The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1867.

Peter Island some time before the storm broke.
As usual, there was yellow fever at St. Thomas,
and wishing to avoid that, the Rhone had given
rendezvous at Peter Island to the tributary
steamers that bring passengers from the more
remote stations to take passage to England by the
packet. The Conway had arrived there with a
contingent of paasengers, and had succeeded in
transhipping them before the hurricane arrived.
Both vessels succeeded in riding out the north-
western storm at their anchorage off Peter Island,
and when the short lull came the Rhone
made for the open sea. She had almost
cleared the dangerous coast from which she
was fleeing when the south-eastern hurricane
swooped down upon her with terrific
force. This carried her amidships upon a reef of
Salt Island, where she broke up " as if she had
" been made of brown paper." Some accounts
say that her boilers exploded on striking—a cir-
cumstance that would account for the rapidity vrith
which she went to pieces. A few of her people
were saved by floating on shore with spars, but
the great majority were drowned. Meanwhile the
Conway also was caught by the second hurricane,
and driven on shore at Tortola, but fortunately
without sustaining serious damage or losing any of
her crew. At the same time the mail steamer
Wye was lost, and of her crow of seventy only
thirteen were saved. She had steamed about
fifteen miles to the westward, when her compasses
became useless from the amount of electricity in
the atmosphere. The darkness was so intense,
although it was mid-day, that at last she ran on
Buck Island, to the eastward, and in fourteen
minutes had disappeared.
The news from Tortola is simplythat that island
has suffered from the storm like St. Thomas, and
that about a hundred of its inhabitants have lost
their lives from the ruins of falling houses and other
similar causes. According to this news, the island
has not been submerged. It may pro-
bably appear that the startling intelligence
of the submersion of the island, received by way
of Now York and Havannab, is a strange exagge-
ration of the news brought by the Douro ; but it is
necessary to remember that the telegraphic news
was without a date, and it is not impossible that
the leaser disaster reported by the Douro may have
been followed by the greater reported in the New
York telegrams. We know that the region is one
of the moat volcanic on the face of the earth.
More than six hundred shocks of earthquake have
occurred in it during the comparatively short
period of recorded history ; and in such a
region no change in the physical con-
figuration of the earth need be regarded
as impossible, or even unlikely. The same
volcanic power that threw up the island of
Sabrina in a week, that maintained it for three
months, and then let it drop again to the bottom
of the sea, could undoubtedly apply the converse
operation to Tortola. It is not, however, neces-
sary to imagine anything so dramatic as the lower-
ing of the island below the level of the sea to
permit us to suppose that Tortola may have been
submerged. A correspondent, whose letter ap-
peared yesterday, speaking from his own know-
ledge, tells us that the highest point of Tortola
is only about 160 feet above the sea. Now,
during the prevalence of great hurricanes in the
Western Atlantic, waves frequently rise as high as
60 feet, measuring from the trough, and produce
a rise on the coast line of 30 feet. Besides
that, a shock of earthquake produces a
great swelling of the sea, such as has on
several memorable occasions caused most disas-
trous inundations. If both those influences
were exerted at the same time, a body of water
would be cast upon the shores of Tortola which
the hurricane certainly might carry up the sloping
hills so as to sweep clean over the island. Even
the hurricane, with the great rise of the sea which
the decreased atmospheric pressure permits, might
of itself do as much to an island only 160 feet
high. There is good reason to hope, however,
that we know the extent of the disaster that has
befallen the Wand ; and we only desire to point
out these possibilities so as to prevent an absolute
judgment being come to in a matter still enveloped
in some degree of doubt.

In a• article called " Amenably," the Saftertise &ries
'peaks of Garibaldi as •. a cracilpbrained rebel."
The Examiner, commenting en the leniency of magis-
trates towards tradesmen who 'beat the poor, observes :
Why should not the zeal of our magistrates be as intensely
excited against ouch knaves as against a poor oosterzoonger
for unduly lingering with his truck! Is there any idio-
syncratic connection between a tradesman meting out
short measure and a magistrate dealing out scant justice
As we ►re asking questions, why should not the zeal of
some member of parliament be excited to deal effectively
with this question! And if anyone should be so stimulated
in the future, might we suggest a stringent enactment to
the effect that ► quart bottle should hold a quart, as well
as a loaf weigh four pounds, whether sold over the counter
or delivered at a private residence ; or whether called
household or fancy, the latter being the ingenious device
by which dishonest tradesmen escape the penalties of the
law.

