The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-22 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1866.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, JAN. 20.—APPOISTMENTS.-31a;lers
O. Wottoa to be roaster and pilot of the Star, 4, ecrew•gun
vessel, at Sheerness ; T. Leathern to be chief officer in the
omateuard service at lioylake ; J. W. Ashton to be chief
officer at Townsend ; A. J. A. Berton to be chief officer
at Weymouth.

--Surgeon J. N. J. O'Malley to the Star.
Assistant-Surgeons E. B. Broiler, of the Achilles, to be
additional of the Bodtawes, for service in the Ferret, 6,
brig, at Southampton • W. F. Ryall to the Achilles.
Paymaster S. G. Robison to be additional to the Victory,
for service in the Slalom, troop ship, at Portsmouth.
Paymasters' Assistants W. F. Woods, from the Implacable
to the Flora, 40, at !mansion ; W. F. Croethwaite to the
Implacable.
Chief Engineer J. Bruce (6) to the Star.
Engineers J. H. Bretton to the Star ; T. S. Noon to be
additional to the Cumberland, for service in the Recruit, 6,
at Sheerness.

First bliss Aasistant•Begieeer A. T. V. Forster to the
Star.
Clerks' Assistant J. A. Bell to the Hector.

PORTSMOUTH, Jas. 2L
An emigrant ship, bound from Hamburg to
Australia with German emigrants, put into St. Helen's
some time ago through stress of weather, and we regret to
lurn that a serious outbreak of small-pox hu occurred on
board. The fact was this morning communicated to the
Oommander-in-Chiefoand the Sprightly afterwards steamed
out to the vessel, having on board a surgcou from the Vic-
tory. Haying ascertained the condition of the ship, the
medical officer made a report to the authorities, and this
afternoon the Sprightly embarked Rear-Admiral George
Greville Wellesley, C. 8., Mr. Chadock (mrster rhips.ight),
Dr. Cree (of Portsmouth Dockyard), and others, who pro-
ceeded to the Menelaus, on quarantine service at the
Motherbank, to make arrangements, we understand, for
the reception of the emigrants, and to decide what alter-
ations may be necessary for their accommodation. The
emigrant ship is anchored three or four miles away from the
port, and th's fact, together with the precautions whirls
have been Wren by the authorities, will prevent any danger
arising from communication with the shore.

