biglam/hmd_newspapers huggingface dataset:
The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-15

GODFREY C. =XVI.

Thin was an aetrjr:f;; malicious prosecution and
deader, in charging the plaintiff before the Lord Mayor
with having stolen ordain win* warrant..
Mr. Prentice QC., sad Mr. Biron appeared for the
plaintiff; Mr. H. Imams sad Mr. Mellor for the defendant.
The defendant having retracted the charge and with-
drawn all imputations, a verdict was, on Saturday, taken
by eenseat for the plaintiff for W., the amount of his
costa is defending lumaelf bolero the Lord Mayor, sad
other charges be bad been put to.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAR.—Dsc. 14.
Sittings at Nisi Prins in London.—(Before Lord Chid
Justice Dorill and a Opecial Inry.)
Till? AND OTNIMII V. CANN/LN.

The plairstiih7ln this 0:47..6;4; iii;;W: Norton, Trio;
and Co., of Old Broad-street, and they sued the liquidator
of the Agra and Masterraan Bank (Limited), to reamer
8741. for expenses and commission in reference to the
sale of part and attempted sale of the remainder of
the buildings and land belonging to the company. The
defendant paid 4261. into court.
Mr. Oarth, QC.. and Mr. Matthew appeared for the
Plaintiff"; and Mr. J. Brown, 4.C., for the defendant.
The case lasted the beg part of the day. and it ended
in a inggedion of his lordship's being adopted, that a ver-
dict should be taken for the plaintiffs for 12. W. more than
the sum paid into court.
London, England, 1868-12-15

THE LATE (LILES.

FALMOUTH, Dim. 14.
We had a southerly gale hero all lust night (mays
Mr. C. ('lift), and this morning a brig was soon to be
driving on St. Mawe's Castle Point. Soon afterwards she
hoisted a signal for assistance, and thereupon the lifeboat
Oloneester, of the lifeboat society on that station was
promptly launched and taken to the spot in tow of a steam
tug. Two other steamers also went out. Whilst crossing the
harbour the rca, which was running fearfully high, broke
frequently over the boat and buried it. One of the steamers
got a hawser from the brig the cables wore
slips eil and she canted round clear of the Point, but drove
on the bank, it being low water at the time. The lifeboat
remained to windward of the vasel ready to save life if
required, hut the gale abating the steamers managed to
get her off the bank, and tow her across the harbour. The
big is a Norwegian bound to fe Rochelle with timber,
but her tame is not known here at present.
The bats of the institution have rendered good service
iu several other cases.

THE NEW DEAN OF• LiciiriiO3).—Tho installs.
tion of the nt w teem of Liclitieltl (Cauoa Chsalpneys)
took ple.4e this noaruiiig.
London, England, 1868-12-15

TILE FIFE-TWENTY BONDS.

Ws stated a short time since in the Express, on
the authority of an American correspondent on
hem we thought wo could rely, that the present
House of Representatives would not, as had been
asserted, favour the principle of repudiation. It
will be seen by the telegraphic intelligence dated
yesterday from Washington how truly our corres-
pondent guaged the opinions of the representa-
tives on this subject. The House passed yester-
day a resolution by 154 votes against 6,
" declaring all forms of repudiation of the
. .

" national indebtedness odious to the American

" people."

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)
London, England, 1868-12-15

CORED TO DEATH BY A BULL.

An inquest was hold at Belfast on Saturday on
the body of an old man who died from the effects of inju-
ries received by an attack made upon him by a bull. It
would seem that the animal was irritated by a done
thrown at it by a boy, and it immediately rushed at the
demieed,who was crossing the street, and knocked him
down. The bull struck him in the stomach, and when
about to make a third attack it stumbled and fell on him
with its knees. After the stone was thrown the boy
shouted to the old man to get out of the way. The Old
man had not time to retreat, but he struck the animal as
it came forward to attack him. A dog afterwards seised
the animal by the nose, and so hold it until it was
secured.
London, England, 1868-12-15

LAW INfiLLIGIINOE.

COURT OF =MT'S BMCII.—Dso. 14.
Sittings at NW Prim at Ouildball.—(Befors the Lord
Chia Justice Cockburn and a Common Jury.)

1111611TOS 11111 D OMAN V. swami.
This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, who were
Australia mesehanta, carrying an,bera in Noorgate-
street, City, againsta,
the delant RiekaM Swann,
au underwriter at Lloyd's, to reuover the sum of 5W., the
amount for which a cargo of corms nut oil, value 2404,
bad bean underwritten by the defendant. The defendant
*sited that the plaintiffs had no interest in the cargo. and
that they had concealed a satinet fad from the defendant
which was well known to them and their agent for
effeetintif re the insurances.
Mr. ' by Seymour, Q.C., and Mr. White we conniel
for p andiff ; Mr. Pollock, Q.C., and Yr. Wraps
Williams for thedefendant.
It appeared that the cargo upon which the insurance
bad been effected was on board the vessel Esmaulda, and
was an insurance for the voyage from Tahiti to England.
Prior to the ship putting into the port of Tahiti she had
sailed from maim, and cm her way she had suffered
greatly from bad weather. She there took in the cargo in
questims, and prooseded on her voyage, when she again
met with very bad weather, and was eventually lost. The
plaintiffs now claimed the amount of the policy on •
total has. . .

—The lefence was that the vessel was unseaworthy when
she left Tahiti, and that there was a concealment of the
feet from the underwriter of her having to put into that
port in consequence of her pumps being choked, and if
the defendant bad known that fact be would not have
underwritten the cargo.
The jury ultimately returned a verdict for the
defendant.
London, England, 1868-12-15

THE EXPRESS. TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1868.

THE QUEENS BOOK.

