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News from Japan to February q, received
per the Colorado at San Francisco, and thence
by telegraph, was received and published in
London on the 21st OF March.
The Alexandra Case.
The case of the steamer Mary-otherwise the
Alexandra-had again been up in the Court
OF Admiralty. In this suit the United States
OF America are the plaintiffs, and MIR. Charles
Kean Prioleau, of the firm OF Frazer, Tren-
holm & Co., is the defendant, and the Mary is
the vessel which, under the name of the Alex
andra, was the subject OF the celebrated prose
cutlon for breach OF the Foreign Enlistment act.
She was arrested in the West India docks on
the goth of February, by virtue of warrant
issued out of the Court of Admiralty in the
cause of possession at the suit of the United
States, who claim her as having been built for
and as having become the property of, the Con-
federate States.
Mr.. G. P. Butt on behalf of the defendant,
now moved the Court to order the plaintiffs to
file their petition within week.
Mr.. E. c. Clarkson, for the plaintiffs, opposed
the notion for the reason that certain material
facts which had come to the knowledge of the
plaintiffs proctor within the last three days
required corrOboratiOn, In order to do which IL
would be necessary to send to Bermuda. No
injury would be suffered by the defendant as
the ship was dismantled, and there was no idea
of sending her to sea.
DR.. Lushington said-This is cause of pos
session. The ship was arrested on the goth day of
February, and an appearance entered on behalf
of the defendant, who asserts that he is her sole
owner. Ample time has passed Tor the plaintiffs
to file their petition. fhey have not done SO,
and am now asked, on an affidavit sworn by
the plalntlhs' proctor, to give them two months
longer within which TO file their petition.
can take no cogniZance of any allegation that
this ship is the Alexandra.
To me this Is simply cause of possession, in
which expedition is an important element. In
such suit bail cannot be given, and therefore
the detention OF the ship may be serious mat
ter. The plaintiffs ought to have known what
their title was before they instructed their proc
tor, and not thus appeal to the charity of the
Court. 1t might be necessary, for anything /
know to the contrary, TO send to Mexico, or all
over the world, for information; and by admit
ting this application, might be giving occasion
for endless applications of the same nature. In
anv stage of the cause the plaintiffs may amend
their petition, which must be filed in ten days.
The Reform Bill.
Mr.. Gladstone, ON the 21st ult., invited his sup
porters to a meeting at his house to consider
their course on the Government Reform bill,
and about three hundred members of the House
OF Commons responded to the invitation.
MIR. Gladstone recommended that the second
reading OF the Government bill should pass un-
challenged, but that If the clause embodying
the principle of duality of voting was not aban-
doned, and the difficulties as regards the COM
pound householders equitably adjusted, and If
these concessions were not distinctly made in
| the Chancellor of the Exchequers speech on
the second reading, another meeting of the
| Liberal party should be convened and he would
| then propose that the cardinal vote should be
! taken on the question that the Speaker do leave
| the chair in order to go into committee. This
! he explained would have substantially the same
| effect as a vote against the second reading,
| while it would give the Government ample op-
| portunity for deciding whether they would
! insist on retaining the present Objectionable
| provisions of the bill
| Mr.. Roebuck said that he should support the
| second reading, but acqulesced in Mr.. Glad
| stones proposal.
Mr. Bright spoke strongly against the bill as
| it now stands, but supported Mr. Gladstone's
The PAL AEdu Gazette says that Mr.. Gladstone
alluded to a rumor that Government in tended
| 10 nostpone going into committee on the bill TO
| a late period. Mr.. Gladstone said he intended
| very strongly TO oppose that course, Tue same
| naper says that Mr.. Brights speech was very
| moderate in tone, and he intimated belief that
| he should have no difficulty in backing the
| policy of the Liberals as a party.
| According 10 the report in the Standard Mr..
| Gladstone lntimated that he should propose In
! committee larger extension of county fran
| chise, and some other alterations in the bill
| All sorts of rumors were rife at the departure
| OF the Java as to the prospects of the Reform
| bill and the Government. According to one
| authority, Ministers themselves expected tOlbe
| out within week
The Fate of DIR. LivIngstOnes
Great interest was felt in the fate of Dr. Living
| stone, the African traveller. BY some it was
| contended that the report of his massacre ad.
| mitted of little II any doubt, while Others con-
ttnue to hope that the statement was untrue.
i An Admiralty note announces that ii. N. ship
Wasp proceeded On the ID Of January to QvDSH,