The Express. — London, England, 1863-08-19 00:00:00

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Tito , EraNtNO, THE TICKET Ilk LEAVE.—TILE GREAT 1.110-r ScaN at from PIIE ANGEL OF rEAcc AND PARDON. Ft) Pr..l,asor Pepper and Mr. ()trek. , —Mepars. Parker and Ran dall.—Aud OLD HOOEY. THE BAKER OF BISHOPSGATE. RIGLI Nat A r ktILIDGE. 1111 4 DAY Morale*, 4h 4len. . Arkemons, 4h. MTh. 10-moiutOw—Marning, 51. 145... Aftereoca. bh. 33 LONDON, IVEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19. RECENT accounts from the City of Mexico bring glowing reports of the progress of civilization, as imported by French bayonets. Marshal Foasv had " sequestrated " the property of all persona in arms for the defence of their country; bad es tablished the freedom of the press so completely that no outward difference of opinion could pos sibly prevail BAIA° the rights of the conquerors ; bad constituted a Provisional Government and an Assembly of Notables ; had assumed the Minis try of War ; declared a blockade of the ports still held by the " enemy ; " formed a force of " counter-guerillas ;" and last, but not least, given a grand ball, at which any lurking pa triotism in the breasts of the ladies of the capital succumbed to the fascinations of their gallant en slavers, though we may hope and believe the cap turers were captured. The City of Mexico at the present hour is a transplanted Paris—organised, ad • ministered, policed, and " muted," drilled, danced, and decreed, into order, stability, and raptures. Only one thing seems to be wanting as yet to this Paradise Regained, and that is the Opera Coinigor, which, as all the world knows, it is the mission of France to carry round the world. As VOLTAIRE used to say, when they were breaking heretics ou the wheel in the provinces, " these " people are the leaders of civilization ; for have they not the OpEra Cantigile at Paris?" There is no reason to doubt that in Mexico, as in every other country under similar circum stances, a large number of substantial citizens whose fortunes rise and fall with every variation in the political barometer, regard the French ' advent as large classes of respectable Frenchmen regarded the advent of the Allies in 1815, , with a feeling warmer than complacency. I In every country long agitated by revolutions there are plenty of good easy patriots who would accept peace and quiet at any price, front any bands, even at the cost of independence. Who will pretend that within half -an-hour's walk of this office there is not to be found the raw material of an English Council of "Notables," if a FOREY should come over to deliver us from evil speaking,. The French funds rose after an immense national disaster, and when " order "is again restored in Poland the French and English funds will rise together. Let us not be misunderstood. We are not comparing great European monarchies with an American Republic. It is not to be denied that the condition of Mexico, convulsed with never-ending intestine struggles, torn by cruel factions, and preyed upon by semi-savage poli tical adventurers, was deplorable enough to make even Spanish rule regretted, to hold out a continual pretext and provocation to foreign rapacity, to disgrace and imperil the canoe of those institutions which were called into existence in the New World to redress the balance of the Old. If, to purge such a flagrant nuisance and such an injury to the largest commercial interests, • European invasion was indispensable, a French invasion was probably in many respects the most indulgent and most effective remedy. For the Zouave or the Chasseur may be a tiger in pursuit of • marshal's baton on the field of battle, but he becomes • ben enfant, a gay deceiver, perhaps, but ever courteous and aimable, as the uninvited guest of the city he "occupies." All visitors to Rome speak in high terms of the forbearing politeness of the French army ; and even in the great Napoleonic wars the braves who carried off the pictures and the plate never failed to leave good works behind them in the shape of roads, and bridges, and civil codes. NAPOLEON the THIRD'S fifteen thousand apostles of humanity, or what remains of them after the summer solstice, will probably make themselves useful to the Mexicans, and certainly agreeable. But can the good behaviour of French soldiers remove the original stigma of a war upon a weak people begun in defiance of a formal convention, and in contempt of solemn promises, and carried out with that mingled tritlence and perfidy the manifest success of which, aided and abetted by the cowardice or complicity of contem porary statesmen, is still the wonder and delight of the age we have the happiness to live in ? Now, we would assure excited correspondents, who ingenuously hope to find themselves in the condition of residuary legatees of the French " Financial Commissioners" in Mexico, that the fact, which none will dispute, that a French Protectorate is preferable so anarchy, makes it none the less regrettable that the Government of Mexico, which Marshal FOREY takes credit for replacing by atrocious criminals and furious bigots, was more moderate, liberal, and respectable than any of its predecessors; that its public acts were at least consistent with the principles of 'B9, which the French EMPEROR is for ever invoking, and that its most flagrant abuses were in herited. But the qualities which should have saved were destined to condemn the late Mexican Passe- DENT in the sight of a devout protectreasof the Pops. Desperate speculators may deem it a great advan tage to the world that the Empress Euczivez has called a new rose " Vera Cruz," and a river yacht " Puebla ;" that new scenes and personages have succeeded to the Emperors of AUSTRIA and CHINA in the military pantomimes of the Pari sian stage, and that the loyal cantatas on the Sr. NAPOLEON were furnished with new themes of glory and bombast. But simple people of less " sober minds" will ask with some uneasiness where the next victim for the theatrical sacrifices of the Cirque Napoleon is to be found, and what weak State or defenceless people is to supply the theme for the cantatas on the 15th of August next—and next? For nothing is more evident than that it is becoming more and a necessity to the Second Empire that a French army should be always making havoc and " &yang " iug peopled' (Sy cutting them to pieces) some where In the world. Another quation that occurs to more "sober minds" is, under what guarantees the Archduke MAXIMILIAN would think himself justi fied in humiliating his country and his house by accepting the gift of a Mexican crown from the Sovereign who dragged Austria in triumph, and made her army a raree-show for the populace of Paris, and from the Notables whom a French Marshal scrapes together among the jobbers of a cowering city. Most certainly no responsible Government of England will ever concur in guaranteeing to any untrian Archduke who should consent to be the I ~.