The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-31 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1867.

of man, watching the operation and sedulously
endeavouring to preserve the balance of natural
forces, to foresee and partially to obviate.
The spirit of selfish and unscrupulous aggrandize-
ment which marks much of our commerce, and
which, egging on compliant Ministers to force trade
in new regions, has landed us in our miserable
Abyssinian expedition, has been displayed in a
'flamer yet more violent and criminal in the
outrages of Trade Societies. The murders insti-
gated or committed by BROADHEADandCROOKES, and
the intimidation and outrage of the Sawgrinders and
Bricklayers of Sheffield and Lancashire, are not, it
must be remembered, new events, but only newly
disclosed. There is no reason to think that the
evil which they exhibit is on the increase. We
must not allow ourselves to be panic-stricken by
the clearer knowledge of facts, our ignorance
of which was most alarming. The slip-shod and
slovenly workmanship of our artisans too often
shows that the honourable spirit of excellence and
thoroughness which used to mark them is de-
clining. The cooked accounts of groat com-
mercial companies and the short weights of shop-
keepers have their counterpart in the scamped
work of the labouring men.
The laxity and unscrupulousness which we note
in trade is painfully reflected in the political world.
The history of the Reform Bill, the apostasy of
the Tory party, and the Parliamentary
leadership of Mr. DISRAELI, are signs of
demoralization. When honour is forgotten,
when pledges are cast to the wind, and convic-
tions are bartered for office by a great party, and
the nation admires the cleverness more than it
condemns the dishonour of the performance, the
augury is of evil import. Happily, the reckless
spirit of speculative politics has received a check
in the repeated discomfiture* of its chief author,
the Emperor NAPOLEON. The tragic catastrophe
of the Mexican expedition, the consolida-
tion of Germany, in virtue of his efforts
to divide it, and the embarrassments of
his Italian policy, are warnings that the most
dexterous adventurers have but a limited tether.
From Europe, to which we have taught so many
lessons, it is now our turn to learn some. We
have at this moment a political conspiracy in
almost all the great towns of the Empire, and
three millions of people more or less disaffected in
Ireland. Austria is strengthening herself by recog-
nition of the national sentiment of Hungary.
The United States are solving the great problem
of reconstruction. The rival States of Germany
are drawing closer together in virtue of the ties
of national feeling. On the other hand,
Russia is seeking closer union with Poland, by
endeavouring to stamp out every vestige of its
separate national existence. For nearly 700 years
we have followed a Russian policy in Ireland.
During the last generation, we have repented of
and abandoned this course. But we have not
freely and boldly committed ourselves to the
opposite policy. We have done our beat, accord-
ing to sadly imperfect lights, for the material
improvement of Ireland. But, as we might have
foreseen, and as Fenianiam now rises to tell us,
this is insufficient. With the nations of Europe
arming around us, on a scale and with a weapon
of deadly force, unknown in any previous age, we
cannot afford disaffection in any member of the
Empire, or the growth of a lower tone of mind
and character. The symptoms of decadence which
are plainly visible are as yet only warnings on
which we may act. Happily, the suffering and
trouble have come early enough to put us on
our guard. The eager haste to be rich at all
costs, the vulgar ostentation of wealth, or of the
false show of wealth, and the rivalry of taste-
less expenditure, are the chief source of the
licence so strongly illustrated in the course of the
year. Getting and spending, we have laid waste
our powers; and they can be restored only by a
return to the principles of plain living and high
thinking from which the nation has departed. If
this moral be practically applied, the lessons of
1867 will not have been in vain.

Eke Court.

