The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-27 00:00:00

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PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 2G.
An order was received at Portsmouth Dockyard
to-day for the Orontes, iron screw troopship, Captain
H. W. Hire, to be gut ready for sea immediately, her
destination being, it was understood, Ireland, where she
will proceed with troops as soon as ready. The Orontes
was under orders to pay out of commission on the 3rd I
proximo, having been upwards of three years in commis-
sion, and a portion of her stores had already been landed.
These are being reshipped with all despatch, and the ship
will probably be ready by Wednesday night or Thursday I
morning.
The Tamar, screw troopship, Captain F. Sullivan, C. 8.,
under orders for foreign service, will also leave for Ireland '
numediately—probably some time to-morrow.
CHATHAM, Nov. 2G.
The Sepoy, 2, CA-horse power, received an order
by telegram fro.n the Admiralty this morning to proceed
forthwith to Queenstown, there to await further orders as
to subsequent movements.
This morning a detachment of three officer' and 97 non-
commissioned officers and men of the Royal Marines Light
Infantry left the headquarters of this division at six
o'clock, and proceeded to Ireland. The following officers
left with the detachment :—Captain J. F. Sanders, First
Lieutenant 0. Tracey, and Second-Lieutenant H. S. G.
Schomberg. The Royal Marines will embark at Plymouth,
and will he stationed at Queenstown, on board the Frede-
rick William, 74, 500-horse power, Captain J. J. Ken-
nedy, C.D.

I
KINGSLAND AND DALSTON LITERARY AND SCIEN-
PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND THE LATE ELECTIONS. TIFIC INSTITUTE.—Au institution with this title has been
—The following telegram from the President to the ' formed at Dalston, and a well-attended meeting in its
Governor of Texas is published in the New York papers : support was held last evening in the Bay-street School-
-" Washington, D.C., Oct. ;30, 1866.—Your telegram of roan, Middleton road. The gentlemen who started the
ect made careful inquiries as to the state of the
the 28th inst. just received. I have nothing further to neighbourhood,pri
and amongst other statistics they have
suggest than urging upon the legislature to make all laws discovered that there are no fewer than 6,000 unmarried
involving civil rights as complete as possible, so as to ex. men, chiefly clerks in the City, who will come within the
tend equal and exact justice to all persons, without regard operations of the society. Strange to say, although the
oistrict has about 100,0u0 inhabitants, it has up to the pre-
to colour, if it has not been done. We should not despair sent time been without a literary institute of an unsec-
of the republic. My faith is strong, my confidence undi- tarimi character. This the new society will strictly be. In
min;shed in the wisdom, prudence, virtue, intelligence, addition to the usual features of a literary and scientific
and magnanimity of the great mass of the people ; and institute, coffee and smoking rooms will be provided so as
that tl.eir ultimate decision will be—uninfluenced by pas- nu
hes the
and wordsre of the comm
the of it to meet
quirements widest circle."
sion and prejudice engendered by the recent civil war— wAt influential provisional committee has been formed,
for the complete restoration of the Union by the admission and they have secured Colveston-house, Ridley-road. for
of loyal representatives and senators from all the States to the institute. The earnestness of these gentlemen may
the respective Houses of the Congress of the United States. be gathered from the fact that they have determined, in
—ANDREW JOHNSON." the event of subscriptions falling short of the required
amount, to guarantee the first year's expenses—an act of
THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT AND TE POPE. i generosity tis hardly probable they will be called upon to
The Indip.ndanee Bel ye says:—" Our letters from Madrid perform. Th
ey,tute is being heartily supported by
inform us that the presence of the Spanish war-steamer City gentlem and Mr. S. Morley, who is one of its
'Vulcan° at Civita Vecchia has been the subject of a warmest friends, has given a donation of 2U., with apr
mise of a second subscription to the same amount. Dr.
request for explanations on the part of the French go- Hewitt is chairman, and Mr. W. C. M.Lewin honorary
vernnieut. The Spanish government is said to have ad. secretary. The speakers last night included these gentle-
nutted that it was in view of the eventualities which men, Mr. John Rol
v, Mr. Brooks, Dr. Black, Mr. ere:-
might arise at Rome after the departure of the French ton, and Mr. Ayshford.
