The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-15 00:00:00

THE FERNDALE COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

BIEEMILI;i1 TYDVIL, WanzaADAT..

On Tuesday night two more bodies were brought
up, making • total of nearly 100. Then most unfortu-
nately, the workings became very foul, rendering it hazar-
dous in the highest degree to continue the task of expire'
ration ; and the belief of the engineers late on Tuesday
night, after our last despatch, was that no bodies could be
recovered during the next 24 bolus.
During the bringing up of the dead on Tuesday an ind•
dent occurred which is without parallel. A fireman named
John Richards was amongst the dead. Be was a better
clad, better conducted man than the majority, and
amongst other things had a good watch, which was
found in his pocket and sent up to the top of the pit with
the body. Between the top of the pit and the house the
watch was stolen. This will show how the mind becomes
habituated to the most horrible scenes.
Strange tales are afloat as to the cause of the accident,
and it is necessary these should be recorded, so that the
coroner may investigate. This, however, is certain, that
the workings were so hot on Friday morning that two
young men went out, and meeting the manager,
told him they really could not stay below. We
a/so learn from good authority that on assuming the
management of the pit Williams economised in • way to •
cause much prejudice, and led some of the colliers to
leave. When ho first went there, three years ago, a man
had the duty of clearing the airways, and for this he had .
4s. 6d. • day, with the permission to take the coal
which fell in his way as his perquisite. Williams
stopped him from taking this, the man threw up his
work, and it is reported that ever since no man was placed
in this important port
Another allegation against the manager is that on a
Bremen complaining to him of the bad state of the air he
pooh poobed him, paid him oft, and discharged him. We
have heard of similar oases, and know that viewers
as • rule look with great ilidavouron any firemen who
complain of the workings, attributing it to cowardice, or
at all events timidity.
On Wednesday seven of the bodies were brought to
Merthyr, forming a procession that was fully a quarter of
an hour in passing • given spot. The shops were partially
dosed, the streets lined with spectators, and all along the
route were sympathising crowds ; but the scene at the rear
of the waits was the moat harrowing we have ever wit-
nessed. The grief was loud and pensions**, and few
looked on without feeling acutely ;or the mourners' great
and unmistakable sorrow.

. —The

Tan THIRD MMUS ton R
Liberal Ammoniating at Rieseingbem has already commenced •
taking Apnea amen= to secure the election of a third
member is that interest whenever the election takes place.
Meetings are being held in the • various wards. One was
held on Wednesday, over which Mr. Councillor Biagi pre-
sided. The following resolution was panted : That
this meeting is of opinion that the rating and minority
clauses of the government Reform Bill render it neeeeirry
for all classes of liberals of Birmingham to be united and
earnest, in order to return three liberrd ineteben to the
House of Commons at the nevi general election."
Preparatory to the banquet to Mr. E. DLiall and
the subsequent demonstration of his friends in St.
George's-hill, at Bradford, this evening, dinners of friends
took place in all the wards on Wednesday evening and
last evening. In many of the wands there were no fewer
than (oar dinners at .carious inns, and in some cues,
where a sufficiently large room could be obtained, the
company consisted of several hundred pereons. On Wed-
nenUthere y evening were dinners in two wards the
North and South ; Mr. S. Sutcliffe presiding over the first, .
and Mr. Alderman Rawson at the second. At the dinner
in the South ward, which took place at the Victoria Hotel,
Mr. Mien, shortly after arriving in the town, made an
unexpected appearance after dinner, and addressed the
company. He was received with loud and enthusiastic
cheering.
Mn. LAING, M.P. ON PUBLIC AVFAIRS. —Mr.
Laing, M.P., has addressed a letter to his constituents on
a few of the loading questions of domestic politics and
in the first place he addresses them on the subject of
the English Reform Bill. With that bill, as a whole, he
heartily agrees, and even as regards the scheme of redistri-
bution, which he does not consider complete, he conceives
Abakelletioluon4 it neAdemonajalbstwproper one for the
representation of Scotland, may afford a resting place for a
considerable time. Still the Reform Bill, he says, is a great
experiment. The greet direction in which the energy of
the new parliament will have to be turned is to Ire.
land, and it is essential that the Irish church establish-
ment should be done away with, and the revenues
applied to purposes in which the whole nation can
participate. As regards the Scotch Reform Bill, he sees
nu serious objection to the proposal to increase the num-
ber of the house, and he thinks tbst beyond question ten
additional Scotch members ought to be granted. From
any considerable section of the liberal µu cy he does not
anticipate opposition to those claims of Scotland ; but, if
it be attempted, it rests entirely with the Scotch mem-
bers to defeat it.

