The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDuN, TUESDAY EVENING JANUARY 7, 1868

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that the good sense of the body of the people will
prevent them from really throwing themselves into
the breach in so absurd and insignificant a cause.
No one knows better than the Americans themselves
what Fenianism really is. They have had ample
opportunity for detecting the mischievous imposture,
and have not spared their satire on its Head Centres,
living in luxury on the contributions of maid-ser-
vants and labourers, their rivalries, their jealousies,
their dissensions, their high-flown precepts without
practice. The keen- witted Yankees would require, if
they really espoused the cause of the Irish Republic, to
see a little more unity and cohesion among those
who are to establish it. Fenianism, as it is, serves
very well for a pretext for oratorical display, and a
convenient vehicle for fulminations against England
whenever it suits the interest of any political party
to eitch the popular ear. The Americans love ex-
citement of any kind, and the Fenians are too
ready to attribute the notoriety which they have
attained to real sympathy with them, and belief in
their cause. Again, the Irish vote has not been
without its influence, and the best of American
candidates are too much accustomed to weigh such
considerations in the balance against higher and
more important interests.
Reconstruction has met with a new and serious
difficulty. The members of the Reconstruction
Conventions have suddenly discovered that the
Southern Treasuries are empty. The Georgia Con-
vention sent an agent on the 21st of December to
the State capital to draw $40,000 for salaries, but
he returned with the ominous intelligence that the
treasurer would give no money. The Convention
then tried to obtain a loan to pay their expenses,
but in vain. In Louisiana the members of the
Convention have been offering their warrants for
pay at a discount, but they can get no purchasers
at any price. This is a serious obstacle in the
way of gentlemen who are not altogether disinte-
rested in their public services. Nevertheless, the
Reconstruction of the South is still an important
object with the Radicals. They desire, if possible,
so to manage the Reconstruction and the registra-
tion that they shall secure in the Southern States a
majority of negro and Radical voters. The Presi-
dential contest is every day drawing nearer, and
the Radicals have learned something by the recent
State elections. They are quite aware that,
without the addition of a large number
of new voters of their own side, the
election of General GRANT to the Presidency is a
matter of certainty. This would be the best thing
for all parties, beat for the North and South alike.
General GRANT is firm, though moderate, in his
views, and would bring to the office a degree of
weight and popularity which successful candidates
rarely possess. But the extreme Radicals, with rea-
son, fear his entry at the White House, and
although they cannot openly repudiate so distin-
guished a member of their party, they would, many
of them, be secretly glad if they could put forward
another candidate with any chance of success. It
is with this. view that the registration of the
Southern voters has been so manifestly partial and
exclusive. The Republicans have really no great
affection for the negro, as they are very ready to
show when independent of him ; but they are fully
aware of the numerical strength of the blacks in
the Southern States, and if by their aid they can
obtain Radical members for the now excluded States
their position in Congress will once more enable
them to regulate the policy of the country.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, MONDAY, Jan. 6.

