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The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-10

THE POLICE COURT&

Henry Williants,late a member of the corps of Com-
missionaires of the Strand, was summoned by Mr. John
Chambers to answer a charge of embezzlement.
Mr. Chambers said that he had superintended the
arrangements at the University athletic sports on the 12th
of April last. He had placed the defendant at one of the
gates where tickets of admission were received, with direc-
tions to indicate to visitors the proper entrance for pay-
ing. The defendant had received half-crowns from those
who had no tickets, which he had no right to do, and had
not accounted for the sums so received. Several constables
who had been placed outside the entrance gave evidence of
having seen the defendant receive money, but they were
not aware till some time afterwards that it was not the
defendant's business to take money at that gate. A
policeman had been placed with the defendant, and •
charge of connivance had been made against him, for
which he would be prosecuted by the police authorities.
The defence set up was that the money had been given
in the shape of plesenta, but that if the defendant had
improperly received any half-crowns, it only amounted to
a breach of trust.

Mr. Dayman said this was not a simple breach of trust,
but receiving money as the servant of an employer.
Committed for trial, but bail was seoepte,L
London, England, 1867-06-10

PORTUGAL.

LISBON. Juzic 8.

The Cortes is discussing the budget, and will
continue in session until the 27th June, holding
evening as well as morning sittings. It is said that
the King will shortly leave for Bordeaux, on board
the corvette Barthelemy Diaz, to virit the Paris
Exhibition.

AMERICA.
(UT ATLANTIC TELEGRAFII.)
NEW YORK, Jcins 7, 6 P.N.
The New York journals publish intelligence from
Mexico, stating that the Emperor Maximilian was
betrayed at Queretaro by Lopez.
The steamers leaving to-day for Europe take out
over 1,500,000 dollars in specie. The steamer
Minnesota arrived out yesterday.
Closing prices.—Gold, 137. Sterling exchange
on London, 110. 5-20 United States Bonds,
109/ ; Illinois, 119 I; Erie, 601. Cotton : Middling
Upland, 27. Petroleum, refined, 25.

GARIIIALDI AND ROME. —Tho following letter
has been addressed by Garibaldi to the university students
of Bologna, who had decided to open a subscription in aid
a an insurrection at Rome :—" Castellelli, May 28. My
dear Friends,—l owe you my applause for the generous
resolution of your order of the day, and for your subscrip•
Lion to the loan. May God grant that your noble example
may be followed by all the rest of Italy. To imitate it is
a sacred duty. I owe you also my fullest gratitude for the
happy omen presented by your contributing to overthrow
the tabernacle of corruption and falsehood which is called
the papacy."
General Geffrard, ex-President of tho Republic
of Hayti, has arrived in Paris. He is a tall, fine man of
colour, with a white moustache.
Despatches were sent on Saturday front the Colonial-
office, to the governors of the Falkland Islands, the North
American Provinces, Bermuda, Sierra Leone, and Loges.
London, England, 1867-06-10

The Crown Princess of Prussia arrived to-day at
Baden Baden from Paris. The Crown Prince will
probably return with the King rid Strasburg. It
is said bat the Emperor Napoleon may be expected
to visit Berlin in September next. Count von der
Goltz, the Prussian Minister at the French Court,
is going to a German watering place after the King
of Prussia's departure from Paris.

FRAN CE.
PARIS, JUNE 8, EVINING.
In to-day's sitting of the Legislative Body M.
Noyens gave notice that he would shortly submit
to the chamber the report of the committee on the
new Press Bill. M. Peyrusse will lay on the table of
the house at the beginning of next week the report
of the committee on the right of public meeting.
M. Rouher made a speech, in which he protested
against the insinuation that the government had
changed its resolutions with regard to the reforms
of January last. Ho added that the great num-
ber of amendments which had been proposed were
the principal cause of the delay in the deliberations
of the committee. He also denied the reported
intention of the government to dissolve the I.wis-
lative Body. (Cheers.)

TOULON, Jogs 9.
Prince Humbert has arrived hero, and has left
by train fur Paris.

POLAND.

WARSAW, Jive 8.

The Governor of Warsaw has abolished the pro-
hibition against people, being in the streets after
midnight, and ordered that the passes hitherto
necessary for entering and leaving the town shall
no longer be required.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Jrxie 9, EVFNING:

All the bureaux of the Chamber (.4 Deputies
have rejected Signor Fermra'a bill, together with
the convention respecting the ecclesiastical pro
perty. The commissioners whom they have elected
will submit counter proposals to the Chamber.
London, England, 1867-06-10

CHI'RCH 74ATTLAR.

Reviewing the discussion in Convocation last week upon
the proposed revival of diocesan synods and its bootless
result, the Times remarks that the simple fact is that the
church of England on all these questions suffers from the
very eminence of its position, and has fewer privileges of
self-regulation and government than a communion of non-
conformists. It is because it is national that the nation
keeps a hold upon it, and that Convocation is not allowed
to do what is the work of parliament alone. There are
those who regret this, and who would surrender nationality
for tho sake of freedom ; but the Bishop of Ely was right
in describing such opinions as representing very short-
sighted views. The chump may do as much as ever,
though not by diocesan synods, or, for that matter, by
Convocation itself.

A glance at the composition of the royal commission on
ritualism shows, the Daily News says, that it is a com-
mission of inquiry, and nothing more. The ritualists have
gained a year by it, and as the commission cannot and
will not unite to present a single common report, the
next result will be an additional sanction obtained fur
ritualism. No condemnation of priestly assumption, no
assertion of protestant principles, must be looked for from
such a body. Neither the name of the Esrl of Shaftes-
bury nor that of the Archbishop of York is on the commis-
sion, it being understood th►t the peer and the prelate
both declined having anything to do with it. If so, the
Doily News cannot help thinking that they exercised •
sound discretion. Between the principles of the ritualists
and those of protestantism there can be no possible com-
promise, and the fact may as well be recognised now as
twelve months hence. In the meantime, the government
is playing into the hands of the ritualistic party.
London, England, 1867-06-10

CRICKET.

