The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-26 00:00:00

opinion than to leave the vindication of the
English name to the Prussian bureaucracy. The
ground which the defendants took was that as
Momaza had made a public attack they were com-
pelled to make a public defence. This was the
poisonous doctrine against which Attorney-General
AMMON exerted his eloquence. Once admit that
the acts of official persons may be publicly and
freely canvassed by persons not in office, and the
reigning system in Prussia falls to the ground.
Of course the judgment of the Court was given
against our countrymen. Attorney-General AM-
MON had the sagacity to see that he had too many
defendants, and took advantage of the statement of
seven of them that they had not been parties to the
publication of the protest to ask their acquittal,
while pressing for penalties against Dr. PERRY,
the Rev. Mr. ANDERSON, Major CUMBERLAND, and
Captain DRI7MMOND. If the telegraph has not
misreported the result, the Court has imposed on
Dr. PERRY a punishment much heavier than the
public prosecutor suggested. According to the
report of the trial in the Bonn Gazette, Attorney-
General Amnon asked that Dr. PERRY might be con-
demned to 14 days' imprisonment, but, according to
the telegram, his sentence is a fine of one hundred
thalen, or in default five weeks' imprisonment,
while his three companions, ANDERSON, DRUM-
MOND, and CUMBERLAND are severally sentenced
to fines of twenty-five thalera, or nine days' m-
prisonment in default.
It is not for Englishmen to regret this Bonn
trial. Our countrymen have borne themselves
with firmness and dignity, and have obtained all
the honour which was to be won in such a field
and against such opponents. It is for Prumians
to reflect seriously on the figure they make in the
world when they submit patiently to a system of
government which reduces them to silence in the
presence of their own servants. It is their battle
which Mr. ANDERSON and Dr. PERRY have been
fighting at Bonn. How can they expect conside-
ration abroad, how look for influence in Germany,
while they are slaves of the men they pay to do
their work 1 If the lesson of political manliness
which has just been given to Prussians should be
learnt to any appreciable extent, no Englishman,
and least of all the English residents at Bonn,
will regret this triaL

Cbt Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 25.

The Duchess of Kent and the Prinoe and Princess
of Leiningen visited her Majesty yesterday from Progmore.
lu the evening the royal dinner party included the
Prince of Wale; Primo Alfred, Princess Alice, Prince
Login of Hew, Bares von Weeterweller, Lieutenant-
Colocel Keppel, Major Cowell, R.E., and Major-General
the Hog. R. sad lira. Bruce, who arrived from Oxford in
the aftersoos.

TM band of tlas Soots Fusilier Guards played during
dinner the

Overton, "Macbeth"
Vase, n Drain of the Rove
Burckbordt.
nebeellett. "Marsh^
Quadrille. "Campbells are ecoir • Junk&
lloloction, "Robes 'loud" Maefarrea.
Her Majesty's private hand afterwards performed is the
drawing-room the
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Mew, •' bleadrir
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The geese sad Priam Omega* tie Prue of Wales,
Prism Alfred, Prises= Albs, Priam Arthur, Prince Leo-
pold, Primes Helean, PriBOIMB Ledge, and Prince Louis
of Heise, the Maim sad pedestal of the court, and the
domestic laseadmid sanded divine espies this moraing it
the private chapel. 'The Hot. sad very Bee. the Dean of
Windier performed the service end adcuinidered the holy
sacrement.

The Dueller of Kent and the Prince and Primer of
Leinisies visited the Queen today, and took luncheon.