The Siecle, making the remark that Governments
always have the disadvantage of injudicious friends,
replies to the article of the Constitutionnel, which
complained of the tendency of same journals to dis-
tort and misrepresent the Emperor Napoleon's lan-
guage. The answer runs thus :—" Iu this great
movement of the European press, which cannot
be stopped by the numerous hindrances ap-
plied to the manifestations of ideas, unfounded
rumours, and incorrect news, inevitably escape
the vigilance of the journalists, whose
mission it is to reject them. These rumours
and reports the Constitutionnel describes as ma-
uceuvres. Certain people,' says that journal take
a delight in disquieting the country by all sorts of
mannauvres.' And the article is written by the
chief editor, M. Paulin Limayrac. We have
quoted the commencement, and the rest is in the
same tone ; the commentaries on the words pro-
nounced on the reception of Count de Goltz are
there qualified as subtle analyses and insidious
paraphrases.' The journalists alluded to do not even
stop, according to M. Limayrac, at what passes in
France; 'sensational speeches, carefully prepared,'
are brought from abroad. Our contemporary then
denies two pieces of news : the first, that the Em-
peror, on receiving the Legislative Body on New-
Year's Day, dwelt in an especial manner on the ur-
gency of the bill respecting the organisation of the
army, and on the necessity for guaranteeing the
security of the country ; the second, that King Vic-
tor Emmanuel had made some 'strange observa-
tions.' " The Siecle then quotes the short remarks
of the King (which we have already given), and goes
on to say—" What are those strange observations?
Against what windmills is the Constitutionnel tilt-
ing with its ' insidious rumours, false news, and
culpable proceedings ?' Does it not see that it
goes directly against its own aim ; that it generates
a belief in a species of permanent conspiracy, and
exaggerates immeasurably the petty details, lost in
the midst of the immense circulation of ideas and
the incessant production of new facts? The Con-
stitutionnel flatters itself that it is reassuring public
opinion, whilst in reality it is only an alarmist."
On the question for which so many of the
Paris journals are now under menace of
prosecution the Presse makes the following
remarks :—" Several journals quote a long extract
from the Moniteur, which analyses the speech de-
livered by the Marquis de Moustier on the Roman
question, and accompanies that summary with re-
flections suitable for au official journal towards a
Minister. Our contemporaries conclude from that
fact that we were authorised by such an example to
persevere in the course which we had been following
for the last four years. The proof is an excellent one,
but the article of the Moniteur is not the only evidence
against that perversion of common sense which
forbids a free press ani a free tribune to live side
by side, and which renders impossible, even for an
official journal, the praise of a speech without a
certain analysis. We believe that during the last
two years no important Ministerial speech has been
made without being touched on by the Moniteur.
And what surprises us most is not that the infrac-
tion should have taken place, but that it should have
occurred without the Goveriment perceiving it."
The Provincial Correspondence of Berlin pub-
lishes the subjoined reflections on the occasion of
the opening of the New Year :—" The year 1867
has realised beyond all expectation, and especially
for North Germany, union and national strength.
But much more important objects have been at-
tained in that memorable year. The barrier
which, at the close of 1866, appeared to exist be-
tween North and South Germany is already cast down,
both in fact and in the minds of the German people.
Who does not remember the bitter complaints
that were made respecting the hue of the Maine
which seemed necessarily to separate the North from
the South ? Who at that period would have dared
to hope that in the following year we should be re-
joicing in the full and entire certainty of being
firmly united to South Germany with respect to na-
tional defence and economic development ; that we
should Lind ourselves in an association with her which
einbra.les the highest interests of the common coun-
try and those that most directly promote the public
prosperity ? As early as the spring of 1867 the

publication of the offensive and defensive treaties,
concluded with the States of Southern Germany,
imparted to our patriots the:confidence that, for the
defence of the national territory and the independ-
ence of the country, entire Germany was united
under the direction of Prussia by a stronger and
more efficacious bond than she had ever known under
the former Confederation. The entire German po-
pulation feel and know now that they are a united
and powerful people, and such as they had not
been previously ; and in this conviction it is that
they will enthusiastically labour to complete their
internal union and their national greatness. As
1367 has brought to maturity the fruits of those
seeds sown in blood in 1866, so, with the aid of
Divine Providence, the year we now enter upon
will be one of safety, the year of the regeneration
of the prosperity of the nations, and of general and
peaceful progress." _ _

The Augsburg Gazette has the following .—" The
reiterated representations of Austria, France, and
England, but, above all, the impression produced by
the journey of General Ignatieff to St. Petersburg,
appeared to have exercised a certain influence on the
decisions of the Porte. Let us add, besides, that the
most recent reports sent from Canea by the Grand
Vizier are not more reassuring than the preceding
ones. Possibly, therefore, in presence of these
circumstances, the Turkish Government will revise
its intention of leaving the Declaration of the four
Powers unanswered. Already Fuad Pacha has
announced to the Ambassadors of Austria, France,
and England that a communication has been ad-
dressed to the friendly Courts.' A statement
is even made that the Porte has resolved
upon granting to the island of Candia more ex-
tensive concessions than have been introduced by
Aali Pacha ; the question would seem to be chiefly
the nomination of a lieutenant of the Sultan, but
who should profess the Christian religion, and be
invested with extraordinary powers concerning the
internal administration of the island."

ADDRESS 01,- THE SPANISH CORTES.

MADRID, Jan. 2.

