The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-12 00:00:00

POLICY FOR IRRLLND.

THZ 001

of churchmen in the pariah might
objects for which the rate was prep sod, bat if they refused
to pay it they woad axelade themeless from any right to
be heard on a similar subject for the future, or to vote on
the management of the church services. eas anythhig be
coward at once wore unjust and more pernicious! All
each precautions are perfectly musseesesey. Let us simply
provide that no more mite shall be instituted-4a other
words, that litigation and ceeimtuent enamelling shall
seem ; sad let everything elm be left as it stands.
The Daily News has no fear that eny straggle will arias
is the United States out of the trial of Mr. Joheson.
Presidential usurpation will go the way which all warps-
tion goes in the dram of freemen of t►e thalish ram.
The American Senate will not lack the courage to dismiss
Kr. Johnson to obscurity, the American people will net
be wanting in the edf•respect and the eegadty to adonis
the verdict, and in a few weeks our minister at Washing-
ton will be received by President Wade.
The Post observes that there is now the dame in Abys-
sinia, although a vary remote one, of either Xenelek or
Cabman oceupying the attendee of Theodore, and per-
haps delaying his advance into Maeda until oar force
OCIGNI up. At any rate, these two chiefs are nearly ow-
-1 Min to be " in at the death."

Lord Mayo, the Times says, seemed to suggest
the endowment of all forms of belief in Ireland, but to
propose such • scheme is to prove that the proposer is
incapable of governing Ireland by the light of the present
day. Such a suggestion is an impossible dream. The
cart, and the opposition of the Roman catholic prelates
show the impracticability of the project. The government
scheme for dealing with the Irish university question is • de-
vice of the same pattern. It is, perhaps, leis objectionable
than that of the late government, because it 1 he
freedom of the Queen's University and its colleges unim-
paired ; but it is even more repugnant to the whole cur-
rent of modern Ideas and of modern legisla►ion. The
Tina then refers to a letter which it publishes from an
Irish Roman catholic graduate in Dublin University, in
which it is urged that the proposal to create and endow
• catholic university whish will be practically under the
supreme control of the priesthood is odious to • large
section of the Roman catholic laymen of Ireland. The
members of the clue who are sufficiently wealthy to give
their children the &dunked' of a university education do
not desire to see • catholic university established.
Their eyes' are turned to Trinity College. The nation
would rather that parliament should leave the Irish
church and Irish education alone than stultify itself by
such an inadequate and unwise policy. Indeed, its prime
duty is to remit each questions to the new parllement,
which bu been formally acknowledged as more worthy to
determine the government of the empire. In a second
article the Times treats of Lord Mayo's proposed legisla-
tion with regard to the land, and oomes to the conclusion
that even this little instalment may have to wait, with
other proposed measures, for the report of the Landlord
and Tenant Commiamiso.

If Theodore, says the Teiegraph, should move out to re-
sist our 'dramas, Sir Robert Napier would probably be
thankful ; should ha abut himself up in Magda* a few
days would me us marten of the impregnable mobs, and
in that case our troops might return to Senate before the
rains ; but, should Theodore retreat upon Begemeder,
carrying the prisoners with him, we should then be only
on the threshold of a protracted and tedious petty war.

The Daily News regards it as • discredit and a danger
that at • period like the present • man of the intellectual
calibre of the present Chief Secretary should be the re-
sponsible minister of Ireland. ma design appears
to have been to prove that Ireland needed
nothing, but the symptoms in which he finds
comfort are really the most dangerous of aIL The
offer to endow • Boman cathidio university is mad•
as a means of securing ascendancy and emoluments in
Trinity College to the protestant@ of the English church.
The Daily News hopes that liberals in parliament and out
of it, protestant and catholic alike, will refuse to be thrown
I on a false scent. They must insist on the complete banish-
ment of sectarian monopoly from that venerable and
wealthy seat of learning, and on its conversion into •
truly national institution. It is not by setting privilege
against privilege, nor by balancing protestant against
catholic exclusiveness, that religious strifes can be abated
in Ireland. Lane and comprehensive measures of equality
me INICSIOUT.

COMPULSORY CHURCH BATES ABOLITION

BILL.

HOUSE OF COILMONS.—HARce 11.