-ateful dupe of a NAPOLEON'S benevolence the throne of Mexico against a league of American Republics, or against the " manifest destiny" of the Anglo-Saxon race. And, failing England, will the, future Sovereign of Mexico turn to Spain for a guarantee ? Or will he insist on the perpetual guarantee of an army of French mercenaries? From Austria he will not get a man or a dollar. When the new Corps lAgialatif meets in Novem ber, the Maxican theme will have to be discussed, as above all a French question ; for Poland will have looked in vain for succour to the heir of that EMPEROR for whom she shed her best and bravest blood in torrents, and the Ruler of France will have seized Mexico as a sop to an Austrian Arch duke only to find that, having sown bad faith broadcast, he has reaped a splendid harvest of distrust. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 19, 1863. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO GERMANY. (PROM LAST NIGHT'S (AUTT! ) WHITEHALL, AUGUST 17. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bari, has re ceived the following despatch and telegraphiccommunication from Earl Granville : " Brame* August 13. " Sir,—l have the honour to inform you that her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, Prince Leopold, Princess Helena, sod Princes Beatrice, embarked at 6 p.m. on the 11th 'utast, on board bet Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, at Gresmhithe. " Immediately after their emberkation, the royal yacht monied down the river, and iu.ived at Antwerp at 2 p.m., on the following day. "The Queen immediately landed, and proceeded by a pedal train to Lscicen. where her Majesty e...vr i at a quarter before 4 o'clock. " Her Majesty was met at the Lacken Railway station by his Majesty the King of the Belgians, and their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Brabant. "In oomplance with her Majesty's wish, all guards of honour and other formalities were rUspensed with. " The Queen proposes to resume her journey to Coburg on the 14th inst. "lam bapy to add tbtt her Majesty and the rest of the royal family have not sefferril from the fatigues of the lowney. " GRANVULL. "The Right Hoe. Sir George Grey, C.C.S." Coburg, Saturday, August 15, 10 a.m. Her Majesty the Q9OOll left LlMlcea yesterday at 1.30 p.m., sad arrived at the Castle of Roseaaa shortly before 10 a.m. this day. THE PILLYCE ♦YD PRINCEBB OP WALES AT ABER GILDIL --Same the 12th his royal highness has been grouse shooting every day with great success. Her royal hiJhn«se devotes a good deal of time to angling—a "port of which ,he see= to have a thorough appreciation—arid has niet, we believe, with much sumacs, considering the advanced period of the year. As until on Sunday their royal high news and suite attended service at Cathie Church. The Rev. A. Anderson preached an excellent practical sermon from James, let chapter and 25th verse. The church was well filled, and the parte from which • good view of the royal party could be obtained were crowded to excises. — Edinburg* Courant. ST. Ja size's PALACE, Auousr 13.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Honourable Lucy Care line to be one of ber Idsjeaty's maids of honour in ordinary, in the room of the Honourable Beatrice Byng, resigned.—Gozefic. Pricoe Alexander Bariatinsky has left the Clarendon Hotel for Germany. The Marquis of Exeter is gradually and satis factorily improving in health. His lordship has been in • I very precarious state. hot happ 4 y all danger is over. The Marquis of Hastings is at Present staying at Loudon° Castle. His lordship will entertain his tenantry on the 20th inst., at the ancient family nat. The Earl and Countess of Warwick have arrived on a visit to the Earl of Wonky's, at Elio, the noble was seat in Perthshire. The Earl and Countess of Verulam left Gorham bury Pork, Harts, at the close of the peat week for Cale don Park, county Tyrone, on a visit to the Countess of Caledon. The noble earl and counter intend to make a tour of the lakes before their return home. The Earl and Countess of Seafield last week en tertained a large party at Castle Grant,'Grantown, N. 8., on the occasion of the Strathspey gathering, at which Vis count Reidhaven, Sir Patrick Grant, and a Lugs circle of the local gentry were present to witness the highland games. The Countess (Dowager) of Tankerville has ar rived at TuMallen Ca tl., N. 8., on a visit to Count and Countess de Flahstdt. Countess Alexander Strogauoti, nee Wessiltelii koff, and family, with a numerous suite, have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from St. Petersburg. Viscount Falkland, the Duchess of St. Albans, and the Laiy Ditat 133 Vere Beanelerk have arrived at Sktitteerakelle, near North&Mitten, Yorkahire. Lord Earlafort rejoined !di regiment (the Ist We Gnarls) on Monday, from leave of absence to attend the funeral of his maternal grandfather, General Lord Downes, in Ireland. Lord and Lady Wenlock are entertaining a aeleci party at Eicriak Park, Yorkahare. Lord and Lady De L'lele and Dudley have ar_ rived at Ingleby Manor, Northallerton, Yorkshire. The Duke of St. Albano in at present on • visit at Ingleby Manor. The Hon. Mrs. J. A. Villiers has arrived at Drummond Gale, Perthshire, on a visit to Lord sod Lady Willoughby de Ereeby, who are surrounded by a large circle at their seat is the highlands. Mr. Rapsllo has arrived at the Clarendon Rotel tram the Coutinent. THE LATE LORD CLEDIL—We (Times) are re- quested to state that the number of friends of the late lield.iforshal Lord Clyde who have expressed a desire to attend his funeral is so overwhelming that the executors Bad it quite impossible to send them all imitations. They bare, accordiogly, no option but to limit the invitations almost entaely to those pPrinnal friends who have been attached to his staff at various periods, or have otberwiee served with him. Lord Clyde baying particularly requested that his funeral should be "that of a quiet country gentle. man, and of the most simple, unpretending kind," his w i s h will be carried out as strictly as circumstances will permit. Partin who may wish to follow are iofonned that the funeral will take place at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning from No. 10, Berkeley-square, and the place of banal will be Keowd-grees. ELECTION POlt THE MOFTOO V ERYR}IIHg BOROCGH —Yesterday the nomination of candidates for the representation of the boroughs of Montgomeryshire took place at Montgomery, the county town. Mr. J. P. Wild log, of Montgomery, proposed the Hon. C. H. Lacy OA a 6t and proper person to represent the boroughs of Montgomery shire is parliament. Major Crewe seconded the nomination. The Rev. R. J. Harrison proposed Mr. Charles Vaughan Pugh. Dr. Y. Jones wooded the Domination. A show of hands was taken, and it was said to be so close that it could not be decided is whose favour the numbers were. A second show was therefore taken, sod was declared to be in favour of Mr. Pugh. A poll was demanded, and will take place to-day. THE REPRESENTATION OF SHEFFIELD.