OSBORNE, Dec. 30.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by Princess Christian and Rimiest@ Henrietta of
Schleswig-Holstein, the Equerry in Waiting being in at-
tendance upon horseback ; and her Majesty walked in the
grounds this morning, accompanied by Princess Beatrice.
Princess Christian, Princess Henrietta, and Prince Leo-
pold also went out.
Prince Arthur and Prince Christian went out shooting,
attended by Sir John Cowell and Major Elphinstone.
Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey had the honour of
accompanying their royal highnesses.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of the West India Islands, the North
American Provinces, and New Zealand.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.—Yester-
day afternoon their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess of Wales commenced their annual visit to the
Earl and Countess of Leicester at Holkham-hall, Norfolk.
Their royal highnesses travelled by ordinary train over
the Lynn and Hunetanton and West Norfolk Junction
Railways. Both these lines are worked by the Great
Eastern Railway Company, and Mr. T. Stevenson, superin-
tendent of the northern division of the Great Baatern
system, was in attendance on the train by which the
Prince and Princess travelled. Holkham was reached
late in the afternoon, and the royal visitors proceeded at
once to Holkham-hall, a stately pile which iv one of the
glories of Norfolk. The visit of the Prince and Princess
to Holkham is expected to last until Saturday, and
during the week the Prince and a number of distin-
guished guests will shoot over the Earl of Leiceeter's
preserves. The party invited to meet the Prince and
Princes of Wales at Holkham comprises his Serene
Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Viscount and
Viscountess Powerscourt, the Earl sad Countess of Dun-
more, Earl Vane, Lord Methuen and the Hon. Miss
Methuen, the Hon. T. De Grey, M.P., the Hon. Henry and
Lady Catherine Coke, Captain Seymour, Captain Bateson,
Miss Whitbread, Miss Stephenson, Miss Seymour, Mr.
Powell, &c. The Prince and Princess of Wales are attended
in their visit by Major Teesdale and the Hon. Mrs. Grey.
_ _

The Duke of Cambridge had a dinner party last
t
evening at Gloucester House.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings are
entertaining company at Donaingion Park.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Donegall have
been receiving • select party at Hampstead Mi•shail,
Berkshire, during the past week.

The Earl and Countess of Yarborough are enter-
taining company at Brocklesby HalL The noble earl's
hounds meet to-marrow at Brocklesby.

Colonel the Ron. N. and Lady Margaret Char-
teris have arrived at Highclere Castle, near Newbury, from
visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Donegal, at
Hampstead Marshall.

The Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Lord
Hyde, and the Lynes Viniers, arrived in Rome from
Florence on the 24th, and took up their residence at the
Hotel de l'Europe. Lord and Lady Frederick Cavendish
had had an audience of the Pope. Lord Thomas Grosvenor
had left Rome for Florence.

FASHIONS FOR JANUARY.

(From I.e Follet.)

There have been many modifications in the style
of the short costume during the last few weeks ; and, as
so very much of its gracefulness depends on the arrange•
went of the two skirts, we will endeavour to give our
readers an idea of the most usual and truly Parisian
make.

The under-skirt, though short, is not very short ; gene-
rally either red, violet, or black ; and is plaited round the
bottom. The upper skirt, which is most frequently black,
should be cut moderately trained at the back, and so looped
up as to be perfectly flat at the front and sides ; whilst
the back, being set in at the waist in large plaits, is quite
bouffant. Four buttons are used for the looping up, two
at the sides, and two at the back, those at the sides being
so placed as to stretch the front breadth quite plain. This
skirt of course is considerably shorter than the under-skirt.
Fur is still much in favour. It is profusely employed as
trimming. There are various ways of arranging it. For
taffetas, cloth, or velvet dresses, a double row placed up
each side of the front breadth is a very suitable style, •
single band being put round the cuffs and armholes. The
paletots of medium length have • square collar bordered
with fur. We have heard the question asked whether a
low body was considered indispensable for dinner-
dress. Without doubt it is so in Paris for all
ceremonious dinners, so that it is quite custo-
mary for Parisians to have two bodies made to
their silk, satin, moire antique, or velvet dresses. Thin
material is reserved for young girls or very young married
ladies. Last year black toilettes obtained an immense
success—they were worn even at balls ; and our ladies of
fashion appear to have no desire to give them up, so that
it is expected many ball drosses will be seen made of
black lace. Rich plain or broohe silks will be also worn
this winter ; but young girls should never wear anything
but light vaporous material for ball toilettes. The rage
for gold trimming is as great as ever. Velvet spotted with
gold, as well as velvet embroidered with coloured milk, is
in vogue for grand. toilette. For at-homedress, cachemire,
poplin, and velveteen are much worn.
The bonnets, although still worn so small, are made
wanner and more comfortable by means of the crossway
strings of velvet or satin, lined, and generally edged with
lam The " Ducheeee" is much admired, and is certainly
a very becoming headdress. Thus, a chapeau " Duchene"
of black velvet, trimmed with a wreath, or rather niche,
of lace, with • diadem of jet flowers ; at the tide an
aigrette of gold and steel. Wide strings c f crossway velvet,
lined with white satin and edged with lace. Or the
same bonnet in grey velvet, trimmed with a ruche of
blonde, and bandeau of gold and steel with banging
ornaments of steel. Strings of crossway satin, fastened by
a bow of the same formed of ends. At the back • bow
to match, with two long ends of satin edged with blonde.
A "Marie Antoinette" of violet velvet, edged with
small feathers the same colour and &grates of gold and
steel ; this trimming is carried down the strings, which
are of crossway velvet and fastened with • bow of the same.
Another, of ruby velva, was trimmed with folds and ro-
settes of the same coloured satin all round the edge, with
gold hanging ornaments. Across the back a band of curled
feathers forming a curtain over the chignon and carried
down the strings, which are ruby velvet lined with white
satin, fastened under the chin by a bow of velvet. A very
comfortable and, at the same time, elegant bonnet may
be made of black or coloured velvet, the front plaited,
and edged with a wreath of small feathers to match the
velvet, on which are placed small jet leaves. Soft full
crown of black lace, over which falls a rich lace forming a
mantilla, fastened over the satin strings by a satin bow.
For visits of ceremony a very charming bonnet was of
white royal, trimmed with rouleaux of white satin and •
fringe of marabouts. Bandeau of steel and gold, and
strings of white satin edged with blonde, fastened by a rich
brooch. Bonnet of maroon velvet, piped with satin tho
same colour ; small mantilla of black lace, fastened to •
band of velvet piped with satin, which forms the strings;
at the top a bow of velvet formed of ends. A ruche of
lace forming a diadem, separated by a band of gold and
steel. At the side a bouquet of small white flowers. A
fanchon of bright black feathers ; strings of the sanie. At
the side a bouquet of gold wheat ears, and • scarf of
Chantilly, forming a veil at the back, and fastened under
the chin.