The Special6r concludes an article on the " Fenian
Dreamers," with these words :—The proof of any political
right to disturb the order of society lice in the political
power. Without evidence of that, to strike at existing
order is a wanton offence, which unsettles the very founda-
tions of life without advancing • whit the prospects of
those who propose a revolution. Let the dreamers
who have no chance of success dream in peace, and
no one will hurt them. Let theee who have
adequate power to wrench away the pillar of govern-
ment in the United Kingdom do so with as much success
as the Italians, or Hitniariana, or Southerners, and they
shall be treated wish the respect due to adversaries who
are, at least, not wanton—who had a foundation for their
hopes. But visionaries, who can only unsettle everything,
and not even begin to put anything in its place, are the
most dangerous anarchy in existence. They bring brute
force into fashion, stimulate every chaotic impulse of
persons infinitely more wicked and vicious than them-
selves, and, in a word, dissolve all the mortar of society
without having the force to overthrow its structure.
Then they leave it in this its tottering condition, for
common and vicious criminals to destroy.

EARL RUSSELL AND NATIONAL

EDUCATION.

The following are the resolutions to be moved
by Earl Russell in the House of Lords on Monday week :
" 1. That in the opinion of this house the education of
the working classes in England and Wales ought to be ex.
tended and improved ; every child bas a right to the
blessings of education, and it is the duty of the state to
guard and maintain that right. In the opinion of this
house the diffusion of knowledge ought not to be hindered
by religious differences ; nor should the early employment
of the young in labour be allowed to deprive them of
education.

" 2. That it is the opinion of this house that parliament
and government should aid in the education of the middle
classes by providing for the better administration of
charitable endowments.

"3. That it is the opinion of this house that the Uni-
versities of Oxford and Cambridge may be made more
useful to the nation by the removal of restrictions, and
by the appointment of a commission to consider of the
better distribution of their large revenues for purposes of
instruction in connexion with the said universities.

"4. That the appointment of a minister of education
by the crown, with a seat in the cabinet, would, in the
opinion of this house, be conducive to the public benefit."

Ekt Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 22.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon in a
cuTiage and four, accompanied by the Count and
Countess of Flanders and Princess Louise ; and her Majesty
went out this morning, accompanied by Prince Leopold.

The Prince and the Princessof Teck arrived at the Castle
yesterday.
The Count and Countess of Flanders left the Castle this
morning for London, attended by the Baroness Snoy
d'Oppuers and Colonel Burnell.
Yesterday being the birthday of the Crown Princess of
Prussia (Princess Royal), a party of children residing at
the Castle and in the neighbourhood were by her
Majesty's commands invited to a dance, which took place
in the Red Drawing-room.
Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold
were present.
Refreshments were afterwards served in the White
Drawing-room.
Her Majesty's private band played in the drawing•room
after dinner before the Count and Countess of Flanders,
Prince and Princess Christian, Prince and Princess of Teak,
Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Henrietta of
Schleswig-Holstein.
The ladles and gentlemen in waiting were also present.
The following had also the honour of receiving invita-
tions:—Lieut.-General Hon. C. and Mrs. Grey, Major-
General Sir T. M. and the Hon. Lady Bidclulph, Lieut.-
Colonel and Mrs. G. Gordon, the Dean of Windsor and
the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, the Rev. R. Duckworth, Mr.
Sahl, and Mr. Woodward.
The band played the following selection of music :
Overture-- Oberon" Weber.
Selection-13n Feldlnger In Sehleaten
Scherzo Ecosasla
Overture—Die Enstlgen Welber von Windsor Otto Nicolni.
March—" Ruins of Athena" Beethoven.

A deputation from the Cotton Spinners' Association, con-
sisting of Mr. H. Mason, Mr. J. Eakriggs, Mr. J. Ogden,
Mr. H. Harrison, Mr. W. L. Fekrigge, Mr. W. E. Taylor,
and Mr. G. L. Ashworth, accompanied by Mr. E. Watkin,
M.P., the Right Hon. Milner Gibson, Mr. T.
Barley, M.P., Mr. R. N. Philips, M.P., Mr. T. B. Potter,
M.P., Mr. J. Platt, M.P., and Mr. J. B. Smith, M.P., had
an interview with the Duke of Richmond and the Right
Hon. Stephen Can, at the office of the Board of Trade,
yesterday, on the subject of procuring and publishing
statistics of imports, exports, and inland distribution of
cotton.

