The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 186 L

which prevail among our neighbours betrays a
want of national self-respect as unpatriotic as it is
unsound ; but to abuse the privilege of the Senate-
house to vilify and caricature the constitution of a
free and friendly people, from no other motive
than that of gratifying the impulses of pique or
faction, indicates a moral and intellectual levity
of character wholly inconsistent with all that
should distinguish the trustworthy politician—
for of statesmanship it were absurd to speak.
Were the United States an unimportant
or insignificant example of representative
rule, it would be bad taste in any member of the
British Legislature wantonly to select a moment of
trouble and of peril to utter words of ridicule or
insult. But looking at the greatness of the Re-
public
as it has hitherto existed, and the place
which it has held among the free and peaceful
governments of the world ever since the time
when the despotic and bloodthirsty sway of
Grome 111. was by heroic resistance brought to'
an end, it is sheer impertinence in one who has
never yet done or said anything worthy of remem-
brance in his own country or in any other, to
chatter flippantly, as this immature Tory baronet is
reported to have done the other night, about the
" bursting of the great Republican bubble." In
common with every right-thinking man on
either aide of the Atlantic, we rejoiee
to believe and know that Anglo-Saxon
liberty, under whatever emblems or titles it exists,
is no ephemeral or hollow phantasm. It is a solid
reality, founded in goodness and truth, and cer-
tain to outlive the courtier jeers and sycophantic
sarcasms of would-be find gentlemen of whatever
degree. There was no lack of palace politicians
in the days of Gaoling Caesviur., who lisped or
gasped out their silly prophecies that the people of
America could not form a government outside the
shadow of royal patronage, and without Le help
of hereditary wisdom. When the noble edifice
of the Federal Union rose into sight the palace
politicians of Westminster had another set of
fatuous vaticinationa as to the certaiuty'of its rapid
fall into utter ruin ; yet throughout the lifetime
of successive generations it has remained unshaken
and entire, while year by year the circuit
of dominion of which it was the centre
has continued steadily and splendidly to increase.
And now for the first time there has come in Ame-
rica what has many a time occurred in England—
the sad ordeal of civil strife. Everybody, ex-
cept Sir Jont RANNDXX and the ignorant and con-
ceited cliques of which ho would be thought the
parliamentary mouthpiece, knows that the annals
of mankind contain no instance of a greet people
having wholly escaped the trials and vicissitudes of
domestic war : for no great people has ever yet
been formed of homogeneous elements ; and it
has invariably happened as the growth of the dis-
crepant materials of nationality has proved un-
equal, that jealousy and distrust have broken forth
amongst them with more or lees of suddenness and
violence. What has been our own history ? What
that of Spain, of France, of Italy, of the Low
Countries, or of the Scandinavian Kingdoms?
What is the whole history of the growth of Greece
in civilization, arts, and arms; and whet the his-
tory of clunk Room t How should America
elude the lot of humanity ? The marvel is, and
the true praise of her popular institutions, that
for eighty years they have satisfied the divers
wants of many confluent races, whose streams of
population, enterprise, and feeling have peace-
fully intermingled under the flag of the Union, as
few such element& have ever been known to do be-
fore. But we no more believe that the virtue of
Anglo-Saxon freedom on the other aide of the
Atlantic is spent, because that freedom is today
subjected toits firstgreat trial, than we believe that
the practical sum of the wisdom and worth of our
own Parliament would be lessened by the abstrac-
tion therefrom of Messrs. Holmium and
and all who cheer their ungenerous, unwise, and
tin-English rhodomontades. Whatever be Ca
territorial issue of the struggle impending in Ame-
rica, the truly great, because the truly self-govern-
ing, portion of the States will still remain united,
federally and democratically free. It is, as we
have often said, and as is now made plainer than
ever, the oligarchical ingredient of the slave-driving
planter class that has alone created the present
disturbance. The sympathies of Sir Joss Rams-
DIN and of all who are like him, are with the slave-
driving separatists, the hereditary landowners, the
leisure and wealth-Loving squirearchsof the Southern
States. No doubt they imagine that their secession
must, if they can effect it, inflict a
fatal blow on the grandeur and security
of the Union. For our part we believe nothing
of the kind ; but, on the contrary, that time will
speedily prove, although the mode of proof may
be painful, that the principles of soli-government,
of persevering industry, of liberty of opinion and
of speech, will vindicate themselves throughout all
that is best, richest, and noblest in the American
States ; and that the Republic which Warm'xo-
roll, Avails, and FRANKLIN founded, will long
continue to be a blessing and a boast for the race
to which we belong.

