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London, England, 1861-11-06 00:00:00

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to the court of his nativity when be desires relief
from a burden of dishonour. The question in such
a case for Englishmen and Scotsmen alike is not
where they were born, but where they can best
prove the facts which have rendered thorn desirous
to sever or to adjust more lightly the matrimonial
chain. In both parts of the kingdom the relief
sought is now administered in almost precisely the
same manner, and the slight surviving differences
are more in theory than in practice. Both courts
should, therefore, act as auxiliaries of each other.
To both it ought to be immaterial whether the
suitor was born in England or in Scotland. The
sole object of both ought to be to ascertain the
real facts and to apply the duo remedy ; and each
court ought only to send to the other those cases
in which the investigation can be more thoroughly
Pursued in its jurisdiction. Such mutual recogni-
tion would at once abate national jealousy and
advance the interests of justice. The inquiries of
the House of Lords can do no better service than
to expose the radical confusion and practical
wrong-doing to which a maintenance of national
distinctions conduces, and we trust that ere next
session closes, the wrangling of lawyers will have
made the fact so indisputable u to silence all oppo-
sition to the evident remedy.

LATEST INTELLICIWCE.

THE MEXICAN EXPEDITION.
CONVENTION OF THE ALLIES.

The Mats of to-day gives the following 03 the
particulars, of the convention which, as has been
stated by the Mositcur, has been signed by Eng-
land, France, and Spain, relative to a common
action in Mexico.

The convention is, it is said, composed of five or
six articles at the utmost. The first stipulates the
common action of the three powers. The succeed-
ing ones regulate the mode of intervention. The
three powers are to send an equal naval force.
Two-thirds of the land forces are to be furnished
by the Spanish army of the Antilles.
The united forces will occupy Vora Cruz, and
all the points of the coast which they deem
advisable. This done, they will address their
complaints to the constituted authorities of Mexico.
If the government yields the claim, the chiefs of
the expeditionary corps will submit the convention
for the ratification of their governments, maintain-
ing the occupation until the final settlement.
The occupation will take place in the name of the
three powers, whatever may be the amount of the
occupying force. At the commencement they will
endeavour to impose a suspension of arms upon the
belligerent parties in Mexico.
The three powers undertake not to occupy per-
manently any part of the territory, and to obtain
no exclusive advantage from Mexico. Tbey engage
to leave Mexico entirely free to choose its own
form of government. England has given up a con-
dition which she wished to insert in the treaty,
namely, that the three nations should pledge them-
selves not to accept the throne of Mexico for any
of the princes of their reigning families. If the
monarchical form prevails, the three powers pledge
themselves not to use their intervention to the profit
of any prince in particular.

The Patric adds to the above :—" The conven-
tion will bo notified to the cabinet at Wash-
ington, which will be invited to join the intervening
powers. It will be left optional to the government
of President Lincoln to send such number of ships
and troops as he may deem advisable under the

loss of GOO men, including General Baker, killed.
The Confederate loss was unknown. The Federal
troops were subsequently reinforced, and marched
upon Leesburg, but on the approach of two strong
columns of Confederates again retreated into Mary-
land.

Some alarm is felt at Washington with regard to
the supplies of forage, &e., which were formerly
brought up the Potomac.
The Pacific Telegraph line to San Francisco was
completed on the 25th inst.

The City of Washington passed Cape Race on the
eveuing of the With inst.

LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT.
NEW YORK, OCT. N, Evorntu.

A naval expedition composed of 80 vessels, carry-
ing 500 guns and between 30,000 and 40,000 men,
will sail from Hampton to-morrow.
It is reported that Messrs. Mason and Sadden,
the Confederate Commissioners to England and
France, have arrived at Cardenus.

The Confederate account of the engagement at
New Orleans was exaggerated.
The Federals sustained no loss either in ships
or men.

The Confederates retreated to Santa Rosa after
having suffered heavy loss.
General Price is reported to be still retreating.
QUEENSTOWN, Nov. G.

The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Com-
pany's screw steamer Etna, from New York un
the 26th ult., has arrived. She brings the United
States mails and 266 passengers. Her news has been
generally anticipated by the arrival of the North
American at Londonderry.

NEW AGRICULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON.

