The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-30 00:00:00

D-At a CONFERENCE of the
mentioned Societies for the •
HAW cd Haat Essii Dielawn held at
the City TerSIMMS Hotel. Cannon-deed.
on MONDAY, ism W.
1888:
TVEDALE CORETT, lEsq.,• Her Majestys Poor-law
Inspector for the Metropolis, In the chair:
was moved by J. D AQUILAS. Untlai., D 4, IL?.: seeended
by .1. It Races WILL. F.sq. ; and resolved Are London Mission
and t:ellef t onimittee alone lielne lisientient,•
.• That the East End Central, and the East Ent, and
Relief Committees, together with the 1811 e-end Old Town and
stepoey Relief AllneellitiOn, Inn the Employment and Relief As.
and ahem who may be desirous of joining. unite to
feria • central Committee for the relief of distress within an
area embracing the l'oplar. Stepney, and Hackney I alone. and
the ',arbiter of Betlinal.green, and the hamlet of Mile-end Olit
Town rind that the Metnipollum Visiting sod Relief Assoebe
thin and the Society for the Relief of Nitres& be each requested
to place one of their members upon the (totes] Committee. and
that welt Committee have power to odd to its numbers, if here-
after deemed espedient,"
The following Couunittees and Relief Societies were repre-
sented at the Conference :
1. The East-end Central Relief Cornmlttee—lienry Omen, Esq„
Ehickwall.
2. The London Mission and Relief Committee.
3. The East-end Emiiratien and Relief Fund.
4. The Employment and Relief Association—Bethnal-green.
t. The Iliteeuil Old Town nun Stepney Relief Fund.
L The Isle of Does Relief rund.
7. The Metropolitan Tisithig and Relief Association.
8. The Society for Relief of Distress.
Arranuenients are in progress for organising, In co-operation
with the guardians of the prior, an efficient and uniform system
of relief throughout the distresses% district, and communication*
may be addressed (for the present) as un.l. der.
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LOSDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY O.

Ir is time the public were informed of the prac
ticul benefits conferred by Mr. HARDY'S Poor-law
Amendment Act of last year. The measure was
full of promise. The rates were to be properly
administered, the paupers kindly treated, the
guardians softened and improved. A new era was
to set in with the new Bill, and Mr. GATHORNE
tnev was the hero of the hour. The dispensaries
to be established on the Irish system were to be
of substantial service to the sick and suffering ;
and the nominated guardians were to leaven the
old boards with courtesy, humanity, and good
manners. Mr. Ilaitieis proposals met with ready
acceptance, even from his political opponents ; an
ear .4 generous confidence was given to his bland
promi .es and fluent explanations, and the House
finally congratelated itself on passing a measure
which " went quite as far as was safe." Some few
dissatisfied spirits complained of important
discrepancies between Mr. HARDY'S Bill and
Mr. Jimmy's preliminary speech concerning I
it ; and we VA leave to point out in
this journal certain prospective (;;tennis'
connected with the appointment of guardians
by the Crown, and with other of the im-
provements promised by the Act. But the general
verdict was eminently laudatory, and the common
anticipation thoroughly sanguine. It is fair to ask
now how the Bill has worked, how many guardians
klve been nominated by the Poor-law Beard,
Al what extent the principle of a common rating for
the sick has been carried ; how many new dispen-
saries have been opened, and where they are
situated ; and how many infirmaries and workhouse
buildings are in course of erection. The public
is hunentably in the dark on all these points.
Dumont.. and an occasional newspaper paragraph,
tell us of the polite reception at the Poor-law Board
of deputations of guardians who decline to
ho interfered with, and of boards which have re-
fused point-blank to carry out the official recom-
mendations. But this, if true, leaves us pretty
lunch where we were before Mr. llsituv's great
reform. It is true that five gentlemen have been
appointed guardians of the Poplar Union in addi-
tion to those elected, and that similar nominations
are spoken of as in contemplation for a few other
parishes. But at this rate it will take nearly forty
years before all the metropolitan unions are sup-
plied with Government guardians, who were after
all only a moiety of the improvements to be
looked for under the Bill. Let us hope that
1101110 independent member will, early in the
session, give the Department an opportunity of
vindicating its usefulness by calling for returns
which shall show us clearly how muchMr.HAEDY'S
boisteil measure has done, in which parishes it
has been must beneficially applied, and in what
particulars it has failed.
Another point, which has a closer connexion
with this subject than at first sight appears, is the
continued absence of Mr. PAIENALL from the
Metropolitan district. Mr. Fasicsim, it will be
remembered, rendered good service to the Sick
P.,or Association, by tendering them at their
formation certain facts and figures which gave
great additional value to their labours. He did
v.-itti the sanction and approval of the then
President of the Pour-law Board, whose confidence
he enjoyed, and who has borne strong testimony,
both in public and private, to his late Metropolitan
inspector's usefulness. When a change of
Ministry occurred, when Mr. HARDY went to the
Poor-law Board, and made his vaunting speech in
the House concerning the sufficiency of its legal
powers, Mr. FA'NALL was deliberately punished
for presuming to be useful beyond the limits of
routine. He was declared to be too clearly com-
mitted to the people advocating change to be a
sound adviser, and was promptly relegated to a
distant province. Now, as it was generally admitted
that but for the labours of the Sick Poor Asso-
ciation, supported by the press, no Metropolitan
Poor Bill would have been thought necessary, or
found practicable ; as the good this association
wrought was acknowledged by Mr. HARDY, and
as the whole country was roused by, and is
thankful for its benevolent efforts, it seems a little
hard that the one official who gave it help should
be punished for his temerity. But, urge the
authorities at Whitehall, the representatives of the
Board should be clear of all partisanship, and it
would have been embarrassing to the PRESIDENT
to deal with the complicated questions connected
with the relief of the poor and the suppression of
pauperism while a metropolitan inspector was in