The Times hears the rumour that term, have
been wade by which the support of the partisans of the
Galway route has been secured. It is said that the snhaly
is to he sentinsed fur six maths longer. "If this be true,"
says the Timm, " the meaning is that 36,000/. is to be paid
to • priests company is order that a nmeaure of imperial
polity may be carried through parliament. We trust thin
is set ao. We refuse to bermes it. Better a thousand
time be defeated by • narrow majority than inaugurate
are mart is thins country the reign of parliamentary cor-
ruption. Let it once go forth that it is only by brans out
of the pubis pane that • parliamostary arebrlty an be
hold together, sod the foundation has been laid for a
readies egaiest ear purest eonatitution far Mine serious
qan eaything that has hitherto bees coolimpilia"
COMICS R AID THEIR 13077011 T is
seteriese after all that los bees said of the eanduet of
°present. of the rate is relegate all ocespromiee, that its
supporters have so aompmim to offer, that they sre at
sizes sad never se to tM principle ou which one might be
framed, and that at the meet by debates, is, Jobs
Trelaws 's bill, they woull leave the question is the
oleo ble position in which it now stands. le the
Guardian of Ltd sight we real :—" We are all agreed that
Sir Jobs Trelawny's Liu must be defeated, and churchmen
must cot fed to mark any defaulter MI Wednesday scat.
As to the sett step, we unfortunately are yet so wood.
The compromise to be proposed, we bars, at • meet* of
the Church Institutioe en Tuesday east, of lissitiag the
rato to th. fabric, is use that will not satiety say petty in
or out of tarlisment, sod we trust will sot be persisted la."
Bvaerr TWA WATS.—The tailwa7 departntuut
of the Board of Trade, in reportiest cie this subject, state
that the iatroduction of tramways to be worked by animal
power into streets of populous towns has been attended
with adraatage, as they duel ice eased facilities in speed,
e"aysninton, ash shorams, to cooveyiag paseetmers,
and especially goods or bathe between distant points,
mad particularly to or from the terminal stations of
rail. which, in • large city, are generally situated at •
considerable diabetes from he emir, and each other ;
hat where the straits ere sorrow, tans saddest or frequent,
ereesoleset• sunierem, tied the Irene large, the advantage
may eat 10 mash outweigh the inevitable iaconvesienem as
to seder it dedesble to permit th• easstrection of the
btunetsy, or, at least, the me of it, at a rate of speed ex-
ceeding Met whisk vehicles as maintain on the ordinary
Me/ L say awe where statutory powers are given for the
ciendenetion of • tramway along the opts streets of a tows
it woad be proper that the greatest height and depth of
thetas% above or below the surface of the read should be
Naked. _

NEW RIFLE RIDGIWENT Volt THE CITY. —Her
Majesty• Commissioser of Lieutenancy for th•Ot) of
London bare sanctioned the formation of a 4th My cif
London Ries Volunteer Regiment, end the propoitios will
Le forthwith rubinitted t the Secretary of Main for Wu
fee her Majesty's animal.

rDt Court.

OgBORNE. MAT 29.
The Count of Flanders, atkoded by Major
Se mll. left Osbeeas yesterday for London.
Thosibseett and soul Family walked in the pose&

A Cabinet Council was held )-(*terday at the
off cial residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were Vis-
count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Come-
wall Lewis, Lord John Rumen, the Duke of
Newcastle, Lord Herbert, Sir Charles Wood,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of
Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson,
Sir George Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the
Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon.
Edward Cardwell.

Commander Blake had an interview with the Duke of
Newcastle yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office
from the Governors of the West India Islands and Malta.
Despatches were sent to the Governor et Canada.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailea, with the
Lady Jalia Camas, have arrived at the Burlington Hotel,
front Waxen Cradle, Ayrshire.

The Countess Frances Waldegrave and Mr.
Harcourt, M.P., gave a grand dinner last evening in Carl-
tau-gardens, to the following :—Their Royal Highnesses the
Count de Paris and the Doke de Chartres, the Duke and
Duchess of Marlborough, Count Platen, the Earl and
Countess of Clarendon, the Countess Cowper and Lady
Florence Cowper, the Earl of Tankervilie, Lady Frederick
Bentinck, Lord and Lady Egerton, Sir David Dundee,
Mr. and Lady Hanna Wardlaw, Mr. FOIieICIIN and Mrs.
Malcolm.