The following deputations had interviews with the
Earl of Devon, at the office of the Poor-law Board,
Whitehall, yesterday :—From the parishioners of the
united parishes of St. Andrew, Holborn above
Bars, and St. George the Martyr, introduced
by Mr. MoCullagh Torrens, M.P., and consisting
of Mr. Anion, Mr. Burton, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Arrigoni, Mr.
Hutchinson, Mr. Smallbone, Mr. Liddle, Mr. Lloyd, Mr.
Barr, Mr. Proudfoot, and Mr. A. W. Hopwood (vestry
clerk). From the vestry of St. Clements Danes, consisting
of Mr. Brown, Mr. Jeffery, Mr. Dickins, Mr. Lay, Mr.
Woods, Mr. Harris, Mr. D. Bette, Mr. T. Parker, Mr. G.
R. Inner, Mr. T. Dobree, Mr. T. Chapman, Mr. W. Wrenn,
and Mr. J. F. Isaacson (vestry clerk). From the vestry of
St. Paul, Covent-garden, consisting of Mr. J. F. Corseaden,
Mr. J. Richmond, Mr. G. 'Wilkinson, Mr. Barringer, Mr.
W. Hooper, Mr. Berrall, and Mr. Henry New (vestry
clerk). And from St. Anne, Westminster, consisting of
the Rev. Nugent Wade, Mr. Wakeling. Mr. C. Bacon,
Mr. Pratt, Mr. Miller, Mr. Turner, Mr. Child, Mr. Charles,
Mr. Roberts, Mr. Ruffell, Mr. Bonner, Mr. Haylett, Mr.
Mummery, Mr. Barlow, Mr. Chaffer, and Mr. George Allen
(vestry clerk).

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales,
attended by Viscountess Walden, has taken several drives
in the neighbourhood of Sandringham during the week.
The health of the Princess continues to improve.
.

The report of Mn. Disraeli's health last evening
was again of a favourable character, and there is every
hope now of her recovery.

The Prince and Princess Christian will, it is
understood, pay a visit to the Duke of Marlborough, at
Blenheim, on Monday.

The Count and Countess of Flanders returned
to the Clarendon Hotel last evening from visiting her Ma-
jesty at Windsor Castle. •

Lord Brougham has reached Boulogne, and by
easy stages will go to Cannes. In oonsequenee of his lord-
ship's feeble health it is questionable if he will remain in
Paris beyond a day or two.

The death is announced of General the Duke de
111ontesquion-Fesensac, at the age of 84. He was one of
the few survivors of the Wars of the Empire, having
served at Ulm, at Jena, throughout the Moscow cam-
palm, and at Dresden. Re " Souvenirs Militairca" have
just furnished the text of an article attributed to Lord
Stanhope in the Quarterly.

It is understood that the negotiation for a work-
ing arrangement, without any assumption of financial
liabilities, between the Brighton and South Eastern Com-
panies and the London. Chatham, and Dover Company is
making fair progress, and that the details of the plan are
likely to be made known in the nouns of a. week or ten
days.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(Ril7=l% TELEGRAXS.)

scandalous and malicious motives, ought to be
repressed, although true, because tending to a
broach of the peace, and starving no good purpose ;
but a functionary entrusted with public inte-
rests ought not to be allowed to shelter himself
from criticism, and if a libel upon him can be
proved true the courts should not be able to
absolve him because the publication of the truth
affects his " honour and consideration." This rule,
which was the law of France until the present
Emperor, for good and sufficient causes in
his own mind, changed it, was a partial
recognition of the principle (by Lord Camp-
bell's wholesome act) now embodied in the
law of England that truth is a good plea to a libel
if the jury finds that it was for the public interest
that it should be published. M. Berryer has now
presented a sub-amendment to the above, propos-
ing to extend the principle not only to public func-
tionaries, but to directors and managers of public
and joint stock companies.
Two young men under 21, belonging to respect-
able families, named Dacier and Baratin, were
tried to-day by the Correctional Police for having
repeatedly broken a number of the chairs placed
for the accommodation of the public on the Boule-
vards and the Champs Elysees. They played these
pranks for several nights without the police being
able to lay hold of them, and showed astonishing
skill in doing a great deal of damage in a short
time. They write occasionally for some petty
newspapers, and the prosecution at first insinuated
that their motive was to fabricate materials for a
paragraph, for which they would be paid. This
charge was, however, withdrawn ; and their friends
having paid the owner of the chain for the damage
done, the court let them off for their stupid lark
with fines of only 300 fr. each.
The rourse was very firm. Rents rose 15c. for
cash and 124 c. for account, closing at 68fr. 65c.
and 08fr. 52ic. Italian rose The. ; Credit Fonder,
12fr. 75c. ; Mobilier, 10fr. ; and Comptoir
d'Escompte, Bfr. 75c.

THE RUTLANDSHIRE ELECTION.