Qug Karr. MICROSCOPICAL CLLR.—The monthly
troops that it had placed this vessel at the disposition of
meeting was held at University College on the 23rd inst. ;
its ambassador at the Holy See. Nothing else has come Ernest Hart, Esq., President, in the chair. Mr. M. C.
of the matter." Cooke read
the
poet. a short paper on the transmission of slides
THE EMPRESS CHARLOTTE.—About the best through Mr. S. J. M'l
which heae de scrntire rd a paper onthe thir
e
thing we have heard of the Mexicans for sonic time is the different kinds of podune, in ibed
universal reg' et which our correspondent says is felt and history and habits, how to mount and examine their scales,
expressed by the common people for the sad fate and his experience in breeding them for microscopical in-
which has overtaken the Pnncesa Charlotte. There vestigation. Mr. N. E. Green read a paper on melicerta,
is no doubt that excellent lady laboured as earnestly being the result of long and careful inquiry into the habits
and as ardently as she could to help the poor, to and structure of this minute form of animal life under high
relieve the distreated, and to prove herself a benefactor to Powers and in thin glass cells specially constructed for
all classes. The quasi compulsory mode of her withdrawal the purpose. Nineteen members were elected, and the
from Mexico, and the all but tragic result of her mission proceedings terminated with a conversazione.
to France and Rome, were events which could hardly fail THR THAMES. —Despite the coldness of the
to make a deep impression upon a community so much weather, the frosts now give hunger and appetite to
more under the sway of impulse than the hard teachings , those excellent fish for the table—jack and perch—and
of reason.— New York Times. . the angler when the water is in condition will find capital
MORE RELICS OF SIR JOHN PRANICLIN.—A letter sport. The river literally abounds with these voracious
jest received from St. John's, New Brunswick, states that a members of the finny tribe : and from Teddington to
part of the crew of the American whale ship Antelope, Staines, piloted by some of our skilful fishermen, the
lost on Niantelik Island, October 6, had just arrived on sportsman, well protected from the cold, will find that a
steamers Wolf and Lion. The officers of the Antelope day's fishing in the Thames at this time of the year is not
bring interesting information of discoveries made by e. F. altogether a blank. These fish are now in their best condi-
Hall, respecting the Franklin expedition. Mr. Hall ban tion ; they afford lively and excellent sport, and are
in his possession a gold watch, some silver spoons, and worth eating when they are caught. There has been very
other relics, supposed to have belonged to the Franklin little. if any, sport during the past week, owing to the
party. He also learned that the remains of some of very thick state of the water ; indeed, scarcely a take
Franklin's men were lying under a boat in Committee Bay, has been reported worth recording. The lamperns, how.
where they h4l been placed by the natives after ties ever, have been coming up in large quantities, the Kempa,
The natives would not permit Mr. Hall to go on to ess. of Teddington, having taken about 20,000 during the last
mine them, but ail several vessels will winter in Repulse fortnight.—Wrat Surrey Times.
Bay, it is believed Mr. Hall will secure ;moistens., and THE Cuotzna.—There were four deaths from
push his way to where the remains are situated.—New cholera and the same number from diarrhoea registered in
York Treatise, Nov. 13. i London on Saturday.

THE CHARGE AGAINST THE DIRECTOR OF
THE JOINT STOCK DISCOUI4T COMPANY.
Mr. James Freeling Wilkinson, the late man-
aging director of the Joint Stock Discount Company, was
yesterday brought before the Lord Mayor (Alderman
Gabriel) in charge of Sergeant Moss, the city detective, fur
further examination at the Mansion House.
The case, as upon all the previous investigations, ap-
peared to create very great interest, and the court was
crowded during the inquiry by persons connected with
mercantile and monetary pursuits in the City of London.
It will be remembered that at the last examination the
Lord Mayor refused to take bail, and since his remand,
the defendant has been confined in Newgate, and he ap-
peared to have suffered very much by his inceromation
prom.
Mr. Poland again appeared on behalf of the prosecution,
and Mr. Sleigh was counsel for the defendant, who
was allowed to be seated in the dock during the pro-
ceedings.