Viscount and Viscountess Galway have arrived
at Almond's 1144, Cliffordutrest, frau Berlby, Notts.
Lady Emily Haukey's balls are fixed for the 18th
sad 21A d June, and sot for the 3rd sad llob proximo, u
previously sasouassoL

Lady John Thynne and Mies Thynne have ar-
rived at the Qatea's Hotel, Upper Norwood.
The Countess Fitzwilliarn gave her first ball this
men /ant evening in Gronvenor-aquare.

The Rev. C. J. Vaughan, D.D., Vicar of Don-
saw, is to preach at Westminster Abbey on the 30th of
Jar.

It is stated that the Deanery of Exeter has been
offered to the Ret. Professor Ellicott.

Lord Brougham has consented to preside at a
public meeting which is to be held on Saturday, the Bth
ci June, in St. Jame?' Hall, for the promotion of self-
supporting boardiogochools for the lower and middle
them in °amnion with St. Nicholas College, Shoreham.
Government have granted the Royal Irish Aca-
demy 1001. a year for the recovery of antiquities in Ireland
through the agency of the constabulary.
A rumour is prevalent in Dublin to the effect
that the London Irish Volunteers are about to honour
Ireland with a visit. Saunders lays that their visit would
be welcome, and that • guard of honour selected from
mesa theme officers and members who might come, would
be a Wing escort for his Royal Highness the Prince ci
Wales, to whose arrival the citizens of Dublin are looking
hewed with oonsiderable pleasiue.

The special correspondent of the Times gives the
fellow* as put of :the programme of the southern states
of America:" It in intended to buy up all the cotton crop
width can be brought into the market at an average price,
and to give bonds to the confederate dates for the amount,
these bonds being, as we know, secured by the export duty
on cotton. The government, with this cotton crop in its own
hands, will nee it as a formidable machine of war, for cotton
can do anything, from the establishment of an empire to
the securing of a shirt button. It I at once king and
subject, muter and servant, captain and soldier, artillery-
man and gun. Not one bale of cotton will be permitted to
seder the northern states. It will be made an offence
punishable with tremendous penalties, among which mu-
Aeration of property, enormous fines, and even the penalty
ot death, are enumerated, to send cotton into the free
Antes. Thus Lowell and its kindred factorise will be re-
duced to rain, it is said, and the north to the direst distress.
If Manchester can get cotton and Lowell cannot, there are
good times coming fur the millotroen."

The correspondence between Mr. Alcock, our
minister at Yeddo, and Lord John Russell, respecting the
mood difficulties in Japan, has been published. These
docementa comprise a history of the diplomatic events which
pew oat of the murder of the American Secretary of
LepAirra. Mr. Alcock's closing despatch announces the
restoratiou of friendly relations with the Japanese govern-
ment, sad his return to Yeddo. Lord John Russell es-
messes his satedaction with this announcement, and ap-
proves of the course taken by lir. Alcock.

_
A letter from Vienna, of the 25th, says :—" A
pamphlet has just been seised here, entitled, ' The Revival
of Poked.' It is written by Y. Rometal, a person of
some consideration to ultramoatane circlet The author,
in this work, considers the ndablishmsnt of Poland, on
the payeeint of an equivalent indemnity to Boris, as a
speedy eventuality, and proposes to place at the head of
this ldnadom an Austrian archduke."

The-Oat-DCUUthe-POSt of Vienna an :—" M.
Passer's opera of Lohosgrin h&c jut been performed here.
Ms public appeared anxious to console the composer for
the cheek he had remotly experienced in Paris. The house
mac awed, and at the end of the overture there arms a
tempsel sf applause which continued men M. Wagner
advanced to the front of his box sod thanked the public foe
lie Meow conferred on him.•

Mgr. Beilini ban been appointed Bishop of Viterbo
by the Pope. The Viterbirme have responded to this appoint-
ment lry • clandestine mended*, in which they remind the
public that Mgr. Bedini was the man who allowed Bologna
to be bombarded, and Ugo Beni to be shot in 1849. Ugo
Beau was chaplain to Garibaldi's faeces at that time, sod
being taken prisoner, before being shot, the skin of the
palms of his bands wag torn off by the priest., because there
he bad been anointed a priest, and it would have been
sacrilege to have wanted a mum who had received such
unction before pealing off the skin as described
_ _