MR. COWPER, M.P., AND THE LABOUR/NO
CLASSES.—The Right Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., presided on
Wednesday at the annual meeting of the Homes= La-
bourers' Encouragement Association—a post filled for
many years by Lord Palmerston; and in proposing success
to the association, expressed his belief that one of the
good effects of these associations arose front the practical
sympathy which they were the means of showing the agri-
cultural claws their employe= and others took in them.
The gradual progress of that class rendered it more and
more the duty as well as the interest of other classes to
bring the best influences to bear upon them. Although he
believed that they had kept in progress with other
classes, there was yet a good deal to be done in bringiug
civilising and humanising influences to bear upon them.
especially with a view of removing a suspicion often found
prevailing, that what others did for them was based more
or. selfishness than on a desire really to benefit them. One
of the greatest dangers to be feared in regard to the future
was that the working classes should think it necessary to
act together as a class, and to fancy that their interests
were opposed to that of others, whilst what was of the
utmost importance they should see was that in the present
state of the world, and of this country in particuLir, the
interests of classes were identical, and each had a personal
advantage in the prosperity of the others.
THE ROMSEY MEMORIAL TO LORD PALMER-
srom.—The design for the memorial window in Romney
Abbey Church to the late Lord Palmerston was shown to
such of the subscribers as were present at the annual
dinner of the Homey Laboureis' t ncouragement Associa-
tion on Wednesday. It was prepared by Messrs. Clayton
and Bell, and comprises three principal groups in each of
the triplet lights of the large west window of the nave.
Those in the central light are the "Sermon on the
Mount" " The Judgment of Solomon," and ~Liberating
the Prisoners ;" those in the dexter Lyht, " The Tribute
Money," " Daniel es a Ruler," and the " Pursuits of
Peace;" and those in the sinister "Feeding Five Thousand
Men." "Joseph distributing Wheat," and "11-sr." The
estimated cost is 1,2007., of which 800 f. is now subscribed,
in addition to the amount of which the Hon. \V. Cowper
has taken charge, and intends to supplement sufficiently to
obtain, in pursuance of a general wish expressed in the
neighbourhood, a statue of the noble lord erected in the
market piece, the commission for executing which he has
given to Mr. Noble.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENC LAND.
The following gentlemen having undergone the necessary
examinations for the diploma were admitted members of
the college at a meeting of the court of examiners ou the
13th inst., viz.:—Messrs. John Guy. LR.C.P.. Edinb. and
LS.A., Workington. Cumberland ; Frederick Samuel
Daldy, Finsbury-square, and Alfred Robert Steele Per-
kins, Exeter, students of Guy's Hospital ; Barnaby Con-
stance Mac Egan, Dublin, Henry James Linton, Birken-
head, and Matthew Wilson Kennedy, Coleraine, Co.
Derry, of the Dublin School; William Henry Sutcliffe,
L.S.A., Manchester, and Thomas Wilson, Manchester, of
the Manchester School; Frederick Hopkins, Oxford, old
Henry Sainsbury, LS.A., Lavington, Wiltshire, of the
Birmingham School ; Richard Hughes, Liverpool, and
William Younghueband, Birkenhead, of the Liverpool
School ; Samuel Alford, Taunton, of University College ;
James Tompsctt, St. Leonard's-on-Sea, of St. Thomas's
Hospital; Edward Laurie, l'il.B. Lend., Manchester ,of
the Edinburgh School ; Thomas 'Leone. Dock-street.
of the London Hospital; John Walton Browne, M.D.
Queen's University, Belfast, of the Belfast School ; Robert
Clark Newton, Newcastle-on-Tyne, of the Newcastle
School ; Lemuel Matthews Griffiths. Bristol, of the Bristol
School, and John Henry Parker Wilson, Ryder-street. St.
James's, of St. George's Hospital. It is stated that fear
out of the 24 candidates failed to acquit themselves to the
satisfaction of the court of examiners, and were conse-
quently referred to their studies for the full period of six
months.
A CLUB AND GYMNASIUM. —lt is proposed to
convert the Colosseum, Regent's-park, into a club for
young wen engaged in professional and commercial pur-
suits ; and a committee, of which the Rev. John llodm
of St. Thomas's, Charterhouse, is chairman, lass
formed to carry out that object. We heartily applaud
one portion of the scheme—the formation of a large gym-
nasium in which young men employ d in sedentary work
can exercise muscle anal limb. Tile popularity and les.
oose of the celebrated gymnasium at Liverpool, and of the
German gymnasium of London, should encourage the corn.
mittee to persevere in their good week.—Brifiat Afedical
Journal.

