The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-09 00:00:00

31P. LONGIELLOW'S 17SIT TO EUROPE.

Mi. If. W. Longfellow sailed from New York
•I. .;,•• ult., in the steamer Russia, for Europe. The
t•ibute by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, which
the 80i1,,,, Aticerl;,,•, was read a few evenings
;,• ui%at a private farewell dinner to the poet. The
I.
~! it trubodies, says our contemporary, is that of
I sI. of America :

4 4.., 1'....t, who Les tie ught the Western breeze
I. his songs before him o'er the seas,

11. 1 them wherewoe'or his wanderings reach

'AI the spreading tide of English speech
'I %.:11 the rhythmic waves that kiss the farthest

wh. r.• .1,11 the pinging bird a stranger be
'1 i..,; lit:.ls a heist for him in every tree?
11• w ,1,11 he travel who ran never go
Who is• his own voice the echoes do not know
W 1,... ..wn garden-flowers no longer learn to grow?

Ah •1. -t soul! how gracious, how benign
through our troubled life that voice of thine,
F.ll. .t 1: a sweetness born of happier spheres,
, •.. and warms, that kindles, softens, cheers,
the wildest woe and stays the bitterest tears:

rt 4„. the simple words that sound like praise ;
'n.. int,t before mo dims my gilded phrase;
,ur ,p,ech at best is half alive and cold,
And tore that tenderer momenta make us bold
.ur whitening lips would close, their truest truth untold.
We who behold our autumn sun below
The Scorpion's sign, against the Archer'. bow,
Know well what parting means of friend from friend;
After the snows no freshening dews descend
And what the frost has maned, the sun.ihine will not
mend.

So we all count the months, the weeks, the days
That keep thee from us in unwonted ways,
Grudging to alien hearths our widowed time;
And oiw unwinds a clew of artless rhyme
To truck thee, following still through each remotest
What wiAhei, longings, blessing, prayers shall be
The more than golden freight that floats with thee!
And know, whatever welcome thou shalt find—
Thou silo, lia,t won the hearts of half mankind—
he proud. t, nindest love thou leaved still behind !
May WA. O. W. H.

GovEitymmiT Aim TILE CLEIDIZYWELL glIPLO-
nos.-.Yeaterday a deputation, formed of members of the
commit!. of theClerkenwell Explosion Relief Fund, accom-
rafted !c Mr. Aklerman Lusk and Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens,
the reemhers for Finsbury, waited upon the Chancellor of
the Eacluquer, at his official residence in Downing-street,
with tic view of enforcing upon the government the
vlaima of those persona whoa property was debtruyod by
the lat. 1.... Man outrage, and who had not been recouped
?rem th- fend which was the result of public charity.
The ann. of 4,6UW. has already been expended in relief,
awi Ih-le is now allocated at the bankers the sum of
6.404 for the purpese of purchasing annuities for those
who at,. ialmatiently injured. The Chancellor of the
}.sehvquer mid—Then I am to understand that you have
all that you require, so far as providing for the injured
eoPte:- I. mean those injured in body? The Rev. R.
aKZUIre-- Yes. sir. The Chancellor of the Exchequer—
' urn I may tell you that the government recognises your
claim, and an official will be sent down to Clerkenwell to
awes the amount of damages done. What is the
anemia ' Mr. Willoocks raid it was about 8,0001.
ffir. E. J. Thompson said he was sure the com-
mittee would be only too &a to co-operatein
with any appraiser whom the government might

THIRD EDITION.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. --(THIS DAY.)
The SPEAIER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Calverley and Tioreforth District GaR Bill an•l the
Tc:idon 4;uiseley liar Bill were retail a thin!