COURT MOURN' NO. —LORDCHAII BERLAIN'74-OFTICE,
Dir. 24.-- Orders for the uourt's going into mourning on
Thursday next, the 27th instant., for her late Majesty the
teDowager Desiree of Sweden and Norway, granilmo-
rl the reigning King : The ladies to wear black silk,
fringed or plain linen, white gloves, necklace', and ear-
rings, black or white shoes, fans, and tippets. The gentle-
men to wear black full trimmed, fringed or plain linen,
black swords sad buckles. The court to change the mourn-
ing on Thursday, the 10th of Jemmy next. The ladies to
wear black silk or velvet, coloured ribbon', fans and
tippeta, or plain white, or white and gold, or white and
silver 'tuffs, with blade ribbons. The gentlemen to wear
bleak costa, and black or plain white, or white and gold,
or white and silver stuff waistcoats, full-trimmed, oolounod
swords and hackles ; and on Thursday, the 17th of January
next, the court to go out of mourning.-- Gazette.
FOR EION-OTTICIF, Nov. 15.—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to appoint Frederick Janson, Fay., now
British vice.cossul at Acapulco, to be her Majesty's consul
at Tampico.—Gazette.
FOR EIO Dr.c. 21.—Tbe Queen has been
pleased to approved Mr. Henry Rhoden ma consul for the
Port of Victoria and other ports of Vancouver's Island, for
the King of the Hawaiian lolanda, and of Mr. Iligismund
Cahlmann as consul in London for their Serene Highoenes
the l'riuces of Schwaroburg Rudulstadt and of Schwa :burg
Sondershaueen.—Gazette.

The Duke and Duchess of Atholl have left the
st. Georp's Hotel.

The Earl of Yarborough, who is staying at
Brighton, is stated to be in • weak state of health. His
lordship has never wholly recovered from the alarming
accident which he met with in his yacht, the Zoe, which
foundered off the east coast about three years since.
The Earl and Countens of Clarendon are enter-
taining a select circle at the Grove, Herta

The Earl and Counters of Winehilsea and Lady
Florence Paget have left the St. George's Hotel.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have a
select circle assembled at Woodlands.

Viecouut Valletert, M. P., has left Farrenee's
Hotel for Mnant-Edgeumbe, Devon.

The Times, in au article relating to the recent
criticism of the Lord Chancellor upon Vice-Chancellor
Wood, after expressing an opinion in favour of written
judgments, says :—" Whether it is strictly within the pro-
vince of an appellate tribunal to criticise the practice of the
court below in a matter of this kind, and whether it was
good policy to select for animadversion, however respectful,
the conduct of so eminent and experienced a judge as Vice-
Chancellor Page Wood, it quite another question. Very
possibly many gentlemen of the amity bar who have
listened with admiration to luminous and comprehensive
extempore judgments, touching upon every salient point in
a ease that has oxupied two or three days, may feel e.g.
grieved by the Chancellor's interference, especially as
lin this instance the decree was confirmed in every par-
ticular. We would only remind them that whet may be an
intellectual treat where the judge is a man of rare abilityand
conmientiousneas, may become under other circumstances a
tiresome waste of public time. Persuasion is no part of a
judge's duty, and, while the theory of our law remains
unchanged, he cannot be too careful not to anticipate
objections, or to lay down principles broader than are
necessary for hie purpose. The best judgments are often
thew which are at first sight least instructive, giving the
net result of a minute investigation, but leaving the possible
exoeptions to the ingenuity of a profession who have never
shown themeless unequal to the task."
Nrw Act ro Amount' Frits ro Corosrses.—On
Tuesday next a provision in a recent Act on eallaty Coroners
(It and 24 Vic., chap. 115) will take effect, and In future
they will be paid by salary instead of fees. On the 31st
December instant all fees to county conmers will be abo-
lished, awl on the Ist January their salaries will be com-
menced. The sum is to be fixed by justices in elision
on an average of the last five years, and in the event of the
parties not agreeing as appeal r given to the Home Secre-
tary, and he is to determine the amount for mileage and
allow:me, having retard to the number of inquests held in
the lest tire years. After the lapse of every successive
period of ties years the salaries may be revised by the 'us.
tires and coroners, and the Imo are to be • or
, diminished, and, in case of their d
' isagreement, • similar
appisl is maven to the Secretary of Ktate. Bv the same set
the I..mt 'haerellor is empowered to remove • county
nmmrt frr inability or miftlehm tour in him office. Further,
thy a..t unmiqlel that the 1...11ing at elections fur coroner. is
iiintione for woe day instead of two, as authorised by
I former statutes.