The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-18 00:00:00

THE . EXPRESS, t TUESDA:Y EViBMTG,,! AUGUST 18, • 1868. -

who LA called several times in her absence during the
day, came about six o'clock in the evening, when she
told him to go away quietly. Instead of doing so the
prisoner set to abusing her. called hers murderer, andcaused
about 100 persona to collect round her house. The prisoner
also threated to ruin her and her character, and to kill her.
The prisoner, since he had left her house, had called about
forty times, and every time she meet for a constable he
walked away. She went in fear of the prisoner.
Police-constable Henry Dawson, 12 C R., said that on
apprehending the prisoner and taking him in charge he
said it was all a lie. He afterwards said that he would
expose Mrs. Finch as he knew all her secrets. That morn-
ing the prisoner gave him a letter, and wished him to hand
it to Mrs. Finch.

Mr. Lewis said the letter substantially retracted all the
charges the prisoner had made against Mrs. Finch.
The letter was as follows: I hereby declare, in the
presence of witnesses, that all that I have said on the 15th
instant, and before, concerning Mrs. Finch was said in a
state of intoxication; and hereby declare that all that
was false ; and I furthermore declare that I am very sorry
for having used such expressions.—Franc. Foss's°, 14,
ltvder-street."
The prisoner made a long statement in answer to the
charge, but, although the primmer described himself as a
teacher of languages," it was perfectly unintelligible.
Mr. Tvrwbitt said the prisoner had bled to do all the
mischief he could to the complainant, and when taken up
for it begun to flinch and withdraw his charges against
her. The prisoner was one of those mischievous fellows
who haunted London, and called themselves "teachers of
languages." The prisoner would have to find two sure-
ties in 201. each for six months.

On being taken to the cells the prisoner pretended to
faint, end afterwards set to howling hideously.

A large number of houses are building at
Shanklin, in the Isle of Wight, in oonseauence of the
influx of visitors by the raihriy. •

A uew church h%s just been consecrated near
the I3ishopstoke station, on the South Western Railway.
The Hants Telegraph says that there is now
living in the neighbourhood of Portsmouth a soldier 85
years old, who fought at Waterloo, and has no pension.
AMERICA. NEW YORK, AUGUST 17. The
Inman royal mail steamer City of Boston arrived here to-
day. All well.

BltEsT, AUGUST 18.—The Transatlantic Com-
pany's steamer St. Laurent, from New York on the Bth
arrived here to-day at 10 a.m., with 119 passengers
and 2.i7,460 duly in specie.

The death of Dr: William Mackenzie, the famous
oculist, of Scotland, is announced. He was 74 years of
age, and had for a long time occupied a most prominent
position as a skilful ophthalmic surgeon, not only in
Glasgow, where he resided, but also in England; and he
was often called to great distances in consultation. He
was surgeon-oculist to the Queen in Scotland, and to the
Eye Infirmary, Glasgow. Dr. Mackenzie was a fellow of
the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, and M.D. of
the University of Glasgow, and also a fellow of the Royal
College of Surgeons of England. He was the author of
several works, among which his treatisea on the " Physio-
lq..7 of Vision " and .` Diseases of the Eye" are best
known.

