The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-20 00:00:00

REMkRK&

Pale Sherry.

Sherry.

In the west of Ireland there has been a small decrease la baro-
metrical pressure since yestenlay. In other districts an increase
is noticed, amounting at the eastern stations to upwards of
3-I!.the of an inch. Temperatures are variable, and increase is
shows In the SW. of Ireland, where the temperature is consider-
ably higher than in Scotland or ou our south coast. Winds are
vety variable In character: at Valentla a very strong westerly
wind is reported, whilst at all other stations light winds or calm
11 now prevail. Fog and mist have been very prevalent, and snow
has fallen at some stations In the north and east.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S LIVES/U.—Four years
have now elapsed since the act for the augmentation of
benefices in the gift of the Lord Chancellor came into ope-
ration. In that period 03 of the poorer advowsons have
been sold, and 10 of the livings of a clear yearly value of
2001. or more. Among the present year's sales of the
former class is the advowson of West Newton, Norfolk,
purchased by the Prince of Wales for 1,2001. The total
amount of the purchase-money of the advowsona sold is
174,0091., including 5,450/. secured by rent charges or land.
The amount received from sales of the higher class of
livings under the 23rd and 24th sections of the act has
enabled the Lord Chancellor to apply 20,9001. in augmen-
tation of other livings and grants for parsonage houses,
and to appropriate a further sum of 9,8001. for the like
purposes under a scheme of last May to meet benefactions
provided from other sources.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. —The performances of
Italian opera, which should have been given next spring
and summer at the late Opera•house in the Haymarket,
will be held at Drury-lane Theatre, an agreement having
been concluded to that effect between Mr. Mapleson and
Mr. Frederick ft. Chatterton, lessee and manager of the
lest-named establishment. _ - -

-KLLB AND BEQUESTS .—The will of Marquise
Etiennette Marie Catherine Charlotte d'Aligre de Foment'
was proved in London under 80,000/. personalty in Eng-
land ; that of the Right lion. Lady Elizabeth Anne Smyth,
daughter of the fourth Duke of Grafton, K.G., under
7,000/.; and that of Anne Maria Lady Colquhoun,
16,000/. The will of the Right Rev. John Lona-
dale. D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield, of Eccle.
shall Castle, Stafford, was proved in the registry
at Lichfield by his two eons, the Rev. James Gylby Lona-
dale, M.A., of King's College ; and the Rev. John Gylby
Lonsdale, M.A., Canon of Lichfield, the joint acting
executors. The personalty was sworn under 90,0001. The
, will is dated March 17,1804 and his lordship died, 0ct.19,
1867, at the age of 79. He ias devised his freehold estate
at Everton to his eldest son, James, and leaves him
the plate presented to his lordship on his leaving
St. George's, Bloomsbuii, as well as that presented to him
on leaving King's College, of which he was principal. He
has left pecuniary legacies to both his sons and his three
doubters. The residue of his property he leaves equally
amongst them, as well as the property under his marriage
settlement. The will of Samuel Hibbert, Esq., of 2,
Sussex-terrace, Hyde-park, and of Billiter-court, under the
firm of Hibbert and Co., West India merchants, was
proved in the London Court under 90,0001. personalty.
The will of the Rev. Thomas Forster, M.A., of New College,
University of Oxford, was proved in the district registry
of Oxford b&Cisatherine Ann Forster, the relict ; Francis
Bellinger, .of Lower Clapton, and the Rev. George
Cribb Rolfe, , .A., of Halley, the executors and trustees.
The personalty was sworn under 10,000/. After making
bequests to his brother and a few friends, and a legacy of
50/. to the society founded by Dr. Cotton, Arch-
deacon of Cashel—the proceeds arising therefrom
to be distributed every Christmas amongst six
poor widows of Coadneton—he leaves the residue of !
his property to his wife fur her life ; and after her &oases
he leaves to his executors, Mr. Bellinger, 2001., and Mr. •
Rolfe, 1001., and to the son of the latter (the testator's
godson), Thomas Forster Rolfe, M. ; also the following
charitable bequests : —Radcliffe Infirmary, 1001.; the
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1001. ; and ,
the Church Missionary S.Jciety, 100/. ; the residue to
be equally divided between the three following
institutions :—The Corporation of the Sons of the
Clergy, Clergy Orphan Society, and the Friends
of the Clergy Corporation. The wills of the un-
dermentioned have also been proved :—George Thomson,
Esq., 120,0001. personalty ; Thomas Sedgwick Summers,
Esq., 80,0001. ; .Alfred W. Beall., Esq., 40,000/. ; John
Grifllths,Esq., 35,0001. ; John Sills Charlton, of Tunbridge
Wells, 30,0001. ; and John Modena, of Croydon, 60,0001.
Mr. Morland has left legacies to the Peace Society and the
Friends' School atCroydon.-17lustrated London lime.
THE HUNTING FIELD DCRINO THE PAST MONTH.
—Ever since the first of this month (December) sharp
frosts have sadlyinterfered with scent and "good riding." ,
From Leicestershire we hear that about the 12th the treat '
broke, and disappeared to a great extent, and the ground
was in tolerably good condition everywhere for good
riding, but up to the date it was rather hard in places. but,
on the whole, there was not much very bad going. From
South Berke we hear great complaints as to the badness
of scent, which seems to have been the great cause of
trouble, now that the frost has become less severe. In
North Staffordshire Jack Frost fixed his icy fetters upon
everything for nine or ten days, and thus completely
stopped all &anus of sport ; milder weather ha • op-
portunely come in his stead, very capital runs have been
enjoyed. It would be of very little interest to further
specify each district from which we have received from
our correspondents accounts similar to the above. But we
are rejoiced to find that a "southerly wind and a cloudy
s." have for the peat week proclaimed hunting mornings.
We do not ;mums to foretell what the sky is going to do,
or prophesy as to weather forecasts. but, if we may hazard
a guess, there is not, so far as we can judge, any sign of a
severe or lengthened frost.—land and Wafer, Dec. 21.