—For some months pest there have been mysterious rumours in cer tain quarters of attempts to change the present represen tattoo of Sheffield in parliament. A few week, ago it was hinted that the present mayor of the borough (Mr. John Brown, of the Atlas Steel and Imo Works) would be soli cited to become a candidate; and the requisition to him is vow "out." The promoters Sr. from the tory ranks, and they do not my against which of the 'WON members the opposition is directed. The► come forward with the de claration that Mr. Brown will not be a polities'. but a com mercial representative. The sittiog members, Messrs. Roe buck and Hadfield, have, it is said, sawed it to be distinctly understood that they will offer themselves for re-election at the next election. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE FRANKFORT CONGRESS. THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA'S SPEECH. The following are the chief points of the speech addressed by the Emperor of Austria to the con gress of sovereigns at Frankfort : Au assembly of Sovereigns of the German nation de liberating upon the welfare of the country is an event which has not occurred for centuries, May our interview, with the blessing of Providence, become the source of a future fruitful in blessing.! Confident in the elevated character of the Confeder►te Princes, trusting in the good spirit of the German people, and acting upon high and upright principles, enlightened by experience, I have enter tained the deeire to hasten the accomplishment of Federal reform, and of the regeneration of our common country. The Emperor then explained hie project, the chief points of which have been already published. He then added : Let us endeavour to come speedily to an understanding on the details in reason of the incalculable importance of the whole. Moreover, above all things let us maintain her place to powerful Prussia. Let us hope that, with God's blessing, the example of our union will exercise a victorious influence upon all German hearts; bat I shall always have the personal satisfaction of having had constantly in view, at so critical an epoch, the strengthening of the national bonds which unite the Germans, endeavouring, at the some time, to elevate the German Confederation as much as possible, of which we are a compact body. A telegram from Frankfort, dated 17th instant, asps At the dinner yesterday most of the German princes were in the Austrian uniform. The Dukes of Baden and Coburg were loudly cheered by the people. The representatives of the prom bare protested to the Senate respecting the want of courtesy shown to them by the committee charged with the arrangement of the testi rifle& Many of them have left Frankfort, (BrerEa's TZLIGIL(S.) FRANHFORT•ON-THE-MAINE, Aticurr 19. Earl Granville and Count Rechberg hold fre quent conferences together. ARREST OF PRINCE CZARTORISKY. POSEN, AUoUBT 19. Prince Roman Czartorisky has been arrested by the Prussian authorities, at his estate at Ruchberg, and has been conducted to Berlin. SPAIN. MADRID, Auouerr 18. The democrats have requested permission to hold a meeting preparatory to the elections. This has not yet been granted. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Aocuer 19. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here, with 99 passengers, 50,4521. in specie, and a general cargo, including 634 bales of raw silk, value 60,0001. Chi h , ft Gibraltar on the 14th inst. and on the 16;2..:00.;,. the Ellora off the Burlings. A , ,iihraltar, Exchange on London, 90 days, was quoted 496 ; on Paris, 5.28 ; Madrid, at eight days' sight, par. Freights unaltered. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (ROY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS. TULIIDAT EVIDTENG. A great change has taken place in the weather; the extreme heat from which we have recently been suffering having disappeared before friendly breezes. Stagnation, political as well as commercial, is the order of the day, what remained in Paris of the moveable population, high or low, having been carried off by the Cherbourg trains. The Western Railway Company, in imitation of your system of "excursion " trains, has made liberal deductions from its ordinary fares to those travelling by that which is here known as a " pleasure" train. Accidents on railways being happily less frequent here than in England, the name runs 'tittle risk of becoming a misnomer. The few Parisians one finds to discuss political questions are decidedly peaceful in their prognostications. The last hope the war party clung to of an immediate rupture with Rus sia consisted in the wild delusion, spread abroad for obvious purposes, that Austria was ready to enter into an alliance with France against anybody and everybody. Consistency seemed to be given to this idea by the supposed readiness of the Archduke Maximilian to accept the figment of a throne promised him in Mexico. That belief having now given way—in spite of the assertions of La France to the contrary—before the incredulity on the sub ject expressed by the German papers, it is difficult to conceive that warlike projects can seriously be attributed to the French Emperor. The public has read with much satisfaction the paragraph in the Moniteur, which intimates, that Marshal Forey's famous, or rather infamous se questration ordonnance has been rescinded. The act was a disgrace to the name attached to it, and utterly at variance with the sentiments of a high minded people like the French ; and it is satisfac tory to find that even under this press-gagging regime, public feeling can make itself felt through its organs, when any outrage of more than ordi nary magnitude is attempted. The Emperor Napoleon is said to have told Marshal (then plain General) Forey, when he was about to start fur Mexico, that he was under taking "la plus gram affuire de snow refine." I believe I am not solitary in my opinion that it will prove the moot disastrous