THE THRONE, THE CHURCH, AND THE CONSTI-
TVTION.—The protestant demonstration in opposition to
the proposed disestablishment of the Irish church, took
place yesterday at the Crystal Palace. For such a gather-
ing the day was most unpropitious, and the speeches were
accordingly delivered in the central transept, instead of in
the open air, as originally intended. The chair was taken
by Lord Fitzwalter, better known as Sir Brook Bridges,
and the first resolution, deprecating the attempt " To
effect a solemn and radical change in the principles of the
constitution by hasty and ill-considered legislation," was
moved by Mr. Harduige Giffard, Q.C. About 5,000 per-
sons were present, and the proceedings were characterised
by order throughout. A donation of 2,000/. was forwarded
by the Duke of Portland " for protestant purposes."
CHURCH RATES AT IPSWICIL—At the recent
meeting of the Ipewich Town Council (according to the
svtak Chronicle) the churchwardens of St. Mary Tower
and St. Lawrence applied for a rate of 3d. and 44. to raise
60/. and 30/ respectively, for the augmentation of the
clergymen's income. The application was made under
the 13th Elizabeth, c. 24. Mr. Pearce moved that the
application be granted. A warm discussion followed the
application, and the legal adviser of the corporation was
appealed to to explain why, in face of therecent act of abo-
htion, the parishioners were still laid under contribution.
The answer was that the rate was legally made under the
13th Elisabeth, and that the Church Bate Abolition Bill
made provision for an exceptional rate like this. Hopes
were expressed that no such application would be made
again, and there was some talk of petitioning parliament,
but the application in the end was granted.
A CITY CLERK SELF-ACCUSED OF FORGERY.—
A young man, about 17 years of age, named Alfred Kirk,
rft connected, was brought before the local bench
at rnsgate, yesterday, charge upon his own confession,
with having forged a bill for 10/. upon the East London
Bank in the name of his employer*, Messrs. Barry, Fitz-
morris, and Co., of No. 9, Mincing-lane, London, on the
18th of July last. It would seem that he came down to
Ramsgate on the 4th instant, and ever since he had been
leading a fast life. He gave himself up to Superintendent
Pritchard, of the Harbour police, on Sunday morning, and
be was then quite destitute, having had to sleep in the
open air upon the cliffs the previous night. Be •es
spending the 10/. that he had obtained by forgery, he
had also got into the debt of several tradesmen of the
town between Si. and 10/. in about the space of eleven
days. Superintendent Pritchard communicated with the
young man's employers, and asked the bench to
remand him until he had received a reply. Kirk,
who admitted to the magistrates the truth of
the forgery, was then remanded a day. Sub-
sequently a telegram was received from Messrs. Barry
and Co., stating that they should not prosecute Kirk, but
would write fuller particulars. The bench decided to de-
tain him in custody until the promised communication was
received from Messrs. Barry.
FRIGHTFUL FALL OVER A CLIFF.—On Friday
afternoon a lad named Henry Corker, who had been
adopted by Mr. John Davis, assistant warder at the con-
vict prison, Portland, was playing in the recreetionground
attached to the establishment, with some other lads of his
own age. The playground is at the top of a cliff over-
looking the sea, and is bounded by a wall four feet in
height. The deceased climbed on to this wall and, miss-
ing his hold, fell a depth of about 150 feet, and was killed
on the spot. His body was recovered the next day,
frightfully crushed and disfigured. and at an inquest held
the same evening a verdict of " Accidental Death " was
returned. A recommendation was made by the jury that
the wall should be raised a few feet to prevent the recur-
rence of such a lamentable accident.
Cuntors DISCOVERY.—Last week the servants
of Mr. John Robertson, fisherman, Banavie, when cutting
peas, came upon a calf's skin, made into the shape of a
bag, and filled with what has the appearance of being
archangel tar. It must have lain where it was found from
time immemorial, for the peat moss above it was just as
solid as any other pert of the moor, and it was fully three
feet below the surface. Another of the same was found
in the moss on the opposite side of the river Lochy, four
years ago, similarly embedded. For what purpose it was
intended it was hard to say ; but a guess has been
hazarded that the tar was intended to have been dragged
to the top of the hill, and used for the purposes of a beacon
in days of old.
THE TABLES TURNED. The Orpheonista of
Grenoble, having refused to sing the cantata of M. Bel-
montel, expressly composed for the inauguration of the
-tutus about to be erected at Grenoble in honour of
Napoleon 1., were asked by the municipal authorities to
reconsider their decision. They did so, and again refused
by a majority of 48 to 21, on the ground " that agricul-
tural, mutual, academical, and musical societies had been
repeatedly told from the highest quarters that they bad
no right to interfere in politics; that they felt bound to
defer to such high authority, and could, therefore, take
no official East in the inauguration of the statue."
THE Yerleti CAVAIONAC INCIDENT. Quite
enough, in our bumble judgment, has been made, both in
France and in England, of the recent scene in the hall of
the Sorbonne, when young Cavaignac declined to go up to
take his prize. Who wins prizes, who gives them away,
and who refuses them, is no business of ours, and the sen-
timent of the occasion is not one in which we can feel an
unrestrained sympathy. If, however, we are to be-
come parties to the affair by expression of opinion,
let our position be worthy of the English name.
The Times of yesterday said :—" Young Cavaignac
had no right voluntarily to take advantage of the Impe-
rial University, and to compete for the Imperial prizes,
and then use the opportunity to insult the Emperor's
son." As to the right of boys to insult one another we
shall all agree. There is no such right, there can be none,
and to do so is very foolish. But apart from this, the
language of our contemporary is astounding. Anyone
nit acquainted with the history of France might have
supposed, from the language we have quoted, that theboy
Cavaignac had been taking advantage of some institution
which the Emperor in his liberality has founded and en-
dowed ; no one would infer from it that the university was
one of the national institutions of France, existing before
Napoleon HI. was bons, and only imperial in the sense
iu which under Louis Philippe it was royal. Although it
is the policy of the second empire to set its seal upon all
that belongs to France, and call everything by its own
name, the fact is that young Cavaignac by merely learn-
ing his lessons and obeying his masters has acquired a
better title in the University than any Bonaparte can
',how. A boy goes to the University which it pleases
Napoleon 111. to call imperial, just as a young English-
man goes to Eton or Oxford, because it is usual, without
thinking one moment whether this or that party or dynasty
is uppermost. The idea of the schools and universities in
France being imperial in the sense of the Times is as ludi-
crous as the suggestion that young Cavaignac should not
win prizes in the schools of his native laud unless he is
prepared to do homage to a child who ought to have been
at home learning his own lessons, when he was sent to
award honours to boys older and better instructed than
hires elf. General Cavaignac was fighting for France when
Louis Napoleon was conspiring against the government.
We agree with a French contemporary that it was unwise
to bring the sons of two such men face to fuse. —Daily
Neva.

