The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-13 00:00:00

THE ATRATO.

Yellow fever broke out on board the Atrato just
prior to her departure for England. The case re-
ceivol prompt attention from the surgeon of the
ship, but it was deemed advisable to send the
patient ashore to the hospital. After sailing from
St. Thomas the disease broke out again with great
severity, and during the passage 35 cases occurred,
14 of which proved fatal. The last case of attack
was on the 11th. Dr. Wiblin, superintendent of
quarantine, visited the Atrato, and has ordered
the ship and passengers to remain in quarantine
until such time as he could ascertain the opinion of
the Privy Council on the matter, but allowed the
mails, ship's papers, and despatches to be brought
ashore, after pmcesa of fumigation. In the course
of last night it was announced that the Privy
• Council had ordered the Atrato to proceed this
i (Tuesday) morning to the Mother Bank, there to
perform quarantine, no person to leave the ship.
Permission has been granted for the specie to be
landed at once. If no fresh case of yellow fever
occurs, the Atrato, it is expected, will remain at
the Mother Bank about three days. The fever has
been confined entirely amongst the ship's people,
and excepting Mr. Morrish, purser, and Dr. White,
surgeon of the ship, has been confined to the sea-
, men, firemen, stokers, and servants. The follow-
ing is a list of the cases which proved fatal :
'James Smith, barman, Henry Adlam, baker's
prentice ; Walter Cook, ordinary seaman ; Joseph
Day, fireman ••Henry Odell, ordinary seaman ;
John Jones, ordinary seaman ; Louis Boundain,
waiter ; James Cummings, C.T. ; John Cook,
IA.B. ; A. Lappiere, waiter ; Richard Paice, tire-
!. man ; George Knott, yeoman ; Edmund Compton,
ordinary seaman ; and A. Biddlecombe, engineer's
servant. No case occurred amongst the ship's pas-
sengers.

The Right Hon. Russell Gurney, M.P. and
Recorder of London, attended yesterday at the Hartley
Institution to distribute the prizes and certificates, which
had been awarded to the successful candidates in the late
Oxford and Cambridge Local Examination held at South-
ampton, and delivered an address on the subject of middle-
class education.
The Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait arrived in
town on Thursday. His lordship bore the journey better
than might have been anticipated, and leaves on Monday i
(yesterday) for Hastings. It s generally believed that the
bishop will not attempt the fatigue of a visitation charge,
though he is much better.—John Balt.
The Rev. John Purchaa, Perpetual Curate of St.
James's, Brighton, one of the leaders of the ritualistic
movement, and a gentleman who some half-dozen years
ago wrote • book upon vestments, has issued an address to
his congregation, in which he announces that the time has
come for him to " make a concession." The concession is
to take the form of an abandonment of " euchar.stic vest-
ments, and the use of the censer," Mr. Purchas being of
opinion, as he announces in his address, that " Charity is
greater than Rubrics." It grieves him—so he assures his
friends—to have been the cause of angry feelings in his
parish, and he now " sacrifices his strong personal predi-
lections on the altar of Charity."
A will case, in which Cardinal Cullen appeared
as defendant, was settled in the Dublin Court of Probate
on Saturday by • compromise, which Judge Keatinge
termed a " blind con.ent," inasmuch as the terms of the
arrangement did not transpire. A maiden lady, some 50
years of age when she died, named Keily, who had lived
in the neighbourhood of • convent of Trappist monks at
Mount Melleray, in the county of Waterford, made a will,
leaving all her property to the cardinal. This will the
next of kin had disputed, alleging deficiency of testamen-
tary capacity and undue influence by the monks, to whose
benefit, they added, Cardinal Cullen was bound to apply
the moneys under a " secret trust," the object being to
defeat the Relief Act of 1829.

