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London, England, 1860-12-03 00:00:00

TIE StlN, LONDON, MONDAY - EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1860.

the town at their mercy. With far more reason
might the chief officers of barracks claim the right
to suspect, to summon to their presence, and to
imprison on suspicion, those whom they thought
likely to injure the morals of their men.
The case before us, notwitstanding the remarks
of the judge (the remarks, we mean, relating to
the character of the facts which were to go to the
jury) appears to us one on which an English jury,
unhampered by direction from the bench, would
not long hesitate. Apart from University Charters
and Customs, the facts disclose a gross outrage on
the liberty of a respectable young woman. There
mighthave been reasonable occasion for the kindly
admonitions and warnings of a grave ecclesiastic to
a young girl who was off for a not very judicious
spree, but the idea of fourteen days' imprisonment,
on such a purely constructive offence, constructive
suspicion, we might say, is an outrage on common
sense. EMMA KEMP, the plaintiff, was so far as
all the evidence gives, a respectable young dress-
maker, living at home with her mother. Not a
single fact was adduced to throw suspicion on her
character. Her offence was only that for which she
was sentenced to the fourteen days' confine-
ment—and the offence amounted to no more

than this,—that on the invitation of Mr.
WILLIAM GRAHAM, who proposed to have a
frolic on taking his B.A. degree, she and a number
of other persons were going with him to a ball, at
Shelford, in an omnibus. The house where it was
to be held was one of orderly character, and all the
attendant circumstances went to prove that nothing
more than a " lark" was intended.

Of course, we may admit with all parties the

impropriety of the damsel's joining such a party;
the judge asked whether it was likely the young
man would ever make her fair and honourable pro-
posals, and if so, that the inference could not be to
her advantage. But, on the other hand, if a young
dressmaker, flattered by the request of one of her
superiors, was willing to have a little mirth at his
expense, is it fair to assume that she had any
thought whatever beyond that of enjoying
the fun ? The evidence seems, indeed, as
conclusive as in such a case it well could be, that
nothing commonly understood by the word immoral
in this reference, was contemplated by any party,
and a very slight investigation might have satis-
fied any one but a Proctor, or a Vice-Chancellor,
that this was the case.
But, allowing the Vice-Chancellor all the legal
authority he could claim, is he not responsible for
using it with ordinary discretion ? That he did,
in this instance, the jury could not be con-
vinced. The Judge did what he could to get
a " yes," or a " no," from them on the question
—" Did the Vice-Chancellor hear and examine
the plaintiff, and was he satisfied of the
matters alleged in respect of the proctors ?
That they had found her in a carriage and took her
up, reasonably suspecting she was there for im-
moral purposes, ' and that the plaintiff had been so
in company with undergraduates for idle and dis-
orderly purposes, as alleged by the proctors.' "
To question the jury could not say yes or no, but
they could, and did unanimously, express their
opinion that the Vice-Chancellor should have made
further inquiries before he imprisoned the plaintiff.
We quite agree with the jury. Taking the law
respecting his powers, as the Court says it stands,
he had no moral, social, equitable, and, we
hope, no legal right to imprison a British
subject, to injure her character, and her health,
too, it appears, by the cold and wretched fare of
his prison, without the fullest inquiry. The in•
quiry, too, would have been easy, as it seems that
both she and her mother had worked at houses of
members of the University. We do not see the
necessity for the University authorities having
power over the inhabitants of the town in which
the University is situated ; they might effect all
their objects by dealing with their own alumni. In
this case, Mr. GRAHAM, who gave his evidence in a
very manly straightforward way, was ready to
bear his own responsibility, and there it ought to
have stopped. The grievance is that the authori-
ties, not content with this, without a particle of
evidence, and after a most indolent and perfunctory
inquiry deprived an innocent British subject of her
liberty. If such really be the laws of England,
then we cannot stand by the old answer—for we do
wish to change them.

Her Majesty's contemplated visit to Osborne,
which was fixed for Thursday next, is postponed in conse-
quence of the prevalence of fever at the Isle of Wight.

THE EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH.—Her Imperial
Majesty is expected to arrive to-morrow on a visit to her
Majesty and the Royal family at Windsor Castle. It is
stated that the Empress will stay two nights at Windsor
Castle. The Duchess of Sutherland, the Mistress of the
Robes, arrived in town on Saturday evening from Trent-
ham, Staffordshire, by order, to meet the Empress Eugenie,
at Windsor Castle. The Duchess, by a singular coinci-
dence, met the Empress on Saturday while travelling on the
Trent Valley line, and had an interchange of compliments.
Before the Empress pursued her journey to Leamington

the Duchess of Sutherland had time to forward a basket of
grapes to her Majesty culled from the vines at Trentham.
The Duke of Bedford left Woburn Abbey a few
days since for T orquay, with the intention of passing a
few weeks at that favoured watering plsce.

The Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort left town on
Saturday on a visit to Sir W. C. Codrington, Bart., and
Lady Georgina Codrington, at Donnington Park, Glouces-
tershire.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury and
Miss Herbert are expected to arrive in town to-morrow
from visiting the Countess of Dunmore, at Dunmore Park,
near Falkirk.

His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-
Weimar left town on Saturday on a visit to her Majesty at
Windsor Castle.
Their Excellencies Count de Persigny and Count
els Flahault go to Windsor to-day to present respectively
to the Queen their letters of recall and credence.
Viscountess Castlerosse was safely delivered of a
son and heir, at her residence in Belgrave-square on Satur-
day last. Her ladyship and the infant are doing well.
Count A: d'Essen, Aide-de-Camp to the Em-
peror of Russia, has left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-
street,tfor Paris, en 7oute for St. Petersburg.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs.
Gladstone left town on Saturday, on a visit to her Majesty
at Windsor Castle.
We (Leeds Mercury) understand there is some
intention on the part of the merchants of Bradford to invite
the Right Hol. W. E. Gladstone, Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, and Mr. Cobden, M.P., to a public banquet in that
town.

THE HEALTH OF SIR PETER FAIRBAIRN.—Sined
Saturday morning, and during the whole of yesterday, Sir
Peter was reported to be easier, and altogether in a more
favourable position than for some days.
The Etching Club meets to-morrow, at the house
of the member of the rota, This is the first reunion of the
season.
The Sacred Harmonic Society, Exeter-hall, per-
form Handel's " Messiah" on Friday next, Dec. 7, with
Miss Parepa, Madame Sainton-Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves,
and Mr, Weiss, principal singers.
We (A thenceunz) are glad to be able to announce
that Mr. Woodward, her Majesty's new librarian, is pre-
paring plans for the publication of the whole body of the
Stuart papers in the Queen's possession. These papers com-
pose, as scholars are well aware, a mass of material for his-
tory of very great interest. Mr. Woodward will very soon
be ready to submit his proposal to her Majesty.
FREEDOM OF THE CITY TO GARIBALDI.—Mr.
Richardson intends to move in the Court of Common
Council, a resolution to the effect that the freedom be pre-
sented to that noble, devoted, and disinterested hero, Gari•
baldi. Should this be carried, and the brave general
accept the honour; he will meet with a recognition that will
show him how responsive is the feeling of liberty in English
hearts, eventwhen the struggle for it does not affect Eng-
lish homes.
THE EXPLOSION ON BOARD THE TONNING.—
Two of the sufferers from the late explosion on board the
Tonning have left the Great Yarmouth Hospital, and only
three of the injured men now remain in that institution, vis.,
Reay, the chief engineer; Peake, one of the firemen ; and
one of the Danish cattleman. If possible Reay will be
examined on the resumption of the inquest.
THE FRENCH MARINE.—The French Government
are actually building steamvessels at St. Cloud for the Im-
perial Navy. They have just launched from opposite the
Park a screw despatch boat called the Argus. She was cora-
-1 menced onlyin May last, but from 150 to 200 workmen have
been constantly employed on her. The chief novelty
attached to the Argus is connected with her boilers, which
are chiefly heated by means of a jet of fire, carried into the
water itself by means of a metal worm. The Argus, after
having been subjected to various experiments before the
Minister of Marine and a body of scentific engineers, will
be sent to Cherbourg, there to be fitted out for sea.—Army
and Navy Gazette.