A FRENCH MILITARY SPY.

The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Nem
mentions the following fact :
" A few days ago a stranger put up at the principal
hotel at Hendeld, a little town half-way between Cassel
and Fulda. He entered his name in the strangers' book
as " Leroi, peintre, i Paris." 'This seems innocent enough,
for artists, generally at least, are very harmless mea ; but the
landrath, who is at the bead of the polio°, smelt a rat, and
gave orders that the stranger should be watched. In
this manner it was soon established that M. Leroi was
taking very exact sketches of the town itself and the
whole of the neighboutcs_Llple this, the Landreth,
accompanied by the paid the ftwr
a visit, and confinn'=eir suspicions that he
was accustomed to wield heavier weapons than
a painter's brush. M. Leroi, by no means em-
barrassed (Freeichmen seldom are), replied in broken
German, that he was indeed a painter, but that he
would not deny he was also something else-In short, a
French captain and a member of the general stag. The
landrath immediately took possession of all K. Leroi's
papers, which he must have found a very interesting
study. Besides the numbrous sketches above alluded to,
there were many extracts from works referring to mili-
tary history ; also an exact memorandum of tine houses
of the town, the numbers of men that could be
quartered in them, and notes for the beet distribution of
the cavalry and infantry. The landrath went to Camel
for instructions, and the Prussian General Plonaki wished
to have the culprit forwarded to that city under escort.
But the landmth, though evidently a shrewd man, must
also be a good-natured one, for, at his representations,
the general gave up his more wrathful intentions, and
M. Leroi was allowed to escape, on giving a written
promise to return to France without lose of time."