event of this reign. Its unpopularity is wide spread and invincible. Nothing appears to render it palatable to the country. Wrap it up in pLbisciles, set it ablaze with rockets and Bengal lights, promise untold riches from its mines, dress up the subject in any way you like, the people, to use a cammon phrase, won't have it. I for one utterly refuse to believe thatthe Mexican question forms a part of any vast scheme in the teeming brain of the French Emperor. I look upon the Mexican expedition as a solitary fact—one of the many desperate and reckless throws of the political dice which we Lave witnessed, and probably shall yet witness, during this adventurous reign, and I anticipate that each new phase of the "occupation" will be marked by new and increasing difficulties. For in stance, hero is this blockade question. Already we learn the seizure of an Euglish ship, the Caro lina Goodyear, by the French steam frigate Pa nama. The complications which have arisen between us and our American cousins are at hand to show us how great are the risks of ill blood run in these questions of blockade. The Temps announces a report on good authority that the Emperor Napoleon will shortly have an interview with the Emperor of Austria at Baden- Baden, at which place it is known the King of Prussia is already staying. This is not the first announcement we have had of such an intended interview, but the report has never fouud much credit. Among the few Bourse speculators who remained at their post to-day, the peaceful anticipations above-mentioned evidently prevailed. All aecu rities had au upward tendency. French Bente rose Ilk for cash, and 20c. foe account, leaving off at 67fr. 65c. for cash. Italian Rente, which was in great demand, left off at 721 r. 50c., both for cash and account. Mobilier rose 17fr. 50c. for cash, and 15fr. for account, leaving off at 1,107 fr. 50c. for both. Business is described as having been unexpectedly active. AMERICA. The Baltimore eorrespondent of the New York Herald furnishes the following particulars of General Lee's late operations : General Lee fought the betties of Gettysburg with the eight divisions of Generals Early and Rhodes (of Ewell's corps), Heth, Pander, and Anderson (the whole of Hill's corp.), and hi'Law, Hood, and Picket (the whole of Long street's corps)—• total strength of 87,000 men. His loathe in those battles were, killed, 2,439 ; wounded, 14.580 (of whom about half were left in oar hands at Gettysburg and the remainder sent to Richmond) ; and prisoners, 6,235 ; total, 23,3 U. This reduced his force to 64,000 men. He retreated to Hagerstown. however (according to this account), not on account of these losses, bat because all the ammunition of his artil lery had become exhausted in the terrible cannonad ing of July 3, and, in point of fact, he did receive a large supply of ammunition on the 9th of July, while hi army mut in line of battle near the old field of Antietam. On reaching Hagerstown, however, on the 6th and 7th, he was joined by Johnston's division of Ewell's corps, 8,000 men, and by the troops which he had left at Williamsport, 10,000 men (who had driven back the 4,000 Union troops sent there by General French on the 4th to destroy the bridge). These, with General Stuart's cavalry, in creased his force to 90,000 or 94,000 men, which was his real strength from the Bth to the 14th of July. These facts were doubtless known to Gene ral Meade, and had their weight in deciding him not to bring on an engagement with the enemy on the 13th. Geoeral Lee, on hi pert, ascertained by MOWN of prisoners captured in the skirmish near Boonebom' on the 11th that Meade had been heavily reinforced, and from that moment he changed his plans so far as they related to Meade on the north of the Potomac. He resolved to put that stream between the two armies in order to gain time. He deter mined to move his army back again to the line of the Rap pahannock ; for he knew that by doing so he could compel General Meade not only to cross the Potomac, but also that he could draw the army of the latter down at lest to the Rappahannock, perhaps beyond that stream. General Lee, therefore, now holds the line of the Rappa hannock with 110,000 troops. It is his hope, and the hope of the rebel government, that General Meade will lead his army across that stream, and advance with it towards Richmond. Indeed, it is believed at Richmond that this will be done under orders from General Halleck. Positive intelligence has been received at Richmond from Washing ton to the effect that Halleck has declared "that he will take that city this summer, and by a campaign over the over laud route, if he has to lead the army himself ; for by so doing, that he would also annihilate Lee's army." That is just what General Lee wishes Halleck to attempt, for he feels confident of defeating any army which marches against Richmond, and when he has done that he will move on Washington. If, however, no movement on our part towards Richmond shall have been made by the middle of August, it is understood that General Lee will then himself assume the offensive, and commence another cam paign against Washington. The two great errors into which he fell in his late campaign were in his making each a wide detour to the west and north of Washington, ant in not having enough troops. He regards these as the causes of the failure of the late campaign, and he will avoid them in the next. He will have by the time indicated 150,030 troops and 300 pieces of artillery; 2),01)0 of his troops will be cavahy. Stuart's cavalry already constitutes one-half of this force. He pro- cured the horses for the remainder during hi campaign in Pennsylvania. They are already mounted, and he is now engaged in drilling them and organising them into squadrons and brigades. His infantry will consist of the three corps of Ewell, Longstreet, and A. P. Hill, each 40,000 strong, and each corps will have 100 pieces of artillery and 2,000 artillerists. It is said to be his intention in this campaign to move front Fredericksburg direct to Alexandria, by way of Banks' Ford, Dumfries, and Occcquan, or else by way of ilanameas Junction, Centreville, end Fairfax to Arlington Heights. The dis tance is only 50 or GO miles. The chain of 32 forts on the west side of the Potomac affords a formidable defence, but General Lee calculates that there must be some week spots in the chain where he can force an entrance ; and once in possession of Arlington Heights he will find means to cross the river and enter the capital. If the forte math be stormed he intends to storm them. It may cost hint the lives of 50,00) of his soldiers, bat he is