The Chamber of Deputies has unanimously
passed the draft of the address in reply to the speech
from the Throne laid before it by the committee.
The most notable passage is the following, in which
the Chamber refers to the position of Spain with
regard to the Roman question :
" The deputies may be permitted to express their
satisfaction at the flattering and pacific state of
our relations with friendly Powers, and to
render themselves the interpreters of the extreme
joy that has been produced in all truly Spanish,
and consequently Catholic, hearts by your Ma-
jesty's magnificent words relative to the Pontifical
Power, and favourable to the independence and
stability of the legitimate power and the incontest-
able rights of the Holy See.
" While making use of the initiative and taking
up the attitude suitable to an eminently Catholic
nation, and while offering to the Emperor of the
French—a friend and ally of Spain—the support of
our moral co-operation, and even of our forces, in
case it should be thought necessary to employ them
in the defence of the legitimate rights of the Holy
See, the Government has deserved well of the nation,
has shown itself worthy of the Queen who happily
occupies the throne of Isabella 1., and worthy also
of the nation which has combated for the integrity
of its faith during seven centuries. In the horrible
struggle of the revolution against legitimacy, of
force against right, the Holy See symbolises the
cause of right and of legitimacy. By her filial love
towards the Holy Father, by the moral influence of
her opinion, by her language and her vote, if the
European Conference came to be realised, Spain
must assume the post of honour and of justice at
the right of the Sovereign Pontiff, who is the most
august, calmest, and the most venerable figure of
contemporary history."

NOBLE DEEDS IN SAYING LIFE.

CAISTER, NORFOLK, Jan- 4.—The Rev. G. W.
Steward gives the following particulars relative to
the launch of the " Birmingham No. 2" lifeboat of
the National Lifeboat Institution, yesterday, on
service. He states that it was very squally at the
time, with snowstorms, the wind blowing from E.
to E.N.N. After the lifeboat was launched she pro-
ceeded down the Wold, when aforeign brig was ob-
served on thesouthern part oftheHasborough Sands,
with her masts and sails standing. The sea was break-
ing heavily, and the masts soon fell. The Scratby life-
boat was ahead of the Caister boat, and a Revenue
cutter and another cutter boat were also in the
vicinity of the wreck. By the time the Caister lifeboat
arrived there the brig was nothing but a mass of
floating wreck, and after cruising about for upwards
a signal from one of the
of two hours the two lifeboats were returning home-
owtahredrs
boats,, but
ander recalledbe
returned to the wreck. y
Two men were then discerned, and ultimately gal-
lantly rescued, by the Scratby lifeboat, which was
again the first to reach the spot. At the first
attempt the boat drove right on the wreck,
but failed to reach the men, who were crouch•
ing down on a piece of it on the sands. Hailing
the Caister boat, and bidding her lay to and be
ready to anchor and veer down if they failed next
time, the Scratby men again gallantly bore down
through the heavy sea incessantly breaking
on the sands, and with much difficulty succeeded in
rescuing
strong m
the poore w low
their limbs being
swollen with wet and cold. The remainder of the
feerle helpless,swho although young
crew, eight in number, had unfortunately perished
as they were on the mainmast when it fell over-
board. The two rescued men were most kindly and
hospitably treated by the Scratby beachmen when
they reached the shore, and have since gone to
London all right. HOWTH, near Dublin, Jan. 4.
Signals of distress were observed early yesterday
morning from a vessel on shore on the Baldoyle
Sand (states Staff Commander Burney, R.N.,
the officer of Coastguard.) It was blowing a
fresh gale from the S.E. at the time. The
lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was
very quickly manned and launched, proceeded to
the sands, and found the schooner, Seven Brothers,
Wicklow, stranded there. After some difficulty
and danger, on account of heavy surf and broken
water, the boat got alongside, rescued the master
and crew of two men and brought them safely
ashore. The Bradford lifeboat at Ramsgate, the
Sabrina at Kingsdown, the Royal Thames Yacht
Club lifeboats at Walmer, and the Herbert Ingram
boat at Skegness, which are in connexion with the
National Lifeboat Institution, .also put off during
the recent severe weather, but fortunately their ser-
vices were not ultimately needed.