A (mutiny() addition has been wade to the
gift-books of the year. The illustrated edition of
" Our Life in the Highlands" is the very thing
for a Christmas present, and will augment the
already enormous popularity of the gracious and
touching confidences shared with her people by
the QUERN. Handsomely printed on toned paper,
this fine quarto contains many sketches by her
MAJESTY, as well as engravings from the works of
various artists of the day. The leading incidents
in the Diary are familiar to all England, and the
sumptuous edition now published merely gives
material form and shape to that which had
already acquired vitality and distinctness in
the public mind. Rir EDWIN LANDSEER'S
picture of Balmoral Forest, with the Prince
Consort in the foreground, and the stag ho has
brought down at his fectomings.Majesty riding
towards him on a Highland pony, and the dogs
dividing their wistfully affectionate regard be-
tween their royal master and mistress, forms
the subject of the first engraving. The
completion of Cairn on Craig Gowan, which
all: readers will remember, is the occasion
of another spirited engraving by fintrumrsox
from a sketch by Wil.f). The stag shot by the
l'utzet, and of which a reduced sketch from one
taken by the Quizs w•as given in the first edition
of the Diary, is now reproduced in fac-simile, and
is further honoured by being made the centre
of the picture, " Evening at Old Balmoral
" Castle," by CARL HAAG, from whose works
several other of the engravings are taken.
The intensely personal affection entertained
for the Ch-Ert will moreover be gratified by the
two chromo-lithographs of her MAJzary's and
the PRINCE CONSORT'S sitting rooms at Balmoral.
The English public loves to peep into the home-
life of its sovereign, and thousands of sympathetic
readers will turn to the PRINCE Cossoter's
writing-table by the window, and note the
chaste simplicity of both apartments, while
picturing to themselves the pure domestic
happiness of which they were the scene. This new
edition is, however, handsome and appropriate
throughout. It has scarcely a page without an
illustration, and excellent portraits and groups of
the people mentioned in the Diary abound in it.
The Grim( has conferred a boon upon all to whom
the pleasant, but somewhat embarrassing duty of
making Christmas gifts devolves, and we predict
that her book in its present gorgeous shape will
gain a new circulation which will approach, if it
does not equal the old.
London, England, 1868-01-08

THE POLICE COURT&

MANSION-HOUSE.
£'h-nr4 aged 23, described as a reporter, was
charged with fraudulently obtaining sums of money by
representing that he was employed as a collector by the
committee appointed foe the relief of the sufferers by the
Clerkenwell explosion.
Edward Clinker, a City deteative officer, mid—From a
communication made to MC last Friday by Mr. Ponder,
baker, PH. Upper Thames-street. I have been looking for
the prisoner. Last night, shout ten o'clock, I went to
l'enton-street, Walworth, where I saw the prisoner. I
told him I RAS a police-officer, and said, "I have been
'risen to understand that you have been collecting money
on behalf of the sufferers from the Clerkenwell explosion,
and that you have received money from a ere it many
parole, :sod amongst others from Mr. Ponder.' The pri-
soner said be Lad. I said, "Mr. Ponder has toll me it
was because you represented you were sent round
bv Mr. Courtenay. wine merchant." He eabl, " I
did not say so. I will tell you about it. I have
bad altogether about 7/. I intended to have got 20/., and
then hauled it over to the relief fund." I asked him if
be hail got the money, and be replied that be hail spent
it, hut that it would be forthcoming OD Wed-
nesday. I then took him to the station, and
found on him sixpence and a note-book, con-
'Mining several names and amounts of money.
He referred toile list, and said that all the nonics of those
who had subscribed were there excepting two. He also
said that he we.' ccunected with the ON Pregt relief fund,
but he felt so sorry for the sufferers that he was doing it
mere out of teal sympathy, and he thought A i he was so
well connected in the ward of Vintry, that it would be a
goal opportuuity to collect money. He likewise said that
he had went a letter to the Lord Msyor stating that he
would bring the meney to the Mansion-house on Weilnes-

aaa
y.
Coortenny, wine merchant, St. Thomas the Apostle,
said the pri,,oner was reporter at the Vintry wardmote for
the rd', Pr./,. After the meeting he called on him and
asked a subscription for the elerkenwell Relief Fund,
and he understand from what be add that there was a
fund being raised be the Ciro, Pr,,s. He did not gird him
anythinr. and expl.ained that his reason was because he
would be espeetsd t.. give a liberal subscription for the'
same object at the c' arch on the following slay.
The Lord Mayor- It appears this man was employed by
the t.'ety and he takes advantage of Lis being
known to the ptople in the ward of Vintry to commit a
!nail on them. _ . .

Hr. l'oe.t enay—Wall, I helieee that is so.
&mine' Fordhnm, foreman printer at the City Press
office, mid prisoner was occasionally employed to re-
port for that newspaper. and he was employed to report
the Vintry wardninte. hut not since. There was no fund
being ral.ed by tla Cif, Prl for the relief of the suf.
hirers from the explosion in Clerkenwell.
At this :loge the prisoner was remanded till Thursday,
in order thi.t some of those who had given him subscrip-
tions inijlit be in attendance.
. _
London, England, 1868-01-08

ITALY.

he Official Ammo/ of this morningpublhhes
the retractation of Cardinal Andrea. It is dated
20th December. The cardinal asks pardon for
having gone to Naples, notwithstanding the pro-
hilition of the Pope ; he deplores the scandal:
he has caused and his connection with the
Bromitiatore newspaper at Florence, the here-
tical doctrines of which he disapproves. The
cardinal adheres to the address of the bishops
aseembled at Borne in June, 1867 ; he withdraws
his protest against the Pontifical brief of the 12th'
June, 1806, and asks pardon of the Pope and all '
those whom he has offended. Baron von Sigis-
mund presented his credentials to the Pope to-day
as Bavarian minister.

RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, Jet. 7.
An imperial ukase has been published annulling
the ukase of the 26th May, 1867, whereby those
inhabitants of the Western governments of the
kingdom of Poland belonging to the lower classes
who had been compromised in the late rebellion or
exiled were permitted to emigrate.

THE REMAIN SOF THE EMPEROR

TRIESTE, lam. 7.

Reliable intelligence received here states that
the Austrian frigate Novara, with the remains of
the Emperor Maximilian, is expected here
between the 10th and 12th January.

PRUSSIA. 1
BERLIN, Jeri. 7.
Count von der Oohs left this morning upon his
return to Paris.

ARRIVAL OF THE SERAPIS AT MALTA.
MALTA, JAN. T.

Her Majesty's Indian troopship Serspis arrived
here last night, four days from Alexandria, with
Colonel Walton and fifty other officers of the 35th
Regiment, 20 ladies, 979 non-commissioned officers
and 'privates, 81 women, and 171 children. She
'leaves for Portsmouth to-day.

AMERICA.
(sT Anarric mioitAni.)
NEW YORK, JAN. 7.

The Cunard steamer Cuba arrived out yesterday.
Closing Prices :—Gold, 137. Sterling exchange
on London, mi. 6-20 United States Bonds,
104; Ditto, 1886, 106} • Illinois, 1334 ; Erie, 734.
Cotton : Middling Upland, 164. Petroleum, stand-
ard white, 24i. Old mixed corn, 1.43.
London, England, 1868-01-08

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(TROY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, TOMMY Svisino.
In the Corps Legislatif yesterday a bill was
voted, after a slight discussion, granting the trivial
sum of three millions of francs (120,0001.) for
public works and the relief of necessitous people at
this period of distress. The apology made for the
meagre pittance, ridiculously inadequate to the
purpose, was that the Corps Legislatif, before
granting a larger sum, should have an opportunity
of satisfying themselves how this had been
laid out. That was en extremely plausible
and delicate reason : but M. Glais Biroin,
not satisfied with it, said he would very much like
to know what proportion' of the three millions was
to be employed in public works and how much in
charity. He mentioned an instance in which money
had been voted to relieve sufferers from fire, and
after a long delay poor people had lost a day's work
and taken a long journey to get not more than ten
sons or one franc. He grievously suspected that
this bill was a pretext for giving some of the pre-
fects funds to keep corrupt promises which they
had made to carry elections. M. Glais Biroin,
though he repeated his question, got no answer
to it.
A Toulon letter, dated Jan. 3, in the Message,. du
Midi, says :
The Stlolllll of the French troops in the Pontifical States
being indefinitely prolonged, orders have been given to
.sad oat 500 tons of 'materiel to Civita Veechia. The
seam frigates Orenoque, Commander Pi, and Meador,
Oenimander Assn, have been told oft for this sersias.
The Temps mays of the elections in the Somme
and Indre-et-Loire, the importance of which I
called your attention to yesterday :
The double election in districts which the government
had every reason to suppose itself ware of has a signin-
canoe that nobody can mistake. It conveys evidently a
oensare on the general policy of the government, but
more partisalarly • protest against the army bill now
awaiting a final vote.
I should have mentioned that both the successful
candidates, MM. Houssard and d'Eatournel, ex-
pressed uncompromising hostility to the army bill
in their electoral addrassea.
Last night was fully as cold as any we have yet
had in this exceptionally severe winter. Cheva-
lier's thermometer went down to 10 degrees, and
upwards. To-day, as in the day time yesterday,
we have had but about S degrees ; there are,
however, no signs of a thaw. Several of the mails

are behindbAnd.
M. doe Rotours, the deputy, whose death I
mentioned yesterday, was mined by the intones
°old while walking home from the Corps teals-
WU and rapidly carried off by a pleurisy. He
was only 81 pen of age and was supposed to be in
robust health.
The young Duke de Lanes, grandson of the
duke just deed, has sent to the Pepe, in whom
service he fought at the battle of Ilisittana, a pre-
sent of twelve pieces al artillery. .1 sandal that
Ws duke, ponment to a content Whim fel=
no individual never cheeps his *la, um
to call himeeß Duke de Chevrons: - Ildryas
London, England, 1868-01-08

cmurixWELL EXPLOSION BELIZE FUND.

VIM REPORT OF 731 coma re.
On Friday, 13th December, 1867, occurred in
Clerkenwell that terrific and fatal explosion, width from
the muse that prodooed it, and the consequences it brouzlit
forth, has bosoms appodbmgly historic in the Magi of
England. The foßiwing is • brief epitome at the
results inflicted on the immediate neighbourhood :
Seven persons deed in oorisegnenes of the explo-
Si 311 • forty-one parsons badly wounded, involving
loss of limbs and eyesight, maiming, end general
disfigurement ; fifty-six permits, for the most part
representing families, :inhumed, with loss of furni-
ture, tools, working materials, &c., se many as
600 families in the vicinity suffering in health, puma,
and property from the violence of the shook. Imme-
diately upon the mourenos of the explosion, end the emir-
tail:aunt of its fatal and terrific consequences, steps were
taken by the elegy and mink:tors, and iausatial
parishioners of Clerkenwell, to establish • fund for the
relief of the @aileron. A public esestiag was summoned
for the Monday evening following the sataidrophe (Dec.
16, 1867), at which • committee wee formed toe this pur-
pose, and muerte were adopted so as to secure adequate
means for the aocomplkihment of the desired aid. It
must not be mdtted hers that, daring the interval b.
'wean the explosion and the ressigt of poblis blade to
sooty the Ingest asomettisa of the 'lraq: bush
the Right Hoe. the Chassidim of the ear asset
thoughtfully devoted • certain poetics of
seam to the terapecery sad certain_
relief of terf-
!SOW& This timely aid
_wee of the most alai swam a melt
• abb. To the MaassUerel the llizebeqesr, and his bad-
bearte4l47 the thanks of the nation are doe for
their forethought and essidarattoa for the safer-
ingpeor. essaisitMe have Wass the dale a their
three weeks aaggoq, devoted themselves Who
work in plassma isboa of the satmers, and
&Ombra to Imam nay sow Ismer isms their
Ist Newt Ss semmilMee weld at Ike mama el ear
Fb Asir adiallisageinfonard at =t= to
to the of the rem gains sehmubtlan to
this date gabolutiss to 6,0011. la. Pd. es sessivet bir. the
bamboo. Timm am variessaums in the banal of other
London, England, 1868-03-05