Yesterday the ceremony of laying the foundation
atom of the New Agricultural Hall, which is in future to
take the place of the Baker-street Bazaar for the Christmas
exhibition of the Smithfield Cattle Club, and for meetings
and other purposes connected with the promotion of agricul-
tural improvement, took place. The locality of the new
building is probably the most convenient that could well
have been selected. It is in close proximity to one of the
stations of the all round the town railway, which communi-
cafes with all the main lures of railway to the north and
north-western grazing districts, and will shortly, when the
projected branches now in progress MS completed, oorneauoi-
mte with all the lines to the east, south-east. south, south-
west, and west, It is also but a short remove from the new
Cattle Market, and though somewhat more remote from the
West-end than linker-street, it is within an easy distance of
all parts of the City and the great business centres of the
metropolis. The building will occupy an extensive area
at the City end of the Liverpool-road, but • few hundred
yards from the Angel, at Islington. Its capacity will be
very much greater than that of the Baker-street Bazaar, end
will contain the matt ample accommodation for the exhibit ion
of cattle, sheep, hogs, agricultural implements, and roots. The
building will be 110 feet long by 236 broad, and when con-
structed will afford more than double the accommodation
of the Baker-street Bazaar. There will be an ap.ortineut 100
feet square, devoted entirely to pigs. The ordinary show-
room will be 384 feet long by 217 broad ; and round this
room, at a height of 20 feet, will run a gallery, 36 feet
wide, intended for the display of implements and roots.
The main area will be divded into the great hall and side
aisles. There are also to be first and second-class refresh-
ment rooms, cloak rooms, telegraph, police, and post-offices.
Thecost of the entire structure is contracted for at 23,0001.
The hood has been purchased, and the hall will be erected
by a joint stock company, whose objects, establishment,
and progress are fully ex killed in the speech which the
chairman of directors addre sd to Lord Deniers, the Pre-
sident of the Smithfield Club, who, in order to mark the
intimate union between the hall company and the club,
consented to lay the tint stone. The very unfavourable
state of the weather prevented a very numerous attendance,
but there were besides the directors of the company several
members of .the club, and many eminent agriculturist
present.
The company having assembled, Mr. JONAS WZB73,
the eminent agriculturist, and chairman of the board of
directors, addressed Lord Berner. as follows :—" As
chairman of the Agricultural Hall Company, it is my
pleasing duty to request your lordship, es Prudent of the
Smithfield Club, to honour us by laying the first stone of
our hall. Not quite three years have elapsed since • com-
mittee, including all the most active members of the Smith-
field Club, came to the three following conclusions :—That
the Christmas show bad outgrow,: the space and accornmo.
dation of the Baker-street Bazaar. That the plot of land on
which we now stand was the only suitable and available
site. That the club itself ought not to enter into any build-
ing 'peculation. This report was approved and adopted at
ono of the largest meetings the club ever held. Its adoption
prepared the way for the formation of the Agricultural Hall
Company by • number of gentlemen, who either as breeders,
or exhibitors, or salesmen of stock, or manufacturers of
agricultural implements, were deeply interested in the pro.
'parity of the Smithfield Club. The company was provision-
ally formed in April, 1860 ; but it was not until the 17th
July, 1360, that the terms of what might be called the part-
nership between the Smithfield Club and the Agricultural
Hall Company were finally settled. The board of the
company held their first meeting on the 17th October
of the same year, and issued a prospectus, in
which they explained their plans, and invited subscrip-
tions for a capital of 30,0001. Barely thirteen months
have elapsed since that prospectus was laud.
The capital required has been fully subscribed, sod
subscribed, I am happy to say. as to by far the largest
portion, by members of the Smithfield Club. The site ap-
proved has beau acquired and improved by additional land
at a cost of several thousand pounds, With respect to the
progress toward obtaining a building worthy of one of the
oldest and most successful agricultural associations in the
kingdom, I need not say anything: I think the bricks,
timber, and iron on the ground, and the small army of
labourers at work, are more eloquent witnesses of the pro-
gress of the undertaking than any words I could use. I
will not detain you and the friends who have honoured m
by their attendance this November day by a leegtbssed
address. Within less than twelve months I hope to spit
call you together, when this building completed will be
ready to receive and conveniently accommodate a greater
multitude of visitors, a larger collection of live stock and of
machinery and implements than has ever yet been attempted
in any country at a Christmas show. And I shall be am-
bled to ask—with perfect confidence of • hearty assent
from all present—whether we have not redeemed our
pledges both to the Smithfield Club by the extent of the
accommodation. and to our shareholders for the economy of
our operations."
Lord Beimme replied, that as president of the Smithfield
Cattle Club he felt great pleasure in accepting the ievi:sa
tion to take part in the interesting ceremony, and begged to
offer his congratulations to the directors and managers of
the company upon the successful issue which, up to the
present time, had attended their efforts. The great deve-
lopment of science, and the rapid improvements in the
practice of agriculture, Rol the continually increasing num-
ber of stock, of roots, and of implements exhibited at the
annual shows of the club, as well as the great interest
which bad been excited in the kingdom at large by the
Smithfield Cattle Club, had rendered it imperative that a
larger building should be provided. He trusted that the
Almighty architect of the world might bless and prosper
the undertaking—{hear, hear)—and, as he saw many of the
working men who were engaged in erecting the building
before him, be hoped that the same interference would pre-
serve them from accident during their labours. He prayed
further that the counsels of the directors might be so
guided that they might he enabled in this, which he
believed he was justfied in characterising as • national work,
to assist in carrying out that which was the special object
of the Smithfield Club, viz., to provide the greatest amount
of food of the best quality and at the cheapest possible rate
' for the people of this country.
The stone was then lowered into its place, and the noble
lord performed with the ordinary formalities the masonic
duties which devolved upon the task he had undertaken.
In the evening the shareholders sod visitorsdined together
at the Loudon Tavern in celebration of the event of the day,
Mr. JONAS Wins presiding.
The usual loyal and constitutional touts having been duly
honoured,
Lord Biasses gave " Prosperity to the Agricultural
Hell Company." No one hiul felt more strongly than he
bad the necessity of increasing the accommodation for the
annual exhibition of the Smithfield Club, and he rejoiced
that that necessity was now about to be met by the ercetiou
of a building which would afford ample convenience for
every claw of exhibitors, and at the same time • place of
reunion for exhibitors and agriculturists generally. Be
gave great credit to Mr. Giblett, to whose zeal and perseve-
rance they were mainly indebted for the success of the
scheme. He was happy to learn that the shares in the Hall
Company had been all taken up, and that two-
thirds of them in number, and four-fifths of the
capital in amount, were held by members of the
Smithfield Club. (Hear.) He was happy to see at the head
of the company so distinguished an agriculturist as Mr.
Jonas Webb, and when he observedin combination with
that gentleman's name those of some of the most eminent
farmers, stock herders, and agricultural implement makers
io the kingdom, be could not doubt of its ultimate susses.
In conjunction with the tout he bulged to propose the
health of the chairman, Mr. Jonas Webb.
Mr. Writs acknowledged the compliment ins brief speech,
and concluded by proposing the health of Lord Berner;
which his lordship acknowledged.
Mr. GieLerr gave the "Royal Agricultural Society of
England," andobserved that he believed the new hall at
Islington would enable them to have an exhibition worthy
of the country and of the advance which agricultural science
bad made. lie proposed, in connection with the toast,
the health of Mr. C. Barnett, which Mr. Barnett acknow-
ledged, and in doing so expressed • wish that before the
opening of the Great Industrial Exhibition, in 1862, the
civil war in the United States would be at an end, so the:
our transatlantic brethren might take • prominent part in
it, and suggested that the Smithfield Club would do well,
especially in the next, which would be an exceptional year,
to offer a prize for hunters.
Mr. SaurnxwoßTll,!ice-cairman of the directors. gave