The evidence in the original charge, which, it will be
recollected, was that the defendant had unlawfully appro-
priated two cheques, one for 4,000/., and the other for
8601., the property of the company, to his own private
purposes, was then read over, and at the conclusion of this
I portion of the proceedings, the Lord Mayor put the usual
statutory caution to the defendant, and intimated that it
was his intention to send the case for trial. The defendant
was then asked in the usuel form whether be wished to
say anything in answer to the charge that would be pre-
fe red against him, of having misappropriated 4,8601., the
moneys of the Joint *took Discount Company, of which
he was the managing director.
The defendant, with vast earnertoess, replied—l have
only this to say, that I am entirely Innocent of the charge
that is brought against me. I have never defrauded the
Joint Stock Discount Company of a single shilling, and
this shall be abundantly proved at my coming trial. I leave
myself entirely in the hands of my counsel.
The Lord Mayor then formally committed the defendant
for trial.
111 r. Poland said it was now his painful duty to prefer
a fresh charge against the defendant under the same section
of the act of parliament for having appropriated to his
own use another sum of 2,6771., the property of the oom-
p.any of which he was the managing director.
The circumstances were these. It appeared that
during the last year a son of the defendant, who
was a minor, had had transactions with Mr. Henry Lloyd,
a stock and share broker in the City,.for the purchase of
shares ; and Mr. Lloyd, knowing that he was not of age,
applied to the defendant upon the subject, and he not
only sanctioned the proceeding, but became a guarantee
for the payment of all the money that might be required
for the shares that were purchased by hie son. In pursu-
ance of this agreement, Mr. Lloyd purchased at different
times three hundred shares in the Joint Stock Discount
Company, and in the month of January of the present
year there wee a sum of 2,6771. due for these shares.
The son of the defendant died in December, and Mr. Lloyd
applied to the defendant for the amount, and he gave him
a cheque of the company, signed by Mr. Sutton, one
of the cashiers " pro manager," and Mr. Rixon, a direc-
tor, for 2,6771., and the shares were handed to him. It was
in respect of this transaction that the present charge was
preferred, and in order to screen the real nature of the
triumsctionAthe defendant appeared to have applied to Mr.
Gillespie, one of the directors of the Joint Stock Discount
Company, with whom he was on very friendly terms, to
allow the shares to be transferred to him, and also to per-
mit the sum in question to appear in the books of the
company as a loan to him personally. This course, it
seemed, was taken, but Mr. Gillespie would be called as
a witness, and he would state that he never gave
any authority to the defendant to purchase the
shares, or to transfer them to his name, and al-
though this gentleman might perhaps have acted impru-
dently in not preventing the proceeding from taking
place he would state that he had nothing to do with
the purchase of the sharer, and that the transaction was
entirely a private tranaacsion of the defendant under
the circumstances he had mentioned, and that the cheque
was given on his private account only. The learned counsel
then proceeded to Ytato that there had been Chancery pro-
ceedings between the person from whom the shares in
question were originally purchased and Mr. Gillespie with
I a view to render the latter liable as a contributory upon
them in the winding up of the company for any calls that
might be made, but the latter repudiated all responsibility
upon the shares, alleging that they had only come into his
possession under the circumstances he had stated, and the
defendant himself in the answer he had given in the
course of the Chancery proceedings virtually admitted
that this was the fact.
The following evidence was then adduced :
Mr. Henry Lloyd deposed that he carried on business as
a stock and share broker, at No. 18, Old Broad-street.
Some time last year he had some transactions with the
defendant's son. They commenced early in the year, and
in November he purchased for the defendant's son '..4)0
shares in the Joint Stock Discount Company. He after-
wards purchased 100 more of the same shares. Witness
was aware at the time that the defendant's son was under
age, and he communicated with the defendant upon the
subject, and he told him that he might safely execute any
orders the son gave him. but in addition he would
guarantee them. The defendant's son died in December,
and at this time he was indebted to the firm for
commission and balances, 1211. Os, which was paid
by the defendant's own cheque, and the shares were
carried over to the middle of January account, and at that
time he received Iron. the defendant a cheque for 2,667!.
in payment of the shares. The cheque now produced, dated
the 16th of January, lfWei, was the one he so received.