ADRIFT IN THE BRISTOL CHANNEL.—On Thurs-
day a boatman named Reed, who had been picked up in
the Bristol Channel in a boat, was put ashore at Bristol
by the French sloop
Edna.. Reed and a man named Duns-
combs were sent on the 26th ult. from the Holms, an island
in the Bristol Channel now being fortified by the Govern-
ment, to Weston-super-Mare with a letter. A fog came
on and they completely lost their course, drifting about
the Channel terrified and benumbed with cold. Duns-
combs, in endeavouring to recover au oar which had
fallen overboard, fell into the sea and was soon lost in the
darkness, his comrade being unable to reach him. Reed
remained in the boat drifting helplessly about until mid-
day on Sunday, when the Edna picked him up almost dead
from cold and hunger.
INCREASE OF THE POLICE.—The decision of the
Home Secretary, Mr. G. Hardy, to increase the
metropolitan police by an addition of 1,000 men, has been
already carried out to a great extent. This addition will
only bring the police force of the metropolis up to the
proportion which it bore to the area and population of
London when it was established in 1829. Since then
the decrease in the relative strength of the police has
necessitated the lengthening of their beats and generally
the increase of their duties to an inconvenient extent.—
Observer.

THE MERCHANT NAVIES OF EUROPE.—The
entire mercantile navy of Europe, according to the latest
statistical returns, consists of 100,000 vessels, representing
a total tonnage of 12 millions, and employing 600,000
men. This amount of shipping is thus distributed
Bremen, 294 vessels ; Hamburg, 539 ; Lubeck, 43 ; Han-
over, 906 ; Mecklenburg Schwerin, 421 ; Oldenburg, 610 ;
Prussia, 1,443 ; Austria, 9,491 ; Belgium, 107 ; Spain,
4,359 ; Franco, 15,259 ; Greece, 4,452 ; Holland, 2,227 ;
Italy, 13,223; Purtugal, 591; Groat Britain, 27,868;
Russia, 1,416; Denmark, 2,740; the Elbe Duchies, 2,552;
Norway, 5,878; Sweden, 2,236; Turkey, 2,300.

-THE BRITISH WORKMEN AT THE PARIS

EXHIBITION.

soiree was held yesterday evening at the Cavendish
Rooms, Mortimer-street, under the presidency of Mr.
Cole, of the South Kensington Museum. The object was
the presentation of an address to Mr. H. Pratt, the vice-
president of the Paris Excursion Committee, from the
tvorkmen and others who had availed themselves of the
arrangements of the committee for the purpose of a visit
to. the Paris Exhibition. Besides the chairman, there
were' present- Mr. H. Pratt, Messrs. H. and C. Hoare,
Patteson, Oliver, Howell, Haselden, &c. The address
bore 1,000 signatures, of which 103 were from the factory
of Messrs. Broadwood, and 120 signatures from Yorkshire
also testified approbation of the address, which was pre-
sented in a handsome album. The address recounted the
difficulties which the committee had had to encounter, all
of which were surmounted mainly through the exertions of
Mr. Pratt. It concluded with a warm expression of thanks
to that gentleman

The address, having detailed the history of the Paris
Excursion Committee and the labours of MI Pratt,
proceeded to state that the committee had caused the
erection of a series of wooden houses close to the Exhi-
>ition, for accommodation in which, together with the fare
from London and' back, 30s. was charged to the workmen,
10s. more to be paid for a second week. Under the aus-
pices of the committee the artisans visited several French
factories, in all of which they were treated with the
utmost courtesy and hospitality. The total number of
factories visited was 550, and of the British artisans
visiting, 700. The total number of British workmen who
visited Paris was 3,200. A guarantee fund had been esta-
blished for the purposes of the committee, and it would
be necessary to call on the guarantors for a small quota
towards the expenses,' The address concluded with an
expression of thanks to Mr. Henry Hoare for having ad-
vanced £4OO for the purposes of the committee.

The CHAIRMAN made a few observations on the advan-
tages which this country had derived from the visit of the
British workmen to Paris. He had been taunted, he said,
for having put the country to an expense of £lOO,OOO for
the Paris Exhibition, but he contended that if that money
had had no other return but this visit of the workmen to
Paris the money would have been exceedingly well spent.
That visit had opened their eyes to the immense advance
which was being made by continental workmen in all the
useful arts. In conclusion, he called upon the meeting to
endorse the committee's address to Mr. Pratt.
Mr. HOWARD seconded the address, and bore warm tes-
timony to the advantages which he amongst other English
working men had derived from, the labours of the Excur-
sion Committee. He should preserve as long as he lived
pleasant recollections of his visit to Paris. He had learnt
there that they had much to learn from the French work-
men. The Frenchman went all for beauty, the English.
man for solidity, and each had therefore something to
learn from the other. He believed that the Peace Society
could not have desired any better precaution against war
than the visit of the British workmen to Paris. (Cheers.)