the "Health of the Visitors," which was responded to by
Mr. Stokes ; and after the viee-theiees and directors, Mr.
Peck (of the firm of Stephens and Peek), the architect ;
Messrs. Hill, the contractors ; Mr. Sidney, the semetary of
the company ; the solicitor, and the dinner committee, had
been similarly oomplimented, the company separated.

BOARD OE THAD; WHITEHALL, Nov. s.—Tbe
Right Hon. the Lards of she Committee of Privy Council
for Trado have »calved, frau the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, a copy of • despatch from her Majesty's
Consul at San Domingo, reporting that the port of Romen•
will he closed to foreign and iatercolonial trade after the Ist
January next.—Gazette.
VISIT OF THE CHIEF SECRITART OF IRELAND TO
CONERMARA.—We underetand (Rya the Prtenlati JOY rtud)
that it is the intention of the Chief Secretary and Lady
Emily Peel, accompanied by Sir Henry J. Brownriss, C. 8.,
to proceed on • tour through Connemara. After having
seen as much of the natural scenes of Connemara as the pre-
sent ioelement weather will permit, it is the intention of
Sir Robert Peel to extend his tour to the adjacent musty of
Mayo doubtless with the object of observing with his own
eyes the condition to which the poor fermate and in-
habitants of that county have been reduced by the failure
of the potato emit. It is understood that the towns of
Sligo and Belfast will also be honoured with • visit from
Sir Robert before his Mons to Dublin. Sir Robert and
Lady Peel are expected at Parttime& Castle oc Thursday,
ea • vale to the Most Nob .» the Marquis of Clanricarde.