The DOW.; of today contain!' an obituary notice,
by IL Bt. Marc Girard-in, of Rear• Admiral Hernoux,
formerly deputy and ►idede-amp to the Priam de Join.
vile. This gallant °facer has been taken away, after only
three days' illness from congestion of the brain. "His sud-
den death (says M. Girardin) will be an addition
to the afliictioos of the royal family 4 Claremont.
We who were so long his compaainns in tie Chamber of
Deputies are sure we express the sentiments of all his
former colleagues in saying bow much he wee loved and
estimened in the chamber. A warrior full of courage and
intelligence, he was at the same time in parliament full of
sense sad moderation ; very independent, although attached
man aldeAoeamp to a prince, but to a prince, it is trtmwho
i yea more Independent than his aide-de-camp."

NEW WORKS.

(From Wawa Lessmnan's "Notes on Books" for June.)
"Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language,"
a New Edition, founds] on that of 1773 (the last published
is Dr. Johnson's lifetime), with numerous Emendations and
Additions, by R. G. Latham, N.D., F.R.S., &c., will be
published in monthly parts, forming, when completed, 2
vols. 4to.

A new work on the "Comparative Anatomy and Physio-
logy of the Vet-Wheats. Animals," by Richard Owen. F.R.S.,
D.C.L.. Superintendent of the Natural History Depart-
Est, British Museum, Fullerian Profeoior of Physiology
la the R ,yal Institution of Great. Britain, Foreign Associate
of the Institute of Fiance, he., is preparing for publication.
" A Treatise on the Law of Nations," by Travers Twiss,
D.C.L, Regius noleseor of Civil Law In the University of
Oxford, and one of her Majesty's Counsel, is in the press,
to foes Two Parte, in Svo. Part L, treating more especially
of the Rights and Duties of Nations in time of peace, is now
in the prey, end will appear early in Juoe. Part the
Second, completing the work, will comprise the Rights and
Duties of Nations in time of war.

" Memoir. of the Life of Sir Mare Bombard Brunel,
tun gnomes', V.P., Correspondiog Member of
the Institute of France, he.," by Richard Beataish, F.R.S.,
are preparing for publication, in 1 vol., Sea.
"The Life of Robert btepheoson, y. 11,8,, late preament
of the Institution of Civil Engineer.," by John Cordy
Jedrisson, barrister.as-kw ; and William Pole, member of
preparing for publics-
ties.the Institution of civil Engisinn,

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

ITALY.
NAPLIM MAT 29, Zymase.
The brlpnds who attacked the city of flora
were commanded by Chiavone.
Oa being pursued by the Relish forces, they re-
crossed the Roman frontier, after burning the
village of Caatelluccio.
K di San Martino had; inaugurated his govern-
ment with firmness. He has dispatched orders to
the provinces to suspend the execution of the bri-
gands who had been condemned.
The trial of Duke Cajanello is drawing to a close.
He is treated with great kindness.

SPAIN AND MOROCCO.

MAY O.

The Cormpondeneia A utografa of to-day says :
.. .... . . _

" There is no fear of war with Morocco. The
government has decided not to undertake a war on
the question of indemnity."

SYRIA.

PARIS, MAT 29, Evsznita.

According to Megrims received here to-day from
Constantinople, the international conference, in ita
third sitting, accepted the proposition of France,
that Syria should be governed by a single Christian
chief.

1 The Marquis de Lavalette, the French ambassa-
dor at Constantinople, is expected in Paris at the
end of June.

GREECE.

AMR" MAT 29.
Several officers of high rank and some subalterns
have been arrested. The ministers have been sum-
moned to meet in council. Domiciliary visits have
taken place. The motives for this measure are un-
known. Public order prevails, but great uneasiness
exists among the people.

eutiliiiir, not being accustomed to such execution., got
001,01111, and felt his arm tremble just as be was about
to raise the sword. He offered money to different persons
to replace him, but no one had the ooxusge to accept. He
struck twice, and at the second blow the head fell. Imme-
diately the spectators, and even the executioner and his
assistants, harried round the body, and, tearing the blood.
stained presents into shreds, carried off the pieces as
relies. Shortly after another French missionary, H.
Venard, fell into the bands of the mandarins, was put in
&ADS, oonfined in a cage, and condemned to death. He is
now waiting with joy the moment of sacrifice : perhaps
even he ha. already been executed, and the church of
Prance possesses a martyr the more. N. Neron belonged
to the diocese of St. Claude, and N. Venard to that of
Poitiers; both were members of the Congregation des
Missions-Etre:mires.