ComenLsOlti Celoscia Ham ABOLITION BILL.—{Kr.
Gladssone)—Coneddeved in oommittee. Chinas 1—
Motion made and question put, " That the clause stand
part of the hill." The minunittee divided ; ayes, 167 ;
wee, 30.
ATI&
Acland, T. D. Ooldney, O. Morgan, Major
Ic
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4,811. A. Ooldsmid, Mr P. H. Morrison, W.
Cloachen, G. J. Murphy, N. D.
Authority, Vim& Oreenall, 0. Niehohon, W.
Anson, Major Grove. T. P. Delay, Si, J.
Anstruther. Mr R. Hadfield. G. Onelow, 0,
Ayrtoci, A. 8. Hamilton, Ld. Chad Padmore, R.
Milne% L Harris, J. D. Paget, T. T.
Barclay. A_ C. Harter, J. Pease, J. W.
Barnett, H. Hay, lord W. Peel, Sir R.
UM, A. H. Hayti", A. D. Platt, J.
Baxter, W. I. Beadle" T. E. Pollard-Urquhart,W
Batley, r. Haatitoore. Mr W. Potter, B.
Beach, Sir M. Henley, Lord Powell, P. 8.
Eliddulph, CM. Harbert, H. A. Prior, It 0.
Bowen, J. B. Hervey, Lard A. Price, W. P.
Brand, H. Hilbert, J. T. Ptigh, D.
Brett, Sir W. B. Milelyard, T. B. Reed, C. &
Bright, Jacob Hocipoe, K. D. lebow, J. 0.
Bright J. 112L1A.-ek. =Zoll..;:r.i.
Briscoe, J. I.
Miller, Sir A. Hollaisd I. Eases% A.
Buller, slr K. Hood. air A. laseell. H.
Butler, C. S. Howard, C. W. Bt. Aubyn, J.
Buxton, C. Hubbard, J. 0. Samuelson, B.
Buxton. Sil T. logham, IL Saunderson, K.
Candlish, 3. Jambe, Alr 1. &later-Booth, G.
Carnegie. C. Kavanagh, A. Severna, J. E.
Cartwrieht Col. liesnlay, Capt. Sheridan, R. B.
Cavendish.Lordl.o. Zelusetch. &T. Smith, J. A.
Cavendish, Lord G. Kennedy, T. Maine, J. B.
Chambers, T. Xinglake, A. W. Spells, A. A.
Clement, W. J. Kimdsks, J. A. Msepoole, W.
Colthurat, Sir G. Kahbull . Heger Stanateld, J.
Cohen., C. B. mo, & Stuart, Col.
Cowen, J. Lenses, W. Mart, Lient-Col.
Cowper, H. P. Ulnae, J. A. kysan, /L J.
Cox, W. T. loathani, W. H. Taylor, P. A.
=,
R. Mr P. Drama O. M.
, Leyte, h. ‘4lo=t..T. W.
Davey, E. Locke, J. Trevelyan, 0. 0.
Bout, J D. Lowe, R. Verney, 84 H.
Dickson. Major Lost, A. Vernon, IL F.
Dixon, O. M•lapn, P. Vivian, Cape
Dlllwyn, 1.. L. Mlaren, D. Watiegrave - Ladle,
Dunlop, A. C. Maid, M. H. G.
Edwards, Sir H. Marshall, W. Watrond. J. W.
Enneld,ylscoant Martin, C. W. Waring. C.
Evans, T. W. Idartto. P. W. Watidn, It W.
Pawed. H. Maxwell, W. H. Western, Sir T.
Tildes, J. Melly, 0. Wlnnington, Sir T.
Flom J. Milbank F. A. Wyndham, P.
Porter, C. Mitchell, A. Young, 0.
lorater, W. E. Monorail!, J.
Itortercue, D. P. Monk C. J. rnszete.
°melee, Serjeant Montag, W. Hardcastle, J. A.
Olbeon, T. M. Montgoewry, 81r 0. Olyu, Mr.
Gladstone, W. E. More, IL J.
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HOW.
=kW. Gwyn, H.
Hr B. Hardy, G. Smith, A.
R. 0*
Corinna, F. S. Hardy J. ttyt r, Col.
Dlinadale, P. Horihll, T. B. Treeby, J. W.
Dyke, W. H. Kendall, N. Turner, C.
Dyott, Col Kama, W. Vance, J
Pine, Col. J. Langton, W. 0. Wise, II C.
Fades. J. Parker, Major Yorke, J R
OM, Unut.-Col. Ridley Sir H. W. rtu..kal.
(keen% K. R&M ,tier C. Henley, J. W.
Grey, T. de isoonrnaia, J. H. Newdegate, C. N.

