The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-19 00:00:00

THJ EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1867.

to keep it up by re-registration, and this could net
be met either by forbidding a esoond registration
—for that would in the case of every title once
registered throw us back into our present state—
nor by forbidding a second registration by the
same peen, for that could easily be evaded by
sebstituting a different name. The only remedy
seems to he the imposing a reasonable fee
on each registration. This would confine the
practice to works of value sufficient to bear the
added expense ; and as wo are chiefly concerned
with works on which at present a large amount is
spent for the purpose of making them known to
the public, the additional burden requisite to se-
I cure them from having their name appropriated by
some one else would not be severely felt. Works
of too trifling a character to be worth the expense
of registering would not stand in much danger of
having their names pirated.
It may, perhaps, appear to some that all this
outlay on preliminary advertising is foolish in
itself, and deserves no encouragement from the
law. But to this the simple answer is that it
pays. It is incurred by very good men of
business, who are not likely to throw money
away in a mere freak, and there can
therefore be no doubt that it is of service.
But if of service, it is to the public that
it is so, since it is by the increased number of pur-
chasers it attracts that it is remunerative. And
if the public finds the information conveyed in ad-
vertisements useful, it has an interest in the in-
formation not being made deceptive by any
trickery which the law can be invoked to prevent.
It is in their interest, then, quite as much as
that of the publishers or authors, that we com-
mend the subject to the attention of the Legisla-
ture. We have already in fact established the
principle and provided the machinery ; all that
remains to do is to define the principle a little
more clearly, and adjust the machinery so as to
make it work without inconvenience.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

The Times attributes much of the distress at the
' East-end:to ;the action of the trades' unions, which only
just now have prevented a large number of shipwrights
frees taking wages that would be sufficient in the agricul-
tural districts to maintain three labourers with
average families. As success is absolutely necessary
to them, they should take this opportunity for
establishing the sort of universal labour unity which
is amongst their schemes. These steamers, which they
will not assist to build on the terms offered, will be built
in another country, and, of course, at a lower rate of
wages. Let them stretch a long arm, and try to stop the
execution of a contract which is so much employment and
wages taken ►way from themselves.
Mr. Bromley, M.P., we may state, says very distinctly
that the present sufferers from the distress in East London
are not the skilled workmen and the members of trades'
unions, but the labourers—the hardworking hewers of
wood and drawers of water of the district—who are de-
pendent in a great degree on the employment of the skilled
workmen, who have no connexion whatever with trades'
unions and their concomitant strikes, who represent the
effect only and not the cause of the great calamity.
In other articles, the Times deals with Mr. Bright's
offences, brought to mind by a republication of his
speeches; and with the case of Overeat!, Gurney, and Co.
the new firm being declared to have started exactly as
though they had advanced 2,000,000 i. to the Gurney
family on the mortgage of their estates.
Archbishop Manning writes to the Star to deny in em-
phatic terms that he is connected either directly or in-
directly with the Westminster Gazette, or that he has ever
written a line in it or has even read the article on tolera-
tion which has been attributed to bins. The Star is bound
to say nevertheless that it has received distinct assurances
that doctrines like those of the W‘stmiaster Gazette have
been preached by Dr. Manning.
The Daily News observes that the attention which has
been given to Dr. Manning's late remarks is due to the
contrast which men perceive between them and the au-
thoritative language of the church of Rome. Of the latter.
to show bow inconsistent it is with the fair and liberal
words of the English divine, the Daily News gives a few
illustrations selected from an encyclical letter of the Pope
dated in 1864, and from papal allocutions pronounced in
1852 and 1855. In one of these in particular we find the
Pope speaking of Spain, and the shortcomings of its go-
vernment ; oonoerning which he said, " You know that in
the year 1851 we concluded a convention with our dear
daughter in Jesus Christ, the Queen of Spain, and that
among its various provisions which affected the catholic
religion we especially stipulated that this holy religion
s'aould continue to be the only religion of the Spanish na.
tion, to the exclusion of all other worship, and that
in all school', whether public or private, the instruction
eh -mid be entirely conformed to catholic doctrine." Such
are the Pope's vim of Writes", freedom, equality, and
moderation, as distinct from Dr. Manning's. In the alio-
cation of September, 1852, and in another of December,
1856, the Pope stigmatised as scandalous the practice
of Roman catholic governments—in these cases the govern-
' mente of New Granada and of Mexico—in giving strangers
liberty to celebrate public worship according to the forms
of their own religion.