LOSS OF FIFTEEN SEAMEN.

Some details of the total loss of the ship
Devonshire, of North Shields, with all hands, reached
that town yesterday. The Devonshire was on a voy-
age from Alexandria to Grimsby, with • cargo of
cotton seed, and had • crew of fifteen hands, all told.
She was is command of her owner, Mr. Clark, and
had been caught in the northwest gale of Saturday last,
while coming down Channel. About 10 o'clock on
Saturday night the peasantry upon the French coast be-
i tween Ambetetue and Andressells were alarmed by the
intelligence that • vessel had driven ashore on the Lange
de Chien, about 300 yards from where the Australian
ship, the Messenger, was wrecked in January last. The
cries of the perching mariners could be heard in the
lulls of the storm, bat there was not a lifeboat or
rocket apparatus on the coast and no assistance could be
rendered them. The country people, however, kindled
fires and fired guns, to let the marina, know that they
heard them, and kept watch. About midnight the cries
of the seamen suddenly ceased. Soon afterwards wreck
began coming ashore, showing the vessel had broken up,
and that every soul aboard her had perished. The vessel's
logbook and other articles Dave been washed ashore. There
is reason to believe that she had a passenger on boards as
some luggage has been found with • direction "E. FAO,
passenger, London," on it.
London, England, 1868-03-05

• Ai reoeivad.

(BELTIII.B TRUGRAIIB.)
INDIA.
INSIJRRECTION OF THE BHEELS.
(via Malta.)

BOMBAY. Fee. 14.

The Meela have risen at Punch, on the frontier
of Cashmere. A force has been despatched against
the insurgents. Fears are entertained of distress
in Madras.
The cattle disease is prevalent.

CHINA AND JAPAN.
LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP NYPHON.
HONG-KONG, Fse. 12.

Intelligence received here from Japan announces
that the conflict between the Confederate Daimios
and Stotabashi, the Shogoon, continued. Further
fighting had taken place.
The Foreign Ministers had left Osaka.
Admiral Keppel has arrived at Hong-Hong on
board her Majesty's ship Rodney.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Nyphun has been lost together with her cargo.

AMERICA.
THE IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT.
(BY ATLANTIC TILIGIAPII, TIMODUR NIL UUTtled Acutucy.)
WASHINGTON, Ileum 4.
_

The House of Representatives has adopted addi-
tional impeachment articles, charging President
Johnson with high crime in having denounced and
denied in public speeches the legality of the action
of Congress.

A committee of the House of Representatives
presented the articles of impeachment to the
Senate to-day.

---- -
OUR PARIS LETTER.

(nom ova OWN coaassronsurr4
PARIS, WIDNINDAT EVENING.
The latest phase of the Kerveguen matter is that
the editors of the Liberte, Opinion Nationale,
Revue du Deux Monde', Siiek, DOW., and Arcuir
National have this day signed the following re-
quisition, couched totidesn verbis, in the terms dic-
tated by the Pays, as containing the guarantee
which it requires :
We, the undersigned, authorise the journal, the Pays, to
publish all the documents which it says it possesses, and
hereby expresely IRSOINIOE all right to iwrtitate a prosecu-
tion tar =At publication.—E. DE °IRANIAN, An. Otraou LT,
F. LAZA, L. SATIN, E. F. ERWIN, JCL2B Yeats.
Elam* 4,18613.
London, England, 1868-03-05

ABYSSINIA.

The correspondent of the New York Herald in
London has received the following despatch :

" ANTAL°, Dn. 15.

"Arrived with advance brigade. Short halt
made here. Then Magdala. Napier meets Kauai
of Tigril on the 20th to propose peace. Grand re-
view of native chiefs then. Envoy from Kasai
treated badly by Merewothor. Peace doubtful.
We are in enemy'■ country now. Stragglers shot.
Six Arabs shot. Enemy mutilated [them] horribly.
Three English officers disappeared. Theodore ad-
vancing with 30,000 men. He cannot march over
three miles a day. Waeheite and Mendel( sur-
round Magdala. News from prisoners last week—
all well. No forage beyond Antalo. Fifteen days
short marches to Magdala."
London, England, 1868-03-05

No. 6,733.)

