The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-11 00:00:00

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LONDON; THURSDAY, JUNE 11.

A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will
Ire published as usual OX SATURDAYS.

WE need not describe the character of the
Yorkshire coast. Most people bare been to Scar-
borough, Filcy, or Whitby, or have seen prints
of Flamlewough Mead, and other parts of that
stern ees-beard. Durham and Northumberland
are Una universally known y but SCOTT'S border writ-
ings, and the old traditions of Bamborough and
Dunstanborough Castles, and Tynemouth Priory,
and yet more, the heroic story of Gr, ter. DATILESO,
must have given the untravelled world an impression
it the formidable character of the whole coast-line.
These of our readers who have lingered beyond the
bathing season in these districts, may remember
observing the peculiar sensation which effects the
residents when the year begins to break.
As the autumn passes into winter, the dirges begin
under which the popular heart quails. The rolling
swell rouses the gloomy echoes of the caverns, and
gives a tremulous feel to the everlasting rocks above,
when they are trodden by the coast-guard or the
darinefowler. The spray dadied up from the rocky
arches which succeed one snake, from headland to
headland, may be seen with a glass from Yorkshire
to Northumberland, when a gale is dipurting. At
the first sound of the true wintry whistle of the wind
and swirl of the sea, a sort of shiver passes through
human frames, and the blood runs cold under the
scaosption of the sights to be looked for. la
the weather fouls, and the spray falls in Babe OW
roam a long way inland, and penetrate the be►
made windows which look seawards, scouts MO Oa
deem the rocks and up on the galleries of the light-
heaves, looking out fur doomed vessels, or forming
ie opinion on the probable fate of colliers or other
teeelde which have recently sailed. The women
ee~eWrcswhoare awaiting that opinion can settle
liknehosiness. The children may go to the shore,
ldt de wives of the absent cannot bear it. They
OWI ast look on while a Tempel was driving in.
JI maybe too like what their husbands, brothers, or
hews are undergoing under the same gale i for
time, is as harbour ,f refoyo brizreeo the Humber
and (At Forila.

This is the miserable, the shameful, the almost
incredible fact, as stated in the petition which the
seamen of that coast are even now presenting to
Parliament. Through the driving gloom--amidst
the glimpses opened by the gale—one and another
and another vessel is now seen, now teat, and than
seen again, a tossed speck in the myrtle-grans wagon
and spreading foam,—too often making for the pert
wises multitudes are gathering in dryad of seeing
them come in. Frantic signals arc made from the
shore, and frantic efforts are seen to be mode
as board, to avoid the perils on either hand,
end hit the channel, disguised by the weather.
Some get into harbour ; but it always happens
that some do not. The most dreary spectacle
of all is that of a succession of them following
precisely the same rud to destruction; and it is a
spectacle familiar to allreaidents in the port whence
this petition comes. Three or four ships fail to get
round a point, or to escape a current; and while all
yet looks much as it did five minutes before, a cry
of anguish breaks out aloeg the whole range of
rocks, and women wring their bands on the shore,
and turn away homewards. The vessels are edging
towards the fatal precipice on the one hand, or the
ruinous sands on the other, and the men are seen to
take to the rigging. Then the life boats go out
amidst cheers, and make for the %mails nearing the
sands. One brig falls to pieces before the boat can
reach her. A collier goes right over, with all her
mils set, and is washed up so that her topsail first
touches the shore. In such a case no men arc found
on board, unless some may still be clinging to the
bulwarks, under incessant ducking. A ship jammed
under the precipice allows no chance of life but by
the cradle overhead, and fearful is the transit in mid
air, amidst the tumult of the storm, the blinding
spray, the deafening roar, and the bitter cold.
Rumour soon passes the numbers of the lost far in-
land; whole crews—four, six, or eight men; parts
of crews—five out of seven, and so on ; scores of
lives lost within view, and Heaven only knows how
many more between this spot and the limber on
the one hand, and the Forth on the other. There is
no refuge between, nor any harbour which will serve