THE LOSS OF THE LONDON.—It appears that the
Rev. Dr. John Woolley, D.D., who was unfortunately lost
in the wreck of the above ship, has been erroneously de-
scribed es the Bishop of Sydney. Dr. Woolley ars princi.
pal of the Sydney University College, of which institution
he had been an active promoter for several years, and it is
understood his recent visit to England was in connection
a :th the furtherance of the objects of the university. He
has left • family of grown up daughters in Sydney, to
lament their sad bereavement. The Rev. Dr. Barker is the
Bishop of Sydney, and metropolitan of the colony. There
were two accidental omissions in the list of those who
foundered with the ship. The first was that of Henry
Grant, a young midshipman, on his first voyage. In the
dreriful interval just before the vessel foundered, when
the cotter was got afloat, Captaiu Martin desired that t nth
the utiddies might be got into her. One of them jumped
into the boat, but Grant could not, at the instant, be found,
and he went down with the ship. The second omission was
that of William Hayward, assistant to the purser, who,
although rated with the crew, bad not signed the ship's
Reticle.. Among those who perished in the London was
Mr. John Hickman, a brother of Mr. William Hickman, a
solicitor of te eithaurpton, and Mrs. Trail, a sister of Mr.
George Dunlop, the Southampton shipping agent.
FATAL INCIDENT AT SEA.—A singular and fatal
occurrence happened off Dover on Saturday lest. A Sun-
derland barque, named the Beautiful Star (Captain Can.),
strived on Thursday afternoon in Dover Read', from Alex-
audrie, laden with cotton seed for the oil mills at Dover.
They report having experienced terrific weather on the
passage, but the barque had sustained no damege. On
Friday the captain went ashore on business, there being in-
sufficient water at that time of tide far the vessel to enter
the harbour ; and he was delayed ashore until the evening,
when the sea was too boisterous for him to put back to the
ship. At 2 a.m. on Saturday, during a heavy gale, the
barque parted her moorings three-quarters of a wile off the
pole. Anchor was cost, but it would not bold, and the
vessel drifted ashore and ran the chance of being wrecked.
The mate signalled for assistance, and a Dover tug came.
The tug was sent back for the captain of the barque, but
on returning the sea was too rough for the captain to get on
board Lis vessel. Whilst the carpenter and three others of
the bazque's crew were shackling another anchor, one
having clipped, a heavy sea struck the ship's bows 1
and waalie, the four men amidships, and the carpenter over- '
bored. A boat was lowered, and io it jumped the mate
Walker) and a sailor (James Freeth), to rescue the
drowning man ; but the sea dashed the boat against the
ship-side, stoveitin, hiofffilled it with water, and pl- .ed the
other two io peril of their lives. Life buoys were tb own to
the carpenter (whose name was Clark, belonging to Ply-
mouth), but he did not succeed in reaching them, and was
drowned. The boat was washed away from the barque.
Freeth took the lee oar, and Walker bailed out with his
boots, and endeavoured to get back to the barque, but with-
out acct -a, and they were washed towartla the shore. For
two hou-i they sttuggled for lite in Biel- disabled craft,
calling without avail for assistance, when they were, at
about seven a.m., washed ashore upon the bank between the
Marine Poende and Lest Chtf ; the poor fe"ows being then
so exhausted that they lay in the water without power to
save themselves. Happily, at this moment of their peril,
they were seen by a man named Potter, and a coastguards-
man named Wakeford, who picked them up in • state of
semi-COOeeintiatiess, and removed them to the Dover
Sailors Home, where they were provided with dry clothing,
and every reiuisite for their comfort. The barque got away
to the Dowus, and was thus saved from running ashore.
Lauei.ii or A LARGE STEAMER AT BIRKENHEAD.
—Oo Stturday there was launched from the shipbuilding
yard of Messrs. Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, a splendid
paddle steamer of 1,000 tons, named the Guayra, for the
coasting trails of the Brazils. This vessel will be fitted up
with oscillating engines of 250 horse power, constructed by
the builders. She will have cabin accommodation for 70or
80 pass.uigars. Her cabin, which is very spacious, is con-
structed under a light spar deck, and will be fitted up with
Large ports and Bhutto, and other necessaries requisite for
the comfort of piumeogers in a hot climate.
It AMWA' COMPANIES AND TIIEIR EMPLOYF.s.
OD Satuiday evening • numerously attended meeting of
railway guards, signalmen, and switchmen was held at St.
Stephen's schoolrooms, Westbonrne.road, Paddington. Mr.
Irvin, who was in the chair, said the present meeting had
beep called to r,ceive certain suggestions from Mr. Cookson
for a new set of rules by which the guards, sigual and
switchmen on all the railways in the United Kingdom
would be united into one society ; and also to consider the
preterit posi:ion of tbeie movement for a redress of
, grievances. Mr. Cookson then brought for ward a set of
' rule, for the management of asociety to be called " the
Railway Guards, Sigualruen, and Switchmen's Society of
the United Kmgdom." One of the rules provided for
the pat went of WO/. to the family of any member who
lost his life while •n the performance of his duty. ,
The rules underwent considerable discussion, and ultimately
the subject was e ljonraed for further consideration. The
secretary of the Signalmen and Switchmen's Society then
reported that ou the 2'Jth of Deceinter the memorials Iron_
the men for the redress of grievances had been sent into the
traffic nianamrs on the various lines, with a request that
they might ho laid at the earliest opportunity before the
different boards of directota. These memorials asked for a
reduction of the hems of labour to eight per day, instead
of as now fruit 12 to 18, the latter number being quite
cemnion on the St uJay, and that the standard rate of wages
should be 30s. per week for junction men, and 265. per
week for straight road rues, and set forth in temperate lan-
guage the reasons for the above requests being made.
Replies had been received from most of the boards
of directors of the leading railways, through the traffic
managers. and they were nearly all to the effect that they
declined to act upon or recognize any memorirl emanating
from a society, but that they were, and always had been,
willing to entertain the complaints made by thir- own men,
either as a body, or any section thereof. In consequence
of this reply it bad been determined that fresh memo-
rials should be sent in to every board of directors, signed
by the men in their respective employs only, and which
would test the sineerity of the board. He, however, might
add, that on three of the leading metropolitan lines a greet
number of the men had, since the present move-
ment had been started, received advanceeof wages from Is.
to 3a per week—a gigs that the agitation bad borne some
fruit. (Loud cheers.) They were now awaiting the replies
to the second memorial.