The transfers of the shares were made out ha the name of
John Gillespie. Witness paid the cheque for 2,6671. into
his own bankers, Messrs. Price and Co., and was credited
with the amount. The defendant had previously informed
him that he intended to take ty the shares on the settling
day.
Mr. John Gillespie deposed that lie was formerly one of
the directors of the Joint Stock Discount Company, and
on the li;th of January of the present year he held 700
shares in the company. Ile remembered the defendant
applying to him about this time, and stating that his son
had bought some shares in the company previous to his
death, and that, being an old friend, he had to ask the
liberty of passing witness's name in as the person to whom
the shares should be transferred. Witness told him
he had quite enough shares already in the company,
and ho objected to doing what he requested. The reason
he assigned was that as he was the managing director of
the company, he did not like his name to appear in the
transaction, said witness observed that the same observa-
tion applied to himself, as he was a director. Some little
time afterwards the defendant said that he had given a
cheque for the shares, sad hail debited witnesis's account
for the amount. Witness told him he could not allow it,
and the defendant then stated that he would make some
other arrangement. The defendant gave him the transfers
of the shares at the same time that he told him that he
had passed a cheque to w itnesa's account for the shares.
A short time after this witness handed over the tronsfere of
the shares to the secietary of the company, and he did so
without inquiry, or even looking at them. The
cheque for 2,isra. woe not drawn with witness's authority,
but from the friendly terms he was on with the defendant
he might very probably have believed that witness would
have sanctioned the transaction. He had no idea that
the cheque was to be used on his account to purchase the
shares, and at this time lie could have bought the shares
in the market fur 4004. or 5001. less.
The cheque book of the company was produced, and it
appeared by the counterfoil that the cheque for 2,1 671.
was drawn in favour of Gillespie and Co., and the witness
stated that he was debited with the amount in the books of
the company.
Mr. Gillespie went on to state that at this time the
company was in difficulties, and he mentioned the subject
to several of hie brother directors.
Cross-exainined—Witness mentioned the circumstance
to his brother directors about a week after the defendant
informed him that be had given the cheque. There was
noorni:uveretsie.nt,,otomnlintliices.recollection.hiiL T hweh(ei
defendant
et
nh defend-
anteLnt told
him that lie would have the transfers executed in witness's
:idonto
name. Notwithstanding the objection he made to the
defendant to have anything to do with the transaction, he
kept the shares until March, and then handed them to the
secretary. lie considered the shares at this time were
valuable property, and lie held them on behalf of the coni-
pany as security,
for the amount that had been paid for
theirs.
The Lord Mayor inquired of the witness how it hap-
pened, if he thought the shares were a good security and
were valuable, that he did not hand them over at once to
the secretary to be placed among the other securities upon
which money had been advanced?
Mr. Gillespie replied that, being one of Ithe directors of
the company, he thought the shares were as well in his
possession as that of anybody else. lar of
The Lord Mayor—l suppose you had a regu plaoe
deposit et the offices of the company for the securities
upon which money had been advanced?
Mr. Gillespie—They were usually kept intoe iron safe.
Cross-examination continued—lle did hand the
shares to the secretary until the 13th of March ; but,
during the interval, he had on several occasions mentioned
the matter to his brother directors. He never told them,
however, that the supposed purchase of the shares by him
was a sham. He was not aware that, on the 16th of
January, the three hundred shares could have been sold
for 81. 12a. tad. per share, and would consequently have
realised nearly tbe whole sum of 2,6671. that was paid for
them. He had no idea what the price of the shares was
on the 16th of January.
Mr. 3leigh—Then I should like to know why you tell us
that you could have purchased them in the market for
400 f. or 6001. less than tbe rum mentioned on that day..
The Lord Mayor— I should like to know bow it ha
that a cheque for so large an amount at 2,0671. shoel
ap-
pear in the books without the directors making some in-
quiry how it came there, and what it referred to.