VV
THE APPROACHING REFORM DEMONSTRATION AT
EDINBURGH.—On Saturday evening a crowded meeting of
trades representatives and delegates of large works was
held in Buchanan's Temperance Hotel, to make the final
arrangements with regard to the order of procession at
the reform demonstration to take place on Saturday next,
and the speakers at the various platforms in the Queen's
Park, and at the evening meeting in the Corn Exchange.
Mr. Troup, tailor, occupied the chair. Before the places
to be occupied by the trades in the procession from
Bruntsfield Links to the Queen's Park were balloted for,
Mr. A. Fraser, blacksmith, said he regretted to announce
that a letter had that day been received from Mr. John
Bright, 31. P., stating that he could not, on account of the
state of his health, take part in the forthcoming demon-
stration in favour of parliamentary reform. He had been
obliged unwillingly to decline similar invitations from
many other parts of the country, finding It difficult
to fulfil engagements into which he had already entered.
I He, however, heartily approved of the movement, and
wished it every success. It was agreed that, as had been
done at the reform demonstrations in 1831 and 1832, the
different branches of the trades whose places had now
been assigned them should arrange among themselves as to
the order in which they should march in procession. The
committee were authorised to issue invitations to the fol-
lowing gentlemen, requesting them to take
_pert in the
proceedings at the evening meeting : Mr. Duncan
M'Laren, M.P. ; Mr. James Moncreiff, M.P. ; Mr. A. M.
Dunlop, 111. P ; Mr. Baxter, M.P. ; Mr. Graham, M.P. ;
Mr. George Young, ex-Solicitor-General ; Mr. Miller, of
Leithen, and others whom they might deem proper. In
commemoration of the demonstration a medal has been
struck, bearing on the obverse a faithful likeness in relief
of Mr. Bright, M.P., and on the reverse, encircled by a
wreath in which the rose, thistle, and shamrock are inter-
twined, is the following Inscription:—" Friends of Reform,
be witted."

Bersaby Budge, one of the earliest, the most powerful.
sad the most artistic novels of our peat living master of
fiction, has found two new adapters in the persons of
Messrs. Watts Phillips and George Vining, and the result
of their joint labours was produced last night at the Prin-
cess's Theatre, ostensibly to introduce a new actress, Mrs.
John Wood, to a London audience. Ma Wood, we be-
lieve, is English by birth, and formerly performed with
MOM success in the provinces, but her professional training
has been chiefly acquired in America. Her sating through-
out is pitched in a key of broad, violent fares, that makes
up by noise and "practical business" of the most outrageous
kind for what it wants in sterling unforced humour. It
reminded us, not very favourably, of a number of " Yankee
gals" that we have seen on the London stage during the
last twelve years. The characters who come in immediate
contact with Mrs. Wood mostly seem to take their
tone from her, and the result is, that tares-foorths
of the play are terribly over-acted. Out of
the regions of pantomime or Surrey-side terse we have
rarely seen so much noisy tom-foolery crowded within the
ewe of a single drams, and we are not surprised that
the audience, after a long period of patient endurance.
resented such insults to their limited understandings. We
are also not surprised that Mr. George Vining came for-
ward and made a speech, in which he imputed the hisses
to a hireling few, and by so doing raised a discussion, and
saved the piece and the new actress from utter and imme-
diate damnation. Mr. George Vining is a very clever
manager. If he can make Mr. Calhaem act Simon Tap-
pertit as well as he looks the character, reduce the
solemnity of Mr. Forrester as Mr. Haredale, put a little
more force into Mr. Shore as Mr. Chester, make
Miss Augusta Thomson look a little more like Dolly
Varden, take some of the sepulchral element out of Mr.
Villiers, who represents the murderer Budge, make old
John Willet's representative more distinct, and after pat.
ling Mr. Reisman on the back for playing the gipey Hugh
will make the story a little clearer to those who have not
read or who have forgotten the novel, he will be a cleverer
manager dill. When the serious characters talk a little
less about blood, and the comic characters indulge less in
" spill and pelt" scenes, the play will be quite good enough
for the poor, patient, foolish public.

CODIFICATION OF THE LAW.