determined to have possession of Washington before Sep tember, even at that heavy cost. The Cunard screw steamer Olympus, Captain Muir, from New York on the oth instant, arrived in the Mersey shortly after three o'clock yesterday afternoon. The Recorder of New York, charging the grand jury iu reference to the late riot; made the follow ing remark : One of the worst signs of the times has been the preys• lent disregard of, and want of respect for, the laws and the lawfully constitute I authorities. Dangerous men have, by example and precept, taught the people to disregard and disobey constitutional and legal obligations, and sometimes on one pretext and sometimes upon another have counte nanced (if they have not counselled) disobedience and re sistance. The evil teachings of misguided and wicked men have not been without their effect. They have taken deep root iu the popular mind. Infidelity to constitutional and legal obligations has produe:d its brood of evils. It is in fidelity and the false teachings and example of partisans of various sects and parties, aided as they have been by causes and elements which are always actively at work in times of war and civil convulsions, urged on by the spirit of lawless ness a hich they have created, that have recently produced in this city an outbreak which resulted in violence andenor mities without a parallel in tbe history of the country. The immediate muse of this was opposition to the enforcement of the conscription-law; but tins cause would have been wholly inadequate to the result, if the poison of constitu tional and loyal infidelity, and of false teaching and perni cious example, had not been infused into the popular mind. The outbreak was fearful—its results dreadful. Whatever may (have been the muse, and whoever may have been responsible for the terrible consequences, one thing is cer tain, the plea of resistance to the draft affords no justification or excuse, and it is the duty of every public officer and every private citiaan to labour with all his strength to bring to justice and to judgment the men who have violated all law, outraged all decency, and trampled upon all rights. The grand jury found true bins against 18 of the rioters. THE POPE ON THE AMERICAN WAR. The New York papers received by the Africa publish a letter a ldreased by the rope to Archbishop Hughes cu the subject of the Ametican difficulties. The Ni ir York Table, the catholic organ, which publishes the communication in the original Latin, states that it is the duplicate of a letter sent to the same prolate, under date October IS. 18412, but which never reached its destination. As is customary with all documents emanating from the same source, the letter is rather wordy. It commences "To our Venerable Brother John, Archbishop of New York. " Venerable Brother, Health and Apostolic Benediction, —Among the various and most oppi °naive cares which weigh on us in these turbulent and perilous times, we are greatly affected by the truly lamentable state in which the Christian people of the United States of America are pieced by the destructive civil war broken out amongst them.. For, venerable brother, we cannot but be overwhelmed with the deepest sorrow while we recapitulate, with painful feelings, the slaughter, ruin, destruction, devastation, and the other innumerable nudever.to-be.deplored calamities by which the people themselves ere most miserably harassed and dilece rated. Hence we have not ceased to offer up, in the humility of our hearts, our most fervent prayers to God that He would deliver them from so many and so greet evils. And we are fully assured that you also, venerable brother, pray and implore, without ceasing, the Lord of Mercies to grant solid peace and prosperity to that oountry. But since we, by virtue of the office of our apostolic ministry, embrace, with the deepest sentiments of charity, all the nations of the Christian world, arid, though unworthy, administer here on earth the viongerent work of Him whe is the author of peace and the lover of charity, we cannot refrain from inculcating, again and again, on the minds of the people themselves and their chief rulers, mutual charity and peace." The Pope then proceeds to urge on his venerable brother to stir up his people to prayer, and to use every exertion to promote pesos sod charity. He states that of the same date he has forwarded a similar missive to the Archbishop of New Orleans. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREENOCK RAILWAY. A melancholy and fatal accident took place at the railway statics at Greenock on Monday morning, arising out of the prohibited and yet common practice of leaping on to a train when in motion, by which Captain Francis Harvey, shipmaater, aged about fifty years, residing at 20, West Stewart-street, Greenock, and connected with the well-known shipping firm of Messrs. Handysideand Henderson, Glasgow, lost his life in a very shocking manner. The 8.45 ex press up-train is always heavy on Monday mornings at ibis part of the sesaon,and on Monday it wunousually so. It wu several minutes behind time in starting, sod Captain Harvey had arrived among the last comers to go by it, and having • re turn firat-clus ticket. The train was quite full, and Cap tain Hervey being anxious to get by it, made several in. effe:tual attempta to get a seat, and it is said that be was twice told to desist by an official The train started, and the deceased, wise was a stout heavy man, made the last attempt to get on, and while on the foot-board, and en deavouring to get into a oompartment, one of the pillars which support. the roof of the station struck him, causing him to lose his balance. He was thrown down, his legs going in between the edge of the platform and the footboard, and thus he was dragged • dozen yards, his legs and lower part of his body being crashed, twisted, and mangled in a shocking manner, part of the intestines and the broken bones of the legs being exposed to view. Death must Oulu been instantaneoca. The body in fragments was gathered up and conveyed into the waiting-room. and the melancholy news was coeveyed to the wife and family of the lamented deceased, whom he had quitted half an hour before full of health and Captain Harvey, who thus lost his life, sailed a ship named the Mardis oat of Port Glasgow for some time. He was for some years • member of the firm of Harvey and Watson, ship chandlery and ironmongers, 65, Rue End-street. He lately sailed the iron ship Dalhousie, and he was master of the as. Dom Pedro, which only arrived here on Friday last from Palermo. He was • mem ber of George-square U. P. Church (Rev. Mr. Sinclair's), end was in church at both diets on Sabbath. He wsa hurrying to his vessel, which was lying at Glas gow, when cut short in his career, leaving • widow and five of • family to mourn hi la- mented and premature death. It is rather • remark able coincidence that Captain Harvey's father-in-law, Mr. Watson, accountant, lost his life nearly zo years ago by • fall down the stair issuing from the railway platform, and that father and eon-in-law are the only two pauengen who have accidentally lost their lives at the railway-station here, so far as we can remember. Deceased was • native of Alloa, in which place his father was long known as a most respectable shipowner and shipmaster. His brother, who only arrived from America on Friday, sad had passed the Sunday with him after • separation, parted with him on the street at the Greenock station immediately prior to the x.urretice, intending to meet him in Glasgow in the course of the day.