HORSE-EATING.

The first serious attempt at horse-eating in Eng-
land took place last night, when 22 gentlemen sat down to
an elaborate banquet at a leading Wort-and hotel. This
banquet has been in course of preparation for months, and
considerable pains were taken to malt* it anceeadol. The
horse was the gift of one of the diners, who has personally
superintended its diet and regimen ever since its fate was
determined on, who rode it into town last Saturday, and
had it killed "on approved principles" two d►ys later.
The cook was the most celebrated artist of the day ; the
dinner wee presided over by a well-known and accomplished
public man ; and the church, the bar, the bench, physic,
literature, science, the arts, the Royal and the other
learned societies, were all represented among the people
dining. We subjoin the bill of fare, which may possibly
become historical, and from which it will be seen that,
although horse flesh was served in great variety, it was
supplemented by the ordinary dishes of a wall-served
French dinner:

LE DINER DU
10 Duoltubau,
POIAOZ.
Le Consomme de &erg aux Qttenelles.
A la puree de Alum
POISSON&
Rudeshehner Le Turbot i la Hollandaise.
and Les note de Eamon 1 la Tartare.
Amontillado.

BO!IB.D.GOTUS.

Les Sauclseesjeeliejai aux plataches.
Lae Crepinettes de Cheval aux traffes.

Amontillado. les ciu7nThes de 'Vol. Lea petite; Woilstades
sills it la Valemony. I Is Moelle.
Lea CateJetta Ala Du- Lea Escalopes aux tines
chew. herbal
Champagne. LOB Fllsta de Perdreaux lacelnole il la
I la puree de Chataigneu Poloaalss.

L DiiirdeTliPixigustu.
Molt. Le Jambon aux fovea
L Belledellouton
rode.