Nnw PARSING= AND LUGGAGE BOATS TOR THE
KERREY Swat TIATFIC.—The Birkenhead commissioners,
anxious to soionunodate the daily increasing traffic across
the Money, and render it as useful, safe, and expeditious as
that between Brooklyn sad New York, are about advert's-
i tog for models of passenger indiums. boats. Premiums of
lOU. will be given for the best drip, and of BS& for the
second best, the competition being thrown open to all the
' builders of the United Kingdom.

MR. JOHN LOCKE, M.P., AND HIS coysrb
TUENTS.

Last night a public meeting of the elector; and
non-electors of the Borough of Southwark was held at the
Bridge-house Hotel, to hear from Mr. Locke, M.P., one of
their representatives, an explanation of his parliamentary
coutluct. Dr. CHALICE occupied the chair. There were
upon the platform Mr. D. E. B. Jones, Mr. Hawkins, lir.
Walker, Mr. Rogers, kc.

Mr. Loom, M.P., in reviewing the events of the session,
said he considered the working classes ought to be ad.
witted to the franchise, for in that clew there were
men as respectable, as high in morals, and as trust-
worthy as any peer in the realm. He would, how.
ever, never allow that every man should have
a vote. (Dissent.) He could not consent that every fellow
who went skulking about without a local habitation, and
almost without a name, should be admitted to the suffra.e.
Leaving that a moot question, he would merely observe
that the difficulties which that infiuitesimal measure en-
countered ought to show them how hard it would le to
pass a larger one. Each one had his own ua.trutu, and
among others the late Sir J. Graham, when., however they
might differ from him in opinion, they would all admit to
have been certainly one of the greatest statesmen who ever
addressed the House of Commons. (Hear, bear.) He united
to the highest order of iutellieence, great in.
dustry and great honesty of puipose. Ile judged
of him by the brief period of his career which had
come under his own notice. lie was a man in whom he had
always placed the greatest confidence, awl whose opiniou ho
hal always been most happy to ask, for he was ono who
never failed to give it in a free and frank manner. Another
measure of public importance was the continuation of the
coal and wine duties for ten years. to be expended upon
the embankment of the Thames. It was for them to con-
sider if they would have an embankment upon the south
side of the river, and upon that imitiou their views should
'be his. Of the Bankruptcy Act they bad beard usquc ad
nauseam. They saw the effects of it in every day's
papers, and be supposed that making • great
number of persons bankrupts benefited some-
body. Another measure paned last session was one
which he himself introduced, and which extended to wit-
nesses in criminal owes the same indulgence aal was enjoyed
by these in civil suite, namely, that of an affirmation when
they bad conscientious scruples to taking an oath. It wasa
measure based upon the great principle of respecting the re-
ligious and conscientious opinions of every man, no matter
what might be his creed. The Post-office Savings Bank
Act, another measure of last session, would prove of the
greatest convenience to the working classes, giving
them a government security for their deposits, per.
feet secrecy, and every facility. Leaving the
catalogue of the measures they bad passed,
he had now to call attention to one or two of those they
had rejected. Chief of thee, was a bill promoted by the
Metropolitan Board of Works—(hear, hear)—in which they
sought to unjustly tax his constituents, and to par it by a
trick. If the board could take anything in good wt,, he
would remind them of the proverb honesty is the best,
policy, and not to overreach others lest in the attempt to
do so they themselves might go to the wall. Another b"
he had succeeded in defeating was one which would have con-
tinued the turnpike on the Dover-road. He would now ask
them to consider what were their prospects for the future.
We were at this moment at peace. They were, however,
told by the conservatives that a reaction was
going on. Did they mean that there was • change is
the opinions of the people in regard to the foreign policy of
the government—that they sided with Austria, and not
with Italy—that they sympathised with Russia, and not
with Poland? (Hear, hear.) Did theyi wish to see Italy
again dismembered among petty princee (Cheers.) If they
did, they acted upon the principles of the tories, if they had
any principle different from tbat of the present govern-
ment. Should the thrice obtain power they would sympathise
with despotism. But was this great nation to take no
interest in the future of other states—(bear, bear)—and
where was there • man more capable that the present
Prime Minister of giving effect to the high feelingsof English.
men ? He had maintained the honour of the British flag,
which the people would never see tarnished. It
was an exultation by the tones that because
of the civil war in America liberal institutions
had failed, but they forgot history when they did so. They
forgot that wags had been waged in the interests of families
and of individuals, whereas each section of the States con-
sidered its own interests at stake in the quarrel. It was not
for them, because they wanted cotton, to break through the
law of maims, bat to hope that there are in store for that
great section of the Anglo-Saxon race days of prosperity and
happiness.
On the motion of Mr. Walsall, seconded by Mr. Maws,
the thanks and confidence of the meeting were voted to tho
hon. gentleman, and the proceedings terminated.