Mr. HERBERT supported the address, which was pre-
sented to Mr. Pratt. That gentleman returned thanks,
and expressed his acknowledgments to Mr. Henry Hoare
and his friends for the guarantee fund, without which
the objects of the committee could never have Osen carriai
out.

SAVAGE ATTACK ON A MAGISTRATE. —A corre-
spondent of Saunders's News Letter has brought to light a
murderous attack made on Colonel Forbes, a magistrate
of the county of Galway, at his residence, Rusheen Carna,
by a man with his face blackened and otherwise disguised.
Colonel Forbes lies in a precarious state. His residence is
about fifty miles from the town of Galway, in a very
lonely part of the country. Colonel Forbes's housekeeper
was thrown downstairs by the perpetrator of the outrage,
and considerably hurt.
DEATH ON THE SCOTCH HILL& —James Cheyne,
an old man belonging to Sandness, lost his life on the hills
between Walls and Sandness a few days ago. It seems he
had left home to meet a son whom he was expecting to
return from Lunnasting with same sheep, and after pro-
ceeding seven or eight miles without meeting him he
turned back, and was last seen at Broadster, on the east
side of Walls. Two days were spent in searching for the
body of the old man, as it was feared that he must have
perished owing to the severity of the weather, and on
Monday the body was found in a burn which he had been
unable to cross. His son returned only a short time after
the body of his father had been carried in. There are
about six or seven miles of mossy hills between Walls and
Sandness, and not a single house in sight all the way;
there is no road, and several utrsons have lost their lives
in the trackless waste.

SUSPECTED MURDER OF .iN ENGINE DRIVER AT
l'ENsuEn.—Four pitmen have been apprehended at Pen-
sher, in Durham, charged with being concerned in the
death of Thomas Walker, an engine-driver on the Lamb-
ton coal line. It appears that Walker on New Year's
night was at a supper held in the Ship Inn. The four pri-
soners were all in the house, and in the course of the night
a quarrel arose between them and another man. Walker
went into the room and sat down on the end of the table
in the centre, when Kirtley felled him with his fist to the
floor. The prisoners suddenly disappeared, and on Friday
morning, while Mr. Thomas Humphrey, the parish con-
stable was crossing a field, he heard what he thought to be
the groans of a man, and on looking down a quarry saw
the body of a man lying at the bottom. He descended,
and found Walker lying in a state of insensibility. He
lingered on and died about ten o'clock on Friday night. It
is not exactly known how the deceased has met his death.
By some it is thought that he has met with foul play ; and
by others that be has fallen iz the civarry in the dark.—
Northern Daily Express.

VIOLENT DEATHS OF PrO AMERICAN REPRE-
SENTATIVES.—Two of the members of the House of Repre-
sentatives of the Fortieth Congress have come to a violent
end. Hon. Elijah Hise, of Kentucky, shot out his brains
because, as he declared in a note found on his body, he
could not bear to look upon the destruction of the Ame-
rican Republic. On Sunday the Hon. C. T. Hamilton,
representing the Eighth District of Ohio, was killed by a
son said to he insane. Mr. Hamilton was engaged in
feeding his cattle when his son approached from behind
and struck' him a violent blow with a piece of planking.
The blow took effect upon the head, and the victim fell
dead to the ground. The maniao seized an axe and ran
towards his mother to kill her, but she escaped ; he then
attacked his younger brother, wounding him severely.
After killing his father the young man covered up the body
with cornstalks. A significant commentary is this, made
by the telegraph : " Mr. Hamilton was elected in October,
1860. Aspirants are already named as eager for the suc-
cession." Mr. Hamilton had intended to take his son to
an asylum for lunatics. Ho was a member of the Repub-
lican party.