StunEr V. lintgiumm: —Play In this match—in which It will
be remembered, Surrey had got the worst of it up to the draw-
ing of the stumps on Friday night, having to follow their Innings
with a debit of 173 runs agalnat them—was resumed at the Oval
on Saturday at a quarter before eleven, Jupp and Humphrey
being, as a matter of counie, the lirat pair of hatamen, and
Greenwood and Freeman the howlera. Humphrey began *con
leg, but was caught at slip directly after (I for 6,. Mr. Noble,
the succorer, got Yrallalail away fur a brace of twin, and to the
on aide fors when he was caught by the wicket-keeper :2 for
Poolcy, after getting a S to leg off Greenwood. was caught,
as In the previous Iwuugs, by " skiing" a ball for 21.. Sowell
was caught immediately alter at point (4 for 22:. Jupp was
caught at the wicket )5 for 2tl. llortlock was splendidly caught
by iddistan left hand low down. ,6 for 3d and Griffith was
bowled by Freeman (7 for 37). Lol played well for his 8, and
was clean bowled by Freeman for 471: Stephenson was
pointed" fork (9 for 51, : and ileartlield was given out " leg
before," completing the innings for 63, thus leaving Yorkshire
ietosions to a single innings by 11l runs,
c. 4 MSKIDGISHIIIi V. NIATINOH•IIIOIIILE.—This match was
concluded on Saturday, at Fenuier's peund, Cambridge, the
weather being all that could be de dret There were, however,
bit few spectators. The wickets, aa usual, were first clines, and
consequently not favourable to the bowlers, although the Notts
men were A 1 in that respect. The match terminated at half-
pam 3, Noma being victorious by 120 runs.
Coth9o2 v. Fagg Folanquits.—A well-played match
came off at letoss on Saturday. The players were the College
Eleven and the Free Voromera The scores were as follows:
Eton C"l;vile—First Innings, total, 113 ; second innings, total, IL
Free Foresters—Total, 108.
The match between the Eton and Winchester Elevens will take
place In the playing-201th of Eton College on the Pith and 39th
of this mouth.
IND Lies GUARDS V. 1 ZINGART. —On Saturday a.,nd snatch
between these clubs was played at the Windsorcav Barracks,
Vital. The Prince of Wales, with the Dukeuf Suther id, dnire
Homilies:4lth with a coach and four hays In order tow Him. the
play, which had drawn together all unusually large and brilliant
me,emblaipe of visitors. The scores wore as under Ziugarl—
First innma, total, le7. 51d Life Guards—First Wang*, total,
ltS: second halo, iota 40.
London, England, 1867-06-10

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

(IT ITISGI(PH.)
WEST DRAYTON MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

MIDSUMMER PLATE. Five furlongs.
Oppressor, Slender, Countess 8010, Puebla, La Pique,
Yellow Girl, Chicken Han ird. Aurora. Knight Templar,
Nursery Girl, Florican, and Feemy are here.

HUNTERS' STAKES. Two miles.
Faustus, Ganymede, Hippolyte, Bre to ►Bedford, Marble
Hill, Greyfoot, Holkar, and Crafty are here.

WHIT-MONDAY HANDICAP. One mile.'

orpreleir,Sien:ler:FuebirTraeeryde, ehiel;;;fittz.o .1
Feemy. Oppoeitiou, Aurora, Lady Lincoln, Metallic, Nur-
sery Girl, Knight Templar, and Florian are here.
FARMERS' STARES. Two miles.l
Chelmsford, Gossip, Jessie, Vision, Greyfoot, and Black
Swan are hare.
SELLING HANDICAP HURDLE. One mile.

La Pique, Comet, Cvuittein Bob,O Haiku, and Handley
Cross are bete.
___ . HANDICAP HURDLE RACE. Two miles.. _ .

Hippolyte, Comet, TriuuiiiTer,6sity, and Lady
Lincoln are here.

CRICKET.-( THIS DAY.)
London, England, 1867-06-10

CO`(BERV►TIVE WORKING MEN.

The Daily News hopes the conservative associa-
tions of working men, which are now springing up like
mushrooms, may last, as anything which tends to awaken
political interest is welcome. Error is less dangerous
than apathy. It is remarkable, however, that the working
men who are periodically paraded before Lord Derby in
small detachments did not become conservative until the
conservatives became radical. They are not found rallying
to the support of Mr. Lowe and Lord Cranborne ; and if
the rather feeble demonstrations which take placa in
Downing-street at long intervals are really spontaneous,
and not manufactured by local agents, they prove nothing
in favour of conservation, as the term used to be under-
stood a few mouths back. It 1. questionable Mete in an
es-tory to asperse, as Lord Derby did on Saturday, the
motives of radical leaders at the very moment when he is
obeying their dictates and carrying out their ideas. In
yield.ng now, be implicitly justifies the language which
has been applied to his former resistance. Mr. Disraeli
has not only adopted the policy, but borrows the language
of Mr. Bright, when he describes the franchise of the pre-
sent bill "as merely a restoration to the peop:e of their
ancient privileges." This being so, what is to be said of
those who bare so long withheld from the people their
ancient privileges?
London, England, 1867-06-17

THE REPORT OF THE LONIION ♦NI) BRIGHTON RAILWAY

CUM 11117 XE.