PRECACTIONS AT HAMPTON' COURT. —The mill•
tary guard at Hampton Court, as was expected, has
been increased at the Royal Palace. A full company of
the saith Foot has arrived from Portland, and has t.dion up
its quarters there. The detachment of Hussars, supplied
from the bead-quarters at Hounslow, woo not sufficiently
strong in numbers to provide the number of sentries
required, so the infantry have come to help. The cavalry
keep to their old posts, the 54ith doing extra duty. The
" specials," whose employment we noticed last week,
are still kept on ; the men are all armed with a stout
cudgel at night, and are changed every two hours. The
day watching is principally left to the civilians, but at
night sentries are placed all round the Royal Palace, and
in all the approaches. After dark no ose is allowed to pass
without giving the sign, and if not known, is not alloyed
to proceed without a guard with biro. Even in Frog-
walk, facing the green, passengers are challenged, and have
to come forward to the light so that they may be seen.
That part of the palace which fates the river is most care-
fully guarded, and heavy iron gratings have been placed
over the mouths of the sewer. The watchmen and sentries
are so arranged that there is a complete cordon round the
whole place, and no one is left unsupported.
THE Ganz BALD! Fu ND. —We have been requested
to publish the following list of further subscriptions to the
Garibaldi Fund, administered by the ladies' committee
through Colonel Chambers :—Mr. S. Harwood, 5/. ; Mrs.
Harkworth, 1/. ls. ; Miss Nellie Cobden L. IVilliaccia, 5/.
Collected by Miss Cooke, 1/. 3a. 6d. ; oolleoted by Miss
Grant, 5/. ; collected by Miss Lucy Marianne Poole, of
Manchester, for the wounded Garihaldian volunteers and
the widows and orphans of the slain, 201.
CRYSTAL PALACE. -- ONE SHILLING DAY,
MONDAY, Ditc. 30. Atholonon• on payment, 4,002 ;
ditto by season tickets, 1,693; total visitors. 5,696.

sibility. When it was found by the experience of ; .SINGULAR MANIFESTO OF ROMAN CATHOLIC
1853 that not so much as a single individual ran his I CLERGYMEN.
stick through a picture or damaged with it any
article exhibited, the rule about sticks became
relaxed to an extent which greatly interfered with
what had been a profitable calling. The greater
precedent of 1867 confirmed modern notions on
the subject, and now people, instead of humbly
surrendering their sticks when called upon to give
them up, inquire fiercely whether the nuisance is
obligatory. At the Bourse, where the broad flag-
stones and solid pillars could not possibly be
damaged by sticks, the only pretext for taking them
away was that the owners of them under excitement
might get to fighting. M. Pietri's decrte,
therefore, which assumes that this is no longer
to be feared, may be hailed as a symptom of pro-
gress.