In another article the Daily News protests against
that subtlest fora of selfishness which calms its
nerves and preserves its appetite by giving without
stint to shocking cases, while it shrinks from the
severer and the nobler duty of seeking out the distress in
person, and succouring it on tho spot, regularly, sys-
tematically, thoughtfully, devotedly, according to some
Bred purpose and plan. In a country which we are con-
stantly being told is unique, men and women starve daily,
and our organisation of parochial relief is such that the
richest parishes are the least assessed.
The Herald and Standard attack Mr. Goldwyn Smith in
terms usually reserved for Mr. Bright, the former con-
cluding with an advice to the learned professor to look to
Mr. Lowe, that most fearless champion of political inde-
pendence, as the legitimate representative of Pym.

traditional inaneeta rather then of hustings vows, and of
personal rather than political want of syspetby. Sir
Robert Peel bod a great deal al the same kind at thing
to contend against. As opposition chief it took him long
to win the confidence of the old county members ;
and be never succeeded in winning, perhaps it may
be said that he never took the trouble to win,
the affection of the younger and more intellectual
men of his party. He would stare at them in the lobby
as he passed them by without recognition, and would fling
overboard in debate all they had said with supercilious
airs of superiority. Still, somehow or other, he contrived
to keep the lead ; and though the question of his deposi-
tion was openly mooted by a dissatisfied minority, and the
interrogatory publicly put, " Who shall lead us—Peel or
Stanley!" no actual schism took place; and in due time
the conservative opposition, led by what Charles Buller
once called " that solemn swell," arrived ►t power. The
contingencies that befall the tones in opposition have
seldom failed to mark the lot of their rivals.

The Saturday Review describes the primary object
of the new German parliament as that of typifying
the national feeling. Thus, though it will not serve the
purposes that a parliament is generally intended to serve,
it may be of considerable use. In other articles the same
journal discusses America from its usual point of view,
contending that the advocates of European democracy
are unable at present to point to the success of American
institutions. Monster meetings the Saturday Review
does not now think to be unconstitutional, but the limits
will be passed when the doors of the House of Commons
are approached. Lord Macaulay's letter on the chartists'
petition, Mr. Bright's speeches, and Lord Redesdale on
insolvent railways, are topics also treated of in to-day's
number of the Saturday Review.

Efts esurt.

OSBORNE, JAN. 18.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian,
drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Lady Water.
park ; and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morn-
ing, accompanied by Miss M'Gregor.
The Duke of Edinburgh arrived at Osborne yesterday,
attended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke.
The Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Louise, and Prince
Arthur skated in the grounds this morning.
Princess Louise was attended by the Hon. Emily Cath-
cart.

Prince and Princess Christian, Prince Leopold. Prince's
Beatrix, and Prince Henry of Prussia went out walking.
Mr. Mitchell has had the honour of submitting to the
Queen some printed copies in colours of Mr. BlacLeay's
drawings of Highl►nders of Scotland.

A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at Whitehall, on
the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were
the Lord President, and the Right Honourable Sir Stafford
Northoote. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams
attended the committee.