FOUR .PERSO.K.S DROWNED NEAR MORECAMBE.

•
About sewn o'clock yestetaay morning a party
of excurbionata, seven in number, from Yorkshire, left
Morecambe for the purpose of bathing in the bay. They
went on to what is known as Old Scar Bank, about two
miles from Morecambe. The tide was coming in rapidly at
the time, and as soon as they had bathed they discovered that
they were being surrounded by the water. There is a channel
on either side of the bank, and the water in it was of a
considerable depth. Becoming alarmed, they all rushed
into one of the channels, in the hope of crossing it ; they
soon, however, got out of their depth, and a fearful
struggle for life ensued, only one of the number (Isaac
Ackroyd), a blacksmith, of Blackpool, being able to swim.
Three of the party, John William White, aged 12 years,
of Bradford ; Francis Giles, 17, and William Caldwell. 26,
of Sheffield, instantly disappeared, and wore drowned.
Richard Wilkinson, aged 40 years, of Sheffield, who
had tried to save the boy White, was picked up in
an insensible state by a boatman named Woodhouse,
and, although means were adopted to restore anima-
tion, they proved unavailing. The other three mon,
John Henry Ackroyd, Isaac Ackroyd, and Henry Gila',
were also received into the boat, and but for the timely
arrival of Woodhouse, would no doubt have been
drowned. An inquest was held upon the bodies at More-
cambe last evening. Woodhouse, who was highly com-
plimented by the jury for the promptitude which he had
displayed, said that if the four deceased had remained
still on the bank until he came to them, they would all
have been saved. The jury returned a verdict of "Acci-
dentally drowned."—Manchester E.rrt»iiner.

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Holyhead —19.78 f 67 55 N.N.W.
Liverpool 29.741 63 68 N.W.
Yalentia 30.06f 68 63 N.
Cape Clear 29.961 69 98 N.B.
Roche's Pt 29.921 67 56 N.N.W.
Penzance 29.81 f 68 55 N.
Plymouth.' 49.70 t5B 67 N.N.E.
Weymouth 29.60 (59 59 N.W.
Portsmouth 29.56 fc es E.
London 29.60 f 62 till B.E.
C. Gris Net 29.58 fO3 81 B.R.E.
Brest 29.82 r 67 67 N.N.W.
Laziest '29.76r 67'66 N.N.W.
Rochefort r 66 84 W.
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Barometer corrected and reduced to git deg. at sea level. The
letterer (rising), f (falling), a (steady), indicate direction of motion
of the mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in
shade. kWreme farce with ins direction during last it hours.
Z.—calm. Weather: b.—blue sky; c.—clouds (detached) ;
I.—fog ; ; 1.--lightning ; (hazy) ; o.—overcast
(dull) ; r.—rain ; a.—enow ; t.—thunder. Rainfall, snow or hail
(melted), during last 24 hours. Bea disturbance.

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

ONE O'CLOCK.

With the exception of foreign stocks, which are
inquired for, and show an improvement, partly in
response to the receipt of better prices from the
Paris bows., the markets for public securities are
fiat to-day. The English funds are dull at the decline
of yesterday. Railway shares are still offered, and
have experienced a further moderate reduction. The
public hold almost entirely aloof from these soca-
rifle*, but the_ speculators for a fall have made
sales for the account, in consequence of the de-
crease in the traftic of the principal lines. Busi-
ness generally is very inactive, and there appears
to be little prospect of any revival for the present,
in the absence from town of most of the leading
operators.

The discount market is quiet, yet the lowest rate
for bills is l I to 2 per oent. The charge in the
Stock Exchange for short advanoee on English
Government Securities is 1} to 2 per cent. _

Consols are quoted 94 to 94 for money, and
94 to * for the account (September 8), and the
Three per Cents. Reduced and New Three per
Cents., 94* to }.