(BY TELEGRAPH.)
OAKHAM, SATURDAY.

The Rutlandehire election took place here this
morning. Mr. G. H. Finch (conservative) was elected
without opposition.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

SATCRDAY. NOVEMB/1 n, 8 £.L

I.i. W. lk: ~.. "'as. .W. &1 to
Ll' 7. D. O.
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Nairn .-. . 9158 42 W. 1 2 N.W. o - 1
.
Aberdeen' 30.543s N.N.W. 1 6 N.W. rb 0.01 4
LAW 110.59 41 &W. 2 2 W. cal - -
Aulrowea 30.539, E. 2 2 N.W. b - 1
Oneocestle- 01.02 45 N.N.E. 1 II N.W. re 0.11 -
Valente '30.67 40 LN.N. 1 1 Z. be -. 1
Roclies hid 34.00 42 13.1 4 4 ILL a - 3
'30.5440. N.W. 1 2 N.W. d - 1
14:17= 80.5340 3.3.1 1 3 3.3.1 oar - -
Penzance '33.50 44 N.& 2 4 ILL e - 2
Brest 110.51 as' X 2 3 LM IL t- 2
Logien! - 2
Rochefort-- 80.4437, N. 1 2 37.1 WI- 3
Plymouth . 30.53 40 N. 1 2 N. co - 1
Weymouth 20.5041; N.W. 14 1 N.W. be I- 1
Portsmouth 30.5241 N. 4 3 N. co - 3
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London 30.48,42 N. 2 3 N.N.W. - -
711411109th 110.43 45' N.N.E. 7 7 LW. oc : - 4
ecarborougb 10.30.46. N.E. 4 I N.W. oI- 4
Nelebla VAG 30 N.W. 2 2 N.W. au - 11

RESIARIL
A general yet slight decrease in the terenbetrical pressures has
taken place dnce yesterday. They are still high at all stations.
Their distribution is nearly the same as yesterday, the maximum
pressures being In Ireland and the minimum on the east coast
of England. Temperature has risen at the southern and eastern
stations. From Scotland, the winds reported are light and vari-
able. and In the (Tumid arc northerly. tin the east coasttrm
north-easterly winds hare blown, rough sea Is rep
there. Fog and mist are prevalent at places.

We regret to learn that, acting under medical
advice, Mr. E. Potter, M.P. for this city, has beoc obliged
to pair for a short time in consequence of ill.health. We
may add, however, th►t the hon. gentleman I. considerably
better, and that it is hoped that in the course of a few
weeks be will be enabled to resume his parliamentary
duties.—Cerlisle Journal.

Mrs. D. Boucicault appears on Monday night in
her original character, Eily O'Connor, in the Coltecn Bairn,
at the Prinoesa'a Theatre.

With regard to the lose of life by the Royal Mail
steamer Rhone there is reason to believe (says the Times)
that the report hitherto current, and which was appa-
rently obtained from the New York journals, that about
150 passengers had periehed in that vessel, is altogether
erroneous. The company find that only seven passengers
are known to have been lost, consisting of some of those
from the island route by the Conway—the passengers by
the Tyne, from Jamaica, and the Solent, from the Isthmus
of Panama, not having been transferred when the hurri-
cane came on.

Alexandre Dumas' Antony attracts crowds to
the new TbeAtre de Cluny. The Parisian public had
almost forgotten the success it met with when it first ap-
peared. Therefore it has all the freshness of novelty.
Lavarger's acting draws down immense applause, as well
a showers of bouquets. On the first night the stage was
literally covered with flowers. Alexandre Dumas was
present in a stage box. Lavarger selected the most beau-
tiful from the pile of wreaths and bouquets which lay at
her feet, and, advancing to the side of the stage, presented
it to the author of Antony, which graceful act was cheered
by several hundred students of the Quartier Latin who
were present.

The postal conference which has been lately
sitting at Berlin has brought its labours to • close, and
from Jan. 1, 1:448, we shall enjoy the advantages of a
cheap postage throughout Germany. This reduction,
however, will not in the first instance extend to the rates
to England and France, which have been fixed by • treaty,
and can only be altered in the same manner.
The Co ra...9xottit ace Generale of Vienna states that
the Emperor Francis Joseph has just sanctioned the in-
stitution of tribunals of honour for both the army and
navy. They will come into operation on the let January
next.