(=VAL.
Le Mot *pat rdtl 1 la
Pobrade.
la Culotte de Choral
bralaile au: Chintz

SECOND SERVICE.
Beaune Is Canards Sausages retia.
Les Italians retis.
Let Choux-de-mer k la Sauce.
Amontillado Is Mayonaists de itomard Sandie de choral.
and Les Gateaux de Comptigne.
Liqueurs Les Macedoine' de Netts.
Les bombes Glades.
DINIUST.
Les Bad= Les Poiret.
Larose. Ls Pommy. Les Oranges.
Les NM: Is Avelines.

IA-•

Les Gateaux.
GLAM.
De Fraley; ► lean.
DOranges i la Cintra.

We may say at once that the dinner was eminently sue•
cesaful, and that it was the unanimous opinion of all pre-
sent that the horse-flesh portions of it were as unexoeption-
ablyexoellent se the rest. Althoughhippophagisteof twenty
years' standing were among the company, the majority
had not tasted horse before, and every dish of it was sub-
jected to searching and severe tests. The animal eaten
last night was more than 18 year. old, but the meat was
tender and succulent, and when, after the sonpnand made
dishes had been discussed and approved, the braised joint
came on, and the flavour of the meat, undisguised and un-
aided by sauces or condiments, was tasted, the verdict was
even more enthusiastic than before. There is, in fact,
little to distinguish horse from other forms of animal food.
Its taste is something between beef and fawn, and as afillet
or cutlet it will compare favourably with any other meat.
Of course the party last night were disposed to be
critical, and from the appearance of the soup to the
departure of the joint every mouthful was discussed
in a grave and judicial spirit as became men
who were trying an experiment from which im-
portant remits were expected. At first there was a
little suspicious politeness in pressing the dishes upon
neighbours as if to gain opinions without personal know-
ledge. The soup was smelt and sipped half-timorously,
close questions were put as to " which made-Intl—horse
or no horse—was being served now ;" bat the cheerful
and steady example of the experienced was contagious, and
in the end all present ate heartily and enjoyed much.
The conversation ran on horse-eating, the speeches bore
strictly upon the same subject, and the practical effect of
introducing horse as an article of English food would be,
it was maintained, to place a nourishing animal diet
within the reach of thousands to whom meat is an unat-
tainable luxury now. In Perim horseflesh is sold at two-
pence a pound, and as the age of a horse does not affect its
fitness for the table, the advocates of the new food main-
tain that animals past work have but to be properly
cared for to make first-rate butcher's meat when
killed. The horses now devoted to the nourish-
ment of dogs and cats are in an enlightened future
to feed men and women ; and ► horse patty, or sir-
loin, or " saddle," is to become as common and acknow-
ledged as a hone sausage is common and unacknowledged
now. The experimentalists of last night invite their friends
to follow their example, and by putting horse upon their
own tables to make it a familiar article of food, and so to
abolish the strong repugnance entertained by those un-
acquainted with its juicy merits. So long as this exists it
will be in vain to advocate Its use, and,as these gastronomic
philosophers insist upon the moral and material maven-
tans to be gained from the introduction of hone as an
extra article of food, it is probable that the pri-
vate dinner of yesterday will be followed by a
public entertainment on a larger scale. The first
step has been taken, and the principal obstacles over-
come. And no one can appreciate the difficulties beset-
ting such a meeting as last night who has not tried to run
counter to a well-established British prejudice. When
the horse—a sturdy grey, 13 hands high—was given, and
had been properly fed up, butcher after butcher refused to
slaughter it, on the ground that "if the hide or hoofs
were seen coming out of the slaughterhouse it would be
their ruin." When a butcher had been found chivalrous
enough to agree to run this risk, the hotel-keepers of Lon-
don refused to have the dinner at their house. The mere
mention of the word " horse" converted civility into con-
tempt, and all arguments as to the harmlessness of the
proposed banquet, and the admirable qualities of the meat
to be used, were met by point-blank refusals and a eigni-
limit motion to the door. It was only through the supe-
rior enlightenment of the celebrated artist under whose
auspices the dinner of yesterday was served that the
experiment could be tried at all, and even now it is not
considered desirable to publish the name of the hotel,
lest the fear of its proprietors should be realised, and its
custom flag, because a handful of scientific men were per-
mitted to try an interesting gastronomic experiment, and
to dine as they pleased. Other proofs are not wanting of
the deeply-rooted prejudice against horse prevailing
among those who eat as well as those who serve dinners,
among the tradesman who sell and the customers who buy
1 food. The streets surrounding the butcher who killed the
hone are already liberally placarded with notices in which
that fact is stated, as a warning to the neighbourhood;
and a hostile knacker threatens legal proceedings under
the act prohibiting horse-killing in London save at autho-
rimed places. The passage in Deuteronomy, and its con-
demnation of animals which do not divide the hoof ; the
travellers' tales of starvation culminating in horse-eating ;
the sentimental objection that devouring "the friend of
man" has about it something cannibalic ; the jests
on finding eggs in mare's nests, and on putting
the " bits " of horses into human mouths, are
among the forms of opposition of which the advocates of
horn-eating complain. It is unnecessary to hazard any
prophecy concerning the result of their efforts, or to weigh
the objections against the advantages of hale-fhmk as
an article of food; the matter has been practically and slur
wailfully launched, and will now stand or fall upon its
merits. The one fact about which there can be no sort of
doubt is that the horse can be made both palatable and
appetising, and that in a little society, which numbered at
least one eminent gourmand in its ranks, opinion was
unanimous as to its succulence, delicacy, and flavour.