Mr. Gillespie said that it would probetdy bo takes to

TOTNES ELECTION COMMISSION.—The commis-
sioners appointed to inquire into the corruption that has
prevail ftl at parliamentary elections for the borough of
Totnes met again yesterday in No. 9 committee room of
the House of Commons, Mr. Bere in the chair. Some
additional evidence was taken, and Mr. Drake was re-
called. He said : I know Mr. Robert R. Moor. He walla
barrister, and I believe a lecturer employed by the Anti-
corn Law League. He was also employed in going about
with candidates and making speeches. The man was a
good deal involved, and witness employed him to a certain
extent in making speeches. Mr. Moor never suggested to
witness that ha might be remunerated by witness giving
him briefs in private committees. Witness meant by his
statement the other day that no moneys passed through
his hands, that no money passed through his hands for
general distribution at elections. If a candidate were
recommended as a fit man to contest a certain place, and
he required assistance, that assistance was afforded from
means subscribed by the leaders of the liberal party.
Mr. John Fender corrected several inaccuracies in the
shorthand writer's report of his evidence. Mr. Denby
Seymour, M.P., was briefly re-examined, and the inquiry
was again adjourned for the preparation of the commis-
sioners' report, the chief commissioner stating that one or
two further witnesses may probably be examined, but that
the inquiry would then close.
EXTENSION OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY.—It will be
remembered that a project was started at Oxford last year
for the extension of the university, and six influential sub-
committee', were appointed to consider the matter in its
difficult bearings. The sub-committee nominated to con-
sider whether colleges and halls should have the power
to permit their undergraduates to go into lodgings after
two years' residence, recommend asfollowe :—" That heads
of houses be en ipowered to allow their undergraduates to keep
terms by residence anywhere within the precincts of the
university when they shall have completed eight terms
of residence within the walls of their respective colleges
and halls, and that due provision be made for the mainte-
nance of discipline among such undergraduates." The
report of the sub-committee nominated " to frame the de-
tails of a scheme for the extension of the university by
the affiliation of other places of liberal education" has
also appeareri, and is in favour of the affiliation scheme
under certain conditions.
MR. HORSMAN, M.P., AND THE LEEDS MAN-
HOOD SUFFRAGE Aremetartoe.—Mr. Horsmen has ad-
dressed the following letter to Mr. Alderman Carter, the
president of the Leeds Manhood Suffrage Association :
" Glenftshire, Ringussie, N. 11., Oct. 21, lerei. Sir,-1
regret very much that your letter (addressed to London),
inviting me to the Reform demonstration that was held at
Leeds on the Bth of this month, was only forwarded to me
to the Highlands two days ago ; and I beg to inform you
that it was, the accidental circumstance and not any inten-
tional discourtesy to yourself or the meeting that prevented
my sending you an ininiediate reply. In that letter you
say, with reference to the working classes, that I have
' stated' that they are unfitted and have no desire
for the franchise ; and you conclude your letter in
these words : They (the workin,, classes) believe that if
you accept this invitation you will when the next reform
Lill comes before the House of Commons be in a position
to speak of the working classes as a body with less bitter-
ness than has hitherto been your custom.' This letter was
addressed to rite iu your capacity of chainnan of the
meeting. The fact of its being written
bl i sh to me, rind the
general tenor of its contents, were pued (as I have
ascertained since I base received it) in the newspapers,
and its statements were assumed by speakers at the meet-
ing to be true. I hope that, in these circumstances, you
will excuse my calling your attention to them, and re-
questing you to inform me on what evidence you make
the assertion that it has been my ' custom' to speak with
bitterness of the working classes as a body,' and that I
have stated them to be unfitted :and to have no desire for
the franchise.'" Mr. Carter replies at some length,
quoting from the speeches of Mr. Reesman remarks
which he contends justify the assertions made in the letter
of invitation.
Sr. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—The following are the
preachers appoieted by the Bishop of London to preach in
the cathedral on Sunday mornings in the month of De-
cember, lAIiO : Sunday, Dec. 9, the Rev. William Calvert,
M.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge, incumbent of St.
John the Baptist Church, Kentish-town ; Sunday, Dee.
10, the Rev. .John Edward Kempe, of Clare College,
Cambridge, rector of St. James's, Piccadilly ; Sunday,
Dec. 23, the Rev. Charles Mackenzie, M.A., of Pembroke
College, Oxford, rector of All Hallows, Lombard-street,
with St. Benet's ; Sunday, Dec. 30, the Rev. Charles
Browne Dalton, 31. A., of Wadhain College, Oxford, incum-
bent of St. Michael's Church, Highgate. The Very Rev.