The first sessional meeting of the Society for
Promoting the Amendment of the Law, which is now
united with the National Association for the Promotion
of Social Science, was held last evening in the hall of the
Society of Arts, Adelphi. In the absence of Lord
Brougham, the chair was taken by the Hon. G. DENNAN,
Q.C., M.P.; and among the gentlemen presenterere the
Right Hon. R. Lowe, M.P., Sir J. E. Wilmot, Bark, Sir
G. Young, Bart., Mr. Serjeant Burke, Mr. Serjeant Robin-
son, Dr. T. Tints, Q.C., Mr. Daniel, Q.C., Mr. Mac-
queen, Q.C., Mr. Grieves, Q.C., Mr. T. Webster,
Q.C., Mr. J. Williams, Q.C. Dr. Waddilove, Dr. Edgar,
Mr. G. W. Hastings, Mr. Reilly. Mr. A. J. Wood, Mr. C.
Clark, Mr. F. Hill, Mr. E. W. Cox, Mr. Waley, Mr.
Rew, Mr. E. Webster, Mr. V. Williams, Mr. Amos, Mr.
J. Sharpe, LLD., Mr. J. Hodgkin, Mr. A. Symonds, Mr.
Hawes, Mr. R. Wilson, Mr. Cookson, Mr. E. Field, Dr.
Pankhunt, and the Hon. Dudley Campbell.
The Cummins, in opening the proceedings, made a few
observations upon the interest and importance of the
question which they were met to consider, end announced
that letters had been received from Mr. Justice Wiles
and Vice-('hancellor Page Wood, expressing their regret
that they were unable to be present. He then called upon
Mr. Dudley Field, one of the commissioners for the codi-
fication of the laws of the state of New York, to read an
address describing the method in which that codification
had been carried out.
Mr. Flew), who was warmly received, read an able and
interesting paper.
Sir E. Wuxor proposed, and Mr. C. CLARKE seconded
a cordial vote of thanks to the lecturer, bearing hearty
testimony to the importance of the work which had been
performed by Mr. Yield and his colleagues, and to the
clearness and modesty with which that gentleman had nar-
ratedthe progress anddescribed the resultof their labours.
A somewhat prolonged discussion then took place upon
the subject of the paper, in which several ned gentle-
men took part. Mr. Greaves, Q,C., spoke particularly to the
completeness of the criminal code prepared by the New
York oormuiseioners ; and Mr. Webster, Q.C., described
the civil code as such a compendium of the common
law of this country as had never existed before. After
some remarks from Dr. Pankhurst and Mr. J. Hodg-
kin, Mr. Reilly expressed a doubt whether it would be
possible to induce the English parliament to give to any
commissioners powers so large as those that were entrusted
to Mr. Field and his coadjutors, and indicated some reasons
why it must be desirable to proceed by way of a digest
rather than of a code.
Mr. Lowe, M.P., said that the late Mr. Justice Malik
used to say that there were two objections to having a
code-one, that no one in the world could make a code,
and another, that a great many people thought they could.
(A laugh.) Mr. Fielt and his colleagues had afforded an
answer to both these objections. (Hear, hear.) He himself
had had three experiences of codification ; one in the case
of the Limited Liability Act, a measure eon-
twining 110 clauses, which passel both hoagies
of parliament without a single hostile amendment;
another in regard to the revised code issued by the de-
, pertinent of education, which was at least a quasi code, in
' which by re-arrangement the adoption of definitions and
other measures which suggested themselves to persons en-
gaged in codification, it was found possible to reduce the
regulations from 2.10 clauses to 130 ; and the third, which
was still going on in his character of one of the commis-
sioners to whom had been entrusted the task of preparing
a code of laws for India. In this work they had made
some progress. Codes of civil and criminal procedure
haal;alreaJy been introduced, and had both worked well, and
they were now applying themselves to make a code of law.
They had prepared laws relating to succession in cases both
of testacy and intestacy, and regulating all the principal mat-
ters of contract ; and were now proceeding to deal with the
law relating to bills of exchange. In their work they had
been much assisted by the result of the labours of the New
York commissioners, and on his own behalf, and what was
more important, on that of his colleagues, he tendered their
thanks to Mr. Field and his coadjutors. The question
whether we could have a code in this country could not be
solved by a priori reasoning, but only by trying the experi-
ment, and whatever the experiment cost it was well worth
trying. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. DANIEL, Q.C., said that the way to obtain a code
had been made clear, and all that was now required was
the will.
The vote of thanks to Mr. Field was carried by accla-
mation, and suitably acknowledged by that gentleman ;
and the proceedings terminated with a similar compliment
to the council of the Society of Arts fur allowing the use of
the hall.