distressed vessels at low water. When all is ore,,
the detestable last scene exasperates the sorrow and
shame of the whole. Men, women, and boys are
seen ascending the rocks, crossing the field., troop-
ing along the sands laden with booty from the
wrecks—sail-cloth, timber and spars, ropes, and
whatever even children can carry.
Looking to the statement of the case in figures,
as given by the authorities on the spot, it appears
that sometimes me-fourth, and frequently, of late
half the entire number of wrecks and lives lost on
the 'oasts of the United Kingdom, is on the east or
north-east coast of England. In 1832, a fourth of
the whole occurred within a radius of 70 miles of the
Tyne and Wear; and in 1831, no less than 110
wrecks took place within that area. How is it
possible that, on such a coast, supplying such a
traffic from the great coal-field and its commercial
operations, there should not be a single harbour of
refuge between tho Forth and the Humber? The
petitioners exhibit the amounts voted for the support
of math harbours all round our islands, some
of them in districts where the danger and the traffis

ate nothing in comparison with those o‘, the coal rc gion.
It appears that the casualties and loss of life are on
the increase, out of all proportion to the she* ex-

pension of commerce. - There arc mere collitiaga,
from the multiplication of resseh,.'autrespecially of
steamboats, and from the t
thronging of the ocean path ein; dent
supply of good native seamen 41.1 ass, an e
employment of foreigners, and introduces a new
clement of danger in unintelligible language, and
new and strange methods and manners. Wont of
all, perhaps, is the temptation to send out unsea-
worthy ships. This is the matter most vehemently
complained of by the petitioners; and it is no doubt
a grievous hardship that they must go to sea, on
occasion, in a leaky ship, or go to prison for refusing.
On the other hand, the owners complain that the

seamen are apt to be capricious, and take away the
character of a vessel to excuse their being of
their bargain. Both parties being thus dissatisfied,
it seems tolerably clear that some method of
supervision of vessels is the thing wanted—some
authority which shall decide, when appealed to,
when vessels cease to be seaworthy. This is what the
petitioners desire; and if their employers are sincere,
they will probably support the demand.
Parliament must Attend to this petition, and it
would be well that a larger public than the mari-
time one should support it.

SIR FREDERIC THESIGE/L, with the cordial sup-
port of the Goverment, has introduced a Bill (as to
the expediency of which it is really impossible to
entertain a reasonable doubt) for the abolition of the
Grand Jury system in the Metropolitan districts.
For many years past the perpetuation of this system
bas been the subject of complaint, the abolition of it
an object of desire, on the part of all those compe-
tent to form an opinion on the point. Judges and
Recorders, the Bar and the Attorneys, the Chairmen
of the Metropolitan Quarter Sessions, the officers of
the Criminal Courts, and last, not least, the gentlemen
summoned from time to time to serve on Grand Juries,
have been unanimous in their condemnation of an

institution which is not only unnecessary but mis-
chievous. So far back as the year 18.12 the Grand
Jury of tbo Central Criminal Court made a pre-
sentment to the effect "that Grand Juries
within Me jurisdiction of stipendiary magis-
trates were unnecessary ; that their assembling
gave opportunities of tampering with witnesses, and
led to indictments being preferred for purposes of
extortion and oppression; that their continuance was
calculated to frustrate the ends of justice, and that
they ought to be abolished." The then Recorder of
London, Mr. STUART WORTLET—to whose services
as &criminal judge we bear willing testimony, and
whose melancholy prostration by severe illness in
the midst of his career must be a subject of general
regret—expressed his entire concurrence in these
sentiments.

When any existing institution thus intimates an
opinion in favour of its own abolition,which is echoed
to the letter by all who know most about it,the pretty
fair conclusion is that the time has come for putting
an end to it. The inconveniences of the system is the
provinces are not lees than in the metropolis, as far as
the public is concerned ; bat they are in some degree
counteracted by the fuct that attendance on Grand
Juries, which to the busily engaged merchants and
tradesmen of the metropolis and its neighbourhood is
an unmitigated nuisance, is regarded as rather' pleas-
ing incident in the comparatively unemployed life of
the country gentleman. There is also no doubt some-
' thing in the argument that it is a good thing for our
provincial magnates to be associated with the Judges
of the Superior Courts in the administration of the
criminal law. It not only leads them to take an ad-
ditional interest in the conduct of public business,
but familiarises them with a high standard of criminal
administration. These reasons may suffice for con-
tinuing the Grand Jury system in the provinces until
superseded by the introduction of public prosecutors.
In the metropolitan districts no such reasons exist.
The thing is simply useless wherever it is not mis-
chievous, and mischievous wherever it is not useless.
The time for its extinction has fully come ; and we
trust that without loss of time Sir FREDERIC
Tax-mines Bill may become law.