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS BILL

Severn] petit' were presented, chiefly from newspaper
proprietors, in favour of this bill.
The CILANCELLOR of the EXCIIEQTrEIt moved the
amend reading of the bill. It was, he said, suggested the
other day that it should be postponed on account of the
position of her Majesty•s government. Ii it were a bill
affecting the government only it might be the case, but as
it was one in which the public were interested, he
thought the house would agree with him that
it oti.lit to he 'Kissed, ',specially rte the public would suffer
by delay. Sin, Che first obtained the honour of a seat in
that house he had never seen such a general manifestation
of public concurrenee in favour Of :lily men cure. Up to
lint night there were presented 7 petitions from cham-
bers or commerce, and 177 petitions from news-
paper proprietors ; while the petitions against it con-
sisted of 10 from railway and telegraph companies, and
319 from individuals. That the oppceang telegraph com-
panies were actuatisl only by a emautleration fur their own
interests was evident from the terms which they had offered,
and to which the government could not assent. The govern-
ment had always contemplated the purchase of all the
telegreplis, amt-the basis of the terms which they offered
was, the highest price of the shares on the stock Ex-
change up to the lith of May, and compensation to all
servants of five years' standing, the amount to be decided
by arbitration. If these terms were approved by the
house he should propose that the bill be again
referred to a select committee with a view to the
their insertion. The only petitioner against the bill, as
he might remark, besides the telegraph companies,
and telegraphic and railway proprietors, was the
town of Leamington. What particular influence was
brought to bear on that town he could not understand.
As regarded opposing railway companies, he believed
their opposition was founded on a notion that the govern-
ment would not afford them the same facilities for
working their wires as they had had hitherto,
and that was an objection which might be met
in committee. If the bill were sanctioned by the
house, it would be necessary to introduce a money bill to
carry it out. The government anticipated a surplus re-
venue of 210,00 W. a year for the working of the tele-
graphs, and that would suffice to pay off the debt in
twenty-vino years. Supposing the calculations of the
government were correct, there would be a valuable pro-
perty belonging to the country at the end of the period,
which would of course be avaible for public purposes. The
right hon. gentleman concluded by suggesting that the
bill should be read a second time, in order that it might go
before a select committee.

Mr. LEEMAN, in rising to move that the bill be read a
second time this day ail mouths, said it affected property of
the value of not less than 4,000,0001. Under the circum-
stances, the government ought in the first instance to have
submitted the preamble to a committee, and, instead of
the house being asked, in the first instance, to affirm the
principle on the mere statement of a government official,
an opportunity would have been afforded to all parties in-
terested of stating their case. The right honourable
gentleman wanted the house to reverse the usual
order of things on his own statement. He (Mr.
Leeman) naked the house not to slur over this
matter. The telegraphs were commenced twenty-five
years ago by private persons out of their private sources,
and it was not till they were found to pay a fair dividend,
and without any feeling in the country except that
which had been roused by the Post-office, that it
was suggested they should be placed under govern-
ment controul. (Hear, hear.) The petitions
from the newspaper proprietors were all impressed
with the same stump, and all came from the same source.
Of what had the provincial press to complain
They received, on an average, about 4,000 words •
day, and what could the government do for the
press beyond what was done for it already F (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Scudamore had, through the medium of the local
postmasters, put himself in communication with all the
country newspaper proprietors. (Hear, hear.) The inte-
rest of the railway companies in this matter was almost
equal to that of the telegraph companies. They were
under complicated engagements, and they had told the
government that it was impossible for them to as-
sent to this bill. There were no less than 250
agreements between railway companies and tele-
graph companies, and the former said that they
could not possibly work their lines in connection
with a staff of government officials. The question was
not, therefore, as the right hon. gentleman had intimated
—one of terms, so far as railway companies wore con-
cerned. The railway boards had stated to the government
from the first that their traffic could not be worked with
safety if this scheme were carried out. Besides this, he asked
was the house prepared to sanction the principle of the bill
Wan it willing that every private telegram should be in the
position of an open letter? (Hear.) They all recol-
lected the bursts of indignation in this country when it
became known that the letters of Marsini had been
opened by the authority of Sir James Gra-
ham. On the Continent there was great cor-
ruption and abuse connected with the work-
ing of the telegraphs by Government officials. An Eng-
lish merchant, who sent a telegram to the Continent
on an important matter of business, afterwards saw it
on the table of a foreign minister. (Hear, hear).
That was the system which prevailed in France and
Egypt. Would the Englishpeople submit to it ? (Hear,
hear.) Railway companies to a great extent were the
originators of our telegraphic system. The hon. member
then traced the growth of the system, the result being
that there are now 80,000 miles of wire and 2,000 telegraph
stations in the United Kingdom. He also alluded
to the gradual reduction in the charges, in which he
contended great liberality was shown. 'Three-fifth* of the
entire receipts of the telegraph companies in the last year
arose from shilling rater, and of the remainder two-thirds
were Is. 6d. rates. If the rates were reduced who would
he benefited ? Did one man in a thousand use
the telegraph ? (Hear, hear.) When the charges
bad been reduced from is. to Gd. would farmers and vil-
lagers spend that amount, when a penny would
answer the purpose? (Hear, hear.) Even as regarded
chambers of commerce, what proportion of the members
used the telegraph A large expenditure of public money
would be required for what not one man in a thousand
would use. It took twenty-four years to bring up
the receipts from the penny poets' system to
the amount obtained before its introduction; and was this
a time to subject the postal revenue of 2,500,0001. to the
risk involved in the present scheme ? (Hear, hear). He
contended that the whole subject, and not merely this bill
should be submitted to a select committee. (Cries of
"Move "). The hon. member concluded by moving
instead of what he had given notice of—namely, the
rejection of the bill—that a question of the expediency
of the purchase of the telegraphs by the state be referred
to a select committee. (Cheers.)
Mr. GRAVES admitted that the arguments of the hon.
gentleman were well deserving of attention, but he did
not consider his objections sufficiently valid to justify the
rejection of the bill. The telegraphic system
was a national one, and on that ground he
should support the bill. It was but reason-
able to suppose that a reduction of the charges
in this country would lead to a similar increase of the
number of messages to that which bad followed in
Belgium, Prussia, Switzerland, and Prance. The
greatest difficulty in the ease was that connected
with the working of the railways, and care must be taken
to meet that objection. He had great confidence in the
administrative capacity of the Poet-office. As regarded
the political objection to the scheme, he had too high an
opinion of English statesmen to believe that they would
ever invade the sanctity of the telegraphic system for •
Party ParPaaa.
[Left sitting.)