—North British Mail. HEALTH OP LONDON. It appears from the weekly return of the Registrar-General that thedeatha in London, which rose to 1,514 in the bast week of July, fell to 1 402 in the first week of the present month, and again to 1,320 in the week that ended last Saturday. The average number of deaths in ten corresponding weeks, viz., the thirty-third in each of the years 1853-62, is, with the omission of 720 deaths from cholera in 1854. and a correction for increase of population, 1,r06; and the actual result, as shown in the present returr., therefore exceeds by 64 the estimated number for this period of the year. Forty-five fatal cues of small-pox were returned, which differs little from the weekly average number since the end of May. The mods ' lity from the disease is nearly stationary, bat on the whole shows a tendency to decline. Five out of the 45 cases are stated to have occurred to persons who had been vaccinated. There were 118 deaths from scarlatina, and 22 from diph theria. Disrrbiea and English cholera were fatal in 209 cum, of which 190 occurred to children. Lest week the births of 979 boys and 930 girls, in all 1,909 children, were registered in London. In the ten correspond ing weeks of the years 1853.62 the average number (cor rected) was 1,806. At the Royal Observatory. Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29'851 in. The reading rose to 30 in. on Sunday, and fell to 2966 in. on Seturday. The mean temperature of the ►ir in the week was 63'1 deg., which is 3'5 deg. above the average of the r ame week in forty-three years (as determined by Mr. GI Celv r. INLAND REVENUE. The annual report of the Inland Revenue Com miaiooera is alweys of interest, giving as it does a view of the chief taxation of the country, for this board collect forty millions a year. In the year ending with March, 1146:1, the Excise duties produced • net sum of 17,317,3961., a decrease of 957,9041. as compared with the previous year. The quantity of home-iniule spirits charged with duty de clined 184,958 gallons, but the duty still reached the large sum of 9,399,707/. The consumption of spirits in Ireland in 1838 was no less than 12,000,00 D gallons, producing, by a 2s. 4d. duty, • revenue of 1,434,0001. ; in 1862 the consump tion was little more than a third of that quantity, but the duty being 106, the revenue reached 2,000,0001. The con sumption of spirits is at preterit temporarily depressed by the distress in important districta of the country ; but no doubt wine, beer, and tea are all, to • certain extent, displacing spirits. Comparing the years 1853 and 1862, it will be [mulct that the consumption of British sputa fell from 25,000,000 gallons to 19,760,000, but the consump tion of wine rose from 7,000,000 gallons to 9,800,000, of beer from 17,700,000 barrels to 19,400,000, and of tea from 58,863,0001 b. to 78.803,0001 b. The taxation on these articles differs greatly ; on • pint of beer it is a farthing, on a quarter of an ounce of tea lees than a farthing, but on a glees of gin it is more than five farthings. The distillers find abroad some compensation for ! a lessened demand at home. There was a large increase in the export of British spirits last year to the West Coast of Africa, to Italy and to Turkey ; with this last country it is the creation of a new trade, and is owing to the war in America having stopped the supplies from that country. Passing next to the item of malt, we find a decrease of 476.:041. in the produce of the duty ; but it was not to be expected that the quantity made last year would equal the extraordinary amount of 1861 ; the barley of 1862 was in many districts of inferior quality for malting purposes. The hop duty, like the paper duty, is no more, but the alteration in brewers' licensee has brought an addition of 223,870/. to the revenue. The license duty produced the large sum of 1.910,1501. Auctioneers paid 47,5401.; wine retailers, 11,226/. ; and the 5,154 ['ceases taken for refreshment houses btought 4,475/. Proceeding now to the second great branch of reland revenue—namely, stamps, the net pro duce of which rose 386,9061., and amouuted to 8,966 8031., we fiud the probate duty advancing to 1,325,359/., the legacy and succession tax to 2,374,436/., and the duty on fire insurances to 1,580,6371. The fees paid iu the Divorce Court (the payment being by stamps) amounted to only 2,420/. The duty on playing-cards has been reduced from ls. to 3d. a pack, in the hope of suppressing the enormous evasion of the tax. The third and last branch of the inland revenue—land, assessed, and income taxes—pro duced last year 13,626,5491. The net receipt of income-tax on schedule D fell from 3,263,926/. in the preceding year to 3,233,7661., but the whole tax showed an iocrease of 11,3411. In 1861 there was a fresh assessment under schedules A. and B, the previous assessment having been continued generally since 1857. The assessment of lands was increased 1,982,000/. (comparing 1861 with 1800), of houses 3,976,063/., of rail ways 851,0001., end under schedule B the assessment wee increased 1,717,000/. iu England alone. The assessed profits of trades and professions in the United Kingdom were 94.739,000/. in 1860, and 91.1,372,0401. in 1801 ; the increase in Westminster was from 3,619,0001., to 4,081,0001., arising, in a great measure, from more correct charges ou the west-end tradesmen and on persons making enormous profits by public entertainments and exhi bitions. In the city of London the assessments rose only slightly, from 15,405,000/. to 15,578,0001.