GOVERNESSES' BENEVOLENT
INSTITUTION.
Incorporated by Royal (tarter, with power to bold land by
gilt, parttime, or bequest.
Under the ige of
Her Moat Unclose the COMM
His Royal II Imes the PR CR of WALE&
Her Royal H the MRCVS of WALE&
Her Royal II the Duchess of CAMBIUM:IL
His Royal the Duke of C.AMBRIDOZ
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Ma Royal Idtvarthal=artrand Duchess of
Her Royal Highneasthe ERLNCESS MARY ADELAIDE
Eitssrimirr—The Earl of HARROWBY.
TaLumaan—Beniantin Bond Cabbell, Esq., NBA
(be objects of this Sodety are all In operation.
Temporary andstance to governesses in Entreat agordad pit-
Wifely thrmo the Ladles' Committee.
AVM= YUND..-120Ctille annuities to aged gever as. se-
emed on invested capita; and thus tudepe. d tof ram prospe-
rity of the Institution.
the flon lira AshleLhas most kindly opened a And to yet.
ail the Society's annul to On Any donations •ahich stay he
kindly given ma be addressed, "The Hon. Era Ashley, to the
care of the ne ."
ritovlostri FOSD.—Provident annuities par chased by ladies
in any way connected with education, opera Government se-
curity, agreeably to the Act of Earlisment. This branch includes
$ savings Bank.
A home for governesses during the intervals between their en-
Prn ay:tent of registration entirely tree of expense.
An met= for the aged.
HIM. BBOISTUIT.—Nrs. David Wog.
BAssßa&--fiir S. Scott and tie I, Cavendish-square, W.
CHARLES W. &LUGS, fiemetary.
St, tkickvilleoiresk W.
London, England, 1868-12-23

LAIIDETII.

Ayderick Gabon, 46, of Cowper-18.7 road, South Hom-
iny, was charged with being renewed with Triesuis Goo-
hag, OW RaTrey, alias he. Wanes, and others not in
custody, in obtaining by false pretences 1461. from William
Beckwith, with intent to cheat and defraud ; also with
being concerned with the said Thomas Unsling and others
in paining fictitious cheques upon Jane Whitechuroh and
other..

It will be remembered that who charged
with having carried on a system of a bugs
of fictitious cheque', was taken by Mau of the
I' division, while living at (,se'we'd WNW the title of
Dr. Watson, and is tow under remand, and through the
publicity given to the rue a ember of victims will, It is
understood, ea the nest ocesdee, sane forward.
The induce of the presenter went to show that by
means of forged cheque aid bedtimes warrants for wine
"aid to be lying is the decks, as ssteedw system of fraud
had been for sons time is opeedien.
The prisoner, who easeessi Ms define', war riseended,
and his application to be sdesesi as bail was refused.
SOUTRWARK.
In the course of the day Mr. I. W. HMI* sedider,
of No. 1, Trinity-square, areempanied by Mr.
Cuter, the insurer sod Swaim of tic Dad' IMdei
beficerfeir Hanel— Man ad
Mr. of Ike Ann of
WesearitoMe in the
4widgeteed, eel by
W ee end Co., of the Norengh, beim Mr.
Bunko, and espressed hie balm on behalf of the hied-
tubs% at *Okra p detuniese an the subject of as ap•
limb* Web bull bus mirk by Mr. G. M. Murphy, as
to the eddies bulk Liebe aim% which had appeared
21 the pebble prints • few days w.
r. Riddle said the wbt be repreeseted had
established eine peso, Published annual r•ParLi
et it. roulinas, whiels sad liedif•MlOM of a
111,161M0 alaavismet. Sr. Wiliam ditrier. whose
•
London, England, 1868-12-23

INNOICINO DI RAILWAY CARR( %OM

The Doily News point• out that the oval of mom smoking
improperly, and of improper accommodation being pro-
vided for smokers, is that it places an already opyremed
class at additional disadvantage. The man who cannot
smoke deserves more sympathy than is popularly accorded
to him. A remedy for the present evils would be found
in a friendly coalition wrong the smokers themselves to
pot down smoking elsewhere on the line than in the car-
riages set apart for for it. An association to report to the
company all cases in which non-smoking carriages had
been profaned might embrace both smokers and non-
smokers in its ranks ; and if curtain conviction wore to
follow all offences we may be sure they would speedily
eerie.
London, England, 1868-12-23

THE NORAL OF THE NIGHT HOUSES.

A TRIAL held yesterday at the Guildhall gives
an insight into the inner life of the Haymarket
night-houses, and furnishes a useful corollary to
the remarks we recently made. The plaintiff was
SARAH Immo, the keeper of a cigar-shop and
restaurant in the Haymarket, and of whom her
own counsel remarked "the less said about her
" respectability the better." The defendant was
a man of 60, of good means, who according to the
evidence spent his days and nights in Haymarket
society, and who had as it was alleged borrowed
money and a seal-skin cloak of Miss LYONS.
It was for the injury said to have boon done
to this cloak while in his possession, as
14..11 as for the sums advanced, that the
action was brought, and the deliberations of the
special jury resulted in a verdict of nominal
damages on the first count, and for the money
claimed in fall. The life led by Mr. Isa•rose, the
defendant, seems to have been as miserably pro-
fligate as could be well conceived. He took the
woman LiroNs and another person to Greveseud,
where be squandered money among porters and
waiters. He accompanied the same pair to Margate,
to theCantta bury Ilall,toWoolwieh, and elsewhere,
in all caws spending money lavishly, and in some
borrowing of his female companion fur the waste-
ful purposes of the hour. He had spent thousands
in debauchery and riot, and the seal-skin cloak had
Is en lent him as a covering when his clothes hail
been torn off hie beck in a Haymarket row. JANE
Wool), who " had not beau a servant to the night-
" house-keeper, but had made herself very useful
•' to her," deposed that she " had frequently put
" this same cloak on gentlemen who were not able
" to go to their homes in consequence of being
" worse for liquor," a significant testimony as to
the habits of Miss LYoNs's customers, and the
character of her home•. The defendant maundered
so pitiably while giving his evidence, that the
jury recommended be should be put under

some supervision ; but Mr. Justice iIANXXN ex-
plained that this could not be legally done ; and
it is quite possible that the poor sot
may be found drinking and squandering in his
old haunts to-night. Such are the deeds and
such the victims by whom night-house keepers
thrive. Is it too numb to ask that their dens
shall be put effectually, as they are theoretically,
under the police Fools, drunkards, and prolli-
gates there will always be ; but society can at
least avoid giving tacit encouragement to those
who pander to, foster, and batten on the, lowest
vices and most deplorable weaknesses of thoir
kind.
London, England, 1868-12-23