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win take place every WEDNEIDAY and SATURDAY, and Ire- --no.--
quently on Monde ,ere the Auction-rooms. Is. Eingolnel. (THIS DAY.)
(nurses esiseeurs.)
Covent-garden.-Catalogues on application.
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THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE. EL LAIN G, M.P.
BERLIN, Nov. 14.
of erpreoo. The eloquence of the recess, observes the Daily • •
Specter's Gazette of this morning says :-The
New, is of rather a drowsy character, and whilst members
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TO CORRESPONDENTS. mute in parliament have spoken, the great popular and French invitation to the Conference is dated the
aduettessuate intended for "me atspries," London Even. parliamentary orators have been silent. Mr. Lein& has 9th, and begins with a statement of the warm
=sand hen the Ones, 10, Iliaved.44l".• by Te° avoided • November journey into the almost polar regions and well-justified interest of the French govern-
ea thet patelestion.
of Wick; and it must be a relief to some of his con- went in Italian events. The reputation and
stituents to be spared the depressing and chilling effects DRURY-LANE the impartial and far-sighted attitude of the
Tsai Emits*. THE DOGE OF VENICE Mr. Phelps Messrs of his peculiar oratory at a time of year when the vital
J. C. Cowper, H. Shiclair, E. Phelps, Barrett. Temple, Ac.. Mn energies are low, and the ci
rculation is languid. Owing French government with regard to the September
Her nano Vern. Miss Grattan.de.-And THE LADIES' CLUB.
Convention guarantee that it will not prove
Mesdames Bennis Shirley and Kate Hank Hanker. possibly to some frigid influences radiating from the arctic
spot which he represents, Mr. Laing never addresses the untrue to the engagements into which it
HAYMARKET.
YNta Emma, THE WINNING CARD. Mr. Compton.--OUR House of Commons without spreading through it a general has entered. The question of the Pope and of
AIm:RAN terms. Mans &Ahern, Chippendale. Rogers, catarrh. On the subject of impartial religions disendow- the Holy See must engage the serious attention of
Raymond, aut. Gordon. as. : idea lame. Robertson. DalWo, mart, hlr. Laing writes with firmness and good sense, the cabinets. The recent confusion in Italy was
Burke, dc.-And FISH OUT OF WATER. lir. Compton.
but so far as it handles the question of Reform his letter the result of a premature attempt.
THIS Erlnintili, THE M
LYCEUM.
ISTREsS OF TJE MILL.-And might have been dated from the cave of Adullam. He HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK. Mr. Feebler, Meow seems, with what authority does not appear, to pledge the The note proposes a common deliberation of tho
,
Emery, Ryder. F. Mathews. Callum, Mellon. end Dalton ; Scotch members to the scheme of increasing the repreeem .1- Owen, and says that nothing but a calm and
Misses Els worthy, Bishop, and Carlotta Leclereq. tation of Scotland-by an absolute addition to the members attentive examination can supply the bases for a
minimums of the House of Commons, but the claims of great satisfactory and lasting solution.
reissvmasio, A LITTLE FLUITATION. -Atter which &SRAM cities and densely crowded counties in England are The invitation does not state a date for the
NA POGUE Messrs. Bouticault, Vining. D. Murray..l. 0. Shore.
G. F. Senile. dc. : Miss Hughes and Mrs. Boneicault-And NO equally strong. Hie declared object is to stave off the meeting of the conference, nor does it enter into
ONE. ROUND THE CORNER. vital topic of redistribution, but the Daily News fancies
STRAND. the Scotch members are too shrewd to be decoyed. They details or put forward definite proposals.
THIS EIMN/110, THE FRENCH EXHIBITION.-KIND TO A will suspect a " cross" in the concert of the great financier
FRANCE.
FAULT. Mr. Pencils d Mies Hughes -And WILLIAM. TELL
WITH A VENGEANCE. MAMA. Thorne, James, and Fenton ; of railways and the not very great financier of the Ex-
PARIS, Nov. 15.
Mesdames Owynne, Jolumtoise, Holt, and Weatharsby. chequer, and decline to leave things to their too dexterous
Marshal Baraine will, it is said, be appointed to
HOLBORN. manipulation.
Tins ETENINO, FOR LOVE. Messrs. 11. J. Montagne, Price, The Time, describes Mr. Laing as addressing his consti- the chief military command at Nancy.
Garden, Westland, and H. Widdloomb: Mesdames Ntephens, Manta in the character of political moderator. The tone
Henrade C. Saunders, dc.-And MARY TURNER; OR, THE
ITALY.
WICIOLS WILLIS. Miss Josephs. of his letter is that of a sheltered haven after a storm, or
of • cool shade after eunshine. But for Scotland, Ireland FLORENCE, Nov. 15.
earrawiru. would run away with us, or burn us up with continual The Official Gazette publishes • decree appointing
TIM Ervin°, THE SPANISH PAGE.-THE MARRIAGE fever. But for Inland, Scotland would make us too canny General Cialdini commander-in-chief of the active
marl riesv K. Mrs. a lane -Mr. J. Milllceet & Mr. and Mrs.
Langan, Ethiopian Autocrats r. mune.. aisainee Lo and wise for dignity and even respectability. Our good l Grand.-With WILD CHARLIE. Messrs. B. Howe & Llisrlton.troops in Central Italy.
ship sails, as • ship can only sail, by the conflict of two
__
elements, of which Ireland is the wind and Scotland the The Journal de Rome of the 12th inst. announces
HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE
that the Pope has decided to bestow a mark of
water. Mr. Laing writes-who doubt it !--with a
TEM DAY -Morning. lb. 54m.....- Afternoon, 4h. 15m.
ria-Moasow-Morning, 4b. aint.......Afternooa, 6h. la. view to peace, quiet, and mutual satisfaction, honour upon all the Pontifical troops who repulsed
- - ---- -- - the Garibaldian invasion, and upon the French
LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15. InsCELLANEous TOPICs. troops who participated in the battle of Montana.
• The Post offers various objections to the project of the
A Society was formed not long since, and is Working Men's Association to return working men to par- THE EASTERN QUESTION.
now energetically appealing to the public, to sus- !lament, Day by day, it says, divergences seem to take ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 14, EVENING.