the two genet .
successors. Just three months since Dr. MARK-
HAM, the metropolitan Poor-law inspeotor, held a
conference with the Bethnal-green guardians on
the advisability of erecting new dispensaries under
Mr. HARDY'S bill, when the following convene-

Mon took place :
Mr. WARD *eked Dr. blangunst bow the guardians were
to erect these buildings and the hospital, at a cost of some-
thing like 40,0001., with the poor-rate already at Is. fid. in
the pound, and the prospect of its being raised at Christ.
mas to 11. 9d. or 2a. If these buildings were to be erected
he would like to know where the money wee to come from.
At the appeal slay on Wednesday last no less than 5,000
persona came up to have their rates reduced, and the
magistrate said they were much more fit to be paupers
than ratepayers. It was impossible to find the money,
and if any pressure was pat on them he should advise the
guardians to strike.
Mr. Haavis said it was enough to break anybody's
heart, and tears often ran down his face when poor widows
came up for assistance, and they were obliged to go
without it. He thought government had begun at the
wrong end that. The poor rates should be equalised and
then the erection of these buildings could follow after.
wards. After some discussion,
Dr. MANIRAY said he was quite aware of the difficulty
of the ease. The money must be expended, though he did
not know where it was to come from. Be thought the
best course for the guardians to pursue would be to
agitate for an equalisation of the poor rates.
Dr. Markham then withdrew.
Here is an instance of what is called " partisan-
" ship " of a far more decided character than Mr.
FAANALL's, which was after all confined to
humanely wishing that the parochial habits of
starving, poisoning, and torturing sick paupers
might be rooted out. Yet we have not heard that
Dr. MARKHAM has been removed, or that any evil
consequences have accrued through his stay in
office.

ice.
The other metropolitan inspector takes, as is
well known, a warm interest in many matters re-
lating to the poor which are outside the radius of
his office, and a man has but to write a vigorous
anonymous letter to a contemporary denocing
the evils of indiscriminate alms-giving to find in
some roundabout way that Mr. Conarrr desires
I the pleasure of his acquaintance. We are far
from condemning the opinions of one metropolitan
inspector or the zeal of the other. But it is only
fair to remember that their predecessor was visited
with condign punishment for daring to be humane ;
and when questions are put in the House con-
cerning the actual changes effected by the Metro-
politan Poor Bill, it may be well to ask after the
Iman who was sacrificed because Mr. HARDY was
afraid of being influenced for good.

The Daffy News strongly condemns the conduct of the
revolutionary party in the }tali= chamber. Tbaje
position is to render any regular administration impoiaMO
without haying any plan of their own to propose for
rescuing the state from ruin. To embarrass the Room-
meet at any poet, to wait for the presentation of some
urgent measure to inflict • defeat upon the ministry,
to accelerate national bankruptcy, and, consequent
upon it, the fall of the monarchy, and upon the ruins
ap-
of the monarchy to proclaim the republic—ench
peen to be the desperate policy of the Extreme Left.
If they could succeed, they would infallibly bring a.
French army to Florence on the old conventional pretott
of restoring order and liberating the country from *them,
sive factions. Happily, however, them is an alternative
which General Menthols will not hesitate to accept. He
can dissolve the present Chamber and appeal to the corm.
try. The country, the Daily Nera believes, is heartily
sick of these everlasting and unscrupulous malcontents
and intriguers, and will not refuse its support to men of
honour, courage, and goodwill, who come forward in de•
fence of the true and permanent interests of natientl
2 r liberty, independence, and prosperity, without which
•
unity is a vain word.

the !Court.

OSBORNE, JAY. 29.

The Queen, acoompanied by Princess Christian
and Princess Beatrice, and by Prince Arthur, on horn-
book, drove out yesterday afternoon.
Lord Alfred Paget was in attendance.
Viscount and visoountess Sydney arrived at Osborn
yesterday on a visit to her Majesty.
The Dowager Duchess of Athole has succeeded the
Duchess of Roxburghe as Lady in Waiting to her Majesty.