The above division, which turned upon the abolition of
compulsory church rates, shows that unanimity is wanting I
on this subject, at all everts, in the ministerial ranks. In
the minority the government is represented by the Home
Secretary and by Colossi Taylor; while in the majority are
the SolidterOmeral, Mr. &dater Booth , and Sir G. Montgo-
mery. Oxford University is 'Melt divided, Sir W. Heath-
eotevoling for thealauseabeliehing the oompideoryrate. The
167 who composed the majority included 33 conservatives,
viz.:—H. Barnett, Sir M. Beech, J. Bowen, Sir W. B. Brett,
Col. Cartwright, W. T. Con, Major Dickson, W. T. Floyer,
G. Goldwey, G. Greenaß, Lord Claud Hamilton, J.
Hartley, Sir W. Heetheses, Iced A. Hervey, T. Hildyard,
Col. Hogg, P.. Holford, Sir A. Hood, J. G. Hubbard, A.
Kavanagh, S. Kekewich, P. M'Lagan, Sir G. Mont-
gomery, Major Morgan, D. Pugh, C. S. Read, G. W.
Repton, P. Robertson, G. Bolster-Booth, J. B. Severna,
Colonel Start, J. Walrond, P. Wyndham.

PROPOSED GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION
OF RAILWAY AND OTHER JOINT STOCK

The PostObaracteriees the ministerial policy u imply
no policy at 6U. The Prime Minider is prepared to eat ss
he may be hereafter advised, and the greater the deky in
obtaining the advise the better. There an now be no
question that Mr. Dien& means to play with the Irish
people with no nobler object than that of remaining in
saes toe another year. .

If the ministerik scheme is not approved by the oppo-
nent. of the ministry, the Herald waste to know what
alternative policy boa been adopted by the liberal pert/'
What bee the opposieka leader himself to propose? He
bee meek choice of plans in his own camp ; but be will
hardly West one purely for strateptieal purposes.
In the opinion of the Star the speech of Lord Mayo
literally gave up the game. It acknowledged that the
present government dare not and cannot deal with the
Irish question. It is for the liberal party now to accept
the challenge. Let them boldly sad decisively declare
that they have the courage and the heart to do what the
present peewee= at °Mee dare not even attempt, sad let
Wee be joined—the seems the better.
According to the Higfrepli while the liberal party may
eagerly accept the ydseiple el " equality " set forth by
Lord Mayo, and pole medium to hear hi plea or
equivalent endowment, is mad la the interest. el Irish
reform add that the British taxpayer will be exoessively
relustaat to pay towards the religiose enplane of say Irish
led If the regime dean= is sot Balkiest, it should be
supplesmatel from Irish, sot free hapseial, foals. It the
IReuses Whelk &era is to he widowed, me additiosal
burden must he laid en the British taxpayer—now little
better than as overiedesdbystinian male.

Int Crum

WINDSOR OASITLII, ILLson 11.

The Queen, aocioinpanied by Princeu Beatrice,
dune to Medan yesterday efteurnoon, attended by Via.
°nudes (Wen, and visited the Dowager Duchese of
Sutherland.

The Eqnsaries-ia-Weltiag versus attenclinoe upon horse-
back.

Her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning, and
drove, accompanied by Princess Christian.
Princess Beatriee rode in the Ham-park.
Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington
and Colonel du Plat, went to London last evening, and
dined with the Prince and Princess of Wales at Mar!.
borvagh-honee.
Her royal highness drove from Buckingham Palace this
morning to Kensington, and honoured Mr. J. Bell with a
visit to his studio, where her royal highness inspected
the group of statuary representing America, intended for
the national memorial of the Prince Consort in Hyde-
PAL
Her royal highness afterwards returned to Windsor
Castle. Lady Caroline Barrington and Colonel du Plat
were in attendance.

Prism and Princess Christian dined with the Queen
yesterday.
Major•Ueneral Sir T. M. and the Roe. Lady Biddulph,
Kies Bowater, and Dr. Robertson had the honour of dining
with the Queen and the royal family.

The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday, attended by
the Marchioness of Carmarthen.

THE DR.4WING-ROOM.

ARRIVAL OF THB QUERN IN LONDON.

Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by Prince
and Princess Christian sod Prince's Louie*, left Windsor
by the Great Weaken Railway this neornlmg at 11.35, and
promoded to Buckingham Palace, where, awarding to
annennomnent, her Majesty will hold a drawing-room
this afternoon.