The above document is described by the Daily Nears as
in some respects the darkest of the long aeries of financial
scandals which have made the last twelve months for ever
memorable ; but it is only fair to suspend • final
judgment on the charges against Mr. Leo Schuster and hi■
so-directors until the case tor the defence has been heard.
It is alarming that such charges should be brought against
the directors of a railway which stands in the very first
rank of our joint-stock enterprises; it would be terrible if
there were no satisfactory answers to them. Compared
with the deliberate and prolonged deception which the
committee allege, the feebleness and incompetence of the
mismanagement which the figures establish become almost
unimportant.

From beginning to end. say' the Telegraph, the docu-
ment is a tremendous indictment against the policy,
the general management, and even the personal
position of the London and Brighton board. Never-
theless, the committee have exe-cise i a sound judg-
ment in (mating a doubt en the expediency of holding the
directors personally liable for the outlay on the three ex.
tensions. Lawsuits are (ewer an expena ve luxury, even
to an institution with a well-fi 'ed purse ; and they must
be doubly so to a company with it. shares at • discount of
40 per cent., and in urgent want of a cool million sterling.
The advice of the Telegraph is to accept the penitent re-
grets of the late directors and to se• about the rehabili-
tation of the somewhat die r I. red affairs on the safe prin-
ciple of peace, retrenchment, and reform—peace with their
neighbours, retrenchment of wild spendatione, and the-
London, England, 1867-06-17

lIIHE SOUTH LONDON ESTATE, Putney
A. No. 5. East Surrey.••• The SALE of the NEW ESTATE ac-
Virhy the CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY In the South
t‘e i
rnMetropolitan Mulct will be commenced at the Others,
Yo ict. Norfolk street, Strand, W.C., on FRIDAY, the ttth June,
M noon. The property inlP4ns the Putney Estate No. 4, is else
to the station, to the Steamboat Pier, and to the Omnibus Stand
Gore the bridge Fine views of the Thames are commanded from
all parts of the estate. which is %moats the Cedars, with front-
age to Wandsworth4ane.—For plan and particulars apply to
the Norfolkstrect Mikes where prospectultea of the Land, Shure,
ls Tlen.oit, and building Advance Departments may be had free of
Ow
London, England, 1867-06-17

BULLION.

FILLY IllsenrNTFl%

1X,940,000
In the bud item some advances on stock are in-
cluded, but probably of no material importance.
It will be seen that the bullion held by the two
banks is about 47 per cent. in excess of the bills
discounted. So great a disproportion has probably
never been known.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)
London, England, 1867-06-17

RTRAND.

A " comedy-farce," in two acts, called Our
portestira, which may be described as a new version of
Iliyh Life Belem Stairs, was produced at this theatre on
64turday night with well-deserved PUCCONS. The author is
Mr. F. Hay, who has vastly improved as a dramatic
author since be produced a little farce called The Rene*
Txti'dtion at this house. His dialogues full of humour
and happy turns of expression, and his characters are
grotesque, without being violent or unnatural. Oar
Domestics, of course, has very little plot, the fun
being maintained by showing how • number of male
and female servants impose upon and laugh at
• master and mistress, who are not particularly strong-
minded, and who are troubled with a romantic daughter.
No illegitimate means are used to excite a laugh, no horse-
play or destruction of property, and yet the audience are
thoroughly amused from first to last. The piece was
excellently acted, Miss B. Johnstone and Mr. 1.). James
entering thoroughly into the characters of an impudent
cook and a more impudent valet, who are not without a
certain fear of their master. Mr. l'arselle played the
master or victim, and the rest of the parts were well sup-
ported by Mr. Thorne, Miss Harland, Mr*. Mandell, and
others.
London, England, 1867-06-17

Ia w intelligence.

la ETHOPOLJTAN COUNTY ODIJRIII.
(Sitting Jaya appointed for the pretzel week.)
11Luoitsisritr Portland-road —Tuesday, June 18; Wednteattr.
19 : Thursday. I): Yrittay, 21.
MAUI'E/38,8K. Jearylehune-noul.—Tuesday, June 18: Walnut.
: Fr Hay,
W A %1.88"liTIL South-street —TUalmiar, Jane 18.
1.::1:8 EN V. r;J., Duncan tweets.—Tuesday, June 18; Weasel.
day, ; Thursday, 20: lotiday, 11.
01.1,-treot road. -11 nu Any, June 20.
Hon. now .netl.—Fridny, June 11.
WHITDCHAP/2 Great Present-street —Wednesday, June It:
Thursday, 10 Friday, 11.
Bt;euwenu, bwau-ttntet.—Wednesday, June 18: Thursday, 20:
Friday, 21.
LA WISKTIL, t•anlherwell Nen. road —Tuesday, June 18.
GREEN% Wednesday, June 1:t.
WooLttlett.—Thannitty. June 10.
('IT uv IA.NININ, (118181.811-buildlags.—Tuestlay, June 18 ;
Thursday, te Saturday.

EQUITY COURT.—JUNE 15.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood.)
THE BANK OF LONDON.
•

Mr. Kay, ().C., and Mr. tiwanston4peared in support
of an adjourned summons for the purpose of waking a call
upon the shareholders of the company, now in the course
of being wound up.
Mr. Druce, Q.C., for shareholders holding 13,000 shares,
asked that the summons might stand over for a fortnight,
on the ground that a scheme was on foot for the resusci-
tation of the bank, which was said to be supported by con.
tsibuteries to the extent of 24,000 shares, the only dissen-
tient contributory being Mr. Kays client. The scheme
was further said to be supported by 372 creditors to the
value of 234,2701., the total amount of debts being :ttt9,tino/.
Mr. Kay, 4.1. C., and Mr. fiwansten opposed further
delay. The resuscitation scheme was by no means
matured.