Advices from Naples state that the irruption of
Mount Vesuvius is increasing in intensity, and that a great
number of persons visit the mountain to examine the
curious spectacle.
MR. DICKENS'S ARRIVAL IN AMERICA.—A tele-
gram—" Safe and well "—was received yesterday morning
in London, announcing the safe arrival of Mr. Charles
Dickens at Boston on board the Cuba.—Eru.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE
ENSUING WEEE.—Monday—Royal Academy, at 8,
" Sculpture," Mr. Westniscott. Geographical, at Bj,
" News regardin,; Livingstone," Dr. Kirk ; " Journey
through Central China from Canton," Mr. Bickmore ;
" Surveys, Nicaragua," Mr. Collimion. Actuaries, " Sixth
Statistical Congress at Florence," Mr. Brown • " Instru-
ment for furnishing the I) Numbers to Four Figures," Mr.
Henry. Tuesday—Engineers at ti, " Removal of Organic
lor Inorganic Substances in Water," Mr. Byrne. Ethnolo-
' gical, at 8, " Origin of Civilistion," Sir J. Lubbock ;
" %Islas of Mount Pindna,"Major R. Stuart. Wednesday.—
, Socie of Arta, at 8," Conferenceson International Coinage
lin Pars," Mr. L. Levi. Thursday—Mathematical, at 8.
Zoological, at Bj, " Dinornis Roburtus," Professor Owen ;
"Egg of .Epyornis Maxima," Mr. Rowley; " Gephyrea,"
Dr. Baird ; " Salmonidae, New Brunswick and Maine,"
Dr. Adams ; " New Fishes, Madras," and " Aouyx Lep-
tonyx," Surgeon F. Day ; " Range of Semnopithecus
Entelltts," Captain Hutton ; " Penidre, Madeira," Mr.
Johnson ; " Freshwater Fishes, Australia," Mr. Krefft ;
" Marine Molluscs, Port Jackson," Mr. Angus ; " New
Lend Shell, gen. Celia:is," and "Shells, Mauritius,"
Mews. Adams and Angus. Antiquaries, at Bi, "A.-S.
Grave-Mound, Norton," Dr. Thurnam ; ' Inscribed Cen-
tarial Stones," Mr. Coote. Saturday—Royal, at Bi,
Anniversary.—Athemrnm.
REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF MEAT.—On
Friday and Saturday last an enterprising butcher from
Croydon invaded the usually quiet town of Epsom, and
caused considerable commotion, especially among the re-
sident butchers, by selling good and wholesome meat at •
considerable reduction upon the price usually charged.
Legs of mutton were to be obtained at 7d. per lb. ; shoul-
ders, Gjd. ; necks, rad. ; breasts, 4jd. ; and beef, 4d. to
6d. A large number of the inhabitants patronised the
stranger, aid soon bought up his whole stock, no doubt
to the serious injury of the local tradesmen.—Surrey
Standard.

EXECUTION OF THE CONDEMNED
FFNIANS AT MANCHESTER.
(THIS DAY.)

(HT TELEGRAPH.)

(non on owx

MANCHESTER, SATranAy,

The execution of Allen, Gould, and Larkin
passed over with exceedingly little excitement and
with an entire absence of the violent feeling which
previous threats led people to expect. There
was hardly during the night the ordinary crowd
which makes its appearance at executions. The
streets were almost silent. For several hours on
either side of midnight the only crowd observable
was the cluster of special constables in the space
directly in front of the scaffold. The respectable
and well-disposed inhabitants of both borough.
seemed to have yielded implicit obedience to the
request made by the mayors of Manchester and
Salford. The lower Irish population were
conspicuous by their absence, whether front
a sullen aversion to see the doom of their
compatriot. accomplished, or from a feeling
of submission to the sentence, it were need-
less to speculate. The special constables and
other police kept the central space before the
scaffold. The appearance of the specials cn the
scene wrought a noticeable alteration in the com-
plexion of the proceedings in the vicinity of the
scaffold. Where previously nothing but the steady
measured tread of disciplined men had been heard
mingled with the dull hum of conversation,
there now arose a variety of choruses begin-
ning with the " Merry Men of England," and
ending with " John Brown's Body," with an occa-
sional variation of " Rule Britannia," and " God
Save the Queen." The specials now and then
varied their proceedings by marching round the
spaces divided by the barriers in military order, at
one time in slow time, and again at a quick trot.
The special constables were each armed with a trun-
cheon. From midnight till towards 6 o'clock in the
morning the remarkable quietude which has been
noticed continued to prevail in the streets con-
verging on the New Bailey, and it was not till
close upon the hour appointed for the execution
that anything like a crowd of the general populace
began to assemble.
The Rev. Mr. Keating, a catholic priest, from
Ramsbottoni, near Huddersfield, arrived at the
gaol to visit the convict Allen. He had been
specially sent for by Allen's mother. He remained
some time, and had interviews also with Larkin
and Gould. He found all three in an extremely
depressed condition, especially Allen. They went
to bed about half-past 11, and passed a tolerably
quiet night. They were awakened at a quarter to 5
and went to mass at half-past 5. They were
attended by the Rev. Canon Cantwell, the Rev.
Father Truck, and Father Gadd. They all paid
the greatest attention to their devotions, and
although resigned to their fate, yet up to the last
moment expected a reprieve. They were firm
during the process of pinioning, the rev. gentlemen
repeating the prayers of the church during the
process.