LIFE-SAVING EAFTS. —A considerable number of
persons assembled yesterday at the bridge over the Serpen-
tine to see some experiments made with a machine which
purports to be a life-saving raft, and which is the inven-
tion of an American merchant captain. Amongst those
present were Lord Ranelagh, Colonel Brownlow Knox,
Mr. Page, the eminent engineer, Sc. The machine con-
sists of a light wooden frame, with flexible hinges, and
which can be easily stowed away when not required for
use. The frame is supported when in the water by pen.
tonn-ehaped bags or cylinders of indiarubber, and which
can easily and speedily be inflated. The bags, when thus
filled with air, act as tighteners to the wooden frame, and,
all together, form a raft which can, according to size,
sustain fifty, or even a hundred persons. The raft
I was prepared yesterday, including the inflation of the
pontoons, in five or six minutes, and then shot into the
water from the balustrade of the bridge. It righted it-elf
at once, and about forty-five persona having got upon it,
floated about in the water without very sensibly increas-
ing its immersion. The genera
al pinion
ehe txpressed was
that the raft would be a greataddition to means of
saving life in such terrible cases as the recent ono of the
Evening Star, and that the price at which it could be con-
structed would enable ships of any considerable size to be
furnished with it. We were informed that the raft has
already been extensively adopted in the American mer-
chant service, and that its usefulness is held in high esti-
mation on the other side of the Atlantic. The inventor,
Mr. E. S. Perry, claims for his raft the advantages of
cheapness and simplicity in construction. compactness
when packed, and greater adaptability than lifeboat' for
sea-going steamers, as not being liable to be either stove
in, or swamped, or capsized at those critical periods when
its services would be called into requisition.
ADMIRALTY, Nov. 12.--AreolNYMElers.--Eub-
Lieutenant Count Frederick C. Metaxa, to the Reindeer.
Paymaster J. H. J. \Vegetate, to the Urgent. Assistant-
Paymaster S. S. L. Needham (additional), to the BristoL
I Clerk C. E. Warren, to the Bristol. Assistant-Clerk G.
A. Johnston (additional), to the Bristol

been awarded special prizes in money to a considerable
amount, 81 aim medals, 175 bronze medals, and 185 ma-
tins:atm of honourable mention, making a total of 441 ex-
hibitors out of 1,455 who had received marks of merit.
Far the especial benefit of the exhibitors, an Art and In-
dustrial Union was instituted, and by this and other faci-
lities afforded for the disposal of goods belonging to exhi-
bitors, upwards of 3001. worth hal been sold. Besides
these advantages, the exhibitors had been admitted free at
all times to the Exhibition and eotertainmente, and each
would be presented with a handsome framed picture when
the prizes were distributed in January next.
The ceremony last evening commenced by the perform-
ance on the large organ of a triumphal march, composed
for the oecasion by Mr. C. F. Davies. The choir of the
Tonic Sol-fa Association sang the Old Hundredth Psalm,
when the members of the council and the special guests of
the evening came upon the platform. Lord JOHN MAN.
roma, M.P., was the chairman. Mr. George Cruikahank