ZooLooicsi. Somerr.—At the monthly general
meeting held yesterday at the society's house in Hanover-
square, Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., in the chair, the Hon.
Frederick Walpole, the Hon. Chas. White, M.P., General
Thos. M. Taylor, Captain John Woolmore Smith, Captain
John Hopkins, Mrs. George W. Hughes D'Aeth, and
Messrs. Henry T. Harrison, Henry S. Welsh Thornton,
Herrmann Lang, Alfred G. Kemp, Robt. T. Firebnee,
Gilead A. Smith, Chas. Robt. Bree, William W.
\Vbelpley, Sand. W. Smith, Sand. D. Penrose, Henry
Smith. Alexander N. Shenon, Jas. Drew, Allen Young,
Henry Lee, John Bentley, George H. Strutt, Henry A.
Glass, Edward Crabb, Edward S. Knipe, Thoe. H. Ferrer,
and Edwd. T. Hierins, were elected Fellows ; and the
Count Thomas Salvador', M.D. of Turin; M. Alfred
Grandidier, of Bret*ny ; and Commander Hugh H.
Knocker, R.N., of H.M.S. Alert, corresponding mem-
men of the society. Nineteen candidates for the fellow-
ship were proposed, and ordered to be balloted for at the
next monthly meeting of the society.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
After term Nisi Prins sittings at Guildltsll—(Before the
Lord Chief Justice sad a Special Jury.)
WA/WS V. WAVIER,