THE RETURN OF HER MAJESTY TO WINDSOR.—
Her Majesty the Queen, with the junior members of the
Royal Family, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of
the write, is expected to leave Osborne on or about the
Iflth of next month, and return to Windsor Cues. Prince
and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein are expected
to return to Windsor at the same time.
The Earl and Countess Grey intend to leave
Hayrick Hall, Northumberland, about the middle of the
ensuing month for town, for the season.
The Earl and Countess of Mount-Charles, accom-
panied by Viscount Slane, returned yesterday to their
residence at Rutland-gate from visiting the Marquis
Conyngham at lidless, near Canterbury.
The marriage of Lady Mary Stanhope, only
daughter of the Earl and Countess Stanhope, with the
Earl Beauchamp, is expected to take place in the course
of the ensuing month.
Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley and Hon.
Miss Stanley are expected to arrive about the 13th pros.
at their residence in Dover-street, from Alderley Park,
Cheshire.
The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., and
Lady Emily Peel and family are expected to leave Drayton
Manor for town the week attar next, for the meeting of
parliament.
......,

FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY.

(From Le Fond.)
We find that the small in-door votes are very
much worn, either with or without sleeves, and generally
made with wide revere. Also small corselets, with or
without epaulettes, are frequently worn with the cache.
mire chemise russe. Gold and silver and fur are still the
trimmings most in vogue. Fur figures not only in day, but
also in evening dress ; ermine, white fox, grebe, and
swan's-down being all used for this purpose. Nor must
we on& speaking of lace, which is ever a favourite trim-
ming, especially on satin. What can be prettier than a
lace ttinique gracefully arranged over a skirt of satin
To describe all the immense variety of elegant materials
now in vogue would be an impossibility ; bat we would
just call our subscribers attention to the beautiful fringes
for trimming tulle or tarlatane, worked with gold or silver.
They are made of marabouts or swan's-down, tipped with
gold and silver; also the flounces of Spanish blonde,
worked with satin flowers for plain tulle dresses. This
blonde, placed over bouillons of tulle, has s charming
effect ;it is also formed into tunics. Black blonde of the
same make is sometimes worn over black or coloured
satin.
The bonnets have undergone little or no change in form
since last month, but our skilful modistes are continually
finding fresh methods of arranging these tiny coiffures, so
R. to make them more comfortable, as well as more be-
t coming. We give our readers a list of the newest to choose
from :—A chapeau diadems of blue velvet, worked with
small beads, and trimmed with capnehon mantille of white
blonde. A bonnet of Regina velvet, with a small bird cur•
mounting a bow of velvet placed at the side. Strings of
velvet, and bride' et lace fastened under the chignon. A
bandeau creole of dead gold, placed on a bonnet of bright
blue velvet worked with white heads. Strings of blue
I velvet, lined and edged with white satin, and fastened by
a gold ornament.
A famhon of black velvet, with a wide mantille of tulle
spatted with jet and edged with lace. The strings of cross-
way black velvet, fastened with a bow of the same under
the chin. The front, which forms a rather high diadem, is
trimmed with rich ornaments of jet, pear-shaped, falling
over it, and at the side, with a bouquet of small flowers in
gold.
A fanchon eventail of grey velvet, with crossway strings
of the same, edged with blonde to match. Diadem of green
metallic leaves, and bouquet of mother-of-pearl flowers as
the side.
A chapeau Marie Antoinette of black lace ; wide barbels
of the same tied under the chin. Across the front a band
of gold and steel, with white camellia at the side.
A blue velvet bonnet, with soft crown of the same
coloured tulle, and at the back • rosette of blue satin.
Velvet strings, lined with blue satin, and fastened with •
rosette of the same. Round the soft crown and across the
front a wreath of blue velvet leaves, with daisies of steel
and gold at the side.
Another blue velvet bonnet, a fanohon Pompadour, bad
the strings edge.l with a full ruche of blonde of the same
colour Thu ruche is repeated across the front. At the
side is placed a gold and steel butterfly ; and the same
ornament, in • rosette of blonde, fastens the strings under
the chin.
For evening coiffure gold and steel are much worn.
Ornaments of the same, placed on velvet bands, are also
much used ; or strings of garceta, with hanging ornaments
of the same. Also beads of crystal or gold, twisted in the
hair, form a very pretty and becoming headdress.
A long wreath of heath, with metallic leaves, twisted
several times round the head, and fastened under a flower
or ornament of gold and steel, is a new and elegant
e I coiffure.

It is again stated that the post vacated by the
resignation of Sir John Rah, as one of the Leeds Justices
of the Court of Appeal in Chancery, baa been offered to
Sir Roundell Palmer.
In the Court of Queen's Bonch•at Dublin yester-
day a motion was male that the fee of fifteen guineas
charged by the Attorney-General in the OW of Costello,
the Fenian convict, for Sating a writ of error, was illegal.
The court held it to be illegal.
A large meeting in defence of the Irish esta-
blished church has been held at BaUineen, county Cork,
presided over by Earl Bandon. Resolutions were passed
expressing loyalty to the Queen and constitution and de-
termination to maintain the church.
Marcus Adams, who had been allowed to stand
out on bail for treason-felony since the Cork special oom•
mission, was re-arrested yesterday at his residence, North
Main-street. A large mob attempted to rescue him, but
the armed police removed him to gaol Other arrests are
expected at Cork.
The Earl of Derby and the Lord-Lieutenant of
Ireland have acknowledged the receipt of copies of the
resolutions pasted at the public meeting held in the Court-
hams at Belfast on the '9th tact, relative to the par.
chase by government of the Irish railways. The Marquis
of Clouricarde, in a similar letter from Footronna Castle,
says:—" Nothing else will defeat the disloyal and conci-
liate the disoonteakdbut loyal portions of the Isiah
so effestually as an honest and liberal attention paid
the government to the material requirements of 1
and timely aid given to reproductive works for the de-
velopmeat of her resources."
MUTH or SIR EDMUND IiZAD.—W4I
.vret to
announce the death of the Right Hon. Mr Edra Head,
which happened suddenly on Tuesday morning, at his re•
dames inEatonequare. The deceased, who was berg is
1856, wu educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and Imam a
Fellow of Merton in 1830. He was afterwards appointed
Pier Law Commbnioner, and was Lientenant-Cf•verner of
New Brunswick and Governor-General of Maeda hem
1854 to 1861. In 1862 he was appointed woe of the Olen
Service Commbeloners. He was a meet acemapilsbed
scholar both in the classical and modern languages, and as
case perhaps of our time had greaser mutiny over
His loss will be severely felt by a wide circle of Sisal
and literary friends.—Timm.