TUE utterly unsatisfactory nature of the action of
cries. cow. is weU illustrated by the judgment of
Sir J. Dotrsox, in the case of " EV %NS V. EVANS,"
reported in the Express of Monday. This was
the ease, it may be remembered, in which a
husband, suspecting his wife's fidelity, hired the see.
vices of several female detectives, under the orders
of Mr. Inspector FIELD, who, aided by "a very
special gimlet of modern invention," succeeded, as
they swore, in procuring ocular tes ti mony of the wife's
infamy by means of a hole bored in the folding
doors of a drawing-room. The case was tried
twice at the Assizes; the verdict on the first occasion
being for the defendant, on the second for the plain-
tiff. It was in the divorce suit founded on this
second verdict that Sir Joltx DODSON on Monday
last delivered his judgment.
Admitting that, if Mr. FIELD'er hired spies were to
be believed, there was ample evidence to support the
verdict, the learned Judge very properly directed his
attention to ascertain, if possible, the value of their
testimony. The three important witnesses were
Mrs. KING, the landlady of the house in which the
adultery was alleged to have taken place ; a Mrs. '
PRICE, her friend, who was paid by Mr. FIELD an
unnamed sum " for her loss of time in watching the
parties;" and a Mrs. Gaocorr, the wife of a journey-
men butcher, whose wages as cook and spy were
fixed at two guineas a week. "Who were these
women ?" asks the learned Judge. For obvious
reasons, we prefer giving his reply verbatim from
the report:
Mrs. King admitted that she had formerly kept a cigar
shop in Brydgas-street, near Covent-garden theatre; and
that she had laminates living there who received visits from
gentlemen. tilts admitted that ehe had been a kept woman,
and that at the present time she had a honer in which young
ladies were resident who received company. She could not
tell how they Seed—but, she raid, it was not for one woman
to judge another—it was very well if a woman could answer
for herself. It wax true that the young ladles who had tired
in bee house, like those who lived at the cigar Amp, received
gentlemen, but thew they wen their own friends. That was
Um amount she pas of herself and of her house. Mrs.

Price she sometimes described as her friend, but et other
times she mid that Mrs. Price was a person very much below
ber, Mrs. Groton wee hired to act as spy.
It seems hardly necessary to go further in order
to show the utter worthlessness of such testimony as
this; but the case does not rest there. Three o'clock
in the afternoon of two consecutive days was the
time fixed by one of the witnesses os that on which
the alleged act of adultery took place. It was at 3
o'clock on two consecutive days that they all saw and
made a note" of that which when the virtuous Mrs.
Hiso first witnessed through the gimlet hole, " so
agitated her that, being unwell at the time, she fell
down on the floor." At 3 o'clock it was sworn that
the set of adultery took place; at a quarter past, it
was sworn that Mr. ROBINSON, the alleged adulterer,
left the hour. At 3 o'clock on both the sfternoons
mentioned, the suborned testimony of these spies so
positively contradicted by the unimpeachable evidence
of witnesses whose characters are pure from taint and
whose motives are above suspicion. At 3 o'clock on

the former of the two days, Mrs. Eve:qt.'s nephew, a
gentleman of the highest character, proves that he,
and not Mr. ROBINSON, was with her. On the
second day, two et her cousins call on her, and are
ahowq-by►er all over the house, at the very time
when the veracious spies swear positively that she was
in the 11,0 i 'ot adultery with Mr. Moancaos. It does
not aro rest there. Mr. Inspector ruin himself
contradicts the witnesses he has hired. This skilled
detective kept a note-book of all entries and outgoings
at the house in Bryanston-square. His entry on one
of the two days when Mr. ROBINSON was sworn to
have committed adultery with Mrs. Evevto at three
o'clock p.m. precisely, and to have left the house at •
quarter past—is this: " Watched the house from two
to jour o'clock, but did not see ROBINSON on that day."
As the learned Judge quietly but conclusively re-
marks : " Mr. FIELD, by his entry, has entirely dis-
' posed of his own witnesses." Most properly did
Sir JOHN DODSON refuse to be bound by a verdict
' obtained on such evidence in an action in which
the wife was not herself a party; most justly did
he pronounce Mr. EvAss to have failed in establish-
ing his case, and dismiss Mrs. Eva.vsfrom the further
observance of justice.