tain what is termed, somewhat inelegantly, a place and different parties to be in steady course of este- The /iodide and the Bourse Gazette give a cute-
" general blishment, so much so, that by the time that parliament
" Curates' Augmentation Fund."gorical denial to the statement that the Russian
probablyisr forhadis:, elution t
ceased thoe masses of thetean working men
rests
aim of the Society is to improve the material goal-minister at Constantinople had presented the
tion of the curates of the Church of England, and political body, and will have become, as other interests Porte with proposals for a reform of the last
it is proposed, as a beginning, to make a sub- have been before them, largely absorbed in various pro- Hatti-humayoun, and add :-" The adoption of
stantial addition from its funds to the stipends portions by the political parties formed of renew inte• such a course would be an entire opposition to the
of those who have laboured in that capacity rests which once were, like them, bodies apart. dignity of Russia, as well as to the position she
for fifteen years, and are still in receipt of a Discussing the Fenian trials in Ireland, the Times sup- has now assumed in conformity with her last de-
poses the prisoner Halpin to have intended, by his engem-
stipend of not less than 1001. per annum. claration to the Porte on the subject of Crete."
pulous imputations, to calumniate English justice for the
Societies already exist for helping incumbents-
encouragement of the sympathisers in America. Our
SPAIN.
to obtain clerical assistance in their parishes.
contemporary also defends the employment of informer
MADRID, Nov. 15.
There is the Pastoral Aid Society, which when their evidence is confirmed by documents or nide-
is doing invaluable service, supplying, wholly pendent testimony as an antidote to unlawful conspiracy N. Zaragoza will, it is said, come forward as
or in part, the stipends of curates where of which government is bound to avail itself. The Fenian, candidate for the presidency of the Chamber of
the local revenues are insufficient to support the have good reason to fear that all their secrets are reported Deputies.
number of the clergy necessary to do the work to Dublin Castle, and it is not for the guardians of law The government proposes shortly to abandon all
of a parish efficiently ; and the Additional and order to relieve them from that salutary appre- repressive measures.
- Curates Society exists fora similar object. The pennon.
The Daily Nev -s expresses a hope that the rejoicing THE BRAZILS.
operations of these societies, however, although shout to hail the arrival of the King of Greece and his (Vie Lisbon.)
they, of course, increase the effective demand young bride at Athens, may put an end to many an old BUENOS AYRES, Oct 12.
for the services of curates, do not make a direct grievance. Our best wishes go with the newly married Exchange on London, 481 ; dry hides, 41} for
addition to their salaries. They either place a King and Queen, and we shall be glad to see them settle
500n22 ; lumber, 39 to 43 ;flour, 11.
as asposeible to the serious business of a well-
curate where, without them, one would not be down
found, or they prevent the conscientious incum-
ordered government, and inaugurate a new era AMERICA,
bent from suffering the loss of a sum equal to
of progress and material prosperity among their subjects.
ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA.
Liberal and f d' ssion everywhere should be the
their annual grant. The new Society proposes to motto. The public accounts should be rigidly inrpectcd, (Via Queenstown.)
make a positive addition to the curate's income as and public honours be never paid but to proven worth. NEW YORK, Nov. 5, EVENING.
a recognition, not merely of his position in this or So immense are the undeveloped resources of Greece that The royal mail steamship China arrived at
that parish, but of his services as a minister of nothing but a firm, wise, equitable goveinment is necessary Queenstown at 5.50 a.m. to-day (Nov. 15) with 66
their church. In these days of distractions and to make the whole country revive and bloom like a garden, cabin passengers, and 5,000 dos.. in specie.
divisions it is satisfactory to find that it is sup- The Standard has no sympathy with the compassion be- She landed 3 passengers and 111 sacks of mails,
spoken for Allen and his accomplices, and deprecates any ported by men of all schools and opinions. Atand proceeded with the Liverpool and a portion of
lenity being shown to them. In the dock they loried in
the meeting held at Cambridge this day week, the the ri tr c me, and did their best to prove that meg
the Scotch mails at 6.5 a.m. All well.
Rev. Dr. MILLER said that "he never had to do them would be thrown away. my upon It is reported that General Grant, in obedience
" with a church movement from which the The Telegraph assures Mr. Macesbe, of the Egyptian to the wishes of President Johnson, will shortly
" party element Was so completely eliminated as Hall " that the line must be drawn somewhere." The issue an order for the dissolution of all the volun-
" from this "-a remark illustrated by the fact cause of the offence taken by the Telegraph is that " a Leer and military organisations in the South.
gang of low'class Algerines-half nigger, and half Turcos-
that on that occasion the speaker was associated General Grant has ordered all the officers who
in the advocacy of the institution with Mr. fellow, wehoo.
nwould,..ndnwohtobe tolerated
rn l
suinffthe o
ick butettertaneonfoha were allowed leave of absence in consequence of
BeErsroxe Hope, Archdeacon DENISON, and the police to go th;ough th • tying tricks i'n the lowest the fever which infested the Southern stations to
Rev. T. J. Rowsam.. coffee-houses of Algiers and Constantine, have been intro- return to their posts on the 30th inst.
It is acknowledged on all hands that the dated to a British public." " Where are the police ?" asks General Schofield has announced that the Vir-
position of the assistant curates, whose numbers the Telegraph. Will Sir Richard Mayne, with the Home ginia election has been decided in favour of the