THE POST • OFFICE AND THE GALWAY

STEAMERS.

This morning a return was made to an order
of the Howe of Commons, of a letter from the Postmaster-
Gene& to the Lords Commissioner of her Italeety's Tree-

miry, dated the 11th day of May, 1861, propane g to
terminate the contract with the Atlantic Royal Nail Steam
Navigation Company, and of a copy of the Treasury minute
thereon.

The followings tho letter of the Pcetmaster•Geaeral
the Treasury :
"General Peet Office, May 11,1861.
_ . _

. -
" My Lords, —With reference to my letter of January
ai last, transmitting copies of an agreement which, under
the authority oouveyed to me in your letter of the
19th November previous, I had required the Atlantic Royal
, Mail Steam Navigation Company to enter into, as the sole
condition upon which I would relieve them from the penal-
ties already incuned, and would consent to a temporary
suspension of the mail service under their contract, I have
the honour to inform your lordships, that owing to the
company having only one vessel ready for survey by the
time fixed for the recommencement of the service, and
owing to that vessel being seriously damaged, and rendered
unseaworthy, while proceeding from Southampton to
Galway, to take up her Ostia; the company were unable
to convey the mails on the appointed day, and
it was therefore in my power at once to have
declared the contract at an end. Under the cir-
cumstances, however, I refrained from doing so, and
allowed the recommencement of the service to be
postponed uctil the 9th of April. The mails were accord.
ingly despatched on that day, and on the 73rd April another
approved vessel was provided by the company, and took
her departure. The third packet from Galway should have
sailed on the 7th inst., but the company have failed in offer-
ing on this ocnision any efficient vessel for the service, and!
have been under the necessity, therefore, of announcing at the
last moment that no despatch of mile could take place.
As it is now quite evident that the company are not in a
position to fulfil their engagements, I have caused a letter
to be prepared terminating the contract ; but before send-
ing that letter, I submit a draft of it for the:approval of
your lordshipa—l have, &c.,
(Signed) "Sumer or Amaral%
"The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury."

The letter referred to is as follows :
" To A. Boats, Fest., Atlantic Royal Mall Steam Navigation
" Sir,—The failure of the Attic Royal Nail Steam
Navigation Company to provide an efficient steam vessel for
the American mails of the 7th instant, has rendered itne-

canary that the Postmaster-General should again consider
the obligatioos of the company under their ambient, the
manner in which those obligations have been fulfilled, and
the means possessed by the company for continuing the
mail service. In acquainting you with the determination
at which his lordship has arrived, I am desired briefly to
advert to the lengthened correspondence which ben taken
place between the Atlantic Company end this department
since the commencement of the contract, such nor espon-
deuce having been almost wholly occasioned by the inability
of thecompaey to abide by the conditions to which they had
bound themselves, and on which alone their offer to perform
thenutil service had been accepted. By the terms of theoon-
town, the company undertook to provide a sufficient number of
yowls which should not only be approved of when com-
plete, but of which the designs and plans had bees pre-
'Mealy approved of ; nevertheleas, when in June lest, the
ties, fixed for the commencement of the service, had
arrived, they had only one such ship, the Connaught, ready,
and even the attempt with this ship to perform the first
voyage under the contract was fruitless. Under these
circumstances the Postmaster-General would have been
authorised to put an end to the contract, but he forebore
from doing so, and allowed a vessel (the Pommel, which
did not come within the stipulations of the 006$1•04 to be
despatched in place of the Connaught. In the second and
sixth voyage the Connaught was employed, but in the
latter she took fire and was lost, and the company were
then without a single ship built, surveyed, and accepted in
the terms of the contract. _ Between these_ latter