THE CASE OF MISS AYLWARD.—The applica-
tion on the part of Miss Aylward, of proselytising celebrity,
for dischargeon the ground that she was in illegal custody,
came before the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin, on Fri-
day, and the Chief Justice delivered the judgment of the
Court on Saturday. His lordship, after reviewing the cir-
cumstances which had led to the lady's commitment for six
months, and which will be fresh in the recollection of our
readers, said :—" There was much difficulty in the case,
but that the rule of law was, that one court should be bound
by the decision of another of co-ordinate jurisdiction until
that decision was overruled by a court of error. He dis •
claimed any authority in the Court of Common Pleas to
review the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench in the
case. The judgment of the Court was accordingly that
Miss Aylward should be recommitted to prison."
THE Dco SHOW AT BIRMINGHAM—The Field,
which has taken a prominent part in getting up the forth-
coming shoe at Birmingham on Monday and Tuesday
next, thus foreshadows its prospects :—" The pointers and
setters will b 3 by far tle most numerous; the former ex-
tending to exactly one hundred specimens, and the latter
to forty-three, including, as we are informed, the blood of
all the best kennels in the three kingdoms."
THE REW.NT POACHING AFFRAY, NEAR DERBY.
—ln the Manthester Guardian, of Friday last, appeared a
full report of an encounter that had taken place on the
Tuesday previms, between the servants of Mr. P, W. Cox,
Spondon, and four poachers who were beating the game, in
the middle of tie day. Three of the poachers implicated in
the affray, named Arthur Bland, George Calladine and
William Harptr (alias Punsh), were brought up before the
county magistrates, at Derby, on Friday afternoon last,
and after the avidence of Mr. Cox's servants had been
taken, together with that of the police, they were fully
committed to tike their trial, at the next county sessions,
for the assault upon George Lavender, one of Mr. Cox's
men. Lavender said when he was scuffling with the man,
one of them (George Calladine, a returned convict) drew a
knife out of his pocket, and attempted to stab him.
The managing committee of the Artists' Rifle
Corps (38th Middlesex), which body has largely increased
in strength of late, have effected a separation of their non-
effective (or these who have been prevented from attend-
ing drill by pressure of occupation, illness, or other cause)
members from the constant attendants at drill. The former
are now to be enrolled amongst the honorary members,
who subscribe, but do not drill.
THE PROCTORS AND THE SPINNING HOUSE.—
This case terminated on Saturday in a very unsatisfactory
way. For four hours the jury were locked up. On being
sent for by the earned judge they said they could not agree.
The judge, hovever„ with consent, took a verdict for the
plaintiff, at the same time expressing it as his opinion that
it was an imperect one. The next step will be an applica-
tion to set the rrdict aside.
A FRUITFIT:. VlNE.—There is living at present
near the parish I.,hurch of Knockbain, Ross-shire, the wife
of Mr. Munro, farmer, who has certainly been very suc-
cessful in fulfilling the command of Genesis i., 28. The
worthy woman, who is only 44 years of ago, has had 24
children ; four died at birth, twenty she nursed and
weaned ; eight of these are dead, and twelve survive—seven
daughters and ive sons. Mrs. Munro, adds our correspon-
dent, "never hid any of the above in double or treble ply,
and, if spared, she may, from all appearance, have half a
dozen morel—Elgin Courant.
The'report of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Company was issued on Saturday. It appears that the
directors have recently taken active measures to obtain the
decision of the Government upon their application for a
new arrangenunt, which shall consolidate the various con-
tracts and agreements relating to the India and China
postal service. In explanation of their recent notice, re-
suming from the Ist January next the enhanced rates of
freight and passage, which were payable from December,
1853, to August, 1856, it is mentioned that the cost of fuel
during- the last 12 months has reached the enormous sum
of £850,000.

OPENING OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—Yester-
day this building was reopened, after the suspension of
Divine service for some months. Certain important altera-
tions have been going on which will add greatly to the inter-
, nal beauty and effect this magnificent specimen of Italian
architecture was, from the first, by the great architect in-
tended to produce. The application of brilliant eolour
and gilding to elaborate stone architectural decorations
was practised, perhaps always, by the architects of
ancient Greece and Rome; and Mr. Pearose himself the
present architect to S. Paul's, in a very careful work on the
ancient remains now existing in Athens, found upon
frieze the colour in siiec. Here, however, the result of the
reaction which arose in this country against every senti-
ment and feeling which had marked Roman Catholicism,
the plainer the building the more worthy, it was believed,
was the service offered in it, until in many parts of th 3
count-I.y at this moment the sacred buildings are in a most
disgraceful state, and unfit for houses dedicated to the ser-
vice of the Most. High. We aro glad that this important
step in regard to St. Paul's Cathedral has been taken, and
we may canclude by expresstng an earnest hope that, in
the midst of the wealthiest city in the world, we shall see
the work thoroughlyand efficiently done.
THE ADMIRALTY AND THE WARRIOR.—At the
eleventh hour, after more than a quarter of a million ster-
ling has been spent upon building the gigantic armour-
plated ship Warrior, the Lords of the Admiralty have dis-
covered that she is not the description of vessel that will
combine stability with invulnerability; but after stopping
the works for two whole days, pending the deliberations
which were being held at Whitehall on the subject, the
following decision was arrived at :—" She is not the vessel
we could wish for, but, after laying out so much money
upon her, it wiil be as well to see what can be made of her."
So, in accordance with this resolution, the company in
whose yard the ship is building have been urged to use
every possible exertion to get the ship into the water before
the end of the year. Thus, while we were wasting our
energies upon a doubtful experiment, the Emperor of the
French has tested his La Gloire, the performances of which
have been again reported as having given great satisfaction,
and is quietly but rapidly constructing several other vessels
on a similar plan.—Army and Navy Gazette.