have multiplied so enormously within the last Secretary, permit a community of decent people to be in- Reconstruction Convention, which he orders to
,riled
by the horseplay of a gang of riffraff semi-savages
thirty years, calls loudly for improvement, andassemble at Richmond on the 3rd December.
whom antics are accounted Infamous even in their own various proposals are made from time to time toThe President has ordered all the Fenian arms country ? mitigate its disadvantages. The traditional sys- The Star defends the snedidet„hip of Mr. Jacob Bright seized during the raid on Canada to be restored to
tem of the Church of England can hardly be said at Manchester as against the Claims of Mr. Bennett and their owners.
to recognise the clergyman whom we are accus- Mr. Henry. It is somewhat too chivalrous and generous The New York Herald states that the trial of Mr.
tomed to see working in a parish side by aide with of Mr. Henry to insist on rescuing Manchester from her-
we secured self-to make it his object to free her from liberalism, and Jefferson Davis will be postponed until the May
the minister to whom its revenues
handdmher over to thethtoeterm of tho Richmond court, adding that this de-
by law. The curate of the Prayer Book wastones Conduct
kindhi h onlymore
Edmund cision was taken at the request of the government
another person, with different responsibilities and Bannrkeodree6nused alan independennit °impolitic/an. was ca
politician counsel, in order that Chief Justice Chase might
rights, being a minister who had the actual cure who was never to be depended on, preside and a new indictment be framed.
of souls in the parish where he laboured. It is
According to the New York Times the majority
not surprising, therefore, that the provision of the Congress Judiciary Committee will report
required fur the large body of the clergy Ctrs !Court. against the impeachment of the President.
who are now employed in parishes under
General Sherman, on behalf of the government,
rectors and vicars should bo to a very large ex- WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 14. haa'concluded a treaty of peace with the Indians in
tent left to be made or supplemented by The Queen went out in the grounds yesterday the western territory, and has ordered the cease-
voluntary organisation. The ordinary stipend afternoon, accompanied by Princess Beatrice ; and her tion of hostilities.
of an assistant curate at the present time may be Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, drove out this The yellow fever still lingers at New Orleans.
said to be 1001., although in some instances morning. The Hon, Emily Cathcart was in attendance•
more than this may be paiwl in order to command The Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Albert Victor, (BY ATLANTIC TZLEC RAPR.)
Prince George' and Princess Louise left the Castle to-day NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 6 rat.
the services of a clergyman specially qualified.
at 12 o'clock, for SeadrMeliam, attended by Viscountess The Arago and the Denmark arrived out to-
The amount is miserably inadequate. Artisans earning Walden, General Sir William Knollys, and Major Grey,
more money than this go out on strike. The clergy Prince and Princess Christian and Princess Henrietta of
do not strike, but the insufficiency of the income Schleswig-Holstein dined with the Queen last easnin daCly.osing prices :-Gold, 140 i. Sterling exchange
g.
assigned to those of them who have not the interest on London, 109. 5-20 United States Bonds,
necessary to obtain preferment tells upon their The Prince of Wales has honoured Miss Durant with 1081' Illinois, 130. Erie, 73. Cotton-Mid-
number and quality in another way. The office is sittings for a medallion of his royal highness, The Princess tiling Upland, 14.
avoided by well qualified men from motives of of Wale' has also honoured Miss Durant with sittings. PHI
LADELPHIA, Nov. 14.
prudence, and the places they leave vacant are often --. Petroleum, standard white, 27.
filled up, we fear, in a manner which can by no A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
means be deemed satisfactory. Were it not that rivate residence of the Earl of Derby, in St. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY,)
are The Ministers many persona of private means enter a profession EaraniltifiVe;b ; the Lord ChanceSoreser, tnhte watethoef YRIDAT. NOVENBIB 15, 8 A.N.
which in this country has always been held a very Marlborough, the Earl of Afalmesbury' , the Right .ma sea
proper one for a gentleman, the evils of this Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke 1 L
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It will occur, we suspect, to most minds that
a matter so essential to the interests of the
Church of England as this should not be left to
voluntary effort. There must be something wrong
when the hardest workers of the richest religious
Establishment in the world cannot be more libe-
rally supported by its proper funds. It may, and
in some quarters will, be said that the heads of
the Church ought not to permit these appeals to
private liberality until they have done their
utmost to bring about a wise and just distribution
of its revenues, one in which income shall
bear some proportion to the services ren-
dered. This is what would be said of the
affairs of any other profession. But cus-
tom will reconcile us to arrangements of any
degree of unreasonableness. We are a people
accustomed to anomalies, and there are minds to
whom the notions of equality and fairness, far
from having the attraction they aro commonly
supposed to exercise, are positively repulsive.
England would no longer be England if every-
body were rewarded according to his merits, and
we may be sure that any proposal for increasing
the stipends of underpaid and overworked town
curates by deductions from the revenues of over-
paid country rectors and useless capitnlar clergy
would be strenuously resisted. In the meantime the
laborious curates must not be permitted to suffer for
an inequality which reflects on them nothing but
honour. Their case must be taken as it stands, and
ameliorated as soon and as completely as possible. I