METROPOLITAN TYPOGRAPHICAL WIDOW AND
ORPHAN FOND.—The sixteenth annual meeting of this so-
ciety was bald at Andertoa's Hotel, Fleet-street, on Satur-
day • Mr. John Nichols, jun.. io the chair. The report.
which was adopted, stated that the financial position of
the society hail been very prosperous during the past
year, 130'. having been added to the invested fund,
while 166/. remained in the Farringdon Savings Bank.
There had teen 12 deaths of members during the year,
whose united ages averaged 55 years, ranging from 33 to
72 years. The total number of deaths since the formation
of the society had been 256, giving the annual average of
16. During the year 32 ono-members had been enrolled,
which, after deducting the loss by death, leaves the present
Dumber of inembers on the books 676, The financial
shtemeat shows the receipts of the past year to be
5001. 13s. 20., from which 240/. had been paid to the
representatives of twelve deceased members. The total
receipts have been 8.3041. 9a. 80., and the total expeodi•
ture has been 5,380/. 15A. 90. to representatives of 256
deceased members, and 6001. 7s. 74d. for the expenses of
management, leaving now invested as reserve capital the
sum of 2,3231. 6s. 4d., after payment of all claims. The
report concluded with an earnest appeal from the committee
to the members of the trade to enrol themselves as
mambas.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

METROPOLITAN COUNTY COURTS.
(3itting days appointed for the present week.)
WESTRIIMTFE, St. Martin's-lane.—Monday, Jan. 22 ; Tuesday,
23: Wednesday, 24.
BLOOMSBURY, Portland-road.—Wednesday, Jan. 24; Thursday
25: Friday, 26.
MARYLEBONE, Ifarylebone-road. Tuesday, Jan. 23; Wed-
nesday, 24 . Friday, 22.
CLEBERNWELL, Duncan-terrace.—Monday, Jan. 22; Tuesday,
23. Wednesday, 24 Friday, 26.
Summates, Oldetreet-road.—Monday, Jan. 22; Tuesday,
23; Thursday, 25.
Bow, Bow-road.—Friday, JAM 26.
WHITICHAPEL, Great Preseot-etreet.—Tuesday, Jan. a; Wed-
nesday. 24: Thursday, 25: Friday, Mt
SOUTHWARK, Swan-streak—Tuesday, Jan. ; Thursday, 26 ;
Friday, 23.
LAMBETH, Camberwell New-road.—Tuesday, Jan. 23.
cm or LuNPON, Guildhall-buildings.—Monday, Jan. 22;
Wednesday, 2 FridaY, 20.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
JAN. 20.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
LING r. LING AND PRIOR.

Dr. Spioke appeared for the petitioner, an engine driver
at Yarmouth, who bad married the respondent some years
silo. After the birth of three children the petitioner went
to India, and during his absence the respondent had two
others. There was, however, no e‘:denoe against Prior.
Decree nisi.

HILL V. HILL.

Mr. B. Rigby, for the petitioner. He was a stonemason,
at Southampton. He married the respondent in 1858, and
after some years cohabitation he was obliged to leave her on
account of her profligate habits.

Decree nisi. s "
HYDE V. HYDE AND .WOODSIANSEE.-NOTHIONS AND THEIR
DISHEIA.E.S.