liOxburgh, Q.C., for creditor amounting to '2A9 000/.
and Mr. Speer for creditors to the ',lane of 71,00 W., also
op ooed the application.
Mr. Druce, Q.C., in reply, referred to the case of the
Agra and Masteries's'. Bank.
Mr. G. M. Gifford, Q.C., and Mr. indwell appeared for
the liquidator.
The Vice-Chancellor said he did not think be should be
justified iu acceding to the application. The summons
had been taken out in February last, and was adjourned
into court as far back as six weeks ago. The matter was not
at all in the position of the Agra Bank, where the scheme
was matured and the deeds were ready to be executed, and
where the proposal was assented to by an enormous
majority of creditors. His Honour could not apply that
authority to a case where there was a very far leas propor-
tion of caseating creditors, who had waited with great
patience since February. It had been said that if further
time were allowed more adherents would come in, but that
was nut a legitimate ground for delaying the call. There
could be no question as to the proper course fur the court
to take when shareholders themselv. s were desirous to
have this order made, in order eitherto accelerate or facili-
tate proceedings by raising a proper sum by way of call.
His Honour thought the creditors couhl not be reasonably
asked to accede to any further delay, and the matter must
be referred back to chambers to settle the amount of the
call.
London, England, 1867-06-17

THE PEF.I4.

Believing Hist we must not rn.,ko the Holm of Core-
mons e .1, .n0cr..01,.: without at lie II ilee lite* nui•ing
o.v Huns, ..1 I'. vr. mtro Life tire, the Ti sea a,.ain urges
their lonlsbip no long. rto stand i qr. A member of the
rimer House sty propose what bill he will, and there is
before hint the Imun.littits field of debate. Our Indian policy
involves CUM!. of a quasi-judicial character in which the
House of L..rds is peculiarly qualified to give aid.
Who better able to throw light on the Arish tool
question this a house in which laud isoso fully
represented? Then there is the whole tango of foreign
affairs, from which the House of Cotnn.ons seems in a
great measure to lave retired, hut which certainly
tthottl.l nut Le left exclusively iu the hands of the minister
of the day. Could not sowed the high authorities in the
House of l'ecr.--estChaucellom, extAntbaisatlors, ea-
Secret.tries of state—amuse with advantage our recent
guarantee of Luxemburg? Then• are, too, the cases of the
Tornado and tho Victoria. Why was it not pointed out
that in the former of these the law of nations did not
sanction a leand founded on the difference between
Starnish procedure and our own? We want a well-
weighed scheme for the government of the metropolis.
Rather than do nothing at all the House of Lords might
have supplied us with one. It is too plain that it is not
fur want of work the House of Peers is bile.
London, England, 1867-06-17

THE BIRMINGHAM RIOTS.

It appears from the Birmingham papers of to-
day that the disturbances caused by the No-Popery lee.
tures of the person named Murphy, whose visits in the
large towns are usually followed by a breach of the peace,
were of a very serious character. Twenty-six persons, men
and wouien,were to be brought before the niagistratesto-day
for amanita on the police. Three policemen were wounded,
and there are some dangerous cases in the General Hospital
of labourers who have received sabre cuts, the police
having been obliged to use cutlasses. Mr. Murphy's ad.
dresses, as reported, are of an extremely fanatical
character. Before he had finished his lectures, he said,

he would prove to the people of Birmingham that every
Popish priest was • murderer, a cannibal, • liar, and •
pickpocket. (Applause.) They knew him, and they knew
that he could prove what he said. He was prepared to
meet any Popish priest, from Bishop Ullatborne to the
biggest raga:lloin in the lot ; and if ever there was a rag
and bone gatherer in the universe it was the Pope himself
—(laughter)—and if what he said were not true, let them
prove it. Friends (said Mr. Murphy) asked him why he
was going to risk his life in Birmingham. His answer
was simply this, his life was in the hands of God.
(I voice : " Ah, it is.") He was eternal until his work
was done. His confidence was not in the arm of the
flesh, but his confidence was in the Triune God—the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. He would never
let • hair of his head be touched without His permission.
His answer to his friends was, Christ to the right, Christ
to the left, Christ behind, Christ before, Christ over,
Christ under, and Christ within, then he cared not for the
devil or for man, as Christ was his all. (Hear, heat.)
They might threaten him with bludgeons and with sticks,
but when the bludgeon. and the sticks were going to be
fired at him, the Great Eternal I Am would direct them
another way ; for God was stronger than the devil. That
God had raised him up fora purpose he believed. (Hear.)
They should walk over his dead body in Birmingham or he
would have his five weeks' my.
It is stated that three of the priests at Birmingham
went among the crowd exhorting them to be peaceable,
but their counsels seem to have been of little avail. The
prisoners are all Irish of the lowest class, and are all most
violent in their denunciations of Murphy.

The operas announced for the present week at
Covent Garden Theatre are the Huguenots today—(a morn-
ing performance); Fang (Tuesday night—with Mille.
Ellison); La Trarnita (Thursday) ; and La Fora del
Destine, Verdi's St. Petersburg opera, and his last drama-
tic work but one (Saturday—first time in England).
_ .

For the current week we are promised at her
Majesty's Theatre Lvria di Lammermoor (with Millie.
Patti to-night) ; Don Carlue (to-morrow night) ; La taro-
rites (with Mdlle. Moos, Signors Mario and Graziani,
Thursday) ; La Sonnambutrt (Friday) ; and again DoeCarios
(natardar. Meanwhile, M. Ciounod's last opera, Borneo e
Giulidte, is "in rehearsal."
London, England, 1867-06-17

A TORY MEETING TO-NIGHT.