The death is announced of the Right Rev. Dr.
John Stratton, Bishop of Toronto, the oldest of the colo-
nial prelates. The bishopric is worth 1,230/. a year.
The Poor-law Board have appointed Mr. Robert
Hedley, of Sidbrook, in the county of Somerset, to be a
poor-law inspector in the room of Mr. Robert Weak, who
has resigned.

RE3IARRS.
This morning the barometrical pressures reported show an in-
crease in Scotland and Ireland, but a diminution elsewhere. The
difference of pressure between Nairn end Brest Is 3-10ths of an
inch, and ft appears likely to Increase during the day. Tempe-
rature is uniformly high for the season. The wand Mew strongly
from the went in the south of Ireland, and from the south at the
southern and south•eutern station.. Rain has been general,
and the fall has been considerable in the north. The reeding of
barometer, f 0.43 Inches, reported yesterday from OreeneasUe has
been proved by subsequent report to have been I-10th of au
inch too low.

We (Herald) hear with pleasure that the govern-
ment have resolved to resume the storm signals devised by
the late Admiral Fitzroy, the value of which was so
forcibly urged upon their attention by Colonel Sykes,
M.P., Mr. David Milne Rome, the chairman of the
Scottish Meteorological Society, and Mr. Glaisher, the
president of the Meteorological Society, at the last meeting
of the British Association at Dundee.

An interesting service was held yesterday in
Chichester Cathedral, when a crowded congregation sc-
rambled to celebrate the restoration of the structure.
After the morning service a large party assembled to
luncheon in the council chamber. The Duke of Rich-
mond occupied the chair, and was supported by the leading
noblemen and gentlemen of the county. In the afternoon
the Bishop of St. Andrews, Dr. Wordsworth, was to
preach in the place of the Primus of Scotland, who was
unable to attend.

Count Zarier Branisky, who is amongst tho last
arrivals from Baden, is one of the few Polish noblemen
who have managed to preserve their vast estates. Last
summer (writes a contemporary) he made an ascension in
Godard's balloon, which excursion was prolonged to a late
hour, the party only returning to mother earth several
hours past midnight. Next day this nocturnal visit to
the regions of upper air was the talk of Paris, every lady
at whose house be had been received during the season
having received from him a case lined with black satin,
*ordaining a star in diamonds, which present the Count
explained as having been the result of his night amongst
the planets.

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 15, 1867.

W I TELLIUEIN

(THIS DAY.)

EQUITY COURT.
(Before Vice-Chanoellor Sir R. Main.)
RE TRZ ZOTAL URI 07 LIVERPOOL.

Mr. Osborne, who with Mr. C. Hall appeared for the
shareholders' petition, stated that with the consent of
creditors representing half a million of money, resolutions
had been pared in favour of winding up the company
under the supervision of the court. There was, therefore,
no longer any question in dispute.
Mr. Roxburgh, who represented a petitioning creditor for
6,0001., and Mr. Glasse and Mr. Swanston for a creditor
whose claim amounted to 2,8001., expressed their willing-
ness to acquiesce in an order to oontinae the voluntary
winding up under supervision.
Mr. Osborne mentioned that since the petition was pre-
sented the company had been registered to enable it to be
wound up voluntarily.

The Vioe-Chancellor directed the order to be made upon
all the petitions for a voluntary winding up under super-
vision, but to be dated from next Friday, as two of the
petitions stood for that day.
Mr. Cotton and Mr. Milward represented the company.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
Sittings in Banoo.—(Before the Lord Chief Baron and
Barons Bramwell, Channell, and Pigott.)
BIDER I. WOMBWELL.
- .

This was an action by Mr. Ryder, jeweller, in Bond-
Siragainst the defendant, who was the son of the late
George Wombwell, Bart., for various articles which he
had supplied to him from his shop. The defendant
pleaded infancy ; and the question arose whether
the goods were "necessaries." At the trial at Guild-
hall, before the Lord Chief Baron, the jury found a
verdict for the plaintiff in respect of certain of the
articles, including a pair of crystal, ruby, and diamond
solitaires, 251., and a silver gilt antique goblet, with an
engraved inscription, 151. 154., the latter havi been pre-
sented by the defendant to the Marquis of , at
whose seat in the country he had been in the habit of
staying. It appeared that the defendant bad an income
of 500/. a year, and an expectancy of 20,0001., and •at the
time of the transaction with the plaintiff be had incurred
debts for jewellery with other tradesmen to the extent of
1,3001.
Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., now showed ranee against a rule
which bad been obtainedto enter a noosuit or to reduce the
damages by such sum as the court might think proper.
He contended that the solitaires and silver giltgoblet were,
looking to the position of the defendant, "necessaries"
within the meaning of the different authorities
on the subject, so as to render the defendant
liable notwithstanding that plea of infancy. He also
submitted that the jury were the proper judges whether
the articles were necessary for a young man like the de-
fendant when under age, and that the court ought not to
send down the rase for another trial.