On Friday Mr. Blake will ask the Secretary of
State for War whether lieutenants of militia of seven
years standing are entitled to the same pay, when doing
duty, as lieutenants in the line, as the latter have for
some years been in receipt of an additional shilling a day,
whilst the former have received no augmentation to their
Pay. _ _

Dr. Woodlock. the rector of the Catholic
guivervity, has addressed a letter to Mr. Cogan. M.P.,
which bas been published as a pamphlet, advocating the
establishment of a distinct Roman Catholic University
rather than a Catholic University College in a common
university, as more advantageous to the religious and
the educational interests of Irish catholic,.

DISASTROUSFIRE.—StETRENCATTLEDERTROTED.
—About two o'clock on Thursday morning a Ire broke out
in the premises of Mr. William Mather, farmer. Water.
foot, near Booby, by which sixteen valuable cattle were
burned to death, and a thrashing mill and a farm dairy
destroyed. The fire was Ant discovered in the byre, and
shortly afterwards it began to spread with fearful rapidity.
Strenuous exertions were made by everyone present to
save the cattle, but the poor animals could not be got to
move outside through sheer terror, aud were consequently
dtroyed with the building. --Notthoyhan, JAl:war
TER WONDERS OF MODERN CIIESISTRT.
About 100 tons of guano from Sombrero, in the West
Lula*, was re-shipped
.at Southampton last week
Birmingham. to anal m the manufacture of lueiter-
matchco. Mixed with sulphuric ackl, this guano is con-
verted into en excellent manure. If, instead of built; mull
info manure, the phosphoric acid ;4 extracted from it the es-
tract is made to torni the igniting property of lucittt.
matches. Thus the same material that raises the fool of 11L111
and bent lights the top's cigar. It builda up the hay-ries
and wheat stack, and helps to form the indrumeat w:th
which the ineeudinry burns theca down. Wealtky 'snit its.
and !beet Arabs who well halfpenny boxes of loaiim
matches sea atop dopeedsmt as the eseretiorte of see
birds who frequent • desert rook is the West Indies.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-alitS DIY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

Bath:tip in Banco. - (Before the Lord Chief Juitice, and
Justices BLac kbuni and Lush.)
Tut: nrennies OF TNT. COURT.

The Lord Chief Justice annoutired that in enn.e.ittenro
of Mr. Justice Bhu•khurn having to preside to-morrow at
the Old Bailey, and the inability of Mr. Justiee Mellor
to attend again tho remainder of the term, from indisposi-
lion. there nimbi not be the usual four days' sittings iu
the Bail Court for the disposal of motions at the end of
this term. In all probability there would only be one day
devoted for such a purpose; and therefore {ho roles sot
down to he beard in the Bail ()Dart would be disposed of
in lull court.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

Sittini.. in Hutu.° (Before Lonl Chief.3n3tice Bovill and

Juatices It,dea and Smith.)
SEACOMBE THE BRISTOL INSURANCE. CMITPANT.

At the last Kingston aaaisea an action was tried in re-
ferenee to the steamship Smyrna, which was abandoned in
the Korth Sea, and was afterwards towed into a port in
lioll:unl. The huU and machinery were insured for
36,00rw., and the question raised was whether there was a
constructive total loss or only a partial loss. The present
action raised the same question, and a rule had been ob-
tained to show cause why proceedings should not be stayed
until the judgment awarding the amount of salvage should
he given in the Court of Admiralty, the defendants con-
tending that the knowledge of this amount was necessary
to guide them as to the amount which they should pap
into Court upon the theory of the love being only partial.
Sir George Merryman, Q.C.. and Mr. Watkin Williams
appeared to show cause, and the Solicitor-General and Mr.
Mathew to support the rule.
The court, after considerable discussion, made the rule
absolute.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
CONRAD' V. (X)NRADI, ITON.BAL, AND ANOTHER-VIZ
QUEEN:3 Eaocron INTIMIENZNO.-DENTICZCIL