The preparations inside the gaol were of an
extensive character to guard against an attack.
On each aide of the drop were two platforms, which
were filled with military, who were ordered to lie
down out of sight. Two corps with loaded
arms were drawn up inside. Precisely at two
minutes past 8 the convicts made their appearance.
They were preceded by the Under-Sheriff. Then
came Canon Cantwell, followed by Allen, sup-
ported by two warders ; then Larkin, attended
by Father Truck, and Gould, attended by Father
Gadd. They all walked with composure, fervently
repeating the prayers of the church after the rev.
gentleman. Allen looked round once on reach-
ing the bottom of the steps. Gould repeated the
responses in a clear voice.

From the street in front of the drop all that
was visible when day dawned was the gloomy
prison wall, and the grim excrescence of the drop
with its funeral drapery reaching up almost to a
level, with the loops of the three dangling ropes.
The special constables kept clear an ample space
in front, and when 8 o'clock was heard to strike
every visible face was seen directed with a keenly
expectant gaze towards the door opening upon
the drop. After the lapse of a minute or two ap-
peared first the heads of soldiers behind the scaffold
and then the convict Allen on the scaffold The
latter was at once recognised by the majority of
onlookers. Gould, who came next, immediately
went close up to Allen, with whom he shook hands,
and kissed him on the right cheek. Larkin,
who was the last to appear upon the drop,
seemed at first to be the most collected of
the three, and took his place under the noose
without appearing to regard any of his companions.
They were accompanied by Father Gadd and
another priest, and Allen and Gould were heard to
repeat in fervent ejaculations a litany suitable to
their awful position. Calcraft, who immediately fol-
lowed, drew the white cap over Allen's face, placed
the rope nearest to Chapel-street upon his neck,
and then repeated the operation upon Gould and
Larkin—the latter being on the side next the
river, and Gould in the centre. The ropes having
been adjusted round the men's necks, Calcraft
retired behind. Allen and Gould were still heard to
ejaculate "Jesus have mercy upon us" when the bolt
was drawn, the ropes sprung to their utmost tension,
and the three men suddenly disappeared from view
with the sullen thud familiar to frequenters of such
scenes. The ropes were of different lengths. Allen's
was the longest, Gould's next, and Larkin's was the
shortest ; the consequence was that when the drop
fell Allen dropped entirely out of view even of the
spectators from windows on the same level with
the scaffold. Allen, who was placed on the right,
was the first to have the cap drawn over his
face. Larkin, who was in a position to
have seen what had gone before, appeared
deadly pale and fainted before the bolt was drawn.
Whether or not the executioner had grown nervous
and had failed to adjust the rope as effectually as
in the other cases, it is certain that Larkin died
very slowly, and his prolonged struggles were
shocking to behold.

Another account says :—" The bodice were cut
down at 9. Each prisoner wore a medal mend
his neck with an inscription upon it. Larkin's
death was most painful, he having to be held
up by Calcraft's assistants. Calcraft received the
following:—' If you hang any of the gentlemen
condemned to death it will be the worse for you.
You will not survive afterwards.' Calcraft has
written to the visiting justices saying that this is
a serious job, and he hopes that they will look
after him so that he may get safe home again."

The anniversary meeting of the Royal Society
will be held next Saturday, St. Andrew's day, when the
President will deliver his annual address and present the
medals. This immming-up of a year's business will be
followed by the usual anniversary dinner, at Willis's
Rooms, at which a good attendance is expected.

LAW ITZLLIGZNCE.

(THIS DAY.)

EQUITY COURT.
try. fore Vice. Chancellor sir W. Page Waal.)
coMP‘N% (1.1111TEI.), AND
ICE THE u.,III'ANIEs ACT, 1547.

