coat as he considered that the deceased if he
then fell would fall upon his feet. While witness was
holding the deceaaed up by the coat it " pealed" off his
back, and he fell to the pavement. lint that he struggled
witness would have been able to hold him up. A tropical
climate is likely to affect the mind of any man of a ner-
vous temperament.
Mr. K. Llewellyn, house surgeon, said that when the
deceased was brought to the hospital he was insensible.
His arm was fractured. He went on well at first. Upon
the slightest thing being said to him he used to become
most excited. He used to say, " I wish I was dead." He
expired on the 26th instant. A post-mortem examination
proved that be had got over the shock to the system which
he had received. The cause of death was severe bronchitis
accelerated by the fall.
The Coroner having summed up, the jury returned a
verdict " That the deceased expired from the mortal
effects of bronchitis, accelerated by a fall which he received
by throwing himself out of a window while in a state of
unsound mind."

WEATHER REPORT.-{THIS DAY.)

MONDAY, OCTODIR M, 8 LW.

NMrn 1/.8047 W.N.W.
Aberdeen 29.84 44 S.S.W.
Leith 30.00 49 W.
Ardroman 30.05 49 W.
Oreeneastle 30.12 40 W.S.W.
Yalentra 30.35 63 W.
Cape Clear
Liverpool 30.35 49 W.S.W.
Holyhead 30.30 50 W.S.W.
1.8117.1111C0 30.49 49 N.W.
Brest 30.51 45 N.H.
Lorient 30.43 41 N.
Rochefort 30.43 46 N.H.
Plymouth
Weymouth
Portamout.h 30.44 42 N.N.W.
London
Yarmouth 30.37 40 F.W.
Scarborough 30.24 43 B.S.W.
Shields. 10.17 48 N. W.
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RIGMARK
A strong northwesterly current of wind prevailed yesterday
over the whole of the British Inks. This morning
moderated.
some snow has fallen in the north of Scotland, hut the northern
and western temperatures continue rather high. A sudden in-
crease of barometric pressure has occurred In the south, but
barometers on the coast of Norway have fallen, and pressure is
extremely unsteady on our northern coasts. A continuance of
settled weather is improbable.

THE ROYAL VISIT TO NoRWICH.—NORWICH,
SATURDAY EVENING.—Today a detachment of the Ist
Dragoon Guards, which will act as an escort in connection
with the visit of the Prince and l'rincess of Wales to
Norwich, reached that city. The following distinguished
rade has been invited by Lord and Lady Staffori to meet
the Prince and Princess at Costessey :—The Earl and
Countess of Leicester and Lady Anne Coke, Lord and lady
Sondes and the Hon. Misses Milies, Lord and Lady Suffield,
the Earl of Goldoni, Viscount Duncan, the Master of
Lovat, Lord and Lady Lovat and the Hon. Charlotte
Fraser, the Hon. William and Mrs. Stafford Jerningham,
Mr. Fitzherbcrt Stafford Jerningham, Mr. and Mrs. Basil
Fitzberbert, Sir Robert Gerard, Major and Mrs. Gerard,
the Hon. Francis Stonor, Lieut.-General Knollys, Major
Grey, and the lion. Mrs. Stonor, will be in attend.
ance on the Prince and Princess, and the Countess
Reventlow and Captain Cruschenschiold will be in attend-
ance on her Majesty the Queen of Denmark. The Prince
and Princess will take their departure from Costeasey on
Thursday,in consequence of the Prince having toleeve Eng.
land on the following day or on Friday for the purpose of
attending the mamage of the Princess Dagmar and the
Czarewitch. The drill abed for tho Norwich Volunteers,
which the Prince of Wales will inaugurate, is fast approach-
ing completion. At the end of the hall or shed there will
be a dais and canopy of scarlet cloth surmounted by the
royal arms and suitably ornamented. On the north aide of
St. Andrew's-hall a suite of rooms has been fitted up in a
very tasteful manner for the royal visitors, and in front of
the orchestra a handsome dais has been erected. On
Saturday the erection of triumphal arches, illumination
fittings, Sc., was actively proceeded with in various parts
of Norwich, which has certainly spared no pains to display
its respect for England's future sovereign.
THE DUKE or EDINBURGH AT FLOORS CASTLE.
—His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, amain-
' ponied by the Duke of Roxburghe Marquis of Bowmont,
and the Hon Harry Grey, left Floors on Thursday morn-
ing for Roxburghe Moor to enjoy another day's shooting.
The party was even more successful than on the former
occasion, killing in the course of the day 84 hares and 157
rabbits, which, with the other sorts of game shot, made
the large total of 267 head. The Prince on his way to the
shooting ground passed through Kelso, and being
niaed frequently saluted by a number of the inhabi-
tants. Yesterday his royal highness, along with the Duke
' of Roxburghe and the Marquis of Bowmont,f fished on the
upper " caste" of the Floors water, but, like many other
anglers on that day, he obtained little sport, the water
being too heavy and of a bad colour. On the
and Sir
the
Prince's equerry, Lieutenant Haig, R.E. and Sir Grant
Sattie, shot 33 brace of partridges and several hares and
pheasants. His royal highness, we understand, will leave
Floors this afternoon, and will proceed mouth by the
Waverley route, on a visit to the Prince and Princess of
Wales at Sandringham Castle.—scotanen.
Hose THE Bunn GUARDS TREAT A ROYAL
COMMISSION.—In the House of Commons, during the
Jamaica discussions, parliament was informed that the
report of the royal commission bad been laid before the
ar department, and that the cases indicated by Mr. Mill
would be solemnly investigated. A few days ago, how-
ever, the Gazette announced that Lieutenant Herbert
Adcock, of the 2nd Battalion of the 6th Foot, had been
promoted, without purchase, to a captaincy. Lieutenant
Adcock was accused4of having put several persons to death
in cold blood without trial, and in especial of having thus
caused to be put to death Charles Mitchell in his own door-
way, and of burning his house, turning the widow and chil-
dren into the woods. In place of investigating the ease we
find that the War-office has promoted the officer.—Star.
Da. MARY WALBER.—This lady, who haa re-
cently passed so successful an examination, visited Middle-
sex Hospital on Saturday, and was conducted through the
establishment in male attire. The students were some-
what surprised at her appearance. She wore a low-crowned
plain felt hat, a dark plush coat, not quite reaching to
the knees, and black cloth trousers.—Post.
ILLEGAL REMOVAL OP IRISH CATTLE.-011 Satur-
day last several farmers resident in the neighbourhood of
Hatfield, near Doncaster, attended the West Riding
Magistrates' Court at Dondater, and directed attention to
a singular infringement of the Cattle Plague orders of the
Privy Council. It appears that some cattle dealers are in
the habit of bringing a truck load of Irish cattle by rail-
way to Doncaster, and thence drive them to a place tailed
Bearawood-green, an unpopulated part of Yorkshire, where
is but one house, and there they sell them, and each
cattle are spread over that part of Yorkshire and into the
adjacent county of Lincolnshire. It was proposed that there
should be a sale on Monday next, and as the cattle plague
might again thereby be introduced into the district, the
persons who attended, and who stated that they themselves
had suffered very severely from the plague, thought that
the police should interfere. It was shown to the bench
(of which Mr. William Aldam, one of the chairmen of
West Riding Sessions, was chairmanl, that the driving of
cattle from the railway station to Hatfield was an infringe-
ment of the regulations of the West Riding as well as the
borough of Doncaster, and instructions were consequently
given to Mr. Superintendent Astwood, of the county con-
stabulary, to take care that the dangerous practice should
not be repeated.