Dr. Milan n, the Dean of St. Paul's, will preach on the
morning of the 2nd, being Advent Sunday, and on the
morning of the 25th, being Christmas-day.
FATHER lONATIUS.—The Rev. J. L. Lyne, whose
engagement at St. Bartholomew's Church, Cripplegate, has
already been mentioned, preached there on Sunday even-
ing to a large congregation. He does nut appear in
monkish habit, but in the surplice, differing from ordinary
clergymen only in the ex:ra length of the cassock. The
tonsure on the head is concealed. He has not yetreceived
a license from the Bishop of London, nor is it known
whether his lordship will consent to admit hint into the
order of the priesthood.
SACKVILLE CoLLEoe.—The wardenship of Sack-
rine College, East Grinstead, which became vacant a few
weeks since by the death of the Rev. Dr. J. Mason Neale.
has been conferred upon Mr. William Hooper Attree. The
appointment is in the gift of Earl Delawarr.
SOCIETY OF ARTA. —Sir Roundel! Palmer, Q.C.,
will preside at the meeting of this society to-morrow even-
ing, when a paper " On the effect of Limited Liability
Partnership on the Progress of Arts, Manufactures, and
' Commerce," will be read by Mr. William Hawes.
I ME. WILLIAM DARGAN'S AFrsins.—With respect
Ito the exaggerations in the statements made as to Mr.
Dargan's liabilities, we are enabled to say that
they do not exceed 180,0001. This sum comprehends
liabilities of all soils. On the other hand, Mr.
Dargan's assets—consisting of railway shares and shares
of other public undertakings, both ordinary and preference,
landed land house property in three counties, and good
debts—amount to a sum exceeding 410,000/. Thus, unless
by the folly or worse of some of his creditors, Me Dargan's
trustees should be forced to make a sacrifice of hie property
by an untimely sale, they are in a position to pay his debts
in full, and return to Lim a large surplus. This statement,
which we understand to be strictly correct,will be received
by the public with gratification.—Dublin tir,ning Mail.
SUICIDE AT ROCHDALE.—Mary Lowe, a servant
at the residence of Mr. George Miller, East-street, Roch-
dale, became acquainted some time ago with a young man
living in that town, and ultimately they became lovers. A
short time ago the deceased's sister got to know that
Lowe's lover was a married man, and she informed her
sister of the fact, but she seemed reluctant to give him up.
The married sister last week threatened to acquaint her
father with the affair, and spoke to her of the impropriety
of keeping company with a married num. On Friday
night the deceased had an interview with her lover, and
when they were parting she appeared to be in great dis-
tress She was not seen after until her body was found on
Sunday morn.ng in the canal, at Moss Bridge.
CURIOSITIES IN OYSTER CULTURE,—In some
parts of Cornwall oysters bred on one side of a river are so
coppery that they are poisonous, while those bred on the
other side of the same river are wholesome and of delicious
flavour. The oysters bred on the coppery beds are trans-
ferred to the south of Fogland oyster parks, where they
arc kept and fattened, and lifter a while the coppery im-
pregnations vanish, and these oysters sae sought after by

A special meeting of the Trades' Demonstration Com-
mittee was held last evening at the Brougham-hall, Fleet-
street, Mr. JENKINS in the chair, to receive the reply of
the Commissioner of Works to the application made to his
lordship that day by deputation for the use of Hyde-park
or the Green-park, for the purposes of huhlieg the reform
meeting on the 3rd Decembet next.