voyages, the Postmaster•Geneml had permitted three
voyages to be made by ships not in accordance with the
contract, although his lordship was more than epee assured
that the application for such an irregularity was made for
the last tune. From the commencement of the contract in
Jane last, to the present time, only ore complete voyage
has been performed by a vessel built for the purpose u
contemplated by the contract! When the Postmaster.
would no longer accept ships which did not
asi;mthe secessary qualifications, the company applied
enniesios to forego several voyages, and not only was
this permission granted, but the heavy penalties to which
they rendered themselves liable for not providing a
packet on the appointed day, were wholly remitted. At
length, and after great delay on the part of the company
in complying with the conditions upon which alone the
Postmaster•Oeueral could pant such a further concession,
they were allowed, temporarily, to suspend the service alto-
gether. By the agreement executed in January last
the company undertook to recommence the service
on the Wth March, and thenceforth to perform it
in strict conformity with the conditions of their
contract, which the Postmaster-General was em-
powered to terminate if those conditions were not observed.
The company were warmed that, in such case the Post-
muter•Generars power would certainly be ozonised. The
date for the recommencement of the service was, never-

thaw. extended to the 9th April. in consequenee of the
damage sustained by the vessel which was to have taken
the int mail while on her way to Galway. Since the
egreemwt by which the company undertook to recommence
the eenbe m March last was executed, the company have
provided three easels. One of than, the Oolumbia, owing
to doubts as to her strength, was accepted by the
Poirtmaster-Generalfortrovoyagee only. By intelligence just
received, it appean that this easel put into Halifax on the
fifteenth day after leaving Galway short of coals, and there
is reason to believe from other dream/tam:es, so that • far-
thee survey may be necessary even before she could be per-
mitted to perform • second voyage.t Another vessel, the
Hibernia, while on her way from Southampton to Galway,
six weeks ago, is reported by the Lords of the Admiralty
to have been injured in such • way as to indicate
a deficiency in strength, and to render her unsea-
worthy. This leaves the company only one effi-
cient vessel for the performance of their contract.
It is evident, therefore, that the company are not now, and
never have been in a position efficiently to perform the sti-
pulations of their contract. Calor these circum
and on • review of the whole case, the Postmaster-Gemmelfeels that in the discharge of his public duty, he has no
alternative but to exercise the power reserved to him, and
to declare the contract at an end. lam desired, accordingly,
to transmit to you the accompanying notice to that effect:
"Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 14th May, 1861.
" Write to the Postroaster-Gencral that my lords approve
of the letter which his lordship proposes to address to tbe
direeton of the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Packet Com-
pany, terminating the contract with that company."

• Only two complete double Tome i hate been perforated
by vessels built for the purpose, as contemplated by the
contaact. . .

t By • communication received this day from theoompany,
it appears that on her first voyage out, the wheels of this
yams' have been seriously damaged by ice on the coast of
Newfoundland, so that a further survey would be 'neosesary
oven before she could be permitted to perfects a woad
voyage.

A FRlts.tH WATER SPRING AT SEA..--MT. W. A.
Booth, the russet pilot of the revenue cutter Harriet Lane,
reports the discovery, of a boiling fresh water spring at sea,
off the east of Florida. He rya the spring is situated
twelve miles north-by-east from St. Augustine, Florida, and
eight miles off share. It boils up with great force, sod
ran be descried at a distance of two miles. When !hut ems
it has the appearance of a breaker, and is generally avoided ;
but there is no danger in the vicinity, as there are
Are fathoms of water between it and the shore. Ten
fathoms of water are found to the seaward, but no bottom
ran be reached with the deer sea lead and thirty fathoms of
line at the spring itself. The water in the spring is fresh,
and is by no means unpalaterible. One peculiarity about
river this phenomenon is, that when the St. John's is high,
it hoils up from six to eight feet above the level of the sea,
and presents rather a forbidding appearance. This spring
bas doubtless deceived hundreds, who have hastily put
about from, as they thought, imminent danger, and re-
ported seeing a " rock with water breaking over it." The
Harriet Lane has passed through it several times, and water
has been drawn from it by a bucket thrown over the ride,
awl when drank, no unpleasant testa or smell has been found.
The following distinguished persons have lately
visited the Great Globe in Leirester.sgvare. Lady Qweline
Turner, Lady Fit/ray. Lady Dunbar, Lord Loraine, Countess
of 14111i4/41. Decker of Sutherland, Lady Lamson Gower,
Hon. Mrs. Pltsherbert, Lord Bingham, Mrs. Castlevitti,
Mr. Painter, Mr. Griffithsand family, Mr. Brown and family.
Mra Adair, Mrs. Charlton, Mrs. Jennings, and Mrs.
Carlthorne.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

THE SUMMER CIRCUITS.
The learned judges met this morning, and arranged fur
the summer circuits in the followleg eider:
Nourom Cracu r.