—th amount considered strangely below its proper rink as a c mtn butor to the income-tax. A comparison in regard to the whole tax may be advantageously made by taking 1842 and 1452, in which years tho area of taxation was limited to in comes of 1761. and upwards, and 1853 and 1861, when the area of taxation extended to incomes of 1001. • year. Be tween 1842 and 18.12 the average anneal increase in value was only 113 pl.q . cent. ; between 1853 end 1861 it was 2.6 per cent. i.ednctiog from the assessment in 1861 the amount charged in respect of Mecums under 100/. • year, so as to get a fair comparison with 1812, the increase in the as esemeut of 18 .1 was 31 per cent. over 1812. On lands the increase iu the assessment vya 10'85 per cent.; on houses, 514 per cent. ; on mines, 10912 per cent.; on iron works, 93 trl per cent.: on railways, 43928 per cent. The profits of trades and professions charged in 1852 were only 110 per cent. higher than those of 1842, the average annual increase being but o'l7 put coat.; but the profits of 1861 exceeded those of 1853 by 1913 per cent. , the annual rate of increase in this last period being 2'42 per cent. Tar LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY AND OMNIBUS ltscigu.—The secretary of the General Omnibus Company has addressed a letter to the Times relating to the recent fatal accident to au omnibus conductor on Hol born-hill, and to the charges of racing against the company which have been made iu consequence. Denying the justice of all such accusations, he says :—" The instructions of my directora to the drivers cod conductors are printed and posted in every one of the company's yards, and the fol lowing is the regulation beat iug upon the subject imme diately in queatiou :—' During the journey he mint drive his horses at a steady pace, eudeavouring. 4.1 nearly an pos sible, to work in conformity with the time list. He must not, on any account, race with another omnibus, whether it be one belowsing to the company or otherwise. He most avoid collision with pensiug vehicles, or vehicles he may have to pass, as he will be held penonally responsible for any damage that may arise in collisions either to his own or other vehicles.' To expect perfect obedience to every regulation issued, espe cially during the time of active opposition, and the annoy ances and provocation to which drivels and conductors ►re exposed by their rivals, encoursged to a great extent by the public themselves, would be unseasonable, even were the elms of men necessarily employed is the service less independent and spirited than they are well known to be. Irregularities will and doubtless do sometimes occur with the company's servant., but I do not hesitate to say that, taken am a body, the drivers and conductors of take company far exceed in rcapectalkility of conduct those engaged on the rival omnibuses, and very far surplus those engaged in the minibus service prior to the establishment of the London General °mediae Company." CORK AND KINSALE RAILWAY.-(THIS DAY.) This day the ordinary half-yearly meeting of shareholders was held at the Company'. offices, Grace church-street ; Lord KLYGSALE in the chair. The following report was road "The director" have at length the "abstention to report that your railway was opened to the permanent terminus barracks at Kinsale on the 27th of June last. The result of the traffic for those seveu weeks since the °psalm u en. courseng and satisfactory, inasmuch a the average receipts for that period cover the working expenses, provide for payment of interest on the debentures, and leave • small surplus. The directors consider this result se a source of congratulation to the shareholders. The board are informed that the contractors prugoresing vigorously with the New Marine Hotel at Kinsale, which it is confidently expected will ho completed and ready for the reception of visitors and tourists early next summer, by which time likewise the floating baths are to be laid down adjacent to the hotel grounds. Negotiations have already been commenced with • view to strange for through carriage of the fish from Kinsale to the Dublin and English markets, which will greatly facilitate this important item of revenue. The bill autho rising the maim: of share capital to the extent of 20,0001, as referred to in the last half-yearly report, obtained the royal assent on the Bth of June last, and the directors propose to convene • special general meeting of the proprietors during the present year, when they will be prepared to submit a satisfactory plan for issuing the new shares. In conclusion the directors have every reason to expect that when the hotel and baths, and other attrac tions now being carried out at the favourite watering place are in full operation, and the fish and other traffic fully de veloped, the shareholders will possess a valuable end remu nerative property." The CHAIRMAN, after • few observations, moved its adop tion, which wee agreed to. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) WIEBAZIDAY, AIJOIM 19, 8 LK. .7. iIQ.I LI 1 4I 2 8 o: 1 1 124 ml 2128 oi 2 4 1 2i 1 5 21 24 b N~L~e .... Le - 1111 — Shields I, Orcendistle Galway v . iena• Queenstown Liverpool .. E ta t*". 4 _ • • PeTbroks Peoaooe Bred Rochefort Orrr th outh Portsmouth Dover B. 11! 49.74:62 2 129.71'55 4 129 70 56 3 24. nu 671 4 1..9.78,..d' ,29 75'56 . S 1 29.9 '1 69 ; 4 ,30.01101 6 19 77 69 , 2 122 65 se! 119.79 571 2 49.91 69 0 . 1 30.03 69 1 '.90.12 59 2 '30.12 59. 4 '30.16 es. 4 .30.00 69 1 29.9 66: 0 '49.9668. 3 29.91 65! 3 29.94 611 S 49.8'57 1 1 69.61 571 0 w. N.W. W. W.N.W. N. W. 5 N.W. 2 4 3 W.N.W. 3 8 2 7 B.W. it 4 S.W. 4 3 W. 4 8 W.S.W. 6 7 W.S.W. S 5 H N.W. 5 d S.W. '2 : 5 . W.N.W. ' 3 5 W. 2 4 W. :1. W. 2 3 4 4 I N. W. . 4 8 IL I 1 0.15 1 0.0411 0.10 1 10.02 1 10.041 Yarmouth..... Heligoland .... PIORAIALI THURSDAY. ON THE ►RIDAY. N. to W. ,and S.W., Norm-SETT. B.W. to N., fresh, with moderate, with rain showers. in places. N.N.W. to VV.R.W., Wane Colors. W.S.W. to N.N.W., fresh to moderate, moderato to fresh. some rain. W.S.W. to N., mode- SOCZBCOLS79. W. to N. and N.F., rate to fresh. moderate. W.S.W. to N.N.W., Botalt.F.arr. W. to N., fresh to met moderate to fresh. dente. North.laat=Calthuess to Norfolk. Weat=Donegal to Corn wall. Bouth=Clasonel and 13,y Coasts. South-Seat.-Strait of Dover to Norfolk. 8.-Barometer corrected and reduced to Tr at half tide level. Eaeh ten feet, of vertical elevation, craistu.: shoot one hundredth of an Inch DlllOl UTION and eneh tan dezrees, above SY., cann ing nearly three hundredths INCRKASE. IC-Exposed thermo meter In shade. D.-Difference of wet bulb for evaporation and dew point). W.-Wind, direction of .rne a-two points urn of magmatic). Y.-Yorce Ito IS-estimated). X.-Fat:erne torus Sam last report. Q -Quarter whence EXTREME force .N to 32=N). I. - : b.