The SECRETARY reported the receipt of the following
letter from Lord John Manners November 26, 1866.—
Sir,—Having brought before her Majesty's government the
request preferred to me by the deputation of the London
trades this morning, that the use of either Hyde or the
Green park on Monday next should be permitted to them
for their proposed meeting in favour of parliamentary
reform, I have to inform you that, fur reasons which I
explained at that interview, the government do not feel
themselves at liberty to comply with it. In making koown
to you their decision, I need hardly say that it is based on
no apprehension of disturbance or misconduct on the part
of any of those concerned in the demonstration, and
is
arrived at without the slightest reference to the object of
the proposed meeting ; but on the principle uniformly
acted upon hitherto, that public meetings on political and
controversial subjects, attracting necessarily large crowds
in addition to those who take part in them, and thereby
leading to possible disorder end disturbance, ought not to
be held in those parks. Understanding that the committee
have made, and are still making, but hitherto without suc-
cors, attempts to secure a suitable place for the meeting
by arrangement with private persons, and recegnising the
anxiety shown by them to obviate as far es is possible in-
convenience to the public, the government authorise me to
say, that should those attempts fail, no objection will bo
taken to the proposed meeting being held within the
enclosure of Primrose-hill. On hearing from you that the
committee of the trades have arranged to hold the meet-
ing at Primrose-hill, I shall be happy to give the necessary
directions for making the entranoes aveilable for that per-
pose.—l am, sir, yours obediently, Joe 14 NANNELIB.—/dr.
II ertwell, Secretary of Trades Committee."
The CHAIRMAN reported that a cub-committee hail also
waited upon a noble lord connected with a most eligible
place in the neighbourhood of Bromten that day. The
place would hold 290 ,IMO people. The committee were to
receive a definite reply on Tuesday morning. (Cbeers,)
He would suggest they await that reply befcre deciding as
to Primrose-hill. The proceedings for the demonstration
would go on as usual.
This suggestion, after some discussion, was ngreed to.
The SECRETARY reported he bad written ii letter to the
Home Secretary, asking him to receive a deputation from
the committee on the subject of the police anti swearing in
special constables from the trades. To that letter he had
received an immediate reply from Mr. Walpole, consenting
to receive such deputation.
The members of the deputation liming been appointed,
the meeting adjourned.

A letter from Archbishop Manning was read in
the various Rowan catholic places' of worship in the metro-
polis on Sunday Irat, stating that in consequence of the
now almost total disappearance of cholera, the dispensa-
tion f num fting and abstinence from flesh meat, granted
in July, would cease to be in force from sunday next, after
which day, the usual regulations will have to 'ue conformed
to by the faithful of his diocese.
It is stated that the resignations of Mr. Row-
botham, manager, and Mr. Lythgoe. accountant, have
been accepted by the new directors of the North British
Railway.
THE LEA VALLEY.—Yesterday a conference, at-
tended by magistrates and nipresentatives of the local
authorities of the wide-spreading distiicts rurruunding the
Lea Valley—an area almost equal to th4t of the metropolis
itself—was held at the Tottenham High-cross rooms, for
the purpose of considering the important question of
uniting the districts in in° general system of drainage,
similar to that of the scheme adopted in the metropolis—
a question which in its bearings is of more than metropo-
litan interest. There were present representatives from
Friern Barnet, Finchley, Highgate, liornsey, Hackney,
Enfield, besides those of Tottenlium, Mr. liealey, ofthe
Metropolitan Board, Mr. Bodkin, Mr. Wyatt, Colonel
Jeakes, and other magistrates. It was ultimately resolved
to form a committee of the representatives of the district,
to give them power to consider the question in all its
bearings, so as to be able to report upon and recommend
some practical measure to a further meeting of the con-
ference. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the

proceedings.
ADMIRALTY, Nov. 26.—APPOINTMENT8.—Pay
muter .1. C. Pinhorn, to the Aurora; Master W. H.
Harris, to the Indus, for serrioe in the Rodney ; Midship-
man H. J. Oldfield, to the Ilighflyer.
POINT DE GALLE, Nov. 15. —The Messageries
Imperiales steamer Tigre left Calle on the 12th inst. for
Suez with the homeward India, China, and Japan mail.
She has on board 100 passengers and 2,300 packages of
merchandise. The Dounae left Galle on the 14th Ind.
with the outward mails.
CRYSTAL PALAUS. ORS SEITLLINO
MONDAY, Nov. 26.—Admiaaions on payment, 614 ; ditto
by season tieksts, 960. Total Tilton, 1,68 d.

MAPPIN BROTHERS.—Established A.D. 1810.

CHESTS of SILVER PLATE for the COLONIES.