of or Nord for a deputy to the Corps
Y 1 .
The Seat is keenly contested V 'M.
Ger=l
the opposition, and b' M. E. des Rotours, the
government cendidete. 'lle Mimedttl of Ville,
the organ of the prefect, and of course the sup-
porter of M. des Rotours, says :—" Everybody
knows that a considerable amount of English
money, supplied by English manufacturers, has
been contributed to defray the expenses of M.
Gory Legrand's election." On the publication of
this "everybody knows" fact, M. Le Grand
addressed the following letter to his opponent :
Sir 'and Hon. Competitor,—The Memorial de Zak
which supports your casdidateship, has put forth a
calumny against me which I shall bring before the wart.
It accuses me of being bribed to support in the chamber
the interests of England, and affirms that I have received
the *meet of this scandalous bargain. I ask you, in the
name of what is most sacred to an honourable man, to
declare—yes or no—whether you assume the respondbility
of this infamous charge, ke.
The reply of M. des Rotours is not given, but the
electors of the Nord must be credulous indeed if
they believe that English manufacturers employ
their money in this way. They find the expenses
of contests at home heavy enough, without looking
out for profitless investments in a French elec-
tioneering campaign.
As a pendant to the foregoing specimen of
French credulity it may be added that " the land-
ing of the English in Naples, and the arrival of
30,000 Austrians to support the Bourbon King,"
which was given by the Arenir National two days
ago, as an historical data, was taken for an actual
fact, and reproduced as such in several French
provincial journals. Where are the French school-
masters

VICTOR HUGO AND GARIBALDI.
Victor Hugo has addressed the following letter
to Garibaldi, in reply to the copy of verses which
the exile of Caprera Bent to the exile of Guernsey :
Haute Ville House, Jan. 90,1888.
Dear Garibaldi,—There was a lyre in the tent of
Achilles ; a harp in that of Judas Ilaseabseus ; Orlando
sent a copy of verses to Charlemagne ; Frederick 11. ad-
dressed odes to Voltaire. Heroes are poets. You, too,
prove it. I read with deep emotion the noble lyrical
epistle which you addressed tome, and in which yen speak
to the soul of Italy in the language of Francs. The same
breath of justice and liberty which inspires you with great
deeds, inspires you with great thoughts. Farewell,
illustrious friend. VICTOR HUGO.

(luovra's Tumults.)
AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.
VIENNA, Jug. 30.
At the sitting of the Hungarian delegation yes-
terday Herr Ghiczy addressed a series of inter-
pellations to the representatives of the govern-
mer '

ant.
He asked why the common ministry illegally
styled themselves Ministry of the Empire ; why
equality of both countries in the formation of the
ministry had not been observed ; and why a war
minister had been included in the cabinet, although
no provision for that post was made by the bill.
Herr Kerkspoly, of the Deak party, also put
the question with regard to the assumption of the
title of Ministry of the Empire, and asked when
the latter will enter into parliamentary relations
with the Hungarian delegation.
Count Ladislaus Tsaky was then elected vice-
president, and Herren Rainer and Kerkapuly secre-
taries of the delegation.
The president placing the consideration of the
Budget for common affairs upon the order of the
day, for after to-morrow, Herr Ghiczy stated that
he and his friends would not take part in the dis-
cussion of the budget until his question had been
answered.
Count Andrasay, the Minister President of the
Hungarian Cabinet, declared that this course
would be wrong, inasmuch as time must be allowed
the common ministry to prepare its replies.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(mom ma owe COI
PARIS, WIDNEGDAY EVENING.
The Army Bill has passed the Senate after but
two days debate with only one dissentient voice.
The single senator who spoke and voted against it
was Cobden's old friend and fellow-labourer Michel
Chevalier.
Vice-Admiral Bouet-Willaumez, who opened
yesterday's debate, made a speech, the burden of
which was that the French army ever bad been,
is now, and ever ought to be, the first in the world,
and the Monitexr tells us that the Senate was
" deeply moved," that when he descended from the
tribune he was greeted with "several salvos of ap-
plause," that his colleagues precipitated themselves
before him and addressed to him the warmest compli-
ments; that a " profound emotion" reigned in the
assembly ; that for ten minutes the " proceedings
wore suspended ;" and that during the whole time
of this suspension Admiral Willaumez was the
" object of a positive ovation."
In the Corps Legislatif a very severe blow was
struck at M. Haussmann, in the matter of the
desecration of the Montmartre Cemetery for the
sake of one of his straight roads. It will be remem-
bered that when he personally defended himself
before the Senate he only got a verdict of 60
against 38. The interpellations on the same sub-
ject in the Corps Legislatif were rejected by the
bare majority of three. A great many of the usual
partisans of government, and among them M.
Rouher's intimate connection, M. Wells de Lava-
lette, abstained from voting.
M. Auber's house, No. 24, Rue Saint George,
has been thronged all day with visitors leaving
cards to congratulate him upon his 86th birthday.
General Mellinet, the Commandant of the Paris
National Guard, came himself at 10 in the morning
with two military bands, to give the illustrious
composer a serenade. The pieces chosen
were the overture to Maseaniello and a
march composed by M. Auber when he was
only fourteen years of age. The evening papers
say that when M. Auber heard the first strains of
the overture he ran down stairs with the " legs of a
man of twenty," saluted the bands, and squeezed
the hand of General Mellinet.
" Borrow and prosper" appears to be still the
motto at the Bourse. Rents was extremely firm,
and closed with a rise of 171 c. for cash and llic.
for the account---at 68fr. 42ic. and 68fr. Vic. In
other securities there was scarcely any change.