was also upon the platform.
The report of the adjudicators (of whom Mr. P. Le Neve
Foster was chairman) was then read.
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soloists were Mr. Chaplin Henry • the accompanist, Mr.
W. Laurence Tomlin' ; and the conductor,i Mr. J. Proud-
man. The choir was composed of 1,000 singers.
Lord JOHN MANNEM said when he received the invitation
to preside over the meeting, he thought the honour might
have been due to some fanciful relation the managing com-
mittee saw between the Public Works over which be bad
the honour to preside and the works exhibited in the
Agricultural-hall during the past ten weeks. A little
further reflection convinced him that that connexion was
not after all so unreal or fanciful as at first it might
appear, but that there was a real and substantial relation
existing between his office and the present destinatiiu and
occupation of the building in which the exhibition had
been held. A few years ago all the coarser operations of
construction were necessarily confided to English
and Irish hands, but when a question of the
finer decorative art.' moth, in many quarters it was thought
that recourse must be had to foreign brains and
fingers. Indeed it might be said that the British
skilled or art workman might date Lis history from
the days of Pugin, of Barry, and the new palaces at
Westminster. And how great had been the progress in
the decorative and constructive sots since then ! One
proof of advance was the proposal recently made to the
royal contruission that a class of British art workmen
should be associated with the Royal Academy, and that
medals and other tokens of approbation should be eon-
ferred upon them. Reform mid progress in these matters
marched but slowly, but he could not help feeling de-
lighted at the prizes the council had been enabled to
bestow. To any one occupying his public position the
success of an exhibition of this kind could not be but of the
deepest interest ; and any man who had 'noised through
the ball, noticing the numerous proofs of creative fancy,
imitative skill, mechanical ingenuity, fidelity to n
respect for truth, and defereuce to good senae,tuM
taste, must he convinced bow real and close was the
relation binding him who presided over public works.
royal palaces, parks, and gardens, with the occupation
and destination of the hall on the present occasion. In
referring to fidelity of nature he remembered many years
ago being so struck with the beauty and ',affection of the
sculptures adorning the new ball of the University of Dub-
lin that he made inquiries respecting them, and was told
that the Irish workmen, instead of having placed in their
hands the usual inanimate designs, were directed to work
from real flowers and leaves. His predecessor in aloe
(the Hon. W. Cowper) thought it well last year, instead of
permitttng the customary destruction of countless plants
at the end of the autumn in the parks and gardens under
his charge, to distribute the plants among such of the
working classes as came to ask for them. (Cheers.) A great •
and gratifying demand was the result, and he believed
something like 20,000 plants were applied for and
obtained by members of the working dam.. (Cheers.) He
(Lord J. Manners) bad felt the utmost pleasure in follow-
Ins his predecessor'sexample,andthis year the demand for
plants had risen to 50,000, and that number bad just been
distributed from the various royal parks and publics
Eardrum to the working classes of the metrupolia. (Cheers.)
It wouldinterest many perhaps to know that 16,000 of these
bad gone in the vicinities of Greenwich and Victoria-
parks. It was pleasing to think that hereafter many a
working man might find his model of beauty in the plants
so distributed. The superior activity of the French
soldiers, as compared with other European armies, was
often spoken of ; and be had heard suck a cleyairteristie
attributed by competent judges to the habit the French
soldier cultivated in time of peace of employing his
brains and fingers in peaceful avocations. In a
similar manner the great army of Briti-h workmen
would find their skill, ingenuity, and ability wonderfully
increased by employing their winter evenings and other
leisure moments in extraneous labours of has like those
now to be seen on every side. Direct, then, must be the
advantages obtained by the Britiah workman from indus-
trial exhibitions ; but apart from that there was also an
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judicators showed that perfection hail notyet been attained,
there was sufficient to afford encouragement to all who had
the movement at heart. lie saw in this exhibition, too, one
tie more between the various classes of our metropolitan
community. The exhibition had been witnessed with delight
by men and women of all ranks, end there was in that fact
one link more in the golden chain which should bind all
classes of the great English coniniunity ; and in these days,
when so much was said and written to disintegrate society,
let all take heart and hope from witnessing the triumphal
success of this great industrial festival. ((liters.) Great,
then, as were the direct benefits resulting from it, cowl-
derable as bad been the pleasure and amusement which
had been produced, they might hope that the otherwise
lead ceremony of closing would not be without its use, if
they carried away thoughts, aspirations, and intentions of
mutual forbearance, brotherly kindness, and enlarged
charity, to cheer the hearth and warm the hearts during
the mows of Christmas, and to bloom into Christian hil-
tless beneath the suns of Easter and the tires of Pentecost.
(Loud cheer...) The noble lord then formally declared the
exhibition closed.
A prayer having been offered, hearty votes of thanks
were passed to Lord John Manners for ilia attendance ; to
Mr. John Plummer for writing the ode; and to Mr. Watts,
the secretary, for the Lard work end ready tact to which
the success of the whole exhibition was so largely owing.
A selection of songs and glees, terminating with the
National Anthem, closed the proceedings.

A pastoral letter from Cardinal Cullen, received
by the clergy of his diocese on Sunday, refers to the sites.
tion of the Pontiff and to the educ..tion question in Ire-
!med. The revolutionary enemies of the Pope Dr. Cullen
speaks of as persons bearing the name of liberty on their
lips, but endeavouring " to uproot religion and establish
military despotism which would destroy every liberal in.
stitution yet remaining in I•'mope, oppress the people with
toes, absorb all the energies of civilised nations, and flood
the world with a thousand other evils." The see of Peter
is (the Cardinal adds) a " rock that shall remain un-
moved until the end of time." With reference to eduos-
tion, he holds that the vei y language used by wine of the
graduates of the Queen's University at the late meeting of
convocation displays hostility to religion, and must make
I all true friends of the faith tally round the Catholic Uni-
versity, which has "a right to a charter from the govern-
' went." Catholics also " justly demand that this institu-
tion, so long supported by their unaided efforts, should
receive a meet endowment from the public resources of
the kingdom." "We should not cease," Cardinal Cullen
continues, " to urge this measure on the legislature, and
we may rest assured that the intolerant bigotry and igno-
rance which have hitherto opposed our claims must very
soon yield before the justness of our demands."
GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, CALEDONIAN-ROAD,
ISLINOTON.—Number of patients for the week ending
Nov. 10,1,022, of which 279 were new cases. Old linen
rap are much wanted.