At the Bourse there were few transactions, ex-
cept those necessitated by the approaching settle-
ment. The market was weak all day, and the
closing prices of the Rente-68fr. 37}c. for cash,
and 68fr. 25c. for account—show a fall of 24c. and
7ic. Italian, Comptoir d'Escompte, and Mobilier
closed without change. Credit Fonder fell sfr.

ELECTION OF DEAD MASTER OF ETON
COLLEGE.-(THIS DAY.)

Rev. James John Hornby, M.A., Brasenose,
Oxford, and second master of Winchester College, was
this day elected head master of Eton College.

LOSS OP A SCBOONSIC AND SIX OP THE CREW.

The Very Rev. Dean O'Brien and a number of
Roman catholic clergymen of diocese of Limerick have
issued a remarkable declaration, which opens thus :
" We have arrived at an epoch of great trial and some
danger, and it is due to the people, the government,
and our own position frankly to express some of the evils
under which Ireland labours, and the remedy which,
under the presence of God, we believe to be the most alas-
cions, if not the only one, to give peace, security, sad
progress to the country. We belong to no party in the
• state within or without the constitution. We have no
alliance with whig, tory, or radical. We have laboured
many of us, and some of us incurred considerable odium,
in our endeavours to preserve public order, and thus we
have given a pledge that we are devoted to the interests of
peace. In reflecting upon the present position of the us.
tion, then' and offering our honest counsel, we have no
impulse to embarrass or to patronise any arty, and no
object but to perform our duty to religion and the people
with whom we are and have ever been perfectly identified;
It would be an error and • crime to say that the disaffec-
tion of this country is not deep-seated and extensive.
Deplorable as such a fact may be, no one who
knows the country can truthfully deny it. Generally •
blank hoplessness pervades the mind of the population, •
dark brooding, all the worse because every day growing in
intelligence. This hopelessness operates in two or three
directions and in everyone of them is almost equally du.
germs. Taking the form of emigration, it become, • long.
ing and resolve to ' cone back ; taking the form of con-
spiracy, it is ever on the watch for its opportunity ; sag
taking the form of Fenianism, it becomes reckless very
often, and regardless of consequences, making danger at
home and inviting evil from abroad. We need not
say that we know the people of Ireland well. They
are emphatically ' our own people.' We have their
confidence, and know their great virtues, as well as
what failings fall to their share ; sod we solemnly
declare that one of the most imminent dangers
of the movement of this generation is the magna.
nimous spirit of self-sacrifice which has animated the mu
of those who think of risking their lives or spending them
in even a hopeless contest. 'That they ' cannot be worse,'
that there is no hope for the country,' and that 'it is as
good to die 'are the sentiments and ethics which poverty
and degradation have taught, and which are frequently
repeated by American success and daring. In one worn
as en eminent prelate, • man even singularly diaton
for his devotion to English institutions, has recently-IZZ,
' If the Grand Turk came to this country, and proffered a
fair chance of eipelling English power, every man, woman,
and child would follow him to the field.' We deprecate the
continuance of this state of things—equally injurious to the
spiritual interest of our flocks and the social and commercial
interests of Ireland. We come before the country and the
government, believing that the difficulty ' is not in.
soluble, though we think it may be rapidly approaching
that state of hopelessness. We appeal to the common
sense and highest interest of these three kingdoms
patiently to bear and judge; and should we fail in avert-
mg • dire catastrophe, we shall have the consolation of
remembering that we have done our duty. Without any
affectation of confidence we do think that the English
people—the great body of that nation—would be inclined
not only to justice, but generosity, were they sufficiently
well-informed. To these we most especially appeal ; and
we shall feel surprised if, having duly considered the con-
dition and claims of this country, they will for ever leave
their own at the command of foreign nations sooner than
reverse the policy of ruin."
Replying to the inquiry " What are the roots of the
evil ' the document then goes into a long history of Ire-
land, showing that the people of that country have been de-
proved by misrule, through long generations, of the means
of attaining to prosperity, and concludes thus :
" We think ourselves no enemies of the commonwealth by
seeking to preserve it from such trials as it shadows forth
in the state of affairs just described. All Europe knows
these difficulties to which we allude, and America is every
day acting upon them. How can any government vindicate
its honour or guard its interests in such a state of things?
The experience of the last two years proves that, were
England at war with any European power to-morrow, that
power would be able to fling • brigade of fifty or sixty
thousand drilled and armed Irishmen into the field,
perhaps into this country • and then what anti restrain