LATE STNEws
S.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
PARIS, DEC. 3.

The Aloniteur publishes an article on the warm
and enthusiastic reception of the Empress of the
French in England. The article announces that
the Empress will visit the Queen at Windsor on
the 3d December, and concludes thus :

" These sympathetic manifestations on the part
of the English nation cannot but draw closer the
ties which bind the two nations, and prove in a
striking manner how well the good sense of the
masses know how to treat the violent and incon-
siderate attacks cif which a certain portion of the
press fears not to make itself the organ."
The .Moniteur also publishes the report of M.
Hausmann, Prefect of the department of the Seine,
on the budget of the city of Paris. He, discusses
the question of the Octior, and concludes by ex-
pressing an opinion against its abolition.

MADRID, DEC. 2.

The Espana publishes numerous letters from
inhabitants of the province of Biscay, energetically
protesting against the projects of annexation to
France contained in letters which had been inserted
in the Espana.

PARIS, DEC. 2.
The Constitutionnel says there is no intention
of dissolving the Corps Legislatif.
The Emperor has granted permission to the Bal-
timore battalion to visit Paris, fully accoutred, in
the coming spring.

TURIN, DEC. 1.

King Victor Emmanuel arrived at Palermo at
half-past nine this morning, and was received with
extraordinary enthusiasm. The people wished to
detach the horses from his Majesty's carriage, and
to draw it through the streets. People assembled
from all parts of Sicily, and the total number pre-
sent in the city was estimated at 400,000. His
Majesty, before descending at the palace, went to
the Cathedral, and was solemnly received by the
Archbishop of Palermo. The King afterwards
received the constituted bodies, and deputations
from the municipalities of Sicily. The sea was
calm, and the sun shone brightly.
A copyright treaty was concluded yesterday
between England and Sardinia.

MARSEILLES, DEC. 1.

Letters from Gaeta to the 27th ult. state that the
fire of the besiegers had slackened. There was a
talk of burning the suburbs on account of their
sheltering the Piedmontese from the fire of the
garrison. The dearness of provisions was in-
creasing. it was said that the King was expecting
money.

NAPLES, DEC. 1.
Monteremolo, Cordova, and Cafarina left to-day

for Palermo.

The Sardinian law concerning tho press, with
some slight modifications, has been promulgated.
Reactionary movements have been suppressed in
the province of Avellino.

NAPLES, Nor. 30.

A commission, composed of Sardinian and
Sicilian officers, has been appointed to examine the
titles of the officers of the Two Sicilies who have
adhered to the new Government.

PARIS, DEC. 1.

The Pairie says :—" According to the latest
news, insurrectionary movements were inereasing
in the Abruzzi. Colonel Delagrange, with 7,000
Sardinian troops, occupied the defiles of
Vellino, a position of importance."

PARIS, DEC. 2.

The following notice has been communicated to
the Paris papers by Messrs. Rothschild :
" The Papal Government has not yet remitted
the amount of the coupons of the Roman loan due
on the Ist December.

" As soon as the total amount is remitted, the
bearers will be informed of the time when payment
of the coupons can take place."

PESTH, NOT. 30.

Yesterday Count Carolyi, Obergespann of the
Comitat of Pesth, convoked the principal inhabi-
tants for a preliminary discussion of the question
whether apolitical organisation of the comitat shall
take place. After a warm debate it was resolved
that the inhabitants of the comitats would not
yield a hairsbreadth of their rights and laws and
the wishes they expressed in 1848.

It was also resolved that all further steps should
be determined upon by the general congregation of
the comitat, which is to assemble on the 10th of

December,

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 29.