-blue sky. c. - clouds detached .) ! - ; h.-hail; 1.-lightning; m.-misty ;Tay; ; s-ovrnaud 1 1) ;r. -rain : - snow ; t.-thunder. R = Ral n.f all. mow sr Sail (melted), since last report. S.-Sea disturbance ll to 9;. Z.-Calm. DEPLORABLE DEATH THROUGH A DOMESTIC QUARREL—A painful inquiry was held by Mr. John. Humphrey, the Middleaez coroner, at the Rose and Crown tavern, Runhtll-row, St. Luke's, last night, respecting the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Anne Chambers, aged 58 years, which occurred under the following circumstances. Elizabeth Chambers, 3, Coleman-street, said that on Friday night last her two grown-up brothers had a quarrel, and they came to blows. They were both cut about the month. Deceased was present, and was much agitated. The t of her soon, who was subject to fits, went into a fit, youngest of had to put him to bed, and to attend to him. She then came downstairs and sat on a chair in the passage, complaining of pain in her chest. Soon afterwards she sard, " Do not touch my chest." and, sighing three times, died. Dr. Evan Evans said that be was called to deceased, and found her dead. He had formerly attended her for bron chitis. She was a person of very sensitive organisation, and no doubt the excitement consequent upon the quarrel between her sons and one of them being taken in a fit affected the action of her heart, and caused it to give way. She bad, however, no regular heart disease. There were no marks of violence on deceased. The coroner said that there woe no miral doubt that the unfortunate quirrel between deceased's sons had been the immediate occasion of her death. The jury returned • verdict of " Death from natural causes, accelerated by ex citement." ASSAULT ON 31ADANE Dc CHAILLU.—A gentle raanly•looking man, who gave the name of John Benson, anddesaibed himself as 3 commercial traveller, was charged before the Ramsgate magistrates List week with indecently assaulting Catherine du Chaillu on the 10th inat. The complainant, who is the wife of the celebrated d i scoverer of the gorillas, said that on the day in question she went to bathe from a machine, and was accompanied by her servant and a lady friend. On getting into the water the prisoner, whom she had never seen before, was bathing from another machine. He came towards bee, and, putting his arm round her waist, pulled up her bathing dress and miscooducted . himself towards her. On returning to her machine. the prisoner, who was per fectly naked, followed and put his foot on the machine. She had no converaatiou with him while she was in the water. He left her in atosequeuce of a gentleman calling out. Louisa Kirby, the lady's maid referred to, deposed to having wituessed the assault, and to hearing hei mistress scream. Mr. James Dentry sat I that as he was bathing he saw the accused place his aim round Madame do Chad]; and put his hand beneath her bathing dress. He imme diately shouted out, upon which the prisooer made off. He watched him into his machine, and on getting ashore the witness gave him into custody, when he wasted to bribe the policeman to let him off. For the defence, it was acknowledged that the prisoner had committed the assault, but it was urged that he did so under the impulse of the moment, and that no one could more regret what had oc curred. A paper was reed, in which the defendant, after expressing hid coutrition fur the °Go, e, offered to pay an sum of money to any charity that the bench might think fit to direct. It was also elated that the prisoner had a wife and seven small childr.,. and that he had always horns a very good character. The ni OArntes. after • little con sideration, fined him 901., adding that, lint for his wife and children, they should have sent him to prison without the option of R hue. DREADFUL Suicine IN NEL IND.-0.1 Sunday morning last, Captain Sterling. 41 the town of Afoneymore, shot himself to his own bedroom. , leitle.ratelv discharging the contents of &lorded gun into his forehead, drawing the trig ger with his foot. His death W ., e the immediate result. Shortly afterwardsan inquest was held before I). Kelly, Esq., coroner for the couuty, when a verdict in accordance with the above facts was returned. It n,,p.ars that Captain Sterling had been a hard drinker until a late perind, when he became a rigid teetotaller. lie nuts subject to great melancholy. The unfortunate man leaves a wife and three children, yet young, to mourn his untimely end. Northern Whey. THE EDMoNDS' MAIN CATAsTI:.)PIIE.—RE , OVERY OF THE BOTHEA.- Early on Memley morning it was an- Bounced that seven more boliev I , :ovetod, and, not withstanding the fact th it they It.ol boo in the colliery exposed to the action of OW W.oter and coo tot more than eight months, they were all iilmd tied. Tiiev were found in the first bald way on the main I , y d, :di,' it 4O yard , from the bottom of the shaft.—Li •d • .1f• • ••• y. ^ Ttte APIROACH I NI: Ei,r/.111.F.11 1 . —The forth coming eisteddfod, which will he livid at Swansea on the first Joys in September, promises to he the most successful that was ever held in Wales. The handsome pavilion in course of emetic n is ne irly comple!“.l, and calculated to aceconimodate seine 7,00,1 persons. The feeling, nut onto in Swansea, but in all the neighbouring towns, is very warm. and it is expected that this will lie the largest gathering that was ever even. Tho prizes on the programme aro between 500/. and chair prize being an ode (Awill) to the memory of hie !Loyal II the late Prioce Consort. The ,seating', which will extend over four or five days, will be presided over by the Mayor of Swansea. the M. P.s of the conuty, and the learned prelate, the laird Bishop of St. his ids. Arrangements are being made with the railway companies for cheap trains during the weak from Merthyr, Aberdare, Neath, and other populous totntr. Tug STATCTE LANV.—Yesterday, the last ai t of the late session was printed, for promoting the revision of the statute law, be repealing certain enact m en t s which have ceased to bo in force or have bastion. unnecessary. The act itself is very short, but the numerous statute., set out in the schedule extend to fifteen folio sheets, and the act is nearly the largest one of the present session. The revision is from the reign of Henry 111. to .:mire If., and may be regarded only as an " instalment" of the revisiou of the laws. The act in only to extend to England. Seine of the names of the acts now repealed are very curious. In the time of FAward 111. was a statute concerning diet and apparel ;" and another, it the reign of Richard 111., " No Shoemaker shall be a Tanner, nor any Tastier a Shoe maker."