the Irish population, enroied, poverty stricken, and hope-
less as they are' Again, we declare that the only hope of
peace, order, progress, and at last real union,ls in tranquil-
lising Ireland. And we solemnly declare that the only
meats of effectually tranquillising Ireland is by • restore,
tion of her nationality. General legislation by the par-
!Lament of Great Britain will never be equal to the task
of teaching, enriching, developing, and raising Ireland.
Political economy will never do fora country like Ireland,
any more than the ordinary food of health and vigour
would do for the weak and sickly. The most exceptional
legislation must be employed, the minutest knowledge
mast be obtained, the most persevering local inquiry must
be instituted, and a full, heart-whole, and we a mild say,
exclusive attention, province by province, mast be directed
to discover and remedy Ireland's wants ; and these
things an English parliament cannot perform. An Eng-
lish parliament has already too much to occupy
it ; an English parliament will always proceed by fixed
principles applicable only to organised communities, and
they will not do for Ireland ; an English parliament will
have to command • combination of parties who know little
of Ireland, and understand the necessity of entirely exLet
tional legislation—a thing absolutely easntial to Ire
And, above all, such • parliament will never satisfy the
cravings of • whole people, whose intellects and whose
hearts combine in the cry for nationality. A land tenure
will accomplish something; removal of the protestant
ascendancy, by ',being the protestant church in the same
position before the state as the catholic church, will
accomplish much ; equality in education and the re-
inoval of the anomaly of giving a freedom of educa-
tion on the condition of people giving up freedom, will
do its share—and we will hail any and all of them with
thankfulness ; but we feel bound to say that when all of
them have been granted, safety from foreign danger, per-
fect development of home resources, above all the heart
country
of this will acquire nationality. Givelreland has
awn legislature and the government of her resources—
nationality and her federal amity will be a tower of strength
to the empire. The country and people will have nothing
to complain of any more—they will be themselves respon-
sible for their own condition ; conspiracies at home will
hove nothing to plot about, and conspiracies abroad as
promise nothing which Ireland would nut be ready to
reject and resist. England will then be united to us
by our beet interests, and will be the protector of oar
most valued privileges, and the miserable conflicts of
seven centuries shall have an end. We conclude then,
firstly, that Iceland is poor and helpless, nut by any Rill
of the Irish race, but by the force and fault of English
legislation. Secondly, that the said English legislation
exercised its power, not only in pauperising Ireland
for • season, but in destroying nearly all the sources of
Irish national wealth, and thus making poverty • perm*•
nent condition of the country. Thirdly—That the danger
to public order, both at home and from abroad, has been
produced by and poverty and degradation. Fourthly—
That the very nature of most of the remedies required to
make Ireland rich and contented makes it impossible for
a British parliament to adopt and employ them ; and,
besides, that home aspirations and the plea for Irish
intervention from abroad can never be met, unless by
restoring Ireland her nationality, re-establishing the
sovereign and Lords and Commons of Ireland. Before the
face of Ireland and the whole world we make this de.
claration—in the interests of Haven and earth—the pre-
sent and the future. With the thoughtful men who away
the destinies of these kingdoms we leave the issue ; but
our own honour and conscience required that we should
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to take the responsibility. We have discharged our duty,
and on the stitesmenship of England now rests the deeply
important issue."

Yesterday(Monday)the steam-ship Angliaarrived
at Dundee from London. Captain Speedie, the master, re-
ports that when near the Newirp light ship he observed
• schooner bearing down on him. He did everything he
could to avert a collision, but the schooner made
no attempt to get out of the way, and came into contact
with the Anglia. The result was that the schooner re-
ceived a severe concussion, and sank immediately. por-
tions of her masts and rigging falling on the deck of the
steamer. No sound was heard for sometime, but ultimately
the voice of a man crying for help was heard. A boat was
lowered with all despatch, and one of the crew of the
schooner, Joseph Edwards, a black, was picked up in an
exhausted condition. He quickly recovered, however. He
stated that the vessel to which he belonged was
the George, of Bridgwater, Wales, and was manned
by a crew of six in addition to the master.
He stated that the master of the schooner mistook the
steamer for the Newarp light-ship, and was not able to
relieve himself from the difficulty into which he had fallen
until it was too late. The six men were drowned. The
schooner was laden with pig-iron, and was bound from
Middlesboro' to Cardiff. The general impression is that no
blame can be attached to Captain Speedie.