A deputation from the Committee of the Royal
Humane Society, consisting of Mr. T. E. Baker, treasurer,
Mr. Henry Pownall, Mr. J. A. Hallett, Mr. John Barrow,
Mr. J. M. Case, Mr. F. Gray, Mr. Edwin Bedford, the
Rev. E. Nepean (Canon of Westminster), Mr. Thos. Page,
C.E., Mr. L►mbton Young (secretary), the Rev. Frank
Hudson, and Mr. Donald Nicoll, had an interview with
the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, at the Home-office,
yesterday.
A deputation consisting of Mr. Scott (traffic manager of
the London and South-Western Railway) and Mr. Hedger
(harbour master to the Southampton Dock Company) had
an interview with the Lord President of the Council and
the Right Hon. H. Cony, at the Privy Councll-offioe,
Whitehall, yesterday, on the subject of licensing the port
of Southampton for the admission of foreign animals
under quarantine regulations.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Bowring (chairman of
Liverpool He►lth Committee), Mr. J. Yates (member of
Liverpool Town Council), and Dr. Trench (medical officer
of health for the borough of Liverpool), had an interview
with the Lord President of the Council and the Right
Hon. H. Cony, at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall,
yesterday on the subject of the trade in cattle, as con-
ducted at the market of Stanley, near Liverpool.

Sir John Thwaites had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer and Lord John Manners in Downing-
street, on Wednesday.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office
to the Governor of Malta.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales and household will return to Marlborough
House on the 2nd or 4th of the ensuing month for the
season.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
de Chartres have returned to their residence at Ham,
Surrey, after a lengthened absence, for the remainder of
the winter.

The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle are enter-
taining, at Clumber Park, Notts, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Hastings, Viscount Andover, Viscount Can-
terbury, Lord Conrtenay, Lord Albert Clinton, Major
Stackpole, Lady Rossmore, Colonel Napier Sturt, and
Miss Heneage.

The Earl of Ellenborough is expected to arrive
in town by the 4th proximo from his seat in Gloucester-
shire.

The address in answer to the Queen's speech in
the House of Commons will be moved by the Hon. Thomas
De Grey, member for West Norfolk ; and seconded by Mr.
Graves, member for Liverpool.

The new Bishop of Calcutta was for some time
vicar of Lambourn, and is ►t present vicar of Great
Marlow. He was of Exeter College, Oxford, and took •
second class in 1837. Mr. Milman is a nephew of the
dean of St. Paul's, and is a man of moderate theological
opinions. He was an intimate friend of the late Bishop
Cotton.

Convocation will amenable for despatch of bulki-
ness on Tuesday, February 12, at 11 o'clock.

Captain Huish, well-known in the railway world
from his long °omission with the London and North-West-
ern Railway Company, died yesterday. Captain Habib
was deputy-chairman of the Electric and International
Telegraph Company.

On Thursday evening an address on national
education was delivered in the Lecture Hall, at Lewes, by
Professor Fawcett, M.P., in connexion with the Lewes
Liberal Registration Society. Mr. Burwood Godlee,
occupied the chair, and there were present the Right Hon.
H. Brand, M.P., Lord Pelham, M.P., &c.

Mr. Halle intends to give Jephtha at his next
week's concert in Manchester ; the principal parts to be
sang by Mr. Sims Reeves and Miss Edmonds.
The Orchestra assures us that Signor Verdi's
Don Carlos is to be en early novelty at the Royal Italian
Opera this year.

We ( A nny and Nary Gazette) understand that,
pending the considerations of the recommendations of
Lord Stratheairn's commission on army organisation,
all appointments to the civil branches of the army have
been suspended, and th►t candidates for service in the
Commissariat from the line have been informed their ap-
plications must stand over for the present.
We read in the Spectator :—" The law officers of
the crown have, we believe, replied, as we expected, to the
ease submitted to them by the council of University Col-
lege, London, that the council were legally obliged to
summon a special court of proprietors, in conformity with
the requisition, and that any resolution passed at such
meeting would be legally binding. What, therefore, the
council really did, was to steal a march on the governing
body by declining to bear what advice they had to offer
till the council had taken it out of their own power to
follow that advice, and this though the advice, once heard,
would have constituted a legal obligation. At the approach-
ing meeting of proprietors, the council will find it hard
indeed to give any intelligible defence of sharp practice
such as this."