The fusible hearing of this case, which was an action
against the Times for libel, was resumed this morning.
cllte_eiintiff again appeared in person, the Attorney.
Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and /Ir. Wood were counsel
for the
The plaintiff wished to correct a mistake made yester-
day in his evidence. On referring to the printed state.
went he read from in opening his case he found that it
does not contain the obnoxious epithet he applied to Mr.
Delane.
The Attorney-General, in opening the defendant's cue,
said he had been informed by the plaintiff that he was un.
able to find copies of the letters he forwarded to the Earl of
Derby and Mr. Walpole, but he had found a copy of that
which he forwarded to Mr. Cardwell. In that letter he
refers to the appointment of Sir F. Kelly as Solicitor.
General as a disreputable dodge. In conclusion he trusted
Mr. Cardwell would consider it to be his duty to let him
know, firstly, the party who proposed to Sir Robert Peel
to refer the question; secondly, the names of those to
whom it was referred ; thirdly, the terms of the
reference ; and fourthly, the award. The learned
counsel then said the action was brought against
Mr. Walter, one of the proprietors of the Tintes, and it
was for him and him alone that he had to make a defence.
When the plaintiff said he had certain reasons for not em-
ploying counsel he had not the &lightest doubt of its on-
neatness, and he (the Attorney-General) would add another,
viz., that it would have been impossible for the plaintiff to
have found a practising counsel who would have been so
licentious and so ignorant of the rules of evidence as to de-
liver a six hours' speech sallying noblemen and gentlemen
who were not parties to the action, and mixing up names
which ought never to have been mentioned in this ease.
He was not there to make any excuse for Earl Russell, the
Lord Chancellor, or Lord St. Leonard. not meeting the
plaintiff in a court of justice. They and the Lord Chief
Baron were the guardians of their own honour, and if they
thought the pamphlets which the plaintiff had circulated
over the country were such that they could treat with the
contempt which they deserved they were perfectly entitled
to take that course. The liberty of speech permitted to a
counsel had never been more fearfully abused than by the
plaintiff in his remarks, and it then became his (the
Attorney-General's) duty to cell their attention to what
it was the plaintiff complained of. His chief complaint
was that an accurate report had been published
of the debate in the House of Lords, which the
plaintiff had instigated. It was justifiable on the
part of the Times to publish the debate, and the plaintiff
had no right to complain of it, although the observations
reflected upon him. The plaintiff in early life had known
the Lord Chief Baron, then Mr. Kelly, who had been his
polineal opponent in at least one contested election. In
1835 the plaintiff and Mr. Kelly had contested Ipswich
upon different politica, and an election petition was the
result. In the course of an address which Mr. Kelly was com-
pelled to make to the committee in his defence inconsequence
of the absence of his leading counsel he made certain state-
ments which in 1887 were used as the groundwork of the
petitions to the houses of parliament. Between these
times Mr. Kelly had become eminent in his profession,
and he was appointed Solicitor and Attorney-General by
, Sir R. Peel and Earl Derby. In July 1886, upon the
retirement of Sir Frederick Pollock, Sir Fitzroy Kelly was
appointed Lord Chief Baron,and after that appointment the
pinntiff wrote letters to certain eminent personages
i for information upon which to petition both houses of
parliament to address the crown to remove Sir Fitzroy
Kelly from the judicial bench. Before the plaintiff pre-
sented his petition, he knew very well, having himself
been an M P., that its contents would be the subject of
debate, and would be faithfully reported the following
morning in all the morning papers. It was unnecessary to
inquire into the truth or falsehood of the charges con-
• tained in the petition.
[The ease was proceeding when our report left.]

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

GUILDHALL.

In consequence of the notice issued yesterday by the
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor at the Mansion-house, and
the intimation by Mr. Alderman Lusk, M.P., at this
justice room, that arrangementa had been made for
swearing in special constables for the City of London, the
Lord Mayor, accompanied by Sir B. W. Carden, assisted
by an efficient staff of clerks, attended at the comptroller's
office in the Guildhall entry at 10 o'clock this morning for
that purpose. The numbers, however, who responded to
the public appeal in the cause of law and order increased
so steadily, and at last so rapidly that the room in which
the chief magistrate and his colleague sat was found not
sufficient to accommodate all the loyal gentlemen who

tendered themselves to be .worn, and in • very short time
the yard wee thronged with every prospect of a continuona
stream up to the hour of closing for the day.