PROSECUTION OF THE PROCESSIONISTS AT
DUBLIN.

Mr. Alexander M. Sullivan, T.C., editor of the
Nation ; Mr. Thomas Bracken, clothier ; and Mr. Michael
Reilly grocer ; appeared before Mr. Dix, at the Dublin
Head Police-ogice, yesterday afternoon to answer the com-
plaint of the Queen at the prosecution of the Attorney-
General, and show cause why informations should not be
taken against them, for that they, " on the Bth day of
December inst., formed part of a certain unlawful and se-
ditious assembly of persons gathered together at Thomas.
street and at other places, and, did then and there take
part in an illegal procession."
James Jennings, clothier, Kingstown-avenue ; William
Stankidge, and George F. Gilliam, also appeared to
answer • summons, charging them with a breach of
the Party Precarious Act only. The last-named defen-
dant was formerly charged with complicity in the
Fenian conspiracy and with having been asso-
ciated with the convict Michael Moore In the manu-
facture of Fenian pikes. He gave evidence before Mr.
Strange at the Lower Castle-yard, but subsequently de-
clined to give further information, upon which he was
arrested, charged on his own evidence with being a mem-
ber of the Fenian Brotherhood, convicted, and sentenced
to penal servitude. The case was brought before the
Court of Criminal Appeal, when it was decided that the
conviction was ill-founded, and the prisoner was accord-
ingly discharged.
Mr. Murphy, Q.C., appeared for the prosecution * • Mr.
Constantine Molloy appeared for Mr. Jennings, and Mr.
Crea for Mr. Reilly.
Mr. A. M. Sullivan and the other defendants were not
professionally represented.
After the evidence. Mr. Sullivan addressed the magis-
trate at some length. In the course of his remarks he
said that Lord Derby had declared in the House of Lords
that the Cork procession was not illegal. This declara-
tion must have been made after consultation with the law
officers of the crown, and was the result of the independent
judgment of the minister before the revolt of the Ulster
contingent—before the Heygates and the Braces sought
to wrest the law as they had done in this case. Lord
Derby, in the House of Lords, and Lord Mayo, more
strongly in the House of Commons, promised that be-
fore anything should be done by the government the
people should receive warning of it by proclamation. Who
would believe that in the free of that promise, driven by
the desperate necessities of party, Lord Mayo imme-
diately on his arrival in Ireland should turn upon men
who acted upon that— who were allured into that course
of action by himself and hie chief, and draw them into a
law court amidat the e-nteurpt of Irish public opinion?
Having referred to the correspondence between sir F.
Heygate and Lord Mayo' Mr. Sullivan continued to say
that as yet no breach of the Party Processions Act bad
been proved against the defendants. He met the crown
plainly and frankly on the issue whether the motive, tha.
meter, and object of the assemblage was seditious. It was
simply a protest against the death of the men at Manchester
as attested by the almost universal sentiment of Ireland.
Were they to be told that it was illegal to doubt the policy
of an execution ? Were they to be told that men had never
been put to death ere now on a wrong verdict? Would
Mr. Murphy read his ancient and modern hiatoryback wards,
and tell them that men had never been executed on •
wrong verdict? Perhaps in the Castle editions of Hume
and Macaulay, facts so heterodox were scored out.
Perhaps they would be told that it was their duty as loyal
subjects to believe that the government never yet erred
—never put a man to death on a wrong verdict, or in a
moment of national Illeeeloll immolated an innocent man.
If they wanted to maintain this prosecution it would be
necessary to put up this theory. But he challenged then,
to prove this theory to be law ; and if it were law, as it was
not, the judgment of Christendom would regard it as an
outrage and coercion of conscience which Caligula himself
would not have dared to attempt. Mr. Sullivan, in con-
clusion, said they maintained that they had committed no
otrenee, and that it was to *Owl-ye their party purposes
the government had instituted these proceedings. But
they challenge the government now to the issue. Let them
try them by jury.; but they had a wider tribunal to appeal
to—they bad their own consciences and the judgment of
humanity.
Mr. Murphy briefly replied, submitting that the ques-
tion was entirely one for a jury, and that the magistrate
should grant the informations.
Mr. Dix said be was there merely in a magisterial capa-
city, and he hail no doubt that upon the evidence he had
no other course than to send the case for trial. Of course
bail would be taken for the appearance of the defen-
dants.