Till 7111100-01FICIAN =AIM-

The l'bat mays the true question at issue between Turkey
and Greece is whether the llellenic government hone,tly
observel the obligations imposed on them by neutrality.;
and novo can have any hesitation in declaring that they
have not. The Porte has nothing to do with the consti-
tution or the municipal lawn of Greece. If it is attacked
persistently by Greek subjects, it is fully entitled by the
law of nations to make Greece responsible.
The Telegraph has reason to believe that Prussia has
proposed a conferenoe of the great powers for the settle-
ment of this quarrel. Whether or not the proposition be
practical in the present juncture, it certainly deserves
most serious consideration. The only way in which the
ultimate certainty of a European war tan be avoided
soma to be the attainment of some definite understanding
between the great powers ; and such an understanding
might possibly be the result of an international magma
Yet the Telegraph can hardly behave that the present
time is favourable for the convocation of a general con-
gram. The relations between the several members of the
European commonwealth are so oomph= and delicate that
it would be difficult to treat separately any of the so-called
questions of the day.
The Reread remarks that the Turkish goverment need
not have recourse to hostilities to punish Greece foe her
outrageous conduct. A month or two of nos-intereoures

win starry the Weeks into a recognition of their dotal,
and a vigilant guard of the Cretan coast far the mains
time will extinguish the last embers of the revolt. Maki),
therefore doss not want to go to war with Grws, and
will not do so unless limas should attack her. In that
sass all the disasters (lame may sustain will be of her own
rocking, and her ruin and humiliation will give her no
title to sympathy.

ROYAL ACADMIT OF Mown—The oomppeetition
for the Potter Exhibition and Westmorland Babolarship
took plus on Saturday last, at the institution in Tenter-
demetreet, Hasiour-squaro, the examiners being
_lbe
Principal (Professor liternehde Densett), Mr. G. Mao-
tenon, Mr. W. A. Coldrus, Mr. F. E. Co:, and Mr. H. 0.
Lunn. The residtswere as follows ;—Potter Exhibitioa.
Miss Mary E. Christian, elected; Mies Pooktiegton, own.
mended. Westmorland Moholarship.--kfin itubooon
Jewell. elected ; Mira Fanny Lanham, highly ooanneudeil;
aoode and OW, commended.
SOCIAT. AIONXIATION.—On Monday a
nierting of this aesuciation took pJane at the Vi'ltittioa
Club, Arandel.street, Mimed, w Dr. Stallard rata him
paper " Pauperism, Cllmity, Mid time Poor Imre."
The chair wee taken br lifortay, lf.P., and
then, was a good aquiline at smelkee. On the motion
of Mr. Mill, eseandeill by eke alistmontt, the Mar we.
referred to a esesdalltee, and thireseltell was requested to
take such saserm=sysaWeses bed to obtain
Inform to the poor lawn An ani-
mated Memeslon talioweil, width we. suatually ad-
journed to Monday, Jan. 4, at omen o'clock.
London, England, 1868-12-23

earizsmtrarzoN OP MAIWZISTIL

Yesterday evening, a largely7attended meeting
of the executive committee of the United Liberal Party
was held in the Free-trade Hall Amens Boom; Kr.
Thomas Ashton in the *hair. The were act
open for the attendance of reporters, but we have been
favoured with the results of the committee's &Mrs-
tics&

ILemart of the of hoe committee (substantially ides-
tied with fie ciesuier we Wished on Saturday' conven-
ing the meering, and • the circumstances under
a pee
is pressalled ' the return of Mr. Biriey)
was aseeivell and
• gememidieesilet aimed es to the Comm to be taken
it ems of knew &diem Sim mad ultimately
the fel/owing esteektielisree
"That, in the mated othereinaates being
for aisva=iir
at.IMAt =mile he the mpreiens=df
this in Mr. Bluest Jones, the cam
didets vine the brie* ameher of votes of the executive
committee (to be aseeetained by circular) shall, aka( with
Mr. Jones, be put beim the electors who voted for the
candidates of the united /Moral tarty at the election,
and a ballot takes as between the two—the candidate
having the majority of votes to be the adopted candidate
of the party."
A further resolution was pealed, determining that the
names of Mr. Milner Gibson and Mr. Yates Thompson
should be submitted to the executive committee for tho
preli • vote, to ascertain which of these two gentle-
men shall be submitted to the ballot of the liberal vote
along with Mr. Ernest Josies.—Masehester Ziassilmr.
London, England, 1868-12-23

NARROW ESCAPE OF A STEAMER.