This evening a " gathering of the friends of
law and order" will take place in the Large Hall, St.
St James's Hall, to express the attachment of all
classes of her Majesty's subjects to the Monarchical
and Parliamentary Constitution of the country, "to protest
against revolutionary agitation, and to vindicate the
privileges accorded to the people by the crown in the
peaceableenjuyment of the royal puke for the purposes
of recreation." The chair will be taken by H. N. Fowler,
Esq., Pmaident of the Metropolitan Working Men's ('on-
sanative Association, at 8 o'clock p.m. Lord Shaftesbury,
the Viscount Nevin, Lord Erskine, Colonel Hogg, M.l'.,
F.. 1. Powell, Esq., M.P., John Hardy, Esq., M.P., J. E.
Gout, Esq., M.P., G. S. Beecroft, Esq., M.P., Major
Waterhouse, M.l'., Lord Henry Tbynne, M.l'., Colonel
Sir H. Edwards, Bart., M.P., Sir Henry Drummond Wolff,
W. W. Paton, Esq., George Thomson, Esq., Frede-
rick S. Commie, Esq., M.P., Colonel Moller, M.P., W.
Fernald, Esq., J. G. Talbot, Esq., W. J. Stuart, Esq.,
"several members of parliament and artisans" are expected
to attend and address the meeting. The doors will be open
at 7 o'clock. The advertisement tells the working
men that "carriages may be ordered at half.past 10
o'clock." Admission is by tirirts on/g, which may be had
on personal application, or by letter, addreesed to the
honorary secretary. The body of the hall " will be re.
served for working men favourable to the objects of the
meeting."
London, England, 1867-06-17

lIUNGARY.

PE3TH, it NE 16.

The Hungarian Diet will shortly be prorogued.
General Klapka, Perczel, and Georgey are expected
in Peath.

RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSIWRG Jcwr V.

The Empress, the Grand Dukes Serval and Paul,
and the Grand Duchess Mario, will leave to-mor-
row for Livadia, on the southern coast of the
Crimea. They will travel rid War/taw, Czernovitz,
Novosieler, Tiraspol, Odessa, and Jalta.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Jura 15, Eli:misc.

In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
the budget of the Ministry of the Interior came on
for discussion. Signor Crispi proposed that a par-
liamentary inquiry should be instituted as to the
expenditure of the secret service money during
the first four months of 1867. The motion was
discussed, and finally rejected by 162 against
114 votes.

THE INSURRECTION IN CRETE.
nommen, MAT 16.

Telegrams received here from Athens, dated the
12th inst., assert that Omar Pachs has failed in his
expedition against Sphakia and Apocorona with
great loss. His junction with Mehemed Pacha is
said to have been prevented, and the latter, twice
beaten in the province of Apocorona, had been
compelled to retreat to an entrenched camp. The
Turkish steamer Isidhi, which unsuccessfully
chased the Arcadi, bad returned to Candle se-
verely damaged, and with several of her crew
killed and wounded.
London, England, 1867-06-17

LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Invested Amets--Upwards of Five Millions.
Animal Insmne--Hailf a Million.
Paid—newm and a Quarter Millions.
Tour'Nibs of the profits allotted to the Assured trullomennially.
Bonuses hitherto added to Polieles—tpwardsof lour Millions.
Policies upon the participating scale effected duriiiii the cur-
rent year ^.:537 will share in the profits to be distributed at the
gest &vision, which will be made up to :fist Dc. ember, IMO.
For Prospect use's, Statements of Armada de., apply to the
Actuary at the (Slice. Sleet-street. London.
WiILIAM SAMUEL DOWN ES, Actuary.
London, England, 1867-04-25

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
(Di 111.LiORAPR.)
(TROY OUR OWN CORARSIONDENT.)
The market is strong to-day. Bales XI,OOO bale,

MINCING-LAN E. —(THIIi DAY. )
lieoan. —Tim market continues steady, with a fair de•
mend from the refines; West India sold at mss. IW. to
345. ; crystallised. 33e. to 39a. Refined—Prices are well
supported, but thedernand is only moderate.
Curres.—Owing to a dull export demand, prices of
plantation Ceylon have given way Is. per cwt. ; fine to tine
fine ordinary, 70s. to 745. ; low to fine middliug, 7fie. to
875.; peaberry, 86.1. to 91a. ; native ordinary, fills.tid.
Cocoa.—Prices of this article continue to decline ; fair
to fine red Trinidad sold at 635. to 7fis. ; Granada, 90s. to
51e.; Dominica, Me. ; Guayaquil, File., being Is. to to.
lower.
Tga.—The market continues quiet, about 4,500 packages
of Indian teas will be offered in public sale on Tuesday
next.
Res.—A fair business is doing at full prices; Demerara,
Is. lid. to Is. 70.; brown Leeward', Is. 5 ; good Jamaica,
3s. 6d.
Rica—There are buyer at fully previous rates, but no
sale* of importance have been effected.
PlPPrit.-1,300 bags of Penang sold at the foil prices of
Zed. to 3d.
AlltßOWltu.a. —A parcel of St. Vincent's, in tins, sold at
the previous value.
COCHINEAL is dull of wale. and 41 to Id. per lb. lover
for Teneritfe, which sold at 3e. to 3e. fial. for silver, and
3s. to 3a. 4d. for black.
Corros. —A limited business is doing at steady prices.
JUTE.—t,rwo bales sold, part at lsf. in.
HEMP.—St. Petersburg dean remains quoted at
to 341.

TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
The market is steady, at the following prices —Towns
tallow, 445. ; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 445„ ;
April to June, 445. 3d. to 445. 61. ; June, 44.. Ii L ;
October to December, 455. 3d. to 455. 6d.