The .lefendania then entered into their own recogni.
Fences to appear for trial at the next comndaaion.
The proceedings then terminated.

MR. TRRODORR MARTIN.—It is rumoured that
her Majesty proposes to show her sense of the valuable
assistance she has received in her literary labou g from
Mr. Theodore Martin by conferring upon him the bonnet
of knighthood.—lmperial Review.
Tux AGILICCLTURAL GAM: Ace.—This act cornea
into operation to-morrow. The act prohibit& the employ-
ment of children under eight years of age in agricultard
labour, and also enforces a separation of the sexes in field
work. Gang masters and gang mistremses are to be
licensed; applications for licensee" at Is each, being
granted at the discretion of two justices of the peace. with
right of appeal to the quarter sessions in case of the re-
fusal of appliciticas. Penalties are prescribed in case
son-compliance with the act.

A letter from Rome, dated the 26th, says :
" Yesterday the Pepe officiated at St. Peter's, surrounded
by the customary imposing splendours of the Christmas
solemnity. His Holiness looked remarkably well on the
occasion, but the attendance of foreigners was less nume-
rous than usual in the ladies' tribunes, and in thereat nave
of the church, the present season being decidedly a thin
one with respect to visitors. During the ceremony no spec-
tators were allowed to witness the corp-d'rril from the gal-
lery which runs round the inside of the cupola above the
transept. Several English visitors were much disappointed
at this prohibition, which, however, was general, and
strictly enforced ; and very wisely, no doubt, for in these
bomb-throwing days there is no knowing what desperate
conspirator might have gained admission in a black dress
and white tie to that commanding position."
During a great snowstorm on the 13th a
bold robbery was suocessfully perpetrated in New York.
A messenger of the Bank of New York, while on his way
along Wall-street from the " clearing-house " with a
satchel containing cheques and drafts, was accosted by a
man who jumped from • sleigh and seized the satchel.
The man at once got into the sleigh and it was driven off,
the messenger still clinging to the satchel and being
dragged along the street, the thief and two others with
him beating the messenger on the head and arms to make
him let go. After being dragged a hundred yards be was
beaten off, and the sleigh disappeared with the booty.
The satchel contained 3,600,000 dollars in cheques mad
drafts, sad • small amount of money.

BREAGII OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. A cats
wan heard in the Secondaries' Court, Guildhall, yesterday.
" Yardley v. Tyler"—on a writ of inquiry to :o'seu the
amount of damages in an action brought in one of the
superior courts for a breach of promise of warns^
the defendant having allowed judgment to go ly default.
Donnas were laid at 2,0001. The action WAS brought hr
tit) father of the plaintiff, who way a young lady under
age, and connequently an infant in law. Mr. Yardley,
who was a gentleman of independent means, spent a grelit
deal of his time on the continent, and it happened that his
daughter, Miu Harriet Yardley, who was we, in her
nineteenth year, was a passenger by the Boul,me host.
She was put on board by a lady, and the defen lured er•ter
undertook to take charge of the young lady during the
trip. The defendant, who was 'Muted to bold :on excellent
position as contractor to her Majesty's Board of Works,
was present, and an introduction took place wlich reit.se•
quench, led to great intimacy between the tad faunheti
and ultimately to a marriage contract. After ."we pun
however, the defendant broke off the match, on the grousd
of an apparent incompatibility of temper hetween!isi
and the plaintiff. The jury 'wattled the plaintiff ''4l'
damages.
Tug WESTERN HERRING Fl ail KRT. —Lime ottani
of herrings were made off PlynionVi during the past week
and the fish were readily disposed of at from I•2s. to le
per 1,000. On Friday morning upwards of lUf boats be•
longing to Plymouth and the Cornish putts lauded esirodi
ranging from 5,000 to 30,000 herrings each.
Two masts, apparently belonging to a water-
logged ship of GOO tons, were noticed to be sticking tweifff,
feet above the surface of the sea, eiAteen wiles SA •d;
Eddystone, on the 21st December, when they were pasta
by the Avon, which has arrived at Gravesend.