PROPOSED ANTI-FENIAN DEMONSTRATION.—A
crowded meeting of the members of the Metropolitan
Working Men's Conservative Association has been held
for the purpose of making arrangements for the proposed
anti-Fenian demonstration. Mr. Jones presided. Mr. Digby
Seymour, Q.C., Mr. Kimber, Mr. C. J. Murray, Mr.
Townshend Mayor, Mr. Nasmyth, and others were present.
The chairman said it had been considered by some people
that the proposed meeting should not have been convened
by a political association, but, as no one felt inclined to take
the initiative, the association thought it their duty to take
the first step, and they were most anxious that parties of
all shades of political opinion should co-operate with them.
Mr. Jarvis (the secretary) read a letter from the Duke of
Northumberland, stating that he should have very great
pleasuro in presiding and taking part in the proposed
meeting on Thursdaypext. A. discussion ensued as to the
time and place of the proposed demonstration, and it was
suggested that the meeting should be held in Exeter Hall
within a week or a fortnight. Mr. Digby Seymour moved,
" That the proposed anti-Fenian demonstration be deferred
until after the meeting of loyal Irishmen." The motion
was carried, a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman,
and the meeting was adjourned.
ROMAN CATHOLICISM IN GREAT BRITAIN. —The
Catholic Directory for 1868, just issued permissu superiorum,
gives some details in reference to the present position of
the Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain. There ap-
pears to be a considerable increase in the Catholic clergy,
churches, chapels, convents, and monasteries since last
year. The total number of Catholic bishops 13 the same—
namely, ono archbishop and 12 bishops (besides three re-
tired bishops) in England, and four bishops in Scotland.
The number of priests in Great Britain amounts to 1,639,
against 1,608 last year ; the number of churches and
chapels is 1,283, against 1,207 when the last Directory was
published. The convents of women are now 227 in
number, whereas last year they were 220, and the monas-
teries number 67, against 63 last year. Total increase, 31
priests, 7G churches and chapels, 7 convents of women,
and 4 monasteries of men. Of the 76 churches and
chapels, which are more this year than last, about a dozen
are private chapels of convents and of various individuals.
Of the four increase in the number of monasteries, three
are merely houses in which two or three of the regular
clergy dwell together for missionary work ; the fourth is
the new Dominican Priory at Haverstock-hill. In the
convents, or religious houses of women, the increase has
been very great during the last few years, but it has been
altogether, or with very few exceptions, among the non-
cloistered or active orders, such as Sisters of Charity,
Sisters of Mercy,, and the like. The cloistered or contem-
plative orders hardly seem to increase at all, or very
slightly, in this country. The number of colleges and
large preparatory schools is 21. Of the 227 convents up-
wards of 200 are for the education of girls, either rich,
poor,
.or middle claw.

SINGULAR CASE OF SUSPECTED
FENTANISM.

At the Nottingham Borough Police-court, on Monday
morning, a decently dressed man, named Peter Ward.
roper, who said he was a ship-carpenter, coming from
Newcastle, was charged with loitering about for some
supposed unlawful purpose. It appeared that Police-
constables Piave' and Luscombe were on special duty
at the gasworks in Island-street, early on Sunday
morning. About two o'clock some one knocked at the
door, and on the watchman opening it, he found the
prisoner, who asked him some questions. Flavel then went
to the door, and prisoner wanted to know something of the
2.30 train that went to Sheffield. He stood looking at the
front gates of the works for some time, and he then walked
towards the Great Northern Station. The officers fol-
lowed him, and on seeing them he returned. He again
inquired about the train, and Flavel told him that was
sot the station for Sheffield. The man informed him
that he was staying with his aunt in Greyfriars-gate.
With that he went down Station-street, and the con-
stables again followed prisoner, who on reaching the
station door " took to his heels." They then lost sight
of him, and did net see him again until about four
o'clock, when they were near the railway bridge, and
Flavel asked him what he was doing. He made
no answer, and the officer told him he should charge
him with being there for an unlawful purpose. The
man appeared to be sober. Mr. Clayton (deputy-
clerk) asked if he was searched.--Flavel: Yes.—Mr.
Clayton : Was any railway ticket found upon him ? No.
—Mr. Cranch (who was for the defence) : What did you
End upon him ?—Witness : £lB 3s. 6d., a knife, &c.—Mr,
Cranch Well,what is the unlawful purpose? Witness : Being
out at an untimely hour. I knew he was not a Nottingham
man.—Mr. Cranch : I suppose you meant he was going to
blow up the gas works? Witness :I do not know anything
about that. —Mr. Cranch : I suppose there was no one to rob ?
Witness : I could not tell whether there would be anybody
pass ornot.—Mr. Cranch remarked that the prisoner was on a
visit to an aunt in the town, as he told the policeman.
He then called Mrs. Mary Ann Reed, who keeps a grocer's
shop in Greyfriars-gate. She said that Wardroper was
her nephew. She could account for the money he had,
by the fact that some property was left amongst three
of the family, and that was part of the division.—Mr.
Ball asked her if she had seen him before the pclice
brought him to her house. —Witness : No. He
came in by the half-past one mail train, and being a
stranger, he could not find his way.—Mr. Freeman (the
chief constable) said that they did not wish to make any
further complaint against the prisoner, but it was neces-
sary to watch strange persons walking about in the
night.—Mr. Ball, in discharging the man, observed that
the constables had done their duty. in locking him up.
There was now a satisfactory account given, and he would
be liberated.