METROPOLITAN cArruc MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
The supply of beasts is about the same as on Thursday
last. Trade is more active, and Monday's yuotations are
well maintained, with a slight advance in some instances.
The supply of sheep is moderate ; they are readily disposed
of at fully Monday's rates. Lamb is more in demand, and
some choicest qualities are rather dearer. Choice edves
axe still scarce and dear. Our foreign supply consists
of 330 beasts, 2,270 sheep, 130 calves, and 10 pigs.
Par stone of alba. d. •d. Ider stone ol 811. d. s. d.
Bent Scots, Horolda. 5 0 6 2 Best Dusoltli•bdsSh 4 10 5
Dent Short-horns 4 8 4 10 Mat Long-w 0015.... 0 0 0
Second anal bends S 0 3 8 Do. do. Shorn.... 4 4 4
Calves
Pigs
30 4 4 Do. do. Shorn— . 3 8 4
Bent Dos* Hll-brads 0 0 0 0 lambs
Beasts at market, uso ; sheep and lawns, 7,140: calves, Is 7 ;
pigs, 110. _

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Charism James &atop reports trade glow at the
following prices, viz.:—Prime clover, from 100.. to 110 a. ;
inferior ditto, 80a. to 955. ; prime second cut clover,
90s. to 931. ; inferior ditto, 50a. to7os. ; best green hay,
851. to Vas. ; interim ditto, 50s. to 70.. ; straw, 40e. to 414,
London, England, 1867-04-25

SOUTHWARK.

The leer. Geor9e Capef, anal;tiieppel , of Carshalton,
as hitherto reported, appeared before Mr. Woolrych for
final examination,charged with indecently assaulting Mary
Ann Fraser, the daughter of a pensioner of the Scots
Fusilier Guards, while getting out of a third-class carriage
of the South Eastern Railway at London-bridge, on Satur-
day evening, the 13th inst., the particulars of which have
already appeared in our columns.
Mr. Smyth appeared to prosecute, being instructed by
friends of the young woman ; a gentleman watched the
case on behalf of the South Eastern Railway Company ;
and Mr. Metcalfe, instructed by Mr. Mackenzie, of Gresham-
house, appeared for the defendant • Mr. H. Allen, the
prosecuting officer of the Assockte Institute for Enforcing
the Laws for the Protection of Women was present on
I behalf of that society.
Mr. Metcalfe observed that before any further evidence
was brought forward he had some few remarks to make
which no doubt would save the time of the court. At the
lest examination, a young man who gave the name of
Seymour, and who swore that he had been honourably
discharged from the Royal Artillery, at the same time
producing a certificate of discharge, gave a detailed
account of the complainant being in the service of Captain
French in 1863 and 1864, during which time he kept com-
pany with her. Inquiries had been since then made about
him, and it bad been discovered that the whole of his
statement was a tissue of falsehoods ; that he was a
deserter from the Royal Artillery, and that the certifi-
cates of discharge were forgeries. In justice to the com-
plainant he made these observations ; also in justice to
Mr. Mackenzie, who had been imposed upon by him.
He voluntarily called on that gentleman, who was
startled by the statement he made about the
young woman, and his reason for doing so, he told Mr.
Mackenzie, was that she had jilted him. Not much
faith was put in that statement, as Mr. Mackenzie did
not like his story, and he told him at the time if he
attended at the police-court to give evidence he must not
expect a sixpence from him. Since be had given that evi-
dence Mr. Mackenzie had discovered that he had not only
committed perjury, but had forged the certificates he pro-
duced. There was also • man named Richards who gave
evidence on the last occasion, and he had no doubt mis-
taken her for another young woman. He (the learned
counsel) was satisfied of that, as she was • young person
of excellent character, having for some time lived in the
service of Colonel Hepburn, and since then with Mr.
Maitland, of Croydon, who up to the present time kept
her situation open for her until she recovered from her

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THE EXPECTED HOSTILITIF4.

In the opinion of the Tillie,. the Germans have an im-
portant advantage over the French in their Lendwehr
system which bas now been adopted even by the minor
states so lately at •ar with Prussia, while in France on
the other hand there reigns something like anarchy of
opinion in military matters. In physical qualifications
also the German ought to make a more available recruit.
The two enemies are familiar with each other's valour ;
they ought to be ready to do each other justice without
renewing a struggle to which neither of them has reason
to look back with unqualified exultation. Should the
wer•cloud that is now threatening Europe e►entually
vanish, it is not only to peace that we should look forward,
but to general disarmament, and to that object France and
Germany could both equally conduce ; the former by
acting up to her own views ►bout compact and highly.
London, England, 1867-04-25

GLENNISSON V. ROBERTSON.

Mr. Gibbons said this was an action against the Glow-
worm newspaper for paper supplied, tried last week before
Mr. Justice Mellor. when the jury returned a verdict for
the plaintiff for V.I. The plaintift was the agent of a
Belgian paper maker, and the defendant was the registered
proprietor of 300 shares in the Strand Printing and Pub-
lishing Company, to which the Ohnoteorm at one time
belonged. The lA,teecortot had since twice changed hands.
The learned counsel mo%ed for a rule for a new trial or
for a nonsuit, on the ground that there was no evidence
to fix the defendant with the contract. In fact, it was not
made b him or by his authority.
Mr. Justice Mellor said there was no evidence to show
the change of proprietorship in the Uloinnorwt, but it was
shown that the defendant was the proprietor of the paper
to the extent of 300 shares in the company to which the
newspaper belonged.
Mr. Gibbons said the contract was made by a person
named Bailey. since dead, who wan not in the defendant's
service at the time he made it, and there was no proof of
agent
Rule
refused.
London, England, 1867-04-25

THE. GOVERNMENT REFORM BILL.

The Times quotes the speeches of Mr. Forster
and Mr. Stanafeld in proof of the statement that a large
number even of the most faithful followers of Mr. Glad-
stone doubt the soundness of the principles to which he
committed himself and his party, and really believe that
the present measure gives a foundation for a satisfactory
settlement. Household suffrage, with or without limita-
tions, is, for good or evil, the fundamental borough fran-
chise of this country in times to come. The decision of
the house on Friday week makes an end for ever
of five-pound, six-pound, or seven-pound franchises.
It only remains to amend what is still faulty in the govern-
ment scheme. One of the first things on which those who
desire to make the bill acceptable to the country should
insist is the reduction of the term of residence to one year.
The engrafting on the bill of some provision for the repre-
sentation of lodgers is another necessary provision, and on
the vexed question of rating the bill may be further im-
proved in the direction of justice and simplicity. If the
government will address itself to this work in a spirit of
true patriotism we may be spared the calamity which the
Birmingham speakers would bring on us—that of having
another abortive bill this year, followed by fresh agitation
in the autumn.