Dr. Spinke for the petitioner.
The circumstances in this case were of • very novel cha-
racter. In 1847 the husband, who was then a lad of fifteen
or sixteen, riopted the tenets of Mormonism, and he was
I afterwards ordained a priest of the sect. In 1&51 he was
sent on a mission to France, and afterwards he went to
Salt Lake City. Before this he had become engaged to •
Miss Lavinia Hawkins, who, with her mother, had preceded
him to Utah. In January, 1853, he was married to her by
asigham Young, who ultimately sent him on • mission to
the Sandwich Islands. Here the young man was
reconverted to Christianity. and be wrote to his
wife, begging her to leave the Mormon territory,
and come to him. This she refused to do ; and two of her
letters were read in court. In one of them she rid, " I feel
mieerable that you should be trying to put down Mot-
' MODiIIII. How strange it is that after your telling me of
the corruption that existed at San Francisco, New
Orleans. and other American cities, you should give up
everything and wish to settle amongst such people'
I aid toil to bring up my little son by myself rather than
return to what you yourself have called 'accursed civilisa-
tion.' . . . . Plurality [i.c., of wives] with al' its abuses is
better than the licentiousness which you say has such fearful
sway that there is hardly • virtuous woman in California ...
My faith in Mormonism is stronger than ever... Your own
i course is marked with that darkness which you used to say
feU upon all that left this people. Are you happier now
than when you were • Mormon? 1 have tried to thick
1 Mormonism false, and to be convinced by your reasoning,
but the evidence in its favour is too strong." In the other
letter she spoke of the death of her last remaining child ;
she had had two, but one had died before her husband had
departed on his mission; and she said, " I want family
tics. I want to have little arms twining around my neck,
red to hear soft voices lisp ' Mamma,' and try to say ' Papa.'
. . . . You also are not fitted for • solitary life. If
you are convinced of the falsehood of Mormonism,
tstre smother wife—one that will be to you what I have
i tried to be." In I'sB the petitioner returned to England, and
on bearing that the respondent had married the co-respondent
Woodmansee, he had filed his petition for a divorce.
On these facts Dr. Spinks contended that the court had
power to dissolve the marriage. Being the first that either
party bad contracted it was not • polygamous connection,
but was a marriage that would be recognised in a Christiau
country. He called—
Mr. Iredk. l'iercy, of Holloway, an artist who had mar-
ried the elder sister of Lavinia Hawkins in 1849, and who
admitted, though with some reluctance, that he had
in early life been himself • Mormon. In the
year 1653 he went on • sketching expedition
to America, and spent three weeks at Salt Lake City, where
the petitioneee arrival, in order to be married, was daily
expected by the respondent and her mother. Witness, in
fact, met him as he was returning from Utah. In 1857
witness read an account io the Thera News of the peti-
tioner's divorce and excommunication by the vice-president
of the Mormon community, who, in • public discourse, said
the petitioner should not lecture with impunity. Felt so
alarmed for the personal safety of his brother-in-law that
witness inserted au advertisement in the Times informing
him of his divorce, and warning him of his danger.
Witness added— I sun perfectly acquainted with the con-
stitution cf the Mormon body. It is ruled abso-
lutely by Brigham Young and his two councillors.
There are also twelve "apostles," and numerous inferior
officers ; but Brigham Young and his councillors snub the
"apostles like menials. (A laugh.) It is usual for
Brigham Young and his councillors to celebrate marriages
between important members of hie dock. I was never
present myself at a Mormon marriage, for even when I was
amongst them I doubted their right to marry people, and I
would not submit to it. Polygamy was at first repudiated
by the Mom woes, and it only became known to the Euro-
pean members of the body through the reports of travellers.
No doubt it is now practised. When I was in Utah I was
introduced to ns many as seven or eight wives at
once. (A laugh.) Mr. Hyde is now the editor
of an important country newspaper, and be is also the
minister of a dissenting congregation. Mrs. Hawkins, who
visited me last year, spoke to me about Lavinia 's second
marriage. 1 have also had letters from the respondent
herself in whist she has referred to it, and to the children
she has had by the co.tespondent. She did not, howeve',
speak of her second husband, and I observed that she only
signed her name " Lavinia W." She spoke as if aim con- ,
'Wined that she hal a perfect right to marry again. I
believe that she is totally incapable of acting contrary to her
conscience, and that her marriage with Woodmansee has been
purely a matterof religious conviction. I am quite certain that
the petitioner never had more than one wife, though poly-
gamy is common enough in Utah 'amongst those who can
afford it. The rule is for evety one but Brigham Young to
keep as many wives as Le can support ; but Brigham Young
has publicly announced that be will take no more unless
they can support themselves. (Laughter.) I have seen as
many as four wives occupy a room not longer than that
table, each having her bed only separated frem the rest by
a curtaiu. It is commonly reported that Mormon women
who are unfaithful to their husbands tire put to death,
and that men have been shot for engaging in ciiminal in-
trigues with other people's wives. Except in the matter
of polygamy, the Hormone are great sticklers for morality,
and they don't like to lose their wives any more than other
Men.