In this suit ii;etitTO;;i7vraaiistewaitiWi a mail
steamer. His wife had fallen into criminal habits, and
in 1865 he succeeded in proving a charge of adultery
against her ; but one of the co-respondents in
that suit pleaded a recriminatory allegation,
and had, on the evidence of two women, a mother and a
daughter, both of had character, found that he was him-
self in pari delicto. The petition was then dismissed; but
in July, 1866, he pled a second petition, and an attempt
was made by the Queen's Proctor to prove over again the
same act of adultery as had been alleged against him.
Both witnesses were dead, but their evidence was read de
belie esse from the judge's notes.
Sir J. Wilde now delivered judgment upon the prelimi-
nary question, whether the former decision did not act as
estoppel. The learned judge was of opinion that it did,
but, under the very peculiar circumstances of the case, he
thought he might grant a decree nisi.
- -
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.)
_ LY as JOUN =rm.

This was an adjourned tilting for lest examination and
discharge. The bankrupt was a contractor and brick
maker, formerly of Great George-street, Westminster,
and the North London Brick Works, Crouch-end,
Hornsey-rise. His accounts, as prepared by Mr. H. E.
Bird, return liabilities to the amount of 493,38 W,
of which 472,10 W. appears to be due in respect
of calls and contingent liabilities upon shares
held by the bankrupt in Smith, Knight, and
Company (Limited) ; deficiency stated at 4108,3841.
Knight, who was adjudicated separately, has never sur-
rendered. The proceedings show that Smith, Knight,
and Company (Limited) was formed in April, 1864, for
the purpose of carrying on the buidases of Maws. Smith
and Knight.
All parties consenting the further bearing was ad-
jour*ed to the 9th of July, pending an investigation of
the accounts.

Mr. E. Reed and Mr. Lawrence represented the parties
interested.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

(Before the Recorded
TRZ ODYNAGE DT THI art.

The two boys: Art.4ar Fortmetar Atait.4, aged 14. and his
brother !lector .Amrststtis Smith, 12, were placed at the bar
to plead to an indictment which charged them with felo-
niously, unlawfully, and maliciously assaulting Mary Ana
Nunn, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm, and
also to maim and disfigure her. In another count the pri-
soners were charged with committing the same act with
intent to prevent their lawful apNeheattion.
When the prisoners were called upon in the usual form
to state whether they were guilty or not guilty, they both
replied " Yes."
The Clerk of Arraigns inquired if they understood the
nature of the charge, and whether they intended to plead
Eity to intending to do the prosecutriz grievous bodily

MT. Jonas, the governor of brewgate, said he understood
from the prisoners that they were to be defended by
counsel.

Mr. Pailey said that he was instructed with his learned
friend, Mr. Poland, to conduct the prosecution, and he be-
lieved he should have to make an application, upon affi-
davits, for the postponement of the trial to the next ses-
sion. Under these circumstances it would probably not
be necessary to require the prisoners to plead at present,
and they would be afforded an opportunity of communi-
cating with their legal adviser.
The Recorder said it would certainly be advisable that
the prisoners should understand what they were required
to do, and the case bad better, therefore, stand over for
the present.
The prisoners, who could hardly be seen behind the
front of the dock from the floor of the court, and who ap-
peared to be perfectly unconcerned, were then removed.
Benjamin Snail, 20, was charged with stealing a post
letter containing a M. note, the property of the Postmaster-
Geneml.

Ilia case was rather a peculiar one. The prisoner was
employed as a letter-carrier in the Clennent's-ima district,
hut in consequence of his work having been very much
lightened, owing to the number of houses that have been
pulled down, he was sometimes entrusted with a por-
tion of the letters belonging to as adjoining walk
to deliver, and in this way he became possessed
of the letter in question, which had been sent by a gentle-
man residing at Rugby to a gentleman occupying faces
No. 17, Clement's-inn. It appeared that on the very same
day the letter was missed the prisoner changed the stolen
note at a public-house in Pentonville, and ha wrote his
name upon it, and when he was questioned he
said that his uncle had given hint the note
to get changed, which was proved not to be
true. The prisoner now changed his story, and declared
that the letter-carrier whose duty it was to have delivered
the letter had given him the note, and asked him to get
change for it, and he did so and gave him the money. The
letter-carrier referred tostated in the most poeitivemanner
that there was no truth in this statement, and it appeared
that this was the that time the prisoner had ever made
such a suggestion.
The jury without any hesitation found the prisoner
Guilty, and the Recorder observing that he considered it a
great aggravation that he should have attempted to fix
the crime upon an innocent man, sestenced the prisoner to
six years' penal servitude.