PARIB, Kasen it
The Motiiieur of to-day says :—" The special
councils of revision appointed for the forriation of
the regimental lists of the National Garde Mobile
commenced their operations on the 9th instant
throughout France. Most satisfactory report,
have been received respecting this tirst application
of the law of the Ist February, 1868. The opera.
tions have been everywhere conducted with ads
and regularity. In all quarters the you.;
men have come eagerly forward, animated
by an excellent spirit. Only a very small
number have pleaded causes for exemptior..
The country confides in the solicitude of the
Emperor to provide for and watch over its in
terests. It frankly admits the benefits of the las
in like manner as it resolutely accepts its oblige.
tions. One single deplorable exception has talc;
i place at Toulouse, where some tumultuous dem.r.
strationa occurred in the evening of the lOth inst..
: but were soon terminated by the energetic attitude
assumed by the authorities. The presence is
these gatherings of well known agitators and
strangers to the operation of revision suz!
ciently attests that the operations were
made a pretext for disturbance. The necessati
measures have been taken to prevent, and if necvs•
nary, suppress any further attempts at agitation.•

FOR,E.IGN NEW&

Before 11 o'clock • large number of persons lad as-
sembled in the St. James's park, and by 12 the crowd
considerably increased in front of the eastern entrance
to the Palace and along the entire length of Birdcage
walk. The latter promenade was rendered more than
usually animated, owing to the extraordinary number of
equestrians and fashionably-dressed ladies there assaabled
awaiting the arrival of her Majesty. At • quarter past 12 a
passage was effected for the entrance of the royal I
cortege at the Palace gate in Birdcage-walk,l
and precisely at twenty-live minutes past 12 a'
general buzz indicated the near approach of the royal
party. A general rush was made in the direction of Bird-
oage-walk, and until the procession had entered the Palos,
the cheering and waving of hats was spontaneous. Her
Majesty, who was attired in deep mounting and wore
• widow's cap, was most gracious in her acknowledgments.
The procession was very simple, there being no escort,
excepting • policeman in front, followed by three out-
riders, and two in the rear. Both menages were open, and
her Majesty, who oeoupied a seat in the first, appeared in
excellent health and spirits. The weather, considering the
early season, was fully up to the average of a Queen's
day;" and judging from the number of fashionable
s?ec-
tators and the distinguished persons expected, the
present drawing-room will doubtless prove a brilliant
inauguration of the season.

The Princess Mary Adelaide and Prince of Teck
honoured the Earl and Countess of Bradford with their
presence at dinner last evening at the family 111111140/1 in
Belgtsve-square. The following company had assembled
to meet their royal highnesses :—TO, Duke and Duchess
of Sutherland, Viscount Canterbury, Viscount Royston,
M.P., and Viscountess Royston, Viscountess 'nacelles,
Lady Londecibmough, Lady Katherine Coke, Lord Henry
Gordon Lennox, M.P.. the Hon. Francis Bridgeman, Mr.
Christopher Sykes, M.P., Mr. Henry Gerard Stud, ?LP.,
no.
The Right Hon. the Speaker gave his fourth par-
liamentary fun-dress dinner last evening to the tethering
noblemen and gentlemen :—Lord Ronald Gower, Viscount
Baniag_ton, Viscount Newport, Hen. C. Carnegie, Captain
the Hat G. Windsor Clive, Admiral the Hon. A. Dun-
combs, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Sir William Heatheete,
Sir Arthur Buller Colonel Brownlow Knox, Colonel
Sykes, Colonel Ford, Major Cumming Bruce, Mr. Newde-
gate, Mr. Lefroy, Mr. Ingham, Mr. Clay, Mr. Benyon, Mr.
Blake, Mr. Davey, Mr. Cobbodd, Mr. Fierce, Mr. Dillwyn,
Mr. Horoby, Mr. W. R. Ormsby Gore, Mr. Mackinnon, Mr.
Holland, Mr. Hibbart, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Oorranoe, Mr.
Wingfield Malcolm, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Greene, Mr.
' Paget, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Remington Mills ; Rey. Dr.
Midvale, Chaplain ; and Mr. Alfred Denison, Private
Secretary. The right hen gentleman will hold his levees
on Wednesday, March 18, and on Wednesday, March 25,
at ten o'clock p.m. Full dream.

The Right Hon Sir John Pak ington, Bart., M.P.
and Lady Pakington entertained the following company at
dinner lest evening, et their residence in Oroerenor•pLae:

The Right Hon. Stephen Cave, ILP., sad Mn. Cave,
the Right Hon. Sir Thome@ F. Fremantle, Bart , and Lady
Fremantle, Sir John Hay, Bart., M.P., Viee-Adadral Sir
Sidney and lady Dames, Mr. George Selater-Booth. M.P.,
Mr. Henry Whitmore, ht.P., and Mrs. Whitmore, Mr.
Pakington, Miss Arbuthnot, Mr. and Mrs. P. Benson, Mr.
Hamilton, So.