Home railway stocks exhibit a fresh decline.
Great Western has receded „ per cent. ; Mid-
land, Groat Eastern, South Eastern, Great
Northern A, and London, Chatham, and
Dover, I ; and Metropolitan, 1. Prices are
quoted as follows:—Caledonian, 751 to „ ; Lou-
den and North Western, 1161 to ; Great
Western, 481 to a ; Midland, 1061 to ;
London and South Western, 89 to
91, ex div. ; Great Eastern, 371 to I ;

Brighton, 521 to 3 ; South Eastern, 75; to 1 ;
Metropolitan, 1111 to 1, cx div. and n. ; Great
Northern, 106 to 1; Ditto A, 1021 to ;
London, Chatham, and Dover, 191 to 1; Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 1291 to 130 ; York and
North Midland, 911 to 923 ; Berwick, 1011
to 1021; and North British, 351 to 1.
The foreign stock market is firm, and the
changes in prices are in an upward direction.
Brazilian of 1863, Egyptian of 1864, Italian of
1861, and Turkish of 1865 are in chief
demand, and have risen to 1 per cent.
Spanish of 1887 and the Orel Vitebak Railway
loan are 1 better. Subjoined are the quotations:—
Brazilian of 1865, 771 to 78 ; Chilian of
1867, 921 to 931; Egyptian of 1864, 841 to 851 ;
Italian of 1861, 521 to ; Mexican, 151 to 1 ;
Peruvian of 1865, 791 to 1; Russian of 1866,
921 to 931; Orel, 84 to ; Spanish of 1867, 34
to ; Turkish of 1858, 671 to 68 ; ditto of
1862, 65 to 1; and ditto of 1865, 391 to 4.
Indian stocks are steady. The Five per Cents.
are quoted 114/ to 1151 ; the Four, 1045 to 105 ;
the Bonds, 235. to 28s. prem. ; and the Deben-
tures, 105 to 1. Bank Stock is flat, at 243 to
245. Exchequer Bills, 15s. to 208. prem.
The market for bank shares is quiet, with few
transactions. London and Westminster, 67; to
; London and County, 50; to 1; Union of
London, 351 to I ; Anglo-Austrian, 7to prem. ;
London and Brazilian,4 30 to 23 dis. ; Imperial
Ottoman, 1 to 3 prem. ; and Consolidated b to

No alteration is observable in miscellaneous
shares. National Discount, 111 to 1; General
Credit, 21 to 21 dis. ; Credit Foncier, 21 to 3 per
share ; International Financial, 11 to 11 dis. ;
London, 24 to 22 dis. ; Hudson's Bay, 131 to ;
Telegraph Construction, 132 to 16 ; Atlantic
Telegraph Eight per Cent. Preference, 31 to
41; and Anglo-American, 211 to 1.

-In the market for American securities, the
5-20 bonds have improved per cent., the pre-
sent price being 714 to 4 ; but Erie and
Illinois Central Railway shares are I
lower, at 334 to 344 and 904 to NI, respectively,
Atlantic and Great Western debentures, 39 to I ;
and the Consolidated Mortgage bonds, 391 to 4.
The shares of the French Atlantic Telegraph
Company are quoted to / prem.
The steamer City of London has arrived from
New York, with about 230,0001. in specie.

TWO O'CLOCK.

The government funds are inactive, with few
transactions. As regards railway stocks,
Great Eastern and Brighton have declined I per
cent. Foreign bonds are slightly flatter, and a
reduction of k has occurred in Italian of 1861,
Peruvian of 1865, and Turkish of 1865.

FOUR O'CLOCK.
The government funds are steady, at 931 to
94 for money, and 94 to 1 for the account.
As regards railway stocks Metropolitan and
Brighton are Ito 1 per cent. higher, at 1111 to
112 and 521 to 53 respectively. Caledonian, 751
to 76 ; South Eastern, 751 to 1 ; Midland,
106 a to 1 ; London and North Western, 1161
to 1 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1291 to 130 ;
and Great Western, 481 to 1. . _ _