The constitution of the committee for the new
loan has been authorised by the Council of Minis•
ters.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Dec. I.—The business of the settle-
ment has mainly occupied the attention of specula-
tors to-day to the exclusion of any fresh operations
or importance. The market has been firm, Threes
being now at 70f 40c; Mobilier, 773 f 75c; Orleans,
1,388 f 75c ; Northern, 987 f 50c ; Mediterranean,
910 f; Austrian, 510 f; Lombard, 487 f 50c. The fol..
lowing are the last quotations:-
41 per per Cents 96 70
Do end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 20!
Bank Shares 2930
Credit Mobilier 772 50
Do. Account 772 50

Credit oicier 920
Belgian 4/.. 9B 50
Pierimontese Fives BO 25
Roman
Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Home Debt .. 4B 25

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1385 .. 1386 25
Northern 990 .. 988 75
New ditto 9OO ..
Lyons and Mediterranean 910 .. 910
Geneva 405 .. 400
Southern 523 75 .. 525
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard — • . 485

REPRESENTATION OF SOUTHWARK.—On Satur-
day evening the friends and supporters of Mr. A. H.
Layard met in large force at the Brown Bear, Southwark-
bridge-road, to hear from the candidate a statement of his
claims to represent Southwark in Parliament. The meet-
ing, whichnumbered at lease 3,000, passed a unanimous
vote of confidence in Mr. Layard, and pledged themselves
to suppor at the poll. Mr. George Scovell attended
meetings ": 6 e evening. Very satisfactory returns were
furnishe ; d Mr. Scovell was received everywhere with
enthusiasm.

ALLEGED CLERICAL INTOLERANCE AND NEG-
LECT.—The following statement has been communicated to
the Utak,. Chronicle :—There lies, at Parkgate, a poor
woman, apparently not long for this world, who has been
regularly visited by the Rev. Mr. Halket, Presbyterian
minister. A few evenings ago, whilst administering some
consolation to the dying woman, the Rev. Mr. Dean, curate
of the parish church, Neston, entered the room (for the first
time), when the Rev. Mr. H. arose and offered his hand.
Mr. D., in silence, shook hands, and, pointing to the door
at the same time, said, " There is the door; you are not
wanted here." This is only one of the many disgraceful
proceedings which occur in this neglected place. It is a
well-known fact that the funerals of poor people are often
kept waiting at the church gates, in wet and cold, some
times half an hour, and not unfrequently three quarters of
an hour.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.
The Royal Mail steamship Persia arrived here
this afternoon.

Sho brings 91 passengers, amongst whom is Mr.
Lindsay, M.P., and diamonds valued at 64,000 dols.
A conference of the Bank directors of New York
was held on the 19th ult., and a committee was
appointed to purchase 2,500,000 dols. of sterling
bills for the joint account of all the banks repre-
sented, for the purpose of relieving the market for
foreign exchange. Salutary results were expected
from this measure.

The banks in Illinois were in difficulties, and the
bills of eight institutions had been thrown out by
the Chicago bankers.

There was little probability of the South Caro-
lina banks suspending payment now.
The New York money market on the 20th was a
little more cheerful under the action of the banks
relative to sterling exchange. The relief, however,
was but partial. The banks discounted with more
liberality, but rates were nominal. Some prime
paper had been done as high as 2f per cent. per
month. Nothing was done below Ito 14 per cent.

The weekly bank statement showed a contraction
in loans of nearly 2,500,000 dols.
The stock market was fluctuating. On the 20th
ult. stocks opened at a considerable decline, subse-
quently rallied, but the buoy ancy was not retained.
Quotations of sterling exchange show a wide mar-
gin, the range being 100 to 104.
At New Orleans, on the 20th ult., the sterling
exchange was quoted par to t prem.
At Savannah, on the same day, sterling bills
were offered at par, without finding purchasers.

The latest despatches from the south indicate
that if South Carolina secedes, she will be alone in
the movement.

The President's message for the opening of Con
gress was ready.

Latest advices from Mexico state that Miramon
had resigned, and had been succeeded by Robles.
The Glasgow, from Liverpool, had arrived out.
Mr. Lindsay spent the week previous to the
departure of the Persia at Washington, and con-
ferred with the Government on the subject of re-
moving the difficulties in the way of a settlement
of the important maritime questions pending
between England and the United States.
A grand Republican jubilee was held at Mr.
Lincoln's residence on the 20th ult. Mr. Lincoln
made a short conciliatory speech. Advices from
Washington report that a rupture of the Cabinet
on the secession question was probable.