The Paris correspondent of the Times agrees with the
Constitutionnel in doubting whether the disquiet of the
public will be dissipated by the article, evidently inspired
by some official personage, which that journal published
repudiating the interpretation given in various quarters to
the words uttered by the Emperor at the receptions of the
new year. The Government tells the people that they
have nothing to fear, and that the best terms exist between
France and all foreign Powers, and yet it is thought neces-
sary to furnish an army consisting of 1,300,000 to 1,400,000
soldiers. The greater the certainty of peace the larger
the armaments, and it is exactly as the assurances of the
former are vehement that the latter are increased.
To relieve the distress of the starving inhabitants of
Eastern Prussia, a committee for the collection of volun-
tary contributions has been formed through the efforts of
the Crown Prince and Princess. The famine, which is
very severe, is the result of three bad harvests superadded
to the systematically impoverished condition produced by
the forty years' closing of the Russian frontier.
A correspondent of the Morning Herald draws a very
gloomy picture of the condition of Bavaria. Whereas
formerly there was no State in the whole German Con-
federation which was so happy and contented, now a
general and deep feeling of despondency prevails. One
reason is that her absorption by Prussia is admitted
to be only a matter of time ; another, that there exists
nothing like confidence in the King. It is an item of
common belief that with matters affecting his country and
his subjects his Majesty Louis 11. has little or no
sympathy. At the very moment when one of his Ministers
arrived at Berg with the intelligence that the Bavarians
had been engaged in a desperate fight with the Prussian
battalions, the King was engaged with his adjutant
rehearsing in costume the parts of two heroes of an old
German poem, and for a long time refused to see him.
Facts such as this the Bavarians are unable to forget, and
they now blurt out their opinions of the King's
heartlessness and neglect of duty with startling
distinctness. The desire that he should abdicate is not
attempted to be concealed, and is supplemented by the
significant expression " If he does not go we shall find a
means of setting him aside."
A ukase has been published by the Warsaw Official
Dziennik, in which the " kingdom of Poland " is desig-
nated the " Vistula Province."

It is stated that the gold mines of Nova Scotia are
among the most productive in the world. This year it is
anticipated that they will yield thirty thousand ounces.
The earnings of individual miners average as much as
£3OO per annum.

From January 1 to December 11 last year 235,411 emi-
grants reached New York, being 10,000 more than during
the same period of the previous year.

The colonists at the Cape of Good Hope have petitioned
the Government not to withdraw the troops. The memo-
rial they have presented states that the expenditure neces-
sitated by the maintenance of English troops in the colony
is justified by expediency, and that the wars which have
arisen with the Kaffirs from time to time have not been
clue to any greed for the acquisition of territory occupied
by the aborigines, but to the constant aggressions made by
the border tribes. At present the colonists enjoy peace,
brit it is feared that the withdrawal of British troops
would be the signal for a new outbreak, with which the
inhabitants, unassisted by the "Tome Government, would
be unable to cope.
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The serious illness of Lord Justice Sir John Rolt is a
matter of very general regret. His unassuming manner,
his aptitude for business, his courtesy towards the mem-
bers of the bar, and his unquestionably able intellect,
combined to render him an excellent colleague of Lord
Cairns and a worthy successor of so profound a
lawyer and so eminent a judge as the late Lord
Justice Turner. Day after day, for weeks suc-
ceeding his appointment, his court was crowded by
those who admired the energy and the perseverance
which hack enabled the errand-boy in a lawyer's office to
work his way to one of the most splendid positions on the
English bench. The nature of his lordship's illness is a
paralytic seizure, which affects his left side, but not his
mind or memory. There is, therefore, some reason to
hope that he may be restored to health, although he will
be compelled to abstain from duty for some time to come.
Hilary Term opens on Saturday, and according to the
terms of an Act passed last session, Lord Cairns can sit
alone and proceed to business as though both Lords Jus-
tices Wre present.