AVI P:di OF PILING'S FIUIDERICK
OF PR USSIA.

DOVER, WZDNZADAY, RIM 10.
Ilia Royal Higluicea Prince Frederick William of
Prussia arrived at Dover this evening rather monads:lly.
It was not generally known that his royal *hams wee
about to revisit Ragland so soon, but an the arrival of

biajor-Olonal Wyide from the P;laco, and ea attatid of
the Pruesian Legation at Dover this afternoon, the rumour
spread that the Prince wee coming, and, short as was the
notice, the pinheads and the Admiralty Pier ware speedily
thronged with spectators anxious to welcome a Prince who
is shady to be sonlosely allied to the royal toffy of Eng-
land. Every preparation had boon made by the railway
. .

authorities for the comfort of the Prince. A vestal train,
°misting of a state carriage for the uee of lds royal highness
and suite, with carriages for the marmite, had beset kept in
mediates bone 5 p.m. His royal highness sarived at the
Admiralty Pier, on bard the Princess Mande South-Eastern
steam, packet, at 6.15 p.m., and was warmly cheesed on land.
ins. The special train left Dover en mite for Windsor
at 6.61 p.m.

EXPSESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, NVEDNENDAT EVT.NINO.

The electoral movement is now much more lively
than was expected, sod if things go on at the pre-
sent rate, there will certainly be something like
political excitement in Paris and other large towns
before the 21st of June. Several journals show a
disposition to avail themselves to the full
extent :of the measure of liberty which M.
Billaurt has promised. Up to the present
moment there arc no symptoms of an inten-
tion, on the part of the government, to check the
opposition manifestations. The following important
circular to the leading democrats of the departments
is published by the Gazette dc Lyon, and repro-
duced by several Paris journals:
Monsieur et the Coneiteoyen—Afar deliberations, in

which all the ressona for and against abstention were con-
scientiously examined, our friends have decided on setion.
Those who In the first instance were of a different opinion
have hastened to rally themselves around that idea in order
to maintain the union of democracy, which has at no
former epoch been so complete ea at the pre-
sent moment. United to the delegates of the libe-
ral presa, and with no other =lesion than that
inspired by devotion and by circumstances, we earnestly
beg of you to inform era of your steps and of what you inn
effect in your department, within the limits of possibility and
legality. . . . We beg of you to vivify the faith that
steeped', to profit by the opportunity now offered, in order to
appeal to our friends and to reply to us with readinees. This
appeal, though confined to the limits laid down by present
laws, will not the lea meet with attention. A few days of
united efforts is what wo await from a devotion which never
tire., from hearts which have not been discouraged by
reverses, from a patriotism of which you have glven so
many proofs._

(Signed) 01.112iITZ PAOLA, CARNOT, AHNAND

I understand that the government will not pre-
vent the general circulation of this document, which,
considering the signatures appended to it, and the
practical nature of the advice given, is calculated to
produce a considerable effect in many parts of the
country.
M. de Nfontalembert, in his address to the electors
of the Loeb., says he is ready to receive a renewal
of his mandate, if they think " there are still truths
that require to be told, guarantees to be demanded,
rights to be preserved, progress to be obtained, ge-

nerous ideas to be followed, abuses to be corrected,
taxes to be reduced, a public income to be watched
over, if they do not desire to see all the vital strength
of France concentrated in Paris, and if honour and
duty are still dear in their eyes."