Lord Chief Justice Erie mod Mr. Justice Wightman.
MIDLAND CIRCUIT.

The Lord Chief Baron and Mr. 'satin Willes.
Holm Comm
Mr. Justice Williams and Mr. Justice Blackburn.
Oxman Cracurr.
Mr. Justice Hill and Mr. Justice Beating.
WIESIZELM Ciacurr.
Mr. Baron Channell and Mr. Justice Byles.
Noarumuz Ciacuir.
Mr. Baron Martin and Mr. Baron Wilde.
Norm Wu.sa CHICUJT.
Mr. Baron Bramwell.
SOUTH Watts Czacutr.
Mr. Justice Crompton.
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, who is suffering from a
sprained
bers.foot, remains in town and will attend to waftersttwaftersat
cham

COI7RT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
Sittings in Baoco.—(Beiore Lord Chief Justin Cockburn,
end Justices Wightnian, Crompton, and Blackburn.)

ENGLAND V. WIGOLII4WORTH AND WIFE.
A rule had been granted in this case, on the application
of Mr. Gibbons, to discharge Lucretia Wigglesworth from
custody. The action was brought to recover 321. lent by
the plaintiff to the female defendant before her
Mr. Wigglesworth, when the action was commenced,mair=
himself of the Insolvent Debtors Act, and was ordered to
be discharged on the 10th of May. Upon that day Mrs
Wigglesworth was arrested on a on. es. at the suit of the
plaintiff while in attendance at the court in kortugal-
street Mr. Baron Wilde, on being applied to at chain.
ben, refused to discharge her out of custody' on the
ground that it was not shown she had no separate
property. The rule was granted on affidavits, which stated
that she had oo separate maintenanos, wee in a state of
destitution, and had no other support for herself and several
children but what she obtained from her husband.
Mr. Milward showed cause against the rule, and read se-
veral affidavits in answer to those of the female defendant.
The Lord Chief Justice said the case was a verry suspicions
one. and het ht it would be better to MU', it to the
Muter to aseen if the wife had a separate amintemance.
It was very Me a came of sham transfer of property.
Mr. Gibbons hoped that as this win a ore* in which per.
Donal liberty was involved the court would not delay the ap-
pheant's discharge.
The court ultimately referred the case to the Master for
his report.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
Sittings In Bann.—(Before Um Lord Chief Baron, and
Barons Martin, Bramwell, and Channelll.)
THE REV. MR. HATCH'S CASE.
. HATCH V. LIMB AND !..11W18.

This wen an •Ciior.br;Tuggi bytgErev. Mr. Hatch
against the defendants, Mesas. Lewis and lOW* of
Ely-place, Holborn, to recover damages for alleged
negligence in the conduct of hts defence on
his trial at the Central Criminal Court for an indecent as-
sault on two young children, Eugenia and Stephanie
Plummer, who had been confided to his care for education,
during the period when he was chaplain of the Wandsworth
House of Correction. Mr. Hatch was convicted and sen-
tenced to imprisoument for four years, but subsequently
having succeeded in convicting Eugenia Plummer of per.
jury Le received the royal pardon. Ho then brought his
action ag•inst the defendants for negligence, and it was tried
before the Lard Chief Baron, at the @Stier after LA
term, when the jury found a verdict fur the plaintiff, with
40a.
Mr. H. in the present term, moved far a rule
calling on the defendants to show cause why the verdict
should not be set aside and • new trial had, when their
lordships took tame to consider.
The Lord Chief Baron now delivered the judgment of the
court. He said that in this use there had been a verdict
for the plaintiff, with 40s. damage ; and a rule nisi had
been moved for • new trial on three grounds—namely,
mi•direction, the improper rejection of evidence, and the
,inadequacy of tU damages. If the judge had
misdirected the jury, which, however, the court did not
think he had, still as the jury had found for the plaintiff,
the alleged misdirection did not prevail. With regard to the
rejection of evidence, the court were unanimously of
opinion that the evidence was properly rejected, while, as
regarded the inadequacy of the damages, there was room
for very great difference of opinion, but as the court could
not any the verdict was wrong, there would be no rule.
Judgment accordingly.