The Right Hon. Chthonic" Hardy, M.P., and
Kra Hardy received the following select company at
dinner, at their residence in Grosvenor-crescent, last
evening. The Archbishop of York and Mrs. Thomson,
Lord Hothain, M.P., the Right Hon. Henry T. Lowry
Corry, M.P., and Mir Carry, Colonel the Right Hon.
Wilson Patten, M.P., Mr. Edward C. Egerton, M.P., and
lady Mary Egerton and Mir Egerton, Mr. and Mrs.

Lieutenant-General Count Baranoff has
replaced in the post of Governor-General of the
Western provinces by Adjutant-General Potar..4
Ataman of the Cosaaoks of the Don.

Steiturt Hard), Mrs. Leveson Gower, Mr. Ridley, Mr. and
Mrs. Hardy, Ice.
Lady Herbert is still in Rome, residing in the
Via di Bt. Isidore. Lord Houghton has arrived.
Last evening Mr. Warren de la Rue, the Presi-
dent el the Cheadeal Society, gave a reception at Willis's-
rooms, King-street, St. James's, to a large number of
ladies and gentlemen. The objects exposed to view were
varied and instructive, and there were many conspicuous
novelties, including enema useful inventions. The ad-

vaneemadebyvaienceindisamarias deriving aid from

(THIS DAY.)

(num% mamma.)
FRANCE.
THE NEW MILITARY LAW.
DEMONSTRATION AT TOULOUSE.

chemistry was amply diansostrated.
The death is announced of Sir Richard Digby
Nam, Bert., of Degnam-park, in his 75th year.
According to the Western Morning News Viscount
Anilawley, who sow site fee Nottingham, will in all proba-
bility be brought forward by the liberals of South Devon
at the general election. It will be remembered that his
father represented that constituency thirty-five years ego.
The Bedford interest I. considerable in that division.

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURG, Ilium 11, Errcm.,,

On Tuesday, 31st inst., Mr. Shaw Lefevre will
bring forward a bill to amend the law with respect to the
property of married mom
Captain Vivian, on Friday, will ask the Chan-
seller of the ilsahequer whether the estimate of the pro-
bable expenditure on aceonnt of the Abyssinian ex-
pedition, promoted to the home in November last, is
likely to be exceeded ; and if so, whether he is prepared to
say to what extent and what ere the circumstances which

PORTUGAL.

LISBON. Matt H

The health of Queen Maria Pia is fietter,;uTit
is said that her Majesty will proceed to
about three weeks on a visit to her father, K...
Victor Emmanuel.

OUR PARIS LETTER.

TRIAL OF A BAND OF BRITI,H
PICKPOCKETS.

(nom OUR OWN COBRZSPONDKNT.)
PARIS, WIDZiF4DAT EVCCIN:.
A band of truly British pickpockets was tries
yesterday in Paris. Thirteen persons, seven me:
and six women, were placed at the bar. Ter
French legal journals describe them all as thieved
but I cannot do so, because the court saw fit t.
acquit five of them. The names of the thirt..et
prisoners, according to French spelling—allay
in the case of foreign names to be take
with reserve—were Emma Jonston,
Maria Champaon, Henry Molloy, Emily Mole
John Murray, Thomas More, Andrew smitt
William Jones, alias Daniel, Helen Pope, Mu
Sweny, William Argent, Julia Argent, Alfa
Carter, and Maria Wilkinson. The feu
prisoners, though young, were none of them
looking, but their manners and appearance we
good enough to enable them to pursue t!
peculiar calling which they were charged we
carrying on without exciting suspicion. It w
evidence that the woman Jonston was arrested ;
the Place de la Bastille at the moment when i.
was endeavouring to swallow a piece of paper.
'snatched out of her mouth by the polioe—whi•.
' contained the addreases of herself and her a.
complioes. Mrs. Molloy had concealed sum:
stolen money in such a way that nobody to
an authorised female searcher could venture t
look for it. All the prisoners denied any Lnow•
ledge of each other, but they were not able to gi•e
any clear explanations of the reason why they were
in Paris. Thomas More said he was a Frain
and had come here to get out of the way of tl.!
English police. Mrs. Pope, the ugliest of
batch, said in her defence that she lasi
come to Paris, not to pick pockets, but to beowa
a member of the demi-monde ; and this appears
be true. Several of the prisoners did not atreto,t
to deny their guilt. The tribunal acquitted tk
women Pope, Sweny, and Argent, and the owl