Captain Robinson, matter of the iron steamer
Marmon', of Hartlepool, bound from Cardiff to Bangor,
United States, with 1,000 tons of railway iron, arrived
U the Shannon on Monday. Four of the crew were
in a deplorable condition, being dreadfully maimed and
wounded, arising from injuries sustained at ma in the
fearful gale of the 14th inst. and following days, when
the steamer was seriously damaged, and had a narrow
escape of going down, owing to the dangerous nature of
the cargo. The Marmara left Cardiff on the sth inst.,
and experienced very severe weather up to Monday, the
14th, when, as far west as 20 degrees, she encoun-
tered the full force of one of the most violent storms
ever experienced. Tue gale was terrific in the extreme,
and raged with fury for some days, the ship, crew, and
cargo being completely at its mercy, while the sea washed
over her to such a height as to float the lifeboats lashed
to the davits. The bow• of the steamer were dove in, and
the bulwark, shivered to atoms; the bridge and deck-
house were totally carried away, and everything on the
deck fell a prey to the violence of wind and water. The
plate bows having given way, it was feared the Marmots
would have gone to pieces, but she was kept well before
the wind as the only chance left. The suffering en-
dured by the seamen upon the occasion were extreme.
As the steamer dipped and teased ou the ocean,
the railway iron was heaved against the decks, com-
pletely driving them up, and the steamer was looked
upon as all but lost. She was driven from a distance of
700 miles into the Shannon, and came to anchorat Tarbert
Roads on Saturday night. Two of the crew had been
sent to Earrington's Hospital—John Dunn, in a danger-
ous state, with fractured head and legs, and several bad
wounds in different parts of the body ; Araman Farancais
(a black), a native of Martinique, with broken thigh,
fracture of the head, and contusions about the back and
chest. Two others of the crew are in private lodging-
houses, under medical treatment, and are reported as sick
or disabled.

A dreadful storm from the S.E. occurred at Wick on
Monday. Serious injury was done to the Wick New
Harbour works. The whole of the seaward staging and
the stone work executed during the put year has been
swept away, and other damage done.
London, England, 1868-12-23

TILE MIIIII cnt-atm.

If the Liar were asked how the minority which pro-
tects the Irish establishment is to be conquered, it would
reply, by good general administratiou. Such a mini.try
as Mr. Gladstone has formed, constructed upon such prin-
ciples as 1w has after three years' deliberation adopted,
may easily make itself indispensable to the felicity and
'Tog rem of the nation.
London, England, 1868-12-23

PA UPERISM.

DR. STALLARD'S paper on Pauperism is well
timed, and Mr. Sam r. MoRLRY'S remarks, during
the discussion that followed it, that more " heart'
is wanted in the administration of the poor-laws
express the convictions of most inquirers who
have made the subject their earnest study. But
the mean between the kindness which pouperipos,
and the hard and fast official line which treats
men and women as machines, is not easily reached,
and few domestic subjects will come before Mr.
GLADSTONE'S Government which will require more
delicate ti( atment than the present working of our
poor-lawn. The metropolis alone furnishes material
for comprehensive legislation. The ratepayers are
naturally indignant and alarmed at the operation
of that famous juggle Mr. HARDY'S Metropolitan
/fill ; and we venture to say that a sterner and
more serious spirit of dissatisfaction is abroa 1
than has been the case since the Poor-law Amend-
au et Act was passel more than thirty years ago.
For the parishes have boon capriciously treats (I,
the poor-law department has notoriously fallen
short of its duty, and in spite of the well-
meaning efforts of individuals it is felt that
matters are going back rather than progressing.
Dr. STALTARD'S last contribution on the subject is
useful for the discussion it has evoked and will
evoke ; and though exception has been taken to
some of its inforeneee it may yet be soon that its
author is as capable of defending an as ailed posi-
tion as of establishing a new one. We are, how-
ever, inclined to donbt whether anything short of
London, England, 1868-12-23

Tins 111.100110:1 erseniss.

Looking at all the election speeches of Monday the ell-
rariser is inclined, on the whole, to form • cheerful anti-
cipation. The main work of ministers lies just in front,
and must be disposed of before any other work is touched.
When, however. the questions relating to disendowment
and disestablisbment have been derided, the question as
to the disposition of the revenues will still remain to be
determined. The Adrertivr cannot submit to bo told.
"We will talk of that 1.01110 other day." The appropria-
tion of those revenues is • foremost point in the contro-
vi ray. The money may be put to a better use than it has
been; but it may also be put to a worse use. Renee our
iitemporary wants to know what the use is t•i be. before
it can decide whether to go forward or to stand still.
London, England, 1868-12-23

TIM POLITICAL ISTELIJOIIIICK OP OREAT TOWNS.

The Timis examines Mr. Bright's theory respecting lb.)
political intelligence of great towns. propounded in the
statement that in the most important contests of o 1r
national bistoty the great towns have ever been on the
bide of progress, and that their representatives hare been
ranged in support of liberty in opposition to injustice and
exclusive prix gee. The TOMS disputes the propnvition
end refers., in support of its ricw, to the great towns of
the United States to which the liberal politician does not
look with the greatest reliance. It will, indeed, not b 3
denied t,y any one who knows America that in the United
States the great towns do not land the way in political
progress; it is not in them that majorities are first won
in support of beneficent legislation ; but the leaven of new
opinion deposited with the territorial democracy of the
agricultural communities spreads among them first, and
subsequently leavens the commercial and manufacturing
towns.. On the other hand, however, the Tunes admits
that in Franco as in England the great towns have boon
the nursing mothers of freedom, and that it is by their
eneny and their judgment the victories of emancipation
from tyrannies) privileges have been win and secured.
London, England, 1868-10-29

NATAL AND MILITARY.

CHATHAM, Ocr. 28.
FIRE AT CHATHAM DOCKYARD.—Yositerday
evening, between 6 and 7 o'clock, a tire broke out on the
extension works iu progress at this dockyard, which at ono
time thieatencd the destruction of a large amount of pro-
perty. The flames originated in a large building used as
workshops, in which was stored a quantity of machinery,
nearly the whole of which was deetroyed or rendered
useless. Immediately the police-constable ou duty at the
spot discovered theflre an alarm was raised, and a strong
body of police, under the direction of Mr. Superintendent
J. Strength, marched down to render assistance. Captain
W. H. Stewart, C.D., Superintendent of the Dockyard,
and other officials, being also promptly on the spot. The
large steam fire-engine was also despatched to the fire,
but no water being obtainable its services were useless.
To prevent the flames spreading to the adjoining buildings
it wee found necessary to pull down the workshops near,
by which the fire was confined to the building in which it
originated. The origin of the fire is unknown, the work-
shop having been locked up and left secure about an
hour before the flames were discovered.