The yield of gold and silver in the United States
in 1816 is estimated at 80,000,000 dollars in Monica and
South Aserisa, at 40,000,000 as ;in Australia, at
61,000,000 dollars; in Brit& AlliteriCS, at 10,000,000 all.
Siberia, at 18.500,900 ; and elsewhee, at
7,000,000 dollars.
During ens week the numbers of foreign letters
received at sad aimpalosied frotallowlrorkww. as follows,
via :—British Wows, 65,499 ; Genoa idlers, 42,117 ;
Nevelt ielitem. 26.390: sad Belgisat letters, 808. The
number of lathers betimes the Wes" Indies. Aspirate,
South Pacific, and Chins and New 'York by united 'team
ships was 32,308 during the nee Imbed.

(Before Sir W. Page Wood.)
IA 1.1 TAR CAMBRIAN RAILWAY COMPANY.
Mr. G. W. Gifford, Q. 0., and Mr. W. W. Macheeon,
sweiticl for leave to file a new oche= in the above matter,
notwithstanding that the old scheme was still on the file.
The three months within which a scheme, wider the
Railway Companies Act, 11367, must be assented to,
in order to become binding and effectual, would,
in this instance, expire to-day. The motion was
m►de on the affidavit of the company's solicitor,
who sot forth the order made by his Honour on the
l7th of Deoember, and the decision of Lord Cairns on the
11th of January last varying the came, and stated that it
had become absolutely neoessory to vary the scheme in
order to make provision for the immediate satisfaction of
the land owner and other creditors where agents were
required, and that a new scheme bad been accordingly
prepared.
Mr. Drums, Q.C., appeared for other parties.
The Vice-Chancellor made an order that, notwithstand-
ing the existence of the original whose, the company
might be at liberty to file the new scheme forthwith, the
company thereby undertaking to abide by any order the
court might make in regard to taking the original scheme
off the Me, or in respect of costs, or otherwise, under the
original scheme, and directed the order to be dated to-
torrow, when the time would have ran out.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH•
Sittinp in Baneo.— (Before the Lord Chief Audioe and
'fustian She. and Lush.)

HUMPHERTS P. LONG.
Mr. Gates applied on behalf of the plaintiff for a rule
nisi calling upon the defendant to show cause why a writ
of attachment should not issue against him for the dis-
obedience of a writ of injunction. The Attlee was brought
upon a bond whereby the defendant had sold his practice
at Berkeley, in Glouoestershire, to the plaintiff, ruul cove.
mated not to attend any person except members of
his own family within a proscribed district.
Mr. Justice Lush, at chambers. made an order, ou the
31st October, 1867, restraining the defendant, or his
agents, from visiting as a medical practitioner within the
district any person, except members of his own family ;
yet the defendant had, on the 11th November and the
11th and 13th December, in violation of that order,
attended a patient, who was not a member of his family.
Buie nisi granted.
GROVE O. THZ JOSTICRS OP SOUTHAMPTON.
Mr. Grove, of Leamington, applied in person for a rule
ealliog upon *Mau justices of Southampton to show canoe
why a certiorari should not issue calliug upon them to
bring up a certain order for the payment of a district rate
with a view to its being quashed. The applicant com-
plained that Although he had given notice of his intention
to apply for this rule the rate had been levied by distress
and his goods sold.
The court, however, were unable to assist him as he bad
not complied with the act, and applied within six months
of the making
refused.of th e order.
^nlicstion