Mrs. Hawkins' deposition, proving the second marriage
and the adulterous cohabitation, having been read,
Mr. Silas Martin Fisher, a counsellor of the Supreme
Court of the United States, was called es an expert in the
law of Utah, hat lie stated that the Supreme Court had
no appellate jurisdiction in causes matrimonial over the
Mormon territory. The American courts would, however,
recognise a marriage in Utah when •neitker party was
already married, but they would not acknowledge any
polygamous union.
Sir J. Wilde said he would take time to consider his
decision. It would, however, be extraordinary if a connec-
tion which was essentially a polygamous one, and one that
would have allowed the husband to take other wives,
should be made the subject of a decree in a Christian
country. The fundamental idea of marriage, such as
Christendom re2ogoised it, was that the parties should
cleave to each other to the exclusion of any one else ; and
it seemed to him very doubtful whether the cuatrimoni d
contract, as Christianity understood it, had been entered
into by the petitioner at all.

on the side of the faoe, on the cheek-bone. It was a
violent cuff. He tuned to get out of the way, and as he
did so the defendant struck him with his open band on the
back of the bead. The blow was given with such force that
he fell on his hied and cute piece oat. The mdf dheoloured
his face. He got up, left the yard, went homen sad almost
immediately afterwards went to the pollorstatton and made
a report of the case. The acting inspector mat • oesstable
with him to the Cloak, at Millbury, sad be (whales) saw
the del cadent standing there, and at on pointed him out
as the man who had struck him. The defendant said,
" You will find it is not me but another men that struck
you."
Mr. Beard addressed the court for the defense, and con-
tended that the case was not made out. He should be able
to show that the complainant was the worm for liquor
when this allowed assault took plane, and se for the de-
fendant having • lamp and putting it is his face, the
defendant did not have one that night. He did nottinj
that the complainant's hand was cut, bat that was tu
his falling when mideavounag to lift the drunken women.
The Magistrate said that, after dimmerionately considering
the evidence, be had come to the conclusion that the
defendant had been guilty of this sessult. He should order
the defendant to pay • fine of 40s. and the meta, or, in
default, to be imprisoned for fourteen days:

The —llefendani—l should like to appeal.
The Magistrate—There is no appal. This is a 'mammy
conviction, and you cannot appiaL
The money was paid.
_ _ WORSHIP-STREET. _
•

Caroline Francis, about 40 years of aim and meacaline in
appesranoe, was brought before Mr, Moon on a warrant
charging her with having threatenedtomurder her husband,
a commercial traveller. _ _ _ _

Mr. Beard said that this was one of those deplorable eases
which unfortunately it was compulsory to bring into a court
of justice. His client had been in a most respectable position
of life, but, from a period commencing nearly 20 years SWOP,
had been on the brink of ruin and destruction nest on
his wife's habits of intoxication, during which s made
away with hie property and damaged his reputation.
Mr. Edward Gilbert, landlord of the Lord Nelson public-
house, Mile-end-road, swore to having heard defendant
threaten to murder her husband, and to part with
him until she had his life. This was on the 19th of last
December, bat such threats were frequent. This evidence
was corroborated, and the husband swore that his life was
at stake if she were not restrained. She had taken up knives
and tried to stab him ; he but begged that she might be
bound over to keep the peace.
Bull, the warrant officer, mentioned that be had been he
almost continual search of the wife, and mot with her at
last accidentally in Tottenham.
B'. Ellison ordered her to find bail in GO/. to keep the
peace for six months.
Defendant—l shall never find it, and I shall come
out alive.