Argent and Carter. The rest were found,;tuir..
and sentenced to periods of imprisonment variu.;
from six months to two years. They all sp.le

French very imperfectly. French thieves ynte
admit the superiority of the English in the peen.
liar art of picking pockets; but they think then
not so adroit as themselves in eluding the sean:hin;
eye of the policeman. I

The slandered journals held a meeting yesterday

in the Siicle office, at which it was resolved
leave no atone unturned to obtain the minix
permission from the Corps Legialatif to proseco
Viscount de Kerveguen. An indictment sill h
preferred against him immediately. MM. Solari
Emile 011ivier, and E. Arago are retained as couust
for the prosecution.

M. Peyrat, the editor of the Arenir Not;one
left St. Pelagie to-day, after suffering there b
month's imprisonment. M. Vermorel, of
Cotarrier Francais, will come out next week, be
only soon to go in again. The press cells ii tb
prison are never long vacant. There is capita,
company in St. Pelagie. At least a dozen Jana'
bits are at this moment under sentence of imps
sonment. _

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M. Duruy has augmented the pension of Madan!

Jamnin, the poet's widow, from'Boofr. to I,Boeft
Yesterday the marriage of M. Armand lhjeos•
a lieutenant in the Bth Chasseurs, with lidlle
Marie de lesseps was celebrated with great porn!
andoeremony at the Chapelof the Senate. The bride
groom's witnesses were Count de Flamarens,
tor, and Baron Rigau, colonel of the Bth Chasseurs
those of the bride Baron Hausmann and Barn

Jules de Lamps. President Troplong, the Gran
Referendary F. Barrot, and very many senate
and official personages attended.
The evening papers state, without giving
Madan, that some agitation has occurred
Toulouse in consequence of the levy of the Mobil
Motional Guard.
The Bourse was firm with little hairless doinf

amocat for the same.
!Rents closed with scarcely & shade of different,
On Friday, the 20th, Mr. Percy Wyndham will! It soli
sok the Befratabry the Treasury if he lo &true of the ' "In yesterday. Italian roge 26c.
me
unmask dthe rens* appointed master at Labe= that a treaty was on foot with groat of
workhouse, sod move for =pin of the endesse tesee oess for the purchase, by the house of Rota
by Yr. Fantall at the inquiry held et 81.14r7 s Netnagne, I from the Italian government, of a considerable fa'
ia the spring 04 1866: and of the oorrequadettos between tion of church property, against which the Gun
the Newington hoard sad the Pear-law Bond, which led had made
advances.
the removal of O. OM= hem the allot he then held.
On the motion for going into committee on Re- ecutiet
meetsitatimi el the People (fisonaod) Bill, in the event a Advice& from Hanover state that rat „pets
Kr. %Mak footmen= sot labs awned, Sir Raised of the mint dedolon of the Preonut iovor'`"`""
Raisin= will more, as as samadeamt to the Spatial' tag the property of the ex•Liai George, "415 --
use
learn. the .heir, " That it Is an szpodieat to horeese Ides= epos Ur deers of the Ohne= al Wage.la l
the poem= suabor of the mules= of this Muse." I sad also ea those of the Royal Pekoe in the MA"-
Oorraaincrit or Nottooltrommter•—(Tsta DAY.)! The Chamber of the Duchy of bf &Misr' .7,
BT TPLZOILAPIL—Noawica, aanferewas d adapted • nemenre ornfordag political and civil rat
assooaforsoins has Men bald today Nerwint, posing area 'elm • provides, however, is maint6in6i
ta
01;
molooludisal queeticaa Te.aight Kr. Maus Jaw 'paha &Shea et nixed Jewish sad Christian marriases
ca• the huh elnaelt. be aisatell la the Wee falai.

'I . NG, MARCH 8i :
10---• • _ .
• • • TOM OS. statement with the knowledge
11111 i theDOW ressidaiag in 0 . .'
•I is false su2lktieralar. In the awe of cosmic-
Ohnieir Abele ' 11111,whiels provide
...1 p .• an • • so* the penalty is to be fine or im-
person a • vote or against as who t'
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not haes pall . Wootton to the • v. , to • 1l I,ltovision is also made to enable
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.-{THIS DAY.)

EQ'CITY COURT.
(Before Vioe•CbeeeeUoe Sir B. Mahar.)
TgE rORR•STRZET MARIROUIN COMPANY V. ALEIANDZI
AND OTNRIA.