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
Sittings in Banco.—(Before the Lord Chief Baron and
Barons Briienwell, Channel, and Pigott.)
PERRYMAN r. LISTER.
This 'was an action by the son of a butcher, near
rzbridge, against a gentleman of the bar, living in the same
neighbourhood for having given him into custody on a
charge of stealing a gun, and at the trial, before the L for
d
Chief Baron, in Middlesex, the jury found • verdict
=he plaintiff.
Subsequently the ease was argued at length in this court
upon a rule which had been obtained for • new trial, and
the court now gave its judgment, the question being
whether the defendant had reasonable and probable cause
for the course he adopted.
The Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Baron Channell thought
the rale should be discharrd.
Barons Bramwell and Pigott were of opinion that the
' rule should be made absolute, but 'Lathe defendant desired
to appeal, Mr. Baron Pigott, as junior judge, withdrew his
judgment, and the role was discharged.
ETDIR V. WOMBWELL.
This action was brought by tradesmen in Bond-street to
recover the price of several articles of jewellery supplied to
the defendant, the son of the late Sir George Wombwell,
when he was under age. The trial took place before the
Lord Chief Baron in London, when the jury found •
verdict for the plaintiffs with regard to certain of the
goods ; but afterwards • rule was obtained to enter • non.
suit, or to reduce the damages by 2V. or by 151. 155., or
by both sums, or for • new triaL Lest term the CUP was
argued, the principal question being whether two articles
1 for which those sums were respectively charged, namely
la pair of solitaires, or fastenings for the wristbands of a
shirt and a silver gilt drinking cup, were necessaries for a
person of the rank and condition of the defendant. Their
lordships now gave judgment, and there being a difference
of opinion amongst them
Mr. Baron Bramwell first delivered his judgment. He
thought that as regarded the articles in question the
learned judge should have withdrawn the case from the
jury, and directed • verdict for the defendant. The silver
' gilt drinking-cup was evidently not a necessary, and
1 it could not be said that the solitaires were necessaries,
inasmuch SA studs, which would answer the same
Ipur-
pose, could be purchased for • few pence per pair, or per-
-1 haps a shilling • gross. There were some things as to
which it would be absurd to ask the jury whether they
were necessary, as for instance, turtle and venison for the
dinner of a clerk having only • salary of • pound a
week ; or a coach and four instead of an omnibus,
at • 3d. fare, to take him to his place of business in the
morning. On the other band there were things which
might or might not be necessary under erertain circum-
stances, about which the opinion of the jury might be
taken, es for example, an expensive coat, which it might
he shown was necessary for • person of • particular call-
ing, or for his health, or that would last twice as long as
one of half the price. In his opinion the rale should be
to enter • verdict for the defendant for • new trial.
The Lord Chief Baron read the judgment of Barons I
Channel. Pigott, and himself. The defendant was the
younger son of • baronet, and entitled during his minority
to 500/. a year, and, on coming of age, he received 20,000/.
He had no fixed residence in London ; but when there he
generally boarded and lodged with his mother ; and
when in the country, be lived with his brother,
the present baronet. The question then was whether
these articles were necessary to a person in such a position,
who mixed in the highest society, and the jury found that
they were neeeesary. In ancient times the judges took
upon themselves to deride such questions as matters of I
law, and even on demurer ; but in the altered state and
condition of society that practice had been departed from.
Their lordships thought that the question was properly
left to the jury in the present case. With regard to the 1
verdict being against the evidence, the price of the articles
was no doubt large, and he should himself have been
bettor 'briefed if the verdict had been the other way, but
he should panes before interfering with the verdict of the
jury. As to the drinking cep, that he remarked was I
presented by the defendant to the Marquis of Hastings. 1
whose hospitality he had enjoyed. His brithers Channell
and Pigott and himself, however, did no
h t thi
rule
nk 1
the verdict altogether satisfactory, and te
would upon payment of costs be made absolute
for • new trial, unless the defendant agreed to the
damages being reduced to fifteen guineas, the mat of the
drinking cup.
Mr. Baron Bramwell thought it was contrary to the
spirit of the Common Lew Procedure Act to make the
=neat of the costs of the rule the condition of • new
The Lord Chief Baron considered that the court had •
discretion as to costs.
Rule absolute &accordingly.

COURT OF Pon,
udge
OrdinaROBATE AND
ry.) DIVORCE.
(Bet the J
3rent raw. e. ataTeumr. AND PEARSON.
Mr. Leyoester for the petitioner, • mason's foremen
in Westminster. He married the 'respondent in 1849,
and cohabited happily with her till 1882 when
she took to drink ; and this, it Iris suggested, was
Trobehhe cause of that rirever immorality which
ly t
had led to the present suit. The 00-respondent,
• carmen, was a friend of the petitioner, and it appeared
that he had taken advantage of Metherell's occamonal
alessoess ea business to corrupt his wife. The petitioner
(wbo was called by the court to explain his conduct) stated
that having, an his return from the country, found his
home in every wretched stata,bedetermined that he wou
to hl er
d
live with his wife no longer •, be therefore sent her
mother's, and raid her an allowance of 6s. per week for
three weeks. Then, mentioning to • neighbour what an
unhappy home he had had, he was told that Pearson had
been men at his house. He immediately taxed Pearson
with sedusing his wife, and the co-respondent admitted
his guilt. He then took the co-respondent to his attorney,
and on his information instituted the suit. The fop
2n4
-
dent, the petitioner added, was hardly ever sober fr
hours together.
Dune nisi, with costs.