01 the tirst pctition in this branch of the court

.
. : os.p.tuiss Act of last session, by which coin-
..:,n• enabled to reduce their capital and shares.
st s srr. and r 0., are a limited company,
11113111Csa as strain-engine makers at Man-
.,_,,all an original capital of 400,000/. in 4,01 X)
II sarli, of which 3,5430 only have been issued.
.1, irons of rsducivg their capital to 312.500 i, and of
ei their issued 100 shares twhich were all
s p.,id up) into four parts, threeof which were to repre-
1. -nu e. of 2 each, and the fourth to be compensatedby
~.y p.,c nit iit of 'rd.. they passed a special resolution
• MV: 11.4, iu Sept. and Oct. last, whereby in confor-

• ,‘ithth, t lhsrctionof the act they modified the condi-
....vutaine.lin their memorandum of association. Other
t!i..solutions were passed by the company in October
Nos umber, espying out the reduction and subdivision

i.t...ned. Tlicy now petitioned the court praying
t the 1,: ter altos c mentioned resolutions might be con-
-1 I,y the order of the court, and that a date
4: be t. 1 at which the addition to the name
con.p.,nv of the words " and Reduced " might be
,•tinued. 'The petition wan supported by an affidavit
; . eret.‘ry, who deposed that the company were in
.tut of b.,ving monthly settlements of their debts,
th. ...tints for Oeteber had been settled, and the

p ; and that there were some current
liabi-
,.f whlch accounts had not been sent in ; further
• pi, s, nt avail Able funds of the company amounted

, bebides debts considered good amounting to
„ 7:.,.).14:1. It was intended to keep the :41,u00/.
r-ml, .1 capital unreduced, and only to deal with the

Drydm, in support of the petition, said that the
piny ettered, if the court thought it necessary, to de.
loosay. in court to meet the claims of the cieditor..
the court to tic to-clay as the period after which
ne becoming a creditor should not be entitled to
a: au objecting creditor under the 13th section of
.

.'i.eice-Chancellor said that the 10,000/. must be de-
,t..l by the company, and might be deposited in court.
lionour also fised to-day as the day on which the list
cleditors was to be struck, and adjourned the petition
c,.,mlwra to settle the liAt of creditors, giving leave that
• petition might be amended by adding the words " and
• d.,,11" to the mine of the company. The rest of the
Mnut was ordered to stsnd over until the list of creditors
stttled ; one month to be allowed for the creditors to

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
-ittinga in Banco.— (Before Barons Martin, Channell, and
Pigott.)

e. THE S DIioUTH RAILWAY AND HARBOUR

OM rANT.

Mr. rdall showed anise against a rule which had been
obt.dned against the defendant for a seine facia against a
rrhulder in the company named Charles William
Whitby, of Ottery St. Mary. Mr. Whitby was the holder
of live 10f. shares, for which 15f. had been paid, and
the object of the present proceeding was to
compel him to pay the remaining .151. in satisfaction of a
j,td;ment obtained by a creditor of the company. There
was. prima facie a case for issuing the writ, but Mr.
tniithy said that 30 guineas were due to him by the COM-
vany as auditor ; that be sent in a claim for that sum, and
that the secretary entered it as a payment by him to the
co.opany. The actual sum, therefore, due by him for
the purpose of making up the entire amount of
pai.bup capital on his shares was only 3f. 10s.,
which he had handed over to the solicitor of the
chiniant. Coder these circumstances, the learned counsel
untended there wee no unpaid-up capital upon Mr.
\l baby's shares for which the aci. fa. could go.
Mr. Baron Martin sail the learned counsel was asking
thh_ court to decide upon the affidavits upon one side
eherher the whole money had been paid. The usual
pi.ctice was, when a prima facie case was made out, to
sci. fa., and they would not now depart from it ;
it would be open to the shareholder to plead payment
.1.1 defence to the action.
i:ule absolute.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
.I,PNEB r. JONES.
_

Mr. Searle appeared for the petitioner. In 1563, being
•1:r:: 19 years of age, and apprenticed to his brother, a
sr:erinary surgeon, at Hereford, he married the respon.
drvt, who was a women of 26. The match was unknown
to 'cis friends. After living with the respondent for some
tine, the petitioner was obliged to separate from her,
owing to his want of means to support her. After this he
never lived with her again ; but in 1866 the respondent
wa+ convicted of concealment of pregnancy.
Decree nisi.

RowLINKON r. ROWLINRON.

Dr. Spinks, Q.C., ant Mr. Serb °, for the petitioner ; the
reeron,fentin person.