In noticing the report of the Caledonian Railway Cam.
mittee, the Edinburgh Courant states that the number of
Scotch railway bills before Parliament in the coming
session will be seven only. In 1866 there were fifty.
The Mark Lane Express looks hopefully at the prospects
of our growing crop of wheat, although it is, of course, too
soon to attempt any prognostications as to its ultimate
result. There never was a finer time for getting it into the
ground and for its subsequent vegetation. If by any chance
the wheats show any symptom of disease it may
probably arise from the attacks of one of the
insect tribes, of which there are so many capable of
destroying the plant. The growth of the wheat should be
narrowly watched, and the stem and root of that which
appears to be diseased, examined. Some prophets of evil
have lately been predicting an insect-eaten harvest for
1868, but, as the Mark Lane rightly says, in the present
condition of the country it is very desirable no unnecessary
alarm should be raised at a time when, in fact, it is
impossible for the most competent judges to predicate with
any dezree of certainty of the ultimate result.
THE FORCE OF A _RAILWAY COLLISION. —The
direct force of impact of such an engine as the Stephen.
son's express shown at Paris travelling respectively at the
rates of 7a, 15, 30, and GO miles an hour (88 feet a second)
would be the proportions of 3,630, 14,520, 58,080, and
232,320 foot toms, less a definite allowance in each case for
gravitation, or, as it would become in this case, friction,
according to the actual weight of the travelling engine.
In railway accidents wo never see these terrific forces
exerted ; steam is shut off, and suction in the cylinders
induced, and brakes are put on; or the blow is indirect ;
or the buffer-springs yield ; or in some way or other the
snomoutwu is seriously diminished before actual collision
kea
COLLISION AT SEA.—On Friday the Dutch brig
Machtilda and Simmonette, Remners master, from the
South-West Coast of Africa for Rotterdam, with palm oil,
palm nuts, and ivory, arrived at Penzance much damaged,
having been:in collision off Mount's Bay with a schooner,
name unknown. Tho wind was blowing a strong gale at
the time. The Dutch brig had not been lohg out of dock
at Queenstown, where damages done to her in a collision
were repaired at a cost of £1,700.
SAVINGS BANKS FUNDS.—The accounts of the
National Debt Commissioners to the close of the year 1867
show that on the 28th of December the funds in their hands
belonging to the (trustee) savings banks of the United King-
dom amounted to £36,221,554, and the funds belonging to
the post-office savings banks amounted to £10,021,772.
The total, therefore, has now grown to the large amount
of £16,246,326.

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Jan. 6.
The Queen walked and drove in the grounds yes-
terday afternoon, accompanied by Princess Louise ;
and her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
walked out this morning.

Princess Louise and Prince Leopold also went
out.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Major Tees-
dale, arrived at Marlborough House yesterday from Sand-
ringham.

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.—His Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale,
honoured the performance at this theatre with his presence
last evening.

Prince and Princess Christian and Princess
Honrietto of Schleswig-Holstein, attended by Lady Susan
Melville and Mr. G. D. Englehoart ; and Prince Arthur,
attended by Major Elphinstone, left Frogmore yesterday
to visit Lord and Lady Derby at Knowsley Park.
The Marquis Conyngham arrived on Saturday
last at Bifrons, his seat near Canterbury, from town.
The Earl and Countess of Yarborough are ex-
pected to pass through town early in the week, from
Brocklosby, on their way to visit Sir Edward and the Hon.
Lady Filmer at their seat in Kent.

Viscountess Holmesdale has issued invitations for
a ball at Linton on Thursday next, to which a host of the
neighbouring nobility and gentry are invited.
Viscount and Viscountess Grey de Wilton are
staying with the Earl and Countess of Wilton and a select
party at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray.

Lord and Lady Rokeby do not return to town
from Italy till after Easter.

Lord Charles Ker is recovering from his severe
accident. During the last week his lordship has been pro-
gressing favourably, and it is hoped has sustained but
trifling permanent injury,

The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., arrived
at Ilawarden Castle on Saturday from town, where he will
remain with Mrs. Gladstone and family till the resumption
of business in Parliament.

Mrs. Staveley has returned to the Oatlands Park
Hotel, Walton-on-Thames.