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Its past conduct has been feeble and vacillating
at one moment it has seemed willing and
anxious to gratify and raise the notional spied of
Hungary, and the next shrinking from the ap-
prehended results of its own work. Now, however,
it must make up its mind. The course it
may take at Peath within the next two
months will probably decide once for all the
future relations of Hungary to the Emperor of
AUSTRIA. It is a great advantage for the EMPEROR
that,with his imperfect .rights as King of HUNGARY,
he has to do, not with diffused discontent, but
with the legal representatives of the nation, taking
their stand on definite rights, and a further advan-
lage, that his Minister can negotiate for a modifi-
cation of those rights with a statesman as capable
as M. DEAR of answering in the name of his coun-
try. Still, it must be remembered that M. DEAR
imperils his reputation every time he enters into
relations with a Government from which Hun-
gary has suffered so much as it has from Austria,
and the EMPEROR would do well to turn his ad-
vantages to account while they last, for it is im-
possible to predict how long they will continue.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAY.)

THE MTIAN TROCBLER.
The news from Ireland, the Times says, compels
suspicion and preparation. It adds to our expenses, and
it supplies a scandal which is noted by all the world, while,
with a very natural sympathy, everybody who wants to
turn things upside down in this country exchanges winks
with the Fenian., and has a scheme for dividing the land.
But let it be understood that there is nothing poliiieal
about the matter. Fenianism is nothing more nor less
than a scheme for the reconquest of Ireland and
a redistribution of its soil among the conquering party.
The attempt is utterly hopeless of success, but the result
would be one we shudder to think of. Over and over again
have we seen in foreign papers the expressive taunt that if
England can do nothing else she knows how to suppress a
rebellion. That taunt we have seen before the Jamaica
rebellion and before the Indian mutiny. The truth is that
no government on earth can tie the hands and restrain
the passions of subordinates on the spot. Should there
be another Irish rebellion, there will be no false sympathy
for those who take part in it, and it entirely depends on
Ireland whether there is to be a repetition of the dreadful
scenes of 1641 and 17913. The Times would rather give the
warning now while warning can be given. How vain it is
to talk about Jamaica now that all is over! How vain it
may poesibly be to talk about Ireland this time next year !
It is no longer possible, observes the Daily News, to
consider Fenianism as the mere crazy plot of a few adven-
turers without organisation and resources. Though it can
have but one end, that of troubling the prosperity of
Ireland, the Fenian leaders and their followers are evi-
dently prepared to encounter almost any amount of
failures and miscarriages. As Lord Kimberley has said,
the state of popular feeling in Ireland has never
been so unsatisfactory since N9B. The best that could
happen is that Mr. Stephens should carry out his promise
of returning to Ireland and raising the standard of rebel-
lion before the year is out. The worst is that disaffection
should linger on, waiting for an opportunity that will
never come, unsettling men's minds by vain hopes and
fears. The duty of the authorities is clear. It is their
business to make an end of the scatter ; and the public
feeling will support them in any legal measures, however
severe, which may be necessary for this purpose. It
sanctioned the mildness which spared the lives of the
former convicts, and it will sanction an extremer
course, should that be deemed prudent, now. But
the sense that England is punishing offenders of whose
guilt she is not wholly clear should check all merely vin-
dictive feeling, and especially the revival of that anti-Irish
sentiment which it is one of the chief evils of Fenianism
to have awakened into new life in England.
The Herald assures the American Fenian that if they
tempt our patience further by overt acts of violence they
must expect no mercy at the hands of British colonists—
co consideration whatever from the British government.
The excitement caused in Ireland by the machinations of
these misguided men and their secret emissaries seems
likely to reach so serious a point that it will be quite im-
possible to trifle any longer with the question.
The Telegraph urges that precautions be taken which
shall prevent any outburst of Irish bitterness. It must
not be said that in the year 1866. great Irish towns were
sacked, men and women murdered, the atrocities of the
Whiteboy period repeated, and then hundreds of mis-
guided rebels shot down. There must be no such scenes ;
the very first sign of outbreak must be the signal for the
exercise of an energy which, in its swiftness and decision,
shall be full of mercy.
The Star regrets to sec Lord Abercorn in power at the
present moment, because his capacity for such a crisis is
as yet untried, and because he belongs to a party whose
notions of repressive measures are too much of the Jamaica
school. The Star fears there can be little doubt that
some frantic scheme or other is in preparation for a Fenian
outbreak.