The petition;r was an actress, and in 1864, while shewas
Caying at Liverpool under the name of Fanny Gwynne,
,e was married to the respondent, who was then a cotton
f-nicer, and who had since been a broker in Mincing-lane.
Vhile the parties were living in London the petitioner had
' engagements at the Princess's and other theatres.
'ley lived at Camden-cottages, in a house taken for them
the petitioner's father. She alleged that the respon-
.• -et had been guilty of various acts of violence and un-
,sdness. Thus on one occasion he threw • jug of water
rer her while she was in bed, and refused to tether change
er diets. The result was an attack of bronchitis. In
. zbruary, 1866, he struck her in the mouth with his fist
they were returning home in a brougham from a ball.
The reason he assigned for that act was, that he was
°talons of her because she bad danced three times with
fue same gentleman. Having read some story of a man
.-ho had killed his wife, by tickling her feet, be
via continually trying to experiment on petitioner;
. nil on many occasions—always when he was
;artially drunk—be cruelly beat and ill-used her.
At length she left him and took lodgings in Great Percy-
,treet, Pentonville. She gave him 30e. before she went
way and sent him 30.. or 21. afterwards ; but when they
ad lived apart for about a month he brought two men
with him to her lodgings and took possession of all her
things. At first be said she might stay with him, but if
she went away she must go just as sbe was, without
ven a bonnet. She said she would do so, but
at the intercession of the men (one of whom
said he would have nothing to do with the matter, and
went away) be let her take a bonnet and shawl. He also
threatened to draw her eatery. A week afterwards, he
came to her at the stage door and insisted on her going
home with him. She refused, but be dragged her about
the streets for about an hour, took off ber hat, thouf.Lta
was raining, and at last compelled her,
`beer fatigue, to go home with bim. The next
morning he told her that she had condoned
all Lis acts, and she stayed with him for some weeks. At
:lest his conduct was better, but after a time he began ill-
treating her as much as ever. On one occasion be insisted
f ,earebing her. She refused to let him, upon which he
tore her dress, bit her shoulder, tried to set fire to her
ir, and finally struck her on the face with the candle-
stick, which gave her a black eye and cut her cheek. This
in the presence of a friend of his, named
who went and informed the petitioner's friends.
The petitioner's brother came, but be locked her up, and
refused to let her brother see her. Then her father came,
and took her away. This was in September, 1866 ; and ahe
had since at times lived at his lattices at LiverpooL Since
the final separation he bad attempted to regain forcible
to.session of her ; but he promised that if she would give
Lire 3i. a week (she was earning 41.) be would let her
,:one. One night he met her at the sage door at
.I,tley's, and insisted on knowing where she was. She
.etused to tell him, lest he should come again and torn
per out; and he and three men who were with him
.lesgged her about the streets till 3 in the morning,
a she told him she was staying with his aunts, and
y let her go.
[The case was proceeding when our report left.]

The private view of the Winter Exhibition of
':etches and Studies by the Society of Painters in Water
lours took place to-day (Saturday). The gallery of the
ciety will be opened to the public on Monday next.
DEATH OF MIL. JOSEPH GUEST.—This well-
liberal, and highly•reapected gentleman died yes-
: rday morning, about 8 o'clock, at his residence, New-
s•rett, Dudley. For ntany years the deceased was one of
e Lmest nail manufacturers in the town, and as such
cumulated great wealth, part of which be distributed
a very liberal manner. Only • short time ago we
' to several munificent gifts of the deceased to
.rions charitable and other institutions in Dudley.—
. ,•• • tol9le,lni
DEATH OF MISS CLARA DESVIL.—We have to
cord, with touch regret, the early death of that aocom-
.:•bed young actress, Miss Clara Denvil, who expired
Liverpool on Tuesday night, from the effects of •
-oxen bloodvessel, after nine days' illness Miss Clara
avid was at the time a member of the Royal
'..mphitheatre company, and, although in • delicate
• ize of health. continued playing in Mr. Byron's drama of
T t boira.lhirt Lass up to Saturday, the 9th inst. On
ae following day she ruptured • blood-vessel. Miss Clara
....nod, who miss the daughter of the late Mr. Denvil, tra-
. iirn.amitheoriginalrepresentativeofManfredat Covent.
idea in 1-,:t3, was an excellent actress in many parts,
aal especially popular in burlesque. She appeared as
a er.1141 very early on the stage,and at the Lyceum, Adelphiaad ,
more recently at Covent-garden (where she represented
mderella in the Christmas piece of 1864), her talents
were highly appreciated by metropolitan audiences. She
w s much respected, and possessed a strong affectioa for
toe stage. To her credit, we may add that, for 12 years,
s:,e had been the sole support of her mother, contributed
to !hat of her father, and since his death she has, from her
Pt relational labours, supplied her mother and brother
w:!la all necessary for their subsistence.—Zra.