COURT OF ADMIRALTY.
(Before Sir R. Phißlatere.)
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STAMILI POlt WAGES.
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to.day.' One ceserlidseed ends hal bewedieeeted to
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exert.
Kr. Beget, Q. 0., Um Yearis-TAINIViIfa, and Mr.
Williams were for the muses ; Yr. Xeisee, Q.C., sad
Mr. Butt were for the ship.

Two questions were mimed by thu mit—claim for wage,,
and claim for damage by disanbaaL Money had been paid
into court as to waste, and to number of cases had been
settled with b 7 payment and releases, it was alleged, ob-
tained from the men. In March last the seamen were en
gaged at Limapool to June nest, m alleged, but were die.
mimed on the 12th May last. The Great Eastern bad been
arrested, and a number of suits instituted against the
company.
The MOO when oommenoed, from the voluminous dace•
wintery evidence and the law points, will probably occupy
a maple of days.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
IN RE E. J. A. EMMERT.
The banlrrupt was an iron merchant of Philpot-lane awl
of Anerley. Debts, 2,1064 meets returned at 100/.
Mr. W. 11. Roberta, for the assignees, offered no opposi•
tion, and the order was granted.
IN RE EDWARD SINPsON.
Ts
was was a silk merchant, of nationap
This was an adjourned sitting for exam and .I[l.

charge'
aseignees, stated that the bankrupt
Mr. Potter, for the
had been required to furnish special accounts of his trail—
actions, but he had not done so to the satisfaction of tip:

assignees.
Mr. Reed, an behalf of the bankrupt, urged that the ac-
counts asked foe were of a vary unusual character, and
would involve a great expense.
His Honour sand the bankrupt must do the best he could
with the assistance of the official assignee, and directsal an
adjournment.
DIRE WATERS.—LORD BHAFTTABIAIT'S LATE STEWArto.
The bankrupt in this case was Robert Short Waters,
described se a land agent, and clerk of works to
builder residing in South-street, Kensington. Thv
adjudication was made on his own petition on
the 22nd November Lat. He thus describes the
cause of his failure, " The cause of my inability to
meet engagements arises from criminal proceeding.
adoptedmy against me by the Earl of Shaftesbury, together
with heavy law oasts in defence thereof and heavy law
charges incurred by rue in prosecuting my claim against
the earl in the Court of Chancery." The
are stated at 3,098/. to unsecured creditors. and
2801. to creditors holding security. The principal
creditor is Mr. A. Hensley, solicitor, Albany,
whose debt is estimated at 2,000/., as the supposed amount
of law costs. The Earl of Shaftesbury is returned
creditor for 258/., being the co
amount of his st. in an
13peal motion in a snit in Chancery, " Waters v. the Eat
Shaftesbury," in which a decree had been made by
Vice-Chancellor Stuart in the bankrupt's fave:tr•
which was ravened on appeal. The secure.l me.
ditors are the London Life Assurance Company, who
hold a policy n the bankrut' life (valned
at 400/1 as security forooA/ o a loan of 2801. Ins reference to
the doubtful debts, returned at 4,998/, and stated to be
due from the Earl of Shaftesbury, the bankrupt gives the
following explanation :—" I was land agent and :::;eward
to the Earl of Shaftesbury, and I claim, in respect of cer-
tain drainage contracts perfected by me on the cotes
estate, a balance of 3.726/., a portion of which is for
money expended, and the residue balance due under the
contract ; and 1,280/. balance due to me on the genera
accounts between myself and tho earl. These sun.. a:,
disputed by the earl, and under a decree in the of
Waters v. the Earl of Shaftesbury the accour.ts between
the Earl of Shaftesbury and myself are being taken."
This was the sitting for examination and discharge.
Mr. Bagley said ho appeared on behalf of the Earl of
Shaftesbury, and he had to ask that the case should be
adjourned until May next. The bankrupt had loat. Lai
Sbaftesbary'ssteward for many yearn, and his lordship, h,v.
tog reason to believe that he had appropriated large sum. of
money, had instituted criminal proceedings against him. S.
anticipate those proceedings the bankrupt had COIIIIIICDCE4
a suit in chancery to obtain an account which was in coarse
of preparation. The trial in the criminal procoediNs
was fixed for the May sessions of the Central Criniial
Court, and on that ground an adjournment was
The bankrupt made a claim on Lord Shaftesbury fir
4,tr.w.; this claim was disputed ; and the earl lnol rt
proof on the proceedings for 2561. for costs, and claimed
for a probable balance on the settlement of account, of
above la,rage. If this were correct, the bankrupt we di
be in a large deficiency. No proper amounts could he
uutil the settlement of the questions between the b
rapt and the earl, and an adjoarnuient was therefore

necessary.
said he was dero
Mr. G. 11. Lewis, for the bankrupt, -d I;
of giving the fullest information. In 143 t
hemi t'iptll
haul commeno..l a suit in Chancery ; this our
March, IMki, when the bankrupt was suddenly arrest,d
on a charge of a series of felonies ; and the char4o
had stood over till this time, pending the qa. i•
bons in Chancery. Up to the pro..nt not ,h..
eighth of the accounts bad been gone through ; awl the
bankrupt having exhausted his means and those of
family, he had applied to the Central Criminal Courrt April
• day for the trial, which was appointed fo
next, ineontime, he having become liable for Lord
Shaftesbury's costa, the bankrupt was obliged to
come to this court ; and being a bankrupt, he
could no longer take any pot in Chancery proceedings.
Those proceedings had been going ou fur three years, and
might go on for seven years longer.
His Honour said he presumed there would be no do".
culty in the bankrupt's being allowed to att.
urnment ml at
taking of the accounts. Ultimately an adjo a
ordered.

(Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.)
IN RE ROPER.
The bankrupt, James Roper, was a lodging -11,1;e
keeper, of York-street, St. James's, and a inermeuger the
office of the accountant in bankruptcy. Debts, ;
property held as security, being a mortago of the lea.;
and furniture at iii, York-street, 1ee,2.104.
that the bauk-rpt
Mr. Solomon, for the assign, asked
should be required to set aside a portion of his future
earnings, his salary being 150 f. a year, towards the pay:lt
ou
of his debts. He also opposed on the ground of e‘tni•
vagant expenditure.
Mr. Reed, who represented the bankrupt, charged the
assignees with having mismanaged the estate. There Ltd
been an offer of 1,20 W. for the bankrupt's lease and fur-
niture ; had this otter been accepted, the roortg. of '4.0-
;night have been paid off, and the sarplus would have
yielded a respectable dividend for the unsecured creditors.
Evidence having been given of the oiler of 1,200/.,
nst His Honour said the estate appeared toAV° Fee
no t t
muddled away. The charge sgai the bankrupt was
established, and the order would be granted without con.
dition.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THIS DAY•)

(Before Mr. Justice Willes.)
MANSLAUGHTER BY AN ITALIAN.
Johann Morelli, N, ma Italian seaman, was char
upon au indictment, and also by the coroner's inquisition,
with the wilful murder of John Henvelle.
The prisoner did not understand F.nglish, and an inter-
preter was therefore sworn to explain the evidence to hen.
He claimed his right as a foreigner to be tried by si
jutf
compact' of half foreigners.
Mr. F. H. Lewis and Mr. Beeley conducted the prnst-
cation. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Straiih'i
through the intervention of the sheriffs. of
The facts of the cam will be fresh in the reoollection
our raiders' as the transaction only tiocurral a
very . oe short
time back, and the particallus were fully reported
the night of the 17th of January, about 12 u clock, the
prisoner, tbe deceased (who was a man of colour), ad
several other seamen, were at the Pruaaian Eagle puiliv
house? Sbipcliey, Welleicee-square, 'mom dancing going ne
upstairs at the time, and all the parties being MUM or lea
the worse for the liquor they had taken. The black roc
had a knife in his hand, and it appeared that he hut
quarrel with a Dutchman, one of the company, who was
shipmate of the prisoner, and the deceased struck the pro
eoner with his fist. They were then both turned into the
street by the landlord, and the moment they were out of
the house the deceased appeared to have gone up to
the prisoner and knocked him clown. Directly the pri•
goner got up he drew a dagger from his racket, sad
rushed at the deceased and stabbed him in the
bell,
thereby inflicting a mortal injury of which he dieddesteraZ
afterwards. When the prisoner had stabbed the
be ran away, and as he was doing so, he was seen to
throw away the dagger, which was picked up, oevered
with blood. When the' prisoner was under
the
before the magistrate he made a statement to ffect
that he was coming down from the dancing-room, when he
saw the black man, who was very drunk and violent and
who had a knife inhis hand, quarrelling with his shipmate,
and he then attempted to strike him. 'When he got ism
the street be said that the deceased ran at him with
knife in his band and he was obliged to use the
dagger to protect himself. There w, cd,
course, the slightest doubt that it was the base
of the prisoner that had caused the death of the de
ceased, and the only question in the case was whether
the act was committed in hot blood and under such Ox
cumetances as would reduce the character of the
The Mita!
from that of wilful murder ti
mer.Po'
,down to the ti of the csocurreeoe
takin place, appeared to have borne the acme
ter of a quiet iooffecouve man. The deceased aprani
to have lived about fourteen hours after receivio6
the injury, and before his death he made a statement
in the present,e of the prisoner to the effect that he me
the man who stabbed him, and be added that he II!
ether stupefied" by drink, and the " stupid foreigner
poked a knife into him out of revenge.
At the close of the ace for the prosecution, Mr. TRH
mid that he felt that upon the facts he should not h!
justified in pressing the charge of wilful murder, lee
should leave the case as one of manalaughter only.
th
Mr. Jce Wines mid he thought thee upon e
deuce thatbatt been gives the jury were not likelyW
convict the prisoner of the more sienna offence of mg.
murder, and that, under any circumstances, the act of the
prisoner would not amount to more than manslaughtec„•
Mr. Straight then briefly addressed the
jail
tie del and he endeavoured to show
the rimmer had merely acted in mild
and pupon this ground be called upon
to smoit him altogether. He reminded the
that 60 deceased was proved to have been

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