ILUILBOROUGH-STREET.
isazurrox HET THIEVES._

Two rough-looking fellows, named Eiro rd Cummings
and James ThOIIUIS, were charged lo foie Mr. Benson as
suspected persons loitering for the purpose of committing
a felony.
Polioe-constable William Gordon, :33 C, said that
shortly before 1 o'clock that morning he was in
Wardour-street, and saw the prisoners in a door-
way. He followed them, being in plain clothes
at the time, into Berwick-street, and saw them go
into three or four doorways, and fumble at the doors. He
afterwards followed them into Oxford-street, and saw
them try the door of No. 410, and on their leaving be
followed them until he saw another constable, and he then
caught hold of Cummings, and on the other constable
going to lay hold of Thomas, he darted off and
placed his back against a shop, and at the same
time he (Gordon) heard the noise of something
chink in the railings. He produced two skeleton keys,
given to him by • person named Warren, and also a cap
which he found in Cummings' pocket. The prisoners
when taken into custody said they had done nothing.
He knew them both as notorious thieves.
Police-constable Bloated Webb, 112 C, said that on
going to take hold of Thomas be made off and then went
and placed himself against the shop of Mr. Young, a
hatter, and a gentleman came up to him (Webb) and said
" He has done you—they are down the area
Wm. Warren, errandboy to Mr. Young, batter, of Or-
ford-street, said that at 8 o'clock he found a key down the
area, and some time after two others, and he gave them
to the officer Gordon.
Thomas said that Gordon had put the keys down the
area to get up a charge against him.
Mr. Benson remanded the prisoners.

SOUTHWARK.
1)008 THAT BITL.

Thomas Rockeit, in the emploof the Chmingerose
Railway Company, residing at 7, Bentham-street, Toeley-
streets was summoned before Mr.
Burcham for unlawfully
suffenng a certain ferocious dog to be at large without
being muzzled.
Mr. Neale speared for the: complainant and Mr. Edwin
for the defendant.
Dennis Callaghan, • greengrocer, carrying on business
at 101, Tooley-street, said on Friday afternoon, the tkil
ult., be was standing at his door with one of his young
children, who had some bread and butter in her hawk,
when the defendant's dog came up to the child and
made a snap at it. Fearing the child might be injured
he put his left hand to push the dog off while he
polled the child back with the other. The
dog then flew at him and bit him severely an
the left thumb and then ran off. Witness instantly
proceeded to Guy's Hospital where the wound
was cauterised and bandaged up. He had since
been in great pain from the bite, and was compelled to
keep poultices on at times.
In answer to Mr. Edwin witness said that be never pro.
coked the dog, neither did the child. He hid no doubt
ibe dog flew at his child to get the bread and butter.
Mr. Burchiuu asked what sort or a dog it was
Mr. Edwin said it was merely • little lap dog, and not
M all ferocious.
Complainant informed his worship that it was • mongrel
sort of • dog. snapping at everybody in the streets.
Several witness., were called in support of the com-
plainant, when Mr. Edwin contended that the dog was
not ferocious, and the complainant's thumb was merell
scratched by putting it into the dog's mouth. Ho called
several witnesses, when
Mr. Bayamon observed that these small snarling dogs
wereagreat nuisance snapping at anyone coining near them.
The case bad been clearly proved, therefore he should fine
the defendant 20.. and eats.
The money was immediately paid.
WANDSWORTH.
THE RAFFLE QUESTION —IIIPoLITAN'T

Henry Brigdest, the landlord of the Horse and Creme
beer-shop, Tooting, was summoned for suffering an me
lawful game to take place in his house—to wit, a raffle,'
contrary to the tenure of his license.
The defendant pleaded guilty. He said he had a 14
which was too large for his own consumption, and be
raffled it.
la reply to the magistrate, Inspector Bushnell, wbe
attended to support the summons, said a raffle was a goo
of chance, but he never had a case before.
Mr. Layman thought a raffle was like • lottery, whirl
was not a game. Every year there were thousands .1
raffles, and more especially at Christmas time, but be Ili
not remember any conviction. There were some faring
which were illegal, but whether • raffle came under 00
Lottery Act be was not aware. The summons was ford
offence against the tenure of the defendant's fiesses,
Now, a lottery was not a game for • game must be Ora
between persons who need not be present at a raffle.
The defendant said he had been 14 years in busiest
and this was the first complaint against him.
Mr. Delman said it is • dry point point of law wbetle!
a raffle is a game. It seemed to him to be very odd tblo
there bad been • ease decided, raffles should not have bete
stopped. Persons playing against one another would le
playing at • game. Blrittles is • game, and even dowse °