A. Landrin, an eminent member of the Paris bar,
and an ex-member of the Constituent Assembly, is
an opposition candidate for Versailles. It is ex-
pected that he will poll a great many votes.
_ _

A sort of coalition has been formed between the
Orleanists and the Republicans upon the.common
ground of liberty of conscience, liberty of discus-
sion, liberty of the press, and liberty of political
action. The agreement between these two parties
to Tote for the same opposition list in Paris was not
come to without much hesitation and difficulty, and
many individuals are not well pleased with what
has been done, while some are openly dissentient.
But the consideration which ultimately prevailed in
the mixed committee was this—that neither party
having the least present chance of gaining power,
they will have nothing to quarrel about when the
elections are over, and therefore neither can lose
anything by uniting their forces to get up against
the political system of the present government that
modest demonstration of opinion which is all they

can hope for. The Sti,cle and the Debate use nearly
the same language on the subject. The Siecle says :
" There is no question now of a coalition of men

desirous of power, and combining means to obtain it.
The object is to form a vast and sincere union in
favour of liberty. We still hope that at the last
moment those of our friends who have
not hitherto shared our views will not
allow themselves to be confounded with the
indifferent and the legitimists." The heLots
says if it has recommended its friends to take part
in the elections, it is not because it thinks such a
course free from objection, but because, considering
all things, it is the best to take. " Neither on the eve
nor the morrow of the elections do we expect to
mount the Capitol."
Since writing the above, I learn that the opposi-
tion list, which was thought to be settled at the
meeting presided over by M. Ruches yesterday, is
not yet definitive. In fact, there is something like
a split among some of the menswho have taken the
most prominent part in the endeavour to bring
about an arrangement. It was ascertained last
night that M. Bastidc, who, as I mentioned, had
been selected as a candidate in the place of
M. Darimon, refused to stand. In consequence of
this defection, the Siecte and Debuts did not publish
the list agreed upon yesterday, as it was intended
they should do. Another meeting of the mixed
committee has been held to-day, at which much dif-
ference of opinion was exhibited, and it broke up
without, as for as I can learn, any definite agree-
ment being come to. The Presse publishes the fol-
lowing as a complete list, which it is requested to
publish by a certain number of electors :—" Ist cir-
cumscription, Ed. Laboulaye, member of the Insti-
tute, and editor of the Debuts: 2nd, Bethmont, cx-
minister ; 3rd, General Cavaignac ; 4th, Emile 011i-
vier, advocate ; sth, Carnot, ex-minister ; 6th, Gaud-
. &aux, ex.minister ; 7th, Darimon, editor of the
Presses Rth, Vavin, ex-representative; 9th, F.
de Lasteyrie, ex-representative; 10th, Regnault,
ex-Sub-Prefect of Sccaux." From this list it
will be observed the important name of M.
Gamier Pages is eliminated. He and M. Has-
, tide represented the element of the old demo-
' erotic section of the National, and it is that section
which appears to have been outvoted by the members
of the committee, from whom the above list emanates.

The Courrier de Paris gives the following incom-
plete list, stating that the other names are not filled
up : 3rd circumscription, Ca. nignac ; 4th. G. rag ;
sth, Carnot ; 6th, Goudehaux ; 7th, Emile 011ivier ;
Bth, Vavin ; 10th, F. do Lasteyrie. The Estafette
gives another, which differs only in the respect that
the 10th circumscription is left in blank, and M.
F. de Lasteyrie is assigned to the 9th. 1 hear it
said that the Debida and Sierle will to-morrow
publish the same list as the Presse.

The Bourse has been very firm to-day. The
report published by the .3lrinitenr in the Caisse de
I)otation of the army produced a considerable effect
on the speculators. It appears that this Caisse has
39,000,000 of francs in hand, and that it is autho-
rized to invest 32,000,000 in Routes. It was
thought certain that both the banks of France and
England would reduce their discount to-morrow.
The Route row 25e. for cash, and 35e. for account,
closing at 68fr. and 68fr. sc. Mobilier rose sfr. In
railways a large business was done at improved
quotations. Orleans rose 7fr. 50e. Northern,
Lyons, and Mediterranean, sfr. each ; Southern,
12fr. 50c.; Western and Eastern, 2fr. 50e. each ;
Grand Central, lie. 25c.

The Dutch Minister of Finance has decided that
dagnerreotypists and photosraphists are not tote considered
artists, and that consequently they are to pay the tax for
pateates or licences to trade.