The Lord Chief Baron said the jury allowed for the soli-
' taints or shirt studs, thinking probably they were suitable
and necessary for the defendant in his rank and station.
With regard to the goblet, they might also have been of
opinion that it would have been meanspirited if be had not
made some present to the Marquis of Hastings, whose hos-
pitality he was frequently in the habit of enjoying.
Mr. Baron Bramwell—Supposing an " infant" said to a
nobleman, "For your kindness to ins I present you with
• silver goblet, which I have obtained on credit," what do
you think the nobleman would do with him and hispresant?
Mr. Coleridge—l am not sufficiently acquainted with the
manners and habits of the aristocracy to answer the ques-
tion. (Laughter.)
Mr. Baron Bramwell--I am not speaking of the manners
and habits of the aristocracy, but merely putting the
question by way of argument.
Mr. Coleridge—There was nothing to show that the
nobleman in this con knew how or where the goblet had
been obtained.

Mr. Baron Bramwell—My observation was a general one.
The Lord Chief Baron—l expressed no opinion as to
whether the articles were necessaries except with regard to
the ear-rings, the claim for which I said could not be sus-
tained. The jury did not allow for them, nor for • smell-
ing-bottle which they might likewise have thought were
intended for lady.
Mr. Coleridge, in conclusion, argued that the question
was one entirely for the jury, and that the judge was not
bound to direct a nonsnit.

Mr. Pike was also heard against the rule.
Mr. Bulwer, Q.C., In supporting the rule, observed that
he could not give a more graphic description of the " Road
to Ruin" than that which the career of the defendant
must h►ve presented to the mind of Mr. Ryder,
who had known him and his family for many years.
He submitted that solitaires composed of diamonds and
rubies could not be held to be necessanes, and that in no
sense could a present of a silver goblet come under that
category ; and further that the case was one which the
judge ought to have withdrawn from the jury.
Mr. Mayd followed on the same side.
The court took time to consider their judgment.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
PEARCE r. PRARCZ AND DIOBY. _ _

Mr. Huddleston, q.c., Dr. Deane, Q,C., azd Dr.
Tristram for the plaintiff ; the Attorney-General, Dr.
Spinks, and Mr. Lopez for the respondent.
The testator in this case was the late Mr. Peter John
Thomas Pearce, head of the firm of Messrs. Maples and
Pearce, solicitors, in the City. In 1849 he married the
plaintiff, by whom be had a son and • daughter. The
union did not turn oat happily. In 1858 there was a deed
of separation, and in the spring of the following year he
made his will, by which lie divided his propertybetween his
two children. In 1880 he became insane, but in March
of the following year he left the lunatic asylum of which
he had been en inmate. After a few months, however, he
was again obliged to be placed under restraint. On the
28th of March, 1852, he died. Probate was taken out in
common form and was generally acquiesced in. Mrs.
Pearce was allowed the custody of her children, but her
conduct not being satisfactory to the family they were
taken from her ; and after many attempts to regain pos-
session of them she began the present snit—the object of
which was to revoke the probate. The ground upon which
the proceeding was founded was an allegation of insanity
extending over the whole of the testator's married life.
The value of the estate was about 15,0001.
In support of the will a great number of witnesses were
called, who deposed that the testator was not only per-
fectly sane but that he was a remarkably shrewd, clear-
headed man of business. The most remarkable piece of
evidence, however, was • statement of enormous length,
written by the testator himself, in which he detailed the
disagreeable, of his married life as a justification of his
separation.
[The reading of this document wad not concluded when
we went to press.]

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

CLERKENIVELL,
coxcaALmaer OF EttlITH.

Sarah Amos, aged 211, of 41, Church-street, Stoke New-
ington, a domestic servant, was charged before Mr. Barker
with conoualing the birth of her illegitsuste child, at
41, Church-street, Stoke Newington.
hlrs. Elizabeth Porter, of IA Windsor-road, Upper
Holloway, said—The prisoner has been in my son's service
for the last nine years, at 41, Cburch-streot, Stoke New-
ington. On Monday, the sth of November, I went to my
son's on a visit. and I saw the prisoner sitting in a chair in
the sitting-room, apparently in great pain. From what
my daughter told me I asked the prisoner if she had been
confined, and she said '• Yes." I sent for a surgeon, and
be mid " I must see the child," and the prisoner said " It
is in a box locked in a cupboard in my bedroom. I went
them, and the prisoner gave me a key. I opened the
cupboard, and in a box I found the body of a female child.
The prisoner was then conveyed to the workhouse.
Police-sergeant John Howbill, 35 N, said—On the sth
of November, I was sent for to No. 41, Church-street,
Stoke Newington. I went upstairs and in a box I found
the body of a female child wrapped up in a sheet, and a
piece of red cloth tied round its throat. Dr. Fox ordered
the removal of the prisoner to the workhouse, where she
has remained until brought here. A coroner's inquest has
been held, and is adjourned until Tuesday next.
The prisoner, who was allowed to be seated, said she had
no question to ask and no defence to make.
Mr. Barker remanded the prisoner for a week.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
IMPORTANT TO CANNER.