Mr. Cole sad Mr. Jackson moved for an injunction to
restrain the defendant Alexander, a manufacturer of glit
and plated jewellery at Birmingham, and Moms. Johnson
and Co., printers, from causing bills of paresis to be
printed in the DAUM of the Fornstreet Warehouse Com-
pany (formerly Manson, Dillon, and Co.). Messrs. John.
son were, be mid, perfectly innocent parties, and haring
received the order to engrave the plates they communi-
cated with the company upon the
Mr. Ince, for Alexander, was to submit to a
perpetual injunction, but stated that his client in giving
the order only acted upon instructions from a person at the
Cape of Good Hope.
Mr. Shatter represented the other defendants
The Flee-Chancellor granted the injanction, and directed
that all the plates should be delivered up to be destroyed,
and that the defendant Alexander should pay costs of
the suit, including the octets of Messrs. J

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
LiNGIIZAD r. PONSTORD.

Dr. Spinks, and Dr. Tristram for the plaintiff ;
Mr. Staveley klill, Q.C., and Mr. A. Thurlow for the
defendant.
The plaintiff, a retired draper, propounded the will of
his putative father, John Poneford, late of Cambridge-
street, Paddington, and formerly an artist, who died at
the age of 72 on the 26th of May last. The instrument bore
date the 7th of July, 1864, and it passed property valued
at 6,000/. or 7,0001. The testator, though he had been
twice married, left no legitimate issue, and be had not
lived on good terms with either of his wives. He had also
had many quarrels with the plaintiff, but latterly he had
brooms permanently reconciled to him, and had often, as
was alleged, spoken of him in texas of pride and affection.
By the will be left his second wifa an annuity of SOL, led
she had predeceased him. He also gave a hie interest la
tomehonse property to his nephewand nine ; but he coneti.
sated his eon residuary legates and executor, bequeathing
to him in fact the bulk of his property. The will bad
been prepared by Mr. Knight, solicitor, who had taken
extraordinary precautions to satisfy himself of the testamen-
tary of the deceased. The fact was that Pons-
ford and hie wife had mutually accused each other of
insanity, and Mr. Knight had therefore called in Dr.
Wood and Dr. Head to examine the testator and to attest
his will. This they had done, and they were now exa.
mined in support of its validity. They deposed that the
testator was a person with an extremely bad temper—
that he was of a remarkably irritable and morbid disposi-
tion, hot that he 1M perfectly competent to make a will.
On the pert of the defendant, a nephew of the deceased,
however, it was contended that the kaiaks was not
merely irritable and violent in his manner, but was sub-
ject to positive hallucinations, am for example, that he was
haunted by devils, that his wife was immoral, and that
she intended to poison him, to have people in the house to
kill him, or to put him under restraint. Copious evidence
was given of his eccentricities, but the case wee not a very
Interesting sue, and was not concluded when cur report
left.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
IY nr MILSTILD's TRUST DZII).—XX PARTE JORTY,
This was an application on behalf of Michael Edward
Jorey, a judgment creditor of the debtor, Albert Mated,
for leave to issue execution, notwithstanding the registra-
tion of • deed under the 182nd section of the Bankruptcy
Act, 1861, on the ground of its invalidity.
Mr. Bagley was counsel for the creditor and Mr. Reed
for the debtor.
His Honour having taken time to consider now gave
judgment. He said the invalidity of this deed
rested solely on the objection that the requisite
majority of creditors in number and value had
mot assented to the deed, I should have con-
sidered that the time which had been allowed to
elapse since the registration of the deed in August, 1862,
and before making the present application was fatal to it.
Following the case of expert. Banfield, 1 L. J. Ch. Ap-
peals 154, I should have declined to interfere, and should
have left the creditor to his legal remedy, but another ob-
jection has been made to the deed which in my opinion,
amounts to • fraud in the eye of the law and precludatthe
possibility of its being allowed to stand. The Bankruptcy
Act, 1861, says that a deed executed in a particular
manner shall be binding if certain formalities are ob-
served, and by the second condition of the 192nd sec-
tion it is provided that if • trustee or trustees
be appointed by the deed, such trustee or trustees shall
execute the same, but in this cue Yoalton. one of the
trustees , did not execute the deed ; he mays he never saw
the deed till September last, and whether he was aware or
not that he was to be • trustee it is admitted that he did
nut personally execute the deed. It is said, however, that
his wife by'
the authority of • letter from her husband
signed for him but the letter is not produced. An ac-
countant, who acted as agent for the debtor, obtained the
wife's signature, on her seeing the letter. Youlton says be
never gave authority to anyone to sign the deed for him,