On Thursday the Emperor and Empress again
visited the frozen waters of the Skating Club in the Bois
de Boulogne. There were unmistakable signs of a thaw in
the large lakes, but the ice was here sufßciently sound to
bear. The Emperor and Empress arrived about 3 o'clock
at the chalet of the club, where the artificial water forms
a circle with an island in the centre. Her Majesty,
dressed in a black silk robe, looped up in festoons, and
black bat and veil, was attended on the ice by two gentle-
men whilst skating gracefully round the frozen circle.
There were not more than • couple of hundred persons
present, and some half-dozen sledges.

- M. Victor Cousin has left his library, valued at
8,000 f., to the Sorbonne.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

' (IUTITZECA TKLEGILANB.)
THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION.
ATHENS, JAN. 14.
Intelligence received here from Candice announces
that Mustapha Pacha was preparing to attack
Sphakia on the aide of Askyfos, and from the sea.
The Cretan General Assembly had forwarded an
address to the powers requesting them to send an
agent to the island in order to judge of its unhappy
condition and to protect the inhabitants who desired
annexation to Greece.

ATHENS. JAJ. 18.

Advice* reoeived here from Candi*, through Greek
sources, state that the insurgents had been victo-
rious in an engagement with 5,000 Turks nearll era-
chum. They had also prevented the disembarkation
of Turkish troops at Sphakia and Selinon. The
same advice* confirm the report that a Turkish
frigate had opened fire upon some Cretan families,
who were waiting to be taken off the island by a
foreign vessel.

MISS GLYN'S READINGS.

Last night Miss Glyn commenced, at the St.
James's-hall, • second aeries of ber highly encom-
ia readings from Shakespeare. The play selected was
Othello. As en indication of the interest felt in her inter-
pretation it may be mentioned that although the reading
commenced punctually at eight and did not terminate
until eleven, a full hour later than is customary with en-
tertainments of this description, the audience intoned
with absorbed attention until the final lines of the final
act were reached. Miss Glyn must indeed be congratu-
lated upon having accomplished a most trying task, taxing
mental and physical powers to the utmost, with marked
success. She seems to gather strength as she proceeds, to
be animated more and more by her subject as she develops
it, and to accumulate energy in the very prop&
by which it is expended. Certainly anything more
powerful than her rendering of the bedchamber scene
between Othello and Deademona, in the fifth act, it would
be difficult to conceive, and the entire audience showed
their appreciation of it by breathless silence and fixed
looks, which had a significance far deeper than the loudest
applause. Miss Glyn's portrait of Othello is one in which
the loving, trusting nature of the Moor is brought out with
great distinctness. She may be said to have pitched the
key-note of his character in the Senate scene. There was
nothing of declamation, or of effort, in her delivery of the
famous " apology." She conveyed the idea of • man who
is so assured of his innocence, who it so incapable of prac-
tising " arts inhibited and out of warrant," and
so confident that his actions will bear every
scrutiny, that he feels no mistrust and no ap-
prehension : his cause will speak for itself.
This view of the character was again exhibited at a later
period of the play. After Othello has been agonised by
the suspicions which biro his aroused in the wonderful
scene of the third act, he is still quick to believe in
Desdemona's innocesoa At the mere sight of her, indeed,
the current of his emotion. is completely changed as he
says—
Look where she comes.
If she he false, 0 then Heaven mocks Itself!
Ell not believe It.