For some time past a number of cabmen have been daily
summoned to appear at this court by the police for loiter•
ing and causing an obstruction with their cabs at the
Alhambra Palace, Coventry-street, and at the Oxford
Music Hall, and on the eases being proved they have
been fined ss. and oasts.

On some cabmen appearing before Mr. Knox to answer
summonses for loitering at the above-named places,
Mr. Knox said that nothing gave him greater rein than
to be constantly taking money out of the poor men's
pockets by fining them ris. and costs. He should lay
down as a rule for the future, that when it was the man'a
fin► offence of loitering at either the Alhambra, the Oxford,
or Coventry-street, he should only impose a fine of one
shilling and costs, and be should endorse the licence with
the name of the place where the offence was committed,
and if the man was summoned before him again for loiter-
ing at either of the places he had mentioned the fine would
be 20s. There was plenty of opportunity for the men to
go on the ranks, and those cabmen who put on the ranks
must have an opportunity of gaining a livelihood. He
hoped those cabmen in attendance would tell their com-
panions, so that the matter might be made public, and the
cabmen might know what his intention was, and the
nuisance stopped.
The defendants were fined ls. and costs.

The cheap soup kitchens have just been opened
for the winter in sever►' quarter§ of Paria.

GI:EAT EASTERN RAILWA Y COMPANY.
(THIS DAY.)

An extraordinary meeting of the East Anglian
Railway shareholders was held at 1 o'clock, at the
London Tavern, Mr. LIGHTLY SiM PROW in the chair, for
the purpose of considering the terms of the proposed
arrangement between the Great Eastern and
Anglian companies.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, skid
the meeting bad been celled to consider a proposal
made by the Great Eastern Company for a modi.
fieation of the terms of amalgamation and the with.
drawal from the board of the East Anglian directors.
I By the oxidised agreement the Eastern Counties Company
I agreed to give the East Anglian Company • fixed rate of
interest ; but the bill was lost, and the application was
not renewed. The company was afterwards reduced to a
state of insolvency, and an agreement was entered into
under the writing of which there was not sufficient
money received to pay the preference interest,
while there was nothing at all for the open shareholders,
Ultimately the preference stocks were placed next after
the debenture stocks of the Great Eastern Company, end
before its preference stock, and the result was that the al-
tered on the preference shares was paid. Notice was
afterwards given by the Crest Eastern Company
of a bill the object of which was to re.
move the East Anglian directory from the board.
That notice had now been renewed, sad the question was
what teems were offered. It was proposed that under
this arrangement the East Anglican preference stock
should be placed in the portion of debenture stock,
in which case it would not require the elec.
tion of directory. As regards the No. 2 stock,
he reminded the meeting that it was not to receive ley
interest until the Great Fisiern stock obtained 3 per cent.
It had been proposed to leave that to the Board of Tm.ls,
but the East Anglian directors thought it would be beet for
them to do their own business. He denied that the prewar,
of the East Anglian directors on the united board weld
injuriously affect Great Eastern interests. The first ques.
tion was whether they would accept debenture stock of the
first class in lieu of thar preference stock, and be was of
opinion that it way their interest to do so. The second
question was whether in the case of the contingent stock
they would accept 20 per oent. of Great Eastern stock, and
be thought it would be well to do so. After alluding to
the charges of trafficking in shares, and declaring that
be bad not himself dealt in shares for years, he con-
cluded by expressing the willingness of himself and his co.
director to retire.

Mr. Jonas Scorr deprecated the acceptance of 20 per
cent, in lien of the No. 2 stock. He did not despAir of as
improvement in the Great Eastern Railway. He saw no
reason why it should not pay h per cent. within seven
years. He, for one, must decline the offer. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Mannar (East-Anglian director) then read a resole-
tion which had been prepared, approving of the proposed
arrangement as regards the preference stock, but leaving
it open to the meeting to fill up the amount at which the
unprotected stock should be converted.
A SHAREHOLDER opposed the proposal as a needless
sacrifice of East Anglian interests.
Mr. WILKINSON said it was not surprising that the
Great Eastern board was to be reconstructed ; the
question waa whether it was to be reconstructed
out of the old materials. (Hear, hear.) He could see no
advantage in their giving up the stick in their hand, and
thus losing the power of defending themselves. He thought
the best course was to oppose the proposition in lota.
Mr. ht.ticimi observed that lie had not proposed a re-
solution, but merely laid one before the meeting.
Mr. LEGG contended that such an arrangement as bad
been suggested was desirable.
[The meeting was proceeding when our report left.]