The Telegraph dwells on the legal effect of the rate-
paying clauses. It is utterly incorrect to suppose that •
vicarious payment by the owner of the house will com-
plete the electoral qualification of the tenant. This
would be the case if he were rated ; but he is not ; and to
become so, he must upset the existing arrangements be-
tween himself and the owner, between the owner and the
parish. These restrictions, however, apply only while the
parishes are under the Small Tenements Act ; and one side
of a street may be under the rule of exclusion, yet the
other side may have household suffrage. More than this,
by adopting or rejecting the Small Tenements Act, •
parish may, year by year, alternately enfranchise and dis-
franchise the majority of the inhabitants. A more ques-
tionable project was never seriously offered to a delibera-
tive assembly.

Either, says the Star, the ministry must improve the
bill, parliament mint throw it out, or the crown must
dissolve a parliament which has ceased to represent the
people. All that is needed is for reforms?' to continue
the constitutional work of agit►tion in a constitutional
and vigorous manner, and victory is certain.
London, England, 1867-04-25

INTRI KIM.

The moral which the Tiws sees in the failure of the
great strike on the North Eastern Railway is that the gra-
tuitous creation by the men of the greatest possible incon-
venience, instead of serving their purpose as was antici-
pated, contributed largely to their defeat. The directors
derived unexpected help from many quarters, but the
forbearance and cooperation of their customers proved of
the greatest service. The interests of the company had
become identical with those of the public, and so the
public lent their aid, and the company was carried over
the crisis. Altogether the event is calculated to weaken
the belief in the power of trades' unions when firmly re-
sisted, but the most welcome result of all would be the
conclusion that victory in these trade disputes may be ex-
pected to incline to that side for which the support of
opinion can be obtained.
The Post says it is lamentable to think of the wide-
spread desolation that will pervade all ranks if the tailon'
strike be not speedily composed. What would happen if
some amateur tailor should get possession of the human
form divine upon which to work out his behests is some-
thing too frightful to contemplate. One shrinks from the
idea as from some horrible nightmare.
The Standard continues to dwell upon portions of the
evidence before the royal commissioners, with a view of
showing that trades' unions are the sum of all villainy.
The Star follows suit with the Spectator in complaining
of the manner in which the evidence is dealt with. There
are of course a great variety of trade societies, some of
them having some decidedly objectionable and unwise re-
gulations. The Times, it is alleged, simply picks out day
after day any passage which illustrates the working of a
bad rule, anti absolutely ignores all the rest of the evi-
dence. Not one in a thousand of those who see the
" frightful example" daily hell up in the extracts quoted
by the Times is ever likely even to come in sight of a full
report of the evidence, to say nothing of the possibility of
his studying it. On the face of it, the Star says, we can
neither pronounce a trade union good or bad, any more
than we can at once declare an agricultural society or a
West-end club good or bad. All depends upon the con-
stitution and the regulations of the association, and the
manner in which it proposes to carry out its objects and to
gain its ends.
London, England, 1867-04-25

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1867.

trained forces, the bitter by adhering to her own plan of a
small 'waling army with large reserves.

The Dad!, News thinks it important that the public
of Europe should pronounce itself with severity against
the true authors of the impending war. The war that is
coming, if war it is to be, will be a war of which the first
and the last, and the full responsibility, must rest with
the government of France. France in the Schleswig•Hol-
stein business poaitively declined to restrain the easy victories
of the Austrian and Prussian armies, and it is certain
that when war broke out between Prussia, with Italy for
an ally, and Austria, without an ally, last year, the
government of France was not taken by surprise. The
Emperor of the French counted, if not upon the defeat of
Prussia, upon the disruption of Germany by a civil war,
and the appeal of one or other of the vanquished to his
beneficent intervention in extremities. He did not even
mention Luxemburg when his foreign minister presented,
with the utmost politeness, it is true, the little bill for
compensations last autumn. Nothing was then said of an
insult to French honour and a provocation to French
susceptibilities. In brief, when the Empire of Napoleon
was restored a new era of wars set in for Europe. Had
France been free since 1851, the unity of Germany might
have been conceived in freedom and born in peace. When
France u neither free nor contented the landmarks of all
her neighbours and the peace of Europe are in danger.
Belgium. the Post observes. is deeply interested in the
result of the quarrel, since it is obvious that the presence
of Prussia in Luxemburg operates as a check upon any de-
signs which France might entertain against her defenceless
neighbour. The circumstance is curious. and not alto-
gether insignificant, that the Comte de Flandre will be
married to-day at Berlin to one of, the princesses of the
House of Hohenzollern.

The Standard declares that Count Bismarck is forcing
on a war, while the French government is systematically
endeavouring to 'impress a war feeling. Our contempo-
rary thinks it will be little short of a miracle if peace is
kept through the summer.
London, England, 1867-04-25

THE POLICE COURT&

MANSION ROUSE.