In the next scene, too, where he aak■ for the handker-
chief, he clings tenaciously to the last tothe hope that Des-
demons may be able to produce it ; and when he exclaims,

ISt lost ?le t gone t Speak. let out of the way ?
it is as though he were suggesting explanations rather
than asking questions. These and other readings of
well-known lines show the spirit in which Mils Glyn
carries out her task. In her rendering of Imo, the cold,
hard, sceptical nature of the plotting villain was finely in-
dicated, the soliloquies being given with admirable effect.
The difference, too, in his bearing according to the object
he has in view and the person whom he wishes to influence
—a difference which is not always kept in view on the
stage—was well and clearly indicated. For her spirited
rendering of one scene in the play—that in which Csasio's
drunkenness is represented—Miss Glyn deserves special
praise for delicacy. The delineation of intoxication by a
woman can never be rendered very amusing. There is
something in it which jars painfully against the feelings,
and shocks the sense. Miss Glyn vividly suggests Gsasio's
drunkenness without exhibiting it. It is the merit of
Miss Glyn that she so completely identifies herself with
the character she is assuming that we lose sight of her own
individuality when we are listening to the maudling excla-
mations of Cando, just as much as we do when we are
listening to the passionate outbursts of Othello, the wily
suggestions of Ingo, or the silly complaints of Itoderigo.
In Desdemona and Emilia Miss Glyn displayed, it need
scarcely be said, all her dramatic power.
Miss Glyn's next reading will be on Friday next, Hamlet
being the play to be given.

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC IDEA OF TOLERATION.

The new Roman catholic journal, the West-
minster Oszette, is its number of to-day, has the following
noteworthy remarks upon a subject which Archbishop
Manning's speech at Birmingham has brought for the
time into prominence. It says "In countries unfortu-
nately now no longer exclusively Christian, religious or
rather irreligious liberty must run riot, since it would be
manifestly unwise or inexpedient to punish religious
error, or unjust as affecting such as are wholly ignorant
that they are guilty of heresy. But fortunately in
Rome a state exists where the civil law subset-yea,
as we urged last week it ought to do, the pur-
poses of the Divine Will, and where, in cease-
quenoe, the liberty to offend God and to vandalise Chris.
tians by introducing false worship is accorded to none. A
Scotch presbyterian clergyman, however, is not of our
opinion, and feels exceedingly vexed in spirit that he is
not allowed to used in a Chriatain state and proclaim
from the centre of Christendom itself, in the teeth of divine
and human law, the abominable error that mac has a right
to teach false doctrine sod to practice what false worships be
chooses. But since Pius IX. won't tolerate in favour of a score
or so of Scotch presbyterians a breach of divine and human
laws, the Tenses takes up its cudgels in behalf of the Rev
James Lewis. It is exceedingly wrath that the poor
Romans, when sorely tempted, should not at least have
a convenient opportunity at hand of committing the sin
of heresy ; in somewhat the same fashion Facia, we
suppose, could he have written a leader in the Times,
would have given vent to his indignation that the
jewellers at night put shutters on their windows and
thus took away from such as were unwillingly honest
a tempting opportunity of enriching their scanty store.
This last act of the papal government brings out in bold
relief the unworldliness of the papacy, and its steadfast
adherence to the doctrine peculiar to Christianity, that
public heresy is a moral offence to be punished by law. As
long as the scandal of a false worship in a Christian
country is not obtruded on public notice, it may haply
escape the arm of the law ; but from the moment the
practice of such a false worship adds, were it only through
the indiscreet and offensive conduct of a single Scotch
presbyterian of note, a public scandal to its moral
guilt, then it is the bounden duty of a Christian
state to put down inch an evil. But the
suppression of the Scotch presbyteri►n worship in
the city of Rome—like the successful protection afforded
in the Mortara case (which should never be forgotten) to a
Christian child, in spite of the entreaties, and threats,
and violent abuse of anti-Christian governments and un-
believing politicians, is a singular testimony to the un-
worldly spirit of the Papacy. In the stress of a great
calamity like the present, when his enemies are multiplied
end his friends are few, Pope Pins IX. does not for an
instant hesitate, on the dictates of conscience, to raise the
noisy anger of Scotchinen and presbyterians all over the
world, as in the Mortara case he defied the malice of Israel
so potent in the financial and political world. These acts
of the Pope, in luminous contrast to the spirit of the age,
were not for any earthly object, but simply to rescue a
baptised child from perdition, or to uphold a Christian
principle of government. Such unworldliness is a strange
' and marvellous spectacle, which from its innate force alone
foreshadows' victory."