ADMIRALTY, OCT. 28.—APPOI11TRZNTS.—Sub-
Lieutenants— Algernon T. B. Sheridan, to the Bellerophon ;
H. P. F. Skinner, to the Hercules; and J. A. Jones (navi-
gating), to the ltingdove. Midshipmen—W. F. Warren,
and Dudley Court, to the Hercules. Assistant-Payma-ters
—U. F. H. Kent, to the Fisguril, additional, for disposal ;
Wm. R. Weatberley (in charge), to the Itingdove ; and
Fredk. A. Codd, to the Cumberland. Engineers—John
M•Kie (chief), and John Rive, to thb Indus, additional, for
reivice in the Achilles ; Henry C. Jones and Win. F.
Rowe, to the Ringdove ; John Hancock (B), to the In-
durtry, as supernumerary ; Thos. Witt, to the Cambridge,
additional, for service in the Pallas; Robert Olasspole, to
the St. George, additional, for service iu tenders ; and
John C. Weeks, to the Britannia, additional, for service
in the Dapper. Fird-class Assistant Engineers—Rii lewd
T. Rand)., to the Donegal additional, for service in
tenders; Joseph Forder, to the Ringdove ; and Charles F.
H. Burt, to the Royal Ueorge. Second-clam Assistant-
Engineer—Jae. H. Dray, to the Excellent, additional, for
service in the nark.
London, England, 1868-10-29

off, but lie captured the priseenr, and Mad shoot !a is
"rigon hint.
anewer to the champs,
The primmer said that he lad just said out all his me-
tables and was going home, wises he saw a sander of
men amembled ha the road. He iserely deed to look en,
when the constable charged him with tering.
The constable wee recalled, end, in answer to tbe magis-
trate, said he saw the prieciDer throw op the mousy and
eall out to the others.
Br. Partridge had no doubt of his guilt, and to put a
stoic to such an intolerable woman Iss Awl him 10a, or
Milli days' Lard labour.
Ames Malt Ift was &area with a similar offenee.
Police-con Ili hi said that between are and two on
the previous attarszon he was on duty in Ouildford-
street, Borough, when he saw from sixteen to twenty
young fellows tossing and gambling with copper money.
Their language was very disgusting, and the inhabitants
complained of the nuisance.
31r. PartrideFdasked if be saw the prisoner tossing.
Witneva re • in the affirmative. Ile was also calling
out to the of
Mr. Partridge lined him 10a. also, or seven days' hard
labour.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARVR OP BIGAMY.
London, England, 1868-10-29

TIM DIPITNFIT OF QUINN IN LONDON.

The Zeiss wants to know, u nearly as may be possible,
the exact risk which each individual Londoner now-a-
days runs of being robbed, and perhaps half murdered,
tint in the public streets and then in his own house. As
between the criminals and the police, the former
appear to be getting decidedly the best of it. The
authorities, indeed, do not think of lifting a
hand against the dangerous and pestilential robbers' dens
which are in the very midst of us. They are as much a
recognized institution as convocation ce the Stock Ex-
change. Our contemporary has no wish to make out
that the police are altogether or primarily to blame for
this extraordinary state of things; but that to a very
great extent they are to blame there can be no doubt ; and
the Times commends the subject to the attention of our
future legislators.

Elie Court.

BALMOItAL CASTLE, Oar. 27.

The Queen went out yesterday morning, SC.
compenied by Princess Christian, and in the afternoon her
Majesty drove to Birk H►ll, attended by the Duchess
Dowager of Athol° and Miss Macgregor.
M. and Madame Van de Weyer had the honour of
dining with the Queen and Royal family.

The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday. attended by
the Countess of Morton.

In the evening her royal highness, accompanied by the
Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince and Princess of Tack,
and attended by the Countess of Morton and General Sir
William Knollyo, went to the Queen's Theatre.

Quign's THEATRI.—Her Royal Highness the
Prinoees of Wales, his Royal Highness the Duke of Edit.
burgh, the Prince and Princess Teck, attended by the
Counter Moreton, Sir Wm. Knollys, and suite, again
honoured this theatre with their presence het
_ .

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
(attended by the lion Mrs. Stonor), visited the Soho
Bazaar yesterday.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland and
family arrived at Northumberland Howie, Charing-cross,
on Tuesday evening, from Ainwick Castle, Northtunbor-
land, and will shortly leave town for Albury Park, Surrey,
to pass the winter.

The Right Mon. Benjamin and Mrs. Disraeli left
town yesterday for Chevening, Kent, ou • viast to the
Earl and Countess Stanhope.
TUE DOWAOBR DUCHESS OF SUTIMILIJNO.—
The mortal remains of this lady will be removed from
Station' House, St. James's, for interment in the family
vault at Trentham, Staffordshire. The funeral will take
place on Tuesday neat.
_ _ _

The dignity of baronet has been conferred on
Mr. rtierlcs Mills, of ifilliugdon Court, Middlesex, and
Mr. Robert Motown Mersey, of Laligley Park, Booking-
lambiro, and member tar that county.

FOREIGN NEWS.

-.7-.M:$
DAY .)
\
TUB DOULWN TRIAL.—.TUDGWENT.
nussma, Trusensv, 10.40
The Tribunal Correoticonel has given lugesi
is the affairs !Bonitos. The Court deoles that
the acts imputed to the aootuied do not some
within the articles of the New Penal Code of
Belgium, and therefore it discharges him from the
process. (Times, Booond Edition).