..
Mary Tarr alias Kent, aged 24, and described as being
a domestic servant, wan brought up in custody by
Detective-officer Charles Brown, and charged before the
Lord-Mayor with stealing an opera cloak, two petticoats,
and a large quantity of female wearing apparel, the pro-
perty of Mr. Jabez Tuck, printer, of Union-court, Old
Broadetreet, her muter.
From the evidence of Mrs. Tuck it appeared that the
prisoner applied to her for the vacant situation of one of
her domestic servants about a month ago, and gave a
reference as to her character. On Mrs. Tuck visiting the
referee she received an undeniable character of the pri-
soner, which however hod turned out to be false. In the
comae of the previous morning the prisoner had several
times left the house without the knowledge of her mis-
tress, and on her return the last time about two o'clock,
after an absence of an hour, she stated th►t she had been
to mast bar brother,who had just returned from abroad, and
London, England, 1867-04-25

RAILWAY COM

The plaintiff in this tease was tb
of certain property of which the
session on the 25th of June, 186!
certain tenants from year to ye/
wards a negotiation was entered
and ultimately, in November last
by which the company were to pt
property for 1,7001. within
pay interest on the purchase n
Mr. Charles, for the plaintiff,
money might be paid into court.
Mr. Townshend, who ►ppe►red
that the reason for the delay in t
was that the title had not been ac
were in possession, not under
plaintiff, but by an antecedent tii
yet been touched for the purpose'
The Vice-Chanoallor directed t
paid into court before the 15th of
THN UNITA!) AUCTION ADVAN

COMPANY (umirm)
This was a motion for an it
defendant from advertising or et!
sales as sales of the company.
auctioneer, carrying on business
gate-hill, and he had entered ar
pan; by which he alleged that I
formed he agreed with their ages
Pilgrim-street to them, he beim
floater. Them statements the col
asserting that the premises in P
long to them and that they ha
sales carried on there.

Mr. M'N►ughten supported the
did not appear.
The Ven-Chancellor grouted tl
davit of service.

COURT OF QUEE:
London, England, 1867-04-25

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. Bodkin.)

Jane Bahia., 15, Algae Fergesow, 18, Sarah Tester, 15,
and kabella Jreiand, 15, were indicted for attempting to
set fire to a dwelling.house, in the possession of Rosins
Hargrave and others. There was a second indictment
against Jane Baltiek for stealing the sum of 11., the
moneys of Jane Lerman, in a dwelling-house.
They all pleaded guilty to the different indictments.
The prisoners were all inmates of the Industrial School
at Lisson-street,Lisson.grove, for the reformation of protes-
tant juvenile offenders,andon the 18th January, at 3 in the
morning, the matron, Mrs. Itosina Hargrave wan awakened
by a girl named Plum, and on going down stain she
found the kitchen in a blaze, and a large quantity of
clothing that had been placed on a clothes-hone was
neatly destroyed. The stairs bad also taken fire, and
bad the matron not gone down at the moment and poured
water on it, the house would have been burned down.

The motion was called, and she gave Ferguson a very
bad character. She said she was the most desperate girl
she bad ever met with. As to lialtick, she was a thief of
the worst description, and she believed she was the ring-
leader of all the rest. All the others had behaved very
ill, and their friends being unable to do anything with them,
they were sent to this reformatory. They confessed to
another inmate that they set the place on fire, and when
spoken to about it they all admitted that they had done
so. As regarded Rollick, she had committed the addi-
tional offence of robbery, for she had broken open a ser-
vant's box, took from it a sovereign, which she bad spent
in gloves, cakes, and sweets, and ahe had previously been
convicted of robbery.
The Assistant-Judge said they would find the difference
between a reformatory and a prison, and sentenced Bal-
tick to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for 1
months, Ferguson for 18 months, and Tester and Ireland
for 12 months each.
London, England, 1867-06-28

SPAIN.

MADRID, TrNI V.

In to-day's sitting of the Congress the'Committee
on the Settlement of the Foreign Debts presented
their report, in which they propose the immediate
settlement.of the coupons, on the basis of the law
of June, 1866, the railways to derive the benefit
of the profit accruing from the settlement.

THE BANK OF FRANCE.
PARIS, JrNs 27.
.

The return of the Bank of Friiic;f-o'rihe4ee k
ending to-day shows the following changes as
compared with the previous account : Increrse—
Cash, 13,900,000 f. ; Treasury balance, 7,000,000 E. ;
current accounts, 11,606,000 f. Decrease—Notes,
11,500,000 f. The advances and bills discounted
are stationary.

CHINA.
HONG KONG, MAY :10.
Markets unchanged. Total export of tea to date,
116,025,000 lbs. Exchange on London, bankers'
bills, 4s. 4d.

SHANGHAE. MAY 24.
No business pawing in tea or silk. Exchange
un London, tie. lid
Advice. received here from Japan state that the
foreign ministers had had an interview with the
Shiogoon, at Osaca, which was of a very satisfac-
tory character.
London, England, 1867-06-28

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Jt NC .4F.

The King left this morning for Liegnitz. Yes-
terday Herr Tweaten was sentenced by the Disci-
plinary Court to pay a line of 100 thalers on
account of a speech delivered by him in the
Chamber of Deputits.

uui uART.

PESTI!, Jnt

In to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the
Hungarian Diet, the government bill relative to the
different nationalities of Hungary was submitted to
the sub-committees. It proposes that every citizen
shall be allowed to employ his mother tongue in
statements made to the public authorities ; that
schools and university courses shall be established
for each nationality ; that the laws shall be pro-
mulgated in all the languages spoken in the coun-
try ; and that municipalities and corporations shall
choose themselves in what language they shall trans-
act business. The debate upon the proposal to send
delegations to the Austrian itvicharath has been ad-
journed until to-morrow, on account of the absence
of Count Andrassey;

THE NETHERLANDS.
11.1.01 T, Jr 'x 27.

In to-day's sitting of the fiecoisd Chamber the
bill for granting hereditary leases of the unculti-
vated land in the Dutch Indies was withdrawn, in
consequence of the adoption' in yesterday's sitting,
of an amendment, introduced by Herr van de
Putte, proposing to extend to the natives the
power of taking out such leases. It is believed
that the Minister of the Colonies has tendered his
resignation.