MR. ROZBUCICB ELogyziseit.—" At this present
moment—l wish my poor countrymen knew it—going to
the United States they fancy they are going to Paradise—
they are going rather to the other place. (' Hear, hear,' and
laughter.) But now that Canada has taken the line of
free trade, the consequence will be—and you will see it
immediately—that there will be so large& smuggling trade
to Canada that I have no doubt Sheffield will benefit.
(Laughter.) I hope this will be the result, and that in the
fighta now going on on that continent we at least shall be
gainers. I hope you will not fancy I have done any great
thing in coming here. I came down in four hours from
Loon ; I felt no difficulty in getting into the carriage—
I came down, in fact, very much like a trunk—(langhter)—
in a very comfortable way. If I can upon any occasion,
by coming here, do any service to Sheffield I hope you will
make no ' bones' (if I may use a vulgar phrase) in asking
me to coins down, and I shall be most happy to wait upon
you." (Applatias.)—Mr. Roebuck at the mating of the
Sheffield Chamber of Commerce last evening.
RELIGIOUS INN/RUCTION IN TIDE HOLBORN
UNION.—The guanlians of the Holborn Union having re-
ceived a complaint that Mr. Holmes, the master of the
vagrant wards, had a disinclination to the religious ser-
vices conducted at the wards, and treated the inmates of
the wards with harshness, the guardians, in a committee
of the whole board, proceeded to inquire into the com-
plaint, and presented a report, in which they recommend,
" That Mr. -Holmes be cautioned that it is the wish of the
board that religious instruction should not be impeded,
but, on the contrary, that the zealous services of the oils-
sionaries should receive every encouragement. 2. That
he must be careful so that none of the vagrants be put to
work unfit for them. 3. That he be instructed that the
vagrants, especially women and children, must not be
turned out in inclement weather merely because the usual
hour of closing has arrived. 4. That he be informed that
the board highly objects to the use of harsh language as
both cruel and ineffectual in obtaining the obedience of
the vagrants, and that the guardians expect him to be
very particular in this respect for the future."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

Sittings M Niai Prins in Middlesex.—(Before Hr. &Wk.
Byios and a Common Jury.)

aerial V. MAKCALL.
The plaintiff in this owe wee a greengrocer at Pimlico
and on the 16th December, 1866, him servant was drive
Mrs. Isaacs and her child in a van along Westbouree-
grove when the vehicle came into collision with another
van belonging to the defendant. The plaintiff's van wag
tippet, and its occupants thrown out. The action wit
brought to recover for the injuries to Mrs. hum and he
child, as well as for the damage done to the van, but is
the course of the case it turned out that there was no per.
zonal hurt, and therefore the only claim was for bf.
for xppaauu•inrrgg the van. Proceedings were at first taken ie
theCountyCoart, when the judge ordered the witnesses out
of court. Some of the plaintiff's witnesses, however, did
not leave the court, and it was said that for this di'.
obedience to his order the judge nonsuited the plaintiff,
On the present occasion evidence was given on both
sides upon the question of negligence and upon the fair.
sees of the charge for repair.
Mr. Justice Byles said that he was sorry that the action
bad been brought in this court, the proceedings of ',hid
were very expensive, and he also regretted it because
there was a vast arrear of causes here, and many of them
were important cases which ought not to be delayed by
trumpery case like this. But still the cause was of ie.
portanae to the parties and the jury must give it the same
attention as if it were an action for 10,000/.
The jury found for the defendant.