and the wife ledos& The debtor says he communicated
with Youlton about the deed, and told him his wife had
signed for him. The accountant was the attesting witness
to the execution of the deed by Youlton ; but if the real
facts had been brought to the notice of the chief registrar,
the deed would not have been registered. It is clear that
a deed signed by a forme covert without the authority of
her husband will not bind him, and the execution of a
deed by an attorney must not only be in the
tame of the principal in order to be binding
upon the latter; but the power of attorney mart be
under seal, as well as the deed itself (see "Berkeley v.
Hardy," 58. and Cr. 355), and the power of attorney
should be produced, and no subsequent acknowledgment
will do (see titeight's v. Eginton," Holt's N. P. Rep.
142 per Gibbs C. J.). lam of opinion, therefore, that the
deeds clearly bad. All the formalities required by the
act must be strictly complied with, and no presumption
from lapse of time can arum in favour of the des execution
of the deed, when it is clearly shown that the set of par-
liament has not been complied with. A further objection
has been urged against the validity of the deed. The
deed is in the form given in the schedule (D) and purports
to be an 'Assignment of all the debtor's property to be
administered for the benefit of the creditors, as if
the debtor had been adjudged bankrupt, and it ia said
the debtor bad, substantially, no property ; that he had
only some mining shares of no value, and • few wine
warrants; that the mines had collapsed, and that the
sum of 21.2 a. was the only property realised under the deed,
whilst the debtor's liabilities were nearly 13,0001. I
think, however, that Jorey, the creditor, has by his con-
duct precluded himself from taking this last objection. It
is true that the debtor does not appear to have mule the
deed with a view to the distribution of any property ;
be sought protection against certain naming liabi-
lities, and with en intention of paying what
he called his bona fide creditors in full. Several
of the creditors have been since paid by the
debtor. The debtor says that Jorey was constantly
applying to him for money, and that in the year 1865 he
paid Jorey 190/. on amount of his debt. Jorey admits
that he received from the debtor the acceptance of a third
person for 1001., endplates that it was on another account,
and not on account of his debt under the deed ; but from
the circumstance of Jorey taking no steps to obtain •
distribution of property under the deed, or to test its vali-
dity from 1862 to 1867, I should infer that the payment
was on account of his debt under the deed. The exami-
nation of Jorey, and a subsequent affidavit made by him,
are contradictory as to the circumstances under which he
assented to the deed, but I think the truth is told in his
examination of the 13th August, 1867, and that his assent
to the deed was given for the purpose of proteetthe
debtor from his liabilities on mining shares, kno at
the same time that he had no available prop rty to gn,
and relying upon the debtor's assurance that • he (Jorey)
would sign his assent to the deed, he 'the debtor) would
pay the whole of his bona fide creditors in full, after be had
got rid of three large liabilities. Under all the circum-
stances I think the registration of the deed and the certi-
ficate of the registration meet be cancelled and the judo-
ment creditor (Jorey) must have leave to issue execution.
With regard to costs I think the debtor must pay
the costs of the application, and incident thereto so
far as regards the improper execution and registration of
the deed ; and the creditor and the debtor must each pay
his own costa incurred in the matter otherwise than as
above mentioned.
Judgment accordingly.

POLICE COURTS.-(THIS DAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE.

EXTELWEDINIRY CAN! or IMPOISTUIL—LAD CURE

EFFECTED BY ♦ GALVANIC BAITZIT.

--•—••
Charles Brown a sickly-looking man, described as a
labourer, was charged before the Lord Mayor this morning
with feigning fits in Mansion-house-street for the purpose
of obtaining alms.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner came to
the justice-room of the Mansion-hotme yesterday afternoon,
and requested relief. He walked with the sunbeams of two
crutches, and represented that be had that morning
been discharged from the infirmary of the Zest London
Union. where he lad been lying for three weeks in con-
sequence of injuries received by a fall from a scaffold.
As he appeared to be very ill, Mr. Gore. the amistant.altork,
gave him an order to be readmitted into the unioa. He
also gave him 6d. to pay his fare, and Is. to get some
dinner. He wee then taken to one of the waiting-rooms
downstairs, and at his request, Davis, an officer of the
court, got him some brandy as he complained of being cold
in the inside. He likewise slaked for some bread and
butter, which was brought him, but he did not eat
any. Afterwards he was senisted across the street
in order to get into an